Triumph

Triumph is an American superhero comic book series published by Golden Comics from June 26th, 1996.
== Synopsis ==
Audrey King lived a fairly normal life as a university instructor in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was cozy, not exciting, and she felt more than pampered despite her average living wage. That was until she learned the truth. Her father was an alien, having raised her on Earth to escape an oncoming war. With this knowledge and her newly developing powers, Audrey swears to defend her world against all kinds of threats, whether terrestrial or extraterrestrial.
== Characters ==
=== Main ===
* Audrey King/Triumph - a teacher at Northend University who develops superhuman abilities upon hitting her 30s, past down from her father, a member of the alien Imperials. After developing her abilities, Audrey decides to use them to figure out her place in the world following this massive upset while defending the planet from all sorts of threats. She possesses the abilities of flight, superhuman strength, incredible speed, and nigh invincible skin. She also wears an Imperial armor which she is able to shift into different forms.
=== Supporting ===
* Nemo - an artificial intelligence in Audrey's armor which communicates with her telepathically. Only other Imperials are able to hear Nemo's voice. He is intelligent, calculating, but has proven to have a lean towards violent solutions, which often upsets Audrey. He was named by Audrey during there first encounter as a reference to the legend of The Odyssey.
* Donald "Donny" Chambers - an 18-year-old student at Northend University. He is a renowned trouble maker who has struggled with school most of his life due to his ADHD and dyslexia. Audrey is his tutor in her free time and he was there to witness when her powers activated. He often assists her during her crime fighting, even if she sometimes doesn't ask for it, figuring out leads while she is off battling criminals.
* Julian Ruiz - Audrey's somewhat cocky and egotistical but caring best friend and coworker who enjoys cracking jokes as he is unaware that Audrey is Triumph although he finds Triumph to be quite interesting, usually making jokes about Triumph, as despite his jokey nature, he is willing to put his life on the line to protect his friends.
* Rebecca "Becky" Gates - Audrey's rival from even before she gained her powers. She is the school administrator and a renowned gossip who will spread whatever information she finds. This causes her to be a consistent thorn in Audrey's side, though she has proven to be surprisingly intelligent and cunning when she wants to be. Becky and Audrey have a strange relationship, as the two hang out a lot despite their workplace rivalry.
* William Crane - the president of Northend University. William is a strict man who views everything with the utmost seriousness and expects everyone around him to do the same. This can cause him to come off intimidating towards his employees and students, though outside of work he is much more relaxed but keeps up his stone faced exterior. A recurring joke throughout the series is Audrey trying to explain to him why she is late/needs to leave the school, her reasons becoming more bizarre each time.
*Roger King - Audrey's father. He is an alien scientist and member of the alien race known as the Imperials. Roger protested an oncoming war on the Imperial home world, which ended in his people turning against him. To protect his daughter from the war, he fled to the farthest habitable planet he could find, which just happened to be Earth. Roger is a pacifist by nature and is constantly upset with himself when he is forced to result to violence.
*Eileen King - Audrey's step mother who she was raised believing was her actual mother. Eileen is supportive and caring, but frequently gets into spats with Audrey due to their opposing political beliefs, a fact that is often played for comic relief. Eileen was the first human Roger met on Earth and chose to keep his secret and help him raise his daughter.
*Madeline "Maddie" Jackson - a college student who is far more studious and shyer, preferring to stick her head in a book as she wants to one day become a writer, with her sometimes confiding in Audrey, although she doesn't see her as much as someone like Donny does.
*Randolph Jackson - Maddie's father and the mayor of Springfield who is somewhat cynical especially with the rise of superpowered menaces as he believes that Triumph is the cause of all of this, sometimes attempting to find ways to control her, although most of his attempts to often backfire somewhat horrifically.
===Antagonists===
*Mother - the current reigning monarch of the Imperials and Audrey's biological mother. Once the intelligent, if slightly aloof, wife of Roger, she began to change for the worse after becoming empress. Taking constant morally questionable choices and eventually declaring outright war against her planet's other countries, she drove away her husband but, in exchange, became the unquestioned ruler of an entire world. Whatever goodness that was left in her is now gone, replaced by sadism and a lust for power and dominance.
