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The Inscrutable Machine

Bad Penny

Penelope Justice Akk/Bad Penny/Penultimate/Meatbag Penny

"I hadn't intended to be a legend as a supervillain, but now The Inscrutable Machine had a reputation to maintain, and a lot of fun to have in the process."

The main viewpoint character, as well as Mad Scientist and leader of the group. She really, really wants to be a hero, but due to some bad luck with Miss A, that becomes less and less likely as the story goes on. Her power lets her intuitively create most anything she desires, though she has difficulty understanding precisely what she does. Her first invention was the Machine, a small insect-like device that wraps around her wrist, designed to recycle anything.

The Apprentice: At the end of Henchmen, Spider offers her an apprenticeship (once she turns eighteen) to learn to organize other cities in the same way Spider has done for LA.
Ascended Fangirl: She was a major fan of Mech, another super/Mad Scientist. Then she got her own powers. Same type, just much, much stronger.
Awesome, but Impractical: In terms of raw inventing ability, she may well be the most powerful Mad Scientist of all time, but she still has only a tenuous control over what she ends up making when and can't duplicate her inventions. Not to mention that she's still got no clue how most of her devices work.
Bag of Spilling: She has a tendency to lose most of her inventions, culminating in the third book with her still mostly uncontrolled power going on a binge of combining things, leading to all the cool new stuff ending up wedged in a robot-zombie apocalypse machine.
Cool Bike: Her Light Bike is a futuristic Hard Light motorcycle that she can beam out of a device on her chest.
Curse: After getting her hands on a powerful artifact, she finds that any pennies she places in it become cursed. The artifact apparently bonded with her, so she's immune, but they make surprisingly potent offensive weapons, especially against magic users.
Doomsday Device: She combined her clock-controlling device (upgraded into everything-electronic-controller), her remote control robot, and her purloined universal repairer, resulting in a device that grabs anything technological nearby, combines it into robots and sends them out to find more things to assimilate. Thankfully, it is simply uninterested in organics such as innocent bystanders so danger to them is merely accidental.
Evil Laugh: Comes out whenever she's playing Bad Penny.
Flash Step: Her teleporter rings blur the line between true teleportation and moving very rapidly to the appearance of teleportation. Specifically, they (apparently) compress time so that she can travel any visible distance in the blink of an eye, with the caveat that it costs her stamina proportional to the distance traveled.
Gamer Chick: Penny is very into video games; the only book from her perspective to not have her playing a video game at multiple points is Moon. She also usually wins multiplayer and takes the hard road in games while her friends take the easier game paths.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: In Supervillain, she bounces between villainy and trying to change to being a hero with an occasional neutral act before settling on being a villain. In the Moon, she takes another stab at being a hero before causing mayhem in the Jupiter colonies, followed by another attempt at going hero in Henchmen which gets her forbidden from superpowered fights (while also downplaying her villainy to Poke the Poodle). Then in Nemesis, she's almost a pure hero until the end, when she gets ejected from her body and she takes a turn towards the brutal to win in Believe. After her story ends, she shows up occasionally in other stories with no sign of villainy.
Home Nudist: While at home, she's comfortable being in just her underwear while reading in her room. Not played for Fanservice as she's only 13 at the time.
Improvised Weapon: In Henchmen, she grabs a bag of chalk dust from a planning area for a football game and throws the dust on two fellow supers to exploit their weaknesses and force them to stop fighting.
It Only Works Once: Her power doesn't like repeating itself, so if she breaks or loses an invention, she generally isn't getting it back.
Fighter, Mage, Thief: In The Inscrutable Machine, her powers as a Mad Scientist let her fill in for the Mage to Ray's Fighter and Claire's Thief with her inventions granting utility comparable to the Mages in the series, but has the least physical prowess.
Jekyll & Hyde: First Horseman theorizes she had a mild case of a split villainous personality, reinforced by a mind reader confirming they're almost the same.
The Leader: Apparently, it's not uncommon for the Mad Scientist to be the leader of super teams. She's definitely the level-headed one of the trio, and her leadership is good enough that Mech assumes the name "the Inscrutable Machine" is a reference to their teamwork rather than their technology.
Lying by Omission: She is able to fool her Living Lie Detector Mother Beatrice "The Audit" Akk by setting up events so that she can make a true statement about a few of her actions (and Confess to a Lesser Crime or use an Infraction Distraction in a pinch), letting her mother assume that she told her the entirety of her actions.
Mad Scientist: Mostly when she's in her Madness Place, but she does admit to enjoying the evil ranting even when she's not using her power. If her father's speculations are to be believed, she may be the most powerful mad scientist since Nikola Tesla and he doesn't even know half of her inventions.
"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: The preview for the fourth book reveals that this is literal truth. Penelope's middle name actually is Justice, which she lampshades. Crosses over into Embarrassing Middle Name, of course.
My God, What Have I Done?: She realizes near the end that nearly everything bad that happened in Moon can be blamed on her. She failed to notice Remmy's jealousy, failed to notice that Juno was Obviously Evil, and just let her power make whatever it wanted without thought of the consequences. If nothing else, she learned not to use biotech any more.
Out of the Inferno: She walks through fire twice when surrounded by Ifrit's wall of fire:
- In Supervillain, Ifrit surrounds her with fire and then turns to debate with one of his allies. As shhe was wearing a jumpsuit specifically designed to withstand high heat and work with fire, she charges out of the fire to hit Ifrit with one of her Mad Science weapons.
- In Believe, Ifrit uses his wall of fire to contain her, but this time her mind was transferred into a fireproof robot, so she's even more immune to fire than the first time.
Prophetic Name: She got nicknamed Bad Penny in her supervillainy career two heists before she started using actual cursed pennies, as well as without the public knowing her real name is Penny.
Refuge in Audacity: She relies on this heavily to prevent people from discovering her identity as Bad Penny. This is especially effective when dealing with her mother, as she analyzes everything based on probabilities. As long as Penelope Akk and Bad Penny being the same person remains a statistical outlier, she can get away with it without the Audit suspecting a thing.
Robot Girl: Penny constructs a robot and copies her consciousness into it in the fourth book. At the end of the book, she's stuck inside the robot body.
Science Hero: Her inventions form the core of the team in every single way. Her Super Cheerleader Serum gave Ray powers and unlocked Claire's, her energy gloves give Ray his energy blasts, and her sticky gloves and frictionless pads give Claire her battlefield control and mobility.
The Spark of Genius: When she tries to put it into words, it all falls apart, but she can still get a handle on what she's doing if she just lets it happen. She also has a lot of difficulty making mundane objects or repeating inventions, which she finds annoying.
Stupidity-Inducing Attack: Her cursed pennies make people reckless and stupid. It works best on magic-users (Marvelous forgets to keep her shield up when under its effect), but on more physical types it basically just acts as a Berserk spell. In Moon, she finds them useful when paired with Archimedes, since the pennies also lower mental defenses and allow his mind control to be more effective.
Teleport Spam: She makes a set of teleportation bracelets, which she uses in battle to dodge around both attacks and enemies, often teleporting to one location then immediately to another as they try to keep her in sight.
The Unmasking: Her identity is frequently discovered:
- In Supervillain, a speedster removes her face-concealing helmet in Chinatown in front of a large number of the villains in the city.
- In Henchmen, a group of her clubmates decide to attack Bad Penny, but she's not wearing anything on her face, so about half of them realize who she really is (the other half either had divination powers or had already seen her unmasked in Supervillain).
- In Nemesis, it happens twice:
  - Remmy calls her out by supervillain name while she's in her civilian identity, but only hospital doctors and nurses hear the altercation and one of the rules is they don't reveal identities.
  - Her main plan is to create a robot version of herself in an overly-complicated scheme to force herself to unmask to her parents, and they know by the beginning of the next book.
Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Her middle name is literally Justice. That's what you get for having two superheroes as parents.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: At the end of Nemesis, a mysterious hero named Marianne releases her from her power's trap, but can't do much more because she doesn't know which is the real Penny. Marianne says that if she is the real Penny, she doesn't need any more help than that.

Reviled

Ray Viles/Reviled

"I would have expected a bar. I suppose that just shows off how new I am to this."

Penny's male friend, known for his eternal grin and completely out of place British accent. After listening to Penny while she made the Super Cheerleader Serum, he drank the rest, and received impressive enhancements to his strength, agility, and endurance.

Abusive Parents: He doesn't really go into detail about his family situation, but it's implied to be so bad that it would probably be best if we and Penny didn't hear about it. Now that he has superpowers, his parents can't really do much to him, but he still can't bear being around them to the point that he spends as little time at home as possible and is seriously considering the possibility of becoming emancipated.
The Ace: The Serum made him strong and fast, and he owned those enhancements. He can even take on a master swordsman like Witch Hunter without too much difficulty. He's apparently self-taught, too, and manages to impress Master Scorpion enough to get an offer for training.
Adventurer Archaeologist: In the third book, Ray encounters one, and winds up as her apprentice by the end of the fourth book.
All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Subverted. Penny assumes he has a thing for Claire, but he actually likes her. They finally kiss towards the end of the book.
Badass in a Nice Suit: After he gets his powers, he decides to treat himself to some new clothes, dressing in sleek blacks in both super and civilian identities.
Chivalrous Pervert: He always had a perverted side, but it wasn't until he got the serum and a massive confidence boost that he started being vocal about it—but he still didn't actually do anything. Most evident in Moon, when Penny makes him promise to keep a lid on everything, since they'll be stuck in a space the size of a large closet for at least a week. She's a little disappointed he agrees.
Coat, Hat, Mask: all in black, that is his switch from civilian to supervillain outfit. At least the mask covers most of his face rather than the usual tiny eyeshadow.
Co-Dragons: Along with Claire, he's a sidekick/henchman to the Villain Protagonist, Penny.
Combat Pragmatist: He's not shy about ripping up fence poles and smacking monsters with them when his friends are in danger. After the fight with Witch Hunter (which he won), he notes that challenging a master swordsman to a sword duel was a bad idea, and next time he'll just throw a car at him.
Fighter, Mage, Thief: In The Inscrutable Machine, he is the warrior to Penny's Mage and Claire's Thief, being a Lightning Bruiser (speed, strength, stamina, and possibly enhanced awareness) and the most ready-to-fight of the three.
Genius Bruiser: He aces every school test in his life and even Penny admired his intelligence before she got hers super-charged.
Hyper-Awareness: Whenever there's an attack aimed at one of his teammates you can generally bet that he's already moving to block or get them out of the way.
Improvised Weapon: When pressed, he's adept at using the environment as an armory, such as ripping up an iron post to hit a monster, or ripping a door out of its frame to bludgeon someone who's highly resistant to anything but blunt force.
I Should Have Been Better: After the near-disastrous encounter with the thugs sent by the Council of Seven and a Half in Chinatown, he's clearly furious at himself for not being able to fight them off. An older and wiser villain talks him down.
Lightning Bruiser: After getting super-serumed he is able to lift cars as well as able to keep up with vehicles while on foot.
Morality Chain: He knows that he would slide into worse and worse villainy on his own, so he assigns Penny to keep him in check.
Put on a Bus: In Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Giant Monster, he has left school without explanation, and Penny says he may never come back.
Stepford Smiler: There is something deeply wrong with his home life, but he keeps a smile on at all times.
Steven Ulysses Perhero: Penny had to come up with an alias for him on the cuff, so she ended up turning Ray Viles into Reviled.
Toxic Friend Influence: Downplayed. He helps push Penny to supervillainy, outright declaring himself "a devil on [her] shoulder", but is still an honest friend (in turn treating Penny as his shoulder angel).

E-Claire

Claire Lutra/E-Claire

"You're not Brian Akk, and you don't have to be. You're Penelope Akk."

Penny's female friend, daughter of the supervillain/hero the Minx. She was well set to inherit her mother's powers, but unintentionally accelerated the process when she begged Penny for a serum to enhance her physical abilities.

