'''''SPOILERS AHEAD!'''''

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!!Empowered and Friends

[[folder:Empowered]]
!!'''Empowered''', AKA Elissa Megan Powers
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The main character. A sweet, beautiful (despite what she thinks) and kind young woman who had dreams of fighting crime from a young age, but got saddled with an unreliable supersuit that [[{{Stripperiffic}} showed]] ''[[{{Stripperiffic}} everything]]''.
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* {{Action Hero}}ine: Her success average may not be as great as, say, Ninjette or Sistah Spooky, but Emp is still a moderately competent superhero.
* AffirmativeActionGirl: {{Invoked|Trope}}. The Superhomeys are heavily suggested to have made her a member because of some "gender quota", not because she was an awesome superhero.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Ninjette has referred to her as "Miss Three-Drinks-And-I'm-Bisexual," and she didn't at all mind kissing Daisycutter.
* AnimalEaredHeadband: As Schrodinger's CatGirl.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: In volume 1 of Empowered, she is captured by a robot "Pimpotron" that scans her to see if she's worthy of a galactic harem. After deciding her butt was too big, it leaves her behind. She is clearly more devastated by the insult than relieved at her good fortune.
* AscendedFanboy: Loves superheroes so much that she took it as a college course. Then she became one and found out what most of the 'heroes' in her chosen superteam were like. She still fangirls over the leader of the Superhomeys, to the point of themed underwear.
* AtrociousAlias: She gets a lot of mocking for the name (though few names in this setting are good), partly because it sounds rather clunky and partly because her reputation defies it so heavily.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Often. Though her crowning moment might have been [[spoiler:figuring out how Deathmonger could find a newly risen [=SuperDead=]]].
* BerserkButton: Don't compare her to [[Music/JenniferLopez JLo]], or say anything else that might be misunderstood as "you're fat".
* BrainsAndBondage: Played with, as Emp is much more into cosplay and roleplaying in bed than bondage per se, but among the roleplaying fantasies that she enjoys is one in which she is a rebellious slave girl whom Thugboy has to discipline. She also tells Ninjette that she likes it when Thugboy is very dominant with her in bed, and that she once provoked him into behaving that way by making a pun on the phrase "tie me up" (she was wearing an apron at the time, and nothing else, but had left it untied in the back). Also, in reference to when she first met Thugboy, Ocelotina later commented "That guy was practically making love to you with that rope!" As a general rule, however, Emp finds being tied up by criminals (super or otherwise) to be demeaning and traumatizing, and in no way a turn on; she is also very dismayed that she has gotten a reputation to the contrary.
* BrokenBird: Played with. Emp's childhood was generally a happy one, and her parents were loving and supportive, but [[spoiler:watching her father die of an aneurysm right in front of her]] deeply traumatized her, and unsurprisingly still affects her to the present. Her relationship with her mother still seems to be a good one, based on what we've seen of it, and she is, in many ways, one of the best-adjusted characters in the series. Her issues are just more apparent because of how much she wears her heart on her sleeve.
* BuffySpeak: Of the "intelligent but ignorant of proper terminology" variant.
* {{Character Catchphrase}}: "Jeez!"
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Our best guess for what keeps her going in spite of outright sickeningly terrifying humiliation day after day.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Empowered's powers come from her suit; she's just a normal person otherwise [[spoiler:although she might have a PhotographicMemory and uses this to save herself in Volume 9]].
* CombatPragmatist: She used Maid Man's status as TheDreaded to distract supervillains by telling them he was behind them and then blast them in the back when they turned in horror. She also demonstrated that, while picking up a car and throwing it at a villain may ''look'' cool, driving said car into the villain at 70+ mph is ''much'' more effective.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Has quite a lot of varying powers that don't seem to have much relation to each other, (though it is repeatedly theorised that they're tied to her personality and self-image in some way).
* DamselInDistress: Captured and threatened by villains is kind of her thing, poor kid. [[PluckyGirl However she is incredibly brave]] and has her legitimate moments. [[DamselOutofDistress Sometimes she can even rescue herself.]]
* ADegreeInUseless: Emp took Suprahuman Studies in college. It's generally considered a crap degree, but it helps her quite a bit in her career as a superhero, once against Crimera, and then again against Animal Style.
* {{Determinator}}: It takes a lot for a person to do the right thing. It takes even more to keep doing it even when you're a laughingstock that no one on either side of the law takes seriously, but damned if Emp doesn't rise to the challenge.
* DumbBlonde: Subverted - Emp talks like a ValleyGirl, but is actually quite smart.
* EmpathicWeapon: Her supersuit, [[spoiler:apparently a sapient being.]] Also, it's been suggested that her body issues are what keep the suit so fragile, which produces gratuitous nudity and augments her body issues, which obviously doesn't lead anywhere good. As long as it remains intact, it comes with [[ComboPlatterPowers a variety of powers]]:
** It gives her SuperStrength and some degree of NighInvulnerability under certain conditions. It acts like ablative armour; bullets and blows tear off bits of the suit but leave her undamaged. If there's at least a tattered bikini's worth left of the suit, she can survive a ten-story fall.
** It gives her KamehameHadoken, which varies wildly in power depending on a number of factors, including how confident she feels.
** Her mask gives her enhanced vision, enough to spot a burgeoning aneurysm in a man's head. She's claimed that it's not one of her "cool powers", so even though it sticks around after her suit is torn, it doesn't come up much.
** Suit Invisibility. That is to say her ''suit'' turns invisible, but she doesn't, leaving her naked. Again. [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower Which, given what villains know about a "suitless" Emp, has its uses]].
** [[WallCrawl Gecko-like adhesion to walls and ceilings]]
** [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace Full protection from the vacuum of space]], even [[SpaceIsNoisy allowing speech]].
** [[MachineEmpathy The ability to interface with at least some alien technologies.]]
* EscapeArtist: Not to the point where it would undermine the comic's premise, but spending so much time captured ''has'' given her a lot of practice at freeing herself from bonds - something a few overconfident supervillains [[BadassInDistress have discovered to their cost.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: In-comic, [[spoiler:the girl who'll become Ocelotina. And quite possibly Ninjette as well,]] if the nigh-omniscient Caged Demonwolf is correct.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: To her dismay.
* {{Expy}}: Empowered is largely derivative of the character Social Butterfly from {{ComicBook/Livewires}} (created by the same author), which Emp draws our attention to herself.
** She bears an uncanny resemblance to [[ComicBook/{{Spiderwoman}} Jessica Drew]], as well, in terms of her costume (which is almost a PaletteSwap) and having basically the same powerset (low-tier super strength and agility, wall-crawling, energy blasts). There's even an [[https://adamwarren.deviantart.com/art/EMPOWERED-s-faux-WERE-GIRAFFE-BY-NIGHT-cover-308331265 homage]] to an old cover featuring Jessica in Adam Warren's gallery.
* FetishRetardant:[[invoked]] Getting tied up in serious situations makes bondage a SERIOUS turn-off for Emp and Thugboy.
* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: It's her part-time job - making public appearances with other lookalikes as herself. The [[FunetikAksent "Southern" accent]] she affects might be an effort to stop the disguise from being too realistic.
* FutureLoser: Has this in a kind of ImagineSpot, where kid Emp meets her future superheroine self.
-->'''Kid Emp:''' Why do I have such a big butt as a grownup...? How did I wind up so old and f-fat...?\\
'''Current Emp:''' Thanks a lot, younger version of me.
* {{Geek}}: She is a YaoiFangirl and took "superhuman studies" at college.
* GlassCannon: Emp can kick major ass when her suit is intact. Unfortunately, just one hit can reduce it to tatters, [[spoiler: although later in the series she can keep her powers and continue to kick ass even after losing a good portion of the suit]]. A ''literal cannon made of glass'' looks positively indestructible by comparison.
* GuileHero: For someone so accident-prone and with so many self-esteem issues, she is surprisingly good at tricking and manipulating the supervillains who capture her.
* HandBlast: How she fires her power blasts.
* HartmanHips: One of the things she's least pleased about with her body. [[MaleGaze Nobody else knows why.]] Her big butt is a major source of humour and [[AuthorAppeal makes almost as many appearances as Emp's face.]]
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's blonde, and she's one of the few actually heroic heroes.
* TheHeart: Her greatest power seems not to be her suit, but her compassion. It pays off big time with the [[spoiler: Super Dead, treating them with respect and kindness.]]
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: It becomes clear fairly quickly that Emp is a significantly more competent hero than she gives herself credit for. After this being pointed out by Ninjette, Thugboy, the Caged Demonwolf, Mind████, and Maidman, she's starting to believe it.
* HotLibrarian: Ends up convinced to dress as one by the other Superhomeys so she can infiltrate the lair of a villain who takes a liking to this style of dress. Thugboy ends up being even more pleased with this turn of events.
* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: Her suit can do a lot of things but she hasn't figured out all its functions.
* LethalChef: The only food she can cook is blueberry pancakes, and even those taste terrible.
* LetsGetDangerous: Once or twice per issue, Empowered will actually take down a villain, often a powerful or dangerous one, or one whom no other hero can handle under those circumstances. Examples of this include:
** Her use of the above mentioned car-at-70-mph trick to defeat an enemy the rest of the Superhomeys had been rendered unconscious battling
** [[spoiler:When she defeated Anglerfish and his gang.]]
** [[spoiler:When she defeats Deathmonger, one of the most feared supervillains in the world.]]
** [[spoiler:When she blasted those ninja into little specks of carbonized particles.]]
** [[spoiler:The [[CurbstompBattle beatdown]] she unleashed on [[FaceHeelTurn Rogue]] [[WhosLaughingNow Cape]] at the end of book 4 certainly does.]]
** [[spoiler:When she defeats, and cages, the Caged Demonwolf.]]
** [[spoiler:Even earlier than both of those examples was her effortless rescue of Thugboy in Vol. 1, which was pretty much foreshadowing the above incidents.]]
** At one point she completely lost her temper, [[spoiler:and nearly killed a villain by ripping off her own bodice and suffocating him with it. She stopped herself in time,]] and felt horribly guilty after.
** Her terrifying thrashing of Animal Style, the six members group of supervillains in animal-themed powered armour.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: She is this for Thugboy, who has constantly compared her and their relationship to a lifeline
* LustObject: For several Superhomeys, especially Major Havoc and Ocelotina.
* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Because Elissa's super-suit massively enhances sensation and [[ExtremeLibido increases libido]], she's constantly horny and often resorts to masturbation to deal with it. She's apparently very acquainted with "Mr. Shower Head".
* MetaGuy: In between the chapters, Emp comments on the story and her role in it. Most prominently when she drew attention to Adam Warren's homicidal tendencies in his previous works and started freaking out that she might be next on the chopping block. 'S all right Emp, your name's on the cover (although even that's not enough to reassure her, as she worries it could refer to the ''concept'' of being empowered, rather than the ''person'' Empowered).
* MsFanservice: Also MsFanservice in-universe due to the nature of her suit and God, does she hate it.
* MostCommonSuperpower: Many of her powers are often in doubt. Not this one, to Emp's constant annoyance.
* NakedApron: Has occasionally worn one while making pancakes. Thugboy is grateful.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: [[HowDoIShotWeb Her supersuit didn't come with instructions]], so she is continually discovering what it can do by accident. She even lampshades it. At the start, she comes with the powers listed above. By now, it's an added mix of PowerFloats and PowerGivesYouWings, XRayVision, which she uses this to save the life of a PunchClockVillain, [[{{Telepathy}} copying thoughtstreams]], [[TranslatorMicrobes automatic translation of any text into (bad) English,]] GreyGoo protection, Interfacing with a nanotech mechanical human's brain by sticking her fingers in to his head, an emergency [[SuperMode 'wing mode']] that's capable of lethal blasts and powered flight and [[FlightStrengthHeart It even makes phone calls]]!
* NoRespectGuy:
** One would think Empowered saving her teammates' hides more than once would earn her a ''little'' less outright abuse. Mind you, often they simply don't notice -- for example, she rams a villain [[CarFu with a Humvee going 70 MPH]], [[LampshadeHanging pointing out that this works much better than just throwing it at the villain]], only to have the resulting wreck immobilize her and letting her "team" wander off assuming the other heroes and the villain knocked each other out.
** After the events of Vol. 5, [[AlphaBitch Sistah Spooky]] might just be [[DefrostingIceQueen warming]] up to her a bit. Confirmed by volumes 8 [[spoiler:and 10, where Spooky says outright that she's kinda proud of Emp]].
** A better question was how she managed to avoid getting respect after ''one-shotting'' a [[EldritchAbomination world-destroying demon lord]] that had just [[CurbStompBattle wiped the floor]] with every other superhero combined. She only got respect from Capitan Rivet, who generally treats her with respect anyway.
** Finally averted at the start of volume seven by [[spoiler: the Super Dead]] who call out the Superhomies for their mistreatment of them and her and appoint Emp as their new representative on the Homies' council. A later chapter shows she does in fact now have that job, which required the Homeys promote her up from part-timer. Even still many of the Superhomies proper don't like her.
** At the end of volume nine, she calls the Superhomies' overseeing council out on this mindset and, after summing up just what she's accomplished in that volume alone, ''demands'' to be made a full member of the team instead of an associate. She might just get it, too.
** In Volume 10 it becomes official, the team votes and she is officially a full-time member. In the same volume she also gets lots of love from Sistah Spooky.
* OneNoteCook: The only food she can cook is blueberry pancakes. (In a NakedApron, which is even better!)
* PhraseCatcher: "Sucks to be you". She even says it to her own past self.
* PluckyGirl: Despite constant abuse and suit failures, she doesn't give up.
* PowerPerversionPotential: According to her, her suit's EmpathicWeapon status also increases her overall sensitivity... which makes it rather fun in bed.
* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: The suit is skin tight and this makes her self-conscious. Well, ''more'' self-conscious.
* SamaritanSyndrome: [[spoiler:Emp's always wanted to be a superhero; she gained extra [[FreudianExcuse motivation]] after seeing her father die in front of her, though she's since come to terms with that particular trauma.]]
* SexGoddess: Though her level of sexual experience is unclear, Thugboy claims he could barely last ten seconds in bed with her early on, and had to beg her to slow down when she first performed oral sex. This is, at least part, due to the sensual amplification of her suit.
* SignatureSoundEffect: '''VORPP'''
* SilentTreatment: Emp does this to Thugboy whenever he seriously upsets her.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Her central conflict, at least in early volumes. Emp is nearly any man's walking sex fantasy, being a young, gorgeous blonde girl with ample breasts, a shapely rear and a generally voluptuous, desirable body, who dresses in a skin-tight suit which is almost always in tatters. She, however, considers herself ugly and overweight, and would rather have any other power than have to wear her suit. Not only that, but most of the people who find her attractive (Thugboy a notable exception) also have zero respect for her and actively degrade or take advantage of her at every opportunity, fuelling her insecurities.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: [[spoiler:'''E'''lissa '''M'''egan '''Power'''s]]
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Though her outfit completely covers her body, barring her mouth and hair (on the rare occasions when it isn't confetti, anyway), it's so tight and form-fitting that she looks like she's wearing body paint. It was voted Most "Sluttastic"/"Do-Me-Riffic" by a fictional online poll. She's not proud about this.
* SuperMode: [[spoiler:Whenever the suit is in real danger, it seemingly takes over and displays startling power. It also erases Emp's memory of any ability it used.]]
* SurvivalMantra:
** "I don't care...I '''don't care'''...don't care..."
** "I'm '''okay'''...I'm '''okay'''...I'm '''okay'''..."
** "I'm '''not''' scared. I'm a ████ing superhero...I'm n-'''not''' scared."
* ToHellAndBack: [[spoiler:Decided to follow Spooky in her attempt to break Mind████ out of hell. When that resulted in a scam from Spooky's demonic services provider, who was trying to break out by having Spooky take his place, Emp beat the crap out of the demon, fought off the security and broke out of hell, dragging a suicidal Spooky with her]].
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The GirlyGirl beside Ninjette.
* TraumaButton: Fruity Flakes cereal, which she was eating when [[spoiler: her father died in front of her.]] Even looking at it causes a FreakOut.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: To this date, only ''one'' supervillain did not underestimate her before being thrashed. And many do it even ''after'' being thrashed, as they have no idea she's doing it.
* VaporWear: Her suit's tightness and fragility means that wearing any form of undergarment, including panties or a bra, renders it not only unsightly but useless. Even further, she has to shave her "nether region" bare to wear it.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: When Thugboy gets captured by his ex-associates, who're sick of him screwing up their plans and angry at his change of allegiance, Empowered kicks down the door and stomps the lot of them.
* WardrobeMalfunction: A super powered variant. While attempting to show Ninjette and Thugboy her suit's invisibility powers by making her mask invisible, she accidentally ends up making the entire thing disappear... while wearing absolutely nothing underneath. Naturally, she also happens to have both hands stretched overhead as this happens ([[ItMakesSenseInContext to hold up a car]]), leaving her body completely exposed.
* YaoiFangirl: Her response to hearing that one of her teammates was gay? Start {{shipping}} him with the other men.
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[[folder:Thugboy]]
!!'''Thugboy''', AKA [[spoiler:Noah]]
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Emp's boyfriend and lover. Ex-minion. Has quite a few skeletons in his closet from his younger days.
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* BadassNormal: No superpowers of any kind, but still more than a match for a lot of capes.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: During his argument with Emp at the end of Volume 10, Thugboy claims he's always told her the truth, and that the only thing he's kept secret from her was [[spoiler: his return to Witless Minioning. WordOfGod is that "Thugboy has so thoroughly walled off any thought of the real issue he's hiding from Emp — as in, his anti-cape activities relating to the San Antonio disaster, six years ago — that he's not even consciously aware that this statement is untrue."]]
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:When he recognizes the cape who killed the Holy Avenger near the end of volume 4, he almost shoots him in front of a hundred other supers before he's stopped by Ninjette.]]
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: A story in volume 1 briefly featured Emp commenting that he's bigger than any other guy she's been with. This is, apparently, a cherished memory for Thugboy.
* BullyingADragon: A consistent weakness of his in his Witless Minions and Capekiller days was that while he's tough and smart enough to feasibly kill or undermine your average superhero or supervillain, he assumed he was good enough to make a lifestyle out of bullying them. Both times, he ultimately picked a fight with someone far stronger than him.
* ColdSniper: Zigzagged; he can be very cold and ruthless when fighting, but he's quite warm and affectionate with his friends and, especially, Emp. Also, the men he's killed often show up in his nightmares, it's implied.
