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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler:Glass threatening his life]] reveals him to be a selfish coward at heart.
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[[folder:Sahira]]
!!Sahira
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Heather's well-endowed roommate and confidante at school. Sews outfits for Heather and generally puts up with her antics while she stumbles around trying to get the hang of her powers. Also leans on the fourth wall on occasion by pointing out how impossible some of the spider powers are. Of Indian descent (she wears a ''bindi'' on her forehead).
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* BareYourMidriff: Most of her outfits expose her midsection.
* BuxomIsBetter: She invokes this with her "pert pair of double-D's".
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: [[spoiler:A burning bus full of children crashes outside her home. She saves them and [[RefusalOfTheCall insists to the ambulance crew and firemen that she's not a superhero.]] Enter Fireblade.]]
* ClosedDoorRapport: Has one with Buzz in order to prevent him from finding out she has powers.
* CryIntoChest: After the firemen [[JerkassRealization return]] to save her from Fireblade.
* ADayInTheLimelight: She gets the character focus in Issues 5 and 14.
* AGodIAmNot: While saving the bus of children, an Indian girl begins to ask if she's a Hindu deity, because of her many arms and great strength. Sahira picks up on this and says otherwise.
* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Attempted against Buzz, but it wasn't necessary. It still merited a Wonder Twins shout out.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: In the book-only Chapter 5, [[spoiler:it turns out she has a superpower after all...and she doesn't want it. She later comes to embrace her powers, as it makes doing chores easier.]]
* ImNotAHeroIm: Even after, and while, [[HumbleHero saving a bunch of children from a burning bus, going into the burning bus to get the driver out, and trying to stall Fireblade until a superhero could show up]], she repeatedly insists that she is not a hero.
* MundaneUtility: [[spoiler:Copies Heather's powers to make housework easier and uses her own silk for knitting.]]
* OhCrap: Her reaction to Fireblade.
-->'''Sahira:''' I'm worried now.
* OnlySaneWoman: Frequently acts as the voice of reason to try to keep [[JumpedAtTheCall Heather]] grounded, though this sometimes makes her WrongGenreSavvy, herself.
* OutOfFocus: She used to effectively be the {{Deuteragonist}} of the series, but as Heather's superhero career has grown, she's been seeing significantly less page time. She still gets the occasional [[ADayInTheLimelight Day In The Limelight]].
* PowerCopying: [[spoiler: She can temporarily copy other superpowers. She can also stack them.]]
* SecretKeeper: Her primary role is to be Heather's confidant as Spinnerette.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: She tells Buzz that she '''saw''' what happened with Fireblade's attack. She also mentions his motives, something she could've only known if she were close enough to speak with him.
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[[folder:Dr. Lambha]]
!!Dr. Lambha
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The main researcher at the lab where Heather works. He worked with Dr. Universe on the construction of the Genetic Infusion Chamber.
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* BadBoss: Often leaves Heather to work alone in the lab, insisting that she stay up all night if she has to. He even has an "[[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/01-22-2014 In Case of Heather, Break Glass]]" button for some reason, in spite of her being his only assistant and in spite of the above.
* BrickJoke: Shared with Dr. Singh's, started with his own statement that "even a cricket bat" can be used as weapon, and finished with the latter's using of the same to defend himself.
* DirtyCoward: When his life is threatened [[spoiler:by Colonel Glass]], [[ItsAllAboutMe his first and only concern is himself]], to the point that [[spoiler:he delivers what is basically a superweapon to Glass on a silver platter.]] Mecha Maid, Spinnerette, and Buzz all call him out on this in rapid succession.
* {{Jerkass}}: Blames Heather for anything that goes wrong in the lab.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: POSSIBLY. If he was telling the truth, he really DOES want to use the Genetic Infusor for good purposes, and wasn't even trying to make a profit... Except that Tiger caught him driving a car way, way, way beyond anything he can afford with his university paycheck, and notes, in an "off the record" discussion that there are numerous "anomalies" in his bank account.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler:Glass threatening his life]] reveals him to be a selfish coward at heart.
* HairTriggerTemper: Is very temperamental.
* HollywoodScience: He angrily [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how Patti, and the media in general, understand nothing about genetics when she makes a remark about how his research into spider mutations could help find a cure for ''fatness''.
* {{Irony}}: Despite being a student of Doctor Universe, his JerkWithAHeartOfGold entry would make him an Altruist, or at least make it close enough so he could pretend to be one.
* NeverMyFault: When Spinnerette and Buzz chew him out for [[spoiler:hiding another Cherenkov reactor in the campus, making it a target for Glass thus endangering everyone]], he claims he had no choice since Doctor Universe made him do it. Buzz points out that he could have at least told the authorities.
* PetTheDog: He may be an asshole who treats Heather like crap, but [[spoiler:Col. Glass threatening her is what ultimately pushes him into giving up the C-K reactor]].
* TemptingFate: He doesn't even get to finish saying "At least things can't get any worse." before [[spoiler: [[AxeCrazy Colonel Glass]] shows up.]]
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[[folder:Buzz]]
!!Buzz Rickards
A security guard at the university. Currently dating Sahira.
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* AntiHero: Of the PragmaticHero variety. He's a nice man and all, but [[spoiler: between being willing to leave Lambha to be tortured to death by Glass and later blowing the latter's face apart halfway through his last words,]] he's not exactly a straightforward hero.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Quoth Sahira: "That doesn't sound like the name of a guy who plays by the rules!"
* BadassNormal: As attested, with these words no less, by Heather herself.
* TheCape: He wants to be a cop, not because of better pay or anything like that, but because he wants to do more to "protect what we have" than round up drunken college students.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: He's got blonde hair and is AmbiguouslyBrown.
* FairCop: Technically he's only a security guard, but that's just because Columbus' Finest aren't hiring at the moment.
* OffModel: Buzz's [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/02-02-2011 second appearance]] has his skin and hair colors swapped.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite seeing through Sahira's [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey ploy]], he deletes the security footage of Heather using her spider powers and eventually starts dating Sahira.
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: It's very heavily implied that he knows Sahira's secret and is willing to just stay outside and simply listen to what she has to say about Fireblade's attack.
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[[folder:Darien]]
!!Darien
The [[{{Bishounen}} cute guy]] next door. Both he and Heather have a mutual interest in each other... [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife but things just keep getting in the way.]] She dates him once, but then ditches him for Marilyn.
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* DoggedNiceGuy: He seems genuinely interested in Heather, but can't ever score a date with her thanks to her superhero career. [[spoiler:When he finally does, she leaves early to sort out her feelings with Marylin once and for all.]]
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: He has fairly long hair and is rather handsome.
* LoveInterest: Heather would ''like'' to think that he is, anyway. She even states that he's the Mary-Jane Watson to her Peter Parker. It's ultimately [[spoiler:averted when she dumps him for Marilyn.]]
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Darien has barely any characterization beyond being the cute boy that Heather makes goo-goo eyes at early on. The only thing of note he does outside of this role is to provide an InternalReveal about Dr. Lambha's former relationship with Dr. Universe.
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[[folder:Patti Winters]]
!!Patti Winters
A local reporter for Channel 4 who seems to focus on following superhero related stories. Also the host of her own morning talk show.
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* ChekhovsNews: When interviewing Dr. Lambha she notes that the pool for the Genetic Infusion Chamber is large enough for a person and asks if it could be used to give a person super powers. No guesses for where Heather gets her powers.
* CoincidentalBroadcast: While Sahira is flipping through channels, and arguing with Heather, she comes across a perfectly timed report from Patti.
-->'''Patti:''' Dr. Universe and Greta Gravity have returned to the Ohio Research University campus, demanding to speak with Spinnerette.
* GoingForTheBigScoop: She tends to show up where super villains do, sometimes before them, sometimes after to either interview them directly or report from a distance.
* IntrepidReporter: She has quite the habit of getting involved with Dr. Universe and Greta Gravity. Of course, she was there for their StartOfDarkness so it's likely that helps to keep her safe.
* NonindicativeName: Patti ''Winters'' in a superhero comic? [[MeaningfulName Clearly]] she's going to have ice powers. Nope, just a normal reporter.
* ShoutOut: Both her name and the fact that she runs a talk-show, to "The Patty Winters Show" from ''Literature/AmericanPsycho''.
* TalkShow: In addition to being a reporter, she also hosts "Wakeup! with Patti Winters".
