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Earth Corps
As a whole
The Earth Corps are an organization of scientists who make it their mission to protect humanity from the Inhumanoids.
- Heroic Build: Just about all of them are big, muscular men.
- Logical Weakness: Their big metal suits aren't well-suited to swimming, though at least they have an air supply.
- Powered Armor: They all wear special suits to both protect themselves from the hazards beneath the Earth and to be able to fight back against the Inhumanoids.
- Science Hero: They are scientists using their knowledge to fight the Inhumanoids.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: They are, first and foremost, scientific researchers, not a military unit, so maybe it's not a surprise the members of Earth Corps annoy each other a lot and don't have the best teamwork.
Dr. Herman "Herc" Armstrong / Hooker
Voiced by: Neil Ross
The leader of the Earth Corps.- Embarrassing First Name: He prefers to be addressed by his nickname, correcting an interviewer on it in the first episode.
- The Leader: He leads the Earth Corps.
Dr. Derek Ericson Bright / Digger
Voiced by: Richard Sanders
- Gadgeteer Genius: He designs the Earth Corps' equipment.
- Give Geeks a Chance: He ends up married to film actress Stella Blaze.
- Insufferable Genius: He's very clear about how smart he is, and how great his creations are.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Auger bicker a lot.
Dr. Edward "The Fist" Augutter / Auger
Voiced by: Michael Bell
- Berserk Button: Despises Hector Ramirez with a passion to the point that he destroys the Earth Corps' television set every time Ramirez is on.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Digger designs the equipment, but Augur builds it, and makes improvements.
- Shoot the Television: Once per Episode he destroys a TV set by throwing his shoes at it, for reporting news that irritates him. A later episode has a net set up in front of the TV.
- Steven Ulysses Perhero: What are the odds a guy named "Augutter" would end up with the nickname and weapon of "Auger".
- This Is a Drill: His suit has an auger as its weapon.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Digger bicker a lot.
Dr. Jonathan Martin Slattery / Liquidator
Voiced by: William Callaway
- New-Age Retro Hippie: A bit of one, particularly in the early episodes where when the team's splitting up to investigate various leads, he wants to check out the forest where D Compose was found to look into the "vibes".
- The Philosopher: He appears to have the best grounding in the humanities of the team, and frequently alludes to mythological concepts.
- The Quiet One: Of the group, he's the most quiet and philosophical.
- Swiss-Army Weapon: His suit appears to be equipped with a concentrated chemical for every occasion.
Sandra Shore / Ms. Navigator
Voiced by: Susan Silo
- Action Girl: As willing to mix it up as the guys are.
- Forced Transformation: Transformed into some sort of lich by D'Compose's touch and stays that way for a couple of episodes, until sunlight reverses the transformation.
- Honest Corporate Executive: Bails out the defunded Earth Corps with her own money and joins the team.
- The Smurfette Principle: She is the only female hero in the series.
- The Team Benefactor: She agrees to bankroll Earth Corps after their government funding's withdrawn, under the condition she's allowed to join the team.
- Toyless Toyline Character: A figure of her was planned as part of the second wave of the toy line, which was cancelled when the first wave didn't sell.
- Undeath Is Cheap: Is zombified by D'Compose, but eventually returned to normal.
Bradley Joseph Armbruster / Sabre Jet
Voiced by: Neil Ross
- Toyless Toyline Character: A figure was planned, but did not get to see the light of day because of the toyline's cancellation.
- Transplant: He is strongly implied to be the same character as Ace from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero due to having the same real name.
- We Can Rebuild Him: He ends up critically injured and it's implied that his armor was built around his body by the Earth Corps to save his life.
- You Don't Look Like You: As stated above, he is supposed to be the same character as Ace, but is noticeably different from how he was depicted in the G.I. Joe cartoon.
Anatoly Kiev / Tankmaster aka "Tank"
Voiced by: Neil Ross
- I Work Alone: Zig-Zagged. Although he declines to formally join the Earth Corps in favor of working independently against Infernac, he remains an friendly ally to the Corps proper.
