Superheroines
The main character. Sophie is a college student at the fictional Seacouver University, but moonlights as the superheroine Enhancegirl.
As Enhancegirl, she wears a golden, strapless minidress, long golden gloves, medium-length silver boots and a red domino mask. Gifted with extremely powerful Super-Senses, Enhancegirl can see through walls, feel the slightest disturbances in the air, and her sense of smell makes her a pretty good substitute for a bloodhound. However, she has completely ordinary hearing. A classic Fiery Redhead, Sophie can be headstrong and impulsive, but is also a quick thinker, and is skilled at short-term planning and improvisation in combat. She's fairly talkative, and humorous, but she definitely has a softer side: she doesn't exactly wear it on her sleeve, but doesn't hide either. As of the end of Enhancegirl 10, she has entered a long-term relationship with Spectra.
- Achilles in His Tent: At the start of part 9, she is very reluctant to go out on missions, following her humiliation in the previous chapter.
- Action Girl: This becomes especially clear from part 6 onwards. She will be defeated and captured at some point in every chapter, but she will always have one or two scenes showing just how deadly she can be.
- Aggressive Submissive: Can be aggressive and quick-tempered, but is quite sexually submissive with her romantic partners. This gets her into trouble when Ocelot uses this tendency to manipulate her.
- All-Loving Hero: Not ALL loving, perhaps, but her compassion extends even to mad villain Captain Cur.
- All Webbed Up: Happens to her in part four, courtesy of Arachna.
- Amnesiac Hero: Sophie is until the events of part 15 unaware of how she got her powers. In addition, she had repressed memories of depression in her early childhood.
- Awesome Moment of Crowning: Of a sort. After her victory over Imperion, she is 'crowned' with the title 'Kingslayer' before an adoring crowd.
- Bound and Gagged: As noted on the tropes page, this happens constantly. Much to her chagrin, she's been All Webbed Up, bound in duct tape, ropes, energy ribbons - you name it, someone's tied her up with it.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Subjected to this twice: both by Mesmeredith and by the Sin Eater. In the former case it causes her to become extremely submissive, revealing her weaknesses to anyone. In the second case it turns her into a loyal, devoted cultist. In the first case, she is able to break the conditioning with her own will. Not so the second time.
- Brought Down to Normal: In part 9.
- Character Tics: Clicks her tongue when mildly frustrated or trying to work out a problem.
- Comforting Comforter: Is this to Spectra after the two of them both have their powers stolen, and Mariko is distraught. Sophie notes that doing this comforts her as well.
- David vs. Goliath: Takes on the monstrously powerful Gravity Master Dextrus, and defeats him one-on-one by turning his own power against him.
- Dude Magnet: Sophie is said to be very attractive by many male characters, despite not being attracted to men.
- Fangirl: For Stellar, both as a musician, and as a superheroine.
- Faux Action Girl: Struggles, particularly in the first five chapters, with the notion that she might turn out to be this.
- Fiery Redhead: Of a sort. You're more likely to notice this in combat, where she's very hot tempered. In more personal situations, she's a bit more subdued. The bad guys really tend to piss her off, it seems.
- Go-Go Enslavement: Happens in Part 5 after being kidnapped by Madam Black. She, Spectra and Insyte are kept bound and stuffed into tiny, revealing dresses.
- Henshin Hero: Normally, Sophie does not have her powers. She turns them on using the phrase 'Enhance'. She turns them off with 'Downgrade' or 'I surrender'.
- Heroic Willpower: Is able to fight off Mesmeredith's mind control with this alone, when even Spectra needed the help of a telepath to escape the same peril.
- Hidden Depths: Studying political science at college, and is well-versed in 19th and 20th Century American literature. also has been unintentionally hiding a past of depression.
- Indy Ploy: Uses this to defeat the Supremacist.
- Instant Sedation: Her powers maker her vulnerable to this, especially when administered via chloroform.
- Logical Weakness: Attempted. The idea is that her enhanced sense of smell makes her vulnerable to sedatives like chloroform, but this doesn't make much biological sense, making it more of a Weaksauce Weakness. As of the reveal of how her powers really work - that she has an enhanced nervous system, rather than enhanced senses as such - this arguably makes a little more sense now. A little.
- Mini Dress Of Power: She wears a golden one as Enhancegirl, complete with long gloves and boots.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: Definitely averted. Sophie is not strongly built, and her lack of physical strength causes her problems.
- Required Secondary Powers: Along with her super senses, Enhancegirl's ability to process sensory information has been vastly increased. This lets her think extremely quickly when her powers are active, to the point where her 'secondary' power is arguably one of the most utilised in her arsenal.
- Rescue Romance: Seems to have a bit of a weakness for these. She more or less delivers herself to Ocelot when it seems that she's the one who rescued her from Nyx. For her part, this is flipped when she and Mariko confess their love for each other after Sophie rescues her.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Shades of this in Enhancegirl 10. She fights her way through Ocelot, superpowered bodyguard Rubio, Cybelle, Big Shot and Regulus to get to Spectra, who has been kidnapped and is at serious risk of death.
