Tropes applying to characters from The Marvelous World Of DC and its sequel, Harry Potter and the Guardian's Light.
Warning! Late-arrival spoilers for The Marvelous World Of DC.
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Clark, Thor and Diana
General
- Clark Kenting: Justified. Doctor Strange applies Glamour to Clark, Diana and Thor so that they can pose as ordinary humans undercover. However, A Wizard Did It is only half the disguising process: the heroes have to behave differently too, a little problem for Thor.
- Interspecies Friendship: Kryptonian Kal-El/Clark Kent forms one with Asgardian Thor and Themysciran Amazon Diana, after an initial fight based on mistaken impressions.
Clark Kent
- Happily Adopted: Kal-El by the Kents, as per canon.
- Human Alien: Hal Jordan has to be informed that Clark Kent's humanoid appearance is not because the MIB have disguised him.
Thor Odinson
- Berserk Button: Thor for Loki.
- God of Thunder: Obviously.
- Happily Adopted: Thor was reborn as a baby and sent to hide in Themyscira where he's raised by Hippolyta, and growing up alongside Diana.
- Innocently Insensitive: Thor gives Dr. Strange a Crushing Handshake when he first meets him. In Thor's defense, he didn't know about Strange's car accident that damaged his hands.
- Large Ham: Thor, as per canon.
- The One Guy: He was the only male living in Themyscira.
Diana of Themyscira
- Adaptational Dumbass: Downplayed. She's not stupid, but she's not an extreme Omniglot like she is in the comics, and has to rely on her friend Thor to translate English for her. Thankfully, Doctor Strange fixes that problem with his magic.
The Easy Company and Howling Commandos
General
- Redshirt Army: Soldiers from other military units joined Easy Company and the Howling Commandos on the mission to stop Project Ragnarok.
Sergeant Frank Rock
Steve Rogers
- Berserk Button: Don't hurt his friends. When Baron Zemo shoots Bucky in front of him, he sabotages Zemo's plane to send him falling to his death.
- Captain Patriotic
- Composite Character: Captain America is combined with Steve Trevor, since it's revealed that Hippolyta was Wonder Woman during WWII and fought alongside him (and, implicitly, fell in love with him).
- Super-Soldier
Bucky Barnes
- Kid Sidekick: To Captain America.
Isaiah Bradley
- Super-Soldier: Unlike Cap, the serum which have him his powers wasn't perfected. Though he gained the same abilities, it's also slowly deteriorating his mind.
James "Logan" Howlett
- Composite Character: He is 5'3 with black hair, like his comics self, but has brown eyes like Hugh Jackman instead of blue.
- Wolverine Claws: The Trope Namer himself appears in the Second World War, but he doesn't have an adamantium skeleton yet. His claws don't break when clashing with Karl Ruprecht Kroenen's swords, though.
Victor Creed
Christopher Nord
- Defector from Decadence: He defected from Germany before the war.
The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defence
General
- Composite Character: The BPRD is more like a Composite Organization with Justice League Dark.
Professor Trevor Buttenholm
- Adaptation Name Change: His last name being spelt "Buttenholm" instead of "B(R)uttenholm", Hellboy's adoptive father is not given his nickname of Professor Broom.
Director Tom Manning
Hellboy
- Adaptation Dye-Job: He has brown eyes instead of the Supernatural Gold Eyes he has in the comics. And in Anung Un Rama mode, they go red and he gains two more of them, like his father Trigon.
- Ascended Demon: As per canon.
- Berserk Button: Don't be a Fantastic Racist in his presence.
- Big Red Devil: Hellboy is a friendly version.
- Playing with Fire: Hellboy's Anung Un Rama mode.
- Related in the Adaptation: Hellboy is here established as the son of Trigon, which makes him Raven's half-brother.
Abraham Sapien
- Adaptational Badass: He's a lot more proficient in martial arts, enabling him to wipe the floor with the Church of Blood and go toe-to-toe with Karl Ruprecht Kroenen himself.
- Fish People
John Constantine
- Adaptational Nice Guy: He's a lot less manipulative and untrustworthy because of his friends in the BPRD. Still pretty vindictive against evil vampires, though.
- Playing with Fire: Constantine's dragonfire cigarettes.
Zatanna Zatar
- Adaptation Name Change: Zatanna's last name is Zatar, not Zatara.
- Adaptational Job Change: She's a BPRD agent, instead of a stage magician, so she doesn't have her top hat and fishnets outfit from the comics.
- Adaptational Nationality: Zatanna is English, instead of Italian-American, much like her father, connecting to the above Adaptation Name Change.
- Berserk Button: Baron Mordo is a living one for Zatanna.
- Relative Button: Baron Mordo presses Zatanna's Relative Button by mentioning her father, whom he killed.
Liz Sherman
Jason Blood/Etrigan
- Ascended Demon
- Hellfire: Etrigan can use this, being a demon.
