Minor Superhuman Characters

The following alphabetical list is of minor and briefly mentioned characters found in the Wearing the Cape series. These characters played a small to no role in the main plotlines.

This page is for minor superhuman characters. For other characters, see Minor Characters.

Agamon Acmar
Agamon Acmar was a charismatic A Class Mentalist-Type who founded The Caliphate.

Aftershock
A sonic-powered gangbanger who turned bank robber the very next day after The Event.

Armistice
A flying superhero based out of Chicago.

Big Blondie
An A Class Ajax-Type and member of the Russian Bratva working under Zmey Gorynich.

Blackout
A superhuman drummer for the band Freakzone and a kind of particle controller. He is tall, thin, bald, and pasty white; typically wearing all black.

Bombshell
One of Chicago's most famous heroes, they have a wax figure at The Fortress.

Border
A member of The Crew.

Brace
A member of The Crew.

Bryce Walters
Bryce is a divorced chemical engineer, a vegetarian, a pacificst, and a member of Greenpeace. He has his breakthrough after The Big One when he learns his ex-wife and son have died in a highrise collapse and became an A Class Energy Projector who shoots plasma hot enought o hurt Atlas and Astra. After trying to kill Astra and being restrained by Atlasm he is taken to The Block.

Bullet
A member of The Ascendancy's Wreckers team with the ability to never miss what he aims at. He ambushes Hope's team and the Rotterdam Guard in the Battle of Brussels, killing Wunderkind with a an a spray of anti-armor Verne-tech rounds. Artemis immediately kills him in retribution.

Burnout
Roger Carr, known by his stage name Bournout, was a villain rap star who was arrested and faced multiple accounts of statutory rape, drug possession, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

The Cardinal
A Chicago cape who wore a red jumpsuit-tuxedo with a white clerical collar to The Fortress.

Caterwaul
One of Chicago's most famous heroes, they have a wax figure at The Fortress.

Ceres
A Hollywood Knight with power over plants. She maintains the roof garden at Restormel.

The Crew
A superhuman construction company that hires superhumans with useful powers such as superhuman strength or levitation to complete reconstruction after damage caused by superhuman fights. They also spend a lot of time abroad doing infrastructure projects in less fortunate countries.

Crow
A seldom seen reservist of the Chicago Sentinels.

Cutter
Due to context clues, it is presumed this is an alternate name for The Surgeon and one or the other name slipped past editing.

Diceman
A member of the Chicago super gang The Brotherhood who was cut to pieces by a member of the Sanguinary Boys.

Dreadnought
A powered-armor wearing gadgeteer, veteran of the China War, and actively blogging anti-government libertarian. He was impersonated by Il Doppio at Metrocon in a bid to assassinate Baldur. His body was never found, but he is presumed dead.

Entropy
A female cape that took place in the rescue efforts after The Big One struck California. She has the ability to speed up the decay of inorganic compounds.

Fire Lily
A member of the Hollywood Knights who wears a red-flamed leather corset and makes a play for Atlas.

Flashback
A Chicago cape that wore a black and white checkered full-body stocking that covered his entire body to The Fortress.

Foxlight
A female Chicago cape with a fur-patterned catsuit, face paint, and spiked hair.

Freakshow
A metamorphing "supervillain" rapper that headlines the megastar rapper group Freakzone. His breakthrough gives him total control over his own body and he can morph into any animal form he wants, even mising them up.

Freakzone
The latest megastar rapper group in the popular but problematic "villain rap" genre.

Hardlock
A man of living steel who wears a black leather jumpsuit.

Heaven Dancer
An "amazing flyer" who took second place in the Metrocon aerobatics competition.

Heavenly Dragon
A Supernatural-Type breakthrough with the form of a blue and white Chinese Dragon. He is incredibly durable, can fly, and breathe ice. He is a member of Tianxia, better known as One Land. He has a white and silver pattern to his horns, whiskers, and scales, nearly vestigial front legs, and silver blood. He and four other breakthroughs raid a Heroes Without Borders supply flight between Shibushi and Anhui, and are unfortunate enough to encounter Astra, Artemis, and Ozma. Astra and he fight and he is torn apart and cast down into the ocean.

