Zodiac
The main characters of the comic. They are a bunch of superheroes recruited by New Dawn. As their team name suggests, their code names are all based on their zodiac signs.
In General
- Action Girl: The female members are as capable of kicking ass as the male members.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Even the nicest members of the team are capable of laying down a world of hurt on their opponents.
- Elemental Motifs: The twelve superheroes are split into four teams of three members. Leo himself notices that it doesn't make sense.
- Team Fire is made of Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.
- Team Earth is made of Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn.
- Team Air is made of Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius.
- Team Water is made of Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces.
- Experienced Protagonist: Half of the team already has experience such as Gemini, Leo, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Aquarius, and Pisces. This gives a lot of contrast with the other half of the team that is just made of first starters.
- Gender-Equal Ensemble: The team has six males (Aries, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Libra, and Pisces) and six females (Taurus, Virgo, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, and Aquarius).
- Good Is Not Nice: Cancer is bratty, Leo and Pisces are stern, Gemini was a vigilante, Sagittarius hides secrets, and Scorpio was a thief. It doesn't stop them from fighting the good fight when the chance comes.
- Good Is Not Soft: Even the nicest members of the team can put the hurt on their foes when the situation demands it.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Gemini in his main personality is abrasive, Cancer is bratty, Leo is too serious, Scorpio is a former criminal, Sagittarius keeps secrets, and Pisces is complicated.
- New Meat: Half of the team (Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Libra, and Capricorn) has no field experience. Whereas the other half did some crime fighting (or theft in Scorpio's case) before joining Zodiac.
- Nice Guy/Nice Girl: Aries, Taurus, Gemini in his good personality, Virgo, Libra, Capricorn, and Aquarius are quite personal, contrasting their teammates who fit into the Jerk with a Heart of Gold territory.
- Thou Shall Not Kill: Discussed by Ramas, who tells them to avoid killing, but recognizes the need for it if the circumstances are extreme. Fittingly enough, Virgo kills Hell Hound by accident during the bar fight.
Aries/Kelly Holbrook
Born as Kelly Holbrook, Aries developed his powers during adolescence. He used to be a pro-wrestler before joining Zodiac.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Slaver brainwashes him during the fight at the club, forcing him to fight Gemini until he gets Slaver's hook off him.
- Determinator: Despite Taurus stomping him, Aries refuses to fall down. He eventually fights back against Saurus, breaking his foot and preparing to keep fighting.
- The Heart: Easily one of the most heroic members of the team. Leo even directly acknowledges that he's the heart of the team because of his morals.
- Love at First Sight: Develops a romantic interest in Taurus upon seeing her.
- Mundane Utility: He attempted to use his powers for demolition in the past, but the government wouldn't let him, declaring it wouldn't be fair to non-supers.
- Spit Take: He spits his drink when he meets Scorpio since she teleported out of nowhere. It's even Lampshaded by Scorpio, who loves causing that reaction.
- Super-Strength: Easily the strongest member of Zodiac, capable of breaking through walls.
- Super-Toughness: Gemini can't hurt him despite being able to defeat professional heroes on his own with one blow each. And Saurus keeps pummeling him to no avail.
- Unskilled, but Strong: After being brainwashed by Slaver, he fights with brute strength against Gemini, the local martial artist of the team, who just dodges his attacks. However, Gemini cannot hurt him since Aries has Super-Toughness that makes his attacks useless.
- Use Your Head: His strongest attack is to rush at full speed to strike his opponents with his head.
- We Used to Be Friends: With Saurus, as they fought each other once Aries becomes a hero and Saurus a villain.
- Wrestler in All of Us: He used to be a wrestler in the past, and it's evident in his fighting style.
Taurus/Janine Weiss
Janine Weiss was an unattractive cow who worked for New Dawn for five years as an assistant to an executive. One day, she was in the middle of an industrial accident that made her attractive and gave her superpowers. Feeling a burst of confidence from her new looks and powers, Janine became Taurus to have as much fun as she can.
- Berserk Button: Being called fat angers her. She knocks out Jenna, in her monster form, after the transformed dinosaur called her a fat cow.
- Cleavage Window: Her costume shows a bit of cleavage to accentuate her large breasts.
- Does Not Know His Own Strength: Due to being new with her powers, Taurus tends to unintentionally hurt others by mistake. She first discovered her super powers after she accidentally broke a man's arm.
- Freak Lab Accident: Taurus obtained her powers in a factory accident.
