| “ | Let the mayhem begin! | „ |
| ~ Dark Mayhem |
Dark Mayhem is the main antagonist of The Thundermans franchise. He is the world's most powerful supervillain, as well as the most dangerous enemy the superhero family had ever faced.
He is voiced by Jamieson Price but is portrayed by Omid Zader.
Appearance[]
Dark Mayhem is a man of an unknown identity who wears a black robe and a mask with green glowing eyes.
History[]
Not known much of Dark Mayhem’s past but he began a successful villain career. At some point he met Mike Evilman and brought him to the supervillain life where Evilman became Hank’s archenemy. He encounters Thunder Man a few times and shot his sidekick into space.
Mentoring Max[]
In Season 1, Dark Mayhem is shown to be the idol of Max Thunderman, in which he has the latter work for him by making him do various evil deeds, but does not make any actual appearances. In the episode "It's Not What You Link however, it was revealed that he was the one who turned Mike Evilman evil, as Mike used to be a good guy prior to his friendship with Dark Mayhem.
Dark Mayhem makes his first on-screen appearance in the episode "Phoebe vs. Max: The Sequel", where he tells Max to keep a record of his evil deeds in a journal he calls the "evil chronicle". However, the evil chronicle ends up getting confiscated by Principal Bradford right before Dark Mayhem is able to call Max so he could review it. Max manages to get it back however by manipulating Phoebe and Allison's Green Teenz Club, in which Dark Mayhem is impressed. However, Max ends up feeling guilty and walks out on Dark Mayhem, making him angry. Colosso reveals that Dark Mayhem was impresses that Max had the guts to walk out on him.
In "I'm Gonna Forget You, Sucka", Dark Mayhem forces Max to change his appearance to look more villainous. However, Max refuses as he says he doesn't need to change his appearance to prove that he is villain-worthy.
Defeat[]
In the season 3 finale, "Thundermans: Secret Revealed", after Phoebe/ThunderGirl had exposed the Villain League's secrets, Dark Mayhem along with the other villains open up a fake restaurant called "Happy Fun Burger" in order to hide there, afterward sending Lady Web to steal a diamond from a museum, only for the latter to be immediately caught by Phoebe. Enraged, Dark Mayhem decides to take ThunderGirl (aka. Phoebe) down.
Afterward, he forces Max to steal his sister's powers using a "power-sapping orb" that he gave to him. Down in Max's lair however, Phoebe finds his evil chronicle open and reads it, realizing that Max has left for a meeting with Dark Mayhem, in which she calls the latter on accident, who reveals the plan for Max to steal her powers, not being aware of the fact she is listening.
However, Max ended up getting grounded, forcing Dark Mayhem to do the job himself. After watching a news coverage that states the Thundermans live in Hiddenville, he sends his minions over there in order to take ThunderGirl/Phoebe down, in which they fly over there via a helicopter. Dark Mayhem then has a video call with Dr. Colosso, who says that he is excited for him to take over Hiddenville. However, Dark Mayhem tells his minions that Dr. Colosso will be the first one he will get rid of, not realizing that the video chat is still on, making the latter angry and turn against him.
At Hiddenville, Dark Mayhem finds a bunch of news reporters surrounding the Thunderman house and blasts them using his powers to force them into leaving, afterward knocking down the house in order to get inside. Dr. Colosso however uses Max's dynamite to help the family escape. When Dark Mayhem finally gets inside, he reads a note on the kitchen counter that states Phoebe is at the prom at the museum.
Surely enough, he finds them there and tells Max to take Phoebes powers once and for all, but the latter manages to convince him not to, so Max decides to turn against Dark Mayhem. Enraged, Dark Mayhem tells Max that he has made a huge mistake, and tries attacking him and Phoebe.
Max tries using the orb to take Dark Mayhem's powers, but the latter blows both of them away before he could do so, afterward taking the orb for himself and preparing to take both of their powers. However, he is defeated by Chloe, who had recently gained super strength, which she drops a heavy pillar on Dark Mayhem, allowing Max to use the orb to drain all of the latter's powers, thus defeating him. Dark Mayhem is then taken by the Hero League to the Metroburg SuperJail.
