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Jan Tenner

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From left to right: Classic, Die Neue Dimension, Der Neue Superheld
Voiced by: Lutz Riedel (Classic & Der Neue Superheld), Dennis Schmidt Foss (Die Neue Dimension)
The titular hero of the franchise. He is an athletic physics-student and close friend of Professor Futura. He is good-hearted preferring peaceful solutions over violence but also knows how to throw a punch.
  • Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Upon learning that Tanja had to be cryogenically frozen for an indefinite amount of time, Jan immediately switches his affection to Laura.
  • All-Loving Hero: He prefers kindness and peaceful solutions over violence. He always tries to reason with his enemies and is quick to trust them if they accept his offer for a peaceful solution.
  • Babies Ever After: In Jan Tenner: Der neue Superheld, he and Laura are married and have two children.
  • Badass in Distress: While it is him who does the saving most of the time, from time to time, he's the one in need of rescuing such as when he was infected by the Stone Age-plague and turned into a Neanderthal or when he first met Seytania and the witch cast a love spell on him.
  • Badass Normal: Even without a serum, his smarts and skill in hand-to-hand combat makes him a force to be reckoned with.
  • Befriending the Enemy: At the end, Jan uses a magical, reality altering stone to transform an asteroid belt into uranium, solving the Leonen's reason for conquering other planets. This act of kindness results in them eventually becoming Earth's allies.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: In In der Hölle von Ostland, Jan is brainwashed by Emperor Ling Furiosa to be his loyal servant.
  • Brought to You by the Letter "S": He has the letters "J" and "T" on the left side of his vest.
  • Character Development: Starts out as a Wide-Eyed Idealist. However, over time he learns that some people simply cannot be trusted, growing more cautious in the process.
  • Chick Magnet: Between Tanya, Laura and Seytanya, most recurring female characters are pining for him.
  • Expy: Of Flash Gordon. Both are young, blonde athletic university students who fight evil without inherent superpowers.
  • Foil: To General Forbett. Both are heroes with the best in mind for their country. But whereas Jan is trusting, peaceful and thinks before he acts, Forbett is distrustful of everyone not from Westland, be they human or alien, always sees violence as the first option and usually jumps into situations without thinking.
  • Genius Bruiser: He is both very smart and very good in hand-to-hand combat. Usually, it takes both to save the day.
  • Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He is a blonde hero who is kind to all who did him no wrong, helps all in need, even the most devilish of villains, and is a Wide-Eyed Idealist and Martial Pacifist.
  • Informed Attractiveness: He is quite open about his feelings towards Laura.
  • Living Legend: By the time of Der Neue Superheld, everyone knows about his heroics and he is widely respected and admired for it.
  • Martial Pacifist: He always tries talking first and will take any opportunity to resolve a situation peacefully that doesn't result in people getting hurt. However, he is also very good at throwing fists.
  • Offered the Crown: He briefly became king of Azzaru after defeating the previous king in combat. However, he chose to give it up after dealing with the ongoing crisis.
  • Out-of-Character Moment: At the end of Thol's rebellion, Jan kills him in an honorable duel despite always having been explicitly opposed to the idea of killing other sentient beings, no matter how evil they are, before and continuing to explicitly hold that belief afterwards.
  • Pinned to the Ground:
    • In episode 23 of Classic, he and Forbett are climbing a seemingless endless set of stairs as part of the fifth test they have to pass before they can get the Stone of Power. When they suddenly reach the end of the stairs and fight spacecrafts waiting for them, Forbett is about to take one so that the two as well as their friends, whom they had to leave behind as part of the last test, can get back to Earth. But Jan, correctly deducing that this is part of the test, tackles him to the ground and pins him down with his knee pressing on Forbett's back until the General comes back to his senses.
    • The cover of the episode "Schatten über Westland" shows him pinning down his son Jan Jr., ready to deliver a Coup de Grâce.
  • Properly Paranoid: While initially a Wide-Eyed Idealist who was easy to fool if you just assured him you had good intentions, over time, he became less easy to fool to when he suspected something was off, he was usually right. For example, when Mimo was taken by Zweistein and gone for weeks but then suddenly returned secretly reprogrammed, he immediately saw right through the reprogrammed Mimo's act.
  • Red Is Heroic: The titular hero and protagonist Jan wears a red vest.
  • Save the Villain: Being unwilling to leave anyone behind, he often ends up saving villains such as Zweistein in episode 22 of Classic and Seytania in episode 38 of Classic. The latter underwent a Heel–Face Turn because of it.
  • The Sneaky Guy: He is very good at sneaking around and infiltrating the villains' lair, even without the villain noticing.
  • Taken for Granite: In episode 13 of Classic, the ghost of an orb he received from grateful aliens 6 episodes prior possessed Jan's body, turning his skin as hard as stone resulting in him unable to move.
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill: He is completely against killing humans and aliens of human intelligence, no matter how horrible the person is and what they did.
  • Victory Pose On Person: A TV-advertisement for the episode "Das Dunkle Imperium" (engl. "The Dark Empire") shows the titular hero Jan defeat a barbarian and put his foot on his chest to assert his dominance.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: After Tanja was comatosed, Jan described her to Laura as an annoying bitch, something Laura called him out on after meeting Tanja.
  • Wide-Eyed Idealist: Initially, his good heart and preference for peaceful solutions makes him quite trusting. While that usually works in his favor, villains like the Leonen have used that against him by luring him into a false sense of security only to suddenly attack. As a result, he slowly grows more cautious towards strangers over time.

