History Characters / Raocow

[[folder: Armless Bipedal Cycloptic Demons]]

!A.B.C.D.s in general
* ArmlessBiped
* {{Cyclops}}
* DeathIsCheap: An inherent ability of their species. "Many starved to death several times in a row before being fed".
* FlawedPrototype: Science's body degraded after his creation, Pandamona's mentally instable, Garish is barely solid, and Nevada was created without feet. The other, younger siblings (except maybe [[TheEeyore Mishi]]) are more, shall we say, normal.
** PsychoPrototype: Subverted, Pandamona, the second sibling, is the (more) insane one.
* InvisibleAnatomy: Somehow they can climb ladders and vines without visible arms.
** NoMouth: Their mouths (they presumably do have them, to eat their vegetables) are never seen either.
* OnlyOneName: For a long time, until [[WordOfGod a raocow-made level]] [[AvertedTrope revealed Demo's last name]]. raocow on the forums also stated that their last names comes from the vats they were created in, which means that all the other demons have their own unique last names.
* SlaveRace: In one of raocow's levels in ''ASMBXT'', it's written that Demo's species were enslaved by "the Space Masters of Space" because their ability to gain new abilities by eating vegetables (ie, power-ups) made them useful. This is expanded upon at the end of world 6 of [=A2XT=] Ep.1.

!Demo Roseclair
[[quoteright:32:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/asmt_demo_9184.png]]

Demo is a very introspective and silent cyclops. While originally having been created by the Artist, she was later captured by her current master and is now serving him together with Iris. She doesn't talk a whole lot, but enjoys calm sceneries and being surrounded by cats. She's also very goal-oriented, which is why her master holds her in very high regard - she'd do almost any job right off of the bat and doesn't pay much attention to anything besides her current objective.

* BerserkButton: Don't try to steal a 1-up from Demo.
* CulturedBadass: Likes classical music, as a level in ''[[VideoGame/ASuperMarioThing Prelude to the Stupid]]'' claims. It still doesn't detract from her platforming abilities, though.
* {{Determinator}}: Doesn't care about anything that isn't really relevant to her current mission, and will ignore the plot if it doesn't really affect her. Especially noticeable in ASMT's ending, where she completely ignores both King Charles and Con's affections for her and leaves the Mushroom Kingdom as soon as possible after she's retrieved her teleporter.
* DudeMagnet: Con, King Charles, and Kood all fall for her.
* TheHero
* HeroesLoveDogs: Her pet dog Pal.
* SeriesMascot: For ''VideoGame/ASuperMarioThing''

!Iris
[[quoteright:32:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/iris_6462.png]]

Sneaky, intelligent, but physically weak. To make up for her lack of muscles, she uses advanced technological equipment, often in the form of weapons, but sometimes also other things like jump boots. She loves fighting with daggers and throwing knives, and has a number of pet catllamas she likes to call "Catnip".

* BedsheetGhost: One of her upgrades.
* BladeEnthusiast: Favors daggers and throwing knives.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the story outline for ''[=A2MT=]'', she was going to be brainwashed by the Artist and turned against Demo. This part of the game never came to fruition, though.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: As befitting the Luigi stand-in, she started off as a {{Palette Swap}}ped Demo, but in ''ASMBXT'', she gets her own sprite and different attributes (worse traction but higher jumps).
* GuileHero: She's sneaky and intelligent, but weak.
* InformedAttribute[=/=]InformedAbility: She isn't actually ever seen fighting with her weapons of choice or advanced technology. Same with her being sneaky and physically weak.
* KickTheDog: During his playthrough of ''[=A2XT=]'', raocow has Iris randomly toss fireballs at Demo's dog Pal until he's offscreen at the end of world 7. "[[WordOfGod This is totally in character for her]]".
* PaletteSwap: Originally a purple-ish Demo. In ''ASMBXT'', she gets her own green sprite.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: raocow treats her superior jumping abilities like this. Otherwise, he's perfectly content to let Demo's [[BoringButPractical more stable movements]] get all the glory.

!Pily
-->"I have a special vendetta to settle with Demo, one that can only be settled with BLOOD!"

->'''Voiced by:''' Maiku Wotaharu[[note]]In the End of World 6 cutscene of [=A2XT=] Episode 1.[[/note]]

Fearful and paranoid of almost everything. Jealous that she didn't get Demo's place as the protagonist, and constantly wants revenge for this. When she's not obsessing with how the government wants to steal her vegetables, she likes taking a bath in hot, melty lava. She's also the only ASMT character to have been featured outside the ASMT story - in raocow's hack "What the Hell".

