Characters from Hamster & Gretel.
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Main Characters
The Titular Improbable Duo
Together
If they can't do it, then nobody can!
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- Flying Brick: They both have the powers most would associate with Superman and most others in the category of being a Superman Substitute; Flight, Super-Strength, Super-Speed, Super-Toughness, Super-Breath and Eye Beams.
- Instant Costume Change: Hamster and Gretel can magically change back and forth between their superhero suits and normal appearances whenever they want.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: A duo of them; Hamster is a small rodent and Gretel, while bigger than him, is a little girl. Both are strong enough to punch meteors, smash through walls, and lift extremely heavy objects.
- Punny Name: Their duo name (and the series' title) is a play on the name of the fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel.
- Smart Animal, Average Human: Hamster is the intellectual one who uses his powers strategically, while Gretel is the impulsive one more focused on using brute force.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: They don't kill their enemies, opting to either arrest them or talk them down.
Hamster
Voiced by: Beck Bennett
A domesticated rodentnote
Gretel's hamster pet, who, along with his owner, gained superpowers, as well as the ability to speak verbally, albeit not as often as his partner.- Action Pet: He's a pet hamster with the same Flying Brick powers as Gretel.
- Best Friend: Gretel, as she is his owner, and Kevin, who deeply respects and understands his problems. They become "brother-like" friends, as he is competent to follow his tactics and bonded together as the series progresses, especially in "X-Terminator", "Hamnesia", "When Life Gives You Lemons", and "Over the Hill".
- Deadpan Snarker: Fitting his stoic personality, Hamster wastes no time dishing out deadpan quips and sarcastic remarks.
- A Dog Named "Dog": He's a hamster named Hamster.
- The Leader: Hamster often takes this role.
- Not So Stoic: Hamster is prone to have his funny moments, despite his stoicism.
- The Reliable One: He is usually better about following Kevin's directions and more strategic in combat than Gretel.
- The Stoic: Hamster isn't one to talk much, and has a bored, disinterested face towards everything, even when dancing to a song.
- Suddenly Voiced: At the end of the series premiere, much to Gretel's surprise.
- Talking Animal: As a result of the aliens granting him and his owner superpowers, Hamster has the ability to speak.
- Vocal Dissonance: Has a very deep voice for such a small animal.
- You Can Talk?: He gets this reaction a lot, especially since he doesn't talk much even though he can.
Gretel Grant-Gomez
Voiced by: Meli Povenmire
A little girlnote
The younger sister of Kevin. Who, along with her pet hamster, gained superpowers. She’s confirmed to have ADHD.- Affectionate Nickname: Fred and Dave call her, “Gretel Beans”.
- Alliterative Name: Gretel Grant-Gomez.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Kevin cares for her deeply, but her lack of focus and recklessness certainly annoy him at times. She is very much aware of this fact and uses this trope to pester the Destructress and FistPuncher when they have her captured in "U.F. UH-OH!"
- The Big Girl: A Pint-Sized Powerhouse who punches a lot.
- Calling Your Attacks: Before executing her signature punches, she calls out, "[NOUN] PUNCH!!!"
- Clark Kenting: Gretel only uses a domino mask to hide her face, and notably even uses her real first name as her superhero name. Yet the implication is that most people, including her best friend, can't tell that Gretel Grant-Gomez is Gretel the superhero. The only exception is, hilariously, Van Dyke, who spots the undeniable commonality between the two:Van Dyke: Well, your name is Gretel, and you have a pet hamster, and you'd think that would have been enough, but I still didn't put it together until a couple of hours ago when I noticed that you are right-handed and Gretel is also right-handed!
- Does Not Like Spam: She hates Peppermints.
- Domino Mask: In her superhero form, she wears a mask that covers just her eyes.
- Everyone Has Standards: Knowing from the alien's true motives and openly saying Kevin will not get any power deeply made Gretel terribly sorry, at first she is somehow accidentally dissed Kevin, but in the last episode, his date with Hiromi didn't go well and the aliens mocking Kevin, Gretel is ashamed that her brother's life becomes a bad day.
- Fatal Flaw: Impulsiveness, Recklessness, and Foolishness, as she always makes situations worst, creating collateral damages, by simply punching instead of following tactics, sometimes she does think to focus.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The reckless and shortsighted foolish to Kevin's practical and thoughtful responsible.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Gretel always tries to deal with her superhero problems by punching things, which often manage to make the problem worse.
- Mad Libs Catch Phrase: "[NOUN] PUNCH!"
- Negated Moment of Awesome: Gretel's attempt to punch the rock of Exclamation's suit, only for the debris to block it.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Gretel stands out the most of the entire cast, given her fuller face, broad grin, and slightly bigger eyes with visible pupils.
- Pink Means Feminine: Her super suit is pink all over, aside from her headband which turns blue.
- The Pollyanna: Continuing the trend of Pollyanna protagonists in Povenmire's shows and other Disney Channel shows, Gretel is optimistic regardless of the situation.
- Secret Identity: Gretel tries to keep her superhero side a secret from most others, especially her parents and Bailey.
- Vocal Dissonance: Her voice is rather deep for a 9-year-old girl. Her voice actress is 14 years old note , after all.
- You Can Talk?: Her bewildered reaction to Hamster at the end of the first episode when he speaks his first words.
Other Main Characters
Kevin Grant-Gomez
Voiced by: Michael Cimino
The random teenage boy in the minivan
Click to see him as "Armor Suit Guy"
The older brother of Gretel, as well as her mentor, helps her and Hamster fight crime together.
- Awesome by Analysis: Able to formulate all tactics for the duo, in critical moments.
- Badass Bookworm: His skills and learning in high school, along with his quick ingenuity have given him the methods to solve any critical situations for Hamster and Gretel.
- Badass Driver: In Exclamation Strikes Back, Kevin's driving skills are top-notch and beyond professional, as he can perform drifts and corners so fast that he can avoid Exclamation's mech suit powered by Hamster's and Gretel's superpowers, barely escape at the cost of the van being ripped apart the roof of his mother's minivan, he even performed a rail slide near the escalator after being flown on the moveable bridge.
- Badass Normal: Boring teenager, yet skilled strategist, tactical thinker, and skilled free-runner, even stood toe to toe against supervillains himself, twice, in "No Sprain, No Gain" and "Shush Hour".
- Big Brother Instinct: He acts as Gretel's support through the series, often giving her and Hamster advice. He also shows some shades of Overprotectiveness.
