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* LovePotion: In her first appearance, she casts a powerful love spell on Jan he could not break free of himself, requiring her to lift the spell instead. However, it only worked because he didn't know about it beforehand. In her next appearance, he proves to be immune against it.
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* LovePotion: In her first appearance, she casts a powerful love spell on Jan he could not break free of from himself, requiring her to lift the spell instead. However, it only worked because he didn't know about it beforehand. In her next appearance, he proves to be immune against it.
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A semi-sentient, ever expanding, all consuming entity made up of pure dark magic. It was created when Logar'as father and his mages fused to destroy the universe and create it anew. It returns in ''Der Neue Superheld'' as the Eraser managing to consume Logar's universe and make its way into the regular universe.
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A semi-sentient, ever expanding, all consuming entity made up of pure dark magic. It was created when Logar'as Logar's father and his mages fused to destroy the universe and create it anew. It returns in ''Der Neue Superheld'' as the Eraser managing to consume Logar's universe and make its way into the regular universe.
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* InvincibleVillain: It was so powerful, even Logar, one of the most powerful characters of the series, could not hold its advance permanently. It took its own creator's power turned against it to defeat it in ''Classic''.
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* InvincibleVillain: It was so powerful, even Logar, one of the most powerful characters of the series, could not hold its advance permanently. It took its own creator's power turned against it in combination with his granddaughter's own great magical power to defeat it in ''Classic''.
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* ReturningBigBad: The Void returns as "the Erazer", its improved form, in episode 9 of "Der Neue Superheld" and becomes the BigBad again until episode 11 where it is defeated for good.
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* ReturningBigBad: The Void returns as "the Erazer", Eraser", its improved form, in episode 9 of "Der Neue Superheld" and becomes the BigBad again until episode 11 where it is defeated for good.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: He appeared one day out of nowhere and started conquering Ragund's universe eventually capturing Ragund himself. While he used a mix of mind control and manipulations to make himself.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: He appeared one day out of nowhere and started conquering Ragund's universe eventually capturing Ragund himself. While he used a mix of mind control and manipulations to make himself.
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* BrokenPedestal: Before it turned out heccreated the Void, he was considered a great hero by his people.
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* BrokenPedestal: Before it turned out heccreated he created the Void, he was considered a great hero by his people.
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* TankTopTomboy: The covers for the ''Jan Tenner: Die neue Dimension'' audiobooks depict her wearing a crop top thus exposing her belly.
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* TankTopTomboy: The covers for the ''Jan Tenner: Die neue Dimension'' audiobooks depict her wearing a crop top thus exposing her belly.
belly. In this series, she is also not just accompanying Jan on his adventures but also capable of fighting herself.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Even without his ring of power, he has proven himself more than a match to his traitorous general.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: BadassNormal: Even without his ring of power, he has proven himself more than a match to his traitorous general.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In ''In der Hölle von Ostland'', Jan is brainwashed by Emperor Ling Furiosa to be his loyal servant.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In ''In der Hölle von Ostland'', Jan is brainwashed by Emperor Ling Furiosa to be his loyal servant.
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* BareYourMidriff: The covers for the ''Jan Tenner: Die neue Dimension'' audiobooks depict her wearing a crop top thus exposing her belly.
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* CharacterDevelopement: CharacterDevelopment: He starts out as a BloodKnight ready to use military force on any problem that comes his way. However, over time, he learns to rely more on his friends to solve a problem while using his military in a supportive role e.g. to evacuate civilliance, monitor the latest threat to Westland or try to contain it until his friends find a solution against it.
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* EveryoneJustCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone, his friends and enemies alike, only refer to him as "General".
* FacesDeathWithDignity: When faced with possible death, he is usually stoic and accepts his fate with his head held high.
* FacesDeathWithDignity: When faced with possible death, he is usually stoic and accepts his fate with his head held high.
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* EveryoneJustCallsHimBarkeep: EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone, his friends and enemies alike, only refer to him as "General".
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* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: In the second to last episode of the Leonen arc, Forbett fought his way through numerous Leonen to get to his captured soldiers with nothing but the flight serum. Keep in mind the Leonen are not only technologically more advanced but also physically stronger than humans.
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* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: In the second to last episode of the Leonen arc, Forbett fought his way through numerous Leonen to get to his captured soldiers with nothing but the flight serum. Keep in mind the Leonen are not only technologically more advanced but also physically stronger than humans.
* NoLastNameGiven: Her last name is never revealed in the series. Neither is anything regarding her family.
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* PsychicPowers: After returning to Earth, it turns out that the experiment that originally led to her having to be cryogenically frozen gave her psychic abilities, namely creating psychic shields, mind reading and telekinesis.
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* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemandsIt: Zweistein has listening devices installed EVERYWHERE. Whether it be Futura's lab, the ''Silbervogel'' or Forbett's headquarters, he always knows what is going on and what the heroes are saying and planning. Despite their best efforts, neither the heroes nor Forbett's soldiers ever manage to find them. However, it doesn't save him from being defeated as the heroes simply write their plan down rather than talking about it.
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* OverarchingVillain: Having created Xarxas, the BigBad of the first arc in ''Die neue Dimension'', and being the BigBad of the second arc, he acts as this.
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemandsIt:SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: Zweistein has listening devices installed EVERYWHERE. Whether it be Futura's lab, the ''Silbervogel'' or Forbett's headquarters, he always knows what is going on and what the heroes are saying and planning. Despite their best efforts, neither the heroes nor Forbett's soldiers ever manage to find them. However, it doesn't save him from being defeated as the heroes simply write their plan down rather than talking about it.
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* EvilSorcerer: Seytania is a powerful dark sorceress from a line of powerful dark sorcerers. Her magic allows her to [[{{Teleportation}} teleport]], create [[PlayinWithFire walls of fire]], [[EyeBeams shoot fire from her eyes]], [[SoulPower push people's souls out of their bodies]] and [[PuppetPermutation turn people into puppets]]. She can also cast a [[LovePotion love spell]] on people.Though it only works if they are unprepared.
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* EvilSorcerer: Seytania is a powerful dark sorceress from a line of powerful dark sorcerers. Her magic allows her to [[{{Teleportation}} teleport]], create [[PlayinWithFire [[PlayingWithFire walls of fire]], [[EyeBeams shoot fire from her eyes]], [[SoulPower push people's souls out of their bodies]] and [[PuppetPermutation turn people into puppets]]. She can also cast a [[LovePotion love spell]] on people.Though it only works if they are unprepared.
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* FemmeFetal: FemmeFatale: She is considered quite attractive by everyone who comments on her looks. She is also a powerful sorceress with a multitude of powers and abilities, most notably her [[PuppetPermutation ability to turn people into puppets]] that made her almost impossible to defeat whenever the heroes encounter her.
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* SelfDiposingVillain: In his final appearance in episode 12, he destroys Westland with nukes. This triggers a chain-reaction that blows up the planet, killing him with it.
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* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Despite being an Android, she can feel, think for herself and is treated as human as everyone else.
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* RedHarring: RedHerring: As her father and the one to give her her planet, he is built up to be a villain like Seytania. The heroes are even told that if he were to ever enter their universe, it would be the end of everything. But when they meet him, it turns out he is a WellInentionedExtremist WellIntentionedExtremist at worst as well as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, a lot more reasonable, and honorable, than his daughter.
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The recurring characters of the "Jan Tenner"-series.
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!!Jan Tenner
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[[caption-width-right:678:From left to right: ''Classic'', ''Die Neue Dimension'', ''Der Neue Superheld'']]
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/LutzRiedel (Classic & Der Neue Superheld), Creator/DennisSchmidtFoss (Die Neue Dimension)
The titular hero of the franchise. He is an athletic physics-student and close friend of Professor Futura. He is good-hearted preferring peaceful solutions over violence but also knows how to throw a punch.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Upon learning that Tanja had to be cryogenically frozen for an indefinite amount of time, Jan immediately switches his affection to Laura.
* AllLovingHero: He prefers kindness and peaceful solutions over violence. He always tries to reason with his enemies and is quick to trust them if they accept his offer for a peaceful solution.
* BabiesEverAfter: In ''Jan Tenner: Der neue Superheld'', he and Laura are married and have two children.
* BadassInDistress: While it is him who does the saving most of the time, from time to time, he's the one in need of rescuing such as when he was infected by the Stone Age-plague and turned into a Neanderthal or when he first met Seytania and the witch cast a love spell on him.
* BadassNormal: Even without a serum, his smarts and skill in hand-to-hand combat makes him a force to be reckoned with.
* BefriendingTheEnemy: At the end, Jan uses a magical, reality altering stone to transform an asteroid belt into uranium, solving the Leonen's reason for conquering other planets. This act of kindness results in them eventually becoming Earth's allies.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: He has the letters "J" and "T" on the left side of his vest.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In ''In der Hölle von Ostland'', Jan is brainwashed by Emperor Ling Furiosa to be his loyal servant.
* CharacterDevelopment: Starts out as a WideEyedIdealist. However, over time he learns that some people simply cannot be trusted, growing more cautious in the process.
* ChickMagnet: Between Tanya, Laura and Seytanya, most recurring female characters are pining for him.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Characters/FlashGordon1980 Flash Gordon]]. Both are young, blonde athletic university students who fight evil without inherent superpowers.
* {{Foil}}: To General Forbett. Both are heroes with the best in mind for their country. But whereas Jan is trusting, peaceful and thinks before he acts, Forbett is distrustful of everyone not from Westland, be they human or alien, always sees violence as the first option and usually jumps into situations without thinking.
* GeniusBruiser: He is both very smart and very good in hand-to-hand combat. Usually, it takes both to save the day.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: He is a blonde hero who is kind to all who did him no wrong, helps all in need, even the most devilish of villains, and is a WideEyedIdealist and MartialPacifist.
* InformedAttractiveness: He is quite open about his feelings towards Laura.
* LivingLegend: By the time of ''Der Neue Superheld'', everyone knows about his heroics and he is widely respected and admired for it.
* MartialPacifist: He always tries talking first and will take any opportunity to resolve a situation peacefully that doesn't result in people getting hurt. However, he is also [[BadassNormal very good at throwing fists.]]
* OfferedTheCrown: He briefly became king of Azzaru after defeating the previous king in combat. However, he chose to give it up after dealing with the ongoing crisis.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: At the end of Thol's rebellion, Jan kills him in an honorable duel despite always having been [[ThouShallNotKill explicitly opposed to the idea of killing other sentient beings,]] no matter how evil they are, before and continuing to explicitly hold that belief afterwards.
* PinnedToTheGround:
** In episode 23 of ''Classic'', he and Forbett are climbing a seemingless endless set of stairs as part of the fifth test they have to pass before they can get the Stone of Power. When they suddenly reach the end of the stairs and fight spacecrafts waiting for them, Forbett is about to take one so that the two as well as their friends, whom they had to leave behind as part of the last test, can get back to Earth. But Jan, correctly deducing that this is part of the test, tackles him to the ground and pins him down with his knee pressing on Forbett's back until the General comes back to his senses.
** The [[https://www.kiddinx-shop.de/media/catalog/product/cache/997d99ffaed1e11e92488c30bdc7c3b0/c/o/cover-jan_tenner-7-4000px-3_1.jpg cover]] of the episode "Schatten über Westland" shows him pinning down his son Jan Jr., ready to deliver a CoupDeGrace.
* ProperlyParanoid: While initially a WideEyedIdealist who was easy to fool if you just assured him you had good intentions, over time, he became less easy to fool to when he suspected something was off, he was usually right. For example, when Mimo was taken by Zweistein and gone for weeks but then suddenly returned secretly reprogrammed, he immediately saw right through the reprogrammed Mimo's act.
* RedIsHeroic: The titular hero and protagonist Jan wears a red vest.
* SaveTheVillain: Being unwilling to leave anyone behind, he often ends up saving villains such as Zweistein in episode 22 of ''Classic'' and Seytania in episode 38 of ''Classic''. The latter underwent a HeelFaceTurn because of it.
* TheSneakyGuy: He is very good at sneaking around and infiltrating the villains' lair, even without the villain noticing.
* TakenForGranite: In episode 13 of ''Classic'', the ghost of an orb he received from grateful aliens 6 episodes prior possessed Jan's body, turning his skin as hard as stone resulting in him unable to move.
* ThouShaltNotKill: He is completely against killing humans and aliens of human intelligence, no matter how horrible the person is and what they did.
* VictoryPoseOnPerson: A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRZVl_29NjI TV-advertisement]] for the episode "Das Dunkle Imperium" (engl. "The Dark Empire") shows the titular hero Jan defeat a barbarian and put his foot on his chest to assert his dominance.
* WhatTheHellHero: After Tanja was comatosed, Jan described her to Laura as an annoying bitch, something Laura called him out on after meeting Tanja.
* WideEyedIdealist: Initially, his good heart and preference for peaceful solutions makes him quite trusting. While that usually works in his favor, villains like the Leonen have used that against him by luring him into a false sense of security only to suddenly attack. As a result, he slowly grows more cautious towards strangers over time.
!!Laura
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Professor Futura's assistant and Jan's love interest. She accompanies him on every mission.
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* ActionGirl: She is insistent on accompanying Jan on each and every one of his adventures, no matter how dangerous.
* AdaptationalBadass: In ''Jan Tenner: Die neue Dimension'', she is much more capable in regards to hand-to-hand combat, even taking on multiple of Forbett's soldiers, not requiring as much saving by Jan than in ''Jan Tenner: Classic''.
* AdaptationalJobChange: Originally Futura's assistant, she became a computer specialist in ''Die Neue Dimension''.
* BabiesEverAfter: In ''Jan Tenner: Der neue Superheld'', he and Laura are married and have two children.
* BareYourMidriff: The covers for the ''Jan Tenner: Die neue Dimension'' audiobooks depict her wearing a crop top thus exposing her belly.
* BestFriend: After Tanja's return, Laura quickly becomes close friends with Tanja to the point she becomes a ShipperOnDeck for her and her son Jan Jr.
* DamselInDistress: Oftentimes, she ends up captured or in any other kind of distress requiring Jan to save her.
* DespairEventHorizon: She is quick to give up hope and think of the worst possible outcome.
* DudeMagnet: She is often noted to be quite beautiful with Jan, Mimo and even Zweistein having shown attraction towards her.