- Flying Brick: She can fly, she can dish out and receive punishment, and she also has Super-Senses that allow her to see and hear things that others can't.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Her eyes glow blue when she uses her powers or she gets angry.
- I Hate Past Me: She despises the overweight, small chested, pimple ridden nerd she was before her accident that made her a super hero.
- Love at First Sight: She fell in love with Pisces upon seeing him.
- Most Common Superpower: She's a superheroine with a large breast size.
- Ms. Fanservice: Taurus looks like a supermodel as a result of her accident. Alongside her powers, she considers her new looks a blessing.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Nightmare gives her a beating during the bar fight, making sure to torture Taurus.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Taurus likes to act ditzy to mess with others. She's actually smarter than she looks.
- Pervert Revenge Mode: Subverted when talking with Cancer and Libra. Though she did threaten them for wanting to do something perverted with her, it was more of a playful warning and she was flattered. The only times she engages in this was when a guy was too direct with her at the club and she slapped him out cold, making her feel guilty and when she accidentally injured a man at her old company who was a little too forward.
- Unskilled, but Strong: She has the powers of a Flying Brick, but is a complete novice in using her powers and dealing with actually dangerous situations.
- Victoria's Secret Compartment: Stores a picture of her former self in the middle of her breasts. Aries and Sagittarius are impressed.
Gemini/Pete
Pete is a vigilante that saved Sagittarius years ago. As time passed, he and Sagittarius fell in love. However, Sagittarius disappeared one day, causing Pete to look for her. His search took him to an audition to become Gemini. After beating up the other candidates, Pete took on the role of Gemini. Now that he's officially a Zodiac member, Gemini is trying to find answers from Sagittarius.
- Badass Normal: He doesn't have any powers, yet he's able to defeat three superheroes with powers to earn the title of Gemini.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: Fights only using martial arts in comparison to the powers and weapons of his teammates.
- Blood Knight: He loves a good fight, mainly because he gets to release his aggression.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: Gemini is easily able to defeat superheroes with one blow each just because he's that good at martial arts. He can even injure a giant dinosaur with a kick to the groin despite Whisper, a fellow martial artist, needing to use her psychic powers to defeat a dinosaur as well. His Gemini Maneuver has him move and attack so fast that it looks like two of him are attacking at the same time.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He won the right to be Gemini by defeating three superheroes in record time, at least two of them being knocked out in one blow at nearly the same time.
- Expy: Of the Punisher, as he is seen wearing a shirt with a skull during his vigilante days.
- Nice Guy: His friendly personality comes out when he's faced with an issue that cannot be solved with violence.
- One-Hit Polykill: His Gemini Maneuver allowed him to defeat two supers at nearly the exact same time.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: He's easily the most violent member of Zodiac, which is shown in his red eyes. They turn full red once his evil personality is released.
- Ship Tease: He and Sagittarius still have feelings for each other, but he starts to develop a fondness for Scorpio,
- Strong and Skilled: He is an expert martial artist, has Charles Atlas Superpower that allows him to fight people with super powers, and he has plenty of experience from his days as a vigilante.
- Would Hit a Girl: Beat up Bi-Polar in a fight and mutilated Slaver's arm once his evil personality was released.
Cancer/Gabriel Andrew's Hein
Gabriel is the grandson of Natasha. He was born with huge intelligence, so he started creating inventions for New Dawn at the age of eleven. Two years later, he was given the chance of being a member of Zodiac, fighting under the code name of Cancer.
- The Baby of the Bunch: At 13, he is the youngest member of Zodiac.
- Bratty Half-Pint: Has a huge ego and likes to flaunt his weight around because of his connection to New Dawn. Fortunately, his fear of his grandmother allows Leo to keep him in check.
- Don't Tell Mama: More like don't tell his grandmother. Cancer was unashamed for the misunderstanding he caused with his robot, but he backs away the moment Leo threatens to tell his grandmother.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He is the one who made all of the gadgets that Zodiac uses, including the phone that allows them to change into their uniforms.
- Insufferable Genius: He's very bratty because of his intelligence and being related to Natalia. Leo has to discipline him to keep him in line.
- Kid Hero: He's only thirteen, and yet he's a member of an elite team of heroes.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: Again, his grandmother. He is not happy that Libra has a crush on her.
- Smart People Build Robots: He creates a robot to fight his battles for him since he's too young and small to fight on the field.
