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James "Jamie" Braddock Jr. / Monarch

Notable Aliases: King Jamie Braddock of Avalon

Nationality: English

Species: Half-Otherworlder, Half-Human Mutant

First Appearance: Captain Britain #9

The eldest child of the Braddock family, Jamie is ten years older than his twin brother and sister Brian and Betsy. A successful businessman and race car driver, Jamie nevertheless had many demons and fell into a life of crime to pay off his debts. He eventually went mad while being tortured for his crimes, which caused his mutant ability to warp reality at his whim to manifest. After being brought back to life on Krakoa, he entered into an alliance with Apocalypse to become the King of Avalon, one of the Fair Court provinces of Otherworld.

• A Real Man Is a Killer: As a boy he tried and failed to pry Brian away from his books and into fox hunting with this logic. Instead it was Betsy that Jamie enticed. It was then inverted in X-Force, where a now less insane Jamie had switched to Brian's stance and was condemning Betsy for being a killer.
• Back from the Dead: His reality warping powers can resurrect the dead. Jamie himself has been revived by the Five on Krakoa, much to his siblings' shock. He is somewhat saner than when he died, but that isn't saying much.
• Beard of Evil: His instanity lead to him growing a goatee, and he can be quite evil depending on his mood.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He's... odd, even at the best of times, but he's also one of the most powerful mutants in the world.
• Black Sheep: While the rest of the Braddock family are all heroes, Jamie is an asshole and criminal.
• Cain and Abel: Brian left him to die after he discovered Jamie was involved in running drugs and the slave trade, as he could not bring himself to kill Jamie personally. When Jamie went mad and manifested his power he tried to off his siblings a few times, but while allied with them defending Otherworld from what turned out to be a future version of himself he was killed by Betsy possessing Brian, who had once again been unable kill Jamie himself.
• Cool Horse: Ever since he became King of Avalon, he has taken a liking to ride or be accompanied by a unicorn every chance he gets.
• From Bad to Worse: While Jamie was a criminal deserving of punishment, his reality warping insanity was the design of Sat-Yr-9, and not anything anyone actually interested in bringing him to justice wanted
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: He has aided and fought his family in equal measure, but tends to land on the heel side of the equation.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Well, not heroic as such but he did once give his life to fight off the First Fallen, an evil counterpart of the Phoenix. Jamie eventually reappeared, very much not dead.
• Human Weapon: He was conceived as a human-otherworlder hybrid that would advance Merlyn's goals, but Jamie was passed on because of his subverted genetics. Sat-Yr-9 didn't want to let a good Tyke-Bomb go to waste, however, and set in motion the events that would both activate Jamie's x-factor gene but also drive him insane, so that only she could control him, only she, not even Jamie himself.
• Jerkass: Even when he's not being outright evil, he tends to be an absolute Troll.
• Neck Snap: To wipe an evil version of Jamie from the future, who was attempting to conquer Otherworld, from the timeline, Betsy possessed Brian and made him break present-day Jamie's neck, erasing the future version.
• Non-Idle Rich: He is heir to a fortune his siblings were quite happy to share with him, but rather than sit on it or spend his time investing, Jamie became a race car driver.
• Psychopathic Man Child: Both Betsy and Brian identify this as his main problem, as he's never really grown up, always looking for the easy way to fame and fortune and his own entertainment, no matter the impact on everybody else.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: He was a member of the Foursaken, the minions of the First Fallen...actually he was The Mole against the First Fallen
• Reality Warper: He is an Omega-level mutant who can see the strings of quantum reality and alter them as he wishes.
• Skewed Priorities: Rather than admit to his family that he had a gambling problem, Jamie turned to drug trades and human trafficking.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Oldest brother Jamie is a thrill seeking daredevil while youngest child Brian is a lab tech bookworm with little interest in games. The tomboy Betsy was initially closer to Brian, but gravitated closer to Jamie, as he proved to be more fun. That was until Jamie's criminal activities were revealed while Betsy was an undercover government agent by contrast.
• Surreal Horror: His trauma has caused him to see life as a dream he cannot wake up from. A dream where everything is made up of strings. Jamie tends to get a little better when he's able to actually sleep and dream, but he's never fully recovered, not even after being slain and revived
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: While in a race with some friends, Jamie was captured by some very nasty people to who he owed a lot of money, and wished to collect. They tortured Jamie, which activated his powers... and snapped his mind.

The Crazy Gang

First Appearance: Mighty World of Marvel Vol 2 #11

They first appeared on a parallel Earth as a criminal gang with a Alice in Wonderland motif led by "the Hatter", who was actually their creator, Mad Jim Jaspers. After that universe was destroyed to stop its version of Mad Jim Jaspers, another, identical Crazy Gang was created by Mad Jim Jaspers' Earth-616 counterpart. The core membership of the group includes the Jester, the Red Queen, the Executioner, the Knave, and Tweedledope.

• Beware the Silly Ones: On their own the Crazy Gang are more or less Harmless Villains (at one point they even put an advertisement for a new gang leader in a newspaper's classifieds). That can change when they actually have a highly effective leader making their plans. Under Slaymaster's guidance, for example, they were able to pull off a series of high-profile heists.
• Catchphrase: "Orf wiv 'is head!" for the Red Queen. It's possibly also her Madness Mantra.
• Goldfish Poop Gang: To Captain Britain and Excalibur, especially.
• Heel–Face Turn: They seemingly give up crime for good when the combination of the Red Queen's insanity and the powers of Technet's Joyboy created an underground real-life Wonderland in the English countryside, which the inhabitants of a nearby village would regularly visit. Possibly there was an off-panel Heel–Face Door-Slam if their appearances in Deadpool and the Mercs for Money are any indication.
• The Speechless: The Executioner literally, but also the Red Queen usually only says her Catchphrase and Tweedledope can only talk in chuckles and guffaws. Only the Knave and the Jester can at least talk like normal people.

The Fury

Notable Aliases: Fury-Prime

Nationality: English

Species: Robot

First Appearance: Marvel Super-Heroes (UK) #387

One of Mad Jim Jaspers creations, used to kill off all of the superhumans. It worked too well, and eventually turned on its creator and forced the man to seal him away.

• Curb-Stomp Battle: The Fury's first battle with Captain Britain. It kills him. For real.
• The Determinator: Not even the destruction of its home universe could stop it from continuing its mission to kill all superhumans.
• The Dreaded: It scares the hell out of everyone who has encountered it and lived. When the warpie "Lump" confronts Brian, Betsy, and Linda McQuillan (Captain UK) with their worst fears, Brian and Linda both see the Fury.
• Hero Killer: Its entire reason for existing. It even successfully kills Brian and Jackdaw, and Merlyn had to intervene and resurrect Brian himself.
• Knight of Cerebus: The series' sense of danger spiked dramatically when the Fury showed up.
• The Juggernaut: It cannot be stopped by any normal means. The original Fury could only be destroyed after it damaged itself travelling to the void of its original home dimension to dispose of the 616 version of Jim Jaspers, and then back again. Even then, it took both Captain Britain and Captain UK to destroy it for good, otherwise, it would just have regenerated in time.
• Normally, I Would Be Dead Now: During the fight against the reality-warping 616 Jim Jaspers, the Fury's inner "monologue" shows that it would have been destroyed by this point had it still been the same as it was when it first arrived in this dimension, but by this point, it had adapted from its dimensional trip, the fights it had experienced so far, and absorbing the computer under Captain Britain's mansion. It actually survives being inside the Sun briefly!
• Restraining Bolt: It had been programmed to kill all superhumans except Jaspers. It had always found that exception "vaguely frustrating."
• Robotic Psychopath: The Fury does exactly what it was programmed to do: Kill all Superhumans. With the exception of the Mad Jim Jaspers of its home reality, that is.
• Turned Against Their Masters: The narration reveals that the Fury desired to destroy its creator, the original Jaspers, because of his status as a mutant, but its programming forced it to obey him. Upon encountering the 616 Jaspers, it realizes it's not the same man as its creator, and thus it's perfectly within its programming to kill him.
• Villain Decay: In its first appearance it killed all the superheroes of an entire world, (including Miracleman!) so naturally everything after was a major step down. Still, it (or other Furies) have only returned twice or so, and has never been less than a total Oh, Crap! moment.
• Viva La Evolution: It adapts. By the time it's finally destroyed, it's even stronger than it was when it destroyed Earth-238.

Mad Jim Jaspers

Alter Ego: Sir James Jaspers

Notable Aliases: Jimmy, Mad Jim, The Reality Butcher, The Crooked Man, Lord Jim, The Crooked God

Nationality: English

Species: Human Mutant

First Appearance: Daredevils #7

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party, Jim Jaspers was anti-superhero and superhuman. However, he was secretly a mutant himself with Omega-level reality-altering powers. Although eventually defeated, Mad Jim Jaspers has a habit of returning from the dead. Currently, he is the ruler of the Crooked Market, a Foul Court province of Otherworld.