* FaceDeathWithDespair: Whenever she is faced with possible death, Laura's hysteria turns up to eleven.
* GreenEyedMonster:
** Downplayed. While she is quick to get jealous when Jan acts in a way that could be considered a sign of romantic interest in someone else, she doesn't linger on it too long, only playfully teasing Jan about it.
** Played straight with Seytania. The jealousy she felt when seeing her holding hands with Jan was so strong, she subconsciously broke free from her spell.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She easily trusts new characters if they claim to be nice or, in the case of aliens, if they look cute or friendly. Usually, when Jan or Forbett voice distrust, she doubles down calling them out as "paranoid". Most of the time, she is proven wrong.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Whenever they are in a bad situation and Forbett complains about it or gets hysterical, she tends to call him out on it, despite regularly getting hysterical and complaining about bad situations herself.
* HystericalWoman: In ''Classic'', she quickly gets hysterical, panicking about the situation and claiming all hope to be lost.
* NoLastNameGiven: Her last name is never revealed in the series. Neither is anything regarding her family.
* ShipperOnDeck: For her son Jan Jr. and Tanja. In one episode, she mentions how much she wishes her son would finally take things to the next level with Tanja.
* TheStoic: When she has set her mind to something, it's nearly impossible to change it.
!!Professor Futura
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KlausNagelen (Classic), Creator/KlausJespen (Die Neue Dimension), Creator/KasperEichel (Der Neue Superheld)
Westlands most renowned scientist and the creator of the superhuman serums. He is a close friend of Jan.
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* ChickMagnet: According to his old friend Dunja in episode 13 of ''Classic'', he was quite the lady's man as a student. His nickname was "The terror of female students"[[note]]During the 80s, it was common to refer to womanizers as "terror of women" in Germany[[/note]].
* DistressedDude: Being a NonActionGuy, when faces with a villain, he usually ends up in need of getting rescued by Jan.
* EveryoneJustCallsHimBarkeep: His friends only refer to him as "Professor".
* LegallyDead: Alongside Tanja and Forbett, he was declared dead after his lab blew up at the beginning of ''Der Neue Superheld'', despite nobody ever being found.
* MissionControl: Initially, since he has no fighting skill, he stayed behind when Jan and Laura went on a mission relaying information to them as well as proposing solutions to problems they encountered. However, as the missions required his presence more and more, he started accompanying them more frequently, though still in a purely supportive, non-fighter role.
* NonActionGuy: Being an old man with no fighting skill, he doesn't get involved in fights.
* TheSmartGuy: He is one of the most renowned scientists in the entire world and the one to create the serums Jan and Laura use throughout the series.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With General Forbett, usually due to their opposing views on the use of military force.
!!General Forbett
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[[caption-width-right:533:From left to right: ''Classic'', ''Die Neue Dimension'', ''Der Neue Superheld'']]
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/HeinzGiese (Classic), Creator/BerndSchramm (Die Neue Dimension), Creator/ThomasKastner (Der Neue Superheld)
The head of Westland's military. He is a soldier through and through. His strong desire to protect his country results in him being quick to call for a military solution to a problem which often leads to arguments between him and the others.
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* BadassInDistress: Despite being a trained soldier, he ends up in need of saving almost as often as Laura.
* BloodKnight: Initially, his answer to almost every problem is force, including nukes. He gradually learns to trust his friends more than his weapons.
* TheBrigadier: When Westland is in danger or at the very latest appears to be, his usual response is military force. But his friends can always convince him to try a different, less destructive strategy.
* ButtMonkey: In the ''Classic'' series, he gets pranked by Jan at the end of every episode. He also rarely wins a fight despite being a trained soldier.
* CharacterCatchphrase: "Heiliges Kanonenrohr!" (engl. "Holy gun barrel!")
* CharacterDevelopement: He starts out as a BloodKnight ready to use military force on any problem that comes his way. However, over time, he learns to rely more on his friends to solve a problem while using his military in a supportive role e.g. to evacuate civilliance, monitor the latest threat to Westland or try to contain it until his friends find a solution against it.
* TheCynic: He always assumes the worst in strangers and situations. Somewhat justified as he is in charge of his country's security.
* EveryoneJustCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone, his friends and enemies alike, only refer to him as "General".
* FacesDeathWithDignity: When faced with possible death, he is usually stoic and accepts his fate with his head held high.
* FirstNameBasis: In the ''Classic'' series, he refers to Jan by his first name after some time. Defied in ''Die neue Dimension'' where you only refer to him as "Tenner"
* {{Foil}}: To Jan. Both are heroes with the best in mind for their country. But whereas Forbett is distrustful of everyone not from Westland, be they human or alien, always sees violence as the first option and usually jumps into situations without thinking, Jan is trusting, peaceful and thinks before he acts.
* FourStarBadass: While he doesn't get to shine too often, when he does, he proves that his rank isn't just for show.
* FrontlineGeneral: He always leads his men from the front.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He may verbally clash with Jan, Laura and Futura a lot due to their opposing views on military force and has a tendency of reminding them of their mistakes, but he still genuinely cares for them.
* LegallyDead: Alongside Tanja and Futura, he was declared dead after Futura's lab blew up at the beginning of ''Der Neue Superheld'', despite no body ever being found.
* NotAfraidToDie: He has proven himself to be ready and willing to fulfill his duty to protect Westland under any circumstance, even if it means his own death in the process.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When the usually paranoid Forbett is friendly towards someone he suspected of being an enemy in disguise, it's usually a dead giveaway that something is off.
* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: In the second to last episode of the Leonen arc, Forbett fought his way through numerous Leonen to get to his captured soldiers with nothing but the flight serum. Keep in mind the Leonen are not only technologically more advanced but also physically stronger than humans.
* TheParanoiac: Being responsible for Westland's security, he always expects any new alien they meet to have malicious intentions and any kindness to just be an act. While he is wrong most of the time, from time to time, [[ProperlyParanoid he is proven right.]] This paranoia only grew worse in ''Der Neue Superheld'' due to rising tensions with Ostland.
* ProperlyParanoid: When it comes to former enemies suddenly saying they turned good, his assumption that it's a trick is usually spot on.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While his cynicism and readiness for a violent answer to any problem can make him appear not too reasonable, when his friends offer a different solution, he will usually listen. Further, when they come to him for help, he will not hesitate to do anything in his power to help them.
* SergeantRock: He is very strict with his troops but is also very proud of them. When they are tricked by Zweistein into working for him in "Jan Tenner: Die Neue Dimension", he is truly shaken. But once they are back to normal he quickly decides to look past their traitorous behaviour while under Zweistein's control.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Futura, usually due to their opposing views on the use of military force.
* WhatTheHellHero: He often gets called out for his readiness to use force, especially nuclear weapons, by his friends.
* UndyingLoyalty: To his country and his friends. Nothing will get him to turn on either.
!!Mimo
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[[caption-width-right:615:From left to right:Docked and mobile (''Classic'' and ''Die Neue Dimension''), mobile (''Die Neue Dimension'')]]
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/WilfriedHerbst (Classic & Der Neue Superheld until episode 6), Creator/MichaelPan (Die Neue Dimension), Creator/NicoNothnagel (Der Neue Superheld since episode 7)
The sensitive board computer of the Silbervogel.
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* ForcedIntoEvil: Between the pen-ultimate and the final episode, he was reprogrammed by Zweistein to flip his morals. He is sent back to earth to take out his friends.
* MeaningfulName: His name comes from the german word "Mimose", an old expression for people who are very sensitive. Jan gave him this name because at the beginning, Mimo wouldn't do as he was told unless asked nicely, something Jan was quite annoyed by.
* OutOfFocus: He doesn't appear at all in Episode 10 of ''Der Neue Superheld''.
* PersonalityChip: Mimo's brain has two halves: A robotic half dedicated to reason and logic as well as a human half dedicated to emotions. Thanks to this, he is fully capable of feeling emotions. In fact, he tends to be rather sensitive.
* RoboRomance: He is in love with the nursing AI Andromeda.
!!Tanya
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChristineSchnell (Classic), Creator/OliviaBuschken (Der Neue Superheld)
Professor Futura's former lab assistant. She is cryogenically frozen early on in the show and doesn't reappear until the third installment where she becomes a main character once more.
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* ActionGirl: Not so much in ''Classic'', but in ''Der Neue Superheld'', she gains psychic abilities and starts helping fight the VillainOfTheWeek and their minions.
* BestFriend: After Tanja's return, she and Laura quickly become close friends to the point Laura acts as a ShipperOnDeck for her and Jan Jr.
* DeadpanSnarker: After returning from her over 30 years of absence, she starts responding to Jan jr. attempts of flirtation with sarcasm or making fun of Jan sr.'s varyness.
* FetalPositionRebirth: When she returns to Earth after 30 years of being LegallyDead following an unknown amount of time being cryogenically frozen, Jan sr. and his son find her lying naked in the fetal position in a crater.
* GreatOffscreenWar: While initially not remembering what happened during her 30 years absence, it is eventually revealed that her AstralProjection was fighting against the Void and its forces.
* HumanPopsicle: She ends up cryogenically frozen after a failed experiment puts her in critical condition.
* LegallyDead: Alongside Futura and Forbett, she was declared dead after Futura's lab blew up at the beginning of ''Der Neue Superheld'', despite no body ever being found. Granted, she had already been in cryo-sleep for a long time at that point.
* MindOverMatter: She has the ability to levitate people and objects with her mind.
* MistakenIdentity: Upon returning to Earth, she mistakes Jan Jr. for his father. Jan Jr. is quick to correct her though it takes a few attempts before she believes him.
* NakedFirstImpression: When she first meets Jan Jr., she is completely naked. While she didn't notice until being told by Jan sr., she didn't seem to mind much.
* [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]]: Unlike Laura, she never joined Jan on his adventures in the ''Classic'' series. This changes in ''Der Neue Superheld''.
* NoLastNameGiven: Her last name is never revealed in the series. Neither is anything regarding her family.
* OlderThanHeLooks: She is in her early 20s physically and mentally. But due to being frozen for an unknown amount of time followed by a 30 year absence, she was born 40 to 50 years ago.
* PutOnABus: After a failed experiment off-screen she is cryogenically frozen between Episode 2 and 3 and isn't seen for years.
** TheBusCameBack: She finally returns with the third installment ''Jan Tenner: Der neue Superheld'' where she becomes a main character again.
* PsychicPowers: After returning to Earth, it turns out that the experiment that originally led to her having to be cryogenically frozen gave her psychic abilities, namely creating psychic shields, mind reading and telekinesis.
* SkewedPriorities: In episode 3 of ''Classic'', she and Jan are informed that children have been kidnapped while competing in a tennis tournament. While Jan immediately wants to hurry to Futura's lab, Tanja tries to convince him to just play the final round before trying to save the children.
* {{Telepathy}}: One of the PsychicPowers she gets in ''Der Neue Superheld'' is the ability to read minds.
!!Jan Tenner Junior
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/FlorianClyde
Jan and Laura's son and Lara's younger brother. He is the protagonist of "Der neue Superheld" following in his father's footsteps.
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* AffectionateNickname:
** His father refers to him as "Junior".
** Tanja refers to him as "Schnosel" (engl. "Snooze")
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Like his father, he wears his name's initials on the left side of his chest.
* ExtremelyProtectiveChild: He is very protective of his elderly father. He gets very angry very fast at anyone insulting his father. He also refuses to let him put himself in danger and when he does, Jr. will do everything in his power to get him out of it.
* TheHero: Of ''Der Neue Superheld'' alongside his father.
* LegacyCharacter: He takes up his father's role as Earth's intergalactic champion.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Not only does he wear the same clothes as his father, he is also blonde, a good fighter and immediately starts flirting with Tanya upon meeting her
* LoveAtFirstSight: He starts flirting with Tanya right after meeting her for the first time.
* RedIsHeroic: Like his father, Jan Jr. wears a red vest.
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!!Zweistein
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[[caption-width-right:356:From left to right: ''Classic'', ''Die Neue Dimension'', ''Der Neue Superheld'']]
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KlausMiedel (Classic until episode 45), Creator/EberhardPruter (Classic episode 46), Creator/HansWernerBussinger (Die Neue Dimension), Creator/DetlefBierstedt (Der Neue Superheld)
Zweistein, the mad professor,is the most recurring enemy of Jan Tenner and his friends. At first, he only aims for world domination before setting his sights on conquering the entire universe.
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* AffablyEvil: Zig-zagged. Due to seeing everyone else as inferior, he tends to be quite pleasant with them. For example, he often calls Jan and his friends "my friends" and Futura in particular "my valued colleague". However, suffering a set-back usually leads to him dropping this facade and showing his true animosity, spite and malevolence.
* AGodAmI: Downplayed. While he doesn't see himself as a god specifically, he does see himself as more than just a human.
* AndIMustScream: His currently final defeat in ''Der Neue Superheld'' sees his digitized consciousness being contained in a hard-drive, unable to do anything.
* ArchEnemy: Of Jan and the heroes as a whole.
* TheBadGuyWins: The second arc of ''Jan Tenner: Die neue Dimension'' sees him succeeding in taking over Westland while the heroes are away.
* BatmanGambit: After his first defeat, he studied Jan and his friends becoming a master at predicting what they would do to the point he could predict and pre-record an entire conversation with them. Due to this, he would have succeeded numerous times if things he could not account for didn't happen.
* BigBad: Of a lot of episodes in the ''Classic'' series as well as the Return to Earth-arc in ''Die neue Dimension''.
* TheBigGuy: Following his final defeat in the ''Classic'' series, he was shrunken down to the size of a bird and put into a bird cage at Westland's military headquarters. In ''Die Neue Dimension'', however, he manages to escape by bribing a guard promising him immortality. His subsequent attempt at growing back to normal size results in him becoming an invincible giant of a man towering over every other character in the show.
* BondVillainStupidity: He manages to outsmart and trap Jan and his friends quite regularly but either talks in length about the way he bested them giving them time to escape or sets up a convoluted way to kill them rather than just executing them on the spoz.
* BrainUploading: After his body dies in ''Der Neue Superheld'', his consciousness gets transferred into a computer allowing him to live on digitally.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: As he sees everyone else as his inferior, he has no problem betraying anyone to gain any kind of advantage. In fact, he has betrayed everyone he ever worked with, humans and aliens alike.
* ClassicVillain: He desires to take over the world for no other reason than that he believes himself superior to everyone.