- Spy Cam: He puts a spy camera on Libra's glasses so that he could spy on Taurus in the shower. He also uses it to spy on the team when they go clubbing. This ultimately helps the team, as Cancer reports to Leo that Nightmare is attacking the team, allowing him to bring help.
- Teen Genius: He barely hit puberty, yet he created most of the technology of Zodiac.
- Robot Master: He uses a robot to fight since he's not fit for fighting. Lampshaded when Jigsaw thinks he killed him when he stabbed his robot and Cancer reveals the cockpit is empty since he doesn't fight inside of the robot.
Leo/Wade Safford
Colonel Wade Safford was a lion chosen by New Dawn to be The Leader of Zodiac due to his experience fighting other paranormal opponents. He lost his arms during a mission, getting them replaced by cybernetics. Wade personally oversaw the recruitment of the other members.
- Action Dad: He's a superhero and the father of Imani. Messing with her is a good way to get on his bad side.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: His bionic arms come with retractable blades.
- Big Damn Heroes: After hearing about the club fight by Cancer, Leo arrives to save Capricorn from Basilisk and starts helping his team.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Easily defeats Igneous by removing him from his rock armor and electrocuting him.
- Papa Wolf: He immediately orders his team to fight alongside him to defend his daughter.
- Ship Tease: With Aquarius. Both of team refer to each other by first name, and Leo is nicer to her than the other members.
- Shock and Awe: His cybernetics release a burst of electricity to knock out his opponents.
Virgo/Luna Barbarrette Fablieux
Luna was born in a rich family. Even though Luna could have lived a life of luxury, she chose to focus on religion, serving the Holy Light. She is a mutant with light powers, which she believed came from the Holy Light. She joined Zodiac as Virgo to use her powers for good.
- Light 'em Up: She has light powers that she can use for attacks and energy constructs.
- Flight: She can fly by creating light wings.
- My God, What Have I Done?: She is horrified when she accidentally kills Hell Hound at the fight on the club.
- Unicorn: Her light powers create a horn made of light, making her resemble a unicorn.
Libra/James McCoy
James McCoy was just an average golden retriever. One day, a meteor fell on his apartment, giving him the ability to have any power he wanted. Unfortunately, James was forbidden from using his powers unless it was for hero work. As such, James took the mantle of Libra.
- Bizarre Taste in Food: His pizza toppings leave the team disgusted. Scorpio calls them a crime against nature and Gemini declares Libra should not be allowed to decide food in the future.
- Combo Platter Powers: He can have more than one power at a time. However, the powers will be weaker since he has to spend twice as much concentration to use them.
- Hidden Depths: He is a surprisingly good karaoke singer, much to his team's surprise. He even wins a singing competition at the club, implying that he already knew how to sing before he got his powers.
- Imagination-Based Superpower: Libra's variable powers are limited by his imagination.
- My God, What Have I Done?: He feels very guilty for causing Nightmare to attack the club by revealing about Zodiac's presence there. He resolves to stop the attack to make amends.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He is responsible for the club attack since he told Nightmare everything he knew about Zodiac in an attempt to hook up with her. He feels very guilty when Nightmare uses the chance to attack Zodiac.
- Pungeon Master: He makes lots of puns when fighting Cancer's chairs, much to Sagittarius' annoyance.
Scorpio/Sonja Chen
Sonja Chen used to be a supervillain, using her powers to work for many crime syndicates and as a thief. New Dawn recruited her, offering to clean up her criminal record if she were to work for them as Scorpio. With no other way out, Sonja became Scorpio.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Has a crush on Gemini because of his aggressive personality, loving how dangerous he can be.
- Casting a Shadow: Her powers are focused in a dimension of darkness that allows her to teleport.
- Cool Big Sis: Acts like one to Capricorn, since she relates to her.
- Easily Forgiven: Aries forgives her for phasing her hand through his chest when he tried to stop her from fighting Sagittarius. For their part, Sagittarius slugs her before forgiving her and Leo gives her a good scolding that nearly leaves her deaf.
- Extradimensional Shortcut: Her teleportation works by using some sort of shadow dimension that she can use to appear in a different area.
- Extremity Extremist: She prefers to use her hands when fighting, coating them with her shadow powers and stabbing her opponents with them by phasing them through her opponents to paralyze them.
- The Gadfly: She likes to tease her teammates to elicit a response from them. This is seen when she tries to get a reaction of Virgo by revealing that she used to be a criminal, only to get offended when Virgo thought that she was trying to redeem herself.
