The Cast of the Korean Web Serial Novel I Became the Villain the Hero Is Obsessed With:
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Ego Stream
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Da-in/Egostic/Mango Stick
The Stardus megafan who dedicates his life to her in the only way he knows how... While trying to prevent civilian casualties so he can enjoy such with a clean conscience.
- Ascended Fanboy: Gets to live in the universe of his favorite comic book superhero. By no means does this stop him from geeking out or collecting.
- Attention Whore: His livestreaming terror and reading the comments live in the act. One of the main reasons he sets himself as a supervillain instead of joining the Association is to be the focus of attention from Stardus.
- Blessed with Suck: His teleportation being to an extent Cast From Hitpoints. He notes, that supers with only one power like Teleporter often have less drawbacks.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Tends to brush off his most impactful actions and their impact on others, whether it's making him well liked or hated, or both.
- Bully Magnet: Downplayed, he's a teasing magnet from his Ego Stream comrades.
- Cast From Hitpoints: Teleporting long distances saps his energy.
- The Charmer: Will happily play with women's feelings to meet his end goals. Only for them to find that he finds Stardus infinitely more interesting, and at best being stuck Like Brother and Sister.
- The Chessmaster: Largely thanks to Media Transmigration knowledge and having been a superfan. His biggest blind spot is in understanding how Stardus is different from the comic thanks to his own actions.
- Control Freak: Driven by his desires relating to Stardus. Him helping and manipulating people is brushed off by him as something obvious to do.
- Criminal Found Family: Invoked Trope: This is the format he builds Ego Stream around, with them receiving support from each other and especially Soobin.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Mango Stick by his fans. Also, his Indy Ploy "Apple Mango" S class hero persona is especially embarrassing.
- Engineered Heroics: All of his bloodless "terror attacks" are engineered for one reason or another, usually to help boost Stardus.
- Famed In-Story: Livestreaming and putting said streams on major television channels through hacking really helps boost his name recognition.
- Fanboy: Of Stardus and her comic. Finding himself in that world, after he read the comic 10 times, by no means gets in the way of this.
- Fatal Flaw: His low self-esteem interferes with his ability to predict what others around him are feeling.
- Foil: Pragmatic Hero with Guile Hero methods, compared to Stardus and her lawful ideology and straightforward punch 'em methods.
- Guile Hero: Gaining influence through making connections is his main means of changing things, and comes up with tactics and strategy all the time. He only occasionally turns to murder.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: His thinking that nobody will take him seriously, either as a threat or as a love interest. The way he sees things, being The Chessmaster thanks to his comic knowledge is his one hand of cards and so he must use it for all it's worth.
- Hidden Depths: He may not be so oblivious as he appears to women's interest, just insecure. He has enough emotional intelligence to keep from being stabbed to death by the women in his life, which he claims is a super power.
- Insecure Love Interest: As far as Stardus is concerned especially. He just sees everyone as out of his league, be it romantically or just in importance.
- Large Ham: Invoked hamminess for his supervillain persona, since Da-in is a fan of super-hero media.
- Launcher of a Thousand Ships: In-Universe he's shipped with a ton of others, per the online comment boards that are frequently shown.
- The Man Behind the Man: Having Icicle, the eventual puppet master of South Korea, working under him.
- Master of the Mixed Message: With Stardus. His trolling combined with flirting really gets under her skin.
- Mind over Matter: His main combat power. He most frequently uses it for hovering, and holding up guns (and his livestream camera).
- Oblivious to Love: He genuinely thinks Stardus just hates him when she actually loves him.
- Opposites Attract: Him and Stardus. Egostic is egocentric with flexible morals, while Stardus is humble with strict morals.
- Patriotic Fervour: Downplayed. He is quite proud to be South Korean, and will sell out other countries if it helps keep them safe.
- Pragmatic Hero: De Facto what he is; co-opting less bad villains to use against real bad villains, and killing those who can't be reformed. This contrasts to the strict moral code of Stardus.