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[[folder:Park Seong]]
!!Park Seong
Marilyn's adopted father, who works for DARPA.
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* DadTheVeteran: Worked for the South Korean military during the 1980's.
* GadgeteerGenius: He works for DARPA developing powered armor and weapons, and helped create the PoweredArmor, missiles, and jetpack Marilyn uses.
* OpenMindedParent: Is aware that his daughter is a super-heroine and in a romantic relationship with another woman, and is perfectly OK with it.
* PermaStubble: Has five o'clock shadow in his concept art and his first appearance. He even had it in 1985.
* SecretSecretKeeper: Marilyn's told him Spinnerettte's civilian ID, but Heather doesn't know he knows.
* TheShortGuyWithGlasses: Is relatively short, wears glasses, and is incredibly intelligent.
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: The Tiny Guy to [[spoiler: White Heron's]] Huge Girl.
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[[folder:Park]]
!! Park the Butler
Mecha Maid's faithful butler. The Alfred to her Batman.
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* BadassNormal: He is, if well trained, completely human without any powers. He still [[spoiler: attacks Colonel Glass]] despite knowing for a fact that he's ''severely'' outclassed, without hesitation, with nothing more than a pair of tonfa.
* BattleButler: He recruited White Heron into the South Korean military, and currently helps look after Marilyn.
* EyepatchOfPower: Wears one after getting one of his eyes [[EyeScream destroyed by Col. Glass]].
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Glass [[spoiler: stabs Park when he makes the mistake of taking his attention off him.]]
* RetiredBadass: He's a former Captain in the South Korean military, having relocated to America after White Heron's death.
* SecretSecretKeeper: Marilyn's told him Spinnerettte's civilian ID, but Heather doesn't know he knows.
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[[folder:Guinness]]
!! [[Webcomic/{{Krakow}} Guinness]]
A Class V demon working as a secretary at the Underworld Department of Labor.
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* ApologeticAttacker: "Please don't hurt me! I'm sorry!" she says... while [[CurbStompBattle utterly trashing]] Minerva.
* BadassBystander: When attacked by Minerva she panics and unintentionally thrashes her.
* CanonWelding: She is the same character from Krow's earlier webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Krakow}}''. Her sisters later show up in a bonus chapter.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: She utterly trashed Minerva in self defence when they first met each other, but Minerva later reveals they're besties.
* FanServicePack: She's certainly older and more... developed than in ''Krakow''.
* GamerChick: Artwork on Krow's Facebook page shows her playing on a Nintendo DS-type handheld console.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Has six arms.
* PluckyOfficeGirl: Works as a secretary in the Underworld Department of Labor.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: And it looks like her horns are indeed longer than her sister's.
* SnakePeople: She is a Class V demon, or to use the older/newer D&D terminology, a Marilith.
* TailSlap: When Minerva tries to kill her, Guinness immediately [[ImprovisedWeapon begins lobbing office supplies]] at her assailant and lashing out with her tail.
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[[folder:Tom]]
!! [[Webcomic/{{Krakow}} Tom]]
Case's old roommate, now employed as a blacksmith in Hell.
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* BerserkButton: Don't criticize his smithing skills.
* TheBlacksmith: Is shown forging a {{BFS}} for Minerva to wield.
* BoringButPractical: Teenage Minerva was pretty [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/03-19-2014 disappointed]] with the sword he made for her because it was made of steel instead of something exotic like dragon bone.
* CanonWelding: Like Guinness, he's from Krow's earlier webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Krakow}}''.
* OlderThanTheyLook: While Guinness has aged up from a young teen to an adult, Tom looks more or less the same as he did when he left the world of the living. Possibly justified due to the passage of time in the underworld being extremely convoluted.
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[[folder:Dr. Singh]]
!! Dr. Singh
A Sikh doctor working to cure ALS using bone marrow stem cells.
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* BatmanGrabsAGun: Dr. Singh has dedicated his life to treating people with neurological trauma. He winds up being forced to use his Cricket bat on one, in self-defense for himself and his two assistants.
* BatterUp: More like [[{{UsefulNotes/Cricket}} Cricket Up]], but close enough for government work.
* BrickJoke: Shared with Dr. Lambha's, started with the latter's statement of what can be used as weapon, and finished with his own using of the same.
* ChekhovsGun: That cricket bat in his office sure comes in handy [[spoiler:when Adastrea shoots her way into his locked office]].
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Seemingly plummets to his death when Adrastea severs Spinnerette's escape-line. Fortunately, Spinny thought ahead and set up a web beneath it to catch him. She still reacts as if he really did die to distract Adrastea.]]
* FailedASpotCheck: When Adrastea damages the coolant tanks, Dr. Singh rushes into the room and doesn't even notice her at first.
* FindTheCure: He's trying to develop a cure for ALS using stem cell therapy.
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[[folder:General Evescroft]]
!! General Evescroft
A warmongering general with great disdain for independent superheroes of any and all stripes and colors.
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: In Dr. Universe's origin story, he threatened to have him and Greta sent to jail for violations of the Suprahuman Justice Act unless they built weapons for him.
* CapeBusters: He's the current leader (and possibly founder) of the C-K Corps, a ([[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction fictional]]) special military unit under the command of the US Department of Homeland Security, whose job is to deal with threats to national security involving C-K reaction-based supers. In that regard, they consider costumed superheroes to be little better than actual supervillains, and by all indications the only thing stopping them from arresting superheroes and "quasi-criminals" like Dr. Universe and Greta is the fact that they haven't actually committed any crimes. Issue 25 has him trying to exploit Colonel Glass's attack on Ohio to have his C-K Corps' legal jurisdiction greatly expanded, and he even talks of rolling out next-gen anti-C-K weapons to the National Guard if the bill he's pushing for passes.
* ColdBloodedTorture: He electrocutes Greta in an effort to get Dr. Universe to work for him.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: He is directly responsible for turning Dr. Universe and Greta Gravity to evil.
* DefensiveFailure: During his confrontation with Colonel Glass in a secret Ohio bunker, he threatened to [[SelfDestructMechanism blow up the entire bunker]] as an attempt to [[TakingYouWithMe kill Colonel Glass at the cost of his life and those of his men]]. Colonel Glass promptly -- and '''correctly''' -- calls his bluff: If Evescroft was "any kind of soldier", he would've simply used the SelfDestructMechanism the instant Glass made his presence known, rather than attempt to '''threaten''' him with. What Glass is essentially saying is that Evescroft is little more than a coward who deludes himself into believing that he's more than willing to [[HeroicSacrifice lay down his life for his country]], but can't put his money where his mouth is when faced with a scenario (namely, a [[ImplacableMan nigh-unstoppable]] AxCrazy supervillain serving a warmongering rogue state) in which such a sacrifice is indeed the only morally sound option.
* FantasticRacism: He and by proxy the C-K Corps frequently refer to independent superheroes as "costumed freaks", and are unconditionally hostile to and uncooperative with them even when faced with a supervillain threat that they themselves are greatly disadvantaged against.
* GeneralRipper: He would love to have an army of super-powered {{Super Soldier}}s at his command. All for the "greater good", of course.
* GenreBlind: Utilizes FacelessGoons as a security force. Col. Glass uses this to infiltrate his headquarters and mocks him for this.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: He's the head of both DARPA's [[FictionalFieldOfScience C-K Research Division]] (at least, during Dr. Universe's origin story) and the US Department of Homeland Security's [[CapeBusters C-K Corps]].
* KnightTemplar: He, and by extension the [[CapeBusters C-K Corps]], claim to be doing their duty by "defending the United States of America against '''all''' threats, foreign and domestic." Somehow, this justifies them committing the following acts:
** [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/10-21-2013 Extrajudicially detaining]] [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/10-28-2013 US citizens]] [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/10-31-2013 under horrible conditions]] and [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/11-04-2013 drugging them]], all just to monopolize a weaponized version of a super-empowering invention;
** [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/01-13-2014 Endangering the lives of every single civilian in the Ohio Research University]] just to get Colonel Glass off his back, rather than going through with his just-stated threat to [[TakingYouWithMe blow the entire bunker]] (which Glass himself called out as an obvious bluff);
** [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/05-07-2014 Delaying the evacuation of all the students from the aforementioned university]] on the off chance that Colonel Glass could be hiding among them, not caring that they're simultaneously giving the aforementioned AxCrazy supervillain ample opportunity to hold those students hostage (if he didn't decide to just slaughter them on the spot ForTheEvulz);
** [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/05-07-2014 Arresting a well-known and well-regarded superhero with a clean record]] just because he "assaulted" a (superpowered) member of the C-K Corps (nevermind that [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/12-16-2013 said C-K Corps member was the one who started the fight by attempting to arrest two superheroes]] just because they were '''exercising [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/11-11-2011 their civil rights to be superheroes]]''');
** [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/issue-25-power-swap-09 Detonating an untested anti-C-K weapon prototype in the middle of a crowd of civilians]], in response to Greta and Doctor Universe attacking his vehicle. It's like using [[Franchise/StarWars the Death Star]] to kill a mosquito.