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In her boss level in [=A2XT=]. [[spoiler:The ensuing infodump then reveals that this applies to all the other siblings too]].
* ConspiracyTheorist: She likes to rant about "the government".
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Enjoys nice swims in lava.
* DeadAllAlong: "You can't kill me. I am a ghost." [[spoiler:Turns out that's wrong on both accounts.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: Appears on the Master's ship after freeing her from 'Static Life'.
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:After being freed from mind control, she falls in love with Kood.]]
* MsExposition: At the end of World 6 of [=A2XT=] Ep. 1.
* PlayingWithFire
* TinfoilHat: Wears one around Mishi, although it's as of yet unknown if it actually works.

!Mishi
Creepily calm, cold, apathetic, and nihilistic. The downer of the bunch. She has psychic powers that can manipulate other people's minds - for example tricking them into feeling pain when they aren't. She can also levitate objects and attack with purple spheres shooting out of her head.

* CessationOfExistence[=/=]RetGone: One of her powers. [[spoiler:Her own existence, that is]].
* DissonantSerenity[=/=]TranquilFury: One character trait describes her as "creepily calm".
* {{Fangirl}}: Of Music/JohnLennon.
* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAgfZQqXhoo Oxygen Thug]]''
* MindScrew: [[PsychicPowers Has psychic powers]] which can manipulate the mind.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: She doesn't take the main characters' [[spoiler:destroying the world]] very well because of this.

!Pandamona
-->"Are you here to foil my evil plans of worldwide disruption and anarchy? You fool! Prepare to have your entropy increased by a factor of a thousand!"

Despite her appearance, Pandamona is actually an insanely powerful being. She's also very power-crazed, but her box acts as a "limiter", similar to Rumia's bow. She's the worst combination imaginable - powerful and incredibly paranoid. Will shoot at anything and everything moving in her direction.

* AdvancingBossOfDoom: In "Lightning in a Box". Combined with an AdvancingWallOfDoom.
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:Once Science is defeated in ''[=A2XT=]'', she takes over and destroys the Super Leek machine in order to remake the universe in her own image.]]
* IdiotBall: Though not plot-exclusive, she is very dense.
* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBTJVj1oqoU 4 AM Stagger]]''
* {{Necromancer}}: In her sibling battle in [=A2XT=] World 6, she fights using floating [[RedEyesTakeWarning red-eyed]] skulls.
** HoistByHisOwnPetard: However, Demo can pick up said skulls and throw them back at her.
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler:After she's freed from the Artist's mind control, she tries to destroy all of reality--and for now appears to have succeeded.]]
* PowerLimiter: The box she wears at all times suppresses her near-godlike power.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Teleports away when she's defeated in [=A2XT=] World 6.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Though at first she doesn't appear to be that powerful, she is power-crazed. [[spoiler:When her PowerLimiter is removed at the end of ''[=A2XT=]'', her power--and insanity--both go through the roof.]]

!Nevada
-->"Nonononononononono! I don't want to get in any s-street fights right now! This city is loud and, like, everyone looks at you. I just want to go home.. and eat a family."

A shy and very jittery guy. He's obsessed with plants, and touching him is poisonous. Hates being close to people he doesn't know. Someone who steps too close to him or his plants is most likely to end up dead and devoured after a few seconds.

* AmbiguousGender: Although referred to with male pronouns, raocow actually forgets this in an [=A2XT=] episode and referred to him as "she". Soon after, raocow said on the forums that "much like plants, he's not really either and kind of both at the same time".
* GreenThumb: Obsessed with plants.
* IAmAHumanitarian: He is bribed into antagonizing Demo with the promise of families to eat.
-->'''Nevada''': [[WouldHurtAChild Will there be children]]?
-->'''Science''': FAT CHILDREN!
* ShrinkingViolet
* WeaksauceWeakness: Fish. Any kind of meat actually, but raocow just happened to kill him within a second with a single fish.

![[spoiler:Johnson]] Garish [[spoiler:[=McCain=]]]
-->"I am Sergeant [[spoiler:Johnson]] Garish [[spoiler:[=McCain=]]]... Lord of the goopas... Idol to the lower classes... and leader of the siblings..."

The self-pronounced "leader" of the siblings. He has a big Napoleon-complex, but no one really pays attention to him and his senseless orders. His ability is to melt and solidify any part of his body at will.

