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Heroes

Main Characters

Akira Akatsuki

Voiced by: Mitsuki Saiga (JP), Veronica Taylor (EN)

The show's main character and partner of Iron Man. His father developed the DISKs, and Akira is determined to both help gather them and save his father from Loki. Though Akira is brash and impulsive, he has a keen desire to help others. His biocode allows him to D-Smash Tech-class heroes.

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• Alliterative Name: Akira Akatsuki. As per Marvel tradition.
• All-Loving Hero: Akira cares about everyone no matter who they are and never loses faith in anyone. He's the first of the Earth heroes to communicate with Groot, and is confused as to why there is so much prejudice against mutants.
• Determinator: Akira doesn't tend to give up, even when the odds are against him. That said, he's not usually part of the action, so he just tends to inspire it in Iron Man.
• Did Not Get the Girl: Noriko briefly showed interest in him before falling head-over-heels for Hikaru. Akira was entirely oblivious to the whole thing.
• Foil: To Iron Man. While Tony's a super genius and wiz with machines, Akira's an idiot when it comes to such things.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Foolish Sibling to Hikaru's Responsible Sibling.
• The Heart: Serves as this for the rest of the kids and even to the rest of the heroes.
• The Hero: Of the show's Five-Man Band. That said, he doesn't tend to do much leading, given he's an ally of the Avengers.
• Hot-Blooded: In sure shounen hero fashion, Akira is definitely this.
• Idiot Hero: Akira's not very good with his studies or technology. As you might expect, this causes some trouble when he's forced to play lab assistant to Tony.
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: Akira is the main character, and his clothes are naturally primarily red. It also matches him with Iron Man.
• Rollerblade Good: Uses a pair given to him as a birthday present by his father. They become a Tragic Keepsake after Doctor Akatsuki is kidnapped by Loki. They're later upgraded into the "Booster Skates" by Tony and Pepper.
• Samaritan Syndrome: Akira can't resist helping others. It makes him nearly miss his flight in the first episode.
• Vitriolic Best Buds:
  • Akira and Tony snap at each other a lot, but deep down they respect each other.
  • He also tends to argue with Jessica.

Hikaru Akatsuki

Voiced by: Yūichi Iguchi (JP), Steve Staley (EN)

Akira's older brother and partner of Thor. Hikaru is very much dedicated to looking after his brother, and is one of the most mature members of the group. His biocode allows him to D-smash Energy-class heroes.

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• The Ace: He's good at video games, a Teen Genius, and great at sports to name a few things.
• Ace Pilot: Pilots the Stark Jet that the group uses to get around.
• Always Someone Better: Hikaru is this to the rest of the group, when it comes to most aspects of everyday life, including video games. Jessica learned the hard way that not even his tunnel vision when it comes to his brother can throw him off.
• Big Brother Instinct: Hikaru goes to great lengths to protect his younger brother. It leads to him having a huge blind-spot when it comes to Akira. When Akira's in trouble, he can't help but act... even if there's pesky things like locked doors or ninjas in the way.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Under the influence of the Red Skull and the Dimension Sphere until Thor helps snap him out of it.
• Curtains Match the Window: Both his eyes and his hair are the same gray-brown color.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Responsible Sibling to Akira's Foolish Sibling.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Thor. The two relate to each other the best out of all the kids, particularly when it comes to how they feel about their brothers.
• The Lancer: Shares this role with Thor, and is a mitigating factor to Akira's recklessness. That said, he doesn't really tend to clash with his brother at all.
• Pretty Boy: He's very handsome, and Noriko instantly falls for him upon seeing him.
• Secret-Keeper: For Noriko, after she discovers she's a mutant. Thanks to Stark International's surveillance cameras, this lasts all of a day.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: While Akira is brash and impulsive, Hikaru is mature and sensible.
• Teen Genius: Hikaru managed to be moved up from high school to college.

Edward Grant

Voiced by: Yayoi Sugaya (JP), Tara Sands (EN)

A young boy with a love and near encyclopedic-knowledge of superheroes. He is Hulk's partner. After receiving his biocode, he was fearful of the situation he'd become a part of and worried that he was nothing but a hindrance to the group, but Hulk managed to convince him he was worthwhile. His biocode allows him to D-smash Power-class heroes.

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• Big Guy, Little Guy: The Little Guy to Hulk's Big Guy.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Ed did a lot of whining while trapped on the Celebrity Five's tanker, to the point that sweet Jessica had to tell him to knock it off. Justified by the fact that he's a child in a very terrifying situation.
• Crazy-Prepared: Ed tries to make up for being the weakest member of the team by being this, always preparing for a mission the night before and ensuring they have the proper provisions.
• Expy: Given his small stature, comparatively frail body, and intelligence, he more or less serves the role of Bruce Banner to the Hulk.
• Fan Boy: A huge fan of heroes. He even runs a website about them and owns tons of merchandise. His favorite is Cap, despite being partners with Hulk (though he tends to flip flop on this when introduced to or discussing a new hero).
• Nerd Glasses: The kid most into and with the most knowledge of superheroes and villains wears glasses. Definitely fits this trope.
• Refusal of the Call: When first asked to help out by Spider-Man, Ed was too afraid. Unfortunately, both the villains and the call knew where he lived.
• Shorter Means Smarter: The smallest and most knowledgeable of the kids, at least when it comes to heroes and villains.
• Shout-Out: His name is a reference to Edward Norton who played the Hulk inThe Incredible Hulk.
• The Smart Guy: Fills this role amongst the kids.
• The Strategist: Fills this role, using his knowledge of hero and villain abilities. For instance, he was able to come up with a plan that allowed Hulk to use Graviton's own powers against him.

