Character sheet for the list of characters of Stormwatch (as well as the members of the series' titular team).
Stormwatch
Marc Slayton / Backlash
First appearance: Stormwatch #3 (July, 1993)
Born 3,000 years ago in Atlantis, Marc Slayton is the son of a human woman and an enhanced Kherubim warlord. When Atlantis fell, Marc was spirited away to dry land and raised to adulthood by his father's former adviser. With no family or friends, he spent the next few millennia adventuring, becoming a ninja, a knight, and eventually a secret agent in World War II, where he was recruited into Team Zero, the predecessor to the Wildstorm universe's Team 7. During his service in the latter organization, he became exposed to the "Gen Factor", which activated his Kherubim heritage, granting him superpowers like the ability to generate psionic whips and turn into mist.
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: In recent years, the mantle of Backlash has passed to Marc Slayton's daughter Jodi.
- Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: In the Wildstorm universe, Atlantis was a Kherubim colony.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Marc's father was a Kherubim lord.
- Lightning Lash: As a result of his Kherubim heritage and his exposure to the Gen Factor, Marc Slayton can sprout whips of psionic energy from his forearms which can shock his enemies with the energy coursing through his whips.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Over the centuries, Marc has been a ninja, a knight, and a secret agent.
- Older Than They Look: Backlash is over three-thousand years old, but looks no older than his early thirties.
- Really 700 Years Old: Backlash is old enough to have been born in Atlantis.
- Spin-Off: Backlash eventually got his own series.
- Whip Sword: The whips can cut through objects.
Jackson King / Battalion
Jackson King is the son of Isaiah King, a member of IO's Team 1. He served as a member of Stormwatch as Battalion before he became the head of the organization.
- Bald of Authority: Field Commander Jackson King (Battalion), who is eventually promoted to Weatherman after Henry Bendix goes rogue.
- Superhero Packing Heat: Jackson King in his pre-Weatherman identity as Battalion used to focus his telekinesis through dual wielded guns.
- Took a Level in Badass: Battalion goes from carrying guns and having some telepathy to taking out thousands of marauding mutants with little assistance.
Christine Trelane / Synergy
Foster McClane / Flashpoint
Flashpoint has an optic Blast that can change angles in mid flight.
- Face–Heel Turn: Flashpoint became a spy for the Mercs after an ill-fated mission in Kuwait.
- Roboteching: Flashpoint (one of the members of Stormwatch Prime) had the ability to control the direction and intensity of his eye blasts. It was very cool. Too bad the character was a prime Jerkass and The Mole (actually, all three members of Stormwatch Prime were moles, but he was the only one who enjoyed it and stayed evil. He got his in the end, too.)
Maya Royko-Hansen / Nautika
Nautika is an amphibious superhero who's natural abilities make her the human equivalent of an electric eel.
- Happily Married: To Sunburst.
- The Noseless: Nautika has no nose. Might have something to do with her living underwater and more or less being a humanoid electric eel.
Karl Hansen / Sunburst
- Retired Badass: He and Nautika eventually retired from Stormwatch and were living happily on the suburbs.
Alessandra Fermi / Diva
A former aspiring opera singer, she was forced to leave her dreams behind when her sonic scream powers manifested.- All Girls Want Bad Boys: She had a relationship with fellow teammate Cannon, being the only one to see behind his jerkass facade. The relationship ended when she was made team leader after Battalion's suppoused death, which upset Cannon as he felt he deserved to be the leader.
- The Lancer: She acted like this for Battalion. While Jackson could be very passionate and tended to ignore orders and break rules, Diva was more rational and stick to the rules. Despite that, she was extremely loyal to him.
- Morality Pet: She was this for many members of the team, especially Cannon. This was proved when she was able to stop her teammates from brutally executing a group of mercenaries. Her death by the hands of Despot hits hard all her teammates.
Toshiro Misawa / Fuji
A former sumo wrestler mutated by cosmic energies from a passing comet. Fuji is made of pure energy and has to be kept with in a containment suit to keep himself together.