Laura

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From left to right: Classic, Die Neue Dimension, Der Neue Superheld
Voiced by: Marianna Gross (Classic & Der Neue Superheld), Ghada Al Akel (Die Neue Dimension)
Professor Futura's assistant and Jan's love interest. She accompanies him on every mission.
  • Action Girl: She is insistent on accompanying Jan on each and every one of his adventures, no matter how dangerous.
  • Adaptational Badass: In Jan Tenner: Die neue Dimension, she is much more capable in regards to hand-to-hand combat, even taking on multiple of Forbett's soldiers, not requiring as much saving by Jan than in Jan Tenner: Classic.
  • Adaptational Job Change: Originally Futura's assistant, she became a computer specialist in Die Neue Dimension.
  • Babies Ever After: In Jan Tenner: Der neue Superheld, he and Laura are married and have two children.
  • Best Friend: After Tanja's return, Laura quickly becomes close friends with Tanja to the point she becomes a Shipper on Deck for her and her son Jan Jr.
  • Damsel in Distress: Oftentimes, she ends up captured or in any other kind of distress requiring Jan to save her.
  • Despair Event Horizon: She is quick to give up hope and think of the worst possible outcome.
  • Dude Magnet: She is often noted to be quite beautiful with Jan, Mimo and even Zweistein having shown attraction towards her.
  • Face Death with Despair: Whenever she is faced with possible death, Laura's hysteria turns up to eleven.
  • Green-Eyed Monster:
    • Downplayed. While she is quick to get jealous when Jan acts in a way that could be considered a sign of romantic interest in someone else, she doesn't linger on it too long, only playfully teasing Jan about it.
    • Played straight with Seytania. The jealousy she felt when seeing her holding hands with Jan was so strong, she subconsciously broke free from her spell.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: She easily trusts new characters if they claim to be nice or, in the case of aliens, if they look cute or friendly. Usually, when Jan or Forbett voice distrust, she doubles down calling them out as "paranoid". Most of the time, she is proven wrong.
  • Hypocrite: Whenever they are in a bad situation and Forbett complains about it or gets hysterical, she tends to call him out on it, despite regularly getting hysterical and complaining about bad situations herself.
  • Hysterical Woman: In Classic, she quickly gets hysterical, panicking about the situation and claiming all hope to be lost.
  • No Last Name Given: Her last name is never revealed in the series. Neither is anything regarding her family.
  • Shipper on Deck: For her son Jan Jr. and Tanja. In one episode, she mentions how much she wishes her son would finally take things to the next level with Tanja.
  • The Stoic: When she has set her mind to something, it's nearly impossible to change it.
  • Tank-Top Tomboy: The covers for the Jan Tenner: Die neue Dimension audiobooks depict her wearing a crop top thus exposing her belly. In this series, she is also not just accompanying Jan on his adventures but also capable of fighting herself.

Professor Futura

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From left to right: Classic and Der Neue Superheld, Die Neue Dimension
Voiced by: Klaus Nagelen (Classic), Klaus Jespen (Die Neue Dimension), Kasper Eichel (Der Neue Superheld)
Westlands most renowned scientist and the creator of the superhuman serums. He is a close friend of Jan.
  • Chick Magnet: According to his old friend Dunja in episode 13 of Classic, he was quite the lady's man as a student. His nickname was "The terror of female students"note .
  • Distressed Dude: Being a Non-Action Guy, when faces with a villain, he usually ends up in need of getting rescued by Jan.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": His friends only refer to him as "Professor".
  • Legally Dead: Alongside Tanja and Forbett, he was declared dead after his lab blew up at the beginning of Der Neue Superheld, despite nobody ever being found.
  • Mission Control: Initially, since he has no fighting skill, he stayed behind when Jan and Laura went on a mission relaying information to them as well as proposing solutions to problems they encountered. However, as the missions required his presence more and more, he started accompanying them more frequently, though still in a purely supportive, non-fighter role.
  • Non-Action Guy: Being an old man with no fighting skill, he doesn't get involved in fights.
  • The Smart Guy: He is one of the most renowned scientists in the entire world and the one to create the serums Jan and Laura use throughout the series.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With General Forbett, usually due to their opposing views on the use of military force.

General Forbett

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From left to right: Classic, Die Neue Dimension, Der Neue Superheld
Voiced by: Heinz Giese (Classic), Bernd Schramm (Die Neue Dimension), Thomas Kastner (Der Neue Superheld)
The head of Westland's military. He is a soldier through and through. His strong desire to protect his country results in him being quick to call for a military solution to a problem which often leads to arguments between him and the others.
  • Badass in Distress: Despite being a trained soldier, he ends up in need of saving almost as often as Laura.
  • Blood Knight: Initially, his answer to almost every problem is force, including nukes. He gradually learns to trust his friends more than his weapons.
  • The Brigadier: When Westland is in danger or at the very latest appears to be, his usual response is military force. But his friends can always convince him to try a different, less destructive strategy.
  • Butt-Monkey: In the Classic series, he gets pranked by Jan at the end of every episode. He also rarely wins a fight despite being a trained soldier.
  • Character Catchphrase: "Heiliges Kanonenrohr!" (engl. "Holy gun barrel!")
  • Character Development: He starts out as a Blood Knight ready to use military force on any problem that comes his way. However, over time, he learns to rely more on his friends to solve a problem while using his military in a supportive role e.g. to evacuate civilliance, monitor the latest threat to Westland or try to contain it until his friends find a solution against it.
  • The Cynic: He always assumes the worst in strangers and situations. Somewhat justified as he is in charge of his country's security.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone, his friends and enemies alike, only refer to him as "General".
  • Face Death with Dignity: When faced with possible death, he is usually stoic and accepts his fate with his head held high.
  • First-Name Basis: In the Classic series, he refers to Jan by his first name after some time. Defied in Die neue Dimension where you only refer to him as "Tenner"
  • Foil: To Jan. Both are heroes with the best in mind for their country. But whereas Forbett is distrustful of everyone not from Westland, be they human or alien, always sees violence as the first option and usually jumps into situations without thinking, Jan is trusting, peaceful and thinks before he acts.
  • Four-Star Badass: While he doesn't get to shine too often, when he does, he proves that his rank isn't just for show.
  • Frontline General: He always leads his men from the front.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may verbally clash with Jan, Laura and Futura a lot due to their opposing views on military force and has a tendency of reminding them of their mistakes, but he still genuinely cares for them.
  • Legally Dead: Alongside Tanja and Futura, he was declared dead after Futura's lab blew up at the beginning of Der Neue Superheld, despite no body ever being found.
  • Not Afraid to Die: He has proven himself to be ready and willing to fulfill his duty to protect Westland under any circumstance, even if it means his own death in the process.
  • Off Screen Moment Of Awesome: In the second to last episode of the Leonen arc, Forbett fought his way through numerous Leonen to get to his captured soldiers with nothing but the flight serum. Keep in mind the Leonen are not only technologically more advanced but also physically stronger than humans.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When the usually paranoid Forbett is friendly towards someone he suspected of being an enemy in disguise, it's usually a dead giveaway that something is off.
  • The Paranoiac: Being responsible for Westland's security, he always expects any new alien they meet to have malicious intentions and any kindness to just be an act. While he is wrong most of the time, from time to time, he is proven right. This paranoia only grew worse in Der Neue Superheld due to rising tensions with Ostland.
  • Properly Paranoid: When it comes to former enemies suddenly saying they turned good, his assumption that it's a trick is usually spot on.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: While his cynicism and readiness for a violent answer to any problem can make him appear not too reasonable, when his friends offer a different solution, he will usually listen. Further, when they come to him for help, he will not hesitate to do anything in his power to help them.
  • Sergeant Rock: He is very strict with his troops but is also very proud of them. When they are tricked by Zweistein into working for him in "Jan Tenner: Die Neue Dimension", he is truly shaken. But once they are back to normal he quickly decides to look past their traitorous behaviour while under Zweistein's control.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Futura, usually due to their opposing views on the use of military force.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: He often gets called out for his readiness to use force, especially nuclear weapons, by his friends.
  • Undying Loyalty: To his country and his friends. Nothing will get him to turn on either.

