Gretel Grant-Gomez

**Gretel Grant-Gomez** is one of the titular protagonists of *Hamster & Gretel*. She is the owner of Hamster, the little sister of Kevin, and the daughter of Dave and Carolina. She and her pet Hamster have been bestowed superpowers by aliens and have been instructed to use them for good. Only a small amount of people, notably Kevin and their cousin Fred, know about their superhero identities, as this revelation is kept secret for everyone else, including her own parents and her best friend Bailey.

Having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and being 9 years old, Gretel is the more impulsive one of the superhero duo, having little patience for several things. Kevin often aids the two, trying to teach Gretel how to be a responsible superhero.

## Appearance

### Physical Appearance

Gretel has light skin, large blue eyes, and blonde hair held back with a headband.

Gretel is 9 years old.

### Clothing

Her normal attire consists of a blue shirt with a collar, an orange skirt held together by a yellow belt, socks, blue shoes with light blue Velcro straps, and an orange headband to hold her hair back.

Her superhero clothes are all in various shades of purple. She has a dress that looks like a tank top with a large, white "G" on the front, and a skirt held together by a belt, and a cape and eye mask about the same shade as the skirt. In her superhero form, her headband is blue instead of orange.

## Personality

She is pretty energetic and confident. However, her tendencies to act heads-on frequently gets herself into big troubles and mishaps.

## Powers and abilities

### Superpowers

Aliens have given Gretel and her pet Hamster "powers unimaginable", which includes a variety of superpowers, including the following:

* **Flight** - Both Hamster and Gretel are able to fly in the air and remain airborne in place. They're also able to fly super fast, or at least "faster than a scooter", as the intro theme song states.
* **Super-strength** - Gretel is able to throw hard punches and bend steel. The intro theme also states that she and Hamster are "stronger than metal". "Superhero Sibling Rivalry" also reveals that Hamster and Gretel are able to lift 157 tons (in weight) between them, but not 200 tons.
* **Instant costume change** - Hamster and Gretel are both able to change from their current outfit to their superhero outfit and vice versa.
* **Word materialization** - When calling out an attack, the name of said attack will appear in colorful letters, which she and other characters can apparently interact with before they dematerialize. This usually happens when she calls out her signature "\_\_\_ PUNCH" phrasal template, but also extends to other phrases, including but not limited to other attack names (like "Super Slap"), mathematical equations, or phrases like "My Best Friend Bailey's Birthday".
* **Heat vision** - Gretel can use her eyes to shoot beams of heat, first shown in "Recipe for Disaster". Using a condenser coil from a refrigerator, she can convert the heat from her heat vision into chilling cold, as shown in "Dr. Eelgood".

These superpowers are cancelled out by a mysterious, blue glowing rock of currently unknown properties, as revealed in "U.F. UH-OH! Part II". Whenever Gretel is close or nearby this odd rock, she cannot use her superpowers and is reverted to her regular self until she's far away enough. Gretel does keep her superhero costume, however.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Kevin Grant-Gomez

Gretel gets along very well with her older brother, and the feeling seems to be mutual. But sometimes, her brother cares too much and he needs to let her follow her own path, and that things are different now ("Empower Failure"). While all those things are true, Gretel loves her big brother very much and would do anything for her. Even when she's on her own, she would still help ("Math Punch"). She has also learned to "roll with the punches", much to Kevin's disliking, although Kevin learned to lay off. After everything, the two love each other very much as brother and sister.