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Cybersix and Her Allies
Cybersix/Adrian Seidelman
Adrian Seidelman
Cybersix
Cybersix is an artificial human created by the evil scientist Von Reichter who stalks the cities at night primarily to fight his evil creations and steal their sustenance for her own survival. Along the way though she ends up becoming something of a superhero as she often winds up protecting civilians from them too. During the daytime she is disguised as Adrien Seidelman, a teacher of literature.
- Abusive Parents: Von Reichter, her creator, tried to force the Cybers into line and eventually murders 4998 of them, leaving only Six and Cyber-29's brain inside Data-7. And he eventually kidnaps her baby with Lucas, quick-growing him into a villain. Sheesh!
- Afraid of Doctors:
- In a sense. She has extreme aversion to going to a hospital even when hurt. Justified in that she probably does not want to risk the chance of someone finding out that she's physically female while living as a man, or worse, that she's an artificially created human with super abilities.
- At one point in the comic the school Adrian works orders that all its teachers to submit to an examination by a psychotherapist. Though this an entirely well-intentioned gesture given that it's a school in the slums for problem kids and they want to identify anyone among the faculty who needs help, Six-as-Adrian threatens her resignation. Besides the obvious stress issues of her night life, she also probably correctly believes that a competent psychiatrist would see right through the Adrian identity and out her as both as a woman and a fraud, rendering said identity useless. Ultimately the therapist turns out to be gentle and understanding and when Adrian gets upset and ends the interview early promises to give a positive review to the school board, but also says 'Adrian' can come back any time. Eventually, that's exactly what happens.
- Ambiguously Brown: Depending on the Artist: Many of her illustrations seem to give her a somewhat dark complexion, but in the graphic novel, which is black and white, she's Caucasian.
- Artificial Human: Played with. She and the other Cybers were conceived by the union of specially-chosen sperm and egg in a test tube and received heavy genetic alteration and splicing while they developed. As a result, she regards herself as not truly human and just as much of a laboratory creation as the Technos in spite of her slightly more conventional origins.
- Boyish Short Hair: Even as a child, she sported her distinctive short haircut with prominent bangs. It certainly helps to make her civilian disguise as a male teacher easier to achieve.
- Can't Have Sex, Ever: For a while she's worried that due to her genetically-engineered nature she might have some biological issue like a virus or chemical which might harm Lucas if she makes love to him. Fortunately she eventually finds a doctor who she trusts with her secrets and after a thorough exam he tells her that there's absolutely nothing wrong with her body besides needing Sustenance and to get out of his exam room and get herself some booty. Which she does.
- Clark Kenting: Combined with Sweet Polly Oliver, that's pretty much her whole disguise. However she takes it further by wearing makeup in her Cybersix persona and taking it off in her Adrian persona. In addition to donning glasses and wearing a different hair style as Adrian, she seems to wear her civilian clothes a size larger for the sake of hiding any noticeable features.
- Combat Stilettos: Cybersix wears extremely high, skinny heels. As a superhuman, she manages them just fine even while fighting or Roofhopping; what’s impressive is that the shoes themselves survive, since they’re stolen from a civilian and not special in any way.
- Dead Person Impersonation: In the original comics it's explained that the reason she started living as a man in the first place was because while she was on the run, she came across the remains of a car wreck and by strange coincidence, closely resembled a young man who had died in the accident. She took the opportunity and assumed his identity henceforth, gaining an education and becoming the teacher we now know.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: In the comic when she's low on sustenance, she starts feeling weak and feverish, restless and unable to become comfortable, unable to focus, waiting impatiently for the chance to get more Sustenance into her system so she can feel good again. Yes, that's right, just like a vampire. Oh, also a drug addict.
- Not to mention, she's a woman who has to assume an identity as a man in order to protect herself, has deep issues with her "unnatural" body and assumes no one will ever view her as a "real woman" because of it, and has a deep desire to simply be a "normal" person. Needless to say, the metaphor for Trans Tribulations is pretty potent.
- Dub Name Change: In the Latin America dub, her name was changed to René, making it sound more feminine, but still ambiguous. It doesn't help that her voice actress has always been female.
- Distinguishing Mark: Has "Cyber 6" tattooed on the inside of both of her arms which easily identifies her to her enemies, and thus she's never seen publicly wearing sleeves shorter than mid-forearm in either of her identities.
- Flawed Prototype: She has observed that her body holds much less Sustenance than Von Reichter's more advanced creations such as the Technos, as they are a later model.
- The Force Is Strong with This One: There are a number of Artificial Humans created by the same scientist as she was operating in Meridiana, and Six can detect them and tell how much Sustenance is inside them. The same, however, is true the other way around as well, although it seems the others are less sensitive. Possibly because they seem to have locations where they can have their Sustenance restored and so don't actively seek out others like themselves the way she has to.
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: In a way. She only feeds upon Artificial Humans like her, and even makes sure to target ones with excess Sustenance in their bodies so they don't die from her feeding.
- Friend to All Children: She gets along well with kids, mainly because they remind her of her childhood with Cyber-29. When Adrian gets pick pocketed by Julian, rather than get mad, he actually offers him money, much to Lucas' surprise. Cybersix, on the other hand, is very protective of kids, and, along with saving Julian, she helps Yashimoto save Ikiko. The only time this trope doesn't apply is with José, for obvious reasons.
- Friend to All Living Things: Both Adrian and Cybersix show examples that they care for animals. On Adrian's side, he greets a bluebird twice. Whilst on Cybersix's side, she gets along great with Data-7.
- Glass Cannon: She can jump very high and her attacks pack a punch, but a solid punch from a Fixed Idea can take a lot out of her.
- Happily Adopted: In the original comics its shown that after she successfully escaped from Von Reichter, she lived for several years with a slave who escaped alongside her and she loved the man enough to call him her "father".
- In a Single Bound: She has an extremely long and high jump stride, and her preferred method of getting around is Roofhopping. She can leap to the top of a building from the street.
- Incurable Cough of Death: Variation. When she's low on sustenance, parts of her body but especially her arms start randomly spasming and/or short-circuiting painfully.
- Innate Night Vision: Lucas in his observations, notes that the mysterious woman can transverse the rooftops at night without hesitation, even spying things like black cables in the dark. According to Von Reichter's notes, this is due to being spliced with DNA from nocturnal predator.
- I Work Alone: Downplayed; While she's not averse to teamwork, especially on the fly, she distinctly dislikes getting people involved in her affairs if she can help it. On several occasions she tells Data-7 to prevent Lucas or Julian from helping her (which typically winds up unsuccessful in the long run).
- Lightning Bruiser: She's remarkably agile and has Super-Strength: the tradeoff is that using too much of her abilities means burning up Sustenance, so she has to be careful.
- Male Might, Female Finesse: Despite her Super-Strength, Cybersix usually goes with kicks and flips because she knows that using too much of it will burn up the Sustenence in her body quickly.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: Her Artificial Human status granted her Super-Strength, despite being a relatively lanky person. She's shown to be physically stronger than her friend and love interest Lucas who by comparison has a much bulkier, muscular frame.
- The Needless: Downplayed. As long as they have Sustenance in their system, Cybers can get by on only two hours of sleep a day. Trying to sleep without Sustenance is...not fun.
- Operation: Jealousy: She's not above allowing Lucas to think that Cybersix is interested in Adrian in order to gauge his reactions.
- Orphan's Plot Trinket: She possesses a single photograph of the only true father she has ever known, and has risked her life on at least one occasion to retrieve it.
- Our Vampires Are Different: The comic creators, at least, use a lot of vampiric imagery and speech to represent her. Six's general M.O. (in the comic) is to find a Techno with an excess of Sustenance in their system, use her unearthly beauty to charm them into lowering their guard and then jab at their heart or bite them in the throat, where the Sustenance is concentrated, and drain it. She also hides herself from society at large and adopts a human guise to interact with the world.
- Phlebotinum Dependence: Sustenance is the fuel that keeps her alive, and gets consumed the more active she is. She has to consume it from her fellow Artificial Human-types to survive, whether like a vampire in the original comic or in convenient kid-friendly vials in the series.
- Psychic Link:
- Established a strong one with Data-7 in their childhood, but given her traumas and distance since, she'd almost forgotten—until his return.
