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Team XTreme
Alex Mann/"Action Man"
Voiced by Mark Hildreth
"Amp it up."
The series' protagonist, an extreme athlete who has the ability of the AMP Factor which allows him the ability to calculate future possibilities.- Adaptation Name Change: In the 1995 cartoon series, his real name was Matthew Exler, but here it's Alex Mann.
- Adaptational Nationality: An ambiguous case. Action Man is usually portrayed having a British accent. But here, he's Canadian. The ambiguity comes in from the fact that since this is a Canadian series, it might just be a case of
Fake Nationality. - The Ace: A pro-athlete in sports that would be deemed suicidal in the real world.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Action Man's signature Once an Episode move called the "AMP Factor" where Alex would mentally freeze time and evaluate his surroundings in Matrix-like slow-motion to save the day. These became less and less impressive over time. Initially it would involve complicated sequences of moves that make Rube Goldberg Devices seem straightforward. Eventually it would simply involve him running around doing things really fast while everything else was in slow-motion.
- Catch a Falling Star: Alex deals with gravity and acceleration every day, and making physics work for him is part of his job description. Piece of cake. He even does this during the opening theme sequence.
- Dating Catwoman: Some hints of this between him and Azasi, before learning she was an assassin he admitted to Gray that he was flirting with her and he would offer her a chance for redemption whenever they meet.
- Deadpan Snarker: Alex is pretty witty in the face of Dr. X's mad science.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed on the "Jerk" part. Alex is normally a Nice Guy, though he also has moments of sarcasm.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Which ultimately never happens
- Unrelated in the Adaptation: The production bible for the 1995 series had one detail about Action Man's forgotten past being that his nemesis Dr. X is his adoptive brother. In this continuity, he and Dr. X clearly do not have familial ties.
Desmond Sinclair/"Grinder"
Voiced by Michael Dobson
Team XTreme's pilot and mechanic. A calm man who rarely raises his voice, he's able to keep his cool under extreme circumstances, in contrast to the neurotic Rikki and the overly enthusiastic Fidget.- Ace Pilot: He's a skilled pilot, and loves his plane.
- Catchphrase: "That's tweaked." and "See the X, be the X."
- Only Sane Man: Compared to Fidget's occasionally reckless behavior and Rikki's tendency to overreact to just about everything that goes on, Grinder is shown to be one of the most levelheaded members of Team XTreme, managing to keep his cool even in dire situations.
- Toyless Toyline Character: He didn't have a toy outsides of a McDonald's one.
Rikki Singh-Baines
Voiced by Peter Kelamis
- Butt-Monkey: Gets next to no respect from the rest of the team.
- Lovable Coward: Rikki's cowardly but otherwise good-hearted.
- Non-Action Guy: Rikki is just a manager and the least suited person for combat or sports of Team XTreme. His lack of athletic capabilities were immediately apparent when he tried to pretend to be Alex in order to compete in a race while the latter was away.
- Only Sane Man: In a different series, he would be this. However, his lack of awareness of the situation they're really in due to Action Man ultimately results in him coming off as a worrywart and overreacting.
- Skewed Priorities: A running gag is about how he's concerned about the team's finances despite the mortal peril they're in.
- Toyless Toyline Character: He does not have a figure in the associated toyline.
Agnes Wilson/"Fidget"
Voiced by Tabitha St. Germain
The team's camera woman. Enthusiastic behind the camera (and in general), she takes great glee in taking part in Action Man's extreme situations, whether they be athletic or spy-related.- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She's the sole women on the team and her casual outfit exposes her navel.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": She does not like being called by her given name Agnes.
- Embarrassing First Name: She prefers "Fidget" over Agnes. Even the rest of her team are surprised by it when her sister calls her by her real name.
- Ship Tease: It's highly suggested she has a thing for Alex, showing jealousy when other women show an interest in him.
- The Smurfette Principle: The only female member of Team X Treme.
- Toyless Toyline Character: She has no toy.
Council of Doom
Dr. X
In Brandon's Body
Voiced by Campbell Lane (original form), Michael Kopsa (in Brandon's body)
The main antagonist. Dr. X plots to create an age of "Neo-Humanity", by mutantting the human race through any destructive and dangerous means he can.- Adaptational Nationality: An ambiguous case. In the 1995 series, he was Dutch, and most depictions of him are British. Here, however, he has a Canadian accent. The ambiguity comes from the fact that this is a Canadian series, meaning it might just be a case of Fake Nationality.
