Synergy A holographic computer which Emmett Benton, Jerrica's and Kimber's father, started building after their mother Jacqui's death, when Jerrica was only 16 years old. Synergy is the result of Emmett's idea of linking music and threedimensional images, to recreate live musical performances in the home of every music fan in america. But she became much more advanced than he originally intended. She can generate realistic holographic images, as much as 600 a minute without powerloss, that are lightyears ahead of our present technology. She can also project voice imitations. Emmett had planned to give Synergy as a gift to his daughters to be a friend, mother, teacher and guide. He even programmed Synergy with Jacqui's likeness. But incase he wouldn't survive his cancer, he had programmed Synergy to reveal her existance to Jerrica and Kimber. One day Jerrica got a package with starshaped earrings in the mail, which are small remote projectors that enable Synergy to communicate, project holograms, and even voice imitations, which makes it possible for Jerrica to become Jem without Synergy's computer being present. Synergy is kept a secret to the world by Jerrica and the Holograms, as she could be a very dangerous tool in the wrong hands. The Synergy computer form is kept in Starlight Mansion, in a hidden room behind a holographic wall. But she can also go out from the computer, in the form of a hologram of woman, or any form she wants. Originally Synergy was going to be a floating mask when appearing as a hologram outside of her computer. In the Jem bible it says Synergy is located in a basement room, which is not the case in the cartoon. Christy Marx tried to limit the usage of Synergy's holographic abilities to keep it somewhat realistic and consistent, and made some rules for the other writers to follow in the Jem bible. Although they weren't always followed. So who has seen Synergy, or seen Jem transform? Jem and the Holograms (including Raya), Eric, The Misfits (including Jetta), Manny Malone, and the president and many of his scientists. Synergy's capabilities / limitations: Holograms aren't solid objects, only images, and anything touching them will pass through, unless they are projected over a body, such as when Jerrica becomes Jem, or over an object, like a car. Holograms can only be projected straight from the earrings or Synergy's computer, and not around a corner. Synergy is very intelligent and can act on her own, but she can't read Jerrica's mind and must be told an idea of what Jerrica wants. The sounds need to come from the star earrings and can't be overly loud or too distant. The earrings can't project too large, or too many unrelated projections at once, unless grouped together. Certain rare atmospheric conditions or extreme electrical conditions can interfere with Synergy's projections, but no limitation of distance between Synergy and the earrings has been set. Episodes: 24: The Beginning Disaster Kimber's Rebellion (cut out in retakes) Frame Up The Battle Of The Bands Starbright Part One: "Falling Star" The World Hunger Shindig (voice only) Adventure In China (voice only) In Stitches (voice only) The Music Awards Part 1 Broadway Magic In Search Of The Stolen Album Intrigue At The Indy 500 The Jem Jam Part 2 (voice only) Glitter And Gold The Talent Search Part 1 Scandal The Fan The Jazz Player The Presidential Dilemma Out Of The Past Journey Through Time Hollywood Jem Part Two - And The Winner Is... Midsummer Night's Madness
	Countess Danielle Du Voisin A very wealthy 27 years old aristocratic woman from France. She is the only girl among two younger brothers, Henri and Michael. Although her family owns vineyards, estates in the US/Italy/France, several resorts hotels, and an enormous hydrofoil yacht which she likes to cruise on the sea, she is first and foremost a fashion designer. She has designed fashions for Jem and the Holograms several times, and helped Shana and Regine with their fashion designing. She is a good friend of Jem and the Holograms, and there seems to be something going on between her and Howard Sands, she even bought a mansion nearby his home. After frequent appearances in early episodes, Danielle didn't appear againt until some of the last episodes. Danielle's last name actually is French for "neighbor", which fits her well since she is the neighbor of Jem and the Holograms. Probably an injoke by Christy. Episodes: 10: Disaster Kimber's Rebellion Frame Up The Battle Of The Bands Starbright Part One: "Falling Star" Starbright Part Three: "Rising Star" In Stitches Hollywood Jem Part One - For Your Consideration... Hollywood Jem Part Two - And The Winner Is... Straight From The Heart
	Lindsey "Lin-Z" Pierce She is the hippest, coolest and most layed back woman in popular media, introduced to Jem and the Holograms early in their career by Danielle. She has her own rockvideo TV-show on VTV, Lin-Z TV, where she shows music videos and reports the latest music news. Although Jem and the Holograms are friends and frequent guests, she doesn't avoid trying to get a scoop on them, and she even lets the Misfits appear at times even though they're not favorites of Lindsey. At first when introduced she is more famous than and admired by Jem and the Holograms, but as the series progresses her role is basically about reporting what Jem and the Holograms are doing at the moment. Episodes: 26: Disaster Kimber's Rebellion Frame Up Starbright Part One: "Falling Star" Starbright Part Three: "Rising Star" In Stitches The Music Awards Part 1 Broadway Magic The Jem Jam Part 1 Glitter And Gold The Talent Search Part 1 The Bands Break Up Aztec Enchantment The Jazz Player Trick Or Techrat The Presidential Dilemma Rock N' Roll Express Out Of The Past Journey Through Time Hollywood Jem Part Two - And The Winner Is... The Stingers Hit Town Part One Video Wars The Day The Music Died A Change Of Heart Riot's Hope A Father Should Be...