- At one point, a particularly advanced Artificial Human known as a Type not only detects her but also uses their connection to read her memories. It's uncertain if she can do this herself in any capacity when it comes to Technos and Types, however.
- Secret-Identity Identity:
- Cybersix, the Artificial Human tormented by her nature as an created being and the cruel memories of her past. The only other Artificial Humans around are her mortal enemies, who she cannot commiserate with as she is forced to feed from in order to survive, and they would kill her or worse if she revealed herself to them.
- Adrian Seidelman, the stuffy young lecturer who keeps himself largely hidden except for his Only Friend, Lucas Amato, and who is the closest among the three to actually having what could be considered a normal human lifestyle—all a lie. A false identity perpetuated for years and constructed upon stolen identity papers. As she develops more relationships and human friends as her own self she grows to resent the necessity of this identity to some extent.
- The lonely young woman who longs for human contact and relationships, in particular the touch of a loved one, but who must keep herself hidden away from the world lest her secrets destroy her. Eventually Six makes a human friend as herself and calls herself Cyb or Cybil when talking to her and starts finding it easier to think when she's just being herself rather than keeping up a guise.
- Skin Tone Sclerae: A carry over from the original comic style.
- Super Prototype: Although the later model Technos were a generation later than the Cybers, the latter have one advantage that the former do not—the capacity for free will and independent thought. This is why Von Richten deemed their whole line to be failures.
- Super-Strength: When she's got Sustenance to burn, she can pull off feats like making In a Single Bound jumps while three full-grown men are holding on to her for dear life.
- Sweet Polly Oliver: An inverted example where Cybersix's original female identity serves as the "moonlighting superhero", while the disguised identity as a male teacher is who lives as the everyday civilian.
- Troubled Backstory Flashback: Her dreams tend to be nightmarish, involving events from her past.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Constantly questions and displays doubts about her humanity, at times expressing the belief she's a monster while at others trying to convince herself that she's not so different from anyone else.
- You Are Number 6: Literally was the 6th individual in Von Reichter's Cyber series of artificial human's. "Cyber 6" is tattooed on the inside of both her forearms.
- You Can't Go Home Again: She was rescued from the destruction of the other Cybers by one of her tenders, a man enslaved by Von Reichter, who escaped to the fishing village he'd been born in and she lived there for a few idyllic years until Von Reichter's Technos showed up, tried to torture her location out of her now-adoptive father and shot him once he'd convinced them that he had idea where she went. The village is still there but she can't actually return to it because her very presence would endanger everyone inside.
Tropes regarding Cybersix
- Action Girl: Being the protagonist, after all.
- Accidental Hero: Inverted. Though she does value life and defends people from Von Reichter's monsters, she mainly fights in order to gain sustenance from said monsters. It's mostly just coincidental that she ends up foiling José's and Reichter's plans of crime and world domination.
- Adaptational Modesty: In the comics she had nude scenes in practically every chapter. For obvious reasons, that doesn't happen in the animated series. For example, in the episode "Lori is missing", Lori sees Cybersix wearing her superhero outfit inside Adrian's apartment. A very similar scene happens in the comics...Except Cybersix is completely naked.
- Beneath the Mask: Adrian is the public mask and Cybersix is the real identity.
- Big Sister Instinct: She's this around Julian, seeing him as another little brother. She's also strict in regards to his tagging along with her, as she doesn't want him to get hurt.
- Combat Pragmatist: Due to being an older model from Von Reichter's past, she has to largely rely on tricks and strategy to beat her enemies.
- Creepy Good: While she's certainly sinister looking, she's a benevolent figure.
- Dark Is Not Evil: She is dressed in all black and red, but she's soft spoken and kind. Only having an attitude whenever she's in a fight.
- Fedora of Asskicking: During her action-packed nighttime escapades, her ensemble includes a wide-brimmed black fedora.
- Form-Fitting Wardrobe: In contrast to the baggy clothes she always wears as Adrian, Cybersix leaps through the night in a skin-tight black suit.
- Fragile Speedster: She's very agile, but not as durable as the majority of Von Reichter's creations, and though she's quite strong, relying too much on her physical attributes means burning through her Sustenence faster. To beat Fixed Ideas, she often needs to resort to tricks to win.
- Inconsistent Spelling: The title spells it Cybersix, but Cyber 6 is what is actually tattooed onto her forearms.
- Made of Iron: That said, she's still far more durable than the average human and she's frequently seen getting up easily from ridiculously high falls or being smashed into concrete.
- Mama Bear: Even though she's a constant nuisance for Adrian, Cybersix sets José's drill tank on fire with him in it when he dares to kidnap Lori.
- My Greatest Failure: She has recurring nightmares regarding the death of Cyber-29. This ends when she reunites with him in his current form Data-7.
- Roofhopping: Cybersix invariably does this when she traverses the city on her nightly excursions
Tropes Regarding Adrian Seidelman
- Badass Bookworm: What else would you get from someone who is a literature teacher by day and a vigilante superheroine by night?
- Cultured Badass: A badass who also has a propensity for randomly quoting classic literature.
- Due to the Dead: Cybersix made sure to bury the true Adrian Seidelman and his family some distance away from the crash which killed them, beneath a cairn.
- Gender-Blender Name: While "Adrian Seidelman" is solidly a male identity, it's perhaps fitting that "Adrian" is a unisex given name.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Lucas. Or about as heterosexual as can be expected, given that Lucas is Cybersix's love interest and Cybersix is him.
- Ineffectual Loner: Somewhat, though he doesn't truly want to be. Adrian desires companionship, but his artificial origins, false identity, and the fact dangerous people are constantly after him makes him understandably reluctant to get too close to anyone. While Adrian was quickly receptive to Lucas's offer of friendship when they met, Adrian was also initially awkward and somewhat standoffish, and later was shown trying to convince himself he "[didn't] need a friend". Even after solidly becoming friends though, Adrian continues to have a habit of withdrawing and walking off on his own without any proper explanation if he feels Lucas's interactions are getting too personal.
- Nice Guy: When not teaching, he pretty much is this all over. One big example is that he forgives Julian for stealing his wallet and even tries to give him some money to get by.
- Romantic Wingman: Adrian is a very, very good friend and confidante of Cybersix, and so if she ever does anything that confuses or worries Lucas or if he has any questions, all Lucas has to do is tell Adrian and he'll be able to explain her behavior or ask her about it. Mm-hm.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Flip-flops between both in different ways with Lucas. On one hand, Adrian is a slightly scrawny looking literature professor who tends to wax poetic and is sympathetic to those who have been dealt a bad hand in life, especially children. On the other, Adrian is also an uptight, somewhat withdrawn teacher who doesn't have a lot of patience or interest in frivolous behaviors and activities.
- Stereotypical Nerd: Looks the stereotype, having a mussed up slicked back hairstyle, and wearing enormous glasses, suspenders, sweater vests, and of course, having a passion for literature.
- Stern Teacher: While he's a Nice Guy, he doesn't take kindly to those that don't take his class seriously, especially Lori who has other things on her mind.
- Stoic Spectacles: Crosses this over with Nerd Glasses. Adrian wears a distinctive pair of large, round-lensed glasses and while he's not entirely stoic, he's a fairly straight-laced yet passionate literature teacher.
- Vocal Dissonance: Usually Adrian's voice is low and boyish, but occasionally, particularly when alone or when Data-7 is the only company, Adrian's voice pitches back up to its naturally higher tone.
Data-7/Cyber- 29
Cybersix's younger brother of sorts, having started out life as the 29th individual in the same Artificial Human series as Cybersix. At some point in his life as Cyber-29, he went to get a flower for his sister, causing him to fall off a cliff, killing him. Von Reichter later gave him a second life by transplanting his brain into the body of a panther, renaming him Data-7. He was originally sent to kill Cybersix, but when his memories came back he became one of her closest allies. Due to his human brain, he's smarter than most animals and is capable of limited communications with humans.
- All Animals Are Dogs: He acts more like a loyal pet dog than a panther. At a few points he licks Cybersix as if he were a canine.
- Artificial Human: Began life as one of the same type as Cybersix. Now however, his brain resides in the body of a panther.
- Adult Child: It's a given since Cyber-29 died while still a child.
- Big Brother Instinct: While he's really her younger brother, Data-7 will protect her with his life. He extends the same courtesy to Julian and Lucas on Cybersix's orders.
- Creepy Good: For the same reasons as Cybersix.
