The characters of Gen¹³ and it's spinoff DV8.
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Gen13
Caitlin "Kat" Fairchild
A redheaded nerd girl turned into a super strong (and super hot) Amazon after becoming Gen-Active, she serves as team leader and de facto main character.
- Action Girl: But of course.
- Amazonian Beauty: While her muscularity varies Depending on the Artist, she is consistently shown as tall, strong and beautiful. The trope page image comes from one of her buffer incarnations.
- BFG: In her first arc, the newly Amazonian Caitlin uses what looks like a huge laser type weapon.
- Breast Expansion: How she got her big chest. Along with her muscles, her breasts also grew.
- Clothing Damage: So many times that it would make one hell of a drinking game to count the times her clothes are shredded in each comic.
- Cool Big Sis: Tries to act this way towards Roxie after finding out they're sisters.
- Dude Magnet: Before she was Gen active, she was a shy wallflower, now no man is immune to her body.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Yes, Girls too.
- Genius Bruiser: While on the outside she is a beautiful busty Amazon, on the inside she still is her nerdy self who's IQ is untouched by the transformation.
- Go-Go Enslavement: Has happened to her a couple of times. First from a Mad Scientist, the second time from an Alien Warlord. She usually doesn't like the fact that the villain sees her naked.
- Growing Muscles Sequence: In the animated adaptation.
- Hulking Out: When her powers first manifested, her whole body and muscles grew, shredding her clothes in the process.
- Informed Ability: Sadly most of the writers forget she is supposed to be a Genius Bruiser.
- Involuntary Shapeshifter: During the Claremont run, she was briefly turned into a shape-shifting goo monster.
- Last-Name Basis: At least in the fact that the only codename she has is her surname.
- The Leader: Of the Gen13 team.
- Leotard of Power: Her well-known green and purple costume.
- Lust Object:
- Is one to Sarah and Grunge.
- This gets deconstructed following the Worldstorm reboot. Caitlin's forced to pose for photos that are homaging many of the well known covers and ads she was featured in during the original run. Here this is treated as a literal method of torture, leaving Caitlin feeling humiliated and traumatized.
- Most Common Superpower: Being the strongest character on the team, she naturally comes with the biggest rack and is in the collage for said Trope page.
- Ms. Fanservice: While this applies to most of the female characters, she's practically the poster girl for the entire series.
- Nerd Glasses: Used to wear huge glasses before her powers awakened.
- Purple Is Powerful: Many of her outfits have some purple in it, and she's the physical powerhouse of the team.
- Psychic Link: Develops one with Roxy, when one is hurt, the other knows it.
- Reality Warper: Became this after death in the Claremont run.
- Redhead In Green: Kat is a redhead and her outfits are almost always green or have green in it.
- Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Kat is very modest and will often cover up whenever she gets into Fanservicey situations.
- She does become a Shameless Fanservice Girl on rare occasions when some Clothing Damage happens during combat. She doesn't let it bother her and goes on a Full-Frontal Assault.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Feels that way about herself after her powers manifested, resenting how people used to ignore her original nerdy self.
- Statuesque Stunner: She stands 6'4" and considered gorgeous by everyone In-Universe.
- Town Girls: She is the Neither.
- Unskilled, but Strong: While she has Super-Strength she doesn't really know much about fighting. Lynch and Rainmaker eventually rectify that.
- With Great Power Comes Great Hotness: Caitlin's gen-activation changed her from a redhead Shrinking Violet geek girl to an Amazonian Beauty.
- Wrestler of Beasts: Issue #7 of the Gail Simone run has Caitlin fight and kill a saber-toothed tiger using her strength and a rock. The same issue has her fighting a T-rex before discovering it can talk.
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: Her name is spelled with C, but her nickname is 'Kat' - if only to not call her a feline?
Roxanne "Roxy" Spaulding / Freefall
A Smart Assed spunky girl who has gravity manipulation abilities.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Grunge. A later issue of Adam Warren's run revealed this was because Grunge was explicitly brainwashed by Lynch to make sure he never had sex with Roxy or did anything untoward with her, no matter how he or Roxy felt about it.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Is very jealous when Grunge flirts or acts perverted towards other women, especially Fairchild.
- Delinquent Hair: Her hair bangs are dyed pink, giving her a punkish look.
- Flight: Can do this with herself and others with her gravity powers.
- Gravity Is Purple: Free Fall's gravity abilities were usually represented by purple or pink sparkles, though nowadays it's usually represented in light blue.
- Gravity Master: She has the ability to nullify or increase gravity, the former allowing her or others to levitate and the latter to make it impossible for an enemy to move.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Alex Fairchild is revealed to be her biological father, which makes her and Kat half-sisters.
