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The Guardians of the Globe

New Team

In General

• Badass on Paper: On paper, Robot's version of the Guardians is a rather impressive and diverse set of powers and skills. In reality they're a trainwreck who can barely coordinate together and are nowhere near as strong as the previous guardians, to the point where the team was almost wiped out dealing with the hired goons of a mid-level supervillain crime boss when they're supposed to be the main deterrence from world ending threats.
  • Their dire need for more heavy hitters causes Cecil to bring the Immortal and Bulletproof into the team hoping the extra muscle will help improve their overall power.
• Dysfunction Junction: As Bulletproof lays out in "I'm Not Going Anywhere", this is a team composed of some very messed up people.
  • Robot has shown a willingness to disregard ethics, as seen when he used stolen genetic material from Rex to create a new body for himself so he could date Monster Girl who now seems to be showing less interest in dating him.
  • Monster Girl herself shows no concern for the fact her powers de-age her every time she uses them.
  • The Immortal is "so old he shits dust" and is severely depressed due to the death of his girlfriend whom he felt was the only person he could relate to.
  • Cecil is morally dubious man who is willing to throw anyone under the bus for his own agenda, which may not always have everyone else's best interest in mind.
  • Shrinking Rae recently injured herself while trying to expand inside someone else's body, which Bulletproof refers to as "fucked up".
  • Though Bulletproof doesn't exactly articulate his issues like he does the others, Shapesmith is an exile from his own race who impersonated an astronaut to escape his home planet.
  • Rex is an obnoxious, loud-mouthed braggart who recent lost an arm and took a bullet to the head and is somewhat overcompensating for the recent battle with the Lizard League by going up against even more dangerous threats.
  • The only two things Bulletproof can bring against Samson is that the latter is bald despite being named after Samson and actually believes the new Guardians of the Globe are the best superhero team in the world. Samson retorts that the team is indeed flawed but are still a capable group when it counts, and he had hair when he chose the name.
• Exact Words: All of them are ordered by Cecil to stay in their base and to not interfere with Invincible and Omni-Man's battle to not put themselves in danger. Despite being unable to participate in the battle, they instead take action by saving civilians from the aftermath of the battle.
• Failure Hero:
  • Compared to the original Guardians, Robot's version of the team is a bit of a disaster from the get-go, with them barely tolerating each other to be a proper team. So far their track record hasn't been kind to them even when they "win." Episode 5 goes into this when Black Samson and Robot chew the team out for celebrating defeating the Lizard League, but ignoring the fact there were SIGNIFICANT civilian casualties in this fight, the two going into detail (with holographic reference) on the numerous ways they could have minimized civilian casualties. It's telling that neither Cecil nor Omni-Man have much faith in the team.
  • The team sort of gets their act together when coming to Invincible and Titan's rescue, eventually defeating Machine Head's hired supervillains. However, they do end up being severally brutalized in the fight, with Monster Girl and Black Samson being maimed and in critical condition.
  • By season 2 Cecil has become rather fed up with their growing incompetence compared to the previous GOG, with the looming threat of Omni-Man ever present and the team constantly being sloppy and unfocused on missions he makes the decision to remove Robot as leader, putting the Immortal in charge, and adding Bulletproof to the roster due to their dire need of heavy hitters.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: When it started out it had three men (Robot, Rex Splode, Black Samson) and three women (Monster Girl, Dupli-Kate, and Shrinking Rae).
• Inadequate Inheritor: Compared to the first Guardians of the Globe, Robot's version of the team is considerably underwhelming in comparison, both in overall power level and ability to work as a team. Although they are actively working their best to fix that.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Robot's team is prone to infighting and compared to the late previous Guardians of the Globe they are woefully under-equipped to deal with the foes and emergencies the Guardians are expected to handle, but when they come together, they are a more than capable superhero team.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: They are ordered by Cecil to not interfere with Omni-Man's battle against Invincible, so that they won't hurt themselves. Black Samson, who cannot stand around doing nothing, has himself and the other members of the Guardians of the Globe leave their base to save civilians from the aftermath of Omni-Man and Invincible's battle.
• To Be Lawful or Good: The Guardians of the Globe are ordered by Cecil to not fight Omni-Man for their own safety. Rather than stand around and do nothing, the Guardians of the Globe take action by disobeying Cecil to instead save civilians.
• We ARE Struggling Together: Deconstructed. Their inability to be coordinated for even one fight has cost them more than one battle, an unkown but apparently high number of casualties and injuries that could have been avoided with better teamwork.

Robot

Robot (Rudolph "Rudy" Connors)

^Spoiler The original Rudolph Conners Rudy

Voiced By: Zachary Quinto, Ross Marquand (clone)

The leader of Teen Team and later the New Guardians, Robot is a self-aware humanoid machine loaded with gadgets and weapons... or so he claims. In reality, Robot is a mechanical avatar for genius inventor Rudolph Connors, who dreams of escaping the prison that is his sickly and hideously-deformed body.

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• The Ace: He's The Leader and The Smart Guy, is strong and durable, and has powerful weapons.
• Adaptation Distillation: In the comics, Robot shows the reader his plans to give himself a new healthy body and find a way to cure Monster Girl's aging condition roughly at the same time. The show has Robot solely focuses on his new body on Season 1, and only vaguely hints about his plan to help Amanda when he tries to explain himself to the team.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Season 2 proceeded to portray Rudy's proper introduction in society as a completely able person in his new body, after living 30 years in isolation; that realistically made Rudy extremely socially awkward, a "robotic" person ironically enough. The show is diving into uncharted territory for Rudy's character, in the comic his life with a new body was less awkward, he was cold during certain situations at best but originally he was socially aware enough.
• Ambiguously Evil: He's a hero who leads the Teen Team and later the new Guardians yet arranges for the Mauler Twins to escape custody, though with no casualties aside from an injured security guard and one of the twins themselves. He also steals a sample of Rex’s blood for phase one of a plan of his. "We Need To Talk" finally establishes that while his actions are potentially unethical and sometimes illegal, his goals are not sinister, if slightly disturbing. His end goal was to simply put an end to the suffering he has endured all his life and have a normal body. He still resolves to put the Twins in jail once their business is over.
• Awesome by Analysis: He is able to quickly analyze a situation and process the information extremely quickly in order to develop a plan of attack on the fly or locate an enemy's weakness. He also uses his extreme intellect to quickly locate all the booby traps that the Mauler Twins implanted in his replacement body.
• Bait-and-Switch: His secretive operations are framed in an ominous way, like someone who presents himself as a hero but is doing potentially evil behind everyone’s back, with that image doubled in effect since the show has it happen concurrently with whatever Omni-Man is doing. However, as questionable and unethical as all of that was, he truly had no evil intentions. Robot just wanted a new healthy body to live the life he never could before, Rudy remains a hero more or less.
• Body Horror: Episode 4 ends with the reveal of his true body and it definitely doesn't look pretty, being nothing more than a deformed fetus held together by mechanical implants. This is why he seeks out the Mauler Twins to help him gain a new body which is successfully achieved in "We Need to Talk". The Mauler Twins comment on the abnormal state of his body, noting that his motor cortex is the size of a pea and was "cannibalized" by his frontal lobes.
• Brain Uploading: He has his personality and memories installed into a (biologically younger) clone of Rex.
• Captain Ersatz: His true form looks a lot like Kuato.
• Casting Gag: Zachary Quinto's vocal performance as Robot is very evocative of his previous role as Spock, an unerringly stoic, scientific, and rational individual and the team's nonhuman genius.
• Clone Angst: The "new" Rudy briefly suffers this after awakening in the body of the Rex clone. Admitting that he wasn't expecting the process to feel so seamless and finding that his original survived the process.
• Commonality Connection: Attempts this with Monster Girl about how people have difficulty looking past one's appearance. It falls flat as she doesn't get his meaning, asking how a robot could understand. That said, she grows to appreciate it after Robot goes through several lengths to help her when she's severely wounded by Battle Beast. He later makes his clone around Monster Girl's physical age, so that they can go through finding a way to avert her aging problem together.
• Compressed Adaptation: His path to make himself a new body is vastly compressed in the show. The comic slowly build Robot up as a curiously human machine, showing great intelligence and desire to know how people related to each other, and when Amanda shows up he takes an interest on her, to only then reveal he was human all along, barred from living a normal life due his extreme conditions; the show speeds through all of that, focusing solely on how much Robot cares about Monster Girl, making himself a new body as quick as possible.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Downplayed. He confronts Rex after he mistakes Rex's friendship with Monster Girl as Rex having amorous goals with her, given Rex's previous declaration that he is entitled to any woman he wants. As Robot himself has a crush on her, this sets him at odds with Rex. Rex quickly and thoroughly shoots that mistake down, as the very idea grosses him out. Played a little straighter on the "Crazy" part as his mistaking Monster Girl's and Rex's relationship is what leads him to choose a clone of Rex as his new body, since he believes that Monster Girl is attracted to Rex.
• Creepy Good: Lampshaded by Rex Splode several times but Robot’s monotone, suit design, and glitch-outs qualify him as a little unsettling to other heroes. Not to mention he’s a 30-year-old deformed man who develops a crush on a hero who, while an adult woman, looks about 13.
• Cyborg: His original incarnation was neurologically hooked up to a life pod that allowed him to survive as well as pilot his "Robot" drones. His replacement incarnation has a neurolink installed in his upper brain stem that allows him to do the same.
• Didn't Think This Through: He didn't think that secretly taking Rex's DNA, conspiring with the Mauler Twins to create a child clone of him, and then showing up to his team as said clone would raise too many questions. When the team outright points out how shady and weird it all sounds, and ask if he thought he'd be okay with it all, he hesitantly admits that he did, but might not've thought it all through.
• Disabled Snarker: He has his moments; in particular, his screentime with the Mauler Twins is both when we find out just how disabled he is, and when he's at his most sarcastic.
• A Dog Named "Dog": He's a robot who is simply known as "Robot". Subverted, since it turns out his real name is Rudolph Connors and the Robot we know is merely a drone being remotely controlled by him.
• Driven to Suicide: The cloning process duplicates his consciousness rather than transfers it. This means his original body still exists in the painful state. He asks for his new incarnation to let him die to end his suffering.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Despite the fact the Mauler Twins are dangerous criminals who have no real qualms about potential murder, Robot's first intention was to take them into jail without hurting them.
  • Rudolph's clone may be aware that the plan was to give his original self a Mercy Kill, but he's deeply uncomfortable and hurt even considering it, even pleading with the latter to allow him to save him so they could work together. He ultimately goes through with it, but not without shedding a fair amount of tears.
• Genius Cripple: Robot is a highly intelligent Omnidisciplinary Scientist who is just as skilled at biology as he is with engineering. He's later revealed to be a misshapen blob of flesh with a consciousness suspended inside a tank while using his robot proxies to interact with the world.
• Innocently Insensitive: Robot tells Eve that he's actually very ecstatic that Rex, Kate and her all made it onto new Guardians of the Globe after tryouts, unaware that she's very uncomfortable being on the same team as the former two anymore.
• Irony: Robot opens up to Monster Girl about how he can relate to her feeling alienated due to appearances and judgement from their peers, only for her to brush it off since he's a robot, effectively doing what she just complained about. Even more ironic considering Robot is actually a horribly mutated human, meaning he especially related to how she feels.
• Just a Machine: His biggest obstacle to leading the new Guardians is the fact that many view him as being less than a person due to his mechanical nature, undermining his authority. Then its revealed in the fourth episode that the physical bot we've seen has been remote controlled by the real Robot, who is a hideously-deformed blob of flesh.
• Machine Monotone: Speaks in a monotone voice with a robotic effect, befitting his mechanical nature.
  • Subverted later on, where he sometimes speaks with more emotion.
• Mercy Kill: The "new" Rudy reluctantly pulls the breathing mask off his original's face so that he could finally end his suffering.
• Mini-Me: He eventually copies his mind into a younger clone body of his team mate, Rex Splode, making the new Rudy this to Rex.
• My Brain Is Big: His elongated robotic head imitates the look. While his mutated original body doesn't have the "normal" swollen look, the Mauler Twins mention that his massive cerebrum has literally swallowed several other parts of his brain and reduced them to vestigal status.
• Nonchalant Dodge: Effortlessly dodges a swing from Battle Beast's mace, despite seemingly not even paying specific attention to that.
• No Social Skills: He presents himself to the team as child clone of Rex and doesn’t expect them (especially Rex) to react as negatively as they did. His explanations only dig his grave further.
• Older Than They Look: The original Robot is a baby-like man who bares odd resemblance to a fetus. The clone that Robot copies his mind into looks a similar age to Monster Girl despite Robot's mind being 30 years old. Also overlaps with Younger Than They Look since the clone was just created but looks like a pre-teen.
• Powered Armor: While in his new body Rudy could control his droids from a safe distance to perform his heroic duties, he still wants to be there on the field with his team, so he makes an armor modeled after his original droid so he can pilot it.
• Pragmatic Hero: He deliberately lets the Mauler Twins out of prison for the purpose of getting a human body, but he did so on the condition they'd be arrested later.
• Race Lift: Automatically done by virtue of making himself a perfect copy of Rex, who is vaguely of Greek descent in the show.
• Remote Body: What "Robot" actually is. A series of remote controlled drones.
• Replacement Goldfish: Not wanting to live in his fetus-like mutated body anymore, he creates a clone of Rex and copies his consciousness and memories into the new body. The new body then lets the old one pass on at his request and lives the life Robot always wanted to.
• Super-Intelligence: His robotic nature makes him a natural tactician, instantly assessing and formulating strategies in combat even against newly-discovered enemies, like the Flaxans. It's also his actual superpower, and even more impressive considering he is "just" a mutated person masquerading as a robot.
• Technopath: In his original body Robot controlled his droids remotely through his advanced machinery; in his new clone body Rudy controls his creations with his mind, thanks to the implant in his brain, made by his original.
• Unfit for Greatness: While Robot is shown to be a skilled and calculated tactician, he quickly reveals himself to not be an effective leader, being unable to handle the multiple social and communication breakdowns with the new guardians and leading them into several disastrous operations. Due to his inability to lead the team to become the hypercompetent world saving force Cecil needs them to be he is relieved of his duties as leader at the start of Season 2, which is given to the resurrected Immortal, but still allowed to be on the team.
• Un-Robotic Reveal: Twice. First the original to the Mauler Twins, revealing himself to be a deformed super genius trapped in a mobile lifepod. Then the "new" Rudy to the Guardians of the Globe, revealing himself to now be a biologically younger clone to Rex (and giving an explanation of his original self too).
• Villain Respect: Inverted. When he inspects the clone body the Mauler Twins made for him and discovers several traps the twins had put in it hoping to trick and control him, he compliments their work (even if he easily spotted them), and says he would have been disappointed if they hadn't tried something so underhanded.
• Walking Spoiler: There's a lot more than meets the eye when it comes to Robot in Season 1.
• What the Hell, Hero?: When Flaxans invade Earth a third time with advanced weaponry and immunity to the time stream, Robot's very first suggestion is to have Cecil nuke the city, which everyone else on the team calls him out on.

