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Lunatic

Voiced by: Koji Yusa (JP), Liam O'Brien (EN)

A mysterious NEXT who manipulates blue flames. His dark and brutal idea of justice, that is, making killers atone for their deeds with their lives, puts him at odds with the other heroes.

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• 11th-Hour Ranger: While he spent much of the series opposed to the heroes on principal, in season 2 episode 24 he joins Tiger and Barnaby in the fight against an out-of-control L. L. Audun.
• Abusive Parents: While Mr. Legend was a nice enough parent while he was a hero, he slowly descended into this and alcoholism once he was Brought Down to Normal... Also, Lunatic seems to hallucinate from time to time that his father's spirit is reprimanding him.
• Anti-Hero: A particularly brutal and ruthless variant bordering on Anti-Villain.
• All-Encompassing Mantle: Wears one but flings it off and burns it when he gets serious.
• Automatic Crossbow: Has one that can shoot his flames.
• Bad Moon Rising: His appearance is always signaled by a shot of the moon taking on an ominous red hue.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • In Season 1, when Kotetsu is framed for a crime he didn't commit and being chased by the fake Wild Tiger Lunatic saves him on the grounds that he only punishes true criminals.
  • In Season 2, he saves Little Aurora twice when she's about to be killed by Ouroboros.
• Burn Scars, Burning Powers: Lunatic, a vigilante who kills criminals with his fire powers, has a burn scar on his face that he hides with makeup in his civilian identity, judge Yuri Petrov. When he was a child, Yuri awakened his fire powers to protect his mother from his abusive father, former superhero Mr. Legend. Yuri set Legend on fire; and as Legend burned to death, Legend attempted to grab Yuri's face, leaving a hand-shaped burn scar.
• Catchphrase: "Hear the voice of Thanatos!" or some variant thereof. Doubles as a Pre-Mortem One-Liner.
• Chekhov M.I.A.: It's pointed out that Lunatic, while sporadically mentioned and seen, strikes rather infrequently, not even showing up when people like Jake hold the city hostage despite his vigilantism. This is because his true identity is Yuri Petrov, who's a city judge and a curator of Hero TV, so he's busy working with the heroes during daylight hours, and only acts when he feels the heroes' methods have failed.
• Chest Insignia: Has a blue hand on the right side of his body and a smaller one on his mask.
• Combat Pragmatist: Not so much in his fighting, but he strikes at the first moment to try and kill someone, not caring if they were arrested and defeated beforehand.
• Conflicting Loyalty: His main Arc in Season 2. Unlike most characters, his is more about ideals than different factions: he struggles to reconcile the heroic sense of justice he learnt when his father was still a hero and that the current generation represents with the man his father eventually became and his own murderous actions. His genuine belief that murderers should be killed and his belief that murder is inherently unjust manifests as hallucinations of his father reprimanding him and telling him he has no right to live a peaceful life. He finally reconciles these beliefs by realising that his own sense of justice doesn't have to be black and white and decides to follow it until the end.
• Destructive Savior: For a given value of 'savior'. His attitudes towards collateral damage are enough to turn even Kotetsu's stomach.
• Disney Villain Death: With the heavy injuries from the fight against Audun, he sets himself on fire and falls to his death before Kotetsu and Barnaby's eyes.
• Enemy Mine: In the last two episodes of Season 2, he works together with Tiger and Barnaby, his mortal enemies, to stop Audun, who has been brainwashed and empowered by Gregory.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Lunatic might be a killer but he only goes after killers of the innocent-and thoroughly researches his marks before acting, lest he kills an innocent himself. When confronted by a man who was obviously innocent of the crimes leveled against him, Lunatic acts to save him instead. He also refuses to kill anyone who is innocent in his eyes.
• Fireball Eyeballs: Sometimes happens when using his powers.
• Freudian Excuse: His father, Mr. Legend, was originally his inspiration, and encouraged him to take action when he saw wrongs being committed. Then he lost his powers and began drinking heavily and abusing Lunatic's mother. Yuri eventually stood up to him to protect his mother, inadvertently activating his NEXT powers in the process, and accidentally burned his father alive. To top it all off, his mother still holds a grudge against him for killing Legend, even if it was to defend her. Is it any wonder he doesn't have much faith in heroes?
• Good is Not Nice: If you consider him an Anti-Hero. He considers himself an administrator of justice, and is willing to kill in service to this goal. He never intentionally wounds any of the heroes, but doesn't seem to be terribly careful about it either.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a massive burn across his face that he routinely covers with make-up. It's the result of his father attempting a Facepalm of Doom on him after Yuri set his hand on fire.
• Intangible Man: In Episode 16 Lunatic just vanishes through an overpass in a burst of blue/green flame. In that same episode he phases through a wall to enter a strip club to administer his justice to the Lady Killer. The wall sustained no damage.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: Over the course of Season 2, Yuri Petrov was incredibly close to abandon his Lunatic persona, working with the superheroes evermore closely as his role of Judge; entrusting in their ideals—only for his mother to be murdered by robbers while the superheroes were forbidden to act by laws of government, prompting Yuri to take up Lunatic’s persona once again to kill off the culprits mercilessly; risking the welfares of NEXTs by defying the laws. Lunatic then went into a Hazy-Feel Turn at the end of Season where he comes to terms with his past actions and decides to work with Tiger and Barnaby to take out Rosicky and Audun.
• Karma Houdini: Never actually faces punishment for his actions, the most he gets is being stopped from committing murder.
• Kick the Dog: His willingness to kill the innocent Ivan just for defending (an admittedly deserving) Edward showed he's not as just as he thinks he is.
• Kick Them While They Are Down: He won't hesitate to go after criminals even after they've been arrested, imprisoned, or otherwise neutralized, such as the prisoners he fried in Episode Six and Albert Maverick after he wiped his own mind.
• Knight of Cerebus: The first villain in the show who's treated entirely seriously, and responsible for the first on-screen deaths as well.
• Knight Templar: He kills criminals that have slipped through the law's fingers.
• Lightning Bruiser: His flames are hotter than Fire Emblem's and he can use them to rapidly propel himself through the air. He's also resilient enough to take a direct hit from Kotetsu (while the latter's Hundred Power was activated) without flinching.
• Malevolent Masked Man: He wears a mask with a handprint covering the face.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: A firm believer in this. Even targeting people who escaped prison for murder they accidentally caused.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Any guy that calls himself Lunatic probably isn't someone you wanna run into.
• Never Hurt an Innocent: He makes a point of only killing criminals, but is not averse to extending a lethal hand on anyone who helps criminals.
• Nightmare Face: His mask.
• '90s Anti-Hero: Kills criminals in the name of justice? Check. Considers other heroes outdated and ineffective? Check. Wears an outfit that would instantly identify him as a Card-Carrying Villain in any other era of comics? Double-check!
• No "Arc" in "Archery": He can hit someone with his crossbow from halfway across the city. While standing on top of a skyscraper. When his target was in a parking structure. Probably justified by him being able to control the trajectory, meaning the crossbow is just for style.
• Not Quite Flight: Can use quick bursts of flame to change his trajectory in mid-air, much like a Double Jump.
• Pay Evil unto Evil:
  • If he targets a criminal, odds are that they are deeply unpleasant people.
  • His first appearance in Episode 6 has him frying three criminals midway through their fond reminiscences about kidnapping and murdering children and entire families.
  • He does it again at the end of Episode 16, this time against a Serial Killer who managed to get away from Kotetsu.
  • Especially does this in season 2, episode 20 against two muggers that killed his mother during a break-in.
• Playing with Fire: He has the ability to generate and control fire, to a greater degree than Fire Emblem.
• Rage Helm: A variant. The visor of his helmet is sculpted into an eerie, wide-eyed grimace that makes him look like, well, a lunatic.
• Red Right Hand: Under his mask, he has a massive hand shaped burn across his face. The mask itself uses the hand motif as a bitter reminder.
• Required Secondary Powers: Subverted. He's not immune to the fire that he generates, as the hand-shaped scar on his face is the result of his then burning father grabbing his face. As such, he shoots his flames from his crossbow or in short bursts. This is a difference between him and Fire Emblem, who is immune to their flames.
• Secret Test of Character: On Ivan when he imitated an escaped fugitive. However, Lunatic all but spells out that he was going to eliminate the less noble of the two anyway.
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: A point he repeatedly tries to make to the heroes.
• Tautological Templar: Lunatic, in that he honestly thinks that to achieve true justice, all criminals—and those who shield and/or support them—must die. This clashes with Sternbild's laws, which frown on the concept of capital punishment.
• Vigilante Man: He's not working for Hero TV, or with the police when he's acting as Lunatic.
• Vigilante Execution: His standard MO, much to the disapproval of the heroes.
• Villainous Rescue:
  • He saved Kotetsu from the other heroes when they had been brainwashed by a villain.
  • In season 2, he saves Little Aurora from Rosicky controlling the mayor's body.
• Villain with Good Publicity: After years of exclusively being served idealistic, squeaky-clean heroes, fans love him. Though with the popularity boost the regular heroes get after defeating Ouroboros's attack, his success is short-lived.
• Wild Card: He is firmly against villains, he does not hesitate to attack and possibly kill heroes should they get in the way of his "justice".