- Psychic Link: Develops one with Kat, when one is hurt, the other knows it.
- Reluctant Fanservice Girl: In contrast to Sarah, Roxy is very much bothered being naked in public.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: Dyes her bangs pink and is associated with the color, and she's the most cheerful member of the team.
- Smoking Is Cool: Downplayed, as this only happens when she's in her "bad girl mode".
- Town Girls: She is the Butch.
Percival Edmund Chang / Grunge
A perverted slacker and ditz of Chinese descent, he has the ability to absorb the property of any material he touches.
- Afraid of Needles: Is introduced while running away from a doctor trying to take a simple blood sample.
- Amazon Chaser: Has a thing for strong women.
- Asian Airhead: Though generally a dumb slacker manchild, his photographic memory allows him to succeed in school.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Freefall.
- Boisterous Bruiser: Can be very loud and obnoxious during fights.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: He's pretty smart when he actually makes some effort, it's just that he bothers so rarely that he comes off as incredibly idiotic.
- Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Rarely are his perverted acts aimed at Roxy. Lynch brainwashed him to make sure it went that way.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Is tortured by Threshold in order to force him to manifest his power.
- Embarrassing First Name: Does not like the fact that his first name is Percival and prefers to go by "P. Edmund Chang".
- Genius Bruiser. Him being a ditz is just a rouse, for he has his aforementioned photographic memory. He hides because doesn't want anyone to think he is a nerd.
- Fad Super: Named after a genre of music that peaked in the early nineties: Adam Warren had one of his sparring partners mock his name by calling him "Easy Listening" and other musical genres. Gail Simone's run explains this as a reference to the fact that he has "grunge under his fingernails", although Roxy provides a Lampshade Hanging with the comment "Grunge? You mean the stuff dinosaurs have on their iPods?"
- Freudian Excuse: The fact he never acts perverted towards Roxy despite the clear interest they have in each other, and his overall refusal to have sex with her, are due to Lynch heavily brainwashing Grunge to ensure he never has sex or does anything with Roxy. This might've accidentally amplified his perverted tendencies towards every other woman, considering the mental block would've put more focus on anyone who wasn't Roxy to keep him occupied.
- Healing Factor: One of his powers.
- Hormone-Addled Teenager: While every character has shades of this, Grunge exemplifies this.
- I Know Kung Fu: After the team is hit with power nullifying device by a scientist, he beats the crap out of the physically unimpressive scientist.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may act like a self-centered jerk, but he's still a teenager and is still a hero that will still do the right thing.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: He's constantly thinking about sex and girls.
- Manchild: He loves comic books and other pursuits aimed at demographics younger than him.
- Material Mimicry: At first he could molecularly bond with objects to take on their properties, but it later expanded to Power Copying.
- Photographic Memory: He's revealed to have this, but is embarrassed by it because he thinks it makes him look like a nerd.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's actually shorter than Roxy at 5'3", but he's muscular and wide, not to mention his gen active powers.
- Power Perversion Potential: Once used his powers to spy on Sarah sunbathing topless.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: There is the occasional hint that Grunge is smarter than he lets on, though this Depends Heavily On The Writer. The original writing team of Brandon Choi and J. Scott Campbell had him mostly as The Ditz, but occasionally displaying some surprising Hidden Depths. Adam Warren's Grunge, however, is pretty much exactly as stupid as he appears — whereas Gail Simone's Grunge is directly stated to be the most intelligent member of the team, just acting the carefree fool as a means of rebellion.
- Oblivious to Love: Freefall has feelings for him, but he doesn't take notice due to being too interested in Fairchild.
- Took a Level in Badass: He starts out as a nerd but the begins to hide it by pretending to be dumb and started working out and skateboarding.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Is usually shirtless, showing off his chest tattoo.
Robert "Bobby" Lane / Burnout
An Angsty Musician that was given fire-based powers.
- Clothing Damage: When not wearing his fireproof uniform, his clothes get burnt off by his powers.
- Code Name: Burnout.
- Dreadful Musician: According to Anna and the rest of his teammates, his music sounds terrible. Lynch even weaponized it against one of their enemies once.
- Expy: For the Human Torch in appearance and powers.
- Flying Firepower: Is capable of using his powers to fly.
- Hopeless Suitor: Has a huge unreciprocated crush on Sarah.
- Luke, You Are My Father: It's revealed to be Lynch's long lost son.
- Playing with Fire: His powers allow him to manifest fire and heat blasts.