* CombatPragmatist: [[spoiler:Particularly in his cape-killer days]] he often uses a cape's or a super villain's [[FlawExploitation weaknesses and flaws]] against them and will play extremely dirty if need be. [[spoiler: A brief flashback in volume 6 shows him giving a step-by-step guide to attacking a superhero funeral that doesn't involve being a suicide bomber. Vol. 7 shows him expounding on the virtues of invoking KillItWithFire on supers.]]
* CoolShades: He even wears them indoors.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was part of [[spoiler: an underground [[MugglePower anti-Cape]] conspiracy who eventually [[BullyingADragon went on a Cape-killing spree]] in San Antonio; this went [[BullyingADragon about as well as you'd expect]] and he's the only one involved that we know survived -- and that only because the Cape about to vaporise him with an energy blast was so busy gloating he got hit by a bus.]] He then formed a new gang of minions for hire that secretly manipulated and stole from their supervillain employers, until they tried to pull that trick on Willy Pete. Thugboy was the only one who got away alive, forced to watch as Willy Pete alternately raped his friends ''in the eyes'' with his '''flaming phallus''' and ''ate them''. Is it any wonder he has nightmares?
* DarkSecret: [[spoiler: He's the last known survivor of the Capekillers who were involved in the San Antonio incident. If this got out, ''every'' Cape, hero or villain, would probably want to dismember him.]]
* DidntSeeThatComing: Willy Pete during his Witless minion days in the traditional sense, but this also combines with his TooCleverByHalf tendencies to form his FatalFlaw. [=Thugboy's=] ability to manipulate situations and stay one step ahead is matched only by his inability to see anything beyond that one step and his general disdain for capes. His inability to look past the short term gains and at the long term consequences has screwed him over [[spoiler: three times]]
** [[spoiler: During his capekilling days he was smart enough to kill multiple heroes and come up with a variety of anti-cape tactics. He wasn't smart enough to see that the capes would heavily crack down on his group as a result, with all of the rest of his group dying and him only escaping through sheer luck.]]
** He was a master at ripping off villains during his Witless Minion days, but didn't ever think about what might eventually happen to him if he encountered a villain who caught on his schemes or got involved with one who was actually dangerous. Willy Pete brought his group down under the second condition, but given enough time it's likely word would have spread about a group of minions stealing and killing from villains, eventually bringing them down that way.
** [[spoiler: Finally in Volume 10 his return to Witless Minioning gets found out by Emp, threatening their relationship. The relationship that he repeatedly emphasizes as the best thing in his life, and Caged Demonwolf compares to a lifeline. While working as a minion is at least understandable (he can't get any other job without an education and it allows him to protect Emp), he freely admits that he's doing the part Emp is freaking out about (stealing from villains) because it was easy money he was leaving on the table. He doesn't really seem to have a plan for if Emp ever found out, implying he thought she never would, and his reaction is basically to explain himself and then say this is who he is and asking her if she can love him that way. They're cut off before we can get Emp's side and the argument can be resolved.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: He's an anti-hero on the best of days and has no problem with working with supervillains to make a living. However, even in his Witless Minions days, he drew the line at any crimes aimed to harm civilians. When the villain Icy Mike announced his intent to detonate a bomb in a populated area, Thugboy bludgeoned him to death.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: After the other Witless Minions got killed by Willy Pete, Thugboy went into permanent "Whatever" mode until he met Emp and let his hair grow out.
* {{Expy}}:
** Take a look at Adam Warren's ''ComicBook/{{Livewires}}''. Hollowpoint Ninja looks kind of familiar, doesn't he?
** And if we go even farther back, he looks a lot like the WWWF Black Ops agent who showed up a few times in Warren's comic book version of the ''Literature/DirtyPair''.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: When Frank is ready to execute him for his collusion with Empowered, Thugboy describes in detail how happy his relationship with Emp has made him, and unflinchingly tells Frank to do what he has to do. Emp rescues him in the nick of time.
* FetishRetardant:[[invoked]] Getting tied up in serious situations makes bondage a SERIOUS turn-off for Emp and Thugboy.
* GunsAkimbo: Fights like this when he uses the laser-pistols of a cowboy-themed cape, though since the guns need to be cocked by hand after each shot (a stupidity he fully lampshades,) it's less ridiculous than a lot of examples.
* TheGunslinger: Is a mix of A & D, D when it comes to handguns and A when it comes to sniper rifles.
* HellBentForLeather: If he hasn't a ShirtlessScene, as is most often the case.
* HonorBeforeReason: No danger will stop him from praising a booty so fine.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: OK, Emp isn't really very tiny, but Thugboy TOWERS over her. Just look in the first chapter of volume 2 where he's carrying her with one hand. Ninjette ''is'' genuinely tiny, although she and Thugboy aren't a couple - [[UnresolvedSexualTension at least, not right now.]]
* KillItWithFire: In the seventh volume, he gives a lecture about how effective it is at dealing with superheroes. As he puts it, even the most fire-resistant costume usually crumbles in the face of thermite or white phosphorus, and capes and long hair are particularly susceptible (and since many costumes are made of synthetic material, they often ''melt'' as well as burning). Incendiary grenades also have enough burst to be difficult to dodge in the case of FragileSpeedster-types, and napalm, being sticky, can blind those with fire immunity. It's implied that part of the reason Willy Pete scares him so badly is that these tactics are utterly pointless against him.
* LoveAtFirstSight: With Empowered; he gets taken out of his constant "whatever" state as soon as he lays eyes on her.
* LoveRedeems: A criminal and murderer (albeit one with standards) prior to meeting her, he's now firmly one of the good guys (if only because Emp herself is such an angel).
* MrFanservice: Both in terms of looks and personality, and with plenty of sexy scenes which focus on him as much as on Emp.
* MugglePower: Of the "kill 'em" variation, though he's toned this down, tries to avoid letting it be known he was this way once, and [[{{Irony}} is in love with one of the few decent super-heroes in the business]].
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Working for Spartan 3000.
* OneHeadTaller: Than Emp.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: A bonus strip on Adam Warren's Website/DeviantArt page confirms that Emp '''does''' know his actual name, he just prefers to be called Thugboy. [[spoiler:Revealed in volume 11 to be Noah]]
* PunchClockVillain: What he used to be.
* RagingStiffie: A problem for Thugboy when sharing a bed with Ninjette. Or Emp.
* ShirtlessScene: Frequently walks around in just his boxers.
* TroubledButCute: Oh lord, so much. Physically gorgeous with a dark and traumatic past that doesn't stop him from being a dream boyfriend? He's a textbook example.
* WhamShot: [[spoiler: The end of Volume 10 reveals that he's still ripping off villains. Emp finds out, and after the ensuing argument he uses a Villain's mace to whack her off the roof they're standing on, as he's being mindcontrolled by Mind████'s brother.]]
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Thugboy freaks out at the prospect of getting involved with Willy Pete again. Of course, since Willy Pete is a NighInvulnerable -- indeed, arguably ''truly'' invulnerable, even being immune to [=ThugBoy's=] patented fire-based cape-killer tricks -- psychotic monster with nuke-grade fire attacks and a penchant for murderous rape and cannibalism, it's rather an understandable fear. Especially because Willy Pete has a particular grudge against Thugboy for escaping him once before.
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[[folder:Ninjette]]
!!'''Ninjette''', AKA Kozue Kaburagi
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Emp's best friend and part-time [[TheLancer Lancer]]. Originally introduced to us as a PunchClockVillain, she quickly turned into a sparky, confident foil and emotional support for the self-doubting main character. Then plot happened, and we discovered why she drinks so much...
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* ACupAngst: Flat as two peas on an ironing board, and knows about her lack of the MostCommonSuperpower.
* TheAlcoholic: As she reveals in "Nine Beers with Ninjette", 'Jette's aware she has a problem, that she can't stop drinking - in fact, she's only been sober four nights since leaving home, which she spent with Emp.
* AmbiguouslyBi: It's known that she has a thing for Thug Boy but doesn't try anything because of his relationship with Emp. But the Caged Demonwolf also pointed out a few times when Emp and 'Jette got a little too "playful" while drunk together, like Emp grabbing her butt which 'Jette didn't have much problem with. When she went to leave the room to [[MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration work off some tension from the conversation]], Demonwolf asked if she was going to fantasize about her with Thugboy, Emp, or ''both at once''. 'Jette looked like she wasn't even sure before saying "Wouldn't you like to know?"
* BadassNormal: Almost to CharlesAtlasSuperpower levels. E.g. can identify people from 20 feet away [[TheNoseKnows by scent alone]]. Able to mop the floor with some UnskilledButStrong capes and multiple highly skilled ninja.
* BerserkButton[=/=]ComplimentBackfire: Ninjette doesn't like to be called a "happy, pleasant drunk". Daddy issues, you know. Although she does admit that she is one in "Nine Beers with Ninjette."
** Don't mess with Emp. In an ImagineSpot, Spooky finds this out the hard way.
* BustContrastDuo: Her and Emp often flirt with this, as she's borderline flat while Emp is fairly busty. This is accentuated in a chapter where the two of them swap outfits, and Emp is [[WardrobeMalfunction practically spilling out]] of her top.
* CelibateHero: [[spoiler:Ninjette seems to be be enhancing her [[BadassNormal Mad Ninja Skillz]] by avoiding sex, although she is allowed...]] It's more of a Freudian thing, because [[spoiler:she dearly ''wants'' to, but as a princess in a HiddenElfVillage she was not allowed, and the only other man she likes now is attached to Empowered.]] The ensuing frustration causes her to focus her attention on ninjaing. [[invoked]]
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: With a sprinkling of ninja magic on top.
* CombatPragmatist:[[spoiler: Uses decoys, bombs and revealed infidelity against the Ayakami clan in Vol 7]].
* DrowningMySorrows: How she became a HardDrinkingPartyGirl.
* DrunkenMaster: Probably the most formidable martial artist yet seen, and she actively tries to avoid being completely sober.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Averted -- before she was rescued by Emp, she narrowly avoided having her hands and feet cut off to facilitate her use as ninja ''breeding stock.'' Invoked later, when she tells Emp what could have happened.]]
* GratuitousJapanese: Justified. She was given a full Japanese name to make up for the dilution in the bloodline.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: She sometimes demonstrates the disadvantages of heavy drinking.
-->'''Ninjette:''' Yet another idea that seemed brilliant when I had a buzz on... turns out to kinda suck once I've sobered up a little.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Her clothes don't exactly lend themselves to stealth. She actually is a MasterOfDisguise, so it's more or less just because she thinks it's funny.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Type B. Admits to being scared of losing Emp's friendship as her social standing slowly improves. The thought of losing her terrifies Ninjette as she is her first and only friend.
* InformedAttribute: Parodied due to the manga-esque art. Despite her name, Ninjette is Caucasian.
* IntimateMarks: Invoked. She intentionally wears booty shorts with her name across the booty.
* InverseNinjaLaw: Averted in that while she's uber-skilled and can take on 3-4 opponents alone, she has come close to dying several times when she was confronted with any ''more'' than that. [[spoiler:Which is why she {{blackmail}}s Oyuki-chan into helping with the rest of the Ayakami and pulls out every dirty trick in the book to even the odds.]]
* InVinoVeritas: She has a ''ninja technique'' based on it: drink in her presence, and she can get you to spill ''all'' the beans. [[spoiler:She also knows a technique that makes sure it won't work on her]].
* JokeOfTheButt: Her booty shorts has her name written across her butt.
* MadeOfIron: Seems to recover remarkably fast from what would normally be pretty traumatic injury, even without the help of Suprahuman medical science...however...
** DentedIron: Volume 8 reveals that [[spoiler: much of her supposed recovery is powerful illusion hiding all the bruises, scars, and blunt force trauma she's still carrying, in order to put up a strong face for Emp.]]
* MasterOfDisguise: All ninja are taught "hensojutsu", but she's exceptional. To the point where she [[spoiler:consummated a marriage whilst disguised as the ''[[GenderBender groom]]'']].
* McNinja: Played with; she looks completely caucasian due to her Japanese bloodline being diluted after several generations in America, but her parents tried to actively Defy this trope by giving her a fully Japanese name.
* MidSeasonUpgrade: Captain Katana wills the sword stuck in his head to Ninjette. It's a magic blade that can "cut though just about anything". In training she effortlessly cuts though rock golems created by Cyndablokk.
* MissingMom: Dead, according to "Nine Beers with Ninjette"; her father blames her for it.
* {{Mukokuseki}}: Subverted. Ninjette is actually from New Jersey, and is of European descent.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: There are a ''lot'' of things she's learned to do thanks to her ninja training, and every single one has a different goofy name.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: [[spoiler: Oyuki could not resist noting how akin to her father's combat style the vicious and underhanded tactics she demonstrated in vol. 7 were.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Ninjette]]:''' If you think that I am voluntarily walking into a scenario likely to result in my ''death'' and/or ''dismemberment'' without first getting good and solidly ''buzzed''... you are ''sadly f**king mistaken''.\\
'''[[spoiler:Oyuki]]:''' By ''sheerest f**king coincidence'', this humble genin has ''often'' heard a remarkably f**king ''similar'' sentiment voiced before battle... by [[spoiler:Kaburagi-san]]'s own f**king ''father'', interestingly enough.
* PressurePoint: A realistic example; she uses one to paralyse Thugboy's gun arm when he's about to do something stupid (see his BerserkButton above), but in actual combat she's just as likely to rely on brute force and simple CombatPragmatism.
* PrincessProtagonist: Technically, for the stories where she's a protagonist, like [[https://www.empoweredcomic.com/comic/volume-7-page-155 "Deflowered and Dispassionate"]].
* RebelliousPrincess: A particularly tragic variant, since "princess" to her clan means [[spoiler:pregnancy machine. Hands and feet are considered optional.]]
* SexMagic: {{Inverted}}. Empowered and Thugboy are both very hot, and constantly shagging. Ninjette can use the sexual frustration created by their failure to have sex with her to boost her ninja magic.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Unlike Emp, she does this willingly with skin-tight short-shorts and a midriff-baring tank-top. Averted in her genin days.
* SupermodelStrut: There's even a secret ninja magic to do it. "You move like a ████ing jungle cat!"
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Emp's girly-girl.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Her clan and her father constantly told her she wasn't good enough, despite her obvious competence, and she took it to heart. Played with now in that she passionately detests her father for a number of reasons and apparently nearly succeeded in killing him, so has no intention of earning his approval now, but still suffers from residual self-esteem issues.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Oyuki and Ninjette were always together back when she was with her clan. [[spoiler: Oyuki hated her passionately the entire time.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Caged Demonwolf]]
!!'''Caged Demonwolf, Molester of Worlds'''
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EldritchAbomination captured by Emp in some alien power-draining bondage gear. He lives on her coffee table and spouts ranting, wordy monologues.
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* AffablyEvil: to the point that, world-destroying EldritchAbomination or not, he's basically a good guy--being one of the comparatively few people who has a high opinion of Empowered. He certainly doesn't seem to mind hanging out on Emp's coffee table watching TV for the time being. [[spoiler:Because to him, it's merely a blip in his immortal existence.]]
* ConfusingMultipleNegatives: Peppers them as part of his long-windedness.
* DeadpanSnarker: Hammy Snarker, more like.
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:Before he was sealed, nobody could match him.]]
* ExpospeakGag: Fond of these, his unique rendition of the song "Baby Got Back" being something of a world-record in this department.
* {{Geek}}: The other {{Eldritch Abomination}}s never would invite him to their world-wrecking parties. Making him a kind of WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds (not his own, though).
* GreekChorus: Narrates some of the less clear events of the story, either directly to the reader or to people who are in the room with him, including [[spoiler: Emp's suit]].
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:After six volumes of overly wordy monologues, he drops the mask and reveals that not only can he speak normally, he was once mortal and can see backwards and forwards in time, like Dr. Manhattan.]]
* TheImp ([[SealedEvilInACan post-sealing]]) he's mildly annoying at worst, and often quite nice.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's one of the few individuals who respects Emp, and helps cheer her up when she goes through a major depression.
** He's also respectful [[spoiler:and maybe in love]] with Ninjette, and in one memorable monologue [[spoiler:tells Ninjette in a normal voice that as an immortal interdimensional being who will outlive our own universe, he will carry his memory of her with him forever. But he only does this when she's drunk to the point of blacking out, so she'd never remember him saying this.]]
* LargeHam: Virtually every word he speaks is heavily emphasised, and he uses the most overblown vocabulary he possibly can, [[spoiler: except for the one time in volume 7 he speaks normally to Ninjette.]]
* LovableSexManiac: Excessively voyeuristic and with a ''very'' active imagination, he is nonetheless a firm friend and his requests to watch sexual acts in progress are treated as harmless.
* TheNicknamer: Emp is "the Alpha Wench", Thugboy is "the Boy of Thug" (if he's not the P-whipped princeling), Ninjette is "the Ninja Wench" or "the boobless booby", Sistah Spooky is "the mystical Wench", Mind████ is [[spoiler:the Sapphic/Psychosensual Wench]], and so on. Also counts as a parody of SuperheroSobriquets.
* NoIndoorVoice: THE ''CAGED DEMONWOLF'' NEVER ''DEMEANS HIMSELF'' TO SPEAK BELOW A ''BELLOW!'' [[spoiler: Except when having a sincere heart-to-heart with a black-out drunk Ninjette.]]
* NonLinearCharacter: As he explains to Ninjette, he's able to percieve each and every moment of his existence, including long after he's finally free of his imprisonment and all of the other main characters, the human race, and even the entire ''universe'' are long since ''dead''.
* OddFriendship: In addition to his friendships with Empowered and her friends, he also has chats with [[spoiler:Emp's suit]] on a regular basis, and often makes her call up Emp's mom, so ''they'' can chat.
* OnlySaneMan: The threshold for this is not that high. That an EldritchAbomination that habitually describes himself as "The Caged Demonwolf, Molester of Worlds" gets to be the Only Sane Man in the cast tells you everything about this comic you needed to know in one sentence.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When he starts talking normally instead of his usual grandiloquent speaking style, you know he's about to delve into some particularly weighty matters.
* SealedEvilInACan: A friendly Evil, but it's still a good thing he's in a belt.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: With a healthy dose of AddedAlliterativeAppeal ({{lampshade}}d by himself at times).
* ShipperOnDeck: Wants to watch Empowered, Thugboy, and Ninjette have a threesome...
* ThirdPersonPerson: Usually refers to himself either as "the Caged Demonwolf" or by one of the ''many'' alternative titles he's adopted.
* TimeAbyss: He specifically states that he will outlive the universe. It's also one of the main reasons he doesn't make too much fuss about being stuck inside a belt with nothing to do but watch TV all day. To him, this is little more than a ''very'' brief inconvenience.
* YuriFan: ...and sometimes, only Emp and 'Jette.
[[/folder]]

