List of minor characters in The Tick

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

Comic book

Superheroes

Character	Notable powers	Notes
Unaffiliated
The Ant		Has something in his mouth.
Barry Hubris (a.k.a. "The Tick")	same as the Tick's, indestructible shield	Was defeated by the Tick and stripped of his name and possessions by the Tri-State Superhero Congress. He tries to kill the Tick for his name. It's debatable if he's a hero or a villain.
Big Shot		A parody of The Punisher
The Caped Wonder (a.k.a. Clark Oppenheimer)	X-ray vision, super strength, invulnerability, flight, heat-vision, super hearing.	A parody of Superman and reporter for the Weekly World Planet.
Crime Cannibal		Real name, Keith Donner, a superhero who later poses as a super villain 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.
Fish Boy: Misplaced Prince of Atlantis	Sea-animal telepathy	Can't swim.
Four-Legged Man	Has four legs	Not a member of the Civic-Minded Five like his cartoon-self.
Friendly Fire		Pyromaniac. Driven mad when his family and dog died.
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	Superhuman strength, flight, water control	A parody of Thor and arch-enemy of Thrakkorzog.
Mucilage Man		Looks a lot like Captain Mucilage.
Six Gun	Can juggle and fire guns very well
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.
The Sultan		He was THE hero of the "Golden Age". Calls himself the world's best hero. Arch-enemy to King Crime. Inspired Arthur for heroism or at least side kickery.
Shing		The former leader of the ninjas in America.
Civic-Minded Five
Radio King	Can make solid objects out of sound	Leader
Oddman		Has wires coming out of his mask. Most of which were sawn off by the Chainsaw Vigilante.
Mr. Envelope	Envelope (that can trap enemies) firing gun
Feral Boy		Acts like an animal. The only member that appears in other media.
Fernslinger		Created by Radio King. Destroyed by the Chainsaw Vigilante.
Unnamed Superhero Team (includes The Tick and Arthur)
Rubber Ducky	Elasticity	Has a relationship with Bumbling Bee.
Bumbling Bee	Shoots bees and honey from hive strapped to wrist
Caped Cod		Real name Walter, a violent womanizing alcoholic. Has had four wives, all of whom divorced him and four sidekicks. Prone to doing insensitive things such as sending Bumbling Bee lingerie or giving Crazy Blue Rocket tongue depressors.
Portuguese Man-of War	Has a whip with barbs which can violently stun what ever it hits.	Self-pitying divorcee. Real name Warren Sr. formerly part of a father son team, his ex-wife however was horrified and sued him for custody. He lost a fact he blames on wearing his costume to court. Wears a Jellyfish hat on his head.
Running Guy	Speed	A parody of the Flash. Motto: Can run as fast as 10 fast men.
Crazy Blue Rocket	Flies (erratically)	Formerly a great Super-Hero, he went insane after death of sidekick. However due to his detached mental state he believes himself to be in his glory days and his sidekick is still alive. He flies into a fit of psychosis when this illusion is challenged. Often talks to himself and the jar of Johnny Wingless, which he uses to explain his plans. However, true his mental state are not very plausible, such as sticking honey covered tongue depressors to himself and pretending to be a tree, in order to stop the rampage of the Dire Wreath. Has a very worn appearance, his costume is torn and one of the lenses on his goggles is broken, he is also constantly salivating. He is one of the few heroes whom even the Tick recognizes as insane.
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

Character	Notable powers	Notes
Unaffiliated
Chainsaw Vigilante	A skilled fighter with a chainsaw	Attacks superheroes, whom 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, whom 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. He carved his initials in the moon (Reading: C.H)
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 stare	A mysterious hitchhiker whose stare can kill or drive people insane and make them his servants. Has his own horror comic series. Issue 13 of his comic was published in real-life.
Sagin		World overlord of the ninjas.
Phalanx of Gloom
Thrakkorzog		Being from another dimension whose goal is to take over the world with an army of gelatinous clone-soldiers. He was thrown out for eating Toy de force.
Cockroach	Super strength, possible nigh-invulnerability	The leader of the Phalanx of Gloom. She is French, her favorite candy is Pez, and her favorite movie may possibly be Old Yeller.
The Red Scare	Superhuman strength and durability	The villain for hire from Villains, Inc. Originally known as the Whirling Scottish Devil.
Candyman		Has a gumball machine for a head.
Underwaterer		"The other lost prince of Atlantis". A parody of the Sub-Mariner. Quit the Phalanx of Gloom when the tick almost hit him with an anchor.
Fuzzy Person	See entry below
Toy de Force	Controls "Toy" Robots	Was eventually eaten by Thrakkorzog over an argument over what was better: Gelatin zombies or Toy robots.
The Praying Mantis	Canabilism	Eats men only after having sex with them.Tried to use her "powers" on the Caped Cod. The only reason she is in the Phalanx Of Gloom is because she says she is a master of ju jitsu. She is jealous of the cockroach because her outfit shows off her shoulders.
Lumber Jane	Chainsaw wielding	Was once a superhero, frogwoman, but was defeated by the Chainsaw Vigillante .After her defeat she became a villain based on him, however she is not as feared. She wields an electric chainsaw that has a 100 foot extension cord. She does not like smokers.
Semi-Billionaire	none	"The villainous enabler". He founded the Phalanx Of Gloom. He is extremely wealthy and is one of the two members of the Cigar Club. He believes in the nobility of superheroes, as Multi-Millionaire does not.
The Evileers
The Fuzzy Person	Can inflate himself.	Most foes find his power humorous rather than frightening.
Mr. Tragedy	Smarter than any body else on the team	Failed acting career. Weakest of the Evileers. Was taken out by a tire. Almost / if not ever smiles.
Multiple Santa	Can create multiple copies of himself in battle.
The Terror		Decrepit leader of the Evileers.He wrote a workout book for old villans called "Terrorizing". Supposedly eaten by the Man-eating cow in "Big yule log 2001",however he is seen again in the yule log trilogy.
Tuun-La, Not of this World	Flight, armored muumuu and strong pincers