- Steven Ulysses Perhero: He was nicknamed "Burnout" even before he got his powers, as a joke to his disastrous musical career.
- The Stoic: When first introduced, but he mellows out.
- Wreathed in Flames: His body is covered in flames when his powers activate.
Sarah Rainmaker
A Native American lesbian who has weather controlling abilities.
- Alternate Company Equivalent: To Storm of X-Men. Both are women of color who can control the weather and are trained in martial arts.
- Amazonian Beauty: While not in the same level as Kat, Sarah's still fairly toned. She passes off as one of the Coda Warriors easily.
- Amplifier Artifact: Wears a pair of metallic amplibands that make her electric powers stronger.
- Badass Native: Was trained as an Apache warrior.
- Badass Normal: The only one in the team to have combat training prior to getting her powers.
- Boxing Lessons for Superman: In one issue, she began teaching Kat how to fight.
- Cool Big Sis: Acts like one to Roxie, who's younger than her.
- Dressing as the Enemy: Dresses as one of the Coda Warrior Amazons when trying to escape their city.
- Elemental Powers:
- Blow You Away: Is able to manipulate wind with her powers.
- Making a Splash: Is able to manipulate water with her powers.
- Shock and Awe: Is able to create lightning with her powers, although they are weak without her Amplifier Artifact.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Thanks to her Apache training she was the only one on the team who was actually a badass before getting her powers.
- Expy: For Storm, sharing her power set, foreign origin and lack of a nudity taboo.
- Flight: Is capable of flying using her wind powers to create vertical gusts of wind.
- Hypocrite: Derides Grunge for being a pervert, but she herself makes perverted comments towards women and gives many longing looks to Kat in a bikini.
- If It's You, It's Okay: She dated a boy on the reservation back when she was still in the closet, and later dated Bobby for a while, but otherwise has no interest in guys.
- Lipstick Lesbian:
- It took her a while to come out. She can often be seen at LGBT demonstrations and lectures to her friends if they don't live up to her standards of political correctness.
- In one-shot Generation X / Gen 13, both teen groups go on vacation and end up on a haunted castle in a Latin American country. The next day, she and Skin (a Latino member of Generation X) complain about the lack of "[sexy cabana] girls" in their vacation.
- Leotard of Power: Uses a red and green leotard as her uniform.
- Long-Lost Relative: Her father was Stephen Callahan, making her half-sister of Threshold and Bliss.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: She's not shy about her sexuality and at times can be just as sex-focused as Grunge, though she's usually more subtle about it.
- Lust Object: Is one to Bobby and Grunge.
- Morality Pet: Serves as this for Grunge when he gets a little hotheaded, though he often ignores her.
- Magical Native American: Averted. Her powers are a result of advanced science not magic or spirits. However, her Weather Control powers and her ancestry are clearly invoking this trope.
- Master of the Mixed Message: Towards Bobby, at times she's walking around naked and teasing him about it and other times she's giving him the cold shoulder.
- Ms. Fanservice: One of the most attractive girls in the series and the one with no nudity taboo.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Sarah is very proud of her body and has no problem with nudity, and she knows exactly what kind of reaction her nakedness tends to inflict on others. Subverted in that she still doesn't enjoy being the target of Grunge's perversion (such as him trying to peek on her sunbathing topless).
- Soapbox Sadie: Was part of environmentalist movements and tends to speak often about such issues, which her friends ignore.
- Statuesque Stunner: While shorter than Caitlin, her official height is 5'11", and just look at her.
- Steven Ulysses Perhero: Who would have thought a half-Native American girl named Rainmaker would have weather controlling abilities?
- Strong and Skilled: She is trained in Apache fighting and has an aptitude for combat tactics on top of her control over the weather.
- The Tease: Sarah tends to deliberately flaunt her body in front of people just to get a rise out of them.
- Team Mom: Is often trying to keep the team together and giving them emotional advice.
- Town Girls: She is the Femme.
- Twofer Token Minority: She is a Native American lesbian.
- Weak, but Skilled: Her powers don't give her any physical benefit, but she's still a skilled hand to hand fighter thanks to her Apache training.
- Weather Manipulation: Her powers allow her to do this.
- Worthy Opponent: In volume 2 #4, Rainmaker impressed the Majestrix by trying to fight off her Coda Warriors.Majestrix: She has a warrior's spirit, Daphne. The makings of a formidable Coda Warrior.
Other Allies
John Lynch
A famous figure in the WildStorm Universe, John Lynch was the director of I.O. until he defected to save the Gen13 members and became their mentor.
- Action Dad: He first involves himself in the plot by searching for his son. Which turns out to be Bobby.