Season One & The Beginning

Robin Baxter

Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (JP), Jason Spisak (EN)

A villain from the movie. An internationally wanted criminal for stealing goods across the world and getting away scot free.

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• Rollerblade Good: He wears rollerblades. Helps him get around faster.
• Logical Weakness: He can only switch places with people so he's outsmarted by believing Barnaby's in his suit and then contained where he can't see anyone to swap with.
• Villain Teleportation: His NEXT power is the ability to switch places with anyone in his sight. Also able to Teleport Spam it with glee when in a area filled with people.

Benoit Depardieu

Voiced by: Tetsuo Goto (JP), Kirk Thornton (EN)

A serial killer who appears in S1 Episode 16. He's been stated to sexually assault and murder women for pleasure.

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• For the Evulz: The series gives no other explanation for what he does.
• In-Series Nickname: "Ladykiller".
• I Surrender, Suckers: Inverted. When he sees Lunatic approach, he immediately attacks. When that fails, he offers to come along quietly. Unfortunately for him, he didn't seem to get the memo on Lunatic's method of handling unrepentant Serial Killers.
• Lightning Lash: He has an electrically charged whip which he uses as a weapon. It's implied that he also uses it to torture his victims.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: What Lunatic did to him? He REALLY had it coming.
• Serial Killer: As mentioned, he rapes and murders women for fun.
• Too Dumb to Live: For failing to realize that Lunatic doesn't take prisoners.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: He surrenders because he knows that a Hero wouldn't kill him. Unfortunately for him, Lunatic is a vigilante unaffiliated with the Heroes who doesn't take prisoners.

Dr. Rotwang

Voiced by: Mitsuru Miyamoto (JP), Vic Mignogna (EN)

A robotics engineer and former colleague of Barnaby's parents. He created Cis and later joins up with Maverick to further his research.

