Jake Martinez
ジェイク・マルチネス
NEXT Power	Barriers Hearing Others' Thoughts
Sponsors	Ouroboros
Profile
Gender	Male
Hair	Brown (naturally) Orange and Pink
Debut	Episode 10 The calm before the storm
Seiyū	Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese) Steve Blum (English)

Jake Martinez is an incredibly powerful NEXT who was originally believed to be the leader of Ouroboros. Jake was released from prison when his organization threatened the destruction of Sternbild City for his freedom.

Contents 1 Personality 2 History 3 Powers and Abilities 4 Gallery 5 Trivia

PersonalityEdit

His main objective is to have NEXT's take over the world, with him as their leader. Jake also sees all humans as inferior to NEXT's and cares little about their lives. He views himself as the strongest NEXT of all, as he boasts about himself in battle and taunts his opponents.

In battle, he reads his opponents minds to know what his opponent will do. Jake does not seem to posses any fighting experience or beyond normal physical abilities, as an unintentional hit from Wild Tiger caused him pain. He is also shown to be very unstable, as a little hit made him go insane. Jake relies on his mind reading ability a lot, making it easy for the heroes to outsmart him in battle.

HistoryEdit

Behind Jake's all high and mighty demeanor, he is actually a coward and ran scared when Barnaby Brooks Jr was able to beat him.

While trying to escape arrest, Jake jumped off the stadium roof. Hoping to land in the helicopter, that Kriem was piloting, he was caught by Kotetsu. Jake then tried to shoot Kotetsu with his barrier ability, but Kotetsu managed to dodge it. The barrier hit the helicopter and the helicopter fell on Jake, causing his unintentional death.

Recently, its been revealed by Kriem that Jake was not the real leader of Ouroboros. Instead, Ouroboros is a much bigger organization and he and Kriem were just a small fraction of Ouroboros. Kriem also tells Barnaby that Jake didn't kill his parents, that the day his parents died was when Jake kidnapped Kriem. But all this could be a lie and the only fact that's confirmed is Kriem was kidnapped the same day.

Its revealed in episode 19, that Maverick was the true murderer of Barnaby's parents. In truth the day that Barnaby's parents died, Jake had instead kidnapped Kriem.

This also reveals how Kriem and Jake met, and proving he was truly innocent of the murder on the Brook's family.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

As a NEXT Jake possesses superhuman abilities, though from recent events it has been revealed that he has a second power; an unheard of characteristic amongst NEXT. He's also the only one (as of the moment) known to have an orange glow, possibly due to having 2 different powers.

At first glance, he appears able to fire short but deadly laser blasts from his fingers, powerful enough to pierce a thick concrete wall.

However his true power is not creating laser blasts, but protective barriers that render him invulnerable to harm. He can then project these barriers offensively in a number of different sizes and intensities.

Jake's second power is the ability to read minds and uses it to counter his opponent's attacks. Kotetsu was the first of the NEXT heroes to figure this out after realizing he never revealed his real name to Jake. Instead, Kotetsu thought to himself "Calm down, Kotetsu Kaburagi" and realized that Jake had to been able to read his mind.

GalleryEdit

TriviaEdit

• Jake possesses two powers which is rare, to the point it was thought impossible.
• Unlike other NEXTs that produce a blue glow when they are using their powers, Jake produces an orange glow, presumably because he has two powers. Considering Jake is the only character among the cast with blue eyes, it is possible that his eyes are blue because he is the only one with two NEXT abilities. It can also be implied that he uses his mind-reading NEXT ability constantly to the point that he does not produce a glow using that power.
• Jake can use his defensive barriers as offensive beams.
• Jake has had 3 hairstyles in the series. One while capturing Kriem, the second while leaving jail, and the third while battling the heroes.