High Risk Comics/Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia page listing the characters included in High Risk Comics.

Heroes

 * "John Smith"/The Olympian - a time traveler from the 23rd century. After the mysterious death of the planet Earth, he was sent back in time as a baby to change history. While he was adopted by several families, none of them stuck and he took the false identity of "John Smith". In his secret identity, he works as a historian and history teacher at Wayne Brook High School. He is extremely powerful, but it has given him a nihilistic depression that he often struggles with. The rays of his time machine granted him several superhuman abilities, including flight, an augmented physical body, and the ability to shoot ionized energy from his hands.
 * Patrick Wake/Asteroid Man - an astronaut and the first man on Mars. He went missing for four years and returned to a world that had moved on without him. He is taken in by an American government organization known as Goliath, although he does not fully trust his new superiors. He possesses incredible psychic powers which manifest in the form of telepathy and telekinesis, the latter of which also allow him to fly, but also suffers from mental instability, the severity of which depends. Later in the series, it's revealed his powers and mental state were due to having encountered aliens, who then wiped his mind of it.
 * Brian Finnegan/Hourglass - a reporter and one of the first heroes in the world, operating in the early 80s. Due to his increasing age, he retired on his 45th birthday and has remained retired for two decades until current day when inspiration strikes him and he comes out of retirement to fight crime once again. However, the changing times have turned him from a beloved hero to a controversial vigilante, not helped by the masses believing him to be too old to properly do his job anymore. He is determined to prove both the people and himself wrong in this matter. He has no powers but is an expert combatant and has a keen mind which is adept at detective work and interrogation.
 * SM-001/Akira Yamada/The Synthetic Man - the first in what will eventually be a line of superpowered robotic soldiers designed by the Japanese military. While he is programmed with complex emotions, he is unable to fully grasp the human condition and everything is new to him, although he is filled with joy at each new thing he learns. His face and personality were both modeled after his creator's deceased son, who also shared the same name as him. He is able to fly via rockets in his body and can fire out small missiles from his arms, transform his hands into guns, and shoot laser beams from his pupils.
 * Piper Todd/Reaper - an egotistical aristocrat with many vices and an adoptive daughter she often neglects. After dying in a plane crash, she is sentenced to be condemned to Hell for her actions but is given a second chance as a Grim Reaper, collecting the souls of the damned and capturing escaped souls as well as fighting demons, all the while trying to earn her spot in the kingdom of Heaven. To hide her identity, she wears a white mask resembling that of a Plague Doctor's, which also grants her supernatural powers, such as the ability to teleport. She also wields a magic scythe that can fire blasts of energy and destroy a person's soul if need be.
 * Gilgamesh of Uruk - the former "Hero King of Uruk", Gilgamesh is one of the oldest people alive, having been born in ancient Babylon. He is the son of a Babylonian king and the goddess Ninsun who went on a quest to obtain immortality due to a fear of death. In the High Risk version of the tale, he actually succeeds but lives to regret his choice. His thousands of years of life have left him hardened and bitter with little to no interest in his own life anymore. In the present day, he is on a quest to either cure his immortality, find a purpose in life again, or finally find a way to die. He wields a large black claymore and has a regenerative healing factor that heals all wounds and always returns him to life.
 * Eric Khan/Beast-Man - a former archaeologist turned drifter who due to tampering with ancient magical artifacts has been afflicted with lycanthropy, transforming into a werewolf every night. He is bitter and paranoid due to his curse and is constantly on the run to protect himself and others. He eventually meets up with Gilgamesh, becoming a recurring partner of his, though the two don't always get along.
 * Abigail Winters/Sharpshooter - a scientist who works at the aspiring tech company, AchieveCorp, as she secretly moonlights as a cowboy themed vigilante known as the Sharpshooter. She uses a handmade revolver with non lethal rounds plus several special themed bullets suck as a tracking bullet or an ice bullet. She also uses a motorcycle she nicknames Silver, being the vigilante of Apex City.

Civilians/Others

 * Dr. Anne Foster - a superhero therapist who Olympian often visits to talk about his problems. She is an older woman who works as both a personal psychiatrist and a doctor at Wesker Institution, where she speaks to supervillain patients. It is later revealed she is the ex-wife of the superhero Hourglass.
 * Alexander "Alex" O'Donnell - a carefree and relaxed literature teacher at Wayne Brook High School and John's self-proclaimed best friend who tries his best to keep John happy, though he is unaware he is Olympian. John gets along with him fine, but the two often differ in their lifestyles and views on the world.
 * Dr. Casey Jackson - a nerdy and introverted scientist working for Goliath who is often sent to study Patrick and his new found abilities. She is fascinated by him and he considers her one of the few people he trusts at Goliath.
 * Jane Finnegan - Brian Finnegan's estranged daughter who is aware of her father's alter ego and disapproves of it, while he disapproves of the fact she is a pin-up model. She is a very famous member of high society and has many friends, but becomes lonely and depressive very easily.
 * Vince Wright - the CEO of AchieveCorp who wants to try and help humanity evolve, being Abigail's boss and one of her closer friends. He eventually learns that she is the Sharpshooter and allows her to keep developing tech for her identity, being proud that he is indirectly helping with the betterment of Apex City.

