Jim Porter (Shining Bonds)/Tropes

Tropes that apply to Jim Porter, written as if it were a TV Tropes page.

(Foody, help me with this, I'll add the rest.)

## Characterization and Background

* **One Man Army**: Heavily armed and can withstand a enemy forces.
* **Old But Still Kickin'**: He's serious and is 48 year-old, oldest of the casts despite has the appearance of a 18 year-old boy.
* **War Veteran**: The only one that can use weapons and command troops, and can drive tanks too.
* **You Shall Not Die!**: Often risking his life to save his family and friends, especially his very close friend Nanette Daisy.
* **Chill Out!**: Like Nanette, he is quite caring and nice to anyone else... unless if you a villain or you messed with him.
* **The Cannon Fodder**: Jim always been there to when his friends needs him to block all attacks from any villain and anything else that can deal damages.
* **Excellent Judge of Character**: An exact opposite to his very close friend Nanette Daisy, but still can't detect Event Horizon's disguises until it's too late.
* **Papa Wolf**: Always willingly do anything and protect his family and friends, especially keep them alive as well.
* **Suicidal Maniac**: Sometimes recklessly charging into enemies that are stronger than him.
* **Sir-Swears-a-Lot**: Often speaking out nasty, vulgar, offensive, racist and impolite words.
* **Bowlderise**: He swears, smokes, drinks, and uses guns, which is edited out in the English dub.
* **Jerk with a Heart of Gold**: Sure, he can be serious, harsh, and stoic, but truly cares about his friends.
* **Drill Sergeant Nasty**: He is often harsh towards his troops, but cares about their well-being.
* **No Smoking**: His cigarettes are changed to lollipops in the English dub.
* **Gun Nut**: Jim *loves* guns. Parodied in the Christmas episode where he whipped out a rocket launcher that was painted red and green with lights and bells.
* **Undying Loyalty**: He is a bearer of the Element of Loyalty.
* **Darth Vader Clone**: He was once a normal human that almost got shot to death and was implanted with cyborg parts to save his life.

* **Bling-Bling-BANG!**: A comedic example in the Christmas episode, where he pulls out of nowhere a giant Christmas-themed rocket launcher that is painted red and green with lights and bells.
* **Second Chance**: Being resurrected for total 2 times, one is after being shot to death and one is being revived by Blake in "*Shining Bonds a la Mode: 340 Years Later*".
* **Robo Speak**: Occasionally.
* **Built-In Text-to-Speech Device**: He has one of these built into him.
* **iSophagus**: He has a radio built into him.
* **Magic Floppy Disk**: Despite the show being set in modern times, he still uses hard disks to save all of the information he gathered.
* **The Strategist**: He uses strategy and analyzes the situation to gain the upper hand.
* **Honest Politician**: He's a fair and honest president who cares about the well-being of his citizens.
* **Former Star**: Used to be a famous Galarian movie actor who plays the important role in "The Exterminator" films during the time after becoming a cyborg.
* **Half-President, Half-Emperor**: Being a emperor before the event of "*Shining Bonds a la Mode: The Next Generation*" while retaining his presidency.
* **All-Loving Hero**: Jim cares for everyone despite often being quite stoic and serious.
* **Expy**: Of Jotaro Kujo from *Jojo's Bizarre Adventure*. His Star Lucario is based on Star Platinum.
* **Disney Death**: He nearly dies in *Shining Bonds: Vacation Misadventures,* but survives.
* **Man-of-Ions**: Has an super-weapon of his own, in this case it was the Ion Cannon Satellite.
* **Sentient Computer**: Downplayed. He has functions similar to that of an computer or an AI, and knows much about everything, but is a cyborg rather than a full machine.
* **Accidental Misnaming**: Jim is often on the receiving end of this from Nicole, who sometimes accidentally calls him "Zit Porker." Dragonet's babies also often mispronounce his name.
* **Malicious Misnaming**: The villains (especially Event Horizon) often deliberately call him "Junkyard Scrap," despite the fact that one of them could also be considered "junkyard scrap" material.
* **No Biological Sex**: Averted. Despite being part machine, he's still part human, so he's still male and not genderless. It's unknown if he retains his pair of natural, organic "equipment" and "something that males particularly enjoy" or not when as a cyborg, which is obviously never going to be answered in a kids' show.
* **President Superhero**: Is the president of Galar and a Magic Warrior.
* **Mind Switching**: Whenever Jim got his soul sucked out of his body or lost his Magical Dream and Harmony Symbol or anything like that, EVA will take over his body until the threat is gone or a mission is completed, but when the threat is gone or the mission has accomplished, EVA will leave Jim's body.
* **What do You Mean it's for Kids?**: He's obviously not as vile or dark as the villains (who are awfully dark for a childrens' show) but he smokes, drinks, swears, uses guns, and he has a Darth Vader-like backstory of being horribly mutilated and turned into a cyborg to save him. *In a kids' show*. He's toned down in the English dub, but this might be a case of Values Dissonance (similar to Angel Wing being nude representing her purity), since Japanese media has a much higher threshhold of what's appropriate for kids.
* **Dreadnought Jim**: Being integrated into a life-sustaining mecha after Blake failed many attempts to reviving Jim in conventional ways or by inserting the Black Gift into him.
* **The Last Legend**: Being the only legendary hero of the past that has been resurrected in *Shining Bonds a la Mode: 340 Years Later*.
* **For The Worthy**: Being the owner of the artifact called The Prism.
* **Absolute Shame**: Arcturus and Catherine often tease him, much to his embarrassment.
* **Hold The Line!**: This is his role in his mode of the game.
* **Hatred of Villains**: Has an unstoppable, titanic grudge against Queen Vera and her servants, mainly Event Horizon.

