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Spinnerette
Heather Brown; grad student at "Ohio Research University" who works under Dr. Lambha. Thanks to an accident involving her klutzy ways and the doctor's new "prototype genetic infusion chamber," she has found herself imbued with superpowers derived from spiders. This includes having the proportional strength of a spider ("GIRL ABS!") and super-healing along with six arms and high-tensile spider thread that shoots out of the base of her spine. However, she's not the only superpowered person around.
- Alternate Self: She has ones in the form of Golden Age Spinnerette, Silver Age Spinnerette, and Dark Age Spinnerette. And now Spinnerette: In Space!!
- Amazonian Beauty: She gets a Super Physique complete with larger breasts and "GIRL ABS" after getting into a Freak Lab Accident that gave her four extra arms and some superpowers. She decides to fights crime with an outfit that covers most of her body but still manages to be very revealing due to its form-fitting nature so her muscles and curves are quite visible.
- Animalistic Abilities: Heather has the proportional strength and agility of a spider, can scale surfaces and projects webbing from the base of her spine.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Issue 29 sees Heather using some Imported Alien Phlebotinum in order to become this so she can fight Sarah Nicole Megan on equal ground, who is using another copy of the same phlebotinum.
- Badass Bookworm: Though sometimes rather ditzy, the fight against Evil Spinnerette reminds us that she is quite competent in the book smarts department. Exploiting spider biology for a reverse cowgirl!
- Berserk Button: She hates being teased over her short height and is infuriated whenever anyone so much as hints at mentioning it.
- Breast Expansion: Lampshaded by Heather herself
, though it's also possible that, given her increased musculature, her pectoral muscles are just pushing them out further. - Brought Down to Normal: she was temporarily brought down to two arms by Dr. Universe.
- Character Development: The end of the Glass arc sees Heather become significantly more mature and pragmatic. After all, it's very difficult to imagine the Spinny of volumes past being so coldly and unhesitatingly willing to burn an antagonist to death with thermite.
- Clark Kent Outfit: The extra arms make this a a bit more difficult for Heather. Originally she tried hiding them under her coat, to no success. Eventually Sahira designed a special "fat suit" that was large enough to hid the arms in the belly. Heather wasn't exactly thrilled at the prospect of becoming chubby (mostly because she wanted to show off her "girl abbs") but was forced to admit the disguise works very well.
- Deal with the Devil: Downplayed, but she tries to make a deal with Dr. Universe that in exchange for curing Mecha Maid's ALS. As it is, she owes him a solid for saving her life, so long as it doesn't go against her morals.
- Didn't Think This Through: While she is very clever and resourceful, as shown in the first fight with Evil Spinnerette, and the fight with Col. Glass, she seldom considers the long-term consequences of her impulsive actions. This proves to be a double-edged sword for her. On the one hand, it makes her quick and unpredictable, often leading to victory against far more experienced, and powerful, foes. On the other hand, if things don't immediately go her way, the consequences jump up and bite her, hard, as is seen when she's taken down by a rookie car thief who has no super-powers of any kind.
- Distracted by the Sexy: According to
Word of God, Super MILF's breasts "transcend sex appeal" for her. - Ditzy Genius: Doesn't head into Idiot Hero territory, though despite being quite intelligent she is shown to be clumsy and headstrong.
- Expressive Mask: The shape of the eye lenses changes to match her facial expressions.
- Expy: She's based on a Gender Flip of Spider-Man. It's fitting in regard to the series' Affectionate Parody status.
- Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Her spider silk costume is custom made. Her nipples show through unless she wears pasties, and her panties must really ride up in the back unless she's Going Commando which are both confirmed, in the "Power Swap" issue and in one of the NSFW issues respectively, to be actually the case.
- Gayngst: Went through this after Mecha Maid confessed to her.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She has a pair of giant plush spiders that she often cuddles, one of which is named Mr. Webby.
- Going Commando:
- When in uniform, implied by the blatant lack of underwear lines of her Form-Fitting Wardrobe along with the explicit drawing of her nipples showing through (the latter, even discussed by Sahira). Obviously, actually shown only in the NSFW issues, where she once fights a minor supervillain with spider silk-dissolving poison, with predictable results...
- In a later NSFW issue, she wears this way a long party dress for a cocktail party with Mecha Maid.Spinerette: It's a cocktails with the American Superhero Association! I'll have my mask and wig on, but I get to rock the super-bod!
- Averted in the "fat Spinnerette" issue (where she and Greta Gravity exchange powers and body mass), where Heather is seen struggling to fit into her regular costume; as the regular issues are SFW, she was seen using a high-riding thong instead.
- Guile Hero: How she brought down Colonel Glass. Her super powers are nowhere near the class that Glass is in, but she was still the one who finally brought him low. With a series of Batman Gambits, she goaded Glass into effectively maiming himself.
- Healing Factor: Can heal minor injuries in a manner of minutes.
- Heroic Build: GIRL ABS! The spider silk superhero costume shows all of her many muscles.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She tries. She tries twice in a row in the same page.
