History Characters / BlackMirrorUSSCallister

* {{Adorkable}}: Gets adorably flustered when first meeting Daly, her idol.

* PsychopathicManchild: Robert Daly is clearly stunted both emotionally and socially. He is entitled to the point of viewing even harmless slights as disrespectful. He vents his frustrations on sapient clones of his co-workers by torturing them into playing along with his fantasies. While reliving his favorite TV show with himself as the hero, Daly does a lot of immature things such as resolving a showdown with an "enemy" by yelling that there was a naked lady behind him. Daly appears to be [[VillainousAromanticAsexual uncomfortable with anything even remotely sexual]], despite an implied desire for a romance with the real life Nanette Cole. When kissing the female crew members after "saving the day", Daly insists on keeping the kiss close-mouthed. He also [[KenDollAnatomy removes all the clones' genitals]], and feels very awkward when Cole’s clone tries to distract him by flirting. Walton's clone refers to the ''Space Fleet'' mod as a "playground", and Robert Daly is shown enjoying other child-like things such as pizza and chocolate milk. Daly's actor, Jesse Plemons, has even compared the character to a 12-year-old boy who is confused about his own feelings and actively wishes for control.

* VillainousAromanticAsexual: While Daly enjoys tormenting his coworkers without end, he shows no interest in sex or romance of any kind; while his space adventures always end with a required kiss from one of the female ensigns, he insists on it being closed-mouth. He even goes so far as to remove the genitals of the crew's avatars to keep the simulation as chaste as possible.

* VillainousAromanticAsexual: Daly shows no interest in sex or romance of any kind; while his space adventures always end with a required kiss from one of the female ensigns, he insists on it being closed-mouth. He even goes so far as to remove the genitals of the crew's avatars to keep the simulation as chaste as possible. Considering the [[NightmareFuel potential scenarios]] a god-like sexual sadist in Daly's shoes could have dreamed up, this was presumably to keep the {{Squick}} factor to a minimum.

* VillainousAromanticAsexual: Daly shows no interest in sex or romance of any kind; while his space adventures always end with a required kiss from one of the female ensigns, he insists on it being closed-mouth. Considering the [[NightmareFuel potential scenarios]] a god-like sexual sadist could have dreamed up, this was presumably to keep the {{Squick}} factor to a minimum.

* PsychopathicManchild: Robert Daly is clearly stunted both emotionally and socially. He is entitled to the point of viewing even harmless slights as disrespectful. He vents his frustrations on sapient clones of his co-workers by torturing them into playing along with his fantasies. While reliving his favorite TV show with himself as the hero, Daly does a lot of immature things such as resolving a showdown with an "enemy" by yelling that there was a naked lady behind him. Daly appears to be uncomfortable with anything even remotely sexual, despite an implied desire for a romance with the real life Nanette Cole. When kissing the female crew members after "saving the day", Daly insists on keeping the kiss close-mouthed. He also removes all the clones' genitals, and feels very awkward when Cole’s clone tries to distract him by flirting. Walton's clone refers to the ''Space Fleet'' mod as a "playground", and Robert Daly is shown enjoying other child-like things such as pizza and chocolate milk. Daly's actor, Jesse Plemons, has even compared the character to a 12-year-old boy who is confused about his own feelings and actively wishes for control.

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Well, teal. And she finds it racist, too.

* NoodleIncident: Justified. We never learn what he did to justify Daly's hatred, but the crew admits it could've been literally anything. However, given that he’s good-looking and seems to be well-liked around the office, it’s likely that Daly put him in the game out of a generalized resentment rather than any particular slight.

* NoodleIncident: Justified. We never learn what he did to justify Daly's hatred, but the crew admits it could've been literally anything.

* ParodySue: Played for horror; Captain Daly is an archetypal overpowered SelfInsert venting his frustrations at his co-workers, which would be morbidly funny- except that his stand-ins are sapient clones of his same co-workers.

* CanonForeigner: Although it's not clear where she's from.

* FourEyesZeroSoul: In his regular, very nerdy life, Daly wears glasses, but takes them off to join Infinity and never wears them in-game, when he's playing a cool, alpha male starship captain. His cruel, tyrannical side is hidden from people he interacts with in his work life, and then unleashed when he goes into the privacy of his home and the ''Infinity'' game.

* UnsexySadist: As "Captain Daly", Robert engages in abusive behavior that only adds to his great charisma and gives this wholesome captain a much-needed "bad boy" streak. However, he is considered creepy by the sapient clones, and the narrative discourages the real life audience from buying his attempts at seeming like an ideal "bad boy".

