History Characters / Deponia

* RageBreakingPoint: She honestly tries to hold back her temper, but there's only so much she can do. PlayedForLaughs in ''Chaos on Deponia'', where making her lose it nets you an achievement and a NonStandardGameOver, as well as in ''Deponia Doomsday''. Progressing through Goodbye Deponia'' [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption also requires you to make her lose it]].

* {{Catchphrase}}: Gives herself one, to say any time she comes back in control
-->B-b-b-Baby Goal!

* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:He wants to blow up Deponia to save his daughter on Elysium, but his daughter was the fugitive trying to stop his plans the whole time.]]

* DragonInChief: Ulysses might be the leader of the Organon, but Argus is carrying out the plan to destroy Deponia, and is the one directly hunting Goal.
* [[spoiler: EvilTwin: To Rufus and Cletus]]

* [[spoiler:MilitaryCoup]]: [[spoiler:Intends to carry out one on Elyisum, as the Organon are effectively its military]].
* TheStarscream: Bailiff Argus makes it clear in his first few appearances that he has his own plans that go against his superiors. [[spoiler:Even when everyone is working together to ensure their mutual survival at the end of Goodbye Deponia, he tries to kill Rufus and Cletus and still fully intends to carry out his plan to take over Elysium with the Organon.]]

* BigBad: He's the one ultimately overseeing the plan to blow up Deponia--and hiding that it's inhabited.

* [[spoiler: HeelRealization]]: [[spoiler: Over Argus's betrayal and learning that his daughter was the fugitive he was hunting the whole time, Ulysses has a change of heart about Deponia's destruction, but not before it becomes too late to stop the detonation himself. He ends up staying behind on the crashing highboat to keep it stable during evacuation.]]
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]: [[spoiler:As a consequence of the above]].

* AffablyEvil: He works for the Organon but he's polite to a fault. Possibly a case of PunchClockVillain, since he doesn't seem to have any evil intentions of his own and everything he does is out of a sense of obedience (which he possibly is programmed to feel).

Go [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Rufus}} here]] for his self-demonstrating page.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Natch. It runs deeper than just Goal, however: Toni's hair is strawberry blonde.

* CloneAgnst: [[spoiler: Initially refuses to accept the truth, although Hermes assures him that [[ClonesArePeopleToo it isn't something to be ashamed of,]] due to the unique life he's lived in spite of his engineered DNA.]]

* [[spoiler: CloningBlues]]: [[spoiler: Initially refuses to accept the truth, although Hermes assures him that [[ClonesArePeopleToo it isn't something to be ashamed of,]] due to the unique life he's lived in spite of his engineered DNA.]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: In her mob-boss outfit she dresses without any shoes or socks, and only wears boots when [[spoiler:Lady Goal is in her head and dresses like an Elysian.]]

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: As [[spoiler: General of the Resistance,]] everyone loves him and jumps behind his plans, entirely forgetting Rufus in the process - though it helps that most of them hated Rufus, and that his claim that Rufus is an idiot that nearly got them all killed isn't entirely false. However, his approval rating drops considerably when he goes a step too far and [[spoiler: tries to kill Rufus with a gun.]]

* BadassBaritone: [[DownplayedTrope Though she doesn't get too many chances to prove her badassery in the first game]], her voice certainly matches, and she grows to be one in the next games when she joins the resistance.

* ChewToy: Ever since meeting Rufus she spends most her time proving that SlapstickKnowsNoGender, and in fact may be the most unlucky character in the series given that Rufus brings his misfortune on himself. Over the course of three games, she's been dropped from cruisers, brain damaged, thrown around like a ragdoll for hours, given botched brain surgery, split into [[SplitPersonality three personalities]] (one of which gets struck by lightning), caught in the axle of a moving vehicle and [[spoiler: injected with a nearly fatal dose of truth serum,]] and that's just the most prominent stuff. She's actually a mix between resigned and amused by it all. In ''Goodbye,'' she sums up her role fairly well after another one of Rufus' hijinks goes awry.

* FailureHero: A textbook example of the DownplayedTrope. On one hand, he tends to be quite good at defeating the Organon or giving them trouble; on the other though, he never actually manages to accomplish his ultimate [[{{Pun}} Goal]] of reaching Elysium, being with Goal [[spoiler: or preventing the Doomsday]]; and whenever his [[WhatAnIdiot own idiocy doesn't screw things up]], it is his [[DiabolusExMachina awful luck]] what makes everything go sour whenever he's around, [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption even when he genuinely tries to do better]].

* NiceHat: All three of them have hats made by the same person who did their junkyard-scavaged roofs--it serves as a visual clue of whose house is whose.

* DarthVaderClone: While he doesn't have a booming bass voice, a breathing problem or a laser sword, he happens to be a ruthless chief enforcer of a tyrannical government clad in distinctive heavy armor sporting a BadassCape and a RadioVoice.

* [[spoiler: YouGottaHaveBlueHair]]: [[spoiler: Originally had green hair.]]

* [[spoiler: YouGottaHaveBlueHair]]: [[spoiler: Originally his hair was blue.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has pink hair. [[spoiler:It might possibly be a dye, since her baby clone has red hair.]]

* BadassBeard: Which is apparently a family trait grown from drinking Bozos mother's breast milk.

* NotSoDifferent: This is, in part, what accounts for the above. Made particularly apparent in ''Deponia Doomsday'', where Goal herself engages in a ZanyScheme that is a direct mirror-flipped version of the one Rufus was attempting, coming up with it apparently all on her own, and beating him to the punch in successfully using it to remove the obstacle blocking their progress. When Rufus finds out about this (despite Goal's attempt to keep it a secret), [[WhenSheSmiles she gives him a smile]].

* NotSoDifferent: Despite constantly chewing Rufus out for his shortcomings, Cletus is not that different from him; particularly in terms of arrogance. This is beautifully lampshaded in their first meeting, when [[StopCopyingMe they can't stop saying the same words to each other]].[[spoiler: [[JustifiedTrope Justified too]], as it turns out he and Rufus are two of the three original prototypes for the Organon soldiers]].

* NotSoDifferent: He and Rufus are very similar: they both have massive egos and care only about themselves, both hate Deponia and think having to stay there is beneath them, and both believe they are entitled to things and are willing to screw over other people to get what they want. But it says a lot about Seagull that between the two, Rufus actually comes off as a much better person.

A {{transgender}} secretary to Mayor Lotek who, like everyone else in Kuvaq, is constantly frustrated by Rufus. In the third game she reappears as a member of the Resistance.

* ActionGirl: [[{{Transgender}} Although not a conventional female character,]] she still counts, as she joins LaResistance with Toni and Bambina.

* {{Transgender}}: She dresses up in a pink dress and a wig in the first game and tries to talk with a falsetto, while the third game confirms she's taking female-conversion hormones (which you later use in a puzzle.)

* IObjectToThatLastOne: Back when they were dating, she didn't like Rufus calling her "snuggle bunny", even though she was fine with it actually meaning "choleric little viper with a delectable derriere."

* NoRespectGuy: He's the laughingstock of the Paradox City time travellers, but