List of Wild Cards characters

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For the article on the book series, see Wild Cards.

Bagabond - controls all the animals in Manhattan
Black Dog - Militant Joker terrorist
Black Eagle - the first flying Ace-- and the first to fall
Black Shadow - Vigilante identity of the Ace Shad
Blaise Jeannot Andrieux - Tachyon's psychotic mind-controlling grandson
Bloat - adolescent stuck in a monstrous body, with untapped powers
Bradley Finn - Joker centaur, doctor at the Jokertown clinic
Brain Trust - Tachyon's tragic lover, could absorb minds
Cameo - object reading ace with the power to channel the dead and their Wild Card abilities.
Captain Trips - hippie who turns into superheroes with each drug he takes
Carnifex - fast-healing fighter who loves violence, and hates getting jerked around
Chalktalk - mute, feral joker girl with the power to teleport through her chalk sketches
Chrysalis - information broker with crystal-clear skin and flesh
Crypt Kicker - An ace who is essentially a zombie; with superhuman strength and near limitless durability
Deadhead - mentally unstable ace with a taste for "brain food"
Demise - undead assassin who kills with a glance
Detroit Steel - Ace protected by a suit of armor built from old cars and scrap metal
Digger Downs - nosy reporter who can "smell" Aces
Dr. Tachyon - eccentric alien telepath who helped create the Wild Card
Durg at'Morakh bo'Zabb Vayawand'sa - genetically engineered Takisian warrior
Elephant Girl - she can turn into the ace equivalent of Dumbo
Elmo - super strong dwarf framed for murder
Envoy - His pheromones can turn foe into friend-- as long as he stays near
Fadeout - An ace gangster with the ability to turn invisible
Father Squid - Joker with a past, started his own church for Jokers
Fortunato - intellectual pimp who uses sex magic
G. C. Jayewardene - sees the future, whether he wants to or not
Gimli - angry, militant Jokers-rights protester
Golden Boy - strongest man in the world, the Judas Ace
Hannah Davis - New York arson investigator who uncovers the Card Sharks conspiracy
Harlem Hammer - super strong African American ace with bones of steel and a fear of hospitals
Hiram Worchester - formerly the gravity-controlling "Fatman", now runs a gourmet restaurant
Howler - A high profile ace with the power to project a banshee's scream
Jetboy - a failed hero
Jube the Walrus - alien spy hiding in plain sight
The Jumpers - vicious teen gang-bangers who can steal your body
Kafka - cockroach-like germ-phobic genius
Kelly Jenkins - Nat girl who gets caught up in Blaise's madness
Kid Dinosaur - his dreams have come true, he's an ace and a dinosaur!
Kien Phuc - traitorous Vietnamese general turned American gangster
Lazy Dragon - sends his mind into origami or soap carving animal bodies he creates
Legion - one woman in six sexy bodies
Leo Barnett - charismatic faith healer turned politician, who just knows in his heart the Wild Card is the mark of Satan
Loophole - either the Wild Card removed all his empathy, or he's just a lawyer
Mackie Messer - psycho killer who walks through walls and has buzzsaw hands
Modular Man - android created by an Ace's power, but he longs for freedom
Mother - joker/ace hybrid - a doughy mass that can create fully functional homunculi
Mr. Nobody - neurotic shapeshifter who uses movies as a refuge
The Oddity - a menage a trois that never ended --now it/they would do anything to separate
Patchwork - young woman with the power to disassemble her body into remote-controlled parts
Peanut - Hapless but well-meaning crusty-skinned joker who never quite catches a break
Peregrine - sexy winged celebrity
Peter Pann - Dutch private dick with a youthful face and a swarm of glowing "tinks" to do his spying for him
Popinjay - private detective who can teleport others
Pulse - Middle-class ace with the power to become a living laser
Puppetman - crusading politician is secretly a monster who feeds on fear
Quasiman - hunchbacked caretaker for Father Squid, sometimes he's not all there (literally)
Quinn the Eskimo - dreams up new addictive drugs and injects them through the hypodermic needles in his fingers
Rosemary Muldoon, AKA Rosa Maria Gambione - Mafia princess who leads a double life
Roulette - she kills with intimacy
"Sewer" Jack Robicheaux - subway worker and part-time alligator
Shad- An Ace with multiple identities
Snotman - Jokertown's most pitiful resident, until he comes into power
The Astronomer - uses human sacrifice to energize his vast powers
The Bludgeon - A low rent ace thug with superhuman strength who will do just about anything for the right price
The Great and Powerful Turtle - world's most powerful telekinetic- as long as he's safe in his shell
The Sleeper - wakes with a new face and power every time he sleeps
Ti Malice - twisted parasite who gets pleasure from others' pain
Maxim Travnicek - Hyperinventive mad scientist ace who created Modular Man
Troll - armor-plated security guard at the Jokertown Clinic
Water Lily - innocent girl with the power to control water
Wraith - walks through walls and steals for thrills
Wyungare - Australian aborigine who visits the Dreamtime
Xavier Desmond - unofficial "mayor of Jokertown"
Yeoman - 'only human', but a deadly fighter
Zoe Harris - her breath makes molecules dance at her whim