** He has his goons arrest Greta and ''Spinnerette'' both, and then has them '''both''' [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/issue-26-17 tortured to force Dr. Universe to design and correct the flaws of his anti-CK weapons.]] When he's OutGambitted, [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/issue-26-page-28 he threatens Dr. Universe with a death-squad.]];
* LawfulStupid: His Silver Age counterpart refuses to allow Silver Age Spinnerette, a badass SuperSoldier with six arms, to go to Vietnam because she's an inch too short.
* MutantDraftBoard: He wants superpowers to be "the sole domain of the armed forces" -- in effect, he desires a government monopoly on all supers, and consequentially the criminalization of any super not sanctioned by the government.
* MyGreatestFailure: He has been seething for years over how his "last best hope" for creating an army of superpowered soldiers only ended up being wasted on accidentally turning Dr. Laura [=MacKenzie=] (the future Super-MILF) into a "big-titted maniac", and has sworn to never let that happen again.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: After he coughed up the location of the C-K reactor that was stolen from him by Dr. Universe to Colonel Glass, he had an anonymous tip sent to Homeland Security in hopes that they would manage to kill Glass where he failed. It just made things worse when the drone strike not only failed to do anything to him, but he went up and '''took over one of the drones''' to use as a convenient method of delivering the reactor to his superiors!
* StealingTheCredit: Issue 25 starts off with him taking credit for Colonel Glass's death, when in reality it's Spinnerette and Buzz who killed him. [[note]]Spinny's clever plan left him mortally wounded, Buzz delivered the (presumably) killing shot, and the two of them subsequently [[FireKeepsItDead burned his body just to be sure he's really dead]] (he has a highly potent HealingFactor with only vaguely defined limits).[[/note]]
* TemptingFate: "It's a damn shame Universe isn't stupid enough to attack us right here. I'd '''love''' to give the media a '''demonstration''' of our anti-CK weapons." [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/issue-25-power-swap-04 3 seconds later]], Universe attacks him (for a given definition of "attack"; the supervillain himself described it as "escalating [their] protest into civil disobedience").
* ThatsAnOrder: When his men question the soundness of detonating an untested C-K mine (in the middle of a civilian-crowded area, no less), he cuts them off and reaffirms that it's an order, and thus questioning it is out of the [[UnintentionalPun question]].
* VillainHasAPoint: His initial arrest of Greta and the man who would become Dr. Universe was justified because the two of them were planning to sell high-yield weapons tech to China, which has a horrific human rights abuse record, and is allied to numerous warmongering, and highly hostile regimes, ''like North Korea.'' Of course, what Evescroft proceeds to do next, ie, violate their rights and abuse them in the hopes of conning them into designing weapons tech for his own exclusive use, makes him no better than the Chinese "handlers" he warns Gretta and Universe against.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: If the actions of the C-K Corps he leads during the Colonel Glass incident are any indication, he'd rather die (and possibly endanger the country he's supposed to serve) than to accept help from a "costumed freak".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Betty Brown]]
Heather's mother.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Not content with her home life, she wanted "more" and took it in the form of her home-based business that wound up ''literally possessing her.''
* CulturalRebel: She was born and raised in the '50s and ''hates it.'' She got sick of being "the happy little housewife" and openly ignored her husband's warnings about the multi-level-marketing home-business she signed up for, Lola Rue...
* DealWithTheDevil: What Lola Rue, as the home business, is ''really'' all about.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:She gets possessed by a Wendigo, which amps up her negative traits and almost causes her to kill her husband and daughter.]]
* FatBastard: Overweight and evil, [[spoiler:as a result of demonic possession.]]
* FemaleMisogynist: Hates being "the happy housewife" and the stereotypical gender roles of the '50s, yet is "disappointed" by Heather having a girlfriend, to the point she tries to kill them both. [[spoiler:Granted, she was possessed at the time and likely acting on negative feelings but still.]]
* FourEyesZeroSoul: In Issue 31, she wears glasses and [[spoiler: cares so much about her home-based business that she let it literally possess her.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Decries her husband, Sheriff Brown, leaving Christmas Dinner with Heather and Marylin to go to work, and then answers her cell-phone to do the exact same thing, leaving both Marylin and Heather unattended...
* AnIcePerson: [[spoiler:Uses ice-based powers while possessed by Wendy G.]]
* LecherousLicking: Licks her husband's blood off claws after she slashes his face...
* NotBrainwashed: Averted with the pie incident. However [[spoiler: the homophobic remarks she made while possessed weren't all the wendigo.]]
* PeopleFarms: There's a reason the Brown's storage shed has large freezers...
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Makes homophobic remarks about her own daughter. [[spoiler: Even after being freed from the Wendigo possessing her, when given an ultimatum by her husband to either accept their daughter's sexuality or leave him, she chooses to leave him.]]
* TransformationOfThePossessed: Her ambition for her home business to succeed and be profitable [[spoiler:led to her being possessed by a {{Wendigo}}]].
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Sure, she may be able to trounce a sheriff with a gun with ease, especially since he's holding back, but she's no match for a bonna-fide super-heroine, who has ample legitimate reason to resort to lethal force herself. [[spoiler: Though ironiclly it took both to defeat her.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sheriff Brown]]
Heather's father.
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* BadassNormal: Fights [[spoiler:the wendigo Wendy G]] with nothing but his service pistol.
* ByTheBookCop: Competent and dutiful police officer who follows proper procedures at all times.
* HypocriteHasAPoint: Decries his wife, Betty, for abandoning Heather and Marilyn to go to work while he's getting ready to go to work himself; however, he's an on-duty police officer, and people's lives could well be on the line, while Betty is not in any way an emergency first-responder. [[spoiler: Though her job ''does'' entail life or death situations, that she creates.]]
* OldSoldier: Comments that he participated in [[UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar Desert Storm]], currently he's more of an old police officer.
* OpenMindedParent: Ironically. He's the more "conservative" member of the Brown family, yet he openly welcomes Heather and Marilyn's relationship. Betty's the more "liberal" member of the family, who hates the '50s stereotypical nuclear family dynamic, yet she ''hates it'' and is "disappointed" that Heather's "a freak and a lesbian" to the point she tries to use deadly force on both Marilyn and Heather. He also takes [[spoiler:Heather being Spinnerette]] pretty well.
* PapaWolf: He's willing to fight [[spoiler:a horrific ice-spewing abomination]] for the sake of his daughter.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: He has always opposed Betty getting involved with the home-based business, Lola Rue, and while the reasons are not elaborated on, there are numerous valid mundane objections, not the least of which is that multi-level marketing is ''notorious'' for being the hunting ground of thieves and scammers who lure people in with promises of quick and easy money only to clean them out. The business ''does turn out to be a bad idea'' [[spoiler: with the reveal that it led to Betty getting possessed by some kind of ice-spewing abomination.]]
* SecretKeeper: During the fight against Wendy G, [[spoiler:Heather is forced to reveal to him that she's Spinnerette]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Dr. Demikhov]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:You are obsolete, Dr. Universe! Behold the superiority of Communism! BWAHAHAHAHA!]] A rival "scientist" to Dr. Universe, with an assistant that's a rival to Greta.
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* BornInTheWrongCentury: He spouts Soviet Era communist propaganda, wears the Soviet army uniform, and even has an arm-band with the national symbol of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union fell apart as a nation over 30 years ago.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When he hears Dr. Universe laugh upon TheReveal that Manya is alive, because the gravity tug-of-war woke her up and Rita's hat fell off, he insults Dr. Universe, stating the man is mocking Rita and Manya due to western standards of beauty. What's really making Dr. Universe laugh, however, is that Demikhov has just proven himself a fraud, but doesn't realize it until it's spelled out.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the communist ideal. The fact that he performs his "research" in a 50-year-old abandoned lab with severe and possibly deadly "maintenance issues", ''as the least offensive'' of the list of problems he faces, doesn't speak well of the system he touts.