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: Whenever he wishes to speak to the heroes, usually after his latest attack on Westland, he interrupts the radio broadcast in whatever location they currently are, replacing it with his own while talking. Whenever the heroes suspect he is behind something, they usually just turn on the radio anticipating his broadcast.
* EnemyMine: While stranded on the Planet of a Thousand Wonders, he temporarily teams up with the heroes to master the challenges and find the Stone of Power.
* ExceededTheGoal: In ''Die Neue Dimension'', having been previously shrunk, he set out to return to his normal height after being freed from captivity. His subsequent attempt resulted in him becoming an invincible giant of a man.
* FacesDeathWithDespair: When faced with the possibility of dying, he drops his egomania and becomes a DirtyCoward at a moment's notice, usually sniveling at the feet of Jan and his friends to save him.
* FakeDefector: He pretends to have undergone a HeelFaceTurn during the 30 year time skip between ''Classic'' and ''Der Neue Superheld'' knowing his body was failing and that by pretending to be good, he could get the Tenners to try and save him, which they do by [[BrainUploading uploading his consciousness into a computer.]]
* FatalFlaw: His egomania. It leads him to both underestimate his opponents and overestimate his own genius, luring him into a false sense of security resulting in him considering himself victorious too soon, dropping his guard. As such, it is usually the reason he ends up losing.
* GadgeteerGenius: He created and built many high-tech devices and machines, including his own spaceship, a super AI that could hack every earthly computer as well as a belt that can make him teleport.
* {{Immortality}}: In ''Die neue Dimension'', he reveals that he created a serum to make himself immortal. He manages to bribe Forbett's soldiers onto his side by promising them to use it on them. However, as this plot threat is left open following the cancellation of ''Die neue Dimension'', the specific form of immortality he gains from it is unknown. Defied in ''Der Neue Superheld'' where he is explicitly mortal and even ends up almost dying.
* IncredibleShrinkingMan: He ends up shrunken by his own serum in the last episode of ''Classic'' as well as at the end of episode 9 of ''Die Neue Dimension''.
* ItsAllAboutMe: His FatalFlaw. He believes himself to be the greatest genius in the universe and his intellect unrivaled with every other being in the universe being inferior.
* JokerImmunity: He survives every supposed death, including his spaceship blowing up with him inside. Even when it seems like he dies of old age in ''Der Neue Superheld'', his consciousness is just uploaded to a computer and he continues to exist digitally.
* LargeHam: He speaks slowly on purpose, pronouncing every individual letter just because he likes to hear himself talk. He also does not take well to being interrupted.
* LongGame: Between ''Classic'' and ''Der Neue Superheld'', he spent 30 years pretending to have changed his way to not die of old age. Even when he succeeds and has his [[BrainUploading consciousness uploaded into a computer]], he waits days before revealing he was still evil.
* MadScientist: He is a genius scientist who [[MakerOfMonsters creates monsters and mutants]] and builds robots to take over the world. His nickname is literally "the mad scientist".
* MakerOfMonsters: He created many creatures for his evil plans, including a living tree that took over a HiveMind of other living trees, animal-human hybrid mutants and tiny insects that spread a serum he created like a plague.
* MeaningfulName: Discussed. His name is derived from the famous physicist and mathematician Albert Einstein. "Ein(s)" in German means "one" while "Zwei" means "two". Therefore, by choosing this name, Zweistein is claiming to be twice as smart as Einstein.
* OverarchingVillain: Having created Xarxas, the BigBad of the first arc in ''Die neue Dimension'', and being the BigBad of the second arc, he acts as this.
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemandsIt: Zweistein has listening devices installed EVERYWHERE. Whether it be Futura's lab, the ''Silbervogel'' or Forbett's headquarters, he always knows what is going on and what the heroes are saying and planning. Despite their best efforts, neither the heroes nor Forbett's soldiers ever manage to find them. However, it doesn't save him from being defeated as the heroes simply write their plan down rather than talking about it.
--> '''Zweistein:''' Zweistein knows all.[[note]]German Original line: "Zweistein weiß alles"[[/note]]
* TakingYouWithMe: As his last plan in ''Classic'' fails and he is about to be taken in, he tries to kill everyone rather than being captured. Of course, it fails.
* UngratefulBastard: He usually repays the heroes rescuing him by betraying them later on.
* UnwittingPawn: Zigzagged. He used Seytania in episode 33 to take out the heroes planning to steal her magic after they won. But as their next appearance together showed, Seytania was only using him, too.
* VillainRespect: Downplayed. While he has voiced admiration for Futura's intellect, he still acts as disrespectful to him as he does to everyone else once his AffableEvil act ends.
* VillainTeamUp: He teams up with Seytania in episode 34 and 36, first hoping to gain her magic powers, then to take the Silbervogel. He was foiled by Jan the first time before he could betray her. The second time, Forbett turned Mimo into a bomb with Seytania refusing to help him disarm it causing everyone to almost die.
!!Leonen
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An alien race that employs different tactics to try and conquer Earth for its uranium. In ''Der Neue Superheld'', they become Earth's allies.
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* AncientEvil: They have been destroying and conquering planets for thousands of years.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: In ''Der Neue Superheld'', the Leonen feel indebted to humans thanks to the Uran Jan gave them. While a few joined the Heir's of Zweistein, most have become allies to Earth.
* BigBad: Of the Leonen-arc.
* BondVillainStupidity: Despite having the military and technical means to just invade and conquer Earth, the Leonen prefer to use plans and trickery to try and conquer earth. Subverted in the last few episodes of the Leonen arc where they do invade and take over the planet very easily.
* CatFolk: They are a species of bipedal lions with four arms.
* DegradedBoss: In ''Der Neue Superheld'', a few Leonen return as members of the terrorist group "Heirs of Zweistein" as mere minions.
* EasilyForgiven: Despite having attacked and destroyed civilizations for thousands of years, not to mention all their vile plans against Earth, they never face consequences for their actions.
* EvilSoundsDeep: They have the deepest voices of the series.
* HeelFaceTurn: After having their uranium problem solved by Jan Tenner, they stop conquering other planets. By the time of ''Der neue Superheld'', they are Earth's allies.
* KarmaHoudini: They end up getting exactly what they desire, that being enough uranium to fuel their civilization, never suffering any consequences for their aggressive actions towards Earth and many other civilizations before it.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: They are a very aggressive race of [[ProudWarriorRace alien warriors]] with 4 arms and a lion's head hellbent on conquering other planets for their uranium.
* ProudWarriorRace: They are a race of warriors attacking and conquering other planets for their uranium to fuel their own society. They refuse to be reasoned with until their Emperor gets defeated in battle.
!!Seytania
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/AlmutEggert (Classic)
Daughter of Logar, emperor of the Dark Empire and a powerful sorceress. She originally lured space travelers to her planet and turned them into literal puppets. She falls in love with Jan and, after numerous antagonistic encounters, eventually sacrifices herself to...
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* AchillesHeel:
** Her magic cannot pass forcefields.
** Whenever she enters her DeepSleep, she is completely vulnerable as nothing could wake her up.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: When Logar, after having been put into chains that lower a boulder onto him each time he moves, wants to tell the heroes how to defeat the ring of power, Seytania begs him not to speak so that he won't be crushed by the boulder showing that, despite their relationship being not great, she still cares about him.
* BondVillainStupidity: After realising Jan caused an uprising among her puppets, she swore she would turn him into a puppet. But rather than doing it there and then, which would have ensured her victory, she sent him back to his room allowing him to escape with the help of another puppet.
* DaddyIssues: Initially, the relationship between her and her father is not great with him repeatedly calling her his "unworthy daughter" and her not having much respect for him betraying him the first chance she gets. After almost dying, they do make up.
* DarkActionGirl: Played with. Initially, she lets her puppets do her dirty work. But eventually, she realizes that they are powerless against Jan and his friends and starts trying to take care of them personally.
* DeepSleep: Every few nights, she needs to sleep. During this time, she is completely vulnerable and is physically incapable of awaking no matter what happens.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Shortly before Logar was about to kill a traitorous general, she used his ring of power to drain him. This, in turn, gives the general the chance to take it from her by imprisoning both.
* EasilyForgiven: Despite having tried to kill him and his friends multiple times, after being saved by Jan from certain death, she asks for his forgiveness which he grants without a moment of hesitation.
* ElementalPowers: She can create walls of fire and shoot heat beams as well as lightning bolts from her eyes.
* EvilSorcerer: Seytania is a powerful dark sorceress from a line of powerful dark sorcerers. Her magic allows her to [[{{Teleportation}} teleport]], create [[PlayinWithFire walls of fire]], [[EyeBeams shoot fire from her eyes]], [[SoulPower push people's souls out of their bodies]] and [[PuppetPermutation turn people into puppets]]. She can also cast a [[LovePotion love spell]] on people.Though it only works if they are unprepared.
* ExactWords: In her third appearance, she promised Jan to let his friends live if he comes to her and agrees to become her husband. When he does and then demands for her to let his friends go, she reveals that she meant that they could live as puppets.
* EyeBeams: She can shoot heat beams and lightning bolts from her eyes.
* FemmeFetal: She is considered quite attractive by everyone who comments on her looks. She is also a powerful sorceress with a multitude of powers and abilities, most notably her [[PuppetPermutation ability to turn people into puppets]] that made her almost impossible to defeat whenever the heroes encounter her.
* GreenEyedMonster: She gets easily very jealous of anyone, especially but not exclusively women, Jan pays attention to.
* HeelFaceTurn: Following her rescue, she asks for Jan's forgiveness and subsequently becomes an ally.
* HeroicSacrifice: After realizing that her grandfather was the creator of the Void, she saves Jan and Laura by defeating and absorbing the remnant of Butor. She brings them back to the Silbervogel and orders Mimo to travel back into the future where she uses all her power to destroy the Void, saving existence itself but dying in the process.
* InformedAttractiveness: She is not shy of telling Jan over and over again that she loves him and wants him to love her back.
* InvincibleVillain: Thanks to her great magical power, the heroes barely stand a chance on their own against her. Of the 4 times she appeared as a villain, the first time she wasn't defeated but rather blackmailed into releasing Jan from her spell. The second time, she was only defeated by Jan freeing the demon Orlos, one of only three characters more powerful than her. The third time, she was [[NearVillainVictory seconds away from winning]] but was stopped by her father, the second of the three characters more powerful than her. Lastly, the last time, she had almost won again but was put into a situation where she had to save the heroes or risk dying with them.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: She is a powerful EvilSorcerer. Being raised as royalty as the heir to the Dark Empire, she wears elegant clothes and has a calm and regal attitude...until things stop going her way, that is.
* LovePotion: In her first appearance, she casts a powerful love spell on Jan he could not break free of himself, requiring her to lift the spell instead. However, it only worked because he didn't know about it beforehand. In her next appearance, he proves to be immune against it.
* MagicalEye: Her stare can drain people upon eye contact and force them to temporarily obey her. She can also shoot two different kinds of EyeBeams from them.
* MyopicConqueror: In her third appearance, she conquers Earth all on her own in only 10 hours. But she didn't do it to rule. Rather, she simply wanted to use it as leverage against Jan to become her lover and intended to then ship off all humans to fight for Logar.
* NearVillainVictory: In her third appearance, she took over Earth on her own in less than 10 hours by transforming all humans into puppets, then had Jan surrender to her. After disarming him, she had him at her mercy and was about to transform him and his friends into puppets, thus securing her victory, when her father Logar intervened, furious that she attacked a planet he had promised to let be.
* NoLastNameGiven: Like her father, her last name, if she has one, is never given.
* PlayingWithFire: She can create walls of fire and shoot heat beams from her eyes.
* PuppetMaster: A literal example. She uses her magic to lure space travelers to her planet, then [[PuppetPermutation turns them into literal wooden puppets.]]
* PuppetPermutation: She gained her nickname "The Puppet Queen" by kidnapping people and turning them into living wooden puppets. Depending on their intended task and required amount of intelligence, she may even [[SoulPower drive out their souls first.]]
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As the princess of the Dark Empire, she is the second most powerful person in the Dark Empire both in terms of magical power and command. She is also one of the most powerful characters in the show.
* RegretfulTraitor: After her betrayal of her father results in both being imprisoned and sladed to be executed, Seytania regrets her actions. This results in her and Logar being able to mend their rocky relationship.
* RelationshipSalvagingDisaster: Before being sacrificed by Thol, Seytania mended her relationship with her father Logar.
* RichBoredom: She kidnapped spacefarers and [[PuppetPermutation transformed them into puppets]], sometimes by pushing their souls out of their bodies, just because she got bored of the puppets her father created for her to rule over.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Despite being the princess of the Dark Empire, she usually takes matters into her own hands.
* ShallowCannotComprehendTrueLove: She wants Jan to love her freely believing her beauty and wealth would make it an easy decision for him. Therefore, she shows no understanding when he tries to explain to her that there is more to love than just a simple decision.
* TheSleepless: Seytania only needs to sleep every few nights. But the sleep she enters is always a DeepSleep.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She is the only main female villain of the series and the only female villain in ''Classic''.
* SoulPower: She creates most of her puppets by pushing people's souls out of their bodies with her magic. The shells have no will of their own and only do what they are told. Only those performing tasks that required independent thought are allowed to keep their souls.
* TheStarscream: As soon as Logar gave her his ring, the source of his power, to fight another traitor without its power, she turned it against him declaring himself Queen of the Dark Empire.
* {{Teleportation}}: She is able to materialite herself almost everywhere.
* UnwittingPawn: Zigzagged. Zweistein used her in episode 33 to take out the heroes planning to steal her magic after they won. But as their next appearance together showed, Seytania was only using him, too.
* VillainousCrush: On Jan. This eventually leads to her HeroicSacrifice.
* VillainousLineage: Played with. While her grandfather attacked the Purple Plains, killed all unicorns and turned it into the wasteland it was by the time her father took over, not to mention ended up creating the Void out of boredom, her father's only evil act was to kidnap other species to fight the Void.
* VillainTeamUp: She teams up with Zweistein in episode 34 and 36 to get revenge on Jan and his friends. But it is clear that she sees him as nothing more than an UnwittingPawn and cares little for him.
