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Sahira
Sahira
- Buxom Beauty Standard: She invokes this with her "pert pair of double-D's".
- The Call Knows Where You Live: A burning bus full of children crashes outside her home. She saves them and insists to the ambulance crew and firemen that she's not a superhero. Enter Fireblade.
- Closed Door Rapport: Has one with Buzz in order to prevent him from finding out she has powers.
- Cry into Chest: After the firemen return to save her from Fireblade.
- A Day in the Limelight: She gets the character focus in Issues 5 and 14.
- A God I Am Not: While saving the bus of children, an Indian girl begins to ask if she's a Hindu deity, because of her many arms and great strength. Sahira picks up on this and says otherwise.
- I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Attempted against Buzz, but it wasn't necessary. It still merited a Wonder Twins shout out.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: In the book-only Chapter 5, it turns out she has a superpower after all...and she doesn't want it. She later comes to embrace her powers, as it makes doing chores easier.
- I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: Even after, and while, saving a bunch of children from a burning bus, going into the burning bus to get the driver out, and trying to stall Fireblade until a superhero could show up, she repeatedly insists that she is not a hero.
- Mundane Utility: Copies Heather's powers to make housework easier and uses her own silk for knitting.
- Oh, Crap!: Her reaction to Fireblade.Sahira: I'm worried now.
- Only Sane Woman: Frequently acts as the voice of reason to try to keep Heather grounded, though this sometimes makes her Wrong Genre Savvy, herself.
- Out of Focus: She used to effectively be the Deuteragonist of the series, but as Heather's superhero career has grown, she's been seeing significantly less page time. She still gets the occasional Day In The Limelight.
- Power Copying: She can temporarily copy other superpowers. She can also stack them.
- Secret-Keeper: Her primary role is to be Heather's confidant as Spinnerette.
- Something Only They Would Say: She tells Buzz that she saw what happened with Fireblade's attack. She also mentions his motives, something she could've only known if she were close enough to speak with him.
Dr. Lambha
Dr. Lambha
- Bad Boss: Often leaves Heather to work alone in the lab, insisting that she stay up all night if she has to. He even has an "In Case of Heather, Break Glass
" button for some reason, in spite of her being his only assistant and in spite of the above. - Brick Joke: Shared with Dr. Singh's, started with his own statement that "even a cricket bat" can be used as weapon, and finished with the latter's using of the same to defend himself.
- Dirty Coward: When his life is threatened by Colonel Glass, his first and only concern is himself, to the point that he delivers what is basically a superweapon to Glass on a silver platter. Mecha Maid, Spinnerette, and Buzz all call him out on this in rapid succession.
- Jerkass: Blames Heather for anything that goes wrong in the lab.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Is very temperamental.
- Hollywood Science: He angrily lampshades how Patti, and the media in general, understand nothing about genetics when she makes a remark about how his research into spider mutations could help find a cure for fatness.
- Irony: Despite being a student of Doctor Universe, his Jerk with a Heart of Gold entry would make him an Altruist, or at least make it close enough so he could pretend to be one.
- Never My Fault: When Spinnerette and Buzz chew him out for hiding another Cherenkov reactor in the campus, making it a target for Glass thus endangering everyone, he claims he had no choice since Doctor Universe made him do it. Buzz points out that he could have at least told the authorities.
- Pet the Dog: He may be an asshole who treats Heather like crap, but Col. Glass threatening her is what ultimately pushes him into giving up the C-K reactor.
- Tempting Fate: He doesn't even get to finish saying "At least things can't get any worse." before Colonel Glass shows up.
Buzz
Buzz Rickards
A security guard at the university. Currently dating Sahira.- Anti-Hero: Of the Pragmatic Hero variety. He's a nice man and all, but between being willing to leave Lambha to be tortured to death by Glass and later blowing the latter's face apart halfway through his last words, he's not exactly a straightforward hero.
- Awesome McCoolname: Quoth Sahira: "That doesn't sound like the name of a guy who plays by the rules!"
- Badass Normal: As attested, with these words no less, by Heather herself.
- The Cape: He wants to be a cop, not because of better pay or anything like that, but because he wants to do more to "protect what we have" than round up drunken college students.