* {{Foil}}: To Dr. Universe. He wears power boots, while Dr. Universe has a power gauntlet. He's a card-carrying communist that believes nobody should own property and technology should be shared, free of charge, [[StrawmanPolitical though the government system he touts obviously believed, and still believes, very, very differently]] while Dr. Universe is an objectivist, and funds his own research through profit-motive driven means. Dr. Universe ''actually cares'' about Greta's well being, while Demikhov, not so much.
* ForScience: In a similar vein as [[VideoGame/Portal2 Cave Johnson]]. As long as there's a scientific breakthrough to be had, the consequences or impracticality of doing it are irrelevant to him. In addition to fusing Rita and Manya to prove his own untested hypothesis, he saved his dog Laika's life after a car accident by combining her with a Roomba (not in the form of a {{Cyborg}}, either; as a ''dog's head sticking out of a Roomba)''.
-->'''Dr. Universe:''' [[LampshadeHanging Who builds a cyborg dog that can't handle]] ''[[AwesomeButImpractical stairs?]]''
* JustThinkOfThePotential: What he uses to justify performing dangerous, and untested, surgery on Rita and Manya ''without even asking for consent'' first.
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: Or MakeItLookLikeAnAccident. Which is currently unclear. He admits that he exaggerated the extent of Rita and Manya's injuries due to an explosion in his lab to justify, after the fact, putting them through extensive, dangerous, and completely untested surgery, which he then shows off in a gravity tug-of-war demonstration against Greta and Dr. Universe's far more practical and ethical, non-surgical, power boost system.
* MadScientist: He makes Dr. Universe look ''downright sane'' and completely ethical by comparison. He's introduced showing off his pet dog surgically fused to a Roomba! [[{{Foreshadowing}} When called out on it, by Dr. Universe, he touts that this was a last-ditch effort to save the dog's life when it was in a deadly accident.]]
* MeaningfulName: His name is the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Demikhov Vladimir Demikhov]], a Soviet scientist who was renowned for dog head transplants (evoked by Dr. Demikhov's transplantation of Laika's head onto a Roomba), which resulted in two-headed dogs (evoked by how Dr. Demikhov [[spoiler:fused Rita and Manya into a single body with a single two-faced head and four arms]]).
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: To convince himself, in his own mind, that he's the superior researcher to Dr. Universe, and the communist ideal, as he sees it anyway, is superior to the capitalist system, there's no crime he'd overlook "for the greater good," even if that means turning his loyal assistants into unwilling lab-rats. While Manya calls him out on it, Rita is still foolishly loyal.
* RevealingCoverUp: By getting Rita into a gravity tug-of-war with Greta, which Dr. Universe only lost [[PyrrhicVictory because he didn't want to push Greta too far]], he reveals that he used unethical surgical practices to fuse Rita and Manya together, and has been hiding Manya's existence [[FakingTheDead by claiming the girl died in a lab accident]] with Manya's face hidden under Rita's hat.
* SmugSnake: Always struts around as if he's the smartest man in the room. He's not.
* StrawmanPolitical: Touts the superiority of communism, natch, befitting his SovietSuperScience schtick.
* {{Troll}}: He goes out of his way to taunt, harass, and provoke Dr. Universe whenever the two are within a mile of each other, just for his own amusement, and to prove, solely in his own mind, how he's the superior researcher. This does eventually catch up to him when he gloats a bit too much and Manya catches on to his despicable acts.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Rita and Manya]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[ArmorPiercingQuestion Why didn't you even ask?!]]]]
Twin sisters working under Demikhov that were eventually shown to have been surgically fused together at the back of the head.
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* ACupAngst: According to Greta, Rita has a habit of accusing her of having breast implants to Greta's utter annoyance and figures she's just jealous of her figure.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Manya asks Demikhov why he never bothered getting consent before putting them through dangerous, and completely untested surgery, fusing them together at the brain-stem. Demikhov smugly states he didn't think it was necessary. This causes Manya and Rita to go to war as Manya rightly wants to beat Demikhov down while Rita still thinks the world of him.
* AwesomeButImpractical: To the extreme. Their combined gravity powers, as a result of the surgery fusing them together, beats Greta's power, unless Greta's life is threatened by the strain, but this only works because they're identical twins and thus didn't suffer from transplant rejection when they were surgically fused together. This makes Demikhov's claims of having the "superior" enhancement system false, not just in terms of actual application, but sheer feasibility. What's worse, in order to use their full power, they have to be in agreement. After TheReveal that Demikhov doesn't see Manya or Rita as people, but as a disposable lab-rats, and Rita ''still'' chooses him over her, that's not likely to happen.
* BodyHorror: Especially from Manya's point of view. Her head and brain are permanently fused to the back of Rita's head, and her arms are fused to Rita's back. This takes away all her free agency, making her completely dependent on Rita and, by proxy, a slave to Dr. Demikhov. What's worse is that this is completely irreversible, with Dr. Demikhov shrugging off her concerns with "it was for the greater good."
* CooldownHug: Give each other a very "Aww"-inducing handclasp with all four of their hands, showing that while they may not agree, [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther they're still loving]] identical [[ThickerThanWater twin sisters]].
* DoubleStandard: Rita sees Dr. Demikhov going full-tilt "Dr. Frankenstein" and performing unethical, unproven, and untested surgery upon both herself and Manya, purely for the sake of his own ego, and bragging rights in his self-proclaimed rivalry with Dr. Universe as somehow serving "the greater good" and championing the Soviet ideal. The fact that Manya is rightfully enraged at being violated, proclaimed to the world to be dead, and turned into a meat back-pack on Rita's back, and has to live with her face being hidden under a fur hat? ''That'' is "selfish" and a violation of their Soviet ideals.
* FusionDance: Via surgery. Manya and Rita were surgically fused together at the brain stem.
* GravityMaster: Like Greta, they have gravity powers, which is slightly stronger due to having two minds fused togeter. However it isn't stable and the sisters have to be in unison for it to work properly.
* HartmanHips: Contrasting Greta's comically massive bust, Rita and Manya were all-but flat-chested but had very wide hips.
* {{Meganekko}}: Rita wears glasses and is beautiful.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Manya, whose existence was hidden under Rita's hat, calls out, turns on, and attacks Demikhov the moment she learns that the "accident" which gave him the excuse to surgically fuse them together may not have been an accident at all, when Dr. Universe points out the ContrivedCoincidence required for that to happen the way Demikhov said it did, and '''really''' gets angry when Demikhov admits exaggerating the nature of the women's injuries to justify to them, and himself, putting them through the surgery in the first place. In the end it's slightly averted for the fact that Manya wouldn't have actually been against the surgery, she would have just preferred, unsurprisingly, being asked first.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Despite the fact that the Soviet Union doesn't even exist anymore, Rita still sees herself as a Soviet citizen and clings to the completely debunked Soviet ideals like a drowning man clings to a life-preserver, and completely refuses to be swayed by empirical evidence, lashing out with violence to whoever disagrees, even her twin sister.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Rita is still loyal to Demikhov despite being tricked into becoming an unwitting lab rat. Manya is understandably pissed about being reduced to a "meat backpack". This causes issues. Which nearly leads into...
* PhlebotinumOverload: due to their gravity powers counteracting each other and their fused Pineal gland. Thankfully, Greta stepping in and tossing Demikhov into a nearby lake managed to get them to snap out of GoingCritical.
* TwoFaced: Quite literally in their body's case.
* WasItAllALie: When Dr. Universe spells out how many coincidences would have had to happen for the "lab accident" to result in both Rita and Manya being injured so severely and in such a way that fusing them by the back of their heads was the only method to save their lives, Manya grabs Demikhov and asks him, point blank, "that's a lie, isn't it, Doctor?"
* WideEyedIdealist: Rita is madly in love with the concept of Soviet Era communism, at least as Dr. Demikhov advertises it. She completely refuses to believe it's a debunked, tried and failed system, responsible for untold misery and death. When Manya calls her out on it and on Dr. Demikhov for abusing the both of them, she retorts [[CategoryTraitor "Counter-revolutionary!"]].
