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    Steffi Frohlich/Blitz 

Steffi Frohlich

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Steffi Frohlich/Blitz
The main character of Kiwi Blitz, a 14 year old girl who decides to become a superhero out of boredom, at least at first. She pilots the Kiwibot, a mecha designed for robot arena combat, and she is also trained in taekwondo (though not to the extent as her friend Ben). She is very enthusiastic and excitable, and has a habit of rushing into danger, but actually thinks things through better than her allies give her credit for.
  • Allergic to Routine: Ben points out she'd be better at Tae Kwan Do if she hadn't quit taking lessons.
  • Ambiguously Bi: Steffi definitely likes guys, given how she eventually starts dating Ben, but Ben had assumed that she wasn't into guys, and the main issue she has with Chandra's crush on her is the fact that Chandra is eleven, not that she's a girl.
  • An Arm and a Leg: She lost her left leg protecting her father from an assassin.
  • Artificial Limbs: Has a prosthetic leg due to an injury she suffered in early childhood jumping in front of a bullet aimed at her dad.
  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: She has the attention span of a gnat.
  • Badass Adorable: She's trained in taekwando, and a seasoned veteran of mech combat.
  • Bilingual Bonus: Fluent in German and English (English is her second language).
  • Blood Knight: A rather mild example. She participates in public mecha battles even before she became a superhero and clearly enjoys fighting, but she never tries to actually hurt or kill anyone.
  • Clark Kenting: Averted - her distinctive hairstyle, connections to her father's mecha corporation, and a superhero identity composed of dozens of gratuitous German references (she wears a pickelhaube, for goodness' sake) leave the media and Chief Bahia easily guessing her identity.
  • Enemy Mine: With Cho and Tigris against Alter, although in the latter's case they are basically just mutually exploiting each other.
  • Experienced Protagonist: Martial arts training and mech fighting come in handy when you're a wannabe vigilante.
  • Funetik Aksent: Steffi had a pronounced German accent as a little girl as shown in flashbacks.
  • Genki Girl: When presented with a new mech for her birthday, immediately decides to fight crime in it, and throughout the story seems to dive into situations with relish when she should really be thinking about them. She seems to get the trait from her father, who also exhibits some rather fun-loving tendencies.
  • Genre Savvy: One of her greatest assets is her ability to exploit animesque tropes.
  • Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Her hair is naturally blonde, and she enjoys helping people as a superhero.
  • Headphones Equal Isolation: Inverted. Her gift of headphones to Benzene for his birthday wound up helping save her life from Gear as Benzene did a last second save. In addition, the constant stream of noise coming from her own headphones reminds her that she's alive after her Near-Death Experience.
  • Heroic BSoD: She does not take letting her father and one of her closest friends get kidnapped very well.
  • Hidden Depths: At first Steffi seems to have chosen to become a super hero just for fun. But in her conversation with Reed after he loses his arm she shows that deep down she really does care about justice and has a great deal of respect for the police, despite being a vigilante herself.
  • Hypocritical Humor: She keeps calling the members of Alter "furries" and acts like it's horrific, but besides being a kiwi-bird themed superhero, Ben notes that she seems a little too into picking a cool costume when planning on infiltrating the bar to catch Natrix for someone who mocks furries.
  • Idiot Hero: A downplayed example in that she's not stupid... just reckless, emotionally immature, headstrong, and prone to acting before she really thinks about what she's doing.
  • I Know Kung Fu: Tae Kwan Do, to be exact.
  • Inelegant Blubbering: Exhibits this here, after finding out the security guard whose death she felt responsible for hadn't actually died.
  • It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Says this word for word after explaining her story to Chief Bahia and Cho.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Steffi can be a real jerk sometimes. Like when she needles Tigris into telling her backstory and then refuses to pay attention to it.
  • Jumped at the Call: After robot combat became too boring.
  • Kick Chick: Prefers kicks to punches, and even lampshades it as part of her "kiwi" motif.
  • Mistaken for Gay: When Steffi asks Ben if he likes her, he admits he thought she was gay. Steffi is not pleased. Ben's line was later edited to say he thought she "[wasn't] really into guys".
  • Missing Mom: She went back to Germany and Steffi deliberately avoids contact with her. This is because she hired the gunman who blew off Steffi's leg trying to kill her dad.
  • No Poker Face: According to Ben
  • Nothing Is Scarier: Blitz has always worn headphones since she lost her leg. She thought she had died instantly, but as she was fainting from blood loss she found the music in her headphones to be a reassurance that she was still alive.
  • Relationship Upgrade: At the end of Track 14, she becomes Benzene's girlfriend.
  • Rose-Haired Sweetie: Dyes her blond hair pink to avoid looking like her mother.
  • Secret Identity: As Blitz... though the secret part is more of a "secret".
  • Security Blanket: Her headphones. She hasn't taken them off since losing her leg, because the sound of her music was proof that she hadn't died yet. She goes nearly catatonic after she gets temporary hearing loss from an explosion during her fight with Gear.
  • Stepford Smiler: To a degree. There are moments, particularly after an explosion courtesy of Gear gives her temporary hearing loss and when she reveals to Benzene that her mother hired a hitman to kill her father, where her flighty, cheerful demeanor drops, revealing a girl with a lot more baggage under the surface.
  • Super Hero: She dresses up in a kiwi costume and fights crime in her Humongous Mecha.
  • Super Heroes Wear Capes: She pretty much insisted on one.
  • Taking the Bullet: When she was five, she took a bullet for her father which severed her left leg.

