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James Blood
James Blood
- Actor Allusion: This is not the first time we hear Yasuyuki Kase voicing a gun-toting hero dressed in red.
- Augmented Reality: James' contact lenses provide him with information sent by Mission Control, and they can switch to enhanced vision modes as well. One of the other characters uses a more realistic and bulky version when he's on the field, namely using his laptop's integral camera to pick up a site's AR info (meaning he has to walk around with the thing open. It even nearly gets him caught when he has to hide from the villains).
- Badass Driver: Not only James is capable of driving like the best, he can shoot like an expert in the middle of a car chase.
- Combat Pragmatist: All over the place, but James is the most notable example. Half the reason James is so effective on his own is because he's not shy about using every resource or tactic that pops into his head to deal with a situation, including nearly suicidal stunts like jumping out of a window to evade danger and then dropping into the next floor to ambush his foes, or grabbing Improvised Weapons like using a fire extinguisher like a morning star. His enemies play dirty all the time, so he might as well return the favor.
- Cowboy Cop: James establishes himself as this in his very first scene by firing a GPS tracker bullet (which he palmed off the armory without authorization) into a fleeing suspect as he barreled through a crowd, then following the man straight into a Car Chase which he ends by shooting up and crashing both cars. He spends the rest of the series shooting doors open and charging into places solo.
- Determinator: Both Sarah and James refuse to give up in finding out the truth behind the death of their mentor.
- Fair Cop: He's a cop and not bad looking either.
- Hot-Blooded: He's very passionate about his work.
- Rivals Team Up: Harry and James end up teaming up against the glasses-wearing assassin.
- Shout-Out: James Blood (sounds like "Bond"). He even introduces himself in the first episode in a Bond, James Bond manner.
Sarah Sinclair
Sarah Sinclair
- Alliterative Name: Sarah Sinclair
- The Big Board: Sarah eventually pastes all of her research on a white board with a lot of post-it notes, connected with marker scribbles and strings.
- Determinator: Both Sarah and James refuse to give up in finding out the truth behind the death of their mentor.
- Hello, Attorney!: Sarah is a prosecutor and a very attractive lady.
Lennox Gallagher
Lennox Gallagher
Voiced by: Junpei Morita (Japanese), Brad Venable (English; Netflix), Josh Morrison (English; Sentai)
- Artificial Limbs: He turns out to have a cybernetic left hand. It gets a reveal when he uses it to catch a bullet.
- Conspicuous Gloves: Lennox only wears one on his left hand. It hides his prosthetic hand.
Edmond Chandler
Edmond Chandler
Voiced by: Kentaro Takano (Japanese), Landon McDonald (English; Netflix), Blake Shepard (English; Sentai)
- Gadgeteer Genius: He's a tech expert.
Harry Creighton
Harry Creighton
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: For Harry, the only person who falls in the "people you are not willing to sacrifice" division is Eve (and possibly James).
- Healthcare Motivation: Harry Creighton becomes an agent of LIVE Corporation's security forces because they are helping with his girlfriend Eve's medical condition and hospital stay (because she's in a coma). Geffrey Connor forces Harry to help him by keeping Eve hostage.
- Rivals Team Up: Harry and James end up teaming up against the glasses-wearing assassin.
Geffrey Connor
Geffrey Connor
Voiced by: Yutaka Aoyama (Japanese), Cam Clarke (English; Netflix), Jay Hickman (English; Sentai)
- Cain and Abel: Fred Faraday and Geoffrey Connor. The former believes that science is meant to serve man and should always hold morality in mind, while the latter believes man should sacrifice all in the pursuit of science and that morals have no place in it. The fact they're related at all is a plot point. Going against the implication of the trope, however, they are not in conflict with each other in the anime. Indeed, Connor permits Faraday to hide out at their place, and then secures Harry's service to provide additional protection. He even personally steps into a battlefield to attempt to save Faraday's life with his Super Prototype Mask.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Connor views the world in terms of "people you're willing to sacrifice" and "people you are not willing to sacrifice". Someone Connor is not willing to sacrifice is his brother, Fred Faraday; for all that he claims to have no need for morals in his research and their reported history of never seeing eye to eye, Connor outright admits that he has a soft spot for his brother and spends the last fourth or so of the anime questionably on the heroic side as both he and the SSC want to protect and then save Faraday.