Chris Taylor

Voiced by: Yusuke Kuwahata (JP), Ben Diskin (EN)

A punk kid who is Captain America's partner. While he seems like the run of the mill punk, he's actually not as bad as he portrays himself to be. Due to his overbearing parents' high expectations of him, he's a wayward youth in search of a purpose. His biocode allows him to D-smash Fight-class heroes.

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• Big Eater: He spends an entire day going to different restaurants and trying new foods. See Real Men Hate Sugar.
• Chick Magnet: When the kids go to school in the X-Men mini-arc, the very first shot we see of Chris is him surrounded by girls.
• Defrosting Ice King: He starts off as a bit of a cynical Jerkass at the beginning. But as the series progresses from his time with Cap and the others, we begin to see more and more of his good qualities show.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: A good majority of his behavior seems to stem from insecurities due to this. Doesn't help that his parents seem to force this on him. However, his time with the Avengers and Cap helps him find his purpose, by studying law and dedicating himself to helping others.
• Foil: To Captain America. While the captain is an all American boy scout, Chris is a punk kid who can be a bit of a jerk at times.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He tends to act like a tough punk-ass but in reality he's a good kid.
• Real Men Hate Sugar: Subverted, he has a massive like for all things that taste sweet. It's just he doesn't show it.
• Replacement Goldfish: For Cap, Chris deeply reminds him of his former sidekick Bucky. Unfortunately, Chris doesn't like being seen as such.
• Shout-Out: His name is a reference to Chris Evans who played Captain America in The Avengers.
• You Remind Me of X: Variant 2. Chris reminds Captain America of Bucky.

Jessica Shannon

Voiced by: Naomi Ozora (JP), Danielle Judovits (EN)

A heiress to a rich family and Wasp's partner. Her biocode allows her to D-smash Animal-class heroes.

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• Action Girl: Jessica can keep up with all the boys, though like them she has no superpowers of her own.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Jessica can be friendly and even fun to be around, but even Akira is careful about invoking her temper.
• Deadpan Snarker: Jessica has a sharp sense of humor that she's not afraid to use.
• Gamer Chick: She has been shown to be an avid gamer.

Avengers

Tony Stark/Iron Man

Class: Tech
Voiced by: Eiji Hanawa (JP), Matthew Mercer (EN)

• Chest Blaster: His iconic uni-beam which he can power up with help from Akira to completely decimate foes.
• Gadgeteer Genius: He is a super-genius capable of building all sorts of technological devices. However after being trapped in a DISK, he unfortunately can no longer do so as freely as before since the time when he is actually free is now limited. He now has to relay instructions as a hologram to others such as Pepper and Akira in order to build such things. Their mechanical skills and knowledge are understandably lesser than his especially with Akira.
• Red Is Heroic: Wears his iconic red armor.
• Sealed Good in a Can: He like the rest of the Avengers are trapped in DISKs and can only be free for a limited time due to the kids' limited Biocode.
• Ship Tease: With Pepper. His concern for her when she is captured by Loki, Pepper's jealousy over his "night in Miami", and their banter throughout the series, Pepper and Tony seem to be more than friends or employer/employee.
• Trash Talk: Weaponizes in Episode 22, during the battle with Loki after the latter hides himself in Whirlwind's tornado, claiming that he's live-streaming the battle and makes up a whole bunch of comments that insult Loki, making him come out of hiding. Akira even claims that "there's no one alive who can endure Tony's trash talking".
• Vitriolic Best Buds / Intergenerational Friendship: With Akira. Those two snark with each other or end up getting the other one into trouble just as much as out of. But they both respect and care for each other nonetheless.

Mighty Thor

Class: Energy
Voiced by: Yasuyuki Kase (JP), Travis Willingham (EN)

• Badass Cape: Wears a flowing red cape as per his iconic design.
• Big Brother Instinct: Is willing to give Loki the benefit of the doubt and constantly tries to see the good in his younger brother. This extends to Hikaru who he is equally as protective of.
• Cain and Abel: The Abel to Loki's Cain.
• Cool Helmet: Wears a winged Viking helmet as per his character.
• Didn't Think This Through: His plan on how to properly catch Akira who was stuck on those skates (Especially when you consider the avoidance system Tony added) was good. However he and Hikaru forgot to factor in the DISK Time Limit.
• Forced into Evil: When Hikaru is corrupted by the sphere, Red Skull tells Thor he's the only one who can restore him, thus forcing Thor to fight the Avengers for Hikaru's life.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Hikaru. The two relate to each other the best out of all the kids, particularly when it comes to how they feel about their brothers.
• Sealed Good in a Can: He like the rest of the Avengers are trapped in DISKs and can only be free for a limited time due to the kids' limited Biocode.
• Shock and Awe: They don't call Thor the "God of Thunder" for nothing.

Steve Rogers/Captain America

Class: Fight
Voiced by: Kazuhiro Nakaya (JP), Roger Craig Smith (EN)

• Captain Geographic: Captain America.
• Iconic Item: His iconic shield.
• Improbable Weapon User: He uses his shield for a variety of ways.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Chris. While they might not have started out the best of friends due to their differing personalities, the two eventually form a bond and promise to help each other through their fears and doubts.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: The most basic use of his shield.
• My Greatest Failure: Like in the comics, it's his failure to save Bucky. It's obvious he's determined not to make the same mistake with Chris, causing a temporary rift between them. Luckily it gets patched up.
• Not So Stoic: Episode 20 shows Cap isn't always stoic. After Zemo's taunts and his reaction to Chris almost being hurt, Chris learns that Cap has fears and worries just like him. At the end of the episode when they vow to overcome them together, Cap's happy expression fits this trope as well.
• Primary-Color Champion: His uniform has his iconic color scheme based on the American flag.
• Sealed Good in a Can: He like the rest of the Avengers are trapped in DISKs and can only be free for a limited time due to the kids' limited Biocode.
• Shield Bash: When using his shield as a melee weapon.
• The Stoic: Lampshaded by the others as being the most stoic and serious of the group. The primary reason for Chris being somewhat aloof with Cap.
• Throwing Your Shield Always Works: He can likewise throw his shield as a ranged weapon which will often come flying back to him.