* ParodySue: Played for horror; Captain Daly is an archetypal overpowered SelfInsert venting his frustrations at his co-workers, which would be morbidly funny-except how his stand-ins are mental clones of his same co-workers.
* PsychopathicManchild: Robert Daly is clearly stunted both emotionally and socially. He is entitled to the point of viewing even harmless slights as disrespectful. He vents his frustrations on sapient clones of his co-workers by torturing them into playing along with his fantasies. While reliving his favorite TV show with himself as the hero, Daly does a lot of immature things such as resolving a showdown with an "enemy" by yelling that there was a naked lady behind him. Daly appears to be uncomfortable with anything even remotely sexual, despite an implied desire for a romance with the real life Nanette. When kissing the female crew members after "saving the day", Daly insists on keeping the kiss close-mouthed. He also removes all the clones' genitals, and feels very awkward when Cole’s clone tries to distract him by flirting. Walton's clone refers to the ''Space Fleet'' mod as a "playground", and Robert Daly is shown enjoying other child-like things such as pizza and chocolate milk. Daly's actor, Jesse Plemons, has even compared the character to a 12-year-old boy who is confused about his own feelings and actively wishes for control.

* NoSexAllowed: Daly has prevented this by removing their genitals. It's implied he also invokes this trope because of his stunted sexuality.

* PsychopathicManchild: Robert Daly is clearly stunted both emotionally and socially. He is entitled to the point of viewing even harmless slights as disrespectful. He vents his frustrations on sapient clones of his co-workers by torturing them into playing along with his fantasies. While reliving his favorite TV show with himself as the hero, Daly does a lot of immature things such as resolving a showdown with an "enemy" by yelling that there was a naked lady behind him. Daly appears to be uncomfortable with anything even remotely sexual, despite an implied desire for a romance with the real life Nanette. When kissing the female crew members after "saving the day", Daly insists on keeping the kiss close-mouthed. He also removes all the clones' genitals, and feels very awkward when Nanette's clone tries to distract him by flirting. Walton's clone refers to the ''Space Fleet'' mod as a "playground", and Robert Daly is shown enjoying child-like things like pizza and chocolate milk. Daly's actor, Jesse Plemons, has even compared the character to a 12-year-old boy who is confused about his own feelings and actively wishes for control.

* NerdInEvilsHelmet: An evil spaceship captain who turns out to be a nerd in real life; Robert Daly is no less terrifying though.

* PsychopathicManchild: Robert Daly is clearly stunted both emotionally and socially. He is entitled to the point of viewing even harmless slights as disrespectful. He vents his frustrations on sapient clones of his co-workers by torturing them into playing along with his fantasies. While reliving his favorite TV show with himself as the hero, Daly does a lot of immature things such as resolving a showdown with an "enemy" by yelling that there was a naked lady behind him. Daly appears to be uncomfortable with anything even remotely sexual, despite an implied desire for a romance with the real life Nanette. When kissing the female crew members after "saving the day", Daly insists on keeping the kiss close-mouthed. He also removes all the clones' genitals, and feels very awkward when Nanette's clone tries to distract him by flirting. Walton's clone refers to the ''Space Fleet'' mod as a "playground", and Robert Daly is even shown enjoying child-like things like pizza and chocolate milk. Daly's actor, Jesse Plemons, has even compared the character to a 12-year-old boy who is confused about his own feelings and actively wishes for control.

* AmbiguousDisorder: He has trouble interfacing with even his own subordinates and seems to have no social life whatsoever, as he spends most of his time in ''Infinity.''
* {{Asexuality}}: It's never made explicit, but despite having access to sexually-enabled simulacra of his various real-world crushes, he has removed their virtual genitals and, while he is re-enacting romantic relations with his virtual crushes, he goes out of his way to avoid involving any sexual elements in these interactions. Lowry even comforts Nanette that the OnceAnEpisode saviour kiss Captain Daly gets from his female crew is strictly closed-mouth. When Nanette tries to distract him with sexy swimming, he's actually very hesitant to join in and looks like he's very confused, unfamiliar, and uncomfortable with the female body. Furthermore, if his feelings were sexual, and not based more in a desire for the Star Fleet archetype for love, he could be pursuing these women further in the real-life workplace, like Walton does -- his almost childishness could excuse this if he weren't later acting like kind of a jerkass 20-something (presumably what he actually is) with the pizza guy, showing him to be the kind of guy who would pursue sex if he wanted it (even if it was creepy).

* BastardBoyfriend: Robert Daly's character "Captain Daly", as scripted by Robert Daly himself, engages in abusive behavior that only adds to his great charisma and gives this wholesome captain a much-needed badboy streak. (The rest of the staff tends to see the Captain Daly character in the quite [[UnsexySadist opposite light]].)