- Expy: Of Nick Fury, both being Big Good superspy's that aid the protagonists and are missing an eye.
- Badass Abnormal: Pretends to be only a Badass Normal, but he has powerful Psychic Powers he rarely uses.
- Big Good: He's the team biggest ally and the one who freed them in the first place.
- Cast from Hit Points: Using his powers drain him considerably.
- Code Name: Topkick during his days as leader of Team 7.
- Eye Scream: Tore out his own eye during a fight.
- The Gunslinger: Prefers to use guns in fights and it's very skilled with them.
- The Leader: He was the commander of Team 7.
- The Mentor: Becomes one for the main characters, teaching them how to be heroes.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: He was drawn to look like Clint Eastwood.
- The Paranoiac: To the point of placing an incendiary device in an old folder.
- Psychic Powers: Has the full package: Mind over Matter, Telepathy, Barrier Warrior... but using them severely drains him so he rarely does, preferring to rely on his Badass Normal abilities.
- Rugged Scar: Has a big diagonal scar across his right eye.
- The Spymaster: Used to be one for the I.O. and he continues to use his espionage expertise to keep himself and the team hidden.
Queelocke
Queelocke is a (presumedly) alien creature who has become a sort of pet to the Gen 13 team (especially Roxy).
- Dimensional Traveler: Is capable of this, which is why it was being hunted in the first place.
- Living MacGuffin: Due to its dimensional hopping powers it's a target for various villains.
- Team Pet: For Gen13 after they rescue him from The Bounty Hunters.
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Ugly Cute: It's an adorable green alien rat.
Anna
Anna is the robotic housekeeper and protector of Gen 13.
- Big Damn Heroes: Anna arrives just in time to save the team from The Freaks after they capture them.
- Fembot: She was a female assassin droid built by I.O. until Lynch managed to reprogram her.
- French Maid: She even wears the archetype short black dress and a white lace apron.
- Heroic Sacrifice: When the I.O. attacker The Jolla, she stays behind to buy the team enough time for them to escape and self-destructs along with The Jolla so the bad guys would have no evidence to trace the team again.
- No-Sell: Since she's an Android, most psychic or emotional powers don't work on her, making her very useful when fighting The Freaks.
- Robot Maid: She's a heavily armed Killer Robot for the I.O. which Lynch re-programmed
- Robotic Reveal: Is exposed as one when Kat tears off her arm while under mind control.
- Team Mom: Considers the Gen13 team to be her own children and goes Mama Bear whenever they're threatened.
- Torpedo Tits: Has a hidden machine gun attached to each of her breasts.
Lucius Morgan
Lucius Morgan is a pirate captain and an associate of Team 7.
- Bald of Authority: As the captain of a pirate crew.
- Bash Brothers: Used to be one with Alex, Caitlin's father.
- Papa Wolf: Leads a band of pirates to assault the Coda Warriors in order to get his daughter back from them.
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: He's a pirate king, but he's pretty reasonable to Bobby and Roxy when he finds them and his only objective is to save his daughter from the Coda Warriors.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With one of the Coda Warriors he had a secret affair with.
Daphne Morgan
Daphne Morgan was an illegitimately born child raised by Coda Warriors.
- Beautiful Slave Girl: Not exactly as slave, but she's at the lowest position in the Coda Warrior society and she's pretty enough to catch Sarah's eye.
- Big Damn Kiss: Was supposed to have one with Sarah when they part ways, but the writers changed their mind at the last minute and replaced it with a chaste kiss on the temple instead.
- Child of Forbidden Love: She's the product of a forbidden love affair between a Coda Warrior and a pirate named Lucius Morgan.
- Eating the Eye Candy: Is dumbfounded when Sarah strips naked in front of her to put on a guards uniform, until Sarah teases her about it.
- Lipstick Lesbian: Is the most feminine of the Coda Warriors, but is still a lesbian with an obvious attraction to Sarah.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Lucius, the pirate attacking the Coda Warriors turns out to be her father and taking her away from them is the sole reason he's attacking them
- Non-Action Guy: A female example. Due to being raised to be a Coda Warrior, her gentle and nurturing personality was looked down upon and she's made a lowly servant as punishment.
- The Un-Favourite: By most of the Coda Warriors, due to her gentle nature and being the offspring of a forbidden romance, but the current Majestrix has a soft spot for her, in that she at least hopes Daphne will one day change.
- Why Couldn't You Be Different?:Majestrix: [Rainmaker] has a warrior's spirit, Daphne. The makings of a formidable Coda Warrior. Why can't you be more like her?
Daphne: I...I'm sorry, Majestrix.