- Distinguishing Mark: In his original body, he had "Cyber 29" tattooed to his forearms. Now as a panther, he displays a scar over his left eye, presumably from the brain transplant surgery.
- Gentle Giant: While he is a vicious panther, he's actually a big kitten around Cybersix, Lucas and Julian. Something Julian takes advantage of, when he has to outwit Data-7, when the latter tries to keep him from leaving the boathouse.
- Heel–Face Turn: In "Data-7 & Julian" after he remembers clearly who he really is and his true relationship to Cybersix. It further cements when after seconds of finding out, he saves Julian from falling.
- Incorrect Animal Noise:
- Data-7 makes a lot of stock growls and roars that come from tigers and mountain lions, but not leopards.
- He also purrs like a house cat, which no big cat can do.
- A particularly egregious example comes from him whining like a dog in episode 7 after being wrapped up in a cat cradle.
- My Beloved Smother: Sibling example. While Data-7 usually defers to Cybersix, if Cybersix gets hurt Data-7 can become obstructively overprotective. He once even followed Cybersix when the school was on field trip because he was overly worried about an injury she received to her arm, unfortunately leading an enemy to her.
- Panthera Awesome: He's a black panther with a human brain.
- The Unintelligible: Since he's a panther, Data-7 can only communicate through sounds like growls, purrs, whimpers, and grunts. Sometimes Cybersix can understand him. Other times, when it's something complicated he has to compensate by leading her or anyone he talks to, to the thing he's trying to talk about.
Lucas Amato
- Adaptational Attractiveness: He is much more handsome in the animated series than in the comics, where he looked like some sort of ape-man.
- Ambiguously Bi: Several of his moments with Adrian are suspiciously romantic. Ultimately, it's up to the viewer to decide whether its because he's genuinely attracted to him, or if Adrian's Sweet Polly Oliver status has something to do with it.
- Badass in Distress: There are a number of moments where Lucas finds himself being held captive or overwhelmed by enemies and Cybersix comes in to rescue him.
- Badass Normal: While he's not as powerful as Cybersix, he can hold his own against the Fixed Idea foot soldiers quite well.
- Big Brother Instinct: Around Adrian he's this especially in the first episode, when he scares off Lori's cronies for hassling them. As well as in "Lori is Missing" when he tries to talk Lori out of pursuing Adrian since Adrian seems unable to shake her off himself.
- Big Eater: In the opening, he's seen scarfing down plate after plate of food. The server claims the chef loves cooking for him because if he wasn't there, "he would get out of practice". Cybersix even cracks a joke in Episode 7 when she finds him at the diner not eating as "a newsworthy event".
- Establishing Character Moment:
- In the comic, he notes that Adrian is being followed by Lori's gang and manages to arrive on the scene as the biggest one is giving his new colleague a Neck Lift, he slugs the student and the cops show up, scaring the kids away. Offering Adrian a hand and help picking up his stuff, he notes a book of Fernando Pessoa's work and another about genetic engineering and eagerly gushes about both.
- In the cartoon he's introduced teaching a biology class, but when he accidentally shows a slide of him as a skinny guy in boxing gear, he ends up laughing alongside his students. His next scene is coming in to protect Adrian from Lori's goons, making the three scramble by giving them a smirk. And when he meets up with Cybersix, while he is wary of her, he quickly proves he's on her side by tackling a Fixed Idea out of her apartment without hesitation.
- First Friend: An interesting case. He's the human connection Six firmly establishes, however she only interacts with him either under the false identity of Adrian or the non-identity of the elusive lady without being able to be her real self.
- Genius Bruiser: He's a big guy, but Lucas is both the chemistry and biology teacher at the local high school and it's hinted he's been working on replicating the sustenance solution.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Adrian, to the extent that he has no issues spending Valentines Day with him. Of course, he doesn't know "Adrian" is also his explicit love interest, Cybersix, until the finale.
- Hunk: He's quite the bulky guy and a former boxer.
- Intrepid Reporter: In the comic he works as something of a freelance reporter and researcher in addition to his teaching and frequently submits articles to scientific magazines and local papers. In particular, he has a close friendship with Saulo Coyote, director of El Independiente. After Saulo is assassinated, Lucas even resigns from the school and takes over the paper per Saulo's final request.
- Lightning Bruiser: Lucas is both very strong and lightning fast.
- Male Might, Female Finesse: His boxing background means he's ready to use brute force through punches and tackling the Fixed Ideas until they go down.
- Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: In the comic there's Rebecca Limon, an ambitious reporter who he dated until he realized how heartless she actually was. Although she tried to get back with him (and even made love to him one night much to Six's chagrin when she saw them), it turned out this was just a ploy to steal his research for a report and he kicked her naked butt out in the hall after he caught her. And then later she tried it again and he tossed her well-dressed butt out in the hall without any sex.
- Real Men Wear Pink: He's a bulky guy who loves watching soccer, but he also likes romance movies enough to go to them by himself.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Flip flops between both sides with Adrian. On one hand Lucas is an actively friendly and helpful person who is willing to lend an ear to someone's troubles, and also shows an interest in romance films. On the other, Lucas is also a big, muscular, sports fan.
- Single-Target Sexuality: In the comic, although he does sleep with another woman early on, as his not-quite-relationship with Cybersix deepens, he starts passing up golden opportunities with attractive women because he's worried he might upset her.
- Two-Person Love Triangle: Is briefly led to believe he's in a Love Triangle when a misconception makes him think Adrian and Cybersix are dating each other, not knowing that they are the same person until the finale.
- Weak, but Skilled: Since the enemies in the show are Super Soldiers and monsters created in a lab and he's just a muggle who can box. He holds his own against a Fixed Idea, a creature that can smash bricks with it's bare hands, simply because he's an experienced enough fighter to dodge it's telegraphed moves.
- Will They or Won't They?: With Cybersix. They don't quite get there before the end of the series but to be fair, they did at least kiss in the finale.
Lori Anderson/Cadenas
- Adaptational Attractiveness: Looks far less rough compared to her comic counterpart.
- Adaptational Heroism: She's a mentally-unstable stalker with a gang in the comic. In the cartoon, she's rough around the edges but practically a saint by comparison.
- A Day in the Limelight: "Lori is Missing." She runs into José, who has her abducted because a disc that he needed for his Drill Tank got mixed-up with her CDs.
- Action Girl: She has her moment, when José kidnaps her. After Cybersix frees her, she uses one of her music discs to sabotage José's drill.
- Defiant Captive: Even though she's tied up she trolls José into thinking she's hot for him. When she reveals her prank it causes all of José's underlings to laugh at him.
- Dub Name Change: Her name is Lori Cadenas in the comic.
- Everyone Has Standards: In the comic after learning that Yashimoto's little sister was kidnapped to make him work for Von Richten, she immediately pledges her help in rescuing her.
- Freudian Excuse: In the comic, as a very young child in the circus she was badly abused by one of the performers—a discretion shot keeps us from seeing what happened, but the sound effects indicate violence and the guy was taking his belt off as well as grabbing her from behind. This trauma goes a long way in explaining her mild instability and most likely also her hypersexuality. Poor kid.
- Hidden Depths: In the comics, she's an ex-circus acrobat, from a family of same, and proves able to follow Cybersix across the rooftops and to Lucas's house in one story.
- Hot for Teacher: A big one for Adrian, something he's fully aware of and he tries to put a stop to it. After Lucas rescues her, Lori develops a crush on him, too.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Even after warming up to Cybersix a little more, it seems she doesn't find out that she and her love rival are the same person until the very end.
- Love Triangle: Lori believes she's in one with Adrian and Cybersix, not knowing they are one and the same. It's also hinted she has one for Adrian and Lucas.
- "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: In the comic. When she mocks José for being a little boy, he drags her into a dumpster and demonstrates his sexual prowess—although she's startled and unwilling at first she quickly starts having a good time, to the point that after he leaves and says he might just run into her again she's enthused at the prospect. It perhaps ought to be noted that she's pretty messed up in the comics and later does refer to this as having been raped, albeit with annoyance rather than what one might expect.
- Operation: Jealousy: In the comic she pretends to be interested in a promising new student of Adrian's in order to try and make him jealous, to the point of being wiling to sleep with the guy. After Adrian explains what's going on to him (without Lori around), the guy asks what he should do and Adrian asks if Lori's his type (which she is) and Adrian says to go for it. Oh, but wear a condom.
