Comedian, Playwright, Director, Producer
Super Hero File
Name: Taxman
Origin: Meek retired finance minister Sir Michael Cullen was swimming off St Kilda beach when he swam through a pool of radioactive waste from a Russian billionaire’s private yacht and transformed into TAXMAN.
Powers: His superpowers include being able to track billionaires’ assets through tax havens and farmers’ capital gains through generations and extract every last penny to pay for Shane Jones’ regional development fund.
Foes: Luxon, Willis and Seymour
Super Villain File
Name: DigiDave
Origin: A tech billionaire with a passion for the latest gadgets, Dave Digital was zapped by the same bolt as Ms Analog becoming DigiDave.
Powers: Mastery over all digital devices.
Aims: He’s determined to drag Ms Analog into the digital age.
Foes: Ms Analog
Super Hero File
Name: Ms Analog
Origin: Vintage radio technician, Anna Log, was hit by a time-traveling bolt of lightning while repairing an old transistor radio becoming Ms Analog.
Powers: Can communicate through any analog device.
Weaknesses: She struggles to understand modern technology.
Foes: DigiDave
Super Hero File
Name: Virtueman
Origin: Multibillionaire Richie Silver decided to use his fortune for good.
Found it was too hard & now when villains do bad things he just sends thoughts and prayers.
Powers: As he’s super rich, the media his businesses advertise on love reporting his thoughts.
Super Hero File
Name: Doctor Doctor 2
Origin: In an accident during radiotherapy where the clinician was rendered radioactive, he was bitten by the clinician gaining vast medical abilities.
Powers: Cures patients with psychic hands.Tears vaccinate against all diseases.
Bills can never be disputed.
Weaknesses: Funding cuts.
Foes: The Homeopath, Shane Reti, Winston Peters & The Anti-vax Cookers.
Affiliates: Nurse Nurse, Receptionist Receptionist, and Cleaner Cleaner.
Super Associate File
Name: Laundress
Origin: Ran the laundry at Field Marshal Britain‘s secret research facility until one day some radioactive lab clothes arrived and she was splashed turning her into Laundress.
Powers: Hanging laundry outside on even the sunniest of days causes it to immediately start raining.
Weaknesses: Doesn’t trust driers.
Foes: Grease and Grime.
Super Hero File
Name: Dinosaur Lass
Origin: Another bite, although how Sir David Attenborough became radioactive eludes me.
Powers: Currently does infomercials promoting the Jurassic diet. No fruit & everything tastes like chicken.
Weaknesses: Almost useless short arms.
Foes: The Asteroid.
Super Sidekick File
Name: ManMan
Origin: WomanMan’s former research partner who was also bitten by the same radioactive lab assistant and became ManMan.
Powers: He’s pretty crap really but takes all the credit for WomanMan’s successes. He not only mansplains as well as WomanMan but constantly talks over the victims, villains & police. He does have a superpower being able to emit a hypersonic stream of urine that can cut steel, but we don’t know how effective this is as he’s yet to hit his target.
Weaknesses: Massive ego.
Foes: His ego doesn’t let him acknowledge them.
Affiliates: WomanMan, Field Marshal Britain.
Super Hero File
Name: WomanMan
Origin: Originally a research scientist in Field Marshal Britain’s nuclear research facility until the day when fighting a reactor meltdown she was badly gummed by a dying radioactive male lab assistant turning her into WomanMan.
Powers: The powers of a man including massive overconfidence and when the villains try to launch into long explanations of their plans she mansplains all the flaws so they just give up and surrender.
Weaknesses: Fails to admit her limits.
Foes: Dr HashtagNotAllMen & The Chauvinist.
Affiliates: ManMan, Field Marshal Britain
Super Hero File
Name: Cupcake
Origin: Retired pâtissière Tira Masu was delivering cupcakes to Auckland Hospital when a gamma ray beam was accidentally activated, turning her into Cupcake.
Powers: Produces irresistible pastries with so much sugar that villains go into a diabetic coma.
Weaknesses: Poor portion control requiring donating unused pastries to innocents.