- My God, What Have I Done?: He doesn't come out and say it, but it's clear that Connor is deeply regretful that his hubris is what finally killed his brother, Fred Faraday, when he had every intention of saving him instead.
- Wham Line: When Geffrey Connor calls Fred Faraday his brother.
Steven Martland
Steven Martland
Voiced by: Takayuki Sugo (Japanese), Jason Marnocha (English; Netflix), John Gremillion (English; Sentai)
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He's the man single-handedly responsible for LIVE Corporation being a full-blown Evil, Inc. by the time the series happens.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: Just as Martland is about to escape the country under a new identity, his jet malfunctions and crashes into the ocean. It's heavily implied Richard did it.
- Scars Are Forever: Has a scar above his left eye.
- Short-Lived Aerial Escape: Martland discovers, far too late, that Richard Burner sabotaged his getaway private jet.
Richard Burner
Richard Burner
Voiced by: Yutaka Nakano (Japanese), Armen Taylor (English; Netflix), Mark X Laskowski (English; Sentai)
- Da Chief
- The Lost Lenore: His wife was collateral damage to one of Martland's schemes to destroy evidence of his misdeeds, involving hiring some thugs to rob the bank she worked at (to fetch the evidence from a safety box) and blow up the bank (and them) to incinerate said evidence. He got some sweet revenge, eventually.
Monica Campbell
Monica Campbell
Voiced by: Haruka Shibuya (Japanese), Julia McIlvaine (English; Netflix), Sara Gaston (English; Sentai)
- Plot-Triggering Death: Monica Campbell's death is what puts James and Sarah on the masks' trail.
Fred Faraday
Fred Faraday
Voiced by: Tomoyuki Shimura (Japanese), Cam Clarke (English; Netflix), Joe Daniels (English; Sentai)
- Alliterative Name: Fred Faraday
- Cain and Abel: Fred Faraday and Geoffrey Connor. The former believes that science is meant to serve man and should always hold morality in mind, while the latter believes man should sacrifice all in the pursuit of science and that morals have no place in it. The fact they're related at all is a plot point. Going against the implication of the trope, however, they are not in conflict with each other in the anime. Indeed, Connor permits Faraday to hide out at their place, and then secures Harry's service to provide additional protection. He even personally steps into a battlefield to attempt to save Faraday's life with his Super Prototype Mask.
Grimm
Grimm
Voiced by: Yūichi Karasuma (Japanese), Sean Chiplock (English; Netflix), Scott Gibbs (English; Sentai)
- Ax-Crazy: Grimm is a deranged Serial Killer hellbent on killing James.
- Conspicuous Gloves
- Cop Killer: Grimm goes on a Terminator-style rampage at SCC Headquarters in his introductory scene, killing about a dozen cops. He's also obsessed with killing James Blood, the detective who arrested him.
- Guns Akimbo: He does this when dressed as a cop.
- Feel No Pain: The mask makes Grimm incapable of feeling pain when shot at.
- Mad Artist: Grimm happens to prefer to use blood (both his and (quite preferably) his victims') to paint pictures.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Grimm.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Everybody refers to him as "Grimm". His real name (Jeremy Payne) is only given mention once in the whole series, as a Freeze-Frame Bonus of his files as Blood and Sinclair try to make sense of what the heck happened after he's taken out.
- Serial Killer: He killed dozens of people, and for that he was arrested, tried, and given the death sentence. Allegedly.
- Slasher Smile: Check it out for yourself
◊. - Starter Villain: Grimm is the first mask user faced in the series.
Eve Palmer
Eve Palmer
Voiced by: Yukiyo Fujii (Japanese), Kira Buckland (English; Netflix), Taylor Fono (English; Sentai)
Anna Winehouse
Anna Winehouse
Voiced by: Tomoko Miyadera (Japanese), Rachel Robinson (English; Netflix), Christine Auten (English; Sentai)
Theo Lowe
Theo Lowe
Voiced by: Xander Mobus (English; Netflix), Adam Gibbs (English; Sentai)
- Family Man: Theo Lowe seems to be the only mask user who wants to take care of his family (who presume him dead).
- Super-Senses: Theo Lowe's mask gives him incredibly acute senses.
Tina Hurst
Tina Hurst
- Spell My Name With An S: Herst/Hurst
- Tell Me About My Father: Tina spends much of her time with Anna Winehouse getting to hear about the mother she never knew, and her father would rarely talk about.
