History Characters / Psychonauts

* [[Characters/PsychonautsTheMentalWorld The Mental World]][[note]]The G-Men, The Rainbow Squirts & Den Mother, The Milkman, Jasper Rolls, Stage Actors, Napoleon Bonaparte, El Odio, Lampita Pasionado and Dingo Inflagrante, Tiger, Dragon, Eagle, and Cobra, Dog Painters, The Butcher, Evil Augustus, Censors, Personal Demons, Nightmares, Lady Luctopus, "Harry Heptadome" / Mote of Light / PSI-King, Feast of the Senses, Gluttonous Goats, The Librarian / Die-brarian, The Moth, Truheltia Memonstria, Doubts, Regrets, Panic Attack, Bad Ideas, Judges, Enablers, Bad Moods, The Final Boss[[/note]]

* [[Characters/PsychonautsMainCharacters Main Characters]][[note]]Razputin "Raz" Aquato, Lili Zanotto[[/note]]
* [[Characters/PsychonautsWhisperingRockPsychicSummerCamp Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp]][[note]]Dogen Boole, Bobby Zilch, Benny "The Nose" Fideleo, Chloe Barge, Clem Foote, Crystal Flowers Snagrash, Elka Doom, Elton Fir, Franke Athens, Kitty Bubai, James "J.T." Theodore Hoofburger, Maloof Canola, Melvin "Chops" Sweetwind, Mikhail "Misha" Bulgakov, Milka Phage, Nils Lutefisk, Phoebe Love, Quentin Hegdemouse, Vernon Tripe, Coach Morceau Oleander, Ford Cruller, Camilla "Milla" Vodello, Sasha Nein[[/note]]

* [[Characters/PsychonautsWhisperingRocksPsychicSummerCamp Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp]][[note]]Dogen Boole, Bobby Zilch, Benny "The Nose" Fideleo, Chloe Barge, Clem Foote, Crystal Flowers Snagrash, Elka Doom, Elton Fir, Franke Athens, Kitty Bubai, James "J.T." Theodore Hoofburger, Maloof Canola, Melvin "Chops" Sweetwind, Mikhail "Misha" Bulgakov, Milka Phage, Nils Lutefisk, Phoebe Love, Quentin Hegdemouse, Vernon Tripe, Coach Morceau Oleander, Ford Cruller, Camilla "Milla" Vodello, Sasha Nein[[/note]]

* [[Characters/PsychonautsWhisperingRockPsychicSummerCamp Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp]][[note]]Dogen Boole, Bobby Zilch, Benny "The Nose" Fideleo, Chloe Barge, Clem Foote, Crystal Flowers Snagrash, Elka Doom, Elton Fir, Franke Athens, Kitty Bubai, James "J.T." Theodore Hoofburger, Maloof Canola, Melvin "Chops" Sweetwind, Mikhail "Misha" Bulgakov, Milka Phage, Nils Lutefisk, Phoebe Love, Quentin Hegdemouse, Vernon Tripe, Coach Morceau Oleander, Ford Cruller, Camilla "Milla" Vodello, Sasha Nein[[/note]]

* [[Characters/PsychonautsWhisperingRocksPsychicSummerCamp Whispering Rocks Psychic Summer Camp]][[note]]Dogen Boole, Bobby Zilch, Benny "The Nose" Fideleo, Chloe Barge, Clem Foote, Crystal Flowers Snagrash, Elka Doom, Elton Fir, Franke Athens, Kitty Bubai, James "J.T." Theodore Hoofburger, Maloof Canola, Melvin "Chops" Sweetwind, Mikhail "Misha" Bulgakov, Milka Phage, Nils Lutefisk, Phoebe Love, Quentin Hegdemouse, Vernon Tripe, Coach Morceau Oleander, Ford Cruller, Camilla "Milla" Vodello, Sasha Nein[[/note]]

* [[Characters/PsychonautsTheRealWorld The Real World]][[note]]Dr. Caligosto Loboto, D.D.S., Crispin Whytehead, Boyd Cooper, Gloria von Gouten, Fred Bonaparte, Edgar Teglee, Sheegor, Linda, the Hideous Hulking Lungfish of Lake Oblongata, Mr. Pokeylope, Harold, Dr. Potts, Gzar Theodore Malik, The Deluginist Mastermind, Raz's Archetype[[/note]]

* [[Characters/PsychonautsPsychonauts Psychonauts]][[note]]Truman Zanotto, Hollis Forsythe, Nick Johnsmith, Larry, Lori, Agent 33, Terryl, Harold, Otto Mentallis, Compton Boole, Cassie O'Pia, Helmut Fullbear, Bob Zanotto, Lucrecia "Lucy" Mux, Adam Joseph Gette, Morris Martinez, Lizzie, Norma, Sam Boole, Gisu[[/note]]

* [[Characters/PsychonautsTheRealWorld The Real World]][[note]]Dr. Caligosto Loboto, D.D.S., Crispin Whytehead, Boyd Cooper, Gloria von Gouten, Fred Bonaparte, Edgar Teglee, Sheegor, Linda, the Hideous Hulking Lungfish of Lake Oblongata, Mr. Pokeylope, Delugionaries, Dr. Potts, Gzar Theodore Malik, The Deluginist Mastermind, Raz's Archetype[[/note]]

* [[Characters/PsychonautsPsychonauts Psychonauts]][[note]]Truman Zanotto, Hollis Forsythe, Nick Johnsmith, Larry, Lori, Agent 33, Terryl, Harold, Otto Mentallis, Compton Boole, Cassie O'Pia, Helmut Fullbear, Bob Zanotto, Lucracia "Lucy" Mux, Adam Joseph Gette, Morris Martinez, Lizzie, Norma, Sam Boole, Gisu[[/note]]

* [[Characters/PsychonautsTheMentalWorld The Mental World]][[note]]The G-Men, The Rainbow Squirts & Den Mother, The Milkman, Jasper Rolls, Stage Actors, Napoleon Bonaparte, El Odio, Lampita Pasionado and Dingo Inflagrante, Tiger, Dragon, Eagle, and Cobra, Dog Painters, The Butcher, Censors, Personal Demons, Nightmares, Lady Luctopus, "Harry Heptadome" / Mote of Light / PSI-King, Feast of the Senses, Gluttonous Goats, The Librarian / Die-brarian, The Moth, Truheltia Memonstria, Doubts, Regrets, Panic Attack, Bad Ideas, Judges, Enablers, Bad Moods, The Final Boss[[/note]]

* [[Characters/PsychonautsTheRealWorld The Real World]][[note]]Dr. Caligosto Loboto, D.D.S., Crispin Whytehead, Boyd Cooper, Gloria von Gouten, Fred Bonaparte, Edgar Teglee, Sheegor, Linda, the Hideous Hulking Lungfish of Lake Oblongata, Mr. Pokeylope, Delugionaires, Dr. Potts, Gzar Theodore Malik, The Delugionist Mastermind, Raz's Archetype[[/note]]

* [[Characters/PsychonautsTheRealWorld The Real World]][[note]]Dr. Caligosto Loboto, D.D.S., Crispin Whytehead, Boyd Cooper, Gloria von Gouten, Fred Bonaparte, Edgar Teglee, Sheegor, Linda, the Hideous Hulking Lungfish of Lake Oblongata, Mr. Pokeylope, Delugionairesm, Dr. Potts, Gzar Theodore Malik, The Delugionist Mastermind, Raz's Archetype[[/note]]

Beware spoilers for ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'' for characters who appear in that game.

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!Main Characters
[[folder:Razputin "Raz" Aquato]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz
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->''"They may come for me, Dogen. But when they do, they'll be looking for Raz, the boy. What they'll find... what they won't expect... is Raz, the Psychonaut."''

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The game's protagonist. A {{circus|Brat}} boy from a family of UsefulNotes/{{roma|ni}} acrobats, who [[InvertedTrope ran]] ''[[InvertedTrope away]]'' [[InvertedTrope from the circus]], [[{{Deconstruction}} which was also his home]], due to his father trying to suppress his latent psychic ability.

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His greatest wish is to become a Psychonaut, and he thinks Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp can help him do that, but standing in his way is an evil plan to [[TakeOverTheWorld take over the world]], and the fact that his dad is going to be picking him up in 24 hours because he never got parental permission to be there.

* AllThereInTheManual: His last name, "Aquato", is never officially mentioned in game (it only appears on a poster). It later appears in the trailer for ''Rhombus of Ruin''.
* AlmightyJanitor: He's merely a camper in the first game, and an intern in the second, he still saves the world nonetheless.
* ArchnemesisDad: One of the game's final bosses is [[spoiler:Raz's personal perception of his father: a twisted, sadistic individual who wants his son to drown]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler:his actual father isn't anything like this]].
* AscendedFanboy: He'd memorized all of the ''True Psychic Tales'' comics before getting a chance to become a Psychonaut himself. He even cites an incident from a specific issue if you go to talk to Coach Oleander about the bear running around the camp.
* AwesomeBackpack: Whenever he gets a new ability, Raz does his PstandardPsychicPstance, and the merit badge flies around before landing on his backpack. It's also able to hold quite a few weird things in it, like a dowsing rod and several large black velvet paintings that are larger than the backpack itself.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: How much cooler do names get than "Razputin 'Raz' Aquato"?
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[spoiler:At the end of ''2'', he's officially dubbed a Junior Psychonaut]].
* AmbiguouslyBrown: He has tanned skin, a Russian first name and a vaguely Italian last name. His backstory explicitly shows him as Roma however (though from a fictional eastern European country).
* BadassInANiceSuit: Not only does he wear a rather slick suit in the tutorial stage of ''2'', he can swap to it, or any clothes he has for that matter, in the cafeteria bathroom.
* BadassLongcoat: ''Psychonauts 2'' sees Raz wearing a new jacket, which is slightly longer and darker than his original one,[[spoiler: after his old clothes are stolen from him in a hazing ritual by the Interns, and Sasha provides him his smallest hand-me-downs. Doubles as a MythologyGag, given that it makes him look like how Sasha sees him under Clairvoyance in the first game.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: Somewhat at the beginning with Lili, but it's resolved when [[spoiler:he happily becomes Lili's boyfriend, sharing a few kisses with her by the end.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct: How he treats some of the younger kids, like Maloof, Dogen and Lil' Oly.
* BorrowedCatchPhrase: He adopts Bobby Zilch's VictoryDance as his own.
* TheCameo:
** He can have a likeness of his head chiseled into a mountain in ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'', shows up as a dancer in ''Double Fine Happy Action Theatre'', and his goggles/helmet and turtleneck are wearable in ''VideoGame/IronBrigade''.
** Raz is playable in the "Good Friends" DLC for [[VideoGame/BitTrip Runner 2]].
** He also shows up in the Queensland level of ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns''. Given the nature of the game, he's somewhat...[[DeathByCameo worse for wear]].
* ChildProdigy: Raz was able to learn every psychic ability in the camp's curriculum, pass every obstacle course provided to him, fight armies of censors and monsters in the mental world, cure the mental-illness of four insane individuals, rescue psychonauts with years of experience ahead of him, find and rebrain every one of his fellow campers, dismantle a world-domination plot and become history's youngest psychonaut ''all over the course of a single day. At age ten.''
** Even before receiving any training, Raz has psychic defenses fully-trained Psychonauts cannot penetrate, can Double Jump, and perform acrobatics like nobody's business. The latter due to his father's TrainingFromHell.
* CircusBrat: His circus training explains his talent as a trapeze artist.
* CircusOfFear: Appropriately enough, areas of his own mind.
* CompressedHair: His aviator hat almost completely hides his hair (a bit of his bangs peek out). When Raz is bare-headed, he's quite handsome.
* CrazyPrepared: Exactly what prompted him to keep a pair of goggles for the express purpose of not getting his eyes plucked out?
* DaddyIssues: While there's thankfully nothing regarding his mother involved (though ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'' reveals that she ''does'' hate psychics), Raz clearly has ''very'' serious issues with his father. [[spoiler:Said complex is actually one of the game's final bosses, as Raz ultimately learns that the things he believed about his father were untrue and he shouldn't continue to hate him.]]
* DamselOutOfDistress: In ''Rhombus of Ruin'', Raz spends the entirety of the mission tied up in a chair, but his unusually high resistance to psilurium lets him save the day by {{Body Surf}}ing to get them out of the mess they're stuck in.
* DeadpanSnarker: In the latter half of the game, he gets quite a few in.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: His abnormally powerful mental defenses actually work against him in the endgame: [[spoiler: they force him to go up against the Meat Circus alone, before his father finally makes his way into his head just in time for the final boss]].
* EmbarrassingNickname: His mother and grandmother call him "Pootie".
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Raz's father hates psychics, and spent as much time as he could pushing his son away from the idea. Him ripping up the Whispering Rock Pamphlet was the final straw, leading Raz to run away. [[spoiler:This is ultimately subverted, however, as most of the things Raz assumes about his father turn out to not be true. He doesn't actually hate all psychics but knows their family has many enemies due to their own past and inherent psychic abilities, keeping Raz from exposing himself to that world was a misguided attempt to protect him]].
* FatalFlaw: Impulsiveness. [[DidNotThinkThisThrough Raz is extremely prone to making a lot of decisions without considering all of the factors or consequences, which tends to snowball into bigger problems later down the line.]] When Sasha Nein leaves him alone with the Censor creating device, he chooses to set it to the highest setting and causes the situation to balloon wildly out of control. Later, his decision to go into Boyd's mind [[spoiler: leads to him letting out the Milkman arsonist personality implanted by Oleander, which]] puts the entire Thorney Towers ruin into danger. Raz' decision to run away from home to become a psychic, while ultimately beneficial in many ways, also leads to a point [[spoiler: in the Meat Circus]] where he has to face his inner demons alone because no one who is familiar enough with him and his mental defenses is there to help him out. And this is just the first game. In the sequel, his impulsiveness leads [[spoiler:him to alter Hollis Forsythe's mind, and in the process accidentally implants a gambling addiction]] to near disastrous consequences for the Casino Mission. His decision in the previous game to run away also puts a strain on him and the rest of his family's relations when they come to find him [[spoiler: and also nearly brings back a dangerous villain locked away in the subconscious of his great grand-aunt Nona due to her returning to the Motherlobe where Raz was currently at for the first time in ''decades'', and thus allowing her repressed memories to begin resurfacing]].
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Somewhere between ''1'' and ''2'', Raz lost the ability to make a shield, turn invisible, or create confusion grenades, which would have been ''very'' useful in ''2''. Given that Clairvoyance is similarly unavailable until Raz reaches a situation where he realises it'd be useful in the beginning levels, its implied that Raz ''literally'' forgot about some of his psychic powers- which arguably makes sense given how many of them he acquired in rapid succession over the course of a single day.
* TheGift: Raz is an extremely gifted and talented psychic. Despite having little to no training, he was able to [[PsychicBlockDefense block Coach Oleander's attempts to read his mind]] and is also a quick learner, able to master in days what other psychic take months (or even ''years'') to learn. [[spoiler: Turns out it's a family trait.]]
* GogglesDoNothing: {{Lampshaded}} by the G-Men in the MilkmanConspiracy. Later answered to [[spoiler:the [[MamaBear Den Mother]]]], that level's final boss, [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual as being to prevent]] [[EyeScream his eyes being plucked out]]...
* GypsyCurse: The cause of his (and his entire family's) SuperDrowningSkills. [[spoiler:Except not really.]]
* HatesTheirParent: Raz hates his father for hating psychics and trying to dissuade him from becoming one. As a result, Raz runs away from the circus in hopes of becoming a Psychonaut like the ones he's always admired.
* TheHero: Of course.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Seeing as he is red-headed himself, it goes both ways with Lili. However it's inverted, in as much as Lili desires ''him'' first.
* HeroUnit: He's basically Fred's HypercompetentSidekick in Waterloo World
* IconicOutfit: His turtleneck, helmet, and of course, his goggles.
* InsistentTerminology: Raz would like you to know that True Psychic Tales is a graphic non-fiction periodical, not a comic book.
* InstantExpert: Despite being a naive, dorky amateur, Raz is able to quickly master any psychic power he learns due to a natural talent for it. This is part of why he's accepted into the camp. Not only is he able to master all those powers, he's skilled enough with them to ''cure five people'', [[spoiler:including himself, with a bit of help from his father,]] of their psychoses. All in one day!
* InTheBlood: ''2'' suggests [[spoiler:the Hand of Galochio was actually created from an inherent talent for Hydrokinesis passed down from his Great Aunt, Maligula, one of the most powerful masters of Hydrokinesis ever]].
* IronicName: Despite being an Aquato, he's hydrophobic.
* JackOfAllStats: He's nowhere near as skilled at each Psychic Ability as the specialists in each, but his sheer variety adds a lot of versatility that goes a long way towards his success.
* {{Kaiju}}: Upon entering the mind of [[ItMakesSenseInContext a giant mutated lungfish]], he finds himself in miniature city populated by fish people. It's not exactly clear if Raz is really big, or the city is just really small, but he can't seem to resist pretending to be one of these.
* KidHero: He's ten years old by the time of the game.
* KillItWithWater: The Aquato family was supposedly cursed by another psychic family the Galochios to "die in water." It routinely manifests in the form of a hand made of water ready to drag Raz into the depths and drown him. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Or it could just be in his head.]] [[spoiler:After defeating Maligula, this becomes a SubvertedTrope as now the Hand of Galochia actively helps him out.]]
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Ran away from home to become a Psychonaut, and gets to interact with [[spoiler:and even save the lives of]] his heroes. Using [[spoiler:Clairvoyance]] on the senior agents reveals [[spoiler:Ford sees him as a Psychonaut already, Sasha sees him as a younger version of himself (and even tells him that outright), and Milla is very fond of him as well]]. It's implied Lili is very much the same way about them.
* MakingASplash:[[spoiler: The revelation his family's curse was actually a placebo created by Ford too keep Maligula at bay (and that Maligua is his ''great-aunt'') implies Raz might have tremendous untapped potential for hydrokinesis, something supported by the fact the Hand of Galochio starts ''saving'' him from drowning during the postgame in ''2''.]]
* MeaningfulName: Mr. Aquato has a SuperDrowningSkills curse and ([[MyNaymeIs an altered spelling of]]) the first name of an infamous hypnotist monk who supposedly died by drowning ([[RasputinianDeath eventually]]).
** The "Raz" part of his name comes from Razmig "Raz" Mavlian, a concept artist who works at Creator/DoubleFine.
* MessianicArchetype: To Sheegor. Using Clairvoyance on her will reveal she sees Raz as ''Jesus''.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: He's right in the middle of ''five'' kids. They're only seen in the first game in Raz's Mental Vault, but it's not a stretch at all to assume that this influenced his current personality. The entire family comes in to help him in the sequel; Raz has mixed feelings about that.
* MyBelovedSmother: Raz's reaction to seeing his mom fawning over him indicates this.
* NaiveNewcomer: While he has read every book possible about being a Psychonaut, his view on how becoming one actually works is still pretty oversimplified.
* NiceGuy: He's not perfect, but he's definitely a lot more agreeable and empathetic than [[DysfunctionJunction a good percent of the other characters]]. It's particularly noticeable in the final stretch of the game, in which [[spoiler:he and Lili are the only campers who stick around to help after he rebrains all of them.]] Despite having a bit of a reckless streak and occasionally being a bit cheeky, his heart is in the right place, and it's clear he's in this for more than himself.
* NiceHat: Aviator helmet and omnipresent goggles.
* NotSoDifferent: With Lili. Both have a certain thrill for adventure, both are gifted psychics at a very young age, both got along well with Dogen and always trying to look out for him. Plus they're some of the more saner and serious of the campers and know how to make a good joke or two.
* ObliviousToLove: It takes him a while to catch on to Lili's affection, especially considering how smart he is. Justified, though, since he is only ten years old and having a very busy three days to boot.
* OfficialCouple: With Lili.
* OppositesAttract: With Lili, her being somewhat more tame and jaded between the two of them at times. She a little more of a recluse when compared to how Raz is more gregarious.
* OnlySaneMan: At certain points. Sometimes, quite literally.
* PaperThinDisguise: He only needs a single prop for the agents in Boyd's mind to think he's a specific job. Justified because they do the exact same, and it was probably done so for RuleOfFunny.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: In the final stretch of ''Rhombus of Ruin'', he panics when it seems like [[spoiler:the rest of the Psychonauts are leaving him behind as the UnderwaterBase explodes. Luckily, they had already carried his body aboard their jet and he simply hadn't realized it due to spending most of the mission [[BodySurf hopping]] from [[OutOfBodyExperience mind to mind]] with clairvoyance.]]
-->'''Raz:''' Hey. Hey, you guys! What about me?! Don't just leave me here! You guys?!
* PleaseKeepYourHatOn: Maybe its because we get so little time to get used to it, but when he finally takes his hat off during the very end of the game, he just doesn't look as cool.
* PuppyLove: He's intrigued when Lili's blurts that she wants to make out with him. [[spoiler:By the end of the game, they've officially hooked up and have already shared a few kisses.]]
* PrettyBoy: Is somewhat this, especially with his topaz eyes, which is part of the reason Lili falls for him.
* PsychicBlockDefense:
** How he is first introduced as a badass when the camp coach fails to probe his mind in the opening cutscene. Keep in mind, Coach Oleander is a Psychonaut with years of training. Raz received little to no psychic training whatsoever. Others such as Sasha and [[spoiler:his father]] have commented on it being uncommon for someone his age. Though it also works against him at times, [[spoiler: such as the final level of the first game, where his strong psychic defenses make it very difficult for anyone to get in and help him when he has to face his personal demons and Oleander's demons alone.]]
--->'''Coach Oleander''': Armored like a tank!
** It also protects him from the effects of Psitanium to a degree.
* {{Pyromaniac}}: He's unusually giddy when it comes time to learn Pyrokinesis.
* RedBaron: He's nicknamed "Goggalor" during the Lungfishopolis stage.
* RummageSaleReject: Wears a bright green turtleneck, a flight helmet and jacket, and a large pair of tinted goggles. His outfit makes a lot more sense once you realize he's deliberately aping how Sasha looks, with his turtleneck and coat directly matching Sasha's own fashion sense.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: He has bright green eyes, red hair poking out of his flight helmet, and is the game's protagonist and a psychic prodigy.
* SuperDrowningSkills: To the point where even figurative depictions of water (such as cardboard waves) can damage him. Justified, since his family was cursed by a rival circus family, the Galochios, to always drown when submerged in water. Either Raz has created a psychic placebo, or there really is an external curse. [[spoiler: It turns out to be both in a way, as the curse was implanted into his grandmother's mind by Ford, and both his father and himself believe it to the point where Raz sees the hand which tries to drown him, but after defeating Maligula, the 'curse' is broken, and now the Hand ''helps'' Raz out of a watery death.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: Stops hurting animals with his psychic powers between the first and second game, even gaining the ability to ''pet'' them telepathically. He'll often sheepishly bring up his behavior from the first game, showing he does regret how he behaved.
* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler: Almost everything he says about his father, due to a misunderstanding]].
* WarriorTherapist: Helps alleviate the mental trauma of the minds of those he enters in the series using encouragement, kindness, sympathy, and perseverance. Not to mention his powerful psychic abilities to beat the crap out of the personal demons.
* WeaksauceWeakness: He has SuperDrowningSkills, because of a curse on his family to die in water.
* WellDoneSonGuy: While he never gives any indication of it outright; he seems to simply dislike his father more than anything, the fact that [[spoiler:the image of his father that we see in his mind constantly belittles and taunts him for being a disappointment]] could very well be an indication that he secretly wants his approval.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He's ''deathly'' afraid of water, and for very good reason.
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[[folder:Lili Zanotto]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Nikki Rapp
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->''"You are so immature! (thinking) [[{{Tsundere}} And cute!]] When are you just gonna shut up and kiss me?"''

