Heroes Unmasked: The Animation

Heroes Unmasked: The Animation is a 2020 animated superhero adventure fiction web series by Imaginate, based on the latest Heroes video game Heroes Unmasked.

The web show came out on November 20th, 2020, shortly after the release of Heroes Unmasked. And just like the game, it serves as a reboot of the Heroes series, with the removal of the Sonic The Hedgehog and Fat Princess characters, and the only characters that are shown are the characters that were originally made by Cappy himself.

The animated series was used in Gacha Life with the animation maker used with phone app InShot. Cappy claims that the battle sequences and moments were based on Newgrounds' Super Mario Bros. Z (a Flash animated series with Mario and Sonic characters in a Dragon Ball Z scenario).

Upon arrivement, it received fair reviews from fans for its story, fast-paced fighting action, and the new super form Unmask.

Overview
The story of the series follows Liberty and her friends Jason, Roy and Reggie and franchise, the United Hero Franchise, as they must go around the world to collect the 7 Powerful Sapphires to defeat the rotten and mighty Negaman and his own franchise; The Villain Federation, so that he won't get his hands on the colorful gems. However, hordes of new villains appears as they confront one of the special crew members to get their hands on a sapphire. Despite that, one of the main characters and some of the villains manage to unlock the new fancy superpower of Unmask, a power which increases a user's regular power level. During their hunt for the sapphires, the main heroes has gain new team members while Negaman unleashed an artificial being to show no mercy against the main heroes with her over-the-top destructive power and her brand new army whatsoever.

Episode 1: Vantom
The main heroes (except Roy) are getting their hands on the first sapphire they seen; the Yellow Sapphire. However, Vantom came out of nowhere and says that the sapphire belongs to him. Jason pointed out that the sapphires doesn't belong to anyone but itself. Vantom disagrees and proceeds to attack the crew members. Reggie tries to shoot blazeballs and attack him but it didn't work due to Vantom being a ghost. she does everything she can do until she gave up when Vantom critically damaged her so bad. Next is Jason and he does some flashy punches and kicks and can do multiple teleportables until Vantom caughts him and critically demolish him. Finally, it's Liberty's turn, as she tries to do an attack towards Vantom but she can't due to Vantom's overwhelmingly speed. Liberty tries to shoot lightning bolts and blazeballs at him but it didn't work as well and slightly got damaged by Vantom's ghostly attacks. Liberty gets back up and wants to face him again, making Vantom damaging her more. Before having one more attack from Vantom, Liberty shines infront of his eyes with a light of light blue. Inside her head, she meets Sunshine where she grants her the ability to enhance her current states when going full potential or fuller potential, thus having the superpower of Unmask, which makes her body glow light blue.

With no time to waste, Liberty faces off against Vantom, only this time, Liberty is winning the fight, making Vantom being anxious and scared of her sudden improvement and her quickening speed. With Vantom being damaged completely, Liberty finishes the fight by activating and unleashing the Super Special Blast and defeat him for good. Totally tired, she powers down her Unmask form and calls Dylan to heal both Jason and Reggie, get the Yellow Sapphire and sail off to Antoon.

Episode 2: Masquerade
Back in the main HQ of the United Hero Franchise, they kept the Yellow Sapphire inside the Sapphire Capsule to keep it safe so that no mortal can touch it, unless they can see it for fun. Liberty and Reggie decided to go to the beach and enjoy the sun, with Liberty explaining to Reggie about this mysterious person she met ever since she got her new superpower. That wasn't until a monstrous thing comes out of the lake, in which it reveals to be the main villain of this episode named Masquerade. Liberty and Reggie teams up to face against Masquerade, but he's too quick and does tricky powers. Reggie asked Liberty to use the Unmask form again but Liberty doesn't know how to use it again. Avoiding almost every trick that the girls can do from Masquerade, Liberty finally manages to use the Unmask form by crossing her arms to a 'X' and unleashes them, bursting into a blue light and shows her real body with blue aura around her.

Masquerade was surprised about this but continues to beat her as he can. Liberty then does teleportables around him until she does a Super Special Smash against him onto the ground. Just before Liberty was about to finish him off, a Aqua Sapphire came out of the water unexpectedly, which distracts Liberty from defeating Masquerade. Liberty dashes to it, with Masquerade hitting her head, powering down her Unmasked form. Masquerade grabs it until Reggie stops him. He pushes her to the ground, which makes Reggie build a red barrier around him. She was going to use to her Red form but was instead interrupted by unlocking the power of Unmask, also making her glow light blue. Reggie uses the form anyways and immediately defeats Masquerade. This then causes him to lose the Aqua Sapphire and vanishes away. Reggie was starting to get tired and powers down her Unmask form, getting Liberty and the Aqua Sapphire and return back to base.

