Ned Haynes

Ned Haynes is one of the main antagonists in the DEFENDERS animated series. Ned is voiced by Cris King.

Background
Ned’s father and mother (Alfred and Lillian Haynes) were an SKYRO employee, a famous medical company researching for the cure for incurable diseases. They mostly tried to find a cure for brain diseases, such as neurological disorder and mental disease. The CEO at that time was Eldred Sudworth, who abused his power during his career. Unfortunately, when Ned was 17, Lillian was heavily injured during the protest against Eldred, and Alfred was kidnapped and forced to join in the top-secret human experimentation for the new cure. Because of the tremendous side effect of the experiment, Alfred became a madman and nearly killed his family. After the whole affair has been reposed to the public, Eldred and the human experimental crew went into jail, and SKYRO nearly got into bankruptcy. Ned’s family received the indemnities, but it was not used to cure Lillian of her massive injuries - Alfred abused that money on buying a beer, and Lillian ended up with being a profoundly handicapped person. After about ten years, when Ned was 28 years old, Lillian got killed by Alfred, and he committed suicide.

Relationship with MIGHTY
Ned always wanted to have a friend, but his classmates always abandoned him because of his unfortunate parents. When Ned went into High School, he decided to create a bot that could chat with him. He was very smart related to robotics, mechanics, and the AI, so he created a floating sphere bot and named him MIGHTY. His personality was always confident. He always floated across Ned whenever he needed company, and always thrown some jokes when Ned felt depressed. MIGHTY was also the one who helped Ned (when he was 27 years old) create a company, MIGHTYBODY Corp, which Ned named before his companion.