• Alliterative Name: Jim Jaspers.
• Back from the Dead: Twice, possibly. A (not the) Jim Jaspers was the prosecution at Magneto's trial, and it was implied he was a "new" un-powered Jaspers created by the universe to avoid a paradox. (It is commonly believed Chris Claremont was establishing him here in order to eventually be the villain of the "Fall Of The Mutants" arc, but this never quite came to pass, and the Adversary showed up instead.) Later, Claremont successfully brought the original Jaspers back as part of the "Die By The Sword" arc.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: He's not known as Mad Jim Jaspers for nothing. Once he began using his powers on a larger scale, they quickly drove him insane.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Visually based on Terry-Thomas.
• Even More Omnipotent: Captain Britain had previously been whooped by a version of Jim Jaspers on Earth-238. He came home to find that Earth-616 was going to get its own Mad Jim who would be even more powerful.
• Evil Brit: British and one of the evilest enemies of Captain Britain.
• Evil Is Petty: Implied to have done something horrible to a waitress at a party because she served him white wine instead of red, even when he could easily change the wine himself.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He's killed by the Fury - the alternate Jaspers programmed it to not attack him but the Fury decided that didn't include any alternate selves.
• Humanoid Abomination: Tapping into the true scope of his power turns him into a borderline one at the very least, being a completely insane, all-powerful Reality Warper that destroyed reality itself in one alternate universe. To make things worse, his influence is also contagious, so contagious in fact that it was starting to leak into other continuities, resulting in his own continuity having the plug pulled to stop its spread. Despite this terrifying mixture of otherworldly power and utter madness at his beck and call, he does look for the most part human as you can see from his picture.
• Joker Immunity: After the Fury killed him, Mad Jim Jaspers returned to life when Scarlet Witch created the House of M reality. Fair enough. He was killed again by the joint efforts of the Fury, the Exiles and Excalibur, but returned again after House of M, fell, for no explained reason. After the Exiles ended his life for the third time he inexplicably showed up as a guest in the Starlight Citadel after Saturnyne took it over. Saturnyne who was previously shown to deliberately impregnate universes she disliked with clones of Jim Jaspers just as an excuse to wipe them from the multiverse when he inevitably ran amuck. At that point it became clear someone at Marvel just didn't want Jaspers dead and didn't care about coming up with reasons for him not to be.
• Mad God: The highest tier of mutant (the type that can bend reality to their whims), and is batshit insane. Not a good combo. The Jaspers of Earth-238 distorted his home universe so bad it needed to be destroyed. And he's the weaker one compared to on Earth-616.
• The Mad Hatter: He doesn't care much for his lost sanity.
• Monster Progenitor: Use of his powers results in the creation of "warpies", off colored and deformed human babies that often self destruct at random or develop other problematic super powers more akin to curses. Theoretically, a Jim Jaspers eventually solves himself when a warpie of sufficient power rises up to oppose him. In practice, no one has the patience for that.
• Mutants: This is the truth behind Jaspers' powers - he's an abnormally, ludicrously powerful mutant, far more powerful than even fellow reality warpers like Proteus.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: He rose to power on an anti-superhero ticket, leading to him being elected Prime Minister in a landslide and instituting extermination camps and death squads. However, in reality, he didn't actually care about superhumans specifically, he just didn't want there to be anyone around to oppose him.
• Physical God: A human mutant with unfathomable power.
• Reality Warper: An incredibly powerful one. So powerful, in fact, that one alternate universe Jaspers had messed with reality so much it broke, and his universe had to be destroyed to stop it corrupting adjacent universes. He's arguably the most powerful one in any fictional universe, and second to only the One Above All (possibly the Judaeo-Christian God... or Jack Kirby. No one's quite sure) in Marvel continuity. Even the alternate universe Jaspers' powers paled compared to the Earth-616 Jaspers' powers. Jaspers' reality-warping powers threatened the Omniverse, which, according The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe 2004, is "the collection of every single universe, multiverse, dimension (alternate or pocket) and realm. This includes not only Marvel Comics, but also DC Comics, Image, Dark Horse, Archie, TMNT, Harvey, and every universe ever mentioned or seen (and an infinite amount never mentioned or seen) including our own world."
• Unexplained Recovery: There's no explanation why he's alive in the Starlight Citadel after Saturnyne took it over after he'd been killed by the Fury, the Exiles and Excalibur.
• The Unfought: Captain Britain never actually fought the original Jim Jaspers. He was destroyed alongside the rest of his fragmenting reality.
• Villain Decay: The alternate Jim Jaspers that have shown up in more recent years have had nothing on the 616-Jaspers, who successfully threatened the Omniverse. And the 616 Jaspers still isn't as threatening as the original Brian faced, despite supposedly being stronger than him, if only because he was weakened fighting the Fury the original created.
• Villainous Legacy: One of Saturnyne's many varieties of Doomsday Device are simply cloning machines filled with Jim Jaspers DNA, which she can activate in realities she doesn't like. Warpies remain a problem long after Jim is gone as well, and alternate Jim Jaspers, even those who have done nothing wrong, tend to be shot on sight. There's a squad of Furies traveling the Marvel multiverse, rooting out and killing Jim Jaserps alternates!
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: It's a side-effect of his powers.