- Psychic Teleportation: His ace in the hole that lets him antagonize Stardus with impunity, taking other with him if he can touch them. Which frequently leads to misunderstandings in the public, as that usually takes the form of hugging women from behind.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Over time, fueling his desire to retire from supervillainy, with all the wear and tear on him both physically and mentally.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: For the things that went wrong in the comic, both in mass destruction and death, and the suffering of Stardus in particular. The second part backfires due to being Oblivious to Love.
- Spider-Sense: According to his own thoughts, his third superpower is the ability to sense when he's about to trigger the wrath of a women's jealousy.
- Super Villain: His chosen career, partly to help the growth of Stardus to face future crises, and partly to get attention from someone he sees as out of his league.
- Teleportation with Drawbacks: The further he goes, the rougher it is on his body. He notes it's because his power is divided between multiple abilities. Additionally, he needs to have seen the place first to teleport there.
- Think Nothing of It: Reacts like this to saving people. And it's not a front, he has trouble processing how grateful Atlas and his daughter are for saving her, for instance.
- Troll: Admits to himself that he loves making Stardus angry and her reactions, and his taunts to her play with her feelings in all kinds of ways.
- Uncle Pennybags: Both on a personal level with his team, and at the public level with things like being able to apply for damages compensation on his website and the bridge scheme. How he got the money was foreknowledge and Seo-un chips in with her hacking.
- Vigilante Man: De facto what Egostic acts as, being a hero without the shackles of the law that bind conventional superheroes. Knowing that Stardus hates these types, blinds him to the complicating factors in her perception.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Much to his proclaimed chagrin, though he would certainly be less happy if people didn't attend his livestreams...
- Wants to Be Hated: Specifically by Stardus, so that he can give her the challenges she needs to grow stronger in a manageable way, as opposed to her comic storyline enemies who systematically destroyed her mental health.
- Weak, but Skilled: Is judged to be one of the most dangerous villain on earth, considering his foreknowledge and manipulation abilities. Despite his relatively basic power strength directly leaving him as an A-rank villain amongst S-ranks.
- Your Head A-Splode: Egostic's early method of assassination was exploding heads with Mind over Matter. He's disgusted by it so switches to good old guns.
Seo-eun
The first supervillain recruited by Egostic, a young hacker driven by vengeance on the cooperation that experimented on her and killed her friends. The experiments gave her super intelligence.
- And Then What?: The comic version of her came into an obsession with revenge on South Korea, after having succeeded in avenging what Han-Eun did to her childhood friends.
- Does Not Like Men: Downplayed, she seemed to have a fear of them from her days being experimented on that gradually fades.
- Do Not Adjust Your Set: She's the main one responsible for Egostic pulling this.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Makes all kinds of high tech doodads, which allowed her to be a supervillain in the comic. This is partially due to her enhanced intelligence, and partly due to information she acquired from Han-Eun.
- Lady Looks Like a Dude: Is at first noted to try and pass herself off as a boy, which implies some things about how she and her friends were abused in captivity.
- Like a Daughter to Me: Is treated the most like a daughter by Egostic, frequently getting an Affectionate Gesture to the Head.
- Mini-Mecha: Eventually makes Starbuster mechs so she can get in on some of the fame of Ego Stream. They can work by remote but at reduced effectiveness.
- Misanthrope Supreme: Her comic supervillain path that Egostic prevented.
- Phrase Catcher: People calling her cute.
- Revenge: Getting it on Han-Eun for experimenting on her and her friends and killing the other subjects is her motivation for joining Egostic in the first place.
- Supervillain Lair: Egostic, rather than making his own, just borrows her futuristic lair under a house.
Lee Soobin
First introduced as a non-powered copycat terrorist spared on a whim, she quickly becomes caretaker amongst Egostic's supporters, as well as driving them and hacking.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Begs Egostic for her life in her terror attack, after watching the rest of her team brutally gunned down.
- Commonality Connection: Both her and Seo-eun with their desire for revenge on Han-Eun.
- Face of a Thug: Egostic notes she looks like bullies he knew in school, which may relate to her scaring him easily.
