Character page for the 2022 series Naomi.
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Naomi McDuffie
Naomi McDuffie
"My whole life has been about being different and now I'm supposed to... accept the fact that I'm literally an alien from outer space. I just want to be normal."
Species: Alien (from Earth-29)
Played by: Kaci Walfall
"We all look at the world through our own lens. But looking isn't the same thing as seeing. What if everything you believed about the world turned out to be wrong? If we truly opened up our eyes, what would we see? Every superhero has an origin story, and this is mine."
A 16 year old military brat, top student and owner of the third-most popular Superman fan site in the world, Naomi suddenly discovers that she is not who she thought she was. After discovering her powers, the young teenager goes on a journey to discover her mysterious origins....
- The Ace: Highly popular, speaks 9 languages, an excellent student, owner of the third-most popular Superman fan site in the entire world and a good skateboarder to top it off.
- Episode 8 reveals that she has at least a fairly good grasp of engineering, is a decent cook, and got 110% on her pre-calc midterms.
- Ascended Fangirl: A huge Superman fan who discovers that she has powers of her own, and an extremely similar Origin Story to boot.
- Boxing Lessons for Superman: Almost literally. Due to her powers being initially very unstable, she takes martial arts lessons from Dee.
- Happily Adopted: She adores her adoptive parents.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Initially, though Annabelle points out to her that she has always been anything but.
- Military Brat: Her parents are both working for the military.
- Nice Girl: Very supportive of everyone around her.
- Omniglot: Speaks 9 languages, Japanese and French among them.
- Power Incontinence: What she suffers from initially.
- Super-Senses: She has both Super-Hearing and extremely enhanced vision.
- Super-Strength: Strong enough to punch a boxing bag across a room and damage the wall in the process.
- Super-Toughness: She has never been seriously hurt throughout her life. After jumping off a bridge, she is completely fine.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Annabelle's Girly Girl.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Not only learns that she has powers, but also that she is from a different Earth.
Jennifer McDuffie
Jennifer McDuffie
Species: Human
Played by: Mouzam Makkar
Naomi's adoptive mother, who is a language teacher at Port Oswego's local military base.
- Nice Girl: She adores her family and is also very popular with Naomi's friends.
- Parents as People: She and Greg kept Naomi's true origins from her daughter to protect her.
- Shipper on Deck: Seems to be one for her daughter and Lourdes.
Greg McDuffie
Greg McDuffie
Species: Human
Played by: Barry Watson
Naomi's adoptive father, a veteran military officer.
- Nice Guy: Like Jennifer, he is an extremely friendly and supportive individual.
- Parents as People: He and Jennifer kept Naomi's true origins from her daughter to protect her.
Naomi's friends
In General
Naomi's quintet of friends.
- Canon Foreigner: Except for Annabelle, all of them were invented for the show.
- No Name Given: None of their surnames are known so far, except Annabelle's, assuming it's the same as in the comics.
- Undying Loyalty: All of them are fiercely loyal towards Naomi and support her even when it's about doing explicitly illegal stuff like breaking and entering.
Annabelle Peters
Annabelle Peters
Species: Human
Played by: Mary Charles Jones
Naomi's best friend.
- Best Friend: She's Naomi's primary confidant.
- Motor Mouth: When she gets nervous.
- Official Couple: With Jacob.
- Secret-Keeper: While all of Naomi's friends know she's investigating weird phenomena in Port Oswego, Annabelle is the only one she's told about actually being an alien with powers.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Naomi's Tomboy.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Gives and receives these speeches fairly regularly.
Nathan
Nathan
Species: Human
Played by: Daniel Puig
The group's resident jock. Naomi used to date him.
- Amicable Exes: With Naomi, until they share a kiss at the end of "Enigma" and start dating again.
- Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Anthony's Betty.
- Headbutting Heroes: He can't stand Anthony, due to him being a townie and for also having an interest in Naomi.
- Lovable Jock: Aside from having it out for Anthony, he seems quite likeable.