Animated series

Superheroes

Character	Notable powers	Notes	Voice Actor
Unaffiliated
Big Shot		Parody of Punisher/Deadpool; By his second appearance, he has undergone anger management therapy	Kevin Schon
Bipolar Bear		A hero dressed as a polar bear, with bipolar disorder.	Ed Gilbert
Blitzen		Éclair's sidekick, superheroine of Belgium, named after the German word for lightning, not the reindeer. Drives a cool motorcycle.	Candi Milo
Blowfish Avenger	He can puff up to expose his pointy spikes	He is practically immobile when expanded	Blowfish Avenger has no lines.
Caped Chameleon a.k.a. Crusading Chameleon	Changes his coloring to match his surroundings, sticks to walls	He cannot replicate plaid or brick, and attempting to do so causes him to pass out.	Rob Paulsen
Captain Lemming		Jumps off rooftops. 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
Courderoy Cordova		A man of mystery and night-watchman at the Aztec ruins.	Philip Proctor
Doorman	Flight. Can sort the superheroes and sidekicks that appear at the Comet Club	His doorman senses don't seem to apply to supervillains	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	Can survive being fired from a cannon in his backyard	As a running gag, he will fire himself at the first sign of trouble (The Human Bullet yells "Fire me, boy!" and his son fires cannon), but somehow always manages to make the situation worse, or at best have no effect at all.	Jess Harnell
Jet Valkyrie	Flight		Susan Silo
Taft		A spoof of Shaft	Dorian Harewood
Mighty Agrippa, Roman God of the Aqueduct	Can move huge volumes of water from one place to another.		Jess Harnell
Speak	None	A capybara. The Tick believes Speak has superpowers and often takes the terrified animal on patrol	Jess Harnell
Civic-Minded Five
Captain Mucilage	A man armed with mucilage-spraying nozzles	Fairly useless in combat.	Rob Paulsen
The Carpeted Man	Can generate a static charge on any surface (with suit of shag carpet)	Can overheat in sunny, warm weather. His real name is Gary.	Pat Fraley
Feral Boy	Animal tendency	Drives the team's car	Kevin Schon
4-Legged Man	Has 4 legs, like a centaur	Team 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
Baby Boomerangutan	He throws baby dolls that come back as boomerangs.	Former colleague of Arthur. Battle cry: "It's OK to play with dolls"	Kevin Schon
Gesundheitan	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

