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    Team Samurai 

Sam Collins/Servo

Played by: Matthew Lawrence

The main protagonist of the series. Sam is the lead guitarist of a teen rock band called Team Samurai. In a freak accident with his personal computer, Sam gains the ability to transform into a cybernetic superhero Servo, a guardian tasked with saving the world from the evil digital menace Kilokhan.


  • Chivalrous Pervert: Despite his heroism, Sam is not above G-rated sexual deviance.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: Early promotions for the show describe Sam as "a computer genius", a trait that absolutely did not make it into the actual show.
  • Expy: To Spike Witwicky and Optimus Prime from Transformers: Generation 1, especially The Transformers series.
  • Finishing Move: Subverted in that Servo has multiple finishing moves all connected to his Grid Power. He can charge up energy and shoot it through the blaster on his left gauntlet, he can generate a crescent-shaped beam with his hands and throw it at the virus, or he charges his power into his feet and jump kick the virus.
  • I Just Want to Be Normal: Sam goes through this when he bemoans his slipping grades, lack of time with his band and girlfriend.

Tanker/Tracto

Played by: Kevin Castro

Team Samurai's drummer, the team muscle and the school's best player on the football team. Tanker is eager for a good battle and a good meal. When not fighting, drumming, or eating, he longs to be with Sydney.


  • Big Eater: Lack of food will drive him crazy.
  • Book Dumb: Tanker isn't by any means stupid, but grades are not one of his priorities.
  • Lovable Jock: One of nicest athletes in school. He only becomes a Jerk Jock where Malcolm is concerned. However, Malcolm deserves whatever Tanker wants to dish out.

Sydney "Syd" Forrester/Borr

Keyboard player, vocals, and computer genius. The tomboyish Syd is constantly maintaining Servo's programs, keeping Sam in top form.


Amp/Vitor I

Played by: Troy Slaten

Bass player and a total space case.


  • Cool Plane: Vitor
  • Genius Ditz: For all his quirks, he's an outstanding bass player (the band was originally hoping to recruit Amp's brother for his talent, only to learn that Amp taught his brother how to play), and an Ace Pilot in Syberspace.
  • Hidden Depths: Despite his outlandish non-sequiturs, Amp can be very insightful.
  • Put on a Bus: Partway through the show his weirdness is revealed to have been because he was actually an alien visiting Earth who returns to his home planet. It's not treated with the magnitude you'd expect, as his actor had already departed the show by the time of the reveal, the others simply accept it and move on.

Lucky London/Vitor II

Amp's replacement with a love for surfing.


    Supporting cast 

North Valley High School characters

Jennifer "Jen" Doyle

Played by: Jayme Betcher

Sam's and Malcom's Love Interest.


  • Expy: To Carly of The Transformers animated series.
  • Lovable Alpha Bitch: Popular and friendly to everyone she meets.
  • Satellite Love Interest: Seems to only exist as a trophy for Sam and Malcolm to compete over, she doesn't have much else going for her as a character.

Principal Prachert

Played by: John Wesley

The principal of North Valley High.


Yolanda "Yoli" Prachert

Played by: Kelli Kirkland

The principal's daughter, Jen's best friend and the Student Council President.


Mrs. Rimba "Cha Cha" Starkey

-Played by: Diana Bellamy

The school lunch lady. She temporarily pilots Drago in "Starkey in Syberspace."


  • Abhorrent Admirer: Inadvertently becomes one to Malcolm in one episode, courtesy of Kilokhan.
  • Designated Victim: Often suffers as a result of the plots of the week more than others not in Team Samurai.

Others

Elizabeth "Liz" Collins

Voiced by: Kath Soucie

Sam's little sister.


  • Annoying Younger Sibling: Often spends much of her time trying to annoy her brother and his friends.
  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: While she and Sam may argue, they do care for each other. Best demonstrated in "Money for Nothin' and Bits for Free" where Elizabeth lets Sam have her allowance when he has no money thanks to Malcolm using a virus, and in turn, after she breaks her leg later and needs surgery, Sam reluctantly throws food at Jennifer on Malcolm's orders in order to get enough money from him to pay for it.
  • The Voice: She's only always heard talking from upstairs, and is never seen in person.

Charles "High Jump" Johnson

A famous basketball player. He was a temporary pilot of Borr.


