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[[folder:Sherlock Frankenstein]]
An undead MadScientist who originally hailed from Victorian London, Sherlock Frankenstein has menaced Spiral City for decades.
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[[folder:Sherlock Frankenstein]]
An undead MadScientistElliot
Lucy's husband, a reformed supervillain whooriginally hailed used to go by the name Lightning Rod. Though he and Lucy love each other dearly, the strain of their marriage has led them to grow distant from Victorian London, Sherlock Frankenstein has menaced Spiral City for decades.one another.
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* KavorkaMan: He's an overweight middle-aged man with a prominent bald spot, but this hasn't prevented him from carrying on an affair with an attractive secretary behind Lucy's back.
* ShockAndAwe: He has the power to shoot electric sparks from his fingertips.
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[[folder:Sherlock Frankenstein]]
An undead MadScientist who originally hailed from Victorian London, Sherlock Frankenstein has menaced Spiral City for decades.
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* KavorkaMan: He's an overweight middle-aged man with a prominent bald spot, but this hasn't prevented him from carrying on an affair with an attractive secretary behind Lucy's back.
* ShockAndAwe: He has the power to shoot electric sparks from his fingertips.
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!! Spiral City Supervillains
[[folder:Sherlock Frankenstein]]
An undead MadScientist who originally hailed from Victorian London, Sherlock Frankenstein has menaced Spiral City for decades.
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* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: He fell in love with the nurse who took care of him while he was wasting away from a disease.
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* AllLovingHero: Joseph was a social worker before he became a superhero, and his focus has always been on saving lives and helping people, even his enemies. When his arch-nemesis Metal Minotaur accidentally snapped her own back during a battle, he immediately took her to New World to get her life-saving medical treatment and stayed with her while she convalesced.
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: The man started out as a Victorian era superhero, then spent a huge chunk of the 20th Century as a ruthless supervillain, then gave up his criminal ways in the late Seventies and became an HonestCorporateExecutive.
* HumongousMecha: His first appearance in the main series shows him attacking Spiral City at the controls of a giant robot.
* LoveRedeems: ''Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil'' shows that, while he made a pretense of turning over a new leaf when he founded his company, it was Gail's love that truly convinced him to give up on his villainous ways and go straight.
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: The man started out as a Victorian era superhero, then spent a huge chunk of the 20th Century as a ruthless supervillain, then gave up his criminal ways in the late Seventies and became an HonestCorporateExecutive.
* HumongousMecha: His first appearance in the main series shows him attacking Spiral City at the controls of a giant robot.
* LoveRedeems: ''Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil'' shows that, while he made a pretense of turning over a new leaf when he founded his company, it was Gail's love that truly convinced him to give up on his villainous ways and go straight.
* UndeathlyPallor: He has an unnaturally pale complexion due to his undead state.
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[[folder:Anti-God]]
Starlok's evil brother. Anti-God was a "cosmic despot" who'd stop at nothing to tilt the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil squarely in favor of evil.
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Starlok's evil brother. Anti-GodSpiral City Supervillains
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A genius who built herself a powered exoskeleton in the shape of a minotaur and used it to commit crimes. She was a"cosmic despot" who'd stop at nothing to tilt the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil squarely in favor longtime foe of evil.Black Hammer.
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* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: They're suits of PoweredArmor[=/=]MiniMecha built in the likeness of the mythological Minotaur, in this case.
* SamusIsAGirl: The Metal Minotaur armor gives no indication of the wearer's gender, and Black Hammer's files on the supervillain list their secret identity as "N. Parker". Lucy assumed that Metal Minotaur must be a man and is quite surprised to learn that she's actually a woman.
* SecretKeeper: She’s one of the few people outside the superhero community who knows that Joseph Weber is Black Hammer, having been told his secret identity by the man himself while she was convalescing from her broken back.
* SmartPeopleBuildRobots: She was a brilliant scientist and engineer who built a series of minotaur-themed battlesuits, ranging in size from HumongousMecha to PoweredArmor.