Black Samson

Black Samson (Markus Grimshaw)

^{Click to see him as part of the original Guardians}
"Come on Iguana! You're better than this, you're not some hired goon."

Voiced By: Khary Payton

"I'm sure you've had a lot of experience wrangling teenagers, but I was with the Guardians from day one."

A de-powered superhero who now uses a special combat suit of armor. Once he was a member of the original Guardians of the Globe before losing his powers, he has since been selected by Robot to join the new incarnation of the Guardians, functioning as its second-in-command.

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• 10-Minute Retirement: He was retired from the Guardians of the Globe after losing his powers in a past Noodle Incident. However, upon the original Guardian's murder, he was brought out of retirement (and given a suit of power armour to allow him to at least be somewhat effective in battle) in order to join and help mentor the new incarnation of the team.
• Bald of Authority: Subverted. While he is bald, the most experienced, and a senior member of the team, he isn't the actual leader of the group. That said, he makes more of an effort to manage the team than Robot does and pushes them to be more active in reducing civilian casualties. It's noticeable when he rallies the team to save lives from Invincible and Omni-Man’s fight, whereas Robot was initially content with following Cecil’s orders to stay put.
• Brutal Honesty: He doesn't even attempt to hide that he is disappointed in the New Guardians' poor teamwork skills, not even attempting to do damage control.
• Consummate Professional: Takes his role as a Guardian of the Globe extremely seriously and is constantly agitated by his new team's laxity.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: He is on the receiving end of this when he sheds his damaged power armour but still tries to charge Battle Beast (who can rival Omni-Man in strength and durability). This results in Battle Beast nearly snapping his arm in two near the wrist, before slamming Samson into the ground with enough force to put him in a coma, then tossing his broken body aside.
• De-power: Twice. Rex Splode mentions a Noodle Incident that stripped Black Samson of his powers. Happens again during the Guardians' battle against Machine Head's hired villains, where his power armour gets damaged to the point of uselessness and he is forced to shed it to at least be able to move unhindered. Luckily, he gets his original powers back after surviving Battle Beast, when the doctors bring him back to life.
• Didn't Think This Through: Black Samson (the person who's basically a regular human without his power armor) thought charging Battle Beast (the thing that just beat Invincible to the brink of death) with his bare hands was a good idea. Battle Beast proceeded to show him why this was a bad idea.
• Dub Name Change: The Salvadoran Spanish dub translates his name to his Spanish variant.
• Fantastic Racism: He claims that Robot is not fit to be a leader because he's just "ones and zeroes". Although he warms up quite a bit after seeing that Robot is capable of emotion and after finding out what he actually is.
• Genius Bruiser: He made the suit that enables him to fight super powered criminals, and is one of the more strategically minded members of the team.
• Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: The Atom Eve special shows him with a full head of hair during his time with the original Guardians.
• Ironic Name: While listing the team's various issues in "I'm Not Going Anywhere", Bulletproof points out the irony in Black Samson naming himself after a mythical hero who was known for his full mane of hair. As Black Samson points out, he did used to have hair.
• Jerkass Has a Point: When the other Guardians all want to celebrate their most recent victory, he instead has Robot bring up footage of the battle and points out the mistakes they all made, saying they acted as cocky individuals instead of a team, and civilians got hurt because of it. When he and Rex Splode get into an argument over it, Dupli-Kate steps in and tells Rex that Black Samson is not wrong.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a bit of an old hardass but he's serious about being a hero. While ultimately futile, seeing Battle Beast nearly kill Invincible makes him lose it and try to fend off Battle Beast to try and save him. While watching Omni-Man and Invincible fight, he decides that the Guardians of the Globe need to go out and help deal with the damage caused by the two Viltrumites' battle.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: As Invincible tries to futilely fend off Omni-Man, Black Samson is horrified but pragmatic. He says that none of the Guardians stand a chance against Omni-Man and orders them to minimize the civilian casualties instead around the world. Eve reluctantly admits this is the best course of action.
• Life Saving Misfortune: He finds out in hindsight that the accident that stripped away his powers saved him from Omni-Man's massacre. If he had still been a Guardian, he would have been killed as well. Black Samson takes it well, focusing on the fact that they need to rout the civilian casualties.
• Meaningful Name: His name could be a reference to the Biblical Samson. While the Bilbical Samson got his powers from his hair, Black Samson has no hair. Which is somewhat complemented by how he is now lacking his superpowers. Although this soon possibly becomes a case of Ironic Name after he regains his powers.
• Noodle Incident: We never find out what made him lose his powers. Or what makes them come back.
• Only Sane Man: Of the new Guardians of the Globe, he seems to have his head screwed on straight about leadership. Black Samson is concerned that everyone on the team sans Robot is green around the years due to most of them literally being kids. As he puts it, being a hero is not about showing off, but about saving lives in the midst of hostile threats. Dupli-Kate has to tell Rex that Samson is completely right to critique their technique.
• Powered Armor: Uses a suit of this to compensate for his lack of powers. During the fight against Machine Head and his hired supervillains. It gets badly damaged to the point that he has to discard it. He fully discards it after the fight once he gets his powers back. It's unknown what happened to the power armor after that.
• Retired Badass: He was a member of the original Guardians of the Globe, but went into retirement after losing his powers. He was brought back from retirement in order to mentor the new Guardians of the Globe.
• Secret Test of Character: In the season 1 finale, he accosts Rex when the latter starts to clean up the bloodstain left behind from the previous Guardians' death. While at first it seemed like Samson was trying to pull his old guard seniority on Rex again, he really just wanted to see if the rest of the team would stand up for him, which they did, and happily backed off saying they're now a real team. It helps that they finally showed initiative in protecting civilians.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: After regaining his powers, he stops wearing his power armour and its dark blue/orange body suit, instead wearing a purple and off-white body suit instead.
• Sole Survivor: By virtue of being retired from the team by that point, he is the only member of the Guardians to not be lured in and killed by Omni-Man. Averted when Immortal is resurrected (twice).
• Super-Strength: As to be expected his Powered Armor gives him this. After getting back his powers, he puts it to good use saving people in the aftermath of Omni-Man and Invincible's fight. Such as lifting up giant debris that has civilians trapped underneath it.
• Took a Level in Kindness: After a Secret Test of Character, he finally sees the new Guardians as a proper team, and soon they all work together in wiping the bloodstain left by Cecil in the old Guardians of the Globe's base. It helps that they finally took his leadership seriously and understood what he meant by reducing civilian collateral damage.
• Tranquil Fury: When Rex Splode mocks his lack of powers and how he would’ve been useful in saving the Guardians from their deaths if he still had them, Samson calmly tells him that if he makes a joke like that again he’s going to kick his ass until Rex goes back to calling him “Dad” as an insult.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Well, more like re-awakening. After his near-death experience thanks to Battle Beast, he manages to regain his powers after the doctors defibrillate him several times to bring him back to life.
• Verbal Backspace: Of the Innocently Accidental variety, he calls the new Rudolph Connors clone "Robot" out of habit and backs up to refer to him as Rudy after agreeing with him over the fact that they can't really do anything while seeing Omni-Man and Invincible fight.

Rex Splode

Rex Splode (Rex Sloan)

Voiced By: Jason Mantzoukas

"Okay, just to make it clear, there is no universe in which I wake up at 6:00 a.m., and the world isn't on fire. Come on, Robot. We don't need this boot camp bullshit."

A superhero who can charge objects with potential energy, turning anything he touches into bombs; formerly of the Teen Team selected to join the new Guardians roster. He is naturally incorrigible and hostile with Invincible.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: He's much more abrasive in the show than he was in the comics.
• Ambiguously Brown: He has a considerable tan to the point of a light brown skin tone, though he's implied to be of Greek origin just like his voice actor.
• Amicable Exes: Slowly moving towards this with Eve.
• An Arm and a Leg: He gets his left hand bitten off by Komodo Dragon.
• Anti-Hero: A really bad case of "Disney Anti-Hero". He's never made any morally compromising actions (so far), but he's a huge jerk to his teammates, constantly insults them, and cheats on Eve with Dupli-Kate.
• Book Dumb: He never went to high school.
• Boom, Headshot!: Rex ends up on the receiving end of this at the hands of Lizard King. However, in a rare case of 'Tis Only a Bullet in the Brain, Rex is able to get back up a moment later and, through a Heroic Second Wind, beats Lizard King an inch of his life before passing out and needing immediate medical attention.
• Butt-Monkey: Episode 3 is just one long Humiliation Conga for him all caused by his own choices and general personality:
  • First, his girlfriend catches him in the shower with their teammate believing something was going on between Eve and Invincible. He realizes his mistake and tries to say it doesn't mean anything in front of said teammate. Then he gets into the new Guardians of the Globe...only to get his ass beaten to a pulp after making fun of another of the new members for no reason other than she appeared to be a little girl. Invincible has to step in to stop the fight; Rex doesn't learn his lesson and ends up antagonizes the other members of the team, leaving disliked by everyone on the team. Then Eve finalizes their break-up and repeats she won't be joining the Guardians leaving him all alone.
  • In the following episode, he buries the hatchet with Monster Girl only to be told to stay away from her thanks to his obvious bad choices last episode, blamed entirely for alienating Eve from the team. Then Robot pinches his shoulder, taking a blood sample that is phase one of his larger plan: Creating a clone body of Rex to use as a new vessel for himself, a major breach of his privacy.
• Character Exaggeration: The show makes Rex way more abrasive and on the nose, paving way for any comeuppance for his bad behavior to feel more justified.
• Chick Magnet: Despite being a bit air-headed and immature, Atom Eve, Dupli-Kate, and Monster Girl all find him attractive.
• Childish Older Sibling: Technically is this to Robot/Rudy after the latter uploads his personality and memories into the body of a younger clone of Rex. Since this genetically makes them twin brothers.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Of Gambit, with his charm and suave replaced with jerkassery and anger issues. Though as of Episode 7 he seems to be getting nicer.
• Cowardly Lion: Constantly complains about being a superhero and fears for his own safety and wellbeing, but this doesn't stop him from being a hero.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: He received a severe beatdown from Monster Girl.
• Dark and Troubled Past: During one of his snide (jealous) remarks at Invincible it's mentioned he didn't ever get to go to school. His girlfriend snarks that much is obvious. He also remarks that his childhood sucked when calling out Robot for creating a clone of his kid-self without his knowledge. It's revealed he was homeless and crashed with Eve for a year.
  Rex: You're ruining my childhood, and that's hard, because it already SUCKED!
• Defeat Means Friendship: When he first meets Monster Girl, he makes fun of her for being too young and she makes fun of his dick size and then proceeds to beat the hell out of him. Despite having the absolute shit punched out of him, including losing several teeth, when its all over he genuinely and happily compliments her strength. Following this, they act pretty much like best friends.
• Didn't Think This Through: The entire reason he cheats on Eve is because he assumed that she was seeing Mark just because they come to the base together, despite her explaining that its because they go to the same school together. Not once does he actually try to talk to his girlfriend or follow them to see if it was true or not.
• Dub Name Change: The Salvadoran Spanish dub renames him to Rexplota, a literal translation.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • When Robot suggests considering the city lost and nuking it due to the Flaxan invasion, Rex is just as against the idea as everyone else, despite knowing it's a losing battle.
  • Rex claims to be entitled to date any girl he wants thanks to his hero status, but draws the line on Monster Girl because her Power at a Price makes her younger with each transformation, currently resembling a young teen/pre-teen. The very idea straight up squicks him out.
  • Rex is also justifiably disturbed by how Robot made a young clone of himself to use as a body, even remarking how looking at reminds him of bad times.
  • He’s also completely horrified and disturbed when Omni-Man goes on a rampage.
• Failed a Spot Check: When he questioned why Monster Girl (who he believed was just a young child) was on the team, it didn't occur to him that she was there because she passed all the same tests as him and was probably far more than she appeared to be. Monster Girl clears this up for him soon after.
• Freudian Excuse: Implied to be why he acts the way he does. By his own admission, his childhood "sucked" and he never even had the opportunity to go to high school. Truth in Television, his extremely paranoid, hostile, and immature personality, despite having good intentions, is common for people who were abused as children.
• Good Is Not Nice: He's egotistical, condescending, and bad-tempered. Not to mention he cheats on his girlfriend. Yet he is still willing to use his powers, and put his life on the line, to protect humanity.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He has a very temperamental personality and it really doesn't take much to piss him off.
• Having a Blast: Rex has the power to charge objects with potential energy, turning anything he touches into bombs.
• Heel Realization: Having a near-death experience makes him realize how much of a massive Jerkass he was to Eve, Kate and every single woman in his life.
• "Hey, You!" Haymaker: After Battle Beast leaves the fight, and the rest of Machine Head's villains are defeated, an extremely pissed off Rex charges right for Machine Head (who just realized his escape route was gone). Machine Head had just enough time to turn around towards Rex before catching Rex's fist to his face.
• Hidden Depths:
  • He really doesn't want to be such a Jerkass Smug Super Cowardly Lion and Eve says that he wasn't always like this. Demonstrated in his powers as well when, after two episodes using them solely for combat, he uses them to create a brilliant fireworks display over the city.
  • When Eve arrives at Guardians HQ after Omni-Man kills Immortal (again) he hugs her and says he’s relieved she’s okay, proving that despite cheating on her, he genuinely cares for her safety.
  • When Cecil tells the new team that the latest Guardians of the Globe are the last hope against Omni-Man, he quickly manages to deduce what happened to the previous team. Showing that he isn't completely as dumb as he acts.
  • Genuinely compliments Monster Girl on her strength after she beats the living shit out of him. Also, he admits that he deserved the beating she gave him.
  • It turns out he really likes reading home decoration magazines, as Eve brings him a whole bundle while he's recovering from his battle with the Lizard League. She theorizes that it's because he never grew up in a normal home.
• Humiliation Conga: Goes through an increasingly worse one over season two initiated by Eve's breakup with him in the first, getting repeatedly humiliated and emasculated in front of the other Guardians, like getting verbally cut to pieces by the new guy (Bulletproof) or walking on one of his exes getting laid with a teammate he hates (Kate and Immortal). In general, one gets the distinct impression that his dickish behavior has cost him a lot of respect and standing in the team by that point.
• Hypocrite:
  • He makes fun of Bulletproof's superhero name, when his own isn't that much more creative or impressive. As Bulletproof is quick to point out.
  • Rex is outraged that Kate would "cheat" on him with the Immortal, even though he used Kate to cheat on Eve and lied to her about Eve now dating Invincible.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • Although he's rude to "Monster Girl", he has a point that she seems too young to join the team. He would soon learn the hard way that she's actually an adult who has a Hulking Out ability.
  • Also, when he learns that Robot stole his DNA to create a child clone of him to use as his own body, everyone is completely on the same page as him that this is messed up.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite being incredibly abrasive, he genuinely cares about his team and being a hero.
  • Also when he questioned why Monster Girl was on the team. While his intentions may have been good (worrying about the safety of a child), he just came off as being a Jerkass due to his nature.
  • When Robot advocates abandoning and nuking the city to stop the Flaxan invasion, Rex is right there with all his other teammates in saying that isn't an option, and they're fighting it out to save the city even if they'll probably die.
  • When Eve starts venting to him, he gives her a harsh but caring pep talk, renewing her faith in herself as a hero.
• Let's Get Dangerous!:
  • After seeing Battle Beast almost kill Monster Girl, during the battle in Machine Head's penthouse. While this applied to the whole team, he is the first to tell the villains that they just screwed up before leading the counter-attack and showing that when pressed, he completely drops his It's All About Me attitude and becomes an effective leader and team player.
  • After his entire team is apparently killed by the Lizard League, he takes out both Iguana and Komodo, losing a hand in the process. Somehow, he then survives a headshot from Lizard King and beats him to death with the remaining stump.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After imploding his relationship with both Eve and Kate by cheating on the former with the latter, he ends up not only dumped by both women, but humiliated when he subsequently walks in on Kate hooking up with Immortal in the same way Eve did when he cheated on her.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Rex takes enough injuries to kill a man in his fight against the Lizard League. He doesn't entirely seem to notice them, seeming more angry than anything that Lizard King shot him in the head. Some of this can probably be chalked up to a combination of adrenaline and shock.
• Made of Iron: What else can be said about someone that survives multiple gashes to the chest and back, a severed and eaten hand, and a point-blank headshot from a pistol? May have something to do with his augmentations.
• Moral Myopia: Cheated on Eve with Kate and when caught tried to find weak justifications for it. When Kate ends up getting into a relationship with The Immortal in season 2, Rex calls her out for "cheating" on him, nevermind that Kate obviously didn't consider them a thing anymore after learning that he cheated on Eve with her. In general, Rex seems to be very "rules for thee but not for me" when it comes to romantic relationships: Eve merely spending time with another boy (Mark) was enough to make him believe she was seeing said boy romantically but him actually having sex with someone who's not his girlfriend is entirely excusable.
• Not What It Looks Like: Played Straight when Atom Eve discovers him cheating on her with Dupli-Kate.
• Personality Powers: It really can't be a coincidence that Rex Splode has the power to charge objects with explosive energy and seems to have some serious anger issues.
• Race Lift: Most likely of Greek descent, as he's voiced by Jason Mantzoukas, and Word of God says they wanted all ethnicities of the characters to match the actor that was cast for them.
• That Came Out Wrong: Tends to happen often with him, as even when he tries to say something helpful or give a compliment, his Jerkass tendencies makes it sound like he is being insulting. This is often followed by him trying to explain what he meant, but that just digs the hole deeper.
• Took a Level in Kindness:
  • He's noticeably friendlier (if still pretty obnoxious) in We Need to Talk. Seeing his entire team nearly get beaten to death by Battle Beast might've had something to do with it.
  • In the finale Where I Really Come From after spending presumably days nonstop saving lives in the wake of Omni-Man's rampage, an exhausted Rex wordlessly starts to clean up the bloodstain in the Guardian's base.
  • When the Guardians arrive at the site of the Mauler Twins lab and find Mark in the rubble, bruised but otherwise fine, he genuinely compliments Mark by saying he really is Invincible. When Mark starts to break down over his hands being stained by more blood and begins reliving that tragic day with his father, Rex makes the effort to cheer him up, saying it had to be done since the Mauler Twins couldn't be trusted. Even Cecil agrees with Rex, much to his surprise.
  • After his Near-Death Experience courtesy of Lizard King's Boom, Headshot! on him, as well as watching his team nearly get wiped out, Rex takes substantially more consideration and appreciation of those around him than he had before, to the point he has seemingly a far more stable friendship with Eve during his recovery and promises to cover for Mark's double life after he rescues him from a bad situation.
• Teeth Flying: Monster Girl knocks several of his teeth out when pummeling him, and he's seen still missing them later on. Funny enough in a mildly literal case of this trope, he actually tries to use the knocked-out teeth against Monster Girl by using his powers to turn them into tiny bombs, which is like hitting her with popcorn.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His choice to cheat on Atom Eve is a large reason for her not joining the New Guardians of the Globe and going solo, costing the team their most powerful member who could have severely fixed their woefully underpowered status and failures during their initial first outings.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Downplayed. When Mark calls him an asshole for cheating on Eve with Dupli-Kate, the latter makes a comment that he wasn't always like this, though when he asks how she doesn't say.
• Would Hurt a Child: It's ambiguous as to if he intended to only intimidate or if he would have actually attacked Monster Girl (who he thought was a prepubescent child) after she insulted him (questioned the size of his dick). Monster Girl didn't take the risk of finding out, instead waylaying him through a window and proceeding to beat the shit out of him.