*Archibald Greaves/Apex - an arms dealer known for his flamboyant and violent nature, having sold high tech weaponry to multiple mob bosses and gangs as he soon gets stopped by Triumph and becomes obsessed with alien tech. He eventually finds a space ship and salvages the tech from it, merging himself with the ship's tech, gaining enhanced speed and strength due to it.
*Epsis Kroogler/The Salesman - a charismatic and fast-talking lizard-like alien who rids of all life on planets with advanced tech that can replicate numerous disasters and then sells the planets to the highest bidder as he catches his eyes on Earth, his schemes to sell Earth being often stopped by Triumph. Despite his business in destroying life, Epsis is extremely afraid of fighting, being rather weak in a physical fight.
*Leerius Okula/Gazer - an intergalactic criminal who is generally humanoid but possesses a large eye instead of a head. Whenever he looks at someone, he immediately becomes able to control their bodies, using it either to freeze them in place or move them around against their will. He is loud mouthed, egocentric, and acrobatic, making him a particularly annoying threat to deal with.
*Diego Ortiz/Doodlebug - a student at Northend University who was known for being needlessly cruel to other students. This eventually led to him being kicked out of the school and he discovered his unique ability to bring drawings to life, using it to turn to a life of crime. Audrey has a strange relationship with him, feeling bad for his circumstance despite his large list of crimes.
*Hell Mask - a ninja assassin from Japan who is quiet and prides himself on his efficiency. He is best known for his mystical mask, which changes color to indicate a new ability. Red grants him brief glimpses of the future, white shuts down the superhuman abilities of those close to him, and gold allows him to telepathically move objects. He also wields a plasma katana that can cut through steel.
*Isaac Queen/Overlord - a gang member who was mocked by everyone, including Audrey, for seeming to not be cut out for his life. However, after finding and bonding with Imperial armor, he quickly proves himself to be a much more intimidating threat than he once appeared. However, throughout the series, Quimby becomes increasingly unstable, as the armor was not matched for his brain waves or DNA.
*Dmitri Vitsin/Gravity Man - a Russian cosmonaut who once worked for the Soviet Union but whose shuttle was abandoned in space after it was discovered they could not bring him back. Via exposure to a mysterious energy, he was granted gravity manipulating powers and allowed to come back to Earth, though the years of isolation have driven him completely insane.
*John Kemp/The Human Automaton - the self-proclaimed world's greatest criminal mind who enjoys making bizarre mental tests that serve as tributes to his own intellect. Following a cancer diagnosis, he downloaded his consciousness into a robotic body which was uncovered several years after his death. Upon it's activation, the large robotic body quickly continued it's human self's neverending game.
*Heather Watkins/Toxin Monger - a super genius chemist who is best known for her creation and selling of highly dangerous chemical weapons, ranging from hallucinogens to poisons. Following an encounter with Triumph, she was accidentally exposed to one of her own chemicals, which melted the skin on her face. Her new face is made entirely of plastic, giving her an uncanny appearance.
**Davey - Heather's robotic bodyguard. Davey is unable to speak but is incredibly physically powerful, able to break concrete with his bare hands. He seems to always know what Heather wants, as by simply saying his name he understands her command.
*Squidlings - an alien species of squid-like creatures who share a hive mind. According to them, they think of themselves as one being with multiple bodies. They are small and are able to control someone by wrapping their tentacles around them, more often than not their heads. They believe themselves to be the most perfect things in the galaxy and view mind controlling civilizations as adding them to their beauty.
*Petra Sinclair/Dame Nightmare - a con artist turned supervillain whose real body is comatose, having been put in a coma during a demonstration of an item gone wrong. While asleep, they developed psychic abilities and are now able to project themselves into other people's minds when they are sleeping, more often than not using this to give them horrific nightmares. This has quickly given them a rather large power trip.
*Goose the Clown - a mysterious entity who seems to be some kind of energy vampire, sustaining themself on other's emotions, whether they be positive or negative. They are fond of cynical jokes and most of their weapons are based on clown equipment, such as balloon animals that come to life, acid shooting water guns, and so on. What they are is unknown and is never explained, left up to the reader's imagination.