Headhunter
A minority superhuman who was found dead in South Side Chicago out of costume.

Irons
A member of The Crew.

Jump
A member of the Extreme Solutions mercenary group and part of the four man team contracted by associates of Robert Early's to aid the Sentinels in defeating Villains Inc..

Killjoy
A Cape and member of the South Side Guardians.

Legal Eagle
A practicing lawyer with the power to fly. He gained his power when his parachute didn't open, but without any supporting powers he chose to finish law school and begin practice. He regularly consults with Chicago's CAI teams.

Lighter
A member of the Sanguinary Boys and a standard pyrokinetic who preferred vodka as a starter. He is ambushed by a combined force of Sentinels, Guardians, and DSA in The Big Roundup and arrested.

Lily Strong
A hero popular before the events of the book that Shelly Boyar dressed up as as a child.

Malory
A Cape and member of the South Side Guardians.

Imada Masu
The oyabun of Shinjuku-kai, he is a Mentalist-Type breakthrough with the power to bind speakers to any agreement they verbalize.

Maui
A dark-skinned, hawk-featured man with short black hair and swirling tattoos covering the right side of his face. The patterns of his layered green and black spandex bodysuit echoes his tattoos, and he wears a hook-shaped bone carving at his throat under his open collar. He is a Hollywood Knight with the ability to shapeshift and even take on and put off new powers as needed. He is a mormon, but was dubbed Maui by the people of New Zealand.

Michael
A superhuman musician whose powers made him an immaterial glow - his breakthrough came on the day of The Event. He wore a suit like Starry Night and a fedora, moved like a robot's dream of humanity, and trailed streams of light and threw stars from his gloved hands. He performed his hit song Starlight at The Fortress.

Minuteman
A speedster and founding member of the Chicago Sentinels, he was killed by a supervillain.

Yoshi Miyamoto
An elderly man born in Tenkawa, Japan whose daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter were murdered by The Outfit in Chicago. Once though to be the original identity of Kitsune, he turns out to have somehow escaped his care facility, traveled home to his family graveyard, and experienced a para-mortem breakthrough to turn into a Shingami that killed all who entered, including an Omniyoji with Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne. HE is banished by the Three Remarkable Ronin.

Nike
An A Class Atlas-Type, EU Military veteranmember of the Rotterdam Guard with the rank of Commander. She has copper hair and wears a white and gold bodysuit as well as a belt and headband with laurel-leaf designs. She brings her full team to support Hope in the battle of Brussels.

Psijack
Bradley Clark, a very successful freelance contract negotiater with a reputation for always closing the deal. He was hired by the Brotherhood to cause the Freakzone Riot to secure their freedom. He is a Mentalist-Type witht he power to control groups of people and influence emotions.

Red Robin
A female hero with the power of flight and member of the Chicago West Side Guardians.

Ripper
A Pantom-Type superhuman with the ability to phase his hand inside even an A Class Atlas-Type and cause debilitating pain. He is one of the Dark Anarchist's superhuman associates. He helps capture and torture Astra shortly before he is killed by an unexpected headbutt from Astra.

Roland
A former member of the Chicago Sentinels, he left to fight for Israel in the Caliphate War and died there.

Corporal Ross
A member of the US Military witht he ability to "drop people into stasis." He is present at the Whittier Base Attack and uses his power to save Astra after she is critically injured fighting Seif-al-Din.

Mr. Sandman
A sonic-powered superhero who was considered for Sentinels membership or reserves membership in order to provide a better skillset for crowd control. Presumably he is able to use soundwaves to put people to sleep.

Scarlet
A Cape and member of the South Side Guardians.

Shriek
A minor supervillain in Hecate's rogue Villain's Inc. team, he takes place in the battle with the Chicago Sentinels and elements of the Chicago Guardians teams in an attempt to free Villain-X. Platoon describes his powers as a "focused sonic attack."

