Characters / OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: Main Heroes

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Kaio "K.O." Kincaid

^Click to see him at the end of the series.

Voiced by: Stephanie Nadolny^note pilot, mobile game, most shorts, "Just Be a Pebble", "Jethro's All Yours", "Plaza Shorts", "We Messed Up", "You're Level 100!", parts of "Legends of Mr. Gar", Courtenay Taylor (current)

"Maybe I already am a hero!"

The title character of the show. K.O. is an excitable young lad with a love of battling and even bigger sense of justice. Currently, K.O. serves as an employee at Gar's Bodega.

Hero Level: 0 ("Let's Be Heroes"-"Jethro's All Yours"), 0.1 ("You're Level 100!"-"You're in Control"), 1 ("You're in Control"-"Dendy's Power"), 3 ("Dendy's Power"-"Dark Plaza"), 4 ("Dark Plaza"-onward), 100 ("Thank You For Watching The Show" at 35+)

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• Adaptational Wimp: In the original pilot and the app game, he could easily hold his own. At the beginning of the series proper, he's a Naïve Newcomer at the bottom of the totem pole power-wise.
• Affectionate Nickname:
  • Rad and Enid sometimes call him "brushhead".
  • Carol often calls him "peanut".
• All-Loving Hero: His end wish is that everyone live their best lives, including his enemies.
• Anime Hair: Rad and Enid affectionately call him Brush Head.
• Art Evolution: In the second season, K.O.'s hair isn't drawn as tall as it was in Season 1, and is even slightly rounder in some areas.
• Ascended Fanboy: A huge fan of Mr. Gar (and the heroes that shop there) who gets the chance to work at Gar's Bodega to learn how to be a hero.
• Badass Adorable: K.O. himself has practically all the adults in the series cooing over how adorable he is, with his big eyes and bright smile. He's also an aspiring hero who takes several levels in badass throughout the series, and is particularly impressive when you remember that he's a 6-to-11-year-old boy.
• Birthday Episode: He has his birthday in "Plaza Alone".
• Blue Is Heroic: He wears a blue vest as part of his work uniform.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall:
  • K.O. is apparently capable of seeing Gar and Carol's flashbacks. Even lampshading that Gar has the same vague and confusing flashbacks. Subverted in "Seasons Change" where Enid and Rad can see his flashback, which implies that everyone can see flashbacks in the form of a Rebus Bubble.
  • He begins to perceive the whole world as a cartoon in Your World is an Illusion and begins to have an identity crisis, though he gets over it by the end of the episode.
• Broken Pedestal: Upon learning that Laserblast is his father, he instantly takes a lot of pride in it, even wearing Laserblast's mask when he goes to thwart one of Venomous and Boxman's schemes. He winds up sorely disappointed when Venomous shows what Laserblast actually is like.
• Can't Catch Up: He feels frustrated with his lack of progress at becoming a hero and not being able to catch up to Enid and Rad. This is downplayed after "Dendy's Power" where he reaches Level 3.
• Cheerful Child: K.O. is chipper, helpful, excitable and enthralled by the heroes around him. Few things seem to be able to get him down.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: K.O. is always trying to help everyone—sometimes even people who try to hurt him.
• Cloudcuckoolander: K.O. is a hyperactive spaz with occasionally weird ideas of heroism.
• Curtains Match the Window: If the post-haircut Animesque Art Shift in "I Am Dendy" and K.O.'s retina scan in "You're Level 100!" are canon, then K.O. is a brunette with brown eyes.
• Custom Uniform: He wears a blue vest when working at Gar's due to them being out of crop tops.
• Cute Little Fangs: He acquires them after merging with T.K.O., both in their temporary P.K.O. form and later when they merge permanently.
• The Cutie: It's really not hard to see why Carol's Fitness Dojo students gush whenever they see him.
• Dark Is Not Evil: In the Season 1 finale, he manages to harness T.K.O.'s power for the side of good, even using his purple chi attacks.
• Did You Think I Can't Feel?: When Rad calls him "simple" and compares him to Jethro, K.O. calls Rad out on it, saying he may seem simple on the outside, but he's complex on the inside. Rad eventually apologizes, saying he was just messing around.
• Disappeared Dad: Admits to not having a dad, implying that his dad was gone before he was born. It turns out that Professor Venomous (formerly Laserblast) was his dad. Word of God states that Venomous didn't know about K.O. and their relationship either until shortly after "We're Captured".
• Does Not Like Spam: He absolutely hates olives.
• Expy: Of a young Son Goku from Dragon Ball.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Of the main trio, K.O.'s the Fighter, relying on power and more conventional fighting.
• Friendless Background: One of his videos shown in "K.O.'s Video Channel" reveals that he didn't really have any friends until he met Rad and Enid.
• Future Badass: He unsurprisingly becomes incredibly strong and powerful in the future; by the time he's in his 30s, he has reached Level 100!
• Generation Xerox: He looks like a young brunette version of his mother, down to the clothing choices. He also desires to follow Carol's heroic footsteps and eventually go to P.O.I.N.T. Prep, the official school of the superhero group Carol was once a member of.
• Good Feels Good: He tells Enid that helping others feels good, and is shocked when she says she doesn't like helping people.
• Good Is Not Dumb: His Pow Card stats might only be one star for intelligence but even with this, he occasionally shows to be rather observant about his surroundings and comes up with clever ideas to solve problems that happen around the plaza.
• The Heart: His presence greatly helps Gar, Enid and Rad to come to better terms with themselves and each as people. Particularly, he helped Gar start connecting with Carol, Enid start caring more and deal with Elodie properly, and he helps Rad deal with his issues about masculinity, popularity, and pride.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Is given the Heart Ring in the Captain Planet crossover episode, which suits him well.
• Height Angst: In "Just Be a Pebble", he worries that he's too short to be a hero. Rad gives him a candy that makes him grow, but he eats too many and grows into a giant. This ends up causing more trouble than it's worth.
• Heroic Bastard: K.O's parents, Carol and Laserblast, conceived him out of wedlock.
• Heroic RRoD: He seriously cannot keep up with Hero's energy when the two venture off to deal with Galgarion.
• Heroic Wannabe: He starts off as enthusiastic but unskilled, and takes the job at Gar's Bodega to learn how to be a hero.
• Hero-Worshipper:
  • He deeply looks up to Mr. Gar and various other Lakewood Plaza Turbo heroes.
  • K.O. also seems to worship Sonic, since he has a notepad filled with fanart of him and refers to the blue blur as the fastest, bluest, and greatest hero of all time. Not to mention that he acts quite giddy around him.
• Hidden Depths:
  • In "Face Your Fear", K.O.'s fear is becoming a villain and hurting innocents.
  • He is also far more observant than he lets on. T.K.O. demonstrates this by knowing fully well that Shadowy Figure must have a reason for his knowledge of K.O.'s life, despite claiming to only care about gaining glorbs (and subsequently money).
  • Apparently, he also reads about Jungian psychology.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Dendy's briefly shown assessment of K.O. is that his Chronic Hero Syndrome comes from lacking a father figure and seeking validation to make up for it.
• In-Series Nickname: Enid and Rad sometimes calls him "Brush-Head", and Carol calls him "Peanut".
• Intergenerational Friendship: He's 6-11, meaning he's several years younger than both Enid and Rad.
• Internal Monologue: In true anime fashion, K.O. spends a lot of time going over his motivations, plans, and goals in his head.
• In the Blood: Heroic K.O. struggles with a villainous side, as he is the product of a hero and a villain. Though, ultimately, he chooses to be a hero like his mom rather than a villain like his dad. This shows in his and his dad's very different ways of dealing with their Turbo personalities.
• Ironic Nickname: His mom calls him Peanut, but he's allergic to peanuts.
