Dispatch

The Brave Brigades are a group of superheroes who were operating in the city of Torrance fifteen years ago. Known members included Robert "Robbie" Robertson II, Shroud, and Track Star. The group eventually fell apart after one of the members, Shroud, turned rogue and betrayed and killed Robert Robertson II. Another member, Track Star, also eventually had to step down from public service as a hero after he discovered that his powers was rapidly causing him to physically age to the point where he is now an old man. It's unknown if the group is still active or if they ended up disbanding entirely.

Known members

• Robert "Robbie" Robertson II
• Shroud (formerly)
• Track Star

Superhero Dispatch Network, abbreviated as SDN, is an organization that dispatches superheroes to help subscribers who call in for assistance. The SDN office branch based in Torrance is the primary setting of Dispatch.

Organization: The SDN is a large organization with branches across the world that hire heroes who are dispatched to service subscribers who call in for emergency assistance. Two of their notable heroes are Phenomaman and Blonde Blazer. The SDN's Phoenix Program reforms villains to work as heroes for hire under their banner. Chase recruited Robert Robertson to serve as Team Z's handler for the Phoenix Program. In exchange, Royd and the SDN promise to restore the Mecha Man armor.

Known Branches

• Torrance, California
• Downtown Los Angeles, California

Employees

• Blonde Blazer
• Chase
• Galen
• Lana
• Robert Robertson
• Roy
• Waterboy

Phoenix Program (Z-Team)

• Coupé
• Flambae
• Golem
• Invisigal
• Malevola
• Prism
• Punch Up
• Sonar
• Phenomaman
• Waterboy

Phenomaman's team (DTLA Branch)

• Phenomaman (formerly)
• Pom Pom
• Sweetalker
• Brickhouse
• Equilibrium
• Brainbook

Others

• Bean
• Big Chungus
• Big Stepper
• Bradical
• Combat Clam
• Dr. Princess, M.D.
• Durian
• Glassmaster
• Glitterheart
• Hellvetika
• Herotron 2000
• Horsegirl
• Jeremy
• Knight Light
• Knucklebach
• Master Jasper
• Orb Weaver
• Reno
• Roofraiser
• Sean
• Sky King
• Sky Ward
• Souler Flare
• Subterfuge
• Terrordactyl
• The Assisterizer
• The Illusioneer
• Thundersize
• Winter

History: At SDN, eight former villains were chosen from those who signed up and placed on the Z-Team. However, owing to the team's less than welcoming approach to every dispatcher assigned to them, such as Flambae setting one dispatcher's car on fire, they tend to quit in droves. As a result of this and less than optimal results, the program is on the verge of being shutdown. A few days into Robert becoming the team's newest dispatcher, Blonde Blazer makes decision to let go of the lowest ranking member of the team at the end of the day. This results in the field agents sabotaging each other to stay ahead and a resulting conference meeting where Robert tells them off before managing to get them to stop getting in each other's way. While Invisigal was at the bottom, she had a last minute encounter with Lightningstruck and managed to capture and bring in the criminal, nudging her up on the leaderboard. However, this now meant there was a tie for the bottom: Coupé. As a result, of was let go. Later, after Invisigal decided to steal back the Astral Pulse by herself which led to Chase's hospitalization, the other Z-Team members held a meeting in which the majority of them felt that Invisigirl's actions were reckless and put the team's credibility at risk. Excluding Flambae and Golem (and Phenomaman if he was recruited), the members wanted Invisigal to be cut from the team. Robert either decides to honor their request and refuse and put her on a temporary suspension. During the final dispatch, the high number of calls leads Robert into convincing the hero he didn't recruit earlier, Phenomaman or Waterboy, into joining the team. It is also revealed that whomever was cut between Coupé turned back into being a super villain and joined the Red Ring. If the team takes too long to defeat their former teammate turned villain, Blonde Blazer will temporarily join to help. After the final battle all Red Ring People get arrested and they not cut ivinsigal and they all become friend.

The Mecha Man armor was a cutting-edge suit of battle armor piloted by Robert Robertston III who used it in his hero work. It was originally designed by the first Mecha Man, Bobby Robertson, fifty years ago. Following his death, it was handed down to Robert's father, Robbie Roberston, before eventually coming into his possession.

History: Robert "Bobby" Robertson built and piloted the original Mecha Man armor (also called MKI Mecha Man armor) fifty years ago. Fans dubbed this hero, Mecha Man Prime, who died saving civilians. The Mecha Man Prime armor appears to have been mostly destroyed in the incident.