- The Paranoiac: Being a former criminal, Scorpio has a paranoid side. She starts a fight with Sagittarius because she stared at her for too long.
- She-Fu: She is an incredible acrobat, which she uses when fighting her opponents by using flips to dodge attacks and to approach her enemies from different angles.
Sagittarius/Kyra Renette Salvator
Kyra wanted to be a doctor, but she was forced to quit for personal reasons. One day, she lost her brother and her eye during a riot. She was then rescued by Pete and his vigilante friends. They provided her with a haven, so Kyra acted as an informant. During her tenure, she and Pete fell in love.
One day, she left Pete and trained to become Sagittarius. She's currently in Zodiac for a mission, but things complicate when Pete joins as Gemini.
- Badass Normal: Sagittarius has no powers, but she's a good soldier who excels in armed and unarmed combat.
- Combat Medic: She can fight and has one year of medical training.
- Eye Scream: She got her eye clawed off during a riot.
- Eyepatch of Power: She uses an eyepatch to cover the eye that she lost years ago.
- Handicapped Badass: She's missing an eye, but she's a good shooter.
- My Fist Forgives You: She punches Scorpio for attacking her and Aries as a way to make up for the fight. She states that she hopes to work with Scorpio with no grudges now that she slugged her.
- Rescue Romance: She met Gemini and fell in love with him when he saved her life in the past.
Capricorn/Rebecca Adams
Rebecca was subjected to a demonic ritual by her parents when she was 4. She was unable to get a family until she turned 15. For some reason, New Dawn sought to recruit her as Capricorn, much to Leo's disapproval.
- Cursed with Awesome: She turns into a demon capable of flying and breathing fire.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Her parents subjected her to a ritual that turned her into a demon at age four.
- Happily Adopted: She loves her adoptive parents and brother very much. They even support her career.
- Self-Made Orphan: Capricorn apparently killed her parents when she lost control of her demonic powers.
Aquarius
Aquarius is a wolf descended from shamans. She used to operate on Omega City under the name of Tempest. She was offered the chance of being Aquarius when New Dawn made her an offer that convinced her to sell the rights to be Tempest to another hero.
- Blow You Away: She has wind powers from the spirit of her father.
- Elemental Powers: She has powers over wind and water from the spirits of her parents.
- Making a Splash: She has water powers from the spirit of her mother.
- Number Two: The second oldest of the group and the one with most experience after Leo.
- Ship Tease: With Leo, whom she still loves despite them never starting a relationship.
- Team Mom: She's the oldest female of the group and tends to give advice to others.
Pisces/Kenneth J. Erickson
Kenneth always wanted to be a soldier since he was a kid. His dream was so strong that he became the best soldier he could be, even serving under Leo. He volunteered to a super soldier program, but he realized that the program spliced his DNA, which resulted in a monster transformation. He joined Zodiac as Pisces to learn how to control his powers or have someone else kill him should he lose control.
- Cool Big Bro: To Imani, Leo's daughter. The two of them are very close and fond of each other.
- Eldritch Abomination: His spliced DNA causes him to turn into an aquatic monster when stimulated by fear.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: His transformation allows him to heal his arm after Gemini breaks it. Despite this, the experience is still painful.
- I Cannot Self-Terminate: The main reason he joined Zodiac is to be surrounded by a team of supers capable of killing him should he lose control of his powers.
- Like Brother and Sister: He and Imani knew each other before Zodiac. With Pisces treating Imani like a little sister.
- Playful Otter: Averted. Kenneth is an otter and he's not here to mess around.
New Dawn
Akhem Ramas
A jackal who is the head finance of New Dawn. He is in charge of financing Zodiac. An enigmatic man, Ramas takes decisions that annoy Leo. Despite this, he seems to have a knack for prophecy.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Ghoul for accusing him of manipulating fate when Ghoul has done worse that led to him warrant a Fate Worse than Death for his actions.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He is actually livid with Ghoul for daring to take the moral high ground despite his magical crimes, pointing out that he never messed with the destinies of mortals.
Natalia Hain
A tigress who was in charge of public relations in New Dawn. She is now the publicist and agent of Zodiac. She is also the grandmother of Cancer.
- Almighty Mom: She is the only one who can put Cancer in his place. She can also take Leo yelling at her and then have him calm down after speaking to him for a few minutes.