!!{{Ninja}}

[[folder:The Ayakami Clan]]
!!The Ayakami Clan
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A group of ninjas who tries to collect the bounty on Ninjette.
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* ChainPain: Ninjette comments on their love of chained weaponry in Vol 7.
* DarkActionGirl: Many of them are women and none of them hesitate to fight.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: They consider the Kaburagi as fucked up, and say as much when Oyuki [[spoiler: offers to give a hand to a bound Ninjette and then throw her a severed hand]].
* FeelNoPain: [[spoiler:Their clan-specific jutsu, which [[WhyWontYouDie makes killing them very difficult and strenuous]].]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Ninjette ''killed the whole clan''.]]
* MalevolentMaskedMen: All of them wear Japanese-themed masks while on the job.
%%* PunchClockVillain: Subverted.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Against Ninjette, for escaping and killing several of their genin. Run, 'Jette. '''RUN.''']]
* WouldHitAGirl: Considering they're trying to collect a bounty on Ninjette's head.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Oyuki]]
!!'''Oyuki'''
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A frenemy of Ninjette who's part of her clan. She shows up to repay an as-yet-unspecified favour by dropping off some equipment. We get to see her skills in Vol. 7.
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* ClusterFBomb: Combines this ████ing characteristic with [[SpockSpeak Japanese-style formalized language]] for a [[SophisticatedAsHell f***ing unusual speech pattern]].
* DudeNotFunny: [[spoiler: Impersonating Mind████.]] [[invoked]]
* ExactWords: [[spoiler: She stated she'd fight three of the Ayakami and she did [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere exactly that]]]]
* FantasyContraception: [[spoiler:In a Vol. 7 flashback Ninjette performed a jutsu on her making herself sterile so she could be valued for her shinobi skills instead of her uterus, which she may have come to regret.]]
* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: [[spoiler:She wants Ninjette to suffer, and she will - either by being killed, or crippled and carted back, or having to fight off ever-stronger ninja because her success at fighting them off proves her value as breeding stock.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mmmmmmmaybe. [[spoiler: Consider that at the end of her first appearance, she indicated that she considered whatever debt she owed Ninjette to be paid, and that the traitor should expect no further help from her. ''A few days later'' (in comic time) she shows up to warn 'Jette that the Ayakami clan -- ''all of them'' -- are coming after 'Jette. It's possible that she did this because she enjoys Ninjette's terror. It's also possible that she actually cares. We shall see.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler:She was ([[ImagineSpot secretly]]) gloating over Ninjette's fate in vol. 7 because, whether she won or lost, Ninjette is destined to suffer more.]] Though if ''Nine Beers With Ninjette'' is canon, Ninjette at least already knew this.
* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler: Subverted when she proclaims her hatred of Ninjette at the end of Vol. 7, only for it to show that that was what she'd ''like'' to say, and her expression stayed frozen.]]
* SirSwearsalot: Becomes SophisticatedAsHell.
* TheStoic: In her expressions at least. Adam Warren mentions he accidentally gave her some expression in one scene; he'd intended her to look like a doll.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: The Kaburagi clan wear this season - almost nothing. Like Ninjette, averted as a genin.
* WingdingEyes: Sports star-shuriken-shaped pupils.
[[/folder]]