Robert "Robbie" Robertson, the second Mecha Man known as Astral, rebuilt the armor (MKII Mecha Man armor) in his own version. Robert said that his father was a rocket scientist, suggesting he was the one who designed the rocket thruster/jet pack for the armor giving it the ability to fly. After Robbie was killed by Shroud, his son Robert took up the armor as the third generation Mecha Man. However, he was led into a trap by Shroud where the armor was damaged beyond repair and the Astral Pulse was lost. Royd and the Superhero Dispatch Network agreed to rebuild the armor in exchange for Robert working as a dispatcher. The MKIII has was upgrade with advanced technologies that SDP has capture over the years from supervillains, study and then reversed engineered.

Capabilities

• Astral Pulse: The ingeniusely designed energy cell that powers the entire suit using a highly advanced fusion reaction.
• Jet Boosters
• Plasma Gauntlet
• Shield
• Barrier
• Net Launcher
• Twin Energy Blades
• Missile Fury
• Cluster Bombs
• Plasma Net
• Plasma Saber

The Red Ring is a infamous and powerful crime syndicate of enhanced supervillains operating in Torrance led by Shroud.

History: While operating out of Llewelyn Steel Works, Shroud, Toxic, and other members of the Red Ring ambushed Mecha Man and damaged the suit beyond repair, effectively retiring the superhero.

Members

• Shroud - Leader
• Toxic - Lieutenant
• Armstrong - Lieutenant
• Blob Goon - Lieutenant
• Khopesh - Lieutenant
• White Lightning - Lieutenant
• Lóng - Lieutenant
• Lightningstruck (Arrested)
• Coupé (Formerly, dependent)
• Sonar (Formerly, dependent)
• Invisigal (Formerly)
• Enhanced - Henchmen
• Scared Goon

The Astral Pulse is an energy source used to power the Mecha Man armor. Inside it contains a Stellar Core which produce super energized plasma though the control fusion as source of power.

History: Shroud, a former hero turned villain, desired the Astral Pulse for himself for as yet unknown reasons and went about luring the current Mecha Man (Robert Robertson III) into a trap at a steel mill. This resulted in the destruction of the Mecha Man armor and the loss of the Astral Pulse. However, Robert was hired by the SDN shortly after, and their chief engineer, Royd, is confident he can produce a new one along with repairing the Mecha Man armor. After Royd's latest attempt to recreate the Astral Pulse led to an explosion in the SDN lab that knocked out Robert for the better part of the day, Invisigal realized she'd seen the same type of explosion before. Connecting the dots, she realized the original Astral Pulse wasn't destroyed like Robert initially thought, but instead had been found but passed hands at least four times as each low-level criminal likewise ran into disastrous results trying to harness its power. The group was then able to trace its energy signature to a ship in one gang's territory. After Blonde Blazer denies the mission for it being too risky for a low branch like Torrance, Invisigal ignored this command and tried to locate it to help Robert.

Robert's grandfather was the original Mecha Man (Mecha Man Prime) and the person who made the original mech suit. Then, after him, it was Robert's father, more widely known as 'Astral'. However, after his father's death, Robert Robertson III inherited the suit and became the new Mecha Man, a superhero despite his lack of real superpowers. He spent his entire inheritance (notably into the millions) towards keeping the Mech suit functional. Outside of normal hero work, Robert is also on the hunt for the villain Shroud, a former member of the Brave Brigade who is responsible for his father's death. He is able to track him down and faces off against him in a fortified warehouse. Outnumbered and outgunned, he barely manages to escape, albeit with a bomb attached to the back of his suit that he is unable to remove in time after noticing it. It goes off, causing his suit to fall out of the sky. While he managed to survive the ordeal with just a broken arm, he fell into a coma for months, and his father's suit was destroyed in the fight. Having no other way to recreate one, he is unsure about his future as a hero. Depending on your in-game selection, his decision about his hero career can go either way, based on what you would like to say to the reporters. While sitting atop a billboard overlooking the Hollywood sign, Blonde Blazer offers him a job to get his life back on track after Robert was recommended by an old family friend and hero called Track Star. This leads to Robert joining the Superhero Dispatch Network (SDN) as a dispatcher for "Z-Team", a team consisting of the Phoenix Program participants: ex-supervillains who signed on to help out around the city. On his first day, Blazer gives Robert a tour of the building and introduces some of his co-workers, notably Chase, also known as Track Star, who'd once been the been a superhero with the Brave Brigade and an old friend of Robert's father, ended up also being Robert's babysitter a lot.

Appearance: Robert is a slim man, likely in his early to late twenties, with a somewhat rugged appearance, short reddish brown hair, brown eyes, peach skin, and freckles across his face. Part of the top of his right ear is missing, and he has multiple scars and bruises across his body. His work uniform consists of a light blue button down shirt with the SDN logo above the pocket on his left chest, dark gray slacks, and brown shoes. He tends to roll up his sleeves and leave his shirt partially untucked. As a Mechaman, he wears reinforced silver armor over a bluish-black suit that covers his arms and parts of his body, along with a matching helmet accented by yellow details.