- Super-Empowering: She was granted her powers in an experiment by the Anubis Foundation. Her memory of this was erased.
- Superhero Sobriquets: The Kingslayer.
- Super-Senses: Extremely powerful. She can see through walls, can feel very slight disturbances in the air, and can even predict people's movements through seeing how they tense their muscles. For this reason, she is deadly in close range combat.
- The Gadfly: To Mariko. In their personal conversations, is often needling her or lightly making fun of her, both for her own amusement and to get Mariko to loosen up.
- The Mentor: To Aerogirl. She doesn't share her powers, but still helps her come up with ways to use them more effectively and creatively in combat.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives these out frequently. Memorably to Cybelle in part 5:
- Tomato in the Mirror: believes the inserted personality of Elena to be her true self, until it is revealed that she was the real one all along.
- Tranquil Fury: Has this at the beginning of the final fight with Ocelot.
- Valley Girl: Sprinkles her speech with the mannerisms of one, but doesn't have the associated vacuousness.
- Weaksauce Weakness: See above.
The closest thing the series has to a deuteragonist, Spectra starts off the series as something of The Rival to Enhancegirl, coming off as proud and haughty towards the less experienced heroine.
As Spectra, she wears a silver leotard with a skirt combo, medium-length silver gloves, boots and domino mask. She quickly becomes one of Enhancegirl's strongest allies, however. This is assisted by her abilities: she has the power to absorb light through her eyes, and use it offensively in a variety of ways. One of the city's more famous heroes, Spectra is dismissive of lesser heroes, but is a degree more personable when 'off the clock'. Spectra does not find it easy to deal with defeat, reacting either with explosive anger, or shamed despair. She is a professional model in her 'civilian' life, and though she's not exactly a supermodel, she's independently wealthy. She and Sophie do strike up a friendship and by the end of Enhancegirl 10, they have fallen in love, and are in a relationship and gets a new costume.
- Action Girl: A very powerful and capable superhero.
- Ambiguous Disorder: Downplayed, but Mariko seems to have trouble understanding other people's emotions, or expressing her own. In part 15, it is outright confirmed that she has Asperger's Syndrome.
- Anguished Declaration of Love: to Sophie in part 10. Gets less anguished when she understands that Sophie feels the same way.
- Always Someone Better: Starts off as this to Enhancegirl. In part three, she is the one who defeats Mesmeredith - Sophie has no part in the resolution of the plot. Subverted in that it turns out Mariko was, without her knowledge, brought under Mesmeredith's control, while Enhancegirl was able to free herself from the mesmerist's hypnosis.
- Batman Grabs a Gun: In part 9, when she loses her powers, in order to fight against Adrienne, who took them.
- Bound and Gagged: Happens to Mariko almost as often as it happens to Enhancegirl. She notes with irritation that it has started to happen more since she began associating with the redhead.
- Break Them by Talking: Subjected to this by Adrienne, after the villain steals her powers. She cruelly gives voice to Mariko's own fear that Sophie will never love her, and that she's nothing without being Spectra.
- Bridal Carry: Carries Enhancegirl like this twice: once when she rescues her from Nyx, and again in a romantic context, when she's carrying her girlfriend to her bedroom.
- Brought Down to Normal: In Part 9.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Has handed out a couple of these, first to the Catastrophe Gang, then also to Regulus, who had just done the same thing to Sophie. Later, after recovering her powers from Adrienne, she destroys her (not literally) in single combat, even when she's using the powers of Stellar and Enhancegirl against her.
- Damsel in Distress: In Part 10 she is defeated and kidnapped, and is helpless for the entire chapter, needing to be rescued by Enhancegirl.
- Dark and Troubled Past: There are several hints of this, certainly of an unhappy childhood: it is important to note that she has lived alone since she was sixteen.
- Defiant Captive: Even bound, drained of her strength and suspended in a glass tube she still almost kills Hosenfluss by severing his carotid artery. Later, this does indirectly lead to his death.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Starts off very hostile to the other characters, but soon warms to the point of just hanging out and having drinks with Sophie. She eventually defrosts to the point where she falls in love with Sophie.
- Dude Magnet: Like Sophie, many male characters have said how easy in the eyes she is, even the Supremacist attempted to make her his queen.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: In her first appearance, Mariko drugs Sophie and is considering sending photos of her while Bound and Gagged to the press, simply as revenge for mildly showing her up at one occasion. Later characterisation of her is not consistent with this kind of thing.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Comes through hell and highwater to save Sophie and restore her to her side in part 15. In the epilogue, she forms her own superhero team and takes a young girl said to be as strong as the Indigo Titan as her student with Sophie at her side.