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• Asshole Victim: No one was mourning his death when Maverick kicked him off the building.
• Character Death: It's safe to say he didn't survive being sent careening off the top of the tallest building in the city. Hero Tv Fan 2 also confirms his death.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Introduced early on as a one-shot who worked with Barnaby's parents on android research. Cut to Episode 23...
• Death by Racism: He thinks Maverick's plan is for them to get rid of all the NEXTs together apparently not realizing that Maverick himself is a NEXT. He states this while he's hanging off the top of the Justice Tower from Maverick's leg.
• Dirty Coward: The moment the tables are turned, he shows his true colors.
• Disney Villain Death: He takes the fastest way down to the bottom of Justice Tower courtesy of a kick to the face by Maverick.
• The Dragon: Episode 23 reveals after the Cis incident that Maverick hired him to serve as his.
• Fantastic Racism: Revealed in Episode 23 that he's a rabid NEXT hater, which is likely why Cis targeted heroes despite Rotwang's claims that it was just a freak accident. The motivation behind building his androids is to use them to surpass and replace the NEXT.
• Mad Scientist: He's nuttier than a bag full of almonds and builds robots to fight the heroes.
• Psychopathic Manchild: He uses such juvenile names as "creepy" and "freaky" to describe NEXT in the dub. In the original he refers to them as "bakemono" or monsters, which is a rather exorbitant word and often associated with mythology.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gets one in Episode 23.
• Sadistic Choice: Gives this to the captured heroes he put explosive leashes on. Either (A), a hero could deactivate their own explosives to save themselves, but detonate the others; or (B), trust that Tiger and Barnaby can defeat H-01, but if the pair lost to it, they would all detonate. And if any of them used their NEXT powers, he would detonate them himself.
  • Then he reveals in Episode 24 that trying to deactivate their own explosive will cause them all to detonate, and that he had no intention of letting any of them live. When H-01 loses, he goes back on his word and attempts to kill them anyway.
• Smug Snake: Back when it seemed like he was just a one-shot character in Episode 15, this wasn't apparent as his android had supposedly gone rogue. When he reappears in Episode 23 he shows his true colors as an unbearably smug and cruel villain driven by Fantastic Racism and who thinks he can easily break the captive heroes with his mind games.
• Sore Loser: When H-01 is defeated by Wild Tiger and Barnaby, he plans on killing all the captive heroes. They're only saved by Kaede's timely intervention.
• Shout-Out: He shares a name with another robot creator in Metropolis.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: With Rotwang hanging on to Maverick to stop from falling out of a building, Maverick tells him he has no further need for him now that Rotwang has finished his androids and kicks him to his death in Episode 25.

H-01

The robot that replaced Kotetsu, and was set to replace heroes in general.

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• BFG: H-01 is equipped with a powerful one. After Wild Tiger and Barnaby disarmed it, the gun was used by Barnaby to finish it off while Wild Tiger held H-01.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: Has one in its left arm.
• Conservation of Ninjutsu: Averted and lampshaded. H-01 wasn't a prototype, it was a production model. The second the heroes get over defeating one, 8 more equally powerful ones show up.

Minor Season One Criminals

• The Dead Have Names: The criminals from Episode 1 are named after they were killed in Episode 6. Their names were Tony Smith, Jack Brown, and Bob Johnson.
• Determinator: One of the robbers basically spends half the episode evading the many heroes that show up. And he is a completely normal guy. This is, of course, purely to show off all the main heroes.
• Gemstone Assault: The very first criminal that Tiger and Barnaby fight as an actual team can turn his entire body into gemstone.
• Improbable Weapon User: One of the criminals from Episode 7 wields a medieval broadsword. Since it was a staged show, though, he probably had no idea how to use it.
• Indirect Kiss: Invoked in Episode 14 when the backstage thief who crossdresses as Blue Rose considers using her lipstick.
• Insane Troll Logic: Once the backstage thief finds out how bad the security is, he had no choice but to start sneaking in and stealing stuff.
• Invisible Jerkass: The backstage thief, who has the power to turn invisible (as long as he holds his breath) and uses it to perv on women.
• Jet Pack: The villains in Episode 5 have them.
• Mini-Mecha: The type of weapon a criminal piloted in Episode 6.
• The Nose Knows: The main powers of the criminal group featured in Episode 9. Mary can smell money, Lily can smell lies, and Elly can smell danger.
• Siblings in Crime: Lily, Mary and Elly are a trio of sisters who commit kidnappings and whose powers complement each other.
• Wingding Eyes: One of the robbers in the opening sequence of the series uses a realistic take on this look with dollar signs on the lenses of his sunglasses.

The Rising

Richard Max

Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama (JP), Matthew Mercer (EN)

One of the three mysterious villains in the second movie.

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• The Comically Serious: He is unamused at Bison's attempts to have a Catchphrase.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Origami Cyclone manages to weaken him critically by reflecting Richard Max's own scream back at him. This gives Sky High and Rock Bison a chance to deliver the finishing blow.
• Revenge: Against Schneider for ruining his career as a boxer.
• Super-Scream: Once he opens his mouthguard, he can let out destructive screams.

Kasha Graham

Voiced by: Nana Mizuki (JP), Cristina Valenzuela (EN)

One of the three mysterious villains in the second movie.

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• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Her discs can cut through anything, including bridges, like butter.
• Dance Battler: She is highly maneuverable thanks to her talents as a Belly dancer and attacks with these moves as well as the chakrams she carries, which she is able to create copies of whenever she duplicates herself.
• Deadly Disc: Her main weapon.
• Me's a Crowd: She can create illusions and uses them to make copies of herself to confuse her enemies.
• Revenge: Against Schneider for closing down the theater where she worked as a dancer.
• Sultry Belly Dancer: She's pretty sultry and her former profession was belly dancing before her studio was closed down.

Johnny Wong

Voiced by: Mugihito (JP), Michael McConnohie (EN)

One of the three mysterious villains in the second movie.

