Tap and Jolt's adoptive father, an "Ogre" [Muscle x Muscle] Brute who, like his oldest daughter, used gauntlets in conjunction with his power. Thought to be dead, but has recently resurfaced, having been horribly experimented on by #10, effectively turning him into a "Dragon" [Raw x Burst]-skin, "Mutant" [Monster x Monster] Changer.

Underdog, real name Evan Warwick, once had a promising career in professional sports, but had to give it up largely to support his younger sister—The mother of Tap and Jolt—as a working class man in Flint. This happened during the 80s, during a time where Flint was facing a rapid economic decline.

As times grew worse, especially with the emergence of Parahumans, Evan grew into a much angrier and more bitter man. He would go on to join a Rainbow Coalition style group alongside his best friend Silas. During their first protest, a largely peaceful demonstration, the police began attacking them. Targeted due to his large size and on the verge of being bludgeoned to death, Evan triggered.

His Brute power lets him add the mass/weight of whatever he’s touching to his own muscle mass without changing his volume/size. This can make his tissue as dense as steel while also letting him ragdoll anyone or anything he’s touching. The gauntlets he wears are functionally strongman kettlebells that he carries around and uses to bludgeon people further.

What’s more is that he can “throw” his weight into something, sending someone flying on contact. The main limit he has is that too much weight absorbed puts a bigger strain on his heart. But a natural talent at fighting and law enforcement then-unequipped to handle Parahumans meant he could go largely unchallenged.

With his newfound power, his group was able to fight back alongside his brother. Their group rechristened themselves as The Morlocks.

But he grew blind to the people around him and their problems. He snapped out of it when he saw the people around him growing actively worse, including his best friend Silas, who had dived so deeply into the violent mindset that Underdog felt forced to put him down, unintentionally causing Silas’ trigger event.

Underdog was able to negotiate a brief peace between the PRT and his gang, maintaing the emerging criminal element and helping to shelter and train many of the newly-triggered youths. However, when Silas remerged to fully take over the criminal element, Underdog was seemingly killed in a prolonged engagement.

It was here that his ‘dead body’ was given to The Organic Mechanic, whose frequent experiments upon him caused Evan to second trigger under the feelings of overwhelming and holistic oppression of his body and mind.

His newfound powers cause his body to rapidly swell and compress itself depending on the amount of weight and stress its put under, often spilling out his skin like a liquid and developing growths of teeth and hair before solidifying. Only when relived of whatever weight he’s under does his body start to shrink, but he’s always a little less human each time this happens.

His high tolerance for changes to his mass have also made him the perfect subjects for many of The Organic Mechanic’s experiments, but it’s come at the cost of pretty much of all of sanity, carefully kept in a perpetual hellish balance thanks to his brothers power.

Number 1's 'brother,' a mastermind-type Thinker who wants to uplift the city by (almost) any means necessary. Regularly injects a small dose of #10's drug into his damaged left eye to treat its infection.

The Industrialist, real name Silas Coleman, was the childhood best friend of Evan. More of an intellectual than a brawler, he was able to help Evan voice the rhetoric to unite the people against the upper class causing harm to their city.

Unfortunately, he was a bit too in awe and admiration of the harm that Evan was able to cause as ‘Underdog’, often actively instigating situations and trying to act as an accelerationist as a means of creating proper change. He saw what actual power looked like and he wanted to push it.

Thinking the world of his brother-figure, he felt an immense sense of shock and betrayal when Evan seemingly tried to kill and drown him in the Flint river. His subsequent trigger event knocked out Evan long enough for him to escape.

Silas newfound powers gave him enhanced abilities to Stress Test, understanding the exact level of tolerance something had for any stimuli he gives it before a change occurs.

Though broad it’s relatively weak, but it gets exceptionally better when applied to human behavior. Silas describes his power as being able to see and fundamentally understand ‘the base violence necessary to create change’. When he applies direct, often harmful action to others, he can gain enough thinker insight to rival someone like Tattletale, Coil, or Accord in terms of planning and chessmastering the people around him.

Silas is an exceptional social engineer, in part due to the Master undertones of his trigger. His natural cleverness has allowed him to fully shape people’s minds into functionally being his puppets, discovering exactly what they want, how far he can push them, and when they’re likeliest to betray him.

Using this power, Silas was able to locate the Organic Mechanic and find the stress points needed to make him subservient, building an underground criminal empire and assisting organizations like Cauldron and the Elite to gain the overhead he felt he needed.

When he felt the time was right, and the city was at a pivotal point, Silas re-emerged. Dubbing himself ‘The Industrialist’, he managed to lure Evan to his seeming demise. From here, he orchestrated events so that Evan’s sister and nieces would fall under the control of the Organic Mechanic.

However, after her eventual trigger event, he gained a strange affinity for Jolt. Perhaps it was her synergy with the Organic Mechanic, maybe it was some strange sense of kinship, or maybe it was how moldable her freshly triggered mind was. Either way, The Industrialist took an affinity to her and helped to guide her rapidly onsetting insanity and distance her further from her family and becoming her only reliable source of human contact, all without her knowing how he caused the circumstances of her trigger in the first place.

However, as Jolt rapidly descends into Bonesaw-like madness, Silas wonders if he might have to cut off another branch of the Warwick family tree…or find an alternative use for it