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The aloof and standoffish daughter of the Grand Head of the Psychonauts, and veteran at the camp, Lili is a [[ChildProdigy powerful psychic]] and serial truant who would rather [[TalkingToPlants garden]] than go to class.

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She falls in love with Raz at first sight, and he rekindles her excitement for the Psychonauts, which had faded into apathy because the world "didn't need them anymore." It is then revealed that she is both an avid fan of True Psychic Tales, more than ready to [[ActionGirl throw down in a fight]], and quite forward in pursuit of a relationship.
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* ActionGirl: Her first reaction to getting captured is to try to set her captor on fire. Her first reaction to realizing she's trapped in an old fighter jet is to blow it up with bombs.
* BelligerentSexualTension: At the beginning with Raz, but it eventually dies down.
* BurningWithAnger: In ''2'', when she [[spoiler:confronts Gristol in his own mind, she sets the gift shop around her ablaze as she [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique angrily and violently interrogates him]] over the whereabouts of her father's brain]].
* CharacterDevelopment: A subtle example regarding her feelings for Raz: in the original Psychonauts, if Raz uses Clairvoyance on Lili, she sees him as a PrinceCharming holding a rose, as she fell in LoveAtFirstSight and has an idealized view of Raz. In Psychonauts 2, if Raz uses Clairvoyance on Lili [[spoiler:before Raz speaks to her and cheers her up, she sees him as a judge due to thinking she's a terrible daughter to Truman. If he uses Clairvoyance on Lili ''after'' he speaks to her and cheers her up, she no longer sees him as a PrinceCharming. Instead, she sees him as a shining, slightly better version of his real self, dressed in his ordinary outfit. She now loves Raz as his real self, and his image is a slightly better version in her mind because now Raz's real self is preferable to the prince charming image she had before.]]
* ChildProdigy: She's a veteran of the camp, is a gifted psychic, and has passed every test and earned every merit badge by the time she meets Raz, plus she has a whole other ability that Raz doesn't (herbaphony, the ability to talk to plants).
* ClosetGeek: Excitedly rattles off an incident from a specific issue of the in-universe 'True Psychic Tales' comic that mirrors what's happening at the camp now, then immediately covers her mouth, as if she's embarrassed to saying that to Raz.
* DaddysGirl: Considering how worried she is about her father, she definitely is this.
* DamselInDistress: Despite being badass, she still needs to be rescued and it's a major plot point in the game. It annoys her terribly.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: A female one, as well as the {{Love Interest}}.
* FauxActionGirl: In the first game, where she spends most of her involvement in the plot as a DamselInDistress. However, by the second game, she takes a more active role in her own escape.
* GirlInTheTower: [[spoiler:Is held by Loboto at the top of Thorney Towers after she's snatched off the lakeshore by the Hulking Lungfish, setting Raz's destination for the second half of the game.]]
* {{Goth}}: She matches this trope in style and general attitude, being aloof and brooding and wearing dark clothing and makeup.
* JustIgnoreIt: How she deals with Elton's romantic advances. Unfortunately due to Elton's [[NoSocialSkills complete and utter lack of social graces]] this means that [[InsaneTrollLogic he thinks she's giving him the all clear to be her boyfriend.]] [[http://www.doublefine.com/campster/Lili.htm Her Campster page]] shows that her avoiding the other campers means that they ''also'' think Elton is her boyfriend because he's their only source of information and humorously leads to a stretch of comments revealing that he's "cheating" on her with Milka that, much like the rest of her Campster page, Lili entirely ignores.
* LittleMissBadass
-->'''Lili''': I'm gonna kill you ''so much''.
* LittleMissSnarker: Ten-ish years old, serious, and critically snarky.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Watch her face and knees in the opening cutscene when Raz starts talk, when taking off his googles. A good chunk of her interactions with Raz involve her trying, and failing, to repress this fact.
* LoveInterest: Of Raz.
* MixedAncestry: Due to her skin and surname, she appears to be of Italian descent.
* NotSoDifferent: With Razputin. Both have a certain thrill for adventure, both are gifted psychics at a very young age, both got along well with Dogen, trying to look out for him. Plus they're some of the more saner and serious of the campers and know how to make a good joke or two, and Lili had [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents certain perceived issues]] with her Dad.
* OfficialCouple: With Raz.
* OnlySaneWoman: Her feelings for Raz and jaded personality aside, she is the only one who takes the conspiracy happening seriously, [[WhileRomeBurns all of the other campers too caught up in their own personal minutia (when their brains aren't gone) to help]].
* OppositesAttract: With Razputin, her being somewhat more tame and jaded between the two of them at times. She a little more of a recluse when compared to how Raz is more gregarious.
* PowerPerversionPotential: An unwitting victim of this. At one point, Lili calls Raz stupid, only for her to realize that he can read minds when she also thinks that he's cute and asks when he will "shut up and kiss [her]."
* PunctuatedPounding: Delivers one [[spoiler:to Gristol in his mental world]] towards the end of ''2''.
--->'''Lili''': Where. *thwack* Is. *thwack* [[spoiler: My. *thwack* Dad's. *thwack* BRAIN?]]
* {{Pyromaniac}}: Even Raz comments how better she is at Pyrokinesis than him.
* SeenItAll: You'd think a summer camp for ''psychics'' would get a little more excitement out of her. But no, she's been there enough times to be totally over it. [[spoiler:Until Raz comes to camp and Oleander's evil plan begins, of course. She's initially more excited because something ''new'' is happening at the camp, as opposed to the world being endangered]]. She's also the daughter of the head of the Psychonauts, so she also has plenty of inside info.
* TalkingToPlants: She is very fond of plants and has the rare ability to commune with them. Come ''Rhombus of Ruin'', her Psilirium induced hallucination has her speaking to plants. [[spoiler: Or rather bombs she ''thinks'' are plants.]] ''2'' shows that she likely took after her great-uncle Bob, himself a psychic botanist.
* {{Tsundere}}: She spent most of her time playfully making snide remarks at Raz before admitting that she likes him.
* WhenSheSmiles: When you take a close look, she does have an amazing smile for a goth.
[[/folder]]

!The Campers
[[folder:General]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Pictured: pint-sized cast of a soap opera drama.]]
->''"Hey, do you want to help us save the--? Okay, is making out all anyone thinks about in this place?"''
-->-- ''Raz''

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PsychicChildren from all over the world training at Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp - or so they should be. More pressing to the kids themselves are not the EvilPlan to TakeOverTheWorld, or even dreams of becoming Psychonauts, but rather, gossip and love drama.

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Most of the information to be found on them comes from the [[http://www.doublefine.com/campster/index.htm Campster]], fake Friendster accounts detailing, among other things, their ages and hometowns. The Campster was confirmed to be [[WordOfGod canon]] when Tim Schafer spoke about it during a [[https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015300/Adventures-in-Character conference on character design]], and largely deals with what was going on with the campers prior to the start of the game.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Most of the campers' information, including age, hometown, Psi-Cadet rank, and favorite media can be found in their [[http://www.doublefine.com/campster/index.htm Campster pages]].
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Most notably Bobby and Benny, who are blue and purple respectively, but everyone's skin color is a little off.
* ChildrenAreCruel: [[TheBully Bobby]] likes to torment fish AND children, and [[AlphaBitch Kitty and Franke]] are flat-out mean.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. [[TheBully Bobby]] and [[TheDon Maloof]] both run protection rackets, many of the campers list PG-13, R, or NC-17 rated movies as their favorites on Campster, and most of them are obsessed with dating and kissing.
* CreepyChild: [[InvisibleJerkass Milka]], who frequently uses her powers to snoop, is a standout example, but since they all have psychic powers and a tendency to act older than their age, they all qualify.
* DysfunctionJunction: Two [[DrivenToSuicide suicidally depressed]] cheerleaders, a bully with [[FreudianExcuse daddy issues]], a kid who grew up [[SonOfAWhore in a brothel]], a girl with [[{{Seers}} precognition]] that foresaw her parent's affair... and that's not even counting the kid that makes [[YourHeadASplode heads explode]].
* {{Foil}}: To the Interns of the second game. Both groups serve as side characters for Razputin to interact with throughout the game, and both are captured at one point by a dangerous villain who need to be saved by Razputin. However, the Campers were a group of [[DysfunctionJunction dysfunctional kids]] around Raz's age who were disinterested or less focused on Psychonauts training compared to Raz and Lili, and they mostly tended to be friendly at best with Raz, or just didn't care too much about him for the bulk of the story. They also were not willing to help out Raz even after he saved them from the villains, either due to being indifferent of the situation, or having very SkewedPriorities. The Interns by contrast are mostly older kids, who despite their eccentricities, tended to get along well enough with each other, are keen to take on real missions as Psychonauts, and [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer initially don't think too highly of Raz at all.]] However, their opinion of him improves after the Casino Mission, and they end up aiding him several times throughout the story, including against the final boss of the game.
* {{Gonk}}: Seriously, at least half the kids are borderline deformed and barely even recognizable as human beings.
* MostWritersAreAdults: Generally, the kids seem to be written as acting anywhere from actual age to late teenagers. Largely, this depends on RuleOfFunny.
* PsychicChildren: Duh.
* ToyShip: The kids range in age from 7-13, meaning any ship between them counts as a ToyShip.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Most of the kids will have moments of acting much older than their age, though it's normally PlayedForLaughs.
* WhileRomeBurns: The campers that decide to help out with saving the world are in the minority.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dogen Boole]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/NikaFutterman
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->''"One time, I made someone's head explode. [...] Actually, it happened four times. Now they make me wear this special hat, so I don't have any more accidents."''

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A psychic with [[YourHeadASplode uncontrollable psychic powers]] with a mild obsession with hats due to the form of his PowerLimiter (a TinfoilHat), Dogen is a simplistic but nervous. He's the grandson of Compton Boole, one of the founders of the Psychonauts. Despite his several instances of, erm, [[PowerIncontinence head]] [[YourHeadASplode explosions]], Dogen is a sweet kid who loves cute baby animals.

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He is the first camper to get his brain stolen as part of the ploy to TakeOverTheWorld.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Even by the standards of the rest of the cast, Dogen's [[{{CloudCuckoolander}} not all there]]. He has massive self-confidence issues brought on by PowerIncontinence (many of these moments having led to heads exploding, [[BloodSplatteredInnocents which definitely would not have helped his mental state]]) and tends to have panic attacks. When [[spoiler: Dogen's brain is stolen]], Raz tries to warn everyone around him, only for anyone he tells this to to respond with some variant of "he's just like that".
* AndCallHimGeorge: Dogen has a love of cute, small animals, like kittens and puppies, but when he gets stressed, things explode.
* ButtMonkey: His simpleminded nature makes him a prime target for bullying and his unstable psychic powers make him more BlessedWithSuck than any of the others. [[spoiler: He's also the first camper to be targeted for having his brain stolen.]]
* TheCameo: He appears as a figment in ''2''.
* ChekhovsGun: Early on, he is seen arguing with some squirrels claiming "I couldn't possibly...''kill everyone.''" before blowing them up. When [[spoiler:re-brained]], he tells Razputin that he killed the squirrels for saying "[[spoiler:The little man]] is going to kill everyone." Turns out they were [[spoiler:referring to Coach Oleander, not Dogen]].
* CloudCuckooLander: He wears a TinfoilHat and speaks to squirrels, which is the classic case of needing a straightjacket.
** TheCloudCuckooLanderWasRight: However, he ''is'' psychic, in fact communication with animals is an ability his family is well known for, and [[spoiler:the squirrels are right]].
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Even Milla, one of the counselors, refers to him as an incredibly powerful psychic.
* TheDitz: A nice kid, but slow on the uptake and prone to misinterpretation.
* HeroicLineage: He's the grandson of Compton Boole, one of the founders of the Psychonauts.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: To Clem on Campster. Doubles as HypocriticalHumor.
-->'''Dogen''': But no matter what I do, Clem says I won or I'm a winner, even when I know I haven't won. So I think he might be a little... not too smart maybe.
* InTheBlood: His sister Sam and grandfather Compton all have the ability to communicate with animals. He also shares Compton's issues with anxiety.
* PowerIncontinence: Made manageable by a tinfoil hat PowerLimiter. Without it, he's been known to cause accidental [[YourHeadASplode head explosions]].
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: He can communicate with squirrels. It's not made clear if this is via verbal communication or telepathy.
* TinfoilHat: He wears one, partly because yes, he does hear conspiracies (from squirrels, no less), but also it's supposed to function as a PowerLimiter.
* YourHeadASplode: Oh yeah. "Blastiokinesis" is even listed as his psychic specialty.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bobby Zilch]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Doug Giorgis
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->''"Hey new kid. Welcome to camp. You're dead meat."''

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A veteran of Whispering Rock, Bobby is the [[TheBully camp bully]] with Benny as his [[TheDragon Dragon]], and, armed with his age, size, and penchant for violence, he organizes protection rackets, beats up other kids, and is generally a {{Jerkass}} to everyone at camp. He immediately tries to enforce the social hierarchy on newcomer Raz, and when Raz bites back, Bobby marks him as a high-priority target, and spends the majority of the game trying to get in his way.

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Similarities between his [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation skin color]], MismatchedEyes, [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal speaking]] [[RhymesOnADime habits]] (which are more visible on his Campster), and penchant for torturing fish suggest some kind of relation to [[MadScientist Dr. Loboto]], but nothing has been confirmed. [[spoiler:However, the post-game of Psychonauts 2 has a reformed and regretful Loboto reveal that one of the children at the camp is actually his, which is all but a confirmation of this fact.]]
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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Seen on Campster.
-->'''Bobby''': Tough titty said the kitty when the milk ran dry.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Bright blue!
* BadBoss: Regularly threatens to beat Benny up.
-->'''Bobby''': I pay by the pound. And speaking of pounds, maybe you better shut up unless you want some right now.
* TheBully: Along with Benny.
* TheCameo: Appears as a figment in ''2''.
%%* DoesNotLikeShoes
* {{Expy}}: He's visually inspired by Scut Farkus from Film/AChristmasStory.
* FreudianExcuse: He's implied to have ''major'' daddy issues, as most of his Campster movie picks deal with themes of [[AbusiveParents abusive]] or [[DisappearedDad missing]] fathers, not to mention that he tears up when [[spoiler:Ford credits Raz's father with imbuing Raz with the qualities that make him a good Psychonaut. The cherry on top comes in Psychonauts 2, which heavily hints at the near end that his father might actually be ''Loboto''.]] It's very telling that he demands Raz ''admit'' that since Raz never had his brain stolen, he thinks he's better than Bobby. Even though Raz is obviously humoring him, it appears to be a psychological victory for Bobby.
-->'''Bobby:''' HA! You admit it!
* FunnyAfro: It's about half as tall is he is and ''screaming bright orange''.
* {{Gonk}}: In a series filled with incredibly bizarre characters with highly unusual proportions, Bobby seems designed to be especially nasty-looking in comparison with his crooked teeth, needle-like proportions and cartoonishly huge afro.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: True, he's a total ass, but he's very nice to his crush Chloe, opting to help her with her radio rather than help prevent the EvilPlan or bully Raz some more. He also states on Camper that everyone's fair game... except her.
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Bobby has incredibly messed-up looking teeth, and the second game heavily implies that his father is Dr. Loboto, who is a ''dentist''.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Runs protection rackets for dream fluffs, regularly threatens to beat up [[BadBoss even his own dragon]], tortures fish on the docks? Yeah, he's a jerkass, alright.
* JerkassWoobie: Between whatever is going on with his [[FreudianExcuse daddy issues]] and the fact that he reacts when Raz mentions how psychic powers cause kids to be ostracized back home, it's likely that Bobby's the one who gets bullied and abused when he's not at camp.
* KidsAreCruel: The player gets to see him not only harassing the other kids but torturing fish on the camp docks.
* LookBehindYou: Used to bully Raz during the obstacle course.
-->'''Bobby''': I'm not stupid. You're stupid. The coach is stupid. The whole camp is stupid. That thing flying at you is stupid.\\
'''Raz''': What's flying at me? ''[he turns to look; Bobby punts him off the platform]''\\
'''Bobby''': Ahahahahaha! Bobby Zilch's foot, that's what!
* MetalHead: Big time. Most of his favorite bands also have songs dealing with [[FreudianExcuse daddy issues]].
* MismatchedEyes: One red, one green, like boatlights. Similar to [[MadScientist Dr. Loboto's]], though it's unknown if there's any significance to this. [[spoiler:Until the sequel that is.]]
* MoralityChain: Has one in the form of his crush, Chloe. On Campster, she's capable of getting him to rescind threats and play nice.
* NightmareFetishist: He has several photos of roadkill on his Campster, and he loves violent, gory horror movies.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever happened to him in the GPC was so traumatic that he has a FreakOut when shown a button that came from it. When asked about it, he only states that it "reminds me of a bad place. That's all."
-->'''Bobby''': No! Don't put me back in there! Please! I'll be good!
* RhymesOnADime: Seen on Campster.
-->'''Bobby''': Understand, rubber band? I'm the boss, applesauce.
* SleevesAreForWimps: Given how the tears are shaped, likely [[InvokedTrope invoked]] by Bobby himself via ripping them off.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Benny.
* TraumaButton: Literally. Whatever Sasha did to him in his lab, it certainly was not pleasant, briefly having a panic attack when he sees the button Sasha gave Raz.
--> '''Bobby''': GAH, NO! DON'T PUT ME BACK IN THERE, PLEASE! I'LL BE GOOD!
* UngratefulBastard: He's rather ungrateful to Raz for [[spoiler:returning his brain to his body]].
* VictoryPose: A little dance of his that later Raz adapts as his own. (This dance also has a cameo in another Double Fine game, ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend''.) According to Tim Schafer, it's something he and his siblings did as children.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Benny "The Nose" Fideleo]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Bill Tanzer
[[quoteright:246:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/benny2_med.jpg]]

->''"Hey, slow down, new kid. If you pass me or Bobby you'll make us look bad, and Bobby will pound you deaf."''

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TheDragon to Bobby Zilch, but not exclusively - Benny is more than willing to [[TheQuisling ditch Bobby]] for any bigger villain to swim his way. However, due to his love of musicals and the fact that Parma, Ohio, his hometown, is famously ''safe'', it's largely implied Benny only wants to be evil for the glamor of it all, and doesn't understand what ''real'' brutality is like.
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* AirGuitar: When he's initially rebrained, he stays in the observation cell playing air guitar. He eventually leaves.
* AmbiguouslyGay: On his Campster page, he lists his interests as being with "Bullying, [[AllGaysLoveTheater Musicals]], and Bobby".
* CampStraight: If he isn't AmbiguouslyGay, he's this, as his favorite book largely seems to detail many, ''many'' sexual encounters between Burt Ward (of ''Series/Batman1966'' fame) and women. Lots of women.
** He also says his "ears are burning" when pyrokinesis is used on him, taking it to mean that Kitty must be talking about him, implying a small crush on her.
* TheChewToy: Bobby shoves him and threatens to beat him up on the regular, and Maloof and Mikhail go after him first, and it's ALWAYS funny.
* CowardlySidekick: When Bobby ''isn't'' around, Benny's courage quickly [[DirtyCoward shrivels up]], causing him to quickly wheedle and beg for whoever's threatening him to not hurt him. This is best seen when Bobby outpaces him during Basic Braining and leaves him behind, [[spoiler: and when a newly confident Maloof sics Mikhail on him.]]
* TheDragon: As mentioned, to Bobby Zilch.
* {{Jerkass}}: You've got to be able to maintain a certain level of jerkassery to keep up with Bobby and enjoy it.
* NonIndicativeName: Well, nickname. His nickname is "The Nose”, but he doesn’t appear to have one, while his enormous ears go completely uncommented on.
* TheQuisling: He tries to [[spoiler:defect to Coach Oleander's side after he has his brain restored, asking Raz if Oleander is looking for a lickspittle]].
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Bobby.
* VillainSong: Writes one for Bobby. It's...[[CringeComedy pretty bad]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Chloe Barge]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Brett Pels
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->''"I would like to speak to whatever cosmic entity has been sending me these voices to my head since I was a kid. And visit that entity if possible."''

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Chloe is an alien girl, trapped in a camp for suspected extra-terrestrials - or so she believes. Her proof is that she has been hearing faint voices supposedly coming from space ever since she was a child, but the jury is out on whether it's [[TelepathicSpacemen really aliens]], or if she's just psychic.

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She spends the game largely dismissive of Raz, who she views as a distraction and annoyance to her [[SeriousBusiness quest to build a working rocket]], but her Campster reveals that she's quite nice and supportive. She spends a lot of time considering who she can take with her to space, and who's to be left behind.
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* AlienAmongUs: If her story is to be believed. Her face under that helmet is somewhat fishy-looking...
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She doesn't seem to mind Bobby's crush on her and, though she views Raz as an annoyance, she lets Bobby help her call for help using the Coach's radio after being re-brained.
** Her love of hardcore rappers is also an example of this.
* TheArk: Chloe mentions that "rad dudes" like Quentin should be on it, when it happens.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Her very first reaction when Raz briefs her on the situation the camp's facing is to try to page for help... from ''outer space''.
** Extends to some of her other fantasies regarding aliens, including her [[TheArk Noah's ark]] ship, or wondering if Crystal and Clem's energy can be somehow harnessed as fuel.
--->'''Chloe''': Zool!\\
'''Lili''': Is that good or bad, Chloe?\\
'''Chloe''': Not sure. I just wanted to -- ZOOL!!!
* FantasticAnthropologist: If she is an alien, her interest in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElimiDate elimiDATE]] definitely qualifies.
* GondorCallsForAid: [[spoiler:Subverted: she tells Raz after being re-brained that she will use the Coach's radio to call for help but she specifies that she's wired it up so it broadcasts into space and talking to her afterwards reveals she's trying to pick up a ride off the planet since Earth is a "goner"]].
* HiddenDepths: Chloe's Campster reveals that she's really into hardcore rap.
* MoralityChain: Is one to Bobby, forcing him to curb his bullying on Campster.
* ParentalSubstitute: If her story is to be believed, her human parents are this.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Chloe wears a bow under that helmet.
* TheXenophile: If she's actually a human.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Clem Foote]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Andy Morris
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/clem_foote.jpg]]

->''"Well, I guess if peoples' love was something you could trust, we wouldn't be here now, would we?"''

