List of Combat Armored CATroopers characters

This is a list of characters in the fictional Philippine tokusatsu superhero action-adventure television series *Combat Armored CATroopers*.

## CATroopers

The Combat Armored Troopers, or CATroopers, is a nine-member team of heroes who protect the world, but mainly the fictional city of *Santa Katarina* *(San Kat City)*, from the combined forces of the parasitic alien Vyrmillion Empire and the genetically-enhanced feral warriors the Beast-Mod Squad. They are mostly made up of teenage students from the *Santa Katarina University of Technology* (*San Kat U-Tech*, or simply *San Kat U*), while their ninth member is a young adult forest ranger. They wear cat-themed alien battle armor which augment their physical strength and abilities, as well as giving them additional powers and weapons. The suits also have auto-adaptive capabilities which enable them to change form according to the environment and threat level (and that's totally not an excuse to explain why they look different in each picture).

### Sebastian “Baste” Gatus/Crimson Cougar

His father an army colonel and his mother an expert martial artist, Baste is fearless and capable, with a strong moral code and sense of justice. The typical heroic team leader, he is the captain of the San Kat U mountaineering troop, referring to his fellow members as *“ka-troopers”* (co-troopers), from which the team’s name would eventually be derived.  He also helps run his mother Trina's martial arts school, where he trains his fellow troopers how to fight.

He is portrayed by Terence Garza.

### Chesca Lingkit/Lavender Lynx

Friendly, bubbly and cheerful, the ever-smiling Chesca is the most popular girl in school.  A cosplay enthusiast, becoming a CATrooper is like her wildest superheroine fantasies come true.  She coins the team’s name (inspired by Baste’s nickname for his fellow mountaineering troop members) after her initial suggestions, *“Pusakal: Pusang Kalawakan* (Space Cats)" and *“Pusang Gala: Pusang Galaxy* (Galaxy Cats)" were rejected.

She is portrayed by Tin Mesina.

### Kyle Salinas/Blue Jaguar

A sensitive, peace-loving pacifist, Kyle is the most reluctant member of the team.  He is known to try and talk things over with his opponents first, which hardly works when you’re dealing with alien parasites and mutated creatures. Nonetheless, he quickly realizes that in order to attain peace, sometimes you have to fight for it.

He is portrayed by Brennan Edwards.

### Feliz Anselmo/Jade Panther

The niece of science teacher Professor Fritz, Feliz is considered a teacher’s pet.  Shy and insecure, she becomes much more confident whenever she turns into a CATrooper. As the Jade Panther, she is ironically the most aggressive member of the team, in contrast to her usual mousy personality.  She also has a secret crush on team leader Baste, forming a romantic triangle with fellow trooper Sia.

She is portrayed by Andrea Mateo.

### Lucky Silvestre/Black Leopard

A former delinquent and aspiring rapper, the impulsive Lucky has a penchant for getting into trouble.  But with his charm and quick wit, he also has a talent for getting out of it.  As much an optimist as he is cynical, the cunning Black Leopard lives by the motto that things always have to get worse before they get better.

He is portrayed by Dustin Balmores.

### Tara Precila/Bronze Cheetah

The focused and driven athlete, Tara lives for the thrill of competition.  As the fast and fierce Bronze Cheetah, she takes the role of a heroine very seriously, but enjoys the physical challenge that comes with it.  To her, protecting the world is not a game, but she always plays to win.

She is portrayed by Iris Chan.

### Tomas Grafilo/Orange Puma

Chill and laid-back, Tomas is the “big brother” of the group.  With a super-positive outlook, nothing ever gets him down.  He always has an answer for every problem and a joke for every situation.  As the Orange Puma, he is the resident wisecracking warrior, his punchlines hitting just as hard as his punches.

He is portrayed by Giancarlo Ycasas.

### Sia Vidal/White Tigress

A spoiled and snobbish rich girl, Sia is the campus ice princess.  But her mean girl attitude masks an unhappy childhood and a dysfunctional family life. Normally aloof and a bit of a bully, she only joins the San Kat U mountaineering troop just to get close to her crush, Baste. When she becomes the White Tigress CATrooper, she has no choice but to set aside her issues and learn to work with the people she would usually look down upon.