!!The Superhomies

[[folder:Sistah Spooky]]
!!'''Sistah Spooky''', AKA Theresa
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A demonically-charged sorceress and a senior member of the team. Also a neurotic mess of a woman who continually puts Emp down because she hates and fears blondes. Don't worry, [[FreudianExcuse she has a reason]]. Whatever her other faults, cowardice isn't one of them.
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* ADayInTheSpotlight: ''Emp and Sistah Spooky's High School Hell'' mini-series focuses on some of her time during her high school days and what she had to endure growing up.
* AlphaBitch: Spooky's BackStory (and consequent FreudianExcuse) also has her being cruelly tormented by blonde, voluptuous alpha bitches whilst herself a child, hence the chip on her shoulder regarding Emp.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Gets her right arm blasted off by one of the worm creatures in Hell, and it's still gone in volumes 9, 10 and 11.]]
* AttentionWhore: A more realistic version but she desperately craves the praise of her fellow heroes and the public and works hard to maintain her image.
* TheAtoner: Sistah Spooky starts showing signs of this in volume 5; [[DealWithTheDevil she knows she's going to hell]] so she wants to accomplish some good before then.
* BerserkButton: Don't say anything about her race. Don't be a beautiful blonde girl. And so on.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Appears at the end of volume 11 to save Emp from Mind████'s brother.]]
* BigOlUnibrow: Before her DealWithTheDevil.
* BlackMagicianGirl:
* BrokenBird: When it comes down to it, Theresa is an incredibly miserable individual who fully understands her misery is partially her fault.
* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler:Goes from hating Emp at the start of the series to saving her life in volume 11.]]
* CombatStilettos: Goes around in tall platform heels.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite her black cloak and general wicked-witch persona, she's a superhero who fights for truth and justice and all that good stuff. A JerkAss SmugSuper kind of superhero at times, true, but one of the nominal good guys all the same.
* DarkMagicalGirl: Older than the other examples, but still fits the trope.
* DealWithTheDevil: How she got her powers. In her case, she originally just wished for beauty but got mystical powers because the demon she made a deal with screwed up the paperwork. [[spoiler:This is eventually revealed to be a lie, [[BatmanGambit the powers were on purpose on his part]].]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** For how much she hates Emp, she wasn't among the ones who [[spoiler: nominated her for a Capey Award as a joke]], and actually warned her of what was happening.
** Furthered in Volume 8, where we learn that [[spoiler: Spooky is actually ''responsible'' for Emp's bondage-magnet status as a result of Spooky actively willing it to happen to make sure no-one else distracted from her own star rising as a top superhero, which was ''also'' something she'd wished for. The standards come in when, having seen Emp in tears one too many times and uncertain as to ''how'' she kept going with such humiliation, Spooky actively tried to ''stop'' the spell that had rendered Emp a bondage and humiliation magnet for supervillains. It just ''didn't work'']].
* EvilIsPetty: Spooky considers [[spoiler:[[KickTheDog perma-cursing Emp with bondage-magnetism]]]] to be her own personal MyGreatestFailure, made worse by the fact that she did it to [[AttentionWhore retain the attention and goodwill of the public.]] It's... not her proudest moment.
* TheFaceless: Initially, we only see her without her mask in flashbacks.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Her feelings about her actions after she TookALevelInKindness - while she can be forgiven for being afraid of blondes and having an inferiority complex after seemingly every girl in her high school sold their souls to become blonde {{Alpha Bitch}}es who tormented her ceaselessly, her tormenting [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold Emp]] the same way wasn't excusable.
* GothGirlsKnowMagic: She's quite gothy, and made a DealWithTheDevil to use black magic.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:At the end of volume 5, she has finally accepted that Emp isn't the blonde AlphaBitch her mind makes her out to be. By vol. 7, Major Havoc has replaced Spooky as her nemesis in the introduction.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: At least originally; she was bullied by blondes in school, but as an adult, she bullies Emp relentlessly.
* InUniverseNickname: [[spoiler:"Spookums", from Mind████.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:She fears and hates blondes for good reason. She ends up falling in love with one and the one blonde she tries to exact some sort of RevengeByProxy on turns out to be HairOfGoldHeartOfGold.]]
** Double irony:[[spoiler:Teresa was ''ALWAYS'' going to be [[SheIsAllGrownUp super-hot as an adult.]] She just was a late-bloomer in high school. If not for being gifted with magic, [[AllForNothing Teresa would have damned herself to hell for NOTHING.]]]]
* LadyOfBlackMagic: She's a bitch and powerful gothy superhero who made a hellpact with a demon to use black magic.
%%* LongRangeFighter: Compared to Emp.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Is responsible for Emp's own misfortunes out of jealousy. Realizing what she did is one part of her massive self-loathing.]]
* SassyBlackWoman: Even after her HeelFaceTurn, she has a very sassy mouth.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:She knew full well that her actions in volume 8 would be the end of her career as a Superhomey, and by volume 9 she officially quits the team.]]
* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:''Tries'' to pull this, since she's of the firm belief that she deserves to rot in Hell forever. Of course, Emp firmly tells her where she can stick ''that'' nonsense.]]
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler:Magics herself into one after Mind████ dies. Her FrozenFace goes beyond creepy and into outright tragic.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: Come volume 10 she is much kinder to and friendlier with Empowered.
* TraumaButton: Beautiful blonde women in general, which reminds her of how awful her high school was. She masks it in a perpetual BerserkButton, leading to her singling out Emp for bullying.
* VainSorceress: Inverted, the powers were a bonus.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatHotness: Inverted - she found out that the {{Alpha Bitch}}es at her school had [[DealWithTheDevil sold their souls]] for massive hotness and did the same thing... except her Infernal Services Provider messed up and gave her far more magical power than he'd intended.
* YouAreNotAlone: [[spoiler:Mind████ wanted to invoke this before her death, leaving a small copy of her mind in Spooky's consciousness to mitigate Spooky's worst memories. Afterwards, the timer runs out and it activates. It helps keep her mostly sane and focused.]]
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:Mind████ takes a peek into Spooky's memories and instantly grasps that her public persona has been subconsciously patterned after the same vain blonde bimbos she was so traumatized by. ''Both'' physically (sans actual Blondeness) and personality.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mind████]]
!!'''Mind████''', AKA Hannah
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Intensely telepathic super who's been romantically involved with Sistah Spooky in the past. Stays in orbit most of the time to get away from the background thought-stream.
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* AloofBigSister: Her opinion of her behavior to her brother before he went apeshit. [[spoiler:Ironically, Jacob seemed to see her more along the lines of CoolBigSis and desperately wanted her approval.]]
* BigGood: [[spoiler:Of Volume 11. As she was dying, it occurred to Mindf██k that her brother would show himself again, no matter what was keeping him imprisoned. So she made sure the last two people she had contact with, and thus, his likely targets, would have SOME form of aid when it inevitably happened. It's her emotional support and later literal mental defense of Emp that helps her weather Neurospear's gauntlet of supers, Rivet's HeroicSacrifice and lets her get within punching range of Neurospear. Not to mention how her carefully woven shield around Spooky played into her BigDamnHeroes moment.]]
* BleepDammit: Her name actually is rendered as Mind█████.
* BlindSeer: An Invoked example. [[spoiler:Her younger brother forced her to remove her own eyes, and most of her tongue, to encourage her to develop her powers.]]
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood and/or HeelFaceBrainwashing: Does this to [[spoiler:herself.]]
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud?: [[TheSpeechless Talks entirely via telepathy]] -- which means that [[BrutalHonesty background thoughts leak out]].
* FlatEarthAtheist: Mindf██k's ex-girlfriend [[spoiler: Sistah Spooky]] got her powers from a DealWithTheDevil, and Mindf██k can read her thoughts. But is still agnostic. [[spoiler:This becomes tragically ironic because Mindf██k does in fact end up in Hell after she dies.]]
* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: A left-behind video gives Emp an idea on how to take down a tough bad guy.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: hers differs from Empowered's in that she sees herself as being an effective hero, she just doesn't feel she's as purely heroic as, for instance, Empowered, given that Empowered is a genuinely good person and Mind████ is not because she had to [[spoiler: MindRape herself]] in order to not be a sociopath. Whether or not a willingness to [[spoiler: MindRape yourself]] is proof of inherent goodness is a matter up for discussion. [[spoiler:Volume 11 shows she was never, strictly speaking, a bad person, but she was uninvolved and annoyed with her NervousWreck of a brother, which she blames for him becoming [[FallenHero Neurospear]] later.]]
* LivingMemory: [[spoiler: After her death]], a sort of copy of her sticks around in Spooky's memories (until the end of Volume 8, anyway).
* LousyLoversAreLosers: While Mindfuck can [[PowerPerversionPotential use her telepathic powers]] to have satisfying {{Mental Affair}}s, she's shown to be ''really'' bad at real sex with her lover Sistah Spooky. [[spoiler:It's not entirely her fault - lesbian sex is tricky when you don't have a tongue.]]
* MindRape: One possible use of her powers. [[spoiler: Her backstory reveals that she constantly did this to herself to avoid becoming a sociopath like her brother.]]
* MoralityPet: [[spoiler:To Spooky. Post-mortum, she becomes the MoralityChain for Emp and Spooky's not-quite-friendship.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: She believes that her own toxic influence was what pushed her brother into turning himself into the monstrous Neurospear. In Volume 11, we see that she might be exaggerating her guilt; it wasn't that she was overtly cruel to him, only that she tended to tune him out and therefore didn't realise until too late that he was talking himself into something disastrous.
* NobleDemon: As detailed above, this is Mind████'s opinion of herself [[HeroicSelfDeprecation at worst.]]
* PeoplePuppets: [[spoiler:Used both by her and on her.]].
* PowerIncontinence: Her telepathy gives her trouble with crowds, a major reason she prefers to stay in the satellite.
* PowerPerversionPotential: "[[MentalAffair Mindfriends with benefits]]". Ask for it by name! Their entire relationship was conducted 'long-distance' with one or two exceptions, since Mind████ is ''really'' [[LousyLoversAreLosers bad at real sex]] (lacking most of a tongue didn't help).
* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: An odd variant in her telepathy, which appears to be based on stream-of-consciousness thought. She constantly corrects herself midsentence, adds random adjectives and adverbs, and goes off on smaller tangents before moving on to the next topic.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:She's nice to Emp and even Spooky likes her? Of course she's going to DIE!!]]
* SamusIsAGirl: Until the end of volume 4, we see Mind████ only in a spacesuit, complete with helmet.
* SenseFreak: Due to not having a tongue, she has to hijack people's taste senses to taste food. Since Spooky is a BigEater, she doesn't mind much.
* {{Telepathy}}: Her power.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: By her account, the reason Spooky broke up with her was that Spooky couldn't accept that a person who knew everything about her could still love her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Major Havoc]]
!!'''Major Havoc'''

