List of minor characters in The Tick

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This article details the minor characters found in all three versions of The Tick.

Contents

[edit] Comic book

[edit] Superheroes

Picture Character Notable powers Notes
Unaffiliated
The Caped Wonder (a.k.a. Clark Oppenheimer) A parody of Superman and reporter for the Weekly World Planet.
Crime Cannibal Real name, Keith Donner, a superhero who later poses as a supervillain in order to infiltrate Lord Byron's gang. Possesses slight superhuman strength and the ability to eat human beings at high speed, but has given up cannibalism.
Hollow Point A parody of The Punisher
Man-Eating Cow Originally appeared in a pit of crocodiles and cows in Chairface Chippendale's castle. She is the only cow to survive. Considerably stronger and tougher than any ordinary cow. Like Crime Cannibal, Man-Eating Cow can consume humans with alarming speed. Has never been seen to eat anyone but violent criminals.
Mighty Agrippa, Roman God of the Aqueduct Arch-enemy of Thrakkorzog.
Oedipus A parody of Elektra. A ninja and apprentice of Shing, a ninja master. Real name: Oedipus Ashley Stevens.
Paul the Samurai Arch-nemesis and brother of Sagin, who deposed him as master of ninjas.
Shing The former leader of the ninjas in America.
Civic-Minded Five
Radio King Leader
Oddman
Mr. Envelope
Feral Boy
Fernslinger
Unnamed Superhero Team (includes The Tick and Arthur)
The Running Guy Speed A parody of the Flash. Motto: Can run as fast as 10 fast men.
Rubber Ducky Elasticity Has a relationship with Bumbling Bee.
Bumbling Bee Shoots bees from hive strapped to wrist
Caped Cod Alcoholic.
Portuguese Man-of War Self-pitying divorcee.
Crazy Blue Rocket Flies (erratically) Went insane after death of sidekick.
Johnny Wingless The sidekick of Crazy Blue Rocket, really, a detached tongue in a jar. All that remains of Johnny after a rocketing accident.

[edit] Supervillains

Picture Character Notable powers Notes
Unaffiliated
Barry Hubris (a.k.a. "The Tick") Was defeated by the Tick and stripped of his name and possessions by the Tri-State Superhero Congress.
Chainsaw Vigilante A skilled fighter with a chainsaw Attacks superheros, who he thinks are self-interested meddlers, but he is not a true supervillain. He has never killed anyone with his chainsaw. Has a vendetta against the Tick who he was unable to subdue.
Chairface Chippendale Has a chair for a head. Tries repeatedly to gain infamy by vandalizing public objects with his image. Has a son named Stoolface.
The District Manager The leader of Ninjas in America. Henchman to Sagin.
Lord Byron Leader of a criminal gang. Speaks mainly in dramatic verse.
The Ninjas
The Red Eye Lethal touch A mysterious hitchhiker whose touch can kill.
The Red Scare The villain for hire from Villains, Inc. Originally known as the Whirling Scottish Devil.
Sagin World overlord of the ninjas.
Thrakkorzog Being from another dimension whose goal is to take over the world with an army of gelatinous clone-soldiers.
The Evileers
The Fuzzy Person Can inflate himself. Most foes find his power humorous rather than frightening.
Mr. Tragedy
Multiple Santa Can create multiple copies of himself in battle.
The Terror Decrepit leader of the Evileers.
Tuun-La, Not of this World