- Fair Cop: Technically he's only a security guard, but that's just because Columbus' Finest aren't hiring at the moment.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite seeing through Sahira's ploy, he deletes the security footage of Heather using her spider powers and eventually starts dating Sahira.
- Understanding Boyfriend: It's very heavily implied that he knows Sahira's secret and is willing to just stay outside and simply listen to what she has to say about Fireblade's attack.
Darien
Darien
The cute guy next door. Both he and Heather have a mutual interest in each other... but things just keep getting in the way. She dates him once, but then ditches him for Marilyn.- Dogged Nice Guy: He seems genuinely interested in Heather, but can't ever score a date with her thanks to her superhero career. When he finally does, she leaves early to sort out her feelings with Marylin once and for all.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He has fairly long hair and is rather handsome.
- Love Interest: Heather would like to think that he is, anyway. She even states that he's the Mary-Jane Watson to her Peter Parker. It's ultimately averted when she dumps him for Marilyn.
- Satellite Love Interest: Darien has barely any characterization beyond being the cute boy that Heather makes goo-goo eyes at early on. The only thing of note he does outside of this role is to provide an Internal Reveal about Dr. Lambha's former relationship with Dr. Universe.
Patti Winters
Patti Winters
A local reporter for Channel 4 who seems to focus on following superhero related stories. Also the host of her own morning talk show.- Chekhov's News: When interviewing Dr. Lambha she notes that the pool for the Genetic Infusion Chamber is large enough for a person and asks if it could be used to give a person super powers. No guesses for where Heather gets her powers.
- Coincidental Broadcast: While Sahira is flipping through channels, and arguing with Heather, she comes across a perfectly timed report from Patti.Patti: Dr. Universe and Greta Gravity have returned to the Ohio Research University campus, demanding to speak with Spinnerette.
- Going for the Big Scoop: She tends to show up where super villains do, sometimes before them, sometimes after to either interview them directly or report from a distance.
- Intrepid Reporter: She has quite the habit of getting involved with Dr. Universe and Greta Gravity. Of course, she was there for their Start of Darkness so it's likely that helps to keep her safe.
- Nonindicative Name: Patti Winters in a superhero comic? Clearly she's going to have ice powers. Nope, just a normal reporter.
- Shout-Out: Both her name and the fact that she runs a talk-show, to "The Patty Winters Show" from American Psycho.
- Talk Show: In addition to being a reporter, she also hosts "Wakeup! with Patti Winters".
Park Seong
Park Seong
Marilyn's adopted father, who works for DARPA.- Dad the Veteran: Worked for the South Korean military during the 1980's.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He works for DARPA developing powered armor and weapons, and helped create the Powered Armor, missiles, and jetpack Marilyn uses.
- Open-Minded Parent: Is aware that his daughter is a super-heroine and in a romantic relationship with another woman, and is perfectly OK with it.
- Perma-Stubble: Has five o'clock shadow in his concept art and his first appearance. He even had it in 1985.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: Marilyn's told him Spinnerettte's civilian ID, but Heather doesn't know he knows.
- The Short Guy with Glasses: Is relatively short, wears glasses, and is incredibly intelligent.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: The Tiny Guy to White Heron's Huge Girl.
Park
Park the Butler
Mecha Maid's faithful butler. The Alfred to her Batman.- Badass Normal: He is, if well trained, completely human without any powers. He still attacks Colonel Glass despite knowing for a fact that he's severely outclassed, without hesitation, with nothing more than a pair of tonfa.
- Battle Butler: He recruited White Heron into the South Korean military, and currently helps look after Marilyn.
- Eyepatch of Power: Wears one after getting one of his eyes destroyed by Col. Glass.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Glass stabs Park when he makes the mistake of taking his attention off him.
- Retired Badass: He's a former Captain in the South Korean military, having relocated to America after White Heron's death.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: Marilyn's told him Spinnerettte's civilian ID, but Heather doesn't know he knows.
Guinness
Guinness
A Class V demon working as a secretary at the Underworld Department of Labor.- Apologetic Attacker: "Please don't hurt me! I'm sorry!" she says... while utterly trashing Minerva.
- Badass Bystander: When attacked by Minerva she panics and unintentionally thrashes her.
- Canon Welding: She is the same character from Krow's earlier webcomic Krakow. Her sisters later show up in a bonus chapter.