- Smart People Play Chess: A former chess champion and current scientist.
- Toyless Toyline Character: As with Sandra and Sabre Jet, his figure was cancelled.
- You Can't Go Home Again: After going against the Soviet's plan to flood Infernac (because it would've blown the whole planet in half), he's declared a traitor by the Secret Police, so he can't return to the USSR.
Mutores
As a whole
The Mutores are ancient beings who sealed away the Inhumanoids long ago and end up becoming allies of the Earth Corps to try and re-imprison the giant evil beings.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Most of them are sinister in appearance, but are still good guys.
- Hidden Elf Village: After toppling the Inhumanoids the first time, they've isolated themselves in their respective habitats, and were reluctant at first to aid humanity after their return.
Redwoods
- Voiced by: Stanley Ralph Ross
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: They aren't too happy with humans for bringing back the Inhumanoids, though they eventually come around.
- Treants: They are a race of sentient trees.
- When Trees Attack: They try subtly attacking the humans transporting D'Compose in order to stop him from coming back. It doesn't work.
Granites
- Voiced by: John Stephenson (Granok and General Granitary), Chris Latta (Granahue)
- Dumb Muscle: The whole lot of them are well...dumb as rocks.
- Rock Monster: They are grotesque, sentient beings made of stone, even if they are good guys.
Magnokor
Pyre
Crygen
- Voiced by: Dick Gautier
- Adaptation Name Change: The short-lived Marvel Comics comic book renamed Pyre as Pyrus.
- Magnetism Manipulation: Magnokor has magnetic abilities.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Crygen is calm and rational, while Pyre is more belligerent and antagonistic. The fact that Crygen and Pyre are respectively blue and red also makes this trope apply to them literally.
- Two Beings, One Body: Magnokor is the combined form of two individual beings named Crygen and Pyre.
Inhumanoids
As a whole
The titular Inhumanoids are ancient and evil beings from underground who have been released from their prisons to wreak havoc on the Earth.
- Kaiju: A rare American example of giant monsters who go about wrecking cities.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Most of them has been imprisoned in some way, with Metlar trapped in a magnetic field generated by Magnakor, D'Compose imprisoned in amber, Tendril locked inside a stone prison and Sslither turned into stone. Gagoyle is the one exception, as he was hatched the same day Nightcrawler and Blackthorne Shore found him.
- Time Abyss: They've all been around eons before humanity existed.
Metlar
Voiced by: Ed Gilbert
The most powerful and evil of the Inhumanoids, a metallic demon spawned by Earth's fiery core.- Big Bad: He serves as the central antagonist of the series due to being the leader of the Inhumanoids and the one orchestrating the giant monsters' attacks on the surface world.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Or subterranean. A large portion of his body is silvery ferromagnetic metal. It's not clear if he's got anything organic under that or if what look to be organic parts aren't some kind of metal instead. If he wasn't created by someone, he could be a member of a race where combining organic and inorganic parts is part of their biology.
- Hypnotic Eyes: Looking into his eyes paralyzes his targets with fear.
- Living Statue: He can take normal statues and turn them into these. They nominally serve him, but possess their own consciousnesses, which can lead to trouble (e.g. when he animated both Confederate and Union Civil War statues and they ended up fighting between themselves).
- Logical Weakness: As might be expected, being (mostly?) made of metal he can be affected by magnetic fields.
- Playing with Fire: He has magma-based powers.
D'Compose
Voiced by: Chris Latta
A gigantic dinosaur-like undead creature, who can turn any living thing he touches into a loyal zombie.- Animate Dead: He can being back corpses, even skeletal ones, to serve him.
- Co-Dragons: He and Tendril are Metlar's main lackeys.
- The Corrupter: Literally! He can grab his foes and turn them into loyal undead slaves, and the dead he raises serve him no matter who they were in life.
- Creepy High-Pitched Voice: Courtesy of Chris Latta, but here it's not nearly as funny.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He is actually aghast when he bears witness to the creation of Nightcrawler.
- Undead Abomination: He's a giant undead monster with the ability to turn other people into undead terrors.
