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Abner Kadaver and Rikki Mortis
Abner Kadaver was a killer-for-hire who had also worked as a TV horror host in Dick Tracy's city. Rikki Mortis was his girlfriend and accomplice.
- Avenging the Villain: After Abner was presumed killed, Rikki swore revenge on Dick Tracy and his friends and family.
- Faking the Dead: The FBI was preparing a case against Kadaver for his multiple murders in several states when Kadaver seemingly died of a heart attack. His body was taken from the morgue by Rikki Mortis, disguised herself as an employee of the crematorium. Mortis transported Kadaver to his secluded home known as The Murder Mansion, where he revived.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Rikki had a talent for mechanical engineering.
- Outlaw Couple
- Pendulum of Death: Tracy awoke in a death-trap of Kadaver's, a replica of the Pendulum trap from Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Pit and the Pendulum".
- Professional Killer: Kadaver worked as an assassin for the second Mr. Crime.
- Sword Cane: Kadaver carried a sword cane which he stabbed Lizz in the arm with.
Blackjack
A notorious bank robber and massive Dick Tracy fan.
- Anti-Villain: He's a crook but he doesn't have a genuinely malevolent bone in his body. He only targets banks he considers corrupt, refuses to hurt anybody without a justifiable reason, and even saves Tracy's life on multiple occasions.
- Ascended Fanboy: A villainous example. He's a huge Dick Tracy fan, and all his crimes are set up to get Tracy's attention. It works, and Blackjack and Tracy have a fairly amicable relationship.
- Bad Boss: He's not exactly abusive, but his crimes are designed to attract maximum police attention and he is not even remotely concerned that his henchmen may not be as enthusiastic about being arrested by Dick Tracy as he is. At the end of his first arc he has his gang rob a bank, knowing full well that it's a trap, then deliberately flubs the getaway. If you work for Blackjack you're pretty much guaranteed to go to prison.
- Befriending the Enemy: They aren't quite friends but Tracy and Blackjack are on pretty good terms with each other. After Blackjack goes to prison Tracy even promises to safe guard his valuables, and feels a genuine sense of personal failure when they get stolen and Blackjack breaks out of prison to retrieve them.
- Never Found the Body: The building he's in gets blown up by Mr. Bones, but the police going through the wreckage can't find his body. The epilogue reveals that he did indeed survive.
- Never Hurt an Innocent: "You're new to my gang, Sherman, so pay attention. My number one rule is we don't touch the civilians!"
- Outdated Outfit: His '40s mobster getup sticks out even in the Tracyverse.
- Prison Escape Artist: He's pretty good at breaking out of jail. Fortunately he's a graceful loser and doesn't usually do so without a good reason.
Doubleup
A hulking brute who is an expert with a whip.
- Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age: One of his explanations for carrying a bullwhip. He considers guns too clumsy (too clumsy!). He prefers a bullwhip because it takes skill (takes skill!).
- Demoted to Dragon: Like Mumbles, he's gone from an independent villain to henchman of The Apparatus.
- Fanboy: Ironically, he picked up his love of whips from a fictional superhero called the Scarlet Sting, and the quickest way to get on his good side is to show an interest in the character.
- Verbal Tic: His tendency to repeat the last few words of every sentence. Every sentence.
Ghost Pepper
A restaurant owner who came into conflict with Tracy after a billionaire mysteriously died in his business.
- Board to Death: Pepper poisons Simon Stagg during a meeting about purchasing the former's restaurant, and takes the Briefcase Full of Money he'd brought.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Incinerated by a giant siphonophore.
- Facial Horror: His face is some terrifying eyeless chalk-fleshed nightmare.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The police don't really have anything suggesting Pepper murdered Stagg beyond some vague suspicion regarding one of his employees cooking Stagg's lunch earlier that day (which has nothing to do with the case anyways). If he didn't immediately try to murder Tracy when the latter showed up to question his chefs, he probably would have gotten away with the whole thing.
- No Honor Among Thieves: After getting shot Pepper goes to Fishface for help and (after some forcing) obtains the location of a "secret hideout" at the aqaurium, which turns out to just be a storage closet where he's discovered within hours. And when he sends his henchman Pierre to go fetch a mob doctor to treat his wound, Pierre just leaves him for dead and attempts to raid his money stash.
- Painful Pointy Pufferfish: Pepper poisons Stagg at dinner with blowfish toxin, making it look like the fugu he ate for lunch was the killer. Since fugu poisoning can happen even with certified and rigorously trained chefs the police are prepared to call it a close-and-shut accidental death. Fortunately Pepper grabs the Villain Ball and tries to murder Dick Tracy that very same day for doing a basic police follow-up, obviating his entire plan.
- Punny Name: In case you need this one spelled out, 1) A ghost pepper is a type of chili pepper and 2) The man looks like a ghost.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Receives a flesh wound to the shoulder courtesy of Dick Tracy's snubnose. He spends the rest of the story becoming increasingly debilitated as he bleeds out until he keels over in an extremely inopportune spot
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Selfy Narcisse
A public relations expert for a representative of congress. A forger and embezzler.
- Irony: How does Tracy and the police track him down? With a warrant out for his arrest, Selfy ends up with his picture unwillingly taken by a crowd that recognizes him.
- Punny Name: True to his name, Selfy is a narcissist with a habit of taking selfies.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Enamoured with his own looks and has multiple mirrors in his office to show off every angle of his head at once.
- The Starscream: The arc starts with his employer, the congress representative, being played up as the main villain, having an agenda against Moon Maid and Honeymoon and quickly making it personal with Tracy himself, earning his ire before they even meet. It doesn't take long for Selfy to off his employer and become the villain of the arc himself.
Silver and Sprocket Nitrate
The criminal known as Silver Nitrate was confidence trickster who operated around the country before settling in Dick Tracy's city. Silver worked with his adoptive older sister Sprocket. They had a very close relationship, though they were both known to lash out in anger at the other on occasion.
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Sprocket throws a heavy film canister at Stiletta Jones in self-defense when Jones attempts to kill her, instantly ending the malevolent matriarch on the spot.
- Cool Car: At some point, the pair obtain Flattop Jr.'s tricked-out supercar.
- Faking the Dead: When it looks like they're going to be caught after their first caper, the pair fake a domestic argument, with Silver hitting Sprocket in the face and Sprocket becoming Driven to Suicide and driving their Cool Car into a nearby lake. Turns out the car can drive underwater.
- The Gimmick: Silver and Sprocket are con men, er, con people? Con folks? Anyway, they've got a film obsession, and their schtick revolves around counterfeiting various forms of lost media and selling it as the real deal to interested parties.
- Love Redeems: Sprocket eventually falls in love with Adam Austin, author of the Midnite Mirror series, and after dropping many of her quirks, goes on to live a normal life with him under the name of "Susan", with Silver covering the truth for her.
- Prefers Going Barefoot / Earthy Barefoot Character: Sprocket dislikes wearing shoes and is almost always barefoot, because she wants to keep in touch with Mother Earth.
- Siblings in Crime: Silver and Sprocket are adoptive siblings.
- Sunglasses at Night: Silver and Sprocket typically wore dark glasses, even in a darkened cinema.