- When her powers get out of control and she starts sprouting an ever growing number of arms, which she winds up losing all but two of them, Dr. Universe offers her to use a C-K reactor to regrow them to the usual six, and genetically cure her arms race, in exchange for her help in getting said C-K reactor. She outright refuses to hand a potentially dangerous weapon over to someone she doesn't trust 100%:Spinnerette: If I have to die for this decision... so be it.
- Universe then reveals he already has a C-K reactor and offers to cure her anyway. Heather is already asking him to use it to try and cure Marylin's ALS instead before he can finish stating his offer, even though that could easily mean her own death on the long (or even short) term. It doesn't work, as ALS doesn't have a known genetic cause that could be reverted.
- When her powers get out of control and she starts sprouting an ever growing number of arms, which she winds up losing all but two of them, Dr. Universe offers her to use a C-K reactor to regrow them to the usual six, and genetically cure her arms race, in exchange for her help in getting said C-K reactor. She outright refuses to hand a potentially dangerous weapon over to someone she doesn't trust 100%:
- Heroic Willpower: She's the first to break out of Delta Wave's puerile dream fantasy brainwashing, and Delta even commends her on it.
- Horrible Judge of Character: She's tricked by Evil Spinnerette twice, and the second time Alexis barely put any effort in.
- How Do I Shot Web?: Quite literally. Even after getting the hang of most of her powers, aiming her web is still proving tricky.
- Immune to Drugs: Spinny appears to be immune to the rage-inducing toxins Captain Alberta snuck into the Canadian League's water supply, possibly due to her powers being derived from spiders. Later shown to extend to other mind-altering drugs.
- Informed Attribute: She supposedly has a degree in biology yet believes in things that are biologically impossible and has numerous characters call her out on it.
- Jumped at the Call: The first thing she does after gaining superpowers is start thinking of a superhero name.
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": She was enthralled by Ben Franklin's origin story. It's clear that she thinks he's the coolest old guy ever.
- Male Gaze: Early on in the story, her outfit was so form-fitting that her nipples were sticking out. While she got pasties to cover them, her butt gets plenty of focus.
- Mistaken for Pregnant: A running joke among the comment section is that Heather's fat suit actually makes her look pregnant, which was lampshaded when a little girl asked Heather if she was having a baby and didn't buy the reply that she was just overweight.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: The most obvious effect of her powers is that she got four extra arms. Exaggerated when she is infused with Sahira's powers, causing her to uncontrollably replicate her arms.
- Multi-Armed Multitasking: She can use her arms to perform several actions at the same time, and they (especially Bottom Lefty) tend to act on their own.
- Mundane Utility: Using her own silk for knitting and making her costume.
- Never Heard That One Before: Cracks about deodorant usage? How... original.
- Never Say "Die": At first, Heather either can't face, or refuses to accept, the fact that Marilyn really doesn't have much time left, something which Marilyn finds quite frustrating, given that it makes talking about the matter with her very difficult. However, after a significant bit of wising up through Issue 18, Heather eventually makes her peace with Marilyn's mortality, imploring her not to rush to make her life any shorter.
- Organ Autonomy: When not using them, her extra limbs tend to act more or less on their own. Bottom Lefty is particularly... frisky around Mecha Maid.
- Parents as People: In the "too busy quarreling to notice" category, with a side order of Not Now, Kiddo. Dad's the town sheriff and mom's gone into a MLM home-business.
- Power Perversion Potential: Heather gets quite grossed out when a pair of stereotypical otakus start discussing in front of her how many ways Spinnerette could play with herself with six arms. Amusingly enough, it actually happens: Bottom Lefty does that to her at one point in the regular issues; and, in one of the NSFW issues, Mecha Maid calls her "a one-woman orgy".
- Projectile Webbing: After she gains her superpowers following the infusion chamber incident, she gains the ability to shoot threads of strong spider silk... from new glands at the base of her spine, in a position roughly analogous to where a spider's spinnerets are in real life.
- Secret-Identity Identity: Heather considers Spinnerette to be her true identity to the point where she would rather die than lose her extra arms.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Invokes the trope by name when choosing a very sexy dress for a cocktail party with the A.S.A. which doubles as her third date with Mecha Maid in one of the NSFW issues.Mecha Maid: Damn, you look amazing!
Spinnerette: I can clean up really nice when the occasion calls for it! - Shell-Shocked Veteran: After actually killing Glass, she freaks right out when she thinks she's killed an animal.
- Shoot the Dog: Killing Col. Glass while he's down. At the end, even Heather recognizes that the only way to Make Sure He's Dead is to burn him to death while there's a chance, so she does what she has to do.
- Spider-Sense: She doesn't have it, but she thinks she does or at least likes to pretend.
- Superhero Packing Heat: Temporarily. During the fight against Wendy G, her father lends her his service pistol.
- Super-Strength: Those GIRL ABS aren't just for show.
