History Characters / SolarOpposites

* LawOfAlienNames: Korvo and Yumyulack.

* WhatTheHellHero: Apparently Halk was hiding from his wife that [[spoiler: he is infertile despite knowing how much Nova wanted to be a mother, albeit in his last moments he asks Cherie to tell her that he loves her and is sorry.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler: He claims that "newlyweds shouldn't have secrets" yet he kept from her that he is actually sterile despite knowing how badly Nova wanted to be a mother.]]

** Cherie, the Benihana chef, is punished for serving Yumyulack unwanted shrimp (he justifies this to Jesse by stating he could have died if he had allergies).

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: While Yumyulack is the one that puts the people in the wall, the ones causing the troubles are the people inside, which is best said by Tim in season 1:
--> The aliens may have created The Wall, but it was The Duke who made it a prison.

* ABoyAGirlAndABabyFamily: Parodied. Yumyulack and Jesse fit the mold of an older brother and younger sister, but they chose their genders arbitrarily after landing on Earth. The Pupa is a supercomputer meant to terraform the Earth but is usually treated as a baby the family needs to nurture (Though it's lampshaded that they sometimes see him as akin to a pet).

** Yumyulack inherited Korvo’s apathy and {{Jerkass}}, vengeful behaviour towards humans (And anyone else other than him for that matter) and affinity towards sci-fi technology as well as Terry’s attention-seeking attitude and tendency to get into Zany Schemes to achieve such desires, embodying the more negative aspects of his "parents" to Jesse’s positive which is why Korvo and Terry tend to [[TheUnfavourite like him the least out of their kids]]. His stance towards Earth is similar to Korvo's as they initially find it beneath them and would rather move to an uninhabited planet but prove they are NotSoAboveItAll when they gradually hate it less and even enjoy some of its nuances.

* ApocalypseHow: Class X-5. One day he will inevitably evolve into his ultimate form, consume everything on Earth and then terraform the planet to become the new Shlorpian homeworld.

* TooDumbToLive: He is first seen snacking on an M&M despite having diabetes in a place with no insulin. He later covers up Ethan's murders which leads to Tim executing him.

* PokemonSpeak: Little Buddy can only say his name in different inflections and annunciate each syllable separately.

!!Deeno

An annoyingly nosy next-door neighbour with a thing for Korvo much to his ire.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Her suggestion of enrolling Jesse and Yumyulack into summer camp so Terry and Korvo won’t have to deal with them for three whole months lead to the family being lost in the woods and forced to create an entire civilisation of sentient flora to survive in “The Emergency Urbanizer”.

* ExtraDigits: They have "abacadactyls" (The [[Main/CanisLatinicus "-dactyl" part meaning "finger" in Greek]])they can extract from their wrists.

* IAmNotShazam: Averted. At first, the title of the show doesn’t seem to indicate the aliens' names so much as a sci-fi twisted pun on "Polar Opposites". Yet, they continually refer to themselves as "The Solar Opposites" starting from season 2 and eventually use "Opposites" as a surname for themselves in season 4.[[invoked]]

* GreenEyedMonster: Similar to Korvo, becomes easily jealous when he sees that Korvo is a fan of the Conductor from the Polar Express and is enraged when he sees the replica of Korvo's past sex with Chris. Throughout the episode, he acts bitterly and passive-aggressive.

* BullyingADragon: As it turns out, bullying Aliens with shrink-ray guns wasn't the brightest idea.

!Shlorpians
[[folder:Terri]]
->'''First Appearance:''' "The Retrace-Your-Step-Alizer"
Terry's lifemate back on Shlorp and his previous science partner before he was reassigned to Korvo.

* BirdsOfAFeather: Terry liked Terri for her free-spiritedness, promiscuity and how she didn’t conform to Planet Shlorp’s totalitarian rule just like his free-spirited, promiscuous and non-confirmative self. Also, she has the same name as him but with an "i" instead of a "y".
* FirstLove: She was Terry’s devoted lifemate before his eventual husband Korvo came into the picture combined with her [[UncertainDoom likely demise]] from Shlorp's destruction.