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• Evil Old Folks: He's evil and an old man. He has rather deadly NEXT power that he needs to get in close proximity to work. However, his high agility and deadly skill with staff make him a formidable adversary to the heroes even without his NEXT power.
• Healing Factor: By way of a cellular regeneration belt.
• Human Popsicle: How he is finally defeated, courtesy of Blue Rose.
• Lotus-Eater Machine: He can send people into a tortuous slumber.
• No-Sell: His powers don't work on people who have no problems with who they are, as Nathan is able to overcome being whammied by accepting their Dark and Troubled Past and moving beyond it.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Fire Emblem's transgender nature disgusts him and he's none too polite in expressing that distaste.
• Revenge: Against Schneider for destroying the temple where he served as a monk.
• Would Hit a Girl: Has no problem beating down Blue Rose and Dragon Kid mercilessly.

Season Two

Gregory Sunshine

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (JP), Robbie Daymond (EN)

A villain thief that tangled with Golden Ryan in the past who's currently serving a life sentence.

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• The Alcoholic: This man can barely function without booze, to the point every room of his hideout is littered with bottles.
• Arch-Enemy: Of Golden Ryan as he is the one who caused his powers to go haywire back in Oldhabi city.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Zigzagged. He technically plays this straight with Hugan and Mugan, but they were so close to death that he only shortened their lives by a couple minutes at most. He plays this straight with Brahe, who he kills before the heroes are aware he even exists. And later with Rosicky.
• Chekhov's Gunman: At first it seems like he's just a flashback villain to flesh out Golden Ryan's past. Then he returns as a guinea pig for Rosicky's NEXT drug. The gunman part ends up being pretty literal as he murders Hugan, Mugan, Brahe and possibly Rosicky while he makes his escape, stealing a briefcase full of the drug they were testing on him in the process. In the second part of season 2, he is part of a plan using his powers to cause NEXTs to go out of control and cause anti-NEXT attitudes in Sternbild.
• Evil Redhead: Has auburn hair and is a dangerous and depraved criminal.
• Fights Like a Normal: His power is extremely situational and difficult to use in a combat situation, so he's mostly just a conventional guerrilla fighter who's very good with firearms. These are the skills he relies on to break out of Ouroboros's laboratory.
• For the Evulz: He has no stated reason to go out of his way to shoot the already dying Hugan and Mugan in the middle of his firefight with Brahe, as all it does is cause the latter's last moments to be absolutely miserable before also being killed.
• Hate Plague: The other effect of his power, aside from causing NEXT to lose control of their power is to drive them berserk at the same time.
• The Heavy: While Rosicky is the one who does all the planning to fulfill Ouroboros' plan, Gregory is responsible for putting the plan into action due to how useful his powers are.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: It's never stated what his goals are, but it's known he has no connection to Ouroboros. At least until the second half of season 2.
• Power Incontinence: His NEXT power is to make other NEXT lose control over their own powers. A flashback shows him jumpstarting Golden Ryan's gravity power resulting in a building being brought down on Ryan.
• Practically Joker: He's a Chaotic Evil Perpetual Smiler who wears a purple suit. His Japanese voice actor, Takehito Koyasu, played the Joker in the Japanese dub of Suicide Squad (2016), and his English voice actor, Robbie Raymond, uses a voice that's clearly inspired by Mark Hamill's portrayal of the character.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Anyone who gets affected by his powers have their eyes turn red as they lose control.
• Slasher Smile: He flashes one right after murdering Hugan and Mugan and just before murdering Brahe.
• Tested on Humans: Rosicky uses him as the guinea pig for her drug which enhances NEXT powers since he's a prisoner who will be locked up for the rest of his life and she figures no one will miss him. He also should theoretically be a relatively safe test subject since his power only affects other NEXT, and they can freely choose harmless powers for him to send out of control. Unfortunately for Ouroboros, they forgot that a veteran criminal with a hyper-situational power usually Fights Like a Normal.
• Took a Level in Badass: He was already a danger to NEXTs civilians and heroes alike, but after being used as a test subject for an enhancement drug, he's MUCH more dangerous than before, as his ability to cause Power Incontinence goes from a few hours to indefinite.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: As revenge for leaving her to die; Rosicky orders for his own death once Mission A is completed, though he kills her before her orders can be carried out. He's still disposed of in the finale when a prison guard affiliated with Ouroboros drives Gregory's prison transport off the expressway as it's on the orders of different Ouroboros higher-ups to avoid him leaking info about the group (Which he had just been attempting to with his guard).

L. L. Audun

Voiced by: Tetsu Inada (JP), Christopher Swindle (EN)

A vigilante that was an enemy of Mr Legend.

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• Anti-Villain: He actually considers himself a hero. During the final battle, he stands down against Tiger and Barnaby after realizing that what he thought were villains are actually the heroes.
• Chekhov's Gunman: He was mentioned repeatedly by Hugan and Munan many episodes before showing up in person.
• The Dreaded: He's considered to be the most powerful NEXT in the entire series and many people are wary of him. There's a reason why he's been in solitary confinement for many years.
• Final Boss: After being brainwashed and enhanced by Gregory, he is Tiger and Barnaby's final opponent.
• Hour of Power: He has the Hundred Power, but a much stronger version than Tiger and Barnaby have that recharges after only a minute, and which hasn't faded with age as Mr Legend's and Tiger's have.
• Super Gullible: Played with. At first he immediately believes Gregory when he tells him that the Heroes are actually villains, despite Gregory being obviously sketchy and slipping up several times in his lie. While he does beat them all into the ground, he notices that they act much more heroic than they should and by the time he is up to fight Kotetsu and Barnaby, he refuses to fight them.
• The Rival: He was one to Mr Legend.
• World's Strongest Man: He's probably the strongest living NEXT, able to defeat all of the heroes in quick succession.

Ouroboros

General

A vast criminal organization that Barnaby was investigating due to their link to his parents' murder. Their true motives remain unclear.