Episode 3: Elliot
A new member came to join the United Hero Franchise. Her name is Asuka and she's Liberty's older sister. A employee told the main heroes (except Liberty and Reggie) and Asuka that the Red Sapphire is in Redtorium state within the country of Assembled Republics of Cartoonia. They went inside the Herocopter and went to their destination. When they land on the state, Roy and Reggie are glad of how they return to the place they were born, where the entire state is filled with red and pink buildings, red and pink food, pink water and most of all, red and pink-haired people. They found a person who has a Red Sapphire and they chase him, making the person with the sapphire run even faster. They soon catched the person, whose name is Elliot. They tried to get the Red Sapphire but they can't and Jason and Roy was slightly damaged by him. Asuka tries to defeat him but was slightly damaged by Elliot too. Jason, Roy and Asuka gets back up and uses so much of their full potential that they managed to unlock Unmask, glowing light blue. Jason does flashy punches, kicks and headbangs, Asuka uses Rose Rusher to make dozens of pieces of roses around him and Roy ultimately defeats him by smashing him with Liberty's golden hammer.

Soon after that, the 3 powers down. They want to know why exactly Elliot is taking the Red Sapphire. He wanted it so that he can use it to become Nega Elliot against the Villain Federation. Jason told him that they're also getting ready to fight against Negaman and his army while the heroes collect all of the Sapphires, including the red one. Elliot gets back up and the 4 apologizes. Asuka asks Elliot to join the UHF and he agrees. They went back to the Herocopter and flies off to Antoon.

In a cliffhanger, it shows Negaman inside his lifeform lab as he is about to unleash his lifeform creation to reality. The lifeform's name is Violette.

Episode 4: Nikki
A girl who is around the age of 9 named Nikki has made a combot, a mech armor that are around the combat level of her idle Liberty. She then jump inside the mech armor to go and request Liberty to fight her to fulfill herself as a huge fan of her. Jason sees Nikki flying from afar and she landed and greets Jason in front of him. Liberty discovers Nikki, with the latter rushing to want her to fight her, Liberty has no choice but to accept the request and prepares to fight. Nikki then went back inside her mech armor to charge up around Liberty's combat level.

In a blink of an eye, the two clashes out in a mighty battle between a fan and a real hero. Liberty cannot believe how powerful Nikki's mech armor is. Nikki does a powerful Mechanical Blooter to kick Liberty away. The latter then powers up with a sapphire, much to Jason's shock. Liberty becomes Unlimit Liberty, amazing Nikki and the two begin to gain enough energy to continue the fight. Dashing around the air, making noises of fireworks of every blast, the two can't stop as they both are enjoying it until Nikki takes the upper hand and slams Liberty to the ground. This gives Nikki an opportunity to actually win against her idle.

Nikki continues to beat up Liberty until the latter uses Heaven's Eyes to blind Nikki and super Special Smash her out of the way. This stuns Nikki and her mech armor for a limited time, which give Liberty some time to transform into another form. However, this new super form takes place after and before the Unlimit and Ultra super forms. It is called Xideon, granting the user some hazardous abilities with their super moves such as Hex Wires and grants them the magical hair color of seafoam (bright green and teal). Nikki gains attention and powers up in her mech armor with a super form of hers known as Purge, resulting Nikki in a similar fashion to the Xideon form but with the color of shamrock and increasing her strength and speed but lowers her defense. The two were about to begin to fight until 3 energy blasts hit the ground near the UHF. Metal Jason appears with 3 of the other sapphires the main heroes were looking for which are the Orange, Pink and Green Sapphires. Metal Jason uses the sapphires to become Exo Jason, a even more powerful version of Metal Jason.

Jason and Roy, who has been spectating the entire time, decided to jump in and help the two girls fight against Exo Jason.

Episode 5: Metal Jason
Liberty tells Nikki to get away but the latter does not follow as she wants to defeat Metal Jason with her mech armor. Exo Jason starts targeting to Roy first with Nikki trying to get his attention and fight him...

Episode 6: Negaman
There has been some news about Royalopolis being under attack by Negaman and his Nega Minions of the Villain Federation. With no time to waste, the 8 team members went to Royalopolis to save the state. Meanwhile, one of Negaman's ship of the Nega Fleet blasted out cannonballs towards the mega castle's walls where the reign of terror begins. As soon as the fleet hits land, Negaman's minions, dashes to the mega castle with the Royal Kingdom's soldiers fighting against them to not enter. The Mega Nega Ship shoots another cannonball to the host's tower, where Negaman can kidnap Princess Rebecca and Violette can collect the Dark Sapphire.