-->'''Metal Minotaur:''' There was a time, [...] I could build just about anything I put my mind to. And it just so happened what I chose to build was a massive suit of battle armor.\\
What can I say? It was the Seventies. Things were different then...
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[[folder:Anti-God]]
Starlok's evil brother. Anti-God was a "cosmic despot" who'd stop at nothing to tilt the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil squarely in favor of evil.
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* HumongousMecha: The first few Metal Minotaur models were battlesuits large enough for the head to serve as a cockpit. She scaled down the size in later models, with the final model being small enough to act as PoweredArmor--with [[CareerEndingInjury disastrous results]] when she took it for a test drive.
* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: They're suits of PoweredArmor[=/=]MiniMecha built in the likeness of the mythological Minotaur, in this case.
* SamusIsAGirl: The Metal Minotaur armor gives no indication of the wearer's gender, and Black Hammer's files on the supervillain list their secret identity as "N. Parker". Lucy assumed that Metal Minotaur must be a man and is quite surprised to learn that she's actually a woman.
* SecretKeeper: She’s one of the few people outside the superhero community who knows that Joseph Weber is Black Hammer, having been told his secret identity by the man himself while she was convalescing from her broken back.
* SmartPeopleBuildRobots: She was a brilliant scientist and engineer who built a series of minotaur-themed battlesuits, ranging in size from HumongousMecha to PoweredArmor.
-->'''Metal Minotaur:''' There was a time, [...] I could build just about anything I put my mind to. And it just so happened what I chose to build was a massive suit of battle armor.\\
What can I say? It was the Seventies. Things were different then...
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!! Other Characters
[[folder:Anti-God]]
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[[folder:Anti-God]]
Starlok's evil brother. Anti-God was a "cosmic despot" who'd stop at nothing to tilt the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil squarely in favor of evil.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Flashbacks show that he towered over the buildings of Spiral City.
* BigBad: A posthumous example. Anti-God nearly destroyed the universe during the Cataclysm ten years ago, and the heroes are stranded on the farm as a direct consequence of stopping him. [[spoiler:In the second half of the series, the heroes' goals shift from getting off the farm to preventing Anti-God's resurrection and return.]]
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Starlok's Abel. Anti-God is a tyrannical god of darkness and evil who seeks to disrupt the balance and conquer or destroy the universe, whereas his brother Starlok is a benevolent god of light and good who seeks to protect the universe from Anti-God's tyranny by maintaining the balance.
* EvilIsHammy: His few lines are as bombastic as you'd expect from an evil cosmic deity.
-->'''"NOTHING stands against ANTI-GOD. Nothing and NO ONE!"'''\\
'''"HA HA! The last of the LIGHTRIDERS! I'll tear you and your friends apart just like I did STARLOK and his fools on New World!"'''
* GodOfDarkness: He represents darkness in the cosmic balance just as his brother represents light.
* GodOfEvil: He's a cosmic deity who personifies evil.
* HeroKiller: He slaughtered most of the other heroes offscreen before coming to Earth, forcing the main characters to come out of retirement and stand as Earth's last line of defense.
* TheLegionsOfHell: He is served by hordes of demonic Hellamentals.
* PosthumousCharacter: Black Hammer killed him ten years ago, but his shadow continues to loom large over the heroes. [[spoiler:He starts coming back to life late in the story, and the heroes are forced to make a HeroicSacrifice to prevent his return.]]
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His speech bubbles have red text on a black background with a red border to emphasize his evil nature.
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Starlok's evil brother. Anti-God was a "cosmic despot" who'd stop at nothing to tilt the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil squarely in favor of evil.
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* TheAntiGod: It's right there in his name. He is the most powerful evil being in the setting and the dark, malevolent counterpart of Starlok, the resident GodOfGood.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Flashbacks show that he towered over the buildings of Spiral City.
* BigBad: A posthumous example. Anti-God nearly destroyed the universe during the Cataclysm ten years ago, and the heroes are stranded on the farm as a direct consequence of stopping him. [[spoiler:In the second half of the series, the heroes' goals shift from getting off the farm to preventing Anti-God's resurrection and return.]]
