Phoebe Monica Rachel Thunderman is the main protagonist and one of the main characters of the original series, The Thundermans and its spin-off series, The Thundermans: Undercover.
She is a superhero whose superpowers include Telekinesis, Heat Breath and Freeze Breath. Her superhero name is Thunder Girl. Like the rest of her family, Phoebe has superpowers and has trained to become a superhero. She is currently a co-commander of an elite team of superheroes, the T-Force, with Max.
Phoebe was born and raised in Metroburg when their parents were still active superheroes and used to attend SASS. After Hank and Barb retired from being superheroes, The Thundermans moved to Hiddenville to live a normal life.
In Hiddenville, Phoebe went to Hiddenville High with Max. At the school, Phoebe made her first friend, Cherry Seinfeld who is still her best friend. At first, the friendship was a challenge because Phoebe had to lie to her best friend to keep the family's superpowers a secret.
Phoebe also made other friends like Sarah and Ashley through Sarah's group of smart students after joining them for Math Bowl in Report Card. Phoebe was a perfect match for the group because she was already one of the smartest students. However, at the same time, she still struggled to fit in with the popular girls. One of the popular girls, Veronica, attacked her with spitballs during choir solo auditions. Madison became Phoebe's enemy after making Phoebe fail cheerleader tryouts and trying to humiliate Cherry. Any attempt to become friends with Winnie Lee ended up in humiliation until Phoebe stopped trying. By the junior year, she managed to become friends with one of the cheerleaders, Maddy and her friend Roxy. However, Cherry remains to be Phoebe's best friends.
Since joining the school, Phoebe has been very involved in most school activities. She was the captain of the Math Bowl in Report Card. She ran for class president in You Stole My Thunder, Man but she ended up losing it to Max. She tried for school choir in Pretty Little Choirs but Veronica attacked her with spitballs. She helped organize school dance in The Amazing Rat Race and the junior prom in Thundermans: Secret Revealed. However, her school life hasn't been smooth because she often finds herself in trouble with Principal Bradford who hates both Phoebe and Max.
Phoebe showed her desire to train and become a superhero and her dad offered to train her. In Thunder Van, she started training to join the Hero University but after she had Max messed up in the Thunder Van, she decided to take it slow. However, by Cape Fear, she realized that she needed to put more effort in training after her best friend from Metroburg got her Superhero Cape. Unfortunately, she ruined her chances when she sneaked to a rooftop party and used telekinesis to save someone from falling. She let Max take the credit so that she doesn't get in trouble. Max blew up the chance for both of them to get the superhero cape.
Phoebe vs King Crab
Phoebe didn't give up on getting the superhero cape. In A Hero Is Born, Phoebe exposed the family's secret to her best friend Cherry so that Cherry can babysit Chloe while Phoebe saves Max from the evil villains led by King Crab. As a reward for saving Max, the Hero League awarded Phoebe a superhero cape.
In Phoebe vs. Max: The Sequel, Phoebe officially started her training to become a superhero. The Hero League assigned her to become the protector of Hiddenville as part of her training. Since Hiddenville doesn't have a lot of criminals, she made a deal with Max so that Max will keep committing crimes while Phoebe practices to stop him.
In Evil Never Sleeps the Hero League tested Phoebe's ability to make the right decisions as a superhero by having her choose between saving the world and turning over her boyfriend's dad, Mike Evilman. It was a tough choice for Phoebe but eventually, she chose to report Evilman even if that means breaking up with Link. She passed the test.
Tech Rider with Phoebe
The next step of Superhero training, the Hero League asked Phoebe to choose a superhero mentor in No Country for Old Mentors. With Max's help, she got Tech Rider as her mentor but he turned out to be reckless. So, she finally chose Thunder Man to be her mentor.
In I'm Gonna Forget You, Sucka, Phoebe confronts the Hero League for kidnapping and trying to erase Cherry's memory. President Kickbutt later revealed that they only wanted to erase the phone memory.
Phoebe and Max in their former superhero school
In Back To School, the Hero League discovered that Phoebe hadn't taken her fifth-grade power-assessment test. So, President Kickbutt forced her and Max to go back to Secret Academy of Superpower Studies in order to take the test, or else Phoebe would not qualify to become a superhero.