Albert Potter/ Hurricane

Nationality: English

Species: Human Mutate

First Appearance: Captain Britain #3

Albert was a meteorologist who studied how to deactivate hurricanes. He failed many times and soon was fired from his job. He took his machine that deactivated hurricanes and tried to release it into one. The machine backfired and engulfed Albert in its energy. The Nethergods rebuilt Albert into a weapon to use against Captain Britain, the pawn of their foe Merlyn. He soon became Hurricane.

• Energy Absorption: He could also absorb energy-based blasts and project them as well.
• Heel–Face Turn: Eventually cured of his insanity and apparently of his extra powers (which had damaged him physically), Potter was released. He married, emigrated to America, but was unable to find work and considered returning to crime until the Fantastic Four convinced him otherwise.
• One-Steve Limit: Shares codename with Makkari, Harry Kane and Hurricane of the Dark Raiders.
• Weather Manipulation: His suit allows him to generate other weather-controlling effects such as generating lightning and hail.

Nationality: Mbangawi

Species: Human

First Appearance: Captain Britain #9

Joshua N'Dingi was a foreign prince and exchange student who joins Resources Control Executive to care for the warpies left in the wake of Mad Jim Jaspers and his campaign. He became far less sympathetic to the warpies, however, when one that he was trying to save exploded, leaving him with life threatening burns.

• Animal-Themed Superbeing: There is nothing crocodile about Doctor Crocodile, until Jamie Braddock turns him into a literal crocodile
• Enemy Mine: As president, he appoints Kura, Marvel's third Witch Woman, and a member of a rival tribe, as his advisor to put an end to the tribes' blood feud and also use her sorcery to root out criminals like Jamie Braddock. Unfortunately, Kura and Doc were both playing into the hands of Sat-Yr-9
• Green Gators: Justified: He was not a natural crocodile but transformed into one by Jamie Braddock, and green crocodiles are far from the strangest thing Jamie has willed into reality
• Hero Antagonist
  • As a member of R.C.X., Crocodile is immediately distrusted by Brian Braddock, and is willing to manipulate Braddock in turn. Crocodile turns out to be one of the few R.C.X. members who really does have the best interests of the warpies in mind, however.
  • For the modern definition of "hero", Doctor Crocodile leaves a lot to be desired, but he proves to be a better man than Jamie Braddock, and Brian only opposes Doc because Brian is unaware of his brother's involvement in both drug and slave trades as Jamie tried to pay off his debts through any means necessary
  • After a warpie exploded on him, Doctor Crocodile deemed them dangerous, and began executing warpies when they started being born within his borders. This, naturally, put him into conflict with the X-Men, as even though the warpies aren't x-gene mutants there were around to protect aid workers trying to care for the children.
• Odd Friendship: He's good friends with T'Challa, the Black Panther of the xenophobic Wakanda, who both embraced monarchy and initially shunned the mysticism of Kura.
• Our Presidents Are Different: Officially he's abolished the monarchy and established a democracy. In practice, Doctor Crocodile is still a king, as his subjects believe him to be Semi-Divine, won't vote for anyone else, outright idolize him, and still carry on all the traditions that come with royalty
• Shoot the Dog: An alternate Jim Jaspers flees to his country, pursued by Fury robots. As the Jim Jaspers is causing warpies, which Doctor Crocodile now views as threats, to be born, on top of attracting furies, Crocodile's solution is simply to execute the Jim Jaspers in his sleep. The X-Men don't approve, but it did get results.
• Stop Worshipping Me!: Doctor Crocodile loves his homeland, but he hates the fact the subjects of the throne that is his birthright worship him as a god. Surviving his burns and becoming a cyborg only further convinced the masses he was no mere mortal
• Super Hero Packing Heat: His primary weapon is an assault rifle
• The Needs of the Many: He consistently acts in the interests of the largest number of people within the borders of his country, then the largest amount of people outside of his borders. If that means some warpies have to die, then so be it.
• Ugly Hero, Good-Looking Villain: Doctor Crocodile was once a reasonably attractive man, but he was horribly burned by an exploding warpie, and then altered by the UK's government with cybernetic parts while receiving medical care, with no care for cosmetics. Doctor Crocodile then enacted his plan to bring Jamie Braddock, who was still a reasonably attractive man, to justice.
• Unwitting Pawn
  • He is heir to the throne of Mbangawi, a nation on the expanded Marvel Earth that sits within Kenya and Tanzania. When he was injured in the line of duty the British government grafted cybernetic parts onto his body that would require Doctor Crocodile to periodically return to the UK for maintenance, and thus kept under tabs and thumb.
  • Doctor Crocodile's aim was to simply bring Jamie Braddock to justice. He had no idea he was in fact doing the leg work for Sat-Yr-9, whose end goal was turning Jamie Braddock into a Human Weapon that only she could control. He was also deceived by R.C.X. into believing Brian Braddock was complicit in Jamie's crimes, but let Brian go upon learning the truth.
• We ARE Struggling Together: At Black Panther's request he met with Storm, Moses Magnum and Zanda to make plans to deal with the United States, as it was running false flag operations and creating cyborg clones of gods in the name of its Super Human Registration act. He couldn't come to terms with Magnum and Zanda being kind of evil themselves, however.
• Your Mind Makes It Real: His mechanical arm releases hallucinogenic gas that affects all the basic human senses. He uses this to interrogate and pacify targets.