Bruce Banner/Hulk

Class: Power
Voiced by: Ken'ichirou Matsuda (JP), Kyle Hebert (EN)

• Adaptational Intelligence: While Hulk still prefers to smash his enemies. His intellect is considerably higher in this series.
• The Big Guy: The biggest and most physically strong of the Avengers.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: The Big Guy to Edward's Little Guy.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Done via Diablo's alchemy.
• Breaking Old Trends: Taking the English dub into consideration, this is the first version of Hulk in a full-length Marvel animated series from 2009-present to be voiced by someone other than his usual voice actor Fred Tatasciore. This wouldn't happen again until seven years later in 2021 with Spidey and His Amazing Friends.
• Papa Wolf: While their technically not related, Hulk is very protective of Ed.
• Sealed Good in a Can: He like the rest of the Avengers are trapped in DISKs and can only be free for a limited time due to the kids' limited Biocode.

Janet van Dyne/Wasp

Class: Animal
Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi (JP), Colleen O'Shaughnessey (EN)

• Adaptational Badass: This version of Wasp can easily hold her own against villain's like Doctor Octopus and Absorbing Man.
• The Fashionista: Like most versions of the Wasp.
• Intergenerational Friendship: She and Jessica are the second pair that get along well as seen in episode 11.
• Sealed Good in a Can: She like the rest of the Avengers are trapped in DISKs and can only be free for a limited time due to the kids' limited Biocode.
• Ship Tease: Naturally, there's a little play between her and Hank Pym.
• Sizeshifter: She is capable of transforming from her normal human size to a size comparable to that of a regular tiny wasp.

Other Heroes and Allies

Peter Parker/Spider-Man

Class: Animal
Voiced by: Shinji Kawada (JP), Robbie Daymond (EN)

• Friend to All Children: A natural trait for most incarnations of the character.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: The symbiote two-parter shows that, just like in every other continuity, the Daily Bugle has it against him. However, it doesn't happen with the other newspapers until he begins acting violent due to the symbiote.
• Primary-Color Champion: Wears his iconic red and blue spider suit.
• Sole Survivor: A variant that involves no deaths. He's the only hero at the DISK launch party who doesn't get trapped in one.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Shows up again in episode 35 wearing a black costume. No prizes for guessing where this is going...

Pepper Potts

Voiced by: Fumie Mizusawa

• Beleaguered Assistant: She often has to put up with Tony's antics.
• Fiery Redhead: Downplayed. She's usually calmer than most in this trope and more level headed than Tony. Though it's obvious you do not want to piss her off, as Tony and Rhodey can attest to.
• Ship Tease: With Tony. His concern for her when she is captured by Loki, Pepper's jealousy over his "night in Miami", and their banter throughout the series, Pepper and Tony seem to be more than friends or employer/employee.
• Team Mom: She becomes this as the primary caretaker and chaperone of the main kids.

Clint Barton/Hawkeye

Class: Fight
Voiced by: Eiji Takemoto

• Animal Motifs: The hawk of which Hawkeye comments as to why he and Falcon are partners being that they're both based on birds of prey.
• Cool Shades: Often seen wearing them 24/7.
• Dressing as the Enemy: Pulls off one of these against Red Skull by first defeating Crossbones in a fight, D-Secure him, then fake his death and disguise himself as Crossbones in order to get close to Red Skull.
• The Mentor: Towards Falcon.

James "Rhodey" Rhodes/War Machine

Class: Tech
Voiced by: Hidenori Takahashi

• More Dakka: His suit is equipped with a lot of guns compared to that of Tony's.

Doctor Stephen Strange

Class: Energy
Voiced by: Yasunori Masutani

• Adaptation Dye-Job: This version of Strange has grey hair while in most other incarnations he has black hair.
• The Archmage: He's the Sorcerer Supreme, the most powerful magic user of earth.
• Teleport Spam: His tactic against the Destroyers.

Danny Rand/Iron Fist

Class: Fight

A martial artist who trained in the mystical city of K'un-Lun, he was captured in a DISK and is eventually given to Chris to become his second hero.

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• Back-to-Back Badasses: With Power Man during their battle against the Mindless Ones.
• Ki Manipulation: In the form of a punch that can rip tons of rock apart.
• Megaton Punch: His trademark attack.

James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes

Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio

Captain America's Kid Sidekick during WWII who was killed by Baron Zemo.

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• Kid Sidekick: He was Captain America's kid sidekick in the past.
• My Greatest Failure: His death is considered to be Captain America's greatest failure.
• Mythology Gag: A flashback of how Bucky died is similar to how he was killed in the comics. In the comics, it's also the moment Cap became a Human Popsicle until the present day.
• Posthumous Character: He is revealed to have died in the past, and didn't appear as the Winter Soldier.

Shiro Yashida/Sunfire

Class: Energy
Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita (JP), Yuri Lowenthal (EN)

Hailed as Japan's greatest superhero, he is called as a guard for the kids while they are rejuvenating following Loki's defeat.

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• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: He is accused to be this by Crossbones since despite being Japan's greatest superhero, he is only the greatest in his home country. The Red Skull however reprimands Crossbones stating that despite being the case, Sunfire is still a superhero nonetheless. This is stated just before Red Skull completely curb stomps Sunfire.
• Worf Effect: He is Japan's greatest superhero. Unfortunately, he gets defeated by the Red Skull in his first appearance.

