List of characters from Top 10

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Top 10 is a comic book series published by Wildstorm Comics under their America's Best Comics imprint. All characters were created by Alan Moore unless otherwise stated.

The following list includes characters from the original twelve issue series that ran from 2000–2001, the five issue Smax mini-series (2003), and the five issue mini-series Top 10: Beyond The Farthest Precinct (2005).

For characters appearing in the Top 10: The Forty Niners graphic novel (2005), see List of characters in Top 10: The Forty-Niners.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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[edit] Officers

Top 10 is the tenth precinct in a multiversal police force. It is responsible for law enforcement in the city of Neopolis, where every citizen is a superhuman, alien, robot, monster, or magical being of some sort. To police a city like this, you need some extraordinary individuals...

[edit] S.W.A.T. Team Leader Bill "The Wolfspider" Bailey

Leader (and apparently only member) of Top 10's S.W.A.T. team. Usually seen inside a multi-armed exo-skeleton and armed with a variety of hi-tech weaponry. Bailey lost his legs in a teleporter accident. Possibly named for the British comedian, or the song, "Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?".

[edit] Officer Duane "Dust Devil" Bodine

A "techno-cowboy" with giant twelve-shooter revolvers. Partner to Shock-headed Peter, Duane is long suffering of Peter's bigotry. A reluctant bachelor who is often shown to be afraid of his mother (a superhuman lie detector). Duane is seen flirting with Jack Phantom even though he is aware she is a lesbian and outranks him. He takes it very hard and blames himself when Professor Gromolko slips free when in custody and uses one of his 12-shooters to commit suicide. Five years after the Ultima incident, Dust Devil's mother has died, and he finds solace in the arms of his new partner, Curlew.

[edit] Officer Peter "Shock-headed Peter" Cheney

A naive and bigoted officer with electric shock powers and a racist attitude towards Neopolis' robot minority (Which brings him into conflict with fellow officer Joe Pi). He experiences much guilt after releasing a young prostitute (Immuno-Girl) who is subsequently killed by The Libra Killer. He is also reluctant to believe that The Seven Sentinels are in fact a pedophile ring. Dust Devil's Partner. Five years after the Ultima incident, Pete is partnered with the Subliminal Kid.

[edit] Dispatcher Linda "Janus" Burnett

A woman with two faces from Grand Central (Precinct 1), a world where the Roman Empire never fell. Named after the Roman God with two faces, her front face and her back face are in fact two separate people who even have separate boyfriends and occasionally squabble over how to do their job. "Back Jan" is once seen to cover for "Front Jan" when she had drunk too much the night before. Five years after the Ultima incident, Janus has quit over increasing aggression towards her, due to Major Cindercott's new rule of radio check-ins every quarter-hour. She returned to her home on Grand Central to enter the family business of dog breeding.

[edit] Sergeant Kemlo "Hyperdog" Caesar

A super intelligent, talking doberman in a man-shaped robotic exoskeleton. Kemlo is a humorous and kind individual, hiding his feelings of inadequacy at being a dog in a human world. He eventually falls in love with a former prostitute called Neural 'Nette and the two become intimate despite the species difference. Five years after the Ultima incident, Hyperdog and his wife adopt a young Anubis-headed girl named Cynothia Cephali. He eventually replaces Major Cindercott as head of Precinct 10.

[edit] Lieutenant Cathy "Peregrine" Colby

A conservative born-again Christian with artificial wings (resembling The Falcon) and a powerful physique. Her beliefs often conflict with the fact that her partner Jack Phantom is a lesbian and she is seen to tell her off for casual blasphemy. She is married but nothing is known of her husband. Five years after the Ultima incident, Peregrine was partnered with the Hoodoo Priest, but after seeing her personal Deity drunk and disorderly in a gods' bar, she had a crisis of faith and took some time off.