Dupli-Kate

Dupli-Kate (Kate Cha)

Voiced By: Malese Jow

"We're all the real Kate."

A self-replicating superheroine; formerly of the Teen Team and now selected to join the new Guardians roster. She was Eve's friend before ruining that friendship by cheating with Rex.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: Kate never apologized to Eve in the comics about cheating with Rex, nor was she shown to be unaware of them still being in a relationship, or remorseful about her actions.
• Commonality Connection: She hooks up with the Immortal in Season 2 because, as she explains to Rex, he's the only one who understands what it's like to die repeatedly. The feeling is mutual, as the Immortal finds himself deeply heartbroken over her death, and delivers a funeral eulogy about her willingness to see the good in the world despite being cursed to suffer as he does.
• Didn't Think This Through: Apparently it didn't occur to Kate to even talk to Eve before hooking up with Rex, if not out of common courtesy, then to double-check his story.
• Dub Name Change: The Salvadoran Spanish dub renames her as Duplicadora, a literal translation.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Kate had no idea Rex and Eve hadn't broken up due to Rex claiming that they had, and when she discovers the truth, she's both remorseful to Eve and angry with Rex when she finds that it's very much not the case.
  • Kate actually takes offense on Robot's part when Black Samson voices that Robot is Just a Machine and therefore not a suitable leader.
• Expendable Clone: Her primary defensive move is to quickly spawn a clone just before taking a fatal hit, and Dupli-Kate clones are frequently butchered just to show how serious the fights are. That said, she can feel what her clones feel, and does remember each death. When one of Machine Head's cohorts kills one of Kate's clones, with her barely managing to spawn a clone before she is splattered on the wall, she almost passes out.
• Expy: Of Triplicate Girl from the Legion Of Superheroes.
• Faking the Dead: Not too long after revealing her survival to Immortal, she reveals this was her intent in presenting her seeming demise at the hands of the Lizard League as she had grown weary of dying all the time endlessly and wished to just go off to live quietly in peace with no contact with anyone from her previous life. The only thing keeping her from going through with it all the way was her love for Immortal, deciding to reveal the truth to him rather than leave him grieving as his lost love.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Due to her ability to spawn an endless number of clones, every major fight sees Dupli-Kate taking many more outright-lethal attacks than anyone else. She even complains that the Flaxans are killing her almost as fast as she can clone herself. Deconstructed; due to her Synchronization, she also feels every death, and the stress of it was about ready to cause her to pick up and run, only staying behind when she realized how cruel that would be to Immortal.
• Hypocrite: Chastises Rex for acting unprofessional while in the workplace... while she's actively having sex in the showers with their team leader.
• Karma Houdini: When Robot chastises Rex for cheating on Eve last episode which led to Eve not joining the Guardians, no mention is made how Kate played a part as well. Eve also forgives Kate much more easily for the whole affair than Rex. Downplayed in that Rex had apparently told Kate beforehand that Eve was dating Invincible, so the whole thing could be attributed to a misunderstanding, and Kate's just as angry with Rex as Eve is once she learns the truth, as the two don't seem to be close after those events.
• The Lost Lenore: The Immortal is deeply affected by Kate's death in season 2, to his own surprise, and its enough for Cecil to insist that he takes a break from superheroing to cope with the grief. From his speech at her funeral, that Commonality Connection about repeatedly experiencing death was more than just talk on Kate's end. Subverted when it turns out she was not exactly "lost" after all.
• Mayfly–December Romance: Starting from Season 2, she starts a relationship with the Immortal, who is not only physically older than her, but has been alive for thousands of years and will inevitably outlive her. She later rationalizes that constant usage of clones have given her life experience equal to his, if she combines them all, though the math is obviously off and more just her trying to justify her emotional connection to a much older man.
  Rex: The Immortal's like 2,000 years old years old, y'know? [..] So I'm too young for you now? I-I-Is that it?
• Power Perversion Potential: Uses her powers to create two more of her self to have a foursome with Rex. She later does the same thing with Immortal in Season 2, much to Rex's exasperation. Her Synchronization with her clones, meanwhile, means that every Kate orgasms simultaneously, which blows her cover while cheating with the Immortal.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Turns out the "1" version of her was also a clone, as Kate had grown tired of dying all the time, and was planning to retire. She reveals her survival to the Immortal, saying he's the reason she couldn't just walk away.
• Self-Duplication: Her superpower which is to make duplicates of herself. According to her, the clones are her while still an apparent difference between the original "Kate" and the copies. While copies always spawn with a higher number on their uniform (the "original" Kate will have the number 1 on her uniform), there are times where Kate 1 will be the one killed, while the copy survives and carries on the fight. Also, the number on the uniforms change to reflect their current order of creation (so if Kate 3 is killed, Kate 4's number changes to 3, making her the new Kate 3); this includes if Kate 1 is killed (at one point, Kate 5's number changes to Kate 1 after the rest of the Kates have been killed).
• Sympathetic Adulterer: She only has sex with Rex because she believed Eve (his then-current girlfriend) had broken up with him for Invincible, and she's clearly remorseful once Eve confronts her about it.
• Synchronization: She can perceive and feel everything her clones can, causing her to pass out during especially brutal deaths. More amusingly, she's discovered to be cheating on Rex with the Immortal when the clone she sends out to talk with Rex experiences an involuntary orgasm.
• 10-Minute Retirement: Her "death" turns out to be really this, after feeling every single one of her clone deaths for so long, she very nearly tried to run after the Lizard League killed all her clones, only deciding otherwise thanks to The Power of Love.
• You Are Number 6: Somehow, the number on her suit changes to represent which number clone is which with "1" being the original (or oldest, if 1 is killed). Or so it would seem, as "0" finally appears in the Season 2 finale.

Monster Girl

Monster Girl (Amanda)

^{Click here to see her monster-form} "Still think I'm adorable?"

Voiced By: Grey DeLisle (Amanda), Kevin Michael Richardson (Monster)

A 24-year woman suffering from a magical curse: she can transform at will into a hulking troll-like creature with super-strength and durability, but each transformation de-ages her slightly. By the time the series begins, the continuous use of her powers has reduced her to the body of a 12-year-old girl.

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• Adaptational Wimp: Slightly. In the comics, her healing factor is a lot stronger and any damage done while in monster form was undone just by changing back. Case in a point, in a scene that appears in both the comic and the show, Invincible hitting her at the tryouts, in the comic she was fine after changing back but in the show she was still hurt, though not badly, after changing back.
• Adaptation Personality Change: The show has Amanda a little more composed compared to her character in the comic, there she was desperate to maintain more adult behavior and vices even in her child's body, such as being a serial flirt and smoking. Here, this is all reduced to Amanda wanting to drink beer still. This results in Robot's body choice coming off as less on point in the show, in the comics it was clear why he choose Rex; Amanda was dangerously flirty with the guy, quite literally gazing at his butt.
• Age Lift: In the comics Amanda says she is a twenty-nine-year-old woman trapped in a child's body, the show has her be twenty-four years old. This is overall a rather inconsequential change, since her predicament remains the same.
• Berserk Button: By her admission to Invincible, being called a kid is this. She apologizes for lashing out at him for trying to stop her beatdown on Rex.
• Blessed with Suck: Can transform into a hulking green monster, but it makes her younger each time. This makes her potential love life next to impossible, and is unable to train often.
• Bowdlerize: While the show has Amanda comment on how terrible it feels to have the desires of a grown woman while stuck in a child’s body, feeling she will never be answered by a man without it being from either a pedophile or an actual prepubescent boy, the show heavily tones down how flirty Amanda could be with her teammates in the comics, being very upfront about how much she longed for intimacy before Robot called her out on it. It doesn't stop her from drinking beer as long as she reminds them that she's an adult.
• Brutal Honesty: She admits that sensitivity isn't her strong suit.
• Civvie Spandex: When not in her monster form, she fights crime in a T-shirt and jeans.
• Deadpan Snarker: Her first lines start with her roasting Rex.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Upon first joining the team, Rex mistakes her for an actual child and then moves to attack her when she responds by questioning the size of his dick. Que her changing into her monster form and beating the shit of him. After the fight was broken up, Rex isn't even mad and is genuinely impressed and compliments her on her strength. After that they are pretty much seen as best friends. Much to Robot's chagrin.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: When Robot tries to empathize with Amanda’s issue of others judging them for their appearance, thinking less of them for it, by pointing out they are the same in this regard she brushes Robot’s words off by saying he is just a Robot, he wouldn’t understand what it is like, thus doing the exact same thing others have done to her, judging by appearances alone. That hurts Robot on the double, for Amanda couldn’t sympathize with him thinking he is just a robot, and she was unknowingly insensitive to his real human self as well.
• Dub Name Change: The Salvadoran Spanish dub renames her Chica Monstruo, a literal translation.
• Facial Horror: Battle Beast uses two stone blocks to crush her face, tearing half the skin off in episode 5.
• From the Mouths of Babes: Her trash-talking of Rex, namely that his bad attitude is Compensating for Something, comes across as this. Subverted because she's actually an adult in a de-aged body.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Mistaking her for a child (as easy as it is) really pisses her off.
• HULK MASH!-Up: Although the source of her transformation is magical rather than scientific, she hits most other points of the trope — she transforms into a huge, green, ogreish form when angry, which gains increased strength, resilience and healing at the cost of lacking emotional control.
• I Shall Taunt You: In full force when Rex starts making fun of her.
• Innate Night Vision: According to her, she can see in the dark in her monster form.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's a smartass and a bit snappy about her condition, but she's quick to apologize to Invincible for lashing out at him for a moment. And even makes amends with Rex, despite being justified in kicking his ass.
• Lighter and Softer: Due Amanda being more composed in the show, her proximity with Rex after their initial squabble is that of friends who engage in friendly banter, without Amanda casually flirting with him like it was in the comics; however, this lighter proximity still inspires Robot to take Rex's body as the base for his new one, in order to impress Amanda.
• No Smoking: One way the comics used to visually convey Amanda was an older woman in a kid’s body was her smoking to relieve stress early in the series. In the show she shows no interest in cigs, focusing solely on beer instead.
• Older Than She Looks: In her first episode, she claims to be 24 despite having a prepubescent body. This is justified due to her curse; whenever she turns into her monster form, she becomes a bit physically younger in human form, making hero work actively age her backwards; according to her, one transformation makes her a week younger than she was before.
• Pædo Hunt: According to her, her curse makes having a relationship difficult. If it isn't with those just entering puberty, it's others "popping up on sex offender registries".
• Super Gender-Bender: She's female as a human, male as a monster.
• Super-Toughness: Rex's explosives don't even leave a scratch on her.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: Her hair is tied this way, a practical style that nonetheless emphasizes her youth.
• Token Wizard: Downplayed. We're given no indication that she knows any sorcery herself, but she's the only member of the new Guardians of the Globe team who's powers are explicitly supernatural in nature.
• The Worf Effect: She is the strongest and toughest member of the new Guardians, but Battle Beast easily thrashes her around and rips her face off. Ironically, Battle Beast is voiced by Michael Dorn, who played Worf.
  • Somewhat downplayed since we had just seen Battle Beast beat Invincible (a far stronger and more durable hero) nearly to death. Already setting up that she was out of her league in trying to take him on.