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Sweet, lovable Russian twin sisters? Check. Twisted BodyHorror experiment? Check. Gravity-powered [[PersonOfMassDestruction Persons of Mass Destruction?]] Check.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sahira]]
!!Sahira
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Heather's well-endowed roommate and confidante at school. Sews outfits for Heather and generally puts up with her antics while she stumbles around trying to get the hang of her powers. Also leans on the fourth wall on occasion by pointing out how impossible some of the spider powers are. Of Indian descent (she wears a ''bindi'' on her forehead).
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* BareYourMidriff: Most of her outfits expose her midsection.
* BuxomIsBetter: She invokes this with her "pert pair of double-D's".
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: [[spoiler:A burning bus full of children crashes outside her home. She saves them and [[RefusalOfTheCall insists to the ambulance crew and firemen that she's not a superhero.]] Enter Fireblade.]]
* ClosedDoorRapport: Has one with Buzz in order to prevent him from finding out she has powers.
* CryIntoChest: After the firemen [[JerkassRealization return]] to save her from Fireblade.
* ADayInTheLimelight: She gets the character focus in Issues 5 and 14.
* AGodIAmNot: While saving the bus of children, an Indian girl begins to ask if she's a Hindu deity, because of her many arms and great strength. Sahira picks up on this and says otherwise.
* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Attempted against Buzz, but it wasn't necessary. It still merited a Wonder Twins shout out.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: In the book-only Chapter 5, [[spoiler:it turns out she has a superpower after all...and she doesn't want it. She later comes to embrace her powers, as it makes doing chores easier.]]
* ImNotAHeroIm: Even after, and while, [[HumbleHero saving a bunch of children from a burning bus, going into the burning bus to get the driver out, and trying to stall Fireblade until a superhero could show up]], she repeatedly insists that she is not a hero.
* MundaneUtility: [[spoiler:Copies Heather's powers to make housework easier and uses her own silk for knitting.]]
* OhCrap: Her reaction to Fireblade.
-->'''Sahira:''' I'm worried now.
* OnlySaneWoman: Frequently acts as the voice of reason to try to keep [[JumpedAtTheCall Heather]] grounded, though this sometimes makes her WrongGenreSavvy, herself.
* OutOfFocus: She used to effectively be the {{Deuteragonist}} of the series, but as Heather's superhero career has grown, she's been seeing significantly less page time. She still gets the occasional [[ADayInTheLimelight Day In The Limelight]].
* PowerCopying: [[spoiler: She can temporarily copy other superpowers. She can also stack them.]]
* SecretKeeper: Her primary role is to be Heather's confidant as Spinnerette.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: She tells Buzz that she '''saw''' what happened with Fireblade's attack. She also mentions his motives, something she could've only known if she were close enough to speak with him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Lambha]]
!!Dr. Lambha
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The main researcher at the lab where Heather works. He worked with Dr. Universe on the construction of the Genetic Infusion Chamber.
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* BadBoss: Often leaves Heather to work alone in the lab, insisting that she stay up all night if she has to. He even has an "[[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/01-22-2014 In Case of Heather, Break Glass]]" button for some reason, in spite of her being his only assistant and in spite of the above.
* BrickJoke: Shared with Dr. Singh's, started with his own statement that "even a cricket bat" can be used as weapon, and finished with the latter's using of the same to defend himself.
* DirtyCoward: When his life is threatened [[spoiler:by Colonel Glass]], [[ItsAllAboutMe his first and only concern is himself]], to the point that [[spoiler:he delivers what is basically a superweapon to Glass on a silver platter.]] Mecha Maid, Spinnerette, and Buzz all call him out on this in rapid succession.
* {{Jerkass}}: Blames Heather for anything that goes wrong in the lab.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: POSSIBLY. If he was telling the truth, he really DOES want to use the Genetic Infusor for good purposes, and wasn't even trying to make a profit... Except that Tiger caught him driving a car way, way, way beyond anything he can afford with his university paycheck, and notes, in an "off the record" discussion that there are numerous "anomalies" in his bank account.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler:Glass threatening his life]] reveals him to be a selfish coward at heart.
* HairTriggerTemper: Is very temperamental.
* HollywoodScience: He angrily [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how Patti, and the media in general, understand nothing about genetics when she makes a remark about how his research into spider mutations could help find a cure for ''fatness''.
* {{Irony}}: Despite being a student of Doctor Universe, his JerkWithAHeartOfGold entry would make him an Altruist, or at least make it close enough so he could pretend to be one.
* NeverMyFault: When Spinnerette and Buzz chew him out for [[spoiler:hiding another Cherenkov reactor in the campus, making it a target for Glass thus endangering everyone]], he claims he had no choice since Doctor Universe made him do it. Buzz points out that he could have at least told the authorities.
* PetTheDog: He may be an asshole who treats Heather like crap, but [[spoiler:Col. Glass threatening her is what ultimately pushes him into giving up the C-K reactor]].
* TemptingFate: He doesn't even get to finish saying "At least things can't get any worse." before [[spoiler: [[AxeCrazy Colonel Glass]] shows up.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Buzz]]
!!Buzz Rickards
A security guard at the university. Currently dating Sahira.
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* AntiHero: Of the PragmaticHero variety. He's a nice man and all, but [[spoiler: between being willing to leave Lambha to be tortured to death by Glass and later blowing the latter's face apart halfway through his last words,]] he's not exactly a straightforward hero.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Quoth Sahira: "That doesn't sound like the name of a guy who plays by the rules!"
* BadassNormal: As attested, with these words no less, by Heather herself.
* TheCape: He wants to be a cop, not because of better pay or anything like that, but because he wants to do more to "protect what we have" than round up drunken college students.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: He's got blonde hair and is AmbiguouslyBrown.
* FairCop: Technically he's only a security guard, but that's just because Columbus' Finest aren't hiring at the moment.
* OffModel: Buzz's [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/02-02-2011 second appearance]] has his skin and hair colors swapped.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite seeing through Sahira's [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey ploy]], he deletes the security footage of Heather using her spider powers and eventually starts dating Sahira.
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: It's very heavily implied that he knows Sahira's secret and is willing to just stay outside and simply listen to what she has to say about Fireblade's attack.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Darien]]
!!Darien
The [[{{Bishounen}} cute guy]] next door. Both he and Heather have a mutual interest in each other... [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife but things just keep getting in the way.]] She dates him once, but then ditches him for Marilyn.
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* DoggedNiceGuy: He seems genuinely interested in Heather, but can't ever score a date with her thanks to her superhero career. [[spoiler:When he finally does, she leaves early to sort out her feelings with Marylin once and for all.]]
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: He has fairly long hair and is rather handsome.
* LoveInterest: Heather would ''like'' to think that he is, anyway. She even states that he's the Mary-Jane Watson to her Peter Parker. It's ultimately [[spoiler:averted when she dumps him for Marilyn.]]
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Darien has barely any characterization beyond being the cute boy that Heather makes goo-goo eyes at early on. The only thing of note he does outside of this role is to provide an InternalReveal about Dr. Lambha's former relationship with Dr. Universe.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Patti Winters]]
!!Patti Winters
A local reporter for Channel 4 who seems to focus on following superhero related stories. Also the host of her own morning talk show.
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* ChekhovsNews: When interviewing Dr. Lambha she notes that the pool for the Genetic Infusion Chamber is large enough for a person and asks if it could be used to give a person super powers. No guesses for where Heather gets her powers.
* CoincidentalBroadcast: While Sahira is flipping through channels, and arguing with Heather, she comes across a perfectly timed report from Patti.
-->'''Patti:''' Dr. Universe and Greta Gravity have returned to the Ohio Research University campus, demanding to speak with Spinnerette.
* GoingForTheBigScoop: She tends to show up where super villains do, sometimes before them, sometimes after to either interview them directly or report from a distance.
* IntrepidReporter: She has quite the habit of getting involved with Dr. Universe and Greta Gravity. Of course, she was there for their StartOfDarkness so it's likely that helps to keep her safe.
* NonindicativeName: Patti ''Winters'' in a superhero comic? [[MeaningfulName Clearly]] she's going to have ice powers. Nope, just a normal reporter.
* ShoutOut: Both her name and the fact that she runs a talk-show, to "The Patty Winters Show" from ''Literature/AmericanPsycho''.
* TalkShow: In addition to being a reporter, she also hosts "Wakeup! with Patti Winters".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Park Seong]]
!!Park Seong
Marilyn's adopted father, who works for DARPA.