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• Engineered Heroics: They helped Maverick build up Hero TV by setting up crimes for his heroes to thwart on camera.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: The organization's overall goals are a complete mystery. Jake's faction believed they were fighting for NEXT supremacy, Maverick used them to further his business, Rosicky wanted to create a drug to generate NEXT powers in unpowered heroes, and unknown superiors backed Hugan and Mugan's "Hero Hunt" to make people fear NEXT.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Members of the organization or affiliates have served as the main threats in each season of the show.
• Nebulous Evil Organization: They're an enigmatic organization involved with crime, terrorism, robotics and mad science.
• Ouroboros:
  • The show's version of the symbol is a snake with a Spade-shaped eye and a blade passing through its body. This is the tattoo mark found on people belonging to the secret organization of the same name.
  • The Ouroboros was removed from the Stern Dollar for the DVD/BD release. It was supposed to be a very common image (the meaning and origins of which most people are unaware) — much like the US Dollar's Eye of Providence.
• Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: The Ouroboros criminal organization is curiously well-armed—having helicopters, high-tech firearms, and even a good number of Mini-Mecha in its arsenal. This is because Apollon Media's been funding them—you can't have a superhero show without properly threatening villains, after all.
  • The Stinger in the final episode suggests something far more sinister. If you get the Stern dollar wet, the Ouroboros symbol is revealed.

Kriem

Voiced by: Michiko Neya (JP), Stephanie Sheh (EN)

A NEXT user who labels herself as a part of Ouroboros, she has taken Sternbild City hostage, and has demanded that Jake, who is imprisoned at Abbas Penitentiary, be released.

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• All of the Other Reindeer: Isolated by her peers and her parents from a young age because of her NEXT powers.
• Bald of Evil: After being captured, her head gets shaved, probably to keep her from using her hair to wreak havoc once she wakes up.
• Combat Commentator: For Ouroboros TV.
• Deathbed Confession: To Barnaby regarding Ouroboros' involvement in his parents' death. Or lack thereof, as the case may be.
• Driven to Suicide: After learning of Jake's death, she kills herself by removing her IVs and unplugging her life-support.
• Evil Is Petty: She spitefully tells Barnaby that Jake didn't kill his parents to deny him closure, unusually for this trope, this actually does a lot of good in the long run.
• Expy: Of Harley Quinn. Her appearance is thematically similar, and her devotion to Jake is exactly like Harley's devotion to the Joker.
• Fantastic Racism: Was a victim of this in her childhood. When she was young, everyone (including her own parents) hated/feared her because she was a NEXT. Inverted in that once she joined up with Jake, she became a rabid supporter of NEXT supremacy and discriminates against 'normal' people.
• Friendless Background: Because everyone viewed her NEXT powers as "creepy and disgusting".
• I Regret Nothing: She has no regrets working for Jake or killing herself, because she's totally devoted to the guy for accepting her for what she is.
• Marionette Master: She controls the Mad Bears with her NEXT power.
• A Match Made in Stockholm: With Jake. He originally had kidnapped her but kept her around when it became clear that her parents weren't going to fork over one red cent to save her.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: She reveals (then kills herself) that Jake had nothing to do with the murder of Barnaby's parents because she wants Barnaby to suffer forever with uncertainty for his part in Jake's death. All she actually does is sets Barnaby on the path to the truth and exposes an even larger NEXT supremacy conspiracy than the group she was a part of.
• Older Than They Look: Kriem barely looks a day over twenty-three, but was around fourteen or fifteen twenty years ago when Jake kidnapped her. She's probably Kotetsu's age, if not older.
• Parasol of Prettiness: To accentuate her femininity.
• Parental Abandonment: Her parents always viewed her as a freak and didn't bother trying to get her back by paying the ransom money her kidnapper (Jake) demanded of them.
• Perky Goth: She's a fervent follower of Jake who happens to have a rather gothic fashion sense.
• Together in Death: With "Jake-sama!"
• Unholy Matrimony: Kriem and Jake are a pair of NEXT supremacists and terrorists but they're also in a genuinely loving relationship.
• Undying Loyalty: To Jake.
• You Can Keep Her!: Her parents' response to her kidnapping by Jake twenty years ago.

Jake Martinez

Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (JP), Steve Blum (EN)

A NEXT currently serving 250 years at the Abbas Penitentiary for a string of very intense deaths.