- Defeat Means Friendship: She utterly trashed Minerva in self defence when they first met each other, but Minerva later reveals they're besties.
- Fanservice Pack: She's certainly older and more... developed than in Krakow.
- Gamer Chick: Artwork on Krow's Facebook page shows her playing on a Nintendo DS-type handheld console.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Has six arms.
- Plucky Office Girl: Works as a secretary in the Underworld Department of Labor.
- She Is All Grown Up: And it looks like her horns are indeed longer than her sister's.
- Snake People: She is a Class V demon, or to use the older/newer D&D terminology, a Marilith.
- Tail Slap: When Minerva tries to kill her, Guinness immediately begins lobbing office supplies at her assailant and lashing out with her tail.
Tom
Tom
Case's old roommate, now employed as a blacksmith in Hell.
- Berserk Button: Don't criticize his smithing skills.
- The Blacksmith: Is shown forging a BFS for Minerva to wield.
- Boring, but Practical: Teenage Minerva was pretty disappointed with the sword he made for her because it was made of steel instead of something exotic like dragon bone.
- Canon Welding: Like Guinness, he's from Krow's earlier webcomic Krakow.
- Older Than They Look: While Guinness has aged up from a young teen to an adult, Tom looks more or less the same as he did when he left the world of the living. Possibly justified due to the passage of time in the underworld being extremely convoluted.
Dr. Singh
Dr. Singh
A Sikh doctor working to cure ALS using bone marrow stem cells.
- Batman Grabs a Gun: Dr. Singh has dedicated his life to treating people with neurological trauma. He winds up being forced to use his Cricket bat on one, in self-defense for himself and his two assistants.
- Batter Up!: More like Cricket Up, but close enough for government work.
- Brick Joke: Shared with Dr. Lambha's, started with the latter's statement of what can be used as weapon, and finished with his own using of the same.
- Chekhov's Gun: That cricket bat in his office sure comes in handy when Adastrea shoots her way into his locked office.
- Disney Death: Seemingly plummets to his death when Adrastea severs Spinnerette's escape-line. Fortunately, Spinny thought ahead and set up a web beneath it to catch him. She still reacts as if he really did die to distract Adrastea.
- Failed a Spot Check: When Adrastea damages the coolant tanks, Dr. Singh rushes into the room and doesn't even notice her at first.
- Find the Cure!: He's trying to develop a cure for ALS using stem cell therapy. Unfortunately, the current version isn't effective.
General Evescroft
General Evescroft
A warmongering general with great disdain for independent superheroes of any and all stripes and colors.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: In Dr. Universe's origin story, he threatened to have him and Greta sent to jail for violations of the Suprahuman Justice Act unless they built weapons for him.
- Cape Busters: He's the current leader (and possibly founder) of the C-K Corps, a (fictional) special military unit under the command of the US Department of Homeland Security, whose job is to deal with threats to national security involving C-K reaction-based supers. In that regard, they consider costumed superheroes to be little better than actual supervillains, and by all indications the only thing stopping them from arresting superheroes and "quasi-criminals" like Dr. Universe and Greta is the fact that they haven't actually committed any crimes. Issue 25 has him trying to exploit Colonel Glass's attack on Ohio to have his C-K Corps' legal jurisdiction greatly expanded, and he even talks of rolling out next-gen anti-C-K weapons to the National Guard if the bill he's pushing for passes.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: He electrocutes Greta in an effort to get Dr. Universe to work for him.
- Create Your Own Villain: He is directly responsible for turning Dr. Universe and Greta Gravity to evil.
- Defensive Failure: During his confrontation with Colonel Glass in a secret Ohio bunker, he threatened to blow up the entire bunker as an attempt to kill Colonel Glass at the cost of his life and those of his men. Colonel Glass promptly — and correctly — calls his bluff: If Evescroft was "any kind of soldier", he would've simply used the Self-Destruct Mechanism the instant Glass made his presence known, rather than attempt to threaten him with. What Glass is essentially saying is that Evescroft is little more than a coward who deludes himself into believing that he's more than willing to lay down his life for his country, but can't put his money where his mouth is when faced with a scenario (namely, a nigh-unstoppable Ax-Crazy supervillain serving a warmongering rogue state) in which such a sacrifice is indeed the only morally sound option.
