Theodore Roachmont, better known as “The Roach,” is the green member of the Supernoobs and easily the most chaotic.
He is the feral, sweet, weirdly articulate kid who would rather punch a Virus monster than think a plan through. If the team has a heart and a wrecking ball rolled into one, it is Roach.
People sometimes assume the messy-haired kid must be the dumb one, but Theodore Roachmont is more interesting than that.
- He is clueless and brilliant in the same breath, and he brings a wild energy the rest of the Noobs would be boring without.
Full name: Theodore “The Roach” Roachmont
Team: The Supernoobs (wielder of the green Battle Ball)
Role: The muscle, the wild card, the heart
Powers: Flight and super strength via giant “rocket fists”
Voiced by: Lee Tockar
Known for: Wild antics, a huge vocabulary, and crushes on older women
You can stream every episode of Supernoobs on Prime Video and Apple TV, so it is easy to catch Roach in action.
Who Is Theodore Roachmont?
Roach is one of the four kids at the center of Supernoobs, the show about middle schoolers who get handed alien Battle Balls and drafted to fight a planet-eating Virus. Alongside Tyler, Kevin, and Shope, Roach has to juggle saving Earth with surviving Cornbury Middle School.
He is the green Noob, and physically he is hard to miss. Roach is chubby and fair-skinned, with a mop of curly ginger hair that hangs over his eyes and a face full of freckles. He usually wears an orange turtleneck, brown pants, and navy sneakers. His hair is basically a junk drawer, since random objects tend to get lost in it.
The Green Noob and the Team’s Muscle
Let me clear up a common mix-up. Roach is not the team’s tech brain or its strategist. That job belongs to Shope. Roach is the muscle, the tank, the one you send in when something needs to get hit very hard.
He knows his role, too. Both the Noobs and the villain Count Venamus describe Roach as the “Big Toe” that holds up their metaphorical foot. He is not there to plan the battle. He is there to win the fight, then probably eat something weird afterward.
Roach’s Personality
Roach is the wild one, plain and simple. He is feral, he has zero manners, and he charges into things without a second thought. Underneath the chaos, though, he is the most innocent and least selfish Noob on the team.
That good heart comes with a catch. Being so trusting makes Roach the easiest of the group to fool, and he gets taken advantage of a lot. A few things that make him tick:
- He has a surprisingly huge vocabulary and is often the most articulate kid in the room, which nobody expects from him.
- A hopeless flirt, he keeps hitting on older women: the alien computer XR4Ti, his school play director, and even a space princess.
- Ketchup and mustard scare him for real, a phobia the show reveals in “Spooker Noobs.”
Roach’s Powers and Battle Ball
Roach’s power comes from his green Battle Ball, the alien orb that turned four normal kids into warriors. When he powers up, his red hair flips to bright green, which is the easiest way to spot a Noob in battle mode.
His toolkit is built for smashing:
- Super strength: He enlarges his fists into giant “rocket fists” to hit like a truck.
- Flight: Standard-issue Noob mobility.
- Elasticity: He can stretch and manipulate his body, and even pop his own arms off.
- Intelligent Mode: A rare setting where the goofball briefly becomes a genius.
For all his cluelessness, Roach gets one huge win: he is the one who figures out that the four Battle Balls can combine into a vehicle. Sometimes the wild kid has the best idea in the room.
Fan talking point: Is Roach secretly the smartest Noob? Fans love pointing out that he has the biggest vocabulary on the team and an actual “Intelligent Mode” power, which hints there is a genius buried under the feral hair. Many also note how much he resembles Fred from Big Hero 6, another goofy, rich-kid hero who is smarter than he looks.
Roach and the Supernoobs Squad
Roach’s bonds with the rest of the team say a lot about him:
- Tyler Bowman: The blue-Ball leader. Roach respects him and follows his lead, even when he does not fully get the plan.
- Kevin Reynolds: His partner in mischief. They cause chaos together, though Kevin often takes advantage of Roach’s trusting nature.
- Jennifer Shope: The genius of the group. Roach’s antics drive her up the wall, but there is real respect underneath.
Fun bit of backstory: Roach was an outcast who got bullied for years. Tyler and Kevin became his friends after they stood up for him, and that loyalty is why he sticks so tight to the group.
Roach’s Other Relationships
Beyond the core four, Roach keeps things lively:
- Memnock and Zenblock: The dragon-like aliens who trained the Noobs. Roach has the best rapport with them, and Memnock happily joins his break-dancing and goofing off.
- XR4Ti: A talking alien computer and Roach’s biggest crush, no matter how many times she brushes him off.
- Princess Parsa: An alien princess he proposed to in “License to Noob.” She turned him down for being way too young.
- Jock Jockerson: The school bully. Roach clashes with him but is never scared to stand up to him.
Quick Roach facts: He is the shortest Noob and, per his Teletoon profile, a year younger than the rest. He comes from a well-off family. His hair regularly hides random lost objects. And the show itself comes from Scott Fellows, the creator of Johnny Test and Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide.
Tyler’s take: Roach is the character I would have loved as a kid and appreciate even more now. He is the friend who is loyal to a fault, weird on purpose, and secretly cleverer than he lets on. A team of only serious heroes is dull. Roach is the spark, and the Supernoobs would fall apart without him.
For the full show details, the Supernoobs Wikipedia page is solid, and deep-dive fans can dig into his character wiki.
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