Mimo

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From left to right:Docked and mobile (Classic and Die Neue Dimension), mobile (Die Neue Dimension)
Voiced by: Wilfried Herbst (Classic & Der Neue Superheld until episode 6), Michael Pan (Die Neue Dimension), Nico Nothnagel (Der Neue Superheld since episode 7)
The sensitive board computer of the Silbervogel.
  • Forced into Evil: Between the pen-ultimate and the final episode, he was reprogrammed by Zweistein to flip his morals. He is sent back to earth to take out his friends.
  • Meaningful Name: His name comes from the german word "Mimose", an old expression for people who are very sensitive. Jan gave him this name because at the beginning, Mimo wouldn't do as he was told unless asked nicely, something Jan was quite annoyed by.
  • Out of Focus: He doesn't appear at all in Episode 10 of Der Neue Superheld.
  • Personality Chip: Mimo's brain has two halves: A robotic half dedicated to reason and logic as well as a human half dedicated to emotions. Thanks to this, he is fully capable of feeling emotions. In fact, he tends to be rather sensitive.
  • Robo Romance: He is in love with the nursing AI Andromeda.

Tanya

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Voiced by: Christine Schnell (Classic), Olivia Buschken (Der Neue Superheld)
Professor Futura's former lab assistant. She is cryogenically frozen early on in the show and doesn't reappear until the third installment where she becomes a main character once more.
  • Action Girl: Not so much in Classic, but in Der Neue Superheld, she gains psychic abilities and starts helping fight the Villain of the Week and their minions.
  • Best Friend: After Tanja's return, she and Laura quickly become close friends to the point Laura acts as a Shipper on Deck for her and Jan Jr.
  • Deadpan Snarker: After returning from her over 30 years of absence, she starts responding to Jan jr. attempts of flirtation with sarcasm or making fun of Jan sr.'s varyness.
  • Fetal Position Rebirth: When she returns to Earth after 30 years of being Legally Dead following an unknown amount of time being cryogenically frozen, Jan sr. and his son find her lying naked in the fetal position in a crater.
  • Great Offscreen War: While initially not remembering what happened during her 30 years absence, it is eventually revealed that her Astral Projection was fighting against the Void and its forces.
  • Human Popsicle: She ends up cryogenically frozen after a failed experiment puts her in critical condition.
  • Legally Dead: Alongside Futura and Forbett, she was declared dead after Futura's lab blew up at the beginning of Der Neue Superheld, despite no body ever being found. Granted, she had already been in cryo-sleep for a long time at that point.
  • Mind over Matter: She has the ability to levitate people and objects with her mind.
  • Mistaken Identity: Upon returning to Earth, she mistakes Jan Jr. for his father. Jan Jr. is quick to correct her though it takes a few attempts before she believes him.
  • Naked First Impression: When she first meets Jan Jr., she is completely naked. While she didn't notice until being told by Jan sr., she didn't seem to mind much.
  • No Last Name Given: Her last name is never revealed in the series. Neither is anything regarding her family.
  • Non-Action Girl: Unlike Laura, she never joined Jan on his adventures in the Classic series. This changes in Der Neue Superheld.
  • Older Than He Looks: She is in her early 20s physically and mentally. But due to being frozen for an unknown amount of time followed by a 30 year absence, she was born 40 to 50 years ago.
  • Psychic Powers: After returning to Earth, it turns out that the experiment that originally led to her having to be cryogenically frozen gave her psychic abilities, namely creating psychic shields, mind reading and telekinesis.
  • Put on a Bus: After a failed experiment off-screen she is cryogenically frozen between Episode 2 and 3 and isn't seen for years.
    • The Bus Came Back: She finally returns with the third installment Jan Tenner: Der neue Superheld where she becomes a main character again.
  • Skewed Priorities: In episode 3 of Classic, she and Jan are informed that children have been kidnapped while competing in a tennis tournament. While Jan immediately wants to hurry to Futura's lab, Tanja tries to convince him to just play the final round before trying to save the children.
  • Telepathy: One of the Psychic Powers she gets in Der Neue Superheld is the ability to read minds.

Jan Tenner Junior

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Voiced by: Florian Clyde
Jan and Laura's son and Lara's younger brother. He is the protagonist of "Der neue Superheld" following in his father's footsteps.
  • Affectionate Nickname:
    • His father refers to him as "Junior".
    • Tanja refers to him as "Schnosel" (engl. "Snooze")
  • Brought to You by the Letter "S": Like his father, he wears his name's initials on the left side of his chest.
  • Extremely Protective Child: He is very protective of his elderly father. He gets very angry very fast at anyone insulting his father. He also refuses to let him put himself in danger and when he does, Jr. will do everything in his power to get him out of it.
  • The Hero: Of Der Neue Superheld alongside his father.
  • Legacy Character: He takes up his father's role as Earth's intergalactic champion.
  • Like Father, Like Son: Not only does he wear the same clothes as his father, he is also blonde, a good fighter and immediately starts flirting with Tanya upon meeting her
  • Love at First Sight: He starts flirting with Tanya right after meeting her for the first time.
  • Red Is Heroic: Like his father, Jan Jr. wears a red vest.