- Really Gets Around: In the comic, by her own admission she's been with dozens of guys in the past.
- Smarter Than You Look: She was able to screw with José's drill program without any issues.
- Stalker with a Crush: Figures out Adrian's address pretty quickly and shows up at his doorstep a few times.
- Stalker without a Crush: She also figures out that Adrian has some kind of relationship with the mysterious lady in black and manages to tail her when she leaves Adrian's apartment and goes to Lucas's.
- Troubled Backstory Flashback: We learn in the comic that when she was a kid in the circus one of her fellow performers violently attacked her—possibly sexually assaulting her as well—and no one believed her story.
Julian
- Badass Adorable: He's managed to trick Data-7 and many Fixed Ideas. Twice on the latter. He's also taken on José in a fight.
- Berserk Button: He doesn't like people who muscle in on the street he performs at.
- Heel Realization: After stealing Adrian's wallet, he takes a look at a family photo of Cybersix and Cyber-29. This causes him to feel guilty and return it.
- Heel–Face Turn: Julian makes a full one after the above Heel Realization. Julian notices a woman lost her wallet, and rather than steal it for himself, he gives it back to her. Cybersix watches him, from a distance with a pleased look on her face.
- Stage Magician: How he makes his living, now that he doesn't pick pockets. His specialties are sleight of hand and cat's cradle.
- You Remind Me of X: Cybersix is driven to help Julian initially because he reminds her of her brother 29, to the point of a Wrong-Name Outburst when Julian is falling to his death.
Detective Yashimoto
- Adaptational Intelligence: In the cartoon (most likely due to time constraints), Hashimoto makes brilliant deductions based on little information where in the original comics he realistically has to do legwork, make observations, talk to witnesses, break into apartments, etc. like private investigators in the real world do. They both do some roofhopping that most detectives don't bother with, though.
- Adaptational Personality Change: In the original comic books, Yashimoto inherited the detective agency from a friend, and he's more interested in becoming a famous comic artist than taking cases. He's the real deal in the cartoon, a fully-dedicated detective whose skills have made him a local legend.
- Apologetic Attacker: When confronting Adrian with the knowledge of Cybersix's identity, Yashimoto apologizes and admits that he doesn't have a choice before attacking her with a Grapple Gun.
- Asian Buck Teeth: Sports a prominent pair, oddly for a series that debuted in the 1990s.
- Badass Biker: One of the few detectives that doesn't look silly when riding a bicycle.
- Badass Normal: In both continuities, Hashimoto has roughly the same skills, is able to able to stalk Lucas and Cybersix and observe them for long periods without being observed, walk around in ther apartments without being noticed when they're asleep, and so forth.
- Big Brother Instinct: His sister means everything to him. José kidnapping her is what prompts him to take the case finding Cybersix.
- Excellent Judge of Character: Yashimoto rejects José's request to find Cybersix, finding him too untrustworthy and telling him upfront he only takes cases he believes in.
- Forced into Evil: He initially refuses to find Cybersix because he doesn't trust José. José responds by kidnapping his sister, Ikiko, forcing Yashimoto to figure out who Cybersix is anyway. Same deal in the original comic, but with Von Reichter instead of José.
- Great Detective: In the cartoon, Yashimoto only needed to hear Adrian's voice once, without any visual aid, to suspect that Adrian Seidelman and Cybersix were one in the same. His investigative skills quickly confirm it for him, and he even tracks down Adrian's apartment despite Adrian's aversion to giving out his address in any form.
- Hero of Another Story: According to José, Yashimoto is hailed as the best private investigator in Meridiana.
- I Have Your Wife:
- He refuses to take José's case at first because he doesn't believe the story about Cybersix robbing him. Then José kidnaps Ikiko to force him to hunt Cybersix down.
- In the comics it's Von Reichter, not José with Hashimoto turning him down simply because he can't believe the crazy but absolutely true and remarkably candid backstory the bad doctor is giving him.
- I Know Kung Fu: He makes a few fancy movements to intimidate the Fixed Ideas, but he's never shown using them, so it may have just be meant as a distraction.
- Irony: In the comic, he's very talented at detective work, as well as stealth and roofhopping, but he'd rather chuck it all away and be a comic artist even though his skills in that regard are mediocre.
- Nice Guy: He takes care of his little sister Ikiko off the job, as well as trusts Julian by her words about him alone.
- Promotion to Parent: From what little of their home life is shown, Yashimoto appears to be Ikiko's caregiver and provider.
- Secret-Keeper: After Cybersix helps him rescue Ikiko, he agrees to not tell anyone about Cybersix being Adrian.
- Stealth Expert: While gathering information, he actually sneaks into Lucas's apartment while Lucas is sleeping inside and goes through the place without waking him up. He demonstrates good eavesdropping skills, as well.
Ikiko
- As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Her name can be spelled in Japanese, but it's not recognized as a real name.
- Cute, but Cacophonic: She's adorable, but her screaming and crying is so unbearable to her own brother gags her in the comic.
- Culture Equals Costume: What does the little Japanese girl wear but a kimono.
- Defiant Captive: Along with Julian when they get kidnapped by José. They both demand food and undermine José calling the shots.
- Deliberately Cute Child: Well, if you get past the fact that she's a borderline caricature...
Maura Click
A prostitute, petty thief, and junkie who Cybersix literally runs into and later befriends.
- Abusive Parents: Another thing she and Six have in common. In Maura's case, her father physically abused her for her entire life and when she got old enough to have a period forced her into prostitution.
- Adapted Out: The children's cartoon they made based the comic did not, peculiarly enough, include a junkie prostitute as one of the supporting characters.
- Broken Bird: Her life has been a constant struggle to survive, but she's still kind enough to feel empathy for Cybersix's travails.
- Commonality Connection: She initially thinks that Cybersix is a junkie like herself since they were both fiending bad when they crashed into each other, Maura for heroin and Six for Sustenance. Besides that, over lunch Maura mentions that she dresses as a man for one client and that it may be an odd thing to do but she has to do it to get by.
- Crash-Into Hello: Six was looking for Sustenance, Maura was looking for someone to rob for dope money, neither was paying attention to their surroundings and BAM.
- First Friend:
- Ultimately becomes the first human Six can connect to as her real self, albeit under the sobriquet of "Cyb/Cybil", rather than under the false identity of Adrian (as in the case of Lucas) or the woman in black (as in the case of Julian).
- For Maura's part, "Cyb" is one of the few people who was genuinely nice to her in her life and is willing to actually hang out with and care about the welfare of, well, a junkie hooker.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: She's a nice person who doesn't want to harm anyone, but her addiction is stronger than she is and her dealer only takes cash so occasionally she engages in muggings or petty theft to supplant her prostitution income.
- Incompatible Orientation: Although she's willing to dress as a man and, um, help a client enjoy herself with masculine body part substitutes, when said client tries to convince Maura to go much further into BDSM territory, she demurs, and when the lady tries to force her, she runs for it. After Maura gets away, the client's threats and demands fade and she starts sobbing about how Maura doesn't love her the way she loves Maura.
- Missing Time: If her withdrawal gets bad enough Maura starts finding herself in alleys with a fix and only vague memories of whatever nasty thing she had to do to get the money for it.
- Ms. Exposition: Being more familiar with the streets, she's a useful contact for Cybersix.
- Only Friend: Maura lives between hits of whatever drug she can get and lives a lonely, dangerous life. After Cybersix realizes the similarities with her own situation, they end up bonding, and "Cyb" becomes this for her.
- Seen It All: Once she learns "Cyb"'s full story she accepts it easily. Thanks to her past and lifestyle it's just one more sad, horrible story in a world full of them.
- Weak-Willed: Her great flaw, and one she acknowledges herself. When whatever drug she's on wears off she can't tough out the withdrawal/face reality and might do something desperate for the money to get more.
Lieutenant Dostoeivski/Enrique
A police officer who in the comic first encounters Cybersix after one of her friend Maura's clients accuses her of theft and (having him as one of her other lovers) calls him demanding he have her arrested.
- Amazon Chaser: In the comic, after Cybersix not only proves his equal in combat but physically superior to him, he falls in love with her.