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One half of the [[TheDividual cheerleading duo]], Clem is SUPER-POSITIVE, SUPER-ENERGETIC, and SUPER-DEPRESSED. His annoyingly [[StepfordSmiler cheerful façade masks a crippling, suicidal depression]] - poorly. His father, at least, is [[AbusiveParents verbally abusive]], and his positivity/self-help schtick is him trying to fake it 'til he makes it.

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Clem is the more eloquent and intelligent of the two, and takes on more of a caretaker role to Crystal when she's feeling down. He also tends to be more passive-aggressive, playing the StrawNihilist to Crystal's WideEyedIdealist.

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* AbusiveParents: His dad. His mom seems to live with them, meaning she's a complacent bystander at best. It's mostly played for [[BlackComedy laughs]].
-->'''Clem''': My dad says I'm a total idiot when it comes to canoeing. And most other things. He said he'd rather ride a seal into a pool of sharks than ride in a canoe into a lake with me.
* TheAntiNihilist: Tries to do this, but...see StrawNihilist below.
* BrokenBird: Cynical and suicidal though he might be, he clearly cares deeply about Crystal and tries his best to cheer her up and comfort her.
* TheCameo: Appears as a figment in ''2'' -- alongside Crystal, of course.
* CheerfulChild: Subverted. He's clearly ''trying'' to be one, but his depression and cynicism get in his way.
* ChildrenAreCruel: Invoked.
-->'''Clem''': They are ants, Crystal. Cruel, cruel little ants.
* TheDividual: Clem is never seen without Crystal in-game, and his first thought after being re-brained is to go running to her. Their differences become more apparent on Campster.
* DrivenToSuicide: His father is abusive, his mother is either complacent or worse, and he lives in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary,_Indiana Gary, Indiana]], which is known for being a ghost town in the making as the steel industry disappeared and with it, most of the city's income. In addition to that it's implied that he's bitter about being a weak psychic.
** The message boards scattered around the camp mention that they've been bullied and taunted for years due to their attempts to bring cheer. Clem is the more vindictive of the two, claiming that everyone "will be sorry" in his message.
* TheInsomniac: Has noticeable dark circles around his eyes. Likely a symptom of his depression.
* InterruptedSuicide: His joint suicide with Crystal by jumping off the roof of the Main Lodge was interrupted [[spoiler: by the brainwashed Linda]]. Their earlier attempt, with poison, is interrupted by Raz.
* MeaningfulName: "Clem" is usually short for the name "Clement," meaning "merciful" - which is exactly how he describes death.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever happened involving sharp objects that made it so they weren't allowed to handle sharp objects anymore. Implied to be another suicide attempt.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Clem" is the shortened form of several names, but none of the longer forms are ever given.
* StepfordSmiler: Of the depressed variety.
* StrawNihilist: His favorite book is ''Theatre/NoExit'' by ''Creator/JeanPaulSartre'', a famous [[UsefulNotes/{{Existentialism}} existentialist]] work. His rants on life and love tend to end on dour notes.
-->'''Clem''': Some of our hearts are big, and some are small, and some of them are dark, and still, and stopped beating long ago, and yet somehow we manage to slog through this shadow puppet theater day in and day out, waiting for the merciful velvet curtain of death.
* SuicidePact: Has one with Crystal. It never seems to take, though.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Crystal Flowers Snagrash]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/ColleenOShaughnessey
[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crystal_flowers_snagrash.jpg]]

->''"My brain hurts all the time too! So bad that sometimes I just want to die! We should form a club!!!"''

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The other half of the [[TheDividual cheerleading duo]], Crystal is a sweet girl that tries to see the best in everybody, and wants nothing more than to spread cheer and joy throughout the camp. Unfortunately, this naïveté often leads to getting hurt, which doubles back into her [[DrivenToSuicide crippling depression]].

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Her hometown - Peoria, Illinois - is known for being haunted, and, indeed, Crystal seems to have some tie to the occult, as their suicide has a ritualistic flavor that can't be explained by Clem's influence. She is the WideEyedIdealist to his StrawNihilist, and believes that committing suicide will [[CameBackStrong make her more powerful]].

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* CameBackStrong: Believes suicide will lead to this.
* TheCameo: Appears as a figment in ''2'' -- alongside Clem, of course.
* CheerfulChild: Subverted. Even though she is cheerful, it doesn't take much to bring her crashing down.
* CreepyChild: Her ties to the occult, and the ritualistic nature of "The Project" likely being due to her influence, mark her as one of these more than Clem.
* TheDividual: She's never seen without Clem, and they're often treated as a single, annoying, cheerleader unit. Their differences become more pronounced on Campster, however.
* DrivenToSuicide: Her home life, unlike Clem's, is never mentioned, though she does say her "brain hurts" so badly she wants to die - which may indicate an outside or genetic factor. [[WildMassGuessing Could be the Psitanium]].
** The message boards scattered around the camp mention that they've been bullied and taunted for years due to their attempts to bring cheer. Bobby, especially, likes to single out Crystal as a target on Campster since she's extremely gullible.
** She also suffers from extreme insecurity/self loathing, as she has a FreakOut when she makes a bad rhyme and starts calling herself "stupid." Again, it's unclear whether this was instilled in her due to abuse, or if an external factor like genetic predisposition or Psitanium poisoning is at play.
* EmbarrassingLastName: Crystal Flowers ''Snagrash''.
* InterruptedSuicide: Her joint suicide with Clem by jumping off the roof of the Main Lodge was interrupted [[spoiler: by the brainwashed Linda]]. Their earlier attempt, with poison, is interrupted by Raz.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever happened involving sharp objects that made it so they weren't allowed to handle sharp objects anymore. Implied to be another suicide attempt.
* PrecisionFStrike: The only instance of the f-word in the entirety of the game's canon belongs to Crystal on Campster.
-->'''Crystal''': ''[[http://www.doublefine.com/campster/Chloe.htm God fucking damnit]]!''
* StepfordSmiler: Of the depressed variety.
* SuicidePact: Has one with Clem. It never seems to take, though.
* WideEyedIdealist: Unlike Clem, who's trying to fake it 'til he makes it, Crystal genuinely wants to bring cheer and joy to the rest of the camp.
** Also applies to their suicide. Since Clem's existentialism is at odds with the idea that suicide will [[CameBackStrong make them stronger]], it's likely that this is Crystal's ideology, and he's just going along with it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Elka Doom]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Victoria Hoffman
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->''"Oh, Nils. What happened between us? I don't understand. I saw the future and we were together. My predictions are never wrong!"''

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Gifted (or [[BlessedWithSuck cursed]]) with precognition by her bloodline, Elka is a stuck-up, love-obsessed girl with a fixation on [[CasanovaWannabe Nils]]. Her preoccupation with him - and the lengths she'll go to for his attention - are so extreme that even ''[[AnythingThatMoves he]]'' calls her "crazy." Her current ploy is OperationJealousy, using her relationship with J.T.

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A [[WordOfGod leaked production document]] reveals that her power can only predict bad things, and, with it, she predicted that one of her parents would have an affair over the summer. This power has always historically gotten Elka's family into trouble, and now, she is no exception.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: to both Nils and J.T., due to all her [[ClingyJealousGirl crazy]].
* AlphaBitch: She has the trappings of one, but in a summer camp setting she doesn't have as much power as a school version.
* BlessedWithSuck: She can see the future... but only bad things, including the fact that one of her parents is going to have an affair over the summer.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Flat-out tells Chops that he can't see J.T. now that she's dating him.
* CursedWithAwesome: On the other hand, her parents revel in bad news, so up until the affair prediction, they saw Elka's powers as nothing but a good thing.
* DeathbringerTheAdorable: Elka '''Doom''' is an eleven-year-old girl.
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: Again, Elka ''Doom.'' It also plays into the fact that her precognition is aimed at disasters.
* FreudianSlip: Accidentally lets slip Nils' name when talking about the "great future" she sees together with J.T.
* LoveTriangle: Elka likes Nils, and J.T. likes Elka (or, at least, [[ExtremeDoormat won't say no to dating her]]). Elka deliberately invokes this to get Nils jealous.
* ManipulativeBastard: Dating J.T., getting rid of Chops, all to make Nils jealous.
* MeaningfulName: The Dooms can predict disasters.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Elka '''Doom''' has disaster-predicting powers to match.
* OperationJealousy: She's dating J.T. in a ploy to make Nils jealous.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: Nils calls her "crazy". No one wants to get in the middle of her tirade on Nils' Campster page.
* {{Seers}}: The entire Doom bloodline can predict the future.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Elton Fir]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/CristinaPucelli
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->''"Milka, you have shown me that you're never to old to change. You saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now I'm found. Was blind, but now I'm kissing."''

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Raised in a [[SonOfAWhore brothel]], though Elton himself doesn't realize it, his father was apparently a "sailor in the navy" and that's why he never comes home to visit. Elton himself is hydrophobic, but can [[SpeaksFluentAnimal talk to fish]]. He has a crush on Lili, but that crush is quickly replaced by a relationship with Milka once she successfully scares Bobby and Benny away from harassing fish on the docks.

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Nervous and awkward, Elton [[NoSocialSkills doesn't have a strong grasp of social cues]], and misinterprets Lili's radio silence as complicit agreement to their nonexistent relationship. Prior to Maloof's arrival, Elton was the most bullied kid at camp.
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* BerserkButton: Saying Lili is pretty seems to cause Elton to freak, which Maloof tries to blackmail him for.
* DastardlyWhiplash: If Clairvoyance is used on him, he sees Raz as this, presumably because Raz is "stealing" Lili from him.
* NoSocialSkills: Thinks he and Lili are in a relationship even though she's ignoring him, borders on stalker-ish territory regarding knowledge of Lili's personal life, and accidentally sends her a page on plant sex when trying to bond with her over plants.
* OfficialCouple: With Milka by the end of the game.
* SonOfAWhore: Heavily implied by his Friendster profile, though he doesn't seem aware of it.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Elton's special psychic power is that he can talk to fish.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Him and Milka, while not married, otherwise fit the trope, Milka having one of the more conventionally cute designs among the campers next to the more awkward (in terms of both looks ''and'' behavior) Elton.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Franke Athens]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/JessicaDiCicco
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->''"[[SarcasmMode Hey, look! I've got an ugly face]]! [[InsultBackfire Can I join your ugly club]]?"''

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[[AlphaBitch Kitty's]] best friend and one-girl fan club. While she, herself, admires and tries to play into Kitty's AlphaBitch tendencies, she's not exactly the brightest, and so she tends to come off as the "[[DumbIsGood nicer]]" of the two.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Her Campster profile ''heavily'' implies that she is a lesbian; her [[Film/TheHunger favorite movie]] is gay, her [[Series/{{Ellen}} favorite show]] is gay, her favorite book was written by a lesbian, and her [[Music/{{TATU}} favorite band]] came under fire when it turned out they WEREN'T gay. Her hometown is Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which was also named the #1 city for lesbians in 2001 by ''Girlfriends'' magazine. To top it all off, she lists her sole interest as [[LesYay her best friend Kitty]], and the two of them both list their relationship status as being in an open marriage. Within the game itself, though, she just comes across as Kitty's ditzy follower.
* BetaBitch: She's essentially defined entirely by being Kitty's orbiter.
* TheBully: She's mostly following Kitty's lead, but she ''is'' still a bully.
* DumbIsGood: Well, she's certainly nicer than Kitty is.
* EvilRedhead: More like a bratty redhead, but still.
* GirlPosse: A one-woman example.
* LipstickLesbian: Maybe. Franke loves pedicures, friendship bracelets, and Kitty Bubai.
* OfficialCouple: Maybe. Kitty and Franke are both listed as being in an "open marriage" on Campster, and the rest of Franke's profile heavily implies her to be a lesbian. In the game itself, though, they don't appear to be anything more than friends.
* SatelliteCharacter: Pretty much defined entirely through her relationship with Kitty.
* ThoseTwoGirls: Kitty and Franke are only nice to each other, and always appear together.
* TheVamp: While her attitude doesn't fit, she's certainly using her feminine wiles to get Vernon to do her homework for her.
* WhileRomeBurns: Kitty and Franke are giving themselves manicures while [[spoiler:Coach Oleander is attempting to conquer the world with an army of brain-operated death tanks]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kitty Bubai]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Brett Pels
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->''"[[SarcasmMode Hey, look! My dad's poor, and I was raised in the circus. Can I join the Psychonauts]]?"''

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The head AlphaBitch at camp, Kitty Bubai is rich, pretty, and mean. Her father was in the Navy, but got kicked out - so she's finally able to settle down. She doesn't like Raz and makes it known immediately, insulting him first chance she gets.

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She's currently using her powers of "confusion" to get Quentin to like her, though she seems to take little notice of him beyond that.
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* AlphaBitch: The camp's token bitchy queen bee, though her GirlPosse only consists of [[BetaBitch Franke]].
* AmbiguouslyBi: Like Franke, her Campster profile lists her favorite media as being things with lesbian themes, such as ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', but she also shows overt interest in Quentin. Her profile also states that she's interested in "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything making friends]]" with both men and women, while her interest in "confusion"-based psychic powers may be a sort of StealthPun on the subject. Like Franke, though, there's no suggestion of her orientation anywhere within the game itself.
* TheBully: On the girls' side.
* CostumePorn: Several clips in X-formations and a small green bow, likely in pursuit of a Harajuku/deco kei aesthetic.
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: Kitty has noticeable green eyeshadow under her eyes, and her Campster's "About Me" section is one big list of all the makeup she uses.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Kitty has [[MindControlEyes spiral eyes]], though it's unclear if these are natural or contact lenses. Either way, she's the one doing the MindControl, not the victim of it.
* FrivolousLawsuit: Kitty threatens this on Raz's family.
* ManipulativeBastard: Her favorite book is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People How to Win Friends and Influence People]], and she's manipulating Quentin for sure.
* MeaningfulName: Quentin Hedge'''mouse''' is being toyed with by '''Kitty''' Bubai.
* MindControl: Possibly the true form of her "confusion" specialty; it's currently being used on Quentin to turn him lovesick for her.
* OfficialCouple: Maybe. Both she and Franke's Campster profiles list them as being in an "open marriage", implicitly with each other. Within the game itself, though, there's no suggestion that they're anything other than friends.
* RichBitch
%% * SpoiledBrat
* TheTease: Tries to be this to Quentin, but he doesn't seem to be especially interested.
-->'''Quentin''': But how about that J.T. though, eh? I heard he can hog tie a calf in 10 seconds.\\
'''Kitty''': Hmmm. I could get into that.\\
'''Quentin''': Whoa... Uh...
* ThoseTwoGirls: Kitty and Franke are only nice to each other, and always appear together.
* UncannyValleyMakeup: Kitty wears green eyeshadow and lipstick, and has noticeable patches of blush. It's likely this is in pursuit of a look similar to her [[Music/CiboMatto favorite band]], and Harajuku/deco kei fashion as a whole.
* TheVamp: Is using her powers to get Quentin to like her, for an unknown reason.
* WhileRomeBurns: Kitty and Franke are giving themselves manicures while [[spoiler:Coach Oleander is attempting to conquer the world with an army of brain-operated death tanks]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:James "J.T." Theodore Hoofburger]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Jeannie Elias
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->''"Stand back, greenhorn, or yer gonna git a nasty hotfoot."''

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J.T. is a {{Cowboy}}, through and through. All those good ol' fashioned [[SouthernGentleman Southern values]] of hospitality and chivalry, packaged under a bandana and a 10-gallon hat. He loves ropin', ridin', and playin' the harmonica. JT is an expert at marksmanship, though for some reason, has never gotten the official badge.

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He and Chops are HeterosexualLifePartners, though J.T.'s relationship with [[ClingyJealousGirl Elka]] is threatening to ruin that. However, due to his ExtremeDoormat tendencies, it takes Elka pushing him to the edge before he retaliates by breaking up with her.

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* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: Definitely Texas, though he's from Oklahoma.
* {{Cowboy}}: He's got the hat, the accent, and even the acoustic guitar.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Doesn't like to be called "James". Elka does it anyway.
* ExtremeDoormat: Likely an extension of his SouthernGentleman upbringing, it allows Elka to walk all over him.
* FirstNameBasis: With Elka.
* TheGunslinger: A psychic version of it to go with his cowboy theme. Marksmanship is his specialty, and he's seen practicing it on some hay bales later on in the game.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Chops.
* MeaningfulName: The cowboy is named ''Hoofburger.''
* OffscreenBreakup: His breakup with Elka is only witnessed via bulletin board post in-game.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Though Elka is attempting to get him to answer to his real one.
* PleaseDumpMe: J.T. shows signs of this on Campster.
-->'''J.T.''': Well, gosh, Elka. Phoebe here is usually pretty smart about these things. Are you sure you don't need more time? I certainly like spending time with y'all, but I'd understand if you needed some time alone in the saddle.
* SouthernGentleman: Raised to be one.
* TheWestern: All his favorite movies are westerns.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Maloof Canola]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Brett Pels
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->''"[[Film/TheGodfather I have a sentimental weakness for you, Raz]]. But you talk when you should listen."''

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A crybaby and weakling, Maloof is the most bullied kid at camp. He's the favored target of [[TheBully Bobby]] and [[TheDragon Benny]], but [[AlphaBitch Kitty and Franke]] get in on it, too. This all changes, however, when [[BullyHunter Mikhail]] steps up to defend him, whereupon it's revealed that Maloof is [[BitchInSheepsClothing kind of a jerk]].

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His favorite media include ''Film/TheGodfather'', ''Series/TheSopranos'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob|SquarePants}} [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking SquarePants]]'', and he styles himself as a benevolent version of TheDon, offering Mikhail's protection from bullies... at a price.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's a crybaby and a weakling, but even before Mikhail is on his side, he's seen on Campster blackmailing other campers.
-->'''Maloof''': Elton is usually nice, but once I told him I thought Lili was pretty and he got really mad at me. Elton, I will forgive you if you let me have 3 dream fluffs. And for 2 more dream fluffs, I won't tell Lili what you said.
* ButtMonkey: Rather thoroughly subverted later on.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Is totally fine with letting Mikhail "half-kill" Benny for all the bullying Benny did to him.
* TheDon: He sees Raz as this with clairvoyance, but he also begins styling himself after a benevolent version of one once he has Mikhail's strength under his control.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Starts off as the most bullied kid at camp, ends with the strongest fighter at camp on his payroll. While he seems to be playing the part of a crusader for justice, his PayEvilUntoEvil and DisproportionateRetribution tendencies tend to overshadow the good he's doing.
* ItsPersonal: Has something against jocks for some reason.
-->'''Maloof''': Someday, all jocks will pay.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: He basically threatens to have Mikhail kill Benny, but Benny kind of deserves it.
* TheMafia: It's implied Maloof's family is this, though he may just be modeling what he's seen in ''Film/TheGodfather'' and ''Series/TheSopranos''. He's seen having Mikhail [[spoiler:wire a bomb to Coach Oleander's car]], claiming "this is how we take care of things in my family."
* PayEvilUntoEvil: His modus operandi.
-->'''Maloof''': A lot of things are going to change around here, Razputin. A power shift. Some big figures are going down. Some new stars rising. For the meek, justice. For the abusers of power, wedgies and Indian burns.
* SpoiledBrat: A large part of why no one's stood up for him before Mikhail is that he's so well-known for being a crybaby that even "nice" campers like J.T. and Phoebe think he cries too much, and needs to learn how to stand up for himself.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Melvin "Chops" Sweetwind]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Ogie Banks
[[quoteright:196:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chops_sweetwind.jpg]]

->''"Chloe likes me because I come down to this place from a cold, mostly empty world where the beings talk funny. It's called Canada! HAHAHA! See? We can make fun of ourselves. We're not all sensitive about it."''

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J.T.'s [[HeterosexualLifePartners main hombre]] and [[CanadaEh Canadian as all get-out]], Chops likes hockey and playing acoustic guitar. He's generally down-to-earth and relaxed, and is one of the nicer kids at camp, one of the few that offers to actually help Raz during the [[TakeOverTheWorld crisis]], offering to patrol the camp.

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Most of the game, however, is spent caught up in drama between [[ExtremeDoormat J.T.]] and [[ClingyJealousGirl Elka]], as he tries to rescue his best friend from Elka's clutches.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Possibly. His favorite media on Campster seem to imply the existence of a physically disabled little brother (see [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngblood_(1986_film) Youngblood]] and [[https://www.amazon.com/Battle-blue-line-Winner-book/dp/0882074822 Battle at the Blue Line]].)
* BoxingBattler: He lists his psychic specialty as "Psychic Boxing."
* ButNotTooBlack: He's orange-skinned, but clearly meant to be of African descent.
* CanadaEh: Loves hockey and uses the "eh."
* FriendVersusLover: The friend going up against [[ExtremeDoormat J.T.]] and [[ClingyJealousGirl Elka]]'s relationship.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With J.T.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name is Melvin, but everyone calls him Chops.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mikhail "Misha" Bulgakov]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/MarkIvanir
[[quoteright:294:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mikhail_psychonauts.png]]

->''"Instead of beating up bears, I get to beat up anyone who picks on Maloof. Unbelievable, no? And he's not even charging me."''

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Hailing from Kazan, Russia, Mikhail likes four things: bears, wrestling, wrestling bears, and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment bears wrestling]]. He has a strong sense of justice, but is [[CaptainOblivious kind of oblivious]] to the world outside his bear-wrestling sphere, and tends to miss obvious details.