- Boring, but Practical: Being The Smart Guy, he may not have powers, but his critical thinking is crucial for planning due to Gretel always the Leeroy Jenkins to prevent her from being defeated by her foes, and while his driving skills are normal, he uses it to drive the alien's spaceship due to its controls being the same as his mom's minivan. Slightly Averted in driving, as he can perform drifts and cornerings while being chased by a huge mech.
- Butt-Monkey: He doesn't have the best of luck; in the first episode alone, he gets drenched several times.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: A normal teenager who is not recognized by society, yet can think in dire situations, both strategically and tactically to help his sister, displays agility, evasion, and skills in parkour, builds machines with just instructions, and is skilled in live streaming & pool player. Kevin, the normal teenager without superpowers, defeated Pr. Exclamation, despite the help of his allies, he dealt the blow, on the power rock of his mech.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The practical and thoughtful responsible for Gretel's reckless and shortsighted foolishness.
- Guile Hero: Though lacking the same powers as his little sister and her pet, he's still able to help in his own way; such as tricking FistPuncher and The Destructress into freeing the duo when they were trapped under a pile of heavy objects, the combined weight of which was too much for them to lift on their own.
- Handicapped Badass: Able to stand toe-to-toe with Itsy Bitsy while being injured with a sprained leg, while with the Librarian when he loses his voice.
- Ignored Expert: His main role in supplying Hamster and Gretel with the knowledge to solve problems is always overlooked because Gretel resorts to punching or ignores him altogether, and Hamster just doesn't respect him, Subverted since he acknowledges it in Shush Hour, he still follows Kevin's tactics to beat the villain of the week.
- I Just Want to Be Special: While not at all envious of his younger sister and her pet hamster being granted superpowers and is more than happy to help them out, he desires to be a superhero as well and is still upset at the aliens ignoring him in favor of the former two (and everyone else they encountered).
- Le Parkour: He displayed skills in free running in "Math Punch", "Xterminator", and "UF-Uh Oh", he even displays acrobatics and scooter tricks.
- The Smart Guy: Shares this role with Hamster and Fred.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: He does end up getting the bigger end of the stick at times.
Fred Grant
Winifred "Fred" Grant
Voiced by: Joey King
Cynicism and boba tea run through her veins
The cousin of Kevin and Gretel, who helps them with her tech.
- Deadpan Snarker: She's pretty deadpan already, but is still willing to snark whenever she feels like it.
- Disappeared Dad: Her father is never mentioned nor shown throughout the show.
- Expy: Dresses in dark clothes, wears glasses, talks almost exclusively in sarcasm, and has a cynical view of humanity. Think a Disney version of Daria.
- Gender-Blender Name: She's a teenage girl named Fred. Her actual name is Winifred, but she likes to go by Fred.
- Hidden Depths: Even though she doesn't care for actual cheerleading, she's a huge fan of an anime about a team of Magical Girl cheerleaders, and she’s a talented gymnast. She's also a huge wrestling fan and loves collecting tchotchkes, she is also a proficient fighter in President Fred.
- Mission Control: Kevin often relies on her technical know-how to learn key information about whatever challenge Hamster and Gretel need to deal with.
- Not So Stoic: "The Litigator vs. The Luchador" reveals that she's a very enthusiastic wrestling fan.Fred: LET'S BREAK SOME BONES!
- Perpetual Frowner: To the point that she needs training to fake a smile for undercover work. After successfully capturing the villain, she smiles for real, which only lasted a moment, until Kevin ruined it.
- Secret-Keeper: Until "Abuelita's World" and "My Invisible Friend", she was the only one other than Kevin who knew of Hamster and Gretel's superhero identities and that they're the same; Kevin knew she would never tell anyone because she has a "disdain for human society."
- She Cleans Up Nicely: In "Cheer, Cheer, Bang, Bang", she takes on a new look to infiltrate the cheerleaders and doesn't look half bad.
- The Smart Girl: She's pretty good with tech and is the trio's go-to for emergency reports.
- Wrestler in All of Us: Fred uses a wrestling suplex on the Imposter, ironically, she is a wrestling fan.
Family
Dave Grant
Voiced by: Matt Jones
- Butt-Monkey: Definitely the worst of his family, more so than his son.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Looks just like Dan Povenmire, creator of the show.
Carolina Grant-Gomez
Voiced by: Carolina Ravassa
- Cloudcuckoolander: Shows shades of this at times, such as all her superstitious beliefs and remedies as well as willfully posting an embarrassing meme of her own son that went viral because she didn’t want to get beat out by the photo club.
- Tuckerization: She’s named after her voice actress, Carolina Ravassa.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: At first she is somehow superstitious and a Cloudcuckoolander, but she is doing parkour at the Strawberry Festival while choking others to remove the strawberry in their mouths (continuously), and straightening Melissa's arm when being twisted by the Luchador, being a nurse surprisingly.
Churro
The opposite of smart
The Grant-Gomez's pet dog.- Dogs Are Dumb: Shown to do even the simplest of things completely wrong (e.g. walking backwards while playing fetch), gets his head stuck in mayo pots and vases, has his tongue perpetually sticking out of his mouth with an unassuming (sometimes fish-eyed) stare... Churro is a very unassuming creature.
Abuelita Gomez
Voiced by: Jenny Lorenzo
Gretel and Kevin's strict matrilineal grandmother.- Like Father, Like Son: Carolina inherited stubbornness from her.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Although Kevin and Gretel dread her strictness, she doesn't get angry at them after they try to sneak past her to save the city, admitting that rule-breaking is sometimes necessary for the sake of a good cause.
- Secret-Keeper: She finds out about Hamster and Gretel having powers, but agrees to keep it a secret from Kevin and Gretel's parents.
Melissa Gomez
Voiced by: Jessica Darrow
Carolina's younger sister and Gretel and Kevin's aunt who masquerades as a masked wrestler.- Early-Bird Cameo: She appears in a flashback during the song in "Recipe for Disaster" before making a full appearance in "the Litigator vs. the Luchador".
Stacy Grant
Voiced by: Joanna Hausmann
Dave's sister, Fred's peppy mom, and Kevin and Gretel's aunt.
- The Pollyanna: Stacy always has a positive take on the matter, even if inconvenient things happen to her. Her motto is "Positivity Brings Positiveness".
Friends and Acquaintances
Bailey Carter
Voiced by: Priah Ferguson
Gretel's bestie and Hamster & Gretel's #1 fan
The best friend of Gretel.- Black Best Friend: To Gretel.
- Does Not Like Spam: She doesn't like calzones. She thinks they're just folded pizzas.
- Genki Girl: She is very cheerful and easily excited.