She is portrayed by Mai Leviste

### Onel Asalan/Golden Lion

Onel is a forest ranger who turns out to be a direct descendant of one of the original armored warriors that defeated the Vyrmillion 500 years ago.  He is alerted to the scene when the Vyrmillion escaped and the nine Katsaian suits are activated, one of which, the Golden Lion armor, bonds with him. Initially a loner, he would show up to help the team out of a jam before mysteriously disappearing, but he eventually reveals himself to them later on.  The strongest and eldest member of the group, he sees himself as the rightful heir to the Katsaian armor and the true leader of the CATroopers, causing friction with actual team leader Baste, the Crimson Cougar.

He is portrayed by Joma Coronel.

## Mechanicats

The Mechanicats are three gigantic Katsaian mecha that the CATroopers use to battle giant-sized Vyrminion and Beast-Mons. Each Mechanicat is piloted by a team of three Troopers and can combine into a more powerful robot warrior form, King Battliger.

## Supporting Characters

### Professor Fritz

Eccentric science teacher and Feliz's uncle. Discovering early on that her niece and her friends are the CATroopers, he keeps their secret and helps them whenever he can. He also happens to be a former mentor of Dr. Herbert Yakal a.k.a. Dr. Jakal, with whom he broke ties with due to his insane theories and unethical methods,

He is portrayed by Sev Cervantes.

### Trina Gatus

Baste's mother, a martial arts master. Owner and head instructor at the *Dojo-Kat School of Martial Arts*.

She is portrayed by Mary Rose Bayle.

### Don Antonio Vidal

Sia's father, a wealthy businessman and philanthropist. He is engaged to Bela Guanio, who plans to marry then murder him for his fortune.

He is portrayed by Lorenzo Yap.

### Lola Meg

Lucky's cool, hip grandmother. She is played by Stella del Valle.

### Twitay

Lucky's annoying kid sister. She is played by May-Anne Eusebio.

## Villains

### Vyrmillion Empire

The Vyrmillion is a colony of insect-like extraterrestrial parasites which would conquer worlds by taking over the bodies of their inhabitants. They were nearly wiped out by forces from the planet Katsai, but their leader, the Emperor Vyrm, along with his lieutenants Vyrula and Vyrax were able to escape to Earth 500 years ago to propagate anew. Worm-like Vyrmillion such as Vyrm attach and are absorbed into the skin of their hosts; "serpetipede" (serpent-like centipede) types like Vyrula enter their hosts through openings in the body, such as the mouth, nostrils or ears; and the scarab-like winged variety represented by Vyrax take hosts by biting and attaching themselves to their bodies. Reproducing asexually, Vyrmillion spew out swarms of either larvae or (in the case of winged Vyrmillion) small winged insect offspring to infect new hosts, transforming them into Vyrmin soldiers. Older Vyrmillion like Vyrm and his lieutenants bond permanently with their hosts, detaching only when their bodies are destroyed, while the younger Vyrmin can easily be expelled from their hosts when defeated. Vyrminion, the Vyrmillion's adolescent stage, are more savage and monstrous in form.

#### Emperor Vyrm

The leader and literal father of all the Vyrmillion. His original form was a tentacled worm-like creature before taking over an unnamed human host from 500 years in the past. He has dominion over all insects and maggots, and can cause them to grow to monstrous size.

He is portrayed by Juan Antonio Buan.

#### Vyrula

As the Vyrmillion are technically sexless, Vyrula is only female by virtue of her human host, prior to which she originally had a serpent-like centipede form. She has the ability to command venomous crawling insects and arachnids, and while she can also spew out larvae from her mouth, her favorite method of transmission is through kissing.

She is portrayed by Richelle Ty.

#### Vyrax

The winged Vyrmillion enforcer, he originally had a scarab-like form before taking a human host. He has command over all winged insects and can spew out a swarm of them to attack and infect humans.