- Teen Pregnancy: She is 46 and her grandson is 13. This means that she and her child were both teens when they got pregnant.
Beauregard LeSonne
The former head of legal department of New Dawn. This alligator is now the current legal expert of Zodiac.
- Sweet Tooth: He likes to eat lollipops and candies. He even eats them in his reference page.
Morris A. Arbuckle
A New Dawn employee who was hired to be the lead resource contact for Zodiac and Leo's assistant.
- All Men Are Perverts: He takes delight in being protected by Virgo and Sagittarius because he gets to stare at their behinds while they defend him from robots. He is very disappointed when Virgo tells him that he no longer has to stand behind her.
- Butt-Monkey: He gets scolded by Leo, manhandled by Sagittarius, and loses a bet with Ramas during the first meeting with Zodiac.
- Pass the Popcorn: He eats popcorn while watching the Zodiac shenanigans during their first meeting.
- Pungeon Master: He makes bear puns about Bi-Polar after being defeated by Gemini. Leo is not amused and threatens him to stop.
Rogues Gallery
Nightmare
A mare who controls an army of village to destroy the status quo. She believes that people with powers deserve to rule and will do everything in her power to achieve her goals.
- Arch-Enemy: To Taurus. After Taurus steals the attention of an attractive male who was flirting with her, Nightmare targets her and gives her a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in retaliation.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: She easily dominates Taurus in her fight against her.
- Disproportionate Retribution: She specifically targets Taurus in the bar fight because she stole the attention of an attractive guy who was flirting with her.
- Flying Brick: She can fly, has strength, toughness, and psychic powers. This further cements her rivalry with Taurus, who is Zodiac's counterpart to her.
- Immune to Bullets: Nightmare gets shot by Sagittarius in the face and is no worse for the wear from it.
- The Leader: She's the leader of a team of twelve supervillains that face Zodiac.
Hell Hound/Mic Anderson
A dog who used to be the worst type of mercenary, Mic Anderson somehow obtained control over fire. Since obtaining his powers, Hell Hound has become one of the most murderous criminals in the comic.
- Better than Sex: He considers burning his victims to be better than any drug or sexual act.
- Funetik Aksent: He speaks with an Irish accent.
- Graceful Loser: He doesn't mind Virgo fatally wounding him, congratulating her over her victory before he dies.
- Kill It with Fire: Since becoming Hell Hound, Mic prefers to use fire to incinerate his victims.
- Man on Fire: Anybody who finds him gets burned alive.
- Playing with Fire: His main power is fire, which he uses for arson and burning people alive.
Saurus/Samuel Merrick
An alligator who has the ability to change sizes. Samuel used to be friends with Aries as they fought in the same wrestling circuit. He made connections with the mob, acting like a bouncer. However, after a falling out with the mob, he became a super villain.
- Agony of the Feet: Aries breaks his foot after Saurus stomps him too many times.
- Full-Frontal Assault: The main reason why he refused to show his powers was because he tore off his pants when becoming a giant, leaving him naked. He had to get special pants that grew alongside him.
- Giant Foot of Stomping: One of his most recurrent attacks is to stomp on his victim after growing large. He has done this to Aries and Libra.
- Heel–Face Turn: The ending of "Second Chances" implies that he will become a superhero in the future.
- Magic Pants: He met a special tailor who made him pants that grew up with him when he uses his powers.
- Sizeshifter: His power allows him to become a giant, giving him an increase in strength as well.
- We Used to Be Friends: Him and Aries were friends. Sadly, Saurus being a villain forced to fight against Zodiac made Aries cut ties with him.
Ghoul
A undead donkey with mysterious origins.
- Always Someone Better: To Aquarius, being her superior in magic and dominating her throughout their fight.
- Berserk Button: He hates vampires.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He easily dominates Aquarius, showing the vast difference in magic power and experience.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Decapitated a man for flirting with Nightmare.
- Fantastic Racism: He despises vampires, even having many insults aimed at them.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Aquarius punches a hole through his chest when he gets distracted during their fight. He doesn't mind about it.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: His fight with Aquarius has him pummeling her with his superior magical powers.
Igneous/Robert Sanderson
A delinquent raccoon with the ability to create an armor of rock and lava.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Leo rips him off from his rock armor and electrocutes him.
- Teens Are Monsters: He is seventeen years old and he is engaging in criminal behavior.