*Vera Putnik/Cloud Pirate - a woman who operates like an old time pirate but operates out of a rocket-powered pirate ship, raiding buildings, helicopters, and planes instead of other ships. Her crew consists of androids and the cannons of her ship fire lasers. She views herself as a wannabe revolutionary standing up to oppressors, much like the more traditional pirates before her.
*Lady Amunet/The Mummy - the long forgotten queen of Egypt who was murdered by her brother for the throne, swearing she would be back for vengeance. Thousands of years later, her coffin opening resurrected her and triggered her curse. Now alive in the modern day with maliable bandages and the ability to control locust swarms, the undead mummy has sworn to reforge her lost kingdom.
*Clara Badley/The Highness - the leader of a mafia-like organization with a knight gimmick called Round Table, Clara is the supposed direct descendant of Queen Guinevere and the knight Lancelot. She is highly intelligent and trained in sword fighting, as well as being in possession of various high tech equipment, though she is also incredibly vain and insists on treating everything like it's still medieval times, to the point of speaking in Old English.
*Antennika - a humanoid insect who leads a race of subterranean giant insects. According to her, the insects are like her children and they were all driven under ground generations ago by early humans. Many years later, she has developed a burning hatred for the human race and any other "surface dwellers", to the point of actively attacking any humanoids she encounters.
*Omnar/Diamondback - an alien mercenary and bounty hunter. He is unable to speak, as he lacks a mouth, but he is incredibly powerful, able to lift several tons and having skin made out of a diamond-like material. He can harden his limbs into hammer-like weapons, enlarge any part of himself, and grow spikes out of his body. The material he's made of is also slightly sentient and can be shifted to a person's will if they make contact with a piece of it that he loses.
*Ginger & Ulyssa O'Brien/Turn & Coat - a pair of wives who view committing crimes as an action of love towards the other. Ginger/Turn is able to spin so fast that she transforms into a miniature hurricane, while Ulyssa/Coat wears a coat, the inside of which is a teleporter that allows her to grab weapons as she pleases from it. Ginger is overly joyful and loving, while Ulyssa is more sultry and sadistic.
*Faker - an alien parasite who stole Triumph's DNA and shifted itself into a replica of her, right down to copying her memories. However, the parasite is incredibly unstable, viewing itself as the true Triumph and refusing to believe that it is the copy, swearing to either destroy Triumph or prove herself superior. The parasite has copied all of Triumph's abilities and can mimic her shapeshifting suit thanks to it's own natural shapeshifting abilities.
*Timothy Crosnier/Naught - a thief who prides himself on being suave, cunning, and generally polite towards his enemies. He has a slight fixation on Triumph, who he often flirts with as she is the only person to have ever caught him. What makes him so hard to catch is his high tech uniform, which is able to force people to forget that he exists, thus allowing him to commit crimes in broad daylight.
*Scrapper - an extraterrestrial robot who crash landed on Earth. It was built to be the greatest robot in the galaxy, which causes it to constantly seek out technology to upgrade itself with. This is an issue as it does not understand it's own consequences and, as such, is more than willing to tear through important equipment if it means that it can find something to graft to itself.
*Carter Campbell/Mastermind - a student at Northend University who is one of the smartest minds alive as he becomes fascinated with the idea of committing unsolvable crimes, becoming a shadowy mob boss who comes up with grand schemes for crimes, while clashing with Triumph, with neither knowing that they go to the same school, mainly due to him never showing his face, even to his henchmen.
*Ezekial Alder/Enforcer - a police officer in Springfield who was hired by Randolph Jackson to become a superhero that can be trusted, being given a government funded high-tech suit that can generate an energy staff. Unfortunately, he turned out to be extremely violent and sadistic, killing innocents to get to Triumph as Randolph pulled the funding, causing Ezekial to despise both him and Triumph.
*Paraminta Pavagi/Bliss - a Hindi mystic who claims to be spiritually tied to the dark god known as the Embryo as she was given the power to enslave minds through a hypnotic fragrance as well as being able to make powerful illusions as she wants to cause chaos and havoc all over Springfield to prepare for the coming of the Embryo.
*Winston Clampbett/Hotshot - a cocky ladies man cowboy-themed mercenary who wields two guns that can have numerous trick bullets into them as he is hired to target either specific persons or places, often clashing with Triumph who he finds to be somewhat fascinating.
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==Trivia==
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