Character sheet for the list of characters of The Authority (as well as the members of the series' titular team)
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The Authority
The Team in General
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- Anti-Hero Team: They're basically what you get when a bunch of dangerous and arbitrarily moral antiheroes decide to enforce order on the world their way. The only reason they're heroes is because their enemies are far worse.
- Badass Crew: Individually, each member of the team is impressive on their own but together they are pretty much unstoppable.
- Dysfunction Junction: Personality wise, they're a pretty dysfunctional group, being delusional, apathetic, short-sighted, temperamental, violent, murderous, drug-riddled, perverted or all of the above. The Engineer herself admitted they were an anarchist cell that just happened to save the world from time to time.
- Expy Coexistence: Happened when they got Canon Welded into the DC Universe:
- Manchester Black joins the team in Superman and the Authority and he was created for an Authority Expy group called The Elite who clashed with Superman in the story What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?. Now it's said The Elite were imitating The Authority in-universe.
- Superman Substitute, Apollo now has to work alongside the actual Superman. He also admits he modelled himself on Supes.
- Knight Templar: The point of the team is to improve the world through enforcing hard-line order and control whenever desired. They were created by Jenny as a way to protect the world by any means necessary after Stormwatch was disbanded due to lack of government funding and the Changers were brutally dispatched for trying to using more lenient measures of helping the world.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Jenny assembled the team with the idea in mind that the team together should carry as much weight as the average world-superpower in order to strike fear into nations.
- Sketchy Successor: They are this to the Changers, the idealistic team of metahumans that inspired Jenny Sparks to create the team. Unlike the Authority, they didn't engage in nearly as much dirty business and nastiness.
- Superhero Sobriquets:
- Jenny Sparks — "The Spirit of the 20th Century".
- Apollo — "The Sun God".
- Midnighter — "Night's Bringer of War".
- The Doctor — "The Shaman".
- The Engineer — "The Maker".
- Jack Hawksmoor — "The God of Cities".
- Swift — "The Winged Huntress".
- Took a Level in Jerkass: The whole team did this after Jenny died. Lethal force was no longer just an option, but more often that not, it was the only one they used; they became arrogant, causally acting unilaterally without regard for the repercussions of their actions and dismissing the valid concerns of others; and at one point, they overthrew the U.S. government.
Jenny Sparks
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Of the 20th century. Which comes with the little wrinkle that when the 20th century ends, she drops dead.
- Been There, Shaped History: She convinced Hitler to go into politics, not knowing what he would bring.
- The Chains of Commanding: The second issue of the original series has Jack note that Jenny tends to be more abrasive and loud the more responsibility she takes on. The very next page has Jenny outright tell Apollo that she doesn't like being the leader.Bad things happen when I run teams. And bad things happen when I don't run teams.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Drawn to resemble Kate Moss.
- Flat-Earth Atheist: She's a metaphysical Anthropomorphic Personification... who's an atheist.
- Killed Off for Real: As the Anthropomorphic Personification of the 20th Century, she died at midnight on December 31st, 1999.
- Lady Drunk: She tended to drink a lot. She once joked that the only reason she looks so good at her age is because all of her organs are preserved in alcohol.
- My Greatest Failure: In the this universe, Hitler's rise to power is due to her telling him to consider going into politics. Needless to say, she ended up regretting this when she sees the result of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: As noted below, one of Jenny's greatest regrets was telling a certain someone to give up art and inspiring him to go into politics.
- Older Than She Looks: By the time of her death, she was nearly a century old, but stopped physically aging in her thirties.
- Shock and Awe: Jenny can control and absorb electricity but cannot generate it herself.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She accidentally started the rise of Adolf Hitler when she suggested that he quit painting and go into politics.
Jack Hawksmoor
- Alien Abduction: His whole shtick was how this happened to him which replaced many of his body parts and made him a city empath.
- Exotic Equipment: Whatever became of his genitals after his modifications made one observer vomit on sight.
- Fisher King: His basic powerset is to be empowered by, commune with and control cities.
- Jerkass: One of the biggest on the team to the point even Midnighter calls him out on it from time to time.
