Captain Britian (other characters)
I've been tempted to really get into Captain Britain, as it's very good, but I'm going to clamp down and try to stick to the stuff that's relevant to X-Men, including stories that didn't happen...
Merlin: The Merlin of legend is a powerful being from Otherworld, who created the Captain Britain corps for his own ends. He is a master manipulator, appearing to die suddenly when things were at their worst, then reappearing much later, alive. Not a particularly nice fellow.
Roma: The daughter of Merlin. She takes over his role as guardian of the omniverse. She is a much more benevolent character, and swears to avoid her father's level of manipulation.
The Captain Britain Corps: Each Earth is assigned a Captain Britain, each with similar powers, though there is some variation. Each world has its own moral code that must be adhered to.
S.T.R.I.K.E.: Britain's version of S.H.I.E.L.D., though I get the idea it's not nearly as impressive. The organization comes apart and reforms several times over the course of Captain Britain and Excalibur, first becoming R.C.X, then F.I.6. They tend to preach patriotism, but are very ruthless and rather shadey.
Elizabeth Braddock: Captain Britain's twin sister. She has a minor telepathic ability that she develops when she joins S.T.R.I.K.E.'s psi-division. She is a fashion model and dyes her hair purple, though she is naturally a blonde. She has a relationship with a middle-aged member of the psi-division, Tom Lennox, who is killed. The man who recruited her in the first place, seems amorous toward her, going so far as to suggest they get married, but she doesn't seem particularly taken with him. A woman named Victoria Bently teaches her to use her traumatic experiences to focus her telepathy, with destructive results. When Captain Britain gives up his position for a while, she takes his place using the modified costume of Kaptain Briton. She is blinded by Slaymaster during this period, using her telepathy to see. Best known as the X-Man Psylocke.
Courtney Ross: Captain Britain's college girlfriend who becomes the very successful president of a bank. She is killed and replaced by Sat-Yr-9 early on in Excalibur.
Saturnyne: The Omniversal Majestrix. She has no apparent abilities, beyond her rank. Her exact role is unclear, but she is first encountered on an alternate Earth giving it a "push" because it's development has become retarded. Captain Britain holds a bit of a torch for her, but she tends to be aloof.
Sat-Yr-9: A version of Saturnyne from an alternate Earth. She is a hideously evil dictator, who has an obsessive love for her version of Captain Britain (Kaptain Briton), though he seems to be a fair-weather lover, for his part. She is overthrown by Captain U.K., but escapes her prison. She comes to our world and kills Courtney Ross as part of a long-term plan to conquer it. She befriends Kitty Pryde and begins grooming her to be her heir, in a story that never resolves.
Mad Jim Jaspers: A member of Parliment who happens to be a reality-manipulating mutant. He spoke out against superheroes, putting them in death camps and creating the Fury to kill them. He wrecks his world in one reality so thoroughly that Judge Lord Mandragon of the Omniverse had his entire reality destroyed. In our world, things went a little differently, but the death camps and mutant powers remain. He is killed by the Fury.
The Fury: Created by the Mad Jim Jaspers of an alternate universe, it is a "cybiote", a half-machine, half-living monstrosity created to kill superheroes. It is very fast and tough, surviving the destruction of its reality, somehow. It had killed Captain Britain, but when Merlin whisked his remains away, the Fury was able to determine where he ended up and followed him to our Earth. It can alter itself somewhat as needed. In the end it could change shape easily and survive at the bottom of the ocean or on the surface of the sun. It is killed by Captain U.K. and Captain Britain, after depleting most of its energy fighting Mad Jim Jaspers.
The Crazy Gang: A gang of criminals lead by Mad Jim Jaspers in the alternate Earth, on our Earth they were created from the ground by our Mad Jim Jaspers. After his death, they become aimless criminals, plaguing Captain Britain and Excalibur, before settling into harmlessness.
Slaymaster: An old Captain Britain foe. He is a Middle-Eastern (?) assassin who uses a variety of techniques and gadgets to try and overcome Captain Britain. He has a strange sense of honor that doesn't impress Captain Britain in the least. He ultimately blinds Psylocke, and Captain Britain crushes his head with a chunk of concrete in retribution.