    Benzene Contracter 
Steffi's childhood friend and unofficial sidekick. A pretty serious boy and fan of all things military. Pretty skilled at taekwondo and good with computers. He is pretty regularly exasperated by Steffi's actions and seems to have taken it upon himself to keep her out of trouble.
  • Badass Normal: Took down Gear on his own with nothing but his martial arts skills, and did it with one move.
  • Badass in a Nice Suit: What he was wearing when he fought Gear, due to having just come from his birthday party. He took the jacket off though.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Has no problem carrying (or using) a handgun he took from an Alter mook early in the comic. Doesn't hesitate to shoot Gear in the back.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Deals with Steffi's antics through endless sarcasm.
    Steffi: It'll be awesome! I'd be just like Iron Man!
    Ben: Sure, if Iron Man is both stupid and dead.
  • Enemy Mine: With Cho and Tigris against Alter, although in the latter's case they are basically just mutually exploiting each other.
  • Hypercompetent Sidekick: Ben is the one who feeds Steffi tactical info, is generally portrayed as smarter, and is a better fighter than her hand to hand. But he sticks to the sidelines for the most part since he doesn't entirely approve of Steffi's actions.
  • Mission Control: He takes this role for Steffi for the first few Tracks, but later takes to the field himself.
  • Not So Above It All: He eventually admits that he enjoys superheroing just as much as Steffi does.
  • Only Sane Man: It typically falls to him to keep Steffi's antics in check.
  • Parental Obliviousness: Benzene has just been caught by his parents, sneaking back in after being out all night backing up Steffi/Blitz. They are apparently concerned about him “sneaking out to see his girlfriend” but seem completely unaware that, if the plot makes any sense, he owns at least one (probably unlicensed) handgun and has shot at least one person with it, for no legitimate reason.
  • Relationship Upgrade: At the end of Track 14, he becomes Steffi's boyfriend.
  • Secret Identity: As Donner.
  • Sure, Let's Go with That: At one point, when he is trying to get Steffi alone so they can discuss telling her mother about recent events, Cho mistakenly assumes that they are having some boyfriend-girlfriend time. Ben makes no effort to correct her.
  • Tranquillizer Dart: Gets an experimental tranq gun from Cho for the raid on Alter.

     42 
A Japanese robot sent piece-by-piece to Steffi's father from his roboticist friend in order to avoid anti-robot laws. Since she was just sitting around the house Steffi press-ganged her into helping out with the super heroics.