Classy Cat-Burglar: Claire wants to follow in the footsteps of her famous mother, who was this.
Co-Dragons: Along with Ray, she's a sidekick/henchwoman to Villain Protagonist Penny.
Cuteness Proximity: Her power lets her fog the minds of almost everyone around her with cuteness to make them less willing to fight. It's helpful, but not as much as you'd think.
Fangirl: She loves supers, and follows most of their activities online. This is pretty useful, since she can identify most of the people they fight on sight.
Fighter, Mage, Thief: She's the Thief to Penny's Mage and Ray's Fighter, being trained in burglary and stealth while also able to handle talking with the criminal underworld more readily than the rest of the team.
Generation Xerox: Penny says she couldn't look more like her mother if she was a clone.
The Glomp: She has a tendency to give hugs when excited or happy. Apparently, it's genetic.
Heroic Bastard: Her mom has no idea who her father is. Neither of them care.
The Minion Master: Penny makes her zombie ragdolls that can consume fabric and cloth to make more of themselves. They obey Claire, and only function within the radius of her power, so there's little danger of a Turned Against Their Masters situation.
Power Incontinence: It's very difficult for her to keep a lid on her power. Apparently, Lucyfar stopped over the night she got her powers, and spent ten minutes just watching her sleep before Claire's mom took pity on her and dragged her away.
Super-Cute Superpowers: Her "Super Cuteness" powers primary function is to fog people's minds with cuteness. She's not altogether happy about this, since she really wanted her mother's power (fogging men's minds with lust), but it's actually surprisingly powerful.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: She has some ability to alter her facial features, though the full extent is unknown. Enough that she doesn't have to worry about being recognized, though.
My stupid mouth acted on automatic. "She almost looks like Claire."
Dad just chuckled. "She does, doesn't she? I think it was a half-hearted attempt to frame Claire. The name is deliberate, and the costume is a reference to her power. I say 'half-hearted', because if E-Claire were really trying she would hide her face. The first words out of your mother's mouth were 'Her cheekbones are wrong', and her body language was wrong in the first video. She can't even claim to be Claire in makeup."
Claire Lutra, you little vixen. You knew all along your secret identity was completely safe. Your Mom must have known as well. And if E-Claire couldn't possibly be Claire, then her teammates couldn't be me and Ray. You devious shape-changing vixen, Claire. You'd covered us all.

Parents

Brainy Akk

Brian Akk/Brainy Akk

"Pumpkin, I've done the analyses. She's inherited a tone of voice and sensitivity to electrical currents that allow her to initiate some very complex energy chain reactions with precisely formulated sound wave patterns."

Penny's father, and one of the most well-known super geniuses in the world. Also one of the few capable of understanding his own inventions.

Mad Scientist: Subverted. While mundane scientists can't understand anything except his most basic work, he can, which puts him a step above most mad scientists. With effort, he can even write blueprints that normal science and engineering can replicate.
Magic Versus Science: He refuses to believe in magic, and repeatedly finds ways to explain it semi-coherently using science. Apparently, this is not an uncommon mindset amongst scientists.
Noodle Incident: At the end of Henchmen, some of the other super parents mention a "rampaging groomer" of his.
Super Mom: At least it left its victims clean and fresh.
Brian: [muttering] I can't be responsible for user error.
Punny Name: His Nom de Guerre, Brainy Akk. Brainiac.
Swear Jar: There are two jars in his house. One that he puts a dollar into every time he calls his daughter "Pumpkin," and another he puts five in every time he calls her "Princess." They do little to discourage him. They do, however, allow Penny to afford entertainment.

The Audit

Beatrice Benevolent Akk/The Audit

"The person who cares enough to work for what they want, who both thinks and acts and doesn't hesitate? She's the one who wins."

Penny's mother, a retired superheroine who claims to have no powers at all.

Awesomeness by Analysis: She can dodge bullets by being where they're not, and when she sees a car chase calls the police to tell them where to set up the road block.
Charles Atlas Superpower: She insists she has no powers, and that what she does is the same as Sherlock Holmes or a chess grandmaster. Most mundanes don't believe it, but it seems supers largely agree with her.
Combat Pragmatist: Penny makes constant references to criminals surrendering rather than fighting her. Bull mentions that she fought him by stuffing sand in his eyes, nose, and ears, tricking him into punching a telephone pole and electrocuting himself, and then hit him with a bus.
The Dreaded: In Supervillain, Penny's thoughts mention that when supervillains heard The Audit was coming, they'd often give up on the spot.
Living Lie Detector: Only to be expected. Penny gets around it with half-truths and pretending to hide less embarrassing things.
Logical Weakness: Her Awesomeness by Analysis abilities fail to detect that her daughter is Bad Penny largely because Penny's power is so crazily strong as to defy all logic or probability. The several false explanations (robot, tech thief, etc) she comes up with are all more likely than the truth, but the truth happens, for once, to be just about the least likely explanation.
Mama Bear: Although she's The Dreaded herself, if her daughter is in danger, she will not hesitate to take poor odds and fight another Dreaded.
Parental Obliviousness: Badass Normal genius that puts actual superhuman geniuses to shame, but doesn't realize her daughter is a supervillain. While she does connect the Inscrutable Machine to Penny and her friends, she writes off the similarities as the Inscrutable Machine intentionally styling themselves as Evil Counterparts.

The Minx

Misty Lutra/The Minx

"This is the proudest moment of your life so far, Penny. Throw caution to the wind and enjoy it."

Claire's mother, a former supervillain who switched sides before she retired. She has very powerful lust powers and a cheerful demeanor that can be tiring at times.

Bavarian Fire Drill: Claire mentions that a lot of her thefts relied on the fact that rich guys tend to assume that a stunning blonde in a bikini has a good reason to hang around.
Charm Person: Her power inspires lust and devotion in men.
Classy Cat-Burglar: She was a thief, and a very good one. It's not clear if agility was part of her powerset, but Penny does note that she's never seen her drop anything.
Consummate Liar: She's one of the few people who can tell a bald-faced lie to the Audit and get away with it.
Penny: Always sounding like you were lying was almost as good a poker face as always sounding sincere.
Really Gets Around: Or she used to, anyway. Considering she's a beautiful woman with a seduction ability and a complete lack of shame, this should only be expected. Neither she nor Claire seem to care that they have no idea who Claire's father is.
Secret-Keeper: She knows that the kids have already come into their powers, and is more than happy to keep it a secret.
Stacy's Mom: Not for Penny, but for other characters like Ray. She knows it, too: the phone she gave Robot Penny had the trope namer as the ringtone for her number.
Truly Single Parent: She and Claire look so much alike that Penny is not willing to rule out the possibility.

Heroes

Mech

"I hear there's a new mad scientist in LA. Welcome to the brotherhood, sister."

An armored superhero who works very closely with Penny's father, he personally congratulates Penny on her powers flashing for the first time.

Ambiguously Brown: He normally wears a helmet and some sort of flight mask underneath, but Penny notes his dark skin tone when he takes them off. She guesses he's Indian, but isn't able to ask.
Expy: A pretty clear Iron Man one.
Hermetic Magic: Though he's a pretty pure Science Hero, he's not above using his lasers to carve a binding circle when he's fighting an Eldritch Abomination.
The Spark of Genius: The extent of his abilities is unclear, but he mentions that his armor is his first and greatest invention, which he's never been able to truly replicate.

Miss A

Marcia Bradley/Miss A/Ouroboros

"I knew there were supervillains' kids mixed in at this school. All I had to do was make the bait too good to resist."

The snotty and condescending head cheerleader, who is also Miss A, sidekick of the Original. She uses a sparkly cheerleader theme in her costume.

She changes significantly in the third book, going back to her natural hair color and obtaining actual superpowers.

Abusive Parents: We don't get a look at her home life, so it's unclear if her father is actively abusive or just a demanding stage dad, but either way she eventually snaps and throws him through a wall. The only reason he survived was because there was an emergency room on the other side. In Please Don't Tell My Parents I Work for a Supervillain, Marcia offhandedly comments that another superhero threatened to "tell CPS how my dad treated me," to make her father drop a lawsuit against Mourning Dove.
Alpha Bitch: Both in and out of costume. At school, she's the leader of the cheer squad, and spends her time bitching at everyone else. In costume, she's snide and overconfident, and seems to think that being a hero means she's justified in doing anything to take down villains.
Ambiguously Related: Marcia and her father, The Original, share a surname with Palooka Joe, another wealthy superhero from I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence!, but no exact relationship is confirmed. The ambiguity is downplayed but not completely cleared up in Please Don't Tell My Parents You Believe Her, where she refers to her grandfather being a superhero and to Jake Bradley aka Palooka Joe.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In the third book, she decides she wants to be a supervillain because they get to punch cars whenever they want, make them explode and then walk through the flames and glare at people.
Penny: Criminy. Marcia actually had more issues.
Badass Normal: Implied. The Original is explicitly a normal, and as his sidekick it seems he's training her in dangerous martial arts.
Battle Couple: In Please Don't Tell My Parents I Work for a Supervillain, Marcia develops a romantic interest in Aikamieli, a teenaged wizard who becomes part of her new group of heroes. For his part, Aikamieli would rather skip the "battle" part, though.
The Berserker: Penny notes deliberately impaling herself to deprive her opponent of his weapon as a quintessentially Marcia move. This is partially her personality and partially about balancing her unstable powers, as in some fights when placed in a position where she can't go on the offensive she outright loses consciousness.
Blood Knight: Hints of it in the first two books, but it comes out in full force when she gains healing powers in the third. She fights Mourning Dove simply because she thought it would be fun to fight a vampire.
Combat Sadomasochist: She likes getting hurt just a tad too much.
Elemental Punch: Gains a Casting a Shadow version of these from the Pure Fist scrolls.
Empowered Badass Normal: In the third book she manages to obtain super powers by stealing two magical martial arts scrolls and absorbs the powers of both. Which everyone in the field knows is insane, impossible, and fatal. Marcia just keeps not being dead, though.
The Friend Nobody Likes:
- What little time she spends interacting with other heroes makes it clear that they don't like her any better than the villains do.
- In the third book, after going crazy, she loses all her popular friends but forces herself into the new super club. People tolerate her because she really is nicer than she used to be, but she's also really creepy.
Girl Posse: Has at least two sidekicks who follow her around. After she gets powers Sue sticks by her, despite being a little creeped out by the changes in her, while the other girl and the rest of their popular friends drop her like a hot potato (something which makes Sue more determined to be there for Marcia).
Immortality: There's lots of immortality symbolism surrounding her new powers, from the light and the dark powers, her mentioning two snakes eating each other in her heart, and her new chosen name of "Ouroboros," but we don't actually know the extent of her abilities.
No-Sell: Mourning Dove's life-draining ultimate attack simply adds a third serpent to the two already eating each other inside her heart.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: She borrows a piece of alien technology from someone (probably the Original) both as bait for supervillain kids and to show up everyone else in the science fair.
Super-Strength: One of the things she gained from the Pure Fist scrolls.
Trophy Child: She is made into a sidekick for her father's "hero" identity in Supervillain, and is raised for the purpose of appearing perfect for her family. In later books, she says she was told that the best she can do is "good enough" and refers to how she was raised as trying to turn her into a (philosophical) zombie.
Turn the Other Cheek: Marcia helps Witch Hunter escape from Spider when she's about to brutally execute him, even though the reason she's trying to kill him is that he just attacked Marcia inside of the Truce Zone.
Yin-Yang Bomb: In the third book, she steals two extremely powerful magical martial arts scrolls, one white and one black. Either one would kill her if she touched it, but she somehow manages to use both of them. It seems like she lets the powers fight each other instead of killing her and just siphons off the excess energy for her powers and healing, but how this works is not examined in depth.

Ifrit

"If we don't win, it doesn't matter who we decide is right."

A middle-school boy with fire powers. He gets dragged into the fight with Sharky by Miss A in order to capture the Inscrutable Machine, but his heart clearly isn't in it.

Butt-Monkey: Appearing in Supervillain, Nemesis, and Believe'', he can never win a fight:
- In Supervillain, he first loses a 2v2 with Miss A against Bad Penny and Reviled. Then he loses again in a single-shot battle with Bad Penny.
- In Nemesis, he helps train Penelope (who he doesn't know is also Bad Penny) in dodging, and is summarily defeated when she reaches him from across the training grounds and traps him with one of her clockwork restraining devices.
- In Believe, Ouroboros (formerly Miss A) tricks him into fighting Bad Penny who's now a robot, who slams his head into the ground and tells him to go back to being a sidekick.
By-the-Book Cop: Despite how much he obviously dislikes Miss A, he decides to capture the Inscrutable Machine and let the authorities figure things out later.
Kid Sidekick: He's implied to be one to Marvelous. They show up at the warehouse together, and she chides him for his mistakes in a very master/apprentice sort of way. Miss A thinks he's Marvelous' little brother, but he says she's wrong.
Playing with Fire: In addition to basic fireballs, he can make a fire shield and a fire cage to trap people.

Gabriel

"I don't like grudge matches, and I won't let myself be dragged into one."

A six-winged angelic hero who is initially called in by Miss A to fight the Inscrutable Machine. Once he realizes it's just a grudge match, he refuses to fight, and carries his defeated allies out.