• Keet: He is quite excitable about his goal of becoming a hero.
• Kiddie Kid: When he's leaning more to the 'six' side of his Vague Age than 'eleven'.
• Kid Hero: He's the protagonist and is by far the youngest of the employees at Gar's Bodega.
• Kid Hero All Grown-Up: In the series finale, he's shown to become as strong and muscular as Mr. Gar was in his 30s.
• Like a Son to Me: Gar comes to see him this way more and more throughout the series, especially once he starts dating Carol, and begins actively trying to act like a father figure to him.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Both K.O. and Laserblast/Venomous are plagued by insecurity and feelings of powerlessness. However, while Laserblast wallowed in his insecurities and ultimately turned to villainy as a result, K.O. moved past it.
  • How dissimilar they are gets highlighted, lampshaded, and discussed in "Let's Get Shadowy".
  • It's best seen in how they embraced their darker alter egos. When Venomous did so with Shadowy Figure, the implication was that he submitted to his desire for power and got overwhelmed by it, and fittingly, lost Shadowy and his power altogether by the end of the series. K.O., meanwhile, acknowledged the fear and insecurities as part of who he is, and merged with T.K.O. for good, making him even more powerful.
• Maybe Ever After: Dendy and K.O. are still close friends decades into the future, but if they're romantically involved is never addressed.
• Meaningful Name: He's a Fighter with the initials "K.O".
• Megaton Punch: The Power Punch. The Season 1 finale "You're in Control" shows that when combined with T.K.O.'s dark chi, it can One-Hit Kill Boxman Jr. who curb-stomped everyone else who fought him.
• Momma's Boy: He has a close relationship with his mother, Carol.
• Mysterious Middle Initial: He's known primarily by his first initials, and while his first name is "Kaio", we're never told what the "O" stands for.
• Nice Guy: A kind kid who takes joy in helping others, even if they've been mean to him.
• Not Quite the Right Thing: His ways to deal with T.K.O. are far from being perfect. First he put him into a cage, then he let roam free in his mind by giving him a house and finally he tried to get rid of him by trapping him in his deepest subconscious once he misbehaved. In the penultimate episode he realized that these methods only made things worse for him and everyone else, and he actually apologized to T.K.O. for how he mistreated him.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: K.O. is a nickname based off of his first and middle initials.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Was mistaken for Rad simply by wearing his nametag and having two straws in his hair in place of Rad's antennae.
• Parental Title Characterization: Calls Carol "mommy", because he's a young Momma's Boy.
• Personality Blood Types: Dendy's research report shows he's a Type O. He has some of the traits generally associated with this blood type, including confidence, self-determination, and athletic skills.
• Positive Friend Influence: K.O. lives and breathes this trope; his presence in the Bodega has influenced the lives of virtually everyone he meets, including the villains to some extent.
  • He encourages Enid to deal with her issues with Elodie.
  • He convinced Gar to start talking with Carol again.
  • He also becomes Dendy's first friend, after which she seems to become better at socializing and happier overall.
  • He helps Rad learn to be more open with admitting with his "non-macho" hobbies.
  • Additionally, everyone also desires to become better for K.O. For example Rad finally resolves his inner turmoil when he realizes that his "macho" persona is having a negative effect on K.O.
  • Red Action also becomes nicer and more considerate.
  • Holo-Jane mentions how K.O. opened her eyes.
  • This even applies with the villains, given how K.O.'s involvement helped Venomous and Boxman become a couple.
  • Rad and Enid outright tell K.O. (or technically, T.K.O., when they're trying to get K.O. to resurface with The Power of Love) how much he means to them in "Let's Fight to the End", with Rad stating that K.O. helped him become more comfortable with himself and his likes and dislikes, and Enid noting how he helped her confront a part of her past she'd once wanted to forget and not deal with.
• Primary-Color Champion: Wears a red bandanna and wristbands (and pink legwarmers), as well as blue shorts, earned a blue vest, and whatever his power is it comes out as a light blue. While Enid and Rad also wear blue as part of their dress code, he's the main character and the only one of the core trio to wear red.
• Punny Name: Mixed with Actor Allusion - not only does his first name, Kaio, sound like "K.O.", his full name, Kaio Kincaid, references the Kaio-Ken technique from Dragon Ball, where his first Voice Actress voiced the child versions of Goku and Gohan.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He wears pink leg warmers. By the end of the series his red has been traded out for magenta as the result of his merging with T.K.O.
• Red Is Heroic: He's a hero who wears a red bandana and wristbands.
• School Uniforms are the New Black: Or rather "Work Uniforms Are the New Black". Ever since getting his Gar's Bodega vest, he has hardly ever removed it.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: K.O. is actually pushed to this at the thought of even more level grinding when he and Hero fail to defeat Galgarion. He delivers a speech to Hero over this, causing Hero to realize that he's got it all wrong.
• Shipper on Deck: Very much so for Rad/Enid, in spite of his ship being sunk several times, a ship that has been explicitly stated to be sunk by Enid, Rad and Cupid. His video channel includes a shipping Fanvid with snippets from their flashback.
• Shock and Awe: After taming T.K.O., he's able to send shockwaves through his gloves.
• Split-Personality Merge: When he finally accepts that T.K.O. isn't a mindless evil created by someone else, but a natural part of his personality, the two merge into one.
• Stock Shōnen Hero: Since the show takes a lot of inspiration from various anime, it's no surprise that K.O. has many elements of this trope. He's an All-Loving Hero who's determined to become the greatest hero, has Anime Hair, isn't very bright, is a Primary-Color Champion, and has been a positive influence on everyone he's met. For bonus points, he was originally voiced by Stephanie Nadolny, who voiced young Goku from Dragon Ball (who's the Trope Codifier and one of the most well-known examples).
• Super Mode: When he and T.K.O. synchronize to form Perfect K.O., his body gains a golden aura, golden eyes, and blue sweatbands.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: As P.K.O. he gains golden eyes, showing the power boost gained from him and T.K.O. being in synch.
• Superpowered Evil Side: T.K.O., complete with spiky wristbands, eyeliner, and edgy teen angst.
• Superpowerful Genetics: K.O. has a Turbo form, T.K.O., similar to his father, Professor Venomous, and his Turbo form, Shadowy Figure. Since K.O. was conceived before the time that Shadowy existed, this suggests that the potential for Venomous to develop a Superpowered Evil Side was always there, and was In the Blood with K.O.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Manages to punch a boulder to pieces in "Plazalympics".
  • Taken one step further in "You're in Control" where he scraps Boxman Jr. (who curbstomped both Gar and Carol at the same time easily and was even with T.K.O.) with a single attack.
  • In Season 2, not only does he rank up to Level 3, but he also gains a new form, P.K.O., after synchronizing with T.K.O.
• Unwilling Roboticisation: In the Sonic crossover, Lord Boxman converts K.O. into Metal K.0. using the Master Emerald. Thankfully, he turns back once Sonic hits him like he does to the Badniks.
• Vague Age: He is explicitly referred to as "exactly 6-11 years old". This continues in the series finale "Thank You For Watching The Show", where K.O. has 3 birthdays, with the birthday cake candles showing "13-17", "18-23", and "35+". Oddly enough, he has a birthday in one episode, going from 6-11 years old to 6-11 years old, not 7-12.
• World's Strongest Man: At first averted in "You're Level 100" where his increased level was just a glitch. Played very straight in the finale where we see that he has truly reached Level 100 by the time he's 35.

