Characters / Action League NOW!

The Flesh

Voiced by: Jim Krenn

The Flesh: He's super strong and super naked!

• The Big Guy: The muscle of the group.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: Perhaps a literal example. The Flesh is a modified Conan the Adventurer action figure depicted with a Ken-like bulge in place of Conan's hips/loincloth, and his nudity is always Played for Laughs.
• Catchphrase: "Ouchies" whenever he suffers from Amusing Injuries.
  • "Oopsie!"
  • "Gollers!"
• Dumb Blonde: A male example. The least intelligent member of the team.
• Full-Frontal Assault: He always enters fights naked.
• HULK MASH!-Up: The Flesh (who is super strong... and super naked) is a parody of The Hulk's Dumb Muscle attributes. He lacks The Hulk's rage issues, but the naming convention and Dumb Muscle attributes makes it clear.
• Innocent Fanservice Guy: A naked muscleman who's evidently just too dumb to know any better.
• Lethal Klutz: He often accidentally injures someone as a result of trying to help them, to the point where a montage of him doing so was shown in the series' Clip Show, "And Justice For None".
• Manchild: He's as mature as a 5 year old. Which might explain why he's always naked.
• Naked People Are Funny: He never wears clothes for some reason. Seeing as he's an action figure, he can get away with it.
• Super-Strength: He's super strong and super naked.
• Too Dumb to Live: His dimwittedness often lands him in situations that endanger he and the rest of the League. Once he was warned by Bill the Lab Guy not to touch a guinea pig with a rare flesh-eating virus... and immediately did so anyway.

Thunder Girl

Voiced by: Cris Winter

Thunder Girl: She flies like thunder!

• Action Girl: The only female member of the Action League.
• Flight: Her Power and the only one apparently.
• Leitmotif: One she sings herself, to a John Williams-esque tune, while flying.
  Thunder Girl! Flying like thunder! How others must wonder, what it's like to be me!
• Non-Indicative Name: Despite her name, she doesn't Shock and Awe, though (Granted thunder is simply the loud booming noise that accompanies lightning).
• The Smurfette Principle: The only female lead on the show. Especially with the only other lead being Quarky.
• Women Are Wiser: Of the heroes, she is usually the smartest. Granted this is an extremely low bar and she's definitely not as above her male counterparts as she'd like to believe.

Stinky Diver

Voiced by: Jim Krenn

Stinky Diver: A former naval commando with an attitude as bad as his odor!

• Badass Normal: He has no superpowers, but can still help the team.
• Blood Knight: Sometimes. Certainly more violence-happy than the rest of the League.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He's had two events that have haunted his life. The first is when he failed to save his brother, Stench, from a flushing toilet. He was about to jump, but was afraid his wallet would get wet, and as a result, he was too late to save Stench. The second is when his own mother sold him out to the enemy in the Gulf War (for the money, of course).
• Iconic Item: His spear gun.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's pretty abrasive as the opening implies, but he's definitely one of the good guys. He also tends to insult the League almost as much as the Mayor and the Chief do, but "Armageddon Outta Here" and "Turkey of Terror" shows that he cares for them deep down.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: In "Turkey of Terror", Stinky's father wears blue flippers and gloves, while his mother wears a pink diving suit.
• Red/Green Contrast: In "Stink or Swim", Stinky is revealed to have a brother named Stench. While Stinky's flippers and gloves are red, Stench's are green.
• Toilet Humor: Much of it literal; the opening credits sequence shows him being flushed down a toilet, and the plot of "Stink or Swim" involves the League helping him overcome his fear of flushing toilets when he fails to rescue a recreational swimmer trapped in one. Also, in "Winds of Evil", his house is revealed to be a toilet, and his beach house is revealed to be a port-o-potty.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: His accent bounces between British and Australian. Naturally, this gets lampshaded by the Narrator in the anthology spin-off.

Meltman

Voiced by: Scott Paulsen

Meltman: With the power to ... melt!