- Locked Out of the Loop: She clearly has no idea both normal Gretel and superhero Gretel are the same person. Even in the first episode when she "met" superhero Gretel, she mentions she has "a best friend who's also named Gretel." This ends after "My Invisible Friend" where she learns of Gretel's secret identity.
- Secret-Keeper: Becomes the third character after Fred and Abuelita to know Hamster and Gretel are superheroes, as well as the first person outside the family to know that.
- Undying Loyalty: Bailey will always appreciate and support her favorite superheroes, even when everyone else turns aganist them or especially when she's angry with one of them for not trusting her with their secret identities.
- Unwitting Muggle Friend: She's Gretel's best friend, and, until "My Invisible Friend", completely unaware she's the superhero Gretel she fawns over.
Hiromi Tanaka
Voiced by: Hiromi Dames
- Love Interest: Is one to Kevin.
- Lovable Nerd: Is a very kind and friendly comic book geek.
- Ship Tease: It’s teased by Fred, once she realizes why Kevin still goes to the comic-book store.
- Tuckerization: Hiromi's character is named after her voice actress, Hiromi Dames.
Naya
Voiced by: Abby Espiritu
A cheerleader at the local high school.- Brainwashed: In her debut episode, she and the other cheerleaders were being mind-controlled to rob banks.
- Closet Geek: She and the rest of the cheerleaders are big fans of Yuko Cheerleading Warrior Attack 7, the same anime Fred just so happens to be into.
- Lampshade Hanging: Naya seems to do this whenever someone rips their clothes off to reveal an entirely different outfit.
Nordle Exclamation
Voiced by: Pamela Adlon
An intelligent but uppity boy who was briefly Gretel's rival before becoming her friend. He is also the son of Professor Exclamation.- Childish Tooth Gap: He's got a gap in his upper row of teeth, which not only adds to his youthful appearance, but also makes his upper row of teeth resemble an exclamation point turned sideways, alluding to how he's Professor Exclamation's son.
- Parental Neglect: Professor Exclamation treats Nordle’s intelligence as a bad thing since he’s only “very smart” and not “very, very, very, very smart” like his parents, builds his school assignments for him instead of allowing his to learn about them do himself, and drills the idea that school should be used as a method of crushing his opponents and achieving victory on a path to world domination rather than a place to grow, learn, and socialize.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Although he flaunts around his intelligence and insists on treating his fellow classmates as rivals to his victory at first, it’s only because his parents, particularly his supervillain father, forced this ideology on him and he is clearly doing it out of a desire to live up to their expectations and earn their approval and love.
Anthony
Voiced by: Akintoye
An employee at Short Burger and Kevin's competitive colleague who would later become his buddy.Citizens
Veronica Hill
Voiced by: Liza Koshy
A news reporter.- Deadpan Snarker: Often snarks about her job involving all these ridiculous supervillain stories is a waste of her talents as a reporter.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her dumping Bob Enfantiburg for a younger man (while he also constantly lost mayoral elections) would drive him to create a serum that would make him younger, only for that to turn him into Big Baby.
Villains
Recurring Villains
Professor Exclamation
Jack Ampersand, aka Professor Exclamation
Voiced by: Phil LaMarr
- Big Bad Ensemble: The closest thing the show has to one with Fist Puncher & The Destructress as the most recurring and main enemies to Hamster & Gretel.
- Big Little Man: Implied. He's very tall, but his arms are oddly short, so he's likely very short but walks on stilts to make himself look taller. Subverted when it's revealed he lost his elbows in an industrial accident.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": He wears an exclamation point on his hat and they're also featured on the chest of his robots. He's also got a tie with a smaller capital E on it, but it doesn't pop up as often.
- Everyone Went to School Together: Turns out he and Dave Grant were classmates.
- His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Implied in Romancing the Scone, where his son who doesn't know he's a super villain introduces him as "Professor Exclamation" and Bailey brings up Exclamation being his son Nordle's last name. Zigzagged after his birth name is revealed to be Jack Ampersand.
- Mad Scientist: Your typical super-villain mad scientist.
- Meaningful Name: He's got an exclamation point on his hat. The way he says it in his introduction also doubles as a Shout-Out to Professor X.
- Sigil Spam: All his robots have exclamation points on their chests.
- Starter Villain: He is the first villain that Gretel, Hamster, and Kevin faced in the show.
- Starter Villain Stays: Zigzagged, while he has made appearances in multiple episodes since the pilot, he has yet to go up against Hamster & Gretel in any of them.
- Villain Ball: Had he not mentioned that his energy cage draws power from the city's power grid, Kevin wouldn't have come up with the idea to cause a blackout to free Hamster and Gretel.
The Destructress and FistPuncher
Lauren and Lyle, aka The Destructress and FistPuncher
Voiced by: Alyson Stoner (The Destructress/Lauren), Brock Powell (FistPuncher/Lyle)
Right: FistPuncher, Left: Destruct... sorry, The Destructress
Click to see their civilian identities
A duo of supervillain siblings who were given powers by the same aliens who gave Hamster and Gretel their superpowers.
- Arch-Enemy: Ostensibly, being the most (and for a while only) recurring villains in the show thus far.
- Attention Whore: The Destructress is constantly on her phone asking for likes from her followers.
- Babysitter Friendship: Lauren is a surprisingly good babysitter for Gretel and Bailey.
- Big Bad Ensemble: The closest thing the show has to one with Professor Exclamation as the most recurring and main enemies to Hamster & Gretel.
- Dumb Muscle: FistPuncher just prefers punching things over anything else.
- Evil Counterpart: To Kevin and Gretel. Along with being empowered by the same aliens, they are also constantly at odds with each other. Also, FistPuncher likes punching stuff, same as Gretel.
- Forced into Evil: The aliens tell them specifically to use their powers for evil, so that's what they'll do. Downplayed as they're quite content with their position.
- Good Pays Better: While Lauren still would do evil as The Destructress, she takes a side gig as babysitter because earning money this way instead of stealing it won't get her and her brother in trouble.
- Hidden Depths: Lauren, who is thrilled to be the super villainess The Destructress and was implied to be a mean girl before she got powers, shows a surprising caring side when she takes a job as a babysitter to support herself and her brother because she can’t make money off of crime. While she had a practical reason for being nice because she needed the job as a babysitter, she showed a genuine interest in being a good babysitter and ensuring they were happy under her care, showing a kind side that was not seen before and caring for children.
- Instant Costume Change: Like Hamster and Gretel, Lauren and Lyle can also magically switch between their villain outfits and regular attire whenever they want.