Special Executive: A time-and-space-traveling band of mercenaries. The three core members, at least -- Wardog, Cobweb, and Fascination -- appear to be clones created by the Gallifreyans (Time Lords from Doctor Who). They have some strange powers: Cobweb is in mental contact with herself all thoughout time, so she is precognitient, though she often doesn't share her knowledge, since she asserts that the events can't be prevented anyway. Zeitgeist only exists in an abstract sense, being only somewhat real and undetectable by most means except actually seeing him. He can also attack while being immune to counter-attacks. They have a weird association with the Technet, another band of time-travelling mercenaries that shares many members with the Special Executive, but that's way too complicated to get into...
Captain U.K.: The Captain Britain from the same world as the alternate Mad Jim Jaspers. She watched the Fury wipe out the superheroes of her world, including her husband, who sent her to our Earth via a machine as his last act. She enters the stories as a completely broken person, but eventually is goaded into killing the Fury. Her continued presence on our Earth prevents the wounds from the Jaspers Warp to our reality from healing, so Roma sends her to overthrow Sat-Yr-9, but only after reaching back in time and bringing her husband back to her. She becomes a heroic figure once more on that Earth.
Meggan: A strange (possible) mutant. She is the daughter of gypsies, born a metamorph and an empath. In the cold air, she grew fur, and the locals, seeing this, told stories of her being a monster. She picked up on their vision of her and became a monster, even going so far as to be influenced by the moon as the werewolf they thought she was. She spent most of her life in her parents' wagon, watching tv. She was thrown in a death camp along with other mutants and superheroes, and the after-effects of the Jaspers Warp caused her to lose her memories. She began hanging out with some young punks, and fought Captain Britain, resulting in the death of one of those young punks. She moved into the repentant Captain's home for a while. During a battle with the Cherubim, she realized her potential and took the form of a beautiful woman. Captain Britain left his home and she joined him, and he quickly fell in love with her -- this was only natural since her new form was her responding to his subconscious ideal woman and not her true form. In later issues of Excalibur, she sought her parents, whom she did not find, but she did discover her true form. She apparently can change her form within some limits (she seems to need to remain a humanoid) and seems to be able to create superpowers as needed, like flight and rarely-seen energy blasts.
Warpies: Children born during the Jaspers Warp and after developed strange deformities, being extreme mutants. After Captain U.K. left, I believe they stopped being born. R.C.X. gathered up many of them, against their parents' wishes, and relocated them to Captain Britain's mansion, against his wishes. R.C.X. had a squad of especially dangerous ones they called the Cherubim, who they used as enforcers on occassion. Some of the Warpies wound up in the Mutant Research Center on Muir Island, while others were taken by F.I.6 in a secret base, after they bombed Captain Britain's mansion and captured their predacessors, R.C.X. The Warpies began to revert to normal humans, killing them in the process while under F.I.6's care.
Jamie Braddock: Captain Britain's older brother, a race car driver and wild man. He gets into horrific crime, including white slavery. A former R.C.X. member who was badly scarred by an exploding Warpie, calling himself Doctor Crocodile, took it upon himself to rehabilitate Jamie. R.C.X. implicated Captain Britain as being involved with Jamie's crimes, leading to a confrontation. Later, in Excalibur, Sat-Yr-9 hires Technet to bring her Jamie, knowing of his reality-altering powers through her own world's version of him. He came out of the trance Doctor Crocodile put him in, aware of his mutant powers and believing that it was all a dream, freeing him from having any guilt over any actions. His power is that he perceives the world as sort of made of string, and he can manipulate that string to physically change the world around him.
Mastermind: An Otherworld computer brought to Earth by Captain Britain's father. It grew like a fungus, but the initial spore was infected and it became evil. It killed Captain Britain's parents, and Captain Britain thought he'd destroyed it for a while. Later it reappeared, and Captain Britain discovered that it was really growing over the caverns beneath his mansion. He dismantled it and reprogrammed it to serve him, though it didn't do that very well, conspiring against him with R.C.X. It manifests as solid light holograms. For years it kept the Braddocks' char lady, Emma Collins, alive and under its thrall. Once it was fixed, it began manifesting as a holographic butler named Jeeves, and it developed feelings for Emma. She had nerve damage from her time under its control, however, and would soon die. He created a synthetic version of his Jeeves hologram to take her on a cruise. He was destroyed when F.I.6 bombed the caverns.