    Villains 

Kilokhan

Voiced by: Tim Curry

The main villain of the show. Kilokhan is a rogue military artificial intelligence hell-bent on ruling the world. He uses his powers to bring Malcolm's drawings to life as Mega Virus Monsters to wreak havoc on the digital world.


  • Adaptation Personality Change: He's a lot hammier and more prone to sarcasm than Khan Digifer.
  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Was created by a secret government project, and has become something far worse.
  • Big Bad: Seeking to take over the world via the digital world.
  • Can't Kill You, Still Need You: His love of non-lethal punishments for Malcolm isn't because he's unwilling, but because Malcolm is too important to his plans to kill. If it ever becomes the case that he's no longer useful, Malcolm suddenly becomes expendable.
  • The Comically Serious: The inevitable result of him being an openly malicious villain with a petty Laughably Evil flunky like Malcolm.
  • Cool and Unusual Punishment: Kilokhan has come up with various creative but non-lethal punishments for Malcolm whenever one of his viruses is destroyed. These have ranged from hypnotizing Malcolm to confess that he's been cutting class and getting detention to zapping all of Malcolm's hair off.
  • Creative Sterility: Despite his powers, he lacks the creative abilities to design and program viruses. Hence he needs Malcolm to design the viruses for him.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: When he finally does face Servo himself, the more the fight goes on the more one sided it becomes in Kilokhan's favor. Kilokhan already incapacited the rest of Team Samurai so Servo didn't have their help, limiting him to Malcolm sending his sword and shield, which Kilokhan countered. He quickly followed up by destroying the support programs to ensure Servo couldn't call on them. Seeing that he couldn't win, Servo was forced into making Heroic Sacrifice to get the power he needed to destroy Kilokhan.
  • Dark Is Evil: Wears all black besides the metal on his helmet.
  • Deadpan Snarker: As you'd expect from a villain voiced by Tim Curry, he likes to make a lot snarky remarks at other people's expense.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Downplayed. Kilokhan prefers to use Mega Virus Monsters to cause as much havoc and destruction as he can, so he detests many of Malcom's more petty small scale ideas.
  • Evil Brit: Courtesy of Tim Curry's real life accent.
  • Evil Is Not a Toy: Malcolm tries to treat him as a minion, but Kilokhan makes it clear who's calling the shots, and not only crosses lines Malcolm won't, but is very willing to leave him to the same fate he intends for the rest of humanity when victory seems assured. Tellingly, despite seemingly giving into Malcolm's threats on a few occasions, the one time Malcolm genuinely wanted to stop him (from nuking the world), he was powerless to do so, making it clear Malcolm has zero actual control over Kilokhan. After tricking Malcolm into giving him a huge power up to the point he no longer needs him, Kilokhan instantly shows how little control over the situation Malcolm had.
  • Evil Is Petty: When he's in a bad mood he will sometimes subject Malcolm to harmless but nonetheless humiliating punishments for the failure of his viruses, or simply because Malcolm does something to annoy him.
    • After spending an episode in Malcolm's body, Kilokhan decides he can't stand the world of humans and will destroy it rather than trying to take it over.
  • Eviler than Thou: Malcolm likes to think they're equal partners, but Kilokhan makes it clear at several points that Malcolm is nothing but his pawn who he humors the quirks of so long as he's useful to him. Malcolm proving completely powerless to stop Kilokhan from trying to nuke the world also shows Malcolm has no real control over Kilokhan at all. The moment he gets a large enough power up that Malcolm is no longer useful, Kilokhan shows he never gave a darn about him to begin with and intends to kill him.
  • Evil Laugh: One heard in both the theme song and the end credits.
  • Evil Overlord: Of the digital world as he always proclaims.
  • Evil Is Hammy: He's a villain played by Tim Curry, he couldn't be anything else.
  • Expy: Of Megatron and Unicron.
  • The Faceless: We never see what he looks like under his helmet. Given that he's a computer program and not flesh and blood, it's likely the helmet is his face.
  • Fantastic Racism: He thinks he is above all organic beings and refers to all humans as "meat things".
  • For the Evulz: In contrast Malcolm being motivated by petty grudges, Kilokhan's only motivation for evil is that he feels like it. He will do anything from getting people arrested to starting World War III for no reason other than because he can.
  • Heel–Face Brainwashing: Is subjected to this in "Sweet And Sour Kilokahn" when Syd hacks his programing. Hilarity Ensues Kilokhan starts being nice and Malcolm turns out to hate Kilokhan when he's nice even more than when Kilokhan treats him like crap.
  • Hypocrite: Criticizes Malcolm as being illogical, despite being out to commit acts of evil simply because he enjoys chaos, destruction and watching people suffer.
    • In one episode shows up to tell Malcolm he doesn't need him thanks to a Mega Virus he tricked Syd into creating, before admitting he needs Malcolm to alter the virus so it will actually be evil.
  • Large Ham: He's voiced by Tim Curry, it's a given. Taken up to eleven in "Mal-Kahn-Tent" when he hijacks Malcolm's body. Glen Beaudin proved even hammier as Kilokhan than Tim Curry.