- Fatal Flaw - Vanity: Spectra is very, VERY concerned with maintaining her public image, almost to the point of neurosis. She also puts a great deal of importance on reputation generally, dismissing Aerogirl because of how the public sees her as a failure.
- Fighting Spirit: In part 12, demonstrates the ability to manifest a 'soul-light', which is a manifestation of her inner power. While this takes a while to charge up, and can't be used for long without making her pass out, it is EXTREMELY powerful, putting Spectra above the likes of Nova and Valora in terms of the pure power at her disposal.
- Freudian Excuse: Of the retcon variety. To explain what she did to Sophie in part 2, it has been later implied that something had just happened to her such that she was not herself at the time, though it has been only vaguely explained. Sophie seemed to have forgiven her, though.
- Imagination-Based Superpower: Using her powers to their full effectiveness requires she wield them like this.
- Go-Go Enslavement: Happens in Part 5 after a failed attempt to rescue Enhancegirl from being kidnapped. She, Enhancegirl and Insyte are kept bound and stuffed into tiny, revealing dresses.
- Heroic BSoD: Suffers this after the loss of her powers. Sophie helps her to break out of it by lying with her in bed and calming her down.
- Improbable Age: Has become one of Seacouver's most famous and beloved heroines...and she's only twenty.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Surly and dismissive at first, but is definitely on the side of right.
- Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Owns a small tomcat named Arthur.
- Light 'em Up: Her power. Lasers, heat beams (infrared light), force fields - if she can think it, she can probably do it.
- Light Is Good: Her costume invokes this, as well as her powers.
- Logical Weakness: She needs to absorb light through her eyes in order to fuel her powers. Therefore, if she's blindfolded, she loses her powers.
- Mini Dress Of Power: Her superhero costume (Technically, she wears a silver Leotard of Power with a miniskirt attached to it) complete with medium gloves and boots.
- Lady of War: Shades of this trope. Cultured, poised and refined, while being powerful and extremely skilled in combat.
- Love Hurts: When she realises that she has fallen for Sophie, this causes her a great deal of distress. This is because she convinces herself that she's made herself unapproachable in her strength, and that Sophie will never love her back for this reason. Gets even worse when she sees her with Ocelot.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Both played straight and inverted. She is feminine in appearance and dress, but is also an extremely powerful superhero, and has a steely determination. Yet, at the same time, her coldness hides someone quite emotionally vulnerable and sensitive.
- Spy Catsuit: After chapter 10, she changes to a silver catsuit with Tron Lines.
- Superhero Sobriquets: "The Mistress of Light".
- Unknown Rival: Of a sort. She doesn't realise the enmity Nova feels towards her, or how threatened she feels by Mariko's place on the Pauldron. In Mariko's defence, however, Nova was deliberately hiding it.
- You Are Not Alone: Has a moment of this when in battle with Lord Delirious alongside the Pauldron. Says it again, in not so many words, to Sophie, when saving her from the darkness Elena has plunged her into in part 15.
A Korean Idol Singer as well as a superheroine. Stellar has three distinct power sets, which she can access separately, not being able to use them all at once. These are: the Black Star, in which she has Super-Strength and is more aggressive and confident; the White Star, in which she can use light to power sound-based attacks, and is peppy, spunky and energetic; and the Blue Star, in which she is cryokinetic and becomes ethereal and aloof in personality. Underneath her masks, Yumi is a sweet, kind young woman, whose fame and success have made her easy to demoralise on the rare attempts where she is defeated.
- An Ice Person: As the blue star, with traditional Iceman-esque powers.
- All Webbed Up: By Arachna, who is somewhat obsessed with her.
- Big Damn Heroes: She is ultimately responsible for rescuing Enhancegirl, Insyte and Spectra from Madam Black's clutches in part 5 and she also saves Mariko and Sophie from public humiliation after their powers are stolen in Part 9.
- Bound and Gagged: In every appearance so far, this happens to her pretty quickly.
- Brought Down to Normal: In her attempt to recover Spectra and Enhancegirl's powers, she too is defeated and drained.
- Combo Platter Powers: Her powers have nothing to do with each other - but, mitigating this, she can't use them all at once.
- Damsel in Distress: Her debut features her being kidnapped by Arachna and Cybelle during her concert, leading Sophie to try to rescue her from them.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: As the White Star, she's blonde, and she's always kind, sweet and compassionate.
- Logical Weakness: As the White Star, she absorbs light through her skin to power her sound-based attacks. Cover her up, and she can't do that.
- Super-Strength: As the Black Star.
- Tentacle Rope: Adrienne wraps her up in these.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Her 'Black Star' form is weakened by soft, luxurious materials against her skin, and her 'Blue Star' form, as well as having a Logical Weakness to heat, is also weakened by sensual pleasure.
