YMMV / Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters

• Complete Monster:
  • Prince Phobos is the tyrannical ruler of Meridian. Having murdered his parents for the throne, Phobos rules Meridian with an iron fist, and demands absolute obedience from his subjects, torturing, enslaving, and killing those who show even the slightest sign of disloyalty. Phobos siphons the power from Meridian to empower himself, not caring that he’s slowly destroying the planet, and frequently throws away the lives of his subjects and servants to further his own power, torturing them if they do not comply. Phobos is obsessed with stealing the Heart of Meridian from his sister Elyon, and when he does, he tries to kill her and everyone else within the capital save for the one minion he thinks he can still control, planning to conquer all of reality with his newfound power once he has disposed of his sister and the Guardians of Kandrakar. A cruel madman to the core, the only thing Phobos ever cared about was power.
  • Rhouglar, aka "The Mad Dog of the Rebellion", proves that members of the Rebellion can be just as evil as Phobos's minions. Showing his true colors at the Battle of Torus Filney, Rhouglar makes a deal with Alistar Tharquin to attack and capture Jade during the battle in exchange for access to Viscountess Ishol Servantis. During the battle, Rhouglar rapes the Viscountess three times with the intent to cause her as much pain as possible, seemingly out of spite, and when confronted by Caleb, he brags that he's been raping women since he first joined the Rebellion. He then tries unsuccessfully to claim that Caleb has no right to judge him given all of the awful things the Rebellion has done. Hedonistic to the core, Rhouglar proves that evil people serving a good cause are still evil.
  • Alastair Tharquin is a Knight Templar obsessed with wiping out Shapeshifters. His modus operandi involves torturing Shapeshifters; usually to death, but occasionally he releases his victims to try to seek revenge and thus further his cause. Not even being on the same side as him helps, as at Torus Filney, Tharquin makes a deal with Rhouglar to capture Jade for him in exchange for access to Viscountess Ishol Servantis. Once he has her, he proceeds to torture her for hours, in the hope of driving her to insanity and unleashing her against the Rebellion to further his cause. Despite his claims of righteousness, Tharquin is nothing more than a racist and a fundamentalist.
• Fandom Rivalry: With Kage, another Jackie Chan Adventures/W.I.T.C.H. crossover.
• Fridge Horror: In this story, before meeting the girls Caleb was a Knight Templar with Black-and-White Morality, raising the question of what would have happened had the girls not change him. The scary thing is that that was already answered in Kage, another Jackie Chan Adventures/W.I.T.C.H. crossover. In that story, a post-Season 1 Caleb is well on his way to becoming a Knight Templar and similar to Cedric.
• Ho Yay: Irma and Jade.
• Iron Woobie: Viscount and Viscountess Servantis do their best to help the people of Meridian as best they can. It ends up costing them at Torus Filney, where the Viscount gets his hand cut off by Caleb and the Viscountess is raped brutally by Rhouglar. However, this does not stop them from continuing to try to look out for the people of Meridian. While the Viscountess initially seems to have been broken, she reveals herself to have been faking, and she breaks herself and the Viscount out of the Rebel camp in time to bring a stop to the hostilities between the nobility and the rebels.
• Jerkass Woobie: Aldarn becomes increasingly unheroic as the story goes on, but not unsympathetic.
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • Charles Ludmoore, the King Smuggler, is Meridian's most notorious trader of secrets and artifacts of power. Through his brothers Cedric and Cyrus, he manipulates both sides of the civil war for his family's Long Game. Using the Oni masks as distractions to cover his acquisition of even more powerful items, he shores up a great deal of power for himself that few can match. Once Cedric tracks down Phobos's sister Elyon, he has Cedric manipulate Phobos into attacking him to give himself an excuse to join the Rebellion, where he proves invaluable to many of the Rebellion's operations. When Daolon Wong betrays Phobos, Ludmoore arranges to place himself in a position to save Wong's life, taking all of Wong's magic in exchange. He later arranges the events that set Elyon against Phobos, leading to Phobos's downfall and putting him in a position to shape the future of Meridian even further.
  • Harold Hale, aka Arthur Pendragon, is Cornelia's father and a member of the Dark Hand. After pretending to be unaware of the Dark Hand, he betrays Jackie Chan to Bartholomew Chang, who blackmails Jackie into working for the Dark Hand. Knowing that Jackie is infiltrating the Dark Hand for Section 13, Hale seemingly switches sides in order to give Section 13 control over the American branch of the Dark Hand, along with helping them arrest Chang, only to reveal to the renegade Quentin Ross that the Dark Hand and Section 13 were both created, in part by Hale himself, for the purpose of manipulating the world's governments into using magic to protect Earth from extradimensional threats, before killing Ross. He then meets with the other leaders of the Dark Hand, revealing to the readers that everything from his defection to his takeover of the American Dark Hand was all part of his plan.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Rhouglar rapes Lady Ishol during the Sack of Torus Finley, and then brags about it to her husband.
  • Tarquin abducts Jade and tortures her, with the intent of eventually killing her, just for being a Shapeshifter.
  • Aldarn willingly uses Ikazuki's mask to try and both win his duel with Caleb and force the Rebellion to obey him.
• The Woobie: The Guardians, Jade, and Caleb all go through the wringer.

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