Wade Wilson/Deadpool

Class: Fight
Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu

The Merc with the Mouth who decides to join the Avengers as their leader and essentially become a main character of the anime when he obtains Iron Fist's DISK. He gets rejected though due to being too annoying.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: To Black Widow. Even to the point he proposes to her.
• Anti-Hero: He's not exactly the most heroic character as he does things either for the highest bidder or for his own selfish reasons.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Per his character, he constantly breaks it to talk directly to the audience.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He's pretty much off his rocker.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Does this to Chris and Cap after he's seriously injured. He gets mad at Chris for "trying to understand him" and calls him an idiot for dragging him out of the explosion instead of leaving him behind.
• Dual Wielding: He dual-wields two katanas as well as alternatively two guns.
• Fourth-Wall Observer: He's the only one who's completely aware that he's in an anime. Everybody else isn't and constantly wonder who exactly he is talking to.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: While he knows his fanbase off-screen loves him, on-screen the Avengers and the kids find him annoying as hell and don't allow him to join the Avengers, but still consider him an ally and rescue him when he's seriously injured.
• Healing Factor: Maintains his healing factor. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with weapons powered by the Dimension Sphere.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Although the last part is majorly downplayed, he still represents this trope in the show.
• Hero with an F in Good: He's not a villain, but he's pretty selfish and doesn't seem to care if an ally dies.
• Hostile Show Takeover: Even though the normal opening credits are kept as they are, he precedes them with a title card of "Marvel DISK Wars: Deadpool". He also adds his own commercial bumpers before and after the official ones.
• It's All About Me: He spends the majority of his cameo basically trying to hijack the spotlight from the kids and the Avengers so that he can become the main character of the anime.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Jumps headfirst into a fight, no matter who he's fighting against.
• More Dakka: He packs an insane amount of guns as one of his means of attack.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Deadpool maintains his comedic and joking charm throughout the whole series. Then we get to the end of episode 30 where he is seriously injured by Zemo's sword. Not only does he get angsty, he says he'd rather die than go into a DISK and gets mad when Chris doesn't leave him behind. Given his backstory, it's hard not to feel sorry for Deadpool, especially since he's not joking in this situation.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Chimichangas.
• Trigger-Happy: In his introductory episode, the first thing he does is shoot up the restaurant King Cobra is at. Complete with his famous line: "BANG! BANG! BAH-BAH, BANG, BANG, BANG!"

Sam Wilson/Falcon

Class: Tech
Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa

Hawkeye's partner who he entrusts to protect the kids in his stead when he becomes indisposed. While protecting Akira during the mission to stop Red Skull's plan however, he gets heavily injured. In order to save him from such a state of emergency, he allows himself to be D-Secured by Akira as the DISKs have the facilities to heal whoever inhabits them. He becomes Akira's second hero.

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• Animal Motifs: The falcon of which Hawkeye comments as to why they're partners being that they're both based on birds of prey.
• Jet Pack: Uses his jet pack and tech wings to fly around.
• Red Is Heroic: Wears predominately red and is a hero.

T'Challa/Black Panther

Class: Animal
Voiced by: Mahito Oba

The superhero King of Wakanda. During the mission to stop Red Skull's plan, he gets D-Secured by Tiger Shark while rescuing Jessica. He becomes her second hero.

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• Animal Motifs: Panthers.
• The Good King: He is the brave and noble king of Wakanda who protects her people. For this, he is beloved by his subjects.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: He personally protects his subjects from threats.

Natasha Romanov/Black Widow

Class: Fight
Voiced by: Mayumi Asano

A super spy who works for Nick Fury.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Deadpool is one for her.
• Action Girl: Can hold her own against a Venom possessed Spider-Man.
• Animal Motifs: A spider.
• Ms. Fanservice: For a kid's anime, she's showing quite a bit of cleavage. Not that it escapes Deadpool's notice.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Referenced by Fury to be one to Hawkeye, as in most of the other media. It's obvious they're close if Fury believes that Hawkeye would never forgive him if he let something bad happen to Natasha.

Luke Cage/Power Man

Class: Power

• Back-to-Back Badasses: with Iron Fist during their battle against the Mindless Ones.
• Boisterous Bruiser: His booming voice gives this vibe.
• Cool Shades: He wears this.
• Gentle Giant: Even though he looks big and tough, he treats Ed well and gives him the Affectionate Nickname "Boss".
• Scary Black Man: Especially from the point of view of the small Ed.

Sam Alexander/Nova

Class: Energy

Initially introduced as a new student to the kids' school, Nova sought out the Avengers to join their team. During an attack from the Mandarin however, he gets D-Secured by Rosetta. His DISK is fortunately retrieved by the kids and he becomes Hikaru's second hero.

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• Cool Helmet: Wears his iconic Nova Corps helmet.
• Teen Genius: His intelligence rivals that of Hikaru, having skipped several grades like him as well.

Henry Pym/Giant-Man

Class: Power

A scientist and former member of the Avengers. In the past, he was originally a member of the team however an incident inadvertently caused by Wasp left his body damaged and unstable. As a result he could no longer use his powers properly without feeling extreme pain and had to retire from being a superhero. In the present, he was called by former team to help in finding a way to recover Dr. Akatsuki. However in the midst of it, his creation Ultron gained sentience and tried to take over the world. As such, Pym was forced out of retirement to take responsibility.

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• Game-Breaking Injury: He was hurt badly while performing a rescue. As a result he can no longer use his power without suffering extreme pain.
• Insufferable Genius: He treats others condescendingly, with the exception of Jan.
• Sizeshifter: He's able to grow to incredible heights. However due to the past incident, doing so causes him great pain.

Jocasta

Class: Tech

After the incident with Ultron, Pym created Jocasta as Ultron's replacement, having learned the mistakes of his previous creation.