Personality: Robert is an apathetic, dry, world-weary, and brutally honest man with a sarcastic sense of humor. Robert can also be prone to violence when pushed, although he rarely loses his nonchalant behavior or raises his voice when dealing with these situations, often just making sardonic remarks, as shown during his interactions with Flambae and Toxic. Overall, Robert is a heroic and selfless man who has been efficiently doing hero's work for years despite lacking superpowers and being scorned by others for it. Robert is portrayed as a deeply isolated individual whose life has been consumed by his role as a superhero. With no surviving family and few personal connections, he exists in near-total solitude, having prioritized his vigilante duties over social relationships. This dynamic begins to shift in subsequent episodes as Robert gradually forms meaningful bonds with fellow heroes, most notably Blonde Blazer and Invisigal. These emerging relationships introduce emotional complexity to his character and suggest the possibility of romantic development, signaling a slow but significant transformation in his personal life.

Abilities

• Master Hacker
• Master Tactician
• Expert Engineer
• Expert Combatant
• Pain Resistance
• Mecha Man Suit Capabilities

Real Name: Mandy

Blonde Blazer was active superhero being dispatched on the streets, earning a reputation for herself as a courageous hero. Eventually, she decided to retire from active duty and went into management, being assigned to take over SDN Torrance. Her leadership reshaped the struggling branch into a model for the company, in particular its efforts to rehabilitate former supervillains and retrain them as heroes. Blonde Blazer is the one who hires Robert Robertson to join SDN on the promise of helping him regain his superhero career in exchange.

Personality: She believes in the Phoenix Program with all her heart and does her best to keep it afloat despite the myriad of obstacles. She also truly sees the good in everyone, evidenced with her interactions with members of the Z-Team. Her sincerely wanting to give Robert at another shot at redemption in the superhero business also shows her faith in people. She's honorably courageous with a generous spirit and a strong dose of corporate-approved dorkiness - an old soul who's young at heart and looking to keep the business of heroism feeling fresh and personal.

Appearance: Blonde Blazer is a blonde-haired young woman with blue eyes. She is tall and leggy, being slightly taller than Robert, with a slender build and an athletic physique. Later when she off work, she reveal that her appearance is in part a side-effect of the transformation process that gifts her powers - in human form, she is at least two inches shorter and has brunette rather than blonde hair. Blonde Blazer's superhero outfit consists of a few components - a grey skin tight bodysuit with a blue sleeveless leotard over as an outer layer, navy elbow-length gloves and thigh-high boots. She also wears a short yellow waist-length cape with a red jewel on her chest, and a blue upper-face mask with holes cut out for her eyes.

Abilities

• Transformation
• Superhuman Strength
• Superhuman Durability
• Flight
• Energy Projection
• Healing Factor

Real Name: Courtney

She was a villain known as Invisibitch until participating in the Phoenix Program. As a part of the program, Invisigal is now a hero working for the SDN under Robert Robertson.

Origins: Not much is certainly known about Invisigal's past, but apparently, she was born with powers. It is implied she grew up around criminals or bullied when she was young, which seemingly led her to believe her powers only made her suited to be a villain.

Criminal Career: During her criminal career, Invisigal committed assault, larceny, robbery. Most notable crime was she once robbed a bakery named Granny's Donuts and was banned for life by the owner.

Joining Superhero Dispatch Network: Invisigal joined the Phoenix Program a few months prior to Robert's arrival, under the condition that they didn't ask why she joined.

Appearance: Invisigal is a woman with short and spiky dark violet hair and brown eyes. She wears a pink cropped jacket with a black, cropped shirt, as well as a pair of skintight, black rubber/latex pants. She has a septum piercing, in which she wears a small silver ring.

Personality: Snarky and sassy, Invisigal is quite aggressive in the way she talks and is easily irritable, lashing out on her co-workers. She is also slightly perverted, making lewd remarks about someone injuries and makes multiple sex jokes. Invisigal reveals a deep-seated resentment toward her superpower of invisibility, expressing the belief that powers inherently determine a person's moral trajectory. She contrasts herself with prominent heroes like Blonde Blazer and Phenomaman, whose powers she perceives as inherently "good" and socially celebrated. Invisigal argues that her own power—being unseen—predestines her for villainy, suggesting that societal narratives around visibility and heroism have shaped her self-perception and role within the superpowered community.

Abilities

• Invisibility: Invisigal has the ability to turn invisible when holding breath.
• Expert Combatant

Real Name: Chad

He was a supervillain defeated by Mecha Man until participating in the Phoenix Program. participant and one of the heroes that can be dispatched. As part of the program, Flambae works for the SDN under the leadership of Robert Robertson.