[edit] Detective John "King Peacock" Corbeau

A highly pious follower of the Yazidi religion and often referred to as a "Devil worshipper" by others. Able to perform superhuman feats and detect faults and weak spots (similar to Marvel's Karnak) by communing with his god. He is also an excellent hand-to-hand combatant. He is married with three children and is a good father and a loyal husband despite his misogynistic beliefs. His partner is Synaesthesia Jackson. Five years after the Ultima incident, the Corbeaus have a fourth child.

[edit] Officer Willie "Stochastic Fats" Beaumont

Seen only in a dream of Jeff Smax and in the prose back up story in Issue #1. (He also has a very brief cameo in the Smax mini-series.) Fats is conspicuous in his absence throughout the series. Killed shortly prior to the event's of issue #1 and replaced by Toybox. Fats was a jovial, overweight African-American officer and Jeff's partner and friend. He had the ability to sense or effect probabitities, giving him "hunches" that would always work out for the best. Despite this, he was shot in the line of duty during a drug bust. It is remarked by Irma Geddon that Smax did not take his death well and in grief started a bar fight that ended in him pulling the roof down on top of him. Fat's death weighs heavily on Smax throughout the series.

[edit] Officer Alexei "Spaceman" Glushko

An alcoholic Russian telepath and former cosmonaut with a fondness for Vodka. His telepathy means he often "broadcasts" his hangovers to those nearby. He lives with his intelligent telepathic Russian space chimp, Tanya, who is his friend and housemaid. His telepathy is often used in interrogating suspects. He can also use his power to detect radiation.

[edit] Detective Wanda "Synaesthesia" Jackson

A sensible detective apparently considered boring by some of the officers. Her advanced synaesthesia leads into the realm of clairvoyance. Has an unrequited sexual attraction for her partner King Peacock. Five years after the Ultima incident, she is romantically involved with her new partner, Saltator.

[edit] Doctor Sally-Jo "Micro-Maid" Jessell

The precinct's pathologist, who uses her powers to shrink in order to closely examine bodies. She became a pathologist to avoid giving bad news to patients and is overcome by nerves when she needs to tell Andy Soames he has S.T.O.R.M.S. She can also use her technology to shrink others, but rarely does.

[edit] Sergeant Jackie "Jack Phantom" Kowalski

One of the most popular characters of the series (according to the letters page). Jackie is a lesbian with the ability to turn insubstantial. On the cover of Issue #1 she can be seen staring down Toybox's top and in the same issue tries to pick her up. Her partnership with Peregrine is strained by her partner's conservative Christian values. She shares a flirtatious relationship with Dust Devil although he realises nothing will come of it. Five years after the Ultima incident, Jackie is in a relationship with her partner, Panthalassa.

[edit] Officer Sung "Girl One" Li

A bio-engineered woman based on a collection of video game characters. She is superhumanly agile and fast and has chameleonic skin that disguises the fact she is actually naked. Her successor, Girl 54, appears in the "Beyond the Farthest Precinct" mini-series, her name a pun on the cop show "Car 54, Where Are You?". Her name and face were based on glamour model Sung Hi Lee.

[edit] Sergeant Hector "Monsoon" Lopez

Usually seen manning the front desk, Hector has weather control powers and wears an ill-fitting costume covered in isobars. Apart from booking criminals, little is seen of him, but he remarks to Jack Phantom that he's married after The Libra Killer tries to seduce him with telepathy. Hector retired from active field duty after a hip injury.

[edit] Hostage Negotiator Harry "The Word" Lovelace

Harry wears a long black suit with a steel "neck-brace" that covers his lower jaw and compels people to obey his voice. His powers are the same as Jesse Custer from Preacher (whose power is called "The Word") and the same red font is used to show his powers activating.

[edit] Officer Jenny "Multi-Woman" McCambridge

An officer capable of generating several bodies at once, each with a different super-power, somehow connected to her chakras. Super-speed, flame-wielding, and becoming a giantess are among the abilities she has displayed.

