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're a villain or you've 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.
	+ Backstory and characterization-wise, he is primarily inspired by RoboCop from the 1987 movie of the same name. However, his head and face still being mostly organic, and the placement of his remaining skin, seems to be inspired by the character Cyborg from *Teen Titans Go!*.
* **Man-of-Ions**: Has a 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." He himself often calls others various derogatory nicknames, especially villains, but has a tendency to derogatorily nickname anycreature who annoys him sufficiently.
* **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.
* **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 (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 Nijiko 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.
* **We Can Rebuild Him**: Like the character he is based on (RoboCop), JIm had to be turned into a near-complete cyborg by his niece Ellie to save his life after he was shot by an armed gang, and Word of God says that he lost *all* his vital organs except for his brain and spinal nerves.
* **Cybernetics Eat Your Soul**: Downplayed. He still has a soul, but it is heavily implied that he is not as happy being a cyborg as he seems.
* **Self-Made Man**: Jim is a wealthy billionaire due to being the president of Galar, a former actor, a CEO of two companies *and* a military general. He gets FURIOUS if anycreature steals his money and has incredibly long, complex, 50-character passwords for each of his bank accounts. However, he isn't the richest character, as Yvonne's wish gives her a card with infinite money she never has to pay back.
* **Completely Unchanged**: As seen in the rewritten timeline, like all the other Guardians in the series finale, he's just... well, himself. Just like the good ol' days.
* **Flipping the Bird**: He often flips villains off, though his finger is covered by a censor box whenever he does this.
* **Martyr Without a Cause**: One of his huge character flaws is his belief that he has to saddle himself with others' burdens and suffer himself so they don't have to, which has caused problems *several* times.
* **Dark Magical Boy:** He has a dark backstory of being mutilated by an armed gang, had to be turned into a near-complete cyborg that he isn't that happy being in reality and lost most of his original body, is quite aloof and sometimes depressed with PTSD, and in Season 14, he is corrupted into a villain similarly to Katrina, but is brought back to the good side by someone reaching out to him when he needs it.
* **President Superhero**: Jim is the President of Galar and is also a Guardian of Harmony.
* **Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot**: He is a cyborg, a president, a Guardian of Harmony, a military general, *and* a CEO of two companies. One would wonder how his head doesn't explode from the stress of making time for all the latter four things.
* **Missing in Action**: Goes missing sometime prior to Season 14 like the other Guardians, and it turns out that he has been hiding in plain sight the whole time... as Callius Nightbringer, that is.
* **Suspiciously Similar Substitute**: He suddenly goes missing and turns out to be corrupted with dark powers by a higher-up villain against his will, and is freed by an angel - or in this case, *two* angels- who uses the Light of Hope. Hmmm.... now just where have we seen this before?
* **Platonic Kissing**:
	+ When he knows something bad's gonna happen to him, and if Nanette happens to be around, he will surprise her with a kiss (usually on the forehead). The first time this happened, she was *literally* surprised in her thoughts, and it had never happened before. And as of the second time that happened...let's just say that while she and her very close friend know that they'll never truly fall in love with each other (age gap of 38 years, obviously!), it seems to make her confident whenever she's unsure of what to do during a major battle.
	+ He sometimes kisses his kids or nieces on the forehead, and has also done this to June a couple times.
	+ In "Lucar and the Mystery of Mew," just before Nanette (and the other Guardians) get eaten by the Tree of Beginning's white blood cells due to the Tree not accepting any humans or machines - even Guardians - inside of it, a weird variation occurs when they kiss on the *lips*, but they still remain platonic friends like always. However, after being revived, they still feel awkward and wash their mouths out afterwards with a cup (provided by Maya) filled with water from Jessica's Water Gun.
	+ He has an odd variation with Elis, who he often *kisses passionately on the lips* despite them being platonic friends and them both being already married. One would expect them to kiss on the forehead or cheek and not passionately as if they were a couple.
* **Nuclear Power**: Is this when it comes to GDI's nuclear weaponry, but he always didn't got the chance to call for a nuclear strike or backup/reinforcements. Just don't do anything that make him lose it otherwise Jim could've killed thousands (especially you, Team Rocket and Team Plasma).
* **Who Writes This Crap?**: He once breaks the fourth wall complaining about how the writers banned him from using nukes to destroy Team Plasma since the series is a kids' show.
* **Reality Awareness**: Is this for causing a lot of 4th wall breaks.
* **Unexpected Berserk**: Is this for several times and become *temporarily invincible* and often wield two chainswords when it comes to this thanks to his PTSD and the Blood Rage phenomenon/curse. Yeeep, Khorne from *Warhammer 40,000* approves this.
	+ The first instance is when Team Plasma has taken away the magic and life force of Nanette, Hilda and Nina (mainly Nanette) for their own good and Victoria goes berserk. Jim unexpectedly awakened from being disabled and goes borderline berserk... and then slaughters some of the grunts in cold blood offscreen (which some of the Guardians had to watch in horror and Dragonet covers her daughters' eyes) and Ghetsis tried to disable him with anti-technology magic again but to no avail. Jim obviously has overseen what Team Plasma has done to his very close friend and was ***REALLY*** pissed about it as a spirit.
	+ The second time was when, after kissing Nanette as a distraction for Nicole, Melody and Cherry to escape getting Shadowfied, his close friend gets her soul snagged. This time, Jim instantly loses it and decides to attack the evil beings himself. It does not work, and he gets snagged himself.
* **Unwanted Healing**: In the last few episodes of S13, Katrina offers to heal his body back to a regular human. However, he ultimately declines her offer since he would no longer be tank-durable with his super accuracy, immunity to the health effects of his habits of smoking, drinking, and doing drugs (since he has no liver or lungs), and super senses.m
* **Was Once a Man**: Played with. His creator considers him to be not a human, but in-universe, he and June are counted among the humans.
* **Robot Clown**: In "Here Comes the Squirtle Squad!", after the Squirtle punish the Guardians for Nanette not getting the potion in time, Jim resembles this when the Squirtle make the Guardians wear clown suits and clown makeup.
* **Giving Away the Bride**: A variation is used in "The Guardians of Harmony Are Forever," where he and Elis both walk Nanette down the aisle due to her father being long dead.
* **All That Aggression!**: Somewhere else between HoF and Season 15, he started to act crazy and ruder than what he used to be... No wonder he often get into fights with his friends and family with no reason at all, he also constantly yelling and swearing at them too. Being extremely bored of staying in the afterlife to the point that love and friendship means nothing to him combined with PTSD and IED (intermittent explosive disorder) must be the cause of what he is that day.
	+ He even started a large-scale riot in the afterlife in "*Stargazer's Chaotic Day,"* much to Stargazer's fury... but he seemed to not give a \*bleep\* about it.
	+ He beat his wife with a baseball bat repeatedly.
	+ He got into a fight with Arcturus, but quickly got scolded by Victoria.
	+ He once said that Elis's platonic confessions and words means nothing to him, much to the latter's heartbreak.
	+ He forced himself to create a portal to the real world and ignore what his Alolan cousin Cesar said, resulting in Katrina slapping him... only for him to slap her back as hard as possible.
* **Practice Kiss**: Has one with Elis in S2 just to help him do the real thing with Catherine. They remain platonic friends after the kiss, however.
* **Motivational Kiss**: Platonic example. In Part 2 of "The Hour of Doomsday," Elis tells Jim to escape with Nanette, Melody, Nicole and Cherry while he still can before kissing him on the cheek. He kisses her back before he leaves with the girls...and moments before an exhausted Elis herself gets snagged.
* **Fantastic Racism**: Is this for him being a russophobe, you know... long story.