!!The Void/the Eraser
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A semi-sentient, ever expanding, all consuming entity made up of pure dark magic. It was created when Logar'as father and his mages fused to destroy the universe and create it anew. It returns in ''Der Neue Superheld'' as the Eraser managing to consume Logar's universe and make its way into the regular universe.
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* AncientEvil: The Void has been devouring Logar's universe for thousands of years.
* AsteroidsMonster: It only takes a small piece of it to enter a new universe for that piece to slowly grow and expand into a new Void no less powerful than the original.
* AStormIsComing: Before one reaches the Void, they have to pass a [[PerpetualStorm continuous thunderstorm]]. Likewise, the thunderstorm advancing is also a sign of the advancing Void.
* TheBadGuyWins: In ''Der Neue Superheld'', it succeeds in devouring Logar's universe and starts its attack on the main universe.
* BlobMonster: Before the Void had expanded to universal size, it was a black blot that ate everything in its vicinity.
* CombatTentacles: While still relatively small, the Void uses tentacles to grab and drag victims into itself to devour them.
* DarkIsEvil: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTgeTin As the name suggests]], the Void is a completely black void.
* EldritchAbomination: It is a universe-sized sentient mass [[MadeOfMagic made of black magic]] which devours all and either kills or [[ForcedTransformation transforms its victims]] [[MakerOfMonsters into monsters.]] There is neither light nor darkness in its mass.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Void is a black mass of universal size while the Eraser erases anything it devours.
* ExtremeOmnivore: It devours anything it comes into contact with, be they living beings or not.
* ForcedTransformation: In ''Classic'', the Void transforms anyone caught by its monsters into more monsters. In ''Der Neue Superheld'', it instead transforms its victims into black armored soldiers.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Its goal is to devour everything for no real reason beyond that being its nature.
* InvincibleVillain: It was so powerful, even Logar, one of the most powerful characters of the series, could not hold its advance permanently. It took its own creator's power turned against it to defeat it in ''Classic''.
* KilledOffForReal: After previously surviving its destruction in ''Classic'', it is killed for good in episode 11 of ''Der Neue Superheld''.
* MadeOfMagic: It entirely consists of the BlackMagic emitted by the fusion of Butor and his dark mages.
* MakerOfMonsters: The Void turns those caught by its creatures into monsters. Some are described as being like jellyfish while others are said to be human-animal hybrids with multiple heads and limbs.
* PerpatualStorm: At its edge, there is a continuous thunderstorm raging on.
* PlayinWithFire: Some of its monsters can shoot fireballs from their mouths.
* ReallyEighthundredYearsOld: When the group traveled back 20,000 years into the past, it had just been created and was starting to expand.
* ReturningBigBad: The Void returns as "the Erazer", its improved form, in episode 9 of "Der Neue Superheld" and becomes the BigBad again until episode 11 where it is defeated for good.
!!Butor the Terrible
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/WolfgangKuhne (Classic)
Logar's father who faked his disappearance to create the Void.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: A villainous example. As part of his experiment to end everything, he fused with his mages, absorbing their power. The finished form was so powerful, the magic was unable to be contained in his body and so it protruded from him creating the Void, much to his delight.
* BrokenPedestal: Before it turned out heccreated the Void, he was considered a great hero by his people.
* TheEmperor: He was the founder and first emperor of the Dark Empire.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Having taken over the universe of the Dark Empire and created the Void, he is responsible for every encounter with the Dark Empire and the Void the main group had.
* KilledOffscreen: He was absorbed by Seytania off-screen.
* MyopicConqueror: He conquered his universe and founded the Dark Empire but quickly got bored of ruling and decided to end everything creating the Void his son would battle for thousands of years in the process.
* OmnividalMainiac: After getting bored of ruling, he decided to end everything, creating the all-devouring Void to do so.
* RichBoredom: After Butor conquered their universe and killed all the unicorns, he got bored of ruling and decided to end everything, creating the Void in the process.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite only appearing in one episode, the fact that he created the Void his son Logar fought against makes him responsible for every episode dealing with it in both ''Classic'' and ''Der Neue Superheld''.
!!Thol
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/EngelbertVonNordhauen (Classic)
Logars top general. He eventually betrays Logar when the ruler over the Dark Empire uses Futura's serum to hold off the Void believing it to be a plight on his warrior way of life.
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* AscendedExtra: In his first appearance, he barely had any lines. His second sees him becoming the BigBad of the Dark Empire arc.
* BigBad: Of the first half of the Dark Empire arc.
* ConflictKiller: By taking both Logar and Seytania captive, he allowed them to talk and mend their relationship. He also ended Seytania's conflict with the heroes as she was forced to call for their help and underwent a HeelFaceTurn because they answered it.
* FatalFlaw: His overconfidence. It results in him underestimating his opponents.
* GlorySeeker: By taking over the Dark Empire, he wishes to return to the old ways before the introduction of Futura's serum believing a glorious death through combat is preferable to the continued use of the serum.
* HonorBeforeReason:
** His entire reason for rebelling against Logar. He prefers sacrificing his men for a warrior's death rather than fighting the Void without casualties by using Futura's serum.
** Rather than just killing Jan and his friends which he could have done easily, he agrees to honorable combat against Jan despite having already lost to him '''twice'''. This time, he loses not only the fight, but his life, too.
* KilledOffscreen: He is killed by Jan during their offscreen battle.
* NobleDemon: Being a ProudWarriorRaceGuy, he fights honorably, specifically forbitting his minions to intervene, even when he is about to lose.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: His reason for rebelling against Logar is his dislike for Logar's use of Futura's serum to beat back the Void rather than the traditional, and ineffective, combat. He believes their people's nature is that of warriors who have to fight constantly, even if it means their certain deaths.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Subverted. Despite being Logar's right hand, he only ever wins because of someone else's doing, namely Seytania betraying her father at the worst possible time and a serum activated by will activating during his first fight with Jan which would have made him stronger in our universe but weakens him in the universe of the Dark Empire.
* TheStarscream: After Logar uses Futura's serum over his warriors against the Void, he grows disillusioned with his leader and successfully stages a coup against him.
* TheUsurper: He rebels and, thanks to Seytania's unintentional help, manages to overthrow Logar, seizing rule over the Dark Empire.
* WorfHadAFlu: Despite supposedly being the second best fighter of the Dark Empire, he lost every fair fight he fought.
!!Xarxas
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/LutzSchnell (Die Neue Dimension)
A sentient computer seeking to rule another universe using his robot army.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: His goal is to turn every living being inhabiting the universe he landed in into a robot and kill the rest.
* {{Brainwashed}}: He uses different means of MassHypnosis to turn people into his loyal subjects.
* TheDreaded: Everyone in his universe fears him due to his army's might and his own ruthlessness.
* TheEmperor: He is the ruler over his own mechanical empire.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He appeared one day out of nowhere and started conquering Ragund's universe eventually capturing Ragund himself. While he used a mix of mind control and manipulations to make himself.
* MechaMooks: He commands an army of robots.
* MysteriousPast: In-universe no one knew who he was, what he wanted or where he came from. It was only in his final appearance that it was revealed he was a creation of Zweistein meant as a distraction for the heroes.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: He always sends his minions to deal with the heroes and doesn't appear until the episode he is defeated.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: If he doesn't use brainwashing or false promises to control the people he conquered, he just roboticises them. Their consent in the matter is never a factor.
!!Ling Furiosa
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/BertFranzke (Der Neue Superheld)
The emperor of Westland's neighbour Ostland.
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* BigBad: Of the Ostland-arc.
* {{Brainwashed}}: He kidnaps and brainwashes Jan to be his servant.
* TheEmperor: He is the emperor of Ostland.
* {{Expy}}: Of Flash Gordon villain Ming the Merciless.
* KarmicDeath: He dies after his nuking of Westland leads to a chain-reaction that blows up the planet.
* NukeEm: When the tensions between Ostland and Westland boil over, he attacks Westland with nuclear weapons.
* SelfDiposingVillain: In his final appearance in episode 12, he destroys Westland with nukes. This triggers a chain-reaction that blows up the planet, killing him with it.
!!Dr. Benjamin Brain
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[[caption-width-right:617:From left to right:As human, as [[BrainInAJar brain in a robot body]], as giant brain]]
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/HansBayer (Der Neue Superheld)
A mad scientist whose brain is trapped in a robot body.
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* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedEvil: He is a former student of Futura.
* BigBadEnsemble: In episode 5, he independently goes up against the episode's BigBad, the Rat King, who himself is after him. In the end, he is the one to succeed and kill the Rat King.
* BrainInAJar: After faking his death, Dr. Brain has his brain put into a robotic body.
* CharacterDeath: He dies when his literal oversized brain is blown up in episode 14.
* FakingTheDead: In his first appearance, he makes it seem like he died in an explosion to throw the heroes off his trail.
* ForcedTransformation: He transforms people into humanoid animals. Their loyalty towards him varies.
* MadScientist: Considering he created vicious anthropomorphic animals as servants and later enlarged his own brain to absorb the world, he certainly qualifies.
* SecretPublicIdentity: Dr. Brain's choice for a supervillain name is "Hirn", which means "Brain" in english.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Dr. Brain is a MadScientist who later transplants his brain into a robotic body.
!!The heir's of Zweistein
A terrorist group who admire Zweistein wanting to follow in his footsteps. They are lead by the manager of Zweistein's laboratories Rangold.
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*ArmyOfTheAges: They have bases all throughout time with the goal to build a time army.
* DecapitedArmy: After the death of their leader Rangold, the Heir's of Zweistein and their [[ArmyOfTheAges Time Army]] broke apart with most being captured and those who weren't going on the run.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The group is made up of both humans and Leonen.
* ReligionOfEvil: They revere Zweistein and seek to follow into his footsteps, desiring to fulfill his goal of WorldDomination.
!!Tamara
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/VeraBunk (Der Neue Superheld)
A recurring enigmatic enemy always working for another villain.
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* AdaptionalDyeJob: She has red hair on the cover of the episode she first appeared in, episode 3 of ''Der Neue Superheld'' but in the episode, her hair is explicitly stated to be blonde.
* TheDragon: She is always working for a bigger villain.
* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Despite being an Android, she can feel, think for herself and is treated as human as everyone else.
* MysteriousPast: Her past is a complete mystery. Who built her and where she comes from has yet to be revealed.
* TheStarscream: Originally his loyal henchwomen, she turns against Dr. Brain in episode 14 after having had doubts about him in the previous episode
* TokenRobot: ZigZagged. While not the only recurring ArtificialIntelegence, She is the only recurring android.
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!!Lara
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/SarahRiedel
Jan and Laura's daughter and Jan Jr.'s older sister.
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* ActionGirl: While acting independently from team Tenner, she and Zeno often go up and battle against the heirs of Zweistein.
* ADayInTheLimelight: She and Zeno are the protagonists of episode 18 which sees him and Lara forming a team of their own to battle the heir's of Zweistein independently from team Tenner.
* FollowingInRelativesFootsteps: Being very adept at science, she followed in her father's and mother's footsteps becoming a high ranking member of the Order of Futura.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: During their fight against the heir's of Zweistein, she and Zeno act independently from the main group of heroes. With the exception of episode 18, the two only appear in the story when they cross paths with team Tenner.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: In his final appearance, it's implied that she sees Zeno as more than just a friend. But due to his HeroicSacrifice, it is unknown whether he feels the same way.
* JerkassToOne: While friendly to everyone else, due to [[TheResenter being jealous of the attention and praise Tanja receives]] for her heroics, Lara is quite prickly, mean and confrontational towards her alone, mocking and playing up her every mistake.
* OutOfFocus: After her introduction in episode 1, she barely plays a role until episode 18 where she joins Zeno.
* TheResenter: She is jealous of Tanja because of all the attention and praise she gets for her heroics and is actively mean to her because of it.
* {{Telepathy}}: She and Zeno gained the powers of telepathy in addition to traveling through time at will in episode 21.
* TimeTravel: In episode 21, she and Zeno gained the ability to travel through time at will alongside the power of {{Telepathy}}.
!!Zeno
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/PatrickSuhm
A clone of Jan Tenner and Zweistein. He joins the heroes in their fight against the Heirs of Zweistein though he acts mostly independent of Team Tenner.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: He and Lara are the protagonist of episode 18 which sees him and Lara forming a team of their own to battle the heir's of Zweistein independently from team Tenner.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: He wears the letter "Z" on his vest on the same spot Jan wears his initials further hinting on a connection between the two.
* HeroicSacrifice: He sacrifices his life for the heroes in episode 22 to stop the terrorist group "Heir's of Zweistein".
* HeroOfAnotherStory: During their fight against the heir's of Zweistein, he and Lara act independently from the main group of heroes. With the exception of episode 18, the two only appear in the story when they cross paths with team Tenner.
* MixAndMatchMan: He is a clone of Jan Tenner senior and Zweistein.
* ShockAndAwe: He has the ability to shoot lightning.
* {{Telepathy}}: He and Lara gained the powers of telepathy in addition to traveling through time at will in episode 21.
* TimeTravel: In episode 21, he and Lara gained the ability to travel through time at will alongside the power of {{Telepathy}}.
* TwoDonorClone: He is a clone of Jan Tenner senior and Zweistein to give him Jan's BadassNormal physique in combination with Zweistein's genius.
!!Logar
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/HeinzRabe (Classic), Creator/SvenBrieger (Der Neue Superheld)
Emperor of the Dark Empire in another universe. He is a powerful sourceror and the source of his daughter Seytania's power.
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* AbusiveParent: Downplayed. He repeatedly refers to Seytania as his "unworthy daughter" but never gets physically violent with her. He also gives her what she desires such as her magical powers and her own planet to rule over.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Even without his ring of power, he has proven himself more than a match to his traitorous general.
* BetrayalByOffspring: When Thol challenges him to an honorable duel over leadership of the Dark Empire, he takes off his ring, the source of his power, and hands it to Seytania for safekeeping. Shortly afterwards, right before he is about to defeat Thol, she uses the ring to sap his physical strength in an attempt to seize control of the Dark Empire. It is short-lived, however, as Thol quickly knocks her out and takes the ring for himself.
* BroughtDownToBadass: When Thol challenges him to an honorable duel over leadership of the Dark Empire, he takes off his ring, the source of his power without which he cannot use his magic. Still, the battle between the two turns out to be [[CurbStompBattle very one-sided in his favor]].
* TheBusCameBack: After a long absence since episode 39 of ''Classic'', he returns in episode 10 of ''Der Neue Superheld''.