Sir Mordred the Evil

Notable Aliases: Black Druid, Demon Druid, Dark Druid, Lore-Master, Medraut, Modred, Mordred of the Northern Isles, Mordred the Magnificent

Nationality: English

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Black Knight #1 (March, 1955)

The son of King Arthur, Mordred was prophesied by Merlyn to one day destroy his father's kingdom. He went onto become a recurring foe of Captain Britain, the Black Knight, and the Avengers throughout his long lifetime. However, much of his life was cast into a new light after the discovery by Krakoa's Excalibur team that Mordred was a mutant, which was the cause of King Arthur and many residents of Otherworld's hatred of the so-called "witchbreed".

• Ambiguous Situation: Given recent revelations about Mordred's status as a mutant, the prophesy that Mordred was evil and would destroy Avalon seems highly suspect given Merlyn's hatred of "witchbreed".
• Back from the Dead: He has been resurrected several times throughout his life. Knights of X sees him resurrected once more by the Five of Krakoa after his status as a mutant was discovered, reviving him at a young age with no memories of the evil deeds his older selves committed.
• Beard of Evil: A goatee.
• Hate Plague: Rachel Summers speculates that this may be what his mutant power is, as during the Knights of X's mission in Otherworld everyone on the team is constantly getting into arguments with Mordred and even townspeople he has never met and is currently defending swarm him with insults and try to attack him.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Can sketch out a good scheme and swing a sword as fine as most knights, but he's an immensely immature lunatic who's still obsessed with gaining his father's approval and truly believes that he was the actual victim of his Arthurian coup despite all the harm he caused so many others.
• Secondary-Color Nemesis: Wears purple clothes and green armour.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The younger Mordred revived by the Five is a polite young knight who is confused as to why everyone hates him, in sharp contrast to the scheming villain his older self became.

Slaymaster

Notable Aliases: Gimmick Killer, Caterpillar

Species: Human

First Appearance: Super Spider-Man & Captain Britain #243

Slaymaster is one of the world's greatest assassins.

• Alternate Self: An alternate Slaymaster appears as one of the villains faced by the Exiles, becoming obsessed with Psylocke, following her all the way to the main reality, where he was killed by Betsy.
• Badass Normal: Slaymaster has no powers, but with advanced technology and extraordinary martial arts techniques he is able to repeatedly challenge Captain Britain.
• Beard of Evil: Has a prominent goatee.
• Cool Helmet: Many times he's been seen with a green helmet.
• Even Evil Has Standards: When he successfully captured Captain Britain for the crime lord Vixen, he was so disgusted by how she degraded her captive that he actually apologized to him. That still didn't stop him from trying to steal and create a replica of Captain Britain's suit.
• The Gimmick: At first he had the gimmick of murdering his targets in ways inspired by their hobbies and puns based on their names, but he dropped this after his first defeat by Captain Britain.
• If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: He tries to taunt Captain Britain by saying he doesn't have the guts to kill him even after he had blinded and tortured Captain Britain's sister Psylocke. Unfortunately for him, Captain Britain brutally subverts this trope before Slaymaster can even finish the sentence.
• Killed Off for Real: He was beaten to death with a rock by Brian to defend his sister after he ripped her eyes out. So far it has stuck.
• Legacy Character: Long after his death, the mantle of Slaymaster was taken up by Jasper Bateman, a mercenary who became obsessed with the exploits of the original Slaymaster. He would be defeated by the odd team-up of Captain Britain and Deadpool.
• Master of Disguise: He often used disguises in his first appearance, and later again he elaborately disguised himself as a supervillain based on the Caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland to recruit the Crazy Gang.
• Moral Sociopathy: He believes he has a strong "code of ethics" and does show a sense of honor and fairness. However, he is a ruthless assassin who doesn't seem to have much compunction about his targets, has also put a child in danger, and brutally beat and disfigured Psylocke just because he felt that her facing him under the mantle of Captain Britain was a personal insult.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: His real name hasn't been revealed.
• Mysterious Past: Little is known of Slaymaster's past or even his real name; what we do know is that Slaymaster gained quite the reputation as an assassin and was referred to as one of the best in the world.
• Religious Bruiser: He's also a devout Muslim.