The heroine with the most appearances after Enhancegirl and Spectra, Natalya Nazarov is a telepath, with the ability to read the minds of anyone she can see. In combat, she uses this ability to predict her opponents' movements and plans, making her fairly capable in hand to hand fights. Also, she can exert a small amount of influence over others' minds, making them not pay attention to her which makes her helpful during a stealth missions. This causes her to be very shy and gets overwhelmed even by small groups of people. Natalya works as an architect, and is probably the least active and least enthusiastic heroine of the main cast. Nevertheless, she does care about doing what's right, and despite her shy and retiring nature, she does have inner strength. Just ask Mesmeredith...
- A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Believes this. She seems to find the process of looking at peoples' thoughts inherently unpleasant. Sometimes used against her: people imagine things that will shock her, allowing them to catch her off guard.
- Bag of Kidnapping: Used against her in part 5. Particularly effective, as it prevents her from using her powers when it covers her eyes.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: When angered, she destroys Mesmeredith's powers.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Her powers cause her a lot of resentment of other people, particularly her own family. For this reason, she believes this trope applies to her.
- Bound and Gagged: Happens to her often enough.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Immune to this. Uses her powers to free others from it frequently.
- Brainy Brunette: Dark haired, intelligent, and in an intellectually demanding profession.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Extremely pale, and her powers and unnaturally yellow eyes can make her seem somewhat eerie.
- I Will Fight No More Forever: After Enhancegirl 12, she quits being Insyte. Despite her heroism in part 14, that retirement seems genuinely to have stuck.
- Non-Action Guy: Not quite - she does get down and dirty in fights, but her biggest contributions to the stories she's been in have been more esoteric uses of her powers, and she's definitely the least able fighter of the main cast.
- Platonic Declaration of Love: Receives one from, and gives one to, Sophie in part 14.
- Logical Weakness: She needs to see you in order to read your mind, so blindfolding her renders her powerless.
- Love Hurts: Being in a relationship with Askancepoint, who gets attached very quickly, embarrasses and distresses her sometimes.
- Shrinking Violet: Her powers make her like this. By part 7, she is taking active steps to combat this, as she recognises it is making her unhappy.
- Single Power Superhero: She can read minds, and that's pretty much it.
- Tritagonist: The third most important character in the overall series after Sophie and Mariko.
Poor Aerogirl. Quite possibly the most powerful heroine of the main cast in terms of raw strength, she nonetheless has a reputation for being the least competent superhero in Seacouver. This is due in large part to her Weaksauce Weakness: she loses her powers when she's tied up. That, combined with the fact that she's simply not very good at using her powers means her attempts at heroics almost always end in humiliating failure. Enhancegirl tries to mentor her somewhat, and her combat abilities do improve a little. Maya herself is very demure and soft spoken, speaking hesitantly and passively. Ironically, she gets more assertive when she's at her computer, as she is a skilled hacker and computer programmer, making her a valuable source of intelligence on occasion.
In addition, there are certain hints that there there is something more to this heroine than meets the eye...
- Blow You Away: Maya has power over the wind and can use it to fly, attack, and manipulate objects
- Bound and Gagged: Her weakness. She's powerless when tied up, so enemies use this against her all the time.
- Depending on the Artist: Due to how vague her costume is described (apparently being a yellow-ish green Mini Dress Of Power), every artists that has drawn her has their own interpretation of how her costume looks like.
- Fanservice: Aerogirl is this in-universe. She has been captured, tied up, and photographed so many times there is even a subreddit dedicated to such pictures of her.
- Faux Action Girl: How most of Seacouver sees her. She's infamous for being easily defeated, tied up, and captured, such to the extent that she isn't taken seriously by the superhero community.
- Power Floats: Can use her wind powers to hover in the air. Usually described as impressive, but in one instance she is tied up by Ocelot's drones and falls out of the air, right into her arms.
- The Cameo: After spending the entirety of arc 3 absent, she appears right at the end to lend Sophie her support.
- Touched by Vorlons: Her powers allegedly come from ancient wind spirits, but their exact nature is mysterious.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Being tied up takes away her powers. Vaguely justified in that the spirits which empower her withdraw their favour in such situations, but this weakness definitely exists for fetish reasons.
Valora is a classic superhero, like something that walked straight out of The Golden Age of Comic Books. Confident, strong, unashamedly self-assured, and powerful, Valora uses her incredible strength to battle evil wherever she finds it. In an apparent nod to classic comics, Valerie is a freelance photographer in her civilian life. She wears a front-zipped blue latex leotard with white lines, red gloves, knee-length boots and domino mask. Definitely the most famous hero of the cast. She tends to look down on the villains she fights, seeming almost arrogant in her treatment of them. This arrogance. However, doesn't seem to extend past her opponents, and she - unlike Spectra - has respect even for heroes weaker and less experienced than herself. Still, she can be blunt, and on occasion rushes into things, relying on her great strength to carry the day. Needless to say, this doesn't always go well for her...