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Later on, after intervening between [[TheBully Bobby]] and [[ButtMonkey Maloof]], Mikhail becomes Maloof's bodyguard/enforcer. The whole time, though, he's looking for a "giant, hairless bear" stalking around camp, and would appreciate if you could point him in its direction.
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* AmazonChaser: Mikhail, as implied by his movies, which almost invariably feature [[{{Dominatrix}} strong female characters]]. He also tells Raz he has no interest in girls unless they are good wrestlers.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Looks out for Raz and Maloof, recognizing that they need protection from other campers. He spends time with Maloof teaching him how to use his telekinesis to protect himself.
* TheBigGuy: He's both physically taller than just about every other camper and psychically stronger than most of them. He even implies that he's used his signature "Deadly Nelson" to ''kill'' before. It's maybe {{Kayfabe}}... ''Maybe.''
* BloodKnight: Every single comment he leaves on Campster is about how he'd take down the camper in question in a fight. Every single one.
* BoisterousBruiser
* BullyHunter: "Bullying now forbidden. All bullies acknowledge, please."
* CaptainOblivious: Is not aware of Maloof's reputation as a SpoiledBrat or BitchInSheepsClothing. He just thinks he's getting to hunt bullies for free.
* CombatPragmatist: His Campster posts are filled with pragmatic, "playing dirty" moves, such as using Quentin's scarf against him, or picking Crystal up by the ponytail and throwing her out of the ring.
* TheDragon: Becomes this to Maloof. Mikhail himself isn't aware of Maloof's BitchInSheepsClothing tendencies, however.
* FunnyForeigner: Has a thick Russian accent and is generally more interested in wandering the fringes of the woods looking for bears to fight than interacting with the other kids.
* GenreSavvy: When it comes to pro wrestling, at least. His bear wrestling schtick at least seems to be partially a "character" he plays. He also takes into consideration advancement in the career.
-->'''Mikhail''': Then again, as he is crowd favorite, maybe I pretend to hurt my ankle and throw match so as not to damage long range career goals.
* {{Heel}}: Misha most often seems to see himself playing the heel in his Campster posts, noting that he might throw a match against fan-favorite J.T.
* InsistentTerminology: The proper way to shorten his name is "Misha", NOT "Micky".
* MeaningfulName: Taken directly from a Russian playwright famous for ''Literature/TheMasterAndMargarita''.
* MindOverMatter: His specialty. He displays it against Bobby and Benny at different points in the game and is seen teaching Maloof to use it on fish.
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: In his case, a strong ''psychic'', as he's not at all [[HuskyRusskie Husky]].
* ProfessionalWrestling: Mikhail is a huge fan.
* ShapedLikeItself: He explains the "Half-Deadly Nelson" move is like "Deadly Nelson", but less deadly. How much less deadly? By half.
* SignatureMove: The "Deadly Nelson", which is [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment deadly]]. He also has the "Half-Deadly Nelson", which is less deadly. By half.
** He also lists a move called the "Telekiliminator" on Campster.
* SoBadItsGood: All his favorite movies are made on this trope.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Milka Phage]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/LaraJillMiller
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->''"Sometimes I'm watching you, Franke. And you don't know it. But I know. I know everything."''

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Milka is extremely skilled at {{Invisibility}}, and uses it both to snoop and to avoid people she would prefer not to deal with, like Raz. Though she may come off as a ShrinkingViolet, she's actually extremely forward on Campster, both towards the people she likes and the people she doesn't.

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She has a vision that tells her that she and Elton belong together, and, shortly afterwards, strikes up a romance with him, which involves a lot of kissing. A LOT of kissing.
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* AbusiveParents: Her mom says "mean things" to her unless she's invisible, since Milka's face looks like her husband's. Milka herself doesn't seem to mind much, but she prefers it when her mom isn't mean.
* AngstWhatAngst: Her mom is pretty mean to her, but she doesn't seem to care much.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: She says nothing to Raz in-game, but threatens to bury the camp bullies in the lake.
* ClingyJealousGirl: After she and Elton hook up, she leaves a note on the bulletin board threatening Lili, Elton's former crush, to stay away from him.
* CreepyChild: Her quote is a good example.
* DisappearedDad: Implied by her favorite movie, ''Film/HollowMan''. Her face also reminds her mom of her dad in a bad way.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Tells Kitty, Franke, and Lili that if they continue to bully Elton, she'll drown them in the lake.
* DysfunctionJunction: Milka looks like her dad, so her mom asks her to be invisible. It's the only way for them to hang out without her mom saying "mean things" about her. Milka herself doesn't seem to mind much, however.
* {{Invisibility}}: Her specialty.
* InvisibleJerkass: Uses her invisibility to snoop. She's not actively mean, but she will let you know that she knows what you're up to.
* MysteriousAnimalSenses: Her cat can still see her while she's invisible.
* PersonalityPowers: She's a ShrinkingViolet and a snoop and her specialty is {{Invisibility}}.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Her and Elton, while not married, otherwise fit the trope.
%%* TheUnfettered
* WildChild: Accused of this by [[TheBully Kitty and Franke]] due to her tendency to disappear into the forest sometimes to "just chill."
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nils Lutefisk]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/ColleenOShaughnessey
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nils_lutefisk.jpg]]

->''"Um, excuse me, but my parents let me watch R-rated movies, so I think I know a little bit more about this than you do, okay?"''

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A self-admitted uncharismatic guy, Nils loves ladies and [[CoolCar Lamborghinis]] and gets neither. Hailing from Long Beach, California, Nils is well-off and entirely undesirable.

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He's caught Elka's eye, and according to her, they're destined to wind up together. They actually start the game having already broken up, but he ends up with her in the end, as long as she promises not to talk.
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* AllMenArePerverts: Nils definitely is. He seems to feel camaraderie with other guys in camp, even if it's not reciprocated.
* AnythingThatMoves: Nils wants a girlfriend, and hits on any girl that doesn't immediately tell him to go away.
* CasanovaWannabe: Hits on every girl that moves, can't get a date with any of them.
-->'''Nils''': But you are the girl model of whatever it is you are, right?\\
'''Chloe''': Affirmative.\\
'''Nils''': At this point, that's totally close enough.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Averted. His favorite movies are different installments of ''Girls Gone Wild,'' which is essentially softcore porn.
* CoolCar: [[WordOfGod Tim Schafer]] confirmed Nils likes cars.
* HandsomeLech: Compared to the rest of the kids, Nils is relatively attractive. He's also a huge pervert.
* KidAnova: He would if he could, but no one seems willing to date him except Elka, and she's [[PsychoExGirlfriend crazy]].
* LonelyRichKid: Living in Long Beach probably means he's probably pretty affluent, but he has no friends at camp because of the way he acts about girls.
* ThePeepingTom: Tries to spy on the girls' cabin through clairvoyance. This is also his EstablishingCharacterMoment since it's the first thing you see him actually doing once you're in control of Raz.
* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: A rare male example of the trope.
* UnfortunateNames: Lutefisk is lye-treated whitefish that is known for smelling ''foul.''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Phoebe Love]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Crystal Scales
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->''"Look, you know when I have a good solo going, sometimes things get [[PyroManiac hot]]. I can't help it."''

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The drummer for The Firestarters/Levitators, Phoebe has a [[PyroManiac fire problem]] that she totally swears is under control now and a deep love of psychology.

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The rest of the camp is very aware of the totally "not-a-problem-anymore" and give her a wide berth, even in spite of her definitely being one of the cooler kids at camp.
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* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Played with. On one hand, Phoebe is one of the nicest and chillest girls at camp, but on the other, she's got a [[IncrediblyLamePun fiery]] temper.
* ChekhovsGun: Milla was the one who told her not to burn kids anymore. [[spoiler:Kids and fire are a particularly bad combination for Milla, after all.]]
* AGoodNameForARockBand: Phoebe prefers "The Firestarters," while Quentin prefers "The Levitators."
* HairTriggerTemper: Quentin ribbing her about the name "The Firestarters" is enough to make Phoebe mad enough to set some bugs on fire.
* {{Hipster}}: Hails from Portland, Oregon. Ironically, Quentin fits the trope better.
* HypocriticalHumor: Phoebe wants to name the band "The Firestarters", and occasionally talks about using her, only semi-controlled, pyrokinetic talents to create pyrotechnic displays. But if someone ''else'' talks about fire, she gets offended and claims they're being insensitive to her issues.
* KillItWithFire: When Phoebe loses her temper, things burn.
* NoodleIncident: That time she melted Quentin's records with an "unplanned pyrotechnics display."
* PersonalityPowers: She's a pyrokinetic with fire-powers.
* PlayingWithFire: Pyrokinesis is Phoebe's specialty.
* PsychologicalProjection: Tends to do this when trying to psychoanalyze other campers.
-->'''Phoebe''': Chloe, we all feel like aliens from time to time. [...] It doesn't mean we should run away, or "blast off" or "burn things." Even if they are just small things that nobody wants, it's important not to burn them, even if you really really want to see what happens to it when it burns. Do you see what I am getting at?
* PyroManiac: But it's under control. At least, until she gets mad. Or has a good solo going.
* TheShrink: The well-meaning but ineffectual variety. Phoebe tries to play psychologist with almost everyone on Campster, but she frequently lapses into PsychologicalProjection or WrongGenreSavvy.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Quentin.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Quentin Hedgemouse]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Sherrie Jackson
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->''"Hey, how can you tell there's a drummer at the door? [...] The knocking speeds up!"''

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The DJ for The Levitators[=/=]Firestarters, Quentin is one chill dude. He's the only camper Phoebe can't set on fire, since she's got a "mental block" when it comes to him, and it gives him leeway to tease her that other kids don't have.

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He's really good at levitation and is one of the nicest kids at camp, not to mention being well-off and not too bad to look at, making him quite popular with the ladies. May or may not be under Kitty's "[[MindControl confusion]]" to like her.
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* CheerfulChild: He's super relaxed, easy to get along with, and finds good in everyone. What's not to like?
* ChekhovsGun: Quentin asks Phoebe if she ever had a nightmare with a bathtub in it. In Raz's nightmare, there is indeed a bathtub, [[spoiler:which represents taking the children across the lake to get de-brained in Oleander's EvilPlan]].
* ChickMagnet: Comes with being a relatively chill dude with more conventional good looks.
* {{Expy}}: Slightly, of Art Director Scott C. It's where Quentin gets his "soft hip-hop" lingo from.
* GeniusDitz: He's kind of airheaded, but he's got the highest possible Psi-Cadet rank.
* AGoodNameForARockBand: Quentin prefers "The Levitators", while Phoebe prefers "The Firestarters."
* HollywoodToneDeaf: Quentin can't sing.
-->'''Phoebe''': That's not even a song, dude. That's like a weird slowjam.
* JiveTurkey: Speaks in "soft hip-hop."
-->'''Quentin''': We don't really have any songs yet, but when we do it's going to be killer. Kill-er. You will freak out on its dopeness.
* KidAnova: Milka and Kitty are both ''interested'' in him, and he's one of the rare few that Lili is willing to hang out with. Other guys at camp comment on how popular he is with girls.
* MeaningfulName: Quentin Hedge'''mouse''' is being toyed with by '''Kitty''' Bubai.
* ThinkHappyThoughts: Levitation runs on this, and Quentin's specialty is levitation.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Phoebe.
* TotallyRadical: Going with his JiveTurkey tendencies. The only reason why this wouldn't apply is that, apparently, Scott C., the art director, actually talks like that.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vernon Tripe]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Faith S. Abrahams
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->''"But sometimes, I'm just saying... [[HypocriticalHumor sometimes maybe the harmonica jam sessions at the campfire go a liiiiittle long]], is all I'm saying. Sometimes somebody's got a really good story they want to tell, but they can't because it's all harmonica, harmonica, harmonica, and I think honestly, just a tip -- people would like to hear maybe more stories, less harmonica."''

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The most annoying kid at camp, Vernon claims to descend from storytellers all the way from caveman times. This is probably an exaggeration, but even if it isn't, he has a love of storytelling anyways, even if everyone else wishes he didn't.

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He owns a dog named Lady, and he'll go on about her forever if you let him - literally. [[AlphaBitch Franke]] is currently taking advantage of his gullible and simple nature to get him to do chores and homework for her.
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* AnimalMotifs: Refers to himself as "the mongoose"... [[SeriousBusiness during a game of hide-and-seek]].
* TheBore: He's not just a storyteller, he's a ''thorough'' storyteller and remembers every ''tooth-grinding'' detail about his stories to the point where he can go on for quite literally forever because he refuses to cut the fat and just ''get to the end'' already, constantly repeating himself and going off on tangents, completely glossing over any part that veers even close to sounding interesting. His near-monotone droning voice doesn't help.
* CaptainOblivious: Doesn't realize Franke is not interested ant that their "secret" relationship is just her taking advantage of him, or that the "aliens" that tricked him into taking off all his clothes and climbing the flagpole were Bobby and Benny playing a prank.
* CreepyMonotone: A droning monotone, [[SarcasmMode as befits a natural storyteller]]. Not creepy by itself, but Raz mistakes him for one of the lobotomized campers, simply because there's no discernible difference between their brainless monotones and Vernon's natural voice. It doesn't help that Vernon doesn't realize anything's wrong and is happy to have a captive audience, so he plays along with their [[ZombieGait zombie-like groaning]] for "teeveeeeee..." and "haaaacky-saaaaack".
* CharacterFilibuster: Played for laughs. He will ''literally'' keep talking forever about walking his dog if you let him.
* HatedByAll: The other campers can't stand him, to the point [[{{Seers}} Elka]] actually predicted he would "annoy everyone at camp" on the bus ride over.
* OverlyLongGag: His stories go on forever. Literally, in the case of the one about walking his dog when you first meet him in Basic Braining, an endless randomized listing of every turn and momentary stop, punctuated by digressions about falling down a manhole or getting chased by bees.
* NoSocialSkills: Finds Elka in hide-and-seek, gets punched, keeps playing anyways. He also doesn't believe her when she predicted he'd annoy everyone else at camp, and, well...
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!The Camp Counselors

The counselors who teach at Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp are all Psychonauts, either current or retired.
[[folder:Coach Morceau Oleander]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Nick Jameson, Amber Hood (Lil' Oly)
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->''"Did Washington have a 'chute when he crossed the Delaware? Just jump, sissy!"''

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The camp's chief counselor, coach and Basic Braining instructor. A short, Mr Potato Head like man in military uniform possessing a baton and pickelhaube, he operates like a modern-day Patton, with strong elements of TheNapoleon thrown in.
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* BloodKnight: In ''2'', when finding out that the Psychonauts have a new enemy, Coach gets giddy at the thought of fighting them.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: [[spoiler:He's traumatized by having to watch his father slaughter bunnies in front of him.]]
* TheButcher: His father, both literally and figuratively. [[spoiler:Also the source of the BloodSplatteredInnocents and Oleander's FreudianExcuse[=/=]StartOfDarkness]].
* ButtMonkey: After the first game, he tends to get the short end of the stick more often than not.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Takes a strict and rigorous attitude with his students tinged with army-speak.
* DuelingScar: He comes complete with dueling scar and pickelhaube despite sounding suspiciously American.
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:Aside from having to give a public apology to the kids, Oleander gets off pretty easily and is evidently still a Psychonaut after all's said and done. Softly acknowledged and PlayedForLaughs in the game's final scene, throughout which he's... quick to go on the defense. Referenced and [[PlayedForLaughs joked about]] in the sequel, as he is annoyed at the other Psychonauts for letting Nona off as scot-free as [[HypocriticalHumor he was when he tried to take over the world]]. After a moment of realizing what he just said, he backpedals on saying Nona should be punished.]].
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:He lived on a bunny farm, where he cared for and looked after the bunnies in their hutches. However, his father (though, Oleander may be an UnreliableNarrator in this matter) thought bunnies were only good for meat, and didn't let young Oleander keep the bunnies, butchering them in front of him]]. It's also implied that, [[spoiler: driven by his troubled youth, he tried to join the military in order to deal with his trauma. The subsequent rejections only further added to his inevitable [[SanitySlippage sanity loss]] once he became a Psychonaut and went to the Camp, since the Psitanium there would have been potent enough to dig into his unresolved insecurities.]]
* {{Foil}}: [[spoiler: To Maligula/Lucrecia, the sequel's major villain. Oleander is a physically short, gruff middle aged man with a [[TheNapoleon Napoleon complex]], and whose turn to villainy was caused as a result of excessive exposure to Psitanium while having unresolved personal issues due to his FreudianExcuse. While Lucrecia is also a short woman with traumatic experiences that pushed her into villainy, her [[SuperpoweredEvilSide dark side]] Maligula is a tall thin woman whose turn into evil was the end result of a long chain of events where she took part in a traumatic war in her country at severely vulnerable time mentally due to poorly considered experiments done by her former team, and the trauma of drowning her own countrymen due to the directions of a cruel dictator. She would eventually snap after the above led to her killing her sister by mistake, resulting her being subjected to amnesia in order to hide her existence. Additionally, whereas Oleander returned to his normal self because his sanity problems were caused by outside sources (and resolved through outside help), Maligula is only buried deep within Lucrecia's subconscious due to being a horrifically exaggerated version of her fight or flight complex, and thus cannot be permanently destroyed without harming Lucrecia as well. Lucrecia is also the one who ultimately puts Maligula back with support of her great-grandnephew Razputin.]]
** [[spoiler: He's also the {{Foil}} to Gristol Malik, the true BigBad of the sequel game. Oleander was driven to [[SanitySlippage madness by Psitanium poisoning]] that ended up [[FreudianExcuse worsening his unresolved personal issues,]] but once his problems were dealt with, ultimately proved that he was a decent, if very gruff man. Even during his stint as the BigBad, Oleander was also competent enough to fight his own battles and proved to be a challenging opponent directly, as well as being smart enough to use something easier to control for his EvilPlan via the brains of psychic ''children'', as insane as it was. Gristol Malik spends much of the sequel game pretending to be a decent man, [[MaskofSanity but the reveal shows that he is in truth a dangerously egotistical and narcissistic sociopath]] willing to do whatever it takes to revive Maligula for extremely selfish and petty reasons. [[PaperTiger While a skilled manipulator and planner, he's not a fighter and more or less intended on the revived Maligula to do the gruntwork for him,]] and '''severely''' lacks the wisdom to consider that he is trying to control ''[[EvilIsNotAToy what is essentially the psychic equivalent of a force of nature.]]'' And while Oleander fully reformed by the end of 1 and gets off with a relative slap on the wrist, Gristol remains unrepentant and gets locked up in the Psychoisolation Chamber where he'll spend the rest of his days as Sasha's test subject]].
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Oleander has a long scar over the right side of his face, even crossing his eye. In the first game, it was difficult to see due to the low resolution textures. In ''2'', the scar is far more visible thanks to HD textures and bump mapping.
* HeelFaceTurn: Thanks to Raz beating up the mind-melded version of their [[FreudianExcuse Daddy issues]], Oleander became sane and stopped his plan. ''Maybe''. In ''2'', he still has plans for GiantMecha, and Raz is concerned [[ReformedButNotTamed he's not quite over his plans to rule the world]].
* HiddenDepths: ''Rhombus of Ruin'' and the second game show him to be a big fan of the deceased boy-band All Paul.
* {{Hypocrite}}: In the end of the second game [[spoiler:He goes on a rant about how forgiving Maligula for what she did is incredible, and then as the rest of the senior agents stare at him, realizes he's in the exact same situation she is and benefitted from a second chance so he immediarely does a 180 on his opinion]].
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:After all's said and done, it seems that Oleander got off with a slap on the wrist and is still a Psychonaut. Of course given that he was likely suffering from a severe case of insanity-inducing Psitanium poisoning coupled with the fact that ''Rhombus of Ruin'' shows he really is the good-natured man Raz thought he was at the start of the game, it's not as frustrating as it could be.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ8qAtfFzW0 Coach Oleander's Mental Battlefield]]. [[spoiler: The fact that a muffled version of that song plays during the Blueprint Tank battle reveals he's TheManBehindTheMan.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:He's the one behind Loboto's plot]].
* MeaningfulName: Despite his warlike proclivities, he's named for oleander, a popular ornamental shrub with pinkish-white flowers, and works as a camp counselor for kids. [[spoiler:''Nerium oleander'' is also one of the most poisonous garden plants on the planet, and Coach is a powerful psychic with a plan to TakeOverTheWorld who ends up being the BigBad of the first game.]]
* MilesGloriosus: [[spoiler:A memory vault hidden behind a cobweb in a small cave in his mind, only accessible after TheReveal shows that he was, contrary to the claims of an earlier memory vault, rejected from all three branches of the US Military and even its cooking service -- just because of his height.]]
* TheNapoleon: As much as [[spoiler:his traumatic childhood]] can be blamed for [[spoiler:warping his psyche]], inadequacy complexes over his height have done their bit too. [[spoiler: Him being rejected from every branch of the US Military (even its cooking service) for being too short probably was the last straw]].
* NotBrainwashed: [[spoiler:In ''Rhombus of Ruin'', he shares Raz's resistance to Psilirium, making his sudden one-man All Paul concert more a case of SkewedPriorities than brainwashing]].
* NotMeThisTime: [[spoiler:After reforming he's quick to say this when ''another'' case of kidnapping occurs during the ending. "I was here this whole time! You all saw me!"]]
* NotSoHarmless: [[spoiler:His warmongering tendencies and speech about how the kids are going to become soldiers in a war for the human mind turn out to be more than just a quirky eccentricity. He's the BigBad of the first game, behind a plot to steal psychic children's brains and install them into psychic death tanks which he'll use to TakeOverTheWorld.]]
* PintSizedPowerhouse: He may be a short angry man, but he's also an incredibly powerful psychic who can actually fight off two fellow experienced Psychonauts on his own.
* PuttingOnTheReich: Despite being proudly, jingoistically American, he wears the spiked pickelhaube helmet famously associated with the German Empire, with a cork on top. Possibly more because it's a souvenir of having beaten the Reich, [[spoiler:but his plans for world domination with giant tanks and GasMaskMooks put him squarely in the trope.]]
* ReformedButNotTamed: In ''Psychonauts 2'', he's no longer obsessed with war machines...but he's drafting blueprints for [[DistinctionWithoutADifference a "peace" machine (with a death ray)]] in order to deal with threats like Maligula.
* RemilitarizedZone: Basic Braining, a section of his mind.
* StoneWall: It's suggested quite a few times that Oleander's specialty is psychic defense. It takes a lot to get into his mind unwillingly, enough to let him [[spoiler:NoSell the effects of Psilirium]], and even if someone gets into his mind he's ''very'' good about only letting the visitor see what he ''wants'' them to see, [[spoiler:even faking a memory vault]]. He's also the source of the Shield power, stated to be stolen from [[spoiler:his mental construct Kochamara]]. That said, it's not invulnerable, given that he was affected by Psitanium poisoning.
* TakeOverTheWorld: [[spoiler:Using an army of psychic death tanks, at that]].
* UnreliableNarrator: One definite example in [[spoiler:the fantasy/false memory you find in Basic Braining]], and one [[EpilepticTrees possible]] example in [[spoiler:how his mind portrays his father]].
* UsedToBeASweetKid: As shown in the final level, little "Oly" was once an innocent child who loved bunnies whose father left some deeply traumatic memories.
* WalkingSpoiler: Kinda hard to talk about him without the spoilers.
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[[folder:Ford Cruller]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/DavidKaye
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->''"This training facility is built right smack on top of the largest Psitanium deposit known to man. It runs under this whole valley and makes this a very critical area for the Psychonauts, so I'm here to look after it. And to make sure you little spoonbenders don't kill each other."''

