Characters / The Aquabats!

Current Members

The MC Bat Commander

Portrayed by: Christian Jacobs

Debut album: The Return of The Aquabats!

Bombastic leader of the team. Easily identified by his drawn on mustache and blacked out tooth.

• Arbitrary Skepticism: Fights monsters every day, but laughs at the idea that Eaglebones might have an invisible bird.
• Badass Normal: Has no powers, but still fights robots, aliens, and all manner of evil. He's also a pretty good physical fighter, too.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Is every bit the goofball he acts like, but has proven his mettle more than once; coordinating the defeat of Space Monster M, single handedly fighting off the Cobra Man, and luring a monster to destroy the Cowboy Android.
• The Gambling Addict: The episode CobraMan! shows him to be psychologically incapable of refusing a bet, no matter how likely he is to lose. This gets exploited by both friend and foe alike.
• Indy Ploy: An expert at this. He even sings about his love for winging it in an episode of the Super Show!.
• It's All About Me: Can be pretty arrogant at times.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Tends to be rather selfish or rude to the others, but usually comes through when they need him.
• Large Ham: Frankly, you couldn't sing The Aquabats! lyrics without being one.
• Pointy-Haired Boss: Out of incompetence rather than any real malice.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Battles with dropkicks, elbow strikes, and submission holds when possible.

Crash McLarson

Portrayed by: Chad Larson

Debut album: The Return Of The Aquabats!

Team big-man and bass player. Able to grow super huge by harnessing his overemotional nature.

• Berserk Button: Do not upset children while he is nearby. and definitely don't break Jimmy.

• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Has some downright impressive brows. Even more played up in cartoon form.

• Catchphrase: "Getting EMOTIONAL!"
• Cloudcuckoolander: At times.
• Dumb Muscle: Even without using his powers, he's pretty tough. As the Battle Beast, he clobbers the rest of the band until they slowly beat him down with numbers.
• Emotional Bruiser: Has the emotional stability of a small child, and is the team muscle.
• Friend to All Children: Probably because he still acts like one.
• Face–Heel Turn: After the show was cancelled, he found work as Silver Skull's Battle Beast. In his defense, he didn't want to hurt his friends, just knock them out and sell their shoes online.
• Hidden Depths: Hidden in plain sight. Crash might be a manchild, but he's a damn good bassist.
• Large Ham: In several senses of the term.
• Manchild: Requests bedtime stories, has a very active imagination, believes his dirty socks are lucky, and does not handle stress well.
• Manly Facial Hair: Eventually grew a big, wild beard. The others think its totally savage.
• Power Incontinence: He doesn't have great control over his growing powers and can rarely ever trigger them at will, usually requiring one of the other Aquabats to set him off. Also, while anger and grief trigger his powers, fear doesn't and actually makes him revert to normal, as the fight against Space Monster M demonstrates.
• Sizeshifter: Grows giant when distressed... most of the time.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Doesn't seem to have any fighting skills to speak of, but his size changing powers make him the single most powerful member of the team and even at normal size he's the strongest of the 'Bats.

Eaglebones Falconhawk

Portrayed by: Ian Fowles

Debut album: Hi-Five Soup!

The teams shaggy haired guitarist. Able to shoot lasers from his guitar, and summon his awesome animal friend The Dude.

• Animal Companion: The Dude.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Badass bird in general, it would seem.
• Arch-Enemy: His brother, EEEEAAAGLECLAW!
• Cain and Abel: Him and his brother Eagleclaw.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Eventually has to learn that you can't help everybody.
• Instrument of Murder: His laser shooting guitar.
• Invisible to Normals: The Dude is invisible to most people, including Eaglebones until he got his second sight ability.
• Made of Plasticine: He's got hollow bones, making him the most vulnerable of the Aquabats.
• Musical Assassin: How well he plays seems to affect how powerful the lasers are.
• Noble Bird of Prey: The Dude.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Starts out with a huge ego, but is humbled when his arrogance almost gets him killed.
• Transformation Sequence: Sort of. His summoning The Dude gets this.
• True Sight: He received this so he could see The Dude.

Jimmy The Robot

Portrayed by: James Briggs

Debut album: The Fury of The Aquabats!

Robotic keyboardist and saxophonist, slash brains of the team.