Valora is the protagonist of the prequel story; The Perils of Valora, which shows how she became a famous superheroine in the West Coast.
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: Not much of a strategist. In fairness to her, she rarely needs to be one.
- Big Damn Heroes: Saves Sophie and Yumi from Arachna's clutches.
- Instant Sedation: Is subjected to this by Nyx.
- Leotard of Power: She wears a thick blue latex leotard with red and white lines.
- Single Power Superhero: Superhumanly strong...and that's it.
- Super-Strength: Her power. Strong enough to send a fully grown man sailing off into the horizon with a full power punch.
- The Worf Effect: She is effortlessly defeated by Hades, being thrown over the villain's shoulder, paralysed, and then nerve-pinched into unconsciousness.
Villains
Madam Black (her first name is, apparently, Susan) is a criminal of whom Sophie runs afoul in her first appearance. She runs a kidnapping ring, abducting attractive young women, and selling them off. A particularly cruel and nasty sort, after Enhancegirl disrupts her operation, she goes to some lengths to get her back, hiring a number of villains to go after her. She seems to have a small degree of combat ability, but is by no means a fighter.
- Big Bad: Of the first arc.
- Man Behind the Man: Frequently the one employing Enhancegirl's enemies.
- Perverse Sexual Lust: Averted. Insyte confirms that Black has no lust whatsoever for her victims, she's just a sadist.
- Starter Villain: The first villain we see Enhancegirl face, and possibly the most mundane of all her recurring opponents. Subverted in that she actually orchestrates much of what happens during the first five chapters.
Mesmeredith is the main villain of Part 3, and she reappears in Part 5. Formerly going by the name of Hypnotra, she has the power her name suggests, able to hypnotise people into following her every command. She can also implant triggers in unsuspecting victims. Formerly notorious for taking control of The Indigo Titan, though she was defeated by Insyte. Forced into hiding, Sophie finds her working at a circus, but she decides to start making use of her powers once again.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: In part 5, alongside Madam Black.
- Brainwashing: Her main power.
- Brought Down to Normal: Insyte destroys her powers.
- Flat Character: She's evil, she likes brainwashing people...that's more or less it.
- Manchurian Agent: She can create these such as Spectra in chapter 5.
Nyx is a strange one. Generally a criminal for hire, she has a very specific power: she's immune to sedatives of all kinds, so uses them against her opponents with impunity. She seems to enjoy this a lot. Given that Enhancegirl has a particular weakness to her choice of weapons, she gets off on her entanglements with the redhead.
- Even Evil Has Standards: When she has captured Enhancegirl and Valora, her employer Ocelot has her publicly humiliate them. Nyx goes through with this, but doesn't seem very happy about it. This later motivates her to betray Ocelot, alerting Aerogirl to the thief's capture of Insyte.
- Knockout Gas: Prefers chloroform, but likes this too.
- Instant Sedation: Likes doing this to her victims.
Another villain, this one with spider-themed powers, able to spin sticky, binding webs and paralyse her opponents. She starts out as a mercenary working for Madam Black alongside Cybelle, but very quickly turns against them, when it turns out that she had a personal interest in their target - Stellar - and wanted the popstar for herself.
- All Webbed Up: What she usually does with her victims.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Delivers this to Stellar and Enhancegirl. She fights them at the same time, and defeats them both, completely mummifying them in silk, and toying with them as they whimper in her grasp.
- Freudian Excuse: In Chapter 16, is implied that before the events of the story, Hades captured her, tortured and threatened her to turn her into one of his "trophies" before she escaped and became a crazy criminal.
- Perverse Sexual Lust: Particularly strong with this one. She is positively giddy that Yumi is in her clutches in part four.
- Stalker with a Crush: For Stellar/Yumi, leading her to kidnap the singer and hold her captive.
- The Paralyzer
A bounty hunter and known criminal that enhanced herself with cybernetics.
- Cyborg: True to her name, she's a cyborg who sports a metal faceplate and several robotic Combat Tentacles.
- Combat Tentacles: Uses her robotic tendrils to attack, and to wrap up some hot super-gals as well.
- Artificial Limbs: Her aforementioned Combat Tentacles.
- Swiss-Army Appendage: Cybelle's tendrils contain Knockout Gas and tape to tie up damsels with.
- Bad Boss: We don't actually see this very much, but Ocelot - who used to work for him - absolutely hates him.
- Does Not Know His Own Strength: With fatal results.
- Killed Off for Real: He accidentally snaps his own neck.
- Old Shame: Even prior to the his Super-Empowering, he was already an incredibly weak telekinetic. It does save his life, though.
- Super-Empowering: He artificially gives himself very potent superhuman powers.
