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3[[folder:The Super Science Friends]]
4!!UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill
5[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ssf1.png]]
6 [[caption-width-right:250:Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never!]]
7
8The team leader and Prime Minister of Britain, who has assembled the Super Science Friends in a last-ditch effort to turn the tides of World War II.
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10* BloodKnight: Churchill loves military strategy so much he has nightmares about world peace.
11* CigarChomper: As in RealLife.
12
13!!UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud
14[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ssf2.png]]
15 [[caption-width-right:250:The safe word is "mother".]]
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17The team's telepath, with the power to control people's sexual thoughts.
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19* ArchEnemy: To Carl Jung.
20* FreudianCouch: Freud has one in his office, of course.
21* FunctionalAddict: As in RealLife, Freud is often seen snorting cocaine. He even puts it in his coffee!
22* HornyScientist
23* MasterOfOneMagic: All of Freud's attacks are based around controlling sexual thoughts. [[spoiler: He's still able to defeat Jung's wide range of psychological attacks.]]
24
25!!UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla
26[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ssf3_8.png]]
27 [[caption-width-right:250:Come on, Tesla. You're the master of electricity!]]
28
29A brilliant, if eccentric, inventor with electrical powers.
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31* ArchEnemy: To Thomas Edison.
32* CelibateEccentricGenius
33-->'''Tesla:''' I have also never had any of those time-wasting romantic entanglements. Remember: Be alone. Be a genius!
34* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Tesla's have lightning bolts.
35* TerrifiedOfGerms
36* TheInsomniac: As in RealLife.
37
38!!UsefulNotes/MarieCurie
39[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ssf4.png]]
40 [[caption-width-right:250:That, or everything I touch becomes horribly irradiated.]]
41
42A ComicallySerious chemist whose ring gives her various radiation powers.
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44* AtomicSuperpower: Curie's radioactive ring has a variety of powers including shields, disintegration, and x-ray vision.
45* CombatMedic: as in RealLife, where she served in the First World War as a field nurs- [[InsistentTerminology er... doctor]].
46* OnlySaneMan: Well, not the ''only'' one, but the most consistently level-headed.
47* StayInTheKitchen: She faces this attitude a lot, even from her own teammates.
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49!!Tapputi
50[[quoteright:245:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ssf5.png]]
51 [[caption-width-right:244: First one to find an apple wins ten minutes behind the cider shed with me!]]
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53The world's first chemist, whose tonics and perfumes cloud the minds of men with seductive illusions.
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55* HornyScientist
56* MsFanservice: Thanks to her perfumes, Tapputi can take on the appearance of whoever look at hers sexual desire.
57* Really700YearsOld: Tapputi is 3200, and the only Super Science Friend to arrive in the 1940s through aging instead of time travel.
58
59!!UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein
60[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ssf6.png]]
61 [[caption-width-right:250: Why didn't you kick his ass? I would have totally kicked his ass.]]
62
63The youngest member of the team, Einstein's powers of SuperSpeed come from his understanding that time is relative. He was cloned 14 years ago from the real Albert Einstein, who died under mysterious circumstances.
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65
66* EdibleAmmunition: Due to his powers, he can throw apples at deadly speeds.
67* EinsteinHair
68* FanBoy: To Isaac Newton.
69* HeroicBSOD: After [[spoiler: accidentally murdering his lifelong hero]], he can only wail wordlessly and sink to the ground, where he remains for the rest of the episode.
70* InopportuneVoiceCracking
71* PlaguedByNightmares: He suffers recurring nightmares [[spoiler: after his AccidentalMurder of his hero Isaac Newton.]]
72* PrecociousCrush: On both Newton and Curie. He apparently dreams about sleeping with Marie on the regular.
73* RedOnesGoFaster: Has the power of SuperSpeed and a default outfit that includes a red T-shirt.
74* ShipperOnDeck: Seems to ship Thomas Edison/Henry Ford in his fanfic.
75* TagalongKid
76* TeenGenius
77
78!!UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin
79[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ssf7_7.png]]
80 [[caption-width-right:258: You've all been Darwinated! I get to pass on my genetic material and achieve biological immortality!]]
81
82A biologist with the [[{{Animorphism}} ability to shapeshift into any living or extinct animal]].
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85* BlackBeadEyes: Often drawn this way. Combined with his beard, it gives him a more animalistic look than other characters.
86* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Darwin has eaten human flesh and one of Tesla's beloved pigeons while in animal forms.
87* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Turtles.
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90[[folder:Antagonists]]
91!!Soviet Space Ghouls
92[[quoteright:254:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ssf8_8.png]]
93 [[caption-width-right:254:Our cosmonauts will change course of history for the glory of Mother Russia.]]
94
95Cosmonauts from the 1950s turned into ghouls by solar radiation and sent back in time to stop Isaac Newton from discovering gravity and changing the West's understanding of physics.