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• Arc Villain: He's the main villain of a four episode arc that formally introduces Ouroboros and ends the first half of Season 1.
• Artificial Limbs: He lost his left leg due to an accident.
• Badass Finger Snap: His preferred method of using his powers, though he doesn't have to.
• Barrier Warrior: His primary power, throwing it out as projectiles that hit incredibly hard initially mistaken for Frickin' Laser Beams.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Jake Martinez has no idea what Barnaby is talking about when he asks why Jake murdered his parents, and mocks him for expecting him to keep track. The trope is then subverted when it's revealed in S1 Episode 18 that Barnaby's memory is faulty and Jake wasn't the murderer.
• Chekhov's Gun: The heroes might never have defeated Jake if not for him uttering Kotetsu's real name in a blind rage, thus revealing his mind-reading powers.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Usually NEXTs gain a blue aura when they activate their powers. Jake's is red most likely to indicate his two powers.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The Seven Battles event was completely intended to be this, and the first three matches actually were such, with Sky High, Rock Bison, and Wild Tiger all ending up hospitalized.
• Dark Messiah: Kriem views him as this.
• Deadly Force Field: Jake Martinez has the power to create Deflector Shields and uses it offensively, creating tiny shields that act like a bullet on contact, applying a large pushing force in a small surface.
• Dirty Coward: When he's at Barnaby's mercy, he begs and grovels for his life despite killing many people and nearly killing hundreds of thousands of people.
• Disk-One Final Boss: Being a powerful NEXT thanks to his ability to have 2 powers instead of one, he managed to easily overpower Rock Bison and Sky High and to do quite a number on Kotetsu as well. However he dies at the end of his arc, he and Kriem only make up a small faction of Ouroboros and despite what Barnaby remembers, Jake isn't the one who murdered his parents.
• Even Evil Has Standards: When he kidnapped Kriem for ransom and her parents refused to pay he told her that, as a NEXT, she wasn't a freak but a chosen one and set her free for no other reason that why not, leading to her immediately devoting herself to him.
• Evil Gloating: Taunts Barnaby in the middle of their fight, revealing he has a secondary power. He isn't stupid enough to tell anything more than that, but had he kept his mouth shut Kotetsu might not have figured out WHAT that power is.
• For the Evulz: He does have something vaguely resembling a coherent ideology, but a good number of his actions basically boil down to this.
• Glass Cannon: Due to his powers he has never gotten hit before, so he folds like paper anytime somebody actually manages to land a hit.
• I Never Told You My Name: During his fight with Wild Tiger, he calls him by his real name. After finding out Jake has a secondary power, Kotetsu immediately figures out he must be a mind-reader.
• Hired Guns: Former mercenary.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Jake is ultimately defeated when he attacks Tiger while hanging from a rope, damaging Kriem's helicopter in the process; which lands on him and kills him.
• Large Ham: Especially in the English dub. Thank you, Steve.
  Jake: Gooooood morning! Rise and shine, scum of Sternbild. I hope you slept like babies.
• Longer-Than-Life Sentence: He's serving a 250-year sentence for his crimes.
• Mad Artist: While in prison he uses his barries to paint the walls of his cell.
• A Match Made in Stockholm: He and Kriem become romantically involved after he kidnapped and tried to ransom her only to find out her parents won't pay and don't care if she dies. Instead of killing her, he sets her free and tells her to be proud of being a NEXT, after which she joins him.
• Minor Injury Overreaction: Jake was absolutely furious when Wild Tiger, the hero he's spent the entire episode mocking as being worthless and pathetic, manages to be the only hero to land a hit on him—while Tiger’s powered down, no less. In retaliation, Jake beats down Tiger so badly that he has to be rushed to the ICU immediately.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Against Wild Tiger, especially after Kotetsu actually managed to kick him in the face by accident.
• Pet the Dog: He kidnapped Kriem for ransom money, but due to her NEXT abilities, her parents abandoned her and didn't pay. He cheered her up and let her go. In the end, she joined him.
• Powers Do the Fighting: Jake Martinez has an extremely versatile power of creating barriers, which allows him to be unfazed by even the most powerful attacks, and can be used just as powerfully offensively, plus a mind-reading power that allows him to predict his enemies' every move. Because of these abilities, he never has to put any effort into fighting, which means that he can't handle it when he receives even the slightest injury.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Most NEXTs' eyes glow blue when they use their powers. Jake's eyes glow red.
• Real Men Wear Pink: And he's no less scary for it.
• Red Herring: He wasn't actually the one who killed Barnaby's parents.
• Required Secondary Power: He needs to be able to focus to an extent to use his barrier abilities. After he takes a fully powered kick to the ribs from Barnaby while distracted, he is clearly in a lot of pain, noting that a few of his ribs are likely broken. After this, he is nearly strangled to death by Barnaby while futilely trying to activate his power (shown by his NEXT aura appearing but the power not manifesting).
• Saying Too Much/I Never Told You My Name: Kotetsu figures out Jake Martinez's second power due to these two factors. Averted by the former in S1 Episode 13 when he gives Barnaby some false information as part of a Batman Gambit to finish Jake off.
• Self-Disposing Villain: After being caught by Kotetsu's wire to stop him from falling to his death, Jake attempts to take a potshot at him, but misses and hits the helicopter Kriem is piloting. Knocking the tail off, this causes the helicopter to spin out of control and crash right into Jake, killing him.
• Serial Killer: And he might have been a Psycho for Hire in his mercenary days.
• Superpower Lottery: The first NEXT shown to have more than one power—having the power to project force-fields and Telepathy.
• Super Supremacist: He dreams of a world dominated by NEXT.
• Tattooed Crook: He's got a number of tatoos, but notably not one on his hand, thus proving he wasn't the man who killed Barnaby's parents.
• Telepathy: He can read minds.
• Unholy Matrimony: He and Kriem are a pair of NEXT supremacists who are willing to murder an entire city for fun, but they genuinely love each other.
• Uniqueness Decay: Discussed. The heroes talk about the possibility that Hugan and Mugan have two powers like Jake which was previously thought to be impossible. But considering that NEXTs are a relatively recent discovery, it was not improbable. Turns out they don't, but it hints that a third person is involved in their schemes.
• You Have Failed Me: He "loses all respect" for Chuckman after he's captured by the heroes and personally goes to where he's being held to murder him.
• You Killed My Father: Barnaby thinks it was Jake who killed his parents, but a dying Kriem provides a very solid alibi to the contrary.
• Villainous Breakdown: Jake does not take it well at all when Kotetsu, the Hero he spent the entire fight mocking as a loser, actually scores a hit (by accident) on him. Unfortunately, Kotetsu is the one who suffers for it.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Jake appears to have something against shirts.

Hans Chuckman

Voiced by: Kenta Miyake (JP), Vic Mignogna (EN)

A member of Ouroboros who assists Kriem in her plan to get Jake released from prison. He's taken captive in the process and eventually killed by Jake as punishment for his failure.