An unsettling and mysterious villain, Féa, the self-proclaimed 'Sin Eater' is the main villain of Part 7. Described as a 'misogynist-misandrist', she serially abducts and brainwashes sexually active or obviously liberated women, believing that passivity protects women from sin that men cannot avoid. She uses her dark magicks to bring a number of women under her control. She kidnaps Ocelot, and later takes control of Enhancegirl as well. Though she claims to oppose sin, her own lustful nature is thinly disguised.
- A God Am I: Sees herself as a goddess or divine with a mandate to rid the world of "harlotry"
- Black Eyes of Evil:
- Casting a Shadow: Has darkness/shadow-themed powers
- Combat Tentacles: Uses tendrils made of pure darkness
- Cosmic Horror Story: Downplayed, but the origins of her powers do raise a lot of question about the setting.
- Flunky Boss: Her brainwashed cultist girls try to help her during the battle.
- Humanoid Abomination: She's empowered by supernatural forces and looks decidedly inhuman.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Her driving motivation is to capture sexually liberated or independent women and mold them into subjugated, submissive slaves under her control. Her reason for doing this is due to her belief that Females Are More Innocent and that Men Are Better Than Women; or rather, that women are the fairer sex and men are evil, so women having the same amount of agency as men will make them just as evil as they are. The fact that Fea herself could be considered a powerful and sexually-driven woman is honestly not something that occurs to her.
- Touched by Vorlons: Her powers were bestowed upon her by unknown entities.
- Breaking Speech: A quick one to Zjarrus.
- Climax Boss: is extremely powerful compared to previous villains and requires the combined efforts of Zjarrus and several other characters to beat.
- Fantastic Racism
- I Have You Now, My Pretty: Binds Mariko using his powers and caresses her neck during his We Can Rule Together speech.
- Imagination-Based Superpower
- Smug Super
- Some Kind of Force Field: Can create very powerful force fields.
- Tin Tyrant: Wears a set of blue armor.
- Tom the Dark Lord: His first name is Martin. Zjarrus refuses to address him as anything else.
- Bad Boss: Cruel to her staff, threatening them if they don't toe the line, or if they anger her in any way. This comes back to bite her, as one of her underlings betrays her, giving Mariko and Sophie a crucial distraction to take her down.
- Brought Down to Normal: Inflicts this on Sophie, Mariko and Yumi. Ironically enough, Mariko inflicts this on her in her turn, by forcibly extracting the powers from her body.
- Power Parasite: Steals powers from other supers to use them as her own.
A cat burglar very much in the mold of Catwoman or Black Cat, Ocelot uses an assortment of gadgets and robotic drones to assist in her burglaries. She is also a capable martial artist even without these. She has tangled with - and tangled up - Aerogirl on several occasions. As the second arc goes on, she begins to have a rather powerful effect on Enhancegirl...
- Ambiguously Brown: She's described as having a dark skintone and blond hair but her ethnicity is never properly revealed.
- Ambiguously Jewish: At first. It becomes thoroughly unambiguous later on.
- Big Damn Heroes: In part 9.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Kidnapped and brought under the control of the Sin Eater in part 7.
- Dating Catwoman: Sophie is a superheroine who fights crime. Rachel is a thief. And they end up having a relationship. The series deconstructs this, since it turns out that dating a villain with little to no morals is not a good idea, especially when she goes all Yandere on Sophie and tries to get rid of Mariko.
- Face–Heel Turn: While she was never heroic, she was never portrayed as evil or malicious and she once helped Sophie during Chapter 9. However, in Chapter 10, upon discovering that Spectra has feeling for Sophie, she decides to kill her to keep Sophie for herself and joins forces with Ricardo to do it.
- Femme Fatale: Uses her lust and sexuality to manipulate Sophie.
- Knight of Cerebus: Ocelot's entry into the series marks a much more emotional and dramatic turn in the plotting and characterisation.
- Science Hero: Uses gadgets and drones of her own design to fight.
Few villains have as as terrifying a reputation as Hades. Little is known of their identity, powers, or even what their gender is beneath their armor. A figure of legend, they are alleged to control vast criminal networks (possibly all the organized crime rings in the Western United States), and he is rumored to be a supervillain of immense power who few can stand against.
- Breath Weapon: Can open an aperture in his mask and breathe a cone of extreme cold, which is able to freeze Valora.
- The Collector: At the end of episode 12, it's revealed that he likes to collect superheroines as trophies by stashing them alive in stasis tubes.
- The Dreaded: Has this reputation as many heroines have fought him with no avail, never to be seen again...
- Hero Killer: Doesn't kill any of our heroines, but he has this reputation. He effortlessly defeats everyone from Enhancegirl, Spectra to Valora. Also, before the events of the story, all the heroines that he fought against disappeared and the public thought they were killed by him. In reality, he just stashed them alive in stasis tubes as trophies for his sadistic ego.
- Killed Off for Real: He eventually dies fighting Sophie in Chapter 16.
- Large and in Charge: Approximately 7'6 tall.
- The Reveal: He's Imperion a.k.a Jackson Morrow.