[edit] Animated series

[edit] Superheroes

Picture Character Notable powers Notes Voice Actor
Unaffiliated
Big Shot Parody of Punisher/Deadshot; By his second appearance, he has undergone anger management therapy Kevin Schon
Bipolar Bear A hero dressed as a polar bear, with bipolar disorder. Unknown
Blitzen Éclair's sidekick, superheroine of Belgium, named after the German word for lightning, not the reindeer Candi Milo
Caped Chameleon Changes his coloring to match his surroundings, sticks to walls a.k.a. Crusading Chameleon - He cannot replicate plaid or brick, and attempting to do so causes him to pass out. Rob Paulsen
Captain Lemming Battle Cry: "Come on spine, work with me" Micky Dolenz
Carmelita Vatos Flight (with moth suit) Both her and Arthur's moth suits were made by Carmelita's father, J.J. Eureka Vatos Jennifer Hale
Doorman Can sort the superheroes and supervillains that appear at the Comet Club His doorman senses don't work if a supervillain enters the club Maurice LaMarche
Éclair Flies and fires lightning energy from her eyes Superheroine of Belgium, named after the French word for lightning, not the pastry Lisa Raggio
Fishboy Lost Prince of Atlantis, seen to be potentially useless throughout the series Cam Clarke
Human Bullet None - Fires himself from a cannon in his backyard As a running gag, he will fire himself at the first sign of trouble (his son helps, after Bullet yells "Fire me, boy!"), but somehow always manages to make the situation worse, or at best have no effect at all. Jess Harnell
Jet Valkyrie Flight Susan Silo
Mighty Agrippa, Roman God of the Aqueduct Can move huge volumes of water from one place to another. Jess Harnell
Civic-Minded Five
Captain Mucilage A man armed with mucilage-spraying nozzles Rob Paulsen
Carpeted Man Can generate a static charge on any surface (with suit of shag carpet) Susceptible to warm weather and heat. His real name is Gary. Pat Fraley
Feral Boy Animal tendency Drives the team's car Kevin Schon
4-Legged Man Has obviously 4 legs Leader Roger Rose
Jungle Janet Very athletic and skilled in combat Perhaps the most competent member of the team Susan Silo
The Decency Squad
Captain Decency Leader Jim Cummings
Johnny Polite Politeness It is this politeness that gets him smothered in chocolate by The Terror in the episode "Grandpa Wore Tights." Cam Clarke
The Living Doll Opens up to reveal many smaller versions of himself Battle cry: "I'm full of tinier men!" Kevin Schon
SuffraJet A rocket strapped to her back Battle cry: "I vote for goodness!" (being a play on "suffragette") Susan Blu
The Visual Eye Shoots eyes as reconnaissance projectiles Battle cry: "Rocket from the sockets!" Pat Fraley
Potential superheroes in training
Sarcastro Biting Sarcasm Looks like Castro, hence the gag. Charlie Adler
The Flying Squirrel Animal Empathy Just really likes squirrels, and has the power to call them to her aid. Laraine Newman