Villains

 * Yaoguai - an ancient Chinese man of unknown origin. His true identity has been lost to time and he is a master of magic and alchemy who has come to believe it is his destiny to rule the world. He is also a major figure in Chinese crime, becoming one of China's biggest and most infamous crime lords, with people being terrified to speak his name. To this end, he leads an American branch of the Chinese triad known as The Demon-Men.
 * Oscar "Ozzie" Kincaid - a young industrialist and CEO of Oracle Industries who became rich at age 19. He is supposedly the smartest man in the world and has a massive ego as well as a superiority complex. He despises Olympian and is an advocate of both eugenics and population control. He eventually confesses that his hatred of Olympian stems from jealousy.
 * Reign - a time traveler from the same year as Olympian and the man responsible for Earth's future destruction. Due to extensive time travel and his decelerated age, he has seen over a billion years of human history and has come to see the human race as inherently meaningless. He wears a super suit which grants him several abilities. His true identity is a long running mystery throughout the series.
 * Nero - the mysterious leader of the terrorist organization known as Romulus who believes that certain members of humanity should evolve and those special ones should rule the world. His insane beliefs on evolution cause him to clash with the Olympian. Later on in the series, Nero injects himself with a serum codenamed Remus which grants him superhuman speed and strength.
 * The Stranger - a Martian and the person who initially experimented on Patrick Wake, thus being responsible for both his powers and his mental instability. He is a scientist above everything else, lacking empathy and only wanting to experiment. His body has several cybernetic implants which grant him superhuman abilities and a computer-like mind.
 * Puck - a mysterious being of unknown origins who loves causing chaos and discord. He has minor reality bending powers as he often clashes with Asteroid Man although he occasionally does rather anti-heroic things. He is extremely flamboyant and enjoys taunting his enemies.
 * Dr. Avery Lafayette/Doctor Death - a mad scientist and archnemesis of Hourglass. He was assumed dead for many years and is the initial reason Hourglass came out of his retirement. He has a fascination with the human condition and sees the current state of living beings as flawed. Via horrific experiments and demented science, he hopes to create a being beyond the limits of a normal animal.
 * King Deer - the recent king of a group of animal people from a pocket dimension that Hourglass visited in his past. He has murdered the previous king and has grown interested in hunting after the "man from the other world" as soon after viewing Earth, grows an interest in conquering it.
 * Mortimer "Morty" Wilder/Screen-Head - an infamous gang lord who is involved in several forms of illegal activity. Instead of a head, he has a CRT television which can display anything he wants. He is an avid opponent of superheroes, seeing them as outdated relics of a time long past.
 * SMA-001/Tartarus - an American attempt at replicating the technology that created Akira who went rogue and began attacking people seemingly at random. Initially believed to be a coding error, it is revealed that he has actually come to the conclusion that humanity is destined to doom itself and that the only way to save them is to rule them via fear and taking away their freedom. He possesses similar abilities to Akira but is less humanoid than him.
 * Amos Spring/Rogue Reaper - a former Reaper who was a gangster in life and was shot to death by his own boss in the late 1930s. He was offered a chance at redemption, but squandered it, instead using his time on Earth to kill his former employers. Ever since, he has been on the run from the forces of Heaven and Hell. He is a dangerous combination of crime lord and cult leader with a soul-destroying Reaper scythe.
 * Nergal - the Babylonian king of demons and the god of death, disease, and war. He is ruler of Kur, the Babylonian underworld, and his purpose is to lord over the souls of the dead. No people are able to escape him, which is why he sees Gilgamesh's immortality as a personal insult, wanting nothing more than to finally kill him and drag him to Kur.
 * Tiamat - a primordial sea beast and the goddess of salt water and chaos. Like in the Enuma Elish, she is the former wife of the deceased god Absu who was murdered by his own children, which caused Tiamat to try and kill the gods as revenge. In the High Risk version of the story, she was not killed but instead trapped below the ocean. She is incredibly powerful, with even Nergal fearing her. Supposedly, all dragons and dragon-like beings are descended from her.
 * Pazuzu - an ancient Babylonian demon who enjoys meddling in the affairs of humans, favoring ones that are in harsh situations/mental states. However, due to a bizarre moral compass, he despises other demons and will even protect humans from their influence. His presence is often indicated by heavy winds and he has the ability to transform himself into a swarm of cicadas.
 * Elias St. Croix/Templar - a devoted religious zealot who believes himself to be one of God's holy disciples as he is obsessed with clearing the world of everything mystic that isn't the Holy Savior. Due to this, he clashes with Gilgamesh as he wields a sword that he can turn on fire.
 * Jacob Nightingale/Gentleman - a mob boss operating in Apex City who is dressed as a civilized gentleman as he soon grows fascinated by Sharpshooter, wanting to eliminate her at all costs while also wanting to take full control of the crime scene in Apex City.
 * Leroy Roberts/Mister Elemental - an anarchist who has willingly exposed himself to nuclear energy, transforming into the living embodiment of the elements, being able to transform into five forms based on fire, water, earth, electricity and air as he decides to continue his campaign of chaos in his new superpowered form.
 * The Puzzle - a deranged terrorist who believes himself to be one of the smartest men alive as he creates various puzzles that could cause doom if not solved correctly as he often gets outsmarted by the Sharpshooter although he refuses to admit it.

Groups

 * The Demon-Men - an American branch of the Chinese triad made up of mostly Chinese immigrants and Chinese-Americans who all wield magical weapons and wear Chinese masks.
 * Romulus - a terrorist organization that believes that humanity should evolve as they are inspired by the Roman Empire, wearing outfits and using tech based off of Roman designs.
 * Goliath - a secret organization working for the American government which specializes in the study of the paranormal. They do their best to simply capture the paranormal occurrence (referred to as "subjects"), but are sometimes forced to destroy them.
 * AchieveCorp - a small upcoming tech company that only has a few employees as they are attempting to get big in Apex City.

Locations

 * Wesker Institution - a hospital for the mentally ill which specializes in the treatment of mentally unstable superheroes and villains.
 * Kur - the Babylonian underworld where souls are turned into "Shades", which are similar to ghosts. All of its water is ash and the wind feels like knives on your skin.
 * Apex City - a massive and bustling metropolis which is home to both various innovations and criminals as well.