Slaver/Mary Ann Slaine
A teenage hamster who was the daughter of Overmind, a retired duo of telepathic superheroes. At some point,,she used her powers to make her parents kill the selves.
- Antagonistic Offspring: She killed her parents. And she did so by forcing them to take their own lives.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: She touches Gemini and learns about his multiple personalities. She releases his evil side, expecting to control him. Unfortunately, he turns on her and breaks her arm.
- Body Horror: Gemini breaks her arm so badly that the bones pierce her skin.
- The Dreaded: Both Hell Hound and Igneous react with fear when she approaches them. Considering that she's a sociopath and she can mind control them with a touch, their fear is more than justified.
- Teens Are Monsters: She is seventeen, but she made her parents kill themselves.
- Superior Successor: Her telepathic powers were more powerful than those of her powers, who were known for their telepathic prowess as Overmind. Tragically, she never became the hero they wanted her to be as she chose villainy and made them her first victims.
Basilisk/Ankhalla Piotovitch
A former world class spy, Ankhalla participated in an experiment to become a better agent. Though she obtained powers, Ankhalla became paranoid as a side effect of the experiment. Now operating under the name Basilisk, she considers society to be her main enemy.
Legion
A bat alchemist infamous for bringing doom to anyone who hires her.
- Bat Out of Hell: She's a bat who uses her alchemy for evil. She even delights in bringing doom to her clients.
- Berserk Button: Do not try to scam her by refusing to pay for her services after she did a job for you. She once saved a rich man by creating an artificial body for him. She then had her minions tear him to shreds for refusing to pay for her services.
Wraith
An incorporeal supervillain of mysterious origins.
- Berserk Button: Asking him about his past is a good way to get him to kill you.
- Driven by Envy: His incorporeal nature drove him insane. As such, he resents corporeal beings for enjoying the pleasures of having a body. This jealousy is what drives him to do criminal acts.
Master Blaster/Gregory Masterson
Gregory Masterson is an eagle who was the founder of a successful company focused on jet engineering. However, his life turned wrong when his shareholders threatened to take away his company and the military refused his idea to use his jet technology for weaponry. Desperate to keep his company, he tries to use his latest invention, destroying his company and killing military leaders in an accident. Since that day, he's been on the run.
- One-Man Army: His armor is strong enough to hold off the police while his team is fighting Zodiac inside the bar.
- Powered Armor: He used an armor made from his jet technology. It makes him capable of taking down the cops.
Razor/Samantha Anne Kirby
A boar who was a rising star in mixed martial arts before she encountered an alien that gave her the ability to turn into Razor. She threw her life away for the chance of fighting against other supers.
- Ambiguous Situation: Not even her biography is sure if her descent to villainy was because the alien contact she had or if she was always villainous and just needed an excuse to indulge in her darkest impulses.
- Blood Knight: Her main reason for becoming a villain is that she gets to fight against other superheroes to test her mettle.
- Challenge Seeker: Before becoming Razor, Samantha participated in boxing, wrestling, MMA, and other competitions to test her limits. After becoming Razor, this desire turned her into a Blood Knight in search for fighting strong opponents.
Jigsaw
A chimera whose origin is unknown. Nobody knows his original species. All that is known was that he was a brilliant scientist and surgeon obsessed with creating the perfect body. To this end, he took the parts of different species and stitched them together to create his current body.
- Affably Evil: Jigsaw has a monstrous appearance, but he's also polite to his enemies.
- Appendage Assimilation: Jigsaw's body is made up of appendices from different species, making him look like a chimera.
- Atrocious Alias: He considers his villain name to be distasteful. His suggestion for a different alias was met with mockery by his allies, who believe that he has poor naming sense.
- Immortality Seeker: He is described as wanting to defeat the grim reaper by creating a perfect body.
- The Mentor: He taught Specter a lot about genetics since she was his assistant. However, they parted ways since Jigsaw didn't appreciate her obsession with dinosaur DNA.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: He's a chimera made of stitched up parts of different species.
Specter
A cat scientist obsessed with dinosaur DNA. Specter used to be Jigsaw's assistant. The two parted ways after Specter became obsessed with alternating the DNA of avians and reptiles to turn them into dinosaurs. During one fateful night, she meets Whisper and fights her. Though Whisper defeats her, Specter possessed her and used her to kidnap more avians and reptiles. After a month of capture, Whisper escapes with Jenna, with Specter following behind.
- Arc Villain: Of Quetzalcoatlus.
