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.
 * Katherine "Katie" Romano/Olympi-Girl - Olympian's illegitimate daughter fathered in his early twenties. He was unaware of her existence for some time, but at age 13 when she hit puberty she began manifesting the same powers as him. After this, he met up with her and the two began bonding and she becomes his apprentice and sidekick. She is immature, even for her age, and has a hard time adjusting to her new powers, but is a determined and empathetic soul.
 * 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.
 * Aiden Locks/Velocity - the young and cocky CEO of Locks Technology who has the belief that the rich in power truly don't care about the poor as he develops a suit that allows him to run at supersonic speeds. As Velocity, he becomes a Robin Hood-esque vigilante, becoming a champion of the poor and oppressed. He keeps his identity a secret due to his position as a vigilante against the most powerful of people.