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A super-strong, none-too-bright JerkJock. That's about it for his character. Because of this, we can cheer when he gets his just desserts.
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* AFatherToHisMen: He truly cares for his teammates, just not Emp. [[spoiler: His description of trying to save Turbobrain from Willy Pete's fire is quite sad.]]
* AssholeVictim: To the Chloroformaster. [[spoiler:And arguably to Willy Pete.]]
* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: Spreads some nasty rumors/smears to Heronet about Emp.
* BattleCry: "'SCUSE ME WHILE I CRY HAVOC!!!"
* BookDumb: Another superhero states that he dropped out after third grade. He may have been joking, but still...
* BreakTheHaughty:In Vol 7 while he's his normal asshole self he's also absolutely terrified of another encounter with [[spoiler: Willy Pete]].
* ButtMonkey: His stupidity, smugness, and JerkJock nature makes him an easy target for this.
* FlyingBrick: Your classical bruiser powerset, plus EyeBeams and a BreathWeapon.
* GilliganCut: He tries to give a {{rousing speech}} [[spoiler:when the supers are temporarily depowered]], saying, "We're still heroes, aren't we?". Cut to him screaming, "Aaaagh! Get it off me!"
* GodzillaThreshold: Seems to think [[spoiler: the fight with Willy Pete qualifies to bring out the big guns and call in the Retirees. All the other Homeys shut him down pretty quickly, though.]]
* HiddenDepths: When Emp attempts to embarrass him by leaving erotic yaoi doujinshi featuring him (and some of the other male superhomeys) lying around the Homeycrib for him to discover, he's actually secure enough in his masculinity to be ''flattered'' by it, being pleased that enough women find him attractive to ''want'' to write stories like that about him. It's a surprisingly mature reaction for such a normally shallow, immature jerk. He even convinces the previously freaked-out [=dWARf=] and Protean to see it his way.
* {{Jerkass}}: In the volume seven recap, he's taken over from Spooky as Emp's no. 1 asshole teammate.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While he goes out of his way to find reasons to doubt Emp's claims of victory, even Emp's allies begrudgingly admit that his arguments aren't totally wrong.
* JerkassToOne: Of the "more Jerkass to one" variety: he's a colossal douchebag, but when it comes to Emp he is outright militant about making sure her life remains a living hell.
* NighInvulnerable: [[spoiler:Willy Pete's fire, which has the heat of a nuke, just knocked him out and destroyed his shirt.]]
* PetTheDog: In Volume 11, [[spoiler:he briefly manages to rebel against Neurospear's mind control when forced to attack Emp.]]
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: White as a glass of milk, but he speaks in ebonics.
* SmugSuper: He's definitely the smuggest of the bunch.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Book Six is when he turns from an asshole on the same level as the other homies to being actively antagonistic towards Emp, motivated by her hand in the vanishing of dWARf! and the Willy Pete disaster.
* {{Ukefication}}: In-universe, a running gag is that whenever we see [[OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs fan material]] based on Havoc, he's ''always'' gay in it, and he's also usually the bottom. One commentator (an "Elissa P.") went so far as to claim that the HomoeroticSubtext to his actions is core to his appeal. This consistently leaves him confused and angered.
* UnskilledButStrong: According to Ninjette, he has the fighting skills of a "developmentally disabled third grader."
* TheWorfEffect: Have we seen any battles where he didn't get the ████ kicked out of him? Even [[BadassNormal Ninjette]] defeats him once (though in his defense, he was at least somewhat drunk at the time).
* YourCostumeNeedsWork: Much to his consternation, he apparently wrote ''himself'' out-of-character when he tried writing fanfic of himself--part of this is due to the fan impression of him being wildly different from his self-image.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Capitan Rivet]]
!!'''Capitan Rivet'''
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The leader of the team. Made entirely of metal. Surprisingly, not a {{jerkass}} (he has the decency to at least try to suppress his laughter at Emp's humiliation).
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* BigGood: [[spoiler: He's the reason Emp has her suit. In fact he's known she was Elissa since the day she joined the Superhomeys. He picked her as a small child after she came up to him for an autograph, because he saw her dedication, empathy, and kindness and thought she could be the one to save all of humanity from devouring itself under the strain of superpowered criminals and super fights]]
* TheCape: In a world full of superheroes that range from idly idiotic to actively assholish, Capitan Rivet stands out as a (mostly) genuinely nice guy and heroic figure. This may be why Emp idolizes him to the point of wearing underwear with his logo on it.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the first couple volumes he was almost as much of a jerk to Emp as the other Superhomies.
* ChromeChampion: Is a stainless steel golem, and was never human to start with.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: He seems to be either able to regenerate or rebuild himself, because he can't go one fight without being ripped in half or reduced to a metal pancake. [[spoiler: Being melted into slag, however, is too much.]]
* GratuitousSpanish: It's unclear why he's Capitan Rivet and not Captain Rivet.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Sacrifices himself to save Emp from Mind████'s brother against Willy Pete.]]
* KnightInSourArmor: He's been in the game for a long time, and has grown cynical and somewhat apathetic from it. Nonetheless, he still tries to hold himself to higher standard than his peers and is one of the few capes who comes across as a genuinely decent person.
* NiceGuy: He puts on an effort to treat everyone with respect and it's revealed despite all of Emp's issues [[spoiler:he truly believes in her and always has, even remembering her as a little girl who once asked him if she could be a hero, too.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: Played with in the "Soldier of Love" story; he is the only hero to not get caught up in the shipping obsession surrounding superheroes/villains. However, [[spoiler: the ending heavily implies that he was the one who hired the Soldier of Love to launch her attack, precisely in order to discredit the shipping obsession and let them focus on actually being superheroes. The fact that he lost control of her and only narrowly avoided a horrific outcome (which anybody who isn't completely GenreBlind could have predicted would happen when you hire a supervillain,) shows that he is certainly not above making stupid, genre-blind decisions in his efforts to be above some of the other pitfalls heroes are subject to]]. He also found Emp's humiliation funny, but he did hold his laughter in.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Not just a hero, he's probably the best fighter and capable of going toe to toe with Willy Pete himself, doing better than an entire squadron.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: For the Superhomeys. He's one of the few members of the team who treats Emp like a teammate and not a joke. More importantly, in Book 9, he's the only person who votes against [[spoiler: putting Emp in cryofreeze to keep her knowledge about alien tech from falling into villain hands]], and in Book 10, he argues in favor of Emp becoming a full-fledged member.
* ToughLove:[[spoiler:As the leader of the Superhomeys, he could ''possibly'' have helped, if not stopped, the trouble Emp has with the general public. The reason he doesn't? In Volume 11, it's all but stated that Emp will eventually be a BarrierMaiden for humanity. If she can't persevere through bad press and humiliation, then they're all dead when the actual bad shit finally starts happening. [[SoProudOfYou He's incredibly proud of her.]]]]
* TheWorfEffect: Have we seen any battles where he didn't get the ████ kicked out of him? [[spoiler:Reversed in a losing battle of all things when he takes on Willy Pete and manages to do far better than anyone has to date.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Syndablokk]]
!!'''Syndablokk'''
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[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A man with a cinderblock for a head]]. One of the few truly sympathetic heroes, he gives Emp some fatherly advice and compliments in his first appearance.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:Sometimes when a teacher asks you to imagine yourself as a superbeing, he might grant your wish. So make sure you make up a character with hands, or a face.]]
* DestructiveSavior: He tries to avoid using his powers as much as possible because his powers ''are'' massive property damage.
* DishingOutDirt: More specifically: concrete, pavement, and masonry.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Half-man, half-... concrete?
* HeroicSecondWind: Gets one after Empowered pushes King Tyrant Lizard's [[BerserkButton berserk buttons]].
* LetsGetDangerous: When he DOES get serious though, he's quite possibly one of the most powerful supers in the series.
* MundaneUtility: Uses his powers to rebuild the Superhomeys' base whenever it gets trashed. He has had to do this six times.
* NiceGuy: Is very supportive of Empowered and offers her plenty of advice.
%%* NonHumanHead: A cinder block.
* StoryBreakerPower: Theoretically, he could just [[DroppedABridgeOnHim drop a bridge]] [[{{Pun}} on someone]] and be done with it. Probably why he's so nice.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Heavy Artillery]]
!!'''Heavy Artillery'''
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Has only had a few appearances, usually as a background character. In his one speaking part it was revealed that he is gay.
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%%* {{BFG}} (which he has as his head!)
* TheCameo: He was shown on a holographic display in Volume 10. According to it, he hasn't been around because he's on vacation.
* HeadBlast: His head is a large cannon.
* KaraokeBox: Can be seen using one at the Super Homie Karaoke Bar, despite having no discernible lips or mouth.
* NonHumanHead: An artillery piece.
%%* StraightGay: To Emp's joy.
* UnusualWeaponMounting: Has some kind of a large gun for a head.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Protean]]
!!'''Protean'''
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A human who got infected with an alien STD and turned into a blob. Wants you to know that his name means "ever-changing" and stuff.
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* BlobMonster: He is one, having been transformed after contracting an alien STD after BoldlyComing.
* BoldlyComing: His background story. Apparently gaining powers from alien/robot [=STDs=] are relatively common.
* CursedWithAwesome: To some extent.
* InsistentTerminology: Pro''tean'', not Protein. No, it's not "Glorpp" either.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Phallik]]
!!'''Phallik''', AKA Bob
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Wields his mighty Phallospear; has a fondness for smacking Emp's behind (or 'male-bonding' as he calls it) with it. Dies in the fight with Willy Pete, and as a representative for the Superdead, exposes the deads' locations to Deathmonger.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Read: ''phallo''-spear. It even goes limp when his powers wear off.
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:How he got his Phallospear.]]
* DirtyOldMan: Cant seem to keep his, ahem, "phallik" to himself.
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: In a case of DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything, when his powers are temporarily deactivated, his phallospear goes limp.
* ManlyFacialHair: Voted the most badass of all, in fact, though it ultimately lost the title to Willy Pete's [[FlamingHair beard of flames.]] In fact, it may actually not be all hair.
* PhallicWeapon: It's called the Phallospear for a reason; his default stance seems to have it pointing from his crotch, it goes limp when his powers are drained, and it seems to have an interest in female hindquarters.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Divangelic]]
!!'''Divangelic''' AKA Vanity & Charity, AKA Courtney
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A pair of ConjoinedTwins; the twin on the right is Vanity, a devil, wielding a whip; on the left, we have Charity, an angel wielding a kind of morningstar. The mind boggles how they manage to live with each other. Actually a single girl who was split into two people by some kind of unknown 3rd party masquerading as her teacher. Dies in the fight with Willy Pete.
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* AngelicBeauty: Charity is dressed as an angel and is quite attractive.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:Sometimes when a teacher asks you to imagine yourself as a superbeing, he might grant your wish.]]
* CarryABigStick: Charity's weapon.
* FlatEarthAtheist: In her case, justified to a degree; she's not actually a demon or an angel, just a transformed girl.
* GoodWingsEvilWings: On both sides.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Upon being transformed, Charity's first words were "What the H-E-double-hockey-sticks?" Vanity, on the other hand, went for "What the ████?"
* HotAsHell: Vanity is dressed as a devil and is quite attractive.
* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Courtney explained her first drawing of Divangelic as representing her "good girl and bad girl sides as separate but connected entities". After the transformation, Vanity and Charity live up to the concept.]]
* WhipOfDominance: Vanity, the "devil" side is DressedLikeADominatrix and wields a bullwhip as her weapon.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mechanismo]]
!!'''Mechanismo'''
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Once a normal man, he was infected with a lady-bot's nanotech STD after sleeping with her, and turned into a mecha. Still acts as much like a human as possible, to the extent of sleeping.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Emp has to team up with him in the full color one-shot ''Hellbent or Heavensent''.
* LatinLover: He was this before he got robotized.
* MeaningfulName: Is very chauvinistic. [[PunnyName And a machine.]]
* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: He was transformed via alien nanotech, and as such all the options in his cyberware inteface are in the same incomprehensible alien language and alphabet, though it's fairly intuitive regardless. [[spoiler:His tendency to just click through all the options nearly leads to a GreyGoo scenario.]]
* PutOnABus: He appeared a few times with the rest of the Superhomeys in Volume 1, then disappeared until he made a small cameo in Volume 10 which revealed he was "on assignment", then disappeared again until the one-shot.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Kirby helmet girl"]]

A superheroine who wears a massive, towering helmet covered in gadgetry.
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* EyeBeams: The main useful superpower she's been seen using.
* LackOfEmpathy: When Yummy Mummy expresses distaste at what she's reading (yaoi featuring her recently deceased teammates getting raped by Willy Pete) she makes it clear she never liked any of the dead capes, and adds "consent's overrated."
* NeverBareheaded: Is never seen without that helmet.
* NoNameGiven: After numerous chapters, we ''still'' don't know what her actual supranym is.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: One of her superpowers is being able to hold her head upright despite the weight of that helmet.
* ShoutOut: Her design largely exists as an homage to the artwork of Creator/JackKirby, who was very fond of his enormous techno-hats.
* SignatureHeadgear: Her giant helmet.
* YaoiFangirl: Likes reading RealPersonSlash featuring her male teammates.
[[/folder]]