* BickeringCouplePeacefulCouple: The dynamic between the leader and Pupa Specialist are akin to married couple but can vary from team to team with Team 1 being the prime example of the perfect idyllic couple and Teams 63 and especially 65 being total dysfunction junctions at opposing ends of the spectrum.
* DistaffCounterpart: Team 63 acts nearly identically to the Solar Opposites as they are stuck in a similar situation of being stranded on an already inhabited planet for six months. The team includes a no-nonsense, easily angered leader who wants to repair the ship and get the hell out of there to complete the mission like Korvo as well as a sassy, easy-going Pupa Expert who is [[TheLancer always in conflict with her]] like Terry with their replicants and pupa doing their own thing. However, the two’s dynamic is more in line with Terry and Korvo during season 1 when they weren’t together yet and the latter was colder and more hostile. The similarities stopped once Team 63 gets eaten by a giant bird all of a sudden.

* TheUnreveal: Only 99 teams had their fates revealed since The Solar Opposites thought they were the hundredth team until TheReveal of the teams was from the previous batch before their Shlorp. It can be assumed that Team 72 is missing since it was entirely skipped over during the death montage and it's unknown whatever happened to them.

!!Little Buddy

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He becomes this in Season 4 after he and the Pupa fall out with each other. It culminates in "The Pronunciation Cassette Tapes", where he and Deeno team up to kill the rest of the family; in the end, Korvo drops him down the garbage chute.

The survivors from the flooding of The Wall who acquired a taste of human flesh and traversed through the muck-like remains of the bottom levels.

* BickeringCouplePeacefulCouple: The dynamic between the leader and Pupa Specialist are akin to married couple can vary from team to team with Team 1 being the prime example of the perfect idyllic couple and Teams 63 and especially 65 being total dysfunction junctions at opposing ends of the spectrum.

* NiceGuy: He’s the only one in the neighbourhood to be consistently affable and on speaking terms to the Solar Opposites and vice-versa despite all the sci-fi bullshit they pull, even for the time when their housewife robot P.A.T.R.I.C.I.A went haywire and destroyed his beloved mancave. However, this is zigzagged regarding his personal life since he's on the verge of a nasty divorce with his dismissive, neglectful attitude towards his wife and kids.
* SatelliteCharacter: His unnamed exasperated wife is only seen whenever Kevin is around as lampshaded by Korvo only calling her "Kevin’s wife".

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While Korvo admits that he dislikes humans and can be quite rude to them, he does try to socialize with them. He also does care about Terry despite constantly yelling and nagging at him. He also cares about the replicants and takes care of Pupa.

* TheUnfavourite: While Terry and Korvo's treatment of him, Jesse and Pupa depend on the episode whether good or bad, Yumyulack tends to be the least liked out of the three because of his {{Jerkass}} attitude and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere tendency to go off on his own adventure without warning]] when even he thinks his family's usual shenanigans are [[EveryoneHasStandards too much]].

* BewareTheNiceOnes: In the pilot, she advises Yumyulack on how to smack the sides of a jar onto which Linda is clinging for dear life so as to knock the shrunken girl into acid.

* MeaningfulName: Cherie gave her unique and branded name of Pezlie because she was born inside a PEZ dispenser.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In Season 3, there are quite a few red flags directed towards her. [[spoiler:For one, she was somehow able to immediately identify ''exactly'' what had been poisoning Tim from just a glance at him. Then there's her accelerating his death by [[WorstAid filling his veins with contact lens solution]], all the while brushing off her mistake like it's nothing]]. [[spoiler:By the end of the season, it's all but stated that she assassinated Tim to assume power with intentions of making Pezlie into a PuppetKing after usurping the original head of the church while Cherie was away]].
* FromNobodyToNightmare: She was a resident of the Wall who lived through the reigns of both The Duke and Tim before deciding to seize power for herself at the first opportunity.

* AscendedExtra: In seasons 2 and 3, she was only a SatelliteLoveInterest, who acts as Hank's motivation. In season 4, she becomes a much more prominent character and [[spoiler:the new [[TheLeader leader]] of The Wall]].