  • Let Me Get This Straight...: In Some Like It Scalding, this Kilokhan's reaction to learning that Malcolm created a Mega Virus Monster to mess with air conditioners to increase heat, and all Malcolm wants to do with it is heat up the school cafeteria. Kilokhan wants no part of such a petty scheme and only brings the Mega Virus to life because Malcolm coerced him by flipping him over.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Malcolm thinks he's an equal partner, but it becomes obvious at several points Kilokhan is playing him like a fiddle. In the intended finale, he uses the fact they have a rough bead on Servo's location to manipulate Malcolm into tricking the two into setting up a lot more Christmas lights and turning them all on at once to act as sensors to pinpoint it. What Kilokhan doesn't tell him is that doing so will massively power up Kilokhan to the point Malcolm's usefulness has expired, at which point Kilokhan makes it clear Malcolm was never in control.
  • Non-Action Big Bad: While very active in terms of planning and having his own goals, he spends most of the series in Malcolm's computer...right up until he personally engages Servo and shows just how lucky Team Samurai is that he's never tried to fight them personally before now. Also justified, as he had no clue where Servo really was and was limited until he tricks Malcolm into giving him a huge power up that removes said limits.
  • No-Nonsense Nemesis: If Kilokhan had his way, every Mega Virus Monster would be committing mass murder or mass destruction, and it frustrates him that Malcolm is so petty. A number of times Kilokhan only approves of Malcolm's petty schemes because Malcolm manages to think of something far more dangerous Kilokhan can do with the Mega Virus afterwords. The moment he finds Servo's location and gets a large enough power up to no longer need Malcolm, he drops the monsters, flies straight to their computer and erases everyone but Sam's mind's as quickly as possible. From that point on, Kilokhan is going straight for the kill. He even wrecks Sam's computer from the inside to prevent any reinforcements from getting through.
  • Not So Above It All: Despite his distaste for Malcolm's pettiness, he's not above indulging in some petty villainy at Malcolm's expense.
    • Despite thinking that Malcolm's plan in "Some Like It Scalding" was beneath, after seeing everyone suffer while being trapped by the heat, he actually does start to like it.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: While claiming he wants to Take Over the World, after a short stint in Malcolm's body among humans, he gets soured on that idea and decides he'll destroy them instead. While he still tells Malcolm he intends to do the former, it's implied he's lying to him so he'll continue to work with him and several times attempts to destroy literally everything except himself. When Servo calls him out on the fact he'll be all alone if he kills humanity, he replies so long as he exists, he doesn't care.
  • Orcus on His Throne: Spends his time creating bring Malcolm's viruses to life but doesn't actually get directly involved himself. Justified since he doesn't know the identities of his enemies and there were some limits to how he could move through cyber space. In the intended finale he overcomes both issues by learning where Servo had been operating from.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: He puts up with Malcolm's petty vendettas and doesn't kill him because he needs someone to design his monsters, and antisocial, murderous Mad Artists aren't exactly easy to come by. The moment he's strong enough he doesn't need Mega Virus Monsters anymore, Kilokhan wastes no time trying to kill Malcolm.
  • Straight Man and Wise Guy: Acts the serious Straight Man to Maclolm's petty Wise Guy.
  • Stupid Evil: Kilokhan is smarter than Malcolm, but it doesn't stop him from doing things that put Malcolm's life in danger when he's decided he doesn't need him. This would leave Kilokhan without Malcolm's aid, but Malcolm is too stupid to realize that Kilokhan plans to get rid of him when he's no longer useful. In the intended finale this backfires and causes Malcolm to join Sam
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He and Malcolm do not get along. At all. Malcolm will insult and deride Kilokhan at every opportunity. Kilokhan in turn refers to Malcolm as a "meat thing" and has no patience for his petty schemes. Rather tellingly, Kilokhan considers Malcolm's petty schemes and smaller scale schemes to be beneath him unless he do something to make them more dangerous, but he doesn't consider doing petty things to spite Malcolm to be beneath him.
  • Turned Against Their Masters: It's implied his first act upon becoming self-aware was to kill his creators in an "accident."
  • Verbal Tic: After an Evil Laugh, he will sometimes utter a phrase appropriate to the situation.
  • Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: As humorous as the show is, the second episode highly implies he killed the research team that created him by causing an "accident". In one episode he even tries to start an apocalyptic nuclear war. Most of the more silly plans of Malcolm's he only goes along with with the promise that he can use the monster for some real destruction after Malcolm's had his fun. Other times Malcolm comes up with a petty scheme but Kilokhan reworks it into something far more dangerous.
  • You Have Failed Me: He sometimes punishes Malcolm for a virus's failure by doing everything from making him get detention or even burning all his hair off.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Shows he doesn't give a darn about Malcolm, only his ability to make monsters for him. If he doesn't need those anymore, he'll gladly leave Malcolm to the same fate as the rest of humanity.
    • "A Break In The Food Chain" sees Malcolm come up with one of the his few plans Kilokhan actually likes by cutting off the world's food supply. Kilokhan still sends shipments of food to Malcolm's house, but eventually cuts them off and leaves Malcolm to starve.
    • In the intended finale, once he tricks Malcolm into getting him a huge power up, Malcolm instantly joins Sam on his hit list.