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Founder of the Psychonauts, their former leader and all-around CoolOldGuy who has retired from active duty and now works as camp's resident caretaker. Due to his mind being destroyed 20 years ago in a psychic duel and the Psitanium deposit only keeping his mind together at close distances, he developed multiple personas; among which are that of the local docksman, the camp janitor, the camp ranger and the camp salesman/cook.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Cruller may come off as a bit of a goofball in his various disguises, but try to use Pyrokinesis on him in the Main Lodge and he'll threaten Raz with ''bodily harm.''
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:When he comes in to help Sasha and Milla combat Coach Oleander at the top of Thorney Towers, and manages to make Oleander sneeze his own brains out with a witty battle line to go along with it]].
* BrokenPedestal: Ford is remembered as the hero who stopped a great evil at the price of his own mind. [[spoiler: He did stop Maligula, but then violated the Psychonauts' greatest rule about altering people's minds. Altering her own, and that of her nephew so he'd accept her as his mother, whom she killed. Raz and his father are quite put out by this revelation, and it puts a toil on Raz's respect for Ford during the later half of ''Psychonauts 2''. Furthermore Ford's current state is self inflicted, not a result of his duel with Maligula.]]
* ConnectedAllAlong: [[spoiler: ''Psychonauts 2'' reveals that Ford actually loved Lucrecia Mux, who turns out to be Raz's great Aunt, known to him as Nona, and the evil mass-murdering psychic known as [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Maligula]] to the rest of the world. Aware that Lucrecia's madness and actions were not entirely her fault, and unwilling to kill her, Ford ultimately subdued her on his own, taking her along with Helmut Fulbear's recovered brain to the Astrolathe where he used the device to seal Maligula inside Nona's mind, restoring her to an amnesiac self and letting her assume the role of her deceased sister Marona, manipulating both her and a young Augustus Aquato's minds to trick them both into believe she was his mother, and implanting them with a deep fear of water lest Maligula accidentally resurface within Lucrecia's personality. This in turn eventually became the family 'curse' and lead to Augustus attempting to toughen up his children to protect them from their 'enemies', in effect making ''Ford'' the psychic who cursed the family. Notably, Ford himself doesn't seem to be fully aware of the extent of his and Raz's connection on a conscious level until Raz manages to restore enough of his shattered mindscape, but is implied to recognise it on a subconscious level, hence why he sought Razputin out to mentor at Whispering Rock]].
* DeskJockey: Used to be one of the best Psychonauts ever, but because of his advanced age and SplitPersonality issue, he's now limited to the role of a dispatcher. It comes with the added wrinkle that he has to be anonymous while doing so, hiding that he's sending agents on missions from the Psychonauts as a whole.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:After sacrificing a lot to protect Lucrecia, including shattering his own mind to keep her safe, and losing out on their relationship so she can safely live with her family, the PlayableEpilogue of ''2'' gives them a MaybeEverAfter]].
* EccentricMentor: He comes ''quite'' close to being this, but leans a bit too much to the wacky side to fit. Also, all the other Psychonauts, save for Sasha and Milla, believe him a loon unfit for duty.
* GameBreakingInjury: His mind was shattered while fighting a powerful psychic 20 years before the game, separating it into several different personalities. His mind is only focused and stable while close to large deposits of Psitanium, but he still isn't as strong as he once was. [[spoiler:The second game reveals that it wasn't Maligula who damaged his mind, but Ford himself, who did this to forget the pain over having to tamper with his beloved's memories to save her. After giving her a family, he turned the Astralathe on himself.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: It turns out that [[spoiler:Ford psychically altered the minds of both Lucy and Augustus Aquato (Lucy's nephew) to believe they were mother and son to keep her safe and give Augustus a parent after Lucy accidentally killed her sister and brother-in-law. Raz is distinctly unhappy to learn that the woman he thought was his grandmother was actually his grandmother's killer. He says the trope verbatim when Raz asks him.]]
* {{Irony}}: Due to how PsychicPowers work, he could be considered to be TheArchmage. He also, as shown in ''Psychonauts 2'', [[DoingInTheWizard does not believe in actual magic.]]
* TheMentor: To Raz, naturally.
* MissionControl: Serves this role to Raz.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Even if he feels it was necessary to some degree, he is wracked with guilt concerning everything involving Nona and Augustus, this overwhelming guilt is even a major factor that lead to Ford shattering his own psyche with the Astralathe. When Raz calls out Ford on his actions, Ford does not argue with him at all and fully admits he was a young fool back then.]]
* OldMaster: As one of the Psychic Six and the man who assembled the original Psychonauts team, he definetly qualifies as this... when he's actually mentally sane, and not one of his split personalities.
* PhlebotinumDependence: Downplayed. Ford's mind was shattered in a psychic duel, and without the Psitanium deposit keeping him all-there and reasonably sane, his split personalities start emerging.
* PsychicTeleportation: He's the ''only'' Psychic to display this power in the game, using it to pull Raz back to his hideout to regroup when asked to and to send him back to the general vicinity of where he was pulled from. His split personalities being everywhere in the camp without ever being seen walking to their posts is not due to this, being a more mundane hidden cart network instead.
* ShatteredSanity: True Psychic Tales tells everyone that Ford Cruller's mind was broken in a epic battle with an evil psychic, and that's definitely true enough if you see him around the camp. In the sequel, you find that his mind is so shattered that you cannot access most of it while Ford is "sane", you have to access his mind while he is in different personas to access those portions of his mind (and return them back to normal). Fittingly, his broken psyche is represented as a shattered mirror, and you have to find the broken fragments to repair him. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that his psyche was ''not'' broken from a duel with a powerful psychic, at least not directly. He actually shattered his own mind deliberately to hide what he had done to Lucrecia, his once upon a time love and more recently mass murderer Maligula.]]
* SplitPersonality: He develops multiple personalities when going out of the Psitanium deposit's range, which manifested in staff members of the camp based on his location. None of the campers notice that every staff member besides the teachers are the same guy.
** Explored in [[VideoGame/Psychonauts2 the Sequel]] - being summoned to HQ by the smell of bacon, he immediately reverts into 3 seperate personalites, that nobody on base actually recognises.... and you actually get to explore their seperate mindscapes this time since Truman gives Raz the mission of trying to Fix Cruller to combat the Delugionist threat, since Ford is the one who defeated Maligula in the past.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Even though psychics acknowledge Ford as a powerful psychic, he is the only person in either game who can ''force'' another psychic out of his mind ''at will''; usually, Raz has to be completely depleted of mental energy to be ejected.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Bacon. He comes out of Raz's ear whenever he brings bacon out. In fact, in [[VideoGame/Psychonauts2 the Sequel]], Raz is literally able to summon him to accidentally teleport himself to HQ by being near a piece of bacon and slowly backing away from it whilst Ford is distracted by it, until his entire psychic projection is fully pulled out of Raz's head and he physically manifests inside the building, all without fully processing what Raz is doing because he's just ''that'' focused on the food -- and because it's a specially seasoned bacon that is ''only'' at the Motherlobe, and is considered addictive to even ''non''-bacon addicts.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: We learn in the sequel [[spoiler:that Ford is, to a certain degree, accidentally responsible for basically everything that happened in the story. He and Lucrecia began to perform risky psychic experiments to push the limits on what was possible, which ended up stripping away a lot of Lucrecia's natural mental defenses. When Lucrecia returned to her country to stop a war, the trauma of it awoke something very dark within her that had nothing left to contain it. She went on to become TheDragon for [[TheCaligula the Gzar,]] which culminated in her accidentally killing hundreds of her own countrymen, including her own sister and brother-in-law, leading to her snapping and becoming an OmnicidalManiac. Ford, who couldn't bring himself to kill her after subduing her, erased and altered her and her orphaned nephew's memories to make them think they were mother and son and then implanted a fear of water in their minds to keep Lucrecia's inner demon from returning. The orphaned nephew went on to be Raz's father and the deposed son of the Gzar that Lucrecia worked for went on to be the main villain of 2, as well as the GreaterScopeVillain of ''Rhombus of Ruin''.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: PlayedForLaughs. Will slap Raz if he decides he doesn't want to help save the world.
** Decidedly ''not'' PlayedForLaughs in the sequel. Ford is not happy at all [[spoiler:when Raz restores his psyche.]]
---> '''Ford:''' I've done a terrible thing. [[spoiler:And so have you.]]
** [[spoiler: Later is on the receiving end of this. When Raz finds out about Ford's actions concerning Nona and his father, Raz is absolutely furious and calls him out. Ford himself completely agrees Raz has every right to criticize him and admits his past actions were terrible mistakes that now need to be fixed.]]
* WhatTheHellPlayer: If the player decides to Smelling Salts themselves out of the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon in ''2'' [[spoiler:(Lucy/Nona's mind after Maligula's reawakening)]], Ford will be extremely upset and chew them out.
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[[folder:Camilla "Milla" Vodello]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Alexis Lezin
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->''"I mean look at my hair, darling. How can hair this fabulous not be on TV?"''

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A Brazilian party girl known as the Mental Minx, this sexy spy is known for both her levitation skills and being able to throw wild parties. She's also a kind soul who loves working with kids. She's partners with Sasha Nein.
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* BattleCouple: She and Sasha seem to have shades of this, with vault memories in her mind showing various missions of the two together as though she remembers them fondly. Especially [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/psychonauts/images/9/93/Advmilla08.png/revision/latest?cb=20150105023850 this one]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite her friendly demeanor, she's a talented secret agent. Additionally, in ''Psychonauts 2'', after Raz accidentally [[spoiler:implants a dangerous gambling addiction into Hollis Forscythe's mind]], she threatens to levitate him all the way into space if he ever does something like that to her.
* BrokenBird: Averted despite what you can learn about her. Outwardly she is very bubbly and fun loving (and her mental world reflects that, being a 24/7 disco party), but tucked away in a corner of her mind is [[spoiler:a small room that reveals that she used to run an orphanage that burned down while she was away getting groceries, killing all of the children inside. Though she is obviously burdened by this horrible tragedy, the game treats how she locks it away as a healthy coping mechanism, and there is nothing implying that her overall personality is a front for something darker or more depressed.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Before she became a Psychonaut, she ran an orphanage filled with children that she loved and cared for. However, one day while she was away, the orphanage caught fire and burned down. Milla returned just in time to psychically hear the screams and dying words of all the children who were caught inside. At present day, even though it still haunts her, she manages to cope with it by locking it all away in a small part of her mind. It's ever present but doesn't overtake the rest of her life.]]
* DiscoDan: Her mental landscape overfloweth with psychedelia and lava lamps.
* FriendToAllChildren: She has always been caring for children. [[spoiler: Prior to her status as a Psychonaut, she worked at an orphanage. But one day, she returned from the grocery store to find the place ablaze. Due to psychic abilities, she heard the voices of the children as they perished among the flames, and the nightmares haunt her to this very day.]] In fact, using Clairvoyance on her will reveal she views Raz as a baby, which explains her protectiveness.
* HartmanHips: 90% of her torso is hips.
* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Some characters pronounce her name "Mi-LA", while others (mainly Sasha) pronounce it "Mi-YA". In ''Psychonauts 2'', Raz can ask Milla about this; she says the former is correct, given what it's short for, but Sasha accidentally pronounced it the other way when they first met and she thought it was cute. (Sasha probably assumed since Milla is Spanish, the "LL" was pronounced with a "Y".)
* MamaBear: If she's taking care of a group of kids, do ''not'' hurt them, or else.
* MindOverMatter: She's described by Raz as the world's greatest levitation expert and specializes in Levitation studies at the camp.
* TheMcCoy: She is the bubbly, emotional, and energetic counterpart to Sasha's melancholic, logical, and controlled Spock.
* MsFanservice: How she sees herself in her memory reel, at least. [[http://49.media.tumblr.com/3daaef8b4af9e5581b1e5438e83b1b6f/tumblr_nytbw7EHeu1r61mabo2_540.gif She even winks while posing in the trailer for the sequel!]]
* PersonalityPowers: Bubbly, optimistic, high-energy, and a master of levitation.
* ProudBeauty: She's quite proud of her looks and goes out of her way to describe how fabulous her hair is to Raz.
* ShipTease: With [[spoiler:Sasha]] in her second memory reel. From the way he speaks about her, he does seem to have a lot of respect for her, at least. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJAxcBd9rvw&list=PLFDCB75F4FB15BE39&index=6 Scott Campbell (the official artist) and Tim Schafer]], as well as [[http://doublefine.tumblr.com/post/60311962184/we-have-more-of-scott-campbells whoever runs the Double Fine official Tumblr]] all seem to ship the two together.
* ShoutOut: Using Clairvoyance on her in the second game has her see Raz as an Film/AustinPowers lookalike.
* SilkHidingSteel: Milla might be nice and motherly towards Raz to a fault, but after finding out that [[spoiler:Raz messed with Hollis' mind]], she drops the friendliness for just the briefest of moments to tell him in a deadly serious tone that he sincerely hopes for his sake he never attempt pulls a simliar stunt on her, because she will to levitate him straight "to the moon" if he tries.
* SpyCatsuit: In one reel, as a memory of a former mission. She's levitating into a sewer, ''Film/MissionImpossible''-style, to retrieve the President's stolen brain, which is being protected by angry alligators.
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler:Averted. Her past is genuinely terrible, but according to WordOfGod, her mind is an example of what a healthy mind should look like, indicating that she's risen above it.]]
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[[folder:Sasha Nein]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/StephenStanton
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->''"Remember: Your talent will always set you apart, Razputin. Sometimes isolation is a good thing. It can lead to important discoveries."''

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Son of a cobbler, this German superspy seems woefully mismatched with his partner, the obnoxiously colorful Milla Vodello. He displays [[TheStoic almost no emotion]], though he seems to have a weird sense of humor buried deep down. He takes an interest in Raz's psychic abilities and offers him special training.
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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Maybe. Near the start of ''Rhombus of Ruin'' right before the jet crashes into the ocean he tries to tell ''something'' to Milla. [[spoiler: It's especially serious because he's the first person to refer to her by her full first name in the entire series.]]
-->'''Sasha''': [[spoiler: Camilla, I need to tell you something.]]
* ClosetGeek: In ''Rhombus of Ruin'', Milla outs his fascination with aliens and [=UFOs=], one of his big life goals being to use psychic powers to contact aliens in space. He even hallucinates that he is working with aliens while under the effects of psirilium.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Literally, he's the son of a cobbler and ''Psychonauts 2'' reveals there was a time where he only wore socks with sandals. This is presumably due to trauma surrounding his relationship with his father, and it took some persuasion from Hollis for him to wear shoes again.
* TheComicallySerious:
** His stoicism makes some of the punishment that happens to him [[spoiler: like being knocked senseless by The Mega Censor, or being de-brained]] even funnier than usual.
** The interns at Psychonauts HQ [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-S85iGWQAYVJrB?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 mock him for this]].
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: His mental world, the Shooting Gallery.
* DirtyMindReading: When he was a boy, Sasha tried to find out what his deceased mother was like by reading his father's mind. Child-traumatizing ensued, no question about that.
* TheDreaded: Has this reputation among the campers solely because he's asked most of them to participate in experiments that have ended poorly, usually traumatizing whoever volunteered for them. Raz wasn't the first camper to be used as a lab rat for his experiments, though it seems he ''is'' the only one who came out of it virtually unscathed, it being a bit of a TraumaButton for some of them.
--> '''Bobby''': GAH, NO! DON'T PUT ME BACK IN THERE, PLEASE! I'LL BE GOOD!
* EnmityWithAnObject: Hates Tiffany Lamps and encourages their destruction; the fact that [[spoiler: one was near his mother's bedside when she died]] probably contributes to this. However, ''2'' reveals he keeps a Tiffany lamp in his office. [[https://youtu.be/r_JTISAygac?t=417 An interview with]] [[WordOfGod Tim Schafer]] has him clarify that he's a fan of genuine Tiffany Lamps, but that the ones in his mind were cheaply made knockoffs.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: He's in the middle of answering one of Raz's questions, what would happen if Raz were to shut down ''all'' of his Censor outlets, when the mental structure behind him begins to rattle violently. It slowly dawns on him that Raz's question is not rhetorical.
-->'''Sasha''': Well, there would be a buildup of Censor energy within that would...uh...eventually...''Run'', Razputin. Very fast.
* EyeGlasses: His tinted glasses, which move and stretch with his eyes.
* GenderBlenderName: Sasha is a unisex name of Russian origin, short for Alexander or Alexandra, though it was a common joke to assume it was primarily a girl's name in much of the western world for many years.
* GermanicDepressives: Invoked by him due to his emphasis on mental discipline and self-control. He's almost always poker-faced and unexpressive, down to him being the only character in the game who doesn't laugh if Raz uses the Crow Feather item.
* GermanicEfficiency: His mind is so rigidly controlled that it resembles a plain cube floating in a void that unfolds into various structures.
* HerrDoktor: In addition to being a superspy, he's also a scientist, although it's unclear under what discipline. (Unless "psychic studies" counts as a discipline.)
* {{Irony}}:
** His GermanicEfficiency is emphasized in the complete control and compartmentalization of his mind to the point where it looks completely empty at first glance...[[ThePigPen and yet his lab is a complete mess]].
--> '''Sasha''': Is that the cleaning-lady? I'll get those files out of your way just as soon as I'm done with these... tests.
** His Psychonauts HQ lab and office are pristine however, but among the items in it are one of the Tiffany lamps he claims to despise.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Appearently, he used to wear [[spoiler:socks with sandals]]. A passing comment by Hollis Forsythe implies she counts it as a big achievement she convinced him to stop doing that.
* MadScientist: A relatively benign example, especially when compared to Dr. Loboto. Doesn't hesitate to experiment on the kids using the Brain Tumbler, and he's usually seen fiddling with equipment in the lab, but true to his role as a camp counselor, he's always asked for permission from his potential subjects and is hesitant to continue testing when it looks like Raz might be in danger.
* MissingMom: She died of illness when he was just a baby.
* NoSenseOfHumor: He's the only person in the camp who doesn't laugh when tickled with the crow feather. Instead he just comments that the feather is unhygienic.
* NotSoAboveItAll: During ''Rhombus of Ruin'' he acts significantly goofier under the effects of the Rhombus' Psilerium deposit, mistaking the [[spoiler: mutant fishmen]] for aliens and struggling with one over a mock Golden Disk after being freed from the Psilirium's effects [[spoiler: [[SkewedPriorities even as the Rhombus facility is crumbling around him.]]]]
* PersonalityPowers: He's an expert in use of {{Psi Blast}}s -- by virtue of being excellent at the emotional control and conscious direction directly involved in their use.
* SmokingIsCool: Cigarettes. He's even seen levitating one.
* SunglassesAtNight: He can be seen wearing them, no matter what time of day it is.
* TheStoic: Hard to rattle and generally deadpan in expression and speech. His emotionally controlled mind also reflects his stoicism, but it becomes a problem when his mind becomes too repressed and Raz has to help him control his overflowing censors.
* TheSpock: He's rather logical about many things.
* TranquilFury: In the sequel, Sasha in his usual dry manner makes it very clear that he is ''livid'' with Raz for [[spoiler:tampering with Hollis Forsyth's mind, and would have punished him far more harshly if she hadn't talked him down.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: He gives one of these to Raz after [[spoiler:he accidentally gave Hollis a gambling addiction]].
* WhenHeSmiles: At least, according to [[spoiler: Milla's]] second Memory Vault.
[[/folder]]

!The Psychonauts

The elite group of international secret agents who save the world with their psychic abilities.

[[folder:Truman Zanotto '''(All Spoilers Unmarked)''']]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/DarinDePaul
[[quoteright:288:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/trumanror.jpg]]

The Grand Head of the Psychonauts who's also Lili's Father.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Lili used to view her father as this, as he would use the camp's jet to come and visit her until she told him to stop.
* GrandTheftMe: He fell victim to this during the events of ''In the Rhombus of Ruin'', where Loboto kidnapped him and replaced Truman's brain with the brain of his employer, Gristol. He spends the entirety of the second game stuck inside a box.
* IronicName: His body was controlled by Gristol Malik, the BigBad of ''2'', so, basically, he wasn't really the true man known as Truman.
* MeetTheInLaws: During the ending of ''VideoGame/PsychonautsInTheRhombusOfRuin'', much to Truman's surprise, Lili introduced Raz to him as her boyfriend. To say he (or rather Gristol) is shocked would be an ''understatement.'' Though given his real brain was stored inside the metal case, it means that he technically didn't meet Raz at all until the end of ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'', when he's returned to his body after Gristol's removal.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He's one of the few people in the Motherlobe that doesn't like Nick. The fact that there's a golden bust of the guy in his mental world is what tips Lili off that it isn't his brain they're in.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Hollis Forsythe's Mental Vault paints him as this, since he was willing to see her potential as a Psychonaut despite her rash decision to alter her plagiarist superior's mind back when she worked at a hospital being the reason he was there to meet her in the first place.
* SeenItAll: When Raz mentions that Oleander was stealing children's brains and putting them into death tanks, Truman chuckles, "Is that all?", then {{Troll}}s Lili by saying he was more worried about the ''kissing'' that goes on at summer camps. (The look on his face indicates he knows full well Raz and Lili shared a FirstKiss.)
-->'''Lili:''' Dad, gross!
* ShipperOnDeck: In the postgame of ''2'' after he gets his real brain back, using Clairvoyance on him has him see Raz dressed in a snazzy suit while holding white flowers, presumably to give to his daughter.
* TooMuchInformation: After the events of ''2'', Truman apologizes for his behavior while Gristol was in his body -- then asks Raz not to mention ''what'' he did, because Lili already told him too much and he doesn't need any more.
[[/folder]]

!Thorney Towers Residents
[[folder:Dr. Caligosto Loboto, D.D.S.]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Nick Jameson
[[quoteright:297:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/297full_psychonauts_artwork.jpg]]

->''"When you're a dentist, you have to learn to have a sense of humor, you know. It helps to calm the patients down."''