* BadassBoast: "WE SHALL SHOW THE WORLD THAT [[PunctuatedForEmphasis YELLOW! HURTS!]]"
* FlunkyBoss: Naturally, he's accompanied by his goopa minions. Tons of them.
** HoistByHisOwnPetard: One would assume that it's common knowledge that Demo&Co tend to pick up goopa shells and fling them at their enemies...
* ImMelting: His ability.
* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxYpx-TVUX8 Parade for the General]]''
* MeaningfulRename: "[[spoiler:Johnson [=McCain=]]]" is a name he picked himself, presumably because of how [[spoiler:[[{{Eagleland}} American]]]] and [[spoiler:not-communist]] it sounds.
* TheNapoleon: He considers himself the leader of the group.
* SmugSnake
* TheStarscream: Being the egomaniac he is, he tries to defeat the main characters so he can prove to the Artist that he's better than Science, thus taking his position as the leader.
* StrawmanPolitical: Described by Pily as "a slimy [[UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}} Objectivist]] jerk".

!Science
-->"WE. WILL HUNT YOU. TO THE. END. OF THE. UNIVERSE. DEMO. AND. IRIS. MARK. MY. WORDS."

The first cyclops created by "The Artist" and Demo's oldest brother. His body deteriorated leaving only his eye, and he was later upgraded by the Artist so he could ask questions to satisfy his curiosity. Since then, he's built up a sizeable amount of knowledge, but his hardware isn't developed enough for him to speak more than a few broken words at once. He attacks using glitches and savestates, sometimes even floating text.

* BigBad: Of Analog Funk.
* BulletHell: His preferred attack method.
* {{CAPSLOCK}}
* {{Cyborg}}
* IWantThemAlive: Unfortunately, some of the other siblings are out for blood.
* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk0JLC4K2vI Two Letters, Three Numbers, and a Hyphen]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCtkdByIn5M The Lullaby(A2XT Remix)]]'', and ''[[Franchise/TouhouProject Legendary Illusion ~ Infinite Being]]''
* MadScientist: Of the actual sciency variety, with hypotheses such as "[[BulletHell Demo is weak to being shot in the face]]" Answer: [[spoiler:Only if she gets hit]].
* SaveScumming: One of his powers. [[spoiler:In [=A2XT=], this is presumably why he dislikes the SMBX engine, since it does not allow savestating like ROM emulators do.]]

!Calleoca/"Rumia"
-->"Hi. It's me, Calleoca. Let's have fun together later. I'll secretly join you guys, and pretend nothing ever changed."

The only other sibling besides Iris that was also featured in ASMT. Calleoca is a shapeshifter, however, she doesn't have full control over this ability of hers, so she can easily become quite hectic and stressed once something goes wrong. Big fan of Nue Houjuu and Yoeko Kurahashi. She can be slightly impatient at times and hates not being entertained.

* AGodAmI: As she reveals that she was spying on Demo for the entire game.
* AscendedExtra: She attempts to invoke this in ''[=A2XT=]'', where she mentions that she would eventually join the main characters.
** Rumia from ASMT was upgraded from being a random Touhou boss to being one of the siblings in disguise.
* BigBad: Of ''Superb Demo Sisters''
* {{Fangirl}}: Fan of "a strange and forgotten culture that bewilders and amuses their greatest historians".
* PerkyFemaleMinion: By far the most sanguine of the siblings.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: She never fights in her real form, having turned into [[Franchise/TouhouProject Rumia, Utsuho]], a thwomp, some sort of homing rocket, and a fishing fish guy[[spoiler:-shaped coin]] so far.

!Serac
-->"Demo, if you could be a dear and [[spoiler:kill yourself]]. I would very gladly appreciate it. Thank you, darling."

Demo's long lost sister, Serac is a drunkard and a party animal. She has the power to exploit glitches and programming errors and also shoot missiles out of her head.

This is canon.

...actually, Serac was a placeholder sprite for a boss in ''[=A2MT=]''. Since the original author of the level was no longer around for the zombie LetsPlay of said game, Talkhaus user [=KobaBeach=] wrote up the above description, and raocow agreed with it's canonity. Later on, Serac would actually appear in ''[=A2XT=]'' as Demo's sister-in-law, who married one of Demo's siblings - which one is unknown.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: In the intro to Zebraspace, [[spoiler:Serac asks Demo to kill herself.]] She justifies this with the fact that [[spoiler:Demo has died several times already, since it is, after all, a challenging platformer video game.]] Her reasoning behind requesting this is unknown.
* FourthWallObserver: Although characters regularly break and lean on the fourth wall in this series in general, Serac outright points out the demo meter and also advertises for Talkhaus projects.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Playable ASMT Characters]]

!Kood
[[quoteright:30:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kood_8289.png]]

A koopa who enters the Castle of No Significance on a vague mission or something. More formally joins the team in [=A2XT=].

