These are the future supervillians. Or are they? The Masterminds don't exist officially. For a group that doesn't exist, they spend an awful lot of time dodging the Spy Kids.[1]
Since they don't officially exist, their faculty sponsor can't be Ms. Hartford.[2]
The attempt to steal the Variable Interface Devise; they'd have done it too, if not for Wallflower and Lancer not being sufficiently into each other on their date.[3]
They go to Boston on a job for Ms. Hartford, only to get dry-gulched by The Necromancer and the Children of the Night. Team Kimba of all people save their lives.[2]
Phase came to an agreement to share information with them.[1]
In the 2005-2006 school year, the Spy Kids "put Latchkey and Nightfox in Juvie [and Dupraeve, who put the ‘Evil’ into the Masterminds, into flight, it left] the Masterminds run by a bunch of Sophomores and Froshes!”,[4] who are now the Juniors and Sophomores of the Masterminds, in 2006.
In the 2016-2017 school year, they are interested in recruiting Bianca.[5]
Members
Alumni
Famous Alumni
- Tabby Cat (Class of 1986) Superhero, Wallflower's mother, proves that they don't all turn into super-criminals.[6]
Not So Famous ex-Masterminds
Other Alumni
Gen1 Members
Class of 2007
Class of 2008
- Dash Irresponsible lazy kid, dreams of being a “gentleman rogue”
- Heartbreaker Bitter, ruthless, formerly ugly. (hates bullies, sympathy for underdogs)
Class of 2009
- Haywire Genuine career criminal. Selfish, deceitful, arrogant. (flunky)
- Hazard Secret crush on spykid Ace, catty rivalry with spykid A-Plus. Secretly wants to turn good.
- Jello Shifter, regenerates, super-strong, starts to slump after a few minutes. (flunky)
- Stopwatch Leader, genius, type A, wants to be master criminal. Crush on Hazard.
Class of 2010
Class of 2011
- Lodestone - Magnetic powers
Occasionally works with them
- Nex No sense of humor. Package Deal Psychic, knife hand, works with Masterminds sometimes
- Negator Spineless jellyfish, unskilled, uneducated
Gen2 Members
- Scrye - information broker and mage[5]
- Golden Lion - Edward Lowe - (secret) head of the club.[5]
- Doma Know - Helen Cartwright -[5]
- Bystander - - hardcore psychopath[5]
- Swandive - -[5]
- Devil's Advocate - -[5]
Original Seed Material
Masterminds
(enemies) These are the self-appointed 'Evil Geniuses' of the campus. They cooperate/compete to perform 'daring capers'. If they were actually competent, they'd be scary. ~np~Arch-Rivals of the SpyKids.~/np~
- Hazard (2F) Secret crush on spykid Ace, catty rivalry with spykid A-Plus. Secretly wants to turn good.
- Haywire (2M) Genuine career criminal. Selfish, deceitful, arrogant. (flunky)
- Dash (3M) Irresponsible lazy kid, dreams of being a “gentleman rogueâ€
- Negator (1M) Spineless jellyfish, unskilled, uneducated
- Stopwatch (2M) Genius, type A, wants to be master criminal, crush on Hazard
- Jello (2F) Shifter, regenerates, super-strong, starts to slump after a few minutes. (flunky)
- Heartbreaker (3F) Bitter, ruthless, formerly ugly. (hates bullies, sympathy for underdogs)
- Nex (3M) No sense of humor. Package psychic, knife hand, works with Masterminds sometimes