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A DepravedDentist, EvilGenius and MadScientist, Dr Caligosto Loboto is the administrator of Thorney Towers. While details on his past are scarce, he had apparently been hauled into another asylum for his depraved dentistry and escaped to the abandoned Thorney Towers, which he took over and used in a plot to build an army of psychic death tanks.
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* AbusiveParents:
** As revealed at the end of the second game, [[spoiler:he left his kid at Whispering Rock. Leaving his kid alone at camp isn't great parenting to begin with, but assuming he's referring to one of the campers from the first game (presumably Bobby from the resemblance), Loboto removed his own kid's brain and was going to put it in a psychic death tank.]]
** [[spoiler: His own parents were [[FantasticRacism prejudiced against psychics]], to the point of giving their son a lobotomy upon finding out that he was born with psychic powers.]]
* AffablyEvil: Keeps a cheerful attitude and tone even as he's telling people the horrible things he's going to do to them.
* ArtificialLimbs: His right arm has been replaced with a three-pronged claw. That doubles as a ''pepper grinder.'' Also, his eyes look like a pair of penlights.
* BelatedBackstory: [[spoiler:In the first game he was Oleander's right-hand man but next to nothing was known about him. In ''The Rhombus of Ruin'', he returns and gets a [[CerebusRetcon surprisingly tragic backstory]] where it's revealed he was lobotomized by his parents for being born psychic.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: If the giant mental version of him from Rhombus of Ruin is any indication, then not only is his pepper grinder arm held on to his body with leather straps, but his shower cap is concealing his ''exposed brain''.]]
* BrainTheft: His plan is to steal the brains of PsychicChildren to create Psychic Death-Tanks and conquer the world.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: For all his eccentric behavior he's still someone who can de-brain people with a little dentistry knowledge and ''pepper''. [[spoiler: And his services are in demand enough for him to be moonlighting.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Albeit a dangerous one, bringing us such lines as "You have the insanity of a ''manatee!''" ''Rhombus of Ruin'' reveals [[spoiler:this is likely [[CerebusRetcon the result of the botched lobotomy his parents tried to remove his psychic abilities with.]]]] [[spoiler:The second game has him holding a stronger grip on reality thanks to Raz's influence, though he's still not all there.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Even less than that. You don't fight him at all. Instead, Raz uses telekinesis to drop [=Sam/Mr Pokeylope's=] brain into the tank, which blasts Loboto off the top of Thorney Towers, presumably to his doom.]] However, [[spoiler:''The Rhombus of Ruin'' reveals he survived.]]
* DepravedDentist: Amoral but cheerful at best and actively sadistic at worst.
* TheDragon: His orderly, Crispin Whytehead. [[spoiler: He's this himself to Coach Oleander.]] After the first game it's revealed [[spoiler: he's also this to Gristol]].
* EasilyForgiven: In ''2'', he's detained but welcomed back and given gifts to help him feel better. Considering he was a) driven mad by Psitanium, and b) threatened by Maligula, the Psychonauts probably feel he needs care more than punishment.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In the post-game for ''2'', [[spoiler:he leaves Sasha's lab through Otto's transit system, telling Raz that he's genuinely reformed now, and that he has to hurry back to camp because he left his kid there]].
--> '''Raz:''' [[spoiler:Dr. Loboto! Where do you think you're going?]]
--> '''Loboto:''' [[spoiler:The green man told me to wait in the Brain Bumbler.]]
--> '''Raz:''' [[spoiler:That's not the Brain Tumbler.]]
--> '''Loboto:''' [[spoiler:Oh. I guess I'm escaping, then. ''Bye!'' Please don't tell. You know I'm a reformed man. You were there! You saw me!]]
--> '''Raz:''' Hmmm.
--> '''Loboto:''' [[spoiler:Plus, I need to get back to camp. I left my kid there!]]
--> '''Raz:''' [[spoiler:Wait, what?]]
* EvilCounterpart: It's easy to see him as Raz's {{Foil}}, being that their both psychics with ''very'' bad relationships with their families for being such. [[spoiler:Main difference is that Loboto's parents '''did''' hate him.]]
* EvilGenius: He may or may not have had a role in [[spoiler:developing the Brain Tanks and Linda's mutations]], and managed to "proof" Crispin against use of psychic powers.
* GlasgowGrin: Maybe. He has what looks like a facial scar that makes him look like he's got a perpetual grin. Given the heavily stylized art of the series however, it might just be a quirk of his character design. [[spoiler: His HD model from Rhombus of Ruin makes it much more visible and it noticeably doesn't open with the rest of his mouth when he talks, suggesting that it ''is'' a scar.]]
* TheHeavy: [[spoiler:Serves as this for ''Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin''. He's the one who kidnapped Truman Zanotto, but he says he was hired by someone else who also wants' Raz' brain and keeps their identity secret.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: A downplayed example. [[spoiler: After beating Monstroboto and finding his moral compass by exploring his past, he seems to have a moment of clarity and is told by Raz that he can set things right. He does this by stopping his experiments, freeing the Psychonauts and his minions, and gathering them all together so they can escape. However, just because he's had a change of heart doesn't mean he's not still insane, so he triggers his base's self destruct ''while everyone's still inside it''. Though, he's not really antagonizing them by doing this, even telling them to flee. Also, there's the small matter of Loboto's client, which he ''would'' tell the Psychonauts about, but is literally incapable of doing so due to brainwashing]].
* HypocriticalHumor: [[spoiler:He tells Raz in confidence that he thinks Oleander's insane... Despite the fact that he also has the "insanity of a manatee."]]
* MadScientist: Hides out in a lab at the top of Thorney Towers, poking at brains.
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Coach Oleander is the one behind him in the first game. In ''Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin'', he is reveals to have someone else behind him to kidnap Truman Zanotto and attempt to steal Raz' brain.]]
* MeaningfulName: Serves as foreshadowing to the fact that [[spoiler:part of his FreudianExcuse, along with his parents hating psychics, involves a botched lobotomy turning him insane]].
* MismatchedEyes: Loboto's left eye is red, while the right one is green. As seen in his memories in ''In The Rhombus of Ruin'', his father had green eyes and his mother had red. Loboto has heterochromia.
* TheMobBossIsScarier: [[spoiler:In the second game, while he's resolved the trauma that made him AxCrazy, he is far, ''far'' too scared of Gristol to willingly reveal what Gristol paid him to do.]]
* OpenHeartDentistry: Provides the page quote.
-->'''Dogen''': What do you think's wrong with my brain, doctor?\\
'''Dr. Loboto''': How should I know? I'm a dentist! But here's what I do know: if the tooth is bad, we pull it!
* PsychoForHire: He's definitely psychotic, [[spoiler:and he describes himself as a freelance agent in ''Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin'', where he reveals he's "moonlighting" by working for someone else behind Oleander's back.]]
* PunchClockVillain: [[spoiler:In the second game, where he's had his trauma fixed, but not his fear of Gristol, so he remains reluctantly loyal.]]
* ReformedButNotTamed: In ''Rhombus of Ruin'', [[spoiler:Loboto's moral compass is returned and he decides to give up his experiments and let the Psychonauts go, but is still insane enough to trigger the SelfDestructMechanism ''before'' they've escaped]].
* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:''Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin'' reveals that his insanity was caused by a botched lobotomy his parents had performed on him simply because he was born psychic.]]
* UnusualEuphemism: Aside from his famous "Insanity of a Manatee" quote, he's rather fond of using dentistry related terms even when they're not appropriate. [[spoiler:In ''Rhombus of Ruin'', he refers to Oleander as having "halitosis" while his hand gesture makes it clear he means "insanity"]]
* VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler:In ''The Rhombus of Ruin'', he sets off his base's self-destruct and manages to escape from the heroes...though he actually just stowed away on their jet, and ''Psychonauts 2'' starts with his interrogation.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Crispin Whytehead]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/DwightSchultz
[[quoteright:298:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crispin_7.jpg]]

->''"My eyes may be half gone, but I would recognize the mad doctor anywhere!"''

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TheDragon to Dr. Loboto and the orderly of Thorney Towers. Was once an inmate under Fred's orderly station, but turned the tables by driving Fred mad by beating him at a game of Waterloo-O. He is half blind.
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* TheCorrupter: He's the one who drove Fred insane by beating him again and again at a board game until he snapped. Given he seems pretty smug about it in Fred's Memory Vaults and seized the opportunity to take over Fred's Orderly position, it's very likely he enjoyed the process.
* DeadpanSnarker: He pretty much spends his time mocking Fred and snarking's pretty much his only defense. [[PaperTiger He crumples fairly quickly once Fred is able to assert authority once again.]]
* TheDragon: To Dr. Loboto.
* DirtyCoward: Once Fred is able to confront him, Crispin quickly cowers before him, even referring to him as Head Orderly Bonaparte.
* {{Gonk}}: The man looks like a mildly exaggerated version of Steve Buscemi.
* OhCrap: His reaction to Fred no longer in his jacket.
-->'''Fred:''' ''Inmate Whyhead.''\\
'''Crispin:''' Chief orderly Bonaparte... You're-\\
'''Fred:''' ''[[PreAsskickingOneLiner Armed?]]''
* NoSell: Doctor Loboto has specifically shielded him from mental intrusion, meaning that Raz cannot enter his mind.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Fred seemed to find so, anyway; Fred's memories show him drooling in the corner of his padded cell before baffling him with the first of many Waterloo-O wins against him, and Napoleon refers to him as an "invalid" while criticizing Fred for the whole thing.
* UncertainDoom: Crispin disappears entirely from the game once Raz tricks him into letting him on the elevator, exiting pursued by an angry Fred Bonaparte. It's not certain if Fred simply chased him off or if he made good on his promise to ''strangle'' the clown.
* TheUnfought: Raz simply needs to get a proper disguise to fool him (not difficult considering his terrible eyesight) into letting him into the upper levels of the asylum. This in turn means helping the three inmates' issues to get the parts.
* UngratefulBastard: Fred saw him alone and unhappy looking in his cell and offered to play a game with him. In return, Crispin beat Fred at the game over and over again until Fred went insane, took over his position as orderly, and mocks him as he walks around in a strait jacket.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Boyd Cooper]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/AlanBlumenfeld
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/boyd1_0.jpg]]

->''"Hi Mom, look at me! I'm tangled in a web of deception!"''

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A {{Cloudcuckoolander}} ConspiracyTheorist who once had a job as a department store guard, but was fired, resulting in him going crazy, burning down the store and being taken into an asylum. Later, he's approached to become the Asylum's guard and hypnotically instilled with a split personality called "The Milkman" to potentially destroy the Asylum and eliminate all evidence.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Even for a conspiracy theorist, he's weird.
* DelayedExplosion: Once you complete his mental world, he lights a Molotov and winds up to throw it at the Asylum to start his job of eliminating the evidence. He'll continue to hold that lit Cocktail there until the player saves Lili without it exploding in his hand somehow.
* DissonantSerenity: "I am the Milkman. My milk is delicious."
* GoingPostal: His backstory - see above.
* MadLibsDialogue: When left alone, Boyd talks aloud about his various conspiracies, which are bits of dialogue strung together at random.
* ManchurianAgent: His "Milkman" persona is psychically implanted. After he completes his task, figments of the Milkman, the Den Mother, a G-Man and a Rainbow Squirt float out of his head and he drops his creepy monotone.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: According to the Li-Po backstory document, he wound up the middle of ''fifteen'' kids after his mother married her lover. The resentment of no longer being an only child and the center of attention apparently contributed to his paranoid tendencies.
* MilkmanConspiracy: [[TropeNamers The Trope Namer]].
* MolotovCocktail: The Milkman's "milk."
* PyroManiac: The "Milkman" part of his personality.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: What his room in his house in his mental world looks like, especially when Raz uses Clairvoyance on him.
* StepfordSuburbia: His mindscape is a literally twisted series of suburban streets where eyes peek from windows of empty houses and lawn decorations hide surveillance cameras.
* SplitPersonality: His guard and "Milkman" personae.
* TheUnfought: You might expect to fight the Milkman but actually you fight his [[TheDragon Dragon]], the Den Mother, instead. [[spoiler:The Milkman part of his personality just stands in front of the asylum until he burns it down at the game's conclusion, then departs from Boyd, task completed.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gloria von Gouten]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Roberta Callahan
[[quoteright:183:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gloria.jpg]]

->''"Oh, you must be my new leading man!"''

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An aspiring musical starlet who was sent by her cruel mother to the [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Hagatha Home School For Girls]], under an EvilMatriarch and numerous bullies who made her life miserable, making her all the more glad to leave the school and rise to her career. She snapped when she received news of her mother committing suicide by jumping off an apartment roof due to her own fame and success having eclipsed hers, developing a severe case of mood swings and landing her in Thorney Towers.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Her two default moods are "docile" and "hostile", [[MoodSwinger her transitioning between moods seamless]] and triggered by something as simple as a change in mood-lighting. It's so bad that she seems to possess a very loose grasp of her surroundings, mistaking various flower pots for an adoring crowd in her passive state and confusing Raz for someone she possesses an UnstoppableRage towards in her manic state, all symptomatic of a manic episode. This implies that she has an extreme (bordering on cartoonishly inaccurate) case of Bipolar Disorder or some form of dysphoric mania.
* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Hagatha Home School for Girls.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Even after her mind's cleared up by Raz, she's absentminded and off in her own world enough to [[spoiler:mistake a gas valve for a water one and turn it on so she can water the garden]].
* DrivenToSuicide: Her mother. See above.
* EvilMatriarch: Was taught by one, the unnamed headmistress of Hagatha Home. A scary old lady who was very strict and carried a whip constantly.
* FollowInMyFootsteps: She followed in the footsteps of her mother and even managed to outshine her.
* MoodSwinger: The theme of her mind along with her acting. It is not PlayedForLaughs, as she quickly changes from amicable loon to screaming madwoman, and she's got a lot of self-hatred at the core of her mind.
* ParentWithNewParamour: One play has Gloria suspect her stepfather was responsible for sending her to Hagatha's.
* StrawCritic: Jasper Rolls, who represents her self-hatred and insecurity.
* TellMeAboutMyFather: Implied by the "Knight of Joy" plays in her mind to have never known her father and to wonder if her life might never have gone off its rails if he'd been in it.
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: When her mood swings if she catches Raz handling her trophy, it's heavily implied she thinks that she's talking to her mother.
-->'''Gloria''': Would you like me to tell you how I won that award? ...Or are you trying to take it from me, ''because you don't think I deserve it?'' I never asked to be famous -- I just wanted you to ''love'' me!
%%* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Gloria and the other inmates are last seen preparing to leave Thorny Towers in the courtyard, which is empty whilst Lili and Raz dodge the falling debris. While it is possible the inmates have already left via the rowboat on the shore, it is ultimately unknown if they survived or were merely consumed by the fire.
* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Her once-glamorous career crashed after her mother's suicide. Raz finds her performing to the plants in the Thorney Towers' garden.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fred Bonaparte]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/AndreSogliuzzo
[[quoteright:155:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fredbonaparte.jpg]]

->''"Okay, everybody who's still in my army, raise your hands. Unless you're dead."''

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A descendant of UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, who, after repeatedly losing games of Waterloo-O to Crispin in his former job as an orderly, went insane and was possessed by the angry genetic memory of his ancestor, who forced him to become a great tactician (ironically in a mental game of Waterloo-O).
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Fred seems to suffer from [[SplitPersonality Dissociative identity disorder (better known as multiple personality disorder)]], specifically a form of [=DID=] where he is consciously aware of his actions while the alternate personality is in control to the point of holding conversations with it.
** Given his backstory and some of his implied failures in the past before the game, he might also have a case of Learned Helplessness which cripples his ability to fight back against Napoleon. See EpiphanicPrison.
* TheDogBitesBack: After Raz helps him gain a backbone, he proceeds to assert authority over Crispin and chase him down after Raz makes his way up to the upper levels of the Asylum.
* EpiphanicPrison: It's implied given a combination of contextual clues within his mental world and the revelation of some of his past failures that this is also partly to blame for why he's stuck like this after losing to Crispin. His apparent loss in the Pinewood Derby when he was younger, his subtle SoreLoser tendencies (or at least a desire to win despite his failures), combined with having a FamousAncestor (with all the heirlooms that entailed) that he can never truly live up to, might have given him a secret inferiority complex that caused him to believe he was incapable of succeeding at anything. With that in mind, his severe losses to Crispin (who was a mental patient) at a board game might have been less the core cause of his current mental state and [[TheLastStraw more the straw that broke the camel's back.]]
* FamousAncestor: A given, of course. However, he has none of Napoleon's traits, particularly his competitiveness.
* GeneralFailure: He's been a somewhat cowardly, underachieving defeatist at least ever since a mental patient was able to repeatedly hand him his ass at a strategy game and drive him bonkers during his days as an orderly. Even the game pieces acknowledge him as a terrible leader after they're inspired to fight for him.
* GeneticMemory: The GeneticMemory of UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte is what's possessing him. Maybe. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane It could also merely be a fragment of his mind that he modeled after Napoleon.]]
* GlorySeeker: What his ancestor wishes him to be. By the end, he's at least a lot more confident.
* GrewASpine: His storyline is all about making him develop confidence and assertiveness, which he ultimately does to the point that he actively wants to win against Napoleon.
* TheNapoleon: {{Inverted}}, actually, with Fred himself -- he's ''really'' tall and has an inferiority complex. Of course, his Napoleon personality fits this better.
* NapoleonDelusion: Has a SplitPersonality between himself and Napoleon. Justified by two factors. Firstly, the Psitanium. Secondly, his GeneticMemory possessing him.
* NiceGuy: Aside from his spinelessness, he's actually quite nice for an orderly. In fact, he was originally trying to help Crispin come out of his shell by playing a board game with him, only for it to spiral out of control.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After being cured (and giving Crispin some payback), he leads the rest of the asylum's remaining patients out. "Relax, the asylum's closed. We can all go home."
* SesquipedalianSmith: Inverted, befitting of a down-to-earth NiceGuy who's content considering himself to be pretty unassuming despite his impressive-sounding lineage.
* SoreLoser: It's implied that he was this given how poorly he took his loss to Crispin Whitehead that he created a SplitPersonality of Napoleon Bonaparte.
* TookALevelInBadass: Later on in Waterloo World, he starts acting like the warrior his ancestor wants him to be.
* TwitchyEye: Even after he's cured. It's likely just a tic.
-->'''Gloria''': Leave? Here?\\
'''Fred''': Yeah, this place is for crazy people! And I don't know about you, but I ain't crazy no more! ''(eyetwitch)''
%%* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Fred and the other inmates are last seen preparing to leave Thorny Towers in the courtyard, which is empty whilst Lili and Raz dodge the falling debris. While it is possible the inmates have already left via the rowboat on the shore, it is ultimately unknown if they survived or were merely consumed by the fire.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Edgar Teglee]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Jerry [=DeCapua=]
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->''"In the end, Razputin, aren't we all just dogs playing poker?"''

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Aspiring artist and high school wrestling team captain left heartbroken after his love, Lana Panzoni, a [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders cheerleader]], rejected him in favor of the head of the cheerleading squad, Dean [=LaGrante=]. As a result, he didn't have it in him to complete the state semi-finals. At some point, he was inducted into Thorney Towers for his obsession with painting and bulls. He tries to paint masterpieces, but always ruins them at the last moment by going into a rage and painting a matador and bull over them.
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* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Him and Lana.
* AnimalMotifs: Generally steady and to-himself without being antisocial, with a bit of an expressively dramatic flair and [[UnstoppableRage explosive temper]] when provoked, he's pretty well-represented by the bull that keeps showing up in his paintings. [[spoiler:Turns out the bull actually does represent him.]]
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Has an evocative, semi-formal way of speaking.
* BilingualBonus: El Odio's name is Spanish for "the hatred." [[spoiler:It represents Edgar's anger issues.]]
* CoolOldGuy: It's suggested that the Memory Reels depicting him as a high schooler take place in the fifties, which would put him somewhere around his late sixties.
** It is worth mentioning, though, that it's never directly stated when the game takes place (sometime after the 80s if a bit of optional dialogue with Dogen is any indication, at any rate), so it's debatable how old he actually is.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: His leather vest has the logos of each of the wrestlers Raz has to face. Justified in that those wrestlers were teammates of Edgar's.
* GentleGiant: He seems to be one of the most pleasantly laid-back people Raz meets aside from Milla. [[UnstoppableRage Unless he's pissed off]], of course.
* ALoadOfBull: El Odio, a creature plaguing his mind. [[spoiler:It actually represents his anger and hatred]].
* MadArtist: He's a black velvet painter with a HairTriggerTemper and an obsession with bull-fighting that eventually led to his incarceration at the asylum. He's definitely one of the more benign examples of the trope, as he is fairly affable with Raz, and is simply haunted by his past.
* MaskedLuchador: Himself and the four other members of his wrestling team in his high school days, Tiger, Dragon, Eagle and Cobra. The latter four end up as bosses in his mind. [[spoiler:Teglee's wrestling persona himself ends up as El Odio]].
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Everyone in his mind. See the above BilingualBonus, while Dingo ''In-Flagrante'' and Lampita ''Pasion''ado are more obvious]]. His own name is a {{Homage}} - anyone heard of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Leeteg Edgar Leeteg]]?
* NoSell: Just ''try'' using Telekinesis on him in the real world.
->'''Edgar:''' Nobody lifts Edgar Teglee!
* OneTrackMindedArtist: Edgar Teglee suffers from an AmbiguousDisorder that gives him a HairTriggerTemper and an odd obsession with painting bulls and bullfighters and nothing else. He is assigned by his "psychiatrist" Dr. Loboto to paint his portrait as a part of his treatment, but every time he tries, his condition gets in the way, leaving him literally chained to the floor of the abandoned asylum. When Raz uses Sasha's mind-portal to enter his mind (portrayed as a Mexican villa painted on black velvet), he discovers on the surface that it involves his wife Lampita ended up getting seduced by Dingo and ultimately left Edgar to be with him. Edgar was devastated by this and was driven mad with heartbreak, painting nothing but bullfights to symbolize his anguish. [[spoiler: Or at least, that's the romanticized version, as what ''really'' happened was that his high school girlfriend was stolen away by a male cheerleader, breaking his fighting spirit and causing his friends on the wrestling team to abandon him, leaving him nowhere else to turn but the art lab; the connection between bullfights and the events is instead born out of him having had a bull-themed wrestling persona]].
* SuperOCD: Though not a particularly "typical" example. Edgar is undergoing art therapy at Thorney Towers. The problem is that he'll calmly paint on the canvas, get mostly done, and then reflexively covers the existing painting with a giant bull fighting a matador. This promptly makes him enraged, and he destroys the canvas before starting on a new one. He's been told he can't leave until he can produce a painting without allowing the bull and matador to appear.
* SuperStrength: Edgar, after finishing his painting, decides it's time for him to leave. He proceeds to easily rip the chain bolted to the floor, the floor itself, and the gas line running underneath the floor out.
* UnstoppableRage: He's been unable to control it for the longest time. Which is why he always ends up painting a bull and a matador fighting each other.
* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: [[spoiler: Inside his mind, he transforms into El Odio whenever overcome with rage.]]
%%* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Edgar and the other inmates are last seen preparing to leave Thorny Towers in the courtyard, which is empty whilst Lili and Raz dodge the falling debris. While it is possible the inmates have already left via the rowboat on the shore, it is ultimately unknown if they survived or were merely consumed by the fire.
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[[folder:Sheegor]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/TaraStrong
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->''"I made him his favorite chocolate cake, and he can't even come up to enjoy it."''