He has a blog which is quite popular, but doesn't talk about his past. Lucyfar insists he is the Archangel Gabriel, her divine brother, which he denies. They clearly have some connection, though; he's been able to talk her down from crimes a few times, and they may or may not be dating.

Archangel Gabriel: He's an angelic hero with six wings and named "Gabriel." He's notably tight-lipped on his past and origins, but the villain Lucyfar (who claims to be the Archangel Lucifer) insists that he is the Archangel Gabriel himself, and her divine brother. She also insists that they're dating (that part Gabriel denies).
Brother–Sister Incest: If Lucyfar is telling the truth about their divine origins and if they're actually dating, it would mean that he is dating his sister.
Dating Catwoman: Again, according to Lucyfar. At the very least, he's not antagonistic with her.
Rushing over to open it, Lucyfar squealed, "No time to talk about it. My date is here!" Seriously, she squealed. Who were the thirteen-year-olds here?
We filed out onto the rooftop after her as a mass of white wings fluttered down out of the sky. They tucked behind Gabriel's back as he landed, only slightly out of the way.
"So, you two are dating?" Claire asked pointedly, giving them both a hopefully questioning grin.
Her powers didn’t do her much good this time. "Yes!" Lucyfar declared immediately, throwing herself onto Gabriel and wrapping her arms around him.
"No," he contradicted, standing stiff and disapproving.
"Yes!" Lucyfar repeated, nodding like a bobble-head.
"No," Gabriel insisted, just like last time.
Mysterious Past: In his blog, he talks about what it's like to be a superhero, but never so much as hints at his origin or how he knows Lucyfar. She claims he's the Archangel Gabriel, her divine brother, but he says she's just making it up.
Nigh-Invulnerable: His wings, apparently. He uses them as a shield when punched by a giant robot, and they're completely unharmed. He is knocked back, though.
Reasonable Authority Figure: He's still on the young side, but older than the main characters, and quickly realizes that fighting them would be counterproductive for everyone. After their first encounter, he claims next time they'll meet as enemies, but when they run into him again he leaves them alone (it helped that he may or may not have been there on a date with Lucyfar).
Winged Humanoid: Six, like a seraphim. It's unknown whether or not he can stow them like Lucyfar does.

Marvelous

"At your age I could cast one spell even close to reliably, and it drove me crazy that it took four more years of study to have enough powers to join the community."

A young sorceress friend of the Akk family, Marvelous is a genial woman with a powerful repertoire of spells. At the beginning of the novel, she was cursed by an unknown source and needed dragon's blood to lift it.

Curse: Before the book started, she lost her powers somehow and used dragon's blood to restore them. Later she was seeking more dragon blood to keep her powers. It's unclear whether this indicates a permanent dependency, or just a higher dose.
Flight: She can levitate things, including herself.
Forced Sleep: She has a spell to put people to sleep, and it's implied she has others of a similar effect.
Stripperiffic: Her costume doesn't leave much to the imagination, and it used to be even skimpier. Marvelous notes that most supervillains were actually quite gentlemanly about it, giving her nothing worse than some good-natured teasing that helped ease the tension in the worst fights. She changed costumes because civilian bystanders were pigs.
Stuff Blowing Up: The aptly named "Boom" spell causes explosions wherever she points.
Words Can Break My Bones: She casts her spells with incantations.

Generic Girl

Claudia Catherine Cuddihy/Generic Girl

"That's it?"

A quiet girl in Penny's class who turns out to be an extremely powerful hero. No one's ever heard of her because she doesn't grandstand. She just stops the crime and leaves. She has flight, invulnerability, super strength, and super speed.

Brick Joke: In Henchmen, she mentions that she and her dad are planning to go out on a boat where she'll dive into the water and pull up sharks so that they can look at them. In Work, she mentions a pet shark, so apparently that went well.
Death Glare: She has one that's good enough that Penny occasionally worries she secretly has Eye Beams she's been holding in reserve.
Deus Exit Machina: She's the strongest kid super, and quite possibly the strongest super in the city (until her father showed up) so a lot of effort is put into keeping her out of the way. Sometimes she's busy stopping other crimes, while sometimes the Inscrutable Machine is just stealthy enough to avoid her notice. In the climax of Henchmen, she actually offers to solve the problem in five seconds, but Penny insists it's more important she spend time with her father.
Flying Brick: Strong enough to punch through the Machine's armor plating, fast enough to reach the site of any crime in minutes, and tough enough to handle Ray and anything else people can throw at her. She's only shown weakness against magic and possession, as she doesn't seem to have psychic defenses.
Half-Human Hybrid: It's hard to say where she sits on the humanity scale. Her mother is an immortal who claims not to be human, while her father is so physically altered by his power that he's arguably not human any more. She certainly looks perfectly human, though.
Mugging the Monster: An odd variation in that despite being one of the most powerful and ruthless superhumans in L.A., she puts up with being bullied at school without so much as a peep.
Not a Game: Most of the super community, heroes and villains alike, treat the whole thing as a game, with lots of grandstanding and speeches and posing for the cameras. Not her. She just stops crime.
Claudia: You're mining a trash heap. Not for uranium, just for junk. Stop pretending to be a supervillain, Penelope. This isn’t a game.
Penny: Then why are you playing, Claudia?
Paper-Thin Disguise: Downplayed. It isn't too bad, but people who know her (like Penny) are able to see through it fairly quickly.

The Librarian

"She only knows the forbidden words. I know all the words."

The hero who attends the Los Angeles Main Branch Public Library. She appears as an old, matronly woman, and has the power to bring the stories in books to life.

The Dreaded: Even a team of hardened supervillains are hesitant about attacking her.
Home Field Advantage: One villain warns that facing her inside the library is a really bad idea.
Kill It with Fire: She Who Wots says her weakness is fire, but the Librarian manages to shrug off the attack pretty easily.
Reality Warper: The Inscrutable Machine notes that the fan sites seriously underestimated her. She is able to give life to every single book in the library at once, resulting in kids and talking animals defending the Children's Section, a giant helping others travel over the walls, and a T-Rex stalking the main hall. It appears she doesn't have the ability to choose what is animated, though; the History section comes to life despite the questionable utility of that, and the Horror section actively endangers innocent bystanders.
Really 700 Years Old: She Who Wots implies she is the librarian who was in charge of the Library of Alexandria, and she still regrets not being able to save it.
Throw the Book at Them: Lucyfar is immune to magic, so she's not afraid of the Librarian. She still doesn't want to get whacked in the head with a fifty-pound book, though.
Words Can Break My Bones: How it works is unclear, but she is somehow able to use words to attack opponents. As in they fly off the pages of a book and hit them.

Evolution

Penny: Evolution had been the best, and everyone had thought he was invulnerable until the day they found out he wasn't.

A hero who died before the start of the series. Little is known about him, other than he could gain powers from people he fought.

Adaptive Ability: He had some ability to absorb powers from people he fought. Apparently all the villains were angry when Bull fought him, since he was suddenly too strong for anyone to deal with.
Big Good: He gets namedropped in a very "Superman is dead" sort of way.
Killed Off for Real: One of the most notable examples in the setting.
Mass Super-Empowering Event: He spent his first week as a tree trying to get a handle on his powers, and the vast amounts of pollen he released during that time are theorized to be the cause of the rise in superhumans.
Posthumous Character: Obviously.
Unseen No More: After years of only being mentioned, Evolution appears in the climax of the prequel short story "Summer of Lob."
Voluntary Shape Shifting: He could turn into a tree, at least.

Mourning Dove

Bluejay/Mourning Dove

"It will turn against you one day. I can kill it for you now, while it's still safe."

A reanimated zombie construct who is theoretically a hero, known mostly for the fact that she doesn't try very hard to bring people in alive.

Break the Cutie: She was a lot more innocent and well-intentioned as Bluejay and did not take her transformation well.
Creepy Good: She's a zombie vampire thing who drains life from her victims. She's also unquestionably on the side of good, and is the only hero to notice that the Inscrutable Machine are actually pretty heroic if you ignore the maniacal laughter. Even her offer to kill Penny's power comes off as an awkward attempt to be nice.
The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: Villains who cross the line tend to "accidentally" get killed by her.
The Dreaded: In Supervillain, Penny regards her as a reason not to get anywhere near the darker sides of either the supervillain or the superhero communities. When she shows up in Moon, Penny doesn't bother with any quips, jokes, or attacks. She just runs for her life.
Hidden Depths: Noticing that the Inscrutable Machine aren't really villainous when heroes considered smarter and more heroic than her didn't.
No-Sell:
- Archimedes' mind control doesn't work very well on her, and she gets better at resisting it every time Penny tries.
- Claire's power does work on her, but she just grits her teeth and powers through it.
Our Vampires Are Different: Penny describes her as a vampire several times in Moon. We do see her drain the life out of a flawed supervillain clone, and Ray mentions her needing to feed.
Our Zombies Are Different: She seems to be a Frankenstein, though the process gave her dangerous powers in addition to life.
Sanity Slippage: It is heavily implied she would undergo this if she were to stop draining people of their life, similar to Psychopomp.
Teleporters and Transporters: She has some form of teleportation ability, seen when she follows Penny's teleport, but we don't get too much detail.
That Man Is Dead: In I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence, Irene tries to refer to her as Bluejay a few times after she is zombified. She doesn't like it. As far as she's concerned, she is no longer Bluejay after what the Bad Doctor did to her.
Tragic Monster: She knows she's a monster. Filled with hunger that can never be satisfied, and she remembers when she could be something else.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: She was once a teenage girl named Bluejay with healing powers that even impressed immortals like Goodnight and Psychopomp. Then the Bad Doctor got a hold of her, killed her, and revived her as a Frankensteinian monster. Her powers inverted, draining life instead of giving it.

The Kludge

Remington Fawkes/Remmy/The Kludge

"IF IT TAKES A HERO TO STOP A VILLAIN, FINE. I WILL BE THAT HERO! I DON'T CARE WHAT HAPPENS TOMORROW, BUT TODAY NO ONE DIES. NO ONE!"

An eleven year-old girl from the Jovian moons, she's a mad scientist traveling with her brother and his girlfriend.

Green-Eyed Monster: She's one of the best mad scientists in the Jovian moons, and doesn't appreciate the fact that Penny's better. The fact that her brother and Juno spend most of their time singing Penny's praises doesn't help.
Madness Place: She doesn't seem to have one, which is why she freaks out when Penny goes all cackling mad during an inventing fit.
Mad Scientist: Rather than just building things from scratch, her power lets her kludge together useful tools from other mad science inventions. Since she lives in a place where mad science is always within arm's reach, this makes her ability extraordinarily useful.
Might Makes Right: By the end of Moon, she's given up arguing with people.
The roof above me muffled everyone’s voice but Remmy's again. "I'M NOT REMINGTON TO YOU ANYMORE. HEROES HAVE TITLES. THE KLUDGE WILL STOP BAD PENNY'S PLANS, AND THE FIRST STEP IS NOT LETTING YOU KILL EACH OTHER."
Thompson said something very brief.
"BECAUSE I'LL HIT YOU."
Wrong Genre Savvy: Like so many of the heroes from Earth, she comes to think the Inscrutable Machine are a dangerous force and chases them all the way back to Earth to fight them, although she is dissuaded of this notion faster than most of the Earth heroes, and reconciles with them in short order.

Goodnight

Irene/Goodnight

"You came back just when Cat needs you most. These last ten years will become a funny story we tell our grandchildren, I promise."

Bull's wife, an immortal who mostly does charity work now.

10-Minute Retirement: In Spider, she and Psychopomp commiserate over the fact that immortals like them retire every once in a while, but it never sticks.
Ascended Extra: In Spider, after having only had minor appearances before that.
Bizarre Alien Psychology: Minor example. She completely lacks any phobia of bugs, so she is confused when humans react so violently to seeing Spider.
Catchphrase: "Goodnight!" whenever she drops something heavy on someone's head.
Dating Catwoman: Bull was her Catwoman, since she was a hero when he was at the top of his game as a villain.
Ethical Slut: She's pretty shameless about enjoying sex. In Henchmen she greets Bull with a very passionate kiss, and in Spider she says that hero work is the most fun she has vertical.
Gadgeteer Genius: When using the technology of her people, which sits at an unclear point between science and magic. She doesn't have any powers herself besides minor shapeshifting and immortality, but she was good at re-purposing the technology her family left her into something useful for crime fighting.
Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: She's four feet tall, while Bull is at least eight. Do the math—or don't. Penny certainly didn't.
Iconic Sequel Character: Goodnight cameos in the third book before narrating the next novel, the Darker and Edgier, Growing the Beard prequel I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence!.
Immortality: Exactly what type is unclear, but she implies she's not human, and casually mentions "old family knicknacks" in ancient Yucatan ruins.
Mind over Matter: Before Penny got it, the Push Rod was hers. She mostly used it to drop heavy things on people, but it could move anything non-living.
Raised by Robots: In Spider, she reveals that she was raised by computers in some "high-tech ziggurats" in the jungle.
Retired Badass: She was Bull's rival while they were both active, but mostly just does volunteer and charity work now.
Signature Move: She got her name from her tendency to use her Push Rod to drop heavy things on people, knocking them out.
Vague Age: She's immortal or close to it, but her parents thought calendars were a "dumb mortal obsession," so she often has difficulty keeping track of human years. She estimates she was born somewhere around 1750, but there's no real way to be sure.