Malcolm Frink

Played by: Glen Beaudin

A classmate from Sam's school. Malcolm is a lonely kid who wears black and has artistic talent. When he and Kilokhan form an alliance, Malcolm uses Kilokhan's abilities to bring his monsters to life to make others miserable.


  • Adaptational Villainy: Unlike Takeshi, Malcolm is never brainwashed into creating monsters for the Big Bad.
  • Bullying a Dragon: He knows Kilokhan is a homicidal computer program who would be very capable of killing him, but still berates, insults, and talks down to him. Justified, as he knows Kilokhan needs him for his plans. Whenever that stops being the case and Kilokhan turns on him, Malcolm is clearly as terrified as one would expect.
  • Butt-Monkey: Through whatever means the universe is determined to make Malcolm suffer for his villainy. Usually Team Samurai does something to humiliate him, but occasionally Kilokhan decides to amuse himself Malcolm's expense.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Not to the extent of Kilokhan, but he has his moments, like when he pointed the routine the battles with Servo falls into.
  • Devil in Plain Sight: He wears all black, has black hair and is an all round Jerkass. But Sam and his friends are convinced he's just antisocial, not a full blown villain.
  • Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: One of the arguments with him and Kilokhan sees Kilokhan flat out threaten to kill Malcolm. Malcolm responds by reminding Kilokhan that he needs him to create Mega Viruses, calling his bluff.
  • Dirty Coward: So long as he's safe or has the upperhand, he's snarky, belligerent, and confident, but any time Kilokhan proves Eviler than Thou, that dissolved very quickly.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: If literally ANYTHING doesn't go his way, Malcolm will contact Kilokhan to create a Mega Virus Monster to exact revenge. His attempts at revenge range from simply doing things to annoy people to plots that would constitute murder if not stopped, to plots that would could kill thousands of people at the minimum.
  • The Dragon: He thinks he and Kilokhan are partners, but even though Kilokhan needs Malcolm he's made it clear more than once he's the one with the power and could dispose of Malcolm if he wants to.
  • Dumbass Has a Point: He continuing to work with Kilokhan shows a lack of common sense his part. But he does have a few surprising moments of intelligence.
    • As he points out more than once, Kilokhan does need him, and even call his bluff when he threatens to kill him.
    • Quickly points out his reason for not wanting Kilokhan to start a nuclear war that would destroy the world. Malcolm doesn't want to destroy the world since he lives in it.
    • He once came up with a Mega Virus Monster that causes people to act the opposite of how they normally would. Kilokhan dismesses it as useless until Malcolm points out that it could be used to turn Servo evil.
    • Late in the series how pointless sending out a Mega Virus Monster is since they always get destroyed. Of course Kilokhan had gotten wise to this as well and had a plan to resolve that.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Although Malcolm loves seeing Team Samurai humiliated, and doesn't necessarily care when other people's lives are endangered, he draws the line at Kilokahn trying to use a virus to activate America's nuclear arsenal to start World War III. When it becomes apparent that Kilokhan won't stop and he's powerless to do anything about it, Malcolm breaks down crying and begging him to stop.
  • Evil Feels Good: Despite it being Kilokhan who makes his plans far more dangerous, he admits he enjoys helping his plans, as long as he's not put in danger by them.
  • Evil Is Hammy: He's over the top to a comedic degree.
  • Evil Is Petty: Much to Kilokhan's chagrin.
  • Expy: Prior to his Heel–Face Turn, he was this to Doctor Arkeville, albeit without cybernetic parts.
