Popple (Classic)

Popple is a protagonist in the original Battle Heroes X. She fights evil alongside Zack, Julius, and Cloud.

## Appearance

Popple is a 5'7 female with fuchsia hair and red-rimmed glasses. She wears a yellow jacket with a black dress underneath, yellow sneakers, and blue earrings. As the yellow ranger, she wears yellow armor whenever she morphs.

## Personality

Popple is an overall positive person who does her best to keep a cheerful disposition. She is also the one to rise above the team's antics and anchor them back down to reality. Along with staying positive, she is also compassionate, always caring about her friends and their well-being.

After the attack on her father and Julius' actions, Popple has become sullen and melancholic.

## Background

Popple was born into a small family, with her being the only child. Her father was absent a lot of the time, as he was in ghe military. She met Zack, Julius, and Cloud in preschool and the four became fast friends. Years later, Silas joined their friend group in high school. One day near the beginning of their freshman year, the city was attacked by a mysterious stranger and his army of robots. After a brief chase, Popple and the others hid in a dumpster to elude their robot pursuers. Eventually, Space Commander Roy arrived on the scene and the teens met him for the first time. When Silas volunteered to spy on Roy's behalf, Popple was initially against taking the mission. But after Zack and Cloud decided to join him, Popple went along as well. The five were temporarily deputized and began following the invader's ship into the city. Popple went with Julius to turn on Revolutech's sprinkler system and returned with fire extinguishers to fight off the ghostbots. After the fight with Bane, Popple decided to join Silas in wanting to become a ranger. During the episode The New Girls, Popple and Julius were attacked at the boys' house by Chan and Hoji, who disguised themselves as students at the academy. Julius was injured and Popple helped the two escape to the panic room. After escaping, they planned to deploy an EMP to short-circuit the ghostbots, Chan and Hoji. While travelling back to the surface, Popple confronted Julius about his feelings for her. Julius tried to ignore her, but finally admitted that he loved her and acted so distant because he didn't want to ruin their friendship if she didn't reciprocate his feelings. Popple revealed that she shares his feelings and the two begin a romantic relationship after stopping Chan and Hoji's attack. In the season one finale, Popple and Cloud execute phase three of the plan to deactivate Bane's shuttle by hacking into his space ships and sending them to hit the shuttle's laser cannon.

### Season 2

Popple was at the beach with the others when the void possessed the shark and caused it to attack a swimmer. While walking home, Roy picks up the heroes and tasks them with bringing in the shark. When Julius' plan to capture it fails, Popple manages to distract it with chum. This gave Cloud the chance to fire a cannon and paralyze it long enough for it to be captured. In Teatime Terror, Popple and the rest of the team are reunited with Silas. After a briefing on the void, she suggests that the heroes go to a popular tea shop in the city. After receiving an awful tasting tea, the heroes deduce that the shop belongs to Bane. They sneak into the shop later that night and shut down his operation. The next night, Popple was with the rest of the team when the lab under the M.Tea was infiltrated by the Negative Ranger, who defeated them and destroyed the lab. Popple plays a more minor role in Craving for Race, where she serves as Cloud's back up when he goes undercover to neutralize the void Eugene Russo had obtained. After Cloud is sabotaged by Eugene and his cronies during the final race, Popple arrives with the others to scare them off and get Cloud back on the road. In Field Trip, Popple and the team travel to Canada, where they spy on Revolutech collecting void material that had dropped from the sky. In Into the Lion's Den, Popple assists Julius when he's captured during the class trip to Revolutech's skyscraper. When Zack decodes Julius' message and brings them to the warehouse floor, she rescues Julius from his captors before the fire alarm is pulled by Cloud. In Trick or Trick, Popple attended Ronnie Jacobs' Halloween party as a Banshee. She helped the team defend the city from Revolutech and the void by luring the possessed people to the lab with Julius, forcing Revolutech to leave. In Turmoil, Popple father is attacked at her house, leaving him clinging to life. Popple was distraught about the attack, made worse by Julius' inability to comfort her and even running away, leaving her alone. The experience left her feeling morose and abandoned, and her heart hardened. When Julius came over to apologize to her , she exploded at him. In her fury, she made her hatred for him clear.

## Relationship

#### Cloud

Although Popple thinks of Cloud as sometimes childish and immature, she still cares about him a lot.

#### Julius

Popple and Julius is strained since the latter's actions. His cowardice in Popple's hour of need hardened her heart.

#### Zack

Popple respects Zack's capabilities as a teammate, but thinks he can be brash and just plain rude sometimes.

#### Roy

Popple has a good relationship with her superior.