- Took a Level in Badass: Started off incredibly clumsy and incapable of putting up much of a fight, even with enhanced strength and six arms. She's gradually gotten better, to the point where she's even able to quickly incapacitate Mecha Maid and the rest of the Canadian Superheroes.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Mess with Marilyn (Mecha Maid), and she will use whatever level of force she needs to, including lethal force, no exceptions. Not even her own mother.
- What Would X Do?: Asks herself What Would Tiger Do when Captain Alberta drugs the Canadians. It gives her a Heroic Second Wind where she methodically subdues each of the driven-mad superheroes.
- With Great Power Comes Great Hotness: After getting her powers she happily boasts to Sahira that her breasts seem to have gotten bigger, and starts galavanting around in a skintight costume.
- Wrestler in All of Us: She figures that the only way she feasibly can subdue a brainwashed but otherwise competent Mecha Maid is to out wrestle her.Spinnerette: You might be a karate expert, but let's see how well you rassle! [one panel of oiled girl wrestling later] Ha! You wrestle like a girl who never had siblings!
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Though Heather knows she's in a superhero comic, is aware of all the various tropes that apply, and expresses Medium Awareness at times, she thinks she's in a straight example, and not an Affectionate Parody where everything runs on Surprisingly Realistic Outcome.
Mecha Maid
Mecha Maid / Marilyn Seong
- Action Girl: The definitive example early in the series, as she knows what she's doing.
- A-Cup Angst: She's perturbed by Heather ogling Super MILF.Mecha Maid: B-cups, but who's counting?
- All for Nothing: All the fighting they did against Adastrea was for naught. While she and Spinnerette were successful in saving Dr. Singh's life, the stem-cell treatment failed to help in any way.
- Anguished Declaration of Love: She's finally able to tell Heather how she feels at the end of Chapter 8, but the situation is less than ideal.
- Badass in Distress: Whenever her armor is shut off, she ends up as this, often to be saved by Heather.
- Batman Grabs a Gun: Equips her armor with high-explosive rounds, white phosphorus missiles, and a thermite self-destruct charge to take out Colonel Glass for good. Everything except the thermite charge fails, which Spinny thankfully takes to use on her own.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: She has a retractible segmented blade stored in her right gauntlet.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Twice in the comics has she been poisoned by psychotropics into attacking Spinny. Of course, Spinny is immune to poisons, whereas Marilyn combines a thin and waifish frame, a debilitating disease and very low body mass...
- Cannot Spit It Out: Yes, she is interested in Heather. No, she isn't able to tell her until the end of Chapter 8.
- Character Focus: She gets a significant amount of focus during the Colonel Glass arc, which shows her origins and gives her a very personal grudge against the villain.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Her birth mother was held hostage and killed by Colonel Glass. Even worse is the possibility that Glass might be her birth father.
- Damsel in Distress: During one fight in Issue 8, her suit is disabled, forcing Spinnerette to evacuate her.
- Deuteragonist: She is the second most important character after the titular protagonist.
- Disability Superpower: Her armour was originally developed to counteract her paralysis.
- Driven to Suicide: After Heather kills Colonel Glass, Marilyn tearfully admits that she intended to use her own fight with the man to commit suicide and take Glass with her.
- Dude, Where's My Reward?: After the Adastrea arc, the stem-cell treatment in Dr. Singh's office fails to aid in her condition.
- Expressive Hair: It is most noticeably at the end of Chapter 8, her headband...flap...things go down when she's sad then flare up when she's angry.
- Handicapped Badass: Outside of her Powered Armor she's confined to a wheelchair with ALS, but with her suit she's capable of kicking butt.
- Happily Adopted: After her birth mother was killed by Colonel Glass, she was adopted by Park Seong.
- Hyperspace Arsenal: Her Powered Armor is very form-fitting, but manages to conceal an arsenal of missiles, miniguns, arm-blades, and other weapons.
- Inconsistent Coloring: Mecha Maid has occasionally been shown with red or black hair, despite Word of God being that she dyes her hair purple and wears a black wig in public. A flashback to her as a baby also incorrectly shows her with purple hair, despite her natural hair color being black.
- Kaleidoscope Hair: In the first few pages of Issue 16 her hair goes from being purple to red due to an accidental coloring mix-up. A few pages later her hair goes from blonde in one panel to purple in the rest, before finally settling on the more plausible color black. Word of God was that this was a mistake on the part of the colorist, and that her hair is naturally black and dyed purple.
- Knight in Shining Armor: Played with. She is this trope's Distaff Counterpart to Spinny's Damsel in Distress whenever she uses her flight powers to rescue Heather in their first battles together. Heather even mentions the trope by name during their third date. However, whenever her suit gets disabled in battle, their roles switch and it's Mecha Maid the one needing a six-armed Knight in Shining Armor to rescue her, something that Marylin confess right after the above mention that she really liked.
- Lipstick Lesbian: Downplayed. She isn't really seen doing really feminine things, but she's far too feminine to be called a Butch Lesbian. She's more along the lines of an Ellen DeGeneres-type "Chapstick Lesbian."
- Mukokuseki: It's unlikely anyone would have known she was Asian if the comic hadn't told us. (Although that's only with her headset and armor on. As a civilian, her ancestry is more evident.)
- Ninja Maid: Possesses superhuman strength (though her ALS makes her unable to utilize it without her armor), and has a number of maid uniforms she dresses up in.
- Powered Armor: Her armor was initially developed by her father to help disabled people walk, and weaponized by her. She also has multiple suit iterations.
- Precision F-Strike:
- Though usually calm and rational, she gets very frustrated with Heather's trademark pluckiness while trying to discuss the subject of her mortality.Marilyn: God damn it, Heather! Stop making this so hard!
- These became more frequent when Colonel Glass entered the story.Shit. Glass escaped.
I would have vaporized that son-of-a-bitch if you hadn't run in my way!
Burn in Hell, you psychopath!
- Though usually calm and rational, she gets very frustrated with Heather's trademark pluckiness while trying to discuss the subject of her mortality.
- Reed Richards Is Useless: Invented a device that lets paralyzed people walk, and just uses it for crime-fighting. She claims that she's afraid the tech would be used as a weapon. Given that Dr. Universe's backstory has this exact thing happened to him (U.S. military swooped in and tried to steal his research and kidnap his assistant), it's not all that ridiculous a fear. Becomes completely justified when we're introduced to Jennifer Troy, aka "Adastrea", who outright copied her armor design and went on a violent crime spree.
- Rescue Romance: Twice. With the same person. In both sides of the trope, one each. Ultimately making the two of them fall twice as hard for each other. See details in Knight in Shining Armor above. Bonus TV Tropes points for it being used for resolution of a Cannot Spit It Out plot, as mentioned in the trope's page.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Her disastrous fight with Colonel Glass seems to have left her with some psychological scars. One of the Sheila Sisters triggers her PTSD by shattering some windows and windshields, and gets gunned down (with rubber bullets) in retaliation. A couple of strips later, Heather touching her hair while leaning in close for a kiss caused Marilyn to flash back to this strip. She's also become increasingly violent towards supervillains since fighting Glass, such as extending her suit's arm-blades against the Sheila Sisters, and arguing that they should have killed the Hostess for what she did to them.
- She Who Fights Monsters: When Mecha Maid learns that Colonel Glass his come to town, she becomes obsessed with killing him, equipping herself with explosive and incendiary weapons, including a thermite self-destruct charge. When she finally confronts him, she recklessly fires off a volley of HE missiles in the middle of Dr. Lambha's laboratory, which would have hit Spinny had Mecha Maid not aborted them at the last second, causing them to veer into the ceiling. She then lashes out at Spinnerette for getting in the waynote , and Spinnerette calls her out on how reckless she's getting in her quest for vengeance, stating that had the missiles hit their intended target Park (Marilyn's butler) and Dr. Lambha would have been killed in the blast.
- Slasher Smile: After pinning the defeated Sheilas down, Mecha Maid remarks she was afraid she'd have to use lethal ordinance, but her frightening smile doesn't quite match her words.
- Super-Strength: Mecha Maid's superhuman strength derives not from her armor, but from her own muscles, augmented by technology in her maid headband. The armor itself provides weaponry and flight capabilities.
- Taking You with Me:
- Equips her suit with a thermite self-destruct charge to kill Colonel Glass. However, when she tries to activate it, her suit, already heavily damaged from her fight with Glass, malfunctions and results in her receiving a nasty shock instead.
- Ultimately, it's how she takes down "Adastrea" by using an E.M.P. that disables her as well, although by that point, her armor was pretty much non-functional anyway.
- Tareme Eyes: In her upbeat super identity she has rounded eyes.
- Teen Genius: Helped design her own Powered Armor.
- Transparent Closet: At the start of the series her attraction towards Heather is pretty obvious, especially for Sahira. Green Gable didn't think she was in the closet at all. However, she chose to hide her true feelings from Heather.
- Tsurime Eyes: In her melancholy civilian identity, her eyes are pointed.
- Twofer Token Minority: A threefer actually: East Asian (specifically Korean), disabled (as she has ALS), and a lesbian.
- Tyke Bomb: While Marilyn was still in the womb, her biological mother was exposed to radiation by the North Korean government in order to produce another superpowered individual for the country.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Lay a harmful hand on Heather, or at least look like you are, and she'll arm a missile immediately.
- Your Days Are Numbered: It comes with the territory of having a terminal illness.
Tiger
Tiger / Jeff Coleman
- Animal Battle Aura: Jeff can summon the Spirit of the Tiger to use as an attack against his enemies or to form a protective shield.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: When temporarily imbued with Dr. Universe's intelligence, he has a hard time maintaining concentration and keeps getting distracted by plans for a cupholder-sized cotton candy machine.
- Berserk Button: Many.
- Being called 'Black Tiger'.
- Thinking his 'Spirit of the Tiger' is a euphemism for steroids.
- Any mention of Canada. He gets over this one after being helped by the Legion of Canadian Superheroes.
- Captain Ethnic: He's very adamantly not this, but most citizens think he is. Calling him "Black Tiger" is a good way to piss him off.
