Rog had high hopes for his career as an enemy! Turned out the day-to-day of it was mostly just walking back and forth on platforms and guarding coins. Still, when Kevin attacked, it was Rog’s belief that enemies could be heroes that wound up making the tiny, harmless Rog kind of a hero himself.

These days, Rog heads up a team of enemies called the Badnix. They travel from World to World, helping other enemies combat the bops and ground-pounds of the nefarious Kevin.

His full name – “Thomas Rogthaniel Maton III” – comes from his grandfather, a legendary hero in the Arcade Wars. Rog dreams of living up to his grandpa’s legacy, and is kind of constantly freaking out about failing to do so.

Rog’s oldest and least trustworthy friend. Amoral, apathetic, and prone to thievery, Perry is mostly a member of the Badnix due to the wide berth Rog gives him to be incredibly lazy. Despite all of this, he’s unfailingly loyal and has a frustrating habit of being useful.

When Perry was young, his parents met a terrible fate in an incident that left him with his trademark lack of respect for authority figures and basically everyone else who isn’t him. The particulars also left him with kind of a phobia of robots, which he takes out on Ted.

Perry is a Para-Foblin, which is kind of like a goblin with wings. Scholars continue to earnestly debate why this is a thing.

Raised from birth to be a ruthless leader, Arika debuted on the enemy scene as a brilliant, calculating, and merciless… 16-year-old intern. With EVERYTHING TO PROVE!

Arika and Rog used to be bitter rivals. She’s still kind of a miniature super-villain, but joining up with the Badnix softened her up a lot. Her self-absorbed megalomaniacal rants are very nearly tolerable now.

Her mother, Charlotte Nidd, is the merciless boss of Ghost World, and queen to the brutal, cannibalistic race known as the Spidelings. So Arika could’ve turned out a little worse, I guess. That’s all I’m sayin’.

In a world ruled by dragons and warlocks, Sluri was born a humble slime. A slime obsessed! With being the very best! The best there EVER was.

In her quest to prove herself, Sluri trained, grinded, and leveled herself up into a powerful wizard! She wound up joining the Badnix, her magic and shape-shifting powers giving her an easy shot at the MVP spot.

Sadly, a battle with Kevin wiped out Sluri’s homeworld, and left her with permanent injuries. She’s still trying to figure out exactly where that leaves her. In the meantime, she’s keeping her chin up, and – naturally – getting stronger.

The resident vampire of the Badnix team. Darrk is so one with the darkness, he is practically named after it. Is Darrk an assassin? Some sort of ninja? Does he have amnesia? Just what IS his secret past? These are only a few of the questions fanfic authors have raised.

The dark, horrible truth: behind Darrk’s stony facade there are exactly zero hidden depths. He’s just kind of a dumb, shallow poseur coasting by on the free coolness points you get from being a vampire.

Has noted weaknesses for J-pop fashions, cute animals, and imported sweets. Come to think of it, I’ve never seen him actually drinking blood.

Ted originally showed up to volunteer as medical officer for the Badnix, but as it turned out that his perfect silicon robot-brain made him smarter than everyone else, he’s wound up as more of a general consultory figure. Typically seen at Rog’s side, helping to make the tough calls.

Despite this, his quiet, self-effacing nature tends to make him fade into the background. When asked, Perry described Ted as “basically a toaster, minus the raw emotional intensity and with a less interesting backstory”.

Seems to have a special bond with Sluri.

Following a squishy lil’ tomato-man into battle against the greatest danger your world has ever known? That’s a tough sell. Rog had a pretty rough time filling the ranks of the Badnix early on – but that all changed once enemies started getting wise to the fact that Kevin can actually be defeated. These days, enemies from all different Worlds serve at Rog’s beck and call.

The newest recruit is Rose Waters, an panic-prone Kappa from Beach World who happens to be Rog’s #1 fangirl. There’s also, like, a scissor guy, a little clockwork man with one eye, a book with a face… I dunno, I’m sure they all have clever pun names that we’ll find out during the Staff Roll.