## 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 Guardians like June, then he's the only Guardian that is a cyborg.
* **Super Durable**: The toughest of all Guardians.
* **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 Guardian form uses jetpacks instead of wings.
* **Younger Than They Look:** Looks 18 but is actually 48.
* **Robo Cam**: His eyes are cameras.
* **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.
* **Gold Makes Everything Shiny**: In his Guardian form, his cybernetic parts become gold. This becomes permanent in his untransformed state starting in Season 12.
* **Expy**: He is still the same character, but his Guardian form closely resembles GaryBones's art of IHSS Warrior Joestar from the *Shining Bonds* franchise. A few things are altered, however, such as his Elemaximum Gauge replacing the chest brooch and his Harmony Gem, which is shaped like a shield, being on his right forearm.
* **Mouth Full of Smokes**: Jim often smokes an entire pack of cigarettes in his mouth at once. Averted in the English dub, however, where the cigarettes are edited to be lollipops.
* **Pre-Explosion Glow**: When Natalie and Zinnia grab his hand together, Callius Nightbringer's armor starts glowing, cracks, and explodes before Evelyn and the duo manage to pull Jim out of the suit of armor.

## 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/abilities 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.
* **Blood For The Blood God**: Is this when it comes to what Jim sees that making him rage out of control that can trigger the Blood Rage.

## 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**: One of the few adults 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 8, he often get into fights or arguments with Cheren. This is taken too far in a Season 12 episode where he nearly *kills* him, forcing the Guardians 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.
* **Bad\*bleep\* Grandpa**: Subverted. He *would* be this to Evelyn I if he hadn't disappeared prior to Season 14.