Character	Notable powers	Notes	Voice Actor
Unaffiliated
The Angry Red Herring	He can rub petroleum jelly on himself to escape the grasps of superheroes. He also has machine guns instead of eyes in his fish costume.		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
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	Basically 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	unknown.
Charles (a.k.a. Brain Child)	Super intelligence, Inventor	Gave himself a glass skull to show off his large brain. He acts as a villain on principle alone, and has no real motivation. In some way he is a parody of The Leader	Rob Paulsen. (1st Time), Stuart Stone (2nd Time)
Mad Nanny	Wears a robotic armor	Meriem Brunch is Brainchild's nanny whom he brainwashed	Pat Musick
Skippy		Originally Brainchild's dog who was killed when running towards a car. His brain was placed in a robotic dog body.	Roger Rose
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
Socket and Watt		Deadly Bulb's henchmen	Paul Eiding and Jess Harnell
The Deadly Nose	Has a gun for a nose		Deadly Nose has no lines
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
Bee Twins		Bee-themed female villains that are El Seed's henchmen	Pat Musick
The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight	Explosives expert	Crazed bomber who tries to blow up establishments of all sorts, preferably superhero conventions. Rarely goes a second without mumbling to himself recollections of snippets of conversation with an unknown second party (given his obvious psychosis, this other person may just be a second personality), some glorifying himself ("And then I says, "Tell me I'm wrong!" And he says, "I can't, baby, 'cause you're not!"), others suggesting a bad end between the two ("And so he says, "I don't like the cut of your jib!" And I go, I says, "It's the only jib I got, baby!"). He is frequently identified as a Fan Favorite.	Maurice LaMarche
Eyebrows Mulligan		A gangster with long eyebrows	Townsend Coleman
The Fin (formally known as Mr. Smartypants)	He has superintelligence	A talking dolphin	Maurice LaMarche
The Guy With Ears Like Little Raisins		A gangster who has ears like little raisins	The Guy With Ears Like Little Raisins has no lines.
Harriet Curse		She resembles Oedipus' mother from the comics.	Harriet Curse has no lines.
Headless Henderson		A gangster with no head	Headless Henderson has no lines
The Heys		A nihilistic race who worship nothing.	Hank Saroyan and Steve Susskind
The Hotel Manager		A man from the distant future who opens up a restaurant in the distant past.	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, who is the parody of the Blob from the X-Men comics, and his verbose, much more intelligent hand puppet who longs to be "a real boy." Handy's catch phrase is "Read a book!" Handy is a parody of Scarface of Batman comics.	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 Indigestible Man	Incapable of being digested	An associate of Chairface with wild white hair. Navigates large bodies like Dinosaur Neil's body.	Ed Gilbert
Jack Tuber: The Man with a Thousand Faces		He is based on Mr. Potato Head	Kevin Schon
Jim Rage	He wears an eyepatch cause it makes him look cool	A (former) special agent with Project S.H.A.V.E. Likely a parody of Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Brad Garrett
Lava Man	A man made of lava.		Townsend Coleman
Lou Salazar: The Sewer Czar		A corrupt civil agent turned evil and enemy of Sewer Urchin	John Mariano
Filth		Lou Salazar's henchmen	David Lander and Chuck McCann
The Man-Eating Cow		A Man-Eating Cow	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; can play several violins simultaneously	Xander Berkeley
Fortissimo Brothers	They have the strength of 10 Men	Octo Paganini's henchmen	Philip Proctor
Octo Raymond		An octopus-themed bad guy. He served as the conductor for the Mollusk Band and provided music at the Enemy Awards	Octo Raymond has no lines.
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: The Devourer of Worlds		Galactus parody. Enormous being that feeds on celestial bodies. Has oddly small feet for his size.	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 (parody of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega who himself was sometimes insultingly called 'pineapple-face')	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. Loosely based on the Incredible Hulk.	Kevin Schon
Shiela Eel	A female villain that wears an electric eel	She once shocked the Guy With Ears Like Little Raisins when he got to close	Shiela Eel has no lines.
Stalingrad	Encyclopedic knowledge of Stalin(?)	A graduate student who looks like and bases his villainy on the work of Joseph Stalin. The Terror constantly gets the two confused, as he knew the real Stalin.	Jim Cummings
Sub-Human		A golden age villain that fought the Decency Squad. He wears a miniature submarine on his head	Jess Harnell
The Terror	Inventor, super-strong in his youth(?)	"The greatest villain of the 20th century... and maybe some of the 19th."[citation needed] He once punched out President Teddy Roosevelt.However he may have lost the fight because he still holds a grudge.	Rob Paulsen
Terry		The son of the Terror	Peter Bergman
Thrakkorzog		An alien creature from dimension 14B. Voice sounds like actor James Mason. 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 from his hands, forming it into the shapes he wants, and is very difficult to hurt physically	A result of an industrial accident. Parody of Clayface and Sandman. May not be a villain at heart; 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. Parody of the many Clayfaces	Kevin Schon
Venus	Hypnotises men to become her love slaves and do whatever she wants	Bears some resemblance to the Venus of Willendorf. Venus' wimpy husband Milo is her sidekick	Linda Gary
Milo		Venus' husband and sidekick	Gerrit Graham
Wally		The leader of the Deertown Aztecs, a baseball team gone bad. He and his baseball team have a lifestyle similar to the Aztecs	Phil Austin
Whirling Scottish Devil		He can spin at high speeds	Pat Fraley
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 Crease		He hung the lights for Chairface Chippendale's birthday party	Kevin Schon (1st time), Pat Fraley (2nd Time)
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. Also once mentioned on the live action show.	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	Inventor	Mad scientist henchman	Hamilton Camp

Live action series

Superheroes

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).	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. The Immortal died of heart attack while having sex with Captain Liberty.	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		Injured in combat, now requires a machine to poop	Peter Bergman
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	Super Strength	Leader. A racist and sexist parody of Superman	Jonathan Penner
Sonic Boom	Super Speed or Sonic Scream		Robert Mailhouse
Captain Comet			Jack Armstrong

Supervillains

Character	Notable powers	Notes	Actor
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. The first villain the Tick and Arthur fought.	Carrick O'Quinn
The Terror		"The greatest villain of the 20th century... and maybe some of the 19th."[citation needed] Now extremely old. He once punched out President Teddy Roosevelt.	Armin Shimerman