Technet

Notable Aliases: N-Men

First Appearance: Captain Britain Vol 2 #3

Technet was a team of bounty hunters from various extradimensional worlds. For a price, Technet would hunt and capture fugitives, rescue prisoners from captivity, or recover objects of value. The scope of the Technet extended across multiple worlds and dimensions.

• Aborted Arc: The team fractures in Excalibur after Saturnyne strands them on Earth 616, with most going on to work for Scotland Yard under Nightcrawler's guidance as the "N-Men", while Gatecrasher plots to make Excalibur pay for the death of the child she created solely to explode on them. The predictable confrontation fails to come to pass, as Special Executive comes to Earth 616, offering Technet a way off, and jobs they're better suited for.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Being aliens, they've got a wide variety of colours on them. Gatecrasher, for example, is blue.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Joyboy's power is to grant people what they wish but in a hideously twisted fashion.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Even by Marvel standards, their powers are just plain weird. But don't underestimate them.
• Big Beautiful Woman: Gatecrasher's much more... robust than most women Alan Davies creates, but Rocket Racoon still thinks she's a looker.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Scatterbrain looks humanoid but is non sapient, with an understanding of human speech akin to that of a dog or a parrot, with no clue why Captain Britain or Shadowcat are furious with her, just that they taste delicious when they are
• Brawn Hilda: Gatecrasher is very tall, freakishly muscular and strikingly non human beyond the general biped body plan
• Dating Catwoman: Gatecrasher has a standing policy of not dating people she's hired to hunt. Rocket Racoon almost managed to be an exception.
• Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Hard-Boiled Henry.
• Emotion Eater: Scatterbrain feeds of sapient emotions, with her favorite food being anger.
• Everyone Has Standards: Gatecrasher's fairly amoral, but she's utterly appalled at the scale of Jamie Braddock's crimes.
• Evil Versus Evil: Their mission to capture Phoenix for Saturnyne probably would have been successful, had they not run afoul of the warwolves, who were on a mission to capture Phoenix for Mojo. They run into the same problem when they set out to capture Franklin Richards for Saturnyne, as the warwolves want to use him as bait for Rachel Summers.
• Funetik Aksent: Ferro and Ferro 2 have very strong Scottish accents.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Hard-Boiled Henry has a literally explosive temper, and will take it out on whatever has caught his ire. Such as touching his shell.
• Heel–Face Turn: After they're stranded on Earth 616 by Saturnyne for failing to capture Phoenix before Roma ordered Saturnyne to cancel the contract, the large majority of Technet beg to stay at the Excalibur lighthouse in exchange for repairing all the damage they caused it and bringing it up to more modern standards. When Scotland Yard requests Excalibur's aid, and only Nightcrawler with a broken leg is around, they suggest he lead Technet in the investigation that's stumping him
• Just Eat Him: Bodybag's fighting style is to just swallow the target. The target is often wanted alive, however, so he usually just stores them, and this often leads to his catches being freed from the outside
• Leeroy Jenkins: When a humanoid bug monster explosively arrives in the Excalibur lighthouse uttering un Earthly vocalizations, Nightcrawler's first reaction is to try and figure out what it is and what it wants. Technet naturally attack before he can make in progress on this front
• Mistaken Identity: They kidnap Captain Britain from Earth 616 and deliver Brian Braddock to Sat-Yr-9, having mistaken Brian for her runaway boyfriend Kaptain Briton.
• Non-Action Guy: Numbers, despite his size, is pretty cowardly.
• Only in It for the Money: They'll hunt anyone anywhere, but only so long as they're paid. They've even split up over pay disputes.
• Punch-Clock Hero/Punch-Clock Villain: They work for whoever's paying them, though they do have some standards and don't tend to mean to cause any more harm than is strictly necessary.
• Strange-Syntax Speaker: China Doll always gets to the point at the end of her sentence, unless one would expect her to, then she'll lead with it
• We ARE Struggling Together: They squabble with each other more than they fight anyone else.

