Mike Tyler

Michael “Mike” Tyler/Super Awesome Man
Reader Info
Nicknames	Mike Super Awesome Man (Superhero Identity)
Hero Books	Crying Man (Episode 1-Episode 7, Episode 9-Present) Black Knight (Episode 4-Present) Mummy Girl (Episode 4-Present) Disco Duo (Episode 5-Present) Sylph (Episode 8-Present) Great Finger (Borrowed in Episode 11 Sugar Sugar Pang Pang (Following Episode 11-Present) Mr. Justice (Following Episode 17-Present)
Personal Information
Residence	San Francisco, California
Affiliations	Mike’s Group
Relatives	Tara Tyler (Mother) Unnamed Father
Friends	Nick (Best Friend) Crying Man (Best Friend/Partner) Lucy (Crush)
Enemies	Dirko
Gender	Male
Species	Human (Reader)
Age	13
Production Information
Voiced by	Marc Thompson
First Appearance	Cry for Justice

Michael “Mike” Tyler is the main protagonist of Hero Inside. He's voiced by Marc Thompson.

Personality

Mike is an average 13 year old boy who has a good heart and a strong imagination. When he first summoned Crying Man, he was initially freaked out, but as the series goes on, Mike shows he has the potential to be a real superhero.

Unlike most Readers, who usually misuse their Hero Books for their own personal gain, Mike grows to genuinely want to help people and treats his heroes, especially Crying Man, as friends. He is also shown to be brave, as in Give Me My Gloves he was willing to risk his life to save a woman trapped in her car and chose to help stop the runaway trolley instead of pursuing X.

Mike has also grown to possess a good sense of right and wrong, as he managed to convince Ed that he became no better than the bullies he fought and called out X for her careless behavior and becoming no better than the Readers who misuse their Hero Books, recognizing that Scott made them to help people. He is also swore to Dirko in Villains vs Heroes that he’d always stop him from hurting others.

Physical Appearance

Mike is a 13-year-old white-skinned boy with a freckled face, a big nose, lime green eyes, and semi-short curly dark brown hair.

Hero Books

• Crying Man (Acquired in Cry for Justice-Accidentally Lost in Give Me My Gloves, Reacquired from Lucy in Top of Coit Tower-Present)
• Black Knight (Acquired from Dirko in Jewel of the Nile-Present)
• Mummy Girl (Acquired from Dirko in Jewel of the Nile-Present)
• Disco Duo (Given by Ed in When You Hear That Funky Groove, I'm Coming For You!-Present)
• Sylph (Acquired in Two Smiles-Present)
• Great Finger (Borrowed from Lucy in Villains vs Heroes)
• Sugar Sugar Pang Pang (Acquired from Papa Princess following Villains vs Heroes-Present)
• Toxo (Borrowed from Lucy in Criminals & Chameleon)
• Mr. Justice (Given by Mrs. Cubbenson in Dizzy Donut Clues-Present)
• Super Scott (Acquired from Timo in Battle On The Bridge-Lost to Honey in Battle On The Bridge)

Relationships

• Lucy

Gallery

Mike Tyler

Super Awesome Man

Trivia

• It is heavily implied by Nick in Great GRAVITY that Mike’s dad abandoned him and his mom, though the details aren’t entirely clear, bringing it up greatly angers and upsets Mike.
• Mike is one of the first known Readers capable of summoning and Comicalizing 5 heroes at once, as seen in Villains vs Heroes, but doing so left him very exhausted to the point he collapsed afterward.
• Every time Mike demonstrates an increase in his ability to summon heroes or create a new page/ability, it is always triggered by a threat to Lucy’s (or X’s) safety.
• In Season 2, Mike gains an ability called “Comical Create,” allowing him to temporarily create new pages and powers for his Heroes in place of the Comicalize pages, though it takes up a lot of his energy and the pages revert back afterward.
• According to supplementary material, Mike’s last name is “Tyler.”
• According to the X page of a producer/story artist of Hero Inside, @HeroOutsider:
  • It takes Mike 18 seconds to change into his “Super Awesome Man” suit.
  • Nick cobbled the "Super Awesome Man" suit from various objects he or his parents owned and a couple of other randomly bought things.
• According to @HeroOutside, the police might be interested in teaming up with Super Awesome Man & X, especially since Super Scott is still on the loose, but would do so cautiously
  • The Police estimate Mike's height to be 5.2-5.4 feet (158.4-164.5 cm)
  • The case file for his and Lucy's arrest lists their crimes as: Destroyed City Hall with Hero Books. Ganged up with "The Council of Comics" and formed a Criminal Organization with Two Tone Tony to commit violent crimes.