- Character Focus: Issues 4 and 6 expand on his backstory and make his development the main character focus.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: He is deeply angered by the idea that he gained his bulk via steroids rather than intense training and drinking lots of protein shakes. In the book-only Chapter 5, this is hinted to not be entirely true. The Spirit of the Tiger does indeed account for some of his musculature. Confirmed in a later chapter when he switches powers with Dr. Universe and loses most of his bulk.
- Comes Great Responsibility: Ultimately why he continued to be a superhero despite his wife's protests.
- Doing in the Scientist: "Spirit of the Tiger" is not an euphemism for steroids. It is a legitimate supernatural force.
- Genius Bruiser: Jeff is a skilled detective and the most reasonable of the Ohio Superheroes.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: The most temperamental of the heroes introduced.
- Heroic Build: The guy is a mountain of muscle with a relatively tiny head on top!
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Tiger is enormous, especially compared to Mecha Maid.
- It's All My Fault: He has a tendency to take responsibility for the failings of his team. In Issue 12, it causes him to step down as their leader.
- Lawful Stupid: Greta states that Tiger will uphold the law to the letter no matter what, like Civil War era Tony Stark.
- The Leader: He's the leader of the superheroes of Columbus Ohio. This is why he takes responsibility for the mistakes made by his two teammates.
- Morton's Fork: Before he officially became Tiger, he was pressured by his wife not to pursue a superhero career out of fear that it might eventually leave their daughters without a father. This came to a head when some of his daughters' classmates were killed by a criminal, and his daughters were tearfully begging him to be a superhero before anybody else died needlessly, and his wife was, at the same time, tearfully demanding that he didn't do it. He gave in and became Tiger, and his wife wasn't willing to bend, so her fears drove her to divorce him.
- Noble Bigot: Dislikes Canadians, but is willing to work together with the League of Canadian Superheroes despite his misgivings. Thankfully, he grows out of it.
- Not So Above It All: He usually doesn't display the same quirks of those around him, but he does become obsessed with creating a miniature cotton candy machine when he switches powers with Dr. Universe.
- Out of Focus: After leaving the team at the end of Issue 12, he appears far less frequently in later issues due to the plot focusing on Spinnerette and Mecha Maid's relationship.
- Shirtless Scene: He gets to show off his shirtless body in a flashback to his origin story in Issue 4.
- Take Up My Sword: Before his superhero career, he was a cop on the beat. He responded to a store robbery gone wrong and found an old man mortally wounded at the scene. With a final comment of "You'll do nicely", the old man passed on the Spirit of The Tiger into Jeff... and then died.
- Team Dad: He sees his teammates like his daughters and thus gets quite overprotective of them.
Legion of Canadian Superheroes
Green Gable
Green Gable
- Badass Normal: Unlike the others in his team, he has no super powers but he can still bring down super villains.
- Bigger Is Better in Bed: As shown off by the NSFW chapter starring him, Gable is comically well-endowed — to Katt's delight.
- The Cape: Is courteous and courageous, despite not possessing any obvious powers.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: He isn't said to have any powers, but he's been training to become a superhero since birth. He has strength of character!
- Captain Patriotic: He is Canadian and proud of it.
- Formerly Fat: He was once overweight, and does not like being reminded of it.
- Legacy Character: Inherited the suit from his ancestors, all of whom were female.
- Heroic Build: Gable trains rigorously, and it shows.
- Large Ham: He always speaks dramatically and when entering a room he is likely to strike a pose.
- The Strategist: Green Gable calls strategy while his super-powered teammates handle the heavy lifting in a battle against the Composite Soul.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: He dresses in women's clothing because he was raised to, and is dating Colonel Långstrump.
Werewolf of London, Ontario
Werewolf of London, Ontario
- Amazon Chaser: Gushed over Minerva after she used a magic spell to send a composite soul beast back to Hell.
- Anime Hair: His human form in Novel #1.
- Ass Kicking Pose: Has a nice one here.
- Chivalrous Pervert: He started hitting on Minerva quickly after meeting her, but he's also a Nice Guy.
- Cursed with Awesome: Cursed with lycanthropy due to a werewolf attack, initially he had all of the usual problems but by the time of the story he's mastered all of them. He could switch back and forth if he could remember how.
- Fan Dumb: In universe: London occasionally has to deal with obnoxious fans with a very poor understanding of lycanthropy.
- Friends with Benefits: According to the NSFW chapters, he had this with Katt at one point; he wanted more, she didn't, and they resolved to be Just Friends. At least, outside of that particular chapter.
- Handsome Lech: Is dating Minerva but openly ogles Super MILF, and tries to hang out with Katt and date Minerva simultaneously... Archie-style.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Everyone calls him "London". His real name is unknown.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Practice has allowed him to retain lupine form at all hours without the berserk quality common to new werewolves... but he's forgotten how to turn human.
Katt
Katt O' Nine Tails
- Artistic License – Biology: Katt's tails appear to emerge from her sacrum rather than her coccyx.