* {{Crossover}}: From a different ''Super Mario World'' ROM hack, ''Drama Mistery''.
* InterspeciesRomance: In his cutscene in ''ASMBXT'' he seems to have the hots for Demo and Iris. In ''[=A2XT=]'', [[spoiler:he actually falls in love with their sister, Pily.]]

!Sheath
[[quoteright:30:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sheath_2549.png]]

A hyperactive girl who is here because... because. The other characters seldom acknowledge her existence.

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:She is reality's last hope... [[TheDitz And doesn't even realise it]]]].
* {{Crossover}}: From raocow's webcomic, ''Webcomic/ArtificialTimeXS''.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: In ''[=A2XT=]'', it's implied that Sheath is off having her own adventures that only occasionally intersect with Demo and company (usually in the end-world castles).
%%* PrehensileHair
* RunningGag: "And Sheath was there too".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:[=NPCs=] from ASMT]]
!Con
A shy Yoshi who sends messages to Demo throughout ASMT.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He falls in love with Demo, but she just ignores him.
* TheHermit: Con stays hidden away in his lab in the Yoshi resistance base.
* MissionControl: He radios Demo via message boxes scattered throughout the game to give her advice (read: gameplay tips).

!The Charlies
The oppressive army that serves as the villains in ASMT. There was also a separate group of Charlies in a level in ASMBXT. Afterwards, they disbanded and went to live their own lives, some of them even working on The Master's ship in [=A2XT=].

* EvilArmy
* HeelFaceTurn: Some of them post-disbandment.
* IKnowMaddenKombat: They're evil football player soldiers.
* {{Mooks}}

!King Charles IV
The leader of the Charlie army in ASMT and main antagonist of that game. Although he seems to appear in [=A2XT=], which takes place before ASMT, [[WordOfGod one of the story writers]] said there are just a very large quantity of King Charles IV's.

* AdvancingBossOfDoom
* BigBad: Of ''ASMT''.
* BullfightBoss
* ClimaxBoss: He's not the final boss, but he's a much more major story focus in ASMT, and the actual final boss is an AnticlimaxBoss.
* EvilOverlord
* IKnowMaddenKombat: Like the other Charlies, but more so. His football charges are utterly unstoppable and break through solid stone.
* KingMook: Visually, he's just a regular Charlie with a crown and a cape.
* MyNameIsQuestionMarks
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. According to one of [=A2XT=]'s story writers on the forums (to explain why King Charles appears and claims to have been defeated by Demo even though the game takes place before ASMT) there are a lot of different King Charleses and Demo has a habit of just happening to defeat a lot of them.
* StationaryBoss: The first phase of his boss battle is him hiding inside a giant Thwomp and shooting projectiles at you.

!Black Plague
-->"WHO DARES TO TRY TO STOP THE TIME BOMB!?"

A character from the hack Super Mario Infinity who raocow found so hilarious that he later appeared in ASMT as an occasional joke boss.

* AnticlimaxBoss: Invoked deliberately. His level is the hardest in ''ASMT'', but he himself is so easy that it's almost impossible to lose.
* {{Crossover}}/TheCameo: Originated in ''Super Mario Infinity'' as the TrueFinalBoss.
** MythologyGag
* FinalBoss: Of ASMT.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: After you defeat King Charles, he enters the plot for no real reason.
* LargeHam
* LegacyBossBattle: His level in [=A2XT=] is an updated version of his original fight in ''Super Mario Infinity'', in both room designs and battle mechanics.
* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: A CallBack to ''Super Mario Infinity''.
* RecurringBoss: He reappears in world 2 of [=A2XT=]. At the end of that level he claims he'll be back and, given his track record, he probably will.

!The Key Boss
The FinalBoss of ''[=ASMBXT=]''. After raocow had failed to kill it back in his LP of ''Mario Gives Up'', people had been trying to figure out a way to defeat it for good.

* AnimateInanimateObject: Subverted, it's not exactly ''animate'', but it moves around and kills things nontheless.
* BenevolentBoss: To the point that one level is ''[=A2XT=]'' is about one of its minions [[AvengingTheVillain trying to get revenge on the cyclopses for killing it]].
* DesignatedVillain: Invoked in ''[=A2XT=]'' by one of his minions after the Boss' death in ASMBXT. Basically, the main characters broke into the Castle of No Significance, stole all of its leeks, and killed it for no reason other than it being there. Then again, it did try to kill Mario and was responsible for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmC_0G3IztI this mess]], so it's not like it was completely innocent.
* FinalBoss
* MythologyGag: It was most likely put into the game so that raocow would finally have to defeat it.