- Sibling Rivalry: They constantly argue over who is better. Kevin uses this against them in their first encounter, tricking them into a "lifting contest" that ends up removing all the heavy objects they pinned Hamster and Gretel with.
- Social Media Before Reason: The Destructress basically views everything in terms of likes and follows, the first time they got sent to jail she even asked the cops to take a picture and post it online for her.
- Spell My Name with a "The": Destructress insists on people speaking the "The" part of her name.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: They are a sibling team who are constantly arguing with one another. Kevin uses this rivalry against them.
El Luchador
El Luchador
Voiced by: Carlos Alazraqui
A supervillain wrestler.
- Badass Normal: So far he's proven to be the ONLY villain with no powers that can hold his own against Gretel. In fact in "The Litigator vs the Luchadore" Gretel needed multiple foreign objects and Melissa's help to finally take him down.
- Blood Knight: He's willing to fight ANYONE including women, superheroes (albeit a child hero), and even his own tag partner. In "Recipe for Disaster" he is ready to throw down at a restaurant over them having only one order of ropa viaja left.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: He has no visible superpowers, yet is able to fight against Gretel, who does have superpowers, with total ease.
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: El Luchador's signature move is to bend the opponent's arm back at a 43 degree angle, which is stated to have been banned and part of the reason El Luchador is banned from wrestling.
- Flat Character: In "Recipe For Disaster" we never really get a backstory for his supervillain occupation, and he wass the only villain so far that didn’t really have much of an evil plan. He mainly just existed as an obstacle for Gretel to face halfway through one episode in her quest for her mother’s ropa viaja to be replaced, and even that doesn’t amount to much when she just ditches the fight anyway. Thankfully in "The Litigator vs. The Luchadore" he gets some time to shine.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Had he not taken out the referee in "The Litigator vs. The Luchadore" Melissa wouldn't have been able to turn the tide by hitting him with a folding chair.
- Noodle Incident: He gets away at the end "Recipe For Disaster" and we don't know how he ended up in jail in "The Litigator Vs. The Luchadore."
- Shaped Like Itself: He's a luchadore themed supervillain who dresses as a luchadore and used to work as a luchadore before he was banned from wrestling.
- Villainous Valour: In "The Litigator vs The Luchadore" he challenges for the PLOW Tag Team titles in a handicap match and kept on fighting while Gretel hit with multiple pieces of furniture.
- Would Hurt a Child: He's ready and willing to fight a child over some ropa viaja. Granted the child in question has super strength along with other kinds of powers, but still.
Van Dyke
Voiced by: Casey Hamilton
♪"Van Dyke, mind controlling facial hair!"♪
A scientist who turned himself into a goatee by mistake and latches onto people's faces to control them.
- Beard of Evil: He is one, being a villainous sentient goatee and mustache.
- Beware the Silly Ones: A sentient evil clump of facial hair is pretty ridiculous even for this show, but he can trade blows with Hamster and Gretel, and even they aren't immune to his mind control powers.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: After being fed to a lawnmower at the end of his debut episode, by his second episode, he's lost so much hair mass he can't be a beard and mustache combo anymore, so he resorts to just being a mustache.
- Prehensile Hair: Comes with the territory of being sentient hair.
- Puppeteer Parasite: Having lost his original body, he can take control of others by latching onto their faces, regardless of gender, species, or capacity for natural facial hair growth.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: Gretel immediately believed that her substitute teacher was evil due to her "hero hunch" and his goatee, with Kevin calling her out for assuming a goatee automatically made someone evil. Turns out they were both right and both wrong: the goatee was actually an evil former scientist who wanted to take control of Gretel to conquer the world, while Mr. Chabner himself was just an unassuming and innocent citizen that the goatee was using as a puppet to pose as a teacher to make the plan happen.
La Cebolla
Voiced by: Karina La Voz
- Achilles' Heel: Her inability to cry on cue, which cost her her job on "Fresas de Amor".
- Bad Boss: She's defeated when her evil plan is revealed to entail sacrificing all the onions working for her, something they're not happy to learn that she couldn't care less about.
- Gratuitous Spanish: She occasionally adds a bit of Spanish into her dialogue, which is fitting since her name is Spanish for "onion".
- Green Thumb: Specifically in regards to onions and onion related plants.
- Meaningful Name: "La Cebolla" means "The Onion" in Spanish and she can control onions.
- Ms. Fanservice: She has the body of your typical telenovela actress, which she mainly shows off during her Villain Song.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Even she admits that her power is not that useful. She still manages to kidnap Gretel and temporarily knock out Hamster though.
- Start of Darkness: She was once a cast member on a lesser known telenovela called "Fresas de Amor", but was written off by contracting salmonella when she was unable to cry on cue. Desperate to get her job back, she quickly bought up all the onions in the city and tried to use them in various remedies to make herself cry to no avail. When she was hit by the Aliens' superpower ray, her excess absorption of onions odor caused her to develop the ability to talk to and control onions, which she chose to use to exact her revenge on society by making them all cry uncontrollably.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: The show is fully aware of how hilariously stupid of a superpower talking to onions is. This doesn't prevent her from showing impressive ingenuity with it while fighting Hamster and Gretel.
The Nightmarionette
Voiced by: Michael Leon Wooley
A villain who can create life-like projections of people's greatest fears.
- Berserk Button: Being referred to as a puppet because his name sounds like "Marionette". Not helping when he considers himself a puppeteer of his chaos
- Master of Illusion: His staff can read people's minds and create holograms of their fears. He can even use it to go deeper into your subconscious and find more fears within your mind.
Tina
Voiced by: Camryn Grimes
Tina and Gerbil
A new student who turns out to be a spy from the country of Bolgylvania.- Affably Evil: She genuinely liked being with Bailey and wanted to take her to Bolgylvania with her.
- A Dog Named "Dog": Kind of like Hamster, Tina has a gerbil named Gerbil.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Exploited; Gretel brings her friend Grobla from a space station to her so she would not have to kidnap Bailey and her dad anymore.
- Evil Counterpart: To Gretel, down to even having an intelligent pet like Hamster. Ultimately subverted after Gretel brings Tina's own best friend back.
- Expy: When she uses her supersuit, she has mechanical appendages similar to Doc Ock
- Friendly Enemies: When she, Gerbil and Grobla return in Game Changer, they have this dynamic with Hamster, Gretel and Bailey.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: After Gretel hears her out and reunites her with her best friend Grobla, Tina decides to abort the mission and return home. Her Heel–Face Turn didn't last long though, as she was punished for her failure with the mission, and when offered a new mission, she accepted.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: While Tina's mission was to get Bailey's dad to develop a good video game for her country, her interest in Bailey is genuine, because really, she just wanted to have a friend after her own best friend is launched into space.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: She's meant to be a child but despite that she works as a spy for a government and tried to kill Gretel, though she may not actually be a child.