- Bifauxnen: With her coat on she looks quite masculine.
- Cat Girl: Has pointed ears, fangs, claws, and nine prehensile tails.
- Casual Kink: The NSFW chapters starring her reveals that Katt is a bisexual size queen who definitely believes Bigger Is Better in Bed, has pierced nipples, has fantasies about almost all of the main characters and some of the villains, and also uses her tails to masturbate.
- Every Thing Sounds Sexier In French: The team's resident francophone. Since almost everything in Canada has to be written in both English and French, she sometimes repeats what Gables says in French.
- Fantastically Indifferent: In a flashback to her origins, Katt is visibly confused when she suddenly gains cat ears and cat tails, only to laugh it off a few seconds later. The fact that she was high at the time probably helped.
- Hartman Hips: Katt is only slightly above Mecha Maid on the official bust size chart, but her hips make up for it.
- Just Friends: With London, according to Minerva, although she is a little too quick to deny having romantic feelings towards him. In her second NSFW chapter, she upgrades this to friends-with-benefits by having a threesome with London and Minerva.
- Kimono Fanservice: She puts on a kimono to do massages.
- Male Gaze: Just like Spinnerette, she gets a few flattering shots that show off her butt. Which is one of the only parts of her that distinguish her from a male.
- Mundane Utility: Uses her prehensile tails for massages and lifting heavy objects. Her NSFW chapter reveals she also uses them as a sex toy when she's in-heat.
- My Instincts Are Showing: Katt occasionally meows and goes into heat just like a real cat.
- Precision F-Strike: Coupled with Bilingual Bonus, since when annoyed she tends to respond with rather vulgar Quebecois profanity.
- Prehensile Tail: She has nine tails that are very strong, using them as Combat Tentacles.
- Stripperiffic: In contrast to her fairly conservative civilian clothes and military-style uniform, her choice of swimsuit appears to be a strapless bikini and a G-string.
- Touched by Vorlons: She once saved a stray cat from being run over and nursed it back to health. This cat turned out to be intelligent and magical, and it repaid her kindness by granting her superpowers.
Captain Alberta
Captain Alberta
A former member of the Legion of Canadian Superheroes who was sent to a three-month sensitivity training camp. He returned prematurely to find Minerva had taken his spot on the team and immediately swore revenge.- Badass Longcoat: A brown trenchcoat, to be precise.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": Has an A on his hat.
- Combat Pragmatist: He tells Katt that they'll fight once his half-eaten corndog hits the floor. He throws it into the air, only to blast Katt with water from a nearby dunking tank while she's distracted with watching the corndog and take off.
- Corrupted Character Copy: He's a parody of Wolverine in appearance and personality, with Logan's gruff personality taken up to unreasonable levels.
- Crass Canuck: Captain Alberta is a hydro-kinetic superhero inspired by Wolverine, but a whole lot more misanthropic, alcoholic and sexist, to the point he first appears as a member of the Canadian League of Superheroes mentioning he went through court-appointed therapy and, when it's clear he refused to change his ways, is fired and becomes a recurring foe of the League, seeking to humiliate them and post videos of them allegedly behaving badly (read: Police Brutality) on social media. His only saving grace is that he remains a staunch patriot regardless, and when he is told that he was hired to be a distraction for a villain aiming to wreck Canada's economy he immediately gives up his employer.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Tried to kill his former teammates when Gable revoked his membership due to him being rude to Minerva.
- Face–Heel Turn: Snaps when he believes the team has replaced him with Minerva. When he reappears in the League of Canadian Superheroes arc, he's become a full-blown supervillain.
- Fat Bastard: Has a large paunch, and is a bigoted jerk.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Extremely hot-tempered, which is one of the reasons he was cut from the team. Gable later exploits this to bring him down.
- Hired Guns: After being thrown out of the League, he becomes a hired thug.
- Jerkass: The reason he was kicked off the team is his unapologetic bigotry and mean streak.
- Making a Splash: He can control water.
- Master Poisoner: Uses a toxin to induce Hair-Trigger Temper in his former teammates, hoping they'll kill each other.
- Noble Bigot: He likes to think he's this, but it doesn't take a whole lot for him to make a Face–Heel Turn.
- Perma-Stubble: Is constantly unshaven, adding to his gruff and crude appearance.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Becomes this after his Face–Heel Turn, his rudeness being the reason he was kicked off The Team in the first place.
Other Supers
Minerva
Cerberus and guardian of Hell whose job is to capture wayward evil spirits and bring them back. She was eventually fired from her job and joined the Legion of Canadian Superheroes.
- Blood Knight: The right head is the most aggressive.
- Chainmail Bikini: It looks more like it's there for support instead of protection and it barely does that.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Attacks Katt while under the influence of Captain Alberta's rage toxins, accusing her of trying to steal London.
- Cloudcuckoolander: The left head is a cheerful child with a poor attention span. She has been compared to Pinkie Pie, both in the comments and in-universe.
- Cute Monster Girl: For a three-headed monster wolf, she's very cute.