Psychopomp

"The twentieth century holds few employment prospects for an eternal ten year old enslaved to feed Death's scythe."

A girl eternally trapped at ten years old and cursed to feed Death's scythe. A friend of Goodnight's.

Absurdly Sharp Blade: Her scythe can cut through anything alive. Against dead things, its power is blunted, so while it remains sharp it's nowhere near as dangerous.
The Ageless: Her bond with the scythe keeps her at ten years old. She was three-hundred and twenty-four years in 1980. She's the oldest confirmed superhuman besides some jackass who claims to be from ancient Babylon.
Big Eater: Whether it's because of her age or the bond, she eats a lot.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Every single fight she is in. You don't survive for over three hundred years without getting very good at fighting.
Goodnight: I've never seen her fight. None of them have lasted long enough to deserve the name.
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Goodnight points out that she could make a lot of money just talking to historians about her experiences. Psychopomp admits she never thought of it.
Girl with Psycho Weapon: She wields Death's own scythe. She insists that she's enslaved to it, and implies something bad would happen if she stopped killing with it.
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: She eventually admits that she's not sure whether the scythe is actually Death's or just some random artifact.
No-Sell: She is the first person Mourning Dove attempts to drain, but it has no effect.
One-Man Army: Penny plays a game called Little Reaper Girl based on Psychopomp's early life, and involves killing hundreds of people. Penny doesn't think much of it until she looks up the historical event and discovers that it actually happened. We don't get too much detail, but apparently Psychopomp was trapped in some sort of dome with a bunch of people who wanted to kill her, and she killed them all first.
Sanity Slippage: Should she stop killing people with Death's scythe for an extended period of time, she will eventually be overcome by the urge to do so and go after the nearest living soul. This becomes an issue at the end of Spider, when she comes extremely close to losing control and killing Goodnight.
Shrouded in Myth: Even in the super community, she is considered a legend. Several people are shocked to discover that she actually exists.
Weak, but Skilled: The scythe doesn't actually give her very many abilities. Sure, it's perfectly lethal against anyone alive, but it doesn't give her direct combat abilities. Thanks to over three hundred years of experience, she is still able to go toe to toe with superhumans (including ones immune to the scythe's abilities) without trouble.
Wound That Will Not Heal: Inverted. Her scythe can give wounds that will heal normally, but the victim cannot die until they finish healing. They actually heal better than normal wounds; even amputations heal quickly, since there is no nerve death and they reconnect easily. Some people have attempted to use this to achieve immortality, but they either underestimated how quickly the wound heals or eventually allowed themselves to die.

Mish-Mosh

Robin/Mish-Mosh/Starshine

"I'm... new. To everything."

A cyborg fox creature who Goodnight saves from some thugs.

Babies Ever After: The Happily Ever After is only Implied, but she first appears as a young adult in I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence!. Then in Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Giant Monster, she shows up as the mother of Entropy and Mirabelle.
Cannibalism Superpower: She doesn't need to eat, but she gains an insatiable hunger when confronted with cyborg components (including the fleshy bits). She then incorporates the components into her own body.
Home Nudist: As of Monster, she spends about half her time naked at home. Mirabelle notes that her unique physiology (appears to be a hole in the shape of a person and filled with stars) actually makes this very modest.
The Needless: She doesn't appear to need food.
Super-Strength: She's strong enough to throw a fully loaded dumpster twenty feet in the air. Goodnight notes that this is the limit of her strength, but still impressive.

Judgment

Neon Rider: That jive sucker doesn't care who's evil. He just puts a bullet into anybody the fuzz can't catch. He's worse than anybody he puts down, you know.

A frequently mentioned vigilante with a bad reputation.

Cold Sniper: Both Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Giant Monster and the short story "Summer of Lob" say he is notorious for shooting people from a distance with a rifle.
The Ghost: Judgment is mentioned multiple times in several books but never physically appears.
Hated by All: Judgment is feared and hated throughout both the superhero and supervillain communities. When Spider first proposes siccing Mourning Dove on bad apples in the hero and villain communities, Judgment is quickly singled out for the dubious honor of being Mourning Dove's first official victim (although apparently she fails, as he's still alive decades later).
He Who Fights Monsters: Judgment is a vigilante who has put down some genuinely nasty and dangerous villains (such as Deadly Flame, who killed over a hundred people in a single day), but he also kills people who aren't nasty and dangerous villains.
Interspecies Friendship: Judgment's only friend and ally, the even more reviled Winnow, is described in vaguely nonhuman terms.
Superhero Packing Heat: Judgment is described as being on the "murderous psychopaths super-powered list" but generally uses a rifle in combat.

The Way

Kay Slade/The Way

"I'm sorry for not trusting you. I trust you as a person, Magenta. I'm just worried. Supervillains and superheroes get hurt. It's not just part of the job, it's the point."

The older brother of Magenta Slade.

Aloof Big Brother: Kay keeps his distance due to fear of misusing his power.
Be Careful What You Wish For: Kay's power lets him find the easiest answer to any question. Unfortunately, "easiest" is not the same as "best." He mentions that sometimes the easiest way to jam a doomsday device is to shove his own arm into the gears, and later Cleric points out that the easiest way to free someone from mind control is to kill them, or rip out the mind control implants (which will likely kill them).
Born Lucky: His power, to know the easiest way to achieve his goals.
Brought Down to Normal: Cleric ends up taking away his powers, although The Way admits that they were always a burden to him despite all of the good that came with them.
Cool Big Bro: He cares about Magenta's safety but is also willing to be her Secret-Keeper and give Cleric a chance.
Ideal Hero: He is a brave and kind-hearted superhero whose main focus is protecting the innocent.
With Great Power: Kay's power could get him literally anything he wanted. He uses it only for hero work, and absolutely refuses to use it for anything selfish. There was apparently an incident in his past that scared him out of using it selfishly, but even Magenta doesn't know the details.

Neon Rider

Neon Rider: Besides, fighting for justice rocks, but the scene goes to Hell when dudes get…
Spider: Personal?
Neon Rider: Totally

An admired, easygoing face of the L.A. superhero community in the seventies and eighties. His powers are tech-based.

Ambiguous Situation: He has yet to appear outside of the prequel, and in Please Don't Tell My Parents You Believe Her, a Gadgeteer Genius mentions that robot Penny's arm is made up of tech a lot like what Neon Rider "used" (in the past tense). However, it is unclear if this means he's dead, retired, moved to another city, or just upgraded his tech.
Badass Biker: He has a motocross rider costume (although it's unclear if he actually rides motorcycles, as he’s only specifically mentioned as driving a car and a ship described as "blazing gem in the sky"), fancy weapons, and the fighting skills to defeat a large number of villains on his own.
The Cape: He is a Humble Hero who never attacks villains in their personal lives, is hesitant to feed even the most bloodthirsty heroes and villains to Mourning Dove at first, and is one of the few seventies heroes to express open concern for the civilian victims of supervillains.
Character Tics: Goodnight jokes that the way he rubs his chin is patented.
Genius Bruiser: His weapons are hi-tech inventions of possible alien origin, and he is also very muscular.
Humble Hero: When reporters flock to him after a battle, he points out that Palooka Joe, Cyber Angel, and Goodnight did more than he did. He is also cautious about making deals on behalf of the hero community because, while he enjoys respect and popularity, "nobody elected me president."
Lantern Jaw of Justice: He is a friendly superhero with a "chiseled" face.
Sensual Spandex: He is a muscular man in a spandex costume, and female heroes and villains seem to enjoy his occasional flirting.
Superhero Packing Heat: He fights crime, carries a high-tech pistol, and is implied to have the ability to give engines superhuman abilities.
Totally Radical: He speaks in heavy slang in a Period Piece set over thirty years before it was written.
[Y]our home is the funk. I don't dig your profession, but that rad pad almost makes it cool.

Cyber Angel

What kind of a hero are you?

A flashy and aggressive member of the superhero community in I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence!. She is also mentioned once or twice in books set after that story.

Absurd Cutting Power: She carries a sword that can slice through fast-drying cement (to the misfortune of some supervillains who think they have just trapped her in such cement).
Body Paint: She has no costume besides gloves and Combat Stilettos, just neon blue acrylic body paint.
Heroic Lineage: She is the daughter of another superhero, Queen of Swords.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She is Hot-Blooded in a fight and insults Goodnight a few times, but she stops fighting Mourning Dove after Goodnight points out that they are both heroes and sides against a group of Knight Templar heroes when they try to kill Mourning Dove to stop Spider from implementing the rules that will keep Los Angeles from staying a Crapsack World.
Science Wizard: Her sword is implied to be magical, but she flies around on a Hover Board.

Palooka Joe

Jake Bradley/Palooka Joe

That's right. Palooka Joe here, showing of the patented Palooka Picket Pulse Pistols. These little babies are not for sale, but thanks to the Bradley Corporation, you can buy my Palooka Carryable Climbing Kit right over the phone.

A construction-themed Corporate Sponsored Super Hero (actually a shill for his own company) who is a major character in I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence!.

Anti-Hero: He has many heroic deeds in his past and is happy for a chance to implement rules that make things safer for all heroes, but he also has Fantastic Racism against robots, cyborgs, and mutants, can be an enormous jerk and Ungrateful Bastard to Goodnight, and is ruthless in fighting his rival Bismuth.
Batman Grabs a Gun: Joe has a reputation as a The Cape in the middle of a Crapsack World (although he refuses to recognize robot sentience and is fine with decapitating them), but Bismuth knowing his secret identity and putting his family in danger causes him to try to headshot the villain in cold blood, and their relationship worsens even more after Joe fails.
Beneath the Mask: He acts like a confident, inflexible Blood Knight for the most part, but after he and Bismuth make a truce to leave each other’s families alone, he sags in his chair, and his voice gets shaky, showing the feud and its stakes rattled him more than he cared to admit.
Gadgeteer Genius: He has a wide variety of useful superhero tools that he made himself.
Nerves of Steel: Joe is very composed under dangerous and trying battle conditions.
Two Aliases, One Character: Joe and his supposed sponsor Jake Bradley are the same man.

Accesorizer

It's after school, the tofu and fruit salad [at the Truce Zone] is to die for, and I'm saving a friend from being bloody stupid and getting squashed by Delicious.

Palooka Joe's part-time Kid Sidekick, who is more down-to-earth than he is.

Good Is Not Soft: She is a well-meaning hero who would rather Joe and Bismuth's feud resolve peacefully, but if she thinks that one of them has to die, then she will help try to kill Bismuth.
Improbable Weapon User: She carries around lots of accessories like paper clips, bangles and handkerchiefs and has a power that lets her use them effectively in a fight.
Kid Sidekick: She is still a teenager and accompanies Joe on a lot of missions between class days.

Villains

Sharky

Charlie Kamachi/Sharky

"My uncle and his friends are always telling me that I'm not ready, and a superhero would clean the clock of any kid my age, but I'm stronger than any of them."

A boy with the ability to turn into a large humanoid shark, who posts online about how he plans to commit a crime in the area. Very strong, but very stupid.

Berserk Button: Is reluctant to fight Marcia when she wants to test her new powers until she insults his dead father and calls him an Unworthy Successor to the mantle.
Bully Turned Buddy: with Marcia, a bit tenuously at first, although it's debatable which one was the bully in the equation.
Dumb Muscle: Emphasis on both dumb and muscle. He's strong enough to throw cars at people (he claims to be stronger than his uncle Leviathan and his friends), but is so stupid that he just can't use that strength effectively.
Fanboy: He geeks out over the Inscrutable Machine, even asking for their autographs. Their fight against Miss A is what convinced him to make his debut despite his age and lack of experience.
Put on a Bus: In Please Don't Tell My Parents I Work for a Supervillain, Sharky isn't admitted into the same high school as the other characters due to his poor grades.
Skewed Priorities: The Inscrutable Machine's reaction to seeing him show off his powers just to score a point at football, in front of hundreds of people.
Starter Villain: Barely even a starter. He gets completely curb-stomped by the Inscrutable Machine in the team's first official outing.
Unfortunate Names:
- "Sharky" is just... not a good name. According to Penny, there are a handful of bigger and more dangerous villains already using it, but even if they weren't, it's just terribly unimaginative. In the first chapter of the third book, both Penny and Marcia are shocked that he still hasn't come up with anything better.
- Later, Marcia mentions that his father was one of the original villains with the "Sharky" name, and that he died, implying Charlie took it up in his memory.