Turbo K.O.

Voiced by: Courtenay Taylor

Turbo K.O. (T.K.O. for short) is a manifestation of K.O.'s negative emotions sealed within his subconscious. Originally antagonistic, he's come to tolerate his other half. By Season 2, he's come to see K.O. as a sort of brother and vice versa, but when K.O. locks him back in his subconscious, he's angered to the point of being willing to join the villains.

Hero Level: Unknown -99 ("Let's Fight to the End")

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• Ambiguously Evil:
  • After his first appearance, he comes off less as evil, instead just seeming emotionally unstable, and eventually even making a deal with K.O. to share their powers, but threatens he can't go back on it.
  • Season 2 makes him even harder to place, showing him and K.O. getting along somewhat better, with T.K.O. even reluctantly confiding in K.O., troubled by Shadowy Figure, and asking why he exists in the first place.
• Attention Whore: Can't stand being ignored, as this has resulted in him getting even angrier. This contrasts nicely with how K.O. is usually the centre of attention.
• Bait the Dog: Season 3 has him falling back into his destructive ways, prompting K.O. to seal him away again. K.O. says he was a fool to think he could change T.K.O.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: He joins Shadowy Venomous at the end of "Carl" as "equal partners"... at least, he thought they were. In reality, Shadowy sees him as a Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb. They serve as the antagonists of "Dendy's Video Channel" and "Let's Fight To The End".
• Blood Knight: At first all he wants to do is fight. Once he calms down somewhat, he can be reasoned with, but is still very violence prone.
• Character Development: After the Time Skip, he's mellowed a fair bit, albeit in an ennui sort of way, and is more comfortable talking to K.O., willingly talking about his feelings with him, and seems to have become very existential after having very little to do, stating that he's "only living [in K.O.'s world]".
• Chronic Villainy: Implied in "T.K.O. Rules!". One of the hidden drawings depicts him surrounded by darkness with words that say "I can't stop!". This contrast's K.O.'s Chronic Hero Syndrome, which makes sense since T.K.O. is his Superpowered Evil Side.
• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: He has dark purple eyelids. Despite a joke about him taking Carol's makeup, it appears to be natural, instantly appearing when he takes control of K.O. and disappearing when he loses it.
• Cute Little Fangs: He sports a fang.
• De-power: One of his abilities is the power to depower others via absorbing their energy.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: By the second season, T.K.O. has realized he is not the "real" K.O., and so seeks out Shadowy Figure to find out why he made him.
• Divergent Character Evolution:
  • He's portrayed without a shirt, wearing just a black vest and pants in Lets Play Heroes within the final act of the game.
  • Within K.O.'s mindscape in Season 2, he's changed his outfit, which was exactly the same white shirt and vest as K.O., just without the headband, to wearing a black tee with a pentagram on it, with purple pants, along with his usual spiked armbands.
  • This turns out to be a deconstruction, as T.K.O. developing uniquely from K.O. was partly what kept them from their realization that they were the same person.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: Most of his destructiveness is unintentional; he's just so powerful he can destroy things inadvertently and lacks the focus to notice. He nearly levels the Plaza twice as the result of fighting someone.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": He hates being called K.O. He's T.K.O.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: He flies into a rage when he feels like he's being looked down on (such as when he's called cute, or told his behavior is a "phase").
• Dragon Ascendant: When Shadowy Venomous snaps at him, T.K.O. wastes no time in handing his ass to him, briefly becoming the Big Bad.
• Dragon-in-Chief: He joins forces with Shadowy Venomous in the season three episode "Carl". It becomes abundantly clear that T.K.O. is the more powerful of the pair, and Shadowy's plan wouldn't get anywhere without him. Once Shadowy starts pushing his luck, T.K.O. effortlessly dispatches him.
• Emo Teen: He's got wild hair, a surly attitude, listens to depressing rock and is pretty troubled, albeit for more solid reasons than the usual emo teen. He even has the eyeliner and spiky purple wristbands, though this is not unique to him and more present on anyone Turbo as seen with Fink, Shadowy Venomous, and even Turbo Enid and Rad. He also denies that he's going through a phase when his mom calls him out on it.
  T.K.O.: IT'S NOT A PHASE, MOM!
• Energy Absorption: T.K.O. can form an electrifying bubble around him that does this. Just like his dad.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas:
  • Averted. He was planning on punching Carol full blast before K.O. stopped him.
  • However, in the finale, K.O. is able to get his attention by playing him a recording of a song their mom sang to him when he were young, suggesting he might love Carol more than he lets on.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In "Mystery Science Fair 201X", upon being unleashed by Dendy in her attempts to release him for her science project, he seems genuinely angry at her less than empathetic treatment of K.O. to get him to surface. He explicitly calls her out for considering K.O. little more than a "lab rat".
  • After K.O. is betrayed by Venomous, his rage leads to T.K.O. forcing his way out of his subconscious and usurping control after plunging K.O. into where he was Trapped. He then goes to confront Venomous. When he learns that Shadowy Figure merged/took over Venomous, namely because of the latter's lust for power, he's actually disgusted at both of em. However, Shadowy Venomous is able to use a "Not So Different" Remark to exploit T.K.O.'s need for acceptance and get him to join his side.
  T.K.O.: And here I was thinking you couldn't get any worse *fist lights up*.
• Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: As T.K.O., his eyelids go purple and he wears prominent eyeliner.
• Fangs Are Evil: Has a mouth full of sharp teeth, one of which sticks out when his mouth is closed.
• Flight: He can fly under his own power like a Dragon Ball character.
• Fusion Dance: He does a mental fusion dance with K.O. in order to become P.K.O., a form which requires the two to be operating in perfect synch.
• Go Out with a Smile: While he didn't technically die, he give K.O. a warm smile before he merged with him permanently.
• Guyliner: As befitting an Emo Teen. Carol implies he stole some of her makeup to achieve the look.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: As befitting a Superpowered Evil Side born from anger, he often flies into Unstoppable Rage.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: Reached an agreement with K.O. in "You're in Control". As long as K.O. lets him roam free in his mind, he'll let him tap into his powers. No take backs, though. Season 2 complicates things, with T.K.O. now obsessing over his purpose and on finding Shadowy Figure for answers about it. If nothing else, he is on better terms with K.O.
• The Heavy: In his team-up with Shadowy Venemous he's the one doing all the hard work and heavy lifting to make Shadowy's plan a success.
• Hidden Depths: Despite his aggressive leanings, it's implied through a drawing that says "I Can't Stop!" in "T.K.O. Rules!" that he actually does feel guilt for his violent nature, but can't stop himself. The finale also suggests he craves acceptance for his existence, which is why he insists so hard that he is T.K.O. Like K.O., he is also fairly observant, immediately challenging Shadowy Figure's claim that he wasn't focused on K.O. and refuting it with evidence.
• I Hate You, Vampire Dad: He hates Shadowy Figure for creating him. When he finds out Shadowy Venomous is his real father too, he's angry and disgusted with him. At least, until he's manipulated into joining Shadowy.
• I Just Want to Be Free: Being caged is a huge trigger for him. When he calms down in K.O.'s mind, he resents existing in someone else's head without a body of his own. K.O. trying to lock him in his subconscious causes him to snap and fully turn to evil once he's freed.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: He is finally "defeated" when K.O. accepts his existence as part of himself rather than as something someone else forced upon him. When he and K.O. start to merge, he smiles warmly.
• I'm Crying, but I Don't Know Why: When he begins depowering the world he starts to cry as K.O. plays his mother's song through his subconscious.
• Ironic Name: In boxing and mixed martial arts, a T.K.O. is less violent and devastating than a normal K.O.
• Jerkass Has a Point: He may be a destructive alter-ego, but there are times when he has valid arguments about something:
  • In "Mystery Science Fair 201X", he calls out Dendy for using K.O. as a "lab rat" with no concerns about his well-being. Dendy admits he's right.
  • In "T.K.O.'s House", he calls Shadowy Figure' claims to searching glorbs a bluff, as he noticed he seemed know so much about K.O. and he always looked satisfied whenever K.O. won their fights. This leads Shadowy Figure to drop his attitude and run away before he could give an answer.
  • In "T.K.O Rules!" he's not wrong that K.O. should be pushing for greater rewards when he takes on greater responsibilities.
  • He always says to K.O. that he needs him, no matter how much K.O. denies it. In "Let's Fight To The End", K.O. finally realizes that T.K.O. isn't a malevolent parasite put in him by someone else, nor "just a part of him". T.K.O. is K.O. and vice versa. This triggers a Split-Personality Merge where the two halves permanently fuse into one more balanced being.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As he mellows out, he seems to become more protective of K.O, genuinely becoming furious when Dendy treated K.O as a lab rat, and looking out for his interests, including refusing to accept Shadowy Figure's claims that he didn't target K.O specifically when creating T.K.O., and grumpily telling K.O he should be pushing to be granted more rewards to go with greater responsibility in the episode "T.K.O Rules". However, T.K.O. loses his heart of gold as a result of K.O. trapping him in his subconscious.
• Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb: Shadowy Venomous intended him as a weapon with which he would conquer the world and establish himself as the greatest villain.
• Leitmotif: Hard rock often plays in his appearances, signifying his wild and out of control personality.
• Like Father, Like Son: Unlike K.O., he possesses the ability to De-power other superheroes, just like Laserblast once did.
• Makeup Is Evil: He gains obvious Guyliner, black nail polish, and Excessive Evil Eyeshadow in this form. He seemingly stole some eyeliner from his mom to perfect the look.
• Meaningful Rename: After defeating the giant Darrell, T.K.O. tells Rad and Enid that he's not K.O.; He's Turbo K.O., or T.K.O. for short.
• Nominal Hero: Sorta. While he may be made of K.O.'s negative emotions, he never acually came off as a villain, instead more as a violent chaotic force. Even after he took over K.O. seemingly for good, he originally confronted Venomous for his betrayal and he was initially angry and disgusted at how Venomous sold out to Shadowy Figure for power. He only made a Face–Heel Turn because of Shadowy Venomous exploiting his need to be needed.
• Power Floats: He's shown to float around rather than bother walking around.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow: His Wild Hair is much more voluminous than K.O.'s regular hair, though that's apparently just what it looks like without the headband.
• The Power of Hate: He's born from the negative emotions of K.O. so he thrives off of this.
• Power Parasite: He is able to absorb others' powers, just like his dad.
• Purple Is Powerful: His power glow/energy is a light/neon purple.
• Purple Is the New Black: He has an overall purple color scheme to represent darkness.
• Reluctant Psycho: The episode "T.K.O. Rules!" shows a drawing he made with the words "I Can't Stop!" written on it, implying that he's aware and ashamed of his violent tendencies but can't reign them in.
• Running on All Fours: He often runs in this way, showing off his more primal side as opposed to K.O.
• The Sacred Darkness: He is the embodiment of K.O.'s negative emotions, like anger and fear of helplessness. However, he is ultimately K.O. as well (or more accurately, K.O.'s Jungian shadow) and they merge with each other once K.O. recognizes that they are one and need each other.
• Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: K.O. tries to lock him in his subconscious. It doesn't work for long.
• Shout-Out: In his introductory episode he calls K.O. a "faker", much like Shadow called Sonic a faker (and vice versa) in Sonic Adventure 2.
• Spam Attack: He tends to use the same attack multiple times before moving on to another one. Enid actually calls him a "little spammer" after he tries to repeatedly uppercut her. He later used his own predictability to catch K.O. off guard by switching from a punch to a kick mid-spam.
• Sphere of Power: One of his abilities surrounds himself in a sphere of pure energy that drains the life out of anyone in its radius.
• Split-Personality Merge: When K.O. finally accepts that he isn't a mindless evil created by someone else and a natural part of his personality, the two merge into one.
• Split-Personality Takeover: He originally wished to take over K.O.'s identity and existence. He eventually calms down in this regard, and seems to be satisfied sharing. After K.O. decides letting T.K.O. out of his subconscious was a mistake and locks him up again, T.K.O. comes back with a vengeance and reverses the situation.
• Stop Hitting Yourself: Just when he's about to finish off Carol, K.O. manages to regain control of his own body long enough to make him knock himself out.
• Superpowered Evil Side: He's K.O.'s built-up anger manifested, and upon full manifestation, K.O. is locked into the cage that T.K.O. was trapped in.
• Superpowerful Genetics: Implied. T.K.O. can create a bubble of purple energy that knocks down everyone in its path, similar to his father, Laserblast.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He's mellowed considerably in Season 2 and is more open to working with K.O.
• Unskilled, but Strong: His main strategy is to wildly use his fists on whatever annoys him, but he's so strong he's nearly leveled Lakewood Plaza by himself twice, and this was while he was focused on fighting another person.
• Warts and All: He's the embodiment of K.O.'s negative emotions, no matter how much K.O. denies it. By accepting his flaws, the two halves permanently fuse.
• When He Smiles: He usually has a Slasher Smile whenever he's about to bring chaos and destruction, but he gives K.O. a genuine warm smile as they perform a Split-Personality Merge, happy to finally be accepted by K.O.
• Wild Child: He is initially shown as a snarling furry beast in a cage before he takes K.O's body. He also has mannerisms such as running on all fours that are invocative of this trope.
• World's Strongest Man: Given he is part of K.O., he counts as this. As seen in "Let's Fight To the End", he ends up reaching Level -99 in his attempt to destroy the world.

