#supa strikas norman

[yanxioustrikas]

May i request Helena from license to coach headcanons?

for this post, i decided to also include norman just to make things easier!

supa strikas non-main character #28 (motivation, tactics, and guts!)

name: helena moseneke

nationality: south african

ethnicity: south african tswana

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name: norman samaan

nationality: south african

ethnicity: english + syrian

— episode(s) —

supa strikas season 5 — license to coach

i adore these two and their dynamics with each other and with coach! the cartoon adding these two to the show makes the episode a lot more enjoyable and i like that they each represent one of the three aspects to being a great coach!

p.s. — both of their first names are canon; their surnames are my headcanons!

[zeni1098]

Fun fact:

The max twins real names are “Norman” and “Stanley”

[abyss-strikas]

Alright so I didn’t REALLY complete the page for the IU boys, but I got lazy so have whatever I have (I’m referencing this post btw; also this post is very long cause of headcanons so that’s your warning)

As before, Skarra being annoyed with Dingaan wanting to hang out with him, while Dooma looks on, also annoyed but tired he deals with this everyday.

Next, something a bit more on the headcanon side involving Rookie Season. I think that when Automatic joined Invincible United, he still held some resentment towards Supa Strikas, especially towards Shakes, Dancing Rasta, and Coach. Shakes is more obvious since the kid took his place, but Auto hates the fact that his old captain didn’t do much to help him out, as well as Coach. He had hoped Coach could give him a new exercise regiment to help him get better, he would have even taken a harsh pep talk from him. But nothing came out of it, so whenever he sees Supa Strikas from time to time, he can’t help but remember those memories, memories that were once good now have become sour.

The Web tries to get his friend to take his mind off the other team, maybe inviting him to his place where they can play pool or even play board games. I do headcanon that Web was Automatic’s first friend in the team, maybe aside from Skarra who would have looked up to him when he still loved Supa Striks. Web had been the first teammate that Automatic opened up to, probably because the goalie had pointed out that Automatic seemed to fit better as a midfielder rather than a striker. If Coach or Rasta had let him try that position, maybe Auto wouldn’t be with IU, but he doesn’t think too much on it.

Snake on the other hand is there to help convince Auto to leave the Supa Strikas alone, even as he goes on about some of the stuff he seems to be fond of them. The reason is because I headcanon that Snake actually enjoyed having Shakes on the team when they did the Rookie Swap show. I felt like Snake and Shakes could have had a sibling type relationship, with Snake being the older brother that shows his love to his sibling by pranking him every time. I do think Snake is a bit jealous at how well Shakes gets along with Supa Strikas, and he envies that fact. He pretends to not care but in reality, he really does care a lot.

Finally, my two favorite boys from this team because I am such a basic bitch- /hj

The Power Twins! Whose names were confirmed by a concept artist of the show! Now, when this episode did come out, I was the one who asked that concept artist if they knew their actual names, and they found out their names were Stan and Norm!

Now being the naive fool I was back then (affectionate), I thought this meant their full real names were Stanley and Norman. But fast forward and another fan did suggest that what if their names were legitimately “Standard Power” and “Normal Power”?

Needless to say, I really should have thought of that before because the writers do like to make use of word puns as much as possible. After hearing that, I immediately went and changed some things of their backstory. Mainly the fact that Max Power (Maximum Power) is the eldest brother of the twins and he’s joined the Silver Lions, a group that their dad hates with a passion (for the most stupid of reasons), Max has changed his name to Liam, and their dad is an ego maniac who really cares about nothing more than his surname. These guys also have an elder sister by the name of Suzanne Power, who belongs to @yanxioustrikas . In this AU, she is three years younger than Max, but three years older than the twins, and she was formerly known as Minimum (Minnie) Power until the mom and dad divorced, and Suzanne went to live with her mom in South Korea.

With all of that in mind, when the twins returned to the UK after their twin switch plan failed, there was a lot of family drama that escalated to the twins almost getting hurt by their dad. Luckily, Liam and his friends were able to protect them. As the trial gets set up for the dad, since his big booming business in sales had some low-key shady stuff in their books, an old “friend” of Vince, a former player of the Silver Lions before they went on hiatus, asks the IU coach for a favor: take back the twins into the team, as they’re not fully safe in the UK at the moment.

Vince can’t turn down a request from this “friend”, so he signs the twins back up under their shortened names. No one in IU knows about their full names and their family history. Not yet at least.