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• Black Eyes of Evil: The one time he opens them. But he has normal eyes◊ in the DVD/Blu-ray version.
• Epic Fail: He attempted a hostage situation with Kotetsu and Barnaby in the same room, he gets his ass kicked for his troubles.
• Eyes Always Shut: His eyes are shut for the majority of his screen time. The only time they're shown open is right before Jake kills him.
• Facial Markings: He wears some kind of facepaint.
• The Team Normal: He's not a NEXT but according to Kriem, Chuckman believes in her and Jake's belief of NEXT supremacy.
• You Have Failed Me: Jake says Chuckman lost all his respect after he was captured by the heroes and impersonated by Origami Cyclone, so he personally goes to where Chuckman's being held captive and kills him.

Nicolai Brahe

Voiced by: Hiroyuki Kinoshita

A mysterious Rank 2 member of Ouroboros introduced in season 2. He is seen traveling and handling Hugan and Mugan.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: His beloved sons are murdered right in front of him seconds before he's fatally shot. He cures the paralyzed heroes and dies holding his sons in his arms.
• Arc Villain: For the first half of Season 2. He's responsible of ordering the twins to hunt down and beat up superheroes.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Implied. He mentions that he used to be part of Nemo Children, a group of orphans raised by Ouroboros. Considering how corrupt the organization is, it couldn't have been a nice childhood.
• A Father to His Men: Cares about Hugan and Mugan, taking umbrage with people calling them pawns, objecting to them being used in Ouroboros' plans and injecting them with experimental drugs. He is genuinely upset when he notices that something is wrong with Hugan and cries as they die in his arms and apologizes before dying himself shortly after.
• Good Parents: Ouroboros forcing his children into servitude aside (which he was entirely against), he was a loving father for Hugan and Mugan - and presumably the other children he adopted.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: He looks similar to Mads Mikkelsen with his hairstyle being based from his titular role from Hannibal.
• Outliving One's Offspring: He outlives Hugan and Mugan only by a minute or so but it's a heartbreaking one as he watches them be murdered right before his eyes.
• Taken for Granite: It's revealed that he is a NEXT with the power to petrify people.
• Villain's Dying Grace: Undoes his petrification of the heroes Hugan and Mugan beat senseless in his last moments.

Sigourney Rosicky

Voiced by: Takako Honda (JP), Julie Nathanson (EN)

Rank 2 member of Ouroboros introduced in season 2 and sponsor of Mattia's lab.

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• Arc Villain: For the second half of Season 2 where she orders Gregory to cause distrust of NEXT in the public.
• Combat Stilettos: She wears very sharp high heels which she threatens to use on Gregory if he disobeys her.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Is in a high enough position to fund an entire lab's research and also corrupt enough to get a criminal out of prison to use as a guinea pig.
• Grand Theft Me: Her NEXT power allows her to possess the body of whoever she makes contact with. And she can use that person to jump into a different body.
• Freudian Excuse: She was a part of a group of NEXT orphans that were close friends, but only she was taken in by Ouroboros because her powers were useful to them. When Rosicky came back to them, she learned that they took their lives as no one wanted to adopt NEXTs, especially with substandard powers. That made Rosicky vow to make a world where NEXT can be accepted regardless of their powers.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Tiger (even without knowing who she is really) calls her out that regardless of her excuse, she has no right to kill people, especially NEXT like Aurora who didn't even harm her directly.
• Instant Expert: She shows the ability to instantly use any NEXT powers of anyone she possesses with perfect mastery, even if the person themselves had struggled with them.
• Laser-Guided Karma: She's killed off by Gregory who isn't pleased that she abandoned him, which results in him making a deal with the Ouroboros higher-ups to get rid of her after she failed to kill Aurora.
• Mad Scientist: Not herself but she funds them. She might even be madder than them since she actively encourages or demands morally reprehensible methods to get the result she wants.
• The Resenter: Towards Little Aurora and heroes, as in her eyes they molded the idea that only NEXT with useful powers can be accepted by society while the rest are discarded and discriminated.
• Spotting the Thread: People she's possessing become left-handed if they're not already, and their eyes change to a golden color.
• Uncertain Doom: She's last seen bleeding out after being shot by Gregory Sunshine, but it's unclear whether she dies or not. In the second half of season 2, she is revealed to be alive and orders for Gregory to be killed once the mission is completed.

Hugan and Mugan

Voiced by:

[Hugan] Mamoru Miyano (JP), Johnny Yong Bosch (EN)

[Mugan] Kensho Ono (JP), Jason Spisak (EN)

A pair of childish, NEXT-powered twins tasked on a "Hero Hunt".

