Mopy Garret

Michael Garret

"**I don't know what it is, what it does, or its purpose. It came from something bigger than you and I. I want to give this to you because I know you will have the power and the imagination to change the world. I have no doubt you came here for a purpose. I believe that whatever ventures you pursue, you have that to protect you.**"
—Ellen to Mopy (Stringy and Mopy: World's Finest #3) [src]
"**Let's Roar!**"
—Mopy's Catchphrase [src]
**Mopy Gilliganson Garret** is the primary protagonist in the Stringy and Mopy webcomic series.

## Background

Michael Garret is a private investigator working one floor above his mother's bar helping people, after resigning from the police force, he became jaded and somewhat depressed. He would often ignore danger and drink his life away. He became cold and distant to those around him.

Before that, he was a firebrand hero, a selfless man with a heart of a lion who all he wanted to do in life is to fill in his mother's shoes and help people. However, because of life, him being in the military for a few years and his time at the police force, he became jaded to the whole system.

## Biography

Michael, at the age of 8, had a fiery heart to want to help people, to become a police officer much like his mother. Michael would be that one kid who would sacrifice his time or day to get to someone's aid, at the expense of his own standing. He would be relentlessly bullied, but did not care about that. Though, he did want the bullying to stop though. A firebrand hero at heart, he continued on with his duties shortly after his best friend Stringy sacrificed herself and their friendship to save his life. Though long after these events, he became jaded and depressed. Though, things will change dramatically once a certain femme-fatalle shows up in his life.

## Appearance

In the comic, Mopy is a slender young man wearing a short sleeve, blue shirt with a yellow vertically centered rectangle in the middle, dark grey pants, and black boots.

## Powers and Abilities

Inhibiting the powers from the Badge of Alpha, he possesses a great amount of superhuman strength, durability, tenacity, and speed as well as his ability to manipulate the Alpha energy in his badge. Like his superhero partner, Mopy can transform into Alpha, a werelion that can enhance his already established superpowers but adding time manipulation, and many others. He, like Zoey, are one of the few that possess one of the most powerful badges second to Upsilon and Epsilon Badges.

Mopy does share a fair amount of experience in hand to hand combat, however unlike Samantha who honed her skills as a fighter, Mopy does not. He relied on brains and tactics to win, sometimes they lay flat on his face when going against his bullies in high school.

Mopy, though not be athletically built, does show some kill in street fighting as well as handling knives.

## Personality

Mopy is very shy, timid, and a bit of an introvert. He can be much of a smartass rarely, but blunt and truthful. He's scared most of the time but he has his courageous moments. He's very quiet, but if pushed too far, he could be extremely violent and bashful. Even though he is armed with the most powerful badge, he will not use it as much unless it's necessary making him an easy target to the most powerful foes. Unlike Samantha who's more a war hawk, Mopy would seek for a diplomatic solution before he turns into self-defense. However, despite all of this, he is very socially awkward, timid, and scared. He's a pessimist in most situations.

He's very sweet and kind and often would help out Samantha whenever she's down - even though she's the one doing the emotional coaching.

## Abilities

### Badge of Alpha

***The Badge of Alpha*** is one of the most powerful badges in the Therian Spectrum. Mopy can cause major damage with this badge in full power. Mopy's Alpha Badge was crafted by the ancient Egyptian Gods to bring justice and balance to the world. Like the Zeta, it gives Mopy the ability to fly, energy manipulation as well as time manipulation.