• All Love Is Unrequited: He has an obvious crush on Thunder Girl, who unfortunately for him, doesn't return his affections.
• Body Horror: Downplayed, what with him being an action figure, but he's partially melted.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: His power is considered useless, and he has quite a cowardly streak, so everyone tends to make fun of and dismiss him. His assignments tend to be getting sodas and snacks for the others. His focus shorts frequently have him bemoaning his low standing on the team. He even notes in "In the Belly of the Beast" that he has seniority over his teammates, and he still doesn't get any respect.
• Harmless Liquefaction: the character is a melted G.I. Joe-like action figure who is said to have the power to melt. However, he is never actually seen using this power on his own, as the show's opening credits show that he's being melted by a magnifying glass, implying that he can't even consciously start melting himself and has to have others do it for him. Two specific episodes from the show where he's shown being melted are "Testimony of Terror" where he gets trapped in a waffle iron by a Bratty Half-Pint who's a key witness in The Mayor's trial (and his body ends up shaped like a waffle), and "The Naked and the Dumb", where he gets knocked into a lamp as a result of trying to teach The Flesh how to draw a triangle.
• The Heart: The nicest member of the group, besides maybe Flesh.
• Kaiju: One episode has him become a giant known as Mega Meltman (portrayed by a guy in a Meltman costume).
• Lovable Coward: He's cowardly, but nice.
• Non-Action Guy: Would rather not be doing anything death-defying, strenuous, or even remotely dangerous. He usually ends up being thrown into the action accidentally.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: "And Justice For None" reveals that his real name is Barry Meltfarb, which the other members of the League laugh at him for. In the same episode, he clarifies that he had his name legally changed to Meltman.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: He has power to melt which he never uses. One episode of KaBlam has Henry note that he's already melted, and his real power might be that it didn't kill him outright... which isn't much better.
• You, Get Me Coffee: The other members of the Action League often assign him to get them snacks, including sodas, pizza, and donuts.

The Chief

Voiced by: Collin M. McGee

• Blue Is Heroic: He wears a dark blue suit.
• Catchphrase: Tends to say "Blast it!" when displeased (which is to say, all the time).
• Da Chief: It's in his name.
• Large Ham: His volume switch seems to consist of "loud" and "louder".
• The Leader: Non-action example; he's the smartest member of the team and the one who sends them out on their missions.
• Mad Libs Catchphrase: His other catchphrase is saying that [character] is/will be [comparative adjective] than a [noun] in/on a [location alliterative with noun], (i.e. "faster than Carl Lewis on the Concord").
• Mentor Archetype: Kind of parodied. He tries, but they never listen.
• No Indoor Voice: Even at lower volumes, he usually just sounds like he's yelling more quietly.
• Only Sane Man: Saddled with the frustrating task of keeping the team focused and not running around like idiots (well, even more like idiots). It's no wonder he never stops yelling.
• Surrounded by Idiots: See Only Sane man above.
• Token Minority: Essentially subverted. The Chief is the only recurring African-American character on the show but nothing is ever made of it.

Bill the Lab Guy

Voiced by: Jim Krenn

• Catchphrase: Two: "There's nothing I can do." and "Oh no, I was afraid of this."
• Dull Surprise: Always speaks in a dead monotone.
• The Medic: Whenever the Action League need medical assistance, he's the one they turn to, though more often than not he'll claim not to be able to do anything for them.
• Papa Wolf: In "Big Baby", when Stinky Diver wants to destroy Big Baby, Bill objects, telling him that Big Baby is a rare creature to be studied, not destroyed. When The Chief and Thundergirl tell him that Big Baby has captured his daughter, Quarky, Bill snaps and wants to destroy Big Baby.
• The Smart Guy: As the team's scientist this is what he's supposed to be, but the ineptitude he displays indicates that maybe he's not so smart after all.

Quarky

Bill the Lab Guy's teenage daughter.

• A Day in the Limelight: "The Quarky Syndrome" is an episode that focuses primarily on her.
• Damsel in Distress: In "Big Baby", Big Baby captures her and the Action League must calm him down to rescue her.
• Puberty Superpower: In "The Quarky Syndrome", she gets hit with nuclear waste from The Mayor's nuclear reactor and becomes a superhero named Superteen, gaining the abilities to fly and shoot lasers from her eyes.
• Put on a Bus: She stopped appearing on the show after the second season due to viewers finding her annoying.
• The Smurfette Principle: She's the only other main female character besides Thundergirl.
• Unwillingly Girly Tomboy: She wants to be a scientist, just like her father. However, it is revealed in "The Revenge of Hodge Podge" that Bill makes her take up ballet, which she hates.

