List of Top 10 characters
This is a list of Top 10 characters. Top 10 is a comic book series published by WildStorm under their America's Best Comics imprint. All characters were created by Alan Moore unless otherwise stated.
The following list includes characters from the original twelve issue series that ran from 2000–2001, the five issue Smax miniseries, and the five issue miniseries Top 10: Beyond The Farthest Precinct.Officers
Top 10 is the tenth precinct in a multiversal police force. It is responsible for law enforcement in the city of Neopolis, where most citizens are superhuman, alien, robot, monsters, or magical beings of some sort. To police a city like this, extraordinary individuals are needed.S.W.A.T. Team Leader Bill "The Wolfspider" Bailey
Leader of Top 10's SWAT team, Bailey is usually seen inside a multi-armed exo-skeleton and armed with a variety of hi-tech weaponry. Bailey lost his legs in a teleporter accident.Officer Duane "Dust Devil" Bodine
A "techno-cowboy" with giant twelve-shooter revolvers and a partner to Shock-headed Pete, Duane is constantly exasperated by Pete's bigotry against sentient robots. He is a reluctant bachelor who is often shown to be afraid of his mother with ample reason, as she is a superhuman lie detector. Duane's mother's apartment becomes overrun with super-powered mice and cats. Duane attempts to solve the problem until cosmic powers erase the incident from everyone's mind. Duane is seen flirting with Jack Phantom, even though he is aware that she is a lesbian and also outranks him. Professor Gromolko, while in custody, manages to grab one of Duane's guns and commit suicide. Duane takes this very badly.
Five years after the Ultima incident, Dust Devil's mother has died, and he finds solace in the arms of his new partner, Curlew, a female with bird features.Officer Peter "Shock-headed Pete">Struwwelpeter">Shock-headed Pete" Cheney
A bigoted officer with electric shock powers gained when ball lightning hit his family's still, Peter harbours a racist attitude towards Neopolis' robot minority. This brings him into conflict with fellow officer Joe Pi. He experiences much guilt after releasing a young prostitute who is subsequently killed by The Libra Killer. He is also reluctant to believe that The Seven Sentinels are in fact a pedophile ring. He is Dust Devil's partner. Five years after the Ultima incident, Pete is partnered with the Subliminal Kid.Dispatcher Linda "Janus" Burnett
Janus is a woman with two faces from Grand Central, a world where the Roman Empire never fell. Named after the Roman God Janus, her front face and her back face are in fact two separate people who even have separate boyfriends and occasionally squabble over how to do their job. "Back Jan" is once seen to cover for "Front Jan" when she had drunk too much the night before. Five years after the Ultima incident, Janus has quit over increasing aggression towards her, due to Major Cindercott's new rule of radio check-ins every quarter-hour. She returned to her home on Grand Central to enter the family business of dog breeding.Sergeant Kemlo "Hyperdog" Caesar
A super intelligent, talking doberman in a man-shaped robotic exoskeleton, Kemlo is a humorous and kind individual, hiding his feelings of inadequacy at being a dog in a human world. Although he quells an objection by Girl One with a claim that he is not attracted to humans, he eventually falls in love with a former prostitute called Neural Nette and the two become intimate despite the species difference. Five years after the Ultima incident, Hyperdog and his wife adopt a young Anubis-headed girl named Cynothia Cephali. He eventually replaces Major Cindercott as head of Precinct 10.Lieutenant Cathy "Peregrine" Colby
A born-again Christian with artificial wings and a powerful physique, Peregrine is married and, in Season Two, catches her husband "crossover-dressing" as a different superhero and insists he attend a rehabilitation clinic for 'identity crisis' sufferers with Sgt. Lopez. She suffered a broken rib arresting Andy 'Airbag' Soames when Soames inflated in panic and crushed her against a door. Five years after the Ultima incident, Peregrine was partnered with the Hoodoo Priest, but after seeing her personal Deity drunk and disorderly in a gods' bar, she had a crisis of faith and took some time off.Detective John "King Peacock" Corbeau
King Peacock is a highly pious follower of the Yazidi religion and often referred to as a "Devil worshipper" by others. Able to perform superhuman feats and detect faults and weak spots 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, albeit a conservative one. His partner is Synaesthesia Jackson. Five years after the Ultima incident, the Corbeaus have a fourth child.Officer Willie "Stochastic Fats" Beaumont