    Enemies 

Zweistein

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From left to right: Classic, Die Neue Dimension, Der Neue Superheld
Voiced by: Klaus Miedel (Classic until episode 45), Eberhard Pruter (Classic episode 46), Hans Werner Bussinger (Die Neue Dimension), Detlef Bierstedt (Der Neue Superheld)
Zweistein, the mad professor,is the most recurring enemy of Jan Tenner and his friends. At first, he only aims for world domination before setting his sights on conquering the entire universe.
  • Affably Evil: Zig-zagged. Due to seeing everyone else as inferior, he tends to be quite pleasant with them. For example, he often calls Jan and his friends "my friends" and Futura in particular "my valued colleague". However, suffering a set-back usually leads to him dropping this facade and showing his true animosity, spite and malevolence.
  • A God Am I: Downplayed. While he doesn't see himself as a god specifically, he does see himself as more than just a human.
  • And I Must Scream: His currently final defeat in Der Neue Superheld sees his digitized consciousness being contained in a hard-drive, unable to do anything.
  • Arch-Enemy: Of Jan and the heroes as a whole.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: The second arc of Jan Tenner: Die neue Dimension sees him succeeding in taking over Westland while the heroes are away.
  • Batman Gambit: After his first defeat, he studied Jan and his friends becoming a master at predicting what they would do to the point he could predict and pre-record an entire conversation with them. Due to this, he would have succeeded numerous times if things he could not account for didn't happen.
  • Big Bad: Of a lot of episodes in the Classic series as well as the Return to Earth-arc in Die neue Dimension.
  • The Big Guy: Following his final defeat in the Classic series, he was shrunken down to the size of a bird and put into a bird cage at Westland's military headquarters. In Die Neue Dimension, however, he manages to escape by bribing a guard promising him immortality. His subsequent attempt at growing back to normal size results in him becoming an invincible giant of a man towering over every other character in the show.
  • Bond Villain Stupidity: He manages to outsmart and trap Jan and his friends quite regularly but either talks in length about the way he bested them giving them time to escape or sets up a convoluted way to kill them rather than just executing them on the spoz.
  • Brain Uploading: After his body dies in Der Neue Superheld, his consciousness gets transferred into a computer allowing him to live on digitally.
  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: As he sees everyone else as his inferior, he has no problem betraying anyone to gain any kind of advantage. In fact, he has betrayed everyone he ever worked with, humans and aliens alike.
  • Classic Villain: He desires to take over the world for no other reason than that he believes himself superior to everyone.
  • Do Not Adjust Your Set: Whenever he wishes to speak to the heroes, usually after his latest attack on Westland, he interrupts the radio broadcast in whatever location they currently are, replacing it with his own while talking. Whenever the heroes suspect he is behind something, they usually just turn on the radio anticipating his broadcast.
  • Enemy Mine: While stranded on the Planet of a Thousand Wonders, he temporarily teams up with the heroes to master the challenges and find the Stone of Power.
  • Exceeded the Goal: In Die Neue Dimension, having been previously shrunk, he set out to return to his normal height after being freed from captivity. His subsequent attempt resulted in him becoming an invincible giant of a man.
  • Face Death with Despair: When faced with the possibility of dying, he drops his egomania and becomes a Dirty Coward at a moment's notice, usually sniveling at the feet of Jan and his friends to save him.
  • Fake Defector: He pretends to have undergone a Heel–Face Turn during the 30 year time skip between Classic and Der Neue Superheld knowing his body was failing and that by pretending to be good, he could get the Tenners to try and save him, which they do by uploading his consciousness into a computer.
  • Fatal Flaw: His egomania. It leads him to both underestimate his opponents and overestimate his own genius, luring him into a false sense of security resulting in him considering himself victorious too soon, dropping his guard. As such, it is usually the reason he ends up losing.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: He created and built many high-tech devices and machines, including his own spaceship, a super AI that could hack every earthly computer as well as a belt that can make him teleport.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: Having created Xarxas, the Big Bad of the first arc in Die neue Dimension, and being the Big Bad of the second arc, he acts as this.
  • Immortality: In Die neue Dimension, he reveals that he created a serum to make himself immortal. He manages to bribe Forbett's soldiers onto his side by promising them to use it on them. However, as this plot threat is left open following the cancellation of Die neue Dimension, the specific form of immortality he gains from it is unknown. Defied in Der Neue Superheld where he is explicitly mortal and even ends up almost dying.
  • Incredible Shrinking Man: He ends up shrunken by his own serum in the last episode of Classic as well as at the end of episode 9 of Die Neue Dimension.
  • It's All About Me: His Fatal Flaw. He believes himself to be the greatest genius in the universe and his intellect unrivaled with every other being in the universe being inferior.
  • Joker Immunity: He survives every supposed death, including his spaceship blowing up with him inside. Even when it seems like he dies of old age in Der Neue Superheld, his consciousness is just uploaded to a computer and he continues to exist digitally.
  • Large Ham: He speaks slowly on purpose, pronouncing every individual letter just because he likes to hear himself talk. He also does not take well to being interrupted.
  • Long Game: Between Classic and Der Neue Superheld, he spent 30 years pretending to have changed his way to not die of old age. Even when he succeeds and has his consciousness uploaded into a computer, he waits days before revealing he was still evil.
  • Mad Scientist: He is a genius scientist who creates monsters and mutants and builds robots to take over the world. His nickname is literally "the mad scientist".
  • Maker of Monsters: He created many creatures for his evil plans, including a living tree that took over a Hive Mind of other living trees, animal-human hybrid mutants and tiny insects that spread a serum he created like a plague.
  • Meaningful Name: Discussed. His name is derived from the famous physicist and mathematician Albert Einstein. "Ein(s)" in German means "one" while "Zwei" means "two". Therefore, by choosing this name, Zweistein is claiming to be twice as smart as Einstein.
  • Surveillance as the Plot Demands: Zweistein has listening devices installed EVERYWHERE. Whether it be Futura's lab, the Silbervogel or Forbett's headquarters, he always knows what is going on and what the heroes are saying and planning. Despite their best efforts, neither the heroes nor Forbett's soldiers ever manage to find them. However, it doesn't save him from being defeated as the heroes simply write their plan down rather than talking about it.
    Zweistein: Zweistein knows all.note 
  • Taking You with Me: As his last plan in Classic fails and he is about to be taken in, he tries to kill everyone rather than being captured. Of course, it fails.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: He usually repays the heroes rescuing him by betraying them later on.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Zigzagged. He used Seytania in episode 33 to take out the heroes planning to steal her magic after they won. But as their next appearance together showed, Seytania was only using him, too.
  • Villain Respect: Downplayed. While he has voiced admiration for Futura's intellect, he still acts as disrespectful to him as he does to everyone else once his Affably Evil act ends.
  • Villain Team-Up: He teams up with Seytania in episode 34 and 36, first hoping to gain her magic powers, then to take the Silbervogel. He was foiled by Jan the first time before he could betray her. The second time, Forbett turned Mimo into a bomb with Seytania refusing to help him disarm it causing everyone to almost die.