Sidestep
A member of the Rotterdam Guard who comes to Hope's aid in the Battle of Brussels. He is a speedster, but is taken out of the fight soon after arriving in an ambush by the Ascendancy's Wreckers team.

Sprints
A speedster and member of the South Side Guardians. He is a part of the Great Roundup and numerous evacuation efforts, such as the attacks by the Green Man.

Starkness
A member of the Hollywood Knights that Hope described as "very scary".

The Surgeon
A member of the Sanguinary Boys and a slicer with extendable razor sharp nails and a taste for pain. He is ambushed by a combined force of Sentinels, Guardians, and CPD in The Big Roundup and arrested.

Svyatagor
An A Class Supernatural Ajax-Type Russian hero who is either temporarily or permanently in the form of a mythological giant with an iron club whp practices combat Hopak. He has black hair and a mustache, and was big enough that according ti hope he could have "made three Grendels". He was powerful enough that he could withstand a fight with Zmey Gorylich, from whom a mere touch scalded Astra's skin through her armor and A Class Atlas-Type toughness. He is also able to see Shell because "[his] wise Babashka has touched [his] eyes with rusalka tears and [he] can see all spirits."

Swarm
A supervillain in Hecate's rogue Villain's Inc. team, he takes place in the battle with the Chicago Sentinels and elements of the Chicago Guardians teams in an attempt to free Villain-X. Platoon describes his powers as a "micro-particle cloud form, toxic attack," and it is later theorized that he could be a Metamorph-Type or Verne-Tech. He also appears in the alternate version of Villains Inc. in Recursion during Astra's goldfish-induced loop. He is accidentally killed in the main timeline when Seven freezes his disassociated parts with a field extinguisher.

Tiger's Eye
A hero popular before the events of the book that Hope Corrigan dressed up as as a child.

Vacuum
A member of the Sanguinary Boys and a B or C Class Aerokinetic who can suck the air right out of your lungs. He is ambushed by a combined force of Sentinels, Guardians, and DSA in The Big Roundup and arrested.

Villain-X
Jason Levitt, a former sergeant with the US Military and Class A Atlas-Type is a secret asset of The Outfit on their revived Villains Inc. team that is secretly turned by Hecate. He served four years in a military prison for improper actions during his unit's deployment in Iran. He has four fights with Astra, winning two, and losing two, dying of cascading organ failure after his final defeat due to the effects of Hecate's demonic possession-fueled power boost. He personally kills Robert Early and attempts to kill Blackstone, Kitsune, Astra, and Detective Fisher.

He appears in Recursion as a member of an expanded Villains Inc. team boosted by the Ascendant and Johnny Cho.

Vector
A gravity controller who helped in the aftermath of The Big One.

Volt
An A Class Electrokinetic-Type with dark curls and a square-jawed profile. He moved from a brief, but very successful Hollywood career to being the president of Califronia's new superhuman union and going into politics. He attended Anne Marie Corrigan's Christmas Ball and showed poor manners.

Wisteria
A female cape and member of the Chicago Guardians with the power of flight and sharp features, an amazonian supermodel figure, and deeply purple petal-patterned catsuit with a high neck that left her arms and shoulders bare.

Wunderkind
A jovial German member of the Rotterdam Guard who comes to Hope's aid in the Battle of Brussels. He wers a helmet and armored bodysuit and appears to have the ability to generate a telekinetic wave of force. He is shot by Bullet soon after arriving in an ambush by the Ascendancy.

Zmey Gorynich
A mob boss from the Russian Bratva who tried to expand into Chicago after the fall of Villains Inc. that severely weakened The Outfit. He appears to be a Supernatural-Type with A or possibly Ultra Class strength and durability. His powers come with a transformation into a massive, burning form with long, spidery fingers and marbeled, coal-black skin. He also has the ability to split into at least three smaller copies - once seperated, he could not rejoin without physical contact. It took the combined efforts of Astra, Lei Zi, Riptide, Grendel, and Svyatagor to defeat them