The Champion (The Tick)

The Champion is the main antagonist of the first Live action Version of The Tick episode "The Big Leagues".

Ability's and Personality
One of the City's mightiest heroes, Champion has super-speed and strength, although the Tick is stronger and faster. The Champion is the head of the League of Superheroes, and a not-so-subtle and misogynistic bigot as He refuses to let women and minorities into the League. He uses his secret identity as lawyer Steve Filbert to protect the League from lawsuits.

Like Clark Kent, the Champion wears a pair of glasses to disguise himself in his secret identity. In his superhero costume, Champion doesn't wear a mask.

Summary
One day, The Tick and Arthur receive invitations to join the League of Superheroes, with Arthur being addressed as "Sidekick". Tick and Arthur's friend Captain Liberty is upset as the League has no minorities and no women. When The Tick and Arthur arrive, the accidently rip the original league Manifesto Parchment, But manage to put it back together. The Champion meets the two, mistaking Arthur's name as Abner then shows them around and asks them to comeback again that night at 10 for their initiation, which is later shown to be in the manner of a college fraternity's style.

Meanwhile, Liberty and Tick and Arthur's other friend and fellow Superhero BatManuel meet up with Batmanuel's lawyer, revealed to be the Champion, Who agrees to take the lawsuit, but only after giving the excuse that they say that she won't get in if she doesn't have the trait's they're looking for. Initially Liberty Believes that it's not her gender, But Batmanuel Convinces her. The Tick and Arthur show them their leauge rings and she tells them about the lawsuit.

At Leauge headquarters, The Champion asks The Tick and Arthur to tell Liberty to back off as their first assignment. During this time as Champion changes back to his alter ego, Tick is unable to recognise him with his glasses on, forcing Him to take them off. When Tick and Arthur try to convince Liberty to drop the lawsuit, she kicks them out after Tick repeats Champion's words.

That night, Tick and Arthur meet up on a roof. When Champion arrives and hears the lawsuit isn't being dropped, he believes that she'll just take settlement money. When Champion asks what Tick and Arthur are doing on the Roof, Tick says it's for nightly patrol. Champion says it's not their turn and asks where their league photographer is as a League rule is they don't go on patrol without one to take publicity shoots. The Tick and Arthur then see a petty criminal commit a robbery, but before they can go Champion prevents them. He says that while he admires Tick's Moxy, he says petty crime should be left to the cops and low rent heroes as it looks bad for a leagues man and is considered Beneath them. Tick is unconvinced, but Champion states rules are rules, the league has a reputation to keep and they have bigger threats to face. He then says to Tick and Arthur that their presence acts as a deterrent and tells them to think of them like Nuclear weapons, just sitting around doing nothing and scaring people. When their Rings give off an Alert, Tick thinks it's an invasion of Alien robots, but Champion says it's martinis at the club. This causes Arthur to start having doubts about the leauge. Meanwhile Liberty gets more rejected super heroes to join her cause. Champion as Filbert calls and says the leauge proposed a settlement but she refuses.