* FunWithAcronyms: P.A.T.R.I.C.I.A. stands for '''[[RecursiveAcronym P]]'''[[RecursiveAcronym atricia]] ''A'''utomated '''T'''elevision '''R'''etro-fitted '''I'''ntelligent '''C'''ompanion '''I'''n '''A'''ction.

* FunWithAcronyms: P.A.T.R.I.C.I.A. stands for '''[[[RecursiveAcronym P]]'''[[RecursiveAcronym atricia]] ''A'''utomated '''T'''elevision '''R'''etro-fitted '''I'''ntelligent '''C'''ompanion '''I'''n '''A'''ction.

* PinkIsPsycho: The church incorporates strips of cloth from Jesse's pink polka-dot dress in their outfits and wear pink bows but are [[CorruptChurch incredibly corrupt]] in nature which is most prominent when [[spoiler:Sister Sisto takes over and prepares a crusade with a league of devoted coin-minted soldiers to slaughter every heathen non-believer in the Wall for her own gain.]]

* DeathByIrony: His first scene is him eating an M&M (a piece of candy made out of chocolate). His last scene is being covered by Magic Shell (a chocolate syrup that hardens into a shell when exposed to cold, such as ice cream).

* FriendToAllLivingThings: He notes he always had a connection with animals, having befriended a mouse when he was in the Wall, and then later commands an army of mosquitoes.

* ImprobableInfantSurvival: She survived and appears to be healthy even with her father stabbing her mother in the abdomen and thrown off the hole in the Wall, two harsh winters (one of them as a newborn with little to no clothes), her mother's insect based diet and lack of medical attention when Pezlie was still a fetus and now as a newborn with still no access to proper medicine and having to feed on a mix of breast milk and mouse milk.
* MeaningfulName: She was so named by Cherie because she was born inside a PEZ dispenser.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: He noticed the Wall is getting colder and tries to warn Sisto about it. Unfortunately, he finds out directly from Sisto that she is responsible for it as part of her plans to take the entire Wall. Since he knows too much, Sisto orders Montez to kill him.

* CorruptChurch: They come across as this in the first season, refusing to give insulin to Pedro. [[spoiler:After being taken over by Sisto, they end up backstabbing Cherie to steal Pezlie to basically make her into a PuppetKing and kill nonbelievers over the slightest faults]].

->'''First Appearance:''' "Edamame Duffle Bage"

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Sisto claims she only targets "heathens" and kills "nonbelievers" to appease Jesse, the Wall's God. However, she doesn't actually speak to Jesse and only kills people to maintain her own power, with her true intentions being to take over the entire Wall with no regard for lost life.

* ArtisticLicense: Mice can hold their breath for several minutes rather than several seconds, and swim for days. Unless Molly deliberately drowned rather than find a way out, she shouldn't have died after forcing the hatch closed.

* Accidental Murder:
** Team 66’s bounty hunter unintentionally killed his teammates when his [[SpikesOfDoom suit]] activated its defense mode while fighting over the TV remote, [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling all of them]] to his horror.
** Team 71’s impromptu dance party resulted in their ginormous subwoofer speaker toppling over and crushing their pupa to death. The Solar Opposites actually learn and apply this lesson to save their pupa in time from a falling TV and later a speaker afterwards.

An intelligent dinosaur created by the Solar Opposites to act as their pet.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: His execution of Ethan of his two men, via encasing them in Magic Shell, was shown to be pretty horrific, but given that Ethan was a sadistic serial killer who murdered innocents while his two men proved to be very incompetent in handling the situation, it's hard to feel any sympathy.

* SanitySlippage: Over the course of season 1 he is thrown into a prison and sees several of his allies die, most of them being drowned by the Duke. This causes him to snap at the end of the season when he stabs Cherie to prevent people from knowing there is a way out of the Wall since it would lead to more death if they went outside. In season 2, the weight of thinking he killed Cherie has taken a further toll on his mental health, and he is relieved that he was able to talk to Halk about it. [[spoiler:By season 3, his sanity has grown worse and fatal, as Tim has unknowingly drinking lead-contaminated water from a lead-painted glass cup for at least a year.]]

