List of Top 10 characters

Top 10 is a comic book series published by Wildstorm Comics under their America's Best Comics imprint. All characters were created by Alan Moore unless otherwise stated.

The folowing list includes characters from The original 12 issue series that ran from 2000-2001. The 5-issue Smax Mini Series (2003), Top 10: The Forty Niners graphic novel (2005) and the mini series Top 10: Beyond The Farthest Precinct (2005).

Officers

S.W.A.T. Team Leader Bill Bailey

The Wolfspider

Leader (and apparently only member) of Top 10's S.W.A.T. team. Usually seen inside a multi-armed exoskeleton and armed with a variety of hightech weaponry. Bailey lost his legs in a teleporter accident. Possibly named for the British comedian.

Officer Duane Bodine

Dust Devil

A "techno-cowboy" with giant twelve-shooter revolvers. Partner to Peter Cheney, Duane is long suffering of Peter's bigotry. A reluctant bachelor who is often shown to be afriad of his mother (a superhuman lie detector). Duane is seen flirting with Jack Phantom even though he is aware she is a lesbian and outranks him.

Officer Peter Cheney

Shock-Headed Peter

A naive and biggoted officer with electric shock powers and a racist attitude towards Neopolis' robot minority (Which brings him into conflict with fellow officer Joe Pi). He experiences much guilt after releasing a young prostitute (Immuno-Girl) who is subsequently killed by The Libra Killer. He is also reluctant to believe that The Seven Sentinels are in fact a peadophile ring. Dust Devil's Partner.

Dispatcher Linda Burnett

Janus

A woman with two faces from Grand Central (Precinct 1), a world where the Roman Empire never fell. Named after the Roman God with two faces, her front face and her back face are in fact two seperate people who even have separate boyfriends and occasionally squabble over how to do their job. "Front Jan" is once seen to cover for "Back Jan" when she had drunk too much the night before.

Sergeant Kemlo Caesar

The Hyperdog

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. He eventually falls in love with a former prostitute called Neural 'Nette and the two become intimate despite the species difference.

Lieutenant Cathy Colby

Peregrine

A conservative born-again Christian with artificial wings (resembling The Falcon) and a powerful physique. Her beliefs often conflict with the fact that her partner Jack Phantom is a lesbian and she is seen to tell her off for casual blasphemy. She is married but nothing is known of her husband.

Detective John Corbeau

King Peacock

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 (similar to Marvel's Karnak) 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 despite his misogynistic beliefs. His partner is Synaesthesia Jackson.

Officer Alexei Glushko

Spaceman

An alchoholic Russian telepath and former cosmonaut with a fondness for Vodka. His telepathy means he often "broadcasts" his hangovers to those nearby. He lives with his intelligent Russian space chimp, Tanya who is his friend and housemaid. His telepathy is often used in interrogating suspects. He can also use his power to detect radiation.

Detective Synaesthesia "Syn" Jackson

A sensible detective apparently considered boring by some of the officers. Has advanced Synaesthesia leads into the realm of clairvoyance. Has an unrequited sexual attration for her partner King Peacock.

Doctor Sally-Jo Jessell

Micro-Maid

The precinct's pathologist, who uses her powers to shrink in order to closely examine bodies. She 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.

Sergeant Jackie Kowalski

Jack Phantom

One of the most popular characters of the series (according to the letters page). Jackie is a lesbian with the ability to turn insubstantial. On the cover of Issue #1 she can be seen staring down Toybox's top and in this issue tries to pick her up. Her partnership with Peregrine is strained by her partner's conservative Christian values. She shares a flirtatious relationship with Duane Bodine although he realises nothing will come of it.

Officer Sung Li

Girl One

A bio-engineered woman based on a collection of video game characters. She is superhumanly agile and fast and features chameleonic skin that disguises the fact she is actually naked. Her successor, Girl 54, appears in the "Beyond the Farthest Precinct" mini-series; her name is a pun on the cop show "Car 54, Where Are You?".

Sergeant Hector Lopez

Monsoon

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.

Hostage Negotiator Harry Lovelace

The Word

Harry wears a long black suit with a steel "neck-brace" that compels people to obey his voice. His powers are the same as Jesse Custer from Preacher (who's power is called "The Word.") and the same red font is used to show his powers.

Officer Jenny McCambridge

Multi-Woman

An officer capable of generating several bodies at once each with a different super-power, somehow connected to her chakras.

Officer Joe Pi

A robot (although he prefers to be called "post-organic" or "ferro-American") who is extremely talented at his job and highly skilled at human interpersonal relations. He replaces Girl One after her death to a cold reception from his fellow officers. Partnered with Irma Geddon his skill as an officer and his kindness with Irma's family cause them to quickly become close friends. As a robot he apparently experiences emotions but can not display them, as such he has a sardonic sense of humour. He easily outsmarts and teases bigoted Officer Cheney much to the amusement of other officers. He convinces peodphile Atoman to commit suicide after he and Irma agree that he will not receive a fair trial. He is modelled after 1970s Japanese anime Super Robots, most notably Mazinger.

Officer Robyn Slinger

Toybox

A novice from the academy in issue #1 Robyn is the daughter of former Top 10 member Colonel Lilliput (Who appears in The Forty-Niners). She has a troubled home life as she must take care of her elderly father who is suffering from alzheimers. She is partnered with Jeff Smax who's attitude doesn't help things for her but the two eventually become close friends and she accompanies him home in the Smax mini-series. While there she has a brief affair with a Fairy. She carries a cubic box filled with elaborate robotic "toys" capable of various tasks.