  • Art Evolution: Once she becomes fully Sapient she's drawn like the rest of the cast. Her face actually moves.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: At the end of Track 17, Barkley hacks her and turns her against the heroes.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Programmed to be nonviolent, she uses holograms and mind games to survive in a fight, as seen when she goes up against her "sister", 39.
  • Deceptively Human Robot: She's designed to look and act human to put people at ease, but Word of God makes it clear that she is not actually self-aware, just really well programmed. After her reconfiguration, she seems to have moved into true sapience.
  • Face–Heel Turn: Is reprogrammed by Private Barkley to serve Alter at the end of Track 17.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Late in Track 25, the heroes manage to undo Barkley's hacking and get her back on their side.
  • Hollywood Hacking: She is very proficient in this. She also falls victim to it in Track 17.
  • Loophole Abuse: Turns out Barkley couldn't actually hack her core AI, he just subverted some key external subroutines. He's still trying, she's still fighting.
  • Made of Iron: Bullets don't scratch her and she is even able to tank one of Taurus' punches.
  • Off with His Head!: Done in a non-canon art piece. Ben and her wrapped her own head in a Christmas present as a prank on Steffi.
  • Perpetual Smiler: Does not have the ability to frown, not even when she's burying her sister "alive".
  • Robot Girl: A very creepy example.
  • Save the Villain: Pushes Jones out of the way when Ben is forced to shoot her. Bonus points for doing so by kicking her in the face.
  • Stealth Hi/Bye: Tends to just show up behind people without warning, almost as if she was designed to give them the creeps.
  • Stepford Smiler: Her smile is permanently built in but has no significance.
  • Uncanny Valley: Explicitly mentioned in-universe on several occasions. For example she only blinks once every 10 seconds on the dot, and she just opens her mouth to talk due to the speaker in it.
    • Loses this when she becomes fully sapient after her reconfiguration. Most likely because she properly understand emotions and has a subconscious.
  • You Are Number 6: Her name is simply the number 42.

    Heinrich Frohlich 
Steffi's father and owner of the Mecha Machen design and manufacturing company. Kickstarts the plot by giving Steffi the Kiwibot on her 14th birthday. Fully supports his daughter's decision to become a superhero, until she gets herself into actual danger that is. Not a particularly responsible father.

    Francis Freeman 
The rather quiet assistant to the Frolich household.
  • Alliterative Name: Francis Freeman.
  • Ascended Extra: She started out as a nameless prop before getting some characterization late in Track 22.
  • Beware the Quiet Ones: Late in Track 22, the insanity Steffi gets up to finally pushes her too far, and she snaps and goes on a tirade. During the sound bite at the end of the chapter, she internally threatens to kill Steffi if she gets Heinrich killed due to her recklessness.
  • Cannot Spit It Out: She's crushing bad on Heinrich, but cannot express her feelings.
  • The Generic Guy: In her own words: "I'm the kind of person who's never stood out from the crowd."
  • No Name Given: She was just a nameless assistant all the way until Track 22.
  • The Quiet One: She doesn't really talk much.

The Cops

    Reed Bahia 
A policeman in the NYPD, the son of the current Police Chief. Out of all the police shown he is the only one who seems to really want to stand up to the various supercriminals running around causing trouble, and he is always quick to point out that while Steffi is a vigilante, it's the people she's fighting against who are the real villains. Serves as Steffi's one and only ally in the police.

    Chief Bahia 
A seasoned NYPD veteran, the chief of police and father of Reed. He does not approve of Blitz's antics.
  • By-the-Book Cop: But not at the expense of the big picture, as he tells Steffi that arresting her wouldn't be worth the effort of processing her when he has bigger fish to fry.
  • The Commissioner Gordon: Downplayed - he does not approve of Blitz, but during the ambush in Track 17 he works with her with little complaint.
  • Cool Old Guy: Proves to be extremely hard to kill during Track 17.
  • Da Chief: He's the chief of police in New York.
  • Et Tu, Brute?: When Jones is revealed to be The Mole.
  • Facepalm: His reaction to hearing the entire tale of Steffi's antics as Blitz.
  • A Father to His Men: Does not take it well when several of his officers are injured in an ambush and Jones turns out to be The Mole. Of course, he's literally the father of one of them.
  • Love-Obstructing Parents: Averted. He approves of Reed and Jones' relationship. After the latter's reveal as The Mole, however, he obviously changes his tune.
  • Secret Secret-Keeper: He has figured out Blitz's identity - not that it was very difficult.