!!Other Heroes
[[folder:Maidman]]
!!'''Maidman'''
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A Franchise/{{Batman}} (or Robin?) {{expy}} who seems to be the most decent, well-adjusted hero so far. The full French maid dress, stiletto heels and fishnets (with garters) he always wears could be thought of as an endearing character trait. He's introduced to us as TheMole.
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* AgentPeacock: He stands out even among the other superheroes with their costumes.
* AtrociousAlias: While he more than makes up for it in skill and intimidation, even Maidman admits that a French maid is a fairly ridiculous persona to use, but brushes it off by suggesting it's a deliberate ploy to confuse criminals (or possibly just an inordinate fondness for women's underwear).
* BadassNormal: Maidman has no powers. He relies on intimidation, martial arts and a few gadgets to get the job done. Judging from his status as TheDreaded he's probably the most effective hero in the city.
* BatmanParody: Well, yeah. It's implied he's specifically one to Christian Bale, given the comments on his voice.
* CombatPragmatist: As he assures Empowered, when she uses LookBehindYou to fake out a bunch of criminals, despite his commitment to cleanliness, he sees no problem with fighting dirty.
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Takes down Blitzcraig on national television with a vegetable dumpling that has some of Wet Blanket's power-draining essence (with Blitzcraig depowered, Maidman unleashes a martial-arts sequence that causes others to retract their snark at Maidman once he wins).]]
* DragQueen: Downplayed. Despite his very feminine costume, Maidman makes absolutely ''no'' effort to look like anything other than the square-jawed, hairy, muscular man he is. The only people who could mistake him for a real French Maid would be people who are almost blind and deaf, or on the verge of death through alcohol poisoning.
* TheDreaded: Supervillains are so terrified of him that merely mentioning his name will have them turn in horror ([[CombatPragmatist conveniently exposing their back to Emp, who called him out just for this]]). A magazine once did a survey among supervillains and he was voted as the guy they'd least like to arch-antagonize. He's suggested this is partly because of his maid theming; it's one thing to get beaten up by a terrifyingly powerful superhuman, not so much a guy with no powers aside from feeling secure about his identity.
* FanDisservice: Part of ''why'' he's TheDreaded: he wears lace panties under his skirt, and uses no MagicSkirt.
* FantasticRacism: He thinks [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furries]] are beneath contempt, and looks down on {{Animal Themed Superbeing}}s as being barely one step above them.
* GoodIsNotNice: Part of what makes the Supervillain community so terrified of him. He happily admits in an interview that he's not interested in amassing a Rogues Gallery and will readily resort to traumatizing or permanently maiming villains with career ending injuries to ensure that they don't come back. He follows this up by saying he does have a no kill policy, but quickly backtracks on that by saying he just doesn't kill ''often''.
* HypocriticalHumor: He thinks AnimalThemedSuperbeing costumes are "silly" and "embarrassing". This coming from the man whose costumed identity amounts to being a French Maid DragQueen.
* MadeOfIron: Rattles off a ridiculous amount of injuries during a self-diagnosis, and proceeds to shrug it off like he was speaking of a stubbed toe.
* NiceGuy: To Emp, being on the few people in the hero community to treat her with any respect, and even stand up for her and give her props for saving the day when the rest would rather cover it up in order to save face.
* NinjaMaid: Sort of.
* RealMenWearPink: He wields an explosive broom, throws doily shuriken, fights in stiletto heels with little bows on them and villains are terrified of him. The only male {{meido}} as badass is [[Manga/KamenNoMaidGuy Kogarashi]].
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Apparently, his civilian identity, while aware of his alter ego's exploits as Maidman, does not approve of them. Or know how to get bloodstains out of clothing.]]
* StealthPun: Based on how he acts and dresses, Maidman's secret identity appears to be [[spoiler: a [[TheMafia Made Man.]]]]
* SuperheroSobriquets: The Garter-belted Gladiator, the Dark Knight Domestic, the Delicate Cycle Detective, the Hard-hitting Hygenist, the Sanitary Sentinel, the Iron-handed Immaculist, the Manservant of Steel, the Squeaky-clean Samurai, the Corset-clad Crusader and the Velveteen Virtuoso of Violence.
** And simply, the Goddamn Maidman!
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Maidman dresses in a classic French maid's outfit, complete with too short skirt that leads to lots of panty flashing, and he is probably the nicest hero Emp meets.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ocelotina]]
!!'''Ocelotina'''
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A former kidnapper of Emp who saw the interest in the market for a {{Stripperiffic}} heroine that was constantly getting BoundAndGagged, then used it to great financial effect to become a softcore idol.
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* CatGirl: "Nyaan!"
* EveryoneHasStandards: "Inappropriate, I'm not into breathplay [[note]]a BDSM practice of denying the bottom air[[/note]], jackass."
* ExactWords: Empowered is gagged from talking about what happened at the superhero awards (other members of the Superhomeys aren't and start spreading nasty rumors about her), so Ocelotina invites her on her show and ''duct tapes her head so she can't talk'' so that ''Ocelotina'' can say how awesome Emp was.
* FauxActionGirl: Her persona is this, based on Emp - a supposedly competent superhero who keeps getting tied up and humiliated. The series proper makes it clear that even that's just a persona.
* InformedAbility: In-universe: she claims to be an AnimalThemedSuperbeing, whose powers get deactivated by her WeaksauceWeakness of her hands being tied with her tail. [[note]] A nod to the original Wonder Woman comics. [[/note]] As Emp points out, she never actually demonstrates any of these powers, as in her videos, she always gets conveniently incapacitated before she can bust them out.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She respects Emp and considers her a true hero. Is it sad that, even though she has humiliated Empowered in public and over the internet that she is legitimately magnitudes nicer to our heroine than anyone on Empowered's team?
** Possibly her attempt to become TheAtoner: Due to 'unwritten rules' defining villain/hero interactions, experienced villains generally don't rape or brutalize captive heroes, and expect a certain level of restraint when the shoe is on the other foot. During Ocelotina's short stint as a villain, she didn't know the rules, and discovered her own bondage fetish in the process of tying Emp up. Thus, she was the first villain who ever actually sexually assaulted a bound Emp (implied to include digital penetration). She'd thought she was playing into Emp's (wrongly assumed) bondage fetish, and was horrified to discover the actual situation.
* TheLoad: "Please save me... because I'm really, really cute!".
* MsFanservice: ''This is all she is''.
* SexyCatPerson: She is a parody of all the heavily-sexualised feline-themed characters in superhero comics, since she's basically just a porn star.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: She's very open to Emp that Emp's popularity as a bondage magnet was her inspiration to become a hero. Emp is never pleased at this.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The [=SuperDead=]]]
!!'''The [=SuperDead=]'''
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Many superheroes gain powers through bargains with supernatural entities. Every so often, when such a hero dies, they simply keep going, as the power refuses to leave their body. These heroes continue on as the [=SuperDead=], their existence kept secret from the public. Notable "surviving" members include [=HardKore=], Rubberneck, Plutonium Blonde, Mother Tongue, Strapping Buck, Daisycutter, Unibrow, Gnu Metal, and Gooey Samaritan.
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Strapping Buck and Gnu Metal, with the former being an anthropomorphic deer and the latter a cyborg themed after a wildebeest.
* AnArmAndALeg: Several of them are missing at least one limb, including Daisycutter and Plutonium Blonde. Mother Tongue gets it particularly bad; pretty much everything below her ribcage is gone.
* AttentionWhore: Daisycutter was quite the philanderer when she was alive, but seems to have been doing it mostly because she just liked the attention. She even says she doesn't mind no longer being able to have sex, as long as she can still get eyes on her and flirt.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Emp consistently treats the [=SuperDead=] abnormally well, which is much of the reason they befriend her.
* BlessedWithSuck: They may be basically immortal as long as their brains survive, but it's also hardly pleasant; they have to live in secret and are generally pariahs in the community, not to mention being zombified carries a lot of attendant baggage. And while they don't age and seem to be preserved, it's noted that they will one day crumble to dust. It doesn't help that they're considered prime targets for Deathmonger, who builds her career off enslaving them.
* BodyHorror: While the level of damage they've taken varies (Hardkore and Plutonium Blonde look practically alive aside from the hole in Hardkore's chest and Plutonium Blonde's missing left arm), some of the Superdead are in absolutely horrifying shape. Daisycutter is a charred corpse, Unibrow's face appears to have been either burned or rotted down to the skull, Mother Tongue is just [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe the upper half of her torso and head]] attached to her long pseudotongue (which gets torn out of her mouth when Deathmonger strikes with the rest of her being discarded like trash), and that's not even getting into the state Phallik was left in when Willy Pete was done with him (it makes Daisycutter look like a supermodel)...
* CantHaveSexEver: A notable downside to being dead, much to the consternation of [=HardKore=], is that it apparently makes it impossible to get an erection.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite their grotesque appearances, they're pretty friendly once you get to know them, as Emp finds out.
* DealWithTheDevil: How they got their powers, which keep them going even after death. Capitan Rivet points out that their bargains usually prevent them from revealing they made a deal, which is why no one knew Phallik was a bargainer. It should be noted that despite deals with literal devils being a possibility in the setting (like Sistah Spooky's situation), [=SuperDead=]-causing bargains doesn't have to be with anything infernal, or at least it doesn't have to have been apparent as such to the bargainer before or after the deal.
* DeathByWomanScorned: [=HardKore=] ''thought'' [[DatingCatwoman his relationship with his archnemesis]] was an open one. Let's just say he doesn't have a heart-shaped hole in his chest for no reason.
* EpicFlail: Rubberneck's main combat tactic is to use his head (and the accompanying giant spiky helmet) as one.
* {{Foil}}: [=HardKore=] serves as one to Major Havoc. They're both combative alpha-male types with SuperStrength and quasi-leadership roles, but while Havoc is a regular old {{Jerkass}}, refuses to learn lessons, and is UnskilledButStrong, [=HardKore=] shows off a genuine soft side, is willing to grow from his experiences, and manages to successfully train Emp to be a better fighter.
* HavingABlast: Daisycutter's main power is to create explosions (being named after a slang term for a Vietnam-era bomb).
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Most of them, but particularly [=HardKore=], who seems to be the unofficial spokesman of the group--at first, he comes across as little better than Major Havoc, but once Emp's intentions become clear, he quickly warms up to her. The main exception is Rubberneck, who is a nice guy from the start.
* NotUsingTheZWord: They find it offensive.
* RemoveTheHeadOrDestroyTheBrain: Destroying the brain is noted to be one of the few guaranteed ways to keep them down, though even that doesn't remove their powers from their bodies. Phallik was able to keep moving and fighting even with a badly damaged brain, but seemed to be mostly in a state of frenzy.
* RevenantZombie: They fall into this category; they fully maintain their intelligence and all their superpowers, though many of their biological processes have halted and they don't seem to be capable of healing.
* RubberMan: Rubberneck, as the name implies, which he mostly uses to smack people with his head.
* SpeechImpediment: Rubberneck has a near-constant stutter.
* SympatheticAdulterer: Daisycutter is shown to have had fairly regular affairs when she was alive, which she attempted to pass off as mind control (very unconvincingly). It's basically treated as a gag.
-->Oh, honeybunny, l'il ol' Daisy only hooked up with Horsepower '''and''' Slamma Lamma again 'cause that creepy ol' Browbeater was mind controlling all '''three''' of 'em at once...! Not buying it this time, are you?
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Makro]]
!!'''Makro'''
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Small, cute and wide-eyed superpresenter of [[ShowWithinAShow "Superdirty Jobs"]].
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* LittleMissBadass: Able to tangle with all kinds of aliens, demons, and anything else the superhero life can throw at her, due to her invulnerability. Her show is about showing off the absolute toughest superhero jobs, and she shrugs it all off with a smile.
* NighInvulnerable: She looks like a vulnerable little girl next to the beefy superdudes who work the jobs. [[spoiler:But shrugs off fresh lava to the face.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: She's based on Mike Rowe, the host of ''Series/DirtyJobs''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ghost Writer]]
!!'''Ghost Writer'''
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A superhero who also works as a ghost writer. He writes most of the celebrity books released by various superheroes.
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* ADarkerMe: Mightier Pen, his character in his {{Self Insert Fic}}s (and when he is [[spoiler:moonlighting as a villain]]).
* AuthorAppeal: in-universe example - he's really into spanking, bondage and DamselsInDistress.
* BlatantLies: Very poorly tries to cover up that not only does he have a huge fetish for spanking, he's also the fanfic author behind several poorly written fanfics about Emp.
* JerkAss: His "book proposal" for Emp's book deal was little more than a fetish softcore book about her being tied up and spanked. When she called him on it, he insulted her and said that all she ever would be was a sexy joke so she might as well embrace it and try to profit off it.
* MadLibsCatchphrase: "A [noun] -- no, a [adjective] [same noun]" and "[verb] -- no, [different verb]"
* MillsAndBoonProse: His writing is positively full of this, with words like "girlflesh", "pert", and "nubile" being used far too often and a general excess of adverbs.
* StylisticSuck: His writing in the first volume is a rather wonderful duplication of an ineptly written smut fanfiction, with incredibly PurpleProse and some rather bafflingly out-of-character behavior. Emp muses at one point that he somehow managed to make an adverb form of "nubile."
* UnusualEuphemism: "humidly inflamed", which is what clues Emp in on him also being the author of an erotic fanfic about herself she found earlier.
[[/folder]]

!!Villains

[[folder:Willy Pete]]
!!'''Willy Pete'''
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A man who was turned into a fire elemental, and consequently gained the appetite of fire -- i.e., insatiable. At least, he's ''presumed'' to have once been a man; there are quite a few question marks concerning Willy Pete's origin. He was the Witless Minions' (and thus Thugboy's) last employer until Thugboy goes back to Witless Minioning in volume 10, which is how he makes money, so they've got some history between them; it's the kind of history that usually starts with "The rivers ran red with blood..."
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* ArtEvolution: Sometime in between his first and second appearance, Warren apparently got much better at drawing fire.
* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:According to Mind████, he doesn't even have a true mind. Volume 11 reveals that he was created by Brainbow AKA Mind████'s brother: the powerset was so unstable that it required a new mind that could handle it.]]
* AssholeVictim: He's been on both sides of this.
** [[spoiler:He is killed by Neurospear, one of the few other characters who match him for depravity and hatefulness.]]
** [[spoiler:He killed Kid Anglerfish, who used his powers to get laid, (read: [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape people]]).]]
** Also pulls this on Major Havoc, wiping out his team and knocking him a full state away.
* AtrociousAlias: Yeah, Willy Pete is a nickname for white phosphorous, but why not call himself White Phosphorous then? ''Willy Pete'' is still a pretty dumb name. Given his love for rape and murder, and how his name was one of the reasons why the Witless Minions tried to steal from him, it's likely to lure future victims into letting their guard down.
* BeardOfEvil: Sports a long fiery beard.
* BestialityIsDepraved: He's mentioned that he's had sex with animals before.
* BlessedWithSuck: Though ''he'' doesn't think so, a drawback of being a "fire elemental" is that he takes on the same properties as fire. In other words, he's insatiable for more things to consume, even though he [[TheNeedless doesn't actually need to]]. He's perpetually horny and hungry, but can't eat or have sex normally.
* DepravedBisexual: He rapes people to death [[CruelAndUnusualDeath while burning thousands of degree Celsius hot]]. His victims' gender doesn't actually matter -- anyone unlucky enough to get caught is fair game. Oh, and he prefers to rape them through the ''eye socket'' because the skull is one of the few parts of the body that isn't incinerated too quickly.
* EatingOptional: He has stated that he doesn't need to eat, but he still likes to. However, he burns so hotly that almost anything he tries to eat turns to ashes when he tries. He gets around this by cannibalizing superbeings, because their flesh is just cooked nicely by him.
* ElementalPersonalities: He's a wild, destructive and passion-driven villain whose body is covered in fire hotter than the surface of the sun.
* EvilIsBurningHot: Made of fire; possibly the evillest character in the comic.
* {{Expy}}: Very reminiscent of a ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' villain named "Dr Phosphorous". "Willie Pete" is military slang for white phosphorus, and they have the same power-set, the same PowerIncontinence and the same general personality, though Phosphorous lacks Willy Pete's degenerate rapist streak.
* EyeScream: His signature. He likes to ''skull-fuck people to death''.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Played with -- he was always powerful, but simply not known.
* FullFrontalAssault: He is nude under all the flames.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Wipes out a significant number of Superhomies with terrifyingly little effort, finally (and unintentionally) catching the attention of the Super-community.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: Pete eats the flesh of people sturdy enough not to be instantly reduced to cinders by his touch, despite not needing food to survive. By his account, he's developed a taste for it.
* ImplacableMan: That's what ultimately triggered Thugboy's "whatever" mode: he is only alive because Willy Pete hasn't found him ''yet''.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Neurospear created him artificially so the superhomies would have a "mind" to control a powerset. Neurospear is the one to kill him.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: His first confrontation with superheroes finishes with a great deal of them dead despite the pretty upbeat tone of the comics.
* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: A variant. The main danger isn't super-strength, but rather the fact that he's constantly burning white-hot. It's noted that even his preferred method of sex still usually vaporizes the brain in seconds and blows the skull apart if the person doesn't have some form of invulnerability.
* MeaningfulName: "Willy Pete" is (US) military jargon for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus White Phosphorus]].
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: The only (non-robot) character that doesn't look even slightly {{Animesque}}.
* PlayingWithFire: He is constantly burning thousands of degrees Celsius hot.
* PowerIncontinence: Willy Pete cannot turn off his flames, supposedly leading him to the depraved acts he's known for, since he can't have normal sex nor have a normal meal. It's implied that he doesn't have a normal body under the flames -- and might not even be human at all.
* SerialRapist: Willy Pete has raging, wild desires -- sexual and otherwise. However, since humans are too fragile for him, he targets superpowered beings so he can both rape and eat them since they're strong enough to take it.
* SenseFreak: According to him, his main motivation; he doesn't need to eat or have sex, but he still feels the sensation and has an appetite for it. This causes him to seek out the only things that he can eat or have sex with -- namely, superpowered individuals tough enough to endure his presence for long enough for him to eat them or rape them (often both).
* TomTheDarkLord: Seems this way until the MeaningfulName is pointed out.
* UncertainDoom: He is seemingly destroyed by Neurospear, but [[KilledOffscreen all we see of that is a distant explosion]].
* VillainousValor: [[spoiler:Actually manages to ''resist'' Neurospear's mind control, refusing to continue hurting Empowered simply because he commanded him to. He manages so well that he tracks him back across the city, forcing Neurospear to banish him.]]
* YourHeadASplode: Even though a person's skull can survive his loving for a few seconds, it's not long before the brain turns into superheated gas, at which... well.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fleshmaster]]
!!'''Fleshmaster'''
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A former member of the Superhomies, until he was publicly humiliated (''Literature/{{Carrie}}''-style) at an awards ceremony, then disappeared.
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* {{Biomanipulation}}: His power. Initially, he was too anxious to use his powers on himself, until his humiliation motivated him to reinvent himself.
* CasanovaWannabe: Before he vanished, he was mostly well-known for his disastrous attempts at picking up women. A common joke about him was that "he was the master of no flesh but his own."
* ChekhovsGunman: Both played straight (to a degree) and subverted; Fleshmaster is mentioned several times during Volume Four as part of the Capeys' debacle that could prove to be Emp's eventual fate if she wins anything - since it's a proven fact (and alarmingly, Sistah Spooky seems aware of this) that the suprahuman community is a bunch of dicks - but we never meet him. [[spoiler:Turns out he was under their nose all along as dWARf, which is revealed in a stellar scene mentioned below. Ironically, dWARf sets himself up to be found out by Emp.]]
* ClippedWingAngel: [[spoiler:In his fight with Emp he uses his bio-editing powers to become a monstrous giant...which doesn't even get one hit in before Emp pounds him into the floor.]]
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Emp defeats him ''very'' quickly. She does not even let him take advantage of his powers.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:He was happy to be one of the cool kids and a popular superhero for a long time, but when Emp got a joke nomination, he jumped without much worry into sexual extortion and mass murder. Once he'd been imprisoned by Manny, he just got worse.]]
* KickTheDog:
** [[spoiler:He promised to spare Emp's friends if she gave him a blowjob at his moment of triumph. Emp didn't take kindly to that.]]
** And then there's what he did to poor [[spoiler:Manny...]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Vaporized on panel,]] courtesy of a lotus node portal, an alien superweapon and a ''very'' pissed off Emp.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: [[spoiler:Tries to pull this on Emp, pointing out how horrifically their superpeers have bullied and disrespected them. Lets say he underestimated Emp's legitimate herosim.]]
* PintsizedPowerhouse: [[spoiler:As dWARf!]]
* RevengeOfTheNerd: Gender-flipped; he redesigned his body as such.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Manny]]
!!'''Manny'''
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A LittlestCancerPatient who met Emp thanks to the [[BrandX Grant-A-Wish Foundation]] in order to tie her up. His greatest dream was to become a supervillain. Through a strange series of events he managed to attain superhuman intelligence and (possibly) cure himself.
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* AffablyEvil: To an extreme degree. The mad respect he has for Emp makes for a jarring contrast with the disrespect ''her own teammates'' show her.
* AntiVillain: Of the "villain in name only" type, for the most part: he's polite, helpful, kind, and seems to mostly be in the supervillain business more for the aesthetic than to hurt anyone. To date, the only onscreen crimes on his record are stealing the stuff that gave him his SuperIntelligence and kidnapping someone who could cure him. He is on good terms with Deathmonger, though; it's anyone's guess as to how.
* ChivalrousPervert: Although his request was to tie up Emp, he genuinely respected her, and was infuriated when the media took photographs of it and humiliated her.
* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:Fleshmaster causes his Mayfly-mutated brain matter to expand out of control that his consciousness falls into an inescapable feedback loop, an essential brain-death]].
* FaceHeelDoorSlam: [[spoiler:His ultimate fate, thanks to Fleshmaster.]]
* FriendlyEnemy: He's indebted to Emp and worships her because he could finally play "Ropehappy Supervillain" with her.
* KidAnova: Manny has a bit of this. See PrecociousCrush.
* LittlestCancerPatient: Played with, in that he legitimately has cancer and is quite precocious, but [[spoiler:willingly subjects himself to worse via Mayfly to cure his original cancer, and is only tangentially killed by his disease courtesy of Fleshmaster.]]
* MechaMooks: Last seen with an army of robot henchmen... that he named after Emp.
* PrecociousCrush: On Emp. [[spoiler: He grows out of it]].
* SuperIntelligence: It was noted that [[MacGyvering he could build a combat mecha through nothing but hospital equipment.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Deathmonger]]
!!'''Deathmonger'''

