A Bionic Eight Proposal

The Bionic Six aren’t going to have a reboot until the 2020s comes to a close. 

For its impending 40th anniversary, there can be a continuity reboot series where the Bionic Six are now the Bionic Eight due to clearly adding two more women, a mixed Portuguese-Hawaiian and a Navajo, onto the mix. 

The surname and ethnicities of Jack Bennett and his two children are revised to reflect the changing times. Not only will they be Jack, Eric and Megan Butala, they’re also of a multicultural background (mixed Croatian-Konkani American and Croatian-Irish-Konkani American). Jack is a mixed Croatian-Konkani American with an Indian mother of Konkani descent and a Croatian father. His children Eric and Megan are from a Croatian-Irish-Indian Konkani background, with the latter having a blonde ponytail while still being a tomboy. Helen Bennett is most likely an Irish American who will be Hella Harnett with a ginger bobbed hairstyle. 

James Dwight Corey will be Jack’s office friend rather than his adopted son like in the original. Bunjiro Tsukahara will be Benkei Tsukahara, James’s martial arts nut of a fosterling whose scientist birth parents left the world when he was a baby. Two friends of Hella and Dwight, named Lucy Da Silva and Evangeline Nez, will join the team sometime afterward.   

The main scientists supporting them are Amadeus Chong and Max Sharp, two middle aged straight allies whose former boss unceremoniously left them behind. Not to mention that said older female boss frequently experiments upon another unlucky scientist named BeeNuts, aka Wilmer Boon, who turns out to be a surviving victim of her criminally serial assaults. 

BeeNuts himself enjoys his company with fellow members of a more cooperative and benign rogues gallery unlike in the original. They’re also a team of peer aged antagonists in a safe space. Ben Glove, Sandy Kwok Ing Hoo, Mechanic Chris Bentley and Chopper Ricci are the fellas’ names. Scarabina Chlumsky and Shadow Boxer can come back, albeit with the former being Hella’s frankly overworked Czech American boss and not being a clone like in the original. Shadow Boxer’s story is thankfully different from her’s, as if in a mostly intact condition. As his backstory implies, he is a pragmatically disgraced boxing champion who has left behind his messed up profession, partly due to how obvious its corruption has become. 

Perceptor and Kaleidoscope are also returning, albeit with some changes. Perceptor, aka Peter Wilcox, is a very estranged cousin of Chris Bentley who has gone blind, partly due to both of them being subjected to their male boss’s serial assaults for quite a while. As one of Amadeus Chong’s former regular friends, Perceptor often feels uncomfortable about being objectified by said (also straight, mind you) boss and will slowly be free again not only for his safety, but also due to his cautiously positive view on human rights. 

Kaleidoscope, aka Harlan Nails, is a woods based bigender technologist who has mentored Amadeus Chong and Max Sharp, two gay men who in turn have had to send him out into the woods. Their somewhat justified worries are due to his mental health differences getting so obvious that he turned into a mad scientist with crazy inventions, at least for the best. Thanks to carefully studying local woodland animals for twenty one years, he has become a rather kooky Beastman of a blessing in disguise, who lives in a mobile house named the MULES-mobile. 

Also unlike in the original, there are four animal-robot characters. One is a gorilla type bodyguard named Gary, who will simply be a renamed Classic Fluffi. Otherwise, the other three are a Bigfoot martial arts nut named Bruce, a SheepSquatch wrestler named Sam and a Catgirl spy named Fluffi. They live in their creator’s cargo jet lab named Air Dancer, which also stores two of the team’s vehicles. 

Jack’s late parents are military veterans Oliver Butala and Satya Katkar, who rescued Air Dancer the cargo jet from decay and turned it into a flying lab, where both a quad car and a dirt bike also live in. Other vehicles include BeeNuts’ seagull robot SkyRat and the SpyPond, a big duck-winged robot which also does a lot of mapping.