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* DadTheVeteran: Worked for the South Korean military during the 1980's.
* GadgeteerGenius: He works for DARPA developing powered armor and weapons, and helped create the PoweredArmor, missiles, and jetpack Marilyn uses.
* OpenMindedParent: Is aware that his daughter is a super-heroine and in a romantic relationship with another woman, and is perfectly OK with it.
* PermaStubble: Has five o'clock shadow in his concept art and his first appearance. He even had it in 1985.
* SecretSecretKeeper: Marilyn's told him Spinnerettte's civilian ID, but Heather doesn't know he knows.
* TheShortGuyWithGlasses: Is relatively short, wears glasses, and is incredibly intelligent.
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: The Tiny Guy to [[spoiler: White Heron's]] Huge Girl.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Park]]
!! Park the Butler
Mecha Maid's faithful butler. The Alfred to her Batman.
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* BadassNormal: He is, if well trained, completely human without any powers. He still [[spoiler: attacks Colonel Glass]] despite knowing for a fact that he's ''severely'' outclassed, without hesitation, with nothing more than a pair of tonfa.
* BattleButler: He recruited White Heron into the South Korean military, and currently helps look after Marilyn.
* EyepatchOfPower: Wears one after getting one of his eyes [[EyeScream destroyed by Col. Glass]].
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Glass [[spoiler: stabs Park when he makes the mistake of taking his attention off him.]]
* RetiredBadass: He's a former Captain in the South Korean military, having relocated to America after White Heron's death.
* SecretSecretKeeper: Marilyn's told him Spinnerettte's civilian ID, but Heather doesn't know he knows.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Guinness]]
!! [[Webcomic/{{Krakow}} Guinness]]
A Class V demon working as a secretary at the Underworld Department of Labor.
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* ApologeticAttacker: "Please don't hurt me! I'm sorry!" she says... while [[CurbStompBattle utterly trashing]] Minerva.
* BadassBystander: When attacked by Minerva she panics and unintentionally thrashes her.
* CanonWelding: She is the same character from Krow's earlier webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Krakow}}''. Her sisters later show up in a bonus chapter.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: She utterly trashed Minerva in self defence when they first met each other, but Minerva later reveals they're besties.
* FanServicePack: She's certainly older and more... developed than in ''Krakow''.
* GamerChick: Artwork on Krow's Facebook page shows her playing on a Nintendo DS-type handheld console.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Has six arms.
* PluckyOfficeGirl: Works as a secretary in the Underworld Department of Labor.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: And it looks like her horns are indeed longer than her sister's.
* SnakePeople: She is a Class V demon, or to use the older/newer D&D terminology, a Marilith.
* TailSlap: When Minerva tries to kill her, Guinness immediately [[ImprovisedWeapon begins lobbing office supplies]] at her assailant and lashing out with her tail.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tom]]
!! [[Webcomic/{{Krakow}} Tom]]
Case's old roommate, now employed as a blacksmith in Hell.
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* BerserkButton: Don't criticize his smithing skills.
* TheBlacksmith: Is shown forging a {{BFS}} for Minerva to wield.
* BoringButPractical: Teenage Minerva was pretty [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/03-19-2014 disappointed]] with the sword he made for her because it was made of steel instead of something exotic like dragon bone.
* CanonWelding: Like Guinness, he's from Krow's earlier webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Krakow}}''.
* OlderThanTheyLook: While Guinness has aged up from a young teen to an adult, Tom looks more or less the same as he did when he left the world of the living. Possibly justified due to the passage of time in the underworld being extremely convoluted.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Singh]]
!! Dr. Singh
A Sikh doctor working to cure ALS using bone marrow stem cells.
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* BatmanGrabsAGun: Dr. Singh has dedicated his life to treating people with neurological trauma. He winds up being forced to use his Cricket bat on one, in self-defense for himself and his two assistants.
* BatterUp: More like [[{{UsefulNotes/Cricket}} Cricket Up]], but close enough for government work.
* BrickJoke: Shared with Dr. Lambha's, started with the latter's statement of what can be used as weapon, and finished with his own using of the same.
* ChekhovsGun: That cricket bat in his office sure comes in handy [[spoiler:when Adastrea shoots her way into his locked office]].
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Seemingly plummets to his death when Adrastea severs Spinnerette's escape-line. Fortunately, Spinny thought ahead and set up a web beneath it to catch him. She still reacts as if he really did die to distract Adrastea.]]
* FailedASpotCheck: When Adrastea damages the coolant tanks, Dr. Singh rushes into the room and doesn't even notice her at first.
* FindTheCure: He's trying to develop a cure for ALS using stem cell therapy.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:General Evescroft]]
!! General Evescroft
A warmongering general with great disdain for independent superheroes of any and all stripes and colors.
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: In Dr. Universe's origin story, he threatened to have him and Greta sent to jail for violations of the Suprahuman Justice Act unless they built weapons for him.
* CapeBusters: He's the current leader (and possibly founder) of the C-K Corps, a ([[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction fictional]]) special military unit under the command of the US Department of Homeland Security, whose job is to deal with threats to national security involving C-K reaction-based supers. In that regard, they consider costumed superheroes to be little better than actual supervillains, and by all indications the only thing stopping them from arresting superheroes and "quasi-criminals" like Dr. Universe and Greta is the fact that they haven't actually committed any crimes. Issue 25 has him trying to exploit Colonel Glass's attack on Ohio to have his C-K Corps' legal jurisdiction greatly expanded, and he even talks of rolling out next-gen anti-C-K weapons to the National Guard if the bill he's pushing for passes.
* ColdBloodedTorture: He electrocutes Greta in an effort to get Dr. Universe to work for him.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: He is directly responsible for turning Dr. Universe and Greta Gravity to evil.
* DefensiveFailure: During his confrontation with Colonel Glass in a secret Ohio bunker, he threatened to [[SelfDestructMechanism blow up the entire bunker]] as an attempt to [[TakingYouWithMe kill Colonel Glass at the cost of his life and those of his men]]. Colonel Glass promptly -- and '''correctly''' -- calls his bluff: If Evescroft was "any kind of soldier", he would've simply used the SelfDestructMechanism the instant Glass made his presence known, rather than attempt to '''threaten''' him with. What Glass is essentially saying is that Evescroft is little more than a coward who deludes himself into believing that he's more than willing to [[HeroicSacrifice lay down his life for his country]], but can't put his money where his mouth is when faced with a scenario (namely, a [[ImplacableMan nigh-unstoppable]] AxCrazy supervillain serving a warmongering rogue state) in which such a sacrifice is indeed the only morally sound option.
* FantasticRacism: He and by proxy the C-K Corps frequently refer to independent superheroes as "costumed freaks", and are unconditionally hostile to and uncooperative with them even when faced with a supervillain threat that they themselves are greatly disadvantaged against.
* GeneralRipper: He would love to have an army of super-powered {{Super Soldier}}s at his command. All for the "greater good", of course.
* GenreBlind: Utilizes FacelessGoons as a security force. Col. Glass uses this to infiltrate his headquarters and mocks him for this.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: He's the head of both DARPA's [[FictionalFieldOfScience C-K Research Division]] (at least, during Dr. Universe's origin story) and the US Department of Homeland Security's [[CapeBusters C-K Corps]].
* KnightTemplar: He, and by extension the [[CapeBusters C-K Corps]], claim to be doing their duty by "defending the United States of America against '''all''' threats, foreign and domestic." Somehow, this justifies them committing the following acts:
** [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/10-21-2013 Extrajudicially detaining]] [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/10-28-2013 US citizens]] [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/10-31-2013 under horrible conditions]] and [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/11-04-2013 drugging them]], all just to monopolize a weaponized version of a super-empowering invention;
** [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/01-13-2014 Endangering the lives of every single civilian in the Ohio Research University]] just to get Colonel Glass off his back, rather than going through with his just-stated threat to [[TakingYouWithMe blow the entire bunker]] (which Glass himself called out as an obvious bluff);
** [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/05-07-2014 Delaying the evacuation of all the students from the aforementioned university]] on the off chance that Colonel Glass could be hiding among them, not caring that they're simultaneously giving the aforementioned AxCrazy supervillain ample opportunity to hold those students hostage (if he didn't decide to just slaughter them on the spot ForTheEvulz);
** [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/05-07-2014 Arresting a well-known and well-regarded superhero with a clean record]] just because he "assaulted" a (superpowered) member of the C-K Corps (nevermind that [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/12-16-2013 said C-K Corps member was the one who started the fight by attempting to arrest two superheroes]] just because they were '''exercising [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/11-11-2011 their civil rights to be superheroes]]''');
** [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/issue-25-power-swap-09 Detonating an untested anti-C-K weapon prototype in the middle of a crowd of civilians]], in response to Greta and Doctor Universe attacking his vehicle. It's like using [[Franchise/StarWars the Death Star]] to kill a mosquito.
