The Royals

The Royals, also called the Preppies, are a group of recurring antagonists in the Action/Comedy webcomic series Team Season With Superpsion. They are a social clique at Snowy Heights High School, and consist of a short brown-haired boy named Norman Finley, a tall and somewhat brutish red-headed boy named Devin Wright, a black boy by the name of James Hyde, (who happens to be the "evil" twin brother of the much more likable Steven Hyde, or Steve-O, but eventually redeems himself and leaves the Royals after deciding they are a bad influence) and "Alpha Bully" Christian Forrest, a short platinum-blond-haired boy who somewhat resembles Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter series. The Royals are major enemies of Team Season, and are an homage to the Plastics from the Mean Girls movie.

The Royals are a group of wealthy, spoiled, arrogant, cruel and manipulative bullies who rule over SHHS with an iron fist, forcing all they deem inferior to follow unfair rules for their own benefit. Because Christian Forrest's family controls many of the major businesses in Vertvale City, he and his group are able to threaten anyone who stands up to them with their families becoming unemployed, and as a result usually get their way. However, Team Season, along with Team Holliday, Superpsion and Event Horizon always refuse to submit to them, leading to a grudge by the Royals against Team Season, particularly their captain, Eclipse. Despite the fact that their actions are a far cry from those taken by the other villains of the series, the Royals are still considered to be antagonistic characters, although they serve as comic relief villains rather than true antagonists

The Royals first appear in issue 12 of the series, titled "Too School for Cool". In this episode, Team Season travels to SHHS with information that a ghost is hiding there. To smoke out and then destroy said ghost, Team Season goes undercover, passing as students. After meeting Mike Ashton, Eclipse and the team learn of the Royals, their reputation, and their cruelty towards "lesser" students, and Eclipse's sister Equinox is instantly lovestruck. After Christian threatens to lock an innocent student in the freezer for not staying out of the Royals' way, Eclipse takes matters into her own hands and intervenes. Christian attempts to threaten her as well, but Eclipse is less susceptible to threats and fear, and as a result easily incapacitates him with a kick to the testicles that apparently causes bleeding. Though Christian leaves without a punishment, and Eclipse gets eight hours of detention, his defeat at her hands reveals his true colors as a coward, a cheater, and a spoiled brat who only gets his way through bullying and manipulation. This proves to be damaging to the Royals' reputation and social status as a clique, leading Christian to have a massive grudge against Team Season.

After being possessed by the ghost Team Season came to destroy, Christian Forrest and his clique are left stunned in the presence of Equinox, with the events that follow being unknown.