• Do-Anything Robot: From scientific study, to pouring drinks out of his fingers, and of course, playing the keyboard.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: His name. Going by Jamie The Robot and then just "The Robot" before Charge!!
• Easily Detachable Robot Parts: He can remove his hands pretty handily, and at one point Eaglebones unscrewed his head.
• Finger Firearms: The main use of his robot hands.
• Genius Bruiser: Super strong and super smart.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Seems constantly worried that his friends don't really care about him. They do.
• Kamehame Hadoken: He uses a hadoken on the Battle Beast in Saturday Morning.
• Literal Genie: Does not always get metaphors.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Sometimes reacts to monsters and mutation with intrigue or outright affection.
• Parental Neglect: He chose to be a superhero instead of working on a orchard.
• Properly Paranoid: He has a fear of being abandoned by his teammates which ultimately comes to fruition in Saturday Morning where he was sold to some scrap merchants by his employer at a video game arcade.
• Ridiculously Human Robot: The only tell that he's a robot are his metal hands and chin.
• The Smart Guy: With his super-robot science knowledge.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: His father built him to pick apples, but he chose to be a superhero who plays saxophone. His father was too arrogant to admit he was proud of him.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Seems to be very insecure about being a robot.

Ricky Fitness

Portrayed by: Richard Falomir

Debut album: Charge!!

The team's fitness inclined and Super-Speed possessing drummer.

• Ace Pilot: Of the Drum Copter he inexplicably has.
• All Drummers Are Animals: Averted. He's one of the less hammy members of the team.
• Casanova Wannabe: Has a thing for the ladies.
• Characterization Marches On: In the Super Show pilot, Ricky was originally an aggressively goofy member of the team. He's much more restrained in the actual program albeit a tad girl crazy and obsessed with fitness.
• Forgot About His Powers: The whole band gets this, but Ricky in particular rarely ever uses his super-speed.
• The Heart: Occasionally. Best demonstrated in Saturday Morning, where he's the one to rally the Aquabats after the magic horn is broken and reminds them they can still bring back the Super Show without it.
• Interspecies Romance: Briefly dated one head of a man eating Siren.
• Neat Freak: Very serious about keeping clean.
• Not So Above It All: He's a firm advocate for healthy eating, but even he can't resist donuts, burgers, and pizza.
• Out of Focus: Compared to the others, Ricky doesn't get a whole lot to do. He gets his share of focus episodes, but his character is the least outlandish of the group, and his speed powers are rarely useful or even used at all.
• Super-Speed: His power.

Former Members

Prince Adam

Portrayed by: Adam Deibert

Royalty, trumpet player, and original member of The Aquabats.

• Flight: One of powers during "The Return of The Aquabats". Along with...

• Modest Royalty: Nothing visually sets him apart from the other Aquabats, and he's only seen crowded once in a promo image
• Noble Fugitive : He, along with the other band members, was hunted by Space Monster M in the Pre-Supershow Canon

Ultra Kyu(The Mysterious Kyu)

Portrayed by: Charles Gray

Chainsaw the Prince of Karate

Portrayed by: Courtney Pollock

Catboy

Portrayed by: Boyd Terry

Lover of science and women, and defyer of normal logic

• Cloudcuckoolander: His ultralogic is ultimately this

• Nerds Are Sexy :Is very popular with "The Ladies" and is very fond of science

The Baron von Tito

Portrayed by: Travis Barker

Gumby

Portrayed by: Matt Van Gundy

Roddy B.

Portrayed by: Rod Arellano

Ben The Brain

Portrayed by: Ben Bergeson

Nacho

Portrayed by: Chad Parkin

Doctor Rock

Portrayed by: Gabe Palmer

In-Universe Characters

Professor Monty Corndog

• Big Good: In the original canon and the MCBC's flashback sequence (which is of dubious truth), he's the one who granted the Aquabats their abilities.

Powdered Milk Man

• Green-Eyed Monster: His villainous backstory is that he was never allowed to drink the milk his family's farm produced while the rest of the world was, instead being forced to subsist on powdered milk.

ManAnt (formerly Mant)

• Evil Is Hammy: Considering he shares a voice actor with Sheldon Plankton, this is a given.
• Revenge: He wants to get his on Crash for seemingly abandoning him.
• Sizeshifter: He steals this power from Crash in his self-titled episode in the Super Show!.
• Start of Darkness: Parodied. He was created by a genie to be a playmate for a young Crash McLarson, but Crash getting called away at an inopportunate time causes him to believe he was abandoned, driving him to villainy.

Pilgrim Boy

• Morphic Resonance: His pilgrim hat will invariably be a part of any form he takes.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can morph into just about anything - dinosaurs, a cartoon, a Michael Jackson pastiche...