Origins Flambae's past is not well known. His real name is Chad, and he has made mention of having a niece.

Criminal Career: While acting as a supervillain, Flambae's known crimes included arson, assault, and vandalism. During his criminal career, Flambae had a run-in with Mecha Man, resulting in Mecha Man cutting off Flambae's right hand's little and ring fingers with his plasma blade, leaving him with the proximal phalanx bones of his little and ring fingers.

Joining Superhero Dispatch Network: At some point after his fight with Mecha Man, Flambae became part of the Phoenix Program at Superhero Dispatch Network. Prior to Robert Robertson being assigned to the Z-Team, he was responsible for driving the previous dispatcher to quit in two days by setting his Kia Soul on fire.

Physical Appearance: Flambae appears as a tall 6'4 and fit man with dark brown hair tied into a ponytail, with a single strand of hair dangling across his forehead. He is missing his ring and pinky finger on his right hand. His costume is a black, skin-tight suit with an extremely low v cut, revealing most of his chest and part of his abs. He has flame motifs around the V cut, hands, and legs.

Personality: Flambae, much like the powers he wields, is a hot head with a case of bad temper. He is also highly prideful as he grew defensive at the idea of losing to a normal human in a fight. Unsurprisingly, he is a pyromaniac who ignites objects as a form of stress relief. He is also shown to not be above causing trouble for the sheer Hell of it. In a roundabout way, Flambae does care about his teammates, which even includes Robert.

Abilities

• Pyrokinesis
• Pyro-Propulsion
• Flame Invulnerability
• Superhuman Strength
• Superhuman Durability

Real Name: Bruno

He is a construct of clay and dirt who was a villain until participating in the Phoenix Program. As a part of the program, Golem is now a hero working for the SDN under Robert Robertson.

Origins: Golem's past is not well known. He is a bunch of dirt and mud made sentient by magic, though it's currently unknown who brought him to life.

Criminal Career: It is currently not known what he did to get the criminal record of aiding and abetting, disturbing the peace, vandalism, but most likely he was following the orders of his creator. Until he either was freed of his creator's control or started questioning the orders of his creator, he turned on his creator and helped him get arrested.

Joining Superhero Dispatch Network: It is assumed after his creator is arrested and he is freed from his control, Golem joined Superhero Dispatch Network's Phoenix Program to learn more to be a free sapient being and find new purpose in his life.

Appearance: Golem is a large monster made of clay, dirt, mud and rocks as well as spare mechanical plates and tubing. He is mostly humanoid in shape, posessing two legs, two arms, a head and even yellow eyes. He had difficulty squeezing through doors due to his size.

Personality: Peace loving mud giant, very tall about 7'7 but very chill. Enjoys poetry and basketball.

Abilities

• Morphological Being
• Earth Mimicry
• Regenerative Healing
• Fire Resistance

Real Name: Victor

He was a villain until participating in the Phoenix Program. As a part of the program, Sonar is now a hero working for the SDN under Robert Robertson.

Criminal Career: Sonar attended Harvard University, and after graduating, he went into crime. He orchestrated some of the most effective Silicon Valley investment frauds in US history. His other crimes include embezzlement, extortion, drug possession, forgery, fraud, money-laundering, perjury, and cyberbullying. During this period, he also became addicted to a variety of controlled substances.

Joining Superhero Dispatch Network: At some point in time, Sonar was convicted and incarcerated at California State Prison in Los Angeles County, before he was identified as an ideal candidate by SDN for their experimental Phoenix Program. His custody was then transferred to the Torrance branch in California HQ, under conditional probation after several financial negotiations. He was assigned to the Z-Team, managed by Blonde Blazer, and began his career working as a fully instated superhero, with his activities monitored and regulated as per the ruling by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office.

Appearance: Sonar has a human body with light skin, but the head of a bat with sharp fangs, big ears, and pure white eyes. He has fluffy gray fur and a pink snout. He wears a navy blue suit with a red tie and black dress pants. When transformed, he turns into a very large bat, bigger than the average human. This includes a large set of wings and red eyes instead of white.

Personality: Sonar takes a lot of pride in that he is a Harvard graduate and, according to his colleagues, cannot stop talking about this fact. Sonar is a big fan of Willem Vanderstenk, the CEO of VAND-CO, who is consider a certified financial genius, and Sonar wish to meet in person and Sonar fails to understand jokes.

Abilities

• Bat Physiology Transformation
• Sonar
• Flight

Real Name: Colm

He was a villain until participating in the Phoenix Program. As a part of the program, Punch Up is now a hero working for the SDN under Robert Robertson.

Origins: There is currently little known about Punch Up's past, only that he was once a carnival strong man who made a deal with a sorceress. She gave him the strength of ten men, while his muscles grew, but his body shrunk, which resulted in him possesses the strength of ten men and half the height of one.

