#smg4 same difference

Also some background:

Gilly was a female crime boss that married the heir of a mega tech corporation called Metall Enterprise, who was Cygnus Metall.

The only thing they ever bonded over was gaining more power in their respective fields, leaving them little to no time to spend and raise their children. Only even spending time with one parent which was either grueling combat training or extreme tough technology lessons. (They also didn’t even have time for “the thing” either so all their children were made in a lab for efficiency.)

Therefore a lot if not all of parenting fell to onto their two eldest children: Barbara and Hartley; to raise their younger siblings Scott and Elisie.

Both Gilly and Cygnus died in an chemical explosion in one of Metall Enterprise’s labs, this was when their four children were around their late teens (Barbara and Hartley) or early teen years (Scott and Elisie).

This event caused all of the siblings to go different paths: Barbara ran away, manage to have multiple careers, and take the identity of Doctor Dress-Up (along with falling in love with an actor named Bennson, having a daughter named Roselle with him before he died in a car crash, and adopting both a baby merhuman named Pelagois and a baby fairy named Elina after he died); Hartley took over their father’s company and become the black-hat hacker billionaire known as Sir Codex; Scott went into the hitman business, became Mr. WPNZ, and got together with another assassin Katana (who changed her name to Karen after she decided to leave both WPNZ and the hitman business along with having and raising Zack, Katie, and Cory); and Elisie decided to takeover their mother’s gang, turn it into a sort of vigilante task force, and take on the name Ms. Payback.

Everyone in this family has some sort of strained relationship with each other whether it be being resentful over something or feelings that one of them abandoned the other.

That being said all four siblings hate their parents for never giving them any love or respect when they were alive. That’s really the only thing they agree on.

Elina is actually a student-teacher at Zack’s, Katie’s, and Cory’s school. They’re all currently unaware that they’re cousins along with Rosella and Pelagois.

Doctor Dress-Up forcefully became the Smg4 crew’s standard doctor after TF2 Medic got tried of all their stunts (mainly Mario’s).