- Electric Instant Gratification: Fuji is an Energy Being who's kept in a containment suit so that he doesn't dissipate into nothingness. Due to the conditions of his suit and the constant buffeting of his nervous system by his own energy, he has an orgasm every five minutes. No wonder he's so happy.
- Energy Beings: Fuji, whose suit provides some... interesting side effects. Due to his form being extremely sensitive to vibrations, he has an orgasm every five minutes.
- This is explicitly said to be because he is made out of plasma (ionized gas), not Pure Energy.
- Lately it was revealed his bosses found out about the orgasms and had his suit outfitted with dampeners.
- Took a Level in Badass: Fuji goes from being The Big Guy to someone who could use his powers to save the entirety of Stormwatch even as their disintegrating space station fell from orbit.
- Energy Being: Fuji, though he looks like a giant robot because that's the suit he inhabits.
- Fantastic Arousal: Fuji's infamous revelation that he has the equivalent of an orgasm every few minutes, thanks to the oddities of the suit he inhabits.
- Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Fuji has a Japanese flag pattern painted on his face.
Nigel Keane / Hellstrike
A former cop changed and given super powers by a passing Comet.
- Energy Being: Hellstrike is energy/gaseous being, but he has a much more humanoid containment suit.
Lauren Pennington / Fahrenheit
An American recruit with fire powers.
- Action Girl: Like the majority of the female members of Stormwatch. She didn't hesitate to jump into even when she briefly lost her powers before joining P.H.D.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: During a time she dated fellow member Hellstrike, but they ended breaking up after he cheated on her with an alternate version of Lauren. During her time with P.H.D., Fahrenheit got attracted to fellow member Paris, but the relationship ended after she learned about his past. During World's End, she started to show attraction towards Deathblow, much to the amusement of Flint.
Nikolas Kamarov / Winter
A Russian superhero with the ability to absorb and redirect all forms of energy, Winter was the longtime field leader of Stormwatch.
- Catch and Return: Winter did this with a lot of bullets from a gatling cannon (or two), thanks to his ability to absorb energy (kinetic in this case), then re-apply it in his chosen direction.
- Energy Absorption: Winter can absorb all forms of energy including kinetic and use it for everything from energy blasts and super-strength to flight. He discovered he had upper limits to this ability when he fought The High.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Winter dies piloting the team's xenomorph-infested station into the sun.
- Mother Russia Makes You Strong: Winter, ex-Spetsnaz, field leader of Stormwatch's "Prime" team, and total badass.
- Russian Guy Suffers Most: Unlike most of his comrades, Nikolas Andreyvitch Kamarov aka Winter, did survive the Xenomorph-invasion of Skywatch but shortly afterwards suffered a horrible Fate Worse than Death after piloting the Xenomorph-infested Skywatch-station into the sun.
- Took a Level in Badass: Winter went from badass to, well, a badass who drove the vampire race to extinction within an hour of encountering them.
Victoria Ngengi / Flint
Flint became a member of Team Achilles after leaving the main branch of Stormwatch. She eventually married Ben Santini, the team's leader.
- Amazonian Beauty: Flint is muscular and very attractive.
- Made of Iron: Flint is literally Made of Diamond, actually.
- Nigh-Invulnerable: Flint. So far, she's only been injured by Xenomorph blood in a crossover.
- Shockwave Clap: Flint did a more narrow-focused version of this technique during her time with Stormwatch Red.
Rose Tattoo
Formerly the immortal Spirit of Murder, Rose was capable of killing anything and anyone, (even "unkillable" and already dead, spirits). She was turned into the Spirit of Life by The Doctor and served as a member of the Authority for a short while, until an encounter with Henry Bendix drove her back to becoming the Spirit of Murder.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Rose Tattoo (of Murder no less).
- Hellbent For Leather: Dresses in red leather and she's a very dangerous spirit.
- Red Is Violent: Characterized by the color red and she embodies violent murder as much as non-violent deaths.
- Sealed Badass in a Can: Warren Ellis' Stormwatch had Rose Tattoo, the "Spirit of Murder", who, in between missions, was kept in a maximum security cell under armed guard on Stormwatch's satellite base.