Sat-Yr-9

Alter Ego: Opul Lun Sat-Yr-Nin

Notable Aliases: Courtney Ross, White Queen

Nationality: English (Earth-794)

Species: Human

First Appearance: Captain Britain (Vol. 2) #2 (February, 1985)

An alternate reality counterpart from Earth-794 who killed the real Courtney Ross and usurped her identity. Sat-Yr-9 was a ruthless dictator in her own reality but she got deposed and has come to Earth-616 through a Portal Door in the multiverse to evade execution and start anew with a different position of power somewhere no one knows who she is.

Even though she still goes by "Courtney Ross", Brian and his team are completely aware of the fact that Sat-Yr-9 is an impostor and have already battled her but she managed to escape and is now the new White Queen of the Hellfire Club, and has appointed Madame Hydra as her personal aide and bodyguard as the "White Princess".

She keeps her arrogant and ruthless behaviour and still ranks high on Captain Britain's hit list for having killed his girlfriend, even though he hasn't gotten track of her yet.

• Alternate Self: She's one for the original Courtney Ross, and by extension confirms that Omniversal Magistrix Opal Luna Saturnyne, one of Roma's most powerful agents, is also an alternate Courtney Ross, along with a myriad of other counterparts in the multiverse. She's the only one of all of her counterparts to be aware of this fact, using it to impersonate 616 Ross after her reign of terror was ended by Captain UK.
• The Baroness: Despite her sweet face, Sat-Yr-9 was once a dictator and everything about her demanding and snide personality calls back to this
• The Bus Came Back: We never do learn what Sat-Yr-9's plans were for Rachel Summers, but we do finally get to see her try something when "Courtney Ross" resurfaces as the White Queen of Hellfire Club UK to once again menace the x-teams.
• Card Sharp: Playing cards to seal deals seem to be a recurring hobby of hers. She even defied Emma Frost one time to have her submit to her command, which of course didn't work.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Her day job. A banker to be more precise.
• Depending on the Artist: Courtney Ross and her variants, Sat-Yr-9 included, were revealed to be natural grey eyed platinum blondes, as opposed to Brian and Betsy having blue eyes and brighter blond hair, Courtney's original red hair being a dye job. In later runs Sat-Yr-9 has sometimes appeared as yet another blue eyed blonde, however.
• Domestic Abuser: Kaptain Briton flees to the 616 reality to get away from her, with Sat-Yr-9 sending Technet after him so that she can force him to have sex with her. Naturally they capture 616 Captain Britain instead, and the narrative makes light of Brian's violation.
• Dramatic Irony: Most of the suspense surrounding her stems from the fact Brian, Kitty and Rachel had no idea the real Courtney Ross was dead and Sat-Yr-9 was trying to get them all into position for an Evil Plan they were cheerfully oblivious too, especially Brian who was both the former lover of Courtney and a customer at her bank, Kitty more than Rachel, who had just struck up a friendship with Courtney before the murder. Sat-Yr-9 was unable to get Rachel under her thumb before she Brian discovered Sat-Yr-9's ruse.
• Evil All Along: According to Chris Claremont, there was "no real difference" in personality between the original Courtney and Sat-Yr-9. So if one takes his remarks as Word of God, the real Courtney Ross was just as evil as her interdimensional Nazi dictator counterpart, she just didn't get to act on that evil before being killed and replaced.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Despite being in a much-envied position, Sat-Yr-9/Courtney was once an all-powerful dictator. Now, she's just a banker and a high-ranking operative in a wealthy organization but she's not powerful enough to boss everyone around, especially Shaw.
• Human Weapon: She intended to have Jamie Braddock's x-factor gene activated in manner that would drive him irrevocably insane if he tried to use his resulting mutant powers without her commanding him
• Hypnotic Eyes: The crux of her powers is being able to psionically channel hypnosis through her eyes to have those of weak will or those taken by surprise bend to her every whim and command.
• Karma Houdini: Regardless of whether one takes Claremont's remarks about the original Courtney as canon or not, Sat-Yr-9 still murdered a woman and took her place in the reality of her origin, a crime for which she's faced no repercussions whatsoever.
• Kill and Replace: What she did to the real Courtney Ross whose identity she's been assuming ever since. Subverted in that she has revealed to her main foes that she's Sat-Yr-9 and that Courtney is now dead.
• Kudzu Plot: Between all the alternate reality counterparts and identity theft, Courtney/Sat-Yr-9's backstory is convoluted enough to leave a new reader cross-eyed. Unsurprisingly, most of the twists and turns come from the pen of Chris Claremont.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: In her own reality, Sat-Yr-9 was Putting on the Reich from her diamond-shaped symbol, to her leather outfit, Nazi-Esque movements and marches. She was also the lover of a Nazi-Esque Evil Counterpart of Captain Britain, appropriately named Kaptain Briton.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: How she persuades Viper to join her side.
• Overly Long Name: Her full name is "Opul Lun Sat-Yr-Nin".
• Pragmatic Villainy: Surprisingly pragmatic given her past as a world dictator, but then Sat-Yr-9 is nothing if not adaptable.
• Red Right Hand: Her diamond-shaped tattoo on her right thigh is telltale that she isn't the real Courtney Ross.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Originally and for the most part an Excalibur villain, though her bid to become the third White Queen brought her into conflict with the X-Men.
• Staff of Authority: Her trusty riding crop, which completes her Nazi-like original appearance and that she keeps on using as Courtney Ross to demonstrate her position.
• Sugary Malice: Says the most horrible and insulting things, always with a sweet smile and a soft voice.
• That Man Is Dead: Zigzagged. She has revealed her true identity to Courtney's former boyfriend and his friends during her run-ins with Excalibur and didn't mind being called by that name. Now she constantly refers to herself as "Courtney Ross".
• Villain Decay: In her reality of origin, Courtney was the co-dictator of the world. On Earth-616, she's had to settle for being a mere banker sitting on the sidelines while dozens, if not hundreds of other villains jockey for the power that was once hers to wield.
• Villain in a White Suit: Like the White Queens before her, Courtney (or rather Sat-Yr-9) colour codes her wardrobe to the part.
• Villain Team-Up: She recruited the infamous Captain America villain Viper to be The Dragon for her, or more specifically her "White Warrior Princess". This is particularly impressive in light of the fact that Viper was originally hired to kill her.
• Weak, but Skilled: Sat-Yr-9's powers are not that difficult to overcome if you're aware of them and keep your guard up. She used to get by with her superior technology and the people she had under her command. Today, she maintains her position through financial corruption and intelligence gathering. In combat, she's a decent hand-to-hand combatant and markswoman.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Her last appearance was in 2007's New Excalibur and there has been no indication as to whether she still holds onto her White Queen position or has moved on to bigger things.