Enid Mettle

Voiced by: Mena Suvari (pilot, mobile game), Ashly Burch (currently)

"You don't need to be a star to fight for what's right. And if you're my friend, I'll fight 'till the end for you. I'm Enid. I may not always come out on top, but I'm always loyal."

A co-worker at Mr. Gar's store, Enid runs the front counter check-out. She claims to have been trained as a shinobi by her supermodel dad and spy mom, who made her get a part-time job at Gar's. Also spins music around town as DJ Fireball.

Enid fights like a Ninja, and often utilizes techniques that would seem familiar to anyone that watches a lot of Shōnen anime.

Hero Level: 3 ("Let's Be Heroes"-"Red Action to the Future"), 4 ("Dendy's Power"-"Dark Plaza"), 5 ("Dark Plaza" onward), 10 ("Let's Fight To The End")

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• Action Girl: Is the only female employee at Gar's and kicks ass.
• Ambiguously Human: Her bio lists her as "human", but her parents are a werewolf and vampire, and her magical powers may be in-born somehow.
• Big Sister Instinct: Towards K.O., even if they aren't related by blood. This extends beyond just protecting him in battle, too; she's also emotionally protective of him, as seen when Elodie cruelly tells him why he could never get into P.O.I.N.T. Prep, and despite having just recently reconciled with Elodie, Enid doesn't hesitate to stick up for K.O.
• Big Sister Mentor: She's a big sister figure to K.O. and helps teach him how to be a hero.
• Blue Is Heroic: Wears a blue crop top as part of her work uniform.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: She can be very effective at her job when she's not slacking around or disrespecting the customers. But when it comes to fighting, she puts a lot of effort into it.
• Casting a Shadow: Her shadow jutsu can turn her shadow into a monster, or she can use it for spying and stealth.
• Character Development: Thanks to K.O.'s enthusiasm and optimism, she gradually becomes less cynical and more open about how much she cares for her friends.
  • For the first half of the series, she tends to snark at other people to cover up the insecurity she feels about not having herself figured out yet, with Rad being the most frequent target. Eventually in "Special Delivery", Rad outright tells Enid that this bothers him and gets her to admit what the real problem is, and afterwards, Enid noticeably dials it back on the snark and is more openly affectionate to him for the rest of the series. This better treatment is mutual thanks to Rad's own character development.
  • Enid spent most of the series uncomfortable with her witch heritage since she wanted to be a ninja, and felt she had to be one or the other. The series finale sees her realize that accepting and embracing the witch side of herself doesn't make her any less of a ninja, and she attends witch college, and is later shown using both her witch magic and ninja jutsu when running the Fitness Dojo.
• Cool Big Sis: She takes on this role to K.O. Normally she's apathetic and sarcastic, but she acts protective of him and his enthusiasm is capable of breaking through her cynicism.
• Cute Witch: Her parents have raised her to be a witch, but she'd much rather be a ninja. She's cute either way, though, and in the finale, she embraces her witchy nature.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She is strongly associated with darkness motifs (being a witch who wants to be a ninja and who has some shadow-based attacks) and her signature color is purple, but she's one of the good guys.
• A Day in the Limelight: Besides a handful of episodes ("You Get Me", "You Have to Care", "Parents' Day"), she has the whole P.O.I.N.T. Prep arc to herself (at least until K.O. and Rad re-enter the picture).
• Deadpan Snarker: One of her strengths is listed as "Power Sarcasm", and she lives up to it. Boxman even refers to her as "Sarcasm Queen" in the second episode, "Let's Be Friends".
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Beneath her usual snark, Enid's main source of insecurity is figuring out who she is and who she wants to be.
  Rad: You seem to have a lot more figured out than I do...
  Enid: Are you kidding me? I'm a witch who wants to be a ninja who maybe wants to be a hero but works at a convenience store? I don't have anything figured out!
• Distracted by the Sexy: The reason she ends up in Mime class at community college is because she was distracted by a tall, strapping ninja student while walking through the halls.
• Doppelgänger Attack: Going along with her ninja theme, she can create clones of herself.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: More so than Rad. In the original pilot, she had bandages wrapped around her midriff, slightly longer shorts, and a longer ponytail that covered one of her eyes.
• Evil Laugh: O.K., she's not evil at all, but holy shit, she can really belt one out.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Of the main trio, she's the Thief for her ninja skills.
• Forgiveness: Once Enid starts attending P.O.I.N.T. Prep for a brief period, Elodie eventually admits that the greatly regrets abandoning her years ago, and asks her to forgive her. Though Enid naturally cracks a joke about it, she does forgive Elodie, and they rekindle their friendship.
• Genre Savvy: Is the most savvy of the group. For example, she's the only one able to see through K.O.'s Paper-Thin Disguise of Rad. This makes sense considering the fact that she watches anime and is a fan of it, so she would recognize most tropes that come into her life.
• Godzilla Threshold: She and Rad both accept turbo collars from Fink in order to try to defeat T.K.O., turning them into "Tenid" and "Trad" respectively.
• Green Thumb: She can summon a pile of leaves and use it to cushion her fall.
• Hartman Hips: Enid's very bottom heavy, with her hips and butt being the widest part of her body. It's more noticeable in certain outfits she wears throughout the show.
• Hipster: In "Plaza Prom", Enid is asked to break out DJ Fireball for a prom, and she reluctantly goes along with it. She's visibly uncomfortable when she has to start playing "Mainstream trash", and is later shown hooked up to a respirator with an attending EMT nearby because it hurts her so much. K.O. later tells her to go ahead and play what's in her heart, prompting her to pull out the "GOOD MUSIC".
• Intergenerational Friendship: Their exact ages are unknown, but the "late teen" Enid and Rad are friends with the 6-11 K.O.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's cynical, snarky and admits she prefers helping herself instead of others, but she truly cares about K.O. and can usually be counted on to do the right thing.
• Kick Chick: Uses almost exclusively her legs to fight, even when activating her Special Move. Fittingly, her inner animal turns out to be a rabbit, which she duly lampshades. That's on top of, when Boxman visits during his forced off day, while Rad and K.O. point their fingers at him, she points her foot.
• Leg Focus: She usually wears short shorts and is often framed in ways that accentuate her long legs.
• Likes Older Women: She blushes when she sees old Red. Also, in "We Messed Up", she refers to a photo of Carol from her days as Silver Spark as a "babe".
• Making a Splash: Is given the Water Ring in the Captain Planet crossover episode.
• Morality Pet: She seems to be this to Red Action during "Back in Red Action" as Red is finally facing her problems instead of avoiding them and also being more honest thanks to Enid's influences.
• Ninja: Her powers and fighting style revolve around ninjas, especially as depicted in anime.
• Ninja Log: One of her various abilities is to replace herself with a log (or possibly turn into the log) in a puff of smoke. A use she's famous for doing with it is avoiding customers.
• Official Couple: As of season 3, with Red Action.
• Otaku:
  • A Flashback to her middle school days shows that she carried around a lot of manga.
  • An artwork of Enid's room◊, which drawn by one of the storyboard artists, Stevie Borbolla, depict her room having a lot of anime/manga merchandise, such as posters, action figures, manga, DVDs, among other things.
• Phoneaholic Teenager: While on the job, she's usually on her phone when there's no customers around or if she doesn't feel like working.
• Playing with Fire: Her kick attacks can form fireballs.
• Purple Is Powerful: She has purple hair, and starts off at Level 3 compared to Rad's Level 2 and K.O.'s initial Level 0. Her powers are impressive enough to land her a seat at P.O.I.N.T. Prep.
• Random Species Offspring: Enid comes from a Creepy Family of various monsters much like The Munsters: She's a human/witch, her dad's a werewolf, her mom's a vampire, and her younger twin brothers are a Frankenkid and a pumpkin head person.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: One of her specialties is giving biting speeches to those who offend her.
  • In "You Get Me", she gives one to Wally the White involving his Moral Myopia reasoning and labels him as a coward.
  • In "We've Got Pests", she gives another to the titular pests when they take their cool personas too far. Also counts as You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech since she helps them realize they don't need to be cool, just themselves.
  • In "Second First Date", she gives one to Rad, calling him out on being a jerk to her on both of their dates, and expressing her disbelief that he will change.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning:
  • The center of her eyes is red when she gives Gnarlio, Peej, and Chill Cat a speech on what it means to be cool.
  • Her past selves are red-eyed photographs during her fear sequence in the Face Your Fears game.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: When she was best friends with Elodie, she was the Blue to her red. Elodie is a loud, flashy Attention Whore, while Enid is quiet and shy. This is still the case once they become friends again in the present day, as Elodie is the energetic Lovable Alpha Bitch to Enid's calm Deadpan Snarker. This is even reflected in their outfits, as Enid wears a blue shirt while Elodie wears a red dress.
• School Uniforms are the New Black: Or rather "Work Uniforms Are the New Black". She rarely wears anything other than the crop top, even when she isn't working in the store.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The conclusion of her storyline in the P.O.I.N.T. Prep arc. While she's doing very well at the school and is one of the more successful students, she realizes that P.O.I.N.T. isn't the same organization she once looked up to and has too much messed up stuff going on, and chooses to return to the Plaza.
• The Slacker: Like Rad, she tries to avoid doing work at the bodega whenever she can. However, in "You're Everybody's Sidekick", it is because she thinks the customers won't appreciate it and believes they take her for granted.
• The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female employee at Gar's Bodega.
• Stage Names: When she's a DJ, she goes by the name "DJ Fireball".
• Stepford Snarker: Enid reveals in "Special Delivery" that she makes cracks at others (particularly Rad) because it's easier than dealing with the fact that she doesn't have herself completely figured out, yet.
• Strong Family Resemblance: She got her looks from her mom and purple hair colour from her dad.
• Superpowered Evil Side: She temporarily gains her turbo form, Tenid, to match power against T.K.O. with the help of Fink's collar in "Let's Fight To the End".
• Token Wizard: Enid is the only main character whose powers are magical in nature, and knows the most about magic. That said, she wants to be a ninja and is not proud of being a witch, only ever presenting as a witch when talking to people who expect her to be a witch at least until she decides to embrace it in the finale.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Elodie, until Elodie abandoned Enid after defeating her in the P.O.I.N.T. Prep entrance exams (which Enid only lost at all because she was holding back against her best friend). This betrayal was a major contributing factor to her present-day cynicism and trust issues. In the P.O.I.N.T. Prep arc, though, they reconcile and become friends again.
• Yaoi Fangirl: She liked to read yaoi manga when she was younger, as seen in "You Have to Care" and "Second First Date", and even shared them with Elodie back then.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: She is shown to possess the ability to suck out people's souls in "Enid's Bad Day".

Radicles "Rad" X

Voiced by: Ian Jones-Quartey, Sterling Jarvis (singing voice)

A meathead alien with Telekinesis from Planet X. Rad manages the stocking at Gar's Bodega.

He fights using his brute strength and his telekinesis.

Hero Level: 2 ("Let's Be Heroes"-"Red Action to the Future"), 3 ("Dendy's Power"-"Dark Plaza"), 4 ("Dark Plaza" onward), 9 ("Let's Fight To The End")