- The Lancer: When Jenny Sparks was around, he was second-in-command.
- Sketchy Successor: The Authority's darker aspects only fully manifested when he took over the team leadership.
- Two-Faced: He spends a large chunk of the 2008 series suffering a deformity that gives him an asymmetrical appearance.
The Engineer
Real Name: Angela Spica
Also Known as The Maker. An American woman who replaced her blood with liquid Nanomachines who serves as the technology and ship technology expert for the team.- Ambiguously Bi: While fighting the Renegade Doctor, Angie mentions having a "brief lesbian fling" in college.
- Ascended Fan Girl: She was once just a comic book fanatic
(to the point she had every DC comic since 1956) and computer geek in Brooklyn dreaming of being a superhero who inherited the original Engineer's nanomachines and replaced her blood with them. - Badass Bookworm: Angie is the team's technology expert and is just as capable in combat as the rest.
- Barbie Doll Anatomy: She's naked but has no visible nipples or vulva (though she would have visible areola Depending on the Artist and is shown with bolts for nipples in the second crossover with Lobo).
- Chrome Champion: She is a silver cyborg.
- Cyborg: She has nanites in her blood, which she frequently uses to envelope her body with a metallic coating.
- Experimented in College: She once claimed to have had a lesbian fling when she was in college.
- Me's a Crowd: She can make copies of herself to carry out various functions around the world.
- Nanomachines: The source of her powers.
- Power of Creation: Angie's most impressive power is ability to create almost anything out of the trace elements that exist in the air and soil that surround her, from machine gun hands to literal clones of herself. There really is no limit to what her machines can do other than her imagination.
- Power Perversion Potential: She has used her copies to have sex with Jack while maintaining concentration to prevent her other clones from sharing the same feeling during their worldly duties (i.e. having an orgasm while giving a speech to the UN.) It's also pretty much outright stated that her nano-blood basically allows her to indulge her exhibitionist tendencies by giving her a reason to walk around naked everywhere.
- Rape as Drama: It's implied that during the G7 Authority arc that she was treated as a sex slave during her brainwashing. Likewise, during the Renegade Doctor arc, it's implied he went back in time to when she was in high school to sexually assault her.
- Techno Wizard: Coupled with her Machine Empathy and natural Gadgeteer Genius, she essentially became this for the team.
The Doctor
Real Name: Jeroen Thornedike
Also known as The Shaman. A nebbish billionaire ex-heroin junkie who serves as the mightiest magic-user on Earth and the latest in a long line of reincarnated shamans chosen to defend the planet from danger. He serves as the Token Wizard of the team.- Brilliant, but Lazy: Between what remained of his former genius-level intellect and the powers he gained as the Doctor, Jeroen could have changed the world for the better all by himself, but usually he can barely be arsed to leave his room.
- Character Death: He is killed off in The Authority: Revolution, with Habib Bin Hassan taking his place.
- Cowardly Lion: Admitted to be the strongest member of team, but his crippling self-esteem issues and cowardice cripple his full potential.
- Functional Addict: He's an admitted heroin junkie that is sometimes high on the stuff during battle to cope with stress. Albeit how functional he is tends to vary at times.
- Legacy Character: He continues a long line of shamans who also went by the title Doctor and is ultimately replaced by a successor after he is killed off in The Authority: Revolution.
- Reality Warper: Everyone who has the role of the Doctor is actually this. In his own words, all he has to do is draw a detailed mental picture of what he wants to happen and reality builds it for him. However, more powerful feats can take their toll both on the Doctor and the planet's ecosystem so he tries to use the full extent of his power sparingly.
- Rich Kid Turned Social Activist: He was a software billionaire. After suffering a nervous breakdown, he gave away his fortune and tried to waste his life in a flophouse. Jenny Sparks convinces him to join her socio-anarchist collective.
- The Stoner: He spends a lot of time high as a kite.
Midnighter
Apollo
- Expy Coexistence: He is a Superman Substitute who had to work alongside the actual Superman in Superman and the Authority. Here he admits he modelled himself after Superman.