Criminal Career: It is currently unknown how Punch Up got battery, parole violation, public intoxication, and second-degree murder charges. At some point, Coupé was sent to assassinate Punch Up for an unknown reason. But it safe to speculate that while being intoxicated Punch Up killed someone by accident and that this person had to be someone of importance, most likely a member of mafia, which made their assonates hired or send Coupé to assassinate Punch Up. Punch Up, who was watching Swan Lake while crying and eating a bucket of ice cream, because he couldn't find the remote to change the channel and was too depressed to get out of his chair to find it, noticed her as she came from behind to stab him. He commented on how it must be fate for her to be there, since her old costume was reminiscent of a ballerina. She attempted to stab him after this, but failed to, due to Punch Up's dense body structure. A fight ensued which led to the two of them having intercourse. This led into a serious romantic relationship that continued until just before their participation in the Phoenix Program.

Appearance: He is 3′3″ tall and has black hair and a large mustache, fitting the look of a traditional strongman or carnival performer. During work he uses a button-up green shirt, with brown suspenders and pants.

Personality: Punch Up is a charming, if dimwitted man. He’s implied to be aware of his unintelligence, proudly remarking that he ‘knew how to use his head’ and talk on Irish accent.

Real Name: Malevola Gibb

She's a Phoenix Program participant and one of the heroes that can be dispatched.

Origins: Not much is certainly known about Malevola's past, only that she might be half-demon, that she is born in Australia and that she is 33 (or claims to be 33 years of age, but it is possible that she is much older than she looks). At some point she traveled over to the USA, California.

Criminal Career: Due to her half-demonic nature, Malevola turn to crime to survive and through her criminal career she got charged with assault, burglary, extortion, forgery, kidnapping, second degree murder. She has been around for so long for a criminal family known as the "Yachties", who control parts of the Torrance port and smuggle illegal goods into the city, to have grudge against her for three generations. Giving her age, she might have few encounters with Mecha Man Prime and Mecha Man Astral during her career as a villain.

Appearance: Malevola presents almost like a typical woman, but with red skin, a demon tail, and 2 large, demon horns protruding out of the sides of her head. She wears a white leotard with denim shorts and black high heels. She carries her weapon, a large broadsword, on her back.

Personality: being calm and collected yet enjoys violence, being sarcastic and flirtatious, and a fondness for gossip and getting her way.

Ability

• Demon Physiology: As a half-demon, Malevola is stronger, faster and tougher than a baseline human.
• Night Vision
• Prehensile Tail
• Portal Creation
• Wound Transferal

Real Name: Alice

Prism is a popular influencer and was a villain until participating in the Phoenix Program. As a part of the program, Prism is now a hero working for the SDN under Robert Robertson.

Origins: Not much is certainly known about Prism past at this time, but she once told Malevola that she never had or knew her dad, suggesting that she grew up in a fatherless household without her biological father, impacting her emotional and social development.

Criminal Career: Prism's powers first manifested during or after a sing talent show, when she ends up in second place, believing she was cheated out of first place by the winner who has bribed the judges, she used her new powers to set the girl's hair at flame. This also become inspiration for her first published song; "Girl, your hair on fire."

Appearance: Prism is a petite Black woman with a chin-length bob where the left half is hot pink and the right turquoise. She has a beauty mark on her right cheek and, while she has brown eyes, she wears a teal visor that partially conceals them. Her outfit consists of a black body suit with a thin gold line down the middle of it and around the base of her neck, with a single gold hoop where the lines meet. She also wears long gloves that go up to her mid-arm. Each glove matches their respective hair color for each side (pink on left, turquoise on right) and are capped off by a large, gold band. Both of her thigh high boots are turquoise.

Personality: Very flashy, will not hesitate to show off, very cocky and preeny. Music snob, hate all forms of music that are not her songs.

Abilities

• Photokinesis
• Photoionization
• Holographic Manipulation

Origins: Coupé's past is currently not well known. It is speculated that she manifested her power when she was very young and was noticed by the Mob who took her in and train to be assassin at early age.

Criminal Career: Over her criminal career, Coupé killed over 68 people for Mob, until she was sent to assassinate Punch Up, and this encounter changed her life. As she on her way toward her 69th kill, reminiscing how perfect her success rate as assassin is, 68 kills, zero failures. Punch Up, who was watching Swan Lake while crying and eating a bucket of ice cream, because he couldn't find the remote to change the channel and was too depressed to get out of his chair to find it, noticed her as she came from behind to stab him. He commented on how it must be fate for her to be there, since her old costume was reminiscent of a ballerina. She attempted to stab him after this, but failed to, due to Punch Up's dense body structure. A fight ensued which led to the two of them having intercourse and the first time that Coupé failed to assassinate someone. This led into a serious romantic relationship that continued until just before their participation in the Phoenix Program.