- Fantastic Racism: He and by proxy the C-K Corps frequently refer to independent superheroes as "costumed freaks", and are unconditionally hostile to and uncooperative with them even when faced with a supervillain threat that they themselves are greatly disadvantaged against.
- General Ripper: He would love to have an army of super-powered Super Soldiers at his command. All for the "greater good", of course.
- Genre Blind: Utilizes Faceless Goons as a security force. Col. Glass uses this to infiltrate his headquarters and mocks him for this.
- Government Agency of Fiction: He's the head of both DARPA's C-K Research Division (at least, during Dr. Universe's origin story) and the US Department of Homeland Security's C-K Corps.
- Knight Templar: He, and by extension the C-K Corps, claim to be doing their duty by "defending the United States of America against all threats, foreign and domestic." Somehow, this justifies them committing the following acts:
- Extrajudicially detaining US citizens under horrible conditions and drugging them, all just to monopolize a weaponized version of a super-empowering invention;
- Endangering the lives of every single civilian in the Ohio Research University just to get Colonel Glass off his back, rather than going through with his just-stated threat to blow the entire bunker (which Glass himself called out as an obvious bluff);
- Delaying the evacuation of all the students from the aforementioned university on the off chance that Colonel Glass could be hiding among them, not caring that they're simultaneously giving the aforementioned Ax-Crazy supervillain ample opportunity to hold those students hostage (if he didn't decide to just slaughter them on the spot For the Evulz);
- Arresting a well-known and well-regarded superhero with a clean record just because he "assaulted" a (superpowered) member of the C-K Corps (nevermind that said C-K Corps member was the one who started the fight by attempting to arrest two superheroes just because they were exercising their civil rights to be superheroes);
- Detonating an untested anti-C-K weapon prototype in the middle of a crowd of civilians, in response to Greta and Doctor Universe attacking his vehicle. It's like using the Death Star to kill a mosquito.
- He has his goons arrest Greta and Spinnerette both, and then has them both tortured to force Dr. Universe to design and correct the flaws of his anti-CK weapons. When he's Out-Gambitted, he threatens Dr. Universe with a death-squad.;
- Extrajudicially detaining
- Lawful Stupid: His Silver Age counterpart refuses to allow Silver Age Spinnerette, a badass Super-Soldier with six arms, to go to Vietnam because she's an inch too short.
- Mutant Draft Board: He wants superpowers to be "the sole domain of the armed forces" — in effect, he desires a government monopoly on all supers, and consequentially the criminalization of any super not sanctioned by the government.
- My Greatest Failure: He has been seething for years over how his "last best hope" for creating an army of superpowered soldiers only ended up being wasted on accidentally turning Dr. Laura MacKenzie (the future Super-MILF) into a "big-titted maniac", and has sworn to never let that happen again.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: After he coughed up the location of the C-K reactor that was stolen from him by Dr. Universe to Colonel Glass, he had an anonymous tip sent to Homeland Security in hopes that they would manage to kill Glass where he failed. It just made things worse when the drone strike not only failed to do anything to him, but he went up and took over one of the drones to use as a convenient method of delivering the reactor to his superiors!
- Stealing the Credit: Issue 25 starts off with him taking credit for Colonel Glass's death, when in reality it's Spinnerette and Buzz who killed him. note
- Tempting Fate: "It's a damn shame Universe isn't stupid enough to attack us right here. I'd love to give the media a demonstration of our anti-CK weapons." 3 seconds later, Universe attacks him (for a given definition of "attack"; the supervillain himself described it as "escalating [their] protest into civil disobedience").
- That's an Order!: When his men question the soundness of detonating an untested C-K mine (in the middle of a civilian-crowded area, no less), he cuts them off and reaffirms that it's an order, and thus questioning it is out of the question.
- Villain Has a Point: His initial arrest of Greta and the man who would become Dr. Universe was justified because the two of them were planning to sell high-yield weapons tech to China, which has a horrific human rights abuse record, and is allied to numerous warmongering, and highly hostile regimes, like North Korea. Of course, what Evescroft proceeds to do next, ie, violate their rights and abuse them in the hopes of conning them into designing weapons tech for his own exclusive use, makes him no better than the Chinese "handlers" he warns Gretta and Universe against.