- Anti-Villain: Introduced as a violent Death Seeker cop who looks for excuses to start fights and comes into conflict with Cybersix when his lover falsely claims that Maura Click stole money for her and he smacks the poor girl. Gradually, after meeting and falling in love with Cybersix and learning just why the city around him seems to be becoming more sordid and corrupt all the time, he starts to pull his way toward Anti-Hero territory, but it's a long trip up.
- Badass Normal: Very probably the physically strongest and toughest human in the comic, as well as being a very intelligent police detective.
- Dark and Troubled Past: In the comic. Once Dostoeivski had a partner, a blood brother who he trusted above all else. They even lived next door to each other! Then one day thanks to a mix-up in schedules his partner walked in on Dostoeivski sleeping with said partner's wife. The man watched, then left with them realizing he was there. And the next day when they were both in the patrol car together, Dostoeivski's partner took his gun, said something along the lines of: "I hope this keeps you from sleeping for a long time, you bastard", and shot his own head off right next to him. After this the wife killed herself by taking her laundry to the laundromat and putting herself in with the clothes, as if to wash away her sins. And Dostoeivski went a little nuts. It's not really clear if anything like that happened to his cartoon self.
- Death Seeker: In the comic. The police psychiatrist believes he's provoking everyone around him in an effort to find someone who can kill him.
- Defeat Equals Friendship: His fight with Cybersix in the comic ends decisively in her favor, and falls in love with her as a result. He eventually saves her life after she devours tainted Sustenance by finding José so she can drink the pure stuff from him.
- Dirty Cop: In the comic. He's willing to use excessive force and do favors for ladies he's sleeping with. Following the death of his partner, he's been described an unstoppable machine of violence. On the other hand he works the slums of a Wretched Hive city, so technically he fits right in. Falling in love with Cybersix leads him to change his ways, although he's still pretty rough.
- Dub Name Change: In the cartoon Lieutenant Dostoeivski is named Enrique.
- Friend on the Force: Eventually becomes one for Cybersix.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: After a lifetime of dealing with wackos and drug addicts he's perfected a smacking method that wakes them up and brings them to their senses for a bit.
- In-Series Nickname: Lieutenant Do.
- Jerkass: Heavily embittered by everything he's seen and experienced, but somewhere inside there might just be a glimmer of gold left.
- Living Lie Detector: As an experienced policeman he has a pretty good eye for deceit.
- Love Redeems: After learning about Cybersix and her incredible story, his outlook on life starts to change.
- My God, What Have I Done?: His recent turn toward violence and instability comes largely from the difficulty he has processing the fact that the last time he fell in love with a woman she and her husband/his best friend ended up committing suicide.
- No Social Skills: A self-acknowledged flaw of his is that he doesn't know how to express himself acceptably.
- One-Man Army: One scene in the comic has him beating up four mooks, while preoccupied about Cybersix and his love for her. It takes a plank to the head from the last guy standing to snap him out his reverie and he irritably rearranges the guy's face with one punch before getting lost in thought again.
- Seen It All: Like Maura he quickly accepts Cybersix's story, for much the same reasons.
- Single-Target Sexuality: He quickly becomes Cybersixual.
- Stalker without a Crush:
- After Cybersix tells him she's affianced to Adrian he tails the little runt and overhears a conversation he has with Lucas about how Cybersix is not his fiancée, about how Lucas wishes he could be romantically involved with her and about how Cyb is worried about getting into a relationship because she's being hunted by monsters and that she thinks that as an Artificial Human sex might infect a normal person with a disease worse than AIDS. He comes away thinking Cyb has some serious childhood trauma and could seriously use a visit with the police therapist herself.
- Shortly after he tails Maura to a dinner date with Cyb and tells her he doesn't care about the monsters or the virus and asks her once more to be his girlfriend, and if she says yes, they can make love right on the restaurant table. That got him a kick to the face.
- Would Hit a Girl: He smacks Maura when he thinks she's a thief, and is willing to try fighting Cybersix when she stands up for her friend. Also he likes whipping his lover, but that's consensual.
Enemies
Doctor Von Reichter
A former SS scientist hiding in South America. He's the main antagonist and creator of the Cybers along with all the other mooks and monsters that Cybersix fights against. He sends in his son José as his representative and communicates with him through a video screen hidden behind a portrait of his likeness.
- Abusive Parents: Of the "Well Done, Son" Guy variety. He holds José wholly responsible for all of their losses and sees him as little more than a henchman and a failure. Notably, his reaction to his son (who, granted, had just betrayed him) seemingly being killed by a falling tree is to shrug and say, "Well, so much for José."
- Adapted Out: He was a Nazi (heavily implied to be Josef Mengele himself) in the original comics. The animated series removed all overt references to Nazism, but had enough hints (the branded forearms of the Cybers, Von Reichter and José's fashion sense, the latter's penchant for goose stepping) to get the point across to discerning viewers. The name is also a dead giveaway.
- A God Am I: In the comic his greatest ambition is to become a god, and when he gets drunk he even tries to perform miracles only to get frustrated when he fails.
- Back from the Dead: Eventually he perfects a technique which allows him to reconstruct someone who's been dead from their remains. The one flaw is that it leaves a scent which animals and others with sharp senses of small can detect, and which drives them into a frenzy. Krumens still chuckles about the time he told Von Reichter that when Lazarus came back he had no smell and the bad doctor was depressed for three months.
- Big Bad: He flip flops between this and Greater-Scope Villain, since, even though he creates the monsters and comes up with most of the plans, José's the one that does the grunt work. He did skip the middle man on a few occasions and send assassins (Data-7, Elaine, and Griselda) himself, though.
- Cruel Mercy: He saved Cyber-29's life, but also wiped his mind and transferred it into the body of a panther for no real reason other than thinking that an intelligent big cat assassin would be badass.
- Dirty Old Man: In the comics, the inciting incident that lead to his order for all of the Cybers to be destroyed was when he propositioned a Cyber girl the moment she hit puberty, and, acting on orders to be honest, she told him that she found him repulsive.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He never understands why his creations turn against him. This ends up killing him.
- Evil Is Petty: As mentioned above, in the comics, the violent eradication of the Cyber line happened because a Cyber girl (who, mind you, had been ordered to be honest) told him she wasn't attracted to him.
- Face Framed in Shadow: His face is always shadowed, regardless of how much light there is, making it seem like he's wearing a mask at all times.
- Knight of Cerebus: While he doesn't appear in person very often, the episodes he does appear in are very dark and sinister.
- Mad Scientist: He creates gadgets and monstrosities for wealth, power, and the Evulz.
- Maker of Monsters: His bio-engineered forces pose a regular danger to Meridiana. In addition to his normal Mooks, the Fixed Ideas and the Technos, he also creates hyper-sonic gargoyles, a deadly werewolf, a living wave of mud, and other monstrosities to take out the heroine. In fact, Cyber Six herself and her ally Data Seven are also creations if Von Riktor's that went rogue.
- My Greatest Failure: He considers Cyber-6 this, owing to the fact that she's the last of a flawed product line who escaped him and continues to do so, even eluding the more advanced models he sends after her.
- Never My Fault: Every time his plans are foiled, he blames José for it. Even though it's more or less a result of Evil Cannot Comprehend Good as well as underestimating Cybersix.
- Older Than They Look: He makes new bodies for himself whenever the old one becomes too old or nonviable. Apparently he plans to look like Kevin Costner next.
- Omnicidal Maniac: His final gambit. He's grown weary of Meridiana, so he decides to wipe it and everyone in it out with an Action Bomb, dismissing his son's protests with, "José, it's just a city." His motive is equal parts spite and show of force.Von Reichter: And after this, the rest of the world will have to sit up and take notice. Yes, José, things will be much different now. Now the world will listen when I speak!
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Heeee's a Nazi! A Nazi who uses his knowledge of science to alter the local black population into subordinate slaves. Also, he has no problem killing sapient Artificial Humans en masse if they disobey him.
- Sinister Schnoz: Look at that image. That thing is long and pointy enough that he might stab himself in the chest if he looks down.
- Smug Snake: He's convinced that he can destroy Cybersix and take over the world with ease no matter how many times she destroys his creations that he sends to destroy her.
- We Can Rule Together: He offers this to Cybersix when she finally confronts him, even offering her a cure for her sustenance dependency. She almost considers it until she sees the living bomb and instead forces him to direct it to his HQ intending to blow them both up.