- Flying Brick: He can fly, is incredibly strong and can fire blasts of solar energy.
- Good Wears White: Apollo wears a white and gold outfit. He has a warm and cheerful personality to go with his Power of the Sun and is one of the nicer members of the team. Especially when compared to his husband Midnighter.
- Holy Halo: Fitting his title as "The Sun God", he's almost always depicted with his head surrounded by a shining halo.
- Lightning Bruiser: He is as swift as he is strong.
- The Needless: Apollo does not require food or drink as his body is entirely sustained by his solar energy. He can survive in anaerobic environments indefinitely (he flies in space, by the simple method of not breathing).
- The Power of the Sun: Like Superman, Apollo's powers are dependent on the Sun needing only exposure or access to sunlight to activate. Unlike Superman however, Apollo's body behaves more like a battery as his powers are far more directly dependent on the sun; whereas Superman's abilities are somewhat more 'internal'.
- Rape as Drama: During Millar's first arc, it was implied that he was raped by the Captain America stand-in and it almost happened again during the G7 Authority story arc by his own Evil Counterpart, Teuton.
- Superman Substitute: He's more or less Superman if he were an anti-hero and gay. Final Crisis even acknowledges it by having him be part of a team of Superman's counterparts, expies and knock-offs. When the Wildstorm characters got folded into the DC universe, it's taken even further by having Apollo be a Superman fanboy.
Swift
Real Name: Shen Li-Men
A Buddhist Asian woman with the ability to grow wings and claws and superhuman senses. She was part of Jenny Sparks's Stormwatch team and is known as The World's Greatest Huntress.- Ambiguously Bi: She and Jenny Sparks had a fling back in the 90's, but she also had a relationship with Grunge.
- Ethical Slut: She had an apparent friends-with-benefits fling with Jenny Sparks back when they were both in Stormwatch, and during her time with the Authority, she had a no-strings-attached affair with Grunge.
- Fastest Thing Alive: Swift has been called the "fastest winged mammal on the planet".
- Flight: Swift is considered the fastest winged mammal on the planet. She has lived up to this claim by flying fast enough to catch up to super-speedsters.
- Flying Brick: Swift once killed a person by flying straight through them, causing them to explode in numerous directions.
- Lightning Bruiser: Ridiculously fast and strong enough to use that speed as a brute force weapon, turning herself into a missile.
- Martial Pacifist: Described herself as being a Buddhist who tossed aside her personal beliefs to do good in the world by any means necessary. However, this reasoning degraded as she started abandoning all the principles of her faith and decided to just give up being a Buddhist or a pacifist entirely.
- Rape and Revenge: As mentioned below, she was brainwashed into being a sex slave and once she broke free, she attacked her abusers.
- Rape as Drama: She was brainwashed to be a Sex Slave during the G7 Authority arc and killed her abusers.
- Super-Senses: Apart from superior hearing and eyesight, she is able to feel or "read" the air to locate moving things and mentally listen to the bio-rhythms of the planet.
- Winged Humanoid: She's a human woman with bird wings.
- Wolverine Claws: Swift can grow claws and talons on her hands and feet.
Jenny Quantum
Personification of the 21st century. After being adopted by Apollo and Midnighter, she more or less takes Jenny Sparks' place as she grows older.
- Brainy Baby: She is able to speak in full sentences by toddlerhood and before that demonstrated awareness of her surroundings and being able to use her advanced powers to help the Authority.
- Goo Goo God Like: She's had incredible power since she was an infant.
- Happily Adopted: She has no issues being Apollo and Midnighter's adopted daughter.
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up: She deliberately ages herself to adolescence in The Authority: Revolution.
- Precocious Crush: The second crossover with Lobo actually has her express interest in the Main Man in spite of only being three, much to the disgust of her father Apollo.
- Younger Than They Look: She currently takes on the form of a teenager, but is only eight.
Supporting Characters and Allies
Jacob Krigstein
- Anti-Villain: Krigstein's goal is actually similar to the Authority's, which is to make the world a better place for everyone and break the stagnant status quo. Swift convinces him to make a Heel–Face Turn by convincing him to use his ideas to help people.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: He is basically an alternate-universe version of Jack Kirby; he is what Kirby might have become if he'd been snatched up by the US Government after World War II.