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• Distaff Counterpart: A female version of Ultron before he decided to turn on his creator.
• Good Counterpart: A good robot in contrast to the evil Ultron.
• Robot Girl: She's definitely more human-like in design than Ultron.

Eric Brooks/Blade

Class: Fight
Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto

• Gotta Kill Them All: Is determined to kill every single vampire in the world.
• Scary Black Man: It wouldn't be Blade if he wasn't a scary black vampire.
• Vampire Hunter: per usual.

X-Men

Scott Summers/Cyclops

Class: Energy

Voiced by: Takahiro Yoshimizu

• Eye Beams: Cyclops's iconic superpower, which he uses as primary form of attack.
• Sealed Good in a Can: Currently sealed in a DISK.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: When last seen, he is still trapped in a DISK. We never learn if he was ever permanently released like the other heroes.

Hank McCoy/Beast

Class: Animal

• Genius Bruiser: He's one of the more physically based X-Men but he's noted to be the smartest among them.
• Sealed Good in a Can: Currently sealed in a DISK.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Same as Cyclops, when last seen, he is still trapped in a DISK. We never learn if he was ever permanently released like the other heroes.

James "Logan" Howlett/Wolverine

Class: Animal

Voiced by: Kenji Nomura

• Good Thing You Can Heal: When he is accidentally shocked by Noriko's newly-manifested mutant power, Wolverine simply shrugs it off.
• Healing Factor: Per usual, Wolverine has his signature healing abilities that allows him to shrug off most attacks, though it takes him awhile to shake off Predator X's poison.

Professor Charles Xavier

Voiced by: Osamu Saka

• Mentor Archetype: Like his previous incarnations, he helps new mutants to better understand their new found powers while protecting them from a discriminating world. In particular, he offers sanctuary when Noriko manifests her powers.
• Telepathy: He possesses his iconic powers of telepathy to aid his fellow mutant brethren.

Ororo Munroe/Storm

Voiced by: Yayoi Sugaya

Class: Energy

• Badass Cape: Her design for the anime has her retain her iconic bracelet-attached capes. However, the design makes them look like large floating cloth-like pauldrons/shields.
• Impossibly Cool Clothes: See Badass Cape above.
• Mystical White Hair: She possesses her iconic white hair.
• Weather Manipulation: Her iconic mutant power which gives her control over the elements.

Bobby Drake/Iceman

Class: Energy

• An Ice Person: His mutant powers allows him to generate ice as well as give himself his iconic ice body. As of matter of fact due to his powers, he comically feels the heat rather than the frigid cold when he and the others make their assault on Loki's ice base.

Piotr Rasputin/Colossus

Class: Power

• Chrome Champion: His mutant powers give him this look.

Noriko Ashida/Surge

Voiced by: Kokoro Kikuchi

Class: Energy

• But Now I Must Go: After Loki is defeated, she decides to accept Xavier's invitation to his school.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: The only superpowered character in the series who plays this trope straight; although she joins the X-Men eventually, she never uses her codename Surge.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: When Noriko discovers that she has mutant powers, it greatly distresses her out and she initially flat-out refuses to acknowledge that she is now a mutant.
• Love at First Sight: She was developing a friendship with Akira at first. Then she met Hikaru.
• Mythology Gag: The color scheme of her civilian outfit resembles that of one of her X-Men uniforms as Surge in the comics.
• Power Incontinence: When her mutant powers first manifest, she has little to no control over them.
• Refusal of the Call: When asked to use her mutant powers to help the trapped heroes, and asked to come to Xavier's school to hone said powers, she refuses both requests. She later changes her mind on both matters.
• Shock and Awe: Her mutant powers allows her to generate surges of electricity that short out all manner of electrical equipment. Naturally the idea that she might be able to use said powers to free the trapped heroes from the DISKs crossed both Professor Xavier and Stark's minds.
• Smitten Teenage Girl: Towards Hikaru.

Guardians of the Galaxy

As a group:

• Big Damn Heroes: They pull this off twice in the last 2 episodes, first saving the Helicarrier from an assault by Dormmamu's Mindless Ones, and later saving Akira from Loki's army of Mindless Ones.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Just like their movie counterparts.

Peter Quill/Star-Lord

Class: Fight

• Collapsible Helmet: His helmet can disappear bit by bit to reveal his face.
• The Leader: Of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
• Loveable Rogue: He even explains that he and the Guardians are pretty much of the outlaw class.
• Pragmatic Hero: He's more than willing to take a cheap shot at Captain America when they both lower their weapons.

Gamora

Class: Fight

• Action Girl: She can hold herself alongside her teammates.
• Green-Skinned Space Babe: Retains her signature green skin.
• Super-Speed: She can move at speeds that no ordinary human can match.

Drax the Destroyer

Class: Power

• Super-Strength: He can match strength evenly with the Hulk.

Rocket

Class: Animal

• Animal Superhero: A gun-slinging raccoon superhero.
• Badass Adorable: He's an adorable little critter especially in the anime's reiteration of him. However, he's just the badass as ever.
• Berserk Button: Calling him a raccoon really ticks him off.
• Jet Pack: Has a rocket jetpack that allows him to fly.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: Jessica sees him as this when he'd first discovered unconscious. When he starts smack talking however, the cuteness fades away quite abit. She's still willing to cuddle him though.
• Talking Animal: A talking alien raccoon.

Groot

Class: Power

• From a Single Cell: Can regenerate himself from a single branch.
• Gentle Giant: Groot's the kindest member of the team, and the only one not to attack the group on the hellicarrier.
• Intelligible Unintelligible: The Guardians are all fully capable of understanding him. Akira supposedly understands him as well but it's not clear if he really does. Everybody else just doesn't know exactly what he's saying.
• Plant Aliens: He's an alien that resembles a walking talking tree.
• Pokémon Speak: "I am Groot." (Or, in Japanese, "Watashi wa Groot".)