- Adaptational Ugliness: Dr. X is often portrayed as macho and handsome with a brown mustache, but here he's a wrinkly old man without the mustache. This is subverted after he takes over Brandon's body and resembles his usual look (brown mustache, young looking, etc).
- Adaptational Villainy: This incarnation of Dr. X is much crueler than his portrayal in the commercials and the 1995 cartoon series. Unlike the ads where he's portrayed as a cartoonish bad guy, here he is portrayed as a much more serious and malevolent character where isn't above putting others through sadistic and dangerous games.
- A God Am I: To the point where he's willing to let an asteroid hit the Earth and ensure the survivors worship him.
- Artificial Limbs: In his original body, he had wheels as legs. In his second body he has a cyber arm filled with various gadgets, including a firearm.
- Bald of Evil: While he steals the body of someone with a full head of hair, it turns bald once he takes over.
- Benevolent Boss: As evil as Dr. X is, he is at-least nice enough to treat his subordinates with respect and he never punishes them for their failures. Subverted, however, where in the final episode, he ultimately considers his own Council of Doom expendable when he decides to try and exterminate all of humanity by causing an asteroid to come towards earth. This causes Asazi, of all people, to turn against him when she discovers his true motives.
- Big Bad: Barring one episode, he's the consistent villain in the series, out to complete his plans for "Neo-Humanity".
- Cyborg: His arm and eye are artificial.
- Evil Cripple: In his original body, he was missing his legs, with mechanical wheels as prosthetics. Thus, he relied heavily on his trilobugs to get around. Averted once he gets his second body.
- Evil Old Folks: Before taking over Brandon, Dr. X is an elderly man and a despicable one on top of that.
- Evilutionary Biologist: A textbook example. He wants to "improve" the world more to his liking.
- Expy: There is speculation that Dr. X was heavily inspired by Dr. Robotnik, whom he shares a good number of similarities with.
- He also bears some resemblance to Kano.
- Faux Affably Evil: He constantly puts on a veneer of politeness and respect, but doesn't hide that he's an insane megalomaniac.
- Genius Bruiser: Not originally, at least at the age and state he had upon being introduced, but he becomes one with Brandon's body.
- In Their Own Image: Very literal example. He plans to make those that become part of his "Neo-Humanity" into clones of himself.
- It's All About Me: As it turns out, his idea of a Master Race is to make those who are physically at their peak the sole survivors on Earth and implant his own mind into them, complete with looking just like him.
- Knight of Cerebus: He's very unlikely to make any scene lighthearted.
- Lack of Empathy: He subjects his victims through cruel experiments and doesn't show a shred of guilt while doing so.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: It becomes very clear Dr. X really wants world domination over a race of physical perfection, as not only does he try to kill random innocent people out of spite, but he also plans to turn those who he deems worthy into clones of himself.
- Omnicidal Maniac: In the final episode, where he attempts to drop an asteroid on the Earth. It leads to Asazi switching sides when she learns that he wasn't bluffing about it.
- The Sociopath: Dr. X doesn't have any regard for the lives of others, sees everyone around him as tools for his experiments and is severely lacking in empathy.
- Unrelated in the Adaptation: In the production bible of the 1995 animated series, he was stated to be Action Man's adoptive brother. This continuity's version of the character has no apparent familial ties to Action Man.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Doctor X stands out for being a completely ruthless and dark villain in a show aimed for kids.
- You Don't Look Like You: Initially, he looks incredibly different from how he's usually portrayed, although eventually he possesses Brandon and looks more like his usual self.
Templeton Storm/"Tempest"
Voiced by Andrew Francis
An arrogant prodigy who gained lighting powers in a freak accident.- Facial Markings: He develops a huge lightning-bolt shaped marking after the accident that gave him his powers.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: He started out as a harmless teen prodigy before Nick Masters drove him over the edge and the freak accident gave him his powers.
- Genius Bruiser: A electrical genius who inexplicably became very buff after he pumped himself up with electricity.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Initially, he only became viciously angry if he was deliberately provoked, betrayed, or his expertise was ignored. After the disaster with Masters and Action Man, almost everything makes him want to shock it to death.
- Nightmare Face: When at full power or sufficiently enraged, his face becomes translucent and reveals his insides, with a creepy blue skull where his face used to be.
- Ignored Expert: While it was clear that things were starting to get out of control after his weather machine started acting up, things didn't really start getting bad until Nick Masters foolishly started messing around with his equipment despite Templeton's protests. Being blamed and smeared afterwards for Masters' blunder only rubbed salt in the wound.