The Deviants / DV8
Ivana Baiul
Ivana Baiul was the head of the scientific division of I.O. and responsible for Project Genesis and its cruel study of Gen-Actives, whom she plans to use them as her own personal army of teenage superhumans.
- Absurdly Sharp Claws: She's able to transform her finger into deadly razor claws.
- Ax-Crazy: Starts acting like this whenever she gets into a fight.
- The Baroness: Of the Sexpot variety. She's a cold domineering woman with a Dominatrix vibe.
- Big Bad: She's the one responsible for the heroes being on the run in the first place. She's this even for her own team DV8.
- Cranial Processing Unit: Subverted. She actually mocks the very idea of her putting her brain in her head after all cyborg augmentation she has done.Ivana: HAHAHAHA! You think I keep my brain inside my head? Come on, Khalid! You're an engineer! Think like one! It's inside the torso surrounded by eight inches of solid diamonsteel!
- Control Freak: Uses any methods she can to have complete control of her subordinates, such as sex, drugs, blackmail, tracking chips or mind control.
- Cyborg: She looks like an ordinary human, but she replaced most of her body with cybernetic enhancements.
- Femme Fatale Spy: Used to be a top KGB spy and makes a lot of use out of her old tricks.
- Ms. Fanservice: Usually wears short tight dresses, stockings and high heels.
- No-Sell: Had a psi helmet incorporated in her skull plating to make her immune to Psychic Powers.
- Really Gets Around: Maintains several affairs with her subordinates, notably Threshold whom she treats as her boy toy.
- Robotic Reveal: Was revealed as a Cyborg during her fight with Lynch during the Gen13 origin story.
- Statuesque Stunner: Her height is 5'10", and she's pretty attractive for a cyborg.
- Super-Strength: Thanks to her cybernetic parts she's much stronger than a normal human.
- The Vamp: Likes to use her sexuality to manipulate men, mostly Threshold.
Matthew Callahan / Threshold
Ex-leader of DV8 and brother to Bliss. Arrogant, violent, sociopathic, psychopathic; just who you don't want to have super-powers. He is the son of Stephan Callahan from Team 7.
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He can be very arrogant about his powers and abilities. One of his first appearances actually has him kill a literal Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy who managed to beat him in a sparring match via Your Head A-Splode.
- Badass Abnormal: He knows how to handle himself even without his powers.
- Badass Cape: He's the only member of the group who actually wears a cape.
- Berserk Button: Don't laugh at him.
- Broken Ace: Is introduced as The Ace for Ivana's team at first, but quickly shows he's much more troubled and disturbed than he first appeared.
- Brother–Sister Incest: Not entirely willing on his part, but Nicole uses her powers to force him into this. When she uses a "pleasure wave" on him his Grunting Orgasm he seems to in as much horror as he is in ecstasy.
- Code Name: Threshold.
- Co-Dragons: To Ivana along with his sister, although he's clearly the biggest The Dragon of the two.
- Eyepatch of Power: He wears a red patch the form of a lightning bolt. After his eye exploded I.O. offered to replace it with a cybernetic one, but he refused and kept his missing eye as a reminder of his potential.
- Eye Scream: When his powers awakened the outburst was so strong that his right eye exploded.
- Flight: Via his psychokinesis.
- Force and Finesse: He's the Force to Nicole's Finesse, as he uses his Psychic Powers in a more brutal straightforward manner.
- Freudian Excuse: As a child he witnessed the death of his parents and underwent years of brainwashing by the I.O. to be their loyal slave for years, which turned him into a psychopath.
- Mind over Matter: Part of his power set.
- The Mole: Briefly worked as a plant to the Gen13 team in the origin story.
- Pet the Dog: Cares a lot about his sister, which naturally uses it to manipulate him.
- Psychic Powers: His main powers which include Telepathy and Telekinesis.
- Smug Super: He's very confident about his powers and often looks down on other Gen actives.
- The Starscream: In the origin story, he says he plans to betray Ivana once he had an army of superpowered soldier under his command.
- Telepathy: Part of his power set.
- Torture Technician: He's one even without the use of his Psychic Powers
- Weak-Willed: Surprisingly, he was much more susceptible to I.O. and Ivana's brainwashing than most. Ivana basically has him as her boy toy at one point. Even Nicole starts manipulating him easily.
- Who's Laughing Now?: See Berserk Button. People who laugh at him tend to get this as a reaction.
Nicole Callahan / Bliss
A member and sometimes leader of DV8 who is capable of manipulating others' emotions
- Always Second Best: Feels that way towards her brother at times, who is often perceived as The Ace of the team, while she's seen as useless by them.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She usually puts on a Nice Girl front, especially to Bobby.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The brunette to Gem's redhead and Rachel's blonde.