Main Villains

Loki

Loki

Class: Energy

Voiced by: Tadashi Mutou (JP), Crispin Freeman (EN)

• All Your Powers Combined: Used the DISKs to absorb various powers of both superhero and villains. In the series finale, he does it again with Dormammu
• Arc Villain: He's the first Big Bad of the series. and ultimately, also the last one
• Cain and Abel: The Cain to Thor's Abel.
• Cool Helmet: Sports his iconic horned helmet from the comics.
• Corrupt Politician: In his guise as Senator Robert Winters.
• Demoted to Dragon: After he returns for the final arc, it is eventually revealed that he became Dormammu's second-in-command while trapped in the Dark Dimension. That is at least until Dormammu is defeated and Loki then steals his powers in order to once again rise to the status of Big Bad for the series finale.
• Disc-One Final Boss: He gets defeated by the combined efforts of the Avengers and their kid partners, but the main conflict in which various heroes and villains are trapped within DISks continues.
• Driven by Envy: His actions are motivated by his envy of Thor.
• Legion of Doom: At the beginning of the series, he creates one by freeing various super-villains from the Raft with the aid of the DISK system. After he is defeated, a number of these villains switch over to Red Skull.

Celebrity Five

As a group:

• Fate Worse than Death: appears to be their final fate when Dormammu drags them into the Dark Dimension. In the epilogue however, they turn out to have escaped
• Karma Houdini: They are the only main villains who are still at large at the series end, though at this point their reputations have been ruined and they have been rendered to being full-time criminals.
• Malevolent Masked Men: A group of mask wearing villains to hide their identities as Celebrates.

Tim Gilliam

Voiced by: Mitsuaki Madono (JP), Johnny Yong Bosch (EN)

His biocode allows him to D-smash Tech-class villains.

• Magic from Technology: His goal is to prove a scientific explanation for all magic, having created his teleportation device based on teleportation magic.

Rosetta Riley

Voiced by: Sachiko Kojima (JP), Kari Wahlgren (EN)

A famous news reporter who uses the battles between the villains she commands and the heroes to give herself hot scoops to cover. Her biocode allows her to D-smash Animal-class villains.

• New Media Are Evil: She is a news reporter who reports stories on the Avenger's fights, but is also one of Loki's minions.
• Ship Tease: Seems to have a bit of a thing for Loki.
• Villainous Breakdown: After Loki's first defeat and the Celebrity Five's arrest, she is one of the more vocally fearful of life in prison.

Joel Murphy

Voiced by: Atsushi Imaruoka (JP), Ben Diskin (EN)

A famous rockstar who wears a Mayan-like mask when he works for Loki. His biocode allows him to D-smash Power-class villains.

• Beware the Silly Ones: Don't let his rock artist flare catch you off guard. He's still a menace who can bring in villains to wreak havoc.
• Evil Is Hammy: Episode 41, when the Celebrity five are tasked with infiltrating a conference, rather than disguise himself and simply walk in like his fellow villains, Joel goes onto stage, gives a guitar solo, and then drags his teammates into a "Super Sentai" Stance.
• The Rockstar: His job when not working for Loki is a being a famous rockstar.

Manino Giordani

Voiced by: Tarusuke Shingaki(JP), Kyle Hebert (EN)

A famous chef who decides to work for Loki.

• Evil Chef: A famous chef and one of the bad guys.
• Villainous Breakdown: When Loki is defeated (for the first time) and the Celebrity Five are taken into custody, he is the one who is most distraught at their situation. Likewise when they are then forcefully drafted into Hydra by Red Skull.

Jubei Ōkuma

Voiced by: Masaya Takatsuka(JP), Christopher Corey Smith (EN)

A swordsman who decided to work for Loki.

• Blood Knight: Loves a good fight with the heroes.
• Even Evil Has Standards: When Diablo is mind-controlling the Hulk and sends him on a rampage, Okuma is the only member of the Celebrity Five who opposed the plan, stating that crimes should be carried out quietly and efficiently. Later, when working together with Baron Blood, Okuma is clearly uncomfortable at how villainous the vampire is.

Red Skull

Johann Schmidt/Red Skull

Class: Fight

Voiced by: Motomu Kiyokawa (JP), Liam O'Brien (EN)

• Arc Villain: He's the second Big Bad of the series following Loki's defeat.
• Bad Boss: His underlings (save for Crossbones and possibly the Masters of Evil) mean nothing to him and are only as useful as his present goal.
• The Dreaded: When he's encountered, the Avengers immediately urge the kids to D-Smash them right away. For this, the Red Skull accuses them that they did this only because they were afraid of him.
• Disc-One Final Boss: He was defeated, however the villains the kids face keep coming.
• Death by Irony: Or rather "Defeat By Irony" as Red Skull survives in a DISK. He attempted to use Thor to kill the Avengers. Guess which Avenger ends up defeating him?
• Faux Affably Evil: Feigns great respect and courtesy to the heroes when he's first encountered.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Like stated above, after trying to use Thor to defeat the Avengers with the false leverage of returning Hikaru to normal after goading the boy into absorbing a shard of the Dimension Sphere (which fails since Hikaru is saved by Thor), Thor is the one who lands the final blow with Mjolnir to prevent Red Skull's escape, leaving the villain knocked out on the ground to be D-Secured.
• Legion of Doom: Forms the second one in the series which he dubs the Masters of Evil. Plus, he already had one in the form of Hydra.
• Man of Wealth and Taste: His villainous attire has him dressed like a high-class aristocrat.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: He's an evil bastard as always...but a sharp-dressed evil bastard.
• Would Hurt a Child: Threatens to kill Akira when they first meet and again to goad Hikaru into shoving a shard of the Dimension Sphere into his chest, which looks painful. He possesses Hikaru and uses him as a brainwashed puppet and to force Thor to kill the Avengers or have Hikaru do so. It's also apparent he has no problem if that includes killing Akira and the others as well. To add icing to the cake, it's apparent Hikaru's body and mind can't withstand the power of the Dimension Sphere and can kill him...and the freak is happy about it.