* TheAllegedCar: Their main mode of transportation, besides the hover platform and broken spaceship, is a white Toyota Prius III that gets increasingly battered down from various adventures as the seasons go on since Korvo never bothered to repair it properly with Sci-fi, either using duct-tape or leaving it as it is. Still, the car is in perfect driving condition in spite of the damages.

** Not wanting to engage in either radically-charged gender-politics story in "The P.A.T.R.I.C.I.A"[[note]]Terry and Korvo built a "Manc Ave" and then a robot housewife programmed to hate the "Manc Ave" so they would want to stay there more while Jesse is trying too hard breaking the glass ceiling in a hyper-progressive society[[/note]], he promptly buys a digeridoo and has an offscreen Australian themed adventure involving wrangling koalas back to the zoo.

* The Unfavourite: While Terry and Korvo's treatment of him, Jesse and Pupa depend on the episode whether good or bad, Yumyulack tends to be the least liked out of the three because of his {{Jerkass}} attitude and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere tendency to go off on his own adventure without warning]] when even he thinks his family's usual shenanigans are [[EveryoneHasStandards too much]].

-->'''Terry:''' Oh yeah, I know. He sucks.

* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: The Shlorpians came from planet Shlorp.

* SiblingYinYang: Similar to their "parents," Jesse and Yumyulack have near-opposite personalities, with Jesse being a friendly tryhard optimist and Yumyulack being a militant grump with a HairTriggerTemper.

* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: Exaggerated to [[RuleOfFunny the point of parody]]; one episode A-plot even having Korvo using his advanced technology for an incredibly successful career in stage magic. Shlorpians have science so advanced they can do pretty much whatever the plot requires, bringing fictional characters to life, going into universes based on movies or even stock photos, and [[TransformationRay Transformation Rays]] of every kind you can imagine. Yumyulack actually dies and ends up in Hell in the Halloween special and spends the entire time mocking the demons ineffectual tortures before being effortlessly resurrected when his body is discovered.

* VillainProtagonist: They are trying to restore their home planet and save their species but doing so involves mass genocide and terraforming an existing planet so it resembles their lost homeworld. Korvo and Yumulack appear to be the most straightforward examples as Korvo puts the mission before everything else and Yumyulack lacks any sense of ethics, whereas Terry and Jesse are more willing to assimilate to Earth's culture. In contrast, the two main subplots of the show feature more traditional heroes who suffer as a result of an initial action by one or more of the Solars.

* PiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Despite working as Jesse and Yumyulack's sully teacher and most of her appearances are at school, she isn't shown teaching or setting foot in a classroom at all. However, Yumyulack implies in “The Apple Pencil Pro” that Ms. Frankie is a history teacher.

* HeroAntagonist: [[BlackAndGreyMorality They're not perfect]], but considering their enmity towards the Shlorpians for terraforming inhabited planets, they're not fully wrong in being merciless to them.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: A running gag is how many teams that were doing well suddenly got eaten by a T-Rex. Aisha points out that because they were carnivores and Shlorpians are PlantAliens, there was no practical benefit to it besides apparently being a dick.

* FeudingFamilies: Teams 69 and 70 landed on the same Dr. Seuss-esque planet and with neither side willing to leave to another, it led to a showdown where both sides quickly were wiped out in the crossfire.

* KarmicDeath: Abruptly decides to kill the Opposites by eating them, gets eaten himself by a group of paleontologists desperate for a live dinosaur to devour.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Yumyulack and Jesse have pretty noticeable resemblances to Korvo and Terry respectively.

->'''Korvo:''' [Seething] Did you fuck him?!
->'''Lady:''' I totally would have but he said he was in love with some guy named "Crumbo".
->'''Korvo:''' [Unaware Terry is referring to him] WHO THE ''SHIT'' IS CRUMBO?

* FunTShirt: He wears a different T-shirt in every episode with a geeky saying or pop culture joke on it.