Leonen

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An alien race that employs different tactics to try and conquer Earth for its uranium. In Der Neue Superheld, they become Earth's allies.
  • Ancient Evil: They have been destroying and conquering planets for thousands of years.
  • Because You Were Nice to Me: In Der Neue Superheld, the Leonen feel indebted to humans thanks to the Uran Jan gave them. While a few joined the Heir's of Zweistein, most have become allies to Earth.
  • Big Bad: Of the Leonen-arc.
  • Bond Villain Stupidity: Despite having the military and technical means to just invade and conquer Earth, the Leonen prefer to use plans and trickery to try and conquer earth. Subverted in the last few episodes of the Leonen arc where they do invade and take over the planet very easily.
  • Cat Folk: They are a species of bipedal lions with four arms.
  • Degraded Boss: In Der Neue Superheld, a few Leonen return as members of the terrorist group "Heirs of Zweistein" as mere minions.
  • Easily Forgiven: Despite having attacked and destroyed civilizations for thousands of years, not to mention all their vile plans against Earth, they never face consequences for their actions.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: They have the deepest voices of the series.
  • Heel–Face Turn: After having their uranium problem solved by Jan Tenner, they stop conquering other planets. By the time of Der neue Superheld, they are Earth's allies.
  • Karma Houdini: They end up getting exactly what they desire, that being enough uranium to fuel their civilization, never suffering any consequences for their aggressive actions towards Earth and many other civilizations before it.
  • Multi-Armed and Dangerous: They are a very aggressive race of alien warriors with 4 arms and a lion's head hellbent on conquering other planets for their uranium.
  • Proud Warrior Race: They are a race of warriors attacking and conquering other planets for their uranium to fuel their own society. They refuse to be reasoned with until their Emperor gets defeated in battle.

Seytania

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Voiced by: Almut Eggert
Daughter of Logar, emperor of the Dark Empire and a powerful sorceress. She originally lured space travelers to her planet and turned them into literal puppets. She falls in love with Jan and, after numerous antagonistic encounters, eventually sacrifices herself to...
  • Achilles' Heel:
    • Her magic cannot pass forcefields.
    • Whenever she enters her Deep Sleep, she is completely vulnerable as nothing could wake her up.
  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: When Logar, after having been put into chains that lower a boulder onto him each time he moves, wants to tell the heroes how to defeat the ring of power, Seytania begs him not to speak so that he won't be crushed by the boulder showing that, despite their relationship being not great, she still cares about him.
  • Bond Villain Stupidity: After realising Jan caused an uprising among her puppets, she swore she would turn him into a puppet. But rather than doing it there and then, which would have ensured her victory, she sent him back to his room allowing him to escape with the help of another puppet.
  • Daddy Issues: Initially, the relationship between her and her father is not great with him repeatedly calling her his "unworthy daughter" and her not having much respect for him betraying him the first chance she gets. After almost dying, they do make up.
  • Dark Action Girl: Played with. Initially, she lets her puppets do her dirty work. But eventually, she realizes that they are powerless against Jan and his friends and starts trying to take care of them personally.
  • Deep Sleep: Every few nights, she needs to sleep. During this time, she is completely vulnerable and is physically incapable of awaking no matter what happens.
  • Did Not Think This Through: Shortly before Logar was about to kill a traitorous general, she used his ring of power to drain him. This, in turn, gives the general the chance to take it from her by imprisoning both.
  • Easily Forgiven: Despite having tried to kill him and his friends multiple times, after being saved by Jan from certain death, she asks for his forgiveness which he grants without a moment of hesitation.
  • Elemental Powers: She can create walls of fire and shoot heat beams as well as lightning bolts from her eyes.
  • Evil Sorcerer: Seytania is a powerful dark sorceress from a line of powerful dark sorcerers. Her magic allows her to teleport, create walls of fire, shoot fire from her eyes, push people's souls out of their bodies and turn people into puppets. She can also cast a love spell on people.Though it only works if they are unprepared.  
  • Exact Words: In her third appearance, she promised Jan to let his friends live if he comes to her and agrees to become her husband. When he does and then demands for her to let his friends go, she reveals that she meant that they could live as puppets.
  • Eye Beams: She can shoot heat beams and lightning bolts from her eyes.
  • Femme Fatale: She is considered quite attractive by everyone who comments on her looks. She is also a powerful sorceress with a multitude of powers and abilities, most notably her ability to turn people into puppets that made her almost impossible to defeat whenever the heroes encounter her.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: She gets easily very jealous of anyone, especially but not exclusively women, Jan pays attention to.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Following her rescue, she asks for Jan's forgiveness and subsequently becomes an ally.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: After realizing that her grandfather was the creator of the Void, she saves Jan and Laura by defeating and absorbing the remnant of Butor. She brings them back to the Silbervogel and orders Mimo to travel back into the future where she uses all her power to destroy the Void, saving existence itself but dying in the process.
  • Informed Attractiveness: She is not shy of telling Jan over and over again that she loves him and wants him to love her back.
  • Invincible Villain: Thanks to her great magical power, the heroes barely stand a chance on their own against her. Of the 4 times she appeared as a villain, the first time she wasn't defeated but rather blackmailed into releasing Jan from her spell. The second time, she was only defeated by Jan freeing the demon Orlos, one of only three characters more powerful than her. The third time, she was seconds away from winning but was stopped by her father, the second of the three characters more powerful than her. Lastly, the last time, she had almost won again but was put into a situation where she had to save the heroes or risk dying with them.
  • Lady of Black Magic: She is a powerful Evil Sorcerer. Being raised as royalty as the heir to the Dark Empire, she wears elegant clothes and has a calm and regal attitude...until things stop going her way, that is.
  • Love Potion: In her first appearance, she casts a powerful love spell on Jan he could not break free from himself, requiring her to lift the spell instead. However, it only worked because he didn't know about it beforehand. In her next appearance, he proves to be immune against it.
  • Magical Eye: Her stare can drain people upon eye contact and force them to temporarily obey her. She can also shoot two different kinds of Eye Beams from them.
  • Myopic Conqueror: In her third appearance, she conquers Earth all on her own in only 10 hours. But she didn't do it to rule. Rather, she simply wanted to use it as leverage against Jan to become her lover and intended to then ship off all humans to fight for Logar.
  • Near-Villain Victory: In her third appearance, she took over Earth on her own in less than 10 hours by transforming all humans into puppets, then had Jan surrender to her. After disarming him, she had him at her mercy and was about to transform him and his friends into puppets, thus securing her victory, when her father Logar intervened, furious that she attacked a planet he had promised to let be.  
  • No Last Name Given: Like her father, her last name, if she has one, is never given.
  • Playing with Fire: She can create walls of fire and shoot heat beams from her eyes.
  • Puppet Master: A literal example. She uses her magic to lure space travelers to her planet, then turns them into literal wooden puppets.
  • Puppet Permutation: She gained her nickname "The Puppet Queen" by kidnapping people and turning them into living wooden puppets. Depending on their intended task and required amount of intelligence, she may even drive out their souls first.
  • Rank Scales with Asskicking: As the princess of the Dark Empire, she is the second most powerful person in the Dark Empire both in terms of magical power and command. She is also one of the most powerful characters in the show.
  • Regretful Traitor: After her betrayal of her father results in both being imprisoned and sladed to be executed, Seytania regrets her actions. This results in her and Logar being able to mend their rocky relationship.
  • Relationship-Salvaging Disaster: Before being sacrificed by Thol, Seytania mended her relationship with her father Logar.
  • Rich Boredom: She kidnapped spacefarers and transformed them into puppets, sometimes by pushing their souls out of their bodies, just because she got bored of the puppets her father created for her to rule over.
  • Royals Who Actually Do Something: Despite being the princess of the Dark Empire, she usually takes matters into her own hands.
  • Shallow Cannot Comprehend True Love: She wants Jan to love her freely believing her beauty and wealth would make it an easy decision for him. Therefore, she shows no understanding when he tries to explain to her that there is more to love than just a simple decision.
  • The Sleepless: Seytania only needs to sleep every few nights. But the sleep she enters is always a Deep Sleep.
  • The Smurfette Principle: She is the only main female villain of the series and the only female villain in Classic.
  • Soul Power: She creates most of her puppets by pushing people's souls out of their bodies with her magic. The shells have no will of their own and only do what they are told. Only those performing tasks that required independent thought are allowed to keep their souls.
  • The Starscream: As soon as Logar gave her his ring, the source of his power, to fight another traitor without its power, she turned it against him declaring himself Queen of the Dark Empire.
  • Teleportation: She is able to materialite herself almost everywhere.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Zigzagged. Zweistein used her in episode 33 to take out the heroes planning to steal her magic after they won. But as their next appearance together showed, Seytania was only using him, too.
  • Villainous Crush: On Jan.
  • Villainous Lineage: Played with. While her grandfather attacked the Purple Plains, killed all unicorns and turned it into the wasteland it was by the time her father took over, not to mention ended up creating the Void out of boredom, her father's only evil act was to kidnap other species to fight the Void.
  • Villain Team-Up: She teams up with Zweistein in episode 34 and 36 to get revenge on Jan and his friends. But it is clear that she sees him as nothing more than an Unwitting Pawn and cares little for him.