The Earworm
Voiced by: Adam Rose
A songwriting supervillain who writes evil jingles that can possess anyone who hears them.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Each of his mind controlling ear-worms needs to be tailor maid to a specific target by matching the harmonic frequencies of the individual's DNA so he can't control more than a few people with one song.
- Ear Worm: Trope names taken literally and figuratively. The Taco Crunchies jingle was designed to specifically hypnotize Hamster and Gretel to do his bidding delivered by someone who dresses as a worm with an ear shaped collar.
- Mind-Control Music: Created the Taco Crunchies jingle to hypnotize Hamster and Gretel in particular. Only an Ear Worm greater than the Taco Crunchies jingle can break the hypnosis.
- Renaissance Man: Coming from a family of judgmental overachievers, the Earworm is talented in at least three fields: hair styling (which he got to be on television for only a week after following an online tutorial), science, and music writing (which he passed cum laude only after a couple months)
- Visual Pun: The Earworm's outfit consists of a large green worm tail in which the legs go, and a large, ear-shaped collar.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: He comes from a "cruel family of judgmental overachievers", among whom he is considered a loser despite being able to become an expert hair stylist and start a career as a jingle writer in only a few weeks.
The Imposter
Voiced by: Diedrich Bader, Lucas Neff (as Billy), Camryn Grimes (as Record Scratch), Joey King (as Fred)
- Cardboard Prison: In his second appearance he was revealed to have been released from prison on good behavior, after three weeks.
- Cast as a Mask: Lucas Neff voices him when disguised as Billy and Camryn Grimes when disguised as Record Scratch.
- The Chessmaster: The Imposter has orchestrated the whole thing from the beginning. He had disguised himself as Record Scratch and intentionally used her sound-based machinery to hurl a truck in Hamster and Gretel's direction, knowing that Hamster would sacrifice himself, and knowing that Hamster would get amnesia from the way the truck hit his cranium. He then disguised himself as Billy and brought him home, and after gaining his trust, he used Hamster's superpowers in order to take a selfie with a specific high angle in order to locate a hidden fence of a secret government compartment, then used Hamster's resistance to electricity to disable said fence in order to steal an experimental flying tank prototype to terrorize the city with.
- Master of Disguise: The Imposter's gimmick. He's able to disguise himself as a little boy and another supervillain with realistic bodysuits.
One Off Villains
Rodney Thunderpants
Voiced by: James Adomian
- Atrocious Alias: Rodney Thunderpants is a rather ridiculous name, especially compared to Gretel near immediately coining the name "Lightning Rod". He concedes the point when he asks to be referred to as Lightning Rod.
- Evil Luddite: His goal is to destroy all modern technology so the world will go back to a simpler age.
- Lightning Can Do Anything: Crushed under a cell phone tower, which was struck by lightning once, and then three more times, gave him electrical powers.
- Shock and Awe: As a result of being struck by lightning while under the rubble of a cell phone tower, then being struck by lightning three more times, he gained electricity powers.
Coach Haggerty
Voiced by: Betsy Sodaro
A school coach teacher, who uses cheerleader girls to steal things.
- Creepy Gym Coach: A coach that hypnotizes teenagers to commit crime.
- Ink-Suit Actor: Looks like Betsy Sodaro in gym clothes.
- Irony:
- As she's defeated, Coach Haggerty proclaims in rage that she hates cheerleaders... yet she's a cheerleading coach who mind-controls the cheerleader squad and relies on their acrobatic skills to rob banks.
- Additionally, the mind control used on the cheerleaders breaks with loud, jarring, rhythmic sounds or music. In other words, the cheerleaders are "defeated" with cheerleader music. Sounds like Coach Haggerty didn't quite think everything through.
CopyCat
Voiced by: Eric Bauza
- Abnormal Ammo: One of his two weapons is a cat shaped gun that strips the fur off live cats to fire sticky hairballs. When he's defeated the cats get their revenge.
- Fake Muscles: After he's defeated his suit deflates, revealing a much more average physique.
- Irony: He modeled himself after his favorite villain, Man-Cat, but he's actually more of a dog person.
- Meaningful Name: He's a Cat themed villain who Copies another (fictional) cat themed villain.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Double subverted. At first it seems like he had copied everything from Man Cat except his weakness to water, but as Gretel points out, his suit containing exposed wiring means that he's indeed just as weak to it as his comic book counterpart, and he's soundly defeated when his suit ends up short circuiting.
The Neighslayer
Voiced by: Thomas Sanders
- G-Rated Drug: The stolen horse DNA-mixture Ned uses to increase his skill in sports is similar to how some athletes use illegal steroids to improve their performance.
- Ink-Suit Actor: He looks almost identical to the actual Thomas Sanders...minus the hooves and tail, of course.
- The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: After his transformation, he associates with a gang of semi-sentient horses and could barely muster enough willpower to resist eating peppermints off the ground.
Dr. Eelgood
Voiced by: Keith Ferguson
A former aquarium worker who has been growing a mutant eel in his home apartment.- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Is based visually and vocally after Regis Philbin.
- They Called Me Mad!: Asks the rhetorical "Who's the insane one NOW" as he's growing a mutant eel to take vengeance upon his former employers... and then concedes that he clearly is, before laughing maniacally.
- Ultimate Life Form: His mutant eel, which is infused with the DNA of the most powerful eels in the world. He dubs it "The Ideal Eel", but Gretel has problems with the name as it doesn't talk, fetch or even sit.
The Dog Napper
Voiced by: Liza Koshy
A lady that kidnaps popular dogs- Freudian Excuse: The Dognapper was once a pet influencer like Kevin, but soon she fell out of fame and became addicted to it, stealing popular dogs hoping some of their fame will rub off on her. Kevin points out how he was on his way to becoming just like her.
Bouncy Castle
Voiced by: Richie Moriarty
A bouncy castle that tramples on people's birthday parties
- Animate Inanimate Object: The "party pooper" is a sentient bouncy castle, that doesn't even know how it got alive in the first place. Turns out that two weeks prior, the superpower-granting aliens were in the process of bestowing a pair of kids with superpowers as the male alien spilled some orange juice, causing them to bestow a nearby bouncy castle with superpowers instead.