Antagonists
Kaizen Gamorra
- Bald of Evil: Balding and certainly a nasty old man.
- Beard of Evil: Has a long and thin beard and he's a despotic tyrant.
- Cain and Abel: He murdered his brothers Sum and Wai.
- Evil Old Folks: A seventy year-old tyrant.
- Evil Overlord: Parousia was remade into an island factory of terror named Gamorra Island under him.
- For the Evulz: He may wrap it in lengthy, poetical, emotional speeches, but it's pretty obvious that he commits atrocities like terrorism or genocide purely for his own amusement. When asked directly by a UN official why is he doing all that, his answer is merely that it's just because he can. And when his headquarters is about to be squashed by the Carrier, his last words are "I just wanted to have some fun".
- Moral Myopia: He sees absolutely nothing wrong in slaughtering people for fun, but holds a grudge towards Stormwatch members because they tried to stop him — and killed about two hundred of his people on the way. You know, the very same people that Kaizen himself uses as disposable pawns and is visibly uncaring about how many of them will die trying to achieve his goals.
- Omnicidal Maniac: He tried to carve his insignia into the planet, attempting to destroy several major cities in the process. Why? Because he can.
- Slasher Smile: He flashes them quite frequently during his Motive Rants.
- Yellow Peril: He's a megalomaniacal dictator of an Asian island, with a long, white beard and long, sharp nails.
Regis Slzfi
- Archnemesis Dad: Legally, he is Jenny Sparks' father-in-law; she married his son Lorenzo back in the 1920's in hopes of sparking a revolution against Regis, but this plan failed when she discovered that Lorenzo was just as bad.
- Ax-Crazy: A downright vicious brute with a Hair-Trigger Temper more than willing to get his hands dirty at the slightest provocation.
- Child Eater: Hints at devouring Windsor's children after killing him.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Seems to be quite fond of this trope. He murders Windsor, the king of Albion (appointed by Regis himself) by crushing his skull — just because he verbally disrespected him (and he wasn't even talking to his face, either — just making an off-handed comment in his conversation with Yngvi).
- Eunuchs Are Evil: Became a eunuch following his confrontation with Jenny, and is one of the vilest foes the Authority has faced.
- Evil Old Folks: He was one of the first Blues to make contact with the humans of his world, way back in the 14th century.
- Groin Attack: Jenny Sparks castrated him during her sojourn to Sliding Albion back in the 1920's.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: His final fate, courtesy of Hawksmoor.
- Horns of Villainy: Has a pair of massive, ram-like horns atop his head.
- Serial Rapist: Roars to Midnighter during their battle about the number of people he's raped and killed during the past half millennium.
The Renegade Doctor
- Abusive Precursors: To say that he abused his powers would be a gross understatement. The crimes he committed were so terrible that every doctor since has had a Restraining Bolt put on them to prevent them from doing the same kind of damage.
- Brought Down to Normal: After his rampage in 1967, the previous Doctors stripped him of all of his powers.
- The Chessmaster: He manages to outwit the entire Authority to such an extent that they were forced to arrange for him to be released from prison and restored to full power.
- Fat Bastard: He is an evil man with a noticeably round figure.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: It takes a while, but the Renegade Doctor's senses finally catch up with what it means to be connected to all life on the planet, resulting in him feeling empathy for the first time. Unfortunately for him, the Authority don't care and kill him anyway.
- Hero's Evil Predecessor: Not immediate predecessor, but the principle stands.
- Omnicidal Maniac: He completely wiped out the populations of three entire countries before the combined heroes of the world finally took him down.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He's racist (he downplays his massacre of 12 million people by dismissing that most of his victims were "Sambos"), homophobic (he addresses Midnighter and Apollo using homophobic slurs) and misogynist (he uses his powers to go back in time and molest the Engineer when she was a teenager, then returns to the present to taunt her over the despicable deed).