Joining Superhero Dispatch Network: At some point in time, Coupé was convicted and incarcerated at the ADX SuperMax Florence in Colorado, before she was identified as a prime candidate by SDN for their experimental Phoenix Program, where her custody was transferred to the Torrance branch in California HQ, under conditional probation. She was assigned to the Z-Team, managed by Blonde Blazer, and began her career working as a fully instated superhero, with her activities monitored and regulated as per the ruling by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office. Her criminal record lists her as an extremely dangerous individual and is surveilled by both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Interpol - as well as restrictions which forbid her from operating in France, Russia, Bulgaria and Ohio. Should Coupé be terminated from her employment by Robert, she will menacingly threaten him with one of her blades and leave SDN after breaking the conference room window. Despite her contract very specifically stating that she was to be returned to the custody of ADX Supermax Florence - a crew of assassins supposedly connected to Coupé will appear during Robert’s next shift, prompting Punch-Up to clock out early and leave to check on her.

Joining the Red Ring: If the player chooses to fire Coupé, she will be recruited by Shroud to get revenge. When Blonde Blazer confronts Shroud, Coupé would be there and even throwing insults at her by calling her "mom" sarcastically before Shroud silences her with a glare. Coupé would join the rest of the Red Ring in causing havoc all across the city before storming the SDN to get the astral pulse from Mecha Man. Coupé would ultimately be defeated by the combined effort of Mecha Man and Blonde Blazer. She would then be arrested. And Robert chooses to give her another chance, she will be released back into the custody of the Phoenix Program.

She is a former assassin and was a villain until participating in the Phoenix Program. participant and one of the heroes that can be dispatched. As a part of the program, Coupé works for the SDN under Robert Robertson.

Appearance: Coupé is a tall woman with short black hair and yellow eyes. She wears a black, form fitting outfit with silver details and a silver domino mask. She has matching knee high silver, armored boots and her arms likewise have some armor covering her shoulders and the outside part of her arms, down to the back of her hands. Her suit includes black and silver mechanical wings and she keeps some of her daggers stored behind each shoulder, with the blades jutting outward.

Personality: Described as cold and merciless, Coupé is a mysterious and efficient assassin. She notably also enjoys watching Swan Lake, and perhaps dramas involving ballet. Coupé expresses great affinity for knives, thanking Robert for giving them a chance for fresh air. Similarly, she's audibly livid when contacting Blonde Blazer about the issue of her confiscated office knives, saying she registered them as emotional support knives. She also admits to recently taking up sewing, enjoying the various fabrics and stabbing motions accompanying the hobby.

Abilities

• Umbrakinetic Weaponry
• Umbrakinetic Flight
• Superhuman Accuracy

Real Name: Katon-Ur

Appearance: Phenomaman has slightly grown out, slicked back brown hair and dark green eyes. He also sports a mustache. Phenomaman wears a sleeveless blue body suit and a red belt, with a red cape and a high collar with yellow on its rim. He is muscular and has red arm cuffs with silver near the wrist and yellow rimming them.

Personality: Phenomaman is polite yet seems to struggle with social cues. Due to being from another planet, Phenomaman isn't accustomed fully to human traditions and thinks it's okay to invite Robert to his date with Blonde Blazer, as well as failing to understand Blonde Blazer's feelings in their relationship. Even when interacting with other people, his well-mannered but seemingly standoffish nature can cause situations to be awkward. Despite this, he is a gentleman and presents himself as confident. However, sometimes can unintentionally give backhanded compliments. He considers compliments on his looks as bullying because it reminds him that based on his peoples beauty ideals or standards he is considered ugly on his home planet Urgot-52dc.

Relationship: Blonde Blazer - Phenomaman's ex-girlfriend whom he's very much still in love with.

Abilities

• Alien Physiology
• Superhuman Strength
• Superhuman Durability
• Superhuman Speed
• Flight
• Solar Energy Absorption

Real Name: Herman

Appearance: Waterboy is a lanky, young man with red hair and gray eyes. He wears a blue and yellow tracksuit and swimming goggles. When preparing for his interview, he wears a thin black tie.

Personality: Waterboy is a very kind, honest, and proud worker at SDN, who enjoys work both as a janitor and a hero. However, he is shown on multiple occasions to freak out or get nervous. After Robert's advice, Waterboy quickly becomes more confident in subsequent episodes, stuttering less and forming more clear sentences when speaking. Despite his confidence issues, he is determined to be a hero and stands up for people in need.

Relationship: Robert Robertson - Waterboy is grateful to Robert for helping him get his job. If chosen for the Z-team, Robert is shown to believe in Waterboy's potential as a hero and refers to him as an 'actual good person' when talking about him with Chase, also defending Waterboy whenever other Z-team members make fun of him. When Robert is attacked by Flambae, he is willing to protect his new friend despite the potential threat of being burned himself.