- Brother–Sister Incest: Uses her powers to seduce her brother to manipulate him.
- Code Name: Bliss.
- Co-Dragons: To Ivana along with her brother.
- Charm Person: Extended exposure to her powers can make Nicole turn people into her puppets.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Is often perceived as useless by both her enemies and her teammates, which frustrates her.
- Emotion Bomb: The most dangerous aspect of her powers, being able to stun someone with a feeling of agony or overwhelm them with bliss.
- Emotion Control: Her Psychic Powers make this her specialty.
- Force and Finesse: The Finesse to Matthew's Force. Her Psychic Powers favors a more subtle approach, manipulation being one of her specialties.
- Freudian Excuse: Like her brother, witnessing the death of her parents as a child greatly damaged her as did years of undergoing brainwashing by the I.O., and she was also sexually abused during it by one of the guards.
- Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: Her powers allow people to feel bliss or agony even against their will.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Has long purple hair and is usually wearing purple in her outfits and accessories.
- Living Aphrodisiac: She can use her powers to cause this effect.
- Manipulative Bitch: Even without her powers she's very talented at manipulating people.
- Mind over Matter: Part of her power set She's very unskilled at it and rarely uses it.
- Ms. Fanservice: Wears many Stripperiffic outfits that show a lot of skin.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Characters usually underestimate her and see her powers as What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?, but she can be really dangerous when she wants to.
- Out with a Bang: Random one night stands for her tend to end up dead, as she apparently gives them such ecstasy to the point of cardiac arrest.
- Power Perversion Potential: Is not shy about using her powers during sex, using an Emotion Bomb to overwhelm her partners with pleasure, leaving them a quivering mess.
- Purple Is Powerful: Her powers also manifest in purple.
- Really Gets Around: She sleeps around a lot and not all her lovers tend to survive the experience.
- Sex Goddess: Mostly due to her powers, she's as an extremely talented lover.
- The Starscream: She's much more aware of the brainwashing she and her brother suffered at the hands of I.O. and Ivana and plans to betray them.
- The Tease: Acts very flirtatiously all the time.
- Telepathy: Part of her power set, which she uses to be Mission Control for DV8.
- Token Evil Teammate: After Ivana, she's easily the least moral member of DV8, who are far from angels anyway.
- The Vamp: She's a villainous seductress.
- Villainesses Want Heroes: Has a crush on Burnout.
Gem Antonelli / Copycat
Copycat is a member of the super human team DV8. She can control others and make them do whatever she does.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The redhead to Rachel's blonde and Nicole's brunette.
- Code Name: Copycat
- Curtains Match the Windows: She has red hair and red eyes.
- Due to the Dead: At the end Gods and Monsters she asks for a proper funeral for Jocelyn if Stormwatch wants their help.
- Facial Markings: Has a diamond-shaped mark bellow her left eye.
- Lady in Red: Nearly all her outfits are crimson.
- People Puppets: Can take control of other people by making eye-contact. Freestyle trained herself to be immune to it.
- Split Personality: Because of an incident with Bliss she had four different personalities along with her own: Soldier, which is rough and tough and does whatever it takes to get what she wants. Nihilist: Completely paranoid and hates everything, including her own life. Spy: Cold and calculating that analyzes every situation. Gemma: A five-year-old kid prone to fits and lots of whining.
- Thanks to Freestyle her real mind begins to heal and her other personalities disappear.
Leon Carver / Frostbite
Frostbite is the team leader of DV8. He can absorb the heat from any object.
- Code Name: Frostbite.
- De-power: After being affected by villain Anthrax's power, he overused his powers and became unable to use them until they were restored by Stephen Callahan.
- Dreadlock Rasta: His hairstyle.
- Faking the Dead: After Ivana tries to have him disposed of, he uses the body-double that had replaced him and got killed to fake his death with the help of Frank Colby.
- The Leader: When Threshold goes rogue, he's unanimously chosen as replacement leader by the rest of the team.
- An Ice Person: Instead of creating ice, he absorbs the heat from the environment and turns it into cold.
- Only Sane Man: He's the least screwed up member of the team until Freestyle joined.
- Power Dyes Your Hair: When his powers first manifested, his hair turned yellow.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Much like Grunge, he usually doesn't wear a shirt to show the "BITE" tattooed on his chest.
- Will They or Won't They?: With Rachel. At the end of the original run they finally start a relationship.