[edit] Officer Joe Pi

A robot (although he prefers to be called "post-organic" or "Ferro-American") who is extremely talented at his job and highly skilled at human interpersonal relations. He replaces Girl One after her death, to a cold reception from his fellow officers. Partnered with Irma Geddon, his skill as an officer and his kindness with Irma's family cause them to quickly become close friends. As a robot, he apparently experiences emotions but can not display them, and has a sardonic sense of humour. He easily outsmarts and teases bigoted Officer Cheney much to the amusement of other officers. He convinces pedophile Atoman of the Seven Sentinels to commit suicide after he and Irma agree that he will not receive a fair trial. He is modelled after 1970s Japanese anime Super Robots, most notably Mazinger.

[edit] Officer Robyn "Toybox" Slinger

A novice straight from the academy in issue #1, Robyn is the daughter of former Precinct 10 member Colonel Lilliput (Who appears in The Forty-Niners). She carries a cubic box filled with elaborate robotic "toys" built by her father, which are capable of various tasks. She has a troubled home life as she must take care of her elderly father who is suffering from alzheimers. She is partnered with Jeff Smax whose attitude doesn't help things for her, but the two eventually become close friends and she accompanies him home in the Smax mini-series. While there, she has a brief affair with an elf (but severs ties once she realizes he only wants a Green Card). It is also revealed she may or may not be of royal blood (due to a reference to the Princess and the Pea fairy tale). Five years after the Ultima incident, it is revealed that Robyn's mother was Pandora and it is her infamous box that contains her father's toys. After using all of her toys to distract the Hell Ditch Pilgrim, she unleashed the lingering emotion of Hope to heal him. She was left without any notable abilities following the incident, save a lingering radiant halo, like Jeff Smax (this may be a result of visiting superspace, or Andy Soames' doing). She has an unrevealed destiny that the Rumor will help her achieve.

[edit] Officer Jeff Smax

Smax

Born Jaafs Macksun, Smax hails from a "Back worldy" parallel Earth where magic replaces the common laws of science. Jaffs is the son of a travelling heroine who was imprisoned and raped by an Ogre. His mother died giving birth to Jaffs and his twin sister Rexa and the children were raised by their father who physically and sexually abused them. Smax eventually killed his father as he slept and he and Rexa ran away. They are eventually taken in by the Dwarf couple Mack and Minka. To earn a living Smax became a dragon-slayer. He was highly successful until he failed to save a young princess from a near omnipotent dragon called Morningbright. After that he fled to Neopolis where he changed his name to Jeff Smax and became a police officer. His first partner was Stochastic Fats who was killed in a drug bust. When we first encounter Smax in Top 10 #1 he is curmudgeonly and hostile to his new partner Toybox due to his inability to deal with grief. Despite this rocky start he and Toybox became very close friends. After the events of the Smax mini-series he now lives with his sister/lover Rexa in Neopolis (claiming they look alike because they are the "same species"). Smax is very tall and muscular with blue skin and white hair. He is highly invulnerable and super strong and can fire a blast of energy from his chest. Jeff is an obtuse and slightly dimwitted police officer ashamed of his background and prone to violent rages. Five years after the Ultima incident, Smax lives in the city with his lover, Rexa Smax. After saving Toybox from the Hell Ditch Pilgrim, he is left with a lingering radiant halo, despite his argument that he is not a saint.

[edit] Captain Steve "Jetman (formerly Jetlad)" Traynor

A Veteran of the Neopolis PD and greatly respected. During World War II, at the age of 15, he was a daredevil pilot responsible for shooting down numerous German aircraft. After the War he was moved to Neopolis along with all other "science heroes" where he met Wulf. The two men became lovers and have been together ever since, despite the fact that Traynor has still not "come out" about his sexuality to his fellow officers. He is one of the main characters of Top 10: The Forty-Niners. Five years after the Ultima incident, Traynor is fired from his position, succeeded by Major Cindercott and Hyperdog.

