Kid Dynamo

"Ricky" redirects here. For the squirrels from the Sonic the Hedgehog series, see Animals.

Kid Dynamo
Kid Dynamo (right) with Lightning (left)
Species	Human
First appearance	Saturday Supercade ("Junior Meets Kid Dynamo") (1983)

“Kid Dynamo to the rescue!”

—Kid Dynamo, Junior Meets Kid Dynamo

Kid Dynamo (given name: Ricky) is a character in the Saturday Supercade episode "Junior Meets Kid Dynamo." He is a ten-year-old boy with superhuman strength who fights notorious criminals and lives in Sweetville, along with his sidekick, Lightning.

He first appears at the beginning of the episode, saving a falling Bones, but failing to stop his nemesis Dr. Demise. He appears later on with his dog Lightning, and stops Lightning from interrogating Donkey Kong Jr. and Bones, having met them before. Lightning explains that the dust from a meteor is what gives them their powers, and Kid Dynamo invites them over to his house.

As Donkey Kong Jr., Bones, Ricky, and Lightning talk about how to stop Dr. Demise, Ricky's father asks him to rake the leaves; he does so, exhibiting his superhuman strength. Not long after, Dr. Demise shows up and kidnaps Lightning, prompting Kid Dynamo to go after him; this is actually a trap set up by Dr. Demise in order to chemically eradicate his superhuman powers. After he is saved from a crushing wall trap that Dr. Demise has set up thanks to Donkey Kong Jr.'s quick maneuver, Kid Dynamo frees Lightning, who gives him some additional meteor dust to replenish his powers.

He then goes after Dr. Demise at Sweetville Station, luring him into a pine tree to cover his helicopter in pine needles. Kid Dynamo then destroys the helicopter and catches Dr. Demise, ending his schemes once and for all.

Back at his house, he has dinner with Donkey Kong Jr. and Bones before they take off again in search of Donkey Kong. Ricky's mother tells him to eat vegetables to grow strong, with Lightning hinting that he is already strong enough because he is the true identity of Kid Dynamo.