!Parrot Boom Boom
[[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Parrot Boom Boom is... uh...]]

Well, had ''[=A2MT=]'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen been completed]], Parrot Boom Boom would be the final "boss" at the end of the ultrahard BrutalBonusLevel, B-Side. Like Black Plague before him, he would have randomly entered the story for no real reason.

* AnticlimaxBoss: Invoked again, in keeping with the tradition of Black Plague of ASMT, except to an even greater extreme. The level that comes before is even more insanely difficult and dramatic, and Parrot Boom Boom is even easier than Black Plague to the point where he dies immediately after entering.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: He comes out of nowhere and is completely unconnected to what little storyline the ''ASMT'' universe has.
* GottaCatchEmAll: Apparently collecting all the Parrot Coins in ''[=A2MT=]'' would have opened up his level, though the fact that the game is in pieces across several different [=ROMs=] makes this impossible.
* OutsideContextProblem: He apparently has nothing to do with Demo.

!The Space Masters of Space
A race or organization of beings who enslaved the Armless Bipedal Cycloptic Demons and forced them to labor on their starships. After the A.B.C.D.s rebelled against them, the Masters wiped out their species entirely until the Artist (see below) cloned nine of them--Demo and her siblings. Demo and Iris somehow escaped the Artist and wound up in the service of one of the Masters again. The plot of ''ASMT'' is kicked off when Demo's Master sends her shopping for vegetables and a teleporter malfunction gets her lost in the Mushroom Kingdom instead.

* BigGood: Demo's Master fills this role in ASMT. Now that we have a proper backstory regarding the Masters and the ABCDs, it's unclear whether the Masters in general will be seen as benevolent or not, given their history.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment
* EvilOverlord: They ruthlessly oppress the Cyclopses.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: They are never shown on-screen, though Demo's Master gets some dialog in ''ASMT'''s opening cutscene.

!The Artist
The mysterious being who recreated the Armless Bipedal Cycloptic Demons--specifically, Demo and her siblings--after they were wiped out by the Space Masters of Space. The Artist's true appearance and motives are so far unknown, save that he brainwashed all of the siblings except Demo and Iris into doing his bidding.

* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: So far has no on-screen appearance.
%%* MadArtist:
%%* MadScientist:

!The Zebras
[[AnimalisticAbomination Massive extraordinarily powerful entities]] residing in the mysterious bonus world of [[EldritchLocation Zebraspace]].

* AnimalisticAbomination: They're giant, cosmic technicolor zebras with glowing Phanto faces for eyes.
* TheCorruption: Dialogue from Refuge Town seems to imply that the refugees set up the town so that people couldn't come in contact with the zebras. In the hospital, people exposed to the outside have mutated and everyone else outside of their shelter is eldritch.
* OutsideContextProblem: They have no connection to the Space Masters, the Artist, or the Cyclopses.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Other reoccurring characters in raocow's [=LPs=]]]

* DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible: [[invoked]] Her fanfiction is "utterly deplorable", according to Mishi.

* BonusBoss: (If "boss" is the right word for it, since he dies as soon as he appears after a sadistically hard level.) As seen under GottaCatchEmAll, his stage is only accessible after collecting every Parrot Coin in ''[=A2MT=]''.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Con stays hidden away in his lab in the Yoshi resistance base.

* [[PrehensileHair Prehensile]] ShortHairWithTail

* WeaponOfChoice: Daggers and throwing knives.

* RapunzelHair: Not that you can see it with the box covering it.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Provides educational material in his commentary sometimes. Tread cautiously, though, he isn't always correct (whether by accident or design is unknown).

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Most of their hair matches the color of their clothing

* BiggerBad: Behind Science.

* MadArtist[=/=]MadScientist: A little bit of both, it would seem.

* TheNecromancer: In her sibling battle in [=A2XT=] World 6, she fights using floating [[RedEyesTakeWarning red-eyed]] skulls.

** He also shows up in three consecutive levels in [=MAGLX3=], introducing a bathroom and two boss fights. He's also one of the key characters in the 11-X level, one of the very few levels in the compilation with an actual storyline.

* BigDamnHeroes: [spoiler:Saves Demo and Sheath from Luigi's deadly trap in one of the extra levels in [=MAGLX3=], thanks to his expert knowledge of crates.]]