- We ARE Struggling Together: If the actions of the C-K Corps he leads during the Colonel Glass incident are any indication, he'd rather die (and possibly endanger the country he's supposed to serve) than to accept help from a "costumed freak".
Betty Brown
Heather's mother.
- Ambition Is Evil: Not content with her home life, she wanted "more" and took it in the form of her home-based business that wound up literally possessing her.
- Cultural Rebel: She was born and raised in the '50s and hates it. She got sick of being "the happy little housewife" and openly ignored her husband's warnings about the multi-level-marketing home-business she signed up for, Lola Rue...
- Deal with the Devil: What Lola Rue, as the home business, is really all about.
- Demonic Possession: She gets possessed by a Wendigo, which amps up her negative traits and almost causes her to nearly kill her husband and daughter.
- Fat Bastard: Overweight and evil, as a result of demonic possession.
- Female Misogynist: Hates being "the happy housewife" and the stereotypical gender roles of the '50s, yet is "disappointed" by Heather having a girlfriend, to the point she tries to kill them both. Granted, she was possessed at the time and likely acting on negative feelings but still.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: In Issue 31, she wears glasses and cares so much about her home-based business that she let it literally possess her.
- Hypocrite: Decries her husband, Sheriff Brown, leaving Christmas Dinner with Heather and Marylin to go to work, and then answers her cell-phone to do the exact same thing, leaving both Marylin and Heather unattended...
- An Ice Person: Uses ice-based powers while possessed by Wendy G.
- Lecherous Licking: Licks her husband's blood off claws after she slashes his face...
- Not Brainwashed: Averted with the pie incident. However the homophobic remarks she made while possessed weren't all the wendigo.
- People Farms: There's a reason the Brown's storage shed has large freezers...
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Makes homophobic remarks about her own daughter. Even after being freed from the Wendigo possessing her, when given an ultimatum by her husband to either accept their daughter's sexuality or leave him, she chooses to leave him.
- Straw Character: About as subtle as a brick to the face on conservatives.
- Transformation of the Possessed: Her ambition for her home business to succeed and be profitable led to her being possessed by a Wendigo.
- Underestimating Badassery: Sure, she may be able to trounce a sheriff with a gun with ease, especially since he's holding back, but she's no match for a bonna-fide super-heroine, who has ample legitimate reason to resort to lethal force herself. Though ironiclly it took both to defeat her.
Sheriff Brown
Heather's father.
- Badass Normal: Fights the wendigo Wendy G with nothing but his service pistol.
- By-the-Book Cop: Competent and dutiful police officer who follows proper procedures at all times.
- Dad the Veteran: He's a veteran of Operation Desert Storm.
- Hypocrite Has a Point: Decries his wife, Betty, for abandoning Heather and Marilyn to go to work while he's getting ready to go to work himself; however, he's an on-duty police officer, and people's lives could well be on the line, while Betty is not in any way an emergency first-responder. Though her job does entail life or death situations, that she creates.
- Old Soldier: Comments that he participated in Desert Storm, currently he's more of an old police officer.
- Open-Minded Parent: Ironically. He's the more "conservative" member of the Brown family, yet he openly welcomes Heather and Marilyn's relationship. Betty's the more "liberal" member of the family, who hates the '50s stereotypical nuclear family dynamic, yet she hates it and is "disappointed" that Heather's "a freak and a lesbian" to the point she tries to use deadly force on both Marilyn and Heather. He also takes Heather being Spinnerette pretty well.
- Papa Wolf: He's willing to fight a horrific ice-spewing abomination for the sake of his daughter.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: He has always opposed Betty getting involved with the home-based business, Lola Rue, and while the reasons are not elaborated on, there are numerous valid mundane objections, not the least of which is that multi-level marketing is notorious for being the hunting ground of thieves and scammers who lure people in with promises of quick and easy money only to clean them out. The business does turn out to be a bad idea with the reveal that it led to Betty getting possessed by some kind of ice-spewing abomination.
- Secret-Keeper: During the fight against Wendy G, Heather is forced to reveal to him that she's Spinnerette.
Dr. Demikhov
You are obsolete, Dr. Universe! Behold the superiority of Communism! BWAHAHAHAHA!