Phoebe convincing Max to not take her powers
Phoebe was exposed as Thundergirl in the special, Thundermans: Secret Revealed. Dark Mayhem and his associates go after Thundergirl after she was revealed and wanted to use Max to take Phoebe's powers. When Phoebe is confronted by Dark Mayhem, Phoebe gives an emotional speech to convince Max to turn against Dark Mayhem. Max restores his family's superpowers and goes against Dark Mayhem. Phoebe and Max work together together to defeat Dark Mayhem, with the help of Chloe's using Super Strength to drop a pillar on Dark Mayhem.
In Season 4, she and Max fight crime together, after he becomes good, in the special. Phoebe also have to deal with the fame with all her friends after everyone found out about her being, Thundergirl.
In Thundermans: Banished!, Phoebe started training Max to become a good superhero like her. She also got nominated for a chance to join the legendary Z-Force, an elite team of superheroes. This got her distracted from training competition between her and Max. After the Thundermans are banished from Hiddenville by the Hero League, Phoebe and her brother risk everything to come back to Hiddenville and save the city. In the end, both she and Max are nominated for the potential spot on the Z-Force.
Z-Force sending a message
Since getting the opportunity to join Z-Force came up, Phoebe has been training vigorously with her twin brother, Max, in order to qualify for the Z-Force slot. In Smells Like Team Spirit, she was worried that Max might mess up and ruin their chances of joining the Z-Force but eventually, the Thunder Twins learn to work together. In Max to the Future, she submitted her skills to Z-Force for the team, but Max wanted her to submit at least one of his skills: gadgets. She eventually realized that Max's gadgets do actually work and therefore included them as part of their team's special skills.
Phoebe as Cherry and Cherry as Phoebe
Phoebe suffered a neck injury in May Z-Force Be With You when Principal Bradford accidentally hit her during ping pong, causing Phoebe to fall off the staircase. Unfortunately, this happened just before an important Z-Force interview which would advance the Thunder Twins to the final stage of the recruitment process. While Phoebe was on full body cast, she trained Cherry to pretend to be her for the interview and it worked.
In The Thunder Games, Phoebe and Max found out they made the Z-Force championships. After making it to the final, Dirk Trumbo decides to make Phoebe and Max go against each other because they did not a twin power and two supes with the same powers isn't needed. Neither Max nor Phoebe wants to fight the other when the head of the Z-Force tells them that only one of them can make it. Phoebe fakes injury on purpose and lets Max win the Z-Force spot.
When Phoebe returns home, she finds Balfour captured her family as revenge for what the Thundermans did to Dr. Colosso. Balfour nanochips her and is forced to play his games. Balfour sets up a cage in Max's Lair to fry the Thundermans' brain. When Max tries to stop him, he is nano-chipped and has to join the Thundermans in the cage. Before Balfour fries the Thundermans' brains, they hold hands and Phoebe and Max discover their twin power of EMP Generation and use it to break out of the cage and knocking out Balfour.
President Kickbutt fires Dirk Trumbo for his arrogrance by not helping Max when his family was captured. She made Phoebe and Max the new commanders of the Z-Force. Phoebe and Max invite their family to join them so they could fight crime as a family. As the new commander of the Z-Force, Phoebe changes the name to T-Force, the T standing for Thundermans. The T-Force get their first mission to stop a villain named Brain Puncher.
In Come What Mayhem, Phoebe faces a pivotal moment when she decides to absorb Dark Mayhem's evil powers to prevent a stink bomb planted by Max from disrupting the 75th Supe Awards. Although Max warns her that using these powers could corrupt her, Phoebe feels compelled to take action to save their Z-Force aspirations. Despite Max creating a gadget that could have disabled the bomb using lemon's electro-plasma energy, Phoebe acts on her determination, ultimately succeeding in stopping the stink bomb but also risking the influence of Dark Mayhem's malevolent powers.
When Phoebe tries to return the superpowers to the orb, the powers fail to get back in. The powers instead turn Phoebe evil, making her eyes glow red.
In Thunder in Paradise, Phoebe starts having nightmares where she's evil and using her evil Dark Mayhem's powers for evil. She tries to talk to Max about it but Max is still mad at her. To make things worse, the evil powers start taking control over her, making her do things involuntarily like pouring pancake syrup on Max's head.