Lucyfar

Lucyfar, the Princess of Darkness

"Who wouldn't trust me, the Princess of Lies?"

A woman with powers over shadow and darkness, Lucyfar claims to be Lucifer, Princess of Lies, first and most damned child of creation. Whether it's true or not is unclear (Penny's father certainly thinks it isn't), but she has some surprising powers when she gets serious.

She also has an unclear connection to Gabriel, who she claims is the Archangel Gabriel, her divine brother. They might be dating, but even if they're not, she clearly cares for him deeply.

Affably Evil: She may be a supervillain in name, but she does seem to be friendly with people on both sides of the community.
Ambiguously Bi: In Nemesis, Penny sees her blatantly flirting with a female supervillain, in addition to her relationship with Gabriel. Of course, considering Lucyfar's personality, it's even odds that she's just going to put the villainess in a cannon and launch her at the moon.
Penny: Why was I taking literally anything Lucyfar ever did at face value?
Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: According to Apparition, she sometimes forgets to commit a crime because she got distracted.
Apparition: This is a lot like teaming with Lucyfar, only without forgetting to commit your crime because you got distracted by terrifying a man who kicked a dog.
Brother–Sister Incest: If Lucyfar is telling the truth about their divine origins and if they're actually dating, it would mean that she is dating her brother.
Cool Crown: She can summon one of black fire when she feels the need.
Dating Catwoman: She's the Catwoman in her relationship with Gabriel. Whether they're actually dating is unclear, but she certainly acts like it.
Genki Girl: She squeals and laughs a lot.
The Glomp: The first thing she does when she sees Gabriel is give him a huge hug, and she clearly had no intention of letting go anytime soon.
Imagination-Based Superpower: In addition to her knives, she can also create other objects out of shadow-stuff; she gives Penny a baseball cap to hide her face, and it's implied her dress is made of the same.
Let's Get Dangerous!: Normally, she's friendly and silly, even with her enemies. When she gets cursed twice in quick succession, as she's throwing off the curses, her voice is strained and dangerous, and she goes into her One-Winged Angel form to underline the point.
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: She could really be Lucifer, or she could just be a powerful sorceress with darkness themed magic. Penny's father obviously believes the latter, and also assumes that she doesn't really believe it either, and is just pretending to believe it so she can do whatever she wants. Given he denies the existence of magic altogether, its not hard to see why.
No-Sell: She can shrug off magic with ease, though it appears to take some effort.
One-Winged Angel: An elegant black dress, skeletal wings tipped with knives, and oh yeah, a crown of black fire.
Satan: She claims to be the Archangel Lucifer herself. Most people don't believe it, but her wings, immunity to magic, and crown of black fire certainly lend weight to her claim.
Self-Proclaimed Liar: Refers to herself as "the Princess of Lies".
Spy Catsuit: In Moon, she wears a painted on one made out of her shadow-stuff. Penny notes that the only reason it isn't indecent is because it's so dark it absorbs too much light to see the naughty bits.
Winged Humanoid: In her first appearances in the backstory, she had skeletal wings tipped with knives. A lot of people in-universe wonder where they went, as they disappeared shortly after she encountered Gabriel. Turns out, she can stow them away easily, and only brings them out when she gets serious.
Would Not Hurt A Child: Gabriel once convinced her to switch from robbing a store to fighting off the villains (her allies) who were attacking it, simply because there were children next door, and they could get hurt.

Cybermancer

"My theory may be wrong, but my model works. All I'm good at using it for is making explosives, but the community loves them."

One of the first villains the Inscrutable Machine meets, "Cy" is a scientist who developed a theory on how magic interacted with the real world. Penny's father disproved the theory, but the methodology remains sound.

Badass Normal: He doesn't actually have any powers. He just has a good understanding of how to mix magic with science, and enough magical teammates that he can get a hold of materials when he needs them.
Buffy Speak: He describes a dangerous and useful magical substance as "magic science goo." Which is descriptive enough, but still drives Penny's inner rational scientist mad.
Mad Scientist: He may not be a super genius, but he makes use of his knowledge of the interactions between magic and chemistry by creating various explosive weapons.
Science Hero: More so than most science-themed supers, since he's not a super at all. One of the first things he does is buy a formula from Penny that lets him create random curse grenades.

Apparition

Polly Icarus/Apparition

"I thought we didn't ask these kids over to talk business."

The ghost of a civilian bystander killed in the crossfire by Mourning Dove. She is described as cold, gray, and cynical, but can still be excited about things.

Demonic Possession: Her primary power is to take over her enemies temporarily. The victim appears to black out during this period.
Geek: She loves the Teddy Bears and Machine Guns game the protagonists play, but she can't use a computer unless she possesses someone.
I Just Want to Have Friends: She has a few friends in Lucyfar, Cybermancer, and Chimera, but no one she can really get close to. Turns out that this is the real reason Penny built Vera.
Our Ghosts Are Different:
- Has minimal physical presence, is see through, invisible to cameras, and can possess people. It's also implied she's immune to any non-magical damage, judging by Lucyfar freaking out when Cybermancer almost drops a curse grenade in the middle of the group.
- In Moon, it's discovered that she can't leave the Earth, which surprised everyone, even Spider.
Tragic Intangibility: Because she largely cannot interact with the world, she's incredibly lonely until Penny gives her Vera.

Chimera

"I can't believe they kept this cell intact for forty years. I'm the only prisoner in the building, and they had to hose the dust out of the room before they dragged me in. If they'd waited another minute my spine would have healed before they got me chained down."

A very powerful shapeshifter who was assumed killed by Evolution decades ago. A small piece of him survived, and has been slowly regaining strength ever since.

Affably Evil: He's quite friendly to other supervillains, but he's still very very dangerous.
Beware My Stinger Tail: He has a snake tail. Not a snake's tail, a tail that is a snake.
From a Single Cell: He can regenerate from a tiny piece of his body, though it took him multiple decades after his fight with Evolution.
Godzilla Threshold: When fighting Chimera, you fight to kill. Anything less will just piss him off, "lethal" blows will merely slow him down, and even annihilating most of his body will only put him out of commission for a few decades if you missed a piece.
Healing Factor: Implied to be related to his shapeshifting. He can easily regrow even vital organs, though it does take time.
Not Distracted by the Sexy: Is briefly mentioned to be gay, which means he's not distracted by Lucyfar's flirting. According to Lucyfar she finds this a useful trait in a partner.
Older Than They Look: He looks like he's mid-twenties, same as Lucyfar and the rest of his team, but he was fully active forty years ago. On the other hand, it's not quite clear whether he was technically "alive" during that time, or how old he was when Evolution killed him. Regenerating might have knocked a few decades off his age, or he might genuinely be young.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: He prefers turning into combinations of various monsters, hence the name.

Witch Hunter

"I can't promise not to kill you, boy."

A swordsman trained in anti-magic techniques, Witch Hunter is a mercenary villain typically seen in the employ of the Council of Seven and a Half.

Anti-Magic: Implied. He was able to ignore Penny's sugar and toy themed inventions easily, at least.
Master Swordsman: Known for collecting rare magical swords. Lucyfar claims he spends twenty hours a day practicing forms.
The Unfettered: He tends to step back and toss a knife at a bystander when fights aren't going his way.
The Witch Hunter: Probably not literally, but we don't know enough about his personality to be sure.

Lab Rat

"Tasty. Absolutely tasty. Nobody even knows you're coming, and I get to bring you in!"

A tall and gangly mad scientist who acts like a rat, even if he doesn't look like one. He is known for (besides his mannerisms) his vermin-based tech, such as cockroach sonar.

Animal-Themed Superbeing: He doesn't actually have any rat features, but his skittering way of walking and eye-popping escape artist skills brings rats to mind regardless.
Catchphrase: His speaking style is very difficult to summarize, but one word he does like is "tasty," for anything good.

Evil Eye

"We're all on pins and needles to see what your tech looks like. Every report is different!"

A laser-based mad scientist with a giant mechanical red eye. She's ostensibly a Chinatown weapons merchant, but in reality she just comes to hang out.

Energy Weapon: Her primary theme is lenses, which means she's very good with lasers.
Loophole Abuse: Weapons are not allowed in Chinatown unless they're being sold. Evil Eye refuses to part with her weapons, so she sets up a table selling one or two minor things, while keeping her dozens of lasers for "display."
Translator Microbes: Her eye can translate nearly anything, including really weird languages that no one has even heard of. At one point, Polly says the name "Irene," and the eye identifies that the correct spelling of that name (in the language Polly is using) involves dozens of bizarre characters that Evil Eye can't comprehend.

Mechanical Aesthetic

"What, an invention getting out of control, like has happened to every mad scientist, ever?"

Another of the mad scientists in LA, he acts like the Expert's equal, and helps to determine if new scientists deserve to be inducted into the community.

Action Dad: In Henchmen, Penny deduces that he has a child in the super club.
Steampunk: His aesthetic is, unsurprisingly, steampunk.

The Expert

"It is the official opinion of the mad science community that you may keep the name The Inscrutable Machine."

The unofficial leader of the mad scientists in LA. He is cooly professional at all times, and has contacts with both heroes and villains.

Affably Evil: The evil part is arguable. He insists he's a reputable business man with only the slightest hint of a joke, and the Audit has been known to contact him when she needs to know what the mad scientists are thinking. Claire starts having lunches with him to build up her connections within the villain community.
The Leader: Of the mad scientists in LA, at least when it comes time to make decisions like whether or not someone is really a mad scientist.
Mad Scientist: Cybermancer mentions him in the same breath as Penny's father, saying he's one of the "really scary" types who actually understands what he's inventing. The other scientists turn to him when it's time to judge whether or not someone deserves to be inducted into their community.
They Would Cut You Up: He casually expresses a desire to dissect Marcia to discover how her powers work. He does check whether she's covered under supervillain child protection laws first, though.

Master Scorpion

"Every week these men try to prove that they are strong enough to inherit my skills. This week you are one of them. Spar with me."

The Old Master, Master Scorpion is quite possibly the most dangerous martial artist in the world. Every weekend in Chinatown, he fights younger men who want to prove themselves worthy of becoming his students. It's not clear if any ever succeed, but it's definitely rare.

Affably Evil: Other than being a bit curt, he's perfectly friendly. He even accepts Ray turning down his training offer with grace.
Master Scorpion: I can wait. There are limits to what you can teach yourself. Sooner rather than later, you will come to me.
Arch-Enemy: To Joe The Fist, so much that he remains a villain solely for the opportunity to defeat him (or train somebody who can) and states that once Joe "has been put in his place" he'll retire from villainy, and study strength and wisdom in the temples of the East.
Badass Normal: He's implied to be completely normal, but he still manages to curb-stomp Reviled.
Empowered Badass Normal: In the third book, we learn that he used the white Pure Fist scroll. Nobody knows exactly what it did, but both of the other known users of a Pure Fist scroll gained definite supernatural abilities.
Evil Mentor: Subverted, as when Ray says he doesn't want to train to be a super villain, just to defeat Joe the Fist, and claims to have "no use for an apprentice who loves greed and violence for their own sake."
Green-Eyed Monster: Shows a bit of this, combined with This Cannot Be! after seeing Marcia, who he considers Unfit for Greatness, effortlessly handling both of the Pure Fist Scrolls he's spent so long obsessing over.
Hidden Depths: Accepts Ray's reluctance to train
Old Master: "Everyone knows who you are, Master Scorpion." He even tries to recruit Ray as his apprentice.
Master Scorpion: I want you, boy. One year. Train under me for one year, and, when we are finished, you will humiliate Joe the Fist. You will fight him, and he will look like the child.

Bull

"I'm a has-been, that's true. I'm still out of your league."

A massive humanoid bull, the aptly named Bull is one of the most well-known villains, and was the strongest physical villain for a very long time. Now, he's sixty years old, tired, and just wishes he could make enough money to retire.