* CombatPragmatist: When he learns that Futura's serum can effectively deal with the monsters of the Void, he jumps on the opportunity to use it rather than wasting his soldier's lives. However, being from a warrior society, this made him unpopular with many of his soldiers resulting in some, led by his formerly loyal second in command, to rebel.
* DistressedDude: After being taking captive by Thol and having his power source taken away, he is as much in need of being rescues by Jan as his daughter Seytania and Jan's friends.
* DramaticThunder: Not only is his voice like thunder, when he talks, lightning strikes continuously for as long as he talks.
* TheEmperor: He is the ruler of the Dark Empire.
* EtTuBrute: Despite their rocky relationship, he is genuinely shocked when Seytanias betrays him during his and Thol's duel.
* FrontlineGeneral: Zig-zagged. While it has been said and shown that he indeed leads his soldiers into battle, he only does so sometimes while the rest of the time, he is at his castle or camp.
* LastOfHisKind: In ''Der Neue Superheld'', it's revealed that the Void wasn't completely destroyed and eventually returned as the "Eraser" annihilating the Dark Empire leaving Logar as its only survivor.
* IGaveMyWorld: As part of the deal Futura offered him for the serum to fight the creatures of the Void, he promised to leave humanity alone. When his daughter attacked the Earth in his name, he was furious with her, forcing her to undo everything she did.
* TheMenFirst: Despite coming from a warrior society with an HonorBeforeReason-attitude, he doesn't want to waste lifes fighting the Void and is eager to accept Futura's offer of a serum that can effectively deal with the Void's forces. However, his men are not pleased and eventually rise up against him.
* MustMakeAmends: After learning the truth about his father, he wishes to make right what his father did to the unicorns and their land.
* NoLastNameGiven: His last name, if he has one, is never given.
* TheOmnipresent: He has the ability to make his spirit leave his body. Upon doing so, his spirit becomes omnipresent.
* PowerEchoes: In his first appearance, his voice is deep and powerful, reverberating every word and causing continuous DramaticThunder.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As the ruler of the Dark Empire, he is its most powerful warrior, both in terms of magical power and command. He is also one of the most powerful characters in the show.
* ReallyEighthundredYearsOld: When the group went back in time 20,000 years ago, he was already ruling the Dark Empire after faking his disappearance.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When the heroes finally meet him, he proves to be quite unlike his daughter. He reacts to Jan's brazen disrespectfulness with laughter and it doesn't take much to convince him to accept the heroes offer of a supply of the serum they used to effectively fight the creatures of the Void in return for the freedom of all he and Seytania enslaved to fight for him. He even promised to leave them alone.
* RedHarring: As her father and the one to give her her planet, he is built up to be a villain like Seytania. The heroes are even told that if he were to ever enter their universe, it would be the end of everything. But when they meet him, it turns out he is a WellInentionedExtremist at worst as well as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, a lot more reasonable, and honorable, than his daughter.
* RelationshipSalvagingDisaster: Before being sacrificed by Thol, he mended his relationship with his daughter Seytania.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He has his soldiers kidnap and forcefully draft other species as he is in constant need for soldiers to fight an all-consuming void at the edge of the universe threatening to consume the universe wiping out everything in the process.
!!Ragund
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/JochenSchroder (Die Neue Dimension)
The former emperor of the universe Jan and his friends stand in at the beginning of ''Die Neue Dimension''.
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* CantTakeCriticism: He exiled his teacher to his castle for suggesting Xarxas may beat him.
* TheEmperor: He is the emperor of his universe.
* TheGoodKing: Due to being a fair ruler, he is well-liked by all his subjects.
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!!Jan Tenner
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[[caption-width-right:678:From left to right: ''Classic'', ''Die Neue Dimension'', ''Der Neue Superheld'']]
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/LutzRiedel (Classic & Der Neue Superheld), Creator/DennisSchmidtFoss (Die Neue Dimension)
The titular hero of the franchise. He is an athletic physics-student and close friend of Professor Futura. He is good-hearted preferring peaceful solutions over violence but also knows how to throw a punch.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Upon learning that Tanja had to be cryogenically frozen for an indefinite amount of time, Jan immediately switches his affection to Laura.
* AllLovingHero: He prefers kindness and peaceful solutions over violence. He always tries to reason with his enemies and is quick to trust them if they accept his offer for a peaceful solution.
* BabiesEverAfter: In ''Jan Tenner: Der neue Superheld'', he and Laura are married and have two children.
* BadassInDistress: While it is him who does the saving most of the time, from time to time, he's the one in need of rescuing such as when he was infected by the Stone Age-plague and turned into a Neanderthal or when he first met Seytania and the witch cast a love spell on him.
* BadassNormal: Even without a serum, his smarts and skill in hand-to-hand combat makes him a force to be reckoned with.
* BefriendingTheEnemy: At the end, Jan uses a magical, reality altering stone to transform an asteroid belt into uranium, solving the Leonen's reason for conquering other planets. This act of kindness results in them eventually becoming Earth's allies.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: He has the letters "J" and "T" on the left side of his vest.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In ''In der Hölle von Ostland'', Jan is brainwashed by Emperor Ling Furiosa to be his loyal servant.
* CharacterDevelopment: Starts out as a WideEyedIdealist. However, over time he learns that some people simply cannot be trusted, growing more cautious in the process.
* ChickMagnet: Between Tanya, Laura and Seytanya, most recurring female characters are pining for him.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Characters/FlashGordon1980 Flash Gordon]]. Both are young, blonde athletic university students who fight evil without inherent superpowers.
* {{Foil}}: To General Forbett. Both are heroes with the best in mind for their country. But whereas Jan is trusting, peaceful and thinks before he acts, Forbett is distrustful of everyone not from Westland, be they human or alien, always sees violence as the first option and usually jumps into situations without thinking.
* GeniusBruiser: He is both very smart and very good in hand-to-hand combat. Usually, it takes both to save the day.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: He is a blonde hero who is kind to all who did him no wrong, helps all in need, even the most devilish of villains, and is a WideEyedIdealist and MartialPacifist.
* InformedAttractiveness: He is quite open about his feelings towards Laura.
* LivingLegend: By the time of ''Der Neue Superheld'', everyone knows about his heroics and he is widely respected and admired for it.
* MartialPacifist: He always tries talking first and will take any opportunity to resolve a situation peacefully that doesn't result in people getting hurt. However, he is also [[BadassNormal very good at throwing fists.]]
* OfferedTheCrown: He briefly became king of Azzaru after defeating the previous king in combat. However, he chose to give it up after dealing with the ongoing crisis.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: At the end of Thol's rebellion, Jan kills him in an honorable duel despite always having been [[ThouShallNotKill explicitly opposed to the idea of killing other sentient beings,]] no matter how evil they are, before and continuing to explicitly hold that belief afterwards.
* PinnedToTheGround:
** In episode 23 of ''Classic'', he and Forbett are climbing a seemingless endless set of stairs as part of the fifth test they have to pass before they can get the Stone of Power. When they suddenly reach the end of the stairs and fight spacecrafts waiting for them, Forbett is about to take one so that the two as well as their friends, whom they had to leave behind as part of the last test, can get back to Earth. But Jan, correctly deducing that this is part of the test, tackles him to the ground and pins him down with his knee pressing on Forbett's back until the General comes back to his senses.
** The [[https://www.kiddinx-shop.de/media/catalog/product/cache/997d99ffaed1e11e92488c30bdc7c3b0/c/o/cover-jan_tenner-7-4000px-3_1.jpg cover]] of the episode "Schatten über Westland" shows him pinning down his son Jan Jr., ready to deliver a CoupDeGrace.
* ProperlyParanoid: While initially a WideEyedIdealist who was easy to fool if you just assured him you had good intentions, over time, he became less easy to fool to when he suspected something was off, he was usually right. For example, when Mimo was taken by Zweistein and gone for weeks but then suddenly returned secretly reprogrammed, he immediately saw right through the reprogrammed Mimo's act.
* RedIsHeroic: The titular hero and protagonist Jan wears a red vest.
* SaveTheVillain: Being unwilling to leave anyone behind, he often ends up saving villains such as Zweistein in episode 22 of ''Classic'' and Seytania in episode 38 of ''Classic''. The latter underwent a HeelFaceTurn because of it.
* TheSneakyGuy: He is very good at sneaking around and infiltrating the villains' lair, even without the villain noticing.
* TakenForGranite: In episode 13 of ''Classic'', the ghost of an orb he received from grateful aliens 6 episodes prior possessed Jan's body, turning his skin as hard as stone resulting in him unable to move.
* ThouShaltNotKill: He is completely against killing humans and aliens of human intelligence, no matter how horrible the person is and what they did.
* VictoryPoseOnPerson: A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRZVl_29NjI TV-advertisement]] for the episode "Das Dunkle Imperium" (engl. "The Dark Empire") shows the titular hero Jan defeat a barbarian and put his foot on his chest to assert his dominance.
* WhatTheHellHero: After Tanja was comatosed, Jan described her to Laura as an annoying bitch, something Laura called him out on after meeting Tanja.
* WideEyedIdealist: Initially, his good heart and preference for peaceful solutions makes him quite trusting. While that usually works in his favor, villains like the Leonen have used that against him by luring him into a false sense of security only to suddenly attack. As a result, he slowly grows more cautious towards strangers over time.
!!Laura
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[[caption-width-right:296:From left to right: ''Classic'', ''Die Neue Dimension'', ''Der Neue Superheld'']]
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/MariannaGross (Classic & Der Neue Superheld), Creator/GhadaAlAkel (Die Neue Dimension)
Professor Futura's assistant and Jan's love interest. She accompanies him on every mission.
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* ActionGirl: She is insistent on accompanying Jan on each and every one of his adventures, no matter how dangerous.
* AdaptationalBadass: In ''Jan Tenner: Die neue Dimension'', she is much more capable in regards to hand-to-hand combat, even taking on multiple of Forbett's soldiers, not requiring as much saving by Jan than in ''Jan Tenner: Classic''.
* AdaptationalJobChange: Originally Futura's assistant, she became a computer specialist in ''Die Neue Dimension''.
* BabiesEverAfter: In ''Jan Tenner: Der neue Superheld'', he and Laura are married and have two children.
* BareYourMidriff: The covers for the ''Jan Tenner: Die neue Dimension'' audiobooks depict her wearing a crop top thus exposing her belly.
* BestFriend: After Tanja's return, Laura quickly becomes close friends with Tanja to the point she becomes a ShipperOnDeck for her and her son Jan Jr.
* DamselInDistress: Oftentimes, she ends up captured or in any other kind of distress requiring Jan to save her.
* DespairEventHorizon: She is quick to give up hope and think of the worst possible outcome.
* DudeMagnet: She is often noted to be quite beautiful with Jan, Mimo and even Zweistein having shown attraction towards her.
* FaceDeathWithDespair: Whenever she is faced with possible death, Laura's hysteria turns up to eleven.
* GreenEyedMonster:
** Downplayed. While she is quick to get jealous when Jan acts in a way that could be considered a sign of romantic interest in someone else, she doesn't linger on it too long, only playfully teasing Jan about it.
** Played straight with Seytania. The jealousy she felt when seeing her holding hands with Jan was so strong, she subconsciously broke free from her spell.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She easily trusts new characters if they claim to be nice or, in the case of aliens, if they look cute or friendly. Usually, when Jan or Forbett voice distrust, she doubles down calling them out as "paranoid". Most of the time, she is proven wrong.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Whenever they are in a bad situation and Forbett complains about it or gets hysterical, she tends to call him out on it, despite regularly getting hysterical and complaining about bad situations herself.
* HystericalWoman: In ''Classic'', she quickly gets hysterical, panicking about the situation and claiming all hope to be lost.
* NoLastNameGiven: Her last name is never revealed in the series. Neither is anything regarding her family.
* ShipperOnDeck: For her son Jan Jr. and Tanja. In one episode, she mentions how much she wishes her son would finally take things to the next level with Tanja.
* TheStoic: When she has set her mind to something, it's nearly impossible to change it.
!!Professor Futura
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KlausNagelen (Classic), Creator/KlausJespen (Die Neue Dimension), Creator/KasperEichel (Der Neue Superheld)
Westlands most renowned scientist and the creator of the superhuman serums. He is a close friend of Jan.
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* ChickMagnet: According to his old friend Dunja in episode 13 of ''Classic'', he was quite the lady's man as a student. His nickname was "The terror of female students"[[note]]During the 80s, it was common to refer to womanizers as "terror of women" in Germany[[/note]].
* DistressedDude: Being a NonActionGuy, when faces with a villain, he usually ends up in need of getting rescued by Jan.
* EveryoneJustCallsHimBarkeep: His friends only refer to him as "Professor".
* LegallyDead: Alongside Tanja and Forbett, he was declared dead after his lab blew up at the beginning of ''Der Neue Superheld'', despite nobody ever being found.
* MissionControl: Initially, since he has no fighting skill, he stayed behind when Jan and Laura went on a mission relaying information to them as well as proposing solutions to problems they encountered. However, as the missions required his presence more and more, he started accompanying them more frequently, though still in a purely supportive, non-fighter role.
* NonActionGuy: Being an old man with no fighting skill, he doesn't get involved in fights.
* TheSmartGuy: He is one of the most renowned scientists in the entire world and the one to create the serums Jan and Laura use throughout the series.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With General Forbett, usually due to their opposing views on the use of military force.
!!General Forbett
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[[caption-width-right:533:From left to right: ''Classic'', ''Die Neue Dimension'', ''Der Neue Superheld'']]
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/HeinzGiese (Classic), Creator/BerndSchramm (Die Neue Dimension), Creator/ThomasKastner (Der Neue Superheld)
The head of Westland's military. He is a soldier through and through. His strong desire to protect his country results in him being quick to call for a military solution to a problem which often leads to arguments between him and the others.
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* BadassInDistress: Despite being a trained soldier, he ends up in need of saving almost as often as Laura.
* BloodKnight: Initially, his answer to almost every problem is force, including nukes. He gradually learns to trust his friends more than his weapons.
* TheBrigadier: When Westland is in danger or at the very latest appears to be, his usual response is military force. But his friends can always convince him to try a different, less destructive strategy.
* ButtMonkey: In the ''Classic'' series, he gets pranked by Jan at the end of every episode. He also rarely wins a fight despite being a trained soldier.