Phoebe at Dark Mayhem's cell
Out of options, Phoebe goes to the Metroburg Superjail to ask Dark Mayhem how she could get rid of the evil powers, but Dark Mayhem tells her to embrace the powers and complete his plans of taking over the world and get revenge on all superheroes. He tells her that she will find everything she needs at a cave at the bottom of the Weeping Volcano in Hawaii. Phoebe tells Dark Mayhem that she will never be as evil as him. She will be eviler. Her eyes glow as her hair develops red highlights, turning her fully evil.
On returning home, Phoebe asks Chloe to teleport her to Hawaii, but the family overhears and decides to go on vacation together. While there, Phoebe distracts her family to sneak away to a cave, where she endangers Billy and later finds the android Destructo, who reveals Dark Mayhem's plan to unleash Malvexium and strip heroes of their powers. Excited by the idea, Phoebe agrees to help Destructo, but when her siblings try to stop her, she overpowers them, breaks Dark Mayhem's Orb, and seals the cave's entrance behind her.
Evil Phoebe's supervillain super suit
In Dark Mayhem's volcanic lair, Phoebe finds Destructo's body but decides to wait for the masterplan's completion before attaching him. Destructo, showing her the Villain Changing Beam, gives her a new evil costume that she loves. As they prepare to lower Malvexium into the boiling lava, they are interrupted by Max and her family, whom Phoebe overpowers and traps under Dark Mayhem's force field. With her family helpless, Phoebe pours Malvexium into the lava, triggering a countdown for an impending volcanic eruption.
Evil Phoebe defeated
Max manages to get the pieces of the broken orb to function. With help of Barb's Electrokinesis, they power the orb which absorbs the force field and Dark Mayhem's evil powers from Phoebe. Phoebe feels sorry for everything she did. But it's almost too late because the volcano is about to erupt and Destructo has figured out a way to attach his head to his body. Now he wants to complete the plan. Hank takes care of Destructo while Phoebe tries to stop the volcano from erupting. Phoebe, feeling guilty, asks Max to lower her down to the boiling lava so that she can use her freeze breath to freeze the lava. It works just the last minute.
Phoebe thanks Max for standing by her side and saving her.
3 years after being a co-commander of the T-Force with Max, the T-Force are on a mission in Metroburg to stop incoming meteors. After another successful mission, the T-Force go to their headquarters to have a mission review session set up by Phoebe. The T-Force get an alert in the crime lab that Blue Flame is robbing a bank and as a leader of the T-Force, she instructs them to suit up even though Bank and Hank wanted them to have their family night.
At the Metroburg Bank, Phoebe and Max get the T-Force to block available exits. The V-Team also arrive to stop Blue Flame. They both try and stop Blue Flame but accidentally gets She-Crab injured by Nora's lasers hitting Max's jetpack which causes him to knock over the giant metal donut which lands on She-Crab. Dark Mayhem Jr. hits the Blue Flame with his plasma blast which knocks him out.
Phoebe and Cherry at Splatburger
The T-Force are decommissioned for injuring a "supposed" supe by President Kickbutt and are sent back to their home in Hiddenville. Phoebe meets up with Cherry at Splatburger and temporarily works their so she had something to do since the T-Force were fired.
Phoebe and Max are determined to get their superhero status back and figure out that the V-Team are villains. They wanted to expose them to President Kickbutt so that they can get their team back. They go back to the T-Force Headquarters, where the V-Team are looking for the Power Plant but they are noticed and tied up. The V-Team goes to Hiddenville to get it from Hank himself after Phoebe and Max have no idea what the Power Plant is and bring Phoebe and Max to the Mayhem Cafe, which is Dark Mayhem's old lair dedicated to his hatred of the Thundermans with a pre-recorded guide for Phoebe and Max to inflict torture on them.
Phoebe thanking her parents
Phoebe and Max try use their superpowers of Freeze Breath, Heat Breath and their twin power, EMP Generation but were stuck in a booth set up by Dark Mayhem to fill the booth up with liquid mercury as revenge. Phoebe and Max manage to break out of the booth but were still stuck in Dark Mayhem's lair that was going to self-destruct. Chloe teleports the rest of the Thundermans to the lair and Hank punches the keypad which stopped the lair from self-destructing.