- Entertainingly Wrong: As a teenager she made an unprovoked attempt to murder a completely innocent Guinness, assuming that she was her next target.
- Freudian Trio: Within one body. Her right head is aggressive, her middle head is calm and stern, and her left head is cheerful.
- Girl on Girl Is Hot: She exploits this by making out with herself on multiple occasions.
- Hell Hound: She's a Cerberus from the Underworld.
- Leeroy Jenkins: As a teenager, Minerva tried to murder Guinness after misinterpreting her father's statement of the "one final monster" she was to defeat. She spotted Guinness' reflection in a conspicuously-placed mirror, when it was supposed to mean her own aggressiveness.
- Magic Knight: As she puts it, she's "swords and sorcery all in one."
- Multiple Head Case: She has three heads with different personalties that work independently of each other, but are attached to the same body. They all seem to refer to themselves as "one person of three minds, all of whom are Minerva" and during her first date with London she explained that they synchronize memories during their sleep. At the same time, the heads have conversed with each other at least once
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Contracts lycanthropy from London, enabling her to transform into a three-headed Amazonian Beauty human.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: She describes Cerberuses as being trained to be warriors from childhood.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Due to misinterpreting her father's Secret Test of Character, as a teenager Minerva tried to kill his secretary Guinness, who kicked her butt to the curb without even trying.
- Tsundere: Comes naturally as a result of her heads' different mindsets, though it's especially evident with her more temperamental right head.
Mr. Canus
Mr. Canus
Minerva's father.- Freudian Trio: Within one body. His right head is stern, his middle head is calm, and his left head is cheerful.
- Hell Hound: Is a Cerberus from Hell.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: He towered over Teen Minerva.
- Multiple Head Case: Has three heads, and his personalities are even divided the same as Minerva's.
- Secret Test of Character: Minerva's "one final monster to defeat" was her own aggressiveness... but she happened to catch sight of Guinness' reflection in the strategically placed mirror and assumed it was her.
Super MILF
Dr. Laura Mackenzie is a scientist whose body was infused by an alien artefact retrieved from Venus, causing her breasts to grow to a ridiculous size and produce intense heat. She took up the alias Ms. Venus but got shut down by DC's lawyers due to her costume looking too much like Power Girl. She had several children and came back Hotter and Sexier as Super MILF.
- Action Mom: Between her stints as Ms.Venus and Super MILF she gave birth a few times.
- Big-Breast Pride: Despite rationalizing her cleavage-revealing outfits as a way to ventilate the heat her breasts emit, she still comes off as remarkably boastful about her bust. She even tells Mecha Maid and Spinnerette to emulate her and "embrace their femininity" via a Cleavage Window.
- Boob-Based Gag: Her absurdly enormous breasts are the subject of a number of jokes.
- Breast Expansion: Courtesy of being engulfed in the explosion of a powerful reactor from Venus.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: While they're often Parodied, her huge breasts still make people lust after her, with London claiming staring at her chest is like "looking at the sun".
- Cleavage Window: Her first outfit had one of these, allegedly because her super-boobs need air-cooling. As mentioned, she was forced to retire it thanks to the threat of a lawsuit by DC Comics.
- Fetish: She states outright at one point during a TV interview that she dresses like that because it turns her on, and (at least according to her) the same is true for most other superheroes who go out in things like skintight costumes.
- Has a Type: The NSFW comics imply she has a thing for feminine guys, enough that she puts her personal assistant in a maid costume and gets aroused enough to have sex with him right then and there.
- Impossibly-Low Neckline: To the point where one suspects that the lack of wardrobe malfunctions can only be attributed to one of her actual superpowers.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: A Smug Super, but still a genuine superhero who protects Columbus during Tiger's 10-Minute Retirement and Mecha Maid and Spinnerette's visit with the Canadians.
- Most Common Super Power: Has the largest bust size in the comic, according to Word of God. It manages to be a parody of MCSP while appearing in a webcomic that is at times a joyous celebration of MCSP.London: (staggering away limp-legged) It's like looking into the sun!
- Ms. Fanservice: She knows she's sexy and blatantly flaunts what she's got, often to the embarrassment of everyone around her.
- Naked Apron: In the High School AU reality presented in Issue 19, she cooks breakfast wearing nothing but an apron, much to Spinnerette's outward chagrin (and hidden delight).
- Origins Issue: The beginning of Issue 13 is this for her.
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She has red hair and green eyes, and seems to be Ben's Number Two in the ASA.
- Smug Super: Goes out of her way to make Patti uncomfortable during an interview and later on melts Dr. Universe and Greta Gravity's ice creams just because.
- Straw Feminist: She is accused of being one by Mecha Maid.
- Superdickery: When she comes across Dr. Universe and Greta Gravity purchasing ice cream, she deliberately melts it when Dr. Universe points out she can't pick a fight with them since they're not committing a crime.
- Super Sex Organs: Her powers come from her "Venusian Bosom". Her Impossibly-Low Neckline is stated to be ventilation since they generate heat.