- Freudian Excuse: After becoming alive, the bouncy castle has become aware of all the years children have been mercilessly bouncing on him (some having neglected to clip their toenails for weeks, others wearing shoes with cleats). So, as revenge, it proceeds to trample their birthday parties the same way.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Appears as a normal bouncy house.
X-Terminator
Voiced by: John DiMaggio
- Affably Evil: As long as you're not a rodent, that is. After trapping Kevin alongside Hamster, he put Kevin back in his van and left an apology note and 20 dollars.
- Cyborg: Both him and his cyborg rat minions are half-mammal, half-robotic rat trap, due to an incident with a Merging Machine.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Pi-Rat, his most powerful minion, is half of this trope's name, being a pirate robot rat.
- Punny Name:
- X-Terminator is a pun on "exterminator" and Terminator, as befitting a cyborg exterminator.
- Pi-Rat is a multi-layered pun as X-Terminator explains, being a pirate-themed robotic rat with a Pi symbol on it's chest, and he makes pies too.
- Revenge: He blames rodents for his cyborg condition, and wants every rodent on Earth to pay for that.
The Amplifier
Voiced by: Khary Payton
A supervillain with a ray gun that can dramatically increase the size of whatever it shoots.- Small Role, Big Impact: Despite only appearing in the first few minutes, his ray would accidentally enlarge the size of an otter that would wreck havoc in the city
Big Baby
Voiced by: Brock Powell
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Is a Giant Baby
- Brick Joke: The Giant Baby threw the Action News van into the air during his rampage. It doesn't come down until the end of the episode, where it almost landing on Abuelita forces Hamster and Gretel to use their superpowers to save her.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Despite being dumped by Veronica and losing multiple mayoral elections, it does not excuse him rampaging the city.
- Gone Horribly Right: After losing another mayoral election and getting dumped by Veronica Hill to a younger, taller candidate with more hair, Bob Enfantiberg decided to brew a concoction that would make himself taller and younger and grow his hair back. The potion made him too tall and too young, but did nothing for his hair.
- Prophetic Names: His last name has "Enfant" in it and it foreshadows his transformation into a giant baby.
- Who's Laughing Now?: Bob Enfantiberg was last seen ranting on the podium that he'll outdo all the taller and younger candidates he lost to, before being removed from the stage. As a Giant Baby he declares the city is his and rampages.
Sloppy Joe Monster
The Eastside Bantam
Voiced by: Cree Summer
The former school mascot who placed a curse on the school and tried to sabotage every play. It turns out to be a former student wearing a suit that disappeared the same night that the bantam was replaced.- Anti-Villain: Although her goal is to ruin the school's plays, Christine is ultimately a harmless and friendly person.
- Prophetic Names: The bantam turned out to be a person named Christine De Poulet Both poulet and bantams are chickens, hinting that Christine is the culprit
- Start of Darkness: Ages ago, the school's football team used to be the Eastside Bantams, with the eponymous bantam as the mascot, but during the mid-90s, the team was renamed to the Eastside Plumbers, and the mascot was replaced as such. The Bantam mascot did not take this well and put a curse on the school as it left.
- Surrogate Soliloquy: Christine talks to a cardboard cutout and even married him.
Record Scratch
Voiced by: Camryn Grimes
A DJ themed villain.- Ambiguous Situation: We're not sure if she is an actual supervillain that the Imposter disguised as for the day or if she is entirely made up by the Imposter.
Ernie
Voiced by: Brock Powell
A bakery villain that attacks people with his "divorce cakes" after people refused to buy them.- Disproportionate Retribution: People ignore won't buy his "divorce cakes" so he decides to use them as weapons to shoot people as revenge.
- Evil Chef: He bakes cakes and is a supervillain.
Belle
Voiced by: Karalynn Dunton
- Attention Whore: The entire reason she's trying to tear Hamster and Gretel's reputations down is purely for social media clout.
- Badass Normal: She's not an over the top supervillain like the others in the show, but she did more damage to Hamster & Gretel than any of them through social media.
- Bad Influencer: She's a despicable social media influencer, using her platform to spread lies about Hamster and Gretel because controversy gets views.
- Crocodile Tears: After Gretel makes a video of herself persuading Belle to stop making fake videos, she takes advantage of this and sheds fake tears from another doctored video of Gretel insulting her.
- Hate Sink: Where to start? She makes fake videos of Hamster and Gretel to make them into despised pariahs for clout. She even takes great pleasure in them being almost arrested along with Kevin. All these make her a truly despicable character in the show.
- Justice by Other Legal Means: After being exposed as a fraud, she was arrested for an unrelated crime; unlicensed cosmetology.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After everything she did to ruin a nine-year-old girl and her pet hamster's reputation by framing them for many crimes, Belle loses all her followers thanks to Bailey showing everyone her unedited footage, and is promptly arrested for unrelated crimes.
- More Hateable Minor Villain: Unlike villains such as the Destructress and FistPuncher or Professor Exclamation, whose motivations and goals range from simple but understandable to grandiose, Belle's only reason for antagonizing Hamster & Gretel, and ultimately railroading them into being thrown in jail, is for the sake of internet clout.
- Signing Off Catchphrase: In-Universe Example. She ends her videos with "Like and subscribe."
- Villain with Good Publicity: She gets a ton of well-liked views from everyone after she ruins Hamster & Gretel's reputation. Of course, everything comes crashing down thanks to Bailey.
- Would Hurt a Child: Well, not physically, but she manages to torment Gretel, who's only nine years old, with so much clout to the point where she breaks and is about to turn herself, her hamster, and her teenage brother over to the police.
Arthouse
Voiced by: Diedrich Bader
A disgruntled film artist who produces mundane short films.- I Just Want to Be Special: His villainous motivation is that he just wants people to see his movie and hates that people are seeing Larry the Magic Boy instead of his films.
- Meaningful Name: His name's Arthouse and he makes Arthouse films.
Tchotchke Jones
Voiced by: Richard Kind
A villainous shopkeeper who shrinks items into a bottle and pass them off as tchotchkes.- Faux Affably Evil: Pretends to be a friendly shopkeeper... until someone gets in his way. He is very honestly happy to show off his impossible bottles though.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He shrinks items into a bottle until he eventually gets shrunk into one.
- WTH, Costuming Department?: A lot of people In-Universe think his mask is poorly designed.
Micromanager
Voiced by: John Hodgman
A literally small manager of Short Burger.- Didn't Think This Through: He had his robot built by teenagers working for minimum wage and didn't think they'd cut corners.
- Shrink Ray: His backstory is that he made one with the intent of making tiny onion rings in order to impress the boss of Tall Burger, but he forgot which end the shrink ray fired from, shrinking himself down to approximately 2 feet tall.