A rival "scientist" to Dr. Universe, with an assistant that's a rival to Greta.- Born in the Wrong Century: He spouts Soviet Era communist propaganda, wears the Soviet army uniform, and even has an arm-band with the national symbol of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union fell apart as a nation over 30 years ago.
- Comically Missing the Point: When he hears Dr. Universe laugh upon The Reveal that Manya is alive, because the gravity tug-of-war woke her up and Rita's hat fell off, he insults Dr. Universe, stating the man is mocking Rita and Manya due to western standards of beauty. What's really making Dr. Universe laugh, however, is that Demikhov has just proven himself a fraud, but doesn't realize it until it's spelled out.
- Deconstruction: Of the communist ideal. The fact that he performs his "research" in a 50-year-old abandoned lab with severe and possibly deadly "maintenance issues", as the least offensive of the list of problems he faces, doesn't speak well of the system he touts.
- Foil: To Dr. Universe. He wears power boots, while Dr. Universe has a power gauntlet. He's a card-carrying communist that believes nobody should own property and technology should be shared, free of charge, though the government system he touts obviously believed, and still believes, very, very differently while Dr. Universe is an objectivist, and funds his own research through profit-motive driven means. Dr. Universe actually cares about Greta's well being, while Demikhov only sees his assistants as lab rats.
- For Science!: In a similar vein as Cave Johnson. As long as there's a scientific breakthrough to be had, the consequences or impracticality of doing it are irrelevant to him. In addition to fusing Rita and Manya to prove his own untested hypothesis, he saved his dog Laika's life after a car accident by combining her with a Roomba (not in the form of a Cyborg, either; as a dog's head sticking out of a Roomba).Dr. Universe: Who builds a cyborg dog that can't handle stairs?
- Just Think of the Potential!: What he uses to justify performing dangerous, and untested, surgery on Rita and Manya without even asking for consent first.
- Let No Crisis Go to Waste: Or Make It Look Like an Accident. Which is currently unclear. He admits that he exaggerated the extent of Rita and Manya's injuries due to an explosion in his lab to justify, after the fact, putting them through extensive, dangerous, and completely untested surgery, which he then shows off in a gravity tug-of-war demonstration against Greta and Dr. Universe's far more practical and ethical, non-surgical, power boost system.
- Mad Scientist: He makes Dr. Universe look downright sane and completely ethical by comparison. He's introduced showing off his pet dog surgically fused to a Roomba! When called out on it, by Dr. Universe, he touts that this was a last-ditch effort to save the dog's life when it was in a deadly accident.
- Meaningful Name: His name is the surname of Vladimir Demikhov, a Soviet scientist who was renowned for dog head transplants (evoked by Dr. Demikhov's transplantation of Laika's head onto a Roomba), which resulted in two-headed dogs (evoked by how Dr. Demikhov fused Rita and Manya into a single body with a single two-faced head and four arms).
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: To convince himself, in his own mind, that he's the superior researcher to Dr. Universe, and the communist ideal, as he sees it anyway, is superior to the capitalist system, there's no crime he'd overlook "for the greater good," even if that means turning his loyal assistants into unwilling lab-rats. While Manya calls him out on it, Rita is still foolishly loyal.
- Revealing Cover Up: By getting Rita into a gravity tug-of-war with Greta, which Dr. Universe only lost because he didn't want to push Greta too far, he reveals that he used unethical surgical practices to fuse Rita and Manya together, and has been hiding Manya's existence by claiming the girl died in a lab accident with Manya's face hidden under Rita's hat.
- Smug Snake: Always struts around as if he's the smartest man in the room. He's not.
- Strawman Political: Touts the superiority of communism, natch, befitting his Soviet Super Science schtick.
- Troll: He goes out of his way to taunt, harass, and provoke Dr. Universe whenever the two are within a mile of each other, just for his own amusement, and to prove, solely in his own mind, how he's the superior researcher. This does eventually catch up to him when he gloats a bit too much and Manya catches on to his despicable acts.
Rita and Manya
- A-Cup Angst: According to Greta, Rita has a habit of accusing her of having breast implants to Greta's utter annoyance and figures she's just jealous of her figure.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Manya asks Demikhov why he never bothered getting consent before putting them through dangerous, and completely untested surgery, fusing them together at the brain-stem. Demikhov smugly states he didn't think it was necessary. This causes Manya and Rita to go to war as Manya rightly wants to beat Demikhov down while Rita still thinks the world of him.