Shrinking Rae

Shrinking Rae

Voiced By: Grey DeLisle

A size-manipulating superheroine, who worked solo before being asked to join the new Guardians roster.

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• Action Girl: Quite the badass compared to her more useless source material self.
• Adaptational Badass: In the comic, it's a bit of a Running Gag just how useless Ray is. In fact, he frequently misses the fight completely. Rae, on the other hand, is very efficient at using her powers in a fight, doing things like shrinking while she has her opponent in a headlock to tighten the constriction, or climbing into her opponent's inner ear to induce nausea. In the silo battle she lasts longer fighting the Lizard League, manages to kill Salamander (who was killed by Rex in the comics) and even survives her comic counterpart's death at Komodo Dragon's hands.
• Adaptational Name Change: Very Downplayed. Was "Shrinking Ray" in the comics.
• Dub Name Change: The Salvadoran Spanish dub renames her as Rina Reductora, a wordplay on her original name.
• Expy: Of Shrinking Violet from the Legion Of Superheroes.
• Gender Flip: She was a man in the comics.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: She knows how to use her shrinking powers well. Like getting inside someone's inner ear to induce nausea and shrinking while having her arms wrapped around her opponent's neck to choke them out.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: A heroic example. Rae’s attempt to return to her normal size while inside of Komodo Dragon backfires horribly when he proves to be too durable for her to burst out of, leading to her almost getting crushed inside his body.
• I Work Alone: Her comment about not working with a team before indicates she was working as a solo hero before joining the new Guardians.
• Kill It Through Its Stomach: Subverted. She attempts this after Komodo Dragon swallows her, but he's too durable and she instead nearly gets crushed inside his guts, barely surviving the experience.
• Orifice Invasion: One of her tactics given her abilties. She is shown crawling into the ear of an opponent to disorient him and later crawls into the eye of Salamander and crushes his brain from the inside.
• Not Quite Dead: She manages to survive being crushed inside Komodo Dragon, clawing her way out of the stump of his headless body.
• Punny Name: A pun on Shrink Ray.
• Say My Name: Screams Dupli-Kate's name in horror after her clones get mutilated by Komodo Dragon.
• Shrinking Violet: Can take this literally when she's too shy or embarassed to speak up.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Survives her encounter with Komodo Dragon, which killed her comic book counterpart.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Rex assumes that when she returns to regular size she will burst out of Komodo Dragon. Unfortuantely Komodo Dragon has Super-Toughness and it only causes her to barely survive being crushed inside him.
• Too Dumb to Live: Bulletproof calls her out for trying to burst out of villain with Super-Toughness, and breaking all her bones in the process.

Bulletproof

Bulletproof (Zandale Randolph)

Voiced By: Jay Pharoah

"Things always this weird around here?"

A charismatic artist turned superhero with similar powers to Invincible, plus the ability to absorb kinetic energy. He joins the Guardians in season two.

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• Armor-Piercing Response: When Rex mockingly asks him what he does (what his powers are). Doubles as a Badass Boast.

"I do everything you wish you could."

• Brutal Honesty: Making painfully blunt but accurate statements seems to be one of his defining charactertistics. In his first appearance he calmly but viciously rebuffs Rex's attempt to mock him by first turning it around on him then telling Rex he has the potential to be a better person but just doesn't act on it. He also makes a cutting but true line-up of the Guardians' various dysfunctions to Samson that make the idea that they're the best superhero team on the planet questionable at best.
• Flying Brick: His powers are fairly similar to those of the Viltrumites, but with the addition of being able to absorb kinetic energy.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He squashes a Sequid on the Martian ship out of disgust. Which was the worst thing he could've done, as the Sequids are a Hive Mind and thanks to one of their own being killed immediately know the Guardians' location. Cue a flood of Sequids led by the possessed Rus Livingston storming the room.
• Not So Above It All: While he's a Consummate Professional for the most part, unlike the Immortal he won't take insults lying down. As demonstrated by him verbally eviscerating Rex after Rex tries to make fun of his superhero name.
• Only Sane Man: Barring Samson he seems to be the only Guardian with his head screwed on straight. Deconstructed as his awareness of how messed up the team is in more ways than one leads him to get frustrated with how they don't even seem to try and make an effort to improve despite being the first line of defense for the planet.
• The Reliable One: Out of the whole team he's the only one who almost never messes up on duty either due to his powers being ill-fitting or personal baggage. He also doesn't hold grudges or picks fights, instead choosing to keep things strictly professional for the sake of efficiency.
• The Sixth Ranger: He becomes a superhero and joins the team in the second season per Cecil's orders, hoping his flying brick status will help with the Guardian's lack of raw power.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Downplayed with his introduction. There is a faint 'whoosh' sound before he reveals himself behind Rex, but we don't see him descend or land like the Immortal.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: A very tall and attractive African American man.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: He chastises Rex for being such an immature Jerkass, telling him that he knows Rex has the potential to "be better".

Shapesmith

"Rus Livingston"/Shapesmith

Voiced By: Ben Schwartz

"I swore to use my abilities for good and to help people and to protect my planet, no matter what!

A bumbling Martian who sneaks to Earth by impersonating astronaut Rus Livingston and subsequently becomes a superhero and joins the Guardians.

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• Bad Liar: He is not particularly good at pretending to be human, to put it mildly. So much so that he gets fired from NASA because they think he's gone insane, and even Rex knows that something is off with Shapesmith and openly questions where he's from. Pretty much everybody already knew he was a martian from the moment he joined the Guardians except for Black Samson, but they don't bring it up until a martian ship is coming to Earth because they want to know what he knows about it.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: If him begging his NASA superior not to stab him in his three-chambered heart is any indication.
• Bizarre Taste in Food: Downplayed. He eats frozen pizzas straight out of the box without thawing or heating them, but it's possible he doesn't actually know how they're normally eaten and was just going with whatever food Livingston already had in his apartment.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Eccentric and goofy as he is, he's still a superpowered alien and surprisingly useful to the Guardians because of it, prompting the Immortal to offer him a place on the team.
• Butt-Monkey: His introductory episode sees him get fired, kicked out of his apartment, and comically smacked around by the Lizard League. In general, he's a total buffoon whose competence at being a superhero is entirely down to his shapeshifting powers.
• Casting Gag: Ben Schwartz has been campaigning to play a live-action Plastic Man for years, and here he gets to play a Captain Ersatz.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Plucky Comic Relief teammates in most Super Team ensembles. While to the viewer his constant antics can be funny, to his teammmates in-universe who actually have to work with him his behavior is highly irritating and confusing at best. His frequent self-serving lies get his team in trouble constantly and while his powerset is extremely useful and versatile on paper his inexperience with being a superhero means he's pretty much useless in an actual fight and has to have more powerful team members bail him out.
• Everybody Knew Already: In “This Must Come As A Shock” it's revealed that the Guardians of the Globe and Cecil already knew he was a Martian.
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • To the Martians he's a cowardly traitor and deserter whose actions directly led to the Sequids-crisis. Shapesmith is very aware that the other Martians will not be happy to see him again, which is one of the reasons he stole the real Rus Livingston's identity to stay on Earth.
  • He quickly becomes this to the other Guardians as well after the jig is up. Both due to the whole disaster with the Sequids being almost entirely his fault as well as him being a compulsive and bad liar who either withholds important information for his own gain or only shares it once it's way too late.
• Hugh Mann: His shapeshifting allows him to look perfectly human… it's acting that leaves much to be desired, as he can't stop constantly reassuring people of his humanity and has trouble with human social norms.
  Shapesmith: I was born a baby human right here on the planet of Earth.
• It's All About Me: Shapesmith might not be all bad but it's pretty obvious that he mainly looks out for number one. Case in point: He left an innocent human to die in his place, stole his identity and left his people behind to deal with the Sequids on their own to get a better life for himself away from Mars. And while he seems at least remorseful when the Guardians find out, it's notable that he doesn't really apologize nor is he all that eager to help fix the mess he made.
• Karma Houdini: Despite Cecil saying Shapesmith would be recieving consequences for leaving the real Rus Livingston to die on Mars (and causing him to be possessed by Sequids for months), Shapesmith has gotten off completely scott-free and is still a part of the Guardians of the Globe.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His impersonation of Livingston, done out of desperation to get away from the dystopian Mars, ends up causing Livingston to become the central node of the Sequid horde and become a threat to Mars and Earth alike.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Everyone just calls him Shapesmith since he never tells anyone his actual name (if he even has one).
• Plucky Comic Relief: To the Guardians, as a goofy alien loser who's constantly (and badly) trying to pretend he's human.
• Sarcasm-Blind: Whenever someone asks him a rhetorical question, Shapesmith answers as though it was sincere.
  Cecil: So we have God knows how many of these [Sequids] headed here, they possessed the real Rus Livingston and they're capable of possessing a million more of us and it's all your fault?
  Shapesmith: (happily) Yes! You understand now.
• Speaking Like Totally Teen: Asks if it's "cool beans" that he uses the treadmill (or in his words, "run while remaining in a stationary location") in the Guardians' gym.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Can reform his body into different shapes due to his Martian physiology, which allows him to take the form of Rus Livingston and later various members of the Guardians.
• What the Hell, Hero?: He's chewed out by the Guardians of the Globe not just for lying to them, but also for trapping the real Rus Livingston behind on Mars to either be executed by the Martians or what actually happened, which was Rus being possessed by the Sequids.

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In General

• Adaptational Badass: They actually put up a fight against Omni-Man and though he wins, he ends up passing out afterward from his injuries.
• Adaptation Expansion: We actually get to see Omni-Man and the Guardians of the Globe in action with a sequence at the White House before he kills them all.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: All of them meet a lot of gruesome fates coming from Omni-Man's betrayal.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Omni-Man's fight with them is comparatively less one-sided in the adaptation. He still kills them all, but the team puts up a much better fight, managing to injure Omni-Man to the point that he's hospitalized for a short period of time following their battle.
• Dub Name Change: The Salvadoran Spanish dub renames the group as Guardianes del Globo, a literal translation.
• Expy: Of the Justice League, given most of them are expies of DC heroes.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Coming from Omni-Man alone, all of them had no idea that he was plotting against them.
• The Farmer and the Viper: They worked alongside Omni-Man to fight evil but were ultimately killed because his loyalty to Viltrum came first as he had to weaken Earth's defences for Viltrum's invasion. However, this act didn't sit well with Omni-Man as he continues to justify their deaths to himself as well as everyone else by saying he had no other choice on the matter. The resurrected Immortal of course, doesn't care and immediately chews out Omni-Man for causing his friends' deaths.
• First-Episode Twist: At the end of the first episode, they're all killed by none other than Omni-Man.
• Hero of Another Story: They all led their own lives and have their own stories, but as far as Invincible goes, this is their end.
• Idiot Ball: For a group of highly sophisticated superheroes taking on world-ending threats, their strategy against Omni-Man is anything but (looking at you, Darkwing). Though admittedly for the most part, they were caught unprepared and shocked at fighting their "friend."
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": At the end of the first episode, when Omni-Man tries to attack Immortal. Then Red Rush dies, and they realize he really is trying to kill them.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: They spent their career selflessly defending the innocent, putting criminals in jail, and doing their best to avoid collateral damage. And they are all mercilessly slaughtered by Omni-Man.
• Sacrificial Lion: They all die at the end of the first episode to reveal that this is not your typical superhero story, showing what the stakes would be if Superman could wipe out the entire Justice League in only a couple of minutes and the only ones left to protect the Earth are the Teen Titans.
• Super Team: Duh.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: They were the first, (among many) we the audience see brutally murdered by Omni-Man and were shown to be genuinely compassionate Superheroes, unlike their secretly ruthless murderer, Omni-Man.
• Too Powerful to Live:
  • While no match for Omni-man the original Guardians were easily the most powerful and competent team of superheroes on the planet who were still able to put up a decent fight against him and could have conceivably won a fight with him in better circumstances. Furthermore, Nolan is very powerful by Viltrumite standards, meaning that the Guardians likely could prevail over a more average Viltrumite warrior. Which was why he determined that he needed to take them out first before they could become a threat.
  • Their presence was also the primary deterrence against global threats and kept the tone of the story closer to that of a typical superhero story, and their sudden deaths leave the Earth in the hands of far less experienced and capable heroes who are forced to handle threats above their level, heralding the much darker direction the story will proceed to take now that they're gone.
• Two Girls to a Team: For the original team, War Woman and Green Ghost (in this adaption).
• Walking Spoiler: It's really hard to talk about them without mentioning their gruesome demise at the hands of Omni-Man.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: With the exception of the Immortal, they only appear in the first episode before they are taken out by Omni-Man.
• Willfully Weak:
  • They initially seem to be struggling against the Mauler Twins during their attack on the White House, but as soon as all the civilians and soldiers are out of the way, they're dealt with in less than a minute.
  • The show also makes it clear that the Guardians weren't "weak" as Omni-Man claims. Nolan knew this, of course, hence why his opening move was a sneak attack, but this is something that he refuses to acknowledge out of the shame of killing them. If not for Red Rush's tactical blunder, the battle would have been far more difficult for Nolan and they could have conceivably worn him down.