He is portrayed by Curtis Margallo.

#### Vyrmin Army

The Vyrmin are humans infected by Vyrmillion larvae and mutated into insect-like humanoid foot soldiers. Basically the Viyrmillion pre-pubescent stage, they have no will of their own and are susceptible to command. Unlike adult Vyrmillion, Vyrmin do not have as strong a hold on their hosts and can be easily expelled from their bodies when defeated, turning the hosts back to normal.

#### Vyrminion Monsters

The "monster-of-the-week," Vyrminion are essentially adolescent Vyrmillion. Bestial, powerful and savage, they are harder to control than the more simple-minded Vyrmin, hence they are mostly kept fossilized and revived one-at-a-time as needed. After Dr, Jakal joins forces with the Vyrmillion Empire, later Vyrminion are spliced with animal DNA, turning them into part-insect/part-mammal creatures; essentially Vyrminion/Beast-Mon hybrids, also known as "Beast-Minions."

### Beast-Mod Squad

Created by mad geneticist Dr. Jakal, the Beast-Mod Squad is composed of mutated humans (some of which have connections to certain CATrooper members) infused with animal DNA. A pun on the term "beast mode," Beast-Mod is meant to be short for "beast-modified."

#### Dr.Herbert Yakal/Dr. Jakal

Dr. Herbert Yakal was a government scientist assigned to develop a super-soldier army to go up against the Vyrmillion and rival the CATroopers, but who had his own ambitions for world domination. Creating an army of soldiers enhanced with canine genes, he led them on an attempted takeover before being defeated by the CATroopers and imprisoned, but he eventually escapes captivity. Using his beast-modification process to infuse himself with jackal DNA, he becomes Dr. Jakal and proceeds to form the Beast-Mod Squad. He later enters into an alliance with the Vyrmillion, making genetic modifications on their Vyrminion monsters. A former student of Professor Fritz, Dr. Jakal holds a grudge against him for disapproving of his inhumane experiments.

He is portrayed by Roy Osinas.

#### Miho de Vega/Zora

An obsessed admirer and self-proclaimed best friend of popular girl Chesca, Miho was, in reality, insanely jealous of her. Feeling brushed-off when Chesca starts spending more time with the mountaineering troop, she comes to resent her after finding out that she is actually one of the CATroopers. Miho is recruited by Dr. Jakal into his squad, transforming her into the ferocious fox-girl Zora.

She is portrayed by Althea Trinidad.

#### Remo Licandro/Lupus

Brutal leader of the street gang that Lucky was once a part of, swearing vengeance on him for ratting them out. He joins the Beast-Mod Squad and is transformed into the mutant wolf-man Lupus.

He is portrayed by Eric Ortega.

#### Roma Licandro/Wylde

Remo's psychotic and sadistic sister, made even more deranged by Dr. Jakal's Beast-Mod process. As Wylde (pronounced "wil-deh"), she has the physical characteristics, prowess and terrifying laughter of a hyena.

She is portrayed by Elaiza Arguelles.

#### Bela Guanio/Vayaka

The fiancee of Sia's father Don Antonio, Bela is a conniving social climber who plots to marry him for his fortune before murdering him. After her scheme is exposed, she ends up with the Beast-Mods and becomes the bat-woman Vayaka.

She is portrayed by Alexa Aguila.

#### Reden/Rodentor

Dr. Jakal's hapless lab assistant and the first test subject of his Beast-Mod process, transforming him into a human rat.

He is portrayed by Tommy Chongco.

#### Dog Soldiers

Dr. Jakal's super-soldier army enhanced with canine DNA extract injected through their helmets, putting them in a state of "controlled rabies" where their strength and aggression levels are increased to that of one in throes of rabies, but without the lethal side-effects. They are kept in check by a subsonic whistle in Dr. Jakal's possession which enables him to command them.

#### Beast-Mons

Short for "Beast-Monsters," these are genetically-engineered creatures created by Dr. Jakal from animal DNA.