Axel Mulligan

—Axel Mulligan

**Axel Mulligan** is the one of the main protagonists of *Power Players*. With the Power Bandz, Axel transforms into the superhero **Action Axel**, gaining the power to stop Madcap from taking over the world with his army of evil toys. He is also the leader of the Power Players team.

### Physical appearance

He wears a light-blue shirt with a picture of the Power Players team logo, a red sleeveless vest, blue jean, and a pair of red-and-white shoes on his feet.

### As Action Axel

Axel's height would shrink down to about 17.78 centimeter (7 inches) tall. He is in a black robotic exoskeleton. He wears a red helmet with a black v-shaped comforter liner, yellow chinstrap, and yellow comfort sides. Over his black robotic exoskeleton, he has numerous robotic body parts that have red, yellow, and blue colors. On his robotic chest, he has a black circular emblem with a yellow logo inside.

## Personality

At the age of 9, Axel is a mischievous, adventurous, optimistic, and energetic kid. And as the newest leader of the Power Players, he is also confident, brave, and at times responsible. Axel looks after his smart-toy friends and often watch over them under his care to avoid having them get into trouble since he's the one who accidentally reactivated them after he found them in Uncle Andrew's lab. Whenever there's a feud within his teammates, he often act as a mediator to help find an alternative solution for them. And with the powers from the Power Bandz to transform into a living action figure, Action Axel does everything in his power to set things right and protect his friends and family from Madcap and his army.

However since Axel is still a kid, he can be a bit lazy at times and he would rather spend every minute of every single day playing instead of doing his chores at home. He is also very curious and likes to discover something new, even though his curiosity would often lead into trouble for him.

## Abilities

### As Action Axel

Axel has the ability to transform himself into Action Axel, a living toy-sized action figure, by using the Power Bandz. Action Axel has much more enhanced skills; speed, agility, and strength. He has remarkable talent with wielding his Energy Sword and Power Shield as his weapons, as well as activating either his wing drone or his rocket boots so he can hover in the air.

## Relationships

### Uncle Andrew

When Axel's parents have to leave for a diplomatic mission, he was forced to move in with Uncle Andrew at the Monkey Toys. Whenever he is with his uncle, Axel is shown to love him and views him as a substitute father figure to him. He found out from Zoe that Uncle Andrew used to be a toy inventor who created "revolutionary toys" before he opened the Monkey Toys to repair toys instead. Axel also found out that the "revolutionary toys" is actually smart-toys, toys that can come to life by using the Minergy battery Uncle Andrew created.

But because Axel accidentally awake the Power Players and Madcap in the "Unboxing Special", he is forced to hide their existence and his superhero alter-ego from his uncle, out of fear of being punish by him when he find out. He also have to watch over the Power Players team and defeat Madcap and/or his minions whenever they invade his house before Uncle Andrew get home.

### Zoe

Before Axel become a member of the Power Players team, he have known Zoe for five days after he moved in with Uncle Andrew and they befriend each other, as revealed in "Unboxing Special". Since Zoe is the only one who's aware of Axel's secret identity and the existence of living toys, she's willing to help him and the team defeat Madcap's army whenever they invade his hometown and in return, Axel cares deeply to Zoe and he supports her as the team's ally despite lacking any superpowers herself.

### Madcap

Axel first met Madcap when he went down to Uncle Andrew's basement to fix Orangutank after he accidentally broke his arm. But because Axel wasn't aware of the existence of smart-toys at that time, Madcap manipulates him into opening the Toy Box and he sucks the Minergy from Axel's Power Bandz. Now that Madcap become Axel's greatest enemy, he always works very hard to stop him and his evil army of toys whenever they come to invade his house, not wanting them to win by taking his Power Bandz and using the Minergy battery to create an army of evil toys to take over the world.

## Trivia

* At the age of 9, Axel is the youngest ZAG Heroez protagonist. He's also the first ZAG Heroez protagonist to not be a teenager.
* Before he become the member of the Power Players, he doesn't have the logo on his shirt as seen in most of the "Unboxing Special" until near the end.
* Early in production, Axel's last name was originally going to be **Applerod**.
* In some sources, Axel's alter-ego is called **Super Axel** instead of Action Axel.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/cns-september-premiers-steven-universe-the-movie-power-players/ "Axel, a 9 year old boy, discovers for the first time the incredible “Power Bandz” that give him the power to transform into a living toy."
2. ↑ PowerPlayers.TV description "Axel is a mischievous, optimistic, and energetic 9-year-old kid."
3. ↑ https://www.powerplayers.tv/
4. ↑ https://issuu.com/mipmarkets/docs/mipcom\_2018\_news\_1
5. ↑ https://trello.com/c/w3Vw7Ww6/457-offair-reuni%C3%A3o-pecegueiro-power-players-globr015064
6. ↑ https://alexaccorsi.artstation.com/projects/yblglK

**Film**: ***Power Players (film)***