[edit] Officer Irma "Irmageddon" Wornow

A plump, middle-aged woman in a nuclear-armed battlesuit. Irma is a patriotic, working class police officer with a bit of a propensity for aggressive tactics (and lethal, radioactive force). She is married to Ron, a precog whose abilities prevent him from gaining employment for most of the series. They have two children Cherry Bomb and Cerebra. She was partner and a close friend to Girl One until her death and is then partnered with Joe Pi. Her grief over Sung Li's death makes her acceptance of her new partner very difficult but they eventually become friends. Five years after the Ultima incident, Irmageddon is briefly paired with Rexa Smax.

[edit] New officers

[edit] Officer Chelle "Curlew" Chambliss

Five years after the Ultima incident, Chamblis is Dust Devil's new partner. A bird-woman, her physiology does not display the ability to fly, in contrast to Peregrine, though she does have a sonic cry. She and Dust Devil eventually enter a sexual relationship after Bodine's mother passes away.

[edit] Major Sean Cindercott

Five years after the Ultima incident, Cindercott replaces Captain Traynor as head of Precinct 10. He issues numerous mandates that are restrictive and controlling of his officers, and he does not publicly interact with them, instead issuing commands via monitors, while watching everything going on in the station through closed-circuit television. He was placed in his position by Mayor Albert Famaile, in attempt to subvert dissidence in the populace and the police. He is transformed into a stone facsimile during the Hell Ditch Pilgrim case.

[edit] Officer Parsifal "The Hoodoo Priest" Congo

Five years after the Ultima incident, Hoodoo Priest is partnered with Peregrine. He has vast knowledge of religion and spirituality, believing that numerous deities and mythological figures are in fact the same entity viewed differently across multiple cultures. He calls on large spiritual avatars to perform various tasks, most often in physical confrontations. He knows of the Rumor, and is one of the few to believe Toybox's claims of having met him.

[edit] Officer "The Subliminal Kid" Luhan

Five years after the Ultima incident, the Subliminal Kid is a rookie partnered with Shock-headed Peter. His body appears organic, but his head is an oval-shaped television, which can show his thoughts and ideas as images. He can also create images, such as a hypnotic swirl to gain information from someone. His first name is not revealed.

[edit] Officer Paulie "Saltator" Oldwood

Five years after the Ultima incident, Saltator is partnered with Synaesthesia. The two eventually develop a romantic relationship, with prodding by Jack Phantom. He has significant strength and durability, seemingly able to leap great distances and fight hand-to-hand without any armor or protection.

[edit] Officer Jenny "Panthalassa"

Five years after the Ultima incident, Jenny is partnered with Jack Phantom and the two share a intimate relationship. Aside from being a mermaid, Jenny also has hydrokinesis. Her last name is never revealed.

[edit] Officer Rexa Smax

See Jeff Smax above. Rexa is Smax's twin sister and his lover. She was sexually abused by her father until Jeff killed him and they both were taken in by Uncle Mack and Aunt Minka. After the events of the Smax mini-series, she came to live with Jeff on the outskirts of Neopolis. She possesses the same super-human abilities as Jeff but her "Strong Light" is far more powerful. Five years after the Ultima incident, Rexa is an officer for Precinct 10, and paired with Irmageddon for a brief time, eventually being partnered with the Hoodoo Priest. She and Jeff now live in a house in the city.

[edit] Dispatcher Tara

Five years after the Ultima incident, Dispatcher Janus has quit over increasing aggression towards her, due to Major Cindercott's new rule of radio check-ins every quarter-hour. She is replaced by Tara, seemingly a real manifestation of the goddess.