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He does not abuse the digital clones sexually although he had the power to. Even tongue kissing is taboo. Though see {{Asexuality}}, above.
* EvilIsPetty: His co-workers can be kind of mean and exclusory and are certainly laughing at him behind his back, but they're not vicious, outright bullies. They're all friendly to Nanette (who herself is very sweet and friendly to him), and Daly doesn't seem like the easiest person to get along with due to his sullen silences and tendency to get "starey". Yet, he traps digital versions of them in his own playroom to abuse and torture at will. One was imprisoned for not smiling enough -- when she doesn't smile at ''anyone''.
* EvilNerd: Finds it easier to use his technical skills to force clones of his coworkers to act out his adolescent sci-fi fantasies than to actually learn how to get along with them in real life.

%%* {{GIFT}}: While the episode doesn't focus on his online behavior, there are massive parallels between Daly's actions on the Callister and people who become jerks with the addition of anonymity on the internet. Given the anonymity (or effective anonymity from him not respecting his crew's thought processes and the fact they're trapped so it doesn't matter how they view him), the opportunity to indulge himself, and an audience, (the digital clones of the crew, but also himself) he acts outright monstrous, small-minded, childish, and petty, while lording over others with his knowledge. Studies have also demonstrated that anonymity on the internet can be [[http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2014/02/internet_troll_personality_study_machiavellianism_narcissism_psychopathy.html attractive to narcissistic, psychopathic, and sadistic people]] who take pleasure in making others suffer - which is ''very'' much Daly.

** It's also implied he feels this way towards the real world Valdack, who is attractive and genial, as he modded him in the game to be unattractive and evil.

* HollywoodNerd: Averted with Daly. His appearance is deliberately unremarkable, not exactly unflattering but matching the stereotype of a nerdy guy in his late twenties/early thirties (glasses, a bit of a pudge, a receding hairline, etc.). According to his coworkers, it's his social awkwardness that causes people to give him a "wide berth"; and despite having a high position in the company, he comes off as meek, tractable, and submissive, willing to accept inferior workmanship to avoid confrontation.

* NerdGlasses: In his regular, very nerdy life, Daly wears glasses, but takes them off to join Infinity and never wears them in-game, when he's playing a cool, alpha male starship captain. Also qualifies as FourEyesZeroSoul: his cruel, tyrannical side is hidden from people he interacts with in his work life, and then unleashed when he goes into the privacy of his home and the ''Infinity'' game.
* NerdyBully: In real life, he's a nerdy, asocial programmer. He disproportionately takes out his frustrations with his co-workers by creating virtual copies of their minds, placing them in a video game mod, and abusively forcing them to reenact his power fantasies.

* PsychopathicManchild: Daly is clearly in some kind of arrested development. He's a sullen loner with entitlement issues, and his only joy comes from reliving his favorite childhood TV show with him as the hero as well as tormenting representations of the people he thinks have wronged him in some way or another, and forcing them to take part in his play acting. Otherwise, he's very immature, at one point resolving a showdown with an "enemy" by yelling that there was a naked lady behind him. [[spoiler:It's also telling that he forces his female virtual prisoners to kiss him as a reward for whenever he "saves the day", but insist that said kiss is close-mouthed, removes their genitals entirely, and is seemingly scared or at least hesitant towards anything involving actual sexual over- and/or undertones. When Digital Nanette pulls a ShowSomeLeg, he's very reluctant despite being intrigued, and quickly becomes visibly uncomfortable with the situation.]]

* UnsexySadist: Robert Daly and his character "Captain Daly" are portrayed as pathetic (although very dangerous) creeps. While the [[HerCodenameWasMarySue incompetent in-universe author]] Robert Daly keeps trying to portray his character Captain Daly as a gloriously wholesome BastardBoyfriend, the in-universe audience does not buy it at all -- and the narrative does not encourage the real life audience to buy it either.
* WouldHurtAChild: Interesting case. The Space Fleet James Walton, at first, doesn't play along with Daly. Daly breaks him by [[spoiler:getting his son Tommy's DNA from a lollipop, scanning the child into the game, and ''throwing him out of an airlock as Walton watches.'' The child and Walton are only digital copies, but it's still a monstrous act.]]

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* NeverLiveItDown: A victim of this InUniverse. When Walton mentions how Daly got hold of people's DNA, he mentions that he somehow got Parker's "juices" from the bathroom. An exasperated Parker tells him to let that story go already.

* {{Expy}}: Of Pavel Chekhov from the original ''Series/StarTrek'', with some hint of Geordi from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.

* EvilMakeover: Valdack in the real world is handsome and well groomed, while in Infinity he's grungy with a scarred face and missing eye.

* UnknownRival: The real world Valdack seems like a cheery and friendly guy and seems to like Daly, or at the very least, shows no animosity towards him. But apparently Daly hates him enough to not only clone him into the game, but also make him the deformed ArchEnemy. Probably demonstrates the extent to which Daly is spiteful and [[EvilIsPetty petty]].

* TrappedInAnotherWorld

* NaiveNewcomer: Being new to Daly's private Space Fleet simulation, lots of exposition is needed to get her up to speed with the situation.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Billy Magnussen