* CharacterCatchphrase: "Heiliges Kanonenrohr!" (engl. "Holy gun barrel!")
* CharacterDevelopement: He starts out as a BloodKnight ready to use military force on any problem that comes his way. However, over time, he learns to rely more on his friends to solve a problem while using his military in a supportive role e.g. to evacuate civilliance, monitor the latest threat to Westland or try to contain it until his friends find a solution against it.
* TheCynic: He always assumes the worst in strangers and situations. Somewhat justified as he is in charge of his country's security.
* EveryoneJustCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone, his friends and enemies alike, only refer to him as "General".
* FacesDeathWithDignity: When faced with possible death, he is usually stoic and accepts his fate with his head held high.
* FirstNameBasis: In the ''Classic'' series, he refers to Jan by his first name after some time. Defied in ''Die neue Dimension'' where you only refer to him as "Tenner"
* {{Foil}}: To Jan. Both are heroes with the best in mind for their country. But whereas Forbett is distrustful of everyone not from Westland, be they human or alien, always sees violence as the first option and usually jumps into situations without thinking, Jan is trusting, peaceful and thinks before he acts.
* FourStarBadass: While he doesn't get to shine too often, when he does, he proves that his rank isn't just for show.
* FrontlineGeneral: He always leads his men from the front.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He may verbally clash with Jan, Laura and Futura a lot due to their opposing views on military force and has a tendency of reminding them of their mistakes, but he still genuinely cares for them.
* LegallyDead: Alongside Tanja and Futura, he was declared dead after Futura's lab blew up at the beginning of ''Der Neue Superheld'', despite no body ever being found.
* NotAfraidToDie: He has proven himself to be ready and willing to fulfill his duty to protect Westland under any circumstance, even if it means his own death in the process.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When the usually paranoid Forbett is friendly towards someone he suspected of being an enemy in disguise, it's usually a dead giveaway that something is off.
* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: In the second to last episode of the Leonen arc, Forbett fought his way through numerous Leonen to get to his captured soldiers with nothing but the flight serum. Keep in mind the Leonen are not only technologically more advanced but also physically stronger than humans.
* TheParanoiac: Being responsible for Westland's security, he always expects any new alien they meet to have malicious intentions and any kindness to just be an act. While he is wrong most of the time, from time to time, [[ProperlyParanoid he is proven right.]] This paranoia only grew worse in ''Der Neue Superheld'' due to rising tensions with Ostland.
* ProperlyParanoid: When it comes to former enemies suddenly saying they turned good, his assumption that it's a trick is usually spot on.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While his cynicism and readiness for a violent answer to any problem can make him appear not too reasonable, when his friends offer a different solution, he will usually listen. Further, when they come to him for help, he will not hesitate to do anything in his power to help them.
* SergeantRock: He is very strict with his troops but is also very proud of them. When they are tricked by Zweistein into working for him in "Jan Tenner: Die Neue Dimension", he is truly shaken. But once they are back to normal he quickly decides to look past their traitorous behaviour while under Zweistein's control.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Futura, usually due to their opposing views on the use of military force.
* WhatTheHellHero: He often gets called out for his readiness to use force, especially nuclear weapons, by his friends.
* UndyingLoyalty: To his country and his friends. Nothing will get him to turn on either.
!!Mimo
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[[caption-width-right:615:From left to right:Docked and mobile (''Classic'' and ''Die Neue Dimension''), mobile (''Die Neue Dimension'')]]
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/WilfriedHerbst (Classic & Der Neue Superheld until episode 6), Creator/MichaelPan (Die Neue Dimension), Creator/NicoNothnagel (Der Neue Superheld since episode 7)
The sensitive board computer of the Silbervogel.
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* ForcedIntoEvil: Between the pen-ultimate and the final episode, he was reprogrammed by Zweistein to flip his morals. He is sent back to earth to take out his friends.
* MeaningfulName: His name comes from the german word "Mimose", an old expression for people who are very sensitive. Jan gave him this name because at the beginning, Mimo wouldn't do as he was told unless asked nicely, something Jan was quite annoyed by.
* OutOfFocus: He doesn't appear at all in Episode 10 of ''Der Neue Superheld''.
* PersonalityChip: Mimo's brain has two halves: A robotic half dedicated to reason and logic as well as a human half dedicated to emotions. Thanks to this, he is fully capable of feeling emotions. In fact, he tends to be rather sensitive.
* RoboRomance: He is in love with the nursing AI Andromeda.
!!Tanya
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChristineSchnell (Classic), Creator/OliviaBuschken (Der Neue Superheld)
Professor Futura's former lab assistant. She is cryogenically frozen early on in the show and doesn't reappear until the third installment where she becomes a main character once more.
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* ActionGirl: Not so much in ''Classic'', but in ''Der Neue Superheld'', she gains psychic abilities and starts helping fight the VillainOfTheWeek and their minions.
* BestFriend: After Tanja's return, she and Laura quickly become close friends to the point Laura acts as a ShipperOnDeck for her and Jan Jr.
* DeadpanSnarker: After returning from her over 30 years of absence, she starts responding to Jan jr. attempts of flirtation with sarcasm or making fun of Jan sr.'s varyness.
* FetalPositionRebirth: When she returns to Earth after 30 years of being LegallyDead following an unknown amount of time being cryogenically frozen, Jan sr. and his son find her lying naked in the fetal position in a crater.
* GreatOffscreenWar: While initially not remembering what happened during her 30 years absence, it is eventually revealed that her AstralProjection was fighting against the Void and its forces.
* HumanPopsicle: She ends up cryogenically frozen after a failed experiment puts her in critical condition.
* LegallyDead: Alongside Futura and Forbett, she was declared dead after Futura's lab blew up at the beginning of ''Der Neue Superheld'', despite no body ever being found. Granted, she had already been in cryo-sleep for a long time at that point.
* MindOverMatter: She has the ability to levitate people and objects with her mind.
* MistakenIdentity: Upon returning to Earth, she mistakes Jan Jr. for his father. Jan Jr. is quick to correct her though it takes a few attempts before she believes him.
* NakedFirstImpression: When she first meets Jan Jr., she is completely naked. While she didn't notice until being told by Jan sr., she didn't seem to mind much.
* [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]]: Unlike Laura, she never joined Jan on his adventures in the ''Classic'' series. This changes in ''Der Neue Superheld''.
* NoLastNameGiven: Her last name is never revealed in the series. Neither is anything regarding her family.
* OlderThanHeLooks: She is in her early 20s physically and mentally. But due to being frozen for an unknown amount of time followed by a 30 year absence, she was born 40 to 50 years ago.
* PutOnABus: After a failed experiment off-screen she is cryogenically frozen between Episode 2 and 3 and isn't seen for years.
** TheBusCameBack: She finally returns with the third installment ''Jan Tenner: Der neue Superheld'' where she becomes a main character again.
* PsychicPowers: After returning to Earth, it turns out that the experiment that originally led to her having to be cryogenically frozen gave her psychic abilities, namely creating psychic shields, mind reading and telekinesis.
* SkewedPriorities: In episode 3 of ''Classic'', she and Jan are informed that children have been kidnapped while competing in a tennis tournament. While Jan immediately wants to hurry to Futura's lab, Tanja tries to convince him to just play the final round before trying to save the children.
* {{Telepathy}}: One of the PsychicPowers she gets in ''Der Neue Superheld'' is the ability to read minds.
!!Jan Tenner Junior
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/FlorianClyde
Jan and Laura's son and Lara's younger brother. He is the protagonist of "Der neue Superheld" following in his father's footsteps.
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* AffectionateNickname:
** His father refers to him as "Junior".
** Tanja refers to him as "Schnosel" (engl. "Snooze")
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Like his father, he wears his name's initials on the left side of his chest.
* ExtremelyProtectiveChild: He is very protective of his elderly father. He gets very angry very fast at anyone insulting his father. He also refuses to let him put himself in danger and when he does, Jr. will do everything in his power to get him out of it.
* TheHero: Of ''Der Neue Superheld'' alongside his father.
* LegacyCharacter: He takes up his father's role as Earth's intergalactic champion.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Not only does he wear the same clothes as his father, he is also blonde, a good fighter and immediately starts flirting with Tanya upon meeting her
* LoveAtFirstSight: He starts flirting with Tanya right after meeting her for the first time.
* RedIsHeroic: Like his father, Jan Jr. wears a red vest.
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!!Zweistein
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[[caption-width-right:356:From left to right: ''Classic'', ''Die Neue Dimension'', ''Der Neue Superheld'']]
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KlausMiedel (Classic until episode 45), Creator/EberhardPruter (Classic episode 46), Creator/HansWernerBussinger (Die Neue Dimension), Creator/DetlefBierstedt (Der Neue Superheld)
Zweistein, the mad professor,is the most recurring enemy of Jan Tenner and his friends. At first, he only aims for world domination before setting his sights on conquering the entire universe.
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* AffablyEvil: Zig-zagged. Due to seeing everyone else as inferior, he tends to be quite pleasant with them. For example, he often calls Jan and his friends "my friends" and Futura in particular "my valued colleague". However, suffering a set-back usually leads to him dropping this facade and showing his true animosity, spite and malevolence.
* AGodAmI: Downplayed. While he doesn't see himself as a god specifically, he does see himself as more than just a human.
* AndIMustScream: His currently final defeat in ''Der Neue Superheld'' sees his digitized consciousness being contained in a hard-drive, unable to do anything.
* ArchEnemy: Of Jan and the heroes as a whole.
* TheBadGuyWins: The second arc of ''Jan Tenner: Die neue Dimension'' sees him succeeding in taking over Westland while the heroes are away.
* BatmanGambit: After his first defeat, he studied Jan and his friends becoming a master at predicting what they would do to the point he could predict and pre-record an entire conversation with them. Due to this, he would have succeeded numerous times if things he could not account for didn't happen.
* BigBad: Of a lot of episodes in the ''Classic'' series as well as the Return to Earth-arc in ''Die neue Dimension''.
* TheBigGuy: Following his final defeat in the ''Classic'' series, he was shrunken down to the size of a bird and put into a bird cage at Westland's military headquarters. In ''Die Neue Dimension'', however, he manages to escape by bribing a guard promising him immortality. His subsequent attempt at growing back to normal size results in him becoming an invincible giant of a man towering over every other character in the show.
* BondVillainStupidity: He manages to outsmart and trap Jan and his friends quite regularly but either talks in length about the way he bested them giving them time to escape or sets up a convoluted way to kill them rather than just executing them on the spoz.
* BrainUploading: After his body dies in ''Der Neue Superheld'', his consciousness gets transferred into a computer allowing him to live on digitally.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: As he sees everyone else as his inferior, he has no problem betraying anyone to gain any kind of advantage. In fact, he has betrayed everyone he ever worked with, humans and aliens alike.
* ClassicVillain: He desires to take over the world for no other reason than that he believes himself superior to everyone.
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: Whenever he wishes to speak to the heroes, usually after his latest attack on Westland, he interrupts the radio broadcast in whatever location they currently are, replacing it with his own while talking. Whenever the heroes suspect he is behind something, they usually just turn on the radio anticipating his broadcast.
* EnemyMine: While stranded on the Planet of a Thousand Wonders, he temporarily teams up with the heroes to master the challenges and find the Stone of Power.
* ExceededTheGoal: In ''Die Neue Dimension'', having been previously shrunk, he set out to return to his normal height after being freed from captivity. His subsequent attempt resulted in him becoming an invincible giant of a man.
* FacesDeathWithDespair: When faced with the possibility of dying, he drops his egomania and becomes a DirtyCoward at a moment's notice, usually sniveling at the feet of Jan and his friends to save him.
* FakeDefector: He pretends to have undergone a HeelFaceTurn during the 30 year time skip between ''Classic'' and ''Der Neue Superheld'' knowing his body was failing and that by pretending to be good, he could get the Tenners to try and save him, which they do by [[BrainUploading uploading his consciousness into a computer.]]
* FatalFlaw: His egomania. It leads him to both underestimate his opponents and overestimate his own genius, luring him into a false sense of security resulting in him considering himself victorious too soon, dropping his guard. As such, it is usually the reason he ends up losing.
* GadgeteerGenius: He created and built many high-tech devices and machines, including his own spaceship, a super AI that could hack every earthly computer as well as a belt that can make him teleport.
* {{Immortality}}: In ''Die neue Dimension'', he reveals that he created a serum to make himself immortal. He manages to bribe Forbett's soldiers onto his side by promising them to use it on them. However, as this plot threat is left open following the cancellation of ''Die neue Dimension'', the specific form of immortality he gains from it is unknown. Defied in ''Der Neue Superheld'' where he is explicitly mortal and even ends up almost dying.
* IncredibleShrinkingMan: He ends up shrunken by his own serum in the last episode of ''Classic'' as well as at the end of episode 9 of ''Die Neue Dimension''.
* ItsAllAboutMe: His FatalFlaw. He believes himself to be the greatest genius in the universe and his intellect unrivaled with every other being in the universe being inferior.
* JokerImmunity: He survives every supposed death, including his spaceship blowing up with him inside. Even when it seems like he dies of old age in ''Der Neue Superheld'', his consciousness is just uploaded to a computer and he continues to exist digitally.
* LargeHam: He speaks slowly on purpose, pronouncing every individual letter just because he likes to hear himself talk. He also does not take well to being interrupted.
* LongGame: Between ''Classic'' and ''Der Neue Superheld'', he spent 30 years pretending to have changed his way to not die of old age. Even when he succeeds and has his [[BrainUploading consciousness uploaded into a computer]], he waits days before revealing he was still evil.
* MadScientist: He is a genius scientist who [[MakerOfMonsters creates monsters and mutants]] and builds robots to take over the world. His nickname is literally "the mad scientist".
* MakerOfMonsters: He created many creatures for his evil plans, including a living tree that took over a HiveMind of other living trees, animal-human hybrid mutants and tiny insects that spread a serum he created like a plague.
* MeaningfulName: Discussed. His name is derived from the famous physicist and mathematician Albert Einstein. "Ein(s)" in German means "one" while "Zwei" means "two". Therefore, by choosing this name, Zweistein is claiming to be twice as smart as Einstein.
* OverarchingVillain: Having created Xarxas, the BigBad of the first arc in ''Die neue Dimension'', and being the BigBad of the second arc, he acts as this.