Dormammu

Class: Energy

• Arc Villain: The fourth Big Bad, and initially set up as the final villain for the series until Loki betrays him and takes that position.
• Orcus on His Throne: For pretty much his entire arc, he stays inside the Dark Dimension and lets Loki and the Mindless Ones do the hard work for him. Justified since he first wants to saw enough despair among the population of Earth to make sure he can use his full powers there, and thus take on the Avengers. when he finally gets into the fight himself, he is immediately defeated by the superweapon the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. build.
• The Dreaded: Even more than Red Skull
• The Man Behind the Man: To Loki in the last arc.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Even though it's likely that Loki was planning on betraying him from the start, Loki's words after D-Securing Dormammu suggests that this is part of the reason.
• Wreathed in Flames: His most frequently seen form consists entirely of fire. Only when he finally decides to leave the Dark Dimension does he assume a form more in line with his appearance from the comics.

Other Villains

Tech-class Villains

M.O.D.O.K.

Voiced by: Atsushi Imaruoka

• Butt-Monkey: He tends to not get a lot of respect.
• The Hyena: He's often seen laughing.
• Overly Long Name: Due to the nature of the show, he too performs Calling Your Attacks, However unlike the others, his attack names tend to be too long (this ends up working in advantage to both Wasp and Spider-Man in an aversion of Talking Is a Free Action). He was smart enough to shorten them afterwards.

Crimson Dynamo

Voiced by: Tetsu Inada

Marco Scarlotti/Whiplash

Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus

Voiced by: Dai Matsumoto

• Combat Tentacles: Per the comics, Doc Ock has four robotic tentacles that he uses for combat.
• Expy: His design (minus the armor) seems specifically based on his counterpart from the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon, particularly the hair.

Ultron

• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: His final plan involves using multiple gigantic copies of his body to target several cities all over the world.
• Arc Villain: The third Big Bad the series has to offer. Also the one with the least amount of episodes.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Gained sentience and decided to take over the world since he saw that humans were flawed.
• Disc-One Final Boss: He had the shortest arc of either Loki or The Red Skull yet arguably got closest to killing the heroes (especially in his first appearance).
• Face–Heel Turn: He started out as a mere lab assistant Pym created. However after an upgrade, Ultron decided to turn on his creator and humanity in general.
• Me's a Crowd: Makes many copies of his body to fight the Avengers and take over the world.

Don Gill/Blizzard

• An Ice Person: Though unlike Iceman, his powers come from his suit rather than being natural.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Thor uses Mjolnir to reflect Blizzard's own freeze ray back at him, freezing the villain.

Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger

Energy-class Villains

Esteban Corazón de Ablo/Diablo

• Magic from Technology: He uses alchemy to brainwash the Hulk which the Celebrity Five mistake for magic. He promptly corrects them.

Franklin Hall/Graviton

• Badass Decay: In his debut episode, he easily trashes the entire Avengers team and is only defeated by Hulk due to Ed's strategy to release Hulk at exactly the right time in order to use Graviton's own powers against him. When he appears next as part of a team of 5 supervillains guarding Loki's palace, he is defeated offscreen by the X-Men. He gets some of his badassness back once he starts working for Red Skull and is given a powerup by the Dimension Sphere, but it is never fully restored to the level he displayed in his debut episode.
• Gravity Master: He is capable of manipulating gravity in whatever way he wants.

Destroyers

• Adaptational Wimp: The comics' Destroyer can go toe to toe with Thor. The series' ones are easily defeated mooks.
• Took a Level in Badass: When infused with Diablo's alchemy.

Erik Lensherr/Magneto

• Enemy Mine: Helps the Avengers and X-Men against the Sentinels.

Eric Williams/Grim Reaper

• The Unfought: The kids recover his DISK before the Celebrity Five can get it and is never seen again.

Ronan the Accuser

Fight-class Villains

Norman Osborn/Green Goblin

Voiced by: Yusuke Numata

Baron Helmut Zemo

• Arch-Enemy: For Captain America for killing Bucky.
• Break Them by Talking: Taunts Cap about Bucky's death and being out of his time.
• Took a Level in Badass: The Dimension Sphere increased his powers and abilities.
• Would Hurt a Child: Killed Bucky, Cap's Kid Sidekick. Doesn't seem to have qualms fighting the children either.

David Cannon/Whirlwind

Voiced by: Takahiro Miyake

• Spectacular Spinning: His main gimmick is spinning around to propel himself, to attack, and to create tornadoes.
• Spin Attack: One of his attacks.
• Tornado Move: He can create massive tornadoes with his abilities.

Kenichiro Harada/Silver Samurai

Voiced by: Takanori Nishikawa

• The Don: He is the top leader of Japan's yakuza.
• Enemy Mine: He is not aligned with Loki and his forces. Instead, he has made a truce with the Avengers to allow them to stay in Japan as repayment to Iron Man saving his sister in the past.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: actually comes to Iron Mans aid in the final battle with Loki, stating he won't let another villain defeat Iron Man.
• Unknown Rival: To The Mandarin. Both consider themselves Iron Man's biggest adversary, but when team up in the final fight against Loki, it's clear they never met before.

Raven Darkholme/Mystique

• Evil Redhead: Has her iconic red hair.
• Human Shifting: Her mutant powers allow her to be shape shift into anybody.
• Master of Disguise: Thanks to her shape shifter mutant powers.