The Void/the Eraser

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A semi-sentient, ever expanding, all consuming entity made up of pure dark magic. It was created when Logar's father and his mages fused to destroy the universe and create it anew. It returns in Der Neue Superheld as the Eraser managing to consume Logar's universe and make its way into the regular universe.
  • Ancient Evil: The Void has been devouring Logar's universe for thousands of years.
  • Asteroids Monster: It only takes a small piece of it to enter a new universe for that piece to slowly grow and expand into a new Void no less powerful than the original.
  • A Storm Is Coming: Before one reaches the Void, they have to pass a continuous thunderstorm. Likewise, the thunderstorm advancing is also a sign of the advancing Void.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: In Der Neue Superheld, it succeeds in devouring Logar's universe and starts its attack on the main universe.
  • Blob Monster: Before the Void had expanded to universal size, it was a black blot that ate everything in its vicinity.
  • Combat Tentacles: While still relatively small, the Void uses tentacles to grab and drag victims into itself to devour them.
  • Dark Is Evil: As the name suggests, the Void is a completely black void.
  • Eldritch Abomination: It is a universe-sized sentient mass made of black magic which devours all and either kills or transforms its victims into monsters. There is neither light nor darkness in its mass.
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The Void is a black mass of universal size while the Eraser erases anything it devours.
  • Extreme Omnivore: It devours anything it comes into contact with, be they living beings or not.
  • Forced Transformation: In Classic, the Void transforms anyone caught by its monsters into more monsters. In Der Neue Superheld, it instead transforms its victims into black armored soldiers.
  • Generic Doomsday Villain: Its goal is to devour everything for no real reason beyond that being its nature.
  • Invincible Villain: It was so powerful, even Logar, one of the most powerful characters of the series, could not hold its advance permanently. It took its own creator's power turned against it in combination with his granddaughter's own great magical power to defeat it in Classic.
  • Killed Off for Real: After previously surviving its destruction in Classic, it is killed for good in episode 11 of Der Neue Superheld.
  • Made of Magic: It entirely consists of the Black Magic emitted by the fusion of Butor and his dark mages.
  • Maker of Monsters: The Void turns those caught by its creatures into monsters. Some are described as being like jellyfish while others are said to be human-animal hybrids with multiple heads and limbs.
  • Perpetual Storm: At its edge, there is a continuous thunderstorm raging on.
  • Playing with Fire: Some of its monsters can shoot fireballs from their mouths.
  • Really 700 Years Old: When the group traveled back 20,000 years into the past, it had just been created and was starting to expand.
  • Returning Big Bad: The Void returns as "the Eraser", its improved form, in episode 9 of "Der Neue Superheld" and becomes the Big Bad again until episode 11 where it is defeated for good.

Butor the Terrible

Voiced by: Wolfgang Kuhne
Logar's father who faked his disappearance to create the Void.
  • All Your Powers Combined: A villainous example. As part of his experiment to end everything, he fused with his mages, absorbing their power. The finished form was so powerful, the magic was unable to be contained in his body and so it protruded from him creating the Void, much to his delight.
  • Broken Pedestal: Before it turned out he created the Void, he was considered a great hero by his people.
  • The Emperor: He was the founder and first emperor of the Dark Empire.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: Having taken over the universe of the Dark Empire and created the Void, he is responsible for every encounter with the Dark Empire and the Void the main group had.
  • Killed Offscreen: He was absorbed by Seytania off-screen.
  • Myopic Conqueror: He conquered his universe and founded the Dark Empire but quickly got bored of ruling and decided to end everything creating the Void his son would battle for thousands of years in the process.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: After getting bored of ruling, he decided to end everything, creating the all-devouring Void to do so.
  • Rich Boredom: After Butor conquered their universe and killed all the unicorns, he got bored of ruling and decided to end everything, creating the Void in the process.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Despite only appearing in one episode, the fact that he created the Void his son Logar fought against makes him responsible for every episode dealing with it in both Classic and Der Neue Superheld.
 