Seen only in a dream of Jeff Smax and in the prose back up story in #1, Fats also has a brief cameo in the Smax mini-series. Fats was killed shortly prior to the events of issue #1 and replaced by Toybox. Fats was a jovial, overweight African-American officer and Jeff's partner and friend. He had the ability to sense or affect probabilities, giving him "hunches" that would always work out for the best. Despite this, he was shot in his home, later being discovered by his then-8-year-old daughter. It is remarked by Irma Geddon that Smax did not take his death well and in grief started a bar fight that ended in Officer Smax pulling the roof down on top of himself. Fats' death weighs heavily on Smax throughout the series.Officer Alexei "Spaceman" Glushko
An alcoholic Russian telepath and former cosmonaut with a fondness for Vodka, Alexei lives with his intelligent telepathic Russian space chimp, Tanya, who is his friend and housemaid. His telepathy is often used in interrogating suspects. He may also be able to use his power to detect radiation.Detective Wanda "Synaesthesia" Jackson
Synaesthesia is a sensible detective apparently considered boring by some of the officers. Her advanced synaesthesia leads into the realm of clairvoyance. She had a romantic relationship with Smax that ended badly, but later harbored an unrequited sexual attraction for her partner King Peacock. When Smax nearly went berserk after failing to protect Toybox from Ultima, Synaesthesia instinctively called him "Jeff, Baby" while calming him, suggesting she retains some strong feeling for him. Five years after the Ultima incident, she is romantically involved with her new partner, Saltator.Doctor Sally-Jo "Micro-Maid" Jessell
The precinct's pathologist, who uses her powers to shrink in order to closely examine bodies, Sally-Jo became a pathologist to avoid giving bad news to patients and is overcome by nerves when she needs to tell Andy Soames he has S.T.O.R.M.S. She can also use her technology to shrink others, but rarely does.Sergeant Jackie "Jack Phantom" Kowalski
Jackie is a lesbian with the ability to turn insubstantial. Her partnership with Peregrine is strained by her partner's conservative Christian values. She shares a flirtatious relationship with Dust Devil although he realises nothing will come of it. Five years after the Ultima incident, Jackie is in a relationship with her partner, Panthalassa.Officer Sung "Girl One" Li
A bio-engineered woman based on a collection of video game characters, created by a small group of rich friends, Girl One is superhumanly agile and fast and has chameleonic skin that disguises the fact she is actually naked at all times. Kemlo, being canine, doesn't see color. His failure to inform her of this causes tension between the two, which he avoids by claiming not to be attracted to humans. Girl One dies in battle against Commissioner Ultima. Her successor, Girl 54, appears in the Beyond the Farthest Precinct miniseries, her name as a reference to the cop show Car 54, Where Are You?. Her name and face were based on glamour model Sung-Hi Lee. The premise for the character, a superpowered bio-engineered woman, seems to be based on the Weird Science film that presented Kelly Le Brock as the creation of two adolescent kids. The film itself is based on a comic made by EC Comics.Sergeant Hector "Monsoon" Lopez
Usually seen manning the front desk, Hector has weather control powers and wears an ill-fitting costume covered in isobars. Apart from booking criminals, little is seen of him, but he remarks to Jack Phantom that he's married after The Libra Killer tries to seduce him with telepathy. Hector retired from active field duty after a hip injury. That injury led him to join the Premise Keepers, a group led by James Eternity that claims to help heroes rediscover their true heroic identity.Hostage Negotiator Harry "The Word" Lovelace
Harry wears a long black suit with a steel "neck-brace" that covers his lower jaw. His powers, to have people obey what he says, are the same as Jesse Custer from Preacher and the same red font is used to show his power in use.Officer Jenny "Multi-Woman" McCambridge
Jenny is an officer capable of generating several bodies at once, each with a different super-power, somehow connected to her chakras. Super-speed, flame-wielding, flight and becoming a giantess are among the abilities she has displayed.Officer Joe Pi
Joe Pi is a robot who is extremely talented at his job and highly skilled at interpersonal relations. He replaces Girl One as Irma Geddon's partner after her death, to a cold reception from his fellow officers. His skill as an officer and his kindness with Irma's family however cause them to quickly become close friends. As a robot, he apparently experiences emotions but can not display them, and has a sardonic sense of humour. He frequently outsmarts and teases bigoted Officer Cheney much to the amusement of other officers. Using psychology, he convinces Atoman of the Seven Sentinels, a pedophile, to commit suicide after he and Irma agree that he will not receive a fair trial. He is modelled after 1970s Japanese anime about Super Robots, most notably Mazinger, though his head and name resemble Joe Pineapples from 2000AD's ABC Warriors.