Father Goose
Voiced by: Isaac Robinson-Smith
A supervillain with wings coming out of his butt.- Foul Waterfowl: He's a supervillain with goose wings, and is able to rile up geese.
- Hate Plague: His honk is capable of making every goose in the Tri-State Area aggressive. But that's the limit to his control over geese.
- Little Bit Beastly: He's got goose wings coming out of his butt. Aside from that, he appears completely human.
Rat Burglar
Voiced by: Rachel Dratch
- Animal Themed Super Being: They are a rat-themed Classy Cat-Burglar, complete with a rat mask, claws, and a tail.
- Classy Cat-Burglar: Except in their case, they resemble a rat instead of a cat.
- Helicopter Parent: It's revealed that the Rat Burglar is the mother of Bailey's spelling bee rival Xavier. She frequently used invisible ink to help her son win various competitions. Hamster even straight-up calls her one when he and Fred trap her in the end.
- Knight Templar Parent: What else can be said about a woman who has committed multiple crimes for the sole purpose of helping her son cheat at elementary school competitions?
- Secret Identity Vocal Shift: Rat Burglar's mask pitches their voice down so that no one can find out her true identity.
Crimson Haste
Voiced by: Sarah Sherman
- Burning Rubber: When she shifts into turbo mode, she leaves two trails of fire in this fashion.
- Super-Speed: She can run so fast she can't be seen by the naked eye, and this is her default running speed. Once she shifts into turbo mode, not even Hamster and Gretel can catch up with her.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Prior to Crimson Haste, there already was a super-fast female villain clad in a reddish color, who made a prior minor appearance in "Superhero Sibling Rivalry" and even appeared on the Rogues Gallery poster among several other major villains, but sadly went unnamed.
Unknownzy
Voiced by: Isaac Robinson-Smith
An anonymous street artist villain who defaces public property (including other pieces of art) for his art.- Art Attacker: His main weapon is a pair of wrist-mounted paint shooters.
- Brown Bag Mask: He wears one as his main mask, because he is anonymous.
- Multilayer Façade: He wears a skull mask under his paper bag, and in his debut, he wore a colored paper bag over his regular one.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Not in appearance, but in name structure and in actions. The suffix of his name and his secret identity being a banker evokes Banksy.
- Wallpaper Camouflage: He makes his debut in a costume that blends in with the mural he defaced.
Pendulum Pete
Voiced by: Diedrich Bader
An analog clock-themed villain with a vendetta against digital clocks for lacking pendulums.- Clock Punk: He has this aesthetic, having a mustache like clock hands, and pendulums for arms.
Inga the Ice Queen
Voiced by: Danielle Threet
- Blue Means Cold: Her coat, hair, eyeshadow and lipstick are all shades of blue, and she's all about coldness.
- Cryo-Prison: The patrons of Ice Queen Ice Cream who have a taste of her Eïysze ice cream are frozen stiff and made a member of her entourage of frozen statues, her "Kül Krü".
- Foil: To La Cebolla. Both are food based super villains with their own Villain Song that recieves something extraterrestrial and also managed to take out Hamster. La Cebolla was already a famous actress that lost her role while Inga grew up poor but became successful.
- Freudian Excuse: As her villain song explains, her obsession with coolness stems from her upbringing as a dairy farmer in the mountains of Switzerland, and the cool skiers that would regularly tease her when all she wanted was to be one of them and not a dairy farmer.
- Freeze Ray: One of her weapons is a gun that shoots balls of Eïysze, freezing them on contact.
- An Ice Suit: She's wearing a winter jacket all the time, even outside in a summertime heat wave.
- Literal Metaphor: She has an obsession with coolness, referring to both the aesthetic quality and the low temperature definitions.
- Magic Meteor: The power source of all of her freezing weapons and freezing ice cream is Eïysze, a supernatural ice-like substance that crashed into the Swiss alps from space. Anyone who ingests it is frozen and quantum entangled with the Eïysze, so they won't thaw until the Eïysze is melted.
- Villain Respect: She briefly respects Gretel for showing some edge in explaining how she was able to defeat her by throwing the Eïysze into the sun. This ends after Gretel celebrates with a "Yay, I'm edgy!"... and then quickly regained once Gretel sabotages her hover vehicle.
- Villain Song: She has a techno song prepared to explain her backstory, entitled "Ice Queen".
La Sombrerona
Voiced by: Joanna Hausmann
- Achilles' Heel: She can't be able to suck her ray on people who are already super negative.
- Crusading Widow: She married five times, with every single one of her spouses promptly devoured by a tiger.
- Expy
- La Sombrerona's name is similar to that of the Guatamalan legend and Mexican boogeyman, El Sombrerón
, who is notable for wearing an overly large hat. - She also resembles famous Mexican ghost La Llorona due to being a very pale skinned woman with long dark hair and a white gown.
- La Sombrerona's name is similar to that of the Guatamalan legend and Mexican boogeyman, El Sombrerón
- Freudian Excuse: Every single one of her spouses preferred having fun over doing their job, and were promptly devoured by a tiger, so La Somrerona vows revenge against happiness in general.
- The Hilarity of Hats: La Sombrerona wears the hats of her five husbands stacked on top of each other. When they are removed, they reveal an antenna on her head, the source of her happiness-draining powers.
Simon
Voiced by: Brock Powell
A nanobot who gains sentience and possesses a bullied kid named Kelly to terrorize the city.- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: He was once an ordinary nanobot, but he soon gained sentience and became a bully.
Dr. MedusaSaurus
Voiced by: Lexie Shoaibi
Also known as Julie Jennings, she is a paleontologist with the ability to reanimate dinosaur skeletons thanks to the aliens.- Alliterative Name: Her civilian identity is Julie Jennings.
- Anti-Villain: The sole reason she went on a rampage, and targeted museum director Melvin Horsegobble in particular, is because he used to be her intern and pushed her into a tar pit by accident years ago, only to then take all the credit for her findings. Gretel and Bailey find themselves siding with Jennings when the truth is revealed, and she even wins in the end, with the museum being handed to her and Horsegobble being demoted to coffeeboy in the cafeteria.
- Gorgeous Gorgon: The reason for her MedusaSaurus nickname is because, much like Medusa's snake hair, Julie gained Prehensile Hair made of dinosaur bones.
- Human Popsicle: While not frozen per se, she got stuck in a tar pit for thirty years until the aliens bestowing her with superpowers allowed her to free herself.
- Necromancer: She is able to bring dinosaur skeletons to life.