The 7 heroes made it in the state late, where Negaman has already took the princess and Violette taking the Sapphire. Roy, Rowan and Jason made it up to the Mega Nega Ship while Asuka, Reggie and Elliot fight against Negaman's minions. Jason is aiming for Violette with the Dark Sapphire while Roy and Rowan is aiming for Negaman kidnapping the princess. Roy easily recognizes Negaman as the son of Ironus of how they both share the same 2 horns on their helmets. Negaman threw the princess inside the cage and duels with them in an intense fight anyways with the 3 using Unmask. Negaman manages to unlock it due to his massive hatred against the heroes and he manage to use his full potential with his power. Jason tries to fight with Violette with his Unmask form but was pinched too badly, with Violette hitting Roy and Rowan in the stomach with her steel hat. Violette told Roy to get Liberty ready to face her in the Mega Nega Carrier tomorrow, kicking him off the boat, along with Jason and Rowan. The 3 landed safe in the water with the ships set sailing off to their territory to get prepared for a epic skirmish.

The 3 then meet up with the other 4 again but Roy complains that they took the last Sapphire. Surprisingly, Rowan has the Dark Sapphire while Jason was in pain when Violette pinched her. The team members celebrated and returned to base to train real hard for the epic skirmish.

Episode 7: Violette
Liberty finally gains consciousness and gets a new armor known as the Steel Sailor Costume DX. The 7 heroes are flying to Negaman's Mega Nega Carrier and they soon found it. The cannonballs from the Kaboom Khanon starts to shoot at the main heroes, with Jason, Roy and Liberty getting a bit temper and starts fighting on the deck of the mega ship. They fought dozens of Negaman's minions with Asuka, Rowan, Elliot and Reggie breaking an opening of the carrier with a missile, in which it results more hordes of Negaman's new army, the Nega Soldiers. Asuka, Reggie, Rowan and Elliot were almost doomed until Liberty, Jason and Roy kicking 3 soldiers out of the way. Jason, Roy and Elliot, with their Unmask forms, went on while Reggie and Asuka stays and Liberty uses the Red Sapphire to become Unlimit Liberty. The 4 then fight more and more of the Nega Soldiers with Liberty running towards the host's room where Negaman and the princess is. Violette drops in by hitting Liberty in the stomach again with her steel hat, causing Liberty to lose her Nega form.

Before the epic skirmish begins, Violette freezing Jason, Roy, Rowan and Elliot into ice with Liberty using her Unmask form and taking care of this fight alone against Violette without Asuka and Reggie's help. After that, Violette manages to unlock Unmask by harnessing her superpower too much.

The fight finally begins with Liberty pulling off mass amazing attacks with Violette doing mass destructive attacks. Seconds later, they do a punching scuffle and Liberty kicks her to the floor until Violette does a Rage Blast. Liberty does a 100% Super Special Pound towards Violette but it didn't work until Violette manages to do a Shun Goku Satsu to her. Liberty tries to defend but was still kept getting her butt kicked by her. Violette then uses the frozen Jason to critically damage Liberty up in the air, uses Super Special Arsenal and shoots the sparkly bullets to Liberty, resulting her near death. Violette then steps on Liberty's chest and raises her claws to prepare her final attack.

Unexpectedly, Asuka drops in and punches Violette out the way while Reggie heals Liberty in 100% of health. Soon after that, Violette magically pulls the sapphires out of Liberty, except for the aqua and pink sapphire and transforms herself into Scarlet Violette. Liberty then uses the aqua and pink sapphire to correspond with her Unmask form and turns into Ultra Liberty, a form after the Unlimit form that was used again Ultra. The 2 continues their fight, with Ruby Violette dominating hits to Ultra Liberty until she hits Violette from behind, almost making Violette's Ruby form power down. Ruby Violette then fires destructive bullets out of her hand towards Liberty. Liberty then powers down her Ultra form, giving the 2 sapphires to Asuka and hits Ruby Violette one last time, which then results a complete power down, letting the sapphires fly to Asuka and Reggie's hands. Furious, Violette pulls out her Destructive Rifle Cannons and shoots out dozens and dozens of bullets around the arena, making metal plates land on Liberty, blocking her view.

Liberty then uses all the 7 sapphires to become Xideon Liberty for the first time and dashes outside with a furious Unmask Violette. This then somewhat unfreezes Jason, Roy, Rowan and Elliot and watches Xideon Liberty extremely beat Unmask Violette up in the sky and then into space. Unlimit does a Super Duper Special Blast towards Violette but misses, as Violette unleashes a Mega Energy Fireball towards Earth. Liberty can't let that happen and uses another Super Duper Special Blast but it didn't work until Jason, Roy and Reggie does a Super Special Blast, Elliot doing a Super Special Cannon and Asuka does a Energy Blast towards the energy fireball, causing it to suddenly making it bigger and explode into nothingness.