## Appearance

* **Cyan Is The Way To Victory**: Primarily dresses in cyan.
* **Blue is Heroic**: Downplayed - his main color is cyan, which is composed of half blue.
* **Cybernetic Supremacist**: The only Magic Warrior that is a cyborg.
* **Super Durable**: The toughest of all Magic Warriors.
* **Power Dyes Your Hair**: Averted. He retains his electric-blue hair and matching eyes, even if transformed.
* **Strong Family Resemblance**: Like all Porters, he has bright neon cyan hair.
* **Non-Standard Character Design**: His Innocent Harmony form uses jetpacks instead of wings.
* **Younger Than They Look:** Looks 18 but is actually 48.
* **Robo Cam**: One of his eyes is a camera.
* **Arm Cannon**: One of his arms has an concealable 9mm autocannon, but he only using it once.
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair**: He's got that garish neon cyan hair that all the other Porters have.
* **Shoulder Cannon**: He used to be had an missile pod attached on his right shoulder.
* **Patchwork Kids**: His daughter Lily's hair and eyes are half pink and half cyan, from both him and his wife.
* **Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry**: Not exactly jewelry, but his Shining Joestar form has his suit being diamond-encrusted with large diamonds and his jetpacks are diamond-encrusted as well.

## Abilities

* **Shock and Awe**: Warrior Joestar's powers mostly revolve around electricity.
* **Living IFV**: Can copy powers/abilities without limits, including ones from Faith Idol and Glitter Starburst. He often save his copied powers/abilties for later use. He tries to make himself useful and versatile, who knows?
* **Magically Inept Fighter**: Has superhuman strength, senses, speed, durability and precision, but has rather limited magic capacity in comparison.
* **Magitek**: Mostly uses technology, but still uses some magic.
* **Supernatural Sensation:** Averted. His senses come from technology rather than magic.
* **Four-Star Bada\*\*:** Is the leader of GDI, a highly successful military organization.
* **Magic Versus Science**: The Science to everyone else's Magic.
* **Immortal But Can Die**: Inherits the Porter's half-immortality (the inability to age).
* **Reincarnation**: Used to be a Oshawott named Samu.
* **Necro-Rays? Amateurs**: Because of being a cyborg, he is completely immune to Event Horizon's necrotizing death rays.
* **Invisible to Tech**: Due to his eyes being cameras and his ears being sound receivers, which are technology, he can't see or hear Kwamis on the occasions the Harmony Map calls the heroes to the Miraculous Ladybug world in the Multiverse, or when Trixx and Tikki got permission to go through the Multiverse Embassy to take a stroll in the Pokémon world. This is why he occasionally wishes he had his natural eyes and ears back.
* **Mobile Prism Refractor**: Harness the power of The Prism.
* **Light 'Em Up!**: In his Shining Joestar form.
* **Gift of The Cosmos**: He is the holder of the Celestial Stones.
* **With Great Power Comes Great Insanity**: While his Celestial Stones grant him strong powers, it drives him (or any user) insane the more he uses them, so he can only use them sparingly.

## Relationships

* **Half-Identical Twins**: His sister June looks like a female version of him and is a cyborg as well.
* **The Adult of The Bunch**: The only adult and the oldest of the main cast, if not count his ancestor.
* **Token Non-human**: He's not fully human unlike everyone else.
* **A Cyborg with Family**: He cares a lot for his daughter Lily and his wife Catherine.
* **Ancestor-and-Descendant Duo**: He's quite respectful towards Arcturus, they both share the same trait as well.
* **Adoptive Daughter**: He has an very close relationship with Nanette.
* **Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other!**: He often gets into arguments with his wife Catherine, but they do love each other despite this.
* **The Rival**: He often get into fights or arguments with Cheren.
* **All Love is Unrequited**: Aisha Howard has a crush on Jim, but he often hide from her.