Officer Jeff Smax

Smax

Born Jaffs Mackson, Smax hails from a "Back worldy" parallel Earth where magic is common. Jaffs is the son of a travelling heroine who was imprisoned and raped by an Ogre. His mother died giving birth to Jaffs and his twin sister Rexa and the children were raised by their father who physically and sexually abused them. Smax eventually killed his father as he slept and he and Rexa ran away. They are eventually taken in by the Dwarf couple Mack and Minka. To earn a living Smax became a dragon-slayer. He was higly successful until he failed to save a young princess from a near omnipotant dragon called Morningbright. After that he fled to Neopolis where he changed his name to Jeff Smax and became a police officer. His first partner was Stochastic Fats who was killed in a drug bust. His next partner was Toybox and despite a rocky start he and Toybox became very close friends. After the events of the Smax mini-series he now lives with his sister/lover Rexa in Neopolis. Smax is very tall and muscular with blue skin and white hair. He is highly invulnerable and super strong and can fire a blast of energy from his chest. Jeff is an obtuse and dimwitted police officer ashamed of his background and prone to violent rages.

Captain Steve Traynor

Jetman (formerly Jetlad)

A Veteran of the Neopolis PD and greatly respected. During World War Two, at the age of 15, he was a daredevil pilot responsible for shooting down numerous German aircraft. After the War he was moved to Neopolis along with all other Science heroes where he met Wulf. The two men became lovers and have been together since despite the fact that Traynor has still not "come out" about his sexuality to his fellow officers. He is one of the main characters of Top 10: The Forty-Niners. Possibly named after Wonder Woman's love interest Steve Trevor.

Officer Irma Wornow

Irma Geddon

A plump middle-aged woman in a nuclear-armed battlesuit. Irma is highly conservative, working-class and patriotic police officer but strongly denies that she is a bigot. She is married to a precog who's abilities prevent him from gaining employment for most of the series. They have two children Cherry Bomb and Cerebra. She was partner and a close friend to Girl One until her death and is then partnered with Joe Pi. Her grief over Sung Li's death makes her acceptence of her new partner very difficult but they eventually become friends.

Criminals & Suspects

The Ghostly Goose

An undetectible shapeshifter who uses his powers to fondle women. Believed captured by Jack Phantom he actually escaped and was last seen as a chair in the Police Station's cafeteria.

Professor Gomolko

Diminutive Nazi-Scientist who was granted immunity from prosecution after World War II and invited to help build Neopolis. He was seen in The Forty-Niners living a life of luxury untill he tried to use Time travel to change history and ensure the Germans won the war. In Top 10 he is seen making illicit drugs and commits suicide in custody with Officer Bodine's 12-shooter to protect one of his clients. He is based on numerous Mad scientists such as Dr Sivanna.

Mrgg'lla Qualtz

The Libra Killer

A former member of the Seven Sentinels Qualtz was a female analogue of The Martian Manhunter who retired form superheroics and used her telepathy and shapeshifting to become a porn star. After several years she dissappeared and it was later revealed that she had undergone a metamorphosis unique to her species. She became a gigantic, multi-eyed worm covered in monofilaments capable of slicing between atoms. Yearly she would exist the sewers of Neopolis where she hibernated and remove the heads of prostitutes to eat their pineal glands. The regular yearly appearence of these bodies was blamed on the "Libra Killer." She was arrested by a team of officers led by Jack Phantom and imprisoned but was killed in an assault on the station before she could stand trial.

Andy Soames

Airbag

First appearing in issue #4 Soames is a married man who frequents prostitutes and is suspected of being The Libra Killer after one prostitute he visits (Immunno-Girl) is found decapitated. He discovers from Dr Jessel that he has S.T.O.R.M.S. (Sexually Transmitted Organic Rapid Mutation Syndrom) that may turn him into a non-viable organism. He may also have infected his loving and until recently oblivious wife. Soames can inflate his body and is presumably an analogue of Bouncing Boy (They even wear similar clothes).

Other

Grease Monkey

Seen only in issue #8, Grease Monkey is a robotic Chimpanzee seen in station's "shop" repairing Kemlo Ceaser's damaged exoskeleton and presuamably police vehicles as well.

Rexa Mackson

See Jeff Smax above. Rexa is Smax's twin sister and his lover. She was sexually abused by her father until Jeff killed him and they both were taken in by Uncle Mack and Aunt Minka. After the events of the Smax mini-series she came to live with Jeff in the outskirts of Neopolis. She possesses the same super-human abilities as Jeff but her "light" is far more powerful. She is very tall and muscular with blue skin and white hair, she is highly invulnerable and super strong and can fire a blast of energy from her chest.

The Rumor

Believed at first to be a running joke at the precinct "The Rumour" was blamed for unexplained events or used as a transparent excuse. However when Toybox was trapped under a collapsed part of the station he appeared to her as a translucent, featureless human. Little else is known about him.

Sam Slinger

Major Lilliput, Colonel Lilliput

Senile father of Robyn "Toybox" Slinger and former member of TOP 10 (he is seen in The Forty Niners as having commanded an army of toy soldiers.) After Robyn is injured by the station collapsing Smax helps take care of him.