Merlin: The Merlin of legend is a powerful being from Otherworld, who created the Captain Britain corps for his own ends. He is a master manipulator, appearing to die suddenly when things were at their worst, then reappearing much later, alive. Not a particularly nice fellow.
Roma: The daughter of Merlin. She takes over his role as guardian of the omniverse. She is a much more benevolent character, and swears to avoid her father's level of manipulation.
The Captain Britain Corps: Each Earth is assigned a Captain Britain, each with similar powers, though there is some variation. Each world has its own moral code that must be adhered to.
S.T.R.I.K.E.: Britain's version of S.H.I.E.L.D., though I get the idea it's not nearly as impressive. The organization comes apart and reforms several times over the course of Captain Britain and Excalibur, first becoming R.C.X, then F.I.6. They tend to preach patriotism, but are very ruthless and rather shadey.
Elizabeth Braddock: Captain Britain's twin sister. She has a minor telepathic ability that she develops when she joins S.T.R.I.K.E.'s psi-division. She is a fashion model and dyes her hair purple, though she is naturally a blonde. She has a relationship with a middle-aged member of the psi-division, Tom Lennox, who is killed. The man who recruited her in the first place, seems amorous toward her, going so far as to suggest they get married, but she doesn't seem particularly taken with him. A woman named Victoria Bently teaches her to use her traumatic experiences to focus her telepathy, with destructive results. When Captain Britain gives up his position for a while, she takes his place using the modified costume of Kaptain Briton. She is blinded by Slaymaster during this period, using her telepathy to see. Best known as the X-Man Psylocke.
Courtney Ross: Captain Britain's college girlfriend who becomes the very successful president of a bank. She is killed and replaced by Sat-Yr-9 early on in Excalibur.
Saturnyne: The Omniversal Majestrix. She has no apparent abilities, beyond her rank. Her exact role is unclear, but she is first encountered on an alternate Earth giving it a "push" because it's development has become retarded. Captain Britain holds a bit of a torch for her, but she tends to be aloof.
Sat-Yr-9: A version of Saturnyne from an alternate Earth. She is a hideously evil dictator, who has an obsessive love for her version of Captain Britain (Kaptain Briton), though he seems to be a fair-weather lover, for his part. She is overthrown by Captain U.K., but escapes her prison. She comes to our world and kills Courtney Ross as part of a long-term plan to conquer it. She befriends Kitty Pryde and begins grooming her to be her heir, in a story that never resolves.
Mad Jim Jaspers: A member of Parliment who happens to be a reality-manipulating mutant. He spoke out against superheroes, putting them in death camps and creating the Fury to kill them. He wrecks his world in one reality so thoroughly that Judge Lord Mandragon of the Omniverse had his entire reality destroyed. In our world, things went a little differently, but the death camps and mutant powers remain. He is killed by the Fury.
The Fury: Created by the Mad Jim Jaspers of an alternate universe, it is a "cybiote", a half-machine, half-living monstrosity created to kill superheroes. It is very fast and tough, surviving the destruction of its reality, somehow. It had killed Captain Britain, but when Merlin whisked his remains away, the Fury was able to determine where he ended up and followed him to our Earth. It can alter itself somewhat as needed. In the end it could change shape easily and survive at the bottom of the ocean or on the surface of the sun. It is killed by Captain U.K. and Captain Britain, after depleting most of its energy fighting Mad Jim Jaspers.
The Crazy Gang: A gang of criminals lead by Mad Jim Jaspers in the alternate Earth, on our Earth they were created from the ground by our Mad Jim Jaspers. After his death, they become aimless criminals, plaguing Captain Britain and Excalibur, before settling into harmlessness.
Slaymaster: An old Captain Britain foe. He is a Middle-Eastern (?) assassin who uses a variety of techniques and gadgets to try and overcome Captain Britain. He has a strange sense of honor that doesn't impress Captain Britain in the least. He ultimately blinds Psylocke, and Captain Britain crushes his head with a chunk of concrete in retribution.