    Cho 
Reed's sarcastic partner.
  • Butch Lesbian: As it turns out, she has a wife she loves very much.
  • Cowboy Cop: Teams up with Steffi, Benzene, and Tigris, vigilantes and a criminal, respectively, to free Heinrich and Reed from Alter.
  • Deadpan Snarker: A common trait amongst this crew.
  • Enemy Mine: With Blitz and Tigris against Alter, although in the latter's case they are basically just mutually exploiting each other.
  • Happily Married: To an unnamed wife. Much to everyone's surprise.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Her sarcasm is legendary, but she does care about protecting civilians and has a close friendship with Reed. This comes to a head when she teams up with Steffi, Ben, and Tigris to rescue him from Alter.
  • Last-Name Basis: Everyone calls her Cho, her last name. Her first name is Helen.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: When Blitz first appears, she and Reed are "unable" to capture her.
  • Red Herring: During Track 15, she draws a gun on Jones and appears to be betraying her, but then she accuses her (correctly) of being The Mole.
  • Secret-Keeper: In Track 21, she becomes this for Steffi on two levels. One, she knows her Secret Identity as Blitz. Two, on a more personal level, she knows about her issues with her mother.
  • The Stoic: She is usually pretty deadpan.

    Celesta Jones 
A spunky young recruit. Becomes Reed's girlfriend.

    Flores and Barnes 
Two cops who are rarely seen apart. Flores is the girl, and Barnes the guy.
  • Cowboy Cop: Barnes provides Ben police supplies so he can exact revenge on Alter for injuring Flores.
  • Facial Markings: Flores has a big plus sign on one cheek and a minus sign on the other, so far unexplained.
  • Good Cop/Bad Cop: When interrogating Natrix, Flores plays the bad cop to Barnes' good cop. Jones wonders if Flores is relieving stress.
  • Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Barnes.
  • Ship Tease: During a break-in to reclaim the impounded Kiwi-Bot, Blitz and Raccoon knock them out and put them into a cute pose next to each other. 42 later suggests that Barnes has romantic feelings for Flores.
  • Sleep Cute: After being knocked out by Blitz and Raccoon, they are put into such a pose for giggles.
  • Those Two Guys: Tigris even refers to them as such.

The Villains

    Private Reinald Barkley 
A mentally unstable soldier who stole a mecha and went on a bit of a rampage. Steffi's first challenge as Blitz.
  • The Bus Came Back: He shows up in Track 17 and is apparently working with Alter.
  • Companion Cube: The AI of his mecha, which was designed to provide a source of comfort for soldiers in the field. For Barkley, it worked too well. He even admits to 42 that he knows she's not really sapient. That A.I.s are mostly If-Then and instructions. But he doesn't care. Because he doesn't think it's right to just throw something away that was interacted with a bunch, especially as she was his only companion during the entire war. And ARIS is the only thing he really has in the world. Also, she does a pretty good job at faking sapience.
  • Shell-Shocked Veteran: Trauma over surviving a war drives him to steal a mecha containing the AI that kept him stable.
  • Starter Villain: He's the first opponent Blitz faces.