Rachel Goldman / Sublime
Sublime is a former member of the group, DV8. She can alter her density to be intangible or diamond-hard. She is the daughter of Deathblow.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: She's the blonde to Gem's Redhead and Nicole's Brunette.
- Code Name: Sublime.
- Clothing Damage: Of all the DV8 girls, Sublime is the most likely to lose her clothes or have them damaged. One issue her top gets shredded and she's forced to cover herself with her hands.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Gem suspects she always puts on a haughty façade because she knows that, even though she can become tougher than steel, she can also be as vulnerable as mist.
- Intangibility: She can use her powers to become intangible.
- The Needless: If she becomes dense enough, her body loses the need to eat or breath.
- Purple Is Powerful: Her costume is purple and her power are incredibly versatile.
- Prim and Proper Bun: Wears her hair in one while on missions, although she's not very "prim" or proper.
- Super-Toughness: If she increases her density she can become as hard as a diamond and possibly even more dense.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's only a bit shorter than Caitlin at 6'2".
- Underboobs: Sometimes her outfit also shows the lower part of her breasts.
Hector Morales / Powerhaus
Powerhaus was a member of the superhuman team DV8. He can convert emotional energy into physical strength and mass.
- The Big Guy: He's mainly used as this by the team.
- Code Name: Powerhaus, Powerhouse sometimes is used.
- Emotion Eater: His power allows him to absorb the emotions around him, turning it into body mass and strength.
- Gratuitous Spanish: Unsurprisingly he occasionally adds spanish to his sentences.
- Logical Weakness: He has a limit of how much emotional energy he can absorb before it overwhelms him, forcing him to release it.
- Sizeshifter: If he absorbs enough emotions, he can grow to gigantic sizes.
- Unexplained Recovery: At the end of the original run, when Freestyle uses her power to set a new timeline that saves everyone, he ends up being the only casualty of the mission, but somehow reappears safe and sound during Gods and Monsters.
Michael Heller / Evo
Evo was a member of the super human team DV8. He can shapeshift into a bat, wolf-man or amphibian form.
- All Men Are Perverts: He's rather perverted towards his female teammates, especially Sublime and Freestyle. Bliss unsurprisingly takes advantage of that.
- Aww Look They Really Do Love Each Other: While most of the time his teammates barely tolerate him, there have been a few times they saved his life and shown they do think of him as a friend.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Even in his human form, his skin looks grayish.
- Animorphism: Can alternate between transforming into a wolf-man, a lizard man and a bat-man.
- Code Name: Evo.
- Flight: Much like Man-Bat, he can fly in bat form.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Of all the members of the DV8, Evo is the least liked by his peers, although they do have moments of caring about each other.
- Land, Sea, Sky: He can turn into three forms, Wolf (land), Bat (sky) and Amphibian (sea).
- Lizard Folk: His Amphibian form.
- Wolf Man: His wolf form, which his also the most commonly used of the three.
Jocelyn Davis / Freestyle
Freestyle was a member of the super human team DV8. She has the ability to see multiple timelines and pick the most favorable path.
- Code Name: Freestyle.
- Facial Markings: Has a star on her forehead.
- Heroic RRoD: If she uses her powers too much, she will suffer from Rapid Aging and could die, since she basically lives all possible outcomes at the same time.
- Nice Girl: Especially when compared to the rest of her team.
- Only Sane Man: Alongside Leon she's most rational and not-messed up member of the team.
- Seers: Jocelyn has the ability to psionically view multiple possible timelines and subconsciously chooses the best course of action for herself from these possibilities. She has little control over this power, and when placed in a situation where she can't escape her powers still automatically activate.
- Sixth Ranger: She's the last member to join the team, having done so halfway through.
- Token Good Teammate: She's easily the nicest and most moral member of DV8.
- You Don't Look Like You: Her design in Gods and Monsters is completely different from her earlier design.
Other Villains
The Bounty Hunters
The Bounty Hunters are a team of four multiverse-hopping mercenaries from the Damocles Universe.
- Absurdly Sharp Claws: Rake's main form of attack.
- BFG: One-Eyed Jack's has one, which he holds using all his three arms.
- Dragon Lady: Jade dresses and acts just like one.
- Humans Are Ugly: Their reaction to the humans on Earth.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Jade decides to run away back to her dimension after the rest of her team is beaten.
- The Leader: One-Eyed Jack is the boss of this mercenary posse.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: One-Eyed Jack has a third arm, which he uses to hold his BFG
- Outside-Context Problem: From Gen13's point of view they're just some space criminals, but they actually work for the Big Bad of one of WildStorm's big crossover event, Damocles.
