Dispatch Cast Talk 24 Hours With Powers and SDN Alter Egos

Dispatch isn’t simply one of the very best games released this year, it also boasts one of the most impressive casts. AdHoc Studio’s debut title, a “superhero workplace comedy”, excels in every area and is undoubtedly a GOTY contender. If you’re here, I’m assuming that’s a sentiment you might agree with as you eagerly seek out an additional Dispatch fix.

That’s something I can provide as I recently had the opportunity to sit down with SDN’s finest, the brilliant cast of Dispatch. You may know them as Invisigal, Blonde Blazer, Waterboy, Flambae, Malevola, Coupe, and Prism, but I was curious to learn if Laura Bailey, Erin Yvette, Joel Haver, Fahim Anwar / Lance Cantstopolis, Alanah Pearce, Mayanna Berrin and Thot Squad had thought what superpower they might be able to bring to the Superhero Dispatch Network in an ideal world.

“I'm teleporting, 100%,” Alanah began. “I’ve always said that I’m, you know, really far away from family. The minimum for me to get to see a family member is 15 hours. It's not a small amount of time, because I live in LA and my family is all in Australia.”

“It’s hard, so I just want to be able to visit everybody that I love and tell them I love them more often, and you can only do that for a small amount of time in the grand scheme of things. That's all I would be doing. I don't know if that's very helpful for society, but I think that's a lot for me.”

It sounds like a perfect use of power to me, one fuelled by pure and wholesome intentions.

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“Talk to plants,” added Mayanna. “I would talk to all the plants. I would see what all the plants are getting up to like, ‘Tree, tell me some tales. You've seen some stuff in this park.’”

“I think it would be horrific though. Have you heard the thing about apparently if you cut trees down in the woods, there's logic that they can feel it?” Alanah added.

“Yeah, we can find out if that's true and then tell everyone to stop building houses,” Mayanna said.

“You could be a plant therapist,” I posed.

“I have two,” Thot began. “The social justice person in me would be Empathy Girl and I go like this [waving hands] and then boom, you feel empathy, and then you're like, ‘Oh maybe we should feed the hungry.’ And then the other part of me wants a force field type power, so I could throw things and slice things or I can put up a force field.”

“I think my human superpower is not a good one,” Laura told me. “It makes sense for Invisigal too, with her weaknesses tied into her strengths. But I have a really strong sense of smell personally, like too strong of a sense of smell. I smell horrendous things all the time, so my husband has joked that my superhero name would be Tril, like nostril.”

“I feel like invisibility would be interesting for me,” Erin said. “I can become a wallflower if you give me the opportunity to not say anything and to just hide in the corner.”

“You’ll find the dog at a party,” Laura joked.

“I will find the dog at a party, so that power interests me,” Erin replied. “If I didn’t put in the effort, I could become pretty invisible if I wanted to.”

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“I like dancing,” Lance began with regards to his power. “I would show up if a party is dull like, ‘Dispatch me,’ and I would dance and then everyone would be like this [dancing]. They would get the vibes from me.”

“A lot of pelvic thrusting and then people would get off the wall. Women would be into it and guys, you know, just like everybody. It's just my dancing's fluid. It's for everybody.”

“For me, a superpower would be just like being everyone's friend and no one thinking bad stuff about me,” Joel suggested on the other end of the spectrum.

“I feel like you could do this right now,” Lance replied. “That is more insight into your brain than a real superpower. You go, ‘My superpower would be that nobody hates me.’ Nobody hates you dude.”

Joel having the most Waterboy-esque answer feels very apt.

But what of their actual character’s superpowers? If you’ve ever wondered what the cast of Dispatch would do with their character’s abilities for a day, you need wonder no more.

“You have a much cooler one than me,” Joel said to Lance. “But you’d have to do evil stuff. What good can you do with fire?”

“I wouldn't even need to use the fire. I mean, flying is pretty cool,” Lance replied. “I would just fly and then light up a cigarette. Yeah, just really subtle. You know, less is more. At a bar, there's a girl and I just do this [lighting a cigarette], and then I light hers and then I fly away.”

“My guy, you know, you're spitting water. You fill up some swimming pools,” Joel added of his 24 hours as Waterboy.

“We could be like Siegfried and Roy. I light on fire and you put it out,” Lance suggested.

“Oh yeah, if you light some arson and then I show up and save the day, it could look pretty good for me, you know,” Joel replied. “I show up, spit water everywhere. It’s hard to picture the fun uses of spitting water everywhere.”

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As for what Mayanna would do as Coupe, “Never be late. Just ballerina flip all over these roofs, get to wherever I'm going.”

Handily, Malevola can teleport just as Alanah herself already expressed wanting to do: “I'd like to find somewhere that's like mistreating dogs and I'd teleport in there and I'd break them all out and I teleport them away. I'd do something like that.”

“For me, hologram diva, I don't know how far each hologram can go, but if there's not a tether on myself, I would get so much work done that day,” Thot said of Prism. “I'm at the grocery store. I’m at rehearsal. I'm having dinner with my grandma. I'm doing laundry. I would get so much stuff done.”

Dispatch Episodes 1 - 4 are available now on PC via Steam and PS5, with Episodes 5 and 6 landing today, 5 November. The game will conclude on 12 November with Episode 7 and 8.