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97
98* CoolStarship: Sputnik, which stupid Americans believe to be merely satellite.
99* DemBones
100* SovietSuperscience
101
102!!UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison
103[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ssf9.png]]
104 [[caption-width-right:250:Tsk, tsk tsk. All these alternating currents. So dangerous.]]
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106Tesla's rival, a businessman whose technology allows him to steal electric power.
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108
109* AffectionatePickpocket: He and Tesla reconcile their differences and hug ... then Edison pickpockets Tesla's patents.
110* ArchEnemy: To Nikola Tesla.
111* BenevolentBoss: As crocked as his business practices are, he's very good to his employees.
112* CorruptCorporateExecutive
113* DeathRay: His weapon of choice.
114* EvilIsPetty: Pantses Tesla in addition to stealing his work.
115* LargeHam
116
117!!Sneaky Little Nazis
118[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ssf1_6.png]]
119 [[caption-width-right:250:Yay! Go Nazis!]]
120
121The Nazis' CloneArmy, and frequent punching bags for the Super Science Friends.
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123
124* BlackBeadEyes: Subverted. In "Marie Curie's periodic pantry it's shown they have perfectly normal eyes beneath the black covering on their eyes.
125* CanonCharacterAllAlong: We eventually learn they're not clones of some random soldier but specifically of Alfred Ploetz.
126* CloneDegeneration: Progressively dumber and more incompetent due to being clones of clones.
127* StupidJetpackHitler
128* ThoseWackyNazis
129
130!!Philipp Lenard
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132An antisemitic German physicist [[spoiler: and the true identity of the recurring [[TheChewToy Chew Toy]] child named Phillip.]]
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134
135* AdaptationalBackStoryChange: The real Lenard was a Hungarian-born Nazi physicist who despised Einstein out of antisemitism and sought to discredit his "Jewish Physics". Here, he's a little boy living in London who is wronged by each of the Super Science Friends at one point but especially resents Einstein for shoving him and stealing his balloon, who is sent back in time and grows up into a gun-slinging [[TheWildWest Wild West]] villain who leads the Nazi Party (Churchill had previously assassinated Hitler as a child, leaving Himmler, Goebbels, Mengele, and Ploetz without a figurehead). He even speaks with a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents Southern drawl]], making him more or less the historical figure InNameOnly.
136* AffablyEvil: Seems this way at first--he speaks politely while detailing his evil plan to the SSF, and gives them a five-minute headstart before attempting to shoot them all to death.
137* AndThisIsFor: Gives a mini speech to all of the Friends detailing how they wronged him.
138* BerserkButton: Has a ''real'' chip on his shoulder over his balloons being stolen and/or damaged.
139* CrazyPrepared: Manages to lead all of the Super Friends right into his hands using specially made traps that play on all of their weaknesses.
140* CreateYourOwnVillain: Because of a series of accidents and gags, Philipp grows to hate the Super Science Friends and as an adult becomes head of the Nazi Party just to enact his revenge on them.
141* TheGunslinger: As a result of being forced to grow up in TheWildWest after being dropped there in a wormhole.
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146[[folder: Others]]
147!!UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton
148[[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ssf10_7.png]]
149 [[caption-width-right:256: Besides totally being my hero since I was born, he's also the father of modern physics!]]
150
151Einstein's CelebrityCrush, the physicist famous for his theory of gravitation.
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154* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: How he dies, when Enstien tries to recreate the apple incident my thowing one at him... at supersonic speed. It isn't pretty.]]
155* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Einstein sees him this way.
156* TheVoiceless: [[spoiler: Has no lines before his death.]]
157
158!!Philipp
159[[quoteright:252:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ssf11_2.png]]
160 [[caption-width-right:252:Philipp! Where is your balloon? How many balloons has it been now?]]
161
162An adorable little boy who constantly suffers because of the oblivious Super Science Friends.
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164
165* CanonCharacterAllAlong: See above under [[spoiler: Philipp Lenard.]]
166* TheChewToy
167* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood
168* RemovedFromThePicture: Has a poster of the Super Science Friends on his wall, with Freud, Einstein, and Curie's faces scribbled out after they brainwashed him to make out with his mother, stole his balloon, and beat him for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
169* TheVoiceless: As of "Are You There God? It's Me Darwin", he hasn't had any lines.
170
171!!Neil deGrasse Tyson
172[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ssf2_8.png]]
173 [[caption-width-right:250:Do you get it? OK is zero Kelvin!]]
174
175A 21st-century astrophysicist and host of the Nobel Prize Awards.
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177
178* AsHimself
179* LikesOlderWomen: Goes home with Tapputi, who is 3200 years old.
180* PungeonMaster:
181-->'''Tyson:''' Tesla, you look shocked.
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