Phoebe and Max against Dark Mayhem
The Thundermans figure out that the V-Team went to Mount Metroburg to use a large drone to spread, red-powered seeds so Chloe teleports them all there to stop them. On Mount Metroburg, the Thundermans find the V-Team, with their fathers, Dark Mayhem, Strongdor and King Crab and fight with the villains. Phoebe fights Dark Mayhem Jr. using her powers and hand-to-hand combat and causes him to slip of the cliff but still hanging on. Phoebe helped Max by freezing him in ice. After a hard battle with the villains, the Thundermans thought they took care of everyone but Dark Mayhem Jr. climbs up the cliff and presses the button allowing the drone to spread evil, red-powered seeds in the sky. Chloe offered to help by teleporting with Phoebe and Max on the drone so they could use Telekinesis to remove the seed container. Before the drone explodes, Chloe teleports all of them back to Mt. Metroburg and they give the seed container back to Hank.
At The Thundermans' Home, President Kickbutt offers them their jobs back since the V-Team were not actual superheroes which they accept and make their home in Hiddenville their new headquarters. Phoebe and Max freeze Mrs. Wong, Bradford, Cherry, Oyster and Gideon outside their backyard for still having superpowers so they could deal with removing them after their family night.
In Thundercover, Phoebe and Max are given a mission to go undercover in Secret Shores by President Kickbutt to find out where evil transmissions are coming from in their Hi-Tech Beach Home. Phoebe and Max originally took Chloe along to help her make friends who don't know she is a superhero. Phoebe and Max find out Dr. Colosso was receiving evil transmissions from Malware so they stop him with the help from Chloe. President Kickbutt contacts them that their mission is only beginning when the Mastermind plans on having a new Villain League to take over Secret Shores and the world.
In Bummer School, Phoebe gets given a cover job by Max as an art teacher at Secret Shores School while he is the vice principal. Phoebe finds out that Max made her a bad resume on purpose with Principal Taylor. Phoebe and Max continue pranking each other and accidentally break Chloe, Booch and Jinx's narwhal head. Dr. Colosso makes them a new one in exchange for new shorts by Max and the twins realize that their fighting affects Chloe now that they are guardians.
Personality
Phoebe Thunderman is very pretty and friendly, unless you catch her with her twin brother, Max. She is very smart and is willing to take the chance of living a double life (as a normal student and a superhero). Also, being a superhero and living a regular life does not stop her either. She still works to accomplish everything she can. She exceeds her best friend, Cherry Seinfeld, and tries to do everything in an orderly fashion.
Phoebe Thunderman may look like your average girl next door, but her superpowers will make you think the opposite! But that doesn't stop her from trying to fit in. She's a responsible, straight-A student who tries to play by the "no-powers" rule... unless her aspiring villain and twin brother Max forces her to do otherwise!
Phoebe is an intellectual. She loves math and is a tad bit nerdy. She’s tried to navigate having a social life, dealt with boys she had crushes on, friends, and hiding her superpowers, including freeze breath, telekinesis, and other fun stuff.
After her brother decided to become a superhero, Phoebe and Max started to get along. This is shown in The Thunder Games, where she let her brother win. She was also very touched that he quit Z-Force to come back and save her and their family from The Gamer, and that lead to she and Max’s twin power being featured, which defeated The Gamer. Thanks to her brother’s actions, Dirk Trumbo was fired for his selfishness and replaced by the Thundermans.
Relationships
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Phoebe and Max is the twin / frenemy pairing of Phoebe and Max Thunderman. They are the first-born twins of Barb and Hank Thunderman and elder siblings of Nora, Billy and Chloe Thunderman.
They usually don't get along but despite their annoyances with each other, they stick up for each other when they need each other the most.
Phoebe and Cherry is the friendship pairing between Phoebe Thunderman and Cherry Seinfeld. They have gone through a lot together and they always have each other's back.
Cherry and Phoebe hang out a lot and do things together. Phoebe hated keeping her secret away from Cherry because she's her best friend. To save their friendship, Phoebe told Cherry her secret.
Phoebe and Link is the romantic pairing of Phoebe Thunderman and Link Evilman. They remain good friends despite breaking up due to Link moving to be a superhero in Hong Kong.
