 To take his mind off his divorce, antimatter physicist Gus Lloyd started programming an action video game where he was the hero, his ex-wife Lauren Ashborne was the sidekick, and his father Jordan Kenneth Lloyd was Sebastian Jackal, a satanic figure who wanted to destroy the world with an army of thugs based on the people who made Gus  life a living hell. The antimatter experiments Gus and his friend Peter Rucker were running went haywire, reading the game s villain file and sending them into the real world to act out their programming. Gus, Lauren, and Peter are then forced to play the game for real.