Abilities

• Water Expulsion: Can expel water from his mouth, and presumably other parts of his body, as he is shown to be sweating water constantly. (This also include his anus, which as result in Waterboy to always have watery diarrhea when he goes to the toilet to defecate.)
• Superhuman Strength: As referenced by Flambae and Punch Up, he possesses physical strength that exceeds human limitations despite his stature though cannot achieve his full potential due to lack of training and self-esteem.

Chase, currently known as Star Blazer and formerly known as the superhero Track Star, is a major character. He works as a SDN dispatcher in Dispatch.

Biography: Back when he was a superhero, Track Star was the youngest member of the Brave Brigades and worked alongside and subsequently became close friends with Robert's father, Robert "Robbie" Robertson II, the second Mecha Man "Astral". Because he was the youngest member of the team, he seems to have gotten stuck with babysitting a young Robert Robertson a lot. Though it seems he ended up growing fond of and forming a strong bond with the son of his coworker. After Robert's father died, though, Track Star reached out to him, but Robert shortly after cut off ties, likely owing to him having a hard time processing his father's death. In the years that followed, Track Star realized too late his power came at a grave cost: while he could move 50 times faster than the average person, it also aged him 50 times faster each time he used his ability. 15 or so years after his friend's death, he now went by Chase and worked as a dispatcher at Superhero Dispatch Network. Owing to his power's side effect, he appeared as an elderly man, though he was only 39 years old. Four months after Robert's fight with Shroud that left him in a coma and the Mecha Man suit destroyed, Chase recommends to Blonde Blazer that they recruit Robert to SDN in exchange for fixing the Mecha Man suit.

Personality: Chase was a crass and blunt man with little patience for nonsense. He swore liberally in his interactions, and playfully ribbed people he was close to, referring to them with different titles. While able to comfort others, Chase expressed a limited tolerance for emotional vulnerability on his end, expressing his disdain for being pitied. He freely admitted to using dark humor to suppress trauma.

Ability -Super Speed: Chase could move 50 times faster than the average human, with the drawback of aging 50 times faster when using his powers.

Real Name: Royd

Roy, or better known as Royd, is one of Robert Robertson's colleagues at SDN in Dispatch. Unlike most at SDN, he's aware of Robert's real superhero identity at the start due to being on a "needed to know" basis.

Biography: The first time Roy came to the mainland, he tried to steal from a Radio Shack, but Robert Robertson II caught him in the act. The two then sat and talked about tech for an hour before Roy was taken to jail, where he ended up in the Phoenix Program and eventually becoming one of their most successful participants.

Appearance: Roy is very tall and muscular, with long, black hair and brown eyes. He has a large tattoo on his right arm. He wears the standard-issue SDN work uniform along with large orange wristbands on each wrist. When he has to read over documents more closely, he will put on reading glasses.

Personality: Roy is very chummy and a kind-hearted man. He likes making new friends and joke around. His joyful personality can sometimes lead him to awkward situations like revealing Robert's superhero identity by accident. While giving impression of being a bit "simple" he is actually a technological genius capable of developing and fixing the most advanced technological equipment like the Mecha Man suit.

Abilities

• Superhuman Strength: Roy can easily carry large pieces of Mecha Man's suit. He was also shown to be able to briefly hold the Mecha Suit in place when Robert was losing control of it.
• Expert Engineer: Roy has a great degree of engineering capabilities, allowing him to work on restoring Mecha Man's suit.

The Torrance SDN, is a branch of the Superhero Dispatch Network located in, and covering the city of Torrance, California. Blonde Balzer is the branch leader of this location.

Description: The Torrance Branch is a three-story nondescript office building located around the center of its SDN converge map. The outside of the building is made mostly out of glass and dark gray concrete with a blocky square design that surrounds a green space in the center. It also has multiple communication dishes and towers on the roof along with the SDN logo on the side of the building. Inside the building is a blend of 90s tech and muted color pallets along with a few more modern areas giving the building a both retro yet modern look to it.

History: When this branch was built or SDN moved into the building is unknown, as is when Blond Blazer became the leader of it. According to Blonde Blazer the Torrance Branch is not one of highest profile branches in the network but has great people. However, Roy tells Robert after the seventh failed proto-pulse test that they are the bottom branch. At some point the Torrance Branch began participating in SDN's Phoenix Program. A special rehabilitation program that allows ex-supervillains, anti-heroes, and even those actively incarcerated to join SDN as field agents on the "Z-Team" in order to help turn their lives around. However, after the latest 8 members of the program haven given less than optimal results and driven away multiple dispatchers, the program is on the verge of being shutdown (At least at the Torrance Branch.) At some point in the past a dispatcher accidently broadcasted the details of his botched circumcision to the entire branch.