Link and Phoebe both had powers and Link and Phoebe meet in Meet the Evilmans and began dating. They broke up in Give Me a Break Up when Link moves to Hong Kong to be a superhero.
Telekinesis: Phoebe possesses telekinetic abilities, similar to her brother, allowing her to move objects with her mind. The full extent of her powers remains unknown, though she has demonstrated the ability to manipulate multiple objects simultaneously, with the current record being three. This power manifests through her hands, enabling her to exert control over various phenomena, including manipulating waves and stopping motion.
Telekinetic Blast: Like her brother, she can create blasts of telekinetic energy. These blasts are strong enough to destroy objects.
Semi-Force Field Generation: In Haunted Thundermans, when possessed by the Green Ghoul, Phoebe was capable of blasting telekinetic multiple telekinetic waves at once to stop Max from attacking her.
Telekinetic Maneuver: In Evil Never Sleeps and various other episodes, Phoebe was capable of redirecting the path of a suitcase with ease and manipulating the direction of an object.
Binding: In Give Me a Break Up, Phoebe was able to stop a boomerang from hitting Cherry by freezing it in suspended animation.
Telekinetic Combustion/Explosion: When manipulating an object with Max, a common effect is telekinetic combustion where the object explodes and/or breaks into multiple pieces. This was seen in Weird Science Fair.
Motor-Skill Manipulation: In Breaking Dad, Phoebe and Max were capable of manipulating the movement of Hank during the time he was in deep sleep. With this, they were capable of moving his arms, legs, and etc. to achieve effects of Hank being awake while he was really sleeping.
Levitation: Phoebe can remotely levitate other people or objects in the air. While being under the possession of the Green Ghoul, Phoebe could levitate herself in the air and sustain it as if she had flight. This was also used various times as an advantage to increase her physical jumping abilities as shown during The Thunder Games in her fight with Max.
Freeze Breath: Able to breath pure cold like Max, which she can use to freeze people in ice. It apparently has no long terms effects. She can also use this to make snow. It is also revealed to also work on ghosts. (Haunted Thundermans). According to Phoebe, if Phoebe and Max's ice breaths touch, they could freeze a whole city.
Stone Transformation: In Haunted Thundermans, Phoebe and Max turned the Green Ghoul into stone.
Ice Ball Projection: In Haunted Thundermans, Phoebe was capable of creating Ice Sphere Projectiles when under the possession of the Green Ghoul.
Heat Breath: Phoebe possesses the ability to exhale blasts of intense heat, similar to her brother Max. This fiery breath can be used for various purposes, such as thawing individuals who have been frozen or heating objects to high temperatures.
Phoebe possessed by the Green Ghoul
Fire Ball Projection: In Haunted Thundermans, Phoebe was capable of creating Fire Sphere Projectiles when under the possession of the Green Ghoul.
Thundersense: Like her brother, Phoebe gains the ability to sense danger before it occurs. However, it is not always specific enough to tell what the danger is. She gained this ability before her brother did. (Thundersense).
EMP Generation (via Twin Power): When Phoebe and Max hold hands, they generate energy in their hands. It can power through a chip design to stop them using powers, create a massive explosion with a punch, and short circuit electric devices as shown in The Thunder Games.
Powers Given by Orb
By in taking Dark Mayhem‘s powers, Phoebe was capable of using his evil abilities, allowing her to complete various feats. The color of her powers was red compared to green with Dark Mayhem. She also had red highlights on her hair while she had his powers. These powers were removed at the end of Thunder in Paradise, though.
Ergokinesis: By using the power-sapping orb, Phoebe obtained Dark Mayhem's ability to easily manipulate and generate energy (as well as manipulating other forms of energy like fire, electricity, plasma, and electromagnetism in conjunction with ergokinesis to shoot at random targets in her evil dreams). This energy manifests in a greenish color with a green energy aura around her hand and can be used to destroy, push, and even disintegrate her targets. This is the first ability displayed by Phoebe and she use it multiple times as her main offensive system.
Destruction/Disintegration: With the help of Dark Mayhem’s powers, Phoebe is capable of destroying and inducing disintegrating on any object that her energy touches. She first used this ability in Come What Mayhem when she destroyed Max’s stink bomb which was made of Thundertanium, the strongest metal on earth.