- Hidden Depths: Her ability to frighten powerful people despite not having powers hints that maybe her murdering people with terrorists to try and please Egostic wasn't just following the crowd...
- Hikikomori: In her background.
- Hollywood Hacking: Is good at this, and Egostic considers her a genius. She has a Computer Engineering degree.
- A Match Made in Stockholm: Becomes friends with Egostic after he threatens kidnaps her. He points out how unrealistic this is as soon as he gets back; it's likely only possible due to the shared goal of revenge on Han-Eun.
- Revenge: Getting revenge on Han-Eun for an "accident" that happened to her family is Sao-eun's hook to recruit her.
- Psycho Supporter: She is introduced as part of a group of terrorists like this, and Egostic keeps on finding clues there is more to her than she lets on.
- The Team Normal: No superpowers, but she's smart enough to help with hacking and planning, and takes care of everyone else's daily needs.
- Trauma Button: Referring to her recruitment reminds her of the trauma, and she takes a while to feel safe around Egostic.
Ha-yul/Priestess
A healing based supervillain who escaped from an orphanage into living as a pickpocket in the slums, originally driven into villainy by the murder of her dear little brother, which Egostic prevents.
- The Artful Dodger: Introduced living as a pickpocket after fleeing from an Orphanage of Fear.
- Forced to Watch: Nearly happens with a gang killing her little brother, and did happen in the comic as her Start of Darkness.
- Living MacGuffin: Egostic recruited her to be an answer to specific situations later down the line (Like lifting Moonlight Shaman's curse).
- The Medic: Though she's reluctant to share her abilities for a while.
- Never Be Hurt Again: After being betrayed and used by an Orphanage of Fear head, she is very reluctant to trust Egostic. Her brother being killed by thugs in front of her was her Start of Darkness in the comics.
- Pass the Popcorn: Does this with both Egostic and her brother watching Stardus fight. Not having a chance to get into the action herself probably has something to with it.
- Promoted to Parent: Became the parental stand-in for her little brother after losing their parents.
- Recruited from the Gutter: Egostic is careful to plot out a slow earning of her trust and avoid scaring her away, knowing how living on the street makes someone very untrusting. The way he recruited Soobin prior goes a long way towards lowering her barriers.
- Status Buff: She can boost the powers of a certain category of supers, draining her own energy in the process.
- Support Party Member: Healing and status buffing magic.
Choi Sehee/Elektra
A prickly frustrated teen who was doomed to turn to supervillainy as catharsis for her daily stress from work and the energy build up inside of her, only to fall into the wrong crowd in prison and become a supervillain later, a fate prevented by Egostic recruiting her.
- Boisterous Bruiser: She really likes fighting and watching fights.
- Flying Firepower: Flies via lightning and shoots it forwards.
- How Do I Shot Web?: Struggles to use her powers effectively until Egostic shows her.
- Percussive Therapy: Manages her powers by exercising them regularly on hapless trees.
- Pent-Up Power Peril: Egostic takes advantage of her issue with this to recruit her, allowing her to rampage in a forest as much as she wants, which gets integrated into other supervillain's training.
- Workaholic: She overworks herself in the service industry; it's no wonder she originally went mad.
Eun-wol/Moonlight Shaman
A girl raised by a psychopathic cult leader purely to destroy Korea, being bound by a curse, something which makes her feel extremely guilty.
- Forced into Evil: Via curse and being raised as a Tyke Bomb.
- Lunacy: Her powers being moon magic based.
- Mundane Object Amazement: Amazed and mundanity all the time due to her neglected childhood in a cult.
- Master of Illusion: Illusion is a part of her power set that comes in incredibly handy, especially since she doesn't advertise it.
- I Cannot Self-Terminate: The comic version of her begging Stardus to kill her to end her guilt at being forced to annihilate people by curse.
- Internalized Categorism: Seeing herself as a monster for the crime she commits under the Leader's control.
- Lady of War: Wears a traditional shaman outfit into battle.
- Person of Mass Destruction: She definitely earned her S-Rank villainhood by systematically destroying Seoul.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: In the original comic, being enslaved, feeling guilty for being forced to kill many people, and then begging for death.