- Military Brat: He has that in common with Naomi.
Lourdes
Lourdes
Species: Human
Played by: Camila Moreno
A high school dropout and comic nerd who works at the local vintage collectibles shop.
- Entitled to Have You: Despite knowing that Naomi is together with Nathan, she still acts angry when she tries to kiss Naomi and the latter pulls back, blaming Naomi for not returning her feelings and "leading her on."
- Unrequited Love: She has an obvious crush on Naomi, which irritates both Nathan and Anthony, though Naomi clearly only sees her as a friend.
Anthony
Anthony
Species: Human
Played by: Will Meyers
A townie with a crush on Naomi.
- Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Nathan's Veronica.
- Dogged Nice Guy: Unfortunately for him, Naomi still has feelings for Nathan. Downplayed, however, since he shows no signs of the Entitled to Have You this trope usually implies.
- Nice Guy: He can be described as a sweetheart who really doesn't seem to have it out for anyone. His reaction to being trolled by Nathan (giving him the wrong address to his house party) is less anger and more weary frustration.
Jacob
Jacob
Species: Human
Played by: Aidan Gemme
Annabelle's boyfriend and the group's resident science nerd.
- The Alleged Car: His car is.....not in a good state. It eventually breaks down completely.
- Crazy-Prepared: Has 'break-in clothes' in his backpack for Naomi, Annabelle, Nathan, Anthony, Lourdes and himself. To be clear, he didn't know for sure till they were on the bus for the field trip that there was going to be a break-in, and didn't know till after the tour started that Nathan, Anthony and Lourdes were going to be involved, or that Lourdes was even there.
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: He has been obsessed with UFOs for years, and it turns out one of his friends is an alien.
- Nice Guy: A friendly young man.
- Official Couple: He treats Annabelle like a queen, having been dating her since the 5th grade.
Port Oswego residents
Esme Brooks
Esme Brooks
Species: Human
Played by: Alie Urquhart
The Class President at Port Oswego High School and Naomi's rival.
- Moral Guardian: She imposes a sugar ban on the school's vending machine without anybody's approval.
- The Rival: She competes against Naomi in debate club and the students also pitted them against each other for the position of Class President. However, there still seems to be a level of respect between them.
Dee
Darcovo / Dee
Species: Thanagarian
Played by: Alexander Wraith
The town's resident tattoo artist, secretly an alien warrior from Planet Thanagar.
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: He's a muscular, stoic guy with anxiety, who is extremely soft-spoken.
- Carnivore Confusion: Naomi points out to Jennifer that Dee has wings and it might be insensitive to serve him chicken when he comes to them for dinner. Dee says it's fine, though.
- The Force Is Strong with This One: Is able to sense unique vibrations in people who have superpowers.
- Mentor Archetype: He teaches Naomi martial arts and control of her powers. Later, he becomes a mentor for Annabelle as well.
- Human Alien: A Thanagarian who looks indistinguishable from a human, except for the wings.
- My Greatest Failure: He reveals that the tattoo he has is in memory of Qyeala, the woman he loved, whom he never dared to tell how he felt about her.
- Old Friend: Of Superman; the two once fought in a war together.
- Old Soldier: We don't know how old he is, or if Thanagarians even age at the same rate as humans, but he ticks every other box of this trope.
- Red Herring: To cover up the Superman sighting in the pilot episode, he initially claims to have hired an actor with a jetpack who posed as Superman as a publicity stunt.
- Winged Humanoid: Being a Thanagarian like classic DC superheroes Hawkman and Hawkwoman, he has a pair of large, metallic wings that he can retract at will.
Zumbado
Zumbado
Species: Alien (from Earth-29)
Played by: Cranston Johnson
The mysterious used car salesman of Port Oswego. Naomi soon discovers that he is much more than he lets on.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the comics, Zumbado was a Card-Carrying Villain who was responsible for the destruction of his world. Here, he's Good All Along.