[edit] Supervillains

Picture Character Notable powers Notes Voice Actor
Unaffiliated
Baron Violent Has a belt he uses to adjust his muscular mass, and in turn, his strength, often to overblown proportion Without the belt enhancement, he is not over 5 feet tall. Brian Peck
Barry Hubris (a.k.a. "The Tick") Has a shield with a conductor in it that allows Barry to crush things he wouldn't be able to normally. He uses the name "The Tick", unaware that a hero exists with the same name. He claims to be a hero himself, but is only in it for the fame. Jim Cummings
Betty: Queen of the Ants Speech and Sentience Bascially a normal ant that can talk Cathy Moriarty
The Breadmaster Creates baked goods that are used as weapons Kicked out of baking college. Roddy McDowell (1st Time), Jess Harnell (2nd Time)
Buttery Pat Can slip through tight spaces due to being covered in butter The Breadmaster's sidekick Buttery Pat has no lines.
Charles (a.k.a. Brainchild) Super intelligence Gave himself a glass skull to show off his large brain. He acts as a villain on principle alone, and has no real motivation. Rob Paulsen (1st Time), Stuart Stone (2nd Time)
Dinosaur Neil Giant Size and Strength Turned himself into a dinosaur by accidentally eating from a petri dish containing growing dinosaur tissue, instead of a petri dish containing pasta salad Danny Mann
The Deadly Bulb (a.k.a. Pigleg) Has a light socket on the top of his head, in which a giant light bulb usually sits Inexplicably has a living pig (with a mind of its own, even) on the end of his left leg Maurice LaMarche
Dynamole A dwarf who talks like Peter Lorre and is continually ensconced in sticks of dynamite Pat Fraley
El Seed Knows how to make chemicals that allow plants to achieve sentience An anthropomorphic sunflower wearing a green matador uniform. His name is a play on the historic Spanish hero El Cid. Ed Gilbert
The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight bombs Crazed bomber who tries to blow up establishments of all sorts, preferably superhero conventions. Rarely goes a second without mumbling to himself recollections of conversations with an unknown second party (given his obvious psychosis, this other person may just be a second personality), particularly glorifying himself ("So I says, 'Tell me I'm wrong, baby!' And he says, 'I can't, baby, 'cause you're not!'") Maurice LaMarche
The Human Ton and Handy Handy can speak while The Human Ton's mouth is otherwise preoccupied, such as when biting the head of The Tick An enormous dim-witted man and his verbose, much more intelligent hand puppet who longs to be "a real boy." Maurice LaMarche
The Idea Men A group of men wearing suits, white gloves, and large metal masks that muffle their voices to the point that their ransom demands cannot be heard. They travel via zeppelin. Ed Gilbert
The Man Eating Cow Self explanatory Townsend Coleman
Mr. Mental (a.k.a. Mel Mental) Mind control Has an assistant/sidekick, Minda, who grows increasingly sick and tired of the excessively dramatic supervillain lifestyle Canned Walla (baby), Jim Cummings (adult)
The Mother of Invention Super intelligence An androgynous character who creates a time machine to steal the credit for every invention ever made Paul Williams
Multiple Santa Being shocked by high-voltage current creates electric clones of him Was 'granted' his power after stealing a charity worker's Santa suit, in an attempt to escape from police, and being accidentally chased off the roof of a building and into a large electric billboard by The Tick, who believed the criminal was really Santa Jim Cummings
Octo Paganini From Belgium; has three sets of arms, for a total of eight limbs; an accomplished violinist Xander Berkeley
Eastern-Bloc Robot Cowboy A cyberneticist (presumably from Communist eastern Europe, despite the western theme) who transferred his brain to a walking, talking vending machine. Has an unfortunate weakness to quarters. Pat Fraley
Omnipotus Galactus parody Ron Feinberg
The Ottoman Empress Ability to control furniture Beautiful red-head woman who, falls in love with Die Fledermaus Mary Kay Bergman
Pineapple Pokopo Above-average strength The leader of a small nation known as Pokoponesia (known for two things: Sharks, and pineapples). His head resembles a pineapple. Dorian Harewood
Proto Clown Superhuman strength The product of genetic engineering in an attempt to make a super-clown with the capacity to amuse and entertain more people than a normal clown Kevin Schon
Stalin-Grad Encyclopedic knowledge of Stalin? Not Stalin himself, not a clone, just a graduate student who studied and looks like Stalin.
The Terror "The greatest villain of the 20th century... and maybe some of the 19th."[citation needed] He once punched out President Teddy Roosevelt. Rob Paulsen
Thrakkorzog An alien creature from dimension 14B. Had an apartment across the hall from Arthur and The Tick Jim Cummings
Tuun-La, Not of this Earth Can apparently tuck in her legs and shoot flame from where they were. (see Gamera) Pat Musick
Uncle Creamy Being made of ice cream, he can shoot ice cream and is very difficult to hard physically A result of an industrial accident. Once quoted as saying "I'm not a villain, I'm vanilla" Bobcat Goldthwait
Venus Linda Gary
The Yes Men
Chairface Chippendale and henchmen
Chairface Chippendale A crime boss who has a chair for a head Tony Jay
Boils Brown Henchman, covered in boils Boils has no lines.
The Forehead Henchman Rob Paulsen
Zipperneck Henchman - The zipper on his neck can be unzipped to reveal the interior of his esophagus, which is so grotesque that heroes will cease fighting just to avoid looking at it. Pat Fraley
Dean Henchman - Has a wingnut for a head. He is referred to in a novelization of the cartoon series as "The Butterfly Wingnut" Dean has no lines.
Professor Chromedome Mad scientist henchman Hamilton Camp

[edit] Live-action series

[edit] Superheroes

Picture Character Notable powers Notes Actor
Unaffiliated
The Cape William Newman
Fiery Blaze Uses fire-based weapons. Ron Perlman
Fishboy, Lost Prince of Atlantis Parody of Aquaman and/or Sub-Mariner. Sidekick of The Angler. Todd Felix
Friendly Fire Fiery Blaze's sidekick (not to be confused with Friendly Fire, a member of the DC Comics superhero team Section 8 that appeared in Hitman). Arthur's best friend Patrick Breen
The Immortal Superhuman strength, speed, stamina, invulnerability, freezing breath, super hearing, multiple extrasensory and vision powers, intelligence, longevity, flight, and regeneration. Parody of Superman; Arthur's idol Sam McMurray
Johnny Republic The sidekick of Uncle Samson Antwon Tanner
Kid Caboose The sidekick of The Runaway Train Michael Cornacchia
Medusa She goes to the same dry cleaners as Captain Liberty Mari Morrow
Metcalf Peter Bergman
Sonic Boom Robert Mailhouse
Tiny Man Former member of the League of Superheroes. He was kicked out since he wasn't tiny enough Kevin Thompson
League of Superheroes
The Champion Leader. A parody of Superman Jonathan Penner
Captain Comet Jack Armstrong

[edit] Supervillains

Picture Character Notable powers Notes Actor
Unaffiliated
Apocalypse Cow A gigantic, fire-breathing cow
Destroyo His real name is Leonid Kasparov Destroyovitch Kurt Fuller
The Red Scare Robot A robot created in the 1970s to destroy Jimmy Carter; released with that same programming in The City as part of an abortive attempt to destroy the U.S. Postal Service. Carrick O'Quinn
The Terror Armin Shimmerman