[edit] Criminals & Suspects

[edit] Gograh

An aging Godzilla analogue who appears to terrorise Neopolis after his son Ernesto is taken into custody by Smax and Toybox. He is a drunk and carries beer trucks on his belt to drink from. He usually resides on Monster Island with other movie monsters. He resents the other monsters intensely and pines for the days when he was a big movie star.

[edit] Ernesto Gograh

A tall (roughly 7 ft.) reptilian gang member. Ernesto is super strong and invulnerable but does not appear to have the radioactive breath of his father, nor does he have his immense stature. He is the head of the Fabulous Five street gang. He has little respect for the police which leads to his arrest by Smax and Toybox.

[edit] The Ghostly Goose

An undetectible shapeshifter who uses his powers to fondle women. Believed captured by Jack Phantom, he actually escaped and was last seen as a chair in the station's cafeteria.

[edit] Morningbright

A near-omnipotent shapeshifting dragon from Smax's home world. He eats or kills virgin girls and uses their souls as a source of energy. He easily defeats Smax's attempt to save a princess, thus shaming him into running away to Neopolis. When Smax returns during the events of the Smax mini-series he is eventually defeated by Smax, Toybox, Rexa and others. His whiskers appear to be a reference to dragon curves

[edit] Professor Gunter Gromolko

Diminutive Nazi-Scientist who was granted immunity from prosecution after World War II for helping to build Neopolis (and remain among the other super-villains). He was seen in The Forty-Niners living a life of luxury until he tried to use time travel to change history and ensure the Germans won the war. In Top 10 he is seen making illicit drugs and commits suicide in custody with Dust Devil's 12-shooter to protect one of his clients. He is based on numerous mad scientists such as Doctor Sivana.

[edit] Hell Ditch Pilgrim

A menace that first manifests itself as a giant, apocalyptic avatar in the sky, the Pilgrim quickly exerts his control over robotic intelligences through the "darkshot" drug. Soon, he begins possessing organic intelligences as well. He is eventually revealed to be Andy "Airbag" Soames, existing in superspace, an underlying reality giving him control of the entire multiverse. Toybox uses Pandora's Box to give Andy hope and put him at eternal peace.

[edit] M'rrgla Qualtz, the Libra Killer

A former member of the Seven Sentinels (a Justice League analogue) as the Vigilante from Venus, Qualtz was a female analogue of The Martian Manhunter who retired from superheroics and used her telepathy and shapeshifting to become a porn star. After several years, she disappeared and it was later revealed that she had undergone a metamorphosis unique to her species. She became a gigantic, multi-eyed worm covered in monofilaments capable of slicing between atoms. Yearly she would exit the sewers of Neopolis where she hibernated and remove the heads of prostitutes to eat their pineal glands. The regular yearly appearance of these bodies was blamed on the "Libra Killer." She was arrested by a team of officers led by Jack Phantom and imprisoned but was killed in the assault on the station by Ultima before she could stand trial.

[edit] Andy "Airbag" Soames

First appearing in issue #4, Soames is a married man who frequents prostitutes and is suspected of being the Libra Killer after one prostitute he visits (Immune Girl) is found decapitated. He discovers from Micro-Maid that he has S.T.O.R.M.S. (Sexually Transmitted Organic Rapid Mutation Syndrome) that may turn him into a non-viable organism. He may also have infected his loving and previously oblivious wife Susan. Soames can inflate his body and is presumably an analogue of Bouncing Boy (even wearing a similar costume). Five years after the Ultima incident, Soames' S.T.O.R.M.S. virus has stabilized but mutated him into a new entity, the Hell Ditch Pilgrim.