- Post-Rape Taunt: He went back in time during a fight with the Engineer to assault her in high school, then came back and taunted her.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: It's implied that he went back in time to when the Engineer was in high school to sexually assault her.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: He spent four decades locked in a prison cell twenty eons in the past.
- Teeny Weenie: Angie suggests that Renegade Doctor is such an asshole because he is insecure about his small penis.
Seth
- Book Dumb: He comes across as just an idiotic redneck, but he does show some genuine cleverness at times. In particular, when his superiors assume Midnighter and Jenny Quantum are dead, Seth observes that the lack of any remains leaves open the possibility of their escaping — which is exactly what happened.
- Brother–Sister Incest: Is said to be the resulting offspring from his seven uncles schtupping his mother.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Freely admits to the President that he is a "cackling super-villain who gets off on hurting people".
- Deep South: He represents almost every negative stereotype of Southern people, and is possibly one of the darkest examples in comics, considering his fondness for violence and implied pedophilia.
- Flight, Strength, Heart: In addition to superhuman attributes and telepathy, he has very random superpowers like "nuclear poop vision".
- Forced Transformation: His augmentations are reversed by Jenny Quantum, returning him to his human form and his final fate is being transformed into a chicken.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Seth was originally a skinny, inbred redneck that was kidnapped by the government and turned into a Super-Soldier capable of taking on the most powerful superheroes on the planet singlehandedly.
- Inbred and Evil: He was conceived when his uncles had sex with his mother and is a real despicable piece of work.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: To complete his nature as a laundry list of negative rural stereotypes, he is evidently homophobic and racist, as he mocks Apollo and Midnighter for being gay and at one point says the N-word.
- The Sociopath: A truly depraved piece of work that gets off hurting people as he himself admits.
- Superpower Lottery: The government spent billions expending money on adding any superpower possible to him, to the point he has superpowers in the quadruple digits.
- Would Hurt a Child: He is heavily implied to sexually abuse children, and the government rewards him with a harem of prepubescent girls after defeating the Authority for them. He also attempted to target Jenny Quantum.
"God"
The Big Bad of "The Outer Dark", the entity best described as God is a massive alien lifeform that is the original creator of the planet we know as Earth, having physically created the planet and moved it into orbit billions of years ago to serve as a retirement home for it when it returned from travelling the universe. It is not at all pleased to discover a biosphere having developed on the planet by pure chance, and intends to wipe out all life and return Earth to its original Death World state.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: It never actually communicates in the story, Jenny Sparks even wonders if it can think at all before she lobotomizes it, but it's definitely capable of intelligent action, most of which is bizarre.
- Eldritch Abomination: It's a gigantic, alien lifeform roughly the size of the moon, so big it's the host of several independent biospheres inside its body that it's not even aware of.
- Empty Shell: With no way of destroying the being, Jenny Sparks performs a Heroic Sacrifice, destroying its higher brain functions while leaving its body alive
- Expy: Of Galactus, who was concieved as "what if God was a supervillain?"
- God Is Evil: Insofar that morality even applies to it, it's planning to wipe out all life on Earth because it doesn't like the biosphere we need to live.
- Starfish Alien: There's nothing remotely human about it, it's essentially a giant, pyramid-shaped living planet. Its body is home to an alien civilization evolved from parasites over millions of years.
The Americans
A team of villains created by Dr. Krigstein. They were ordered to kill Jenny Quantum, Jenny Sparks' reincarnation and then told to capture her when she displayed powers.
- An Arm and a Leg: Titan gets his legs blown off by Jenny Quantum when her powers manifest for the first time.
- Corrupted Character Copy: The main Americans are evil stand-ins for The Avengers.
- Commander —> Captain America
- Storm-God —> The Mighty Thor
- Titan —> Ant-Man
- Hornet —> The Wasp
- Tank-Man —> Iron Man
- The Creature —> The Incredible Hulk
- The rest are similarly stand-ins for other Marvel heroes, including a gender-flipped version of the X-Men and a bigoted Nick Fury.
- Epic Flail: Storm-God wields a morning star attached to a long chain.
