Father (Codename: Kids Next Door) – DEATH BATTLE! Analysis

Note: This analysis of Father will focus on his appearances from the Codename: Kids Next Door show and comics, but will also include abilities that he’s shown to have in other media, such as the video games.

Background

The man known as Father is one of the biggest evils in the entire world, but before that, he was born in England as cowardly Benedict Uno, son to the evilest man alive, who was also a big jerk with demonic powers. This tyrannic being, known as Grandfather, would rule the world and cause nothing but misery for children. He forced them to work in his tapioca factories, and this insane evil caused nothing but fear for Ben. Luckily, his brother Monty was more optimistic, and after discovering a secret treehouse, he found the Book of KND, a book written by operatives of Kids Next Door, an organization full of kids who combated evil teens and adults to protect children around the world.

The Book of KND is what inspired Monty to rise up against Grandfather, but Ben, due to his cowardice, refused to help, thinking his brother stood no chance. However, thanks to Monty’s newfound skills and tactics that he learned within the Book of KND, as well as the 7th age of the Kids Next Door beginning, more and more kids fought against Grandfather and eventually defeated him, erasing his memories. Monty, under the code name Numbuh 0, would become a legend for all future operatives, with some even saying his existence was nothing but a myth.

Despite Ben’s hatred for his father, he would take up the mantle of ultimate evil years later, causing children to suffer. He gained demonic powers through his evil ways just like his father, and he would use those powers and his resources under the alias of Father in many attempts to destroy the Kids Next Door and rule the world. With his kidnapped and brainwashed Delightful Children From Down The Lane, he would actually end up fighting his brother’s son, Nigel Uno, known by his code name Numbuh 1, and his team on several occasions. Though they would end up assisting each other once Father brought back Grandfather’s memories, as the old timer would betray his son. After Grandfather’s second defeat, Father still fought for what he sought: the complete obliteration of the Kids Next Door.

More Info

• Real Name: Benedict Uno
• Adoptive father to the Delightful Children From Down The Lane
• Brother to Monty Uno and uncle to Numbuh 1
• Owner of Evil Adult Industries Inc
• Changes accents depending on his physical appearance
• Has tried to bake a cake with kids as an ingredient
• Once teamed up with the KND to get Rainbow Monkey cereal

Powers & Abilities

Pyrokinesis

Father’s most used ability is his power to control fire, which he can use in several ways. He can surround himself in flames, trap things in fiery cages, launch fireballs, detonate massive fiery explosions around himself, send out concentrated beams of fire to melt through most defensive things, set anything he touches aflame, shoot streams of flames, enhance and extend the range of his physical strikes, erupt fire from the ground, cause things to ignite, create fiery hands to grab and trap enemies, generate heat, increase his speed briefly by jetting himself forward with flames, or boost himself into the air while surrounded in fire. He can also transform into fire and fly through the air.

His flames are so potent, they can melt or burn things in an instant. Father’s fire powers become much stronger the angrier or more excited he gets, though this does mean that his flames become weaker if he’s tired and not motivated. He can extinguish his flames whenever he wants, and even prevent things from being burned by his fire. His pyrokinetic abilities also make him resistant to high heat and fire, and fires that are created and burn around him power him up.

Umbrakinesis

Father has minor control over darkness, which he uses to manipulate shadows to create his silhouette suit.

Levitation

Father possesses the ability to levitate in the air to move around faster.

Telekinesis

Father can control things’ movements with the power of his mind, including throwing or using objects to fight against enemies from afar with. He can also use it to activate things like bombs.

Duplication

Father can duplicate himself dozens of times over to create fake identical copies that share his abilities, which can be used to trick or overwhelm enemies. They disappear in a cloud of smoke when attacked.

Weather Manipulation

It’s heavily implied by the Delightful Children From Down The Lane that Father can manipulate the weather, which he can do to create thunderstorms in an instant.

Shapeshifting

Father is capable of shapeshifting his form in many different ways. He can make himself look and sound like someone else, which he can do to deceive others, but he can also transform into a devil with fangs to appear scarier or a fireball to make his flames hotter and tackle enemies. However, Father’s deadliest form is a winged dragon, which can bite ferociously, attack with the claws on his hands or feet, or breathe a stream of fire powerful enough to penetrate through the Earth.