- Weakened by the Light: He is vulnerable to sunlight, and his decomposed lackeys revert upon exposure to sunlight.
- Zombify the Living: His main power is to turn humans into undead monsters, even Redwoods.
Tendril
Voiced by: Chris Latta
A giant, nearly mindless plant creature.- Co-Dragons: He and D'Compose are Metlar's main lackeys.
- Clone Army: Probably the thing that made Tendril the most dangerous was that any big enough pieces of him that were blown off the original would not only heal quickly, they'd grow into other Tendrils just as powerful as the original (until that ability was forgotten after a couple episodes).
- Combat Tentacles: He fights using tentacles.
- Dumb Muscle: He is incredibly strong, but not very bright.
- Third-Person Person: In the fine tradition of Dumb Muscle everywhere.
Gagoyle
Voiced by: ???
A monster sought out by Blackthorne and Nightcrawler to have a powerful creature to protect them after they'd betrayed the Inhumanoids.- Cyclops: He only has one eye.
- Extreme Omnivore: He is at one point seen devouring entire trees.
- Toyless Toyline Character: He does not have a toy.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Metlar throws him into the volcanic depths in his second appearance, which apparently killed him.
Sslither
Voiced by: Neil Ross
- The Dog Bites Back: Metlar was enslaved to him centuries ago, but he managed to coat Sslither in lava that hardened and turned him into a statue. When Metlar and Sslither fight again after he's released, Metlar wins.
- Greater-Scope Villain: He is Metlar's boss, but not nearly has active in the plot as Metlar is.
- Taken for Granite: He was turned to stone as part of his imprisonment.
- Toyless Toyline Character: No toy for him.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After Metlar wins their rematch, Sslither runs away, and nobody ever thinks anything of it.
Inhumanoid Allies
Blackthorne Shore
Voiced by: Michael Bell
- Card-Carrying Villain: As he himself says in a late episode,"I'm not sick, I'm evil!"
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: His Powered Armor is colored black, 'cause he's the bad guy.
- Crippling Overspecialization: His suit's really useful against Metlar...but not those Inhumanoids who aren't made largely made of metal.
- Didn't Think This Through: He thought he'd be able to control the Inhumanoids after he released them if he could subdue their leader, so he designed his power suit specifically to target Metlar. He apparently didn't think the others would try to free their master—which they did.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He warned his sister Sandra to keep out of his plans for her own good, and is genuinely aghast when D'Compose transforms her into a monster."SANDRA!! I never meant—!"
- Evil Is Not a Toy: He attempted to set the Inhumanoids free so he could take over the world, but learned the hard way that controlling them was next to impossible.
- And he keeps doing it! He unleashes Gagoyle and later Sslither to have someone powerful to protect him against his many enemies, but he never has any way to ensure their loyalty.
- Eyepatch of Power: He wears an eyepatch.
- Magnetism Manipulation: His suit's main power, which is strong enough to paralyze or control Metlar's metallic body.
- Morton's Fork: After his suit's magnetic power shorts out Metlar forces him into his service under threat of death.
- Powered Armor: He has his own set, with magnetic abilities.
- Toyless Toyline Character: In spite of being responsible for the Inhumanoids being released from their prisons in the first place and having his own Powered Armor, he never got his own figure in the toyline.
- 0% Approval Rating: Obviously, the heroes all hate him, that's a given. But by late in the show, all the villains want revenge on him for one thing or another, too.
Dr. Herman Manglar / Nightcrawler
Voiced by: William Callaway (up until "Cult of Darkness"), Ron Feinberg ("Negative Polarity" and onwards)
- Family-Unfriendly Death: Prior to being revived as Nightcrawler, Dr. Manglar drowned in toxic sludge and was reduced to only a skull.
- Mad Scientist: He was imprisoned for his unethical genetic tests on human subjects.
- Our Zombies Are Different: D'Compose uses his powers to revive Manglar as a horrific zombie-like being.
- Revenant Zombie: He clearly still remembers who he was before his death.
- Toyless Toyline Character: He actually was planned to get his own toy, but the toyline was cancelled before it could be released.
