Jake Madden

* Jake
* Chaos

**Jake Madden** is one of the main protagonists of ***The Villains of Valley View***.

He is a supervillain, posing as an ordinary teen, whose superpowers include Super Strength. His supervillain name is **Chaos**. Like the rest of his family, besides Vic, Jake has superpowers and is a full blown villain.
 Jake is portrayed by Reed Horstmann.

## Biography

Jake is the eldest son of Eva and Vic Madden. His siblings are Amy and Colby. Jake was born and raised in Centropolis when their family was still active supervillains. Eventually, the Maddens moved to Valley View to live a normal life.

## Personality

Jake seems to be the only member of his family making a genuine effort to not be a villain anymore. In fact, he seems to be a natural at not being a villain: reading self-help books on being a better person and going the extra mile in school. He sees turning over a new leaf is in his best interest seeing how he didn't want to end up like Amy, who suffered a humiliating defeat at Starling's hands which the whole world saw.

Hospitals make him feel guilty because of all the people he has put in them; this implies Jake has a brutal side to himself as Chaos.

## Relationships

### Family

Amy Madden / Havoc
Amy is Jake's sister who has sound based superpowers.

Colby Madden / Flashform
Colby is Jake's younger brother who has the chosen one. It is found out in Villain Number One that they share a room.

Vic Madden / Kraniac
Vic is Jake's mad scientist dad who isn't known to have any superpowers.

Eva Madden / Surge
Eva is Jake's mom whose superpower is being able to shoot lightning at an enemy.

### Friends

Hartley
Hartley is Jake's friend. Hartley found out about the Maddens' secret due to her being sent into another dimension and Amy revealing the secret.

### Romances

Starling
When battling with Green Talon in Centropolis, Jack was left hanging from the roof top but, was rescued by
Starling. In ColossaCon!, he went to ColossaCon Superhero Convention to personally thank her for saving his life and inspiring him to become a better person. Afterwards, they continue to meet up and made plans to hang out for several weeks without his parents' knowledge, but eventually distanced away from each other Amy found out because Starling didn't want to come between Jake and his family. Despite this, they remain friends and Starling is keeping the Maddens' location a secret from the other superheroes.

## Powers and Abilities

**Primary Powers**
* **Superhuman Strength:** Jake has the power to lift and carry heavy objects with almost an incalculable amount of strength. With this, he can bend solid metal and smash cement blocks as if it were nothing.
	+ **Concussive Force** : To impact a directly concussive force which can knock the target back and cause damage.
		- **Shockwave Clap/Stomp** : To produce powerful shockwaves via by clapping or stomping.
	+ **Super Jump**: As shown in The Scare, he is capable of jumping to very high heights, although this was out of fear, when he was reunited with a scary Dicky Spooks doll his parents gave him when he was five.

**Temporary Powers**
* **Electrokinesis:** In A Little Havoc, he accidentally swapped powers with his mom in which he gained the ability to manipulate electricity.
* **Shapeshifting:** In  **Power Hungry,** Colby used his Transference power to give him the ability to shapeshift, which he used to shapeshift into Celia to mimic Hartley's "trauma."

**Abilities**
* **Above-Average Intelligence:** Though incomparable to his father, Jake has proven on numerous occasions to be quite intelligent. In Trust No One, he revealed for his science project, he created a green energy source, which powered the school for days. Furthermore, he has shown to be a very quick learner as he was able to adapt from a supervillain to a better person quite easily, compared to his family members - additionally, in Dojo Mojo, he was able to (temporarily) become the best student in the karate class, despite the lack of experience and in Guitar Hero, he was able to learn to play guitar as well as Amy after only watching a couple of tutorial videos.
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat:** Although nowhere near the level of his sister, Jake has shown to be fairly skilled at hand-to-hand combat - examples are when he took on Bad Jake (who was ten times stronger than him) in The Two Jakes and was able to defeat Milo (who is a second degree black belt) in a karate fight in Dojo Mojo. However, he seems to prefer to use his super strength in fights.
* **Enhanced Pain Tolerance:** Even though all the members of the Madden family seem to have an above average level of durability, Jake's super strength seems to give him a higher threshold of pain. Best example was during Guitar Hero, when he was able to continue playing his guitar, even after Amy zapped it with Eva's charging port, which sent thousand of volts through it.

**Weaknesses**
* **Uncontrollable Strength:** There are times Jake can use his super strength unintentionally. Like in, Dojo Mojo, he accidentally punched Milo through a wall when he caught him off guard during their karate fight. In the same episode, Amy mentioned how he previously used Colby as a ball in a game of catch and threw him through a window three miles away.

## Trivia

* When a battle in Centropolis with Green Talon left Chaos hanging from a rooftop by one hand, Starling rescued him. This inspired Jake to become a better person.
* The superhero community believe he is currently incarcerated, but it is actually a clone of Chaos that is in custody.
* In concept art posted by Cameron Dale, The Villains of Valley View's costume designer, Jake's villain name was originally just "Mayhem."
* He is a Taylor Swift super fan.
* He and his younger brother, Colby share a bedroom.
* It is revealed his civilian name is very close to his father's real name, "Jack."
* Ironically, despite being the nicest one in his family, he has hurt his family members more than anyone else:
	+ He made Vic upset and jealous when he spent time with Robert on what was supposed to be their 'Father and Son' day - The Two Jakes.
	+ He hurt Amy when she found out that he was meeting up with her arch-enemy Starling and was keeping it a secret from her - Battle for My Brother. In addition, Amy accused him of putting their family in danger by hanging out with a superhero, despite him giving her the same exact warning when she wanted to embarrass Starling at ColossaCon - ColossaCon!.
	+ He broke Eva's heart when he refused to believe that she wasn't responsible for the fire caused at the Round-Up and immediately fired her - Fired Up.

## References

1. ↑ Villains of Valley View supersuits!! Incredible group effort getting these made and made FAST. Extra special thanks to @samanthajean14 who needs to open up her own super shop (please)! Amazing illustrations by Gwyn and Gina.