** He has his goons arrest Greta and ''Spinnerette'' both, and then has them '''both''' [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/issue-26-17 tortured to force Dr. Universe to design and correct the flaws of his anti-CK weapons.]] When he's OutGambitted, [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/issue-26-page-28 he threatens Dr. Universe with a death-squad.]];
* LawfulStupid: His Silver Age counterpart refuses to allow Silver Age Spinnerette, a badass SuperSoldier with six arms, to go to Vietnam because she's an inch too short.
* MutantDraftBoard: He wants superpowers to be "the sole domain of the armed forces" -- in effect, he desires a government monopoly on all supers, and consequentially the criminalization of any super not sanctioned by the government.
* MyGreatestFailure: He has been seething for years over how his "last best hope" for creating an army of superpowered soldiers only ended up being wasted on accidentally turning Dr. Laura [=MacKenzie=] (the future Super-MILF) into a "big-titted maniac", and has sworn to never let that happen again.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: After he coughed up the location of the C-K reactor that was stolen from him by Dr. Universe to Colonel Glass, he had an anonymous tip sent to Homeland Security in hopes that they would manage to kill Glass where he failed. It just made things worse when the drone strike not only failed to do anything to him, but he went up and '''took over one of the drones''' to use as a convenient method of delivering the reactor to his superiors!
* StealingTheCredit: Issue 25 starts off with him taking credit for Colonel Glass's death, when in reality it's Spinnerette and Buzz who killed him. [[note]]Spinny's clever plan left him mortally wounded, Buzz delivered the (presumably) killing shot, and the two of them subsequently [[FireKeepsItDead burned his body just to be sure he's really dead]] (he has a highly potent HealingFactor with only vaguely defined limits).[[/note]]
* TemptingFate: "It's a damn shame Universe isn't stupid enough to attack us right here. I'd '''love''' to give the media a '''demonstration''' of our anti-CK weapons." [[http://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/issue-25-power-swap-04 3 seconds later]], Universe attacks him (for a given definition of "attack"; the supervillain himself described it as "escalating [their] protest into civil disobedience").
* ThatsAnOrder: When his men question the soundness of detonating an untested C-K mine (in the middle of a civilian-crowded area, no less), he cuts them off and reaffirms that it's an order, and thus questioning it is out of the [[UnintentionalPun question]].
* VillainHasAPoint: His initial arrest of Greta and the man who would become Dr. Universe was justified because the two of them were planning to sell high-yield weapons tech to China, which has a horrific human rights abuse record, and is allied to numerous warmongering, and highly hostile regimes, ''like North Korea.'' Of course, what Evescroft proceeds to do next, ie, violate their rights and abuse them in the hopes of conning them into designing weapons tech for his own exclusive use, makes him no better than the Chinese "handlers" he warns Gretta and Universe against.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: If the actions of the C-K Corps he leads during the Colonel Glass incident are any indication, he'd rather die (and possibly endanger the country he's supposed to serve) than to accept help from a "costumed freak".
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[[folder:Betty Brown]]
Heather's mother.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Not content with her home life, she wanted "more" and took it in the form of her home-based business that wound up ''literally possessing her.''
* CulturalRebel: She was born and raised in the '50s and ''hates it.'' She got sick of being "the happy little housewife" and openly ignored her husband's warnings about the multi-level-marketing home-business she signed up for, Lola Rue...
* DealWithTheDevil: What Lola Rue, as the home business, is ''really'' all about.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:She gets possessed by a Wendigo, which amps up her negative traits and almost causes her to kill her husband and daughter.]]
* FatBastard: Overweight and evil, [[spoiler:as a result of demonic possession.]]
* FemaleMisogynist: Hates being "the happy housewife" and the stereotypical gender roles of the '50s, yet is "disappointed" by Heather having a girlfriend, to the point she tries to kill them both. [[spoiler:Granted, she was possessed at the time and likely acting on negative feelings but still.]]
* FourEyesZeroSoul: In Issue 31, she wears glasses and [[spoiler: cares so much about her home-based business that she let it literally possess her.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Decries her husband, Sheriff Brown, leaving Christmas Dinner with Heather and Marylin to go to work, and then answers her cell-phone to do the exact same thing, leaving both Marylin and Heather unattended...
* AnIcePerson: [[spoiler:Uses ice-based powers while possessed by Wendy G.]]
* LecherousLicking: Licks her husband's blood off claws after she slashes his face...
* NotBrainwashed: Averted with the pie incident. However [[spoiler: the homophobic remarks she made while possessed weren't all the wendigo.]]
* PeopleFarms: There's a reason the Brown's storage shed has large freezers...
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Makes homophobic remarks about her own daughter. [[spoiler: Even after being freed from the Wendigo possessing her, when given an ultimatum by her husband to either accept their daughter's sexuality or leave him, she chooses to leave him.]]
* TransformationOfThePossessed: Her ambition for her home business to succeed and be profitable [[spoiler:led to her being possessed by a {{Wendigo}}]].
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Sure, she may be able to trounce a sheriff with a gun with ease, especially since he's holding back, but she's no match for a bonna-fide super-heroine, who has ample legitimate reason to resort to lethal force herself. [[spoiler: Though ironiclly it took both to defeat her.]]
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[[folder:Sheriff Brown]]
Heather's father.
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* BadassNormal: Fights [[spoiler:the wendigo Wendy G]] with nothing but his service pistol.
* ByTheBookCop: Competent and dutiful police officer who follows proper procedures at all times.
* HypocriteHasAPoint: Decries his wife, Betty, for abandoning Heather and Marilyn to go to work while he's getting ready to go to work himself; however, he's an on-duty police officer, and people's lives could well be on the line, while Betty is not in any way an emergency first-responder. [[spoiler: Though her job ''does'' entail life or death situations, that she creates.]]
* OldSoldier: Comments that he participated in [[UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar Desert Storm]], currently he's more of an old police officer.
* OpenMindedParent: Ironically. He's the more "conservative" member of the Brown family, yet he openly welcomes Heather and Marilyn's relationship. Betty's the more "liberal" member of the family, who hates the '50s stereotypical nuclear family dynamic, yet she ''hates it'' and is "disappointed" that Heather's "a freak and a lesbian" to the point she tries to use deadly force on both Marilyn and Heather. He also takes [[spoiler:Heather being Spinnerette]] pretty well.
* PapaWolf: He's willing to fight [[spoiler:a horrific ice-spewing abomination]] for the sake of his daughter.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: He has always opposed Betty getting involved with the home-based business, Lola Rue, and while the reasons are not elaborated on, there are numerous valid mundane objections, not the least of which is that multi-level marketing is ''notorious'' for being the hunting ground of thieves and scammers who lure people in with promises of quick and easy money only to clean them out. The business ''does turn out to be a bad idea'' [[spoiler: with the reveal that it led to Betty getting possessed by some kind of ice-spewing abomination.]]
* SecretKeeper: During the fight against Wendy G, [[spoiler:Heather is forced to reveal to him that she's Spinnerette]].
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[[folder: Dr. Demikhov]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:You are obsolete, Dr. Universe! Behold the superiority of Communism! BWAHAHAHAHA!]] A rival "scientist" to Dr. Universe, with an assistant that's a rival to Greta.
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* BornInTheWrongCentury: He spouts Soviet Era communist propaganda, wears the Soviet army uniform, and even has an arm-band with the national symbol of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union fell apart as a nation over 30 years ago.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When he hears Dr. Universe laugh upon TheReveal that Manya is alive, because the gravity tug-of-war woke her up and Rita's hat fell off, he insults Dr. Universe, stating the man is mocking Rita and Manya due to western standards of beauty. What's really making Dr. Universe laugh, however, is that Demikhov has just proven himself a fraud, but doesn't realize it until it's spelled out.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the communist ideal. The fact that he performs his "research" in a 50-year-old abandoned lab with severe and possibly deadly "maintenance issues", ''as the least offensive'' of the list of problems he faces, doesn't speak well of the system he touts.