- Ambiguously Evil: His motivations remain unclear. According to Akira, he is the reason they cannot return home. She's under the wrong impression, or possibly even lying. Zumbado knew Naomi's parents and promised that he would watch over her and protect her. Unfortunately, he did this by repeatedly telling her not to get involved in a menacing way, making him initially seem evil.
- Blow You Away: Displays this power, easily knocking a still inexperienced Naomi down.
- Good All Along: He knew Naomi's biological parents and he promised to protect her.
- Human Alien: Just like Naomi.
- Mind over Matter: Although his power manifests often like wind, he also demonstrates the ability to move objects, such as a gun pulled on him, with just his mind. He was also able to contain Naomi's energy and move it back at her.
- Psychic Powers: He can reach into people’s mind and to bring them into his. He is also able to show Naomi his past and transfer all the knowledge, emotions, and memories he had of Earth-29 to Naomi.
- Villain Respect: He's clearly impressed with Naomi's boldness and eventually hands her the disk voluntarily.
- With Us or Against Us: He makes it clear to Akira, after she turns down his offer to work together, that he is not gonna let her stand in his way.
Others
Superman
Superman
Species: Kryptonian
Played by: ?
The original Superhero, thought to be a fictional character in this world.
- The Faceless: In his only scene so far, he is seen from a distance or as a blur, and his face is kept hidden.
- Famed In-Story: Everyone's heard of him and there are several fan websites dedicated to him.
- Human Alien: The Trope Codifier.
- My Suit Is Also Super: Commander Steel acquires a part of Superman's cape, which proves to be invulnerable to all kinds of testing.
- Noodle Incident: Dee and Superman fought together in a war at one point.
- Real After All: He is thought to be just a fictional character in this universe. Turns out he is indeed very real.
Adam Blake
Adam Blake
Species: Alien
Played by: Chase Anderson
Another old friend of Dee's who is not from this world.
- Adaptation Species Change: Metahuman in the comics, an alien in this show.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Doesn't refer to himsel as Captain Comet.
- The Force Is Strong with This One: He can read energy signatures.
- Old Friend: Another one of Dee's, who also fought alongside him in a war.
- One-Man Army: When the army busts into his hideout, he is not afraid to face them alone, telling Dee and Naomi to run. A few episodes later it's shown that he walked away from that fight, no worse for the wear.
- Totally Radical: He talks like this.
Akira
Akira
Species: Alien (from Earth-29)
Played by: Stephanie March
A mysterious Art gallery owner not from this Earth, with ties to Zumbado.
- Human Alien: Another one from Earth-29.
- Playing with Fire: When the Twenty Nine got their superpowers, Akira's was the ability to manipulate fire.
- We Used to Be Friends: She hates Zumbado, with whom she was apparently close in the past, claiming he is responsible for the ruination of Earth-29.
Commander Steel
Commander Henry Steel
Species: Human
Played by: Brian Brightman
Greg's superior officer and head of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.
- Abled in the Adaptation: His comic-book counterpart, Sarge Steel, has a prosthetic hand. He appears to have both hands.
- Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, Sarge Steel is morally ambiguous at worst, sometimes using underhanded means but usually working for the greater good. Commander Steel, on the other hand, is a paranoid xenophobe who is prepared to detain and torture kids if he thinks they're aliens.
- Composite Character: While he is based on the DC character Sarge Steel, he also shares a name with another DC character, Hank Heywood, who has already appeared on Legends of Tomorrow.
- Inspector Javert: As the head of the UAPTF, he assumes that all aliens are potentially dangerous and hostile.
Jaeger
Jaeger
Species: Alien
Played by: Aaron Farb
A bounty hunter sent to capture Naomi.
- All There in the Manual: Isn't named in his debut episode.
- Bounty Hunter: Alien version. Whoever sent him hasn't been revealed yet (it is not Zumbado).
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Beats it when Dee overpowers him.
- Meaningful Name: "Jaeger" is Germanic for "hunter".
- Nothing Personal: What he tells Naomi when trying to apprehend her.
- Teleportation: His power, which he uses to great effect in combat.