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• Aliens Speaking English: Rad is an alien who speaks the English language.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Has a turquoise skintone due to being an alien.
• Big Brother Bully: Though not related to K.O., he often acts rude and insulting around him early on; he pretty quickly evolves into a protective older brother figure to K.O. who aspires to mentor him as a hero.
• Big Brother Instinct: When push comes to shove, Rad becomes really protective of K.O. This isn't just in battle, either: it's revealed near the end of the series in "Red Action 3: Grudgement Day" that his beef with Red Action stems from the time she purposely messed with and endangered K.O. in "You're Everyone's Sidekick", posted a video of it online, and never apologized, trying to pretend it didn't happen. Even K.O. himself wasn't that upset, but Rad took it personally simply because of his protectiveness towards him.
• Big Brother Mentor: He's a big brother figure to K.O. and tries to teach him how to be a hero.
• Blue Is Heroic: Wears a blue crop top as part of his work uniform.
• Butt-Monkey: The main source of comedic slapstick of the main three who gets more of his fair share of painful retribution for being a asshole or a coward deep down. Deconstructed, as he reveals in "Special Delivery" that while he normally pretends it doesn't bother him, he's actually gotten pretty sick and tired of being the butt of every joke. Particularly Enid's jokes.
  Rad: Do you even like hanging out with me? Or do you just like having someone around to make fun of?
  Enid: Rad, you know we just joke around like that. That's just our dynamic, y'know? K.O.'s the plucky kid, you're the macho meathead, and I'm the cool and funny one.
  Rad: Well, I'm also the one who likes corny music, okay? And the one that likes adding stupid mods to my van and eating food that makes me sick and I know I act tough about it but sometimes our dynamic stinks, alright?
• Character Development: Gets a ton over course of the series, as K.O.'s influence makes him a lot more comfortable with himself and able to be more open about his true thoughts and feelings. He becomes a better Big Brother Mentor to K.O. as a result:
  • While much of the "advice" he gives to K.O. early on is pretty bad and should really be regarded as Anti-Advice, it gets better and better throughout the series, and is genuinely good advice in later episodes.
  • Rad was extremely prone to macho posturing early in the series, not willing to say or do things or show genuine feelings if it would make him look weak. This starts to change once "Second First Date" highlights just how much this attitude (and the Toxic Friend Influence of Bel Beefer and Megafootball Baby) negatively affected his personality, in addition to ruining a potential romantic relationship with Enid. He finally apologizes for ruining their date, and starts letting his heart of gold shine through more from then on.
  • Season 3 highlights just how much he's changed for the better in "Radical Rescue". When he sees Megafootball Baby and Bell Beefer seemingly having a negative impact on K.O.'s personality too, he is quick to admit to K.O. that he regrets how he let them influence his likes and dislikes, and hates the thought of either them or himself being a bad role model for him. He is much quicker to stop his posturing this time around, and stops caring what they think of him.
  • For much of the series, he regarded his love for cats as a shameful Un Manly Secret, but in Season 3, he finally decides he doesn't care if anyone else learns that he volunteers at a cat shelter. Come the series finale, after retiring from the Planet X space force, he opens his own cat café in the Plaza.
• Dumb Muscle: While he is muscular, Rad is not very bright, as he stubbornly insists on knowing everything and once forgot that he gave K.O. his name tag in "You Are Rad" and mistakes him for an impostor.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Minor, but in the original pilot, he had square eyes and a tiny mustache. Now he has round eyes like everyone else, the 'stache is gone, and he's acquired a pair of canine fangs.
• Everyone Has Standards: While he does desire to be a superstar and famous, Rad would rather be liked for who he is rather than being cast as a 1-dimensional stereotype alien in movies.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Of the main trio, he's the Mage for his reliance on telekinesis, though he's quite strong as well.
• Genius Bruiser: He's the only X-tian to be both a nerd and a jock. While he's mostly a jock, and a dumb one at that, his nerd side does show on occasion, and the patrol bots at POINT Academy see his wisdom as a more notable quality than his strength or charisma.
• Godzilla Threshold: He and Enid both accept turbo collars from Fink in order to try to defeat T.K.O., turning them into "Trad" and "Tenid" respectively.
• Good Is Not Nice: Rad may be a hero, but he is the most obnoxious employee of the bodega and is quite stubborn and egotistical at best. He gets better, though, and much nicer, as the series goes on.
• Heroic Build: He is very muscular and can kick bad guy butt.
• Hidden Depths:
  • When K.O. has his name tag, he learns that Rad babysits, takes yoga and likes cat calendars.
  • "Plaza Prom" shows that he's an extremely good dancer.
  • His Pow Card stats say his intelligence is only at two stars, yet when he tried to get past the patrol bots at POINT Academy to see what the honor students were up to, they show his signature quality is his wisdom. This might have something to do with being a child of both Planet X's Jock and Nerd factions.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: "Second First Date" shows that he is actually very self-conscious and acts hyper-confident to compensate.
• Innocently Insensitive: Some of his remarks towards K.O. end up sounding more insulting than he means them to be, like calling K.O. simple and comparing him to Jethro. When he realizes how much it bothers K.O., he apologizes.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Their exact ages are unknown, but the teenage Rad and Enid are friends with K.O. who is 6-11 years old.
• Jerkass: At his worst, he is a hero who extremely egotistical and brash towards everyone in the plaza. As a result, he comes off as a Big Brother Bully to K.O. and stubbornly hides his Hidden Depths, believing that people will like him better for it while ignoring the fact that he hurt their feelings, placing the blame on them for rejecting him instead and never thinking about what he'd done. Though this is really only true near the beginning of the series, as he moves being a Jerk with a Heart of Gold fairly early on.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The jerk part is more pronounced, as he openly insults K.O. most of the time, but he's also capable of being very nice to K.O.
  • Reconstruction with his relationship with Enid. According to "Second First Date", she believes that his "heart of gold" side is actually a facade and calls him out on being a jerk to her on both of their dates, believing he will never change. However, when Rad rescues her from falling into lava and finally apologizes for ruining their date back then, she acknowledges that while he can be a jerkass at times, he also has a Hidden Heart of Gold under that obnoxious exterior.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: Although he won't admit it due to the image he tries to project, Rad has shown he really likes cats.
  • He has a photo of a kitten on his phone.
  • He has cat keychain on his car keys.
  • He purchases Kitten-A-Day Calendars.
  • He gets jealous when K.O. becomes giant and fills his pocket full of cats.
  • Rad volunteers at the Plaza's cat shelter.