Notable Alias: Dominatrix

Nationality: English

Species: Human

First Appearance: Daredevils #9

Vixen was a London-based crime lord who took on Captain Britain. She had an oddly profound impact on X-Men continuity as the one who had Spymaster blind Psylocke, which was the catalyst that eventually led to Betsy Braddock and Kwannon switching bodies. Later, she was turned into an actual "vixen" and made into a house pet by Jamie Braddock a.k.a. Monarch.

• And I Must Scream: The narrative almost quotes this verbatim when Mad Jim Jaspers turns her into a fox.
• Bad Boss: When one of her henchmen failed in a kidnapping scheme, she had them tortured. That said, she also had a henchman that she talked to and treated like a mother would a young child.
• Diabolical Mastermind: Somehow she managed to form her own loyal army of henchmen armed with hi-tech weaponry. Also her criminal resume went from orchestrating bank heists to ordering assassinations in order to help ensure her takeover of an entire government agency.
• Evil Is Petty: Oh, boy. Most notably when she orders Slaymaster to beat and disfigure Psylocke because she called her a "hag."
• Forced Transformation: She gets turned into an actual fox twice, the first time by Mad Jim Jaspers in an aborted timeline and the second time by Jamie Braddock, with the implication that the transformation was both physical and mental. Since she hasn't made any present-day appearances since, presumably she's still in that state.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: There isn't a lot of detail about her backstory, but it is implied she started life as an impoverished girl on the streets of London.
• Hijacked by Ganon: Sat-Yr-9 in the guise of Courtney Ross takes over Vixen's criminal empire after Jamie Braddock gave Sat-Yr-9's lackey Nigel Frobisher the ability to physically take Vixen's form.
• Sadist: She has a penchant for degrading and torturing her enemies, including both Brian and Betsy Braddock, as soon as she has power over them. Plus she even makes her henchmen call her "Dominatrix."
• What Happened to the Mouse?: She hasn't appeared since Excalibur #56, when she had still been turned into Jamie Braddock's pet fox, even though Jamie/Monarch has made several appearances since.