    The Raccoon 
A costumed thief who steals on the behalf of a mysterious organization. Definitely a criminal, but seems to be a decent kid for the most part. After Steffi's Kiwibot was captured by the police, she blackmailed the Raccoon into helping her steal it back.
  • Ambiguously Brown: Has fairly tan skin, but unclear ethnicity. Considering that her last name is "Makisig", they're likely of Filipino descent.
  • Badass Adorable: Not only able to fight Steffi on an even footing, but also took down three adult police officers when attempting to steal back the Kiwibot.
  • Bifauxnen: A pretty boy who turns out to not be a boy at all.
  • Blatant Burglar: Gets a big kick out of showing off.
  • Et Tu, Brute?: Doesn't take it well when she is duped into thinking Steffi sold her out.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Refuses to use the grappling hook on Steffi in their first fight because it could kill her. Even during their rematch when she believes Steffi sold her out to the police, she just uses her grappling hook to keep Steffi away from Cebus, and is shocked when Steffi fails to dodge one of her punches.
  • Evil Is Petty: After learning that one of Alter's prisoners is Heinrich Frolich, father of Blitz, who she believes sold her out to the police, Raccoon refuses to give him any food, forcing his cellmate to poke crumbles through the holes in their cage.
  • Grappling-Hook Pistol: Built into a gauntlet.
  • Honor Among Thieves: "I may be a thief, but I ain't no liar!"
  • Precocious Crush: Develops one on Steffi/Blitz.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: Isn't really evil, just a kleptomaniac driven by inescapable compulsions.
  • Puppy-Dog Eyes: After getting Punched Across the Room by Steffi.
  • The Reveal: The Raccoon's true identity is a young girl named Chandra Makisig who turns out to be being groomed and enabled by her older cousin Cebus.
  • Samus Is a Girl: Plot twist: she's a girl, and a young one at that.
  • Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: When Steffi interrupts The Raccoon from eating a sandwich and making "nomph nom" noises, The Raccoon ends up saying one of them.
  • Sticky Fingers: "Now, before anyone asks: Yes, [TR] has Kleptomania. No, it does not compel [TR] to dress up as a Raccoon and steal things for mysterious third parties." - Mary (Author), here (spoilers on page).
  • Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: The Raccoon has a TON of gadgets such as the claw hook, smoke bombs, a taser knuckle, knockout patches, and more. It's quite amazing considering that she's just a young girl. It's implied that all of the gear is supplied by a larger organization. An impression reinforced when we learn she's being enabled and groomed by her cousin Celesta AKA Cebus.

    Gear 
A Cyborg supervillain who seems motivated purely by boredom and sadism. Robs a bank specifically to lure Blitz out for a fight. Half of her body is cybernetic.
  • Absurdly Sharp Blade: Cuts through the Kiwibot with ease.
  • Affably Evil: Typically projects a cheerful and friendly (if Ax-Crazy) demeanor.
  • Arch-Enemy: She suggests she is Blitz's, but Blitz denies it.
  • Ax-Crazy: Appears to genuinely enjoy hurting people.
  • Berserk Button: She does not take it well when Cebus calls her Maggie.
  • Blade Below the Shoulder: Her first prosthetic arm has a retractable blade instead of a hand.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: She freely admits she's consciously embracing villainy.
  • Conversational Troping: Sprinkles trope references throughout her conversation, perhaps as part of the villainous persona she appears to be deliberately trying to cultivate.
  • Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: She appears to have embraced this trope wholeheartedly; especially since a glimpse at her Back Story shows she Used to Be a Sweet Kid back when she received her first prosthetics.
  • Cyborg: Of the "we can rebuild her after hideous mutilation" variety.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: She lost most of the left side of her body in a bombing that also killed her parents.
  • Do Not Call Me "Paul": Does not like to be called Margaret. God help you if you call her "Maggie."
  • Establishing Character Moment: The first thing she does onscreen is walk into A. Bank, idly remark that it seems a little quaint, and then disdainfully stab a security guard who tries to talk to her for looking "aggressively boring".
  • Eyepatch of Power: Pretty literally. As in, it's an eyepatch with an "on/off" symbol on it.
  • Finger Firearms: Her original bionic arm was a handless Arm Cannon with a concealed blade. She later gets an updated version that has a hand with a gun barrel built into each finger in place of the blade.
  • For the Evulz: Her apparent motivation. We later get some glimpses of her backstory that hint at deeper psychological issues.
  • Freudian Excuse: What we see of her backstory is pretty horrific.
  • Knight of Cerebus: She's the first seriously dangerous villain.
  • Never Be Hurt Again: Page 442.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: Aside from her propensity for maiming, hurting and mutilating people, it's implied that she lives in the same abandoned subway station where the bomb dismembered her and killed her parents.
  • Swiss-Army Appendage: Her first prosthetic arm contains a big serrated blade and a machinegun. Her second version is upgraded to include a hand in place of the blade.
  • That Man Is Dead: Cebus manages to hit this button, too. As far as she's concerned, little Maggie is gone and only Gear remains.
  • Younger Than They Look: Steffi mentions that Gear's face is too long for her to be seventeen like she claims.