Krumens
Von Reichter's assistant, who's been working with him since World War II.
- Adapted Out: Not in the cartoon.
- Beneath the Mask: Around Von Reichter he acts like a jovial fellow who makes a lot of wisecracks and may or may not have a crush on his boss. Alone, he's bitter and short-tempered, clearly resentful of where his life has taken him (stuck in South America with a Mad Scientist isn't exactly a dream vacation) and the things Von Reichter makes him do, but still weirdly loyal to and maybe even genuinely fond of the man.
- Depraved Bisexual: He's attracted to his boss (or so he claims) and Chrysalide One, and while he's not particularly depraved, his boss sure is.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: He seems to have a pretty odd sense of humor. For example it's not clear if the praise he showers upon his boss is sincere or if he realizes he can use it to get away with being sarcastic and he loudly claims to be in love with Von Reicher while his internal monologue seems resentful.
- Ignored Enamored Underling: He claims so at one point anyway, though this might be a weird joke. Considering they're both former Nazis if he's sincere that's remarkably candid.
- Incompatible Orientation: He claims to be in love with Von Reichter (which may or may not be a joke), but the doc is only into women.
- Older Than They Look: Krumens is such a good assistant that Von Reichter gave him a new body too. When Von Reicher declares that his next body is going to look like Kevin Costner he says he wants to be Sharon Stone and Von Reicher refuses to put him in a female body. This is apparently an old argument.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: Another Nazi, but not as much into the ideal as his boss.
- Undying Loyalty: Even when he doesn't like what Von Reicher is doing and even if he resents the way the doctor treats him sometimes, he's also the closest thing the doctor has to a loyal friend.
- Yes-Man: Follows Von Reichter's orders no matter how distasteful, and heaps (sardonic?) praise upon him.
José
- Abusive Parents: He notes in the comic that if his father finds out that he's spent his one-year allowance in a week he'll be beaten, or worse, scrapped for parts.
- Adaptational Wimp: In the comics, he is described to be "strong as an elephant" and was a serious threat. In the animated series, he doesn't seem to be that strong and most of the time plays the role of Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain (At least until the final episode)
- Artificial Human: It's Von Reichter's specialty.
- Bad Boss: He usually mistreats the Fixed Ideas whenever they annoy him with their incompetence or stupidity.
- Bratty Half-Pint: Despite his genius-level intellect, he still acts like a spoiled child.
- Butt-Monkey: Despite being one of the main villains he often gets the short end of the stick considering that he's an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain who can never catch a break from anyone, not even his own dad.
- Child Prodigy: Has an intellect far beyond anyone would expect from a kid his age.
- The Dragon: To Von Reichter.
- Dirty Kid: In the comics, he clearly lusts after Cybersix and flat out rapes people. However, in the comics continuity, he's also older than he looks.
- Dragon Ascendant: Implied in the final episode of the cartoon, and presumably would have been this in any future seasons.
- Disproportionate Retribution:
- Threw an old lady down the stairs because she called him a "little boy".
- One story has a bored José goading the Fixed Idea in charge of watching over him into briefly going against its programming and and losing its temper with him, solely so that he has a good excuse to kill it, knowing that it can't defend itself.
- Even Evil Has Standards: A combination of this and Pragmatic Villainy. José enjoys city life and being the kingpin of Meridiana, so he obviously finds his father's plan to annihilate it too extreme. Von Reichter dismissing his concerns coupled with his previous derision of him prompts José to pull a Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal.
- Extreme Libido: Von Reichter thinks of hypersexuality as a desirable quality in his master race. That's not a joke, he brings it up alongside Super-Strength as a feature he put into José and also into Helmut, the one with Krumen's DNA. Well, he is a mad scientist.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: It doesn't take much to piss him off, especially when it's Cybersix. Even when Cybersix isn't present he's still rather grouchy and irascible considering that he's always surrounded by the very dumb and incompetent Fixed Ideas.
- The Heavy: Does almost all the villainous work throughout the show despite being the son of the true main antagonist.
- Hidden Depths: At one point he has a dream where in he sobs in Cybersix's arms about how he hates and is disgusted by the horrible things he does, how horrible it is that his father forced him to behave like a man before he could even be a proper child and how he wants true friends who understand him and people to comfort him when he's lonely and—he wakes up expressing horror and disgust at this nightmare and blaming the presence of the Cybersix Clone for "confusing" him.
- Iron Butt Monkey: Despite his size, he can take a lot of abuse with barely any scratches.
- Jabba Table Manners: He is shown in the second episode sloppily eating mouthfuls of food.
- Jerkass: A bratty and rather obnoxious son of a evil and sadistic mad scientist who happens to be just as bad and evil as his dad. It also doesn't help that he mistreats the Fixed Ideas whenever they screw up his Evil Plans to destroy Cybersix.
- Large Ham: He's very loud and over-the-top for a mad scientist's son. It doesn't help that most of his screentime consists of him barking orders at the Fixed Ideas or Evil Gloating to Cybersix in order to taunt her when he thinks he's got her at his mercy.
- Laughably Evil: He's much more comedic and more of an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain than his father who happens to be a Knight of Cerebus.
- Lightning Bruiser: Von Richter's greatest creation, he has superhuman physical abilities and brains to match them. Unfortunately for those around him, he's also a Spoiled Brat.
- Mad Scientist: Like his father he can create mutant creatures by himself, or enhance Von Reichter's creations in order to destroy Cybersix.
- The Napoleon: He's shown to resent his diminutive stature.
- Never Grew Up: In the comics, José is actually a clone of Von Reichter who the latter keeps as a child to make him easier to control. In the show, he's more or less his son who helps him with his Evil Plans to destroy Cybersix and take over Meridiana.
- Never My Fault: He always blames the Fixed Ideas whenever his Evil Plans don't work out. For instance, after he and a Fixed Idea drive their truck of counterfeit money into the water he blames him for losing all of the money despite the fact it was his fault for why they lost all of the money considering that he drove to the side when Lucas drove up to him and the Fixed Idea.
- Not Allowed to Grow Up: Unclear. He appears to be largely child-like but also grows stubble and is a horny little perv, so he might be more like a dwarf. Given that he's an enhanced Artificial Human with superhuman physical and mental abilities, his hormones are very likely a mess.
- Older Than They Look: Despite having a child-like appearance and behavior it's implied that José's Older Than He Looks considering that he behaves in a very intelligent and sophisticated way and even behaves like a grown-up from time to time.
- Out of Focus: The only episodes that he doesn't appear in are Full Moon Fascination and Daylight Devil.
- Silly Walk: José has one. Any adult watching though would notice he's goose stepping.
- Smug Snake: Like his father he's convinced that he can destroy Cybersix and take over Meridiana even though she constantly defeats the monsters he sends to destroy her.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Feels this way when he's with the Fixed Ideas. Justified considering that they annoy him with their incompetence and stupidity.
- The Starscream:
- Becomes a successful one to Von Reichter in the final episode of the cartoon. He reroutes the Island Of Doom to blow up Von Reichter's headquarters instead of Meridiana.
- In the comic, he also has plans to kill his father and take over his organization, but Von Reichter is wise to his sons little schemes and creates Helmut for the purpose of manipulating and controlling José.
- Tragic Villain: He's a wretched, sick little monster and the world would be a better place if he had never existed, but José didn't design and create himself and Von Reichter is a terrible father.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Most of his work was meant to impress Von Reichter. He gets over it when Von Reichter planned on destroying Meridiana.
Helmut
Helmut is a highly advanced Artificial Human created using the DNA of Doctor Von Reichter's loyal assistant Krumens to be a companion to José.
Unlike his 'father' and and Von Riechter's relationship however, Helmut doesn't answer to José, but to Von Reichter himself and was created to monitor and control José.
- Adapted Out: Krumens isn't in the cartoon and neither is he. Crazily enough, he made it into the live-action series, though.
- Creepy Child: Although he seems to be one at first, he mostly keeps to himself and reads unless Von Reichter orders him otherwise.
- Friendship Denial: When he first arrives at José's mansion he makes a genuine effort to befriend José, and expresses his hopes that they'll work well together. José immediately rebuffs him, and later severely beats him after Helmut plays a small prank on him with the Cybersix Clone. This basically sets the tone for their relationship.
- Lightning Bruiser: Von Richter's other greatest creation, he has superhuman physical abilities and brains to match them, just like José.