Itsy Bitsy
Voiced by: Tessa Skara
- Anticlimactic Unmasking: Subverted. She first takes off her mask to reveal a normal and attractive face with purple hair. Then she reveals that the hair is actually spider-like legs that hide her Extra Eyes.
- Blinded by the Light: She has presumably been hiding out underground and operating at night for a while. When Kevin first shows up with his flashlight, she reacts with a lot of pain, which isn't helped by her having six eyes in total.
- Body Horror: Her powers manifested pretty horrifically. While she can look totally normal, sans purple hair, her hair locks are revealed to be spider-like legs growing out of her head that hide Extra Eyes.
- Corrupted Character Copy: She is this to Spider-Man - Similar to him, her powers came from an encounter with a spider, and can shoot webs to go from place to place. However, while Spider-Man is a hero who attempts to do the right thing, Itsy Bitsy is a supervillain who robs and steals.
- Extra Eyes: She has six eyes in total, with two pairs stacked on top of her normal ones.
- Fusion Dance: Merged with a spider when the aliens gave her powers.
Bayou Barb
Voiced by: Jane Lynch
A diner cook who merged with a tree and her cooking implements after being exposed to toxic waste.- Anti-Villain: She's not even a villain at all, and only chased after Kevin, Gretel, and Hamster because they caught her on camera and didn't want to be exposed out of fear of being shunned like she was after her accident.
- The Hermit: Chose to stay in the bayou after the incident that merged her with a tree and her cooking supplies. She decides to return to society after Kevin and Gretel tell her she's become an icon in her former town and have been cashing in on her infamy without her.
- Supreme Chef: Her homemade waffles are delicious.
The Librarian
Voiced by: Cree Summer
A silence loving librarian who bought Doofenshmirtz's old Shush-Inator over the internet, in order to ruin the kazoo festival, and also plunge the tri-state area into silence.- Evil Is Petty: She wants to take away all sound so she can have peace and quiet.
- Evil Librarians: She is a sinister nameless librarian who hates loud noises.
- Evil Old Folks: She is an elderly lady who uses an invention for sinister (but petty) purposes.
- Freudian Excuse: Her parents were an opera singer and a foley artist, meaning she grew up surrounded by noise, fueling her desire to silence the tri-state area.
- No Name Given: Her name is never revealed.
- Stage Whisper: She talks in a hushed tone similar to this, due to her dislike of loud noises. Except when she sings.
Mary Mitosis
Voiced by: Debra Wilson
- Black and Nerdy: A rare evil version of this trope, as she is a scientist who is able to duplicate herself and commit crime.
- Feed It with Fire: Thermokinetic force feeds her self-duplication powers, so fighting Gretel resulted in her going from four bodies to fifty.
- Ink-Suit Actor: She resembles her voice actress Debra Wilson but wider.
- Logical Weakness: Heat is an essential component of her mitosis, so when Gretel drops her in a freezing pool, she reforms into a single person.
- The Narcissist: Self-admitted while explaining her backstory.
- Self-Duplication: True to her name, she has the power to make copies of herself. Her expositing and the synchronicity of the clones imply that she retains a single consciousness across a great many bodies.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Part of her motivation is the fact that she has this opinion of her colleagues.
The Flake
Voiced by: Kyle Mooney
A slacker villain with poor time management skills, a vendetta against time itself, and the ability to turn into bread flakes.- Advance Notice Crime: He announces his crimes on the city's timekeeping devices in advance and provides a time for when he'll do the crime. However, he's always late, showing up just when the titular heroes let their guard down.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: He never makes it to his scheduled crimes on time because he always gets distracted along the way, showing up hours late, right when anyone staking out lets their guard down. Gretel uses this trait against him by anticipating his route, and staking out at a bakery that he'd doubtlessly show up at.
- Freudian Excuse: He became a villain because his father was a clockmaker who loved his clocks more than him, and this is also why The Flake wants to ruin everyone's ability to tell time.
- Food-Based Superpowers: Because of an industrial accident that merged him with a croissant, he's gained the ability to turn into a cloud of bread flakes.
- Logical Weakness: Like a bowl of cereal that's been left uneaten for too long, he gets soggy when exposed to milk, reducing him to a bread flake puddle with a head.
- Mad Doctor: He claims to be a surgeon, but Fred doubts this claim.
- Meaningful Name: In addition to the whole "bread flake" thing, a flake is someone who doesn't do what is promised or scheduled. The Flake always announces a time when he'll do his crimes, but he'll always run late.
- One to Million to One: How his bread flake powers work. He can turn into a cloud of bread flakes, fly around, and reform elsewhere.
Other
Aliens
Voiced by: Dan Povenmire (male alien), Joanna Hausmann (female alien)
The extraterrestrials who went to Earth by giving Gretel and Hamster superpowers to help people. They also gave Lauren and Lyle superpowers to cause crime in town, and later do the same with various other supervillains.- Cloudcuckoolander: Albeit a (seemingly) rare villainous example, the male alien has signs of this. Aside from giving Gretel's hamster superpowers and skipping over Kevin completely, he has given La Cebolla the power to talk to onions, and also provided disco lights for an impromptu outdoors homecoming dance, which not only consumes a lot of power on their UFO, but was not even part of any of their experiments. Hell, when he was about to give two other kids superpowers, the alien spilled his orange juice, accidentally giving a bouncy castle superpowers instead, and just left it like that as he leaves. All while touting in the Theme Song Takeover that they're not giving powers to anyone willy-nilly... at the same time as when he's giving a fire hydrant superpowers.
- Deadpan Snarker: The female alien, given some of the male alien's exploits as detailed above. Some of her snarks and nagging leads to the male alien remarking immaturely:Female alien: "You know, flashing those lights is using a lot of power..."Male alien:"YoU kNoW, fLaShInG tHoSe LiGhTs Is UsInG a LoT oF- that's what you sound like!"
- Enigmatic Empowering Entity: They're the ones that gave Hamster and Gretel their powers, dictating they use them for good. Mysteriously, they also gave powers to two other people, and implore they specifically use them for evil, and are responsible for various other villains like La Cebolla getting superpowers as well. At the end of "Exclamation Strikes Back" they reveal that they were creating supervillains to prepare Hamster and Gretel for a greater threat.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk and Jerkass: They tell Kevin that he was never supposed to have powers, to the point of mocking him after his bad day with Hiromi, even Gretel's expression displays sorrow, given the aliens' mistreatment of him.
- Super-Empowering: The aliens can bestow anyone – and "anything'' – with superpowers, then tell them to use those powers for good or evil.
- The Voice: We never see them and only get to hear their voices.