Liberty flies down with her Unmask form while a raging Unmask Violette chases after her, shooting out more destructive bullets. That wasn't until Liberty uses her penultimate form, Obsidian with Amazon (with a power level of 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10 septillion)), one last time and does one more final Perfect Super Duper Special Smash to her in the floor of the deck of the carrier, which powers down Violette's Unmask form. Soon after Violette weakly gets up, Liberty and her team members celebrates until a magical tattoo appears in Liberty's left hand, resulting a symbol of Violette's hat.

Liberty wants to know why she has this. Violette explains that within unlocking Unmask and you're facing against a lifeform until they're finished, the user will get a symbol as a token of the life form's sake. She then waves goodbye and fades away with sparkly dust flying away in the sky. The team members and Liberty celebrated once again and tells Negaman that they'll be back in their everyday agenda as always, rescues the princess and does a Instant Teleportal back to their base in Antoon.

Everyone from the United Hero Franchise went to Royalopolis to celebrate their victory on the Royal Palace, with Liberty being on her own, looking at everyone until Asuka calls her to come down and enter a beach fighting tournament with a special guest: Jaibrian. She apologizes for her intense jealousy and eventually turned over a new leaf, and Liberty forgives her because that's what friends are for and welcomes her to the United Hero Franchise as a new teammate. The 2 begins to fight with Liberty and Jaibrian rushing towards each other happily and it ends with a Fin.

Unmask (Superpower)
The power Unmask is a superpower that a hero or a villain can obtain by harnessing their full potential with their superpower when clutching their fists together, standing up, with their colored aura bursting out to change to blue/red aura in max power. It can also happen to some users who don't have a superpower so that they need one if they possibly believe in themselves and harnessing their full potential as well. When unlocked, their superpower, abilities and agility will be incredibly enhanced and the user will be quick than their average speed. They can (sometimes) also predict the future and get out the way until they pull off a move against their opponent. The enhancement is eligible enough to fight and possibly defeat a incredibly opponent such as Violette.

It was said that the power was first created and used by a former Super-Antihero named Sunshine, a hero and a villain hybrid. The power level can take up to 10,000,000,000,000.

The Unmask superpower has special ingredients such as belief, encouragement and faith. Belief can unlock the superpower of Unmask for any reason. With encouragement, it can surpass the power of Unmask, granting the user the form of Ace. Ace is more powerful than Unmask and it is around the power level of 15,000,000,000,000,000,000. With faith, the superpower can grant the user the most powerful super form of all time: Optimistic. Optimistic is even more powerful than Unmask and Ace and it is slightly close to being powerful as the Obsidian form. Its power level holds up to 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 and is, without a doubt, one of the most powerful super forms to ever exist.

Sunshine made all these superpowers for those who are in highly risked danger.

Characters
The characters of the series will have almost every veterans and new characters. Here is the list:

Controversy
Despite being a positive show, it has only 1 controversy. The 4th episode of Heroes Unmasked was published into the website of Newgrounds by Cappy himself (aired on May 19th, 2021 (also the debut of Cappy's Newgrounds account)), which is one of the show's inspirations on capturing animated Dragon Ball Z-esque action with dialogue shown, licenced music and barely any voice acting, much like Unmasked 's other inspiration Super Mario Bros. Z. Surprisingly, it received 89 views within a day of the video's first debut but it also received mixed reviews, resulting 3 and a half stars, which is supposedly a moderate video. While most of the reviews are positive, it also have negative reviews too who despised the Gacha Life fanbase of cringe. Cappy didn't know it has 3 and a half stars until May 21st, 2021.

In May 20th, 2021, Cappy made a Instagram post claiming that he is very unlike any other Gacha Life YouTuber who makes videos involving pretty much cringe, lame reaction videos and Tik Tok, while his involves action based on Dragon Ball Z and a animated kids movie. This is mostly why he wanted to be welcome to the Newgrounds community with his videos of action.

Episode Deletion
In May 21st, 2021, the 4th episode of Heroes Unmasked was somehow removed from the browser of Newgrounds by the group of the website, claiming that the episode involves licensed music from Nintendo, Toei, SEGA, etc.. Cappy understands and has deleted the video shortly after he got the note from Newgrounds.

Aftermath
Upon the permanent deletion of the 4th episode of Heroes Unmasked on Newgrounds, Cappy shortly discontinued his account to where he will no longer post his content on it. Though he is planning on deleting his own Newgrounds account.

Trivia

 * During production, Cappy does 2 attempts to make another Heroes animated series after Heroes R. However, it comes off lackluster and uninteresting. So he manage to calm himself down and decided to make a series based on the new main canon game. Fans find this more promising where they constantly demand Cappy to make a animated show of Unmasked than making an entirely new show.
 * Elliot, Asuka, and Rowan are new hero characters in Heroes Unmasked and the series in general. Vantom, Masquerade and Violette are the new villains.