- Space Suits Are SCUBA Gear: Hardball has one, which gives him limited protection.
- Starter Villain: The first villains to be fought by the Gen 13 as an official team.
Helmut
A gun for hire and Enemy of John Lynch. Most of Helmut's powers come from his armor which has a weakness to sonics. He has demonstrated profound digging skills so he may have super powers of his own.
- Be the Ball: His armor allows him to take the form of a metal ball.
- The Brute: Often works as muscle for others villain.
- Green and Mean: Has green skin underneath his armor.
- Hired Guns: Works as a mercenary after he left jail.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: While armored, he easily tanks most of what the team throws at him.
- Powered Armor: The source of his strength.
- Revenge: Wants revenge against Lynch for putting him in prison for 20 years.
- Shameful Strip: Grunge defeats him by deactivating his armor, which leaves him powerless and in his underwear.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Loud noises cause him great pain, even the squealing of bats is enough to give him a headache.
The Coda Warriors
The Coda Warriors are a Kheran organization of deadly female assassins.
- Abhorrent Admirer: Sister Maxima is this to Grunge.
- Amazon Brigade: The Coda Warriors are a tribe of badass women who descent from the original amazons of the Greek Myths.
- Arc Villain: Of the "Lost in Paradise" arc.
- Authority Equals Ass Kicking: The Majestrix is the strongest of the Coda Warriors and also their leader.
- Bathing Beauty: The Majestrix is introduced bathing surrounded by guards and servants.
- Blood Knight: All the Coda Warrior love combat, with the exception of Daphne, which makes her stand out.
- Brawn Hilda: Sister Maxima, a giant, fat and muscular Coda Warrior.
- Does Not Like Men: They tend to look down on men as the weaker sex and consider their only use to be breeding. Grunge doesn't mind.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The leader of the current Coda Warriors in only called The Majestrix in her Gen¹³ appearance, but in the larger WildStorm universe she's known as Andromache.
- Female Misogynist: They look down on non-Coda women, seeing them as completely harmless. Of course, they greatly underestimated Rainmaker and Fairchild.Rainmaker: Harmless? I think not! (elbows one guard in the gut, and kicks another in the face) I have no idea who these pirates are, but right now they're the least of your problems, sister!
- The High Queen: The Majestrix, ruler of the Coda Warriors acts as one.
- Innocently Insensitive: The Majestrix doesn't exactly sugarcoat her disappointment in her daughter.Majestrix: [Rainmaker] has a warrior's spirit, Daphne. The makings of a formidable Coda Warrior. Why can't you be more like her?
Daphne: I...I'm sorry, Majestrix. - I Owe You My Life: The conflict between the pirates and the Coda Warriors is resolved peacefully when Rainmaker saves The Majestrix from a pirate and asks for Daphne's freedom in return.
- Fountain of Youth: The Majestrix herself is one, the Coda Warriors retain their youth by drinking her blood.
- Morality Pet: Daphne to The Majestrix who she raised as her own daughter. She has a soft spot for her even though Daphne is a disappointment as a Coda Warrior.
Trance and The Freaks
A Gen 13 villain who controls people using a form of hypnosis who leads a group called the Freaks
- Creepy Child: Phobia, who's just a little girl, but it's just as deadly as the rest of the team.
- Dumb Muscle: Baby who needs his other half Doll to give him his orders.
- Elemental Shapeshifter: Nymph whose body is entirely made of water.
- Mind Control: Trance's power allows him to enslave a person to his will. It's implied that's how he keeps his team in check.
- Snake Talk: How Albino talksssss.
- The Leader: Trance is the leader of the Freaks.
- Rubber Man: Albino's power allows him to stretch his entire body.
- Supernatural Fear Inducer: Phobia's power is to make a person hallucinate what they fear most.
- Two Beings, One Body: BabyDoll, with Doll residing inside the huge but stupid Baby to give him orders.
Dr. Althabia Monstreau
A Mad Scientist attempting to make a race of hybrid human/animal slaves.
- Animorphism: What his experiments do to people. He wants to build an army of beastmen.
- Bald of Evil: He's a bald evil doctor. or at least that's the mask he wears.
- De-power: His experiments not only turns the team into animal people, it also removes their powers.
- Evil Genius: Used to be one for Ivana before he defected and used his intelligence for his own experiments.
- Expy: Of Dr. Moreau from the The Island of Doctor Moreau.
- Killer Gorilla: He became one years ago due to experimenting on himself and only poses as a human.
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Money, Dear Boy: His motivation is to create an army of enslaved beastmen so he can sell them as slaves for profit. - Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His surname means Monster.