    Natrix 
A reptilian-looking criminal who is the front man for Alter. More of a consigliere than a boss.

    Dr. Hardane/Hircus 
The true leader of Alter, appears to be a Well-Intentioned Extremist.
  • Anti-Climax Boss: Jokingly discussed in the in-universe cast page. "He got arrested shortly after appearing, and thus loses points for being a really shitty Boss Battle."
  • Bio-Augmentation: If Tigris is to be believed, his true goal is curing genetic disorders; the body modder stuff funds his therapeutic research.
  • Disc-One Final Boss: He's set up as the leader of Alter and the main villain of the comic, but is swiftly usurped by Cebus.
  • A Father to His Men: He refuses to sell out Alter even after Cebus backstabs him.
  • The Man Behind the Man: The true leader of Alter, Natrix was just a front man.
  • Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: His followers call him "Doc".
  • Then Let Me Be Evil: The laws against genetic experiments on humans drove him underground.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: He uses the profits from his criminal organization to fund research into curing genetic disorders.

    Cebus (MASSIVE UNMARKED SPOILERS) 
Celesta Jones, a (seemingly) spunky young recruit for the police. In reality, she is an Alter mole codenamed Cebus.
  • Big Bad: She betrays Hircus to seize control of Alter and becomes the main antagonist of the comic from that point onward.
  • Bio-Augmentation: She looks normal. She's not.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She's either a psychopath, a sociopath, or a solipsist; possibly all three. She's definitely adept at manipulating others.
  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Backstabs the police for Alter, then backstabs Alter boss Hircus so she can take over herself, and may have backstabbed her cousin Chandra by outing her to the police to exploit her resulting vulnerability.
  • Delayed Reaction: After getting impaled in the arm by an EMP katana.
    Page 600: Wha
    Page 601: NGGGYAAAAAAARGH!
  • Dirty Cop: Turns out to be feeding information to Alter from the inside.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: She's a total piece of shit, but even she wouldn't force Heinrich to watch her kill Steffi.
  • Evil All Along: She's introduced as a heroic Mauve Shirt, only to turn out to be a mole for a criminal association.
  • Hate Sink: From being an unrepentant mole, to her Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, to her exploitation of her cousin's kleptomania, to her motives, there is nothing redeemable about her.
  • It's All About Me: Down even says as much, noting that she's only on the side of herself.
  • Jerkass
    Cast page: Kind of a huge asshole, honestly.
    Blitz: What is your problem! Is it just— your mission— to be the world's biggest asshole!?
  • Klingon Promotion: Allows Hircus to be arrested so she can take over Alter.
  • Love-Interest Traitor: She's set up as Reed's love interest, only to knife him in the back.
  • Meaningful Name: "Cebus" is a genus of monkey.
  • The Mole: First for Alter, but she has no loyalty to it either.
  • Only in It for the Money: Unlike other Alter members, all she wants is to make money from Hircus and Down's genetic engineering research.
  • The Starscream: She betrays her boss in order to take power for herself.
  • Super-Soldier: Although she has not been modified to look like an animal, she has still had some genetic modification and can keep up in a fight with Reed despite his prosthetic enhancements.
  • Surrounded by Idiots: When finally cornered by the heroes, she complains that there isn't a single competent person in all of Alter. Steffi promptly quips that that includes her.
  • Unfriendly Fire: After deposing Hircus she tries to murder Tigris, who is the one Alter member strong enough and loyal enough to pose a real threat.
  • Walking Spoiler: You can't discuss any of her actions post-Track 17 without revealing that she's The Mole.
  • Was It All a Lie?: Reed gives this line to her after her betrayal. She responds that she actually did think he was kind of cute.