- With Great Power Comes Great Hotness: Being infected by a Venusian energy core caused her breasts to grow to a comically massive size, which she is more than happy to exploit — calling herself "Super MILF" and openly admitting that being a superhero is a fetish for her.
Ben Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
One of the founding fathers, lost in time. After an incident where he saved Hitler's life, a convenient time traveler dropped him off in 2002 to prevent the Subprime Mortgage Crisis. He failed, but makes up for it via superheroics in other areas.- Badass Bookworm: He invented time travel from a musical instrument, then he beat up everyone in a Bad Guy Bar while naked.
- Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Benjamin Franklin was a time-travelling superhero.
- Big Good: He is The Leader of the American Superheroes Association which acts as an umbrella of sorts for all the superhero teams in America.
- Compound-Interest Time Travel Gambit: How he initially funded the ASA, though now they get most of their cash from merchandizing. It's Truth in Television, minus the time travel and the ASA. He bequeathed £1,000 each to the two most important cities in his life (Boston, where was born and raised, and Philadelphia, the adopted hometown where he made his name), each fund to be partially opened in 100 years and completely opened in 200; the Boston fund, when opened was enough to establish a large trade school after the first 100 years; the Philadelphia fund was used to fund scholarships to local high school students at maturity in the 1990s.
- Cool Old Guy: It's Benjamin Franklin, the lady's man, famous inventor, and witty humorist. In this verse, he's also a superhero!
- Dirty Old Man: Of course. He was leering down a woman's cleavage when he was sent through time.
- Full-Frontal Assault: A little nudity didn't stop him from engaging in Good Old Fisticuffs when he first became time-displaced.
- Historical Domain Character: America's Founding Father is now in Columbus, Ohio in the 21st century
- Language Barrier: When he time traveled to Germany, he couldn't understand what Hitler was saying. Oddly enough, the real Benjamin Franklin did speak German.
- Merchandise-Driven: In-universe, he funds the ASA through merchandising. He travels to Columbus, Ohio to ask Spinnerette to join the ASA so he can sell Spinnerette themed-merchandise, and Mecha Maid asks to keep the action figure he brings along.
- Super Luck: As long as the timeline he's in depends on him surviving to invent time travel, anything in that timeline that tries to hurt him will luckily miss, and any attack of his will be a lucky perfect shot.
White Heron
Kim Jeong; a Korean superheroine who fought Colonel Glass in 1985.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: A white heron.
- Badass Cape: Wears a red one with a high collar.
- The Cape: Not just for being the only superhero to actually wear one; her dedication to helping others, her willingness to put other's lives above her own, her high morals, the inspiring nature of her actions, the publicity of her heroic identity... her whole character revolves around Heron being a completly straight example of this trope, widely considered so In-Universe.
- Captain Geographic: Her chest insignia incorporates the South Korean flag.
- Character Death: She was killed by Colonel Glass, crippling South Korea's military to such a point that North Korea was able to gain a permanent advantage and become the Communist strongman that it is today.
- Dad the Veteran: Is a former member of the North Korean military, and at the very least collaborated with the South Korean army.
- Death by Origin Story: Was killed as part of Mecha Maid's origin story.
- Death or Glory Attack: Her chrono field allows her to move at super speed and hit like a truck, but after she uses it, she will become frozen in time until reality can catch up with her, which can potentially take weeks.
- Defector from Decadence: She defected from North Korea to South Korea.
- Faking the Dead: Though not entirely by choice. After killing the North Korean spy that was the interrogator sent by South Korea's own government, Park sets up thermite grenades and blows up the "safehouse" after evacuating Kim, telling the soldiers that Kim was killed trying to escape and resist capture, so no more deep cover agents go after her and his men.
- Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Her costume is very form-fitting. When she was made to wear a spandex outfit when having her powers assessed in the White Heron spin-off comic, she complained about how skintight it was and scared the men present by saying her powers would let her know if they were ogling her.
- Go Out with a Smile: Died with a relieved smile at having saved the baby.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Died saving baby Marilyn from Colonel Glass.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Was stabbed in the back by Glass's Flechette Storm while trying to save baby Marilyn.
- Kid Hero: She defected from the North Korean military when she was at most 16, and died when she was around 19. In between, she worked as an agent of the South Korean military.
- Mundane Object Amazement: After defecting from North Korea, she is shown to be amazed by a simple vending machine full of Pepsi.
- Posthumous Character: She was killed decades before the comic started.
- Supernatural Martial Arts: Could launch energy blasts from her hands, and was proficient in taekwondo.
- Super-Soldier: She was a soldier with superpowers, presumably as a result of the same program that produced Colonel Glass and Mecha Maid.
- Super-Speed: She was capable of running at at least 80 kilometres per hour.
- Super-Strength: Technically a side effect of her super speed. Punching something at 80 km/h causes a lot more damage than a normal punch.
- Time Master: Her super speed and strength come from her ability to create a chrono field that speeds up time only for herself (though from her perspective, it's everything else that has slowed down). Unfortunately, she also has to spend time letting reality "catch up" afterwards.