A {{necromancer}}-style supervillain who preys upon vulnerable supers no one wants to admit exist.
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Loses her left arm and and left leg and gets her right leg gruesomely mangled during her fight with Emp. She appears to have them back in volume 9, either through prosthetic replacements or [[UnexplainedRecovery some other unexplained means.]]]]
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:The fate of any [=SuperDead=] she captures.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:is used as a mouthpiece by the devil that accidentally gave Sistah Spooky her powers. After the conversation ends, Deathmonger regains control and notes that she "lost a few minutes."]]
* TheDreaded: Scares the shit out of every cape when they see her, for very good reason. [[spoiler:Especially those knowledgeable about the [=SuperDead=].]]
* DueToTheDead: [[AvertedTrope Ha, no.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Enacts a temporary truce with Emp in Vol. 9, because she's THAT fond of Manny, and likely realized she was the only way to bring the poor boy to peace at last.]]
* EvilGenius: Was a superscience savant before becoming a criminal. And before she died.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Warned by [[spoiler: [[TheChessmaster Manny himself]]]], to not take Emp lightly.
* TheGhost: Deathmonger was mentioned in the very first story of volume 1 as the villain the Superhomies were arguing over how to defeat. Later in that volume Deathmonger was described as "a popular '''sell out''' supervillain" and an "overhyped jackass" by a disgruntled Big Iron. She was the central villain of the chapter 'Diseased Wench' with an army of "scythebots", but since Emp never made it to the battle, nothing of her was seen. After volume 1 she dropped out of the series until volume 6--where she finally appeared after having been reimagined as TheDreaded that she was. Even then, her mask still left her as TheFaceless.
* HeroKiller: Has personally offed several well-known capes [[spoiler:in order to see if they'd be [=SuperDead=] candidates.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Several:
** [[spoiler:[[https://www.empoweredcomic.com/comic/volume-6-page-196 Emp lassos her]] with [[ItMakesSenseInContext a Super tongue]] she severed, causing [[FlashyTeleportation smokey, sparkly teleporter]] Ubiquitease, a [=SuperDead=] she enslaved, to leave without her at just the right moment.]]
** [[spoiler: She sets [[PowerSource Tommy Tokamak's carcass, which is powering her facility]], to detonate her CollapsingLair... And it does, with her inside thanks to Emp... although it appears that teleport sparkles are appearing around her before the explosion. Sure enough, come volume 9...]]
* {{Necromancer}}: Dresses the part to the T. [[spoiler:And while she isn't the one to bring them back she has the tech to turn any [=SuperDead=] into her personal puppet soldiers.]]
* NightOfTheLivingMooks: Literally. [[spoiler:The [=SuperDead=], as a result of their abilities, are aware and helpless to do her bidding.]]
* OurLichesAreDifferent: Considering that she claims to be dead herself, she could be considered the technological equivalent to a lich, using science rather than magic.
* RetCon: From her early mentions in volume 1, nothing about Deathmonger suggested that she was anything other than a death-themed supervillain commanding an army of "scythebots", although in the first chapter Emp mentioned her drawing power from a "pan-dimensional link" which she suggested the Superhomies try to cut off. When she reappeared in volume 6, she was reimagined as an actual {{Necromancer}} who commands armies of the [[spoiler:super]]dead. This could be purposeful on her part as the cover story on the subject benefits her activities, but the apparent difference was never addressed. However, in volume 6, a bunch of robots with scythe limbs are also seen around the lair, so this may not be as big a retcon as we think.
* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler:Revealed to be female in volume 9.]]
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: She wears the skull of the superhero Impakt as a mask, although unusually for the trope her eyes don't go in the sockets.
* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: We never do find out how she survived that explosion.]]
* VillainRespect: Came to seriously respect Emp after their first encounter.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ninjette's Father]]
!!'''Ninjette's Father'''
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This so-far-unnamed ninja is the leader of Ninjette's ninja clan, the source of her issues and a complete bastard.
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* AbusiveParents: Volume 7 reveals just how horrible he is, and the living hell she was raised in as a result.
* ActionDad: He's Ninjette's father and kicks lots of ass.
* TheAlcoholic: It runs in the family.
* ArchnemesisDad: To Ninjette.
* AxCrazy: Sometimes there's just no excuse other than this.
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: Full scale war with an ''allied'' clan over your kid chucking her virginity at one of their princes? Yes, it wrecked a potential alliance marriage with a third party (the clan head in question insisted on a ''virgin'' teenage bride) but now you're [[PyrrhicVictory further in the hole]].]]
* TheFaceless: We only ever see his body, his facial profile with his hair obscuring his eyes, or his hand either holding a beer or reaching for Ninjette...
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Only a human, but is one of the most vile characters in the series.
* InVinoVeritas: The same technique of Ninjette. {{Justified|Trope}} because it's a Clan Kaburagi technique. Also, his fifth beer of the night makes his real abusive personality emerge.
* PermaStubble: Always unshaven, adding to his sloppy, abusive drunk image.
* PerpetualSmiler: Of the little we actually see of his face, his expression is always a humorless sneering grin.
%%* SadistTeacher
* TermsOfEndangerment: Refers to Ninjette by her first name with the "chan" honorific attached, which tends to make whatever he's doing while calling her this even creepier...
* VillainousValor: In an interesting way. In preparation for her final battle with the Ayakami, Ninjette drinks, explaining that she won't walk "into a scenario likely to result in [her] '''death''' and/or '''dismemberment''' without first getting good and solidly '''buzzed'''...." Oyuki responds that Ninjette's father often says something [[NotSoDifferentRemark very similar]] before going into battle. It reminds us that, evil though he be, Ninjette's father is still a man, who feels fear, and possibly other human feelings. That one moment renders him easily the most human of the villains in the comic (save, of course, for Manny).

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Infernal Service Provider]]
!!'''Infernal Service Provider'''
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The demon Sistah Spooky sold her soul to for supernatural hotness, and due to a misplaced decimal point, was granted massive magical power as well. The ISP tried to correct the error quietly, but Spooky's hero actions made this impossible, and his superiors caught wind of the monumental mixup. He has no intention whatsoever of letting Spooky off the hook for this.
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* BatmanGambit:
** [[spoiler:Granted Spooky and several others too much power on purpose, so he could eventually force one into taking his place. Only Spooky took the bait.]]
** He also claims to have had some sort of involvement in [[spoiler:Mind███'s death]] somehow.
* BigBad: Of the "Emp and Sistah Spooky High School Hell" mini-series in which he pulls Emp and Spooky into a Hell based on High School and intending to have the the [[AlphaBitch the Ashelys]], the same girls who tormented Spooky back then, kill the two and take Spooky's powers for themselves. [[spoiler: It backfires as the the duo end up defeating all of them, mostly due to Spooky's understanding of spells. With the last Ashely killing the one that was leading them then self-imploding due to her own self loathing (As said girl was actually ''black'' when she made the deal and in the same boat as Spooky ironically). And in the end made Spooky even ''more'' powerful after taking not only back her magic but those of the Ashleys, who quickly pummels I.S.P for all the crap he put Emp and her through.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: By the end of the High School Hell mini-series, his attempts to have the Ashleys kill Emp and Spooky backfire and wind up giving Spooky ''more'' magic by the end of it. Spooky even lampshades as such before she crushes him.]]
* IronicHell: His existence is one. A salesman who hated his job when alive, a salesman who hates his job while dead.
** He tries to subject Spooky to this in "High School Hell" mini-series by making a construct based off her high school and filled with all the blonde girls who bullied her.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Calls Sistah Spooky "Sunshine", and claims to be moved to proverbial tears over her [[spoiler:reuniting with Mind███]], but it's painfully obvious he doesn't have a sincere bone in his body.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:When Sistah Spooky gives him the complete thrashing he deserves, he calls for Hell Security to kill them all.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: By the fifth issue of the "High School Hell" mini-series, he becomes frusterated at the Ashley's inability to kill Emp and Spooky. Yelling at the Ashleys to stop playing around and kill the two already. Even morso when it just comes down to one of them and she has more then enough magic to kill the two ten times over but instead keeps opting to gloat.
* VillainsNeverLie: Played with. [[spoiler:He lied about the transaction mishap being a mishap, and seemingly lied about Mind███ being in Hell. But the latter was unfortunately very very true.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mind████'s Brother]]
!!'''Brainbow/Neurospear'''