So for now, the way to differentiate between the twins is the fact that Stan has gotten piercings on his nose and ears, something his dad wasn’t too keen on in the first place. Norm still looks the same but he and his brother have chosen to not conceal their freckles, nor the shadows under their eyes from the restless nights they spent trying to deal with their crazy dad. They still play their best, even if they have to switch for the first couple of games they’re back, but their attitude and demeanor has changed because of the events they’ve gone through. They’re not looking forward to going back to London for the trial, but they’re hoping they can convince a certain striker and defender to join them as support, especially when they decide to change their names, just like their older brother and sister did.

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I’ll start another page at some point and draw the rest that didn’t make it, lol. I know this was a bit more headcanon heavy, but let me know if you guys have any questions or you want to share your own headcanons too!

[yanxioustrikas]

super league teams: invincible united fc — part 4

credit goes to @strika-archyvez for uncovering the original canon full names for some of the players in this series!

credit goes to @strudelbbg for digging into the archives of the old supa strikas website!

disclaimer -> i will use "(?)" to indicate that the ethnicity of the players based on the surnames may not be accurate, despite the whole point of these posts is to show my own headcanons for the iu players lol

links to the other parts:

part 1

part 2

part 3

joseph "joe" "thunder" thobela (top two)

nationality: south african

ethnicity: sotho

william solomzi "the web" marais (middle most)

nationality: south african

ethnicity: french + xhosa south african

stan(ley) and norm(an) "max" power (bottom-left)

nationality: british

ethnicity: british + korean

bonus! jasper sodiqov (bottom-right)

nationality: uzbek-south african

ethnicity: uzbek

p.s. the following are headcanons, otherwise the rest are canon:

EDIT: shoutout to my friend @strika-archyvez for letting me know that the web’s (i assume old) canon first name is william! but since i also like the headcanon name i initially gave him, ‘solomzi’ will now be his middle name hahaha

all of their ethnicities (possibly except the power twin's british descent, however the korean descent is also headcanon)

the web's nationality probably

joe thobela's full first name being 'joseph,' but it's most likely canon

norm and stan are canon names confirmed by one of the writers, but it is also possible that their full first names 'norman and stanley' are canon

according to @strika-archyvez joe thobela only appeared in an older issue(?) prior to 2007, and he might never have an appearance in the show, however the pic under his info does look a little like thobela, so take this as my headcanon of this cartoon version

again for joe thobela, i put two pics for him since i personally believe that those two pics are supposed to be the same person (though the one on the left resembles dingaan lmao)

jasper is a headcanon name that @abyss-strikas came up with!

[yanxioustrikas]

my “non-main characters in supa strikas” series

where i showcase the diverse minor / background characters the show has to offer! this post will also be in my pinned intro post!

majority of the characters listed below have no canon names, so many of the names are my headcanons!

raj (first eliminated supa strikas tryout candidate)

sigrun (staff from mount kilimanjaro)

rosalind (older astronaut studying asteroid 237)

calvin (random cognito benchwarmer from rookie season)

becca, alain, maurice (super league coaching license coordinators)

larry, alice and ralph (oasis staff trio)

kat (cat burglar whose comic counterpart is shakes's (ex-)girlfriend)

ichika, kokoro, conway, haruto (more zazz staffs)

claude, olivier, cassandre, nathanaël (alien enthusiasts)

ginerva (iron tank female scientist)

nisha (pilot from the swiss insitute)

ursula (del aqua's assistant)

salma (egyptian tour guide)

aileen / sarah (oasis mindee who believes in robots taking over the world)

riccardo, alexandra (el matador's lawyers)

alyx, hack (game developer and video gamer, respectively, and headcanoned siblings)

ellen (younger astronaut studying asteroid 237)

sonya (statistics girl hired by iu)

devon (ms altivo's assistant)

bastiaan (award ceremony staff who usually deals with el matador's car)

ms altivo (reality tv expert and boss of altivo entertainment)

diego (supa strikas tryout player)

yvonne / clawdia, fang, mort (grimm fan club trio)

erasyl (ms altivo's fired assistant from live and kicking)

sonny haelström (klaus's favourite weatherman)

aidan (from one of the chek-icoast advertisements)

the aces (main sepak tekraw team that shakes joined)

helena, norman (rookie coaching applicants)

thumi (altivo staff(?) from the beginning of your latest trick)

otto von drake (illusionist who helped iu become the cleanest team)*

p.s. — for every minor / background characters i post, i also give them headcanon nationalities and ethnicities, and of course headcanon names if their names are unknown

p.s. 2 — some of the headcanon contributions are from others too so it is only proper for me to credit them!

p.s. 3 — these are just my own headcanons therefore there is no need to use them, although everybody is more than welcome to do so!

* = working on it !!