- Heel–Face Turn: Midnighter is able to convince Tank-Man to walk away from the Americans just by talking to the guy and being nice to him. The last that is heard of Tank-Man is when he sends a letter to Midnighter, thanking him for showing him a better life and telling him about his new family in Dr. Krigstein's New Indonesia.
- Karmic Rape: When the Commander is last seen, it is implied Midnighter is about to repay him for raping Apollo by using a rusty jackhammer to do the same to him.
- Laser-Guided Karma:
- Commander is implied to have raped Apollo. After Apollo paralyzes him with a solar blast, Commander is last seen being confronted by Midnighter who intends to sodomize him with a jackhammer.
- Angie sends four of the racist Americans to a parallel universe ruled by an African dictator named Adolf X who exterminated every non-black person in his universe.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: The few that do get named are only referred to by their codenames. The only exception to this is Tank-Man whose real name is revealed to be Jose Delgado.
- Politically Incorrect Villain:
- Commander refers to Apollo and Midnighter, who are gay, as "two sissies".
- One of the Americans, an expy of Nick Fury, states that he hates Mexicans, Asians, blacks and especially French people.
- Rape and Revenge: The Commander rapes a depowered Apollo — only for a recovered Apollo to then cripple him and it's implied Midnighter returns the favor with a rusty jackhammer.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: The Commander raped Apollo and two nurses.
- Shadow Archetype: Like The Authority, The Americans are a team of superhumans who seek to enforce their own agenda. Unlike The Authority, they lack a conscience or even the slightest care for civilians.
- Super Soldiers: They are Krigstein's latest creations. Unlike the previous super soldiers he created, their main purpose is to serve his goals, not that of any government.
G7 Authority
- Ambiguously Gay: Rush says that she isn't into guys, has a retinue of young women who shower with her, and some of her interactions with Machine suggest that they are a couple, or at least friends with benefits. However, it's never explicitly said that she's a lesbian.
- Anti-Villain: Although they are by no means heroes, they still end up doing some good by the very virtue of being Authority's replacement and fighting villains even worse than them.
- Bald of Evil: Colonel and Surgeon are both bald and completely amoral.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Last Call, who's been using a depowered Apollo as a punching bag, tells him "light me, you lazy bastard" while holding a cigarette, unaware that his powers were restored by Midnighter. Apollo obliges... and burns his whole head off while he's at it.
- Black Dude Dies First: Street is the first of the G7 to be killed by Midnighter.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Unlike most real-world racists (who would take offence if called so and come up with some convoluted excuses to justify their worldview) Colonel openly admits that he is a racist and fiercely proud of it.
- Defiant to the End: To Colonel's credit, when Midnighter has already killed his teammates and is about to kill him, he is unwilling to go down gently and shouts at the hero to bring it on, calling him a "poofy wanker". Not that it saves him from going down with contemptuous ease. Nor getting a hilarious Bond One-Liner in response.Midnighter: [delivering a lethal kick to Colonel's neck] For the record, I haven't flogged my log in five years.
- Dwindling Party: Midnighter (and later Apollo) invokes this trope on them once he gets back aboard the Carrier, killing them off one by one.
- Equal-Opportunity Evil: Colonel is British, Machine is Japanese, Rush is Canadian, Street is African-American, Last Call is Italian, Surgeon is French and Teuton is German.
- Evil Brit: Colonel is of a Lower-Class Lout variety. He's crude, vulgar, obnoxious, wears Union Jack painted on his face like a stadium hooligan, and has a penchant for calling everybody around him a "wanker". It's hard to tell if he has a Cockney accent (since this is a comic, you know), but we may safely assume so.
- Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Last Call feels constantly compelled to mention his girlfriend in an attempt to distance himself from his notorious predecessor.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The first thing the G7 Authority do upon gaining access to the Carrier is dump both living and dead refugees the original Authority were housing in another dimension called Re-Space. The living refugees use Re-Space's power to take the wealth and sources from the one percent and declare war on them.