Mind████'s younger brother, who used his telepathy on himself to become a better superhero, but turned into a ravaging murderous lunatic. He then forced his own sister to cut out her own eyes and tongue to force her to rely on her telepathy more, thus (in his opinion) making her stronger.
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: When he is eventually killed by Sistah Spooky,]] his inner dialogue clearly implies that his former, much nicer, self is still present and scared of what it is happening to him.
-->'''Brainbow:''' Hannah help me. I'm still in here.
* AndIMustScream: It is implied that his original persona is still conscious and sentient inside the sociopathic personality that he has brainwashed himself into.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: According to Mind████, he was overcome by fear and confusion thanks to [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead constantly reading the ickier thoughts]] of everyone around him, and altered his own personality so that he'd never fear anything again. This, unfortunately, turned him into a complete sociopath.
** Volume 11 reveals that this was a partial lie: he [[spoiler:was driven to despair by the darker things he was forced to do by the Joint Superteam Council and by the knowledge that he gained from reading their minds and wanted to turn himself into a man who was able to make the "hard choices" that, according to the Council, were necessary to meet a future unspecified catastrophe]].
* ChekhovMIA: He appears on-panel only in a FlashbackNightmare, but he casts enough of a shadow over the series that he's pretty certain to appear at some point. [[spoiler:Volume 10 ends with a cliffhanger, revealing that he has escaped from his confinement. He serves as the primary antagonist of Volume 11.]]
** His Cryopod briefly appears in Volume 10, but we don't get to see inside it. We do, however, get to see his supranyms as both hero and villain: Brainbow and Neurospear.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: He's one of a particular type of AntiHero, the [[WellIntentionedExtremist "hard man making hard choices."]] The first "hard choice" he made was to kill his empathy, but it was actually due to his own fear of guilt and stress over whatever he understood about the Joint Superteam Council's fears about a massive threat to the world, plus his own self-loathing over being a meek and kind-natured person. Afterwards, he ends up being the kind of person who never actually considers the moral consequences of his actions and looks down on everyone as weak, aka an immature, misogynistic bully who ''[[HeWhoFightsMonsters is]]'' a massive threat to the world.
* TheFaceless: We never see his face in the present. He essentially exists in silhouette. In non-traumatic flashbacks, he has eye obscuring bangs.
* FatalFlaw: He edited his own mind to remove everything he saw as a weakness holding him back, resulting in him being really terrifyingly effective. However, he is still prone to getting impatient and jumping the gun, since he didn't see being "a man of action" as a weakness. This proves his undoing.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: He decided to use his telepathy to make some slight changes to his personality so that he could perform his duties as a Superhomie more effectively. Instead he has turned himself into a ravaging lunatic completely indifferent to the suffering that his actions cause, even to his loved ones.
* HumanPopsicle: He's kept in a cryofreeze prison [[spoiler:until the end of Book 10]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:The man who tormented his sister gets killed by his sister's lover.]]
* KnightTemplar: After having modified his personality he becomes an '''extreme''' and utterly insane version of this.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Known only as Brainbow, Neurospear or rarely Mind████'s brother.[[spoiler: His real name is Jacob.]]
* PeoplePuppets: This is his favorite tactic. He used this power to force his sister to cut out her own tongue and eyes [[spoiler:and mindcontrol Thugboy into knocking Emp off of a building]].
* PsychopathicManchild: His 'improvements' have come at the cost of leaving him severely emotionally stunted. [[spoiler: This is what gives Emp a fighting chance against him in Book 10. Having taken control of almost the entire superhero population of the city, he could have easily just overwhelmed her with numbers alone without having to lift a finger. Instead he insisted on treating it as a game and keeping it 'fair', meaning she just needed to outlast them all until he inevitably lost his patience and went to deal with her personally.]]
* ShutUpHannibal: Sistah Spooky interrupts his ranting about how she failed to save Hannah by pointing out that he ''tortured and mutilated'' Hannah, so it's a bit late to be protective of her now.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Always refers to himself as ''The'' Neurospear.
* {{Telepathy}}: Neurospear is a powerful telepath capable of reading minds, controlling people like puppets and even editing his own psyche.
* TestosteronePoisoning: Has shades of this, calling himself "a hard man who makes the hard choices" and "alpha" and referring to his meek former self as a "soyboy".
* UsedToBeASweetKid: A Flashback in Volume 11 shows that he was a sweet shut-in kid. Unfortunately, he grew into an insecure and immature man, who mistakenly believed that he had to telepathically edit his personality to be a real superhero.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: His text bubbles as Neurospear have backwards [=Es=] and often have non-caps versions of his dialogue underneath his words when he's shouting.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Frank]]
!!'''Frank'''

A senior member of Thugboy's former gang, who remained friends with him after the latter's HeelFaceTurn.
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%%* BookDumb: Thugboy's references to Schrödinger, Manicheism and Stendhal leave him somewhat bewildered.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has his moments.
-->'''Frank''': Sounds ''brutal'', T-Boy...You're ''subjected'' to hot, crazy ''monkey sex'' with a superfreaky superchica. So far, I ain't seein' the ''"drawback"'' part, yet.
* MookLieutenant: Gives out instructions and orders from above to the gang.
* NothingPersonal: Thugboy colludes with Empowered while still with Frank's gang. As a result Frank [[JustFollowingOrders has to execute him]], only for Emp to rescue Thugboy, blasting Frank in the face in the process. Neither man appears to hold a grudge against the other, and they have talked and eaten together a number of times since.
* SexlessMarriage: Implied to be in one. Compared to Emp and Thugboy's relationship, at least.
* ThreatBackfire: When Empowered is curb-stomping his gang, Frank tries to hold her off by pointing his gun at Thugboy's head. Since he was about to execute Thugboy anyway, this doesn't even slow Emp down.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Thugboy. As you might expect from a couple of hoodlums.
* YourLittleDismissiveDiminutive: Suggests this as a way Thugboy can compliment Empowered's rear end without making her [[WeightWoe self-conscious]]. Emp [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee soon catches on]] but doesn't complain.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wet Blanket]]
!!'''Wet Blanket'''
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A wimpy villain with a potentially devastating power: he can negate other supers' abilities.
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* AntiVillain: Quite possibly the most soft-hearted criminal ever. One wonders how he ended up as a villain.
* PersonalityPowers: He's a wet blanket both power-wise and socially.
* PoliticalOvercorrectness: Goes with his PersonalityPowers.
* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: His defining trait.
* PowerIncontinence: His nullification power is always on.
* PowerNullifier: Cancels out all powers within 25 feet of him. [[spoiler:Any cells separated from his body retain this power.]]
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: It's never made clear if he survived Fleshmaster's mutilations.]]
* VerbalTic: "'kay?"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:El Soldado Del Amor]]
!!'''El Soldado Del Amor'''
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A jaded Spanish-speaking magical girl turned mercenary. Her powers allows her to manipulate the love in people and wants to rid the world of love.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Given her numerous references to guerrilla tactic and lingo, "international revolution", and possibly {{UsefulNotes/Che Guevara}}; along with her brown skin, she might be Central American.
* LoveFreak: Deconstructed. At first she believed in love and started making people fall in love with her. Unfortunately, all it does is to make them little more than slave robots enthralled only with love. Worst of all, with her powers she can see that all kinds of love naturally withers and putrefies over time even under her powers, And she's immune to her own powers so she can't accept her own lies. Eventually she [[BodyHorror begin to see love as a huge tumor growth sprouting on people, devouring their brains]].
* MagicalGirlWarrior: Her uniform even looks like a soldier uniform. complete with military vest and a beret.
* MentorMascot: A pangolin.
* PowerOfLove: She has the ability to manipulate the love of others, amplifying it to levels that prevents them from doing anything else. Ironically, she sees love as a disease and wants to remove it from the world.
* UniversalTranslator: When she's in magical girl form, she speaks the Universal language of Love.
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[[folder:Blitzcraig]]
!!'''Blitzcraig'''
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A former enemy of Maidman who went by the name of Gotterdammeruffian. He changed his identity and became a talk show host.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: He pretends to be a charming talk show host, but he's actually a villain.
* FlyingBrick: He can fly, has the strength of fifty men and is NighInvulnerable.
* GratuitousGerman: Both his names are puns off of German words. It was what tipped Maidman off to his true identity in the first place.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: He's a former supervillain who escaped justice and reinvented himself as a talk show host. His KarmaHoudini status lasted only as long as it took Maidman to confirm his true identity.
* MadLibsCatchphrase: He likes to add "super" to random words.
--> Interesting. No, ''super''-interesting.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: He makes the mistake of believing that he can beat Maidman. He learns the hard way that he cannot.
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[[folder:Le Chevalier Blanc]]
!!'''Le Chevalier Blanc'''
A self-proclaimed "male ally" who tries to protect poor, innocent superheroines like Emp from a world that exploits and objectifies them... by kidnapping them and putting them in suspended animation until the day when he's managed to fully eradicate sexism.
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* GratuitousFrench: His speech is full of this.
* HumanPopsicle: The fate he intends for Emp. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard He ends up suffering it himself instead.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: He wants to protect women, yet sees nothing wrong with ''kidnapping'' them.
* KnightInShiningArmor: His appearance, and clearly also how he sees himself.
* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: He's all about combating sexism, and he will tell you about it at length if given the chance.
* StrawFeminist: A rare male example, serving as a parody of clueless would-be "white knights."
* StylisticSuck: His mangled French is absolutely terrible. As the occasional scenes where Emp speaks French have shown Warren could write better French if he wanted to, suggesting it's Le Chevalier himself, not his writer, who's getting it wrong.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Well, presumably he's well-intentioned. It's implied that his beliefs are more than a bit self-serving, though.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Emp does not appreciate his efforts to "help" and "protect" her, to say the least.
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[[folder: The Ashleys]]
The main threats in the "Emp and Sistah Spooky's High School Hell" mini-series -- the AlphaBitch clique from Spooky's old high school. Like Spooky, they all made deals with the Infernal Service Provider for beauty and basically became a horde of blonde bombshells [[IdenticallyNamedGroup all named some variation of "Ashley"]]. The reason why Spooky hates blondes in the present day of the series was because of how they mercilessly bullied her. In the miniseries, the I.S.P eventually came to collect them all for a new scheme to take vengeance. Specifically, lure Spooky (and Emp by proxy, just out of spite) to Hell, and have the Ashleys each attempt to kill the two, gauntlet style, in a realm based on Spooky's high school, with the promise of the mystical power Spooky wields going to the surviving Ashleys upon her death.
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* AGodAmI: Once the head Ashley take the majority of power for herself, she says as such, citing herself a Goddess [[spoiler: [[TemptingFate right before her number two stabs her from behind]].]]
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Spooky actually sympathises with Ashlee upon realizing she was orignally a black girl who changed her skin color in her deal after being bullied, having suffered similar bullying herself. Before Ashlee is killed by her own magic, Spooky asks what her name was.]]
* AlphaBitch: One in life, even moreso in Hell. The one leading them is even named Ashley and the Queen Bee among them.
* BadBoss: The main Ashley who leads the others. In Issue 3 of the mini-series, one of them suggests to her to use more girls in their traps. Ashley responds by blowing up her head for questioning her. Though not surprisingly her strategy of going one on one is being done on purpose and essentially a win-win for her. If the girls kill Spooky, then no skin off her back. But if they fail, more magic for her to absorb. [[spoiler: Once Spooky and Emp take out a good chunk of them, Ashley decides to just kill the majority of them off save for her number two and take their magic herself. Ironically she ends up back-stabbed in the final battle by said number two.]]
* BetaBitch: Ashlee-with-two-'e's, the NumberTwo for the Queen Bee Ashley -- even when she kills all of the other remaining Ashleys to take their power, Ashlee is spared.
* BreakThemByTalking: A few do attempt this in conjunction with some of their power sets and, considering Emp and Spooky's low self esteem, it nearly works a few times. [[spoiler: Ironically, the final Ashley is beaten like this herself when Spooky gives her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech after figuring out something crucial about how she made her deal.]]
* DeaderThanDead: Each one defeated is "Expelled", turned into a student I.D card and burned to nothing.
* DealWithTheDevil: All of them made one with the Infernal Service Provider to become beautiful blonde women while in high school just as Spooky had.
* EntitledBitch: ''All'' of them think Spooky doesn't "deserve" her power (which I.S.P purposefully keeps encouraging) citing it unfair she got more in her package then they did. Granted Spooky agrees but naturally knows that it wasn't her fault.
* EvilGloating: What leads to a lot of their downfalls. They just can't resist the urge to talk smack, especially if they have the duo at their mercy, giving time for Spooky and Emp to counter them. Even I.S.P lampshades this in the final fight, yelling at the last Ashley to kill the pair already when she has them at her mercy.
* HomeFieldAdvantage: I.S.P tries to help them a bit by giving them domains in the construct to use their magic more effectively while nerfing Emp and Spooky's powers. However, they ''are'' dumb blondes to a fault and one slip up during their gloating is usually all that's needed for the two to turn things around on them. Likewise Emp and Spooky are superheroes and have more than enough experience dealing with bad guys.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A few get done in by their own powers being thrown back at them. [[spoiler: The final Ashley ends up killing herself as taking all the magic power within herself ended up imploding her due to the magic reacting to her self loathing. Spooky states she's had more than enough practice coming to terms with her self-loathing to keep this from happening to her (Though having Emp by her side doesn't hurt either).]]
* IdenticallyNamedGroup: Downplayed. The Ashleys got their name because the most important members all had a name that was a variation of "Ashley". When necessary, Spooky distinguished them by [[MyNaymeIs the way they spelled the name]] -- for instance, "Ashlee-with-two-'E's" for the BetaBitch NumberTwo of the clique.
* InTheBack: [[spoiler: The head Ashley ends up stabbed from behind by her number two.]]
* KidsAreCruel: Pretty much their motif. All are catty girls who were trying to fit in and turned to the Infernal Service Provider to be more beautiful, bullying others who didn't follow their ways. This is reflected in how each one attacks the pair which in turn is an experience Spooky had to endure while going through high school: Texting, art, frogs from science dissections assignments, graffiti on bathroom walls, mirrors, etc.
* OrcusOnHerThrone: The head Ashley usually spends most of her time on her throne carried by other Ashleys while her number two, Ashlee, orders the others on her behalf. The only time she really does anything is when she kills one of the Ashleys for questioning her, [[spoiler: killing the others to gain their share of magic through a fire trap designed like a Pep Rally]] and the final battle where she tosses around Emp and Spooky for most of it [[spoiler: before being killed off herself by Ashlee .]]
* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler:How [[FinalBoss Ashlee]] is defeated; after Spooky realizes she was originally black but talked by the I.S.P into a RaceLift as part of her deal, Spooky [[BreakThemByTalking dredges up]] her own self-loathing, and with it, a suicidal impulse. Since at the PhysicalGod levels Ashlee was at at the moment, her powers respond and start undergoing a SuperpowerMeltdown before she could regain control.]]
* PersonalityPowers: Each of them has a power set themed around high school bullies and how they mistreated Theresa/Spooky. The girl who sabotaged her science project can animate lab frogs as giant undead monsters, a girl known for her DeathGlare has EyeBeams, while the two who cyberbullied her can conjure text bubbles and emojis as weapons.
* PowerParasite: They have the same pool of magic Spooky does; the less of them there are, the more they can steal her powers.
* {{Sadist}}: The Queen Bee Ashley admits she took the deal for the express purpose of abusing and terrorizing her fellow students. She specifically enjoyed seeing the fear in their eyes. [[spoiler:[[FatalFlaw Unfortunately for her,]] her NumberTwo quickly realizes the QB will never kill her if it means depriving herself of a victim/audience and backstabs her when they're the last ones left.]]
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: Ashlee, the number two of the bunch. She succeeds in killing the head one off to gain the majority of magic the Ashleys were using.]]
* ShoutOut: One Ashley named Angela is designed like Holli Would from ''Film/CoolWorld''.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler: The final Ashley, Ashlee or as she was originally known, Joslyn, is revealed to have been a black girl herself, bullied just as badly as Spooky. However, where Spooky took the deal but kept her original race, look and identity, Ashlee went completely Caucasian. Spooky uses this against her in the final battle, filling her with such self loathing that she implodes.]]
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