Imprisonment[]
In Comes to What Mayhem, Dark Mayhem is mentioned throughout the episode where Max revealed he set a mega stink bomb to go off at the Super Awards. Due to the stink bomb being reenforced with Thundertanium, they needed an elector-plasma blast to destroy it. The twins search the weapon's vault and found Dark Mayhem's power-sapping orb which also hold his powers. Phoebe suggested using his powers to destroy the stink bomb but Max is against it due to Dark Mayhem's powers being pure evil and if anyone uses them then they can turn evil. Although Max manage to built a lemon blaster to destroy the bomb, Phoebe uses the powers anyway much to Max's disappointment. Afterward Phoebe tries to return the powers to the orb but she is unable to.
In Thunder In Paradise, Phoebe visited Dark Mayhem due to experiencing nightmares of her being evil. Dark Mayhem tells Phoebe of his secret evil plan located in Hawaii where his robot sidekick Destructo could help her. Destructo revealed that Dark Mayhem planned to use the volcano to spread his secret supply of Malvexium, a dangerous element that can destroy superpowers. However thanks to Max, Phoebe manage to get rid of Dark Mayhem's evil powers and throw Destructo to SuperJail. Although unknown to the Thundermans, Dark Mayhem manage to regain his powers.
Return[]
In the made-for-TV movie The Thundermans Return, Dark Mayhem, along with King Crab and Strongdor return where their kids (the V-Team) are disguised as superheroes to find the Power Plant, an ancient object that can give superpowers to anyone by eating their seeds. After the V-Team got the Thundermans fired, their kids decide to do their own plan. The three are released from jail so they could watch the V-Team (their kids disguised as superheroes) to turn everyone into supervillains on Mount Metroburg by raining red-powerded seeds from the Power Plant on them using a flying drone. Chloe teleports the family there in order to fight off the supervillains, with Dark Mayhem fighting Max. Eventually however, Dark Mayhem was frozen into ice with the help of Phoebe, leaving him defeated.
Personality[]
Dark Mayhem is a villain who cares about nothing but power and world domination, being persistent on his goal to defeat the superheroes and the Hero League. However, he is shown to be quite short-tempered. He easily gets irritated during his calls with Dr. Colosso, or if someone loses focus on what they are discussing. He is even willing to attack those whom he doesn't see as threats, such as when he scared a bunch of news reporters away to break inside the Thundermans' home.
In The Thundermans Return, it is revealed that he has a son named Dark Mayhem Jr., but he has a poor relationship with him due to having the idea of wearing a mask and having different methods.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Ergokinesis: Dark Mayhem's main ability is to manipulate and create energy. He is capable of generating these spheres in rapid succession, making it his main offensive system. He was capable of using energy in various ways, too, generating plasma balls, generating fireballs in conjunction with his energy spheres, and capable of manipulating electric energy. His plasma balls are strong enough to destroy Thundertanium.
- Force Field Generation: Dark Mayhem was capable of creating a force field that was capable of blocking attacks. He is also capable of using them as projectiles that could offend and defend himself. Phoebe even demonstrated that his force fields can even imprison people.
- Laser Vision: Dark Mayhem is also capable of generating lasers that are hot enough to melt the ice off of The Thunderman's doors.
- Flight/Levitation: Dark Mayhem was capable of flying and levitating.
- Supernatural Strength: Dark Mayhem is capable of exerting strong force from his muscles. He used this when he almost tried to throw a boulder on Max on their fight on Mount Metroburg.
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Trivia[]
- He does share similarities with Darth Vader from the Star Wars franchise, as they both wear metal masks, dark robes, and speak in deep and intimidating voices.
- Dark Mayhem does not make any actual physical appearances in the series apart from the season 3 finale and the made-for-TV movie The Thundermans Return, as he is only seen through video chats.
- Max had a poster of him in his lair in the first three seasons, but in Season 4 it was changed to a Z-Force poster as shown in "Thundermans: Banished!".