The Immortal (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

The Immortal

"Cecil thinks you're on our side. I'm not so sure."

Voiced By: Ross Marquand

"Maybe if you get back to training more and complain less, we can get back to saving lives."

An ancient Celtic warrior empowered by a mysterious aura, the man known today as "The Immortal" has lived through thousands of years of human history under various occupations and identities — most notably, the United States President Abraham Lincoln. In recent decades, he has revealed himself to the world as a superhero, serving as the first leader of the Guardians of the Globe.

Like the other Guardians of the Globe, the Immortal is slain by Omni-Man, but unlike the others, it's discovered that he can be resurrected. After the Mauler Twins dig up his corpse and bring him back for their own designs, he flies into a fit of rage in search of answers from Omni-Man. The Immortal is brutally murdered again in their second fight, but is later seen being hospitalized by the Global Defense Agency.

He's successfully revived in Season 2, and later takes up the mantle of leader once again after Cecil becomes fed up with the New Guardians' repeated failures under Robot's leadership.

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• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In the comics, he and Omni-Man have a mutual Hidden Disdain Reveal. In the show, he seemed to have legitimately considered Omni-Man a close ally before his betrayal and is visibly much angrier when he resurrects and faces the Viltrumite a second time. This translates into him being somewhat distrustful and stand-offish with Mark in season 2, as he admits straight to the teen's face that he's not entirely convinced that Mark isn't a hidden threat like Omni-Man was, and how he won't make the same mistakes that cost his original team their lives with him. Mark can't even refute his accusations because he too is worried about that outcome.
• Adaptational Badass: In the comics, Omni-Man easily defeated him in both their confrontations, but in the show, while the outcome is the same, he at least gets to give Nolan a determined beatdown before he loses.
• Adaptational Nice Guy:
  • Zigzagged. In the comic, he condescendingly speaks down to Bi-Plane before casually chucking him into space, whereas in the show, he immediately does it without exchanging any words with him. Regardless, he acts smug both times and he doesn't think much about just killing his villains.
  • Played straight in that in the comic, he has a Hidden Disdain Reveal about Omni-Man before being killed by him. Here, he's much less of a dick, to the point that he instead believes Omni-Man is being mind-controlled and that he would otherwise never betray them.
  • There is no indication where he was Christopher Columbus in this canon, unlike the comic's.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comics, he had incredible healing abilities that allowed him to automatically heal from even the most fatal of injuries. Here, while he can recover from fatal injuries, his body needs to be mostly intact for that to happen. He doesn't recover on his own after his death at Omni-Man's hands until the Mauler Twins dig him up and sew his head back on, and the GDA has to stitch him back together after Omni-Man bisects him in their rematch.
• All-Loving Hero: Unsurprisingly, he's this, trying to rationalize Omni-Man's violent betrayal as him being mind-controlled and wanting to non-lethally neutralize him. Sadly, it costs him and the rest of the team their lives, assuming he was holding back. Season 2 has him making it bluntly clear to Mark that he's learned from the experience and won't be making the same mistakes with him, should the teenager turn out to be a threat to Earth after all.
• Always Someone Better:
  • He's the second most powerful superhero on Earth, capable of flight, incredibly durable, super strong, and possessing regeneration abilities that can keep him fighting when others would simply collapse. They're just no match for Omni-Man, who is everything he is but better. Both times he comes at Omni-Man when the latter is at a disadvantage (the first has Omni-Man attacked by the rest of the Guardians, the second when Omni-Man is distracted trying to rescue Mark from Kaiju) and the Immortal still loses. His durability in particular is much worse, being easily impaled and decapitated by him, even if their strengths are fairly similar.
  • He later has the same dynamic with Mark. During the fight again the Sequids, Mark has to point out to him that he's faster and stronger than Immortal and should be carrying the device, which the later has to begrudgingly accept. This is even lampshaded by their specific hero name, he might be Immortal, but Mark is Invincible.
• Awesome, but Impractical: The Immortal may have Resurrective Immortality, but it requires most of his body being intact and then some, meaning that, without outside help, it's highly unlikely he's going to revive on his own.
• Back for the Dead: He's revived by the Mauler Twins and immediately goes out to stop Omni-Man only to get killed by him again. Unfortunately for Nolan, the cameras watching meant this exposed his true colors to the world far earlier than he intended. He's then brought back to life by the GDA in Season 2.
• Been There, Shaped History: Has existed since the antiquity era and has taken part in various wars during his lifetime, including being Abraham Lincoln.
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Apparently Honest Abe was an immortal Celtic warrior who survived his assassination and became a superhero.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Has a massive I going down the front of his chest. Atom Eve would show he wasn't aware of this before Omni-Man brought up that chest letters were a new thing. The Season 2 finale shows an old uniform of his that had a much more modest, yet more distinguishable I surrounded by a shield.
• Came Back Strong: He seems to become stronger with each death. In his life as Lincoln, a gunshot to the head was enough to kill him, but by the modern age he's powerful enough to survive blows that would’ve mulched a normal human. And while Omni-Man managed to kill him with just one move in their initial fight, the Immortal actually survives a few blows with him before dying again. He’s certainly not at the level of Allen, but it’s there.
• Came Back Wrong: Subverted. While it appears that there might have been something wrong with him after the Mauler twins bring him back to life with a mind control collar attached, he actually just woke up unbelievably pissed at Omni-Man's betrayal and subsequent murders of the Guardians. When he's brought back again by the GDA in Season 2, he's much calmer.
• The Comically Serious:
  • He remains completely silent when Rex starts teasing him for making a dramatic entrance and questions if he was waiting for his cue.
  • He also just bluntly states to Rex that him sleeping with Dupli-Kate is none of his business.
• Death Is Cheap: We know that he's died at least three times: first, by being shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth, second, by being beheaded by Omni-Man, and third, by being bisected by Omni-Man. However, he is called "Immortal" for a reason, as he's able to heal and come back to life. Unfortunately, it requires him to be as "whole" as humanly possible, with some outside assistance, so he can be revived.
• Defiant to the End: Justified Trope, considering his powers, but in his second encounter with Omni-Man, (mere minutes after getting revived by the Maulers) with his arsenal dry and Omni-Man’s fist through his chest, Immortal resorts to trying to gouge Nolan’s eyes out with his thumbs before dying.
• Et Tu, Brute?: After getting his guts punched out by Omni-Man, he can only quietly ask, "Why? Why?!", before receiving his coup de grâce.
• Flying Brick: His main offensive/defensive powerset. While it does allow him to actually fight Omni-Man, it sadly is a weaker version that only allows him to draw blood and cause a few bruises. Granted, when he and Omni-Man hit each other during a moment of Air Jousting (the impact of which caused an extremely destructive Kung-Fu Sonic Boom), it was Omni-Man who was sent flying.
• Good Counterpart: He is a good counterpart to Omni-Man. Both are essentially The Ageless with Flying Brick powers, but he stayed a hero (so much so that he was King Arthur and Abe Lincoln, and is heavily implied to have been the first superhero of his world), and he clearly got over whatever angst he feels regarding his immortality a long time ago. It's just a shame his strength and resilience are far below Omni-Man's.
• Good Is Not Soft: In a moment of Black Comedy, he throws one of his villains into space and jokes after the fact that it's a sure way to get rid of them permanently.
• Glass Cannon: At least in comparison to other Flying Brick heroes like Invincible and Omni-Man. While he at least close to Omni-Man in terms of strength (when not pulling his punches), he's nowhere near as durable. Both of their fights end decisively as soon as Omni-Man has the opportunity to land a solid blow, which goes right through Immortal.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: How Omni-Man defeats him the second time, another hole in his stomach and cut in half by his bare hands. Although just before that he gives Omni-Man one last parting gift before he's defeated.
• Healing Factor: His body can recover from basically any injury as long as all the parts remain attached. Even if he's cut in half or decapitated, he can recover so long as someone stitches him back together first. That said, he doesn't rapidly recover from wounds, so when he does get hurt, he can't simply walk it off.
• Historical Badass Upgrade: In his tremendously long life, he was many historical figures, one of which was Abraham Lincoln himself; Honest Abe in modern times is now a traditional costumed superhero.
• Hypocrite: He scolds Rex for not acting up to the standards of a Guardian of the Globe, but then he has sex with Dupli-Kate while at work. Rex even calls him out on this.
  Rex: You goddamn geriatric hypocrite!
• Immortality: Of The Ageless variety, having been around since antiquity, but he was still killed by Omni-Man like the rest of the Guardians. Episode 7 reveals he also has resurrective immortality, as he can be killed but given time (and a little help), he can heal and revive.
• Irony: As someone who's been around since antiquity times and has been a hero for a long as he could, he would've been a good person for Omni-Man to get perspective on being Long-Lived, given Omni-Man's reasoning for conquering Earth for the Viltrumites is because he doesn't think helping and living with humans is worth it in the long run.
• Logical Weakness: Both times, Omni-Man manages to incapacitate him by punching him through the abdomen — after all, it's hard to do anything when your guts are spilling out of you. That said, he's slightly better about handling it the second time around.
• Mayfly–December Romance: He and Dupli-Kate start pursuing a relationship in Season 2. It goes without saying that the age gap between the two is massive, to say nothing of the fact that he will long outlive her. All the same, when Kate is killed in a fight with the Lizard League, he finds himself in deep grief despite the brevity of their relationship.
  Immortal: I thought we had more time together.
• Off with His Head!: He gets his head chopped off by Omni-Man after getting his guts punched out. It later gets reattached by the Mauler Twins, enabling him to come back to life and try to get his revenge on Omni-Man.
• Pet the Dog: After confronting Mark at the beginning of season 2 and stating he doesn't trust him due to being the son of Omni-Man (who killed Immortal's friends and teammates, the original Guardians of the Globe) by episode 6 he seems to have considerably warmed up to him, giving him a slightly stilted and awkward but genuine "thank you" for helping them escape the Martian fighters and shaking hands with him as a sign of respect and gratitude.
• Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain: He can recover from normally fatal injuries, but he can't regrow his head or grow a whole new body from it, so decapitation is essentially permanent death unless someone sews him back together. In an alternate universe, an evil version of Mark went the extra mile of crushing his head after removing it to ensure he would stay dead.
• Resurrective Immortality: He can be killed, but so long as his body remains intact (or is put back together), he will eventually reanimate. The Mauler Twins wind up reviving him as part of a plan to use him against Robot (which quickly goes off the rails for them), and the first season finale implies that the GDA is trying to do it again after his second death at the hands of Omni-Man. They're successful in Season 2, and Cecil has him replace Rudy as leader of the Guardians of the Globe to improve their effectiveness.
• Revenge Before Reason: When the Mauler twins bring him back to life, he's so overcome by rage that he just straights up guns for Omni-Man without any hesitation. Not even caring that two of his most infamous foes are standing right in front of him and just tried to mind control him, nor the fact that Omni-Man and Invincible were fighting an extremely powerful Kaiju.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Literally. The second he resurrects, he is screaming in rage and doesn't stop. Once he finally finds Omni-Man again, he doesn't hesitate to immediately gun for the Viltrumite and try to beat the absolute crap out of him.
• Screaming Warrior: When he's resurrected by the Mauler Twins, the first thing he does when he remembers Omni-Man's attack is fly after him. When he does find him, Immortal ignores the giant monster and instead targets Omni-Man while screaming that they were once brothers in arms and asking (via screaming) why Omni-Man killed them all.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Immortal's role in Season 1 is mainly to set up his role as a leader of the Guardians and to get brutally murdered by Omni-Man twice. However, it's his rematch and subsequent death that throws everything off the rails for Omni-Man, as the former's caught killing the latter on live television and in front of Mark, exposing his true nature far earlier than intended.
• Superman Substitute: While not as blatant as Omni-Man, he has shades of this. Due to having Flying Brick powers and being the leader of a famous superhero team. In fact, during one of the flashbacks when the Mauler twins bring him back to life, his first superhero costume looks like a color-swapped duplicate of Superman's debut costume.
• Training from Hell: Puts the New Guardians through this to improve their effectiveness in battle, much to Rex's chagrin.
• Unstoppable Rage: Upon his resurrection, the raw fury he feels leads to him no-selling the Mauler Twins control collar, flying straight out on a warpath, and briefly allows him to overpower Omni-Man before getting killed again.
• Virtuous Character Copy: He's a heroic version of Vandal Savage with Flying Brick powers.
• Walking Spoiler: The fact that he's the only member of the original Guardians to come back from the dead is a pretty big spoiler in and of itself, especially as he's crucial to proving that Omni-Man killed the rest of the team.
• We Used to Be Friends: Immortal is erratic in his rematch against Omni-Man and demands to know why Omni-Man killed him and his friends. The Atom Eve special has them trading banter after Nolan steps in to aid the Guardians in a fight, demonstrating his newly-made red-and-white suit in the process, with the Immortal taken aback when Nolan' comments make him realise his own outfit incorporates a Chest Insignia in the shape of an "I" like Omni-Man's. In season 2, an alternate universe where Mark actually joined Omni-Man to conquer Earth showcases the outcome of a fight between him and the father-son duo, and upon beating him (to the point where his death is 99% certain) Omni-Man is shown to be quite somber in the aftermath, admitting he thought the Immortal would see sense in the Viltrumite invasion from his Long-Lived experiences, the unspoken statement being he wasn't happy at killing someone he thought of as a friend again.
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: When the Mauler Twins attempt to use a faulty control collar on him, Immortal's eyes go pinpoint before he tears the collar off. His irises mercifully go back to normal size while he screams at the Mauler Twins for Omni-Man's location, not that that helps much.

Darkwing

Darkwing

Voiced By: Lennie James

"Luckily, I don't have to be everywhere. Only where I'm needed."

A gadget-using detective and co-benefactor of the Guardians. He is loosely based on Batman.