Special Executive: A time-and-space-traveling band of mercenaries. The three core members, at least -- Wardog, Cobweb, and Fascination -- appear to be clones created by the Gallifreyans (Time Lords from Doctor Who). They have some strange powers: Cobweb is in mental contact with herself all thoughout time, so she is precognitient, though she often doesn't share her knowledge, since she asserts that the events can't be prevented anyway. Zeitgeist only exists in an abstract sense, being only somewhat real and undetectable by most means except actually seeing him. He can also attack while being immune to counter-attacks. They have a weird association with the Technet, another band of time-travelling mercenaries that shares many members with the Special Executive, but that's way too complicated to get into...
Captain U.K.: The Captain Britain from the same world as the alternate Mad Jim Jaspers. She watched the Fury wipe out the superheroes of her world, including her husband, who sent her to our Earth via a machine as his last act. She enters the stories as a completely broken person, but eventually is goaded into killing the Fury. Her continued presence on our Earth prevents the wounds from the Jaspers Warp to our reality from healing, so Roma sends her to overthrow Sat-Yr-9, but only after reaching back in time and bringing her husband back to her. She becomes a heroic figure once more on that Earth.
Meggan: A strange (possible) mutant. She is the daughter of gypsies, born a metamorph and an empath. In the cold air, she grew fur, and the locals, seeing this, told stories of her being a monster. She picked up on their vision of her and became a monster, even going so far as to be influenced by the moon as the werewolf they thought she was. She spent most of her life in her parents' wagon, watching tv. She was thrown in a death camp along with other mutants and superheroes, and the after-effects of the Jaspers Warp caused her to lose her memories. She began hanging out with some young punks, and fought Captain Britain, resulting in the death of one of those young punks. She moved into the repentant Captain's home for a while. During a battle with the Cherubim, she realized her potential and took the form of a beautiful woman. Captain Britain left his home and she joined him, and he quickly fell in love with her -- this was only natural since her new form was her responding to his subconscious ideal woman and not her true form. In later issues of Excalibur, she sought her parents, whom she did not find, but she did discover her true form. She apparently can change her form within some limits (she seems to need to remain a humanoid) and seems to be able to create superpowers as needed, like flight and rarely-seen energy blasts.
Warpies: Children born during the Jaspers Warp and after developed strange deformities, being extreme mutants. After Captain U.K. left, I believe they stopped being born. R.C.X. gathered up many of them, against their parents' wishes, and relocated them to Captain Britain's mansion, against his wishes. R.C.X. had a squad of especially dangerous ones they called the Cherubim, who they used as enforcers on occassion. Some of the Warpies wound up in the Mutant Research Center on Muir Island, while others were taken by F.I.6 in a secret base, after they bombed Captain Britain's mansion and captured their predacessors, R.C.X. The Warpies began to revert to normal humans, killing them in the process while under F.I.6's care.
Jamie Braddock: Captain Britain's older brother, a race car driver and wild man. He gets into horrific crime, including white slavery. A former R.C.X. member who was badly scarred by an exploding Warpie, calling himself Doctor Crocodile, took it upon himself to rehabilitate Jamie. R.C.X. implicated Captain Britain as being involved with Jamie's crimes, leading to a confrontation. Later, in Excalibur, Sat-Yr-9 hires Technet to bring her Jamie, knowing of his reality-altering powers through her own world's version of him. He came out of the trance Doctor Crocodile put him in, aware of his mutant powers and believing that it was all a dream, freeing him from having any guilt over any actions. His power is that he perceives the world as sort of made of string, and he can manipulate that string to physically change the world around him.
Mastermind: An Otherworld computer brought to Earth by Captain Britain's father. It grew like a fungus, but the initial spore was infected and it became evil. It killed Captain Britain's parents, and Captain Britain thought he'd destroyed it for a while. Later it reappeared, and Captain Britain discovered that it was really growing over the caverns beneath his mansion. He dismantled it and reprogrammed it to serve him, though it didn't do that very well, conspiring against him with R.C.X. It manifests as solid light holograms. For years it kept the Braddocks' char lady, Emma Collins, alive and under its thrall. Once it was fixed, it began manifesting as a holographic butler named Jeeves, and it developed feelings for Emma. She had nerve damage from her time under its control, however, and would soon die. He created a synthetic version of his Jeeves hologram to take her on a cruise. He was destroyed when F.I.6 bombed the caverns.