Electrokinesis: Phoebe was seen using electrokinesis in conjunction with ergokinesis to shoot at random targets in her evil dreams.
Laser Vision/Heat Vision: Although Phoebe never actively used this ability to attack people, it is seen multiple times, that Phoebe's eyes glowed red which she used to imitate Max if he didn't back off.
Phoebe using force field imprisonment
Force Field Generation: By using the power-sapping orb, Phoebe is also capable of generating force fields, that are capable of protecting herself and trapping others, with ease. Unlike Dark Mayhem's, this energy manifest in red color, instead of green.
Force-Field Imprisonment: Phoebe can also shrink her force-field down as a force field like projectile to use it offensively and defensively as she did when she first used this ability to trap her family in a force field to keep them from getting out.
Abilities
Genius Intellect: Like her brother, Phoebe has super intelligence. She is able to do tasks such as hack her brother's computer system and is also very good at average school subjects, particularly math.
Photographic Memory: Phoebe has a photographic memory that allows her to remember information or visual images in great detail even after seeing it for a very short time. This was first revealed in Smells Like Team Spirit. This was later mentioned again and used in Max to the Future when she searches the trash to find Max's CrimeCaster.
Acrobatics: In Thundermans: Secret Revealed, Phoebe did flips and backflips and cartwheels all over the place. This makes her very agile and flexible which serves her well in hand-to-hand-combat. She later demonstrated this in Max to the Future, when she slid into Max's Lair through the swirly slide, doing flips on his bed and landing on her feet.
Indomitable Will: In The Haunted Thundermans, Phoebe showed some resistance against the Green Ghoul when he possessed her.
Master Martial Artist: In Thundermans: Secret Revealed and various other episodes, Phoebe could take on Dark Mayhem and her brother Max with using nothing but her physical prowess. Like Max she is skilled in landing equal blows on the opponents and also skilled in using anything as a weapon as in Exit Stage Theft she and Max used junk to take down 3 bad girls. In the final The Thunder Games, she and Max were equally match until Max gained the upper hand, but it revealed Phoebe lost on purpose.
Expert Bo-Staff Combatant: In Max to the Future, one of the skills she listed on her Z-Force application and was capable of actually doing was using a bo-staff. She used this against one of the criminals who was smuggling gold.
Multilingualism: Phoebe is shown to speak several languages. In Max to the Future, one of the skills she listed on her Z-Force application was Japanese Conversation. In Looperheroes, Phoebe learned how to speak German to understand Wolfgang.
Alternate Versions of Phoebe
For a list of alternate versions of Phoebe, click here.
She has been possessed by supervillains, including Dark Mayhem - only his powers took control of Phoebe - and the Green Ghoul.
She likes sheep.
She loves using metal detectors whenever she goes to the beaches.
She can dance extremely well.
In Blue Detective, she was temporarily turned blue because of Max.
Phoebe can male googly eyes.
On picture day, Max was going to pour chili all over Phoebe but instead used cheese and chocolate.
Phoebe sneaks' vitamins into Max's pizzas.
She is a big fan of "MKTO" music band.
She and Max have Thundersense.
Although, Phoebe's Thundersense was activated before Max.
She can also be cocky at times.
Phoebe and Max are both allergic to cats.
She and Max are scared of Thunderman: The Ride.
Phoebe at times uses TK as her superhero short form for Telekinesis.
Along with Max, Phoebe's thundredth save was using telekinesis to catch one of Chloe's ice cream double ice cream scoops.
She got jealous when Chloe said Max was her favorite sibling.
According to Bradford, Phoebe hardly ever leaves school.
Phoebe was the first of the Thunderkids to try and give up becoming a superhero in the episode "Thundersense".
Phoebe loves musicals.
Phoebe can play the pan flute.
On Danger & Thunder, Phoebe along with Max are the only ones who makes a special guest appearance to help Captain Man and Kid Danger taking down The Toddler and his goons.
She and Max aren't the first to be the only two characters from one show coinciding with another one. Joey and Parker from "Liv and Maddie" did it in "Jessie" and Riley and Lucas from "Girl Meets World' did it in "Best Friends Whenever".