The Floating Eye of Death

• Your Soul Is Mine!: Its modus operandi.

CobraMan

• Affably Evil: Evil? Yes. Polite? Also yes.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: In Saturday Morning, he joins the Silver Skull in terrorizing the Aquabats (sans Crash).
• Mook Maker: He shoots smaller snakes from his hands.
• Snake People: He's, well, a cobra man.
• Suddenly Voiced: At the end of his debut episode, he's shown speaking after being defeated by the MC Bat Commander. This is retained in the Saturday Morning series.
• Villainous Friendship: With the Silver Skull in Saturday Morning. While their Battle Beast brutalizes the 'Bats, they're off playing cornhole.

Carl/Karl the Magician

• Beware the Silly Ones: He may be a goofy magician, but he still manages to trick the Aquabats pretty handily and is a competent magic user.
• Calling Your Attacks: His use of magic is always accompanied by him yelling "MAGIC!". Likewise, his use of the Battletram's control console is accompanied by "TECHNOLOGY!".
• Evil Is Petty: His entire Evil Plan is to turn his carnival into a road show... by stealing the Battletram.
• Expy: He's very clearly meant to be Strong Bad in a magician's outfit. He's played by Matt Chapman doing his Strong Bad voice and uses the same mannerisms as SB typically does.
• Masked Luchador: Inexplicably wears a luchador mask.
• Spell My Name With An S: In the "CobraMan Theme!" track, Carl claims his name is spelled with a K, but he's credited as Carl.

Space Monster M

• Big Bad: Of the band's original mythos, and if the MCBC's flashback is to believed, of the Super Show!. He's the reason The Aquabats had to flee from Aquabania in the first place.
• Flying Face: Looks like an evil Zordon with a giant M on his forehead.
• Humongous Mecha: In his Super Show! appearance he rides around in one.
• Knight of Cerebus: He's easily the most dangerous of the Bats' foes on Super Show!. In his single episode appearance he manages to kill two of the world's greatest superheroes and immediately follows up by razing a nearby city in his mech.

Silver Skull

• The Bad Guy Wins: The only villain on the Super Show! to actually win against the Aquabats, as he manages to steal the Governor Robot's brain after the Antibats fail him.
• Big Bad: Of the The Aquabats! Saturday Morning Kickstarter campaign series, where he wants to sabotage the Aquabats' campaign. Later becomes a duumvirate with CobraMan.
• Enemy Summoner: His original power set was being able to summon any enemy to fight for him.
• Super-Empowering: In the Super Show!, he's able to grant powers to others and make them his minions.
• Villain Decay: In comparison to his appearance on the Super Show!, he gets this in Saturday Morning!. While he's still by all means a threat and manages to accomplish his first goal of breaking the Commander's magic horn, he suffers actual defeats along the way.
• Villainous Friendship: With CobraMan in Saturday Morning. While their Battle Beast brutalizes the 'Bats, they're off playing cornhole.

The Antibats

• Dark Is Evil: Their uniforms are all black.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Went from a death metal band and a dubstep artist who (quite justifably) got pissed about The Aquabats rigging a competition so Ricky's love interest would win, to a team of evil crusaders united under the Silver Skull.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Skillsawz is clearly one of Skrillex.
• Psycho Rangers: Well, yeah. It's in the name.

Der Krampus

• Face–Heel Turn: Downplayed in that Krampus was a heel to begin with, but he went from working with Santa Claus to trying to dismantle the Christmas holiday entirely.
• Germanic Depressives: He's very obviously German, and not a very cheery guy either.
• The Krampus: What gave it away, now?
• Political Overcorrectness: The reason why he turned against Christmas in the first place - Santa stopped punishing naughty kids. It takes Santa bringing Christmas whoopings back (and promptly delivering one to Krampus) for him to release his stranglehold on the village he took over.

Clowny Clown Clown

• Hoist by His Own Petard: Ricky kills him by catching his mallet midair and throwing it back at him.
• I'm a Humanitarian: He turns people into candy, and then eats the candy.
• Monster Clown: Ricky seems to think so, and he's proven right, as Clowny Clown Clown threatens to turn the rest of the team into candy and then eat it.
• Sugar Bowl: The Clowny Clown Clown Show. The candy pie on said show probably literally has a large bowl's worth of sugar in it.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Getting a mallet to his papier-mâché head breaks it, and Clowny pulling the mallet out is what causes him to "bleed" to death.