List of Top 10 characters

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

The folowing list includes characters from The original 12 issue series that ran from 2000-2001. The 5-issue Smax Mini Series (2003), Top 10: The Forty Niners graphic novel (2005) and the mini series Top 10: Beyond The Farthest Precinct (2005).

Officers

S.W.A.T. Team Leader Bill Bailey

The Wolfspider

Leader (and apparently only member) of Top 10's S.W.A.T. team.Usually seen inside a multi armed exoskeliton Bailey lost his legs in a telporter accident. Usually armed with a variety of hightech weaponry.

Officer Duane Bodine

Dust Devil

A "techno-cowboy" with giant twelve-shooter revolvers. Partner to Peter Cheney. A bachelor often afriad of his mother who is a superhuman lie detector. Duane is long suffering of Peter's bigotry.

Officer Peter Cheney

Shock-Headed Peter

A naive and biggoted officer with electric shock powers and a bad attitude towards Neopolis's robot minority. Dust Devil's Partner

Dispatcher Linda Burnett

Janus

A woman with two faces and is apparently from Grand Central (or Precinct 1), a dimension where the Roman Empire never fell.

Sergeant Kemlo Caesar

The Hyperdog

A super intelligent, talking doberman in a man-shaped robotic exo-skeleton. Kemlo is a humerous 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.

Lieutenant Cathy Colby

Peregrine

A born-again Christian with artificial wings and a powerful physique.

Detective John Corbeau

King Peacock

A highly pious follower of the Yazidi religion and often referred to a a "Devil worshipper." by others. Able to perform superhuman feats and detect faults (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.

Officer Alexei Glushko

Spaceman

A Russian telepath and former cosmonaut who lives with his intelligent Russian space chimp, Tanya.

Detective Synaesthesia "Syn" Jackson

A sensible detective apparently considered boring by some of the officers. Has advanced Synaesthesia leads into the realm of clairvoyance. Has an unrequited sexual attration for her partner King Peacock.

Doctor Sally-Jo Jessell

Micro-Maid

The precinct's pathologist, who uses her powers to shrink in order to closely examine bodies.

Sergeant Jackie Kowalski

Jack Phantom

A lesbian with the ability to turn insubstantial.

Officer Sung Li

Girl One

A bio-engineered woman based on a collection of video game characters. She is superhumanly agile and fast and features chameleonic skin. Her successor, Girl 54, appears in the "Beyond the Farthest Precinct" mini-series; her name is a pun on the cop show Car 54, Where Are You?.

Sergeant Hector Lopez

Monsoon

An officer who presumably has some control over weather conditions and usually manned the front desk.

Hostage Negotiator Harry Lovelace

the Word

An officer with a voice that compels obedience, much like Jesse Custer from Preacher.

Rexa Mackson

See Jeff Smax below. 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 in the outskirts of Neopolis. She possesses the same super-human abilities as Jeff but her "light" is far more powerful. She is very tall and muscular with blue skin and white hair, she is highly invulnerable and super strong and can fire a blast of energy from his chest.

Officer Jenny McCambridge

Multi-Woman

An officer capable of generating several bodies at once each with a different super-power, somehow connected to her chakras.

Officer Joe Pi

A robot (although he prefers to be called "post-organic" or "ferro-American") who is extremely talented at his job and replaces Girl One after her death to a generally cold reception from his fellow officers. Partnered with Irma Geddon with whom he quickly becomes close friends. He is modelled after 1970s Japanese anime Super Robots, most notably Mazinger.

Officer Robyn Slinger

Toybox

A novice from the academy in issue #1 Robyn is the daughter of former Top 10 member Colonel Lilliput (Who appears in The Forty-Niners). 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 who's attitude doesn't help things for her but the two eventually become close friends and she accompnaies him home in the Smax mini-series. While there she has a brief afair with a Fairy. She carries a cubic box filled with elaborate robotic "toys" capable of various tasks.

Officer Jeff Smax

Smax

Born Jaffs Mackson, Smax hails from a "Back worldy" parallel Earth where magic is common. 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 phsically and sexually abused them. Smax eventually killed his father as he sleept 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 higly successful untill he failed to save a young princess from a near omnipotant 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. His next partner was Toybox and despite a 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. 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 dimwitted police officer ashamed of his background and prone to violent rages.

Captain Steve Traynor

Jetman (formerly Jetlad)

A Veteran of the Neopolis PD and greatly respected. During World War Two, 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 since despite the fact that Traynor has still not "come out" about his sexualtity. He is the main character of Top 10: The Forty-Niners.

Officer Irma Wornow

Irma Geddon

A plump middle-aged woman in a nuclear-armed battlesuit. Irma is highly conservative, working-class and patriotic police officer but strongly denies that she is a bigot. She is married to a precog who's abilities prevent him from gaining employment for mpst of the series. They have two children Cherry Bomb and Cerebra. she is partners and close friends with Girl One untill her death and is then partnered with Joe Pi. Her greif over Sung Li's death makes her acceptence of her new partner very difficult but they eventually become friends.

Criminals & Suspects

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 Police Station's cafeteria.

Mrgg'lla Qualtz

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

Other

Grease Monkey

Seen only in issue #8 Grease Monkey is a robotic Chimpanzee seen in stations "shop" repairing Kemlo Ceaser's damaged exoskeleton and presuamably police vehicles as well.

The Rumor

Believed at first to be a running joke at the precinct "The Rumour" was blaimed for unexpained events or used as a transparent excuse. However when Toybox was trapped under a collapsed part of the station he appeared to her as a translucent, featurless human. Little else is known about him.