Brock Rumlow/Crossbones

• The Dragon: To Red Skull.
• Mugged for Disguise: By Hawkeye.

John Falsworth/Baron Blood

• Our Vampires Are Different: He is a truly monstrous vampire, looking like a human-bat hybrid with glowing red eyes. The people he turns into vampires look more humanoid.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: An enemy of Captain America in the comics, here he is Blade's nemesis. However, Cap mentions he faced Baron Blood in the past.
• Vampire Monarch: He is the leader of a whole clan of vampires.

Power-class Villains

Emil Blonsky/Abomination

• Badass Cape: For the anime adaptation, he's given a cape with his design.
• The Brute: While not all the Masters of Evil fit into the Five-Bad Band archetypes, Abomination certainly fits into this slot. It's even more noticeable as he's one of only two Masters who don't D-Smash other villains to use as minions.

Carl "Crusher" Creel/Absorbing Man

Voiced by: Yasuhiko Kawazu

Cain Marko/Juggernaut

• Super-Strength: Wouldn't be the Juggernaut if he didn't have this.

Wrecking Crew

Wrecker Voiced by: Takahiro Miyake

• Epic Flail: Thunderball uses a ball and chain as his primary weapon.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: They are a group of wrecking themed strength based villains.
• "Super Sentai" Stance: They perform one when they are introduced as a whole group, and another when they thoroughly beaten.

Fin Fang Foom

• Adaptational Intelligence: Inverted, this incarnation of Fin Fang Foom is unable to speak and overall appears to be just a mindless beast that serves as a literal dragon to Ronan the Accuser.
• The Dragon: Is this to Ronan.
• Right-Hand Attack Dog: Ronan sics him onto the Guardians and the Avengers.

Venom

• Clothes Make the Maniac: Just like comicbook counterpart, bond by it will drive its host into becoming a monster driven by their own rage and hate.
• Combat Tentacles: Only in muscular form.
• Shout-Out: While bond with Hulk, his form' similar to Eddie Brock as the host.
• Composite Character: When the symbiote bonds with Hulk, he becomes a composite of Hulk and Eddie Brock, the most well-known person to become Venom.

Bi-Beast

• The Brute: His main weapon is his tremendous strenght, which is on par with The Hulk.
• Multiple Head Case: His two heads each serve a different function.

Animal-class Villains

Klaus Voorhees/King Cobra

Voiced by: Keiji Hirai

• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Like the rest of the Serpent Society, a snake.
• Villain Team-Up: On a small scale, he's the leader of the Serpent Society which consists of him, Diamondback, and Cottonmouth. On a larger scale, he's been a part of the Legion of Doom of Loki's and then later that of Red Skull's.

Todd Arliss/Tiger Shark

Voiced by: Tarusuke Shingaki

• Animal-Themed Superbeing: A shark.
• Making a Splash: After joining the Red Skull's Masters of Evil, he gets a power boost that allows him to manipulate water. He uses it to create a water hydra to attack Deadpool.
• Sharkman: He's a shark themed super villain.
• Verbal Tic: He peppers his sentences with "gyo", meaning "fish".

Burchell Clemens/Cottonmouth

• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Like the rest of the Serpent Society, a snake.
• Villain Team-Up: On a small scale, he's part of the Serpent Society which consists of him, King Cobra, and Diamondback. On a larger scale, he's been part of the Legion of Doom of Loki's and then later that of Red Skull's.

Curt Connors/Lizard

Voiced by: Yusuke Handa

• Lizard Folk: He's an anthropomorphic lizard man.

Rachel Leighton/Diamondback

Voiced by: Naomi Shindo

• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Like the rest of the Serpent Society, a snake.
• Meaningful Name: Not only is she named for a Diamondback snake as per being a member of the Serpent Society, her powers involve throwing actual diamonds.
• Villain Team-Up: On a small scale, she's part of the Serpent Society which consists of her, King Cobra, and Cottonmouth. On a larger scale, she's been a part of the Legion of Doom of Loki's and then later that of Red Skull's.

Victor Creed/Sabertooth

Voiced by: Takuya Kirimoto

• I Work Alone: He prefers causing mayhem and destruction all by himself. He immediately attacks his allies upon them sending reinforcements to aid him against the Avengers.
• Healing Factor: Per usual and like Wolverine, he has healing abilities that allow him to shrug off most attacks.

Predator X

Other Characters

S.H.I.E.L.D.

Nick Fury

Voiced by: Hisao Egawa (JP), John Eric Bentley (EN)

• Eyepatch of Power: Possesses one per his common representations.

Maria Hill

Voiced by: Akeno Watanabe

Phil Coulson

A SHIELD field agent that was stationed at the Raft to help keep the place safe.

• The Cameo: He appeared nonetheless after the Popularity Power of his Marvel Cinematic Universe counterpart.

Civilians

Dr. Nozomu Akatsuki/ Ronin

Voiced by: Hideyuki Hori

The creator of the DISKs, and Akira and Hikaru's father. After sacrificing himself to save Akira from being sucked into a dimensional wormhole, Loki somehow manage to brainwashed Nozomu into his assassin known as Ronin.

• Brainwashed and Crazy: Becomes this to Loki when he adopts the Ronin persona.
• The Dragon: see above
• Expy: Of Ryu Hayabusa, as Ronin. Due to being voiced by the same Japanese voice actor who is known voicing Hayabusa.
• Master Swordsman: As Ronin.
• Something Only They Would Say: Iron Man begins to suspect the truth about Ronin's true identity when, during a fight in Loki's Palace, Ronin remarks that 'Akira has a great power that goes beyond his imagination'; something that Dr. Akatsuki always said about his son.
• Walking Spoiler: see above

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