Thol

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Logars top general. He eventually betrays Logar when the ruler over the Dark Empire uses Futura's serum to hold off the Void believing it to be a plight on his warrior way of life.
  • Ascended Extra: In his first appearance, he barely had any lines. His second sees him becoming the Big Bad of the Dark Empire arc.
  • Big Bad: Of the first half of the Dark Empire arc.
  • Conflict Killer: By taking both Logar and Seytania captive, he allowed them to talk and mend their relationship. He also ended Seytania's conflict with the heroes as she was forced to call for their help and underwent a Heel–Face Turn because they answered it.
  • Fatal Flaw: His overconfidence. It results in him underestimating his opponents.
  • Glory Seeker: By taking over the Dark Empire, he wishes to return to the old ways before the introduction of Futura's serum believing a glorious death through combat is preferable to the continued use of the serum.  
  • Honor Before Reason:
    • His entire reason for rebelling against Logar. He prefers sacrificing his men for a warrior's death rather than fighting the Void without casualties by using Futura's serum.
    • Rather than just killing Jan and his friends which he could have done easily, he agrees to honorable combat against Jan despite having already lost to him twice. This time, he loses not only the fight, but his life, too.
  • Killed Offscreen: He is killed by Jan during their offscreen battle.
  • Noble Demon: Being a Proud Warrior Race Guy, he fights honorably, specifically forbitting his minions to intervene, even when he is about to lose.
  • Proud Warrior Race Guy: His reason for rebelling against Logar is his dislike for Logar's use of Futura's serum to beat back the Void rather than the traditional, and ineffective, combat. He believes their people's nature is that of warriors who have to fight constantly, even if it means their certain deaths.
  • Rank Scales with Asskicking: Subverted. Despite being Logar's right hand, he only ever wins because of someone else's doing, namely Seytania betraying her father at the worst possible time and a serum activated by will activating during his first fight with Jan which would have made him stronger in our universe but weakens him in the universe of the Dark Empire.
  • The Starscream: After Logar uses Futura's serum over his warriors against the Void, he grows disillusioned with his leader and successfully stages a coup against him.
  • The Usurper: He rebels and, thanks to Seytania's unintentional help, manages to overthrow Logar, seizing rule over the Dark Empire.
  • Worf Had the Flu: Despite supposedly being the second best fighter of the Dark Empire, he lost every fair fight he fought.

Xarxas

Voiced by: Lutz Schnell
A sentient computer seeking to rule another universe using his robot army.
  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot: His goal is to turn every living being inhabiting the universe he landed in into a robot and kill the rest.
  • Brainwashed: He uses different means of Mass Hypnosis to turn people into his loyal subjects.
  • The Dreaded: Everyone in his universe fears him due to his army's might and his own ruthlessness.
  • The Emperor: He is the ruler over his own mechanical empire.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: He appeared one day out of nowhere and started conquering Ragund's universe eventually capturing Ragund himself.
  • Mecha-Mooks: He commands an army of robots.
  • Mysterious Past: In-universe no one knew who he was, what he wanted or where he came from. It was only in his final appearance that it was revealed he was a creation of Zweistein meant as a distraction for the heroes.
  • Orcus on His Throne: He always sends his minions to deal with the heroes and doesn't appear until the episode he is defeated.
  • Unwilling Roboticisation: If he doesn't use brainwashing or false promises to control the people he conquered, he just roboticises them. Their consent in the matter is never a factor.

Ling Furiosa

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Voiced by: Bert Franzke
The emperor of Westland's neighbour Ostland.
  • Big Bad: Of the Ostland-arc.
  • Brainwashed: He kidnaps and brainwashes Jan to be his servant.
  • The Emperor: He is the emperor of Ostland.
  • Expy: Of Flash Gordon villain Ming the Merciless.
  • Karmic Death: He dies after his nuking of Westland leads to a chain-reaction that blows up the planet.
  • Nuke 'em: When the tensions between Ostland and Westland boil over, he attacks Westland with nuclear weapons.
  • Self-Disposing Villain: In his final appearance in episode 12, he destroys Westland with nukes. This triggers a chain-reaction that blows up the planet, killing him with it.

Dr. Benjamin Brain

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From left to right:As human, as brain in a robot body, as giant brain
Voiced by: Hans Bayer
A mad scientist whose brain is trapped in a robot body.
  • A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: He is a former student of Futura.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: In episode 5, he independently goes up against the episode's Big Bad, the Rat King, who himself is after him. In the end, he is the one to succeed and kill the Rat King.
  • Brain in a Jar: After faking his death, Dr. Brain has his brain put into a robotic body.
  • Character Death: He dies when his literal oversized brain is blown up in episode 14.
  • Faking the Dead: In his first appearance,  he makes it seem like he died in an explosion to throw the heroes off his trail.
  • Forced Transformation: He transforms people into humanoid animals. Their loyalty towards him varies.
  • Mad Scientist: Considering he created vicious anthropomorphic animals as servants and later enlarged his own brain to absorb the world, he certainly qualifies.
  • Secret Public Identity: Dr. Brain's choice for a supervillain name is "Hirn", which means "Brain" in english.
  • Steven Ulysses Perhero: Dr. Brain is a Mad Scientist who later transplants his brain into a robotic body.

The Heir's of Zweistein

A terrorist group who admire Zweistein wanting to follow in his footsteps. They are lead by the manager of Zweistein's laboratories Rangold.

Tamara

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Voiced by: Vera Bunk
A recurring enigmatic enemy always working for another villain.
  • Adaptational Dye-Job: She has red hair on the cover of the episode she first appeared in, episode 3 of Der Neue Superheld but in the episode, her hair is explicitly stated to be blonde.
  • Androids Are People, Too: Despite being an Android, she can feel, think for herself and is treated as human as everyone else.
  • The Dragon: She is always working for a bigger villain.
  • Mysterious Past: Her past is a complete mystery. Who built her and where she comes from has yet to be revealed.
  • The Starscream: Originally his loyal henchwomen, she turns against Dr. Brain in episode 14 after having had doubts about him in the previous episode
  • Token Robot: Zig-Zagged. While not the only recurring Artificial Intelligence, She is the only recurring android.

    Others 

Lara

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Voiced by: Sarah Riedel
Jan and Laura's daughter and Jan Jr.'s older sister.
  • Action Girl: While acting independently from team Tenner, she and Zeno often go up and battle against the heirs of Zweistein.
  • A Day in the Limelight: She and Zeno are the protagonists of episode 18 which sees him and Lara forming a team of their own to battle the heir's of Zweistein independently from team Tenner.
  • Following in Relative's Footsteps: Being very adept at science, she followed in her father's and mother's footsteps becoming a high ranking member of the Order of Futura.
  • Hero of Another Story: During their fight against the heir's of Zweistein, she and Zeno act independently from the main group of heroes. With the exception of episode 18, the two only appear in the story when they cross paths with team Tenner.
  • Implied Love Interest: In his final appearance, it's implied that she sees Zeno as more than just a friend. But due to his Heroic Sacrifice, it is unknown whether he feels the same way.
  • Jerkass to One: While friendly to everyone else, due to being jealous of the attention and praise Tanja receives for her heroics, Lara is quite prickly, mean and confrontational towards her alone, mocking and playing up her every mistake.
  • Out of Focus: After her introduction in episode 1, she barely plays a role until episode 18 where she joins Zeno.
  • The Resenter: She is jealous of Tanja because of all the attention and praise she gets for her heroics and is actively mean to her because of it.
  • Telepathy: She and Zeno gained the powers of telepathy in addition to traveling through time at will in episode 21.
  • Time Travel: In episode 21, she and Zeno gained the ability to travel through time at will alongside the power of Telepathy.

