Name: Badurong Broadcasting Network Executive Spandez, Lord of the Late-Night Timeslot, The Almighty Lord of Bloodsport

Age: Yes.

Gender: Male

Hero/Villain/Neutral: Villain

Powers: Spandez is, surprisingly, quite quick and quite heavy. His chitinous shell is fluted like a bird's bones, but due to his compressed body, his nerve endings are tightly packed. Thus, while his shell can stop tank shells, it will still hurt like the dickens. Being the Lord of Bloodsport, he's immortal. As long as something somewhere in the universe gets a kick out of violence, he'll be back eventually. Additionally, he can call for a "Lightning Round"- reviving a destroyed monster with a power boost. When the situation gets dire and there's no other way out, he can return to his true form- an insect the size of a city bus called The Almighty Lord of Bloodsport.

Weapons: Video Star, a combination recording studio and planet-busting warship, a legion of 52 powerful alien contestants, and the Unpaid Faceless Interns Newdur.

Personality: On stage, Spandez is cheery, jovial, and constantly smiling. As a gameshow host should be. However, he is also a bloodthirsty tyrant who draws sustenance from sentient creatures' desire for violence. He relishes the sights and sounds of combat, and is eager to throw contestants at a planet until it's ready for conquering. He speaks Japanese, but it's obvious that he's a foreigner. He gets furious when someone mentions the word "Rangers."

History: Spandez is, in fact, older than many benchmarks for "old." He might actually be among the oldest living beings in the cosmos, as he was born when the first sentient creature thought how awesome it would be to see two animals fighting. Spandez is the literal embodiment of bloodsport, from gladiatorial combat to violent sporting events. He spent a long time as a spacefaring conqueror, setting up gladiatorial arenas to amuse and feed himself. But he began to notice that a lot of other creatures would pay to get in… which led to profits, which led to faster expansion, which led to more spectacular arenas, which led to more power for himself.

One day, thousands of years later, an agent for the Badurong Corporation came to Spandez's Skull-Palace of Pain and explained the wonders of television to the Dark Lord of Bloodsport. The Network could not only broadcast his gladiatorial matches to the universe, but harvest the energy created by those enjoying the battles. They even offered to provide more unique equipment and gladiators (be they insubordinate employees, a bored Action Commander, or a prisoner from another world), provided they got a cut of the advertising revenue. Spandez even got a free cable package, which led to him discovering a gameshow.

His gladiatorial matches had many contestants, but very few were volunteers. It had many fans, and many viewers, but also many decrying the barbaric spectacle. But gameshows… people were willing to do insane things for those prizes. They would humiliate themselves in public. They would take candy from children. They would leave people stranded on alien worlds with no food and water if the prize was great enough. And that's when Spandez hit upon the idea that all his gladiatorial matches needed was a fresh spin. And thus he hit upon an idea. Badurong would offer prizes to his contestants. The contestants would sow chaos and discord on planets. If the contestants won and managed to conquer the planet, they'd get legal ownership of it and a choice between becoming a planetary governor or handing it over to the Network's Mining and Exploitation Branch for a hefty prize. If they lost, they'd often do enough damage to the planet's infrastructure through the gameshow's challenges to make conquering the planet much easier for the mercenary forces of Badurong. This brilliant stroke elevated Spandez from a powerful warlord to chief executive of the Badurong Broadcasting Network and a trusted enforcer of the CEO.

Now, for the Spandez Conquest Hour's 5,104th season, the show has come to an unassuming little planet in the sol system to continue the Badurong Corporation's systematic subjugation of all sentient life.

Weakness: He can't resist showing off. He also has a very low pain threshold until transforming, meaning he tends to chicken out fairly quickly. As the Almighty Lord of Bloodsport, he is easily angered and becomes incredibly bloodthirsty, lashing out at friend and foe alike. Thus, he will not return to his giant form unless absolutely necessary. Perhaps most damningly, he's bound by the most powerful force in the universe: ratings. While he COULD just blow a chunk out of Earth and render it uninhabitable for human life, that doesn't make for good TV.

Other: Voiced by Bob Barker. (Theme Song, Voice, etc, Optional)

Name: Lance Hardcheese, A.K.A the Game WARden

Appearance: Tall, heavily built with a chiseled jaw and a grayed crew cut, Game Warden is a veritable beefslab, possessing a burly physique that can overpower most normal people with ease. His eyes however, are beady, hateful slits that can display only his thirst for vengeance.
Game Warden blends in with the crowds, mostly wearing dark clothing, including long black leather coats to conceal whatever firearms he's brought to wage his war.
His moniker is that on his shirt he wears a white deer skull.

Age: 55

Gender: Male

Hero/Villain/Neutral: Neutral.

Powers: None, perhaps excepting his uncanny ability to procure heavy ordinance.
However, Game Warden is an expert in the use of firearms, explosives, and CQC. He has years of military training and decades of experience that make him about as dangerous as any non-metahuman can get.

Weapons: All manner of firearms, explosives, and other assorted military hardware. If it shoots bullets, he probably uses it.

Personality: Game Warden is a man consumed by his one man war against his greatest foe, lost in a single minded haze of violence, his thoughts obscured by the scent of gore and gunpowder. As gruff as he is angry, his hello is a shot of whiskey and his goodbye is a bullet to the throat.

History: When he was a child, Lance Hardcheese was a normal boy: youthful, and happy. All that changed one day when, while out for a drive, his single father accidentally hit a deer, crashing the car. When Lance came to, he saw that the deer's antler had been torn off, spearing his father in the throat. On that day, Lance Hardcheese made a vow: he would exterminate every last deer.

The journey was not easy. Lance spent years training in every military force that would take him. Black Ops, Delta Force, Delta Green, Blackwater, and even more obscure and dangerous mercenary groups. As the years passed, Lance built up not just his skills, but his contacts, procuring weapons and supplies. He has safehouses and stores of weapons hidden in every major city, contacts in every gang of gutter rats.

After almost three decades of this war, Game Warden is a legend carried on the whispers of frightened hunters and burned out crack heads. But now, his sights have turned on Neo-Tokyo. The population is about to get a whole lot lower.

Weakness: Game Warden doesn't actually possess any superpowers.

Other: Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W35dyPTh6o