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• Badass Normal: Compared to his superpowered teammates, he doesn't have any superpowers and relies on gadgets to keep up with them.
• Batman Parody: He's an obvious Batman knock-off — he's got the dark outfit, the wing-like cape, the preference for brooding solitude, and the use of complex gadgets to compensate for lacking powers.
• Black Dude Dies First: Averted. He's the second member of the Original Guardians of the Globe to perish in Omni-Man's assassination.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: From what little can be seen of Darkwing's physical prowess, he's capable of sweeping one thug off his feet with a low karate chop and flinging the second thug into a metal door hard enough to dent it.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: The other Guardians (besides Immortal) are depicted with normal lives, being suddenly called to action. Darkwing was already fighting some thugs when Omni-Man sent out the signal.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He tries attacking Omni-Man from above, only for him to grab Darkwing and ragdoll him, slamming him against the walls and floor with such force that his skull explodes.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: He participated in the fight at the end of Episode 1, and was killed precipitously without doing any damage to Omni-Man: turns out that even a Badass Normal is no match for someone with Super-Strength who can splatter him with one attack.
• Death by Irony: For being based on an iconic Badass Normal superhero who's known for Batman Gambits and obvious "Brain vs Brawn" strategies against superpowered foes, Darkwing dies trying to fight Omni-Man up close after flanking him.
• Demolitions Expert: His choice of weapons against superpowered foes is to fling explosive gadgets.
• Dub Name Change: The Salvadoran Spanish dub renames him to Ala Oscura, a literal translation.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • To his credit, he chooses to stay and fight with The Guardians despite being severely outmatched as the team's non-powered teammate. Depending on how you interpret Omni-Man's comments about him during the funeral, he either respected Darkwing's bravery or laughed at the tactics he used during the fight.
  • Seen earlier too, where while pinned under an APC that's slowly crushing him, he chooses to give the civilian he saved the only means of escaping. He only avoids dying thanks to Omni-Man's arrival.
• Honor Before Reason: While it's noble of Darkwing to stay and help his teammates against Omni-Man, he's still a normal human with nothing capable of subduing a Superman Substitute besides distracting him with explosives. Furthermore, Darkwing seems to have the "brilliant" idea of trying to attack Omni-Man by falling from above instead of continuing to keep his distance and support his superpowered teammates or calling the Global Defense Agency for backup.
• Irony: Omni-Man saves Darkwing's life after he nearly sacrifices himself to save a civilian woman from being crushed to death by a tank. And Darkwing repays the favor by stopping him from potentially getting damaged by rubble. Not long after, Omni-Man gives Darkwing a much more vicious death.
• Metronomic Man Mashing: Omni-Man grabs him by the ankle and slams him into the floor twice. The first slam turns his face into a bloody ruin, while the second busts apart his ribcage and splatters his brains across the floor.
• Mysterious Past: Omni-Man mentions that he was a very private person, and unlike the rest of the Guardians, we don't get to see what his life is like outside of the job.
• Oh, Crap!: He gives a surprised response upon being asked by the Immortal why he called the Guardians of the Globe to the headquarters whereas he's just as in the dark as they were.
  The Immortal: Darkwing, why did you call us here?
  Darkwing: (surprised) Me?
• Race Lift: Was a white guy in the comics, as the full Batman analogue that he is; it was his protégé, and eventual replacement, that was a black young man.
• Sky Surfing: Uses a flying board to enhance his mobility.
• The Team Normal: He's the team's only member without superpowers. Instead, he compensates with his intelligence, wealth, and gadgets.
• Too Dumb to Live: Really, it says a lot that he tries to ambush Omni-Man by straight-up falling right on top of him after flanking him with explosives.
• Your Head Asplode: Due to the Metronomic Man Mashing. The second time Omni-Man slammed him into the floor, he did it with enough force that the entire of Darkwing's head, from the jaw up, was completely obliterated, scattering his brains across the floor.

War Woman

War Woman (Holly)

"Stand down and surrender. This is your only warning."

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"I'm not worried about the shareholders. I want a spectacular year for the world."

Voiced By: Lauren Cohan

"Regardless, it's him or us."

A powerful warrior and co-benefactor of the Guardians. She is loosely based on Wonder Woman.

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• Adaptational Modesty: Her outfit is way less revealing compared to her comic book counterpart's.
• Adapted Out: The show changed her civilian life scene from the comics, which was very fanservice laden, so unless you read them you wouldn't know she was a lesbian. She was also being chased by her Dark and Troubled Past, implied to have fled from her home realm to escape her controlling mother.
• Ambiguously Brown: She's slightly darker-skinned.
• Ambiguously Gay: Her comic book counterpart is a lesbian, and her solo scene in the comics focuses on her relationship with her girlfriend. The show focuses more on her career as a businesswoman and leaves out the more risque parts of her comic debut, but whether or not this means that her sexuality is unchanged has not been confirmed, though the Atom Eve special heavily implies it based on an offhand comment she makes to the Immortal.
  Immortal: You've got a lot to learn about men.
  War Woman: No interest!
• Blood from the Mouth: She vomits up a mouthful of blood on her cape after Omni-Man snaps her neck a complete 180° around.
• Captain Ersatz: She's based on Wonder Woman, with whom she shares a general pseudo-Grecian aesthetic and her codename's initials.
  • Mixes into Composite Character as her weapon of choice (an oversized mace) is shared with that of Hawk Girl.
• Carry a Big Stick: Her main weapon of choice is a large round-headed mace. It's shown to be highly effective against superhumans, including Omni-Man.
• Died Standing Up: Downplayed. Her body reacted on reflex after Omni-Man snapped her neck, stumbling backwards and standing there for a second as if in shock. This lasted just long enough for her to puke out a mouth full of blood before her body finally realized she had been killed and collapses.
• Dies Wide Open: When Omni-Man snaps her neck, her expression is one of utter shock. Even when the GDA response team arrives, her eyes are still open.
• Dub Name Change: The Salvadoran Spanish dub renames her to Guerrera, which means "female warrior".
• Flying Brick: Her power set includes flight, super human strength, and super human durability. It's too bad that her version was weaker than Omni-Man's.
• Head Turned Backwards: After Omni-Man snaps her neck, her head remains turned a full half-turn around.
• Honest Corporate Executive: Her day job. We see her get upset that her associate is prioritizing the company's financial success over the company helping people.
• Neck Snap: Omni-Man kills her by turning her head 180 degrees.
• Pragmatic Hero: Seems to be the more pragmatically minded of the Guardians being the first to realize that if any of the Guardians hoped to survive, they needed to go full lethal against Omni-Man. It was unfortunately not enough.
• Samaritan Syndrome: As seen when she expresses sadness over something produced in her civilian job not being free for the people as intended.
• Screaming Warrior: She lets out some mighty bellows during combat.
• Super-Strength: She’s the second strongest member of the Guardians. She is strong enough to swing her mace with enough force to give Omni-Man a concussion. While she wasn't strong enough to take him down, a two handed overhead jumping strike obviously hurt him something fierce, even making his head ring. And her punches could actually stagger and bruise him and draw blood.
• Wonder Woman Wannabe: She is this world's version of Wonder Woman except she uses a mace instead of a sword and/or lasso.

Red Rush

Red Rush (Josef)

Voiced By: Michael Cudlitz

"You can't see things how I do. My perception is just as fast as I am. The briefest conversation with anyone seems like hours to me. It's agony."

A Russian speedster and the team's first responder. He is loosely based on the Flash.

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• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: To others, especially his wife, he seems to suffer this due to his powers speeding up his perception so much that time always appears to be in slow motion to him. So it seems like focusing on one thing for more than a few seconds, when to him much more time is passing. He claims that seconds feel like hours to him, but when we see the world from his perspective, time isn't slowed down by that much, so it's likely that he was exaggerating.
• Blessed with Suck: Downplayed. His superhumanly fast perception of time means it's difficult for him to interact with ordinary people, with ordinary conversations dragging on for hours. It also means his agonizing death at the hands of Omni-Man lasts much, much longer from his perspective.
• Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Subverted. He doesn't knock out or kill Omni-Man after breaking both his wrists from his Defiant to the End Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs, but it was enough to weaken the latter for the others to be able to get some hits in.
• Captain Ersatz: He's essentially the The Flash if he were Russian — same powers, same personality, same costume, and a brand-new Russian accent.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Getting his head crushed by Omni-Man is painful enough, but his Super-Reflexes only makes it more agonizing as he perceives time much slower than everyone else. His eye is squeezed out of its socket and his jaw is dislocated with a sickening pop as Omni-Man applies pressure to his skull.
• Defiant to the End: Even with his hands broken, he keeps punching Omni-Man's chest as the latter crushes his head, managing to at the very least damage Omni-Man's costume, and bruise him, in his death throes.
• Didn't Think This Through: He initially was using his powers to push and pull his teammates out of the way of Omni-Man's attacks, but then decided to try and attack Omni-Man directly, failing to consider that Omni-Man has speed on par with his own. This allows Omni-Man to grab Red Rush mid-punch and crush his skull into pulp, removing the team's best counter to Omni-Man's attacks.
• Dub Name Change: The Salvadoran Spanish dub renames him to Furia Roja, which translates as Red Fury.
• Eye Scream: His left eye slowly pops out as Omni-Man crushes his head.
• Foil: For Omni-Man in their perceptions of time relative to ordinary people and their relationships. Red Rush's speed and reflexes cause him to perceive everything moving at a crawl, which can often be agonizing, but it reinforces how much he loves his wife that he can comfortably spend so much time with her. Omni-Man's long life makes even decades feel short to him, and he uses the dissonance to claim his human wife and friends mean little to him, as their existences are brief.
• Foreshadowing: He explains that his perception level is far beyond a normal human's while he's on a date, explicitly equating a few seconds to being like a few hours. Not long after, he's forced to experience a horrible death at an agonizing rate.
• Fragile Speedster: He's fast, but as soon as Omni-Man grabs him, it's over. There's a little bit of Glass Cannon in there, too - his last-ditch pummelling left significant bruising on Nolan
• Lightning Bruiser: Horrifically averted. He is only but a lesser expy of the Flash, best shown in the fight against Omni-Man — he rushes to get teammates out of the way of attacks, which would've continued to be useful had he not decided to attack the aggressor himself. Although he does bruise Omni-Man somewhat so that it's partly why he doesn't walk away from the battle unscathed, it still comes at the cost of his and the team's lives.
• Nice Guy: From what we see of him, the show seems to demonstrate this with Josef the most, with him awkwardly apologizing to civilians he rushed out of danger, constantly doing heroics even when off duty, and lovingly telling Olga that spending time with her is wonderful even with his advanced perception.
• Odd Friendship: Seems to be implied to have had one with Debbie, his being Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! to others and her more focused an individual. He is the only Guardian referred to be first name by her and she knows and visits his house although we only see the latter, after his death leaving his wife a widow there.
• Oh, Crap!: As soon as Omni-Man manages to Punch Catch him, it was all over from there.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: His main form of attack is rapidly punching his target at Super-Speed. He first does it against the Mauler Twins. Later, he tries this against Omni-Man, and while he did manage to bruise Omni-Man, it wasn't nearly enough, and he ends up breaking his wrists. Given how durable Omni-Man is, each hit would have been a Megaton Punch against lesser foes.
• Required Secondary Powers: Red Rush has a superhumanly fast perception and enhanced durability, which enable him to run at relativistic speeds without killing himself or causing an immense amount of collateral damage. It gets brutally deconstructed in his fight with Omni-Man, as they make his death a great deal more painful than it could have been without them.
• Super-Reflexes: As part of his Required Secondary Powers, he perceives time as being much slower, causing even a brief conversation to feel like hours. Unfortunately for him, this makes his death at the hands of Omni-Man all the more agonizing.
• Super-Senses: He was able to detect a super villain attack possibly miles away from his picnic with his girlfriend, and was the first to notice Omni-Man lunging toward the Immortal.
• Super-Speed: His main ability, which he uses both to travel fast between places and to help his teammates during fights.
• Too Powerful to Live: His reflexes and speed are faster than Omni-Man's, making it nearly impossible for him to kill the Guardians with Red Rush pulling them out of danger just in time before any hits connect. So naturally it's only when he goes on the offensive that he dies and the rest of the Guardians go down like flies.
• Your Head Asplode: Omni-Man puts one hand on both sides of Red Rush's head and slowly keeps applying pressure until his head pops.

Aquarus

Aquarus

"Don't waste your time Samson! That dame's a lost cause!"

Voiced By: Ross Marquand

"Finally, some action!"

A hydrokinetic fish-man and the King Of Atlantis. He is loosely based on Aquaman.

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• Adaptational Badass: He's nothing but a gag character in the comic. Here, he's an effective superhero in his own right, not that it saves him.
• Adaptational Skimpiness: He basically wore a Leotard of Power in the comic. Here he only wears a sleeveless shirt that exposes his bottom.
• Artstyle Dissonance: Everyone else is drawn realistically, while Aquarus looks more cartoonish. Not that it makes his death any less gory or horrific.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: When Omni-Man called the Guardians of the Globe to their hideout so he could kill them, Aquarius was sitting in his home completely bored out of his mind, so he was excited to finally get some action in his day. He sure got his action, alright...
• Blood Knight: Before being called to the Guardians headquarters, he's sat at his throne and looking bored. When he's called, he hopes for "some action" and eagerly runs off. Season 2 reveals that this need for action led to him not doing that much ruling over Atlantis, with his wife instead taking the reins while he was gone.
• Captain Fishman: He's the resident Aquaman take, being the ocean-themed superhero.
• Ear Fins: small fins on either side of his head where human ears would be.
• Dub Name Change: From Aquarius to Acuario in the Salvadoran Spanish dub, a literal translation.
• Expy: He's Aquaman — the team's lone aquatic super, hydrokinetic, and native to Atlantis — as a fish-person.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: As part of Adaptational Skimpiness, in the animated adaptation, Aquarus wears only a sleeveless shirt.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Josef's talk with his girlfriend heavily implies he falls into this trope, with the former claiming he has plenty of friends under the sea, only to cut to him doing nothing with a bored expression, and visibly lighting up when his alert goes off. His wife criticizes him for being too preoccupied "playing dress-up with the humans", suggesting he valued being part of a team on the surface more than the throne.
• Making a Splash: He can attack with high-pressure beams of water.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Not only a superhero, he also appeared to be royalty under the ocean. He's seen sitting bored on a throne there before he happily receives a call to base. However in season 2 his wife reveals that he did little actual leadership in Atlantis, spending most of his time helping the surface world.
• Your Head Asplode: Omni-Man uses War Woman's mace and bashes Aquarus in the head so hard that it's reduced to mincemeat.

Martian Man

Martian Man

Voiced By: Chad L. Coleman

"You know Guardians' business is too dangerous for human children."

A kind-hearted shapeshifting exiled Martian hero. He is loosely based on Martian Manhunter.

