History Characters / BoxxyQuestTheShiftedSpires

** CantRefuseTheCallAnymore: He finally joins after seeing STORM's wrath for himself, and realizing that he can't afford not to help.

* BonusBoss: In the sequel, if you try to save at a fake save point, you will enter battle with him.

* AscendedExtra: Downplayed as he does not have a major role in the sequel, but he goes from a member of a group of minor [=NPCs=] to a BonusBoss who must be defeated to reach the true ending.
* BonusBoss: In the sequel, he is the boss of Alwaysland, a side-area that appears after getting all the Sacred Seeds and giving them to the plant girl in the Sphere.

* BonusBoss: In the sequel, he can appear in [[spoiler:Her World]] if you answer him when [[spoiler:Arianna]], disguised as Jimmy Wales, asks what you fear most.

* WhipItGood: His skills are all about whips, such as Whip Crack:
--> A basic whip-based attack, but still incredibly painful.

--> Voiced by: Catherine Wayne

* ActionGirl

* BuffySpeak

* RedMage

* NiceGuy

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* ActionGirl

* BenevolentAI

* EleventhHourRanger: In the final chapter of TGS, she and Shrimp decide to aid Catie after their vacation is ruined by STORM.

* TheHeart

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* IronicName: He's not exactly a big ''fan'' of ''Boxxy''- in fact, he is her ArchEnemy who despises her with every fiber of his being. In reality, the character was named after a notorious troll on Catie's fan-site. In-universe, it's explained that he took the name to mock Catie out of spite.

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* YourWorstNightmare: The goddesses haunt Catie in her dreams throughout most of her adventure. A HopelessBossFight occurs whenever they show up.

* GagBoobs: Not in the original, where her bust was unremarked upon, but in the sequel, Til notices and makes a remark, her breasts bounce with her sprite, and she subjects Anonymous to MarshmallowHell in the normal end. Seriously, ''just look at them!'' (Or don't, since that makes her deeply uncomfortable).

* GagBoobs: Not in the original, where her bust was unremarked upon, but in the sequel, Til notices and makes a remark, her breasts [[{{Gainaxing}} bounce with her sprite]], and she subjects Anonymous to MarshmallowHell in the normal end. Seriously, ''just look at them!'' (Or don't, since that makes her deeply uncomfortable).
* {{Gainaxing}}: Her sprite's walk cycle has a lot of bounce.

* AnAxeToGrind: Although, as a Warrior-type Spherian, he can use swords as well as axes, his skills' FlavorText all reference axes:
** Power Smash:
---> An abnormally powerful axe blow that can strike right through an enemy's armor!
** Mindfuck:
---> Maybe it's the giant metal cleaver lodged in the skull, or maybe it's just the heat...

* AnAxeToGrind: When he joins you, his default weapon is an axe.

* EnemyMine: He finally sets aside his grudge against Catie to help her fight against Legion. However, he warns that the truce won't last, and it doesn't (though he just becomes a harmless GrumpyBear afterwards).

* GrumpyBear: By the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, this is what he's been reduced to. In his final shot, he's sulking on a Ferris wheel while the rest of his family enjoy themselves.

* BalefulPolymorph: He was turned into a literal jelly monster by a curse.

* IllGirl: She passes out whenever STORM wipes a site, due to her link with the goddesses. [[spoiler:Her health starts failing as more sites get erased, and she briefly slips into a coma at the start of Chapter 8. Even when she wakes up, her sprite is notably paler from that point until STORM is banished.]]

* BastardBoyfriend: He locked his girlfriend at the bottom of a monster-filled pit.

* DarthVaderClone: A FallenHero, wearing black armor and a life support mask, and is driven in part by the death of his loved ones. His emotional instability might reclassify him as a ''[[Film/TheForceAwakens Kylo Ren]]'' clone, if Boxxyfan hadn't debuted first by several years.

* InterspeciesRomance: With the non-human avatar-ed Feyvern, although less romantic, since he's a BastardBoyfriend.

* BadassInANiceSuit
* BaldOfAwesome: Just look at that shiny green dome!

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* EnthrallingSiren: Subverted; King Jelly paints her as this when explaining that she seduced him only to curse him into the form of a slime monster, and has done so to many others in the past, but she reveals that it was actually his fault because he went behind her back and drank the Form Spring water to receive its power, only for it to turn him into slime, and this is what really happened to the others.

A masked edgelord who hates Catie and wants to destroy the Boxxysphere. In the original game, he tries to activate the three Spires for this purpose. After being seemingly killed, he returns in the sequel as the Pale Wraith, who awakens ARPANET/Arianna and STORM, then schemes to take control of STORM for himself. Originally Random, a hero and protector of the people of the First Internet, when Catie accidentally destroyed it and wiped out his beloved family, he swore revenge.

* AxCrazy: He acts cool and composed… unless his plans are failing, in which case he goes ''nuts''.

** With Arianna for the main story of ''The Gathering Storm''. She is the one controlling STORM, but he has his own scheme to take control of it from her, and succeeds in the Epilogue. From then on, he becomes the main threat attempting to destroy the Internet and bring back the First Internet with his loved ones.

