History Characters / SplatoonInkopolisAndSplatsville

* UpliftedAnimal: [[spoiler:A grizzly bear that somehow gained enough intelligence to run a company and devise a plan to repopulate mammals on Earth through the use of Fuzzy Ooze and a rocket.]]

* FantasticRacism: He has a tendency to call Octarians with various octo-slurs and is quick to blame them for the missing Zapfish, likely due to having bitter memories of the Great Turf War. This makes his conversations with Agent 8 and Marina a bit awkward as they're both Octolings who defected from the Octarian Army, and downright tone-deaf if new Agent 3 is an Octoling.

* AffablyEvil: He remains rather calm during his run as [[spoiler:the BigBad of ''Splatoon 3'', even using phrasing that sounds more like he's talking to an employee, implying he sees [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt his current goals]] as nothing more than [[ButForMeItWasTuesday another day on the job]]]].

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Unlike Commander Tartar, Mr. Grizz is genuinely polite and holds no genuine malice towards marine life, he's merely trying to fulfill humanity's will in restoring mammalian life, even if that means wiping out the current reigning species in the process. His sendoff, where he dies accepting his kind's time has already passed, is played quite somberly.]]

-->'''Harmony:''' [[I'm just gonna give this to you. Way to consume, consumer.]]

* NoodleIncident: A sunken scroll shows that the one named Marigold has ''several'' different ID's with different aliases, with much of their contents blacked out, and explains absolutely nothing as to why.

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Downplayed example. It's not ''entirely'' clear if he's actually dead, considering you can see him orbiting Earth in the credits and BatmanCanBreatheInSpace is in effect, but he's cut off from any resource he could use to return, meaning he's probably stranded there for at least a very long time.]]

* DeliciousDistraction: Apparently sees all the aquatic life walking around as food, given that the relationship chart has his feelings towards Agent 4, Agent 8 and Crusty Sean are only "[[MeatOVision Yum...]]"

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[[folder:Mr. Coco]]
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A large coconut crab who runs the shoe store Crush Station.

* MysteriousEmployer: The developers have stated that Grizzco's registered headquarters is completely empty, and have hinted that even Mr. Grizz's dialogue is 100% prerecorded with text-to-speech software that automatically plays certain messages depending on the situation. [[spoiler:Given he dies in ''Splatoon 3's'' story mode yet you can still hear him talk during jobs, it's almost impossible that he's directly talking to you through that radio.]]

* BigGood: Serves as this in the first game's Hero Mode.
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:By the end of the story mode, he is dehydrated by Mr. Grizz, leaving him wrinkled and flat. A sunken scroll outright states that he's been mummified. He doesn't seem that bothered by his situation, though.]]

* LeetSpeak: He does this in Marina's chatroom. Which is, apparently, [[AchievementsInIgnorance by sheer accident on Cuttlefish's part]].

* VSign: Seen striking it in his promotional character art (and in some concept art as well!)
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He and DJ Octavio clearly know each each from times past, and the Sunken Scrolls reveals they were good friends before the first Great Turf War.

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* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: [[spoiler:Appears to have no trouble in the vaccuum of space during the boss fight against him.]]

** [[spoiler:Tartar was made in an attempt to FlingALightIntoTheFuture and help guide whatever comes after humanity, while Mr. Grizz is the SoleSurvivor of humanity's attempt to perserve itself in the face of extinction.]]

* LastOfTheirKind: He's the last living remnant of human civilization, and quite possibly the last living mammal. Later subverted in ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'', where a [[ThereIsAnother smaller cat companion]] named Li'l Judd joins Judd in judging matches. Subverted even further in ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'', where the Hero Mode appears to be against mammalian creatures as opposed to Octarians.

** [[RuleOfThree And then again]] in ''Splatoon 3'', after the first boss at that.

* PutOnABus: Is on a research trip with Agent 3 during the events of ''Splatoon 2'''s base game. He returns for ''Octo Expansion''
* RetiredBadass: He was once as much a fighter as any of the young Inklings, and fought against the Octarians in the past. During the ''Octo Expansion'' chat logs, Pearl digs up old war photos of him, and the much younger Inkling is most impressed. He retires again in ''Splatoon 3'', passing the mantle of Captain to one of the former Agents and taking up a patrol role.

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* AffablyEvil: He remains rather calm during his run as [[spoiler:the BigBad of ''Splatoon 3'', even using phrasing that sounds more like he's talking to an employee, implying he sees [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt his current goals]] as nothing more than [[ButForMeItWasTuesday another day on the job]].]]
* AnimalisticAbomination: [[spoiler:As ''Return of the Mammalians" confirms, he is indeed a grizzly bear. An oversized one that seems to be made out of fuzzy ooze, and can manipulate it at will.]]