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemandsIt: Zweistein has listening devices installed EVERYWHERE. Whether it be Futura's lab, the ''Silbervogel'' or Forbett's headquarters, he always knows what is going on and what the heroes are saying and planning. Despite their best efforts, neither the heroes nor Forbett's soldiers ever manage to find them. However, it doesn't save him from being defeated as the heroes simply write their plan down rather than talking about it.
--> '''Zweistein:''' Zweistein knows all.[[note]]German Original line: "Zweistein weiß alles"[[/note]]
* TakingYouWithMe: As his last plan in ''Classic'' fails and he is about to be taken in, he tries to kill everyone rather than being captured. Of course, it fails.
* UngratefulBastard: He usually repays the heroes rescuing him by betraying them later on.
* UnwittingPawn: Zigzagged. He used Seytania in episode 33 to take out the heroes planning to steal her magic after they won. But as their next appearance together showed, Seytania was only using him, too.
* VillainRespect: Downplayed. While he has voiced admiration for Futura's intellect, he still acts as disrespectful to him as he does to everyone else once his AffableEvil act ends.
* VillainTeamUp: He teams up with Seytania in episode 34 and 36, first hoping to gain her magic powers, then to take the Silbervogel. He was foiled by Jan the first time before he could betray her. The second time, Forbett turned Mimo into a bomb with Seytania refusing to help him disarm it causing everyone to almost die.
!!Leonen
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An alien race that employs different tactics to try and conquer Earth for its uranium. In ''Der Neue Superheld'', they become Earth's allies.
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* AncientEvil: They have been destroying and conquering planets for thousands of years.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: In ''Der Neue Superheld'', the Leonen feel indebted to humans thanks to the Uran Jan gave them. While a few joined the Heir's of Zweistein, most have become allies to Earth.
* BigBad: Of the Leonen-arc.
* BondVillainStupidity: Despite having the military and technical means to just invade and conquer Earth, the Leonen prefer to use plans and trickery to try and conquer earth. Subverted in the last few episodes of the Leonen arc where they do invade and take over the planet very easily.
* CatFolk: They are a species of bipedal lions with four arms.
* DegradedBoss: In ''Der Neue Superheld'', a few Leonen return as members of the terrorist group "Heirs of Zweistein" as mere minions.
* EasilyForgiven: Despite having attacked and destroyed civilizations for thousands of years, not to mention all their vile plans against Earth, they never face consequences for their actions.
* EvilSoundsDeep: They have the deepest voices of the series.
* HeelFaceTurn: After having their uranium problem solved by Jan Tenner, they stop conquering other planets. By the time of ''Der neue Superheld'', they are Earth's allies.
* KarmaHoudini: They end up getting exactly what they desire, that being enough uranium to fuel their civilization, never suffering any consequences for their aggressive actions towards Earth and many other civilizations before it.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: They are a very aggressive race of [[ProudWarriorRace alien warriors]] with 4 arms and a lion's head hellbent on conquering other planets for their uranium.
* ProudWarriorRace: They are a race of warriors attacking and conquering other planets for their uranium to fuel their own society. They refuse to be reasoned with until their Emperor gets defeated in battle.
!!Seytania
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/AlmutEggert (Classic)
Daughter of Logar, emperor of the Dark Empire and a powerful sorceress. She originally lured space travelers to her planet and turned them into literal puppets. She falls in love with Jan and, after numerous antagonistic encounters, eventually sacrifices herself to...
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* AchillesHeel:
** Her magic cannot pass forcefields.
** Whenever she enters her DeepSleep, she is completely vulnerable as nothing could wake her up.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: When Logar, after having been put into chains that lower a boulder onto him each time he moves, wants to tell the heroes how to defeat the ring of power, Seytania begs him not to speak so that he won't be crushed by the boulder showing that, despite their relationship being not great, she still cares about him.
* BondVillainStupidity: After realising Jan caused an uprising among her puppets, she swore she would turn him into a puppet. But rather than doing it there and then, which would have ensured her victory, she sent him back to his room allowing him to escape with the help of another puppet.
* DaddyIssues: Initially, the relationship between her and her father is not great with him repeatedly calling her his "unworthy daughter" and her not having much respect for him betraying him the first chance she gets. After almost dying, they do make up.
* DarkActionGirl: Played with. Initially, she lets her puppets do her dirty work. But eventually, she realizes that they are powerless against Jan and his friends and starts trying to take care of them personally.
* DeepSleep: Every few nights, she needs to sleep. During this time, she is completely vulnerable and is physically incapable of awaking no matter what happens.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Shortly before Logar was about to kill a traitorous general, she used his ring of power to drain him. This, in turn, gives the general the chance to take it from her by imprisoning both.
* EasilyForgiven: Despite having tried to kill him and his friends multiple times, after being saved by Jan from certain death, she asks for his forgiveness which he grants without a moment of hesitation.
* ElementalPowers: She can create walls of fire and shoot heat beams as well as lightning bolts from her eyes.
* EvilSorcerer: Seytania is a powerful dark sorceress from a line of powerful dark sorcerers. Her magic allows her to [[{{Teleportation}} teleport]], create [[PlayinWithFire walls of fire]], [[EyeBeams shoot fire from her eyes]], [[SoulPower push people's souls out of their bodies]] and [[PuppetPermutation turn people into puppets]]. She can also cast a [[LovePotion love spell]] on people.Though it only works if they are unprepared.
* ExactWords: In her third appearance, she promised Jan to let his friends live if he comes to her and agrees to become her husband. When he does and then demands for her to let his friends go, she reveals that she meant that they could live as puppets.
* EyeBeams: She can shoot heat beams and lightning bolts from her eyes.
* FemmeFetal: She is considered quite attractive by everyone who comments on her looks. She is also a powerful sorceress with a multitude of powers and abilities, most notably her [[PuppetPermutation ability to turn people into puppets]] that made her almost impossible to defeat whenever the heroes encounter her.
* GreenEyedMonster: She gets easily very jealous of anyone, especially but not exclusively women, Jan pays attention to.
* HeelFaceTurn: Following her rescue, she asks for Jan's forgiveness and subsequently becomes an ally.
* HeroicSacrifice: After realizing that her grandfather was the creator of the Void, she saves Jan and Laura by defeating and absorbing the remnant of Butor. She brings them back to the Silbervogel and orders Mimo to travel back into the future where she uses all her power to destroy the Void, saving existence itself but dying in the process.
* InformedAttractiveness: She is not shy of telling Jan over and over again that she loves him and wants him to love her back.
* InvincibleVillain: Thanks to her great magical power, the heroes barely stand a chance on their own against her. Of the 4 times she appeared as a villain, the first time she wasn't defeated but rather blackmailed into releasing Jan from her spell. The second time, she was only defeated by Jan freeing the demon Orlos, one of only three characters more powerful than her. The third time, she was [[NearVillainVictory seconds away from winning]] but was stopped by her father, the second of the three characters more powerful than her. Lastly, the last time, she had almost won again but was put into a situation where she had to save the heroes or risk dying with them.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: She is a powerful EvilSorcerer. Being raised as royalty as the heir to the Dark Empire, she wears elegant clothes and has a calm and regal attitude...until things stop going her way, that is.
* LovePotion: In her first appearance, she casts a powerful love spell on Jan he could not break free of himself, requiring her to lift the spell instead. However, it only worked because he didn't know about it beforehand. In her next appearance, he proves to be immune against it.
* MagicalEye: Her stare can drain people upon eye contact and force them to temporarily obey her. She can also shoot two different kinds of EyeBeams from them.
* MyopicConqueror: In her third appearance, she conquers Earth all on her own in only 10 hours. But she didn't do it to rule. Rather, she simply wanted to use it as leverage against Jan to become her lover and intended to then ship off all humans to fight for Logar.
* NearVillainVictory: In her third appearance, she took over Earth on her own in less than 10 hours by transforming all humans into puppets, then had Jan surrender to her. After disarming him, she had him at her mercy and was about to transform him and his friends into puppets, thus securing her victory, when her father Logar intervened, furious that she attacked a planet he had promised to let be.
* NoLastNameGiven: Like her father, her last name, if she has one, is never given.
* PlayingWithFire: She can create walls of fire and shoot heat beams from her eyes.
* PuppetMaster: A literal example. She uses her magic to lure space travelers to her planet, then [[PuppetPermutation turns them into literal wooden puppets.]]
* PuppetPermutation: She gained her nickname "The Puppet Queen" by kidnapping people and turning them into living wooden puppets. Depending on their intended task and required amount of intelligence, she may even [[SoulPower drive out their souls first.]]
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As the princess of the Dark Empire, she is the second most powerful person in the Dark Empire both in terms of magical power and command. She is also one of the most powerful characters in the show.
* RegretfulTraitor: After her betrayal of her father results in both being imprisoned and sladed to be executed, Seytania regrets her actions. This results in her and Logar being able to mend their rocky relationship.
* RelationshipSalvagingDisaster: Before being sacrificed by Thol, Seytania mended her relationship with her father Logar.
* RichBoredom: She kidnapped spacefarers and [[PuppetPermutation transformed them into puppets]], sometimes by pushing their souls out of their bodies, just because she got bored of the puppets her father created for her to rule over.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Despite being the princess of the Dark Empire, she usually takes matters into her own hands.
* ShallowCannotComprehendTrueLove: She wants Jan to love her freely believing her beauty and wealth would make it an easy decision for him. Therefore, she shows no understanding when he tries to explain to her that there is more to love than just a simple decision.
* TheSleepless: Seytania only needs to sleep every few nights. But the sleep she enters is always a DeepSleep.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She is the only main female villain of the series and the only female villain in ''Classic''.
* SoulPower: She creates most of her puppets by pushing people's souls out of their bodies with her magic. The shells have no will of their own and only do what they are told. Only those performing tasks that required independent thought are allowed to keep their souls.
* TheStarscream: As soon as Logar gave her his ring, the source of his power, to fight another traitor without its power, she turned it against him declaring himself Queen of the Dark Empire.
* {{Teleportation}}: She is able to materialite herself almost everywhere.
* UnwittingPawn: Zigzagged. Zweistein used her in episode 33 to take out the heroes planning to steal her magic after they won. But as their next appearance together showed, Seytania was only using him, too.
* VillainousCrush: On Jan. This eventually leads to her HeroicSacrifice.
* VillainousLineage: Played with. While her grandfather attacked the Purple Plains, killed all unicorns and turned it into the wasteland it was by the time her father took over, not to mention ended up creating the Void out of boredom, her father's only evil act was to kidnap other species to fight the Void.
* VillainTeamUp: She teams up with Zweistein in episode 34 and 36 to get revenge on Jan and his friends. But it is clear that she sees him as nothing more than an UnwittingPawn and cares little for him.
!!The Void/the Eraser
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A semi-sentient, ever expanding, all consuming entity made up of pure dark magic. It was created when Logar'as father and his mages fused to destroy the universe and create it anew. It returns in ''Der Neue Superheld'' as the Eraser managing to consume Logar's universe and make its way into the regular universe.
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* AncientEvil: The Void has been devouring Logar's universe for thousands of years.
* AsteroidsMonster: It only takes a small piece of it to enter a new universe for that piece to slowly grow and expand into a new Void no less powerful than the original.
* AStormIsComing: Before one reaches the Void, they have to pass a [[PerpetualStorm continuous thunderstorm]]. Likewise, the thunderstorm advancing is also a sign of the advancing Void.
* TheBadGuyWins: In ''Der Neue Superheld'', it succeeds in devouring Logar's universe and starts its attack on the main universe.
* BlobMonster: Before the Void had expanded to universal size, it was a black blot that ate everything in its vicinity.
* CombatTentacles: While still relatively small, the Void uses tentacles to grab and drag victims into itself to devour them.
* DarkIsEvil: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTgeTin As the name suggests]], the Void is a completely black void.
* EldritchAbomination: It is a universe-sized sentient mass [[MadeOfMagic made of black magic]] which devours all and either kills or [[ForcedTransformation transforms its victims]] [[MakerOfMonsters into monsters.]] There is neither light nor darkness in its mass.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Void is a black mass of universal size while the Eraser erases anything it devours.
* ExtremeOmnivore: It devours anything it comes into contact with, be they living beings or not.
* ForcedTransformation: In ''Classic'', the Void transforms anyone caught by its monsters into more monsters. In ''Der Neue Superheld'', it instead transforms its victims into black armored soldiers.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Its goal is to devour everything for no real reason beyond that being its nature.
* InvincibleVillain: It was so powerful, even Logar, one of the most powerful characters of the series, could not hold its advance permanently. It took its own creator's power turned against it to defeat it in ''Classic''.
* KilledOffForReal: After previously surviving its destruction in ''Classic'', it is killed for good in episode 11 of ''Der Neue Superheld''.
* MadeOfMagic: It entirely consists of the BlackMagic emitted by the fusion of Butor and his dark mages.
* MakerOfMonsters: The Void turns those caught by its creatures into monsters. Some are described as being like jellyfish while others are said to be human-animal hybrids with multiple heads and limbs.
* PerpatualStorm: At its edge, there is a continuous thunderstorm raging on.
* PlayinWithFire: Some of its monsters can shoot fireballs from their mouths.
* ReallyEighthundredYearsOld: When the group traveled back 20,000 years into the past, it had just been created and was starting to expand.
* ReturningBigBad: The Void returns as "the Erazer", its improved form, in episode 9 of "Der Neue Superheld" and becomes the BigBad again until episode 11 where it is defeated for good.
!!Butor the Terrible
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/WolfgangKuhne (Classic)
Logar's father who faked his disappearance to create the Void.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: A villainous example. As part of his experiment to end everything, he fused with his mages, absorbing their power. The finished form was so powerful, the magic was unable to be contained in his body and so it protruded from him creating the Void, much to his delight.
* BrokenPedestal: Before it turned out heccreated the Void, he was considered a great hero by his people.
* TheEmperor: He was the founder and first emperor of the Dark Empire.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Having taken over the universe of the Dark Empire and created the Void, he is responsible for every encounter with the Dark Empire and the Void the main group had.
* KilledOffscreen: He was absorbed by Seytania off-screen.
* MyopicConqueror: He conquered his universe and founded the Dark Empire but quickly got bored of ruling and decided to end everything creating the Void his son would battle for thousands of years in the process.
