Commander Costly is obsessed with proving that faltering laser-scanning systems, which rely on 20-year-old technology and often require human intervention, are as good as Cognex vision. He will lie, cheat, steal and dupe anyone to achieve his twisted ends.

Defecter is a malevolent jokester whose greatest pleasure is to cause manufacturing defects. To her, any quality control effort is wasted effort. She loves causing the touchscreens on smartphones to be off-kilter and enjoys producing misprints on the touch panels of microwave ovens.

Little Miss Take bends, folds, spindles and mutilates the packaging of consumer products so that medication for erectile dysfunction ends up in birth control pill packs. Now that’s a hard pill to swallow!

Smashing products is The Mangler's game. When golf balls end up bouncing on the production floor instead of being in their packages, blame The Mangler. And it’s also his handiwork when the contents of overfilled potato chip bags are crushed into dust.

The Flaw is a human magnet for detritus that turns first-quality materials into scrap. His micro-fragmenting armor introduces cracks, tears, bubbles and other imperfections onto the surfaces of plastic, paper and steel, rendering them useless.