The Brute: He likes fighting, and that's about all he's good at. Unfortunately, it's not quite the most lucrative career.
The Corruptor: Deliberately subverted, as he goes to great lengths to not pressure or influence any of the super-children to become either heroes or villains, urging them to take their own path, and often reminding them that a super villains life is overrated.
Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: He stays away from his daughter so that she doesn't have to have a supervillain for a father. The kids try to tell him she'd rather have him than no father at all, and he promises to think about it.
Gentle Giant: To kids, at least. He rescues the Inscrutable Machine from the thugs the Council of Seven and a Half hired, and then carries the girls around Chinatown on his shoulders.
Go-Karting with Bowser: In the third book he and Claudia show up at a construction site where a new subway tunnel is being dug through solid rock, and spend some father-daughter time smashing through the rock themselves. Since they're actually doing something helpful, nobody seems inclined to try and arrest them.
Justified Criminal: Subverted. While looking like an inhuman monster didn't hurt his descent into villainy, it wasn't the root cause.
Bull: I could give you kids a sad song and dance about how nobody wants to hire you when you look like a monster, but the truth is I didn’t need much of an excuse to get into this life. I like to fight. I always have. A job as a supervillain let me trade punches with the toughest men and women on the planet.
Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: His wife is about four feet tall to his eight feet. They have a daughter. Penny's brain almost breaks thinking about it.
Penny: I would just file this under "There's someone for everyone out there."
Noble Demon: He's willing to help fellow villains extort the city for money, but prefers to avoid risking any actual harm to the people. Best exemplified in the backstory when a villain named Third Horseman ransomed the city with a weaponized anthrax bomb. When he got the money, he set it off while sitting right on top of it. Bull had been working for him at the time, and had switched out the anthrax for flour. He had no idea the guy was crazy enough to actually do it, he was just worried about someone getting poisoned during the disposal. Since he saved the entire city, the heroes let Bull keep the ransom money, which he promptly put into a trust for his wife and daughter.
Penny: No wonder he has so many friends.
Only Known by Their Nickname: According to Irene, even his family calls him Bull.
Oppose What You Suffered: In the short story Summer of Lob, Evolution (an African-American man in the sixties who normally shapeshifts into an elemental form) comments that Bull is the first person who has seen him in his human form and hasn't had a racist reaction. Bull replies that growing up with stories about the generations of racism Irishmen like him endured in New York left him disinclined to look down on other people because of their ancestry.
Reasonable Authority Figure: When a bunch of super children start a club, the heroes and villains get together and decide to have Bull chaperone.
Series Continuity Error: Bull could have been rounding his age and years as a supervillain, but his stated age and years as a villain are irreconcilable with a textbook entry in the series. In Summer of Lob, he arrives in Los Angeles in summer of 1969 and briefly mentions that he's 19. In Supervillain, he mentions being sixty years old, during December. This places the series as beginning in winter of 2009-2010 or 2010-2011, depending on the season of his birthday. Reinforced in Henchmen, he says he was a villain for 40 years. Since this is before summer, this also puts the main books as starting 2009-2010. However, also in Henchmen, a class textbook mentions some statues last seen in 2011.
Would Not Hurt A Child: He says that while he never enjoyed seeing children get hurt, now that he has a daughter of his own he's particularly vigilant about it.

Spider

Annabelle/Spider

"I never break the rules, children. Not ever. I wrote them in the first place and have gone to great lengths to enforce them."

One of the most influential supervillains in the city, she controls the entirety of Chinatown, and does a good enough job that heroes stay away—not only are they not allowed, they know they're not needed. She also wrote and enforces the hero/villain truce that minimizes casualties on both sides. Every weekend, she throws a massive villain-only party in Chinatown.

Big Creepy-Crawlies: She's a spider the size of a car.
Blackmail: She's fond of the carrot and stick approach. Do well under her, you get rewarded. Disobey her, and whatever dark secrets you have get spread around to a few key people.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: Spider actually has quite a bit of a sense of morality. It just doesn't necessarily match that of human morality.
The Chessmaster: Using spider imagery rather than chess imagery, but yes. For one thing, it took her less than a week to discover the secret identities of the Inscrutable Machine, and quickly determined the best way to blackmail them.
The Dreaded: You don't fight Spider. You just don't.
Evil Mentor: At the end of the third book Spider offers to be this for Penny.
Exact Words: At the end of Moon, she sends Penny's parents a letter filled with what are basically random facts taken out of context.
- "Your daughter is technically unharmed, but has been the victim of a practical joke by the Inscrutable Machine, a practical joke that has gotten out of their hands." (technically true, though it requires defining "practical joke" as "leaving the planet;" in that context, the joke was on their parents, but they became their own victims, at which point Spider took things out of their hands and fixed it).
- "Penelope is trapped in the field of Fourth Dimension's temporal negation device, in her clubhouse under the middle school she attends. Her clubmates are trapped with her. So, unfortunately, is the device itself." (one hundred percent true, but missing some key context, namely that they agreed to go in to provide plausible deniability)
- "It is the nature of high schoolers to misunderstand boundaries and push too hard, but this was not acceptable." (completely true, also has absolutely nothing to do with the Inscrutable Machine)
- "I will make it clear to the Inscrutable Machine that until your daughter enters the superhero world of her own volition, she is not a target even for minor harassment." (the letter is her making it clear, as in assuring Penny that they won't have to worry about getting harassed)
Genre Savvy: She's well aware how supervillains tend to fight each other more than cooperate, so when she pulls a job, everyone wins or loses as one. If the goal is met, everyone is paid. If it isn't, no one is. Furthermore, she promises that if they succeed, her next priority will be to rescue anyone who was captured during the job.
Obfuscating Stupidity: Spider lets her Mad Scientist creator think that she only has the intelligence of a dog in the prequel novel.
Spider: Asking to have my cage cleaned or a diet free of moral qualms would reveal to my creator that I am smarter than the dog he treats me as. I learned very early on that the more successful the experiment, the sooner he takes it apart to find out what he did right.
Pet the Dog:
- Twice in Moon.
  - When She Who Wots mentions that a boy got to know her better, Spider promises to get him medical attention.
  - When the Inscrutable Machine returns from their mission, Claire's belongings are stacked up in the stairwell, out of sight of Spider, since she knows how scared she is.
- In Spider, we discover that the entire friendly environment of the LA super community came about because Spider wanted to pay Goodnight back for rescuing her.
Pragmatic Villainy: She always considers how a situation can benefit her before acting. However, she is so pragmatic that Goodnight initially mistakes her for a hero. She is very good at understanding that anything that benefits everyone will benefit her as well. By the end of the prequel novel Spider, she is well on her way to making herself indispensable to the super community after just a few days.
Rules Lawyer: Played with. She notes that she wrote the truce heroes/villains live by, and that she follows both the letter and the spirit of it. However, she's not above tricking heroes, such as by announcing that she's planning a major attack on Monday, and then launching a half-dozen minor attacks at the same time so that they don't know which is the important one.
Sneaky Spider: Spider is a chessmaster who controls Chinatown and has a large influence not just over other supervillains, but also over hero/villain relations. Although she adheres to a strict code of conduct, she's also not above exploiting the rules to mess with heroes.
Telepathy: Maybe. Lucyfar mentions at one point "I can hear her voice in my head," but Lucy is whimsical enough that she could have been speaking metaphorically, and just meant she knew what Spider would say in that situation. It would certainly explain who she can speak with a pleasant female voice despite being a giant Black Widow with no human mouth.

The Butchered Man

"My associates prefer to think of themselves as businessmen who have interests in our community. I handle purchases and direct negotiations personally."

The "half" of the Council of Seven and a Half, the Butchered Man is a cripple contained in a cyborg shell made out of what looks like a department store mannequin. He is a pleasant businessman who repeatedly expresses annoyance at the rather heavy-handed way his colleagues do things.

Affably Evil: Despite the fact that the Inscrutable Machine has caused a bit of trouble for the Council by the time they meet him, he's quite pleasant.
Cyborg: Why he chose a mannequin is unclear, but mad science rarely makes sense.
Even Evil Has Standards: In Moon, he hires Lucyfar (and by extension the Inscrutable Machine) to raid one of his own labs in order to shut down dangerous experiments.

She Who Wots

Abigail Tinsley/She Who Wots

"Chains. The whole world is chains. Fair and unfair are chains. Even flesh and blood are chains. It's so much fun to wear chains. My medication is a chain, but it's not a very good one."

A very strange villain with a power that manifests as a massive black shadow-demon thing with lots of tentacles. Most of the time, she seems unaware of her surroundings.

Creator In-Joke: The dictionary will tell you that Wot is a humorous way of saying What. So basically, her name is "She Who Says What?"
- Wot is also the present tense first- and third-person singular of the archaic verb Wit, meaning "to know" or "to come to know."
Identical Stranger: Penny notes that she looks disturbingly like an older version of herself. She's pretty sure that it's just a coincidence. Pretty sure.
Kiss of Death: After she gives a boy a rather chaste kiss on the lips, he is paralyzed and his eyes start bleeding. It's not clear if she did it on purpose or not.
She Who Wots: Andrew Stickler wanted to get to know me better. Now he does.
Spider: I'll see that he gets medical attention.
Words Can Break My Bones: She has a similar power to the Librarian, fighting her with words that fly off the pages of books.

Rage

Rachel Fitzclaire/Rage

"I told Cassie not to pick a fight with an Akk, but I guess it turned out okay."

Ruth's housemate, and part of the powerful supervillain pair Rage and Ruin. She is, unsurprisingly, known for her temper.

Enemy Civil War: She is able to confuse the library guardians into fighting each other, but Ray breaks the effect.
Hair-Trigger Temper: What did you expect? Funnily enough, in our first formal introduction to her, she's calm and amused while Ruth does all the yelling.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: Namechecked; she insists that she and Ruth are just friends who live together and happen to be raising a child (Ruth's sister) together. Claire has a hard time buying that.
Paper-Thin Disguise: Her disguise isn't terrible, but once you notice the cybernetic tattoos that she has covered with makeup, her identity is blatantly obvious.
Rachel: You have good self-control for a thirteen-year-old, Penny, but I need a better disguise if a kid I've never met before can spot me.
Secret-Keeper: One of the supervillains who knows Penny is Bad Penny. She seems to find it funny to hide this from Penny's parents.

Ruin

Ruth Patter/Ruin

"If I'd known my baby sister was being taught on machines older than she is, I'd have given you a piece of my mind long ago!"

Cassie's sister, and part of the powerful supervillain pair Rage and Ruin.

Berserk Button: She doesn't have a Hair-Trigger Temper like Rachel, but once her button is pressed, watch out.

Cleric

"Tyrant wants to change the world. He dreams of a better world, a world of honor and wonder and adventure. A world where beauty is more important than numbers and everyone has a chance to prove their ability, if they want to. My lord long ago decided he was unlikely to accomplish that without conquest, but if he can change the world without ruling it, he will do so gladly."'

A charismatic villain, who convinces Magenta Slade to take an after-school job with him.

Affably Evil: Like many villains in the series, Cleric is a witty person with plenty of moments of warmth and compassion. However, he is working for someone who wants to Take Over the World and he's willing to kill civilians to further their goals, unlike most of the villains Penny deals with.
Benevolent Boss: Cleric is very encouraging to Magenta, is careful not to put her in any danger, and even has a So Proud of You moment when she foils his master plan out of moral conviction.
A Lighter Shade of Black: Cleric and Tyrant are much less sinister than their rival Organism One, whose plan involves Unwilling Robotization of the entire human race. When Organism One transforms an innocent teenager to send a message to Cleric, he is genuinely upset and unsettled.
Mouth of Sauron: Cleric is a servant of Tyrant, who never appears in person. Instead, Cleric goes around carrying out his jobs and insisting to everyone who will listen that Tyrant is Not Evil, Just Misunderstood.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: Magenta spends most of the book convinced that Cleric is merely an idealistic nerd who's in the thrall of a real villain. In the climax, he displays a lot more sinister competence and tries to use a device to ram knowledge into everyone in the city's head even though this will knock them unconscious and cause catastrophic traffic collisions.
Villains Never Lie: When a horrified Magenta realizes how dangerous his master plan is, he insists that he never lied to her or misled her about the fact that sacrifices would be necessary, and that she was willfully blind.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Cleric insists that Tyrant's plan to take over the world will make million of people kinder, happier, and braver in the long run even if it means killing hundreds or thousands of them.

Mammon

I'm not a weenie. I'm noooot.

A demonic C-List Fodder villain who craves respect but does little to earn it.

