Philip “Phil” DiCapa

General Facts

Age: 16
Grade: 10
School: Mount Vernon High School
Gender: M

Occupation

High School Student

Appearances

Regular Titles: Books 21, 25, 28, 32, 40, 45, 48–49, and 53
Super Battlers: None

Immediate Family

Liam DiCapa (father, deceased)
Susan DiCapa (mother, deceased)

Desmond DiCapa (older brother)
Vivian DiCapa (older sister)

Thomas “Tom” DiCapa (grandfather, deceased)
Louise “Lou” DiCapa (grandmother, deceased)

Maurice “Maury” Eazel IV (nephew by Vivian)

Character Summary

Philip came to Alexandria in Book 21. He was first encountered by Aaron and Jon on their first day of high school. He had no real problem with Aaron, but as soon as Jon introduced himself to him, he decided he did not like him — just because his last name was Crawley! To make things worse, he warned Aaron to refrain from hanging out with Jon or he’d decide that he didn’t like him, either.

 

In Book 28, when a boy named Scott Rollis was found dead outside of their school, Philip immediately implicated Jon as a possible suspect, which resulted in a confrontation between himself and Aaron. In the end, Philip ended up getting punched, but he managed to perform his father’s famous kiss on Aaron, which didn’t kill him (since he didn’t have possession of the poison).

 

In Book 32, Philip invited a bunch of black kids to his sleepover, which provided the perfect cover for the Battlers to get inside the DiCapa mansion to search for and rescue Richard Montgomery and Jay Dixon, who’d been kidnapped by his father’s right-hand man, Albert Labinnac.

 

In Book 40, Philip, his sister, Vivian, and his mother, Susan, were in attendance for the big reveal of the Black Crystal Battlers’ true identities on the roof of the DiCapa Enterprises Office Building. His father was going to reveal them himself after kidnapping and bringing five of them — Maurice, Aaron, Jon, Shauna, and Diahandra — to the building. Philip also got to watch Liam capture J.J. and Kesse when they got there with Deyon to save their friends. He got the bigger pleasure of watching the final fight break out between his father and Deyon. He was the only person (aside from his mother and the guards) rooting for Liam’s victory. It seemed imminent when, after Deyon’s Battler Crystal powered down on him, Liam shot him eight times. But Deyon came right back with a Crystal Advance, which transformed his Battler Crystal into a Battler Emerald. Then, Deyon was easily able to defeat Liam.

 

Philip suffered the biggest tragedy of his life, however, when Deyon was about to strike a fatal blow to his father that his mother, out of loyalty to her husband, jumped in the way and took instead. As soon as she died, Philip learned the horrid truth about his father as Liam went on a tirade, spewing the truth about his past crimes and wishing that he’d committed them on the Battlers. Unfortunately, the press (which mostly consisted of disguised UNITY members) got it all on camera. And then came the bigger tragedy — in an attempt to stick to his original plan of unmasking the Battlers on live television, Liam tried hard to unmask Deyon right there. But Deyon pulled away from him so hard, it sent Liam stumbling over the edge of the roof, and he plummeted thirty stories to his death. Philip and Vivian would then have to adjust to the horrible reality that both of their parents had died that very night, and they were now orphans.

 

Recently, Philip and Vivian’s older brother, Desmond, came to town — in Book 41, in fact. Although he and Desmond didn’t appear in Book 44, they were there for Vivian when she gave both to her son with Maurice, Maurice Eazel IV.

 

Philip was on the committee building the float for the Veteran’s Day parade in Book 45. He initially objected to Jon being there, but went on to accept it at Monique Eazel’s urging. In a rare occurrence, he and Jon agreed that Monique’s hip-hop concept did not, in any way, tie in with Veteran’s Day, but she refused to listen to them. So they eventually did what she told them. Philip immediately wrote Jon and Monique off as soon as the project was completed, glad to be free of the toils of physical labor.

 

In Book 53, Philip had reached the lowest point of his grief over his parents’ deaths, and he went to Jon’s house to confront over him over his and the other Battlers’ parts in them. He vowed to make sure all eight of them paid. Castoro “Cast” Dammon overheard the whole exchange and wanted to take the Battlers down for it. Knowing he had an easy-to-manipulate tool at his disposal, he kidnapped Philip, convinced him to work with him, and endowed him with magic powers of his own that he wanted him to fight and defeat the Battlers with. Luckily for him, Jon came looking for him when he heard of his kidnapping, so he decided to make him his first victim and nearly killed him. With him defeated, Cast decided that now would be the time to devour his first Battler and start absorbing his powers. But Jon burned the inside of Cast’s mouth before he could do that, and Jon escaped while he was distracted.

 

Cast didn’t give up, though. After overhearing the eight Battlers planning to get Philip’s brother, Desmond, and his sister, Vivian, to talk Philip out of working with him, Cast alerted Philip, who launched an attack on the DiCapa mansion and fought the Battlers there, well before they were ready to carry out their plan. When he defeated them, Deyon, Maurice, Richard, Jay, Aaron, Shauna, and Diahandra were all kidnapped by them. Jon was left behind to face Philip in a rematch the next day. If he won, the other Battlers would be released. If he lost or didn’t show up, Cast would eat all of them.

 

Sure enough, Jon did show up the next day for the rematch, which he fought in boldly. But Philip once again managed to defeat him. He was just about to kill him and exact his revenge when Desmond and Vivian showed up and successfully got him to see that their parents had died because of their own obsession with the Battlers, not anything the Battlers had done. Philip admitted that part of him had always known that, and with that, Cast’s hold on him was no more. Knowing that, Cast attacked Philip and swallowed him whole. Now, he was trapped in his stomach, and his powers were being absorbed by the Stone of Absor.

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