- Psycho Electro: Arrogant, and pretty much always angry.
- Teens Are Monsters: Not the case at first. When we're initially introduced to him, while he's definitely arrogant and definitely didn't consider just how out of control things would get with his weather control machine, it's pretty clear that he wasn't intentionally trying to cause harm. After Nick Masters messed around with his machine and then had the gall to lead a smear campaign against him for Masters' blunder, his temperament changed for the worse, becoming more volatile and angry, especially towards the host (and later Alex), becoming more willing to put innocent lives at risk just to get back at the people he hates.
- Shock and Awe: His primary power is manipulating electricity.
- Shock Stick: He can fire lightning bolts from his twin tesla coils.
- Weather Manipulation: His electrical powers give him this ability.
- Younger Than They Look: Tempest is a teenager around 15 or 16 years old. Though you wouldn't know that by looking at him, since he looks 20-something after his transformation.
Asazi
Voiced by Janyse Jaud
A mercenery terrorist for hire, who uses an arsenal of trick arrows to take out her targets.- Badass Normal: The only member of the Council of Doom who doesn't rely on powers or cybernetics.
- Dark Action Girl: She's a villainess and pretty capable in a fight.
- High-Heel–Face Turn: At the end of the series, she is the only member of the Council of Doom to defect to the good guys, while all of her male colleagues are either depowered or permanently dispatched in some other way. Although it's questionable if she will really quit being evil, since her only motivation for helping Alex was that Dr. X's plan to destroy all of humanity would be bad for her business.
- Spy Catsuit: She wears a tight, form-fitting jumpsuit.
- Toyless Toyline Character: The toyline does not have a figure of her.
Professor Gangrene
Voiced by Gary Chalk
A former Nobel prize winning professor driven insane while experimenting with plants in the jungle. His body is now a mutated carrier of toxins.- Adaptation Dye-Job: Professor Gangrene had white hair in the 1995 animated series, while what little hair this version has is colored green.
- Adaptational Badass: Gangrene isn't often portrayed as having powers, but that's not the case here.
- Adaptational Late Appearance: Professor Gangrene was an established minion of Dr. X's in the 1995 cartoon who made his debut in the second episode, while this incarnation doesn't show up until the second season and isn't officially part of the Council of Doom until his second appearance.
- Adaptational Ugliness: He looks more hideous than he did in the 1995 cartoon, even while having a normal skin color this time.
- Bald of Evil: He has even less hair than his counterpart in the 1995 cartoon.
- Body Horror: Just look at him.
- Combat Tentacles: Can generate a green one from his palm.
- Cyborg: He carries some visible "hardware" he claims he cannot live without.
- The Dragon: After his debut, he becomes Dr. X's main lackey.
- Eye Scream: Wears a claw that keeps his left eye crudely open. The necessity for this is unknown.
- Genius Bruiser: Not to the extent of other characters, but he's obviously very physically fit and can hold his own in scuffles.
- Harmless Freezing: The series ends with Action Man freezing him using liquid nitrogen, rendering him motionless and barely able to move his lips.
- The Hyena: Laughs a lot, both maniacally and not, to Dr. X's chagrin.
- Mad Scientist: He's a deranged scientist working for Dr. X.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: You know a person is bad news when their name refers to a condition where the flesh decays. His real name is actually Wolfgang Greenholtz; he embraced the Gangrene moniker of his own volition after his mutation.
- Noodle Incident: He apparently won a Nobel Prize back when he was sane, presumably in biology, but this only gets a single mention.
- Poisonous Person: His powers are based on poison, and he can poison people through the slightest touch; something Grinder found out the hard way in Gangrene's debut episode.
- The Pig-Pen: Other characters comment he stinks due to his mutations. Possibly also due to bad hygiene, as he acknowledges it after checking up his armpits, although this might be just another of his jokes.
- Sanity Slippage: Its implied the same experiments that turned him into a Walking Wasteland, also eroded his mind and transformed him from a well meaning scientists into the deranged lunatic Alex and team run into.
- Walking Wasteland: Self-describes himself as a "walking disease".
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Even before his recruitment by Dr. X, Professor Gangrene was already independently toeing the party line of trying to "improve" humanity through giving them immunity to all diseases and poisons at the cost of the mass death of those incompatible with the process.
Sidney/"Quake"
Voiced by Ian James Corlett
- Axe-Crazy: Once he gets his hands on Dr. X's suit, he goes mad with power and relishes in any opportunity to hurt others. Best seen when after Dr. X informs him of his plan to have him cause an earthquake that will devastate millions of lives all over Japan, Quake laughs about how the weak will be crushed and destroyed, then quips how he's going to love his new job.