Feats

Strength & Attack Potency

• Ripped off car doors with ease
• Can launch hippos and bears through the air
• Blasted a rock wall into chunks
• Melted a corridor
• Created a giant hole with a large fireball
• Blasted a hole through a giant spaceship
• Destroyed a small dam (calced here)
• Burned down part of a forest (calced here)
• Created a thunderstorm in an instant
• Penetrated the Earth with his dragon form’s fire breath (calced here)

Speed

• His dragon’s form’s fire breath is fast enough to go through the Earth and into space in seconds (calced here)

Durability

• Is highly resistant to high heat and fire
• Survived a fall in a hole over a hundred feet deep in his dragon form
• Tanked a hit from Grandfather
• Survived a fall from orbit inside a giant ice cream cake meteor
• Tanked his own attack being reflected back at him
• His dragon form’s durability should scale to his fire breath’s power to penetrate through the Earth (calced here)

Scaling

• Sector V of the KND - Usually overpowers them and mostly only loses due to them abusing his weaknesses, such as the cold.
• Numbuh 2
• Accidentally knocked a flying submarine out of the sky with a golf ball
• Dodged missiles
• Piloted through space passed the Earth’s moon and other planets in seconds (calced here)
• Numbuh 4
• Survived a fall from orbit while surrounded in bubble wrap that created a huge explosion upon impact with the ground
• Numbuh 5
• Dodged missiles
• Piloted through space to Mars in seconds
• Piloted through space to the sun in under a minute (calced here)
• All of them
• Tanked a crash landing that created a crater
• Tanked the self-destruction of a mind control device that blew up a school
• Survived the footbomb’s explosion that destroyed part of a football stadium, and was meant to destroy the KND’s moonbase, which is this big
• Took the self-destruction of their S.N.O.W.S.U.B. that created a large crater, with it being this big from the outside
• Tanked an explosion of coconuts that could be seen from space
• Survived the impact of the KND’s moonbase colliding with the surface of the Earth
• Delightful Children From Down The Lane - Are his children and serve him.
• Can react to and avoid lasers
• Cree - Leader of the Teen Ninjas, who serve Father. Also usually matches Numbuh 5 in combat, who usually gets overpowered by Father.
• Turned Sector V of the KND’s treehouse upside down
• Dodged a laser
• Lizzie - Is usually considered a nuisance for Sector V of the KND, as she is just Numbuh 1’s clingy girlfriend, who is usually overpowered by Father.
• Tanked an explosion that created a large crater in a football stadium
• Toiletnator - Father is seen as one of the KND’s biggest threats, much more than other villains like the Toiletnator.
• Flushed all of the milk and cereal that filled the Grand Canyon (calced here)
• Count Spankulot - Father is seen as one of the KND’s biggest threats, much more than other villains like Count Spankulot.
• Survived an explosion that destroyed much of Sector V of the KND’s treehouse
• Tanked an explosion of coconuts that could be seen from space
• Professor XXXL - Father is seen as one of the KND’s biggest threats, much more than other villains like Professor XXXL.
• Can move in tandem with lasers
• Dodgeball Wizard - Father is seen as one of the KND’s biggest threats, much more than other villains like the Dodgeball Wizard.
• Created a giant dodgeball bigger than much of a city, which blocked out part of the sun and was thrown with enough force to create a massive shock wave throughout the city
• Mr. B - Father is seen as one of the KND’s biggest threats, much more than other villains like Mr. B.
• Dodged a ray reflected towards him, which traveled around part of the Earth before reaching its surface in seconds

Training & Experience

• Is a highly skilled engineer, creating machines that can change people to become more delightful or animals, as well as robotic knight guards and a mansion with high defenses
• Tricked all of the KND operatives of Antartica into leaving their Arctic base defenseless, so that he could invade it with little issue
• Disarmed Sector V of the KND in one swift move
• Tricked the KND into making him their Supreme Leader
• Created a virus capable of producing broccoli
• Owns and manages a business called Evil Adult Industries Inc
• Bakes really good cakes

Weaknesses

Father can become easily angered, and while this makes his flames even deadlier, it also has made him lose on many occasions due to him losing control over his powers and having others use that against him. He’s also vulnerable to the cold and water due to his fiery abilities, and his flames become weaker as a result, even going completely out if he’s exposed to too much of it. His flames can also become weaker if he’s tired and not motivated. Also, while his duplicates look identical to him, one can find the real him by tracking his DNA. Lastly, he hates broccoli and has lost and been traumatized before due to being threatened with it.

Summary

Advantages

• His pyrokinetic abilities can be used in other useful ways besides blasting with fire, such as trapping enemies in cages or hands or turning into fire and flying around
• Resists high heat and fire and becomes more powerful when around other fires
• Has great movement with levitation
• Can attack enemies from multiple angles while far away using objects he controls with telekinesis
• Can trick and overwhelm enemies with the many duplicates that he can create
• Can shapeshift himself to look like different people or transform into alternate forms, such as a dragon with a fire breath powerful enough to penetrate through the Earth

Disadvantages

• Can become easily angered to the point that he can lose control of his powers and have that used against him in certain situations
• Vulnerable to the cold and water due to his fiery abilities, making his flames weaker and eventually going out if continually exposed to those elements
• His flames can become weaker if he’s tired and not motivated
• Tracking him by his DNA makes it easier to figure out the real him if he duplicates himself
• Hates broccoli and is willing to give up if threatened with it, being traumatized in the process