Beef is Robert's pet dog and the closest thing he has to a best friend.

History: Beef is present when Robert is interrogating Toxic. He licks Robert's bleeding nose while he's laying on the ground. When Robert returns late after meeting Blonde Blazer, he apologizes to Beef and tells him the lady is going to help them. Robert didn't want to leave Beef home alone while he's at work so he brings him to the office during work and asks Chase to look after him. Chase spoils Beef by decorating his entire office space to accommodate him. Chase later holds Beef in the conference room while Robert conducts his meeting with the Z-Team.

Real Name: Elliot Connors

Elliot "Eli" Connors, better known as Shroud, is a former member of Brave Brigades turned supervillain, and the leader of the Red Ring.

Appearance: Shroud is an average sized man, he wears a large black trench coat and a hood, with cables sticking out from its neck portion onto his back. He also wears various augments with red glowing accents. Shroud wears a metal mask resembling a skull with its left eye being red, and glowing. As Elliot Connors, he's a blue-eyed man with short brown hair and a mustache.

Personality: Shroud presents himself as a calm and methodic man, as well as polite, respectful and honorable, being a man of his word. Despite this, he is ruthless and power-hungry, seeking to control the world around him by any means necessary. Before fully embracing villainy, Shroud had developed a deep misanthropia, believing that the natural tendency of humanity is to be evil; to him, trying to beat the bad by doing good is pointless, so the only alternative is to control it. Seeking to do just that, he established his criminal organization by enhancing other supervillains with augmentations that he could shut off and on at will, effectively forcing them to work for him. Shroud makes every decision based on logic, in line with his worldview of total control; his abilities of foresight have imbued him with a sense of infallibility, as he could predict near every move his adversaries would make. However, years of knowing the outcome of every situation have eroded his ability to make choices that rely on instinct instead of reason. This is proven if Mecha Man chooses to give him both the Astral and the Proto-Pulse in exchange for him letting Beef go in their final confrontation.

Not much is certainly known about Toxic's past or how he gains these powers or become a villain. Toxic was recruited in the Red Ring after Shroud escaped prison and was granted cybernetic augmentations greatly increasing his powers.

As Mecha Man search for Shroud, the criminal mastermind come up with plan for ambush. Toxic pretended to be a low-ranking member of the Red Ring to trick Mecha Man into kidnapping him . After kicking his kidnapper in the face in the struggle, Toxic asked Robert about his relationship with his father. The conversation quickly escalated when Mecha Man demanded the location of Shroud. Toxic refused to give it up, forcing Mecha Man to dangle him over a ledge. Afraid, Toxic revealed the location of Llewelyn Steel Works and Mecha Man let him live. Toxic reunited with Mecha Man in the control room of the steel mill shortly after, having set a trap with the other members of the Red Ring. Toxic fights Mecha Man in his suit and is overpowered but his associates assist him in ambushing the hero. Shroud eventually arrives and Toxic speaks out loud for him, demanding the Astral Pulse in exchange for the pilot's life. Toxic is among the several Red Ring gang members wreaking havoc in Los Angeles. Eventually, Toxic arrives with an army at Torrance SDN to retrieve the Astral Pulse from Mecha Man, taunting him as Shroud arrives in his own mech. A fight unfolds with the Red Rings combating against the newly arrived Z-Team. Amidst the chaos, Toxic taunts Robert and challenges him again to another fight, but Robert instead introduces him to Punch Up, who repeatedly punches Toxic in his genitals. In the aftermath of Shroud's defeat, Toxic is arrested alongside the other gang members.

Toxic is a supervillain and high-ranking member of the Red Ring.

Appearance: When normal, Toxic wears a short-sleeved, unbuttoned yellow shirt over a low-collared white shirt. He also presumably wears dog tags around his neck, implying a past in the military. Toxic also has a buzz cut and many tattoos across his upper body. While powered up, he is naked and green, as his name suggests.

Personality: While not much has been shown of him yet, Toxic appears to be a highly sadistic criminal who gets off on tormenting his opponents, implying that he might be a sociopath or psychopath. He's also shown to be surprisingly observant when it comes to the feelings of others, recognizing immediately that Robert's feelings towards his father were far more complicated than he let on and even seemed to give good advice on how to deal with these emotions, as Robert admits that he was surprisingly easy to talk to when he wasn't being a dick.

Ability

• Superhuman Durability
• Transformation: Toxic can transform himself into toxic form
• Acid Manipulation
• Acid Ball Projection
• Acid Beam Emission
• Superhuman Strength
• Enhanced Durability
• Regenerative Healing Factor
• Flight
• Expert Tactician