- Secret-Keeper: Only Sophie knows he's Jackson Morrow before their final battle.
- Tin Tyrant: He's covered completely in a suit of heavy technological armor, concealing their true face.
The Fiendish Five
Captain Cur is the leader of the criminal group known as the Fiendish Five. A truly bizarre entity, he has the power to chemically alter the constitution of his body to a wide variety of potent effects. He seems to be committed to a theatrical, cartoonish villainy, and while he will fight a hero, and he'll tie someone up, he won't tolerate inflicting pointless harm on someone. In reality, he is former hero Doctor Arrhenius, who - already mentally disturbed anyway - was driven mad after an encounter with the villains known as the Fifty Fractals, and after witnessing his beloved cat Marianne be brutally killed.
- Big Damn Hero: Shows up outta nowhere to rescue EG and Spectra from Hades' clutches.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Sacrifices himself to protect Sophie and Mariko from Hades.
- Kind Hearted Cat Lover: So much so that he snapped when his cat was killed.
- Power Born of Madness: His shapeshifting powers are directly related to his delusions. The more he uses them, the worse he gets. When he divests himself of his powers to save Sophie, his last moments are quite sane.
- Shout-Out: An obvious one to Robbie Rotten. He even borrows a couple of his catchphrases.
Colonel Cad is Cur's number two in the Fiendish Five. He has the power to erase metal with his right hand - hence his other nom de crime, 'Greyhand' - and then launch it out again to use offensively. Seemingly the strategist of the group, he has a much nastier personality than his leader, being far more willing than Cur to be cruel to his enemies. In fact, it was Cad who drove Arrhenius mad, thanks to his killing the man's cat. He then allowed Cur to 'recruit' him, using the man's greater power to assist in his criminal endeavours.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Receives this twice from Sophie, and dishes one out to the Generator.
- Killed Off for Real: Hades tears his head off while fighting him.
- Look What I Can Do Now!: Discovers that his metal-erasing hand can absorb electricity too.
- Villainous Valour: Despite his evil, he'll willingly take on enemies he knows are stronger than himself.
Commander Caitiff is number three in the Fiendish Five. She can shoot a kind of binding gel from her hands, using to entrap and capture her opponents. She has more of a moral centre than Greyhand, but is no good guy either. She is aware that, over her time as a career criminal, she's begun to develop a sadistic streak, and she wavers between indulging this streak and being repulsed by it.
- Hidden Depths: Does have the capacity for not only kindness, but genuine heroism.
- Perverse Sexual Lust: Experiences it, and is ashamed of it. Apparently Hades stoked this tendency in her to corrupt her.
More of an innocent, perhaps, than Caitiff, Chupacabra has the power to absorb energy through her hands, up to and including the attacks of Spectra. She can also drain a person directly, weakening them. She seems to be very attached to Caitiff, though whether this is merely a close friendship or something more is unclear.
- I Coulda Been a Contender!: Thinks she could have been an actress.
- Meaningful Name: Her powers let her suck up people's strength, like a chupacabra sucking blood.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Feels this in prison. Certainly a lot of other ladies in the slammer take a liking to her.
Denzel actually appears all the way back in part five, working as a goon for Madam Black. His is notable, however, for his imagining a truly god-awful erotic novel involving Insyte and Spectra. He returns later in part 11, as The Chronicler, whose entire role in the Fiendish Five seems to be to record their adventures, something Cur believes to be of crucial importance to their mission.
Other Characters
A reporter friend of Sophie's, and one of the only people who knows her secret identity. She is also the only person to discover Sophie's identity by accident, rather than Sophie deciding to reveal it. She's something of a fan of Enhancegirl, using her position to try to bolster Sophie's popularity. She provides assistance to Sophie in part 3, only to be kidnapped in part 5, and again in part 8 - both times to draw Sophie into a trap. She is also acquainted with Valerie Orville, though she does not know that she is Valora.
The Pauldron
- The Ace: Everyone in California thinks so. He's something of an inspiration for superheroes on the West Coast.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Loses his shit when he sees Nova in Lord Delirious' clutches.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He's the most famous superhero in the west coast, and also its most dreaded supervillain: Hades.
- Big Good: As the leader of the most powerful superhero teams dedicated to fighting crime in California, he is widely perceived as such.
- Crusading Widower: His wife is dead (not really), and he fights the good fight in her absence.
- Deadpan Snarker: Somewhat.
- Love Confession: Confesses to Nova that he loves her more than he ever loved his ex-wife.
- Shock and Awe: Has electrical powers unrelated to his vast strength.
- Anguished Declaration of Love: To Jackson.
- Awesome Moment of Crowning: Becomes the Pauldron's commander after Jackson's death.
- Break the Haughty: Mercilessly humiliated by Hades. She's collapses into an emotional wreck in part 13 because of it.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: Averted.