* AnimalMotifs: Bears, more specifically grizzly bears. It's unknown whether the man himself is a bear, though certain details on the "Ruins of Ark Polaris" map indicate that the idea may be not as farfetched as it would originally seem...[[spoiler:And then ''Splatoon 3'' comes around confirming this. He's an honest-to-god, 10-foot-tall grizzly bear.]]

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[spoiler:To [[AIIsACrapshoot Commander Tartar]] from the Octo Expansion. While both of their goals end with the extinction of Inkling and Octolings, as well as having ties to humanity, both their personalities and goals contrast each other in every other way.]]

** [[spoiler:Tartar wants to [[FinalSolution wipe out Inklings and Octolings to make way for a new species]], and Mr. Grizz wants to revert the status quo back to where it was 12,000 years before by forcibly coverting all life on the planet to mammalians, even if it kills them in the process.]]
** [[spoiler:Tartar was a BitchInSheepsClothing using a TotallyRadical facade to hide its genocidal intentions, while Mr. Grizz's [[AffablyEvil affable]] yet CorruptCorporateExecutive personality seems to be completely genuine, with the only thing he was hiding from his employees being [[HiddenAgendaVillain what he was going to use the Golden Eggs for.]]]]
** [[spoiler:When his motives are introduced, Tartar is just short of yelling his head off about his goals and how disgusted he is about how Inklings and Octolings have failed as humanity's successor. Mr. Grizz, by contrast, calmly states his goal [[ButForMeItWasTuesday like it's just an average day on the job]], and seemingly holds no ill will towards New Agent 3, in comparison to Tartar with Agent 8.]]

* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler: To the Judds. The ones The Professor left behind were done so in the interest of carrying memory of the old Earth into the future, to let them live out their lives and to a lesser extent help the new race that would supplant humanity prosper. Grizz, meanwhile, was part of the Ark Polaris mission to ''preserve'' the life of the old Earth and make sure it ''stayed.'' Thus, whereas the Judds live peacefully with seakind and have been given a highly-elevated position in Inkling society, Grizz's mission objective is to remove the new races of peoples to return the old.]]

* TheJuggernaut: [[spoiler: As a boss and befitting of his immensity and girth, Grizz displays little in the ways of finesse in favor of being an immovable lumbering powerhouse. Just by ''rolling'', he's able to ''spin the entire rocket he's on'', and when he decides to forego it, he smashes the entire thing open to take the Fuzzy Ooze payload within, offhandedly and with no difficulty whatsoever.]]
* ALizardNamedLiz: [[spoiler:He's a grizzly bear named Mr. Grizz (although he was originally just called "[[ADogNamedDog Bear]] [[YouAreNumberSix #03]]").]]

* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler: As "Ursine Anomaly #03". In-universe, the explanation for this is apparently that he is the third-numbered bear who was aboard the Polaris. Metatextually, he's the third living mammalian organism to resurface from ancient Earth, after Judd and Lil' Judd.]]
* MysteriousEmployer: The developers have stated that Grizzco's registered headquarters is completely empty, and have hinted that even Mr. Grizz's dialogue is 100% prerecorded with text-to-speech software that automatically plays certain messages depending on the situation.

* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Of the Ark Polaris, Humanity's last ditch effort to save themselves and all known species at the twilight of humanity]].

[[folder:Jel La Fleur]]
A jellyfish who runs the clothing store Man-o'-Wardrobe.

* RecurringElement: A jellyfish clothes shopkeep with the ability to speak Inkling, albeit with a major accent, much like Jelonzo and Jelfonzo before him.
* SeriousBusiness: While everybody topside takes freshness seriously, Jel La Fleur seems unreasonably angry if you come to him with a freshness level below 4, asking if people below level 4 can even tell what level they are.
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: While retaining the "Jel" part from Jelonzo and Jelfonzo, Jel La Fleur's name heavily deviates from Jelonzo's.
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[[folder:Mr. Coco]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/800px_s3_mr_coco_2d_art.jpg]]
A large coconut crab who runs the shoe store Crush Station.
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* GentleGiant: He's absolutely massive, but he's a friendly and polite guy.

%%[[folder:Jel La Fleur]]
%%A jellyfish who runs the clothing store Man-o'-Wardrobe.
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%%[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mr. Coco]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/800px_s3_mr_coco_2d_art.jpg]]
A large coconut crab who runs the shoe store Crush Station.