Zeno

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Voiced by: Patrick Suhm
A clone of Jan Tenner and Zweistein. He joins the heroes in their fight against the Heirs of Zweistein though he acts mostly independent of Team Tenner.
  • A Day in the Limelight: He and Lara are the protagonist of episode 18 which sees him and Lara forming a team of their own to battle the heir's of Zweistein independently from team Tenner.
  • Brought to You by the Letter "S": He wears the letter "Z" on his vest on the same spot Jan wears his initials further hinting on a connection between the two.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: He sacrifices his life for the heroes in episode 22 to stop the terrorist group "Heir's of Zweistein".
  • Hero of Another Story: During their fight against the heir's of Zweistein, he and Lara act independently from the main group of heroes. With the exception of episode 18, the two only appear in the story when they cross paths with team Tenner.
  • Mix-and-Match Man: He is a clone of Jan Tenner senior and Zweistein.
  • Shock and Awe: He has the ability to shoot lightning.
  • Telepathy: He and Lara gained the powers of telepathy in addition to traveling through time at will in episode 21.
  • Time Travel: In episode 21, he and Lara gained the ability to travel through time at will alongside the power of Telepathy.
  • Two-Donor Clone: He is a clone of Jan Tenner senior and Zweistein to give him Jan's Badass Normal physique in combination with Zweistein's genius.

Logar

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Voiced by: Heinz Rabe (Classic), Sven Brieger (Der Neue Superheld)
Emperor of the Dark Empire in another universe. He is a powerful sourceror and the source of his daughter Seytania's power.
  • Abusive Parent: Downplayed. He repeatedly refers to Seytania as his "unworthy daughter" but never gets physically violent with her. He also gives her what she desires such as her magical powers and her own planet to rule over.
  • Badass Normal: Even without his ring of power, he has proven himself more than a match to his traitorous general.
  • Betrayal by Offspring: When Thol challenges him to an honorable duel over leadership of the Dark Empire, he takes off his ring, the source of his power, and hands it to Seytania for safekeeping. Shortly afterwards, right before he is about to defeat Thol, she uses the ring to sap his physical strength in an attempt to seize control of the Dark Empire. It is short-lived, however, as Thol quickly knocks her out and takes the ring for himself.
  • Brought Down to Badass: When Thol challenges him to an honorable duel over leadership of the Dark Empire, he takes off his ring, the source of his power without which he cannot use his magic. Still, the battle between the two turns out to be very one-sided in his favor.
  • The Bus Came Back: After a long absence since episode 39 of Classic, he returns in episode 10 of Der Neue Superheld.
  • Combat Pragmatist: When he learns that Futura's serum can effectively deal with the monsters of the Void, he jumps on the opportunity to use it rather than wasting his soldier's lives. However, being from a warrior society, this made him unpopular with many of his soldiers resulting in some, led by his formerly loyal second in command, to rebel.
  • Distressed Dude: After being taking captive by Thol and having his power source taken away, he is as much in need of being rescues by Jan as his daughter Seytania and Jan's friends.
  • Dramatic Thunder: Not only is his voice like thunder, when he talks, lightning strikes continuously for as long as he talks.
  • The Emperor: He is the ruler of the Dark Empire.
  • Et Tu, Brute?: Despite their rocky relationship, he is genuinely shocked when Seytanias betrays him during his and Thol's duel.
  • Frontline General: Zig-zagged. While it has been said and shown that he indeed leads his soldiers into battle, he only does so sometimes while the rest of the time, he is at his castle or camp.
  • Last of His Kind: In Der Neue Superheld, it's revealed that the Void wasn't completely destroyed and eventually returned as the "Eraser" annihilating the Dark Empire leaving Logar as its only survivor.
  • I Gave My Word: As part of the deal Futura offered him for the serum to fight the creatures of the Void, he promised to leave humanity alone. When his daughter attacked the Earth in his name, he was furious with her, forcing her to undo everything she did.
  • The Men First: Despite coming from a warrior society with an Honor Before Reason-attitude, he doesn't want to waste lifes fighting the Void and is eager to accept Futura's offer of a serum that can effectively deal with the Void's forces. However, his men are not pleased and eventually rise up against him.
  • Must Make Amends: After learning the truth about his father, he wishes to make right what his father did to the unicorns and their land.
  • No Last Name Given: His last name, if he has one, is never given.
  • The Omnipresent: He has the ability to make his spirit leave his body. Upon doing so, his spirit becomes omnipresent.
  • Power Echoes: In his first appearance, his voice is deep and powerful, reverberating every word and causing continuous Dramatic Thunder.
  • Rank Scales with Asskicking: As the ruler of the Dark Empire, he is its most powerful warrior, both in terms of magical power and command. He is also one of the most powerful characters in the show.
  • Really Sevenhundred Years Old: When the group went back in time 20,000 years ago, he was already ruling the Dark Empire after faking his disappearance.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: When the heroes finally meet him, he proves to be quite unlike his daughter. He reacts to Jan's brazen disrespectfulness with laughter and it doesn't take much to convince him to accept the heroes offer of a supply of the serum they used to effectively fight the creatures of the Void in return for the freedom of all he and Seytania enslaved to fight for him. He even promised to leave them alone.
  • Red Herring: As her father and the one to give her her planet, he is built up to be a villain like Seytania. The heroes are even told that if he were to ever enter their universe, it would be the end of everything. But when they meet him, it turns out he is a Well-Intentioned Extremist at worst as well as a Reasonable Authority Figure, a lot more reasonable, and honorable, than his daughter.
  • Relationship-Salvaging Disaster: Before being sacrificed by Thol, he mended his relationship with his daughter Seytania.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: He has his soldiers kidnap and forcefully draft other species as he is in constant need for soldiers to fight an all-consuming void at the edge of the universe threatening to consume the universe wiping out everything in the process.

Ragund

Voiced by: Jochen Schroder
The former emperor of the universe Jan and his friends stand in at the beginning of Die Neue Dimension.
  • Can't Take Criticism: He exiled his teacher to his castle for suggesting Xarxas may beat him.
  • The Emperor: He is the emperor of his universe.
  • The Good King: Due to being a fair ruler, he is well-liked by all his subjects.

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