- Politically Incorrect Villain:
- Colonel is an openly racist and misogynistic hooligan who frequently abuses his teammates (and overuses the "wanker" word). His subordinates include a dim-witted African-American street gangster, a vicious and sadistic homophobe and overly emotional (to the point that he is crying more often than he is not), effeminate, bi-curious would-be rapist. Not to mention the very fact that they were all appointed as Authority's replacement by G7 countries as — supposedly — the finest representatives of their respective nations.
- Last Call's homophobia is so great that when Dinh transforms them into the original Authority, Last Call breaks free simply because Teuton/Apollo tried to kiss him.
Colonel: Congratulations, mate. Your homophobia saved the world. - Prone to Tears: Teuton is prone to crying, much to the annoyance of his teammates. Last Call is especially annoyed as it adds to the perception that he and Teuton are gay just like their predecessors.
- Psycho Rangers: They are for the most part evil versions of the Authority.
- Rape and Revenge: They're party to Swift and the Engineer being turned into sex slaves and Teuton tried to assault Apollo — and then they're all killed by Apollo and the Midnighter.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Teuton, Apollo's evil counterpart, tried to sexually assault Apollo before Midnighter killed him.
- Sucksessor: Despite being 'replacements' for arguably the world's most powerful superteam, Midnighter kills most of them with little trouble. Best demonstrated with Teuton, who, despite being Apollo's replacement, gets killed by a simple captive bolt pistol type weapon to the back of his head, and the Surgeon, who supposedly has stolen the Doctor's earth shaman powers, yet gets killed by a simple blast through the chest.note
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: The members of this team don't like each other, to put it mildly. The worst offender among them, though, is Colonel. He is supposed to be the leader, but seems more interested in verbally abusing his teammates (especially Rush and Street) and shows nothing but contempt towards them.
- Token Good Teammate: Rush is the only member who actually tries to do good. The rest of the team are only in it for the money and perks.
Madorra Chance
Madorra Chance is the owner of Viceworld, a planet-sized gambling and pleasure complex that caters to customers from across the multiverse. She appears in issue #0 of the second volume where she leads an invasion of the Authority's world so people can bet on who will win.
- Destination Defenestration: Midnighter kills her by throwing her out a window.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: An Informed Ability. She claims to have the best gunplay enhancements money can buy. Unfortunately, the only time we see her put these to use is against Midnighter who easily evades her shots.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: She has black hair with red highlights. Her first outfit consists of a black suit jacket and pants, and a red bra. She is later seen wearing a red top, a red long coat and black pants.
Reality Incorporated
The first fully-fledged multiversal corporation, Reality Incorporated holds billion dollar interests in thirty-six parallel universes. They make their money by invading "less-developed" universes, slaughter their populations and plunder their resources. Reality Inc, has terraformed entire universes for industrial exploitation or created "pleasure worlds" for people to indulge in their basest desires without ruining their reputations.
- Atrocious Arthropods: The Insectoid Aliens the Walkers and the Voyagers merged with serve as their main muscle.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Wade Walker was originally a gangster from Chicago during the prohibition era. He encountered a psionic alien species called the Voyagers who merged with him. The Voyagers had existed without physical form for so long that the sheer, unadulterated pleasure of physical experience corrupted them and they formed the MegaCorp that is Reality Incorporated.
- Humanity Is Infectious: A negative example. The Voyagers were originally a race that spread knowledge and evolution to worlds across the multiverse. But when they merged with Wade Walker, they became corrupted by his greed and decadence.
- Insectoid Aliens: The aliens that form part of a triad with the Voyagers and the Walkers are a vicious, predatory race whose name is never given. According to Wade, saying the name ruptures the ear drums.
John Clay
An actor who founded a religious movement called the Church of Transcendence. He makes an enemy of the Authority due to being an extremist whose actions cause them direct harm, particularly the Doctor, Apollo and Midnighter.
- Cure Your Gays: He tries to make Apollo and Midnighter straight, but his efforts in torturing Midnighter do nothing and Apollo ultimately beats him before leaving him at the mercy of the Doctor.
- The Fundamentalist: He's essentially an extremist who intends to get rid of everyone who doesn't conform to his religion.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: His plan involves wiping out proponents of other religions and he attempts to "cure" Apollo and Midnighter of being gay.