  • He opens a cat cafe in the Distant Finale of the series.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Claims to know everything and never be wrong, but it soon becomes obvious that he doesn't. This is highlighted in "Do You Have Any More In The Back?", where he gets the others lost in the stock room rather than admitting he doesn't know his way around.
• Playing with Fire: He is given the Fire Ring in the Captain Planet crossover episode.
• Power Floats: Rad can levitate using his powers.
• Pride: He believes himself to be always right and has a hard time admitting when he isn't.
• Purple Is Powerful: Glows purple whenever he uses his powers.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Is a buffed up alien fighter who wears a pair of pink pants.
• Robosexual: Was in a relationship with Shannon for a short time in "Rad Likes Robots". There's also all the Ship Tease with Raymond, which Word of God extends to mutual attraction.
• Rubber-Forehead Alien: Is an alien with turquoise skin, dark green hair, Pointy Ears, and antennae.
• School Uniforms are the New Black: Or rather "Work Uniforms Are the New Black". We hardly ever see him in anything else besides the crop top even when he isn't working at the store.
• Sensei for Scoundrels: Especially early in the series, and while never intending to hurt him, Rad gives self-serving and bad advice to K.O. on several occasions, even getting him in trouble with his mom.
• The Slacker: Like Enid, he tries to avoid doing work whenever he can at the bodega. He's shown multiple times napping on the job.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He acts like he's really powerful when he's only passably strong. His ego is also his weakness.
• Superpowered Evil Side: He temporarily gains his turbo form, Trad, to match power against T.K.O. with the help of Fink's collar in "Let's Fight To the End".
• Top-Heavy Guy: Has some impressively buff arms and an equally muscular torso, but his legs are pretty spindly.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Bell Beefer and Megafootball Baby had this effect on him, making him something of a Jerkass who puts on a macho façade instead of being open with his feelings. Near the end of the series after he's had a significant amount of Character Development, he's horrified when he thinks that they and he himself are having this effect on K.O., and is quick to put a stop to it and finally admit that his so-called "friends" weren't good friends at all.
• Unmanly Secret: Liking cats, yoga, babysitting, knitting—the list goes on.
• Weirdness Censor: Sees no difference between a Taken for Granite Enid and her normal self.

Carol Kincaid

^{Click here to see her as Silver Spark.}

Voiced by: Kate Flannery

"The path to greatness is hard and long, even boring sometimes. But there are no shortcuts, so you gotta stay focused!"

K.O.'s mother and the owner of Fitness Dojo. Also the hero formerly known as Silver Spark.

Hero Level: 11

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• Action Mom: She's K.O.'s mom and is an experienced fighter in her own right.
• Affectionate Nickname: Has given and received them:
  • She often calls K.O. "Peanut".
  • During her time at P.O.I.N.T., Laserblast sometimes referred to her as "Sparks".
• Alliterative Name: Her former heroic identity, Silver Spark.
• Ascended Fangirl: Before joining P.O.I.N.T., she was a huge fan of them, and her favorite member was Laserblast.
• Badass Bookworm: Her Power Copying isn't any sort of inherent skill, she just studied all sorts of techniques and skills, having large access to case files and a powerful memory, thanks to that, she only needs to watch once what someone else does to understand it and copy their attack.
• Betty and Veronica: She plays the "Archie" to Mr. Gar's "Betty" (Cannot Spit It Out) to Laserblast's "Veronica" (Tall, Dark, and Handsome).
• Blue Is Heroic: In the pilot and shorts she wore a blue bodysuit, while in the series her bodysuit is violet and blue.
• Brutal Honesty: She really doesn't have the patience to deal with Gar's awkwardness around her, so she doesn't pull punches when dealing with him when he gets so shy he turns basically useless.
  Mr. Gar: K.O.! I'm in love with your mom!!
  Carol: Not that, you wet noodle!
• Childish Tooth Gap: She has a noticeable space in her front teeth that gives her a somewhat more youthful look despite being an adult.
• Combat Stilettos: As Silver Spark, she wore a pair of silver high-heeled boots.
• Compressed Hair: It's shown that she actually has long hair in "My Fair Carol" when Rad fixes her hair. This means she piles her hair up in a sweatband like K.O. does.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: A mild example, as she was paler and her outfit was a more true blue shade.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Enid seems to, as she referred to her Silver Spark look as a babe in "We Messed Up".
• First-Name Basis: Only refers to Gar as Eugene, due to being long time friends.
• Good Parent: Very helpful, loving and sweet with her kid.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Carol has blonde hair, and is heroic and a good mom to K.O.
• Happily Married: To Mr. Gar in the series finale.
• Mama Bear: She's very protective of her son, and strongly recommends that Mr. Gar give K.O. a chance to work at the bodega. Another example is when K.O. recklessly sets up a fight between her and Chameleon's dad. At first, Carol tries to avoid fighting to set a good example for her son, right up until Chameleon's dad calls K.O. a weakling and Carol changes her mind and immediately starts beating the crud out of him.
• Oblivious to Love: Downplayed. She seems to be unaware of Gar's affection for her, and definitely was in the past. When he confesses his feelings in front of her to snap K.O. out of his T.K.O. state, she is surprisingly unfazed and it's suggested she's merely unaware of how much he loves her, since she's never seen him act his usual boisterous self around people. Subverted by Season 2 with her now being in a relationship with Gar.
• Power Copying: Has the ability to replicate any fighting move perfectly.
• Primary-Color Champion: She's a blonde who is remembered for her past actions as Silver Spark and presently wears a purplish-blue outfit with accessories in the form of a red headband and gloves.
• Purple Is Powerful: Presently she and Gar are around the same power level and she wears a purplish blue outfit. While her outfit as Silver Spark was mainly silver, it also had bits of purple in the belt, boots, and pads for the elbows and knees.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Rarely gets angry with K.O..
• Relationship Upgrade: Went from being friends with Gar, if oblivious to his feelings, in Season 1 to happily dating him since before the start of Season 2. Then in the series finale, they get married.
• Retired Badass: When she was younger, she was a powerful superhero and was recruited to join the superhero squad P.O.I.N.T. After she retired, she runs a dojo at the plaza. Turns out she's still secretly working for P.O.I.N.T., and so apparently either rejoined or never really left.
• Someone to Remember Him By: Carol found out she was pregnant with K.O. shortly after Laserblast disappeared. Subverted when she finds out he didn't die.
• We Used to Be Friends: She and Gar used to have a close friendship, he still keeps pictures of their time together and "Face Your Fears" implies that there was a huge fall-out between them regarding the Sandwich Flashback, which Gar might see as his greatest failure, leaving a strain in their friendship. Towards the end of the episode though, it's implied that this comes mostly from Gar, as Carol genuinely still likes hanging out with him, but doesn't have the patience to deal with his awkwardness when talking with her. In "Let's Take a Moment", Gar finally apologizes for the Sandwich Incident, and Carol admits that while she did initially blame Gar for what happened, she's known better for a long time since.
• Whole Costume Reference: Her outfit is nearly identical to Sarah Bryant's.