* DoNotGoGentle: He's barely clinging to life in a world that actively wants him erased, but instead of letting it happen, he's determined to restore himself and bring down the world instead.

* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The First Internet was a chaotic wasteland, and the people who lived there were clearly suffering, but Boxxyfan will stop at nothing to bring it back anyway, just to see his family again.

* FieryRedhead: Both he and his sister qualify. Boxxyfan is the destructive, raging kind of ‘fiery’, while Coria is the glowing, spirited kind.

* GrumpyBear: By the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, this is what he's been reduced to. In his final shot, he's sulking on a ferris wheel while the rest of his family enjoy themselves.

* HeelFaceTurn: Sort of- at the very end of ''The Gathering Storm'', when he learns that his people never really died and his whole quest revenge was meaningless, he drops his vendetta against Catie and (reluctantly, with prodding from Corlia) apologizes to her.

* MeaninglessVillainVictory: Finally begins to transform the Internet back into the First Internet, but not only does he accidentally revive Legion, who takes over STORM and forces him to team up with Catie to destroy it, undoing his actions, but his whole quest to revive his family turns out to be meaningless, since his family's curse wore off ''twelve minutes'' after he left. When his sister finally meets him again, she's less than impressed.

* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: He never bothers to tell the party his name, so it's displayed as ??? for the entire time he's journeying with you.

* NotQuiteDead: As the Pale Wraith, he has no avatar but hasn’t quite left the virtual plane.

* BigBadEnsemble: He helps Catie stop Boxxyfan from destroying the Boxxysphere, but only so he can take it over himself. He becomes the FinalBoss after Boxxyfan's defeat.

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[[folder:Rcoastee (spoilers for both games)]]

A mysterious being who seems to recognize Catie. He shows up occasionally to help Catie on her journey. In truth, however, he is Rcoastee, an old friend of Catie back when she had her memories, who survived the 404 Calamity and wants Catie to submit to him so he may conquer the Boxxysphere and the Internet. He is the one who made her lose her memories and manipulated the 404 Calamity to create the Third Internet, but intends to destroy it and revert it back to the Second Internet. For this purpose, he has manipulated her all along.

In the sequel's DLC, he reappears as the boss of Alwaysland 2.

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* HijackingCthulhu: By the end of the sequel’s main story, he's usurped control of STORM itself.

'''Shrimp:''' (Wait, “Random?” Is that his real name?)\\

* OmnicidalManiac: Bringing back the First Internet means killing everyone who lives in the current Internet, but that’s just fine with him. After all, it’s just fair payback.

* AMoltenDateWithDeath: [[spoiler:How he finally dies, from lava, by SmokeOut into Unichan, a lava sea]].

-->...I think I finally understand what’s going on. I finally get it... No matter how much I want to be the main character here, maybe this is actually your story. [...] I just have one request, then. You’re doing something important, right? Then take me with you. (Catie says no) GOD FUCKING DAMN IT! I was sure that would work! You fucking losers! Do you even know how much pride I had to swallow to suck up to you?! [...] Of course I was fucking faking! I mean, if the idiots of this stupid world are determined to worship you freaks, then what choice do I have?

* RecurringBoss: In the first game, you fight him a total of four times in the story, first as the WarmupBoss, then somewhere near each of the three Spires. There is also an optional battle against him in the Colosseum if you bet the Fur Coat. He can also be fought in the sequel as an optional boss in TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon if you give his name to Jimmy Walkes when asked what you are afraid of.

* HeroAntagonist: She is keeping adventurers from her Spring because the water is dangerous, and fights you out of anger at what King Jelly did (steal from her springs).

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* EvilerThanThou: He kills Boxxyfan after the latter’s defeat atop Catie’s Spire; in addition, unlike Boxxyfan who wants to destroy the Third Internet [[WellIntentionedExtremist to bring back his people and family of the First Internet]], Rcoastee wants to destroy the net out of pure lust for power, so he can rule the Second Internet.

* HijackedByGanon: Originally, in ''The Gathering Storm'', he was going to appear in the bonus Easy Mode quest and turn out to be behind the dark happenings, but the quest got cut.

The three goddesses of the Boxxysphere, each of whom has a Spire dedicated to them. They turn out to be pieces of Catie’s soul. In the sequel, they repeatedly attack Catie in her nightmares. It is further revealed that they and Catie are pieces of Virtua, the goddess of the Internet.

* GagBoobs: Not in the original, where her bust was unremarked upon, but in the sequel, Til notices and makes a remark, her breasts [[{{Gainaxing}} bounce with her sprite]], and she subjects Anonymous to MarshmellowHell in the normal end. Seriously, ''just look at them!'' (Or don't, since that makes her deeply uncomfortable).

Crissa's BastardBoyfriend who locked her at the bottom of Pit of 100 Faggots/Trolls.

* DeadAllAlong: The real Invective was killed by Rcoastee before the story began.
* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: The Invective we meet is actually Rcoastee, having killed him and taking on his form, while the real Invective never appears physically, only being described by Rcoastee.