History Characters / TheOuterWorldsOtherCharacters

* EinsteinHair: Like any self-respecting mad scientist, his hair stands up, giving him a [[Film/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]] or [[Franchise/RickAndMorty Rick Sanchez]] look.

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

->'''Voiced by:''' Pitor Michael

* {{Expy}}: Being made out to be the dashing smuggler, ace pilot, crack shot, and all-around LovableRogue at every turn, Alex Hawthorne is the setting's answer to Han Solo, complete with the Unreliable as his Millennium Falcon. Of course, you accidentally crash-land on top of him with your escape pod before gameplay even begins, as an EstablishingCharacterMoment for you, what's left of Hawthorne, and the colony as a whole.
* FakeUltimateHero: Phineas' early narration makes him sound like a Han Solo-like dashing rogue. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath And yet, somehow that doesn't seem right considering how he dies.]] That said, discussions with people who knew him indicate he did fit the description. The man programmed ADA’s personality, was a close associate of the head of Sublight, and had a ton of schemes and plans in his back pocket.

* AmbiguousDisorder: The daughter seems to have a learning disability based on her childlike mannerisms. Whether this is the result of of mental degeneration, as seen in her brother's writing, or congenital isn't made clear.

** Boyarsky said he's a cross between Rick from ''Franchise/RickAndMorty'' and Walter Bishop from ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', even jokingly calling him "Rick" in the Noclip documentary.

* BigGood: He is the central mission giver of the game if you're planning to oppose the Board.

* CannibalLarder: The half-butchered corpse of their former drug dealer can be in a locked room upstairs.

* InterfaceSpoiler: In order to prevent the player from merely walking out or fast-travelling to escape their hom, walking into their front door requires instancing a new area, like entering a dungeon. This easily tips off the player that they are in danger.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: They get caught because their drug dealer started missing his shifts. Subverted as this is because they killed and ate him.

* TooDumbToLive: They ambushwhat is likely a trio of heavily armed mercs.

* UndignifiedDeath: Told to plant the guidance beacon in the ground and stand back, he held on to it, and your landing pod squashes him. Worse, the people you can inform of his death are Phineas, who curses him for a idiot for that and ADA, who shows regret that it happened but doesn't want to stay grounded forever and very soon tells you to say you're him and you can take his place.

-->'''Phineas:''' We could have saved this colony, you know. [[{{Railroading}} That was always the plan.]] I revive you. You do as I say. I tell you to go there, get me this, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick shoot that.]] [[ControlFreak And you do as I say.]] If you just listened to me, we could rescued everyone on the Hope. We could have been the saviors of Halcyon. [[YouBastard But you didn't listen.]] [[SurroundedByIdiots No one in this damn colony every listens!]]

* MadScientist: A madcap mad scientist who's spent years in zany isolation crafting incredible new devices while working on a project most of the colony thinks is impossible..

[[folder:Hiram Blythe]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Keston John

An information broker living on Monarch. Phineas needs to get in contact with him to locate more dimethyl sulfoxide.

->''Are you feeling anything that can be construed as... explosive cell death? No? Wonderful! Let's get started.''

* TheAtoner: He's done some things in his past that he's not proud of. [[spoiler:Specifically, a decade ago he accidentally killed a dozen of the ''Hope'''s colonists while running experiments to try to figure out how to safely revive them from stasis. Saving the remaining colonists is his way of atoning.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: A good portion of his lines are him snarking away.

* DefiantToTheEnd: Will not turn over to the board, even to the threat of death.
--> [[spoiler:They say I'm a murderer - and they're right. I am. I regret what I've done. But I'm not about to turn myself into the Board. I'm not going to go begging the Board's forgiveness.]]

-->'''Phineas: ''' [[spoiler:Yes, I failed. There - I've said it. I'm a failure. I failed the colony. I failed myself. I failed you.]]
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Even though Dr. Welles frees the Unplanned Variable, the player can turn around and betray him by helping the Board capture him. However, he doesn't mind the idea of you getting into their good graces and will even encourage you to plant a tracking signal (albeit a corrupted one) in his lab on the basis that they'll find him eventually and it will curry favor with Akande. Although he will almost state this trope if you are on the Board's side and having a 'talk' with him.
* FinalBoss: Should you side with the board, Phineas will be your final opponent.
* HeroAntagonist: Becomes this if you side with the Board.

* MadScientist: It's said to not be right on his sanity due to isolation.

* TheAlcoholic: His terminal confirms that he was one of these.

* FakeUltimateHero: Phineas' early narration makes him sound like a Han Solo-like dashing rogue, an impressive gