Characters / Double Elimination

Tropes relating to specific characters in Double Elimination. All Spoilers are unmarked

Tournament Fighters

General

• In-Series Nickname: Each fighter is assigned an alias that is used by the tournament staff.

• Only Known by Their Nickname: Several fighters are referred to almost exclusively by their nicknames. For more info, see individual character folders.
• Punny Name: Several fighters have puns for names.

A Block

Marek Kysely/Heavyweight

• And I Must Scream: Is rendered mute, immortal, and in constant pain by Felix Ares.
• Arc Villain: Of Sole Survivor.
• Attack Its Weakpoint: Zigzagged. Although Rachel assumes that his helmet protects a weakpoint, Heavyweight's helmet is primarily for hiding his flaming scalp. However, his eyes are less tough than his skin. Unfortunately, his Healing Factor renders that weakness useless.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: His wish to survive curses him with a painful immortal existence.
• Blessed with Suck: His ability to survive renders his wounds unable to heal and the fire around his skull unable to go out, leaving him in constant pain.

• Curse That Cures: His curse, which leaves him in constant torturous pain, is also the only thing keeping him alive.
• Dark Is Evil: Heavyweight wears all black clothing and is a violent psychopath.

• Fireballs: Gains the ability to fire them after rebuilting Helios’s cannons.

• Gentle Giant: Prior to the death of his wife and son.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Reverse engineers and rebuilds Helios's cannons from the scraps leftover from their fight.

• Healing Factor: Thanks to his blessing, he heals fast enough to shrug off being decapitated.
• Hellfire: The fire covering his skull has been burning for months.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic
• Instant Knots: At one point in Sole Survivor, his chains wrap around Rachel, allowing him to pull her close and punch her away.

• Made of Iron: Shrugs off explosions, liquid nitrogen, being stabbed with a Laser Blade, decapatation, and more.

• Menacing Stroll: Usually walks slowly towards opponents.
• Molotov Cocktail: His flaming skull is partially the result of having one smashed on his face.

• Off with His Head!: Heavyweight is decapitated during his fight with Solais. In a flashback, he rips Felix Ares's head off using his Super-Strength.
• One-Man Army: Fights off dozens of Coalition soldiers and wins.
• Punny Name: Heavyweight is a play on the weight class and the fact that he wields an oversized ball and chain.

• That Man Is Dead: After the death of his wife and son, the narration switches from calling him Marek Kysely to calling him Heavyweight.

• Unstoppable Rage: After the death of his family, he literally tears Felix apart.
• Wound That Will Not Heal: His injuries inflicted on him by Felix Ares cannot be healed or deteriorate.

Maolius Lupei/Helios

• Non-Fatal Explosions: His cannons, despite the fact that they fire exploding fireballs, never actually manage to kill anyone.
• The Worf Effect: Is beaten to the brink of death to establish Heavyweight as a dangerous fighter.

Victor "Vic" Callaghan/Arctic

• Amazing Technicolor Population: Has grey, frostbitten skin and black fingers.

• Evil Is Deathly Cold: Vic is a thief and assassin who can manipulate liquid nitrogen.

• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Arctic is a rude, cynical, criminal, but saves Ahmed’s life and is worried when Rachel is heart.
• Personality Powers: A cold blooded, snarky, consummate professional with ice powers.

Magalie Matsumoto/Emerald

• Green Thumb: She can make vines burst out of the ground and her arms.
• Uncertain Doom: She may have been killed in her fight with Arctic.

Gwynn Galo/Aegis

• Butt-Monkey: She gets beaten to a bloody pulp twice in one book.
• Disney Death: She's seemingly killed in his fight with Solais, only to be confirmed to be alive in the next chapter.

Anatolios Haven/Gunslinger

• Badass Bureaucrat: A mid-level bureaucrat who happens to be very good with firearms.

Rachel Botterill/Solais

• Character Development: She becomes braver over the course of the first book.

• Clean Cut: Rachel empowers it with the ability to cut through anything, including steel and Heavyweight’s skin, during her third fight.

• Empowered Badass Normal: She gains powers during her fight with Heavyweight.
• Heroic BSoD: Falls into one after her fight with Heavyweight.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: Rachel’s goggles, called Odin Eye, have a variety of different settings, including thermal, mana vision, zoom, and night vision.

• Named Weapons: Each of her stolen weapons has a mythological name.

• They Call Him "Sword": She's named after her Cool Sword.
• Took a Level in Badass: She gradually becomes stronger with each fight.

Gallus Silvano/Sage/Lazarus

• Meaningful Rename: Changes his code name from Sage to Lazarus after losing most of his magical powers.
• Obfuscating Disability: After his leg is injured in his fight with Bombshell, he walks with a cane. During his fight with Rachel, he reveals that his cane is unnecessary.
• Punny Name: As he puts it, he is a dead man walking.

Other Fighters

Daragh Ximeno/Swordmaster

Coral Cooney/Widow

• Female Gaze: She spends most of her time fawning over a musclebound fighter who she sits with in the Peanut Gallery.
• I'm a Humanitarian: She threatens to eat Vic.

Invader

• Bizarre Alien Biology: She lacks a mouth or nose.
• The Faceless: She lacks all facial features except eyes.

• No Name Given: She's only referred to as the Invader.

Past Tournaments

Tournament Staff

Faustino "Faust" Nash

• Added Alliterative Appeal: Is a fan of it, ie: introduces Emerald as the wicked woman wielding weaponized weeds.

• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Brings monstrous characters like Heavyweight to the tournament and isn’t fazed by them.

Arastoo Rompaye/Legion

• Cool Sword: Owns several, including a flaming sword and a blue sword that allows him to control wind.

Other Characters

Felix Ares

• Faux Affably Evil: He acts kind and friendly, but shows off his cruel nature when Marek hides his research.

• Killed Off for Real: He dies at the hands of Heavyweight.
• Molotov Cocktail: He makes one to destroy Kysely’s research and ends up smashing it on Kysely’s skull.

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