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A hunchbacked (young?) girl, Dr. Loboto's assistant -- not willingly, as she despises what he's doing and yet has to help him, as not only is she terrified of him, he's holding her pet turtle Mr. Pokeylope hostage and will kill him if she doesn't cooperate.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite her childlike behavior, she's apparently an expert at neurology, which is likely why Loboto has "hired" her.
* TheCameo: Appears as a figment in Loboto's mind in ''2''.
* CloudCuckoolander: She seems like this at first - [[spoiler:given that she apparently gets most of her answers and solutions to her problems from her pet turtle, who, as it turns out, ''is'' fully sentient and more than capable of giving solid advice.]]
* TheIgor: She's the reluctant assistant to Dr. Loboto, hence her name.
* PunchClockVillain: Is being actively coerced by Loboto into doing his dirty work. [[spoiler:Depending on whether Sasha's suggestion after she returns his and Milla's brains goes anywhere, she might just have a more respectable job and nicer boss ahead of her after the game ends.]]
* ReluctantMadScientist: She hates helping Loboto hurt people, but has to or he'll eat Mr. Pokeylope.
[[/folder]]

!Mental Figures
[[folder:The G-Men]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/SteveBlum
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->''"Who is the Milkman?"''

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Mysterious characters who are products of Boyd's paranoid mind mixed with its natural defense systems, seeking to find and remove the Milkman. Use [[PaperThinDisguise handheld props in an attempt to disguise themselves as members of different professions, including housewives and grieving widows]].
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* AllegoricalCharacter: They are a manifestation of Boyd's belief that everyone is a government spy, and their incompetence at disguising themselves shows that Boyd thinks this is obvious to nobody but him.
* BlatantLies: Most of what they say are unconvincing attempts to stay in character.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: There's no question that they are incompetent at hiding their identities, but when they actually act, be it questioning, catching, or [[spoiler: launching a counter-offensive against the Squirts.]] they are frighteningly thorough, to a degree.
* CaptainObvious: They offhandedly talk about what their 'job' is about, what said job entails and random quips that someone would likely say if they were in their position.
-->'''"Helicopter Pilot"''': Helicopters can go up and down.\\
'''Raz''': ...''Man'' these guys are dumb.
* TheComicallySerious: They never break their CreepyMonotone for any reason, no matter how absurd they look and act.
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Part of their "obvious federal agent" look.
* CreepyMonotone: Mostly PlayedForLaughs to make their ridiculous attempts at disguises even more so.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: They occasionally say things that are completely true, if trivial. For example, that there are no confirmed cases of alligators found living in sewers or that rhubarb is toxic if ingested in large quantities.
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler: They're actually allies of the Censors, working to expunge Coach Oleander's influence on Boyd's mind.]]
* LizardFolk: Kinda. They are [[Creator/DavidIcke green-skinned humanoids]]. [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation Not that's it's very unusual in the game's world.]] Their small, glowing red eyes and noseless faces are, however.
* TheMenInBlack: Clearly evoking this imagery, even if they're not wearing black. They're a major obstacle in Boyd's mind because they're trying to find the Milkman and think Raz is involved with him, prompting them to grill Raz and obstruct his progress.
* PaperThinDisguise: Exaggerated, as they're clearly spies in traditional trenchcoats and the only aspect of their disguise is a single prop, which they use hilariously wrong the whole time. The "road crew" makes shoveling motions with their stop signs, the "hedge trimmers" practice sword swallowing with their clippers, and the "grieving widows" do golf swings with their flowers. Appropriately, they are themselves fooled by Paper Thin Disguises. If Raz grabs one of their props, they see him as one of them.
-->'''Raz''': I am on the Road Crew. This is my stop sign.\\
'''Road Crew G-Man''': Hello, fellow Road Crew worker. Welcome to the Road Crew.
* PerpSweating: If they capture Raz, they'll subject him to this, asking dozens of questions of varying relevance to the Milkman.
-->'''G-Man Interrogator''': How did you throw that trashcan? What did the Rainbow Squirt tell you? [[TheGogglesDoNothing What is the purpose of the goggles]]?
* RedEyesTakeWarning: They actually have infrared vision, so sneaking past them using invisibility won't work.
* SpyBot: What they seem to really be (though its tough to tell for sure, considering where they live). The tops of their heads are detachable. In fact, the first one Raz talks to sprouts a gun from his mouth when he suspects him of being the Milkman. Additionally, they all have infrared vision and built-in extinguishers if you manage to set them on fire.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Given their habit of stating the obvious, the widow G-Men tend to speak this way.
-->'''Grieving Widow G-Man:''' The cemetery is filled with dead people. The dead people are underground, and I have brought flowers because I am sad.
* TooDumbToLive: The "Assassin" G-Men wander around aimlessly in an empty parking lot while a sniper picks them off one-by-one.
* WhatTheHellHero: If you attack a Rainbow Squirt, "Why did you punch that little girl?" will be added to their line of questioning.
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[[folder:The Rainbow Squirts & Den Mother]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/NikaFutterman & Amber Hood, Ginny Westcott (Den Mother)
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->'''Den Mother:''' ''"Do not follow! The milk is not ready, and you are not ready for the milk!"''

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An AncientConspiracy of [[GirlScoutsAreEvil girl scouts]] designed to protect the Milkman, obfuscate his true nature and help fulfill his mission. They are led by their Den Mother and are opposed to the G-Men.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: The Rainbow Squirts act as metaphorical agents of Oleander's plot and the brainwashing he inflicted upon Boyd, designed to keep the Milkman asleep until the right time.
* AncientConspiracy: Well, not that ancient. Still, they do seem to be about as old as the game-time state of Boyd's mind.
* GirlScoutsAreEvil: They are the defense for the manifestation of the ManchurianAgent brainwashing Boyd has been subjected to, making them essentially the villains of his mind. In particular, they guard the Milkman, until Oleanders order to destroy all the evidence is activated
* EvilMatriarch: The Den Mother.
* MilkmanConspiracy: The TropeNamer.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Den Mother, in the level's final boss fight.
* SuicideAttack: Their "cookies" are used to this purpose when the G-Men attempt to interrogate one of their dying members.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Milkman '''(All Spoilers Unmarked)''']]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/AlanBlumenfeld
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->''"I am the Milkman. My milk is delicious."''

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A version of Boyd dressed in an almost dazzlingly white outfit, which is a representation of a ManchurianAgent program placed in his subconscious by Oleander. He lies dormant until given the order to make his "final delivery", and is the source of Boyd's current paranoias.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: He is the ManchurianAgent within Boyd's mind, having been implanted there by Oleander to destroy all evidence of his and Loboto's EvilPlan.
* CreepyMonotone: He never raises his voice above this, which only serves to make him more unsettling.
* FlatCharacter: {{Justified|Trope}}. He only exists because Oleander left him in Boyd's head to destroy the Asylum and cover his tracks, and his only personality is devoted to that goal.
* MadBomber: Due to his "milk" being {{Molotov Cocktail}}s.
* MadnessMantra: "I am the Milkman. My milk is delicious."
* ManchurianAgent: The actual agent in this case.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Watch him almost completely destroy the remaining forces of Boyd's Censors and G-Men by lobbing cocktails everywhere, effectively overriding his mind.
* TimeBomb: The Milkman is going to go off, it's just a matter of when. Raz gets him to go off prematurely.
* VillainInAWhiteSuit: Takes the form of Boyd wearing a dazzling milk-white suit.
* WalkingSpoiler: His entire existence spoils the twist of the Milkman Conspiracy.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jasper Rolls]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Joe Paulino
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->''"The young boy's protests, though heartfelt, quickly lapsed into simplistic and tedious platitudes. One and a half stars!"''

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A large, incredibly fat critic who watches the (rather bad) plays in Gloria's Theatre from his balcony seat, heckling every performance while munching on popcorn. He's Gloria's inner critic, amplified by her bipolar mood swings. He believes that the theatre should be shut down so the Phantom of the Theatre will stop attacking and killing people.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: He is the manifestation of Gloria's inner critic. It is mentioned that he only made his presence known around the time Gloria's mother committed suicide, lobbing insults at her inner muse and sabotaging the play as [[TheatrePhantom The Phantom]]. Since the play is the events of Gloria's life, his meddling prevents the story to reach its conclusion, and this is the source of Gloria's psychosis. [[spoiler: He's still around after he's defeated, but is no longer bloated to the point where he drowns everyone else out with his criticisms. In fact he now fits rather easily in his box of popcorn, and is visibly still shrinking at this point.]]
* ButHeSoundsHandsome: When you reveal that [[spoiler:he's the Phantom.]]
-->'''Jasper''': WHAT? How dare you accuse me of [[spoiler:being the rugged and romantic scoundrel that has thrilled and terrified audiences for years?]]
* CoolChair: His balcony seat can levitate and fire lethal criticism from its twin-mounted pens.
* DiminishingVillainThreat: [[spoiler: Literally, as he shrinks to the size of a mouse (and is getting even smaller) once Raz defeats him.]]
* FatalFlaw: His {{Pride}}, which Raz exploits [[spoiler: to reveal him as the Phantom. When Jasper denies it, Raz pretends to agree: "Yeah, you're probably right. He's so ''agile'' and ''limber'' and '''''thin.''''' He could ''never'' be ''you.'']]
* FatBastard: He barely even fits into his balcony seat, and is plenty mean to everybody he talks to.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts like he's a necessary evil to get the Theatre where the Phantom keeps killing people shut down and that his criticism is needed, but his sadistic glee at which he tears into the play and [[spoiler: the fact that he's the Phantom in the first place]] make it quite clear that he's only doing what he does for his own amusement.
* LargeHam: Being a critic, he has a flair for drama (as seen by his constant use of MilkingTheGiantCow) and is prone to ChewingTheScenery.
* MakeMeWannaShout: He ''weaponizes'' his criticism during his boss battle--the front of his balcony seat is equipped with pen-like guns that fire cruel insults which can hurt Raz.
* MeaningfulName: Jasper Rolls has ''rolls'' of fat on his enormous body. It's also a StealthPun on the word "role" as a synonym for "part in a cast," [[spoiler: hinting that he is playing two roles: Critic and Phantom.]]
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He claims he's just trying to protect the actors since the Phantom only attacks when Bonita performs, but this is an obvious lie since [[spoiler: he ''is'' the Phantom.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: Played with a little bit. Jasper certainly acts plenty hostile and suspicious, but he never seems to leave his seat (even sleeping there), and the Phantom is so drastically different in body structure that it's kind of hard to make him a suspect [[spoiler:until the reveal, where these points are what make him confess.]]
* RuleOfSymbolism: He's enormously fat because of how much Gloria's self-loathing and hatred has amplified his criticism, and he's harmed by light--in other words, the truth. [[spoiler: After being defeated, he's quite literally reduced to a tiny, shrieking version of himself that everyone ignores, signifying that Gloria has finally learned how to shut his voice out.]]
* StrawCritic: Played with. He may delight in being cruel to a hyperbolic, outlandish degree, but the poorly-acted trainwreck of a play he's witnessing would put even a charitable, constructive critic in a bad mood.
* TheatrePhantom: He is the secret identity of [[spoiler: The Phantom]], an obstructive figure that sabotages the play whenever Bonita is on stage. Weirdly enough, their body types are remarkably different, [[spoiler: the Phantom]] being LeanAndMean while Jasper is a FatBastard, something Raz touches upon to get him to confess.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Both as [[spoiler: the Phantom]] and as the Critic, Jasper's main weakness is the spotlight. Using a spotlight scares him away in the catwalks, and his boss fight involves Raz lighting spotlights with pyrokinesis to stun him long enough to hit him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Stage Actors]]
Actors who recreate the story of Gloria's life. They change whenever the mood light does.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: They all play real people in Gloria's life, including Gloria herself, in a stage-play that is essentially Gloria's memories of her childhood, making the actors unconscious representations of those people.
* BadBadActing: No matter what mood a given scene is given, the actors are universally poor in their performance chops. Their mouths gape open at all times when they're not speaking, and what words come out have wrong inflections, with overdone gestures to match.
* BatScare: In tragedy mode, the birds appear as horrifying bats (which are called harpies).
* BewareOfViciousDog: Some of the actors appear as fire-breathing feral hounds in tragedy mode.
* MoodSwinger: Their costumes and personalities change (from [[TastesLikeDiabetes extreme upbeatness]] to [[{{Jerkass}} irritable jerkassery]]) along with the stage lighting.
* PlantPerson: The flower costumes.
* PunchClockVillain: The Tragedy variations only attack when you mount the stage during the performance, and fight for Jasper when he bribes them with the promise of praising them in his review if they destroy Raz.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: When the dialog and the sets don't match, they'll shrug and just try to improv the scene.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Napoleon Bonaparte]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/AndreSogliuzzo
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->''"Nobody's winning! Want to know who's losing? The Bonaparte family name!"''

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Yes. ''The'' UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, or rather a GeneticMemory or SplitPersonality within the mind of his descendant Fred.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: He is essentially the voice in Fred's head scolding him for being a loser that grew into a SplitPersonality. More specifically, he is the manifestation of Fred's deep desire to win, and is trying to get Fred to be willing to get back up and fight for his victories. However, Fred's strong sense of learned helplessness driven by his implied past failures, the sheer weight of having Napoleon Bonaparte as his ancestor, and his dismal failure to win against Crispin in a board game makes Napoleon's efforts far more frustrating than the SplitPersonality likes, and his attempts to coerce and force Fred to fight back tended to end in failure. Only when Raz comes along and give Fred some muchly needed help does Fred finally begin to fight back, [[SoProudOfYou much to Napoleon's eventual pride.]]
* AntiVillain: His motive is to get Fred to appreciate and achieve victory, and while he does cheat, he leaves Fred's mind without a fight when Fred finally wins.
* FamousAncestor: To Fred Bonaparte.
* GeneticMemory: The general idea, though it is equally likely that he is just a manifestation of Fred's slipping mental state exacerbated by the psitanium. Either that or Psychics being real in the setting means that Genetic Memory really ''is'' a different thing than it is in reality. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane It's not really made 100% clear]].
* SoProudOfYou: After Raz helps Fred win, Napoleon expresses pride that his descendant became a true warrior.
* SoreLoser: Ironically for the split personality that emerged to educate him on winning, when Fred starts to ''actually'' win for once with Raz's help, Napoleon proceeds to close off his castle's gate and jam the gears to the bridge. When he's called out for cheating, he says that "all is fair in love and war." It actually makes more sense given that, if he '''is''' a SplitPersonality of Fred, then he is proof that Fred deep down ''wants'' to win, but needs the right encouragement to do so.
** HypocriticalHumor: Despite this, he calls out the player for cheating if they attempt to move his pieces.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:El Odio]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Jerry [=DeCapua=]
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A monstrous bull that terrorizes the streets of Black Velvetopia and repeatedly destroys Edgar's card tower.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: He is Edgar Teglee's HairTriggerTemper made manifest, repeatedly destroying Edgar's tower of cards and by extension, his way to the truth while also causing chaos for the rest of the city's citizens.
* ArcVillain: Of Black Velvetopia. El Odio is an ever-present obstacle throughout the level, forcing Raz to take the back-alleys to navigate and is the reason why Edgar lost his queens in the first place.
* BullfightBoss: No duh. During the boss fight with him, you have him run into the walls. His horns become stuck, giving Raz enough time to throw spears at him.
* ALoadOfBull: He is a giant bull that barrels through the streets of Black Velvetopia. [[spoiler: It is later revealed that Edgar was a bull-themed wrestler in high school, {{foreshadowing}} who El Odio is.]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:He and Edgar are one and the same!]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lampita Pasionado and Dingo Inflagrante]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Julie Nathanson & Creator/JoshKeaton
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->'''Dingo:''' ''"Um, what's up with the "junior"?"''
->'''Lampita:''' ''"Yeah, we were full-on varsity!"''

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Residents of Black Velvetopia, Lampita being the woman that Edgar pines for and Dingo being a self-obsessed playboy matador whom Razputin encounters in Black Velvetopia. They're mental manifestations of Lana Panzoni and Dean [=LaGrante=], the two people who broke Edgar's heart in his high school years.
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* AccentRelapse: [[RuleOfSymbolism Played for symbolism.]] The two speak with a noticeable Spanish accent, but when Raz spells out to Edgar that they're the memories of his teenage years holding him back and causing his current mental distress, their accents fall immediately into preppy, snobbish Californian drawls, more akin to the cheerleader high-schoolers they represent.
* AllegoricalCharacter: They are both the manifestation of Edgar's high-school girlfriend and the male cheerleader that she left him for, both of them being the source of the psychosis that had him sent to the asylum in the first place. In the real world, Dingo appears as the matador that Edgar continually obsesses over in his paintings.
* BrilliantButLazy: Dingo is supposedly one of the greatest matadors in the world and could very well distract El Odio long enough for one of the dogs to paint his ad, but he won't do any bullfighting until the ad for his encounter with El Odio is put up. Even then, [[DirtyCoward he won't do anything about El Odio until Raz renders him weak and helpless]].
* TheBully: Collectively, they torment Edgar [[spoiler:in the form of El Odio]] both physically and mentally. Fittingly, by the end of the fight, Edgar wonders to himself why he was so hung up on the two since they're so petty and pathetic.
* DirtyCoward: Dingo won't fight El Odio until Raz weakens him. [[spoiler:Lampita, on the other hand, rather pathetically tries to convince Edgar she always loved him more than Dingo to try and weasel out of him forgetting them.]]
* EvilAllAlong: With the reveal that [[spoiler:Edgar was El Odio]], both Lampita and Dingo are revealed to be the personal demons behind Edgar's psychosis, their death freeing him from his temper and obsession.
* GagBoobs: Lampita has the biggest set in the ''entire game.'' They're so big that any movement on her part at all makes them bounce like crazy. Perhaps [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that she's a romanticized memory of Edgar's girlfriend from when he was a high school boy, given the irreverent tone of the game.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: If Dingo hadn't [[HoistByHisOwnPetard given Raz the Confusion merit badge]], he never would have gotten the last Queen card that would have revealed the truth to Edgar, and Raz would never have been able to use it on Dingo to make him vulnerable to the spears.
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: [[spoiler:Edgar drops them both from the arena to the streets below before closing the pit behind him mentally... then opening it again to allow himself the catharsis of hearing them hit the ground.]]
* PrinceCharmless: Dingo. In the world of Edgar's mind, he's said to be a highly skilled matador and a famous playboy-type, and if Raz says that he sounds like a jerk after hearing about his alleged wife-seducing ways, the Collie defends him and claims that [[SoBeautifulItsACurse people only rag on him because of his looks]]. When Raz finally meets the guy, he's smug, vain, bigheaded, and insufferably condescending.
-->'''Dingo''': I will reward you handsomely. Which is how I do ''everything.''
* TheReveal: While Lampita acts like a DamselInDistress and Dingo as a sexy Spanish hero, when Raz points out the truth about who they are, they both drop the act, abruptly switch to Californian accents, and start cheering.
* RomanticFalseLead: Dean/Dingo, the latter of whom is also in particular presented as a self-obsessed PrinceCharmless.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tiger, Dragon, Eagle, and Cobra]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Dave Boat (Dragon and Eagle), Creator/SteveBlum (Tiger), Josh Blake (Cobra)
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These {{Masked Luchador}}es are mini-bosses found in Black Velvetopia. Each must be defeated to obtain one of the missing Queens to allow Edgar Teglee to build his house of cards high enough to reach Lampita.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: All four of them are mental manifestations of Edgar's former wrestling team, having become antagonistic obstacles after Edgar lost them the championship.
* AnimalThemeNaming: As their names suggest, each of them are themed after a specific animal.
* EvilSmellsBad: Dragon smells of brimstone as part of his act. Raz is less impressed and more put off by it.
* FlawExploitation: Cobra's immunity is born from intense focus, meaning he is weak against the Confusion power Dingo provides for Raz. It also helps that he practically bleeds ammo for it if you hit him.
* IShallTauntYou: Cobra is the mouthiest, taunting Raz (whom he thinks is Edgar) about choking in the finals. Flaw exploitation, indeed.
* SignatureMove: Each of the wrestlers have their own special moves that set them apart:
** Tiger uses the Tiger Charge, getting on all fours and then pouncing;
** Dragon has the Dragon Roar, standing still and releasing a wave of fire that sticks Raz to the ground for a strong clawing move afterwards;
** Eagle has the Eagle Dive, where he jumps up into the air and drops down onto Raz;
** Cobra has the Confusion Hood, where he lifts his head up, creating an arena-wide Confusion cloud.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dog Painters]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Warren Burton (St. Bernard), Peter Dennis (Collie), Matthew Kaminsky (Dalmatian), Andy Valvur (Bulldog)

A quartet of anthropomorphic dogs that live within Edgar's mind. They are all street painters and are repeat victims of El Odio's rampage.
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* AllegoricalCharacter:
** The dogs could represent Edgar's [[TheMuse artistic muse]]. They are all street painters whose paintings allow what little freedom there can be moving about the city (not unlike art-therapy), and their inability to move freely through Edgar's mind leaves Edgar unable to paint anything other than the loud and obstructive source of his psychosis (El Odio and Dingo). When Edgar's psychosis is finally cured, they are the first thing Edgar paints after finishing Loboto's portrait, and they gather together.
** It is also possible that that each represent Edgar's voice of reason, each of them aware of a different nugget of the truth behind Edgar's psychosis being not as dramatic as first thought ([[spoiler: that Edgar was never married or famous and that everything is just an inflated lie based off of Egdar's high school years]]) but are unable to actually communicate with Edgar or each other due to El Odio (who is a representation of Edgar's rage) rampaging throughout the streets and keeping them separated.
** Alternatively, they could represent the [[FourTemperamentEnsemble Four Humors]]. Edgar's rage, i.e. El Odio, is preventing the humors from mixing, creating his imbalanced personality.
*** The even-tempered St. Bernard is Phlegmatic.
*** The snooty, talkative collie is Sanguine.
*** The surly dalmatian is Choleric.
*** The nervous bulldog is Melancholic.
* AnomalousArt: All of the paintings they sell magically become real when hung, offering what little mobility there can be when El Odio is rampaging.
* CaninesGamblingInACardGame: After Raz clears [[ArtCourse Black Velvetopia]], Edgar can be found painting a portrait of the dogs playing a game of poker. If you enter his mind at this time, Raz will find Edgar playing poker with the dogs where the card-tower once was.
-->'''Edgar:''' Ah, but the poor beasts have no thumbs, so I ask you... how are they holding their cards?
-->'''Razputin:''' S-s-sticky paws?
--> '''Edgar''': It should be impossible, and yet somehow they go on... playing the game. In the end, Razputin, aren't we all just dogs playing poker?
* TheCynic: The saint bernard, collie and dalmatian each give an annoyed remark at Raz's expense when they think he can't hear them. The dalmatian in-particular seems to not think very highly at the quality of his own paintings, remarking that Raz could use it as a tax-deduction.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Butcher '''(All Spoilers Unmarked)''']]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Earl Boen
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->''"Here, little bunnies..."''