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• Achilles' Heel: The red spot is considered his heart or core, visible when ever he shapeshifts or stretches. Omni-Man instantly kills him by ripping it out after Martian Man tried to restrain him.
• Attack Its Weak Point: Is subjected to this when Omni-Man rips out the organ that serves as his weakpoint, killing him instantly.
• Badass and Child Duo: While against bringing her to Guardian HQ when he was called away, he seemed to look out for a child in his "civilian" life.
• Bloodless Carnage: When Omni-man tears out his nucleus, he doesn't bleed. All that can be seen underneath is spongey green tissue. So, it's possible that his kind don't have blood.
• Captain Ersatz: Of the Martian Manhunter, although his powerset is much closer to that of Plastic Man. Except for the regeneration.
• Dub Name Change: From Martian Man to Marciano in the Salvadoran Spanish dub, a translation that means male Martian.
• Friend to All Children: He was friends with a young homeless girl, and in Season 2 a montage of him saving and comforting children can be seen on a television.
• Nice Guy: He's shown to be a good friend to a young homeless girl, and he's mentioned in Season 2 to have had a gentle nature and kind spirit.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Can reform his body into different shapes like the rest of his kind.

Green Ghost

Green Ghost (Alana)

^{Click here to see her as Alana} That's a wrap! Great work everyone!"

Voiced By: Sonequa Martin-Green

"Oh god, what's going on? Is it bad?"

A superheroine in a green full-body encasing with ghost-like powers. She is loosely based on Green Lantern.

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• The Baby of the Bunch: Her nervousness and general composure imply that, like her comic counterpart, she's relatively new to hero work and the Guardians team. It doesn't earn her any mercy from Omni-Man.
• The Blank: Her face is hidden by her full-body suit. Good thing, too, considering how she dies...
• Boom, Headshot!: Omni-Man stabs her in the face with his hand like a knife, with enough momentum that his fingers pierce the back of her skull.
• Bulletproof Human Shield: After having a hole punched through her skull, her dead body is used by Omni-Man to block Aquarus' water beam.
• Captain Ersatz: She’s Green Lantern in that her powers come from a green cosmic object in the form of jewellery and Kitty Pryde in terms of her combination of intangibility and flight bringing to mind Pryde’s intangibility and ability to walk on air.
• Didn't Think This Through: Turns tangible in order to catch Darkwing after Omni-Man tossed him aside. Only after seeing that Darkwing was already dead did it dawn on her that she just made herself vulnerable to attack and was unable to turn intangible again before Omni-Man put his fist through her skull.
• Dub Name Change: The Salvadoran Spanish dub renames her to Fantasma Verde, a literal translation.
• Gender Flip: She was originally a man in the comics. However, the Atom Eve special episode shows that there was a male Green Ghost on the team in the past, implying that she's a Legacy Character.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: She dies when Omni-Man impales his fist through her whole face.
• Intangibility: Her ghost-like powers make her phase through objects. But she has to activate them or else it leaves her as vulnerable as anyone else.
• Legacy Character: The Atom Eve special shows that she was not the first Green Ghost, with a man having held the mantle during the battle that had allowed Brandyworth to escape the GDA with Eve.
• The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: Unbeknownst to Debbie, who was close friends with Red Rush's wife, Olga, and presumably to the rest of the Guardians, Alana had a boyfriend. However, they experienced hardships due to this trope.
• Out of Focus:
  • Easily the Guardian with the least defined about her due to having the least screentime, with her civilian life only showing a few seconds of her being a photographer.
  • She is posthumously given a focus in "This Missive, This Machination!" via her widow Theo.
• This Is Gonna Suck: She utters a quiet little "Oh no..." as she catches Darkwing's corpse and realizes that Omni-Man is about to kill her.
• Too Powerful to Live: Downplayed in that she doesn't get to pose as much of a hindrance as Red Rush did, but her powers of intangibility that affect herself and others effectively would make Omni-Man's assault pointless. So of course when she makes herself tangible to catch her teammate, she is instantly killed before she can contribute anything of substance.

Independent Heroes

Atom Eve

Atom Eve (Samantha Eve Wilkins)

" I think I can help more people by just.. helping them y'know? I don't have to wait for some alien invasion or the Lizard League's next attack. I can irrigate deserts, stop natural disasters, bring food to the starving. You know, make a real difference."

^{Click to see her at 14 years old}
"You've ruined my life. Took everything from me. Killed people I didn't even know I loved! I am Samantha Eve Wilkins, and I DEFY you to even REMEMBER who I am!"

Voiced By: Gillian Jacobs, Aria Kane (age 7), Jazlyn Ione (age 12)

"Everyone freezes before their first time. I used to throw up before every fight, barf my guts out."

A matter/energy-manipulating superheroine; formerly of the Teen Team selected to join the new Guardians roster, but declined that offer due to not wanting to become a part of a team with Rex Splode and Dupli-Kate in it. She is Invincible's guide into the particulars of superheroes, and first-superhero friend.

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• The Ace: Her experience in professional heroism and proficiency in her matter manipulating abilities makes her the most competent member of Teen Team, being the only member aside from Invincible (who she acts as something of a low-key mentor to) to go solo, becoming much more effective on her own than the current Global Guardians.
• Adaptational Modesty: A very minor change but it’s still there, Eve in the show has the lower part of her hero costume be like sport mini-shorts, unlike in the comics where she wears a Leotard of Power; other than that her outfit is the same between the two mediums.
• Adaptation Distillation: Eve’s call for a different approach on heroism is more condensed in the show, here she is helping people and settling her makeshift house within the country; in the comic her calling was much more ambitious, and a little reckless, she wanted to go all over the world trying to help people out, focusing her efforts on Africa.
• Adaptation Personality Change:
  • Slightly so. In the beginning of the comic storyline, Eve acted more like a stereotypical girl-next-door with frequent emotional outbursts and silent longing, whereas her animated counterpart is much more mature and composed from the get-go. Case in point; after Rex cheats on her in the comics, she's extremely upset and vents her feelings to Mark, even breaking down in hysterical tears. In the show, she's still justifiably furious when she discovers the affair, but she gets over it much more quickly (though she still doesn't forgive Rex).
  • Eve’s early childhood, up to when she is 7 years old, is portrayed differently in the show; Eve growing in a world where she can see atoms is shown as Eve being akin to a neurodivergent child, with several traits such as hyper fixation in one subject, in her case physics, difficulty to express herself and alienation from others around her. In the comics Eve was more expressive as a 7 year old, and showed no similar traits to neurodivergent children; however, in her early teenager years the show and comic converge, Eve starts to be more expressive, no longer showing neurodivergent traits.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: The important figures in Eve's past, her birth mother Polly and benefactor / surrogate father Dr. Brandyworth's relationship is portrayed a little different in the show. Originally in the comics, Brandyworth saw himself as Eve's father as he actually grew to love Polly as a woman, wanting the best for Eve because he saw her as the result of his love for Polly despite not being her birth father. In the show Brandyworth's care for Polly is portrayed more ambiguously, potentially as a father's love due their age gap, and his focus in granting Eve a normal life is more in honor of Polly's final wishes. Brandyworth never calls himself Eve's father in the show, with his care towards her being purely out of good intentions towards a kid he just wishes well for. Eve also doesn't call him "daddy" like she did in the comics when she starts opening herself to Brandyworth; however, the scene in which Eve changed her current family photo to a happy potential version of her first family remains the same in the show: Eve framing Polly and Brandyworth as her parents, along with her siblings.
• Adapted Out: One sad factor in the tragedy to her backstory was removed in the show; in the comic, when Eve first bypassed her mental lock regarding manipulating living matter upon being seeing both her biological mother, and surrogate father, die to punish the ones who did that she focuses all she could do at that moment to rewrite their memories so she is never threatened by the government again, immediately after Eve came to her senses and deeply regrets not using the full extent of her powers to try and revive her first family. The show omitted Eve pondering that missed possibility, and the weight it had on her mind, focusing solely on Eve feeling terrible over losing the people she could never get to know beforehand.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: On her 14th birthday, she discovers the truth of her origins, is forced to fight the "siblings" she never knew she had, has to watch them die, is kidnapped by the military, has her biological mother and the closest thing she had to a true father die in her arms, her powers fully awaken, and finally has to go home to her adoptive parents, in which her abusive father chews her out and tells her that they're the only "family" she has left. Ouch…
• Breakout Character: Atom Eve was always a well received character, but since the existence of the cartoon, she gained a lot popularity, enough to earn Eve her own visual novel RPG game for phones, and her own episode that aired between season 1 and season 2.
• Clark Kenting: Takes advantage and acknowledges this trope, saying it's simply a case of psychology. This gets hilariously invoked in the Season 1 finale where after telling Amber and William that she is also a superhero, they confused Eve for being Dupli-Kate.
• The Confidant: To Mark. Whenever he faces a problem or has an existential crisis, he always goes to Eve to pour out his thoughts. On her turn, Eve is a good listener and always gives Mark sound advices about what he should do further, like encouraging him to prove Cecil that he is not like his father in Season 2.
• A Day in the Limelight: Ahead of Season 2, Eve received her own one-hour special which explores the origins of both her powers and career as a superhero.
• Dub Name Change: The Salvadoran Spanish dub renames her Evatómica, a literal translation. Her real name is also changed from Eve to Eva, for the sake of the pun.
• Fiery Redhead: Downplayed; she has red hair and a bit of a temper, but she controls it very well and doesn't let it get the better of her most of the time.
• Girly Bruiser: She designed her own conspicuously pink costume and isn't afraid of indulging in traditionally girly pastimes, but she is also arguably the most competent hero of her own generation, the versatility of her Transmutation powers and experience giving her a much better track-record compared to her teammates.
• Good Feels Good: After striking out on her own, Eve is shown doing a bunch of humanitarian efforts, such as stopping natural disasters and helping crops grow. She returns home thoroughly exhausted but more happy than she has ever been just punching villains of the week.
• Imagination-Based Superpower: She can transmute virtually anything she wishes out of thin air, such as filling an entire fridge with food or creating a park out of an empty lot, complete with working fountain. The only limit is her endurance.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She's clearly upset to see Mark kissing Amber in "Who You Calling Ugly?", but she smiles as she flies away and says "Good for you, Mark" in a sincere tone. "That Actually Hurt" shows her being friendly towards Amber, harboring no jealousy and encouraging her to stay with Mark.
• Love Triangle: She develops an interest in Mark after Rex cheated on her, but unfortunately he's already in a relationship with Amber.
• Mage Born of Muggles: Eve's mother was just a normal homeless woman who accepted to be experimented on by Pentagon's Department of Superhuman Research in exchange for a roof over her head and a better future for her unborn child. Their experiments consisted of altering the amniotic fluid in her womb to trigger mutations to her unborn child, which happens. Eve is born with Transmutation powers, but the whole process kills Polly in the end, her body not being capable to survive the experiments.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Eve is horrified when the park she constructed collapsed into a sinkhole and hospitalized people, including a mother and daughter who looked up to her, all because she made the park on unstable ground. Adam proceeds to rub salt in the wounds by telling her that her powers make her dangerous.
• Necessary Drawback: Atom Eve's powers at first appear to be nothing but basic energy constructs and blasts, but she eventually reveals that her true power is Transmutation. She usually limits herself to constructs because more complex matter manipulation wears on her body and can even exhaust her. A day of using her powers to avert natural disasters and perform similar feats left her quite worn out by the end of the day, though she felt it was worth it because of how much more good she did. She also cannot manipulate the matter of living beings like humans. The Atom Eve special reveals that she normally could control even the matter of living beings, but is kept from doing so by a subconscious mental block.
• Nice Girl: While a bit high-strung, she's a good friend to Mark, Amber and a few others. She greatly appreciates them and tries her best to help them out.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She unknowingly constructs a park above unstable land that would later collapse due to a sinkhole. Although nobody died, many were injured, including a mother-daughter duo who looked up to her. This incident combined with how her dad delivered it in the worst way possible deeply rattled her.
• Pink Means Feminine: Her costume which, as she explains to Dr. Seismic when he critiques it as being forced on her by "The Man", was designed by Eve herself.
• Power Limiter: While she theoretically has the ability to alter living matter as well, her Origins Episode reveals that she normally has a subconscious block in place preventing her from doing so. She manages to break this at the end of the episode, but only uses her newfound power to erase her enemies' memories so they wouldn't come after her.
• Prone to Vomiting: She admits that back in her rookie days, she would Stress Vomit "Like a fire-hydrant" before every mission.
• Required Secondary Powers: Eve's powers allow her to instinctively understand the structure and behavior of matter, aiding her ability to simply think up whatever change she wants to make and implement it without the structure breaking down.
• Small Steps Hero: She decides to start using her powers to stop environmental crises like drought, wildfires, rockslides, etc., rather than fighting villains.
• Squishy Wizard: While she wields enormous, virtual Reality Warper power thanks to her ability to control matter and energy, she isn't much tougher than a normal human.
• Stay in the Kitchen: On the receiving end of this from her own parents. "That Actually Hurt" reveals her parents were only okay with her being a hero as long as she was on a team with her boyfriend. Finding out she is now independent freaks them out because as they say, Rex isn't around to protect her, which is pretty laughable given Eve is a lot more powerful than him. Her father outright says she shouldn't be a hero at all, and a couple times has to stop himself from saying misogynistic stuff including almost telling his daughter "to stop acting like a bitch."
• Switched at Birth: She’s not the Wilkins' biological daughter. Their biological child died during birth and was switched with Eve by Brandyworth to hide her from the government.
• Transmutation: The true scope of her abilities. During a tense argument with her parents over her break-up with Rex, Eve lashes out when her father says she can’t do anything alone, including this hero business, rebuking it by saying she can, in fact, do everything, and that is shaping matter to her will like Firestorm as she manipulates the room they are in by warping its size, then leaves the house through a door she created. Her special later explains that, as her atom theming suggests, she can warp and move atoms within objects to completely change their structure, composition and material, as well as being able to see things down to the molecular level as an aid.

Damien Darkblood

Damien Darkblood

"Demons know evil when they see it."

Voiced By: Clancy Brown

"Escape from Hell, seek justice for others to save my own soul."

A demon detective who escaped Hell and works to bring justice for others to prolong his stay on Earth by whatever margin. A sudden cold in the ambient temperature precedes his presence.

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• Adaptational Intelligence: The comic version was more of a joke, as it took him forever to realize Omni-Man killed the Guardians of the Globe long after the truth about Omni-Man was revealed. Here he's suspicious of Omni-Man from the get-go and, by episode 4, he has figured out that Omni-Man is the culprit.
• Achilles' Heel: The Ghostly Chill that gives away his presence means any attempts at stealth will always fail.
• Ambiguous Situation: He never clarifies if he's actually invested in getting justice for those murdered because he genuinely wants to do good, or if he simply is that invested in saving his own soul from Hell.
• Armor-Piercing Response: Aside from standing firm against threats from Omni-Man, he correctly points out that others are already becoming suspicious over how the Guardians died and that stopping one investigation will hardly maintain that secret forever.
• The Atoner: Damien earns a longer reprieve from Hell by solving cases and achieving justice for the dead, with the hopes of eventually saving his own soul. Though it remains ambiguous if he's merely doing this out of self-interest or if he has a genuine desire for penance and regrets whatever deeds damned him.
• Blood Magic: Cecil calls it "demon magic" but admits he doesn't know a lot. One of his powers is to see the aftermath of the Guardians' death. It’s also what helps him determine only them and Omni-Man were present at the scene, meaning one of them had to be the killer.
• Boxed Crook: Played With. Damien Darkblood apparently escaped Hell somehow and, according to Omni-Man, Damien gets a few years' reprieve for every case he solves and sees justice done.
• Captain Ersatz: Of Hellboy (and to a lesser extent John Constantine).
  • Of Rorschach. He wears the same fedora and trench coat, speaks in the same semi-pidgin English, makes a similar "Hurm" noise, lacks social and greaces, relentlessly pursues a "cape-killer".
• Cassandra Truth: He outright tells Cecil that the only people at the scene of the Guardian's murder was the team and Omni-Man, heavily implying he had something to do with it. The GDA Director outright tells the demon, if he tells his "idiotic thoughts" to anyone, Cecil will send the demon to Hell himself which he does the next episode. Somewhat justified as Cecil points out that there are literally hundreds of supervillains that wanted the Guardians dead and don't leave a trace. Furthermore, it's revealed that he actually does believe Darkblood, he just wants to learn more about the case rather than tipping off Nolan.
• Complete Immortality: Seeing how Damien's a demon who escaped Hell and gets a few years reprieve for cases he solves, it's very likely that he can't truly die. Which would explain his being unphased by Nolan in the slightest.
• Conspicuous Trenchcoat: He wears a trench coat and fedora making him out to be a demonic detective straight out a Film Noir Detective story.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He's a demon who works a detective. Admittedly, it is suggested his reasons for doing heroic deeds aren't completely altruistic.
• Darknessvon Gothick Name: His name is Damien Darkblood and combined with his appearance as a demon detective really makes him as dark as the people he investigates.
• Defiant to the End: As Cecil has him Dragged Off to Hell, Damien tells Cecil that he'd say he'll see Cecil there, but he expects Cecil to end up someplace worse.
• Didn't Think This Through: As Cecil points out, he's needlessly antagonizing the most powerful man on the planet without any seeming way of dealing with him afterwards. Cecil puts a stop to him before his actions cause more harm than good.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Played with. Damien constantly and blatantly pushes accusations at Nolan, not bothering to hide the fact he suspects him, and even taunting him with the fact that Nolan can't do much to him on account of being a demon and therefore death is not a serious threat. But it's ultimately Cecil who sends Damien to Hell, purely because he refuses to stop antagonizing the most powerful man on the planet and the former wants to be as prepared as possible before the inevitable happens.
• Dragged Off to Hell: He gets exorcised back to Hell in episode 4.
• Dub Name Change: The Salvadoran Spanish dub renames him as Damian Sangre Oscura, a literal translation although with three names rather than two.
• Fate Worse than Death: He gets sent back to Hell in episode 4, which Donald thinks is worse than death.
• Frame-Up: Omni-Man frames him for the murder of the original Guardians. Cecil doesn't believe it and knows Omni-Man is the real killer, but because he can't risk Omni-Man being antagonized and going on a rampage, he banishes Damien back to Hell to stop his investigation.
• Ghostly Chill: The temperature drops whenever he appears with people suddenly being able to see their breath. It's how Cecil knows he's there and how Omni-Man comes to suspect the demon was in the hero's house.
• He Knows Too Much: Subverted. Cecil doesn't send him back to Hell because Damien knows Omni-Man killed the Guardians, it's because Damien won't stop antagonizing the most powerful being on the planet before Cecil has a chance to find out why he killed the Guardians and how to stop him if he ends up going on a rampage.
• Honor Before Reason: He wants justice to be served for the murder of the Guardians, except he's trying to piss off the most powerful man on the planet who could go on a killing spree (and eventually does anyway) if directly confronted. And the demon himself lacking any means to bring Omni-Man to justice either. As Cecil painfully spells it for him — he as a demon is unable to see reality is more complex than black and white. The GDA needs to keep "things grey" for as long as possible until they can find out what Nolan's motives really are.
• Irony: Cecil tells him the situation behind Omni-Man's reasoning can't be as black and white as a demon's reasoning would lead Damien to believe. It turns out that Omni-Man's situation is just as black as black can be: a conqueror, undercover for a race of conquerors, gaslighting and viewing everyone else as beneath him (to the point that the woman he supposedly loves and married is a "pet"). He's able and willing to be violent and massacre populations worth of people just to prove a painful point to his son. The benefit of Cecil banishing Darkblood to keep Omni-Man from going on a killing spree is also short-lived in the long run, as he goes on a killing spree anyway with the government relying on their last resort of Mark being the thing that drives Nolan away working out, and not necessarily in the way that they thought.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He figures out that Omni-Man murdered the Guardians as part of the role of the "Demon Detective"...only for Cecil to use a reconstructed spell to send him back to Hell where he can't do anything about it.
• No Social Skills:
  • He admits that human nuances are lost on him, appearing in the Grayson's home uninvited and frightening Debbie, before more or less telling her Omni-Man's story doesn't make sense.
  • His speech pattern is also often direct and blunt, speaking with a sort of pidgin reminiscent of Rorschach.
• Our Demons Are Different: It's mentioned that he has a soul and can save it by seeking justice for others after escaping Hell.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Damien is exorcised back to Hell by Donald and Cecil in Episode 4, in order to not interfere with the latter's plans.
• See You in Hell: Defied. As he's being dragged off to Hell, he expresses he would say this phrase to Cecil, but implies that Cecil is evil enough that he's not going to the same Hell as Damien when he dies.
• Tall Poppy Syndrome: He very quickly figures out the culprit. He then makes it known to said culprit, a superpowered alien, that he knows. Cecil sends him back to hell before he can antagonize Nolan to the point of action so that the GDA can think of a way to stop him once he does attack on his own.
• Terse Talker: Talks in shorthand. Straight to point. Not used to intricacies of human language.
• Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object: Cecil describes a confrontation between Omni-Man and Darkblood to go something like this, likely because of the latter's supposed immortality making it impossible for even a super-powerful Viltrumite to kill him.
• With Catlike Tread: A variant. He can be as silent and unseen as he likes, but, given that the immediate area around him has its temperature drop far enough to make people see their breath, it's a clear hint that he's around and will be caught soon.

Night Boy

Night Boy/Darkwing II

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Voiced By: Cleveland Berto

"I'm not going ANYWHERE with the son of a psychopath."

Darkwing's former sidekick who possesses the power to teleport through shadows and takes up his mentor's mantle. Unfortunately, he's also gone a little nuts.

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• Ax-Crazy: His experiences in the Shadowverse have left him a vicious and brutal man who kills criminals without hesitation or remorse because the voices in his head tell him to.
• Caught Monologuing: Had he not decide to give Mark a speech and simply stranded him inside the Shadow Verse, he would have weakened Mark significantly or downright killed him. Mark decides to, in kind, show him the error of his way by forcing him to release them both, less they both get eaten by the creatures in the Shadow Verse.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of Robin-style sidekicks in superhero fiction, as he's grown up maladjusted and unhinged thanks to his being a sidekick, and becomes a violent Inadequate Inheritor to his mentor.
• Empowered Badass Normal: His costume includes an experimental exoskeleton that enhances his already impressive strength and speed. It was intended to help the original Darkwing be able to fight toe-to-toe with superpowered enemies. Unfortunately for Night Boy, it's not strong enough to really hurt Viltrumites and Mark is only mildly pained by his blows.
• Expy: Of Robin from Batman, specifically the Jason Todd version.
• Hearing Voices: When Mark talks to Cecil on his headpiece, Night Boy asks him if he hears the voices too. Mark and Cecil take it as simple psychosis, but the fact that he lives in a cursed city and is connected to a dangerous shadow dimension raises the possibility that there's more to it.
• Hypocritical Humor: He calls Omni-Man a psychopath, which is accurate, but also pretty rich coming from him.
• Inadequate Inheritor: To Darkwing, having broken his mentor's code against killing and become a murderous vigilante and madman who terrorizes Midnight City.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: He seems himself as superior to other superheroes for his ruthless vigilante tactics, but is also rather embarrassingly insecure about being called a sidekick (which is what he was). He generally carries an air of "trying too hard to seem cool".
• Insistent Terminology: He was not Darkwing's sidekick, he was an assistant. The voices tell him that "sidekick" is demeaning.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: He tries to strand Invincible in the Shadowverse, but Mark manages to grab ahold of him and declares he won't let go unless Night Boy returns them to the normal world. Faced with the prospect of staying too long in the Shadowverse and being eaten by the monster that inhabits it, Night Boy opens a portal for them. He does try to attack Invincible right after, but Mark swiftly chops him unconscious.
• Legacy Character: He tries to take up Darkwing's mantle after his death. It doesn't go well, mostly because Night Boy is a total lunatic.
• Misplaced Retribution: Seeks to punish Mark for his father's actions.
• Sanity Slippage: His mind is… not all there anymore. He admits to hearing disembodied voices and has developed an extremely paranoid, violent view of life. It's implied a mixture of a harsh upbringing as a sidekick, the sudden death of his mentor, and time spent in the Shadowverse has taken a toll on his sanity.
• Shadow Walker: Has the power to move through shadows.
• Taking Up the Mantle: Became the new Darkwing after the previous one's death. Not that it's really going well…
• Vigilante Man: By the time Invincible faces him, he's become a murderous vigilante who just savagely kills any criminal he encounters.

The Man With The Invincible Gun (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Space Racer

An alien superhero with an invincible raygun and hoverbike who defended the universe against the Viltrumite Empire and other cosmic threats until he was sealed away by Nolan.

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• The Ace: The Viltrumite Empire had to seal him away because he was one of their most dangerous enemies.
• Cool Bike: He flies through space on a flying motorcycle.
• Healing Factor: As long as he's in contact with his gun, he's functionally invincible himself and if he ever gets injured, all he has to do is touch the gun and he'll be restored.
• Living Legend: According to Allen, he's a legend throughout the universe... in the sense that nobody actually knows if he's even real or not. His presence among Nolan's books implies that he very much is real however.
• Nerves of Steel: According to Nolan's accounts, this is a requirement to use his gun properly. Considering it evidently has enough power to detonate stars it's rather understandable.
• Ray Gun: His signature weapon and the source of his immortality. It's powerful enough to one-shot Viltrumites.
• Sealed Good in a Can: Nolan sealed him away years ago to remove a major threat to the Empire.

Alternate Universes

Atom Eve # 646

Atom Eve (Samantha Eve Wilkins)

Voiced By: Gillian Jacobs

The Atom Eve from a reality where Invincible sided with Omni-Man.

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• Boyish Short Hair: Unlike the main universe's Atom Eve, this one has a buzz cut, showing she's a lot more hardened.
• Civvie Spandex: She wears a black hoodie and jeans over her superhero suit.
• Cruel Mercy: What Mark does to her. Rather than killing her like everyone else who resists against the Viltrum Empire, he instead crushes part of her neck, paralyzing her from the neck down and leaving her completely unable to do anything as Mark and his father continue their plans on conquering Earth for the empire.
• Defiant to the End: She refuses to surrender to Invincible. Unfortunately, he doesn't give her a choice and submits her to a Fate Worse than Death.
• Fate Worse than Death: She is paralyzed from the neck down by Mark, so he can keep her alive and visit her, treating her like a pet.

Robot # 646

Robot (Rudolph Connors)

Voiced By: Zachary Quinto

The Robot from a reality where Invincible sided with Omni-Man.

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• Not Afraid to Die: With his life support destroyed he just calmly tells Omni-Man that he too will die.
• Defiant to the End: See Not Afraid to Die. Not once does he lose his composure even in his final moments.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Killed off by Omni-Man shortly after he's introduced.

Agent Spider

Agent Spider

Voiced By: Josh Keaton

A superhero Mark encounters while tumbling through the multiverse, with a very familiar theme.

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• Alternate Self: He's very heavily implied to be a multiversal variant of Spider-Man, given his Seen It All attitude regarding Mark's sudden appearance and knowledge of the multiverse (especially in recent times).
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Much like his inspiration, he's seemingly got all the powers of a spider.
• Casting Gag: His voice actor, Josh Keaton, is well known for having voiced one of the most fondly remembered iterations of Spider-Man. This is also hardly the first time he's voiced a Spider Man Sendup.
• Deadpan Snarker: Befitting the Spider-Man parody, he's got a very snarky sense of humor and takes some amusement from Mark's confusion at what's happening.
• Genre Savvy: He immediately recognizes Mark as a Dimensional Traveler and tries to preemptively make clear who's the hero (him) and who's the villain (Professor Octopus) in the situation Mark just fell into to avoid a Let's You and Him Fight situation.
• Hero of Another Story: Mark meets Agent Spider when he is fighting his enemy Prof Ock and their conversation reveals that he's already familiar with The Multiverse and recognizes that Invincible is a Dimensional Traveler.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Played for Laughs. Mark has zero context for what's happening when he shows up in Agent Spider's world, so he briefly thinks that Spider is just beating the crap out of some old man for no reason rather than fighting a supervillain.
• Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: In the comics, Mark was sent to the Marvel Universe and an issue of Marvel Team-Up had him work with Spider-Man. Since this couldn't happen for legal reasons, Agent Spider was created as a stand-in for Spider-Man.
• No Name Given: He's only known as "Agent Spider". Though given that he's an obvious stand-in of the original webhead and a possible multiversal variant, it's possible that his real name is "Peter Parker".
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Mark points out to Agent Spider during their encounter that his red goggles don't do him any favors in making him look heroic.
• Seen It All: He's totally unmoved by Mark warping into his universe; he's been a superhero long enough that these sorts of situations don't really surprise him anymore, and has apparently had some recent adventures with interdimensional travel in particular.
• Shout-Out: He mentions that he's got experience with alternate universes, especially lately. This is a reference to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which came out a year earlier and also featured Keaton, and how the multiverse has become a popular concept in Spider-Man comics in recent years.
• Spider-Man Send-Up: He's a spider-themed hero who can wall crawl and swing on webs, and even has an octopus-themed villain. Mark pointing out he has red eyes and was fighting an old man also brings to mind Spidey's famous Hero with Bad Publicity status. Notably, his appearance is actually a direct substitute for the real Spider-Man's appearance in the original comic.
• Virtuous Character Copy: Specifically, he's one to Black Spider of Young Justice (2010), where the latter is ironically a more obviously Corrupted Character Copy of Spider-Man.

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