- Playing with Fire
Raven Buttenholm
- Adaptation Name Change: In the comics, Raven's real name is Rachel Roth. Here, it's Raven Buttenholm, because her mother died giving birth to her and entrusted her to Hellboy to raise as her own.
- Happily Adopted: Raven is Hellboy's half-sister, but due to the age gap she is treated as his daughter, which means that she sees Professor Broom as her grandfather.
- Related in the Adaptation: Trigon was Hellboy's father, which makes him Raven's half-brother.
Detective Chimp
- Genius Bruiser: Detective Chimp, as per canon. Apart from being able to effortlessly work out the Mask's innocence of the murders he was accused of, he's also a chimpanzee, with all the physical strength that implies. Just ask that shadow monster whose throat he gouged out.
Stanley Ipkiss
- Adaptational Badass: Granted, the Mask was already Badass in canon, but here, he was created by Loki to kill Thor.
- Berserk Button: Loki becomes a living Berserk Button for Stanley Ipkiss after he escapes his brainwashing thanks to Thor. When he sees what appears to be Loki next to him on a park bench in New Jersey, he shouts "BASTARD!!" and tries to punch him. Of course, it's not the real Loki, but points for trying, Stanley.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Stanley Ipkiss at the hands of Loki, before sending him to Themyscira to kill Thor.
- Composite Character: The Mask is this with himself, funnily enough. Under Loki's influence, he behaves like his evil comic-books self: when he's free of brainwashing, he behaves like his friendly, cartoonish Jim Carrey self from the live-action film. And he's also a struggling cartoonist like Tim Avery.
Viktor Von Frankenstein II
Jack Russel
Dr. Johann Krauss
Straw Man
Lords of Chaos and their servants
General
- Demon Lords and Archdevils: Though some aren't demons.
- Our Demons Are Different: Evil demons like the Clown, Minos, Trigon, Lucifer, Satan, Lilith and Blackheart, good ones like Hellboy, Raven and Etrigan... Quite a lot of demons in this story.
- Red Shirt Army: The Hellspawn warriors the Lords of Chaos bring with them to release Mordru get effortlessly slaughtered in their numbers. Makes sense, because Al Simmons is not one of them yet.
Trigon
- Big Red Devil
- Related in the Adaptation: He is the father of Hellboy as well as Raven.
Mordru
- Slasher Smile: Gives one to Doctor Strange, when warning him that the Lords of Chaos will come to set him free.
Loki
- Adaptation Dye-Job: He had dark hair in the comics, here he's blond.
- Composite Character: Loki is a Frost Giant and adopted brother of Thor (as per Marvel), a god of fire and deceit (as per Norse Mythology), and the creator of The Mask.
- Horny Vikings: Obviously Loki dresses like this.
- Oxymoronic Being: Loki is both a Frost Giant and a fire god.
- Playing with Fire
Amora
- Berserk Button: Drawing blood from her.
- Immortal Immaturity: Amora behaves like a Smitten Teenage Girl in Thor's presence, and pouts when he rejects her. Of course, Thor has very good reasons to reject her.
Hades
Lucifer
Lilith
Pluto
Hela
- Adaptation Species Change: She is half-Olympian, half-Asgardian, because she's the daughter of Hades, not Loki.
Satan
Circe
Ares
Lorelei
Dominus
Darkseid
- Bad Boss: Darkseid, as per canon. Just look at the way he tortures Mordru for failure.
Grigori Rasputin
- Adaptation Personality Change: He's not The Casanova that his historical counterpart and canonical self was, never interacting with women in any non-platonic way.
Karl Ruprecht Kroenen
- Berserk Button: Wolverine scratches Kroenen's gas mask while they're fighting. Kroenen starts attacking him with renewed vigor.
Karl Mordo
- Hellfire: Thanks to his service to Dormammu.
- Playing with Fire
Brother Blood
Blackheart
Clown
Minos
The Sentinels of Magic
General
Albus Dumbledore
Doctor Fate
- Berserk Button: Don't insult the Ancient One's wisdom in front of Doctor Fate. That includes you, Cornelius Fudge.
Cornelius Fudge
Madame Xanadu
June Moone
- Adaptational Heroism: Instead of being a woman possessed by the spirit of an ancient witch prone to running through the Heel–Face Revolving Door, June is a witch in her own right, and a straightforward hero, too.
Shazam
Agatha Harkins
Ibis the Invincible
Sargon the Sorcerer
The Ancient One
Doctor Strange
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Steven Strange, prior to his car accident in Marvel canon, was a rude, haughty glory-obsessed doctor. Here, we learn that he crashed his own car by accidentally-released magic fueled by anger and guilt for botching an operation and costing a little girl her legs.
- Handicapped Badass: Having nerve-damaged hands doesn't stop Stephen Strange from attacking Mordru when he's threatening innocent Muggles with his Improvised Golem.
- Took a Level in Badass: Doctor Strange after the 10-year timeskip, as Sorcerer Supreme.