	Video (Vivien Montgomery) A very energetic and prize winning video director. She comes from a little town called Mulberry. As a child she had a passion for tv shows, which turned into a passion for video equipment, and at her 10th birthday she got her first camera from her parents. She won acclaim in the music industry by the help of Anthony Julian. She is a cousin of Clash, although they've never gotten along well. She is a friend of Jem and the Holograms which she has filmed on several occasions, documentaries aswell as music videos. Trivia: According to the Jem bible, she was born on exactly the same time as Clash in the same hospital. But in the episode "Father's Day", written by Roger Slifer, Video was two the day Clash came home from the hospital. Episodes: 15: Starbright Part One: "Falling Star" Starbright Part 2: "Colliding Stars" Starbright Part Three: "Rising Star" The Music Awards Part 1 Old Meets New The Jem Jam Part 1 Culture Clash Glitter And Gold The Fan (or actually only an actor who looks like her) Father's Day Aztec Enchantment Treasure Hunt Danse Time Video Wars Homeland, Heartland Riot's Hope
	Danse (Giselle Dvorak) A dancer full of charisma and warmth, and a friend of Jem and the Holograms and the Starlight Girls. She came to the USA as a baby with her mother from Yugoslavia. She has trained dancing since she was very little, and has a natural talent for it. After a natural disaster, when Giselle was only 9, her mother disappeared and suffered from amnesia and was eventually declared dead. Giselle grew up with foster parents, who helped her continue her dancing. She was introduced to Jem and the Holograms by Video, and has since taken part in several of their music videos, and she also works as a part-time volunteer with teenage runaways in the local halfway house called Haven House. Episodes: 11: The Music Awards Part 1 The Music Awards Part 2 The Jem Jam Part 1 One Jem Too Many Danse Time KJEM Trick Or Techrat Renaissance Woman Video Wars Homeland, Heartland Riot's Hope
	Howard E. Sands This 31 years old bachelor studied at a film school and is today a top movie producer and owns the World Studios. He often donates money to film programs and foundations. Infact he was the one who donated the Starlight Mansion to the "Battle of the Bands" contest in which Jem and the Holograms and the Misfits participated. He is also into real estate, antiques, art, sailing, scuba diving, cycling and owns a private jet. He met Danielle in France during a mini-series production he was allowed to film a sequence of on her estate. Was originally named "Howard Garbutt". And the "E" in his name is never mentioned other than the one appearance on a check he wrote. Just like Danielle, after being present in alot of the early episodes, he disappears and returns for a couple later episodes. Episodes: 8: The Beginning Disaster The Battle Of The Bands Starbright Part One: "Falling Star" Starbright Part Three: "Rising Star" The Rock Fashion Book Hollywood Jem Part One - For Your Consideration... Hollywood Jem Part Two - And The Winner Is...
