History Characters / HighOnLife

* KnightOfCerebus: Unlike the other game villains, Dr. Gurgula brings a tone of dark, seriousness when he's present.

* EquippableAlly: The gatliens are an alien species that resemble StandardFPSGuns [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers except Knifey]]. They blur the line between this and LivingWeapon, as they are fully sapient but are shaped like and function as weapons. Knifey in particular can't do anything but hop slightly when placed onto a table -- and given how [[AxCrazy absolutely nuts]] he is about killing, this is arguably a [[RestrainingBolt beneficial thing for everybody]] in his immediate area.

* PowerArmor: His spacesuit is implied to be one [[spoiler:given that he had to trick the player into helping him get to it. It is so weel programmed that it fights exactly as he would when he dies in it]].

* AmbiguouslyRelated: The Bounty Hunter can be any ethnicity the Player chooses while Lizzie and their parents remain Caucasian, the Bounty Hunter themselves could potentially be HalpilyAdopted.

* HappilyAdopted: Since the Bounty Hunter can be any ethnicity the Player chooses while Lizzie and their parents remain Caucasian, the Bounty Hunter themselves could potentially be this trope.

* BossAlteringConsequence: It ''is'' possible to kill him earlier than intended, but you'll still have to complete his level to reach his corpse, since [[BringingBackProof you need a piece of it in order to get his bounty]]. Once you do, the game will throw an identical boss at you: [[spoiler:Douglas' own robo-suit, set on autopilot and containing his dead body]].

* SkippableBoss: Averted. It ''is'' possible to kill him earlier than intended, but you'll still have to complete his level to reach his corpse, since [[BringingBackProof you need a piece of it in order to get his bounty]]. Once you do, the game will throw an identical boss at you: [[spoiler:Douglas' own robo-suit, set on autopilot and containing his dead body]].

* {{Cyborg}}: She notably has a metal pieces grafted to her.

* TheUnintelligible: The 3 small aliens speak in a language that the translator microbes can't tanslate.

* CloningBlues: She's one of several clones.

* FunWithAcronyms: It's name is acronymed, but the previous owner admits he forgot what it stands for.

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Gene was originally a famous and feared bounty hunter. However, he had an accident, which cost him one of his eyes and both legs. By the time the Player and Kenny first meet him, he's a washed-up homeless man who got evicted from his apartment and now lives on a bench.

* TheAlcoholic: Implied-the entire [[spoiler: "Dr. Joopy"]] incident happened because Douglas was hung over after a wild party and couldn't find his way back to the local G3 base in time.

* PowerArmor: His spacesuit is implied to be one [[spoiler:given that he had to trick the player into helping him get to it]].

* AmbiguousSituation: Knifey's unsure if he's a Gatlien like the rest of the weapons, or if he's part of some other alien race.
* AwesomeAussie: Michael Cusack is clearly having the time of his life.
* AxCrazy: The knife ''does not'' shut up about his desire to violently murder everyone around him. His own wielders aren't even exempt from this, as he tries to talk the player into stabbing themself and his former owner Gene.

* StandardFPSGuns: The Knife.

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[[folder:Lizzie]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LauraSilverman

The PlayerCharacter's laid-back sister. While the Bounty Hunter jumps headlong into space travel stopping the [=G3=], she typically stays at home but tries to make the most of the new world she's been brought into.

* DeadpanSnarker: Almost everything she says has varyingly thick layers of sarcasm applied to it, to the point she consistently has to clarify when she's being genuine about certain things, such as having another girl join the team.
* FishOutOfWater: A part of the reason she's so snarky is that she's trying to come to terms with getting displaced from her home and landing on an alien planet.
* InterspeciesRomance: Strikes one up with an alien named Tweeg as part of her own ventures into the city, the game kind of delves into the whirlwind romance angle of such a thing, as they try to make it work even with BizarreAlienBiology in play. [[spoiler:They eventually break up, not due to how different they are in this regard but because Tweeg proclaims in a boldfaced way how he is a flakey, greedy jerkass, which overrides his affection for her when it matters and almost (and if choices are made, actually does) sell out their location to the [=G3=] ]].
* LittleSisterHeroine: Downplayed, as neither she nor the player's ages are clarified.
* SitcomArchNemesis: A complicated version with Gene. They are constantly at each other's throats with their verbal sparring, but Gene seems to take more fun with it and grows fond of both Liz and the Bounty Hunter fairly quickly. Lizzie is far more reluctant to welcome Gene into their home and crash on their couch, viewing him as someone who just wants the Bounty Hunter to live vicariously through. As Gene continuously questions her decisions out of concern for her, she slowly warms up to him as a father figure and eventually even helps him in his project to revitalize [[spoiler:Lezduit]].
* SoProudOfYou: Lizzie tells the Bounty Hunter that she's proud of them and that she's happy they're doing some good during their adventure. She clarifies that her being proud of her sibling for going out and doing something and Gene's squatting in their home are separate situations.

[[folder:Gene Zaroothian]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DavidHerman

A famous BountyHunter that Kenny directs the player to for help, which he ends up doing by teaching them how to be a bounty hunter in exchange for letting him stay at their house.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JustinRoiland

->'''Voiced by:''' Michael Cusack

Gene's old knife.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JBSmoove

->'''Voiced by:''' Betsy Sodaro

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In the "High on Knife" DLC, it's stated that the Bounty Hunter dropped and lost Kenny sometime during the two years between the main game and the DLC. He's replaced with the mechanically-identical Harper.