- Body Snatcher: She can transfer her psychic consciousness into the bodies of her victims to possess them. However, targets with strong wills or psychic resistance, such as Leo, makes a long possession impossible.
- They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Whisper points out that she looks like an ordinary citizen at first glance, but she's actually a mad woman willing to do horrible things to achieve her goals.
- Unskilled, but Strong: While possessing a triceratops, she gives Whisper the fight of her life. However, as seen in the expanded pages, Specter's fighting style is undisciplined, relying on her body's brute force, tough resilience, and her psychic powers healing her borrowed body. Whisper is able to win because of a combination of her martial arts and psychic power that allows her to knock Specter unconscious at the end of their fight.
- Xanatos Speed Chess: Specter shows a remarkable ability to adapt to setbacks, making the best of a bad situation to continue her plans.
- Despite losing her fight with Whisper, Specter takes the chance to abandon the triceratops she was possessing to possess Whisper, who is too weak physically and psychically to defend herself. Specter gets to use Whisper's strong body to conduct her kidnappings and experiments.
- Thoughout the comic, she rapidly possesses the bodies of Scorpio, Leo, and Aries in the span of a day. She uses Scorpio's powers to mobilize her dinosaurs, ditches Leo's body when she notices his strong will and psychic defense, and takes advantage of Aries memories and strength to make her way to Jenna's hideout...or so she thought.
- Deconstructed, as Whisper and Sagittarius knew that she was going to possess the Zodiac members, so they came up with a plan to have her possess Whisper, who is wearing a collar to inhibit psychic powers to prevent Specter from escaping.
An evil entity created between a clash of Whisper and Specter during the Quetzalcoatlus arc. He seeks to create phantasms by using other supers. He currently sets his sights on Saurus.
- Arc Villain: Of Second Chances.
- There Can Only Be One: Permanent phantasms will erase the original person from which they are born if they are not destroyed. Upon finding out, Saurus asks Sunspear for help finding his phantasm before he's erased from existence.
Other Heroes
Whisper
A mysterious snow leopardess from Omega City, Whisper is a vigilante with martial arts training and psychic powers. She is a friend of Aquarius, having worked alongside her back when she was Tempest. She first meets Zodiac when dealing with an invasion of genetically mutated dinosaurs.
- Action Girl: She's a great fighter, defeating a ten-foot tall triceratops offscreen with martial arts and psychic powers.
- Arc Hero: Of the Quetzalcoatlus spinoff as she's the one who contacts Zodiac and is the one who ultimately stops Specter's threat via Heroic Sacrifice at the end.
- Battle Aura: Whisper surrounds herself with blue psychic energy when she uses her powers. She even it to enhance her abilities by focusing her aura in her hands and paws to increase the power of her strikes.
- Berserk Button: Kidnappers. Her flashback starts with her giving a Diving Kick to a turtle kidnapper for abducting a teenage girl. She even kicks with her toe claws out, scratching his face. Despite her impulsive act, she still meant to knock him out. Unfortunately, this gets her into a fight with a triceratops in the next panel.
- Combat Pragmatist: She favors stealth and ambushes when fighting, attacking her opponents when they are at their most vulnerable.
- Diving Kick: Her first action scene has her jump off a building to hit a turtle in the face with a flying kick, with outstretched toe claws for extra damage.
- Dynamic Entry: She seems to love hanging on high places and then hit her unsuspecting opponent with a Diving Kick as soon as she sees the chance.
- Enhanced Punch: By focusing her psychic aura in her hands and paws, Whisper increases the power of her punches and kicks. This allows her to fight against enhanced opponents, like a triceratops.
- Fights Like a Normal: Whisper is a powerful psychic. However, she prefers to use her martial arts when fighting. She only uses her powers if the foe is too tough to defeat with her martial prowess.
- Finishing Move: The Morning Lotus Strike. Whisper summons all of the psychic energy that she has in her body and performs a jumping spin kick to the face of her opponent. The enhanced kick is capable of knocking out a tooth and break the horn of the triceratops she was fighting despite his resilience. And that's not counting the burst of psychic energy released from her paw that blasted his face afterwards.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She has Jenna crush her body so that Specter, who was possessing her body, could die.
- Holding Your Shoulder Means Injury: The aftermath of her fight with the triceratops has her hold her arm. It is shown in the extended pages that the triceratops punched her arm hard enough to injure it. This forces Whisper to use her Morning Lotus Strike to end the fight.