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• Alas, Poor Villain: They both end up mortally wounded during their final fight against the remaining Heroes and use their remaining strength to teleport to their adoptive father's side so they can tell him they're grateful to him and love him one last time.
• Albinos Are Freaks: They both have chalk white skin and hair and are childishly psychopathic villains.
• Ambiguous Situation: They are stated to have killed heroes by Sigourney, but by all indications if the situations of most of the hero cast is any indication, they don't kill anyone as much as they beat them senseless and leave them frozen.
• Anti-Villain: They work for Ouroboros and are currently in the middle of an international Hero Hunt but they don't kill any of the heroes they defeat and they're motivated by their love for their adoptive father instead of any genuine malice.
• Attack Reflector: Hugan has the power to absorb any attack towards him and reflect a counterattack that is equal-to-double the power back to his opponents.
• Boom, Headshot!: In order to charge up Hugan's Energy Absorption powers, Mugan shoots him in the head at one point. They are later killed this way thanks to escaping convict Gregory Sunshine. Granted, they were already on the brink of death from their fight with the Heroes anyway.
• Combat Pragmatist: They'll pull every cheap trick in the book, even pretending they've been beaten long enough for help to arrive, only to turn the tables at the last minute.
• Creepy Twins: They're identical twins. They're also Psychopathic Manchildren.
• The Dividual: They are identical twins, with identical interests and personalities who are only ever seen apart from each other when the heroes intentionally separate them.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: They dearly love each other and their adoptive father.
• Even Evil Has Standards: When they are first suggested to fight heroes, they actually object the idea entirely on the basis that they don't want to do such a thing. However, upon realizing that it is much less of a choice for their father than it is for them, they commit to the plan.
• Evil Is Hammy: Clearly their voice actors love hamming up every line they can.
• Evil Is Petty: Their motive for hunting down heroes for sport is to surpass the record set by their hero L. L. Audun, who defeated 17 heroes. The two of them want to defeat 36, setting a new record at 18 each. At least this is their stated goal, in actuality their foster father Brahe was forced by Ouroboros to order them to attack heroes for an unknown purpose. Brahe pitched the idea to them by dressing it up as surpassing Audun, but both of the twins figure out their dad must be forced into it by Ouroboros and promise to fulfill the mission for his sake.
• Explaining Your Powers to the Enemy: Subverted and eventually played straight. Mugan claims he's like a chameleon, turning invisible at will. His real power is teleportation. They later tell the truth of their abilities an episode later, something they lampshade.
• For the Evulz: Their stated reason for wanting to fight and nearly kill heroes of multiple cities. This actually helps hide their real plan from being known, as well as their connection to Ouroboros
• Glass Cannon: After taking the NEXT-enhancing drug, Hugan is able to absorb a great deal more amount of damage to unleash an even more powerful attack than ever before. His body, however, is too fragile to withstand that kind of power. So for every superpowered punch or kick he delivers his bones end up breaking.
• Graceful Loser: Hugan subtly accepted his and his twin brother's defeat when Kotetsu and Barnaby declared both of them being Worthy Opponents.
• Happily Adopted: The two brothers were street urchins who survived by pickpocketing adults. It happened that Brahe was dining in the cafe that a prejudiced owner was attempting to boot them out of, and he adopted them on the spot. As young adults, the two are still entirely grateful for him.
• Healing Shiv: A contextual example. Mugan carries a handgun, but doesn't use it to attack their enemies - instead, it's for helping with his brother's Energy Absorption by shooting him. The entire process is portrayed as a twisted demonstration of their mutual trust, affection, and respect - once Hugan starts showing injury from the strain of the excessive power he's absorbed, Mugan is much more reluctant to attack him.
• The Heavy: They're responsible for much of the conflict in the first half of Season 2 where they started attacking superheroes in nearby cities until they arrive in Sternbild to target the main heroes.
• Hero Killer: Subverted. They are reported as beating heroes senseless, but it's never confirmed they killed anyone. Though that's not for lack of trying. It's revealed that they want to emulate a Anti-Hero from decades prior in his victory streak against heroes due to a clash in ideals. Like said hero, Hugan and Mugan never go about killing them.
• Hero-Worshipper: They are openly big fans of L. L. Audun, The Rival to Mister Legend that ended up committing Vigilante Execution, causing him to eventually defeat 17 heroes before he was arrested. They in turn want to defeat 18 heroes each for a grand total of 36.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: Hugan's hair is longer than his brother's.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Magical Cat manages to blast Mugan with a geyser of water that accidentally ends up impaling him onto a metal gate, fatally wounding him and taking him out of the fight.
• Invisibility: Subverted. Mugan initially claims he has the power to turn invisible. He's actually a teleporter.
• Monster Fangirl: Rare male example. The two of them idolize L. L. Audun, a "rogue hero" who defeated 17 heroes before his capture. Their goal is to take down 36 heroes, 18 each, so the two of them will have surpassed his record.
• Near-Villain Victory: They are about to claim victory after beating up all the five remaining heroes even though Hugan received injuries after absorbing Kotetsu's Good Luck Mode punch. Until a fully-resolved Magical Cat blasts Mugan which got him impaled by a metal gate, putting Hugan in a disadvantage.
• One-Man Army: Unlike Jake, who is only as successful as he is due to fighting heroes one on one in a hostage situation, the twins are dangerous enough to beat several heroes at once without even trying.
• Pragmatic Villainy: They prefer to target heroes when they are distracted or otherwise unable to properly fight, and then take them out as soon as they're done playing around. Best shown when Golden Ryan, Rock Bison and Blue Rose come within inches of defeating them. As soon as they take some NEXT-Enhancing drug, they immediately ambush the trio again before they had time to collect their bearings.
• Psychopathic Manchild: They act more like five-year olds then fully grown men, who gleefully nearly kill superheroes like its a big game.
• Siblings in Crime: Twin brothers who work for Ouroboros and hunt down Heroes, seemingly for fun.
• Sibling Team: They worked very well as a team which Steinbild heroes see this as their strength. So, keeping them separate is one way to prevent them from winning.
• Single-Minded Twins: In addition to looking identical, they also think and act identically.
• Smarter Than They Look: Despite looking and acting like manchildren, they're actually quite clever, outsmarting the heroes (at times accidentally) and putting them on the ropes multiple times.
• Teleportation: Mugan has the power to teleport, but only to places he can see directly.
• Villain Ball: Lampshaded twice. During their final battle with the heroes, they state the fact that they could simply leave any time they want to pick off the heroes one-by-one instead of facing them in a more formal battle but opt not to. This turns out to be because they're actually on a time limit, and refuse to leave until they are on death's door.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: The main reason they start targeting heroes is because their adoptive father asked them to and they want to make him proud. Somewhat subverted in that Brahe is already proud of them and loves them regardless, but was forced to ask them to by his superiors.
• Worthy Opponent: By the end of the first half, they are considered this by Kotetsu and Barnaby given that they're toughest villains that they've ever faced. And given that they nearly won after beating up all the remaining five heroes, they were right.

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