  • Fatal Flaw: His need to punish slights towards him. Not only does it inhibit the scope of him and Kilokhan's plans, it's the main reason despite Kilokhan betraying him repeatedly he always goes back to him. When Kilokhan is reprogrammed by Sydney to be harmless, Malcolm admits that he needs Kilokhan and ultimately reverses the reprogramming.
  • Heel–Face Turn: He became this in the 39th episode "Kilo Is Coming to Town", which was intended to be the Grand Finale. Had the new Gridman series been produced, Malcolm would have become the new Servo, just as Takashi was intended to be the new Gridman.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: He thinks Kilokhan likes him enough to spare him, despite all the petty insults he's thrown his way and that he's shown more than once he will leave Malcolm out to dry when he's no longer useful.
  • I Just Want to Have Friends: Implied in several episodes. Particularly the Christmas episode where he believes that Kilokhan wouldn't harm him because they were friends, not realizing that he was just being used as a pawn by the villain.
  • Large Ham: Says a lot when the Big Bad voiced by Tim Curry comes off as understated compared to him.
  • Laughably Evil: Thanks to how hilariously petty he is, his antics are downright comedic.
  • Lonely Rich Kid: Implied. Like Takashi, Malcolm lives in a really big house, his parents aren't even mentioned, and he doesn't seem to be starving despite being unemployed and lacking any human contact outside of school.
  • Loners Are Freaks: He's often treated as such by the other characters, which gives him some basis for his bitterness.
  • Mad Artist: He's not insane, but he's bitter, withdrawn and antisocial. He's also a very talented sketch artist.
  • No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Averted with some of the Mega Virus monsters. Malcolm will occasionally reuse old designs like Plexton and Hock, often by adding new abilities, weapons and body armor.
  • Pet the Dog: In the intended finale, after forced into an Enemy Mine with Sam, Malcolm truly does develop a desire to help stop Kilokhan not just to save his own skin, but because it's the right thing to do, and admits that he wished he and Sam could have been friends.
    • When Syd apologizes to him in "His Master's Voice" for making him feel like an outsider, he actually thanks her.
  • The Rival: He competes for Sam's girlfriend Jennifer.
  • Straight Man and Wise Guy: The petty Laughably Evil Wise Guy to Kilokhan's Straight Man.
  • Stupid Evil: A defining trait. Any time something occurs to annoy him, Malcolm creates a Mega Virus Monster to exact revenge, no matter what it is.
  • Team Rocket Wins: "Sweet And Sour Kilokahn" sees him successfully undo Kilokhan's Heel–Face Brainwashing thanks to the damage a virus did to the program and an overload caused by Servo charging a Finishing Move.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Despite the humiliating things Kilokhan has done to him, and that he's left him to his fate when he's no longer useful, more than once, Malcolm keeps working with him.
  • Unwitting Pawn: He isn't as in control of the situation with Kilokhan as he thinks he is, seeing himself as one half of a Big Bad Duumvirate with him. Kilokhan doesn't agree with him. After Kilokhan manipulates him into giving him a huge enough power boost that he no longer needs Mega Virus Monsters to effect the real world, Kilokhan adds Malcolm to his hit list.
  • What the Hell Is That Accent?: Often speaks in a rather posh, half New England/half British accent, especially when trying to be intimidating or spiteful. But not always.
  • Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Less so than Kilokhan. It becomes horrific when you realize that any 21st-century teen who exhibits the same kind of behavior as Malcolm does is not to be taken lightly.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once Kilokhan has Team Samurai at his mercy and Malcolm unknowingly gave him a big enough power boost that he can effect the real world on his own, he no longer needs Malcolm.

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