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Starlok's Abel. Anti-God is a tyrannical god of darkness and evil who seeks to disrupt the balance and conquer or destroy the universe, whereas his brother Starlok is a benevolent god of light and good who seeks to protect the universe from Anti-God's tyranny by maintaining the balance.
* EvilIsHammy: His few lines are as bombastic as you'd expect from an evil cosmic deity.
-->'''"NOTHING stands against ANTI-GOD. Nothing and NO ONE!"'''\\
'''"HA HA! The last of the LIGHTRIDERS! I'll tear you and your friends apart just like I did STARLOK and his fools on New World!"'''
* GodOfDarkness: He represents darkness in the cosmic balance just as his brother represents light.
* GodOfEvil: He's a cosmic deity who personifies evil.
* HeroKiller: He slaughtered most of the other heroes offscreen before coming to Earth, forcing the main characters to come out of retirement and stand as Earth's last line of defense.
* TheLegionsOfHell: He is served by hordes of demonic Hellamentals.
* PosthumousCharacter: Black Hammer killed him ten years ago, but his shadow continues to loom large over the heroes. [[spoiler:He starts coming back to life late in the story, and the heroes are forced to make a HeroicSacrifice to prevent his return.]]
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His speech bubbles have red text on a black background with a red border to emphasize his evil nature.
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* CallToAgriculture: He became a farmer in the ten years since the heroes defeated Anti-God. The situation admittedly didn't leave him many options, given that he's stuck on a mysterious farm with no way to leave, but still.
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* SwordAndGun: When he was an active superhero, Mark carried both a sword and a RayGun. He's shown wielding both weapons to deadly effect when he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the homophobic Martians who murdered his lover in the alternate reality.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In an alternate reality where Mark never left Mars, bigoted Martians burn down his home, destroy the spaceship that he'd secretly been building to leave the planet, and kill his lover. Mark slaughters them all in retaliation.
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* HorrorHost: She acts like one, presenting macabre tales to the comic's reader while simultaneously being a character in the comic's story. At one point the other heroes interrupt her while she's trying to tell the reader a story, making her very annoyed.
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Joseph Weber's daughter. Lucy was ten years old when her father and the other heroes brought an end to the Cataclysm and vanished. In the ten years since, she has not given up hope that they are still out there somewhere.
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* IntrepidReporter: Her desire to learn the truth about what happened to her father led her to become a journalist. Once she arrives on the farm, she puts those journalistic skills to use unraveling the strange mysteries of Rockwood.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: When Lucy first arrives on the farm, Madame Dragonfly promptly casts a spell on her to make her forget how she got there. [[spoiler:She regains her memories once she inherits the power of Black Hammer, and she is pissed.]]
* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:She becomes the new Black Hammer when she picks up her father’s weapon.]]
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: [[spoiler:Her modest bun becomes an enormous afro bun when she turns into Black Hammer.]]
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Joseph Weber's daughter. Lucy was ten years old when her father and the other heroes brought an end to the Cataclysm and vanished. In the ten years since, she has not given up hope that they are still out there somewhere.
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* IntrepidReporter: Her desire to learn the truth about what happened to her father led her to become a journalist. Once she arrives on the farm, she puts those journalistic skills to use unraveling the strange mysteries of Rockwood.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: When Lucy first arrives on the farm, Madame Dragonfly promptly casts a spell on her to make her forget how she got there. [[spoiler:She regains her memories once she inherits the power of Black Hammer, and she is pissed.]]
* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:She becomes the new Black Hammer when she picks up her father’s weapon.]]
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: [[spoiler:Her modest bun becomes an enormous afro bun when she turns into Black Hammer.]]
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: The whole reason she became a witch in the first place was to try and resurrect her infant son, who died under unspecified circumstances. Centuries later she became pregnant with her PlantPerson lover's child, only to have suffered either a miscarriage or a stillbirth shortly after she arrived on the farm.
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* ApologeticAttacker: He apologizes to [[spoiler:Talky-Walky before he shoots her. Afterward, he remorsefully tells her that he wished he didn't have to do this and admits that she's the best friend he’d ever had... right before administering a CoupDeGrace]].
