The Heterodyne Boys

"The Heterodyne Boys" tends to refer to Bill and Barry Heterodyne in the legendary or fictional sense. The people of Europa know The Heterodyne Boys as a pair of brothers who became legendary heroes as a result of their many amazing adventures. As incredible as their real adventures were, and as heroic as the Boys really were, tales of their experiences were often exaggerated and simplified to the point of melodrama. These embellished tales then became a series of popular books and plays. The plays were put on by travelling Heterodyne shows, a form of entertainment so well-known that audiences knew the call and response to their favorite lines.

These tales were so common and so farfetched that Bill's own daughter, Agatha, at first had trouble thinking of the characters in them as real people. That is, until she met a couple of their relatives, Theo and Z.