- Awesome, but Impractical: To the extreme. Their combined gravity powers, as a result of the surgery fusing them together, beats Greta's power, unless Greta's life is threatened by the strain, but this only works because they're identical twins and thus didn't suffer from transplant rejection when they were surgically fused together. This makes Demikhov's claims of having the "superior" enhancement system false, not just in terms of actual application, but sheer feasibility. What's worse, in order to use their full power, they have to be in agreement. After The Reveal that Demikhov doesn't see Manya or Rita as people, but as a disposable lab-rats, and Rita still chooses him over her, that's not likely to happen.
- Body Horror: Especially from Manya's point of view. Her head and brain are permanently fused to the back of Rita's head, and her arms are fused to Rita's back. This takes away all her free agency, making her completely dependent on Rita and, by proxy, a slave to Dr. Demikhov. What's worse is that this is completely irreversible, with Dr. Demikhov shrugging off her concerns with "it was for the greater good."
- Cooldown Hug: Give each other a very "Aww"-inducing handclasp with all four of their hands, showing that while they may not agree, they're still loving identical twin sisters.
- Double Standard: Rita sees Dr. Demikhov going full-tilt "Dr. Frankenstein" and performing unethical, unproven, and untested surgery upon both herself and Manya, purely for the sake of his own ego, and bragging rights in his self-proclaimed rivalry with Dr. Universe as somehow serving "the greater good" and championing the Soviet ideal. The fact that Manya is rightfully enraged at being violated, proclaimed to the world to be dead, and turned into a meat back-pack on Rita's back, and has to live with her face being hidden under a fur hat? That is "selfish" and a violation of their Soviet ideals.
- Fusion Dance: Via surgery. Manya and Rita were surgically fused together at the brain stem.
- Gravity Master: Like Greta, they have gravity powers, which is slightly stronger due to having two minds fused togeter. However it isn't stable and the sisters have to be in unison for it to work properly.
- Hartman Hips: Contrasting Greta's comically massive bust, Rita and Manya were all-but flat-chested but had very wide hips.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Manya, whose existence was hidden under Rita's hat, calls out, turns on, and attacks Demikhov the moment she learns that the "accident" which gave him the excuse to surgically fuse them together may not have been an accident at all, when Dr. Universe points out the Contrived Coincidence required for that to happen the way Demikhov said it did, and really gets angry when Demikhov admits exaggerating the nature of the women's injuries to justify to them, and himself, putting them through the surgery in the first place. In the end it's slightly averted for the fact that Manya wouldn't have actually been against the surgery, she would have just preferred, unsurprisingly, being asked first.
- My Country, Right or Wrong: Despite the fact that the Soviet Union doesn't even exist anymore, Rita still sees herself as a Soviet citizen and clings to the completely debunked Soviet ideals like a drowning man clings to a life-preserver, and completely refuses to be swayed by empirical evidence, lashing out with violence to whoever disagrees, even her twin sister.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: Rita is still loyal to Demikhov despite being tricked into becoming an unwitting lab rat. Manya is understandably pissed about being reduced to a "meat backpack". This causes issues. Which nearly leads into...
- Phlebotinum Overload: due to their gravity powers counteracting each other and their fused Pineal gland. Thankfully, Greta stepping in and tossing Demikhov into a nearby lake managed to get them to snap out of Going Critical.
- Two-Faced: Quite literally in their body's case.
- Was It All a Lie?: When Dr. Universe spells out how many coincidences would have had to happen for the "lab accident" to result in both Rita and Manya being injured so severely and in such a way that fusing them by the back of their heads was the only method to save their lives, Manya grabs Demikhov and asks him, point blank, "that's a lie, isn't it, Doctor?"
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Rita is madly in love with the concept of Soviet Era communism, at least as Dr. Demikhov advertises it. She completely refuses to believe it's a debunked, tried and failed system, responsible for untold misery and death. When Manya calls her out on it and on Dr. Demikhov for abusing the both of them, she retorts "Counter-revolutionary!".
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Sweet, lovable Russian twin sisters? Check. Twisted Body Horror experiment? Check. Gravity-powered Persons of Mass Destruction? Check.
