All Dispatch Characters: Heroes, Villains, and Key NPCs Explained

Dispatch features a roster of more than 50 named characters spread across heroes, villains, civilians, and dispatchers — but the ten dispatchable heroes are the ones you’ll interact with most directly, since every mission assignment runs through them. This guide covers every confirmed character faction in AdHoc Studio’s 2025 superhero workplace comedy: who the dispatch characters are, how their stats work, where the Z-Team fits in, and what’s known about the Red Ring villains and the broader supporting cast.

Robert Robertson III and the Superhero Dispatch Network

The entire character ecosystem in Dispatch revolves around one fallen hero. Robert Robertson III used to be Mecha Man — a full-on superhero with a mecha suit to match. When that suit is destroyed, his crime-fighting days end, but his connection to the superhero world doesn’t. He pivots into a new role: dispatcher for the Superhero Dispatch Network, or SDN, coordinating a roster of reformed villain-heroes across the city.

That setup is the premise that connects every character in the game. The SDN map is where Robert spends most of his time, strategically assigning heroes to crimes and events based on their individual stats and current cooldown status. It’s a superhero workplace comedy in structure — office politics, reformed criminals trying to do better, and a protagonist who’s clearly more comfortable behind a desk than he expected to be. Every hero, villain, and civilian character you meet exists in relation to that central dynamic.

Dispatch is an episodic game released in 2025, developed and published by AdHoc Studio. Because it’s episodic, some character information may expand as new episodes release — the roster documented here reflects what’s been confirmed across available sources.

The Ten Dispatchable Heroes and Their Core Stats

These are the characters you actually send on missions. There are exactly ten dispatchable heroes in Dispatch, each carrying a profile built around five core stats: combat, intellect, vigor, charisma, and mobility. No single hero maxes out every category, which is the entire point — every dispatch decision is a tradeoff.

The ten dispatchable heroes are: Coupé, Flambae, Golem, Invisigal, Malevola, Phenomaman, Prism, Punch Up, Sonar, and Water Boy.

Specific numeric stat values per hero aren’t confirmed in available sources, so the table above identifies the stat columns that apply to every hero rather than presenting invented numbers. What is confirmed is the structure: every hero is evaluated across all five dimensions, and the differences between them drive your dispatching strategy.

Training and Ability Unlocks

Beyond base stats, each hero has unique abilities that aren’t automatically available — they have to be unlocked through training sessions with Blonde Blazer, the team’s trainer. The catch is that you choose which abilities to unlock, and the abilities you skip may not be recoverable depending on how training progresses.

This creates a real customization layer on top of the dispatch system. A hero with high mobility but weaker combat might be trained toward abilities that compensate for that gap — or you might lean into what they’re already good at. The combination of fixed base stats and player-directed ability unlocks means two players can end up with meaningfully different versions of the same hero over the course of a playthrough.

When evaluating a mission on the SDN map, you’re weighing the stat requirements of the event against which heroes are off cooldown, what their trained abilities cover, and whether a mismatch in one stat is acceptable given strength in another. That’s the dispatch loop in practice.

The Z-Team: Reformed Villains at the Heart of Dispatch

The Z-Team is the group Robert manages — not just any collection of heroes, but specifically former villains who have crossed over to the other side. That origin shapes the team’s dynamic throughout the story and gives Dispatch much of its workplace comedy texture: these are people who used to be the problem, now being asked to solve it.

The Z-Team and the dispatchable heroes are related but not identical categories. The ten dispatchable heroes are the characters you assign to SDN missions, while the Z-Team is a broader narrative grouping that includes additional members not necessarily available for dispatch. The Dispatch community wiki documents 12 character pages under the Z-Team subcategory and 16 pages under Dispatchable Heroes — those numbers overlap but don’t match, confirming the two groups aren’t the same list.

Named characters confirmed across the roster who appear in Z-Team or closely related roles include: Sonar, Flambae, Invisigal, Punch Up, Prism, Malevola, Golem, Coupé, Phenomaman, Water Boy, Beef, Pom Pom, Sweetalker, Brickhouse, Equilibrium, and Brainbook. Individual backstories for many of these characters are documented on the community wiki — though as a community-maintained resource, some entries may be incomplete or subject to revision as more episodes release.

What ties the Z-Team together narratively is the reformed-villain premise. Robert isn’t managing career superheroes with spotless records. He’s managing people who came from the other side, which means trust, management decisions, and mission assignments all carry a different weight than they would in a standard superhero setup.

Villains: Red Ring Faction and Other Antagonists

The villain side of the Dispatch roster is anchored by a faction called Red Ring. Beyond that name, confirmed details about individual Red Ring members — their leaders, specific powers, or story roles — aren’t available in current verified sources. The community wiki documents 20 villain character pages in total, which gives a sense of the faction’s scale, but specific character details there should be treated as community-sourced rather than officially confirmed.

With 20 documented antagonists against a hero pool of around 26 characters, the game clearly isn’t treating villains as background noise. Red Ring operates as the primary organized threat that Robert and the Z-Team are working against — the faction that gives the SDN’s mission structure its stakes. As Dispatch continues releasing episodes, villain character information is likely to expand; treat highly specific claims about individual Red Ring members from unofficial sources with appropriate skepticism until more episodes confirm the details.

Supporting Characters: NPCs, Civilian Employees, and the Voice Cast

Outside the hero and villain rosters, Dispatch has a substantial supporting cast divided across two functional groups: civilians and dispatchers. The wiki documents 18 civilian character pages and 4 dispatcher pages — smaller pools, but characters that fill out the workplace setting Robert operates in.

Key Supporting Characters by Role

Blonde Blazer is the most strategically relevant supporting character in the game — she’s the trainer through whom heroes unlock new abilities, which makes her central to the progression system even though she isn’t dispatched on missions herself. Chase, Galen, and Royd are confirmed named characters in the roster, though their specific functional roles aren’t detailed in currently verified sources. Others in the broader named cast include Brickhouse, Equilibrium, Brainbook, Pom Pom, Sweetalker, and Beef — some of whom overlap with the extended Z-Team grouping depending on how the game categorizes them across episodes.

Voice Cast

The voice cast is one of Dispatch’s most prominently marketed features, and it’s an unusually wide mix. Industry veterans include Aaron Paul, Jeffrey Wright, Erin Yvette, Laura Bailey, Travis Willingham, and Matthew Mercer. On the content creator side, jacksepticeye, MoistCr1TiKaL, Joel Haver, and Alanah Pearce all have confirmed roles in the cast. Rappers Yung Gravy and Thot Squad round out a cast that leans into the game’s comedic tone.

The Dispatch Wikipedia page lists these cast members without mapping most of them to specific character names, so confirmed pairings of voice actor to role aren’t available here. What is clear is that the casting choices reflect the game’s identity: part industry prestige, part internet culture, matching the workplace comedy format that runs through every faction in the roster.