Eugene "Mr. Gar" Garcia

^{Click here to see him as El Bow.}

Voiced by: David Herman

The owner of the hero supply store Gar's Bodega, and a former member of P.O.I.N.T. once known as El Bow. He has a huge crush on Carol.

Hero Level: 11

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• Action Dad: He is a badass and K.O.'s stepfather by the end of the series.
• The Ace: At Level 11, he's considered to be one of the biggest badasses at Lakewood Plaza Turbo, and K.O., Enid and Rad all look up to him. Case in point: He was able to turn his entire store chrome simply by mopping it.
• Benevolent Boss: Mr. Gar can be quite loud and insistent to his employees, but is generally fair and appreciative of their good work. He'll also gladly side with them against customers being unreasonable.
• Betty and Veronica: He plays the "Betty" (initially a shy nervous wreck who Cannot Spit It Out) to Laserblast's "Veronica" (Tall, Dark, and Handsome, future villain) for Silver-Spark/Carol's "Archie".
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Has thick eyebrows under his glasses.
• Blue Is Heroic: His uniform as El Bow was blue.
• Cool Shades: Has a nice pair of aviators.
• Crush Blush: Whenever he's around Carol, he blushes up a storm.
• Disappointed in You: K.O., Rad, and Enid are terrified of disappointing him.
• The Dreaded: As much as his employees respect him, they are also scared of incurring his wrath. Ironically, the robots of Box More have the opposite attitude, recklessly attacking Mr. Gar while ignoring his obvious strength.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Usually acts this way towards his employees, treating everything as Serious Business and barking orders at them whenever they're slacking off.
• Expy:
  • His everyday look is one of Mike Haggar, being a major businessman who can take matters into his own hands. They even have similar outfits and surnames.
  • His alter-ego in P.O.I.N.T., El Bow looks similar to Sym-Bionic Titan's Newton, Octus' human disguise, only with a mask and an athletic physique.
• Given Name Reveal: His first name, Eugene, is revealed in "Plaza Prom".
• Happily Married: To Carol in the series finale.
• Heroic Build: He has the physique of a bodybuilder.
• Hidden Depths: His biggest fear is Carol, due to something he did in relation to the Sandwich Flashback. In "Let's Take a Moment", it's revealed that he attempted to confess his feelings for Carol using the sandwich as a metaphor, which ended up distracting them until the lab Laserblast was investigating exploded. Carol (who was dating Laser at the time) angrily blamed Gar for what happened in the heat of the moment; by the end of the episode, in present day, they make up.
• Hidden Eyes: His eyes are mainly under the sunglasses but will be visible through things like anger and encounters with Carol.
• In-Series Nickname: Sometimes Carol calls him "Gene", a shortened form of his first name Eugene.
• It's All My Fault: He blames himself for what happened to Laserblast. He and Carol were supposed to be keeping watch outside the lab Laser was investigating, but Gar distracted Carol by trying to confess his feelings for her. In the heat of the moment, Carol blamed Gar for what happened. He gets better by the end of "Let's Take a Moment", where he and Carol apologize to each other.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's aloof to and sometimes rather harsh on his workers, but also encourages and gives them advice to help them along (often just before yelling at them again). "Legends of Mr. Gar" shows that he encouraged Rad to use the powers he was born with and refine them, and Enid to not take crap from an uncooperative customer.
• Large Ham: One of the largest in the series. He doesn't appear to have an indoor voice.
• Like a Son to Me: He never says it outright until the penultimate episode, but Gar loves K.O. as though he were his own. He officially becomes K.O.'s stepdad in the season three finale.
• Masked Luchador: When he was recruited to join P.O.I.N.T. as El Bow, he was a superhero with a luchador theme.
• Meaningful Name:
  • A gar is a type of ancient, predatory fish, that certainly befits his badass and mythical status.
  • "Gar" is internet slang for being manly and a total badass.
  • "Garcia", his full surname, is a Spanish word that can mean "young bear". He's not young now, but he's been as tough as a bear at every age he's shown at, including his young adulthood.
• No Badass to His Valet: He's the subject of fearful respect to most of the plaza, but to Carol, he's the same Nervous Wreck he was when they joined P.O.I.N.T.—in fact, he literally is like that whenever Carol is around.
• Noodle Incident: He was involved in the events of the Sandwich Incident that both he and Carol use as justification for leaving P.O.I.N.T. It's no longer an example as of "Let's Take A Moment", which shows what happened during this incident, and "GarQuest", which details how he was kicked out of P.O.I.N.T. afterwards and what he did from there.
• No Social Skills: Zig-Zagged. While he does just fine as a boss and public figure in the plaza, Gar is viciously inept at dealing with others on a personal level, as evidenced by his interactions with Carol and non-work interactions with his employees. He's actually worse in the present day than he was before; back when he was in P.O.I.N.T., he might have been a Nervous Wreck, but was definitely better at socializing with his peers.
• Not So Stoic: His profile on Action News also calls him a "Lovable Stoic". While he is generally serious and composed when running his shop, the sight of Carol can turn him into a blushing mess.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: His last name is Garcia but he prefers the shortening of "Gar".
• Parental Substitute: Over the course of the story, he finds himself becoming a father figure to the young K.O., teaching him the value of hard work, responsibility, and other morals. Even more so when he starts dating Carol and flashbacks show him with a sort of fatherly position in K.O.'s memories.
• Playing with Fire: He can blast blue flames out of his elbows.
• Punny Name: His former hero identity, El Bow, is a pun on his elbow based attacks, Masked Luchador aesthetic, and his bowtie.
• Purple Is Powerful: Level 11 and wears a purple necktie.
• Relationship Upgrade: With Carol as of the start of Season 2.
• Second Love: Is this to Carol once they start dating, since her first love and father of her child was Laserblast.
• Shrinking Violet: Of all people, Mr. Gar used to be this during his time at P.O.I.N.T. as El Bow, being adorably shy and insecure about his first day as a junior member.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Throughout the whole series—both in the present day and the flashbacks to his past in P.O.I.N.T.—he never shows romantic interest in anyone except for Carol/Silver Spark.
• Top-Heavy Guy: Dude's got a huge torso and arms with rather skinny legs; storyboard artist Dave Alegre once said that Mr. Gar is "basically a fridge with limbs".
• Unknown Rival: A minor example, but romantically, he was this to his P.O.I.N.T. teammate Laserblast, as he had feelings for their fellow member Silver Spark, who was Laser's girlfriend at the time. Even after El Bow found out Silver and Laser were dating, he still planned to confess to her anyway and convince her to be with him instead, but there's never any indication given that Laserblast knew about his feelings.
• Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: The details of his and Carol's past relationship are unknown until "Let's Take a Moment", but it happened a long time ago and he's still helplessly in love with her in the present. Subverted in Season 2, in which it's revealed that he and Carol started dating in the brief timeskip. They end up married in the future.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: The only thing he wears on his upper body is a tie.
• Wedding Finale: He and Carol get married in the series finale.
• Weirdness Censor:
  • Sees no difference between a Taken for Granite Enid and her normal self.
  • A bit more downplayed when Radicles asks him to teach him to mop. Instead of being suspicious at his employee's incredible nervousness, he happily demonstrates his mopping abilities.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Most of his moves consist of Explosive Elbow Drops. He even gave Darrell a Piledriver in the pilot. This makes sense when we learn before the present he was a full on Masked Luchador-type hero.