* **Absolute Strength:** With the Badge of Alpha, Mopy can lift cars and trucks with ease, and since the Badge is absolutely powerful and the top of the ticket of the other talismans in the Amun Spectrum. Mopy can actually lift heavier users with absolute ease and can benchpress a continent at full power.
* **Absolute Speed:** Mopy can outrun Stringy, one of their most strongest members in the Sky-Titans with absolute ease with the Badge of Alpha. He is fast enough to go up to supersonic speeds, breaking the sound barrier.
* **Absolute Senses:** Mopy's senses are up to supernatural condition by sensing everything around him in a more acute, accurate tone. He can smell anything that cannot be detected by normal human senses, and can hear even the quietest of sounds.
* **Supersonic Flight:** Mopy can fly up to speeds that are off the charts. He can fly as fast as a minimum of Mach 20 or 40. So fast that no man cannot see.
* **Astral Projection:** The Alpha Badge also allows the user to travel outside of one's soul and travel around the plane to speak to the previous owners of the Badge.
* **Mind Reading:** The powers of the badge can give Mopy the ability to willingly read the minds of those around him.
* **Supernatural Intelligence:** Mopy's already peak-human intelligence has heightened with the Badge.
* **Supernatural Durability:** Being that the Alpha Badge is the most powerful of the 24, Mopy's durability is at its upmost high. Able to take a beating from any if not all threats as long as he has the Badge on him or at least near him.
* **Alpha Roar:** The Alpha Roar is powerful enough to split clouds and destroy distant towns and countries. It has the power to rupture and destroy an asteroid and turn glass cups into dust if used at full power.
* **Authority:** The user of the badge, those who happen to be in Lord status, have absolute authority over other badges. Though this does vary from Alpha to Alpha. Since Mopy is of lower tier, his authority can only stretch but so far.
* **Supernatural Dexterity:** Mopy's dexterity is heightened to the supernatural level with the Badge.
* **Master** **Remote Access:** Unlike the other Badges, this ability is only accessed through Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Omnicron, Epsilon, and Upsilon users. This ability allows Mopy to have full control over his Powers without being near the Badge.
* **Resurrection:** Mopy can resurrect the dead, but it takes a lot of his power and it only lasts for a short while.
* **Ocular Blasts**
* **Dream Walking**
* **Energy Manipulation:** Like all Badge users, Mopy can use the Alpha energy to do extensive damage and or create objects at will——with the perks of the Badge, Mopy can have access to the Badge even in far enough distance as long his spirit is in tune of the Badge.
* **Manuel** **Digestive Shapeshifting:** The ability allows Mopy to not depend on this ability. He can turn it on and turn it off. He can transform into certain groups of people by either eating them or consuming their soul.

### Other Abilities

Unlike his Badge powers, he's also gifted in other areas as well, such as but not limited to:

* **Photographic Memory:** Mopy can recall anything that happened prior to an event with incredible detail—even to the tiniest pinch.
* **Lie Detection:** Due to him being used a lot as a kid, Mopy has developed a keen sense of lie detection to determine whether or not if a person is lying to him or not. He can detect this by sudden tone shifts and complex listening skills he also developed after years of neglect.
* **Genius-Level Intellect/High IQ:** Mopy can solve complex equations and also can lie his way out of difficult situation by appealing to one's better judgement by studying them based on immediate reaction. It is said that his IQ is over 120.
* **Basic Hand-to-Hand Combat:** Despite lacking formal martial arts skills, his mother has shown him basic hand to hand combat skills to defend himself against anyone who opposes him. Though, this tactic was proven to be far more complicated due to his overly passive nature.
* **Peak-Human Stamina:** Mopy can run and evade without tiring out due to him being chased after by Broomy and his thugs for many years.
* **Expert Dancer:** Mopy, despite his anti-social skills, is a really good dancer. He danced far longer than he has running away from his bullies, and often times when things do get bad, he dances the stress away.

## Relationships

### Family

* **Ellen Garret:** Mopy's mother. Ellen is very protective of Mopy. She was once considered to be a G-Girl for a man named Richard until he became abusive and murderous towards their son. Ellen becomes far more protective of Mopy in his earlier years but somewhat relaxed and gave Mopy a gun just in case if anything happened.
* **Grandma Kayla:** Mopy's grandmother.

### Allies

* **Samantha Bridges:** Mopy's best friend and crimefighting partner. He would get utterly annoyed at her childish demeanor and reckless behavior. However, he always have her back, since she was the one that saved his life multiple times when he was in danger. She was also Mopy's trainer.
* **Tiffany Bridges:** Mopy's friend and the one that he met first before he ever met Stringy. Tiffany's growing feelings for the Alpha user becomes far more open the more the comic progresses.
* **Paul Bridges:** Mopy's mentor and trainer. Pappy trains Mopy in the art of gunplay and martial arts as well as Stringy. Pappy educates Mopy on the ways of being a Sky-Titan.
* **Zachary Baumer:** Mopy's frienemy.
* **Phillia Baumer:** Mopy's frenemy.
* **Agent Fox:** Colleague
* **Agent Wolf:** Colleague

### Enemies

* **Richard Love:** Richard is the main antagonist of the Stringy and Mopy comic book series. He was the one who abused his mother and attempted to murder Mopy because of their strained relationship. Once he got the Badge of Omega from Bullet, after being hired to break Victoria out of prison.
* **Big Tony (Bullet Rivera):** The secondary main antagonist of the Stringy and Mopy comic book series and the Leader of the Golden Dragon Clan.

## Trivia

* Mopy was named after a literal mop but added with a y when the creator was 9 years old.