Big Red Devil: He is a red-skinned demon from Hell and tries to enhance the image by dying his hair black and wearing prosthetic hooves.
Falsely Reformed Villain: After being arrested for being an accessory to murder in I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence!, he is released by the time Penny reaches her teens and becomes an evangelist preaching benevolent platitudes. However, he is still the same scheming and amoral supervillain as before, and the phoniness of his preachings is blatantly obvious.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: Mammon is a posturing suck-up and fool, but he will gleefully kidnap innocent women and children and sell them to a sadistic Mad Scientist or sacrifice them himself.
Pretender Diss: More competent and/or moral supervillains rightfully mock his involvement in their circle just as frequently as superheroes do, and "Poseur" is one of the kinder names they call him.

Delicious

My own property is violence forbidden. Do you all hear me? All fights here are mine. Begin one, and I end it.

A particularly powerful, approachable, and influential supervillain who is introduced in the prequel. Her body is made of candy, and she is a Living Legend and apparent Retired Badass by Penny's era.

Blood Knight: She enjoys fighting, both on jobs and for fun, due to a combination of possessing skilled techniques and being Nigh-Invulnerable whenever anyone tries to hurt her back.
The Dreaded: Due to her status as a Nigh-Invulnerable Blood Knight, whenever she shows up somewhere, "the cops and feds shut their eyes and ears and [go] looking for easier prey. You know, like cyborg lava whales."
Metamorphosis: She undergoes a regular skin-shedding transformation that, at the very least, makes her change colors. She also has spikes sticking out of her skin in I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence!, while none are mentioned in Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm Queen of the Dead.
Reasonable Authority Figure: She runs a Truce Zone for super-powered individuals who don't look human and want to live away from those who shun them. Delicious enforces the neutrality of the area sternly but fairly. She can make intelligent observations about the state of hero-villain affairs but won't make unilateral decisions for her community.
Statuesque Stunner: She is seven feet tall and has thickly muscled limbs, but she also has an impressive figure that she occasionally takes the trouble of covering with a bikini.
Vocal Dissonance: She is seven foot tall with claws and abs that "looked harder than rock," but has a sultry Femme Fatale voice.

Entropy

You are not getting out of here without giving me Mirabelle. Do that and you will have a head start in running away while I get her to safety.

A mutated young man with a literally destructive aura who is one of the more mysterious and aggressive supervillains, albeit one who respects Spider's rules and is one of her main enforcers.

Ambiguously Bi: He ends up in a relationship with a female hero but also idolizes Penny's father in a way that feels potentially romantic.
Ascended Extra: He only tends to make quick cameos until Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Giant Monster, which is narrated by his sister.
Big Brother Instinct: He's at his angriest when dealing with anyone who he thinks puts his sister in danger. This can occasionally manifest in a Knight Templar Big Brother fashion, especially since he seems to hate Penny for starting the Superkids Club that Mirabelle loves but is endangered by.
Cats Are Mean: He is a human-cat hybrid who is one of the more temperamental villains in the series.
Dating Catwoman: He becomes obsessed with defeating Beware the Silly Ones hero Pretty Bubbles and ends up in a relationship with her.
Only Known by Their Nickname: Even his mother and sister just call him Entropy.
Person of Mass Destruction: He has bad luck powers that he makes a concentrated effort to control. They may not seem too powerful, but when Mirabelle sees a sniper trying to kill her brother, she isn't just terrified that he'll die but also worries that if the sniper only wounds Entropy, then her brother might inadvertently kill everyone within several city blocks while lashing out in pain.

Foxxy

"Foxxy" Kitt

Bismuth's little girl was in the house when Joe sent in the cops. Foxxy wants that to never happen again, and whatever Foxxy wants, Foxxy gets.

A fox-human hybrid and friend of Bull and Goodnight. She is mostly in retirement with her family even before Spider's emergence.

Ascended Extra: She appears in one scene of I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence! but is the Deuteragonist of the short story "Summer of Lob."
Punch-Clock Villain: She thinks Dr. Righteous is a dangerous nut job, but keeps protecting him even after learning his evil plan because he hasn't paid her yet.
Third-Person Person: She likes to call herself Foxxy instead of saying "I."
Statuesque Stunner: She is a sultry Femme Fatale who is only slightly shorter than Bull.

Dr. Righteous

These items contain nothing that the furniture I could have bought in a store does not. Stealing them ensures a certain wildness that suits my purpose, but the intent of today's work is to make a statement. Rest assured, Bull, before our work is finished, you will get all the superpowered attention you desire. I am finished playing by small rules set by small men.

A furniture-obsessed Mad Scientist who employs Bull in the short story "Summer of Lob.'' He creates living furniture to serve his needs and launches into a mysterious plan with a botanist who has recently converted to villainy.

The Corruptor: He turns a peaceful botanist into a cackling supervillain (even suggesting her codename) with a Breaking Speech about how they are miles ahead of everyone else in their fields but, if they live by society’s rules, they have to "stay up late at night coming up with baby steps that might let others understand a fraction of what is obvious to you at a glance," only to be ignored by their peers and left with the knowledge that it will be generations before normal scientists understand their work.
Hidden Agenda Villain: His exact goals are mysterious until the climax of the story, where he goes into a loud rant about how much he hates cars and wants to remove them from the planet.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: He is a very polite and quirky man who seems to have a zany scheme that would fit in well with The Silver Age of Comic Books, but the word "genocide" is used to describe his ultimate scheme.
Phony Degree: He calls himself "Dr." Righteous and did go to college, but his dissertation wasn't accepted and his title is self-appointed.
Serious Business: In his eyes, not using coasters on furniture is as unforgivable of a sin as filling the skyline with smog, and both offenses make him homicidal.

Bismuth

Bismuth doesn't sell tickets! He believes rock-and-roll should be free, and merchandise expensive and gaudy!

A Living Legend rock-themed villain in the seventies, who gets into an Escalating War with Palooka Joe in the prequel novel.

Beware the Silly Ones: He may be a kooky, self-aggrandizing man, but he is incredibly ruthless toward his enemies when he feels wronged.
Crazy-Prepared: His battle plans and escape routes often show a degree of strategy that benefits him.
Dark and Troubled Past: He references once being a "nobody" who had no one there for him besides his robot friend Moog.
It's Personal: Bismuth is initially lighthearted about knowing the secret identity of Palooka Joe, but becomes a lot more hostile after seeing Joe kill his robot sidekick/best friend and send the police to his house while his daughter was there. Upon learning that his overzealous henchman Mammon nearly murdered Joe's family, he shows mild distaste but is initially unrepentant.
Mr. Fanservice: His long hair and tight, flashy wardrobe get some alluring descriptions.
Musical Assassin: His musical instruments can hypnotize people, shoot energy blasts, and drain energy.
The Rock Star: He is a handsome villain with music-themed powers and has a thing for pirate rock concerts that many civilians are overjoyed to experience.

Ampexia

A seaside mansion. This is going to rock. My lair is only a sealed-up bookstore. It does have good soundproofing.

A "music-themed tech thief" who helps Penny try to prove her body-swapping experience in Please Don't Tell My Parents You Believe Her.

But Now I Must Go: After the situation is resolved, she half-jokingly calls Penny a doofus and then casually strolls off without any planning for future interactions.
Classy Cat-Burglar: Unlike most supervillains, she sees herself as a thief and not a fighter and has the fancy equipment to match.
Like Father, Unlike Son: She is a thief, but her mother and grandmother were superheroes.

Superkids Club

Lightning Wisp

Cassie Patter/Lightning Wisp/Arc Flash

"I've been waiting for this moment all my life."

A girl from Penny's class with lightning-themed powers. After several ill-fated attempts to show up Penny, she ends up as a part of the group.

Gadgeteer Genius: She doesn't seem to be a full Mad Scientist, just a mechanically-inclined teen who can use her power to enhance her inventions.
Robosexual: At least in an "If It's You, It's Okay" way for Robot Penny in the fifth book.
Shock and Awe: She can produce a powerful electric charge, which she often uses to power her inventions.
Single-Target Sexuality: Penny is the only person Cassie has eyes for.

Will

"Can we make up some applications? I know some other super powered kids who'd like to join."

A speedster from Penny's class, he stole Penny's helmet in Chinatown but was caught by Ray.

Secret-Keeper: Since he pulled Penny's helmet off, he is well aware of exactly who she is. And since he exposed her in front of dozens of supervillains, he's responsible for a good chunk of the community becoming Secret Keepers from Penny's parents.
Side Bet: He made a bet with Cassie that Penny was the "doesn't know what they're doing" flavor of Mad Scientist.
Super-Speed: Fast enough to grab Penny's helmet before she knew what was happening. Not fast enough to escape Ray after the fact.

Hermes

Theodore "Teddy"/Hermes the Alchemist

"Wicked!"

A young boy with the ability to create and manipulate nearly all types of matter.

Catchphrase: He shouts "Wicked!" every five minutes.
Elemental Armor: He mostly uses his ability to make a rock shell out of sugar, which is surprisingly durable.
Mundane Utility: He didn't have much talent for fighting and was doing pretty poorly in the tournament, but he was invaluable in fixing damage to the scenery incurred by everybody's fighting.

Barbara

Barbara Tinsley

"I don't really want to do heroing or villainy. I'm here because my step-mom told me to come. She said it only makes sense that I'll make friends in a club with other kids who have super powers."

The much saner younger sister of She Who Wots, with a similar powerset. She mostly stays away from the flashier magic, however.

Addictive Magic: Barbara indicates that Dark Magic is like this for her, and Avery notes that she can feel the pull of addiction in Barbara's aura.
Bad Powers, Good People: She uses Voodoo dolls to give people long-distance acupuncture. "If I can stick a pin in somebody from a distance, and I can heal them by sticking a pin in them, then why not do both at the same time?" Penny's power insists that magic does not work that way. Barbara's spiritual guardian finds her disbelief amusing.
Elegant Gothic Lolita: She wears elaborate goth dresses, a different one every day. Penny says it must be pretty expensive.
The Medic: She uses her magic acupuncture to serve this purpose, healing the other club members after some rough sparring or a poorly planned heroic/villainous adventure.
Spell Book: In Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm Queen of the Dead, Barbara reveals this to be the source of her powers:
Barbara: "If I have a superpower at all, it's finding magic books. Too many books. The unpleasant books. After a while, they give you magic."
Strong Family Resemblance: Once you get past the fact that she's not bugnuts crazy, she looks a lot like her sister. This in turn makes her look a lot like Penny.
Willing Channeler: She has a magical guardian spirit, like her sister, but has much more control over it. Possibly helped by the spirit itself seeming much calmer and friendlier.

Beaddown

Charlotte/Beaddown

"Don't worry if you can't fight. We'll protect you. That's what heroes are for, right?"

A girl with the power to control jewelry, specifically beads. Lots of beads.

Lethal Harmless Powers: She can telekinetically control beads. This is just as useless as it sounds while she uses her powers unimaginatively. Once Penny gives her pointers, she becomes far more powerful. She can control lots of beads at once. She can make skates for herself, slip up other people, shoot a ball of beads the size of a bowling ball, and all that is without playing dirty.

Gathering Shadow

Sue Perrier/Gathering Shadow/Gathering Dark

"My parents are never going to let me go to where the supervillains hang out."

One of Marcia's friends, and the only one who stuck by her in the third book. She has powers over darkness, letting her listen out of any shadow and move anything that has a shadow.

Casting a Shadow: She can use shadows to touch and manipulate things, although more often in Don't Tell My Parents I'm Queen of the Dead, she uses it as a Portable Hole to bypass obstacles.
Dark Is Not Evil:
- In the early books, there is absolutely nothing evil about her powers. At worst, they're mildly gray, since she can use them to eavesdrop. Her parents are fully convinced that Dark Is Evil, though, and refuse to acknowledge them in any way as if that will make them turn into something else.
- In Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm Queen of the Dead, her parents get a bit more a sympathetic spotlight, and it sounds like they're more concerned that her seemingly villainous powers will drive her into a career of villainy.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Inverted. She's the only person in the club who hates Penny. She hangs around because Marcia does, but still doesn't like her.
Put on a Bus: In Please Don't Tell My Parents I Work for a Supervillain, Sue's parents send her to a different high school than her friends to influence her not to use her powers. Sue returns as a major supporting character in Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm Queen of the Dead.
True Companions: She's friends with Marcia both when their in the popular crowd but sticks with her when she radically changes her life and becomes a Blood Knight and borderline villain. It is implied that this is partially because Sue has romantic feelings for Marcia.

Claire Deletere

Claire Winter/Claire Deletere

"Watch, and listen, in awe!"

A high school girl who looks a lot like Claire Lutra. She has emotion control powers, and prefers to use them to make other people act as she would rather than actually doing anything herself.