Seo Jayoung/Black Spirit/Mist
A bored lethargic shut-in girl. Who happens to have major super powers.
- Ascended Fangirl: She watched Egostic's youtube videos before being recruited. As a Rewatch Bonus, some of the comments on the streams really fit her way of speaking (calling things cute).
- Dragged by the Collar: A running gag is her being dragged by her collar for reasons that are pretty much always her fault.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Being told to use her comic timeline nickname elicits this reaction, so she goes with Mist.
- Establishing Character Moment: Her saying no to being recruited just to see a cute reaction from Egostic.
- It Amused Me: Her prime motivation (when she has any) is her own amusement.
- Lazy Bum: Her defining trait is lethargy. And she has to be dragged to training, literally.
- Troll: Her second major personality trait, causing her fair share of hijinks.
- Unishment: Sees being moved by Egostic's Mind over Matter for training to be comfy.
Death Knight
Trapped in an ancient trinket sold for little at an auction, he's an ancient power granting ghost who just wants not to be cooped up.
- No Name Given: Egostic keeps on interrupting him before he can say what his actual name is. Later chapters reveal his name to be St. Peterius.
- Resurrective Immortality: Due to being a ghost, he comes back when he "dies."
- Status Buff: Can be charged up by Elektra.
Shin Ryeong
A divine spirit that often assumes the form of a Dragon.
Ariel
Atlas's daughter who ran away from to join Egostream.
Halo
An Angel who is a servant if the Sun God. Egostic manages to transfer ownership of her to himself.
Korean Superhero Association
Shin Haru/Stardus
A straight laced superhero on a crusade for justice after her parents were killed by supervillains, Shin Haru is a straightforwards person who likes to be direct in words and in action. Through the series, Egostic's actions towards her, as well as trauma, greatly alter her thinking and effect her mental health,
- Character Catchphrase: "You punk!".
- Contemplate Our Navels: Her obsessive thoughts about Egostic and the right things to do as a hero. She's really not well adjusted to Black-and-Gray Morality.
- Corrupt the Cutie: Occasionally notices this happening to her, like when her favorite drink flavor makes her think of Egostic, or that she actually gets a thrill from him writing a message to her in blood.
- Cosmic Keystone: Da-in repeatedly thinks to himself that, because beings as powerful as deities will attack at the later stages of the comic timeline, and that her power can grow as long as she faces enough adversity, he must base everything he does around preparing her for those fights.
- Failed a Spot Check: Letting her guard down around Egostic because her super intuition tells her she's his ally. When following her at one point, Egostic finds it odd that he is the one more on guard of the two.
- Foil: To Egostic with her lawful take on heroism and straight forwards methods, versus Egostic with his pragmatic heroism and Guile Hero methods.
- Head-Turning Beauty: A Running Gag is how she doesn't notice how head-turning her looks are.
- I Can Change My Beloved: Somewhere in her internal jumble of denial and obsession, she fantasizes about capturing Egostic and spending days re-educating him personally.
- Identity Breakdown: Faces a lengthy one, between her tight moral values as The Fettered on one side, and her supernatural intuition and feelings on the other.
- Parental Abandonment: Stardus's motivation for Super Heroics was supervillains killing her parents when she was a child.
- Required Secondary Powers: Averted, she needs a special suit to withstand the friction of flight.
- Samaritan Syndrome: Stardus is very sensitive to being a Samaritan as shown in the original comic universe, which is a big part of why Egostic makes sure to kill Person of Mass Destruction villains he can't recruit.
- Sanity Slippage: She faces insanity both in the original comic and Egostic's timeline, for very different reasons. The former is more out of hopelessness and Samaritan Syndrome, and the latter more out of various frustrations caused by Egostic.
- Selective Obliviousness: To her own feelings about Egostic. In fact, she can log into his fansite, and root for herself in
Ship-to-Ship Combat arguments against other pairings there, and still not realize... - Shell-Shocked Veteran: Eventually gets various symptoms from the trauma of Egostic double-crossing her and then Taking the Bullet. Effects include intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, and Double Think.