[edit] Commissioner Ultima

Commissioner Ultima was the head of police hailing from Grand Central (Precinct 1, the same world Janus comes from) a parallel Earth where the Roman Empire never fell. She can travel between parallel worlds under her own power and fire energy blasts, and while her other abilities were not catalogued she apparently had enough power to destroy all of Neopolis and its citizens. Ultima had killed Saddles in an attempt to get a unique radioactive drug that he had been transporting for Prof. Gromolko and it was Ultima who Gromolko feared when he killed himself. When Detective Corbeau travelled to Grand Central to investigate the case she had him placed in the gladiatorial games in an attempt to have him killed. When Detective Jackson realised Ultima was responsible and attempted to arrest her, Ultima attacked the police station and Girl 1 and M'rrgla Qualtz were both killed. While Smax held her off (getting badly beaten in the process) other officers gathered the drug she was after and Toybox used her automatons to inject it into Ultima causing her to overdose. As a final act Ultima brought down part of the station's roof burying Toybox alive.

[edit] Other

[edit] Bob "Blindshot" Booker

A taxi driver who transported Toybox to Precinct 10 on her first day. Booker claims to have "zen senses", letting the car decide where he should go, and wearing a blindfold over his eyes (which may be sightless anyway). Of course, Booker suffers numerous auto accidents, but they seem to serendipitously affect events positively. Booker's remaining senses seem enhanced, perhaps alluding to the Marvel Comics character, Daredevil.

[edit] Dennis, Great and Terrible Death

Dennis is one of many deaths from Jeff Smax's homeworld. He is a grim reaper with many skulls covered in snakes and only appears for truly impressive deaths, usually of heroes or great monsters such as Morningbright and Smax.

[edit] Mayor Albert Famaile

Five years after the Ultima incident, the intelligent baboon is instituting harsh new legislation, seemingly patriotic but also near-fascistic. He fires Captain Traynor to insert Major Cindercott, a man who agrees with his politics, and enforces his laws without question. He is transformed into a stone facsimile during the Hell Ditch Pilgrim case. His leadership style is a commentary on the American Republican party, particularly the Bush administration.

[edit] Phillipe Jouet-Homme

Five years after the Ultima incident, Phillipe lives with Toybox in his apartment. A seemingly wealthy private citizen, Phillipe is not a flesh and blood humanoid like Robyn, but an android. His style of dress and accessory seem to indicate he is inspired by either Marvel's Arcade or DC's Toyman.

[edit] Grease Monkey

Grease Monkey is a robotic chimpanzee seen in the station's "shop" repairing Kemlo Caesar's damaged exo-skeleton and also works on police vehicles as well.

[edit] Dr. Qubit

Five years after the Ultima incident, Qubit is Commissioner Ultima's replacement. For a more neutral leader, Qubit was selected as a member NOT from Grand Central. Aside from superior intelligence, his abilities seem to be a take off of the qubit's superpositioning quality, allowing multiple copies of himself, each displaying different moods and personalities, to perform numerous tasks at once. Aside from the obvious inspiration, Dr. Qubit may also be inspired by Marvel's Multiple Man.

[edit] The Rumor

Believed at first to be a running joke at the precinct, "the Rumor" was blamed for unexplained events or used as a transparent excuse ("I was waiting for the Rumor to show up"). When Toybox was trapped under a collapsed part of the station, however, he appeared to her as a translucent, featureless humanoid. Five years after the Ultima incident, the Rumor eventually reveals his ultimate role as multiversal "criticality adjustor," applying slight adjustments to pivotal moments to effect a positive outcome. He can access superspace, the underlying connective region of the multiverse, to traverse great distances. He knows about Toybox's origins, and knows she has some greater, unrevealed destiny to fulfill.

[edit] Sam "Colonel Lilliput" Slinger

Senile father of Robyn "Toybox" Slinger and former member of Precinct 10 (he is seen in The Forty Niners as having commanded an army of toy soldiers). After Robyn is injured by Commissioner Ultima, Smax helps take care of him. He is based on General Jumbo, a British character from The Beano. Five years after the Ultima incident, his Alzheimers has progressed to where he is hospitalized and only occasionally visited by Robyn and the Rumor, who has promised Sam to help Robyn fulfill her destiny. His wife was apparently Pandora.
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