Justice

• Evil-Detecting Dog: In "Hey, Who Stole My Face?", he is the first one to notice The Mayor impersonating The Chief by wearing his face, as he growls angrily at The Mayor and bites him.
• Team Pet: The league's faithful dog.
• Timmy in a Well: He often warns The Chief whenever The Mayor is up to something evil.

The Mayor

Voiced by: Jim Krenn

The main antagonist of the show.

• Archnemesis: To The Action League and he is the most recurring antagonist.
• Big Bad: The most frequent villain in the show.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He clearly relishes being evil.
• Catchphrase: "Uh oh, here's trouble." whenever something goes wrong.
• Corrupt Politician: He's the mayor and a villain.
• Evil Is Hammy: He's a ridiculously over-the-top villain who gloats and laughs maniacally at every opportunity.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: He speaks in a hushed and hoarse voice.
• Faux Affably Evil: When interacting with the heroes, he always addresses them with mock politeness.
• Laughably Evil: Given what kind of show this is, it's not surprising.
• Mayor Pain: Of both the "Evil" and "Incompetent" varieties.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: He is given the same voice that the WDVE crew gave to then-mayor of Pittsburgh, Tom Murphy.
• Pet the Dog: During the segments for the KaBlam! episode "Tastes Like Paper!", he reveals he likes Loopy's segments and that he considers her an entertaining, zany character.
• Phrase Catcher: The narrator always calls him "his dishonor, the Mayor".
• Villains Out Shopping: In "The Wrath of Spotzilla", he was enjoying a soccer game when Spotzilla attacked. He panicked with the rest of the crowd.

Big Baby

Voiced by: Harry Connick Jr.

A baby doll who makes havoc on its way until tamed.

• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: He is two-feet tall, which is tall compared with other toys.
• Creepy Doll: He cries in a creepy tone and leaves devastation in his way when not satisfied.
• Hulk Speak: He speaks in third person with an adult male voice, as in "BABY MAD!"
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Big Baby was in a toybox in the basement until the KISS concert accidentally woke him up in the episode Rock-a-Big-Baby.

Hodge Podge

^{Click here to see him before the accident.}

Voiced by: Jim Krenn

The Action League's former accountant who became a mutant cyborg after an accident they inadvertently caused. Now he's out for revenge.

• Abhorrent Admirer: When he sees Thunder Girl, whose body has been haphazardly rebuilt by Quarky using parts of the other chopped up Action League members, he is immediately attracted to her as she is now a freak like him. She responds by smacking him and he is sent flying into the blender again.
• Affably Evil: Even after becoming the powerful mutant cyborg he is, he still has a rather milquetoast accountant voice. And unlike The Mayor, he actually has a good reason for hating the League.
• Body Horror: Describes himself as a "mutilated mutant" and unfortunately for him, it's rather accurate. His body is always constructed from toy parts and household items arranged in odd places. The only thing left from his old body is (part of) his head.
• Create Your Own Villain: Was the Action League's accountant, but became the freak he is now thanks to the incompetence of the Flesh & Bill the Lab Guy.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He went from being the Action League accountant to a mutant cyborg thanks to an accident involving a blender and being put back together with Bill's various spare parts.
• The Mentally Disturbed: His origin episode begins with the League on high alert because he's escaped from the asylum. Going through what he did couldn't have possibly been good for his mental health.
• Meaningful Name: A "hodgepodge" is a jumbled mixture of miscellaneous things, which perfectly describes his current state.
• Start of Darkness: As shown in a flashback, the reason why he wants to destroy the League and Bill is because they ruined his life, albeit accidentally.
• Vocal Dissonance: He's a "mutilated mutant" that towers over most of the heroes and can be a real powerhouse, but he has a very high-pitched and whiny voice.
• We Can Rebuild Him: After he was chopped up in the blender, Bill the Lab Guy rebuilt him into a freakish cyborg, much to his horror.

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