- Hurricane Kick: Her Morning Lotus Strike is a jumping spin kick with high damage potential. And that's not counting the layer of psychic power that increases the damage of the kick.
- Kung-Fu Wizard: She is a psychic, but her main method of attack is using martial arts. She can even use both when facing truly powerful opponents.
- Leg Focus: Her skirt shows a lot of her muscular legs.
- Martial Arts Staff: She wields one in her reference sheet, but never used it on the comic.
- Mysterious Past: Not even her reference sheet explains about her past. All that is known is that she's been defending Omega City for years and she is a friend of Aquarius during her tenure as Tempest.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: She fights a triceratops in a flashback scene. The viewer is not shown the fight, but Whisper has a broken arm, the triceratops is missing a tooth, and there's a hole in the wall.
- Averted years later when some pages are added to the story describing the fight.
- Pstandard Psychic Pstance: She puts a hand against her temple when she uses her psychic powers to destroy Specter's lab, she also does the same when she charges her powers when she's about to use the Morning Lotus Strike.
- Panthera Awesome: A snow leopardess superhero who knows martial arts and is a powerful psychic.
- Thou Shall Not Kill: Subverted, since Whisper voices her disapproval of taking a life but recognizes the necessity when dealing with an evil criminal like Specter.
- Tranquil Fury: She normally snarls or growls when she fights. However, her expression is a mixture of inner peace and confidence when she uses the Morning Lotus Strike to land a face-shattering kick to her foes.
Sunspear
A male bison who uses magic that comes from the sun.
- The Leader: He acts as the leader of a team made up of him, Shadowstar, and Celsius.
- The Power of the Sun: His magical powers come from the sun.
Celsius/Jerry Thompson
Jerry Thompson was a panda whose father was a police officer. Since young, Jerry was forced by his father to become a police officer. However, with the rise of supers, Jerry's father exposed him to technology to give him powers against Jerry's will. Seeing no other choice, Jerry became the superhero Celsius.
- Abusive Parents: Jerry's father was controlling, forcing Jerry to become a police officer against his will. Not only that, but he gave Jerry his powers despite Jerry refusing him. Most of Jerry's problems are a result of his father's controlling abuse.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He was one of the three superheroes who showed up to audition as Gemini. Pete defeated him and Shadowstar with a single move at nearly the same time.
- An Ice Person: One of Jerry's Elemental Powers focuses on ice.
- Playing with Fire: Befitting his personality, Celsius has fire powers too.
Shadowstar/Isaac Goldman
A zebra superhero with the ability to control light and darkness. He came from a family of successful people and aspired to be just like them. However, when his uncle died, the males of his power made him a superhero.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He and Celsius were bested by Gemini in one blow at nearly the same time.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: At the end of the day, Isaac never wanted to be Shadowstar. All he wanted to do was to have a career, marry a sensible woman, and have a family.
- Yin-Yang Bomb: He has powers over light and darkness.
Bi-Polar/ Heidi Beatrix
A polar bear with the ability to create a copy of herself since birth. She auditioned for the role of Gemini, but she was defeated by the rabbit who claimed the title.
- Curb Stomp Cushion: She's no match for Gemini, but her toughness made him put some effort into defeating her, unlike with Shadowstar and Celsius who were defeated with one blow each.
- I Work Alone: Her Fatal Flaw is that she doesn't like to ask for help, preferring to rely on herself and her duplicate.
- Self-Duplication: She can create a copy of herself.
Quetzalcoatlus/Jenna Martinez
Jenna used to be a snake teenager until the day she was captured by Specter. She was subjected to a DNA modification that turned her into a dinosaur. Specter intended to possess her since her body was powerful and her mental waves matched Specter's psychic waves. Before Specter could possess her, Jenna was rescued by Whisper.
Jenna and Whisper relied on Zodiac to defeat Specter. Tragically, Whisper lost her life in the conflict, and Jenna was forced to take her place as protector of Omega City.
- Full-Frontal Assault: Her first appearance is in her dinosaur form. Though her body is obscured, she is naked, much to Libra's delight. She only gets clothes when Taurus improvises with Capricorn's cape to protect her decency.
- Green-Eyed Monster: She was initially hostile to Capricorn because she was jealous of her ability to control her powers and therefore her appearance.
- Kid Hero: She's sixteen and acts as Whisper's replacement as Omega City's defender.