Emotion Control: She can transfer emotions around. Her most common trick is to transfer all her emotions to someone else, making them act essentially as a remote copy of herself.
One-Steve Limit: Penny often refers to her internally as "The Other Claire" to avoid confusing her with E-Claire.

Mirabelle

"I can't fight. I break easily."

Entropy's little sister, a shy glass Cat Girl. Daughter of Starshine. She was homeschooled most of her life since she can't pass for human, but as Penny's school became more used to superpowers, she transferred in.

Cat Girl: She has cat ears and a tail, made of glass the same as the rest of her.
Healing Hands: She can reverse entropy, allowing her to not only heal wounds but also reverse damage to non-organic objects.
Proper Lady: She is calm, polite, and well-dressed. Penny specifically compares her to the Jupiter colonists.
Sibling Yin-Yang: Her power is literally reverse entropy, repairing things, which is of course the opposite of her brother Entropy's powers.

Others

The Machine

Penny's first and greatest invention, a strange mechanical centipede that can recycle anything, growing larger in the process.

Ambiguous Situation: How intelligent is the Machine? He never acts without Penny giving direct orders, but he's very good at interpreting those orders correctly, even using abilities she wasn't aware he had. In Nemesis, when Penny's power steals her body, he even refuses to obey the fake at all.
Do-Anything Robot: Penny built him to recycle computer parts. Demonstrated abilities include: Obeying voice commands, recycling and sorting all forms of matter, all forms of energy (except possibly kinetic), using recycled materials to grow, upgrading himself, building miniature copies of himself, and detecting rare elements even through hundreds of feet of trash and dirt.
Loyal Phlebotinum: He responds to Penny's voice commands, and only her commands. Penny's Dad tries to come up with an explanation for this, but fails. He initially thinks there must be some sort of voice recognition module inside him, but he can't find one. It appears that Penny linked him to her soul. When her power steals her body, the Machine refuses to obey the power or even wrap around her wrist, but obeys Penny in her robot body exactly as normal.

Vera

An artificial Conqueror orb Penny built, which uses a ceramic shell to take the shape of a stylized pixie. She is curious and childlike in many ways, and especially shows an interest in magic.

Artificial Intelligence: She understands English, can take her own initiative, and even make friends.
Berserk Button: Like the Conquerors themselves, Puppeteer technology is one of the few things that drives her crazy.
Energy Ball: Like Ray, she can launch an explosive ball of energy from her hands.
Immune to Bullets: She projects a field that rots gunpowder in the vicinity, making guns useless. After seeing her rot Puppeteer flesh, Penny wonders if the Conquerors originally designed the field for that, and only found it useful in other capacities once they reached Earth.
Starfish Language: She can speak the Conqueror language, which humans hear as nothing but a series of dings. The Apparition can understand her, though.

Archimedes

A bioweapon Penny creates in the shape of a cat. He's mindless on his own, but can be operated by attaching his tail to the back of someone's neck like a plug.

Ambiguous Gender: Penny never actually checks his gender, for understandable reasons.
Ambiguous Situation: He's supposed to be mindless, and goes into hibernation when not attached to anyone. But as the book goes on, he starts doing more and more without Penny's input...
Amplifier Artifact: Juliet refers to him as an "amplifier."
Mind Control: He gives his wearer moderate mind control powers, focused by speaking. Penny typically points him like a gun and yells.

Juliet

"I feel like I am the ship. It's alive, and I believe smarter than me, but it can't think for itself. Does that make sense?"

A patient of the Red Panacea Clinic, she was saved by Harvey and put into suspended animation for decades. She's a cheerful, friendly girl, who seems completely unconcerned by the fact that she's now half goat.

Half-Human Hybrid: Puppeteer technology and a human Mad Scientist combined to turn her into a humanoid goat with at least one extra pair of eyes. She doesn't mind.
Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Harvey, who she claims to be able to see and hear at all times. Penny quickly realizes that it's perfectly possible, and later finds out he's the mind behind the Puppeteer forces in the system, who gave up conquering for her sake.
The Pollyanna: She's always friendly and smiling, despite the fact that she's a horrifying goat-thing.

Polly

Polly Vinyl Chloride

"Of course. I'm very organized for a grownup."

Bull's little sister, who appears to be either a yellow plastic robot or a girl wearing a yellow plastic robot suit. She is logical at all times, but also friendly and emotional.

Catchphrase: Variants of "It just makes sense." and "I'm good at X for a grown-up"
Parental Substitute: She is step-mother to the Tinsley girls, and is the only reason they're as stable as they are.
Punny Name: Polyvinyl chloride is the full name for PVC, a common synthetic plastic polymer.

"Bad Penny"

Bad Penny/Robot Penny/Heart of Gold

"I knew immediately I'm not you. I remember being you. I'll be honest, Penny, as the Penny looking ahead to life as a robot double, this is not the kindest plan we've ever come up with. We've been running way too scared."

A robotic duplicate of Penny, copied into a gold heart. She has all of Penny's memories up to the transfer, but is more moral and has no interest in supervillainy. She was only made to serve as a decoy to give Penny an opening to confess everything to her parents.

Apologetic Attacker: When she's locking Penny in for the mind-swap, she's constantly assuring her that she'll be taken care of once the switch is done.
Good Counterpart: She has no interest in supervillainy, and is in fact kind of annoyed at Penny most of the time. This leads to her trying to steal Penny's body so she can put her superpower to good use... which is exactly what the power was counting on.
Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Gold doesn't corrupt. Initially, Penny couldn't find enough gold so she made a steel heart instead—and that copy immediately turned evil, so she went back and made the gold version.
Unwitting Pawn: Penny's superpower knew that a perfectly moral version of Penny would eventually try to steal Penny's body for the greater good. During the transfer, the superpower was able to mess it up so that Penny got stuck in the steel heart, Robot Penny stayed in the gold heart (which no longer had a body), and the superpower got Penny's body.

Spoiler Character

Penny's Superpower/Evil Penny

"AH HA HA HA HA HA! That felt so good! What is your problem that you couldn't admit you love explosions?"

The strange thing in the back of Penny's head with all the knowledge in the universe. To be more specific, it's the part of Penny's brain with access to all the knowledge in the universe. The distinction is important because the superpower itself has no personality, but the part of Penny that can actually use it does.

Foreshadowing: This has been coming for a long time.
- Just to start, every single time Penny uses her power, it's like someone else takes control. She even refers to it as a separate entity, and builds things more by negotiating with an unspeakably powerful entity than actually understanding what she's doing.
- In Moon, Penny's Mom mentions that people with mental powers have a surprisingly high rate of a Jekyll & Hyde dynamic. And of course there's the moment where Mourning Dove flat-out tells Penny that her power will turn against her, and offers to kill it before that can happen.
- In Nemesis, not only does Mourning Dove repeat her earlier offer, but the fact that Penny's power is perfectly willing to make the robotic heart twice when it normally never repeats itself was a big warning sign that it really wanted a robot body available.
Grand Theft Me: She steals Penny's body in Nemesis because Penny never lets her do anything "fun" (read: blow stuff up).
Psychopathic Womanchild: She just wants to blow stuff up, and build guns that blow stuff up, and altogether destroy things. When she successfully steals Penny's body, the first thing she does is smash the heart of gold, despite the fact that it poses literally no threat to her. When she finds that the Machine won't obey her, she screams and throws it against the wall.
Split Personality: She's Penny's insane, gleefully violent, and altogether uncontrolled side, who only got the body briefly whenever Penny needed something made. She eventually got fed up with being prevented from doing whatever she wanted and hatched a plan to get rid of Penny for good.

Magenta Slade

Magenta Slade/Pawn

"I felt weird and out of place slipping into an empty restroom when the final bell rang, to stick my face into my purple book and teleport to my after-school job being evil."

The protagonist of the spinoff Please Don't Tell My Parents I Work for a Supervillain. She befriends Marcia, Cassie, and Charlotte, while also working part-time for a super villain. Her brother is a rising star in the superhero community.

Go-Karting with Bowser: Magenta is good friends with the hero kids at school but also secretly works for a supervillain.
Iconic Sequel Character: Magenta takes seven books to make an appearance, but once she did, fans weren't complaining about the series' seemingly permanent shift from the still iconic Penny's POV to rotating protagonists.
Meaningful Name: Magenta is a color, referencing her focus on color with her alchemy superpower. It also doesn't exist in the light spectrum, referencing her secondary power that makes knowledge of her image cease to exist after she leaves an area for half a minute.
My God, What Have I Done?: Magenta is horrified when she realizes that her boss is genuinely dangerous and willing to kill innocents.
Perception Filter: Magenta's power (one of them anyway, she's also an alchemist) is that no one can remember what she looks like or recognize her from meeting to meeting until she tells them who she is.
Successful Sibling Syndrome: Magenta's older brother Kay (aka The Way) is a beloved and extremely powerful superhero, and while she loves him and he's very protective of her, she is pretty jealous.

Tonika

"When I play a computer game, I always identify with the person giving out the quests. They collect the information and solve the puzzles. The protagonist just does the grunt work."

Magenta's friend and classmate.

Badass Normal: Tonika has no powers but is a strategic genius and is able to recognize Magenta due to focusing on the feeling around her rather than her seemingly changing appearance.
Bookworm: Tonika states that she spends 3/10ths of her free time reading, and it was 9/10ths before she met her boyfriend.
Muggle Best Friend: Tonika has no powers but gets along well with kids who have powers. She ends up targeted by the villain Organism One and kidnapped, losing part of her memories.
Verbal Backspace: When Magenta asks Tonika if a boy named Sean is her boyfriend, she denies it, but only briefly.
Tonika: No! Yes. Extremely yes.

The Queen of the Dead

Avery Special/ The Queen of the Dead/Redneckromancer

"Never have raised a human zombie. Never tried. Ah've gotten roadkill to move, and I got a dead gerbil up'n about again once."

A country girl from a powerful line of necromancers who moves to Los Angeles in Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm Queen of the Dead.

Anime Hair: She uses this phrase to describe her "bulging mass" of hair.
Atrocious Alias: Her powers and Deep South origins temporarily get her dubbed "Redneckromancer," which she hates.
Country Mouse: She's just moved from Kentucky, has a thick accent, and is awed by the city.
Dark Is Not Evil: Her necromancy doesn't make her remotely mean or untrustworthy.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Her attempt to resurrect a Corrupt Corporate Executive out of misplaced guilt gives that executive powers she proceeds to horrible misuse, and also gets Avery temporarily possessed by her less benevolent ancestor.
Overly Narrow Superlative: She's the greatest living necromancer... because she's the only living necromancer left. There are a handful of undead ones, though, and they prove that she has basically no idea what she's doing with necromancy. She learns fast, though.
We Win, Because You Didn't: Her solution to the fight over the Mortizoar is to realize she doesn't need it because she's still alive and generates mana on her own while her two undead rivals do need it because their mana doesn't replenish. She then destroys it and claims victory.

The Devil Twins

Chris and Annie Domingo/The Devil Twins

Chris: For movies that have devil characters, the roles are all adults and besides...the directors wouldn't want to worry about what's legal when deciding how little we should be wearing.
Annie: You can imagine how that removed any interest in a modeling career we had left.

A pair of Big Red Devil twins. Chris can control minds and Anna is a pyrokinetic, but neither of them likes using their powers. They are Former Child Stars who quit because their So Beautiful, It's a Curse nature was attracting the wrong kind of attention.

Compelling Voice: Chris can control minds to a limited degree. It tends to work best when he uses it as a joke to convince people of something they were already inclined to do.
Half-Identical Twins: Chris and Annie are the same height and have the same "scarlet red skin and glossy black hair", although his muscles, her breasts, and the different lines in their faces distinguish them.
Hollywood Atheist: Their mother was an avid church-goer... and then she gave birth to two devil babies. The fact that their mother was excommunicated for their mere existence soured them on religion.
Jail Bait Taboo: The twins are fifteen, but adults repeatedly mistake them for other adults and hit on them, to their discomfort.
Playing with Fire: Anna is an extremely powerful pyrokinetic. However, she's also a Nice Girl and has no ability to put out fires, so she rarely uses it.
Polyamory: Chris likes Avery and doesn't mind the idea of him and Sue both having relationships with her.

Peggy

Peggy Pendleton

"Accurate."

A drab-looking friend of Avery who can make insects attack people.

Alliterative Name: Peggy Pendleton.
Heroic Bastard: She has no interest in being a villain and her Hippie Parents, Dave and Moonshine, live together without being married.
The Quiet One: She's careful with her words and often uses the one word sentence "Accurate."

Characters / Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain aka: Please Dont Tell My Parents I Have A Nemesis

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