    Tigris 
A cranky and short-tempered tiger girl who dresses and acts like an anime character. Has an intense-to-the-point-of-deadly rivalry with Cebus and really, really dislikes Steffi.
  • Berserk Button: Do NOT accuse her of being a furry if you know what's good for you.
  • Cat Girl: And not the cute and cuddly kind.
  • Childhood Friends: With Taurus.
  • Do Not Call Me "Paul": Hates being called "Kitty".
  • Enemy Mine: Offers to team up with Blitz against their common enemy Cebus, although she admits that they are basically exploiting one another.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Is very affectionate with Taurus, and very loyal to Hircus for saving his life.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Besides Taurus, who she's been friends with since they were children, and Alter's boss Hircus, she doesn't really like any of Alter's members. And it's reciprocated:
    Tigris: Cebus tried to kill me first!
    Alter member 1: Well I assume she had a good reason!
    Alter member 2: I mean, it is Tigris, right?
    Cho: Does anyone in your gang actually like you?
  • He Is Not My Boyfriend: When Blitz asks if Taurus is her boyfriend, she immediately gets extremely flustered, denies it, and then changes the subject.
  • Insistent Terminology: It's not a samurai sword, it's a katana.
  • Katanas Are Just Better: Appears to believe this, as befits a Japanese culture otaku.
  • Occidental Otaku: Piggy calls her "Weabro" for her troubles. She's even wearing a Sailor Fuku when Alter ambushes the police.

    Taurus 
A quiet yet strong bull man.

    Canis 
A tall brown dog man with floppy ears. Definitely not man's best friend.
  • Code Name: Complains Alter's code names are no fun because they're all so glaringly obvious. What's the point of having a code name anyone can guess just by looking at you?

    Lupus 
A short gray wolf kid with a good nose for tracking.

    Drakky 
A big, rather draconic looking man, probably due to crocodillian DNA.
  • The Brute: Alter's other big guy after Taurus.

    Sylvilagus 
A rabbit woman who gets rolled over during the raid on Alter HQ.

    Down 
Another Evilutionary Biologist behind Alter's Bio-Augmentation program. Does not appear to share Dr. Hardane's altruism.
  • Bio-Augmentation: Warns Reed and Heinrich not to assume she's baseline just because she's not fuzzy.
  • Every Man Has His Price: Defied. "This group has its weirdos, but everyone has their reasons for being here... reasons that go beyond pure money."
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: When Cebus is defeated, Down suggests over the building's PA system that everyone grab their stuff and run like hell.
  • Playing with Syringes: Hints that she's not above experimenting on unwilling subjects.
  • The Unfettered: Has a problem with pesky laws that limit genetic research on humans for much less noble reasons than Hircus.

     35 
Another gynoid from the same model line as 42. Captured and reprogrammed by their father's enemies.
  • Buried Alive: Her fate at the hands of 42 after her ill-fated assassination attempt. Once freed from Barkley's hacking, 42 digs her up to have Barkley re-reprogram her.
  • Cain and Abel: The Cain to 42's Abel, who she tries to kill after her captors reprogrammed her.
  • You Are Number 6: Like 42, she simply has the number 35 for a name.

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    Miriam Frolich 
Steffi's mother. Still alive, but no longer a part of her life.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Heinrich fully admits that he was not a good husband or father, but that doesn't justify trying to have him assassinated.
  • Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife: Subverted. Heinrich is an immature Manchild who is more concerned with designing cool robots than being a parent, but Miriam ends up doing much more harm to Steffi than Heinrich ever could.
  • Missing Mom: Returned to Germany before the story started.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Never appears in person in the main story, but is the reason why Steffi lost her leg.
  • Til Murder Do Us Part: Due to a combination of paranoia, resentment, and the belief that her husband would get custody of Steffi in a divorce proceeding, Miriam tried to have him killed in the incident that cost Steffi her leg.
  • Walking Spoiler: It's almost impossible to talk about her without mentioning her attempt to have her husband assassinated.

    Barry 
A friend of Heinrich's who works with prosthetics. Made Steffi's leg.
  • Playing Both Sides: Is perfectly willing to work with both Blitz and her self-proclaimed rival, Gear.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Appears in less than half a dozen pages of the comic apparently just to provide a replacement for Reed's arm but is later revealed to also be the source of Gear's weaponized prosthetics - and is implied to have influenced, or at least encouraged, her mentality as well.

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