* OmnividalMainiac: After getting bored of ruling, he decided to end everything, creating the all-devouring Void to do so.
* RichBoredom: After Butor conquered their universe and killed all the unicorns, he got bored of ruling and decided to end everything, creating the Void in the process.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite only appearing in one episode, the fact that he created the Void his son Logar fought against makes him responsible for every episode dealing with it in both ''Classic'' and ''Der Neue Superheld''.
!!Thol
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/EngelbertVonNordhauen (Classic)
Logars top general. He eventually betrays Logar when the ruler over the Dark Empire uses Futura's serum to hold off the Void believing it to be a plight on his warrior way of life.
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* AscendedExtra: In his first appearance, he barely had any lines. His second sees him becoming the BigBad of the Dark Empire arc.
* BigBad: Of the first half of the Dark Empire arc.
* ConflictKiller: By taking both Logar and Seytania captive, he allowed them to talk and mend their relationship. He also ended Seytania's conflict with the heroes as she was forced to call for their help and underwent a HeelFaceTurn because they answered it.
* FatalFlaw: His overconfidence. It results in him underestimating his opponents.
* GlorySeeker: By taking over the Dark Empire, he wishes to return to the old ways before the introduction of Futura's serum believing a glorious death through combat is preferable to the continued use of the serum.
* HonorBeforeReason:
** His entire reason for rebelling against Logar. He prefers sacrificing his men for a warrior's death rather than fighting the Void without casualties by using Futura's serum.
** Rather than just killing Jan and his friends which he could have done easily, he agrees to honorable combat against Jan despite having already lost to him '''twice'''. This time, he loses not only the fight, but his life, too.
* KilledOffscreen: He is killed by Jan during their offscreen battle.
* NobleDemon: Being a ProudWarriorRaceGuy, he fights honorably, specifically forbitting his minions to intervene, even when he is about to lose.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: His reason for rebelling against Logar is his dislike for Logar's use of Futura's serum to beat back the Void rather than the traditional, and ineffective, combat. He believes their people's nature is that of warriors who have to fight constantly, even if it means their certain deaths.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Subverted. Despite being Logar's right hand, he only ever wins because of someone else's doing, namely Seytania betraying her father at the worst possible time and a serum activated by will activating during his first fight with Jan which would have made him stronger in our universe but weakens him in the universe of the Dark Empire.
* TheStarscream: After Logar uses Futura's serum over his warriors against the Void, he grows disillusioned with his leader and successfully stages a coup against him.
* TheUsurper: He rebels and, thanks to Seytania's unintentional help, manages to overthrow Logar, seizing rule over the Dark Empire.
* WorfHadAFlu: Despite supposedly being the second best fighter of the Dark Empire, he lost every fair fight he fought.
!!Xarxas
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/LutzSchnell (Die Neue Dimension)
A sentient computer seeking to rule another universe using his robot army.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: His goal is to turn every living being inhabiting the universe he landed in into a robot and kill the rest.
* {{Brainwashed}}: He uses different means of MassHypnosis to turn people into his loyal subjects.
* TheDreaded: Everyone in his universe fears him due to his army's might and his own ruthlessness.
* TheEmperor: He is the ruler over his own mechanical empire.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He appeared one day out of nowhere and started conquering Ragund's universe eventually capturing Ragund himself. While he used a mix of mind control and manipulations to make himself.
* MechaMooks: He commands an army of robots.
* MysteriousPast: In-universe no one knew who he was, what he wanted or where he came from. It was only in his final appearance that it was revealed he was a creation of Zweistein meant as a distraction for the heroes.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: He always sends his minions to deal with the heroes and doesn't appear until the episode he is defeated.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: If he doesn't use brainwashing or false promises to control the people he conquered, he just roboticises them. Their consent in the matter is never a factor.
!!Ling Furiosa
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/BertFranzke (Der Neue Superheld)
The emperor of Westland's neighbour Ostland.
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* BigBad: Of the Ostland-arc.
* {{Brainwashed}}: He kidnaps and brainwashes Jan to be his servant.
* TheEmperor: He is the emperor of Ostland.
* {{Expy}}: Of Flash Gordon villain Ming the Merciless.
* KarmicDeath: He dies after his nuking of Westland leads to a chain-reaction that blows up the planet.
* NukeEm: When the tensions between Ostland and Westland boil over, he attacks Westland with nuclear weapons.
* SelfDiposingVillain: In his final appearance in episode 12, he destroys Westland with nukes. This triggers a chain-reaction that blows up the planet, killing him with it.
!!Dr. Benjamin Brain
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/HansBayer (Der Neue Superheld)
A mad scientist whose brain is trapped in a robot body.
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* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedEvil: He is a former student of Futura.
* BigBadEnsemble: In episode 5, he independently goes up against the episode's BigBad, the Rat King, who himself is after him. In the end, he is the one to succeed and kill the Rat King.
* BrainInAJar: After faking his death, Dr. Brain has his brain put into a robotic body.
* CharacterDeath: He dies when his literal oversized brain is blown up in episode 14.
* FakingTheDead: In his first appearance, he makes it seem like he died in an explosion to throw the heroes off his trail.
* ForcedTransformation: He transforms people into humanoid animals. Their loyalty towards him varies.
* MadScientist: Considering he created vicious anthropomorphic animals as servants and later enlarged his own brain to absorb the world, he certainly qualifies.
* SecretPublicIdentity: Dr. Brain's choice for a supervillain name is "Hirn", which means "Brain" in english.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Dr. Brain is a MadScientist who later transplants his brain into a robotic body.
!!The heir's of Zweistein
A terrorist group who admire Zweistein wanting to follow in his footsteps. They are lead by the manager of Zweistein's laboratories Rangold.
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*ArmyOfTheAges: They have bases all throughout time with the goal to build a time army.
* DecapitedArmy: After the death of their leader Rangold, the Heir's of Zweistein and their [[ArmyOfTheAges Time Army]] broke apart with most being captured and those who weren't going on the run.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The group is made up of both humans and Leonen.
* ReligionOfEvil: They revere Zweistein and seek to follow into his footsteps, desiring to fulfill his goal of WorldDomination.
!!Tamara
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/VeraBunk (Der Neue Superheld)
A recurring enigmatic enemy always working for another villain.
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* AdaptionalDyeJob: She has red hair on the cover of the episode she first appeared in, episode 3 of ''Der Neue Superheld'' but in the episode, her hair is explicitly stated to be blonde.
* TheDragon: She is always working for a bigger villain.
* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Despite being an Android, she can feel, think for herself and is treated as human as everyone else.
* MysteriousPast: Her past is a complete mystery. Who built her and where she comes from has yet to be revealed.
* TheStarscream: Originally his loyal henchwomen, she turns against Dr. Brain in episode 14 after having had doubts about him in the previous episode
* TokenRobot: ZigZagged. While not the only recurring ArtificialIntelegence, She is the only recurring android.
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!!Lara
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/SarahRiedel
Jan and Laura's daughter and Jan Jr.'s older sister.
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* ActionGirl: While acting independently from team Tenner, she and Zeno often go up and battle against the heirs of Zweistein.
* ADayInTheLimelight: She and Zeno are the protagonists of episode 18 which sees him and Lara forming a team of their own to battle the heir's of Zweistein independently from team Tenner.
* FollowingInRelativesFootsteps: Being very adept at science, she followed in her father's and mother's footsteps becoming a high ranking member of the Order of Futura.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: During their fight against the heir's of Zweistein, she and Zeno act independently from the main group of heroes. With the exception of episode 18, the two only appear in the story when they cross paths with team Tenner.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: In his final appearance, it's implied that she sees Zeno as more than just a friend. But due to his HeroicSacrifice, it is unknown whether he feels the same way.
* JerkassToOne: While friendly to everyone else, due to [[TheResenter being jealous of the attention and praise Tanja receives]] for her heroics, Lara is quite prickly, mean and confrontational towards her alone, mocking and playing up her every mistake.
* OutOfFocus: After her introduction in episode 1, she barely plays a role until episode 18 where she joins Zeno.
* TheResenter: She is jealous of Tanja because of all the attention and praise she gets for her heroics and is actively mean to her because of it.
* {{Telepathy}}: She and Zeno gained the powers of telepathy in addition to traveling through time at will in episode 21.
* TimeTravel: In episode 21, she and Zeno gained the ability to travel through time at will alongside the power of {{Telepathy}}.
!!Zeno
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/PatrickSuhm
A clone of Jan Tenner and Zweistein. He joins the heroes in their fight against the Heirs of Zweistein though he acts mostly independent of Team Tenner.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: He and Lara are the protagonist of episode 18 which sees him and Lara forming a team of their own to battle the heir's of Zweistein independently from team Tenner.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: He wears the letter "Z" on his vest on the same spot Jan wears his initials further hinting on a connection between the two.
* HeroicSacrifice: He sacrifices his life for the heroes in episode 22 to stop the terrorist group "Heir's of Zweistein".
* HeroOfAnotherStory: During their fight against the heir's of Zweistein, he and Lara act independently from the main group of heroes. With the exception of episode 18, the two only appear in the story when they cross paths with team Tenner.
* MixAndMatchMan: He is a clone of Jan Tenner senior and Zweistein.
* ShockAndAwe: He has the ability to shoot lightning.
* {{Telepathy}}: He and Lara gained the powers of telepathy in addition to traveling through time at will in episode 21.
* TimeTravel: In episode 21, he and Lara gained the ability to travel through time at will alongside the power of {{Telepathy}}.
* TwoDonorClone: He is a clone of Jan Tenner senior and Zweistein to give him Jan's BadassNormal physique in combination with Zweistein's genius.
!!Logar
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--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/HeinzRabe (Classic), Creator/SvenBrieger (Der Neue Superheld)
Emperor of the Dark Empire in another universe. He is a powerful sourceror and the source of his daughter Seytania's power.
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* AbusiveParent: Downplayed. He repeatedly refers to Seytania as his "unworthy daughter" but never gets physically violent with her. He also gives her what she desires such as her magical powers and her own planet to rule over.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Even without his ring of power, he has proven himself more than a match to his traitorous general.
* BetrayalByOffspring: When Thol challenges him to an honorable duel over leadership of the Dark Empire, he takes off his ring, the source of his power, and hands it to Seytania for safekeeping. Shortly afterwards, right before he is about to defeat Thol, she uses the ring to sap his physical strength in an attempt to seize control of the Dark Empire. It is short-lived, however, as Thol quickly knocks her out and takes the ring for himself.
* BroughtDownToBadass: When Thol challenges him to an honorable duel over leadership of the Dark Empire, he takes off his ring, the source of his power without which he cannot use his magic. Still, the battle between the two turns out to be [[CurbStompBattle very one-sided in his favor]].
* TheBusCameBack: After a long absence since episode 39 of ''Classic'', he returns in episode 10 of ''Der Neue Superheld''.
* CombatPragmatist: When he learns that Futura's serum can effectively deal with the monsters of the Void, he jumps on the opportunity to use it rather than wasting his soldier's lives. However, being from a warrior society, this made him unpopular with many of his soldiers resulting in some, led by his formerly loyal second in command, to rebel.
* DistressedDude: After being taking captive by Thol and having his power source taken away, he is as much in need of being rescues by Jan as his daughter Seytania and Jan's friends.
* DramaticThunder: Not only is his voice like thunder, when he talks, lightning strikes continuously for as long as he talks.
* TheEmperor: He is the ruler of the Dark Empire.
* EtTuBrute: Despite their rocky relationship, he is genuinely shocked when Seytanias betrays him during his and Thol's duel.
* FrontlineGeneral: Zig-zagged. While it has been said and shown that he indeed leads his soldiers into battle, he only does so sometimes while the rest of the time, he is at his castle or camp.
* LastOfHisKind: In ''Der Neue Superheld'', it's revealed that the Void wasn't completely destroyed and eventually returned as the "Eraser" annihilating the Dark Empire leaving Logar as its only survivor.
* IGaveMyWorld: As part of the deal Futura offered him for the serum to fight the creatures of the Void, he promised to leave humanity alone. When his daughter attacked the Earth in his name, he was furious with her, forcing her to undo everything she did.
* TheMenFirst: Despite coming from a warrior society with an HonorBeforeReason-attitude, he doesn't want to waste lifes fighting the Void and is eager to accept Futura's offer of a serum that can effectively deal with the Void's forces. However, his men are not pleased and eventually rise up against him.
* MustMakeAmends: After learning the truth about his father, he wishes to make right what his father did to the unicorns and their land.
* NoLastNameGiven: His last name, if he has one, is never given.
* TheOmnipresent: He has the ability to make his spirit leave his body. Upon doing so, his spirit becomes omnipresent.
* PowerEchoes: In his first appearance, his voice is deep and powerful, reverberating every word and causing continuous DramaticThunder.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As the ruler of the Dark Empire, he is its most powerful warrior, both in terms of magical power and command. He is also one of the most powerful characters in the show.
* ReallyEighthundredYearsOld: When the group went back in time 20,000 years ago, he was already ruling the Dark Empire after faking his disappearance.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When the heroes finally meet him, he proves to be quite unlike his daughter. He reacts to Jan's brazen disrespectfulness with laughter and it doesn't take much to convince him to accept the heroes offer of a supply of the serum they used to effectively fight the creatures of the Void in return for the freedom of all he and Seytania enslaved to fight for him. He even promised to leave them alone.
* RedHarring: As her father and the one to give her her planet, he is built up to be a villain like Seytania. The heroes are even told that if he were to ever enter their universe, it would be the end of everything. But when they meet him, it turns out he is a WellInentionedExtremist at worst as well as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, a lot more reasonable, and honorable, than his daughter.
* RelationshipSalvagingDisaster: Before being sacrificed by Thol, he mended his relationship with his daughter Seytania.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He has his soldiers kidnap and forcefully draft other species as he is in constant need for soldiers to fight an all-consuming void at the edge of the universe threatening to consume the universe wiping out everything in the process.
!!Ragund
--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/JochenSchroder (Die Neue Dimension)
The former emperor of the universe Jan and his friends stand in at the beginning of ''Die Neue Dimension''.
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* CantTakeCriticism: He exiled his teacher to his castle for suggesting Xarxas may beat him.
* TheEmperor: He is the emperor of his universe.
* TheGoodKing: Due to being a fair ruler, he is well-liked by all his subjects.
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