- Some Kind of Force Field: Can create barriers as well as use her powers offensively.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: A great deal between her and Jackson until part 15, when they confess their love to each other, and even some with Ivan Nazarov.
- Sincerity Mode: Occasionally drops the attitude just to let people know he's serious when saying something important.
- The Snark Knight: Almost always sarcastic about his teammates' doings.
- Meaningful Name: His codename is an anagram of 'I cannot speak'.
- Nice Guy: Friendly, warm, and sociable. This endears him strongly to Natalya Nazarov, and the two begin dating in part 14.
The Pariahs
- Functional Addict: Has a drug habit, but more or less manages to keep stable.
- Ironic Echo: Has her words twisted against her when throwing down with the Supremacist.
- Odd Friendship: With Sara. As teammates we saw them butt heads, but outside of that they appear friendly with each other, even close.
- Big Brother Instinct: Probably not a good idea to hurt the sister of a man who can melt you in half a second.
- Blood Knight: "I'm the strongest! I'M THE STRONGEST!"
- Big Damn Heroes: He does this in every chapter he appears in, except 9, where he only has a walk-on part.
- Calling Your Attacks: Apparently he used to do this. Does it once more in part 10, for old times' sake.
- Cheshire Cat Grin: Frequently, and somewhat unsettlingly.
- Chick Magnet: He thinks he's one himself. However, while he's described as attractive, many women find him annoying, temperamental or weird.
- Chivalrous Pervert: When a distraught Spectra throws herself at him after she sees Sophie with Ocelot, he initially intends to take advantage, but can't bring himself to.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Normally the one handing these out. Against The Supremacist, however, even Zjarrus doesn't stand a chance.
- Drunk with Power: Using his abilities to his full extent is more pleasurable than narcotics, apparently. This causes him to use a dangerous amount of power in his fight with Hosenfluss.
- First-Name Basis: Only refers to The Supremacist as 'Martin'.
- Hidden Depths: Played with. He gives his sister a fairly insightful pep talk, but she realises that 'wag with hidden depths' is another act he likes to play.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Rude, arrogant, smug and impulsive, but genuinely loves his sister and has a heroic streak. Though it wavers between this and...
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He really IS rude and arrogant, and his repeatedly dismissive of his teammates, particularly Sam Sparr, whom he mocks regularly.
- Morality Pet: His sister. Around her, he seems arrogant, but decent. When she's not around, his character is noticeably darker.
- Nominal Hero: Seems to have no compunctions about killing people when he needs to, and most people are just afraid of him.
- Not So Above It All: Seems quite affectionate towards Gallantria, a heroine he's sleeping with. He's driven into a bloody rage when Hades abducts her.
- Reformed, but Not Tamed: Used to work with the villain known as The Supremacist, but has since mended his ways. He's still destructive and conceited, however.
- Reformed, but Rejected: Still something of a - ho ho ho - Pariah in the superhero community.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He certainly likes to think so, though he apparently has a rather creepy grin.
- The Paragon Always Rebels: Was the strongest of the Supremacist's followers, despite only having been a teenager at the time. It says something that Martin offers him a place at his side even at the very end.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Hades gives him one of these in par 14, calling him pathetic when Ivan is poisoned and more or less helpless. This turns out not to be quite so clever when Ivan reveals that his powers run off adrenaline, so pissing him off literally makes him stronger.
- Would Hit a Girl: Threatens Enhancegirl when she attacks him, and seems to mean it.
- Attack Drone: Can use his armour like this. He and it can attack separately, though both he and the armour are VASTLY weaker without each other.
- Foreshadowing: His ability to use his armour independently of his riding in it foreshadows Jackson Morrow's ability to do the same, which allows him to appear in two places at once.
- Henshin Hero: Activates his armour with a cry of 'exo-generate'.
- Hidden Depths: Surprisingly perceptive. Notices that something is very off about Hades, and conducts a fairly successful investigation against them, managing to liberate several of Hades' captives.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Is apparently in love with Catastrophe.
- Dishing Out Dirt: A powerful terrakinetic.
- Incompatible Orientation: Related to the above: he is in love with Catastrophe, another man, but Catastrophe appears to be heterosexual. Certainly, he does not return Max's feelings.
- Nice Guy: Despite being a former criminal, and having powers which run off rage, he is almost always personable.
- Combo Platter Powers: Not at first. To begin with, he can shoot powerful energy rays out of his chest. However, upon his death, Angermax passes his powers onto him. Catastrophe retains his energy rays, and also gains anger-based terrakinetic abilities. This includes controlling lava.
- Closet Geek: He named himself, and his gang, after Barret Wallace's Limit Breaks from Final Fantasy Seven.
- Dishing Out Dirt: once he gains Angermax's powers.
- Light 'em Up: His native ability.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Against the Supremacist, when Angermax is murdered. He certainly isn't strong enough to defeat him, but his powers DO provide a crucial distraction.
