Colby Madden

* Colby
* Flashform

**Colby Madden** is one of the main protagonists of *The Villains of Valley View*. He is the youngest son of Eva and Vic Madden. Colby, like the rest of the Maddens, besides his father, has superpowers and is aspiring to become a supervillain though he may never get the legitimate chance seeing how their family is in hiding from fellow supervillains and superheroes alike. His superpowers are Shapeshifting and Kinetic **Energy Manipulation**, with his supervillain name being **Flashform**.

Colby is portrayed by **Malachi Barton.**

## Biography

Colby was born in Centropolis along with his older brother and sister. A month after his 13th birthday, he moved to Valley View with the rest of his family and enrolled in Valley View High School (making him a freshman). He never showed up to school in the first half of the season because he was going through the shapeshifting loop. Now he just skips school for fun.

## Personality

**Colby Madden** stands out from the rest of the Madden family in that he is eager, sweet, friendly. Colby seems to have a very playful side of him but he also is very dim-witted. While his siblings are manipulative and competitive, Colby usually does his own thing. According to Jake, Colby can be shy.

## Relationships

### Family

Jake Madden / Chaos
Jake is Colby's older brother who has super strength. Colby and Jake seem close, but they don't really interact. It is found out in season two episode two villain number one part two that they share a room

Amy Madden / Havoc
Amy is his older sister who has sonic abilities. Colby and Amy seem close, but they don't really react.

Vic Madden / Kraniac
Vic is Colby's dad who isn't known to have any superpowers, besides the fact that he is a mad scientist. The two seem really close and they always get into hi-jinks together, especially after Colby got his superpower.

Eva Madden / Surge
Eva is Colby's mom whose superpower is being able to shoot lightning at an enemy. The two are really close and they usually get into hi-jinks together, like the time they pretended that Colby was Hartley.

## Powers and Abilities

**Primary Powers**
* **Shapeshifting:** Colby's primary power is that he can shapeshift into different people, objects and animals. He can even shapeshift into phenomenon, such as a dust devil.

**"Chosen One" Powers**
* **Telekinesis:** As one of his Chosen One powers, he has the ability to manipulate or otherwise interact with objects/matter without physical means.
* **Super Speed:** Colby can move at drastically speeds beyond what is naturally possible.
* **Invisibility:** Colby can render himself unable to be seen.
* **Regeneration:** Colby has the ability to rapidly heal and get restored to his optimal and full health/state at an extremely fast rate.
* **Power-Transferring:** Colby can transfer his powers to another person by fist bumping them, the power is transferred back to him when that person fist bumps him again. However, this can have a side effect if used to transfer to a non-superpowered person like Hartley.
* **Levitation/Flight**: Colby discovered that he haves the ability to gravitate off the ground.

**Former Powers:**
* **Kinetic Energy Manipulation:** As one of his Chosen One powers, he could manipulate kinetic energy. In Power Struggle, he transferred this power to his father to keep.
	+ **Kinetic-Telekinesis:** To use kinetic energy to affect the direct atomic motion of matter/energy in general; effectively making them able to push, move, lift, or otherwise manipulate the direction of minutia motion in any given vector they see fit. This power was transferred to his father as well as his manipulation.

**Current Weaknesses:**
* **Anti-Regeneration Phaser:** This prevents Colby from regenerating from any injury.
* **Anti-Invisibility Ray:** Prevents Colby from becoming invisible and reverting him from his invisible form.
* **Uncontrollable Floating:** Colby can float, although unwillingly and randomly. In the episode it's introduced in, he describes it as "an elevator and someone else's pushing the buttons".

**Former Weaknesses:**
* **Uncontrollable Shapeshifting:**  Colby had trouble returning to original form.

## Trivia

* The character has been depicted at different ages as a young adult, a middle aged man and an old man.
* His grandfather was also a shapeshifter.
	+ As Vic implies his father is still alive in Family Secrets it must be Surge's father that Colby inherited his shapeshifting power.
* He tends to wear knitted caps that match the color of the shoes he has on at the time.
* In "Showdown at the Round Up", it is revealed that Colby is the Chosen One.
* He makes his public debut as Flashform in Bad Energy.
* He and his older brother, Jake share a bedroom.
* Due to being struck by lightning, his hair turns blonde.