- Tantrum Throwing: Eventually, she throws tantrums regarding other women being closer to Egostic than her.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: One of her biggest moral conflicts with Egostic is how he casually murders supervillains. Apparently she did kill multiple in the comic.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Mango flavored things, which helps keep Egostic on her mind as his fans call him Mango Stick.
- When All You Have Is a Hammer…: In contrast to Egostic and Icicle's Guile Hero mindset, her main strategy is basically "punch things hard, and if that doesn't work, endure and punch harder".
- Yandere: Her knee-jerk reaction to seeing Egostic getting along with other women is barely suppressed yandere rage, just without an ounce of self-awareness. She eventually decides she must lock him up and re-educate him personally over days...
Lee Seola/Icicle
One of Korea's three A-rank superheroes, power at the head her family's Yuseong Enterprises, and Stardus' best friend. An ambitious, ice themed manipulator based in Busan.
- The Chessmaster: This for Korea as a whole, at least in the comic thanks to the capitol being relocated to Busan.
- The Confidant: For Stardus. And since they have such similar personalities, Egostic confides with her about his plans almost as much as Seo-eun after working together.
- The Face: Handles the political and business sphere for Egostic.
- Flying Firepower: Fights and shoots ice at the same time.
- Guile Hero: Despite being a conventional superhero much stronger than Egostic in a straight-up fight, she is also adept at negotiations and power games, using things like MBTI profiling.
- MegaCorp: Yuseong Enterprises is her megacorp, which she took control of at 18.
- Non-Idle Rich: Not only acts as CEO, but a non-disguised superhero responsible for half of South Korea during daylight hours.
- One Nation Under Copyright: Her achievement in the comics was running the government via megacorp thanks in part to Seoul being destroyed. Her ambitions have been delayed in this timeline.
- Secret Identity: Averted, thanks to being rich and famous, she had to guard against public interference in her life in the first place, so it made little difference.
- Shipper with an Agenda: She would rather see Egostic together with Stardus, rather than surrounded by female supervillains from Egostream.
Kim Ja-hyun/Shadow Walker
One of South Korea's three A-class superheroes, he is ultra powerful during the night and thus assigned hero duties during it. A naive and idealistic man who struggles with the pressures of being a hero, with the help of his girlfriend.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Egostic notes that trusting the wrong people burned him in the comics.
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": After getting helped to save his girlfriend, he starts idolizing Egostic as a "real man".
- Kryptonite Factor: Both the Behemoth Living Weapon and the flames of Mist act like kryptonite for his shadow powers.
- Portal Network: Because he can use his powers to go between any two places in shadow, he is used as a living one by the Superhero Association, using dark rooms. Resulting in much disturbed sleep.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: He makes some surprisingly accurate assumptions about Egostic, it's just the WHY that was wrong.
- Shadow Walker: As his name suggests. This is used by Heroes "R" Us to move superheroes around South Korea.
- Weaksauce Weakness: His powers don't work in daylight.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Egostic notes idealism was a big problem for him in the comics, which led to him being duped. His girlfriend also apparently chides him for it.
International Superhero Association
Metel
An arrogant American S-class Superhero dispatched to apprehend Egostic.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Gets mocked for being a support hero at home.
- Eagleland: Typical Type II depiction. She's a rude, aggressive, and dismissive American.
- Shoot the Dog: Is willing to accept hostages as Collateral Damage, not that she actually likes it.
Ex Machina
An S-rank hero whose existence was kept secret by the International Superhero Association. He is an incarnation of the Star God with the power to rewind time.
Cathedral
Celeste
The leader of Cathredal and the Saintess of the Sun God.
Atlas
Katana
An S-rank villian from Japan and the leader of Three Gorges.
Li Xiaofeng
An S-rank villian from China and the leader of the Fire Dragon.
Heiken
Cardrew
Isabelle
Other Villains
Weapon Master
Scream Maker
Dungeon Maker
Reaper
Iron Lord
The Three Gods
Sun God
Moon God
Star God