Dendy

Voiced by: Melissa Fahn

One of K.O.'s closest friends, Dendy is a highly intelligent young kappa with a passion for science and technology. She carries around a backpack overflowing with doo-dads she can use to solve just about any problem.

Hero Level: 1^note She was unranked until the events of "No More Pow Cards" ("No More POW Cards"-"Dendy's Power"), 2 ("Dendy's Power"-"Dark Plaza"), 3 ("Dark Plaza" onward)

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: At the beginning of the show, she's a very light yellow and resembles a human. However, as time goes on her skin becomes a light green hue, and as an adult she has lime green skin.
• Ascended Fanboy: Dendy loved collecting Pow Cards growing up, and in her adulthood, became the CEO of Pow Card Industries.
• Awesome Backpack: Carries around the Hack-Pack, a combination of a Magical Computer and backpack.
• Brainy Brunette: A smart young girl with olive brown hair.
• Character Development:
  • As the series goes on, she begins to emote more often.
  • In the beginning of her friendship with K.O. and the other Bodega heroes, she tended to treat other people more like experiments due to her lack of social skills, seen in episodes such as "I am Dendy", "We've Got Fleas", and "Mystery Science Fair 201X". She has a Jerkass Realization about this in the latter episode and gives K.O. a heartfelt apology, and becomes a better friend to him from then on.
• Child Prodigy: She's only a child, but she's incredibly smart and an expert coder.
• Color-Coded Characters: Yellow with a hint of light blue.
• Creepy Monotone: Her tone of voice can easily have you mistake her for being a robot.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: The Hack-Pack was orange in OK K.O.! Lakewood Plaza Turbo, but is teal in the cartoon.
• Friendless Background: K.O. is her first friend.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Her backpack lets her hack into any real world object.
• Hair-Trigger Sound Effect: Dendy's introduction to an episode is often accompanied by a crowd of children cheering.
• In a Single Bound: By charging her feet with electricity, she can jump high enough to reach the clouds, as seen in "Dendy's Power".
• Innocent Blue Eyes: The anime style shift that after Mr. Logic's haircut shows Dendy with blue eyes.
• Innocently Insensitive: Dendy's poor social skills have led to her doing some fairly disrespectful things, like planning to steal Mr. Logic's glorb and repeatedly breaking into Rad's van even after he tells her to stop. In particular, her enthusiasm for experimenting has also led her to treat people like lab rats, something she eventually realizes in "Mystery Science Fair 201X".
• Kappa: She explains she's a kappa at the start of "No More Pow Cards"; discrimination against her species is the reason she couldn't get a POW Card of herself at first.
  • While her parents and the other kappa match the usual physical traits (turtle shells, water held in the divot in their heads, beaks, green skin), Dendy just looks like a human with a triangle mouth—except when she takes her shoes off, revealing duck-like feet. Her official artwork gives her green skin, but in the series proper, her skin tone is at first a light yellow. As the show goes on, her skin becomes greener.
  • "You're a Good Friend, K.O." reveals that she has started growing a pond on top of her head, which she had been covering up with a beret. This indicates that many of the more prominent kappa traits such as the divots, beaks and turtle shells appear over time as a form of puberty.
  • "Thank You For Watching the Show" reveals that her skin becomes noticeably greener as a young woman along with her head divot becoming bigger, confirming this. Despite this, Dendy still looks more human than her parents.
• Lack of Empathy: She often fails to consider other people's feelings, and tends to more often than not consider the people around her test subjects. Being with K.O. has somewhat softened her, although that doesn't make him immune to being treated like a guinea pig; she spent much of "Mystery Science Fair 201X" trying to release T.K.O. through physically and especially emotionally grueling circumstances (which she realizes wasn't right after T.K.O. subjects her to much of the same treatment).
• Lady Looks Like a Dude: Dendy is quite androgynous and seems to favor unisex or male clothing; her usual outfit is a tracksuit, and she wore a tuxedo to the Plaza Prom. Her gender was unspecified within the show until "No More Pow Cards". Before then, we only knew for sure that she was female because of production notes/comments made alongside it.
  • Averted when we see Dendy as an adult in the Grand Finale. She looks◊ much more feminine.
• Little Miss Badass: Dendy is only one level behind K.O., who defeated a robot capable of taking on most of the plaza (though in fairness, power levels are not an accurate measure of power), and figured out a way to defeat half-code Shannon with an infinite loop code previously used in POW Cards.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: Dendy is shown to grow out her hair in the future.
• Maybe Ever After: Dendy and K.O. are still close friends decades into the future, but if they're romantically involved is never addressed.
• Minored in Ass-Kicking: She's certainly less of a fighter than the main bodega trio, as her specialty is tech support, and this is explicitly pointed out by her classmates in season 3's "You're a Good Friend, K.O.". But there have been a few episodes that have given her a chance to shine in combat related situations, often by using her tech or kappa abilities:
  • In that same episode, she manages to defeat Little Calf Demon through a combination of Me's a Crowd and Deadly Dodging until he accidentally lodges his horns in the wall.
  • Earlier than that, in season 2's "The So-Bad-ical", she jumps into battle against Miss Quantum with K.O., persevering even after being "shot", and in "Dendy's Power", uses her electrified-kappa-feet to jump around and dodge Shannon's attacks to get K.O. close enough.
  • In season 1's "OK Dendy! Let's be K.O.!", she uses her computer to build herself a K.O.-shaped exoskeleton out of Hard Light and completely pummels Ernesto with it.
• Ms. Exposition: Is sometimes called or shows up to explain various forms of information, such as analyzing to discover a Taken for Granite Enid was turned into soapstone, or how wereanimal curses work.
• Non-Standard Character Design: All the other adult kappas who appear in the show are quite short with stocky body types. However, as an adult, Dendy is about as tall as K.O. and has an hourglass figure.
• The Noseless: She's not normally drawn with a nose. She's seen with a nose during an Animesque Art Shift, suggesting she does have one, but it's just not drawn in the regular style.
• No Social Skills: She made up a fake quest for K.O. so she could study him instead of just asking if she could hang out with him. K.O. points this out at the end of "I Am Dendy", as if she wanted to know more about him, she could've just asked.
• Not So Stoic: She seems more on the serious and emotionless side for the most part, but that doesn't mean she never smiles.
• Playful Hacker: Thanks to her backpack computer, there isn't really anything she can't hack. It takes all of a second to hack into the POW Card Heroputer, and another couple of seconds to write an entirely new program for it to include kappa, something that Carla (the Pow Card company's engineer) states would've taken her forever to write.
• Running Gag: Whenever she appears in an episode, children cheering can be heard.
• Science Hero: She's on the hero side and lives for researching.
• Shorter Means Smarter: She's the same size as K.O. and is incredibly smart.
• Signature Sound Effect: In "We've Got Fleas", when she made an appearance, the sound of children cheering can be heard in the background. After the episode, whenever she appears on-screen, the sound will be heard sometimes, most commonly in her first appearance in the episode.
• Sixth Ranger: She becomes a part of the Bodega trio's team in missions in Season 3, but she's not officially hired into Gar's Bodega.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: What she wears look more like goggles, though.
• Stalker without a Crush: She has taken an interest in Radicles, figuring out his morning schedule and watching him through his window in "KO's Video Channel". Word of God explains that she does this because both Rad and herself come from unusual family backgrounds, Rad is unashamed of his background, and Dendy looks up to him because of that.
• Telepathy: Maaaybe? In one episode, Dendy could hear K.O.'s Inner Monologue. Although that might just mean that K.O.'s Inner Monologue is so loud that others could hear it.
• Vague Age: Her age is simply stated to be 6-11, like K.O.'s.
• Youkai: Kappa are Japanese monsters.

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