Jim Porter/Tropes

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

## Characterization and background

* **One Man Army**: Heavily armed and can withstand enemy forces.
* **Old But Still Kickin'**: He's serious and is 48 year-old, being the oldest of the main full-time cast...despite having the appearance of a 18 year-old boy.
* **War Veteran**: He's the only one that can use weapons and command troops. He 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.
* **Good Is Not Soft**: 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's always been there when his friends need him to block all attacks from any villain and anything else that can deal damage.
* **Papa Wolf**: He is always willing do anything and protect his family and friends, especially keeping them alive as well.
* **Suicidal Maniac**: Sometimes recklessly charges into enemies that are stronger than him.
* **Sir-Swears-a-Lot**: Often speaks out nasty, vulgar, offensive, racist and impolite words. Nanette always has to stop him from going to far, however.
* **Bowlderise**: He swears, smokes, drinks, and uses guns, which is edited out in the English dub.
* **Jerk with a Heart of Gold**: Sure, Jim can be serious, harsh, and stoic, but he 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.
* **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.
* **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 played an important role in "The Exterminator" films after he became a cyborg.
* **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.
* **Man-of-Ions**: Has an super-weapon of his own. In this case, it is 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.
* **Malicious Misnaming**: The villains often deliberately call him "Junkyard Scrap."
* **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 magical warrior.
* **Mind Switching**: Whenever Jim gets his soul sucked out of his body or something like that, EVA will take over his body until the threat is gone or a mission is completed. When the threat is gone or the mission is 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, 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 threshold of what's appropriate for kids.
* **Absolute Shame**: Some characters often tease him, much to his embarrassment.
* **I Love My Guns**: He likes his double-barreled shotguns Ellie made for him as a birthday gift the most.

## 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**: If not counting any Burst Warriors like June, then he's the only magic warrior that is a cyborg.
* **Super Durable**: The toughest of all magical 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 magical warrior 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 uses 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 have a missile pod attached to his right shoulder.
* **Patchwork Kids**: His daughter Lily's hair and eyes are half pink and half cyan, from both him and his wife.

## Abilities

* **Shock and Awe**: Jim's powers mostly revolve around electricity.
* **Living IFV**: Can copy powers/abilities without limits, including ones from Nanette. 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 Bad\*bleep\*:** 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 Porters' half-immortality (the inability to age).
* **Reincarnation**: Used to be a Oshawott named Samu.
* **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 full-time cast.
* **Token Non-Human**: He's not fully human unlike everyone else.
* **A Cyborg With A Family**: He cares a lot for his daughter Lily and his wife Catherine.
* **Ancestor-and-Descendant Duo**: He's quite respectful towards Arcturus, and they both share the same traits as well.
* **Adoptive Daughter**: He has a 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**: In Season 5, he often get into fights or arguments with Cheren. This is taken too far in a Season 9 episode where he nearly *kills* him, forcing the magical warriors to be punished by Kyubey. And the teacher's students were dismissed *for a week*. Just, please don't let Nanette see the commotion, or you're bound to piss her off.
* **Affectionate Nickname**: He often calls Nanette "Nata-chan."
* **Missing Ancestor**: Jim and his siblings were in fact descended from a mysterious, missing Primarch Porter.