List of Wild Cards characters

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Characters from the Wild Cards book series.

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
Bubbles - a former model who can absorb kinetic impact and store it as fat; she can later release this energy as destructive "bubbles."
Cameo – object reading ace with the power to channel the dead and their Wild Card abilities
Candle - generates various forms of "fire" - a cold version, a hot version and a version that can form solid "constructs."
Captain Flint - flame-eyed giant made of stone who runs the Silver Helix, Britain's collection of federal aces.
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
Sharon Cream - strongest known female ace, murdered by The Righteous Djinn
Crypt Kicker – an ace who is essentially a zombie; with superhuman strength, acid for blood that he can exude through his pores, and near limitless durability
Curveball - a young woman who can control the flight of any object she throws, and detonate in on impact.
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
Drummer Boy - six armed, superstrong Joker whose elongated torso contains tympanic membranes; later revealed to be an Ace who can create powerful sonic attacks by drumming on himself and focusing the generated sound through his various throats.
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 with no special abilities, who uncovers the Card Sharks conspiracy
Hardhat - construction worker; could create "I beam" constructs from energy. Missing and presumed dead following the second battle of Aswan Dam.
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
Holy Roller - a fundamentalist reverend of enormous size (around 600 pounds) who can roll himself into a ball and travel in that form.
Howler – a high profile ace with the power to project a banshee's scream
Jetboy – a failed hero
Jetman - claims to be "the man Jetboy would have grown up to be." A tinkerer who creates wonderful devices through some means even he doesn't fully understand, possibly an ace or deuce power.
Jonathan Hive - can split himself in millions of wasps, forming a gestalt mind; can manage partial splits (shedding a finger, for example, as a collection of wasps through which he can see).
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
Maharajah - wheelchair bound ace (missing both legs and one arm) who can create "servants" that appear to be invisible telekinetic constructs wearing clothing
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
Mushroom Daddy - A hippie with the Ace ability to grow the most delicious, nutritious vegetables
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
Rustbelt, AKA Wally "Rusty" Gunderson-Iron-skinned joker who can rust through metal with a touch
"Sewer" Jack Robicheaux – subway worker and part-time alligator
Snotman – Jokertown's most pitiful resident, until he comes into power
Stuntman - "bounces back" from almost any physical injury (a form of fast healing)
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 Midnight Angel - A soldier of the Lord, armed with Ace strength and a flaming sword
The Righteous Djinn - "inhales" the powers of other Aces, killing them and conferring the power on him.
The Sleeper – wakes with a new face and power every time he sleeps
Ti Malice – twisted parasite who gets pleasure from others' pain
Tiffani - can transform herself into a diamond hard substance
Joe Twitch - hyperkinetic motion similar to The Flash and others.
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 – has no superhuman abilities, but is a deadly fighter
Zoe Harris – her breath makes molecules dance at her whim