* {{Foil}}: To Dr. Universe. He wears power boots, while Dr. Universe has a power gauntlet. He's a card-carrying communist that believes nobody should own property and technology should be shared, free of charge, [[StrawmanPolitical though the government system he touts obviously believed, and still believes, very, very differently]] while Dr. Universe is an objectivist, and funds his own research through profit-motive driven means. Dr. Universe ''actually cares'' about Greta's well being, while Demikhov, not so much.
* ForScience: In a similar vein as [[VideoGame/Portal2 Cave Johnson]]. As long as there's a scientific breakthrough to be had, the consequences or impracticality of doing it are irrelevant to him. In addition to fusing Rita and Manya to prove his own untested hypothesis, he saved his dog Laika's life after a car accident by combining her with a Roomba (not in the form of a {{Cyborg}}, either; as a ''dog's head sticking out of a Roomba)''.
-->'''Dr. Universe:''' [[LampshadeHanging Who builds a cyborg dog that can't handle]] ''[[AwesomeButImpractical stairs?]]''
* JustThinkOfThePotential: What he uses to justify performing dangerous, and untested, surgery on Rita and Manya ''without even asking for consent'' first.
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: Or MakeItLookLikeAnAccident. Which is currently unclear. He admits that he exaggerated the extent of Rita and Manya's injuries due to an explosion in his lab to justify, after the fact, putting them through extensive, dangerous, and completely untested surgery, which he then shows off in a gravity tug-of-war demonstration against Greta and Dr. Universe's far more practical and ethical, non-surgical, power boost system.
* MadScientist: He makes Dr. Universe look ''downright sane'' and completely ethical by comparison. He's introduced showing off his pet dog surgically fused to a Roomba! [[{{Foreshadowing}} When called out on it, by Dr. Universe, he touts that this was a last-ditch effort to save the dog's life when it was in a deadly accident.]]
* MeaningfulName: His name is the surname of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Demikhov Vladimir Demikhov]], a Soviet scientist who was renowned for dog head transplants (evoked by Dr. Demikhov's transplantation of Laika's head onto a Roomba), which resulted in two-headed dogs (evoked by how Dr. Demikhov [[spoiler:fused Rita and Manya into a single body with a single two-faced head and four arms]]).
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: To convince himself, in his own mind, that he's the superior researcher to Dr. Universe, and the communist ideal, as he sees it anyway, is superior to the capitalist system, there's no crime he'd overlook "for the greater good," even if that means turning his loyal assistants into unwilling lab-rats. While Manya calls him out on it, Rita is still foolishly loyal.
* RevealingCoverUp: By getting Rita into a gravity tug-of-war with Greta, which Dr. Universe only lost [[PyrrhicVictory because he didn't want to push Greta too far]], he reveals that he used unethical surgical practices to fuse Rita and Manya together, and has been hiding Manya's existence [[FakingTheDead by claiming the girl died in a lab accident]] with Manya's face hidden under Rita's hat.
* SmugSnake: Always struts around as if he's the smartest man in the room. He's not.
* StrawmanPolitical: Touts the superiority of communism, natch, befitting his SovietSuperScience schtick.
* {{Troll}}: He goes out of his way to taunt, harass, and provoke Dr. Universe whenever the two are within a mile of each other, just for his own amusement, and to prove, solely in his own mind, how he's the superior researcher. This does eventually catch up to him when he gloats a bit too much and Manya catches on to his despicable acts.
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[[folder: Rita and Manya]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[ArmorPiercingQuestion Why didn't you even ask?!]]]]
Twin sisters working under Demikhov that were eventually shown to have been surgically fused together at the back of the head.
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* ACupAngst: According to Greta, Rita has a habit of accusing her of having breast implants to Greta's utter annoyance and figures she's just jealous of her figure.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Manya asks Demikhov why he never bothered getting consent before putting them through dangerous, and completely untested surgery, fusing them together at the brain-stem. Demikhov smugly states he didn't think it was necessary. This causes Manya and Rita to go to war as Manya rightly wants to beat Demikhov down while Rita still thinks the world of him.
* AwesomeButImpractical: To the extreme. Their combined gravity powers, as a result of the surgery fusing them together, beats Greta's power, unless Greta's life is threatened by the strain, but this only works because they're identical twins and thus didn't suffer from transplant rejection when they were surgically fused together. This makes Demikhov's claims of having the "superior" enhancement system false, not just in terms of actual application, but sheer feasibility. What's worse, in order to use their full power, they have to be in agreement. After TheReveal that Demikhov doesn't see Manya or Rita as people, but as a disposable lab-rats, and Rita ''still'' chooses him over her, that's not likely to happen.
* BodyHorror: Especially from Manya's point of view. Her head and brain are permanently fused to the back of Rita's head, and her arms are fused to Rita's back. This takes away all her free agency, making her completely dependent on Rita and, by proxy, a slave to Dr. Demikhov. What's worse is that this is completely irreversible, with Dr. Demikhov shrugging off her concerns with "it was for the greater good."
* CooldownHug: Give each other a very "Aww"-inducing handclasp with all four of their hands, showing that while they may not agree, [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther they're still loving]] identical [[ThickerThanWater twin sisters]].
* DoubleStandard: Rita sees Dr. Demikhov going full-tilt "Dr. Frankenstein" and performing unethical, unproven, and untested surgery upon both herself and Manya, purely for the sake of his own ego, and bragging rights in his self-proclaimed rivalry with Dr. Universe as somehow serving "the greater good" and championing the Soviet ideal. The fact that Manya is rightfully enraged at being violated, proclaimed to the world to be dead, and turned into a meat back-pack on Rita's back, and has to live with her face being hidden under a fur hat? ''That'' is "selfish" and a violation of their Soviet ideals.
* FusionDance: Via surgery. Manya and Rita were surgically fused together at the brain stem.
* GravityMaster: Like Greta, they have gravity powers, which is slightly stronger due to having two minds fused togeter. However it isn't stable and the sisters have to be in unison for it to work properly.
* HartmanHips: Contrasting Greta's comically massive bust, Rita and Manya were all-but flat-chested but had very wide hips.
* {{Meganekko}}: Rita wears glasses and is beautiful.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Manya, whose existence was hidden under Rita's hat, calls out, turns on, and attacks Demikhov the moment she learns that the "accident" which gave him the excuse to surgically fuse them together may not have been an accident at all, when Dr. Universe points out the ContrivedCoincidence required for that to happen the way Demikhov said it did, and '''really''' gets angry when Demikhov admits exaggerating the nature of the women's injuries to justify to them, and himself, putting them through the surgery in the first place. In the end it's slightly averted for the fact that Manya wouldn't have actually been against the surgery, she would have just preferred, unsurprisingly, being asked first.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Despite the fact that the Soviet Union doesn't even exist anymore, Rita still sees herself as a Soviet citizen and clings to the completely debunked Soviet ideals like a drowning man clings to a life-preserver, and completely refuses to be swayed by empirical evidence, lashing out with violence to whoever disagrees, even her twin sister.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Rita is still loyal to Demikhov despite being tricked into becoming an unwitting lab rat. Manya is understandably pissed about being reduced to a "meat backpack". This causes issues. Which nearly leads into...
* PhlebotinumOverload: due to their gravity powers counteracting each other and their fused Pineal gland. Thankfully, Greta stepping in and tossing Demikhov into a nearby lake managed to get them to snap out of GoingCritical.
* TwoFaced: Quite literally in their body's case.
* WasItAllALie: When Dr. Universe spells out how many coincidences would have had to happen for the "lab accident" to result in both Rita and Manya being injured so severely and in such a way that fusing them by the back of their heads was the only method to save their lives, Manya grabs Demikhov and asks him, point blank, "that's a lie, isn't it, Doctor?"
* WideEyedIdealist: Rita is madly in love with the concept of Soviet Era communism, at least as Dr. Demikhov advertises it. She completely refuses to believe it's a debunked, tried and failed system, responsible for untold misery and death. When Manya calls her out on it and on Dr. Demikhov for abusing the both of them, she retorts [[CategoryTraitor "Counter-revolutionary!"]].
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Sweet, lovable Russian twin sisters? Check. Twisted BodyHorror experiment? Check. Gravity-powered [[PersonOfMassDestruction Persons of Mass Destruction?]] Check.
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