List of The Tick characters
Appearance
This article details the minor characters found in all three versions of The Tick.
Comic book
Superheroes
Picture | Character | Notable powers | Notes | |
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Unaffiliated | ||||
Barry Hubris (a.k.a. "The Tick") | same as the Tick's,industructable shield | Was defeated by the Tick and stripped of his name and possessions by the Tri-State Superhero Congress. | ||
The Caped Wonder (a.k.a. Clark Oppenheimer) | Powers and abilities of Superman. | 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. |
Supervillains
Picture | Character | Notable powers | Notes | |
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Unaffiliated | ||||
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 |
Animated series
Superheroes
Picture | Character | Notable powers | Notes | Voice Actor |
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Unaffiliated | ||||
File:Tick big shot.jpg | Big Shot | Parody of Punisher/Deadshot; By his second appearance, he has undergone anger management therapy | Kevin Schon | |
File:Tick bipolar bear.jpg | Bipolar Bear | A hero dressed as a polar bear, with bipolar disorder. | Unknown | |
File:Tick blitzen.jpg | Blitzen | Éclair's sidekick, superheroine of Belgium, named after the German word for lightning, not the reindeer | Candi Milo | |
Blowfish Avenger | He can puff up to expose his pointy spikes | He's is practically immobile when expanded | Blowfish Avenger has no lines. | |
File:Tick caped chameleon.jpg | 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 | ||
File:Tick carmalita.jpg | 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 | Flight. Can sort the superheroes and sidekicks that appear at the Comet Club | His doorman senses don't work if a supervillain enters the club | Maurice LaMarche | |
File:Tick eclaire.jpg | Éclair | Flies and fires lightning energy from her eyes | Superheroine of Belgium, named after the French word for lightning, not the pastry | Lisa Raggio |
File:Tick fishboy.jpg | Fishboy | Lost Prince of Atlantis, seen to be potentially useless throughout the series | Cam Clarke | |
File:Tick bullet.jpg | 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 |
File:Tick valkyrie.jpg | Jet Valkyrie | Flight | Susan Silo | |
File:Tick agrippa.jpg | Mighty Agrippa, Roman God of the Aqueduct | Can move huge volumes of water from one place to another. | Jess Harnell | |
Civic-Minded Five | ||||
File:Tick mucilage.jpg | Captain Mucilage | A man armed with mucilage-spraying nozzles | Rob Paulsen | |
File:Tick carpeted man.jpg | 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 |
File:Tick feral boy.jpg | Feral Boy | Animal tendency | Drives the team's car | Kevin Schon |
File:Tick 4 legged man.jpg | 4-Legged Man | Has obviously 4 legs | Leader | Roger Rose |
File:Tick jungle janet.jpg | 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 | ||||
Baby Boomerangutan | He throws baby dolls that come back as boomerangs | Battle cry: "It's OK to play with dolls" | Kevin Schon | |
Gesundheit | He has super allergies | Battly cry: "It's sneezing time!" | Paul Eiding | |
Mr. Exciting | He is possessed by incredible energy | Battle cry: "It's Great to Be Alive" | Danny Mann | |
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 |
Supervillains
Picture | Character | Notable powers | Notes | Voice Actor |
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Unaffiliated | ||||
The Angry Red Herring | He can rub petroleum jelly on himself to escape the grasps of superheroes | Kevin Schon | ||
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 | |
File:Tick barry.jpg | 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 | |
File:Tick breadmaster.jpg | The Breadmaster | Creates baked goods that are used as weapons | Kicked out of baking college. | Roddy McDowell (1st Time), Jess Harnell (2nd Time) |
File:Tick buttery pat.jpg | Buttery Pat | Can slip through tight spaces due to being covered in butter | The Breadmaster's sidekick | Buttery Pat has no lines. |
File:Tick charles.jpg | 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) |
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 | ||
File:Tick el seed.jpg | 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 |
File:Tick tembwbam.jpg | 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 Fin | He has superintelligence | A normal talking dolphin | Maurice LaMarche | |
File:Tick ton handy.jpg | 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 |
File:Tick idea men.jpg | 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 | |
Jim Rage | He wears an eyepatch cause it makes him look cool | Brad Garrett | ||
File:Tick maneating cow.jpg | The Man Eating Cow | Self explanatory | Townsend Coleman | |
File:Tick mental.jpg | 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 | |
File:Tick multiple santa.jpg | 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 |
File:Tick octo paganini.jpg | Octo Paganini | From Belgium; has three sets of arms, for a total of eight limbs; an accomplished violinist | Xander Berkeley | |
File:Tick ebrc.jpg | 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 | |
[[Image:Omnipotus_TickVillian.jpg]|150px]] | Omnipotus | Galactus parody. Enormous being that feeds on celestial bodies. | Ron Feinberg | |
The Ottoman Empress | Ability to control furniture | Beautiful red-head woman who, falls in love with Die Fledermaus | Mary Kay Bergman | |
File:Pineapplepokopo.jpg | 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 (parody of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega who himself was sometimes insultingly called 'pineapple-face') | Dorian Harewood |
File:Tick proto clown.jpg | 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. Loosely based on the Incredible Hulk. | Kevin Schon |
File:Stalingrad TickVillian.jpg | Stalingrad | Encyclopedic knowledge of Stalin? | Not Stalin himself, not a clone, just a graduate student who studied and looks like Stalin. | Jim Cummings |
File:Tick terror.jpg | 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 | |
File:Tick thrakkorzog.jpg | Thrakkorzog | An alien creature from dimension 14B. Had an apartment across the hall from Arthur and The Tick | Jim Cummings | |
File:Tick tuunla.jpg | 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 from his hands, forming it into the shapes he wants, and is very difficult to hurt physically | A result of an industrial accident. Once quoted as saying "I'm not a villain, I'm vanilla" | Bobcat Goldthwait | |
Uncle Creamy II | He can fly with his rocket boots and has a missile launcher on his left arm | A former KGB agent | Kevin Schon | |
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. | ||
File:Tick chromedome.jpg | Professor Chromedome | Mad scientist henchman | Hamilton Camp |
Live-action series
Superheroes
Picture | Character | Notable powers | Notes | Actor |
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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). | 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 |
Supervillains
Picture | Character | Notable powers | Notes | Actor |
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Unaffiliated | ||||
Apocalypse Cow | A gigantic cow that can shoot fire from its udder. | |||
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 |