- The Brute: He lacks the intellect or grace of the rest of his team; he's just a vile bully who always attacks head-on.
- De-power: In the final episode, his suit is destroyed for good.
- This Is a Drill: The right attachment on the back of his suit is a drill.
- Earthquake Machine: Quake's suit of Powered Armor enables him to create earthquakes.
- Fat Bastard: He's a bit portly and has a fairly unpleasant personality.
- That Man Is Dead: When Dr. X refers to him as Sidney after being impressed by his attack on Alex, Sidney snarls that his name from now on is "Quake".
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Quake was just some fat loser janitor named Sidney before he acquired the Quake armor and became a supervillain.
- Purple Is Powerful: His armor is colored in various shades of purple and he's by far Dr. X's most physically powerful and durable minion.
- Shockwave Stomp: Can create small tremors in the ground just by stomping his feet.
- Toyless Toyline Character: He has no toy.
Supporting Cast
Simon Grey
Voiced by Christopher Judge
Alex's high school couch who reveals he was a covert cold war agent, who carried out and oversaw the experiment that gave Action Man his abilities.- Authority Sounds Deep: Is Alex Mann's mentor and former high school coach who speaks with the deep voice of Christopher Judge.
- Bald of Authority: Fulfills all the points, although he leads from the background.
- Broken Pedestal: Alex temporarily loses faith in him when he learns that he was a former associate of Dr. X.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He ceased making appearances in the second season.
- Expy: A bald African American man in shades who guides the protagonist and always acts like he knows more then he lets on...yeah, he's most likely meant to be Morpheus.
- Ink-Suit Actor: His model greatly resembles a shaven headed Christopher Judge.
Nick Masters
Voiced by Mackenzie Gray
Owner of and lead reporter of Mastervision Network, Nick Masters is a typical media personality: Bombastic, exuberant, and always doing everything he can to get attention to the network and his clients. However, he also shows himself to be a very sketchy sort at times, being quite callous and willing to do extraordinarily foolish things if it gets better ratings.- Attention Whore: Part of his job, given he's trying to keep interest in the various extreme sports that his network shows, but also shows at times outside of it.
- Create Your Own Villain: He was responsible for Tempests' descent into villainy given that he not only mucked with the latter's weather machine but then he refused to take fault for the resulting disaster and then slandered Tempest.
- Dodgy Toupee: One episode reveals that his hair is a wig.
- Foil: To Rikki. Both are major personalities within their respective groups (Team XTreme for Rikki, Mastervision Network for Masters) who will do everything they can to keep things on schedule and bring plenty of work and money for their groups. However, the former is generally quite cowardly in disposition, but is very loyal and willing to take risks for the sake of his friends and team, while Masters is very bombastic and friendly towards those he sees as beneficial to him, but who doesn't hesitate to turn on them the minute they seem to become a liability to him. Rikki is also more inclined to take responsibility if something goes wrong (albeit after some goading), while Masters rarely admits fault if something does go awry, especially if he's the reason for it.
Brandon Caine
Voiced by Tyler Labine
Envy turned Brandon from a Friendly Rival of Alex to a Unwitting Pawn of Dr. X.- Always Second Best: To Alex. This aspect of his character causes him to take Dr. X's implants, much to his detriment in the long term.
- Back from the Dead: Has his body stolen by Dr. X in episode 2 but gets brought back to life at the end of the first season... and never returns to the story in the second season.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: After he gets a new body, he never turns up again.
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: How Dr. X stole his body. The implants he received increased him physical prowess, but unfortunately came with a side effect of being poorly compatible with his brain, causing him to mutate into a horrible monster.
- Decomposite Character: Of Dr. X, who later possesses Brandon's body.
- Fatal Flaw: Not thinking things through. What makes Brandon so susceptible to being taken advantage of is how much he rarely considers all the aspects of a situation, often tunnel-visioning on what he wanted immediately to his long term detriment.
- Game-Breaking Injury: Ends up in hospital and out of action for two months. The intervention of Dr. X cuts it short.
- Name of Cain: His last name.
Diana Zerbes
Voiced by Venuz Terzo
An agent from a special task group.- Action Girl: She's rather proficient, as befitting a police officer.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She does not appear in the second season.
- Hero Antagonist: Her first appearance has her targeting Action Man because he's been framed.
- Ship Tease: With Alex.