	Regine Cesaire A fashion designer, friend of Danielle and Jem and the Holograms although she started out as a fan of them, epspecially of Shana and her designing. She is very cheerful, but also has a temper. She comes from Fort-de-France the capital city of Martinique in the French Antilles (Windward Island) of the Carribean. Her father is a translator of English, French, Spanish and Creole. Her mother Vanessa has a business making handprinted textiles. Regine learned alot about fabrics from her mother and designed all her clothes already as a teenager. Danielle who was a client of Regine's mother, discovered Regine and took her to Paris for training, and then to live in Danielle's mansion, which is next door to Starlight Mansion. This character was originally going to be called "Paris" or "Roma" instead of "Regine". Episodes: Straight From The Heart
	Astral (Maeve Eldritch) A professional stage magician, sleight-of-hand artist and a psychic investigator, which has been an interest of her since she was a young girl. Her family has some of the most mixed genes as her ancestors come from all around the world. Her parents are both doctors, and used to travel all over the world and take Maeve with them. Maeve went to highschool in Phoenix Arizona, where her family happened to live next door to an old man who was a student of Harry Houdini, from whom Maeve learned alot of her magic tricks. She came to L.A. when she became involved with a group of psychic researchers at a university. She is very interested in psychic abilities like ESP, although she keeps a skeptic mind to the supernatural. This character was originally going to be called "magic" instead of "Astral". Episodes: That Old Houdini Magic

The less frequently appearing acquaintances or even friends.

Danny A 13 year old runaway boy that the Starlight Girls met at a Misfits concert after running away from home, and he actually saves Krissie's life. He is not a runaway by his own choice though. He lives in a middle class residential neighbourhood with a father, who apparently has some problems with his temper and kicked him out. Christy had some plans of writing a story about a kid with an alcoholic father, and this is the closest she was able to do. Episodes: The Music Awards Part 1 The Music Awards Part 2 Superstar clip for the episode: Old Meets New.	A friend of Rio's, apparently close enough friend that they seemed to have had a few talks about Rio's feelings for Jerrica. Episodes: Broadway Magic
Christy (Marx) She runs a stable where Jerrica and Kimber used to come when they were younger and Kimber used to ride a horse called Lucky. Harvey Gabor has a ranch house nearby. This character is an injoke by Roger Slifer and is based on the writer Christy Marx. Even if the look and voice is not based on her. Episodes: Father's Day	Paco He lives in a little village, not too far away from Mexico City. He is very poor, and on top of that, an earthquake recently ruined the buildings in his village. He has managed to learn English and dreams of going to the US. He sneaks into the car and joins Jem and the Holograms' on their trip to the aztec ruins deep in the mexican jungle, which turns out to be lucky for them, because when the regular bridge breaks down, he guides them to an unknown bridge his grandfather helped fix once. He is surprised that Jem and the Holograms love Mexico so much and starts growing proud of his country. Episodes: Aztec Enchantment
Susie A nice and positive girl that Danse gets to know at the Sun Memorial hospital when they're both patients there and are working on recovering their injuries. She has some trouble walking aswell. Episodes: Danse Time	Andrew He has a great background as a musicologist and has been on all kinds of adventures. When Jem and the Holograms need new inspiration for their music, he is the one who suggests that Jem and the Holograms travel to the mythological city Shangri-La, which he has dreamed of for years and claims he knows exist, although he has never found it before. He even comes with them to search for it. Episodes: Journey To Shangri-La
Jolly Jack Based on the character Little John from Robin Hood. A strong man who is Robin Goodfellow's sidekick and fellow outlaw. Episodes: Renaissance Woman	Rio's classmate from school. He is only seen in the music video of "First Love", but with a little imagination he could be the same friend pictured further up on this page, since they atleast have the same haircolor and they talk like they've talked about Jerrica before. Episodes: Out Of The Past
A pilot and friend of Rio's at the pilots club, where Jem and the Holograms once played to celebrate Rio's pilots license. Apparently he was very impressed that Rio were able to get Jem and the Holograms to play at the club. Episodes: KJEM

A family who lives on an island called Attuk near the Alaskan pipeline, who Jem and the Holograms stopped by at on a tour because the daughter in the family was a penpal of Ba Nee. Eric was in contact with them to buy the island, to build a refinery and use the oil to make vinyl records more cheaply than any other record company on the world, and use the harbor where the seals live for ships.

Mr. Kenyak The father in the family and the one who owns the island. Episodes: The Middle Of Nowhere	Mrs. Kenyak The mother in the family. Episodes: The Middle Of Nowhere
George Kenyak The oldest child in the family. He isn't too happy about being stuck "in the middle of nowhere" and is the one in the family who was most convinced about selling the island. Episodes: The Middle Of Nowhere	Uto Kenyak Ba Nee's penpal, who has a seal named Naku. She a very clever girl who helps her family with chores in the home, like making the dishes and chopping wood. She is also very good at paddling kayak. Episodes: The Middle Of Nowhere