Axis Mundi Character Sheet:
The Terran Goodwill Society:
Taylor Lucian Forsyth:
- Chaotic Good
- The Hero
- The White Prince
- Idiot Hero (but he gets better...)
- The Messiah
- Friend to All Living Things
- Beware the Nice Ones
- Half-Human Hybrid (half-celestial, to put it simply)
- Elemental Powers (Light & Life)
- Chivalrous Pervert
- Heroic BSOD (after his first encounter with Starling, as well as after Paul's Face Heel Turn and after Vanessa leaves the team)
- Genre Blind (but he gets better...)
Paul Xavier Zheng:
- Neutral Evil
- The Lancer
- Token Evil Teammate (subverted; he gets away with quite a lot...)
- Manipulative Bastard
- Tarot Motifs (his main power)
- Anti-Hero
- Anti-Villain (yes, he somehow manages to be both-often at the same time...)
- Deadpan Snarker
- Troubled but Cute
- Fallen Hero
- Start of Darkness
- Dangerously Genre Savvy
Sarah Jane McPherson:
- Neutral Good
- The Big Guy
- Team Mom
- Expy (of Sailor Jupiter)
- Most Common Superpower (Gotta get the culturally illiterate dollar somehow...)
- Boobs of Steel
- Soapbox Sadie
- Straw Feminist (averted)
- Boisterous Bruiser
- Badass Normal
- Charles Atlas Superpower (after the final battle with Starling)
Vanessa Corinne Huang:
- Anime Chinese Girl
- Lawful Neutral
- The Smart Guy
- Ojou
- Deadpan Snarker
- Shoot the Dog
- Foil (to Taylor and Sarah)
- Tsundere
- Dark Magical Girl
- Elemental Powers (Darkness)
- Dark Is Not Evil
- Yin-Yang Bomb (along with Taylor)
A.J. Reinman:
- Chaotic Neutral
- The Chick (He IS their best practitioner of Social Fu...)
- Jumped At the Call
- Ascended Fanboy
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
- Bond One-Liner
- Odd Job God (of fandom and all it entails)
- Genre Savvy
- Squishy Wizard
The Memester:
- Chaotic Neutral
- Anti-Villain
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
- Well-Intentioned Extremist (wants to find a home for the abandoned memes under his care to prevent them from disappearing forever)
- Villainous Harlequin
- Even Evil Has Standards
- Worthy Opponent (especially after the end of his story arc)
Papillon:
- Chaotic Neutral
- Meaningful Name
- Hidden Agenda Villain
- The Chessmaster
- Masquerade Motifs (If this trope didn't exist before, it does now!)
- Reverse Mole
- Evil Uncle (averted)
- Stealth Mentor
- Sink or Swim Mentor
- The Man Behind the Man (during The Memester's arc)
- Secret Identity (Henry C. Zheng)
Col. James N. Ratherton:
- Lawful Neutral
- Punch Clock Villain
- The Men in Black (along with the entire Terran Homeworld Defense League)
- Colonel Badass
- Fallen Hero
- Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids
- Officer and a Gentleman
- A Father to His Men
- Well-Intentioned Extremist (trying to protect reality from attackers from the realms of fiction)
- I Did What I Had to Do
- Shoot the Dog
- Heel Face Turn
H.D. Starling, III:
- Lawful Evil
- Light Is Not Good
- Playing with Fire (always paired with Light Is Not Good in my universe)
- Affably Evil
- Well-Intentioned Extremist (wants to save Western culture from what he perceives as an attack)
- Knight Templar
- Freudian Excuse
- Even Evil Has Standards
- Deus Exit Machina
- Fallen Hero
- Wicked Cultured
- Man of Wealth and Taste
- Worthy Opponent
- Enemy Mine (subverted; Starling tries for this against Paul, but gets told off by the TGS)
- Make Me Wanna Shout
Paul Xavier Zheng:
- Chaotic Evil
- Face Heel Turn
- Dual-Wielding (Tarot decks)
- Medium Awareness
- Ax Crazy
- The Unfettered
- Even Evil Has Standards (subverted and parodied)
- Magnificent Bastard
- Ubermensch
- The Starscream (to Ravenstahl)
- Wrath
- Revenge
- Card-Carrying Villain
- Bloodstained-Glass Windows
- Karma Houdini
Lord Nothing:
- Neutral Evil
- Man Behind the Man (for all the other villains in the
showcomic) - Eldritch Abomination
- Anthropomorphic Personification (of emotional numbness, as well as sorrow and agony)
- As Long as There Is Evil
- Evil Is Not a Toy
- Nietzsche Wannabe (basically their god)
- Gondor Calls for Aid (how the TGS responds after he whoops their kiesters)
Supporting Cast:
Jerome David Forsyth
- Chaotic Good
- Retired Badass
- Deadpan Snarker
- The Mentor
- Badass Biker
- Hidden Depths (has forgotten more about video games, anime, and other such topics than 99% of people ever learn)
- Ensemble Darkhorse (expressly designed to be one)
- The Woobie (after we learn what he went through to become such a badass)
Cherice Claire Du Lac:
- Neutral Good
- The Messiah
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Lethal Chef (good thing she and Jerome are rich, huh?)
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
- Magical Girl
Henry C. Zheng:
- Chaotic Neutral
- Badass Longcoat
- Stealth Mentor
- Trickster Mentor
- Sink or Swim Mentor
- The Philosopher
- Secret Identity (Papillon)
- I Did What I Had to Do
- Laughably Antiheroic
- Reverse Mole (as Papillon)
G.K. Ravenstahl/Revenant:
- Lawful Evil
- Amoral Attorney
- Ambulance Chaser
- Big Bad Wannabe (to the point of it being a Running Gag)
- Smug Snake
- Super-Powered Evil Side
- Meaningful Name
- Manipulative Bastard
- Dirty Coward
Aratuz:
- Neutral Evil
- Odd Job God (of the dark side of shipping)
- The Legions of Hell
- The Brute (the position he tends to hold in evil ensembles)
- Genius Bruiser
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
- Small Name, Big Ego
- Unknown Rival (to Taylor)
Erin Chantille Kerr:
- Lawful Evil
- Dark Magical Girl
- Shock and Awe
- Psycho Electro
- Blow You Away
- Well-Intentioned Extremist (wants to end all conflict in both worlds by finding and empowering a lost narrative that includes all people that ever were, are, and will be, thus stripping everybody of their free will)
- Rival Turned Evil
- Ineffectual Loner
- Dating Batman (to Taylor)
- Enemy Mine (against Zheng, then she sticks around when Gondor Calls for Aid against Lord Nothing)
The Chessmaster:
- True Neutral
- The Hero/Big Bad (depending on which is needed to preserve the balance; also applies to the kings)
- The Chessmaster (well, DUH!!)
- Wild Card
- Chess Motifs
- Balance Keeper
- Anthropomorphic Personification (of strategy and tactics)
- Stupid Neutral
- More Than Mind Control (the method by which he acquires his pieces)
- Redshirt Army/Quirky Miniboss Squad (the pawns)
- The Big Guy/The Brute (the rooks)
- The Smart Guy/Evil Genius (the bishops)
- The Chick/Dark Chick (the knights)
- The Lancer/The Dragon (the queens, referred to as "councillors" by The Chessmaster; also applies to the White and Black Fairies)