- Minion with an F in Evil: He's not particularly inclined toward evil deeds in spite of being created to serve Von Reichter. This can probably be chalked up to the influence of his "father", Krumens who seems to mostly leave the kid to his own devices and isn't entirely evil himself.
- The Mole: Helmut keeps an eye on José for Von Reichter.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After Von Reichter gives up on Meridiana and leaves, taking Krumens and José with him, Helmut is not seen on the boat.
- You Owe Me: After saving José from Chrysalis's poison he reminds him of this debt. José doesn't care.
Technos
Nearly identical to humans, Von Reichter has managed to position his Technos in positions all over Meridiana, as well as apparently other cities.
- Artificial Human: Constructed by Von Reichter to infiltrate society.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Technos can imitate humans, but their own personality is slavishly devoted to Von Reichter and his more advanced and intelligent creations. At one point, for example, during a meeting with a group of Technos José demanded an attractive Techno female have sex with him right there in front of everyone, which she did without a hint of hesitation. When he was finished she was neither traumatized nor troubled by the incident, nor do the others react in any way.
- Clones Are People, Too: Although loyal to Von Reichter, they're still vulnerable to the same vices in their lives and mental instabilities as normal people are. For example, one Techno involved in politics married (another Techno) and kept a squeaky clean public record. But it turns out he'd secretly developed an Oedipal complex for a mother who never existed, and right on the verge of being elected mayor gets photographed dressed like a baby suckling on his female cook while his wife is at a party. José had to make sure he and the cook "committed suicide", and that was one election his faction lost.
- Consummate Liar: People genuinely believe that they are normal humans who belong in their positions, partly because Von Reichter seems to make sure they actually go through the training and education to for their designated role.
- The Force Is Strong with This One: Able to detect other creations like themselves on sight.
- Kill and Replace: Played with. Context within the comic appears to indicate that one way Von Reichter has his Technos infiltrate society is by creating them to be young and having them progress through education, experience and so forth just as if they were actual humans for the sake of establishing records. However he can also make perfect quick-grown clones with at least some memories by using peoples' remains, which implies that he does this as well.
- Lightning Bruiser: Although they usually don't get the chance to show it, they have superhuman physical qualities just like all of Von Reichter's creations.
- Morality Chip: Programmed to obey the more advanced of Von Reichter's creations (essentially Types, José and Helmut) as well as the scientist and his assistant, naturally.
- They Look Like Us Now: Designed as agents for Von Reichter, they look and act like normal humans, besides their need for Sustenance.
- We Are Everywhere: In Meridiana, and likely other places, Technos have successfully infiltrated all walks of life, from politics to prostitution. From what we see, Von Reichter either makes them as youths who get educations and genuinely earn their positions, or just uses the natural tendency toward corruption to his advantage.
Fixed Ideas
- Ace Custom: At one point, Von Reichter sent a group of five Fixed Ideas spliced with bloodhounds to track Cybersix down by smell. He also can give them a more human appearance (even a specific one) by using DNA.
- Adaptational Dumbass: In the comic the Fixed Ideas' foolishness is a result of being designed to have limited thinking, and they can actually be articulate and even observant and sensible. One of them is even in charge of tracking José's finances for him. In the cartoon they're violent You No Take Candle morons.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Only in the cartoon. In the comics, they appear to have a Caucasian skin tone, the better to walk among crowds in conspicuously.
- Artificial Human: Admittedly a heavily-altered variant, but yes.
- Butt-Monkey: Whenever José mistreats them or Cybersix takes them on in a fight.
- Chew Toy: They spend most of their screen-time getting beaten up by Cybersix or being mistreated by José whenever they piss him off with their bumbling and incompetent behavior.
- Determinator: In the comic Fixed Ideas are programmed to perform a single task and have difficulty thinking outside of that task. One designed for a porno film (and modeled upon Oliver Hardy's DNA—it's for a forgery scam), for example, has difficulty conceptualizing about anything but sex.
- Dumb Muscle:
- In the cartoon. They are super strong, but they aren't very smart.
- In the comic, the reason for this is explained as them being specifically designed to follow the order or achieve the specific goal given them by their superiors by whatever means necessary. This singlemindedness means that they don't have a lot of mental agility and can be tricked into taking unwise actions if they can be convinced that this will advance their goals. The first one sent to Meridiana to find Cybersix, for example, quickly deduced that she would likely keep to the rooftops, but doesn't realize that the random person (Lucas) who tells him that he can help him find Cybersix might be leading him into a trap.
- Expy: In the comic, they're basically T-800s, with their name deriving how they are programmed to be dedicated to one goal and would do anything to achieve it. The default model even kind of looks like Arnie, but with a dark blotch on their face.
- The Family for the Whole Family: They are creepy looking brutes with great strength and surprising jumping powers. In the tv show, they never get to be very intimidating thanks to their incompetence.
- The Force Is Strong with This One: Able to detect other creations like themselves on sight.
- Frankenstein's Monster: They're produced by a Mad Scientist, are big, simple, and have green skin and rectangular heads.
- Henchmen Race: They are created to be the brute force under José’s command.
- In a Single Bound: They can leap very high with little effort.
- Meaningful Name: Von Reichter calls them Fixed Ideas because they're Determinators who pursue a goal or follow an order without any deep thought or hesitation.
- Mooks: They are usually the first villains Cybersix has to fight, no matter the situation.
- Morality Chip: Programmed to be subservient to Technos, Types and other more advanced creations of Von Reichter. It's shown that particularly strong emotions can make this particular kind temporarily act against this programming, although not for very long.
- Smash Mook: Basically the only reason Cybersix considers them a threat is their strength.
- Super-Toughness: Lucas, a particularly strong human, pistol-whips one from behind in the comic and it doesn't even flinch. Cybersix knocks it out, though.
- They Look Like Us Now: Designed as agents for Von Reichter, their baseline model looks like a very tell buff human and can be altered to look less conspicuous if desired.
- Top-Heavy Guy: They have exaggerated upper bodies on long but rather skinny legs.
- We Have Reserves: Played with, it's considered a bad idea to Von Reichter if at least one of them is destroyed, but it doesn't mean he can't make more.
Types
Although not seen as often as the other varieties, Types are the most advanced of Von Reichter's creations.
The ones we see appear to be teenagers or children.
- The Force Is Strong with This One: Able to detect other creations like themselves on sight. Their ability to do so is strong enough to establish actual mental contact with them.
- Lightning Bruiser: Able to easily overwhelm Cybersix, they are the most powerful of the models (besides unique ones like José).
- Mind Probe: One manages to establish a psychic link with Cybersix and reads her memories.
- Morality Chip: Programmed to be subservient to more advanced creations of Von Reichter, which pretty much just means José and Helmut.
- Never Grew Up: Possibly. As mentioned, most of them seem to be children or teens, but given that this could simply be due to being recent creations.
- They Look Like Us Now: Designed as agents for Von Reichter, they look and act like normal humans, besides their need for Sustenance.
Chrysalis One
An experimental creation of Von Reichter's designed to seduce and kill Lucas Amato and Saulo Coyote, who were exposing corrupt Techno politicians.
- Adapted Out: Would've been nice if she was in the cartoon, but no.
- Didn't See That Coming: On her mission to seduce Lucas Amato and his newspaper editor friend, she manages to seduce and kill Saulo and gets as far as being invited to Lucas's apartment before Cybersix unexpectedly shows up at his window. After the two of them start arguing, Six leaves in a huff and Lucas irritably pushes Chrysalis out his door over her protests. This...hits her pretty hard.
- Extreme Libido: If you're designing something to kill people with sex, this probably helps.
- Genius Bruiser: Although she doesn't show it off, since literally every other creation of Von Reichter is a Lightning Bruiser, it seems likely that she's one too. And she becomes the perfect secretary to trick Lucas into thinking she's human.
- Heroic BSoD: Apparently her programming didn't take being rejected into account and she sort of goes into a trance and follows the programming which tells her to go to José's house if she fails her mission.
- Out with a Bang: Chrysalis infects her lovers with a virus which kills them within two days.
- Sex Bot: A biological version, designed specifically to seduce men.
- They Look Like Us Now: Designed as an agent for Von Reichter, she's a stunningly beautiful woman.
- Xanatos Gambit: On Von Reichter's part. If she successfully seduced Saulo and Lucas, then two obstacles to his influence in Meridiana would be eliminated. If not, he had her programmed to return to José's mansion where he knew the diminutive sicko would get it on with her whether she was zoned out or not. Since he was already sending Helmut with an antidote, being deathly sick for a bit would be a reminder for the ambitious little turd about who was really holding the reins. Chrysalis fatally seduced Saulo, failed with Lucas and poisoned José. Two out of three ain't bad.
- You Have Failed Me: Helmut destroys her after she's served her purpose.
The Cybersix Clone
In one story, Von Reichter realizes that he still possesses Cybersix's genetic data and that he can use it to, well, clone her. Then he sends that clone to Meridiana.
- Artificial Human: A clone created from genetic data and cells entered into a resequencing machine.
- Didn't Think This Through: Von Reichter binned the entire Cyber line around twenty years ago because they had a genetic tendency toward rebelliousness that he couldn't tame. So naturally, he decides to create and flash-grow a perfect unmodified clone of the one Cyber who escaped him—without apparently programming any brainwashing or safeguards into her because he believed she'd be more effective without them. No way for José or Helmut to keep her in line but her rather quick childhood under Von Reichter's thumb. No prizes for guessing what happens.
- Enigmatic Minion: Although she was sent to help out José in his mission to destroy Cybersix and advance his control of Meridiana she quickly becomes intrigued by Cybersix and her friends and gradually develops into an ally.
- Heel–Face Turn: Although she doesn't sow much more than a little confusion, she still leaves the employ of her criminal organization.
- Humanity Ensues: Although she starts out loyal to Von Reicher, when she meets Cybersix's friends and learns more about her, she starts to empathize more with them than her erstwhile allies.
- Lightning Bruiser: Just like her genetic donor.
- Love at First Sight: Much like her genetic donor, she finds herself attracted to Lucas, and actually spends a night with him disguised as the real thing, much to the annoyance of Six.
- Uncertain Doom: In order to keep her safe from Von Reichter, the Cybersixes agree that she should leave Meridiana disguised as a male worker on a ship. Except she also needs Sustenance, and her reserve "tank" is just as small as her genetic donor's. Maybe she packed some for the trip, but she'd better hope she ends up in another Techno-infested city.
Elaine
- Berserk Button: Whenever Cybersix is mentioned or around her, it causes her to transform and attack on sight.
- Evil Redhead: She retains it even in her werewolf form. Her Hair Flip tic is what tips Cybersix off to her identity.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: When Cybersix gets Lucas to snap out of it, he uses his acquired strength from Elaine turning him to destroy Elaine.
- Impossible Hourglass Figure: As a werewolf, she has a rather small waist compared to her chest and hips.
- Manipulative Bitch: She manipulates Lucas into destroying Cybersix by convincing him that she's his enemy after he transforms into his werewolf form. It fails when the latter convinces him that she's his Best Friend rather than his enemy.
- Morphic Resonance: Still has the same scarlet red hair when she becomes a werewolf.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Although her transformation usually happens on a full moon, it's implied that she can transform at will. She has control over every werewolf she turns and when she dies, her victims turn back to normal. There's also the fact that she's a lab creation rather than the result of a supernatural curse.
- Reluctant Monster: Implied. She comes off as cruel and vicious throughout her episode, but is almost pitiable in her final moments, with her last words being, "I'm sorry, Lucas."
- The Vamp: She's this to Lucas and even tries to use him to destroy Cybersix.
Terra
- Blob Monster: The mud variety.
- Combat Tentacles: His lower body gains these in place of legs after José mutates him into more of a bloodthirsty monster.
- Energy Absorption: He has the ability to drain sustenance and memories from anyone he comes in contact with. When he tries to drain Cybersix, he starts to develop emotions from her absorbed memories.
- Heel–Face Turn: After trying to drain Cybersix.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He sacrifices himself to save Cybersix from a burning tower.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Despite being created to destroy Cybersix he's not an evil creature once he absorbs her body and realizes that he's Not Evil, Just Misunderstood.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: He has these naturally, but goes from a mindless beast to wanting to understand emotions and himself. Once José forcefully implants him with the killing instinct of various animals, he sprouts a second pair of yellow slitted eyes on slug-like stalks.
Griselda
- Ax-Crazy: Even by Monster of the Week standards she was very crazy and unstable for a monster that was sent to destroy Cybersix. It doesn't help that she's almost always seen with a Slasher Smile during her scenes where she's got Cybersix at her mercy.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Her first on-screen battle shown with Cybersix has her dealing a nasty beating to the heroine with her invisibility. Cybersix doesn't even land a hit on Griselda and would have likely died if a Fixed Idea hadn't chosen that moment to fire a rocket at her, due not realizing Griselda was in range as well.
- Death by Secret Identity: The only antagonist who learns that Cybersix even has a secret identity.
- Determinator: She'll stop at nothing to destroy Cybersix even during daytime hours when she's in her Adrian disguise.
- Disney Villain Death: Hanging by her own rope from a crashed ambulance and over the side of bridge above a waterfall, Griselda is too weak to climb up. Despite being hunted by her and suffering from an injured arm, Cybersix begins to pull her up, much to her shock. However, a train begins to close in on the rails Cybersix is standing on. Rather than doom both of them, Griselda bids her farewell and lets go of the rope. She then plunges into the falls below and doesn't resurface.
- Fish People: It's never confirmed if she actually is half-fish or not, but she looks the part, with her blue skin and what seem to be fins on the sides of her head. If she was, it makes her ultimate fate of falling into water from a great height even worse.
- Heel Realization: Implied during her final moments before she perishes considering that she appreciates Cybersix's help when the latter tries to save her from falling down to her death.
- Hellish Pupils: Sports orange eyes with black slits for pupils.
- Hooks and Crooks: Her preferred weapon is a claw-like hook with durable rope attached to a gauntlet on her right wrist. She uses it for both close and long-range combat, along with utilizing it as a Grappling-Hook Pistol.
- Sadist: Treats going after Cybersix less like an assignment and more like she's prey to be hunted. Even when she could have pierced her throat while invisible, she makes her weapon visible first, just to make Cybersix squirm. It's this attitude that enables Adrian/Cybersix to continuously evade her.
- Slasher Smile: Her default expression.
- Visible Invisibility: An interesting case of this. Griselda's primary ability is to become completely invisible, cloaking even her outfit and weapon. When activating or turning it off, she becomes outlined in a green shroud of energy, but most of the time this effect wears off, leaving her unseen even to the viewer. She can almost make her grappling-hook become visible itself while hiding, but this mostly seems for the sake of being able to aim it better (although she purposely makes her claw visible when toying with Cybersix at the start of the episode).
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: While there's no denying that she was Ax-Crazy and very determined to destroy Cybersix despite that she's got a change of heart at the end when Cybersix tries to save her from falling down to her death. In fact she might've had a Heel–Face Turn and would become one of Cybersix's allies had she not fell down to her death.
Rebecca Limon
An ambitious reporter willing to do anything for fame and fortune.
- Adapted Out: The most we see from her in the cartoon is a brief bit as a news anchor, with the rest of her sleazy antics left out.
- Ambition Is Evil: A heartless person with no scruples, who deliberately sets up bloody situations in order to profit from them.
- Establishing Character Moment:
- Described: Lucas broke up with her after she eagerly showed him a video with a bunch of racists shooting up black people, including kids, and taking credit for the action. When he told her to take it to the police, she refused, instead gleefully talking about what good ratings it would give her. Lucas threw her out.
- Seen: She comes to Lucas talking about how she's changed her ways and asking to get back together with him. He gives her a second chance, sleeps with her (unknowingly seen by Cybersix), and in the middle of the night he catches Rebecca stealing his files on genetic engineering (and his research on Cybersix) and throws her out once more.
- Eviler than Thou: She tries working with José and his organization in the hopes of manufacturing scoops. However, it quickly turns out that José is not only a huge misogynist who doesn't take her suggestions seriously but is also an absolutely vile pervert who gives her more than she bargained for when she tries her sexy schtick on him.
- If It Bleeds, It Leads: She trades in sensationalistic images, and is willing to do things like train dogs to attack children to get them.
- Jerkass: Although she never comes into direct opposition against Cybersix, she's still a monster.
- Sex for Services: She's hot, she knows it, and she uses her body to her advantage.