\\
Oleander's mental projection of his father, who cruelly took the bunnies young Oleander loved and slaughtered them for food. [[StartOfDarkness This didn't do any wonders for young Oleander's psychology]]. He is the boss of the Meat Circus, and thus the final boss of the game.
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* AbusiveParents: Seriously, who ''slaughters rabbits right in front of their kid?!'' Though it's possible Oleander's vision of his father was worse than reality, he certainly traumatized his son.
* AllegoricalCharacter: He's not Oleander's real father, but rather a personal demon taking the form of a monstrous caricature of his son's memories of him, thus being the source of Oleander's megalomania. It is after his death that Oleander turns over a new leaf.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: He's huge in the final battle. Probably has something to do with Oleander's fear of him. And then the [[BodyHorror Two-Headed]] [[FusionDance Dad Monster]] enters the scene...
* AnAxeToGrind: Wields two gigantic meat cleavers.
* BalefulPolymorph: Merges with Raz's vision of Augustus to create the monstrosity known as the Two-Headed Dad Monster. [[SubvertedTrope Unlike most cases of this]], however, they actually seem to ''enjoy'' it since it makes them both stronger.
* TheButcher: It's right there in his name. The real one probably doesn't fit the mold, but the mental one that Raz fights takes Oleander's perception of his father's profession and twists him into a ''SlasherMovie villain.''
* ColossusClimb: Minor variant during the first battle with him, where you have to climb his shoulders and smack him in the face when his cleaver gets stuck in the ground.
* DualWielding: Twin cleavers. And they're ''huge''.
** FlamingSword: In the second round against him, the fake version of Raz's Dad sets his cleavers on fire. This prevents Raz from [[ColossusClimb using the same tactic as the first round]].
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: After his defeat by Raz, he stumbles into an enormous [[Franchise/StarWars Sarlacc]]-like Meat Grinder and is subjected to a GoryDiscretionShot. [[CameBackStrong Of course, this also results in him becoming the Two-Headed Dad Monster after Mental Augustus gets shot into the grinder by the real deal.]]
* FinalBoss: A three-phase final boss (with an acrobatics gauntlet between the first two) culminating in a monstrous combination of both Oleander and Razputin's daddy issues combined.
* FlatCharacter: All we really know about him is that his killing of rabbits ''really'' fucked up Oleander's head. [[UnreliableNarrator We don't even know if what we see is accurate because it's all painted by Oleander's perception of him.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: Responsible for the psychological trauma that drove Coach Oleander mad. Of course, the real deal likely never intended to traumatize his son as he probably didn't realize how traumatic butchering the rabbits his son cared for would be.
* HarmfulToMinors: Mr. Oleander, at the very least, was ''not'' gentle or circumspect about his work around his son. It all ended very, very badly.
* IronicEcho: His BossBanter is mostly lines young Oleander said during the first stage of the Meat Circus... except they're a hell of a lot more menacing this time around.
* WalkingSpoiler: We don't even know he exists until the very end of the game. The only thing resembling foreshadowing to him is the meat plants from Oleander's mind that were broadcasts to the other characters dreams.
[[/folder]]

!Mental Enemies

[[folder:Censors]]

The natural defense systems of any mind, doing their best to stamp out dangerous or harmful thoughts such as manias, depression, etc. Unfortunately, the censors can't perceive the difference between hostile and helpful psychics viewing them all as dangerous invaders...
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* AllegoricalCharacter: A universal one for everyone in the ''Psychonauts'' world, as Censors are the mental world's most basic line of defense. They find anything that doesn't belong in a person's mind and they "[[NeverSayDie censor]]" them out. Being integral to mental health, their absence or failure means madness in the mind that they occupy.
* {{Bouncer}}: All Censors are a mental version of this, but the MookDebutCutscene for ''2'''s Heavy Censor shows it serving the role of a casino bouncer.
* CatchPhrase: "'''''No!'''''" and variations thereof. Although you can actually hear them say the occasional "yup!" when they're passive.
* FisherKingdom: While their default designs are that of {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s, their designs will sometimes change depending on which world you are in. "Waterloo World" has them wear Napoleon hats, in "Gloria's Theater" they wear flower petal headdresses, "Milla's Dance Party" has them dressed in a purple suit and striped top hats, and, in the beta, "Brain Tumbler Experiment" had them in green stripes and glowing eyes.
* GiantMook: Bulky, muscle-bound Heavy Censors with "'''''NO'''''" tattooed on their knuckles, whose only goal is to run at Raz and [[SmashMook smash him]] with those hands.
* HeroAntagonist: They're described as a sort of mental antibody protecting the psyche from numerous threats. Like biological antibodies, they're supposed to attack anything foreign to their domain because it's clearly not supposed to be there. Unfortunately, they lack the ability to distinguish potentially friendly foreigner minds and hostile invaders, which includes you.
** This is best displayed during [[spoiler:The Milkman Conspiracy, where it is revealed that they are working alongside the G-Men to find and destroy the [[ManchurianAgent Rainbow Squirts]], who are also a foreign and much less friendly presence in Boyd's mind]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: The common variety uses oversized stamps with a "forbidden" symbol on the bottom.
* MakeMeWannaShout: The clipboard-carrying Shouting Censors shout at you as a ranged attack. In the sequel, all types of Censors have this shout attack.
* MiniMook: A pint-sized version of the regular Censors that often attacks in groups.
* {{Mooks}}: They are the most common enemy in the game.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: As noted, they tend to attack psychic "invaders". Given that a skilled Psychonaut seems to be one of the most effective paths to mental health...
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Their default design evokes this.
* PerpetualFrowner: Censors are almost always in a full-mouth scowl
* PowerFist: Rather than tattoos, Heavy Censors in ''2'' wear brass knuckles with "NO" and two "forbidden" signs on them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Personal Demons]]
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Small, brightly-colored imps that seem to represent pent-up stress and anger. Often appear alongside Censors, for some reason.
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* ActionBomb: Their only mode of attack is to charge straight at Raz and ''explode.''
* HellIsThatNoise: Shrill, grating screeches that continue until they finally explode.
%%* {{Mook}}: The second most common threat to Raz' exploration of the mental world.
* PutOnABus: They don't appear in the sequel.
* SuicideAttack: They explode on proximity, killing themselves but dealing a lot of damage in the process.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nightmares]]
[[quoteright:285:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/psychonauts_nightmare.jpg]]
Frightening and powerful monsters embodying fear and trauma in people's mental worlds. Razputin fights two of these as mini-bosses during The Milkman Conspiracy.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: They are a powerful type of entity that embodies a person's recurring fears and traumas.
* EldritchAbomination: They're the mental personification of fear, they look quite unlike any other enemy in their native levels, and their battles start when they unexpectedly pull Razputin down into a FireAndBrimstoneHell.
** LovecraftLite: That being said, they're ultimately just [[MiniBoss Mini Bosses]], and are fairly easy to dispatch.
* FeedItABomb: You defeat them by throwing the remains of [[ActionBomb Personal Demons]] they regurgitate back into their mouths while they're stunned.
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: The arena where you fight them.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: You fight two Nightmares in The Milkman Conspiracy with no warning or buildup, standing [[FireAndBrimstoneHell completely at odds]] with [[StepfordSuburbia the theme of the level]]. If it wasn't for a passing mention of Nightmares during one of Raz and Lili's early conversations and an EasterEgg in [[spoiler:Milla's Dance Party]], you'd never know what the hell they're supposed to be.
** DevelopmentGag: They're a carryover from an abandoned plot where the Nightmares in [[spoiler:Milla]]'s mind would find a way into the real world and start abducting campers, having originally been intended as a RecurringBoss. In the final game, they're little more than a surprise MiniBoss encounter.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: When you FeedItABomb, the Nightmare's body chars solid from the inside-out, allowing you to destroy it with a single punch.
* MiniBoss: The only two fought are in The Milkman Conspiracy in this way.
* MookMaker: When incapacitated, they vomit up the remains of Personal Demons, which you need to throw back into their maws to finish them off.
[[/folder]]

!Others
[[folder:Linda, the Hideous Hulking Lungfish of Lake Oblongata]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/DavidKaye
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->''You have unchained my soul, and now I shall repay you, powerful human child!''

\\
An enormous, mutated lungfish who [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin lives in Lake Oblongata]]. She was a peaceful creature until she was kidnapped, mutated, and turned into an enormous beast [[spoiler:by Coach Oleander and Dr. Loboto]]. She collects children for Dr. Loboto's experiments until finally being liberated by Raz.
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Her MentalWorld, Lungfishopolis, turns Raz into one.
-->'''Lungfish:''' GOGGALOOOOR!
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Raz frees her from the implant placed in her brain by destroying its manifestation in her mind, which takes the form of a giant transmission tower controlled by the Kochamara entity.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: She's actually a very nice sea creature when she's not being controlled.
* CowardlyBoss: Once she eats up nails three times, she proceeds to move the air bubble to a new area, in an attempt to get Raz to drown.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Around the time of the game's release, several animated "Sharts" were released as bumps for [=MTV2=] and G4. Linda is featured most prominently in most of them.
* FemaleMonsterSurprise: Unless you're [[BizarreSexualDimorphism familiar with Angler Fish Physiology]], there's no indication at all that she's female until she gives Raz her name. And yes, we are reasonably sure she's a "she," given the secret HundredPercentCompletion ending video.
* FightingFromTheInside: The freedom fighters inside her mind seem to personify this.
* GentleGiant: When not under the implant's control, she's very helpful and eloquent.
* InformedSpecies: While described as a Lungfish, she much more closely resembles a giant, bipedal female Angler Fish. The "Lungfish and [[spoiler: Loboto]]" Memory Vault reveals that this is a product of the experiments performed on her, as prior to her mutation she was quite visibly a normal lungfish.
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:The game's OneHundredPercentCompletion bonus cutscene implies that she has "history" with Mr. Pokeylope, Sheegor's pet turtle.]]
* IronicName: "Linda" is Portuguese/Spanish for "beautiful".
* LarynxDissonance: Possibly due to the size and the experimentation done on her, she has a ''very'' deep voice that sounds more male than female.
* StealthExpert: Despite her size, she's surprisingly sneaky when she's going around the camp kidnapping the children. Even when Raz has a close, sightless encounter with her in the woods outside the GPC, all he can detect is her smell as she hides somewhere in the bushes.
* StockNessMonster: Follows the same basic tone of an urban legend among the campers talking about a monster that lives in the lake. Unlike most versions of this trope, though, Linda is a mutated fish instead of a dinosaur-esque creature.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mr. Pokeylope]]
Sheegor's pet turtle, which Dr. Loboto holds hostage to force her to obey orders.
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* TheCameo: Appears as a plush toy and as a figment in Loboto's mindin ''2''.
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:The game's OneHundredPercentCompletion bonus cutscene implies that he has "history" with Linda the Lungfish.]]
* UndignifiedDeath: According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1r3SMDbS10 Psychonauts 2 Basic Braining Episode 7 - The Psychonauts]], [[spoiler:he was apparently sucked into the Psychonaut jet's engine as it was taking off]]. [[TrollingCreator Though that may have just been a joke.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Augustus Aquato]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Armin Shimerman
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->''Razputin! I see your skull is as hard to penetrate as ever!''

\\
Raz's father, and TheGhost for most of the game. He supposedly hates psychics, and Raz ran away to escape him. However, Raz is going to have to go home sooner or later, and he'll have to confront his father in the process.
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* AbusiveParents: Every time Razputin talks about him, it's not exactly pleasant. He constantly pushed him away from his psychic abilities and, instead, forced him to practice acrobatics. Apparently, it became so strenuous that Raz started wondering if he was only doing it so that he could [[OffingTheOffspring kill him in a way that would look like an accident]]. [[spoiler:As it turns out, though, Raz misinterpreted his intentions. He's a caring and friendly man, but he's obviously not paying enough attention to his parenting. While strict in training Razputin it was due to the knowledge that their family has many enemies among psychics and wanted Raz to have abilities to fall back on unrelated to his psychic powers. Though 2 does suggest that he was a lot harsher on psychics in the past than the first game lets on as Raz's sister who is also a psychic is still reluctant to come out as one even after Raz assures her that he's okay with them.]]
* AdultFear: He doesn't hate psychics, being one himself, but he's scared of Raz getting hurt from people finding out he is one.
* AllThereInTheManual: His name. In the game, he's an UnnamedParent.
* AllegoricalCharacter: [[spoiler:When Raz and Oleander's minds are merged, Raz encounters a mental version of his father that represents what Raz sees him as: an abusive, psychic-hating MonsterClown.]]
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Becomes this by the time of the sequel, bringing the entire Aquato family to visit Raz on his first day at the Motherlobe, where he manages to embarrass Raz in front of the entire group of interns.
* AnticlimacticParent: [[spoiler:Raz describes him pretty much as an ArchnemesisDad who wants to kill him. When he actually makes an appearance, he is just a concerned parent with his son's best interests in mind, just not that great with communication.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Just as it looks as though Raz's version of Augustus is going to win, the ''real'' Augustus finally makes it in]].
* DisappearedDad: His own father, Lazarus "Lazlo" Aquato, died 20 years before the game. ''2'' reveals he drowned in a dam disaster [[spoiler:accidentally]] caused by Maligula. [[spoiler:His real mother, Marona, also died in the flood, orphaning him.]]
* EvilMeScaresMe: [[spoiler:Upon entering Raz's mind, he's as disturbed by the sight of the evil version of himself as saddened by the realization that this is how Raz ended up perceiving him for the entire lifetime because of his imperfect parenting style.]]
* FantasticRacism: He hates psychics, [[BoomerangBigot despite apparently being one himself]]. [[spoiler:Though not as much as Raz thinks he does.]]
* FantasyForbiddingFather: [[spoiler:Not out of malice, however. His tearing up of the Whispering Rock pamphlet and distaste for Raz's dream of being a Psychonaut are a result of him simply being too worried about his son's safety due to the Aquato family's "many enemies".]]
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:While his mental image in Raz's mind is evil, he's really a nice guy, if a bit oblivious to his parenting style.]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has a set of scars over one of his eyes. [[spoiler:The mental caricature of Augustus encountered in Razputin's mind sports far more gruesome-looking scars [[CoveredInScars that cover his entire head]]]].
* GypsyCurse: The cause of his (and his entire family's) SuperDrowningSkills. [[spoiler:Or at least that's what his FakeMemories are telling him.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: [[spoiler:The version of him that exists in Raz's mind seems to dislike the... Um, "changes" to the circus, and tries to kill him, but after he becomes the Two-Headed Dad Monster, he says he ''likes'' Raz and Oleanders' mind like that, probably because of his recent fusion and the fact that he has a direct way of hurting Razputin in this world.]]
* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler:The mental version of himself, in response to Raz completing his trial, accuses him of cheating, claiming that psychics always cheat, and disowns Raz as his son.]]
* JerkassRealization: [[spoiler:When the real Augustus manages to get into Raz's mind, and sees his MonsterClown version, he's genuinely shocked and saddened upon realizing just how badly he's come off to his son.]]
* ManlyTears: When Augustus finds out [[spoiler:his real mother is dead, and the woman who raised him was his aunt (who was the one who accidentally killed his parents)]], he sobs and is given a hug by Raz.
* MonsterClown: [[spoiler:The version of him that exists in Raz's mind.]]
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:Mess with his son, and you're liable to get a Psi-Blast in the face]].
* ParentsAsPeople: [[spoiler:He's not the ideal father in terms of speaking with his son about their issues, and he could certainly bear to express himself a little better, but he ultimately loves Razputin and was always thinking of his well-being.]]
* PlayingWithFire:
** [[spoiler:The mental version of Augustus uses lots of fire during his indirect battles in the Meat Circus, through flaming juggling pins, setting the environment ablaze, and igniting the Butcher's cleavers.]]
** [[spoiler:The real Augustus is trying to learn Pyrokinesis during ''Psychonauts 2''. He's shown a tendency to set pinecones on fire as he practises.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:If he had communicated better with his son about his intentions, Raz wouldn't have thought he wanted him dead.]]
* RedHerring: Of sorts. When Raz discusses his father, you get the sneaking suspicion that you'll have to face him down eventually, being made out to be an [[AbusiveParents abusive dad]]... [[spoiler:But it's double-subverted. Augustus himself is nowhere close to the "psychic hating" slave driver that Raz makes him out to be, but the Meat Circus version of him, being everything Raz built up his Dad in his mind to be, definitely ''is''.]]
** A minor one, but [[spoiler:during the Meat Circus, a ghostly apparition appears several times during the level, moaning Raz's name. It turns out that it wasn't part of Raz's mental world but was Augustus trying to project himself in.]]
* {{Retcon}}: While he isn't suddenly cruel or uncaring towards his son, the sequel does claim that he was formerly a BoomerangBigot regarding psychics. It also has him spending the entire game struggling to ignite a pinecone, [[BagOfSpilling despite being shown in the first game to be at least competent enough to use a Psi-Blast without issue]]. That said, different psychic characters have different strengths in their abilites. It might be that Augustus has a stronger affinity for psi-blasts and telekinesis than pyrokinesis. Or that he never trained in the latter. He also might have only been able to use his psi-blasts because he was inside the mental world, and didn't have the training needed for using it in the real world.
* SecretLegacy: [[spoiler:He was psychic all along, and wanted to help his son learn to control his powers]].
* SecretSecretKeeper: Dialogue in the sequel reveals that he is actually completely aware that [[spoiler:Raz's sister Frazie is also Psychic]], but decides not to press them on it until they're ready to admit it.
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* TheUnfought: [[spoiler: The mental version of himself that turns up during the Meat Circus is this, never actually fighting Raz directly, and instead challenging him via an obstacle course that tests his acrobatic skills whilst the chamber they're in [[TimedMission slowly fills up with water]], tossing flaming spiked Juggling Pins at Raz as additional Hazards as he ascends and at times setting the surroundings on fire to impede Raz's progress. When he teams up with the Butcher during the second round, he acts as a SupportPartyMember to him, setting his cleavers in fire so Raz can't repeat the same tactics as last time and hanging back and raining flaming DeathFromAbove on him whilst the Butcher attacks-- [[NiceJobFixingItVillain which just gives Raz ammo]] to try a different means of [[CatchAndReturn attack on him]]. This is {{justified}}, as said mental version of him is Raz's own personal demon, and whilst it's possible for Raz to fight other people's personal issues on their behalf to help them overcome them, a theme throughout the game is that nobody can overcome their personal issues alone. Accordingly, the mental version is beaten in [[CurbStompBattle a single blow]] by the real Augustus when he finally enters Raz's mind at the end]].
** [[spoiler: This does become somewhat {{subverted}} when the mental projection becomes merged into the Two-Headed Dad monster, which Raz then has to finish off in a BehemothBattle, but by that point, merging with Oleander's own personal demon in turns renders Raz's personal demon vulnerable to attacks as it's now part of a 'different' mental projection, but it's worth noting that Raz cannot actually harm the monstrosity unless he's channelling the EleventhHourSuperpower the Real Augustus gave him from his own psychic strength, thus Raz is still technically unable to beat the mental Augustus fully on his own]].
* UnseenNoMore: For most of the game, Raz's dad is only alluded to. It is only at the end that he makes an appearance.
* UnskilledButStrong: Revealed to be this, putting into account both games. While he had enough inherent talent, in the first game, to invade the Meat Circus without a Psycho-Portal, and give Raz enough of a boost to become an energy-based {{Kaiju}}, his lack of training makes it difficult for him to do basic Pyrokinesis. Though this might also be due to him having to do it in the real world instead of the mental world.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Despite hating psychics, Raz believes he too is a psychic. [[spoiler:Subverted in that while he is indeed a psychic, he doesn't hate them back; quite the opposite actually. But their family, quote, "has many enemies", so he has to keep a low profile.]]
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Based on the timeline established by ''2'', that he lost his father 20 years ago when he was still a young boy, Augustus is likely in his early to mid 30s. He certainly looks older than that though.
[[/folder]]

* TalkingToPlants: She is very fond of plants and has the rare ability to commune with them. Come ''Rhombus of Ruin'', her Psilerium induced hallucination has her speaking to plants. [[spoiler: Or rather bombs she ''thinks'' are plants.]] ''2'' shows that she likely took after her great-uncle Bob, himself a psychic botanist.

* ExpressiveMask: His sunglasses, which move and stretch with his eyes.
* GenderBlenderName: While technically a unisex name, Sasha is much more commonly considered feminine.

* DisappearedDad:His own father, Lazarus "Lazlo" Aquato, died 20 years before the game. ''2'' reveals he drowned in a dam disaster [[spoiler:accidentally]] caused by Maligula. [[spoiler:His real mother, Marona, also died in the flood, orphaning him.]]

* SoProudOfYou

* EnmityWithAnObject: Hates Tiffany lamps and encourages their destruction; the fact that [[spoiler: one was near his mother's bedside when she died]] probably contributes to this. However, ''2'' reveals he keeps a Tiffany lamp in his office.

** Explored in [[VideoGame/Psychonauts2 the Sequel]] - being summoned to HQ by the smell of bacon, he immediately reverts into 3 seperate personalites, that nobody on base actually recognises.... and you actually get to explore their seperate mindscapes this time since Truman gives Raz the mission of trying to Fix Cruller to combat the Delugionist threat, since Ford is the one who defeated Maligula in the past

* * TheCameo: Appears as a figment in ''2'' -- alongside Clem, of course.

* TheCameo: Appears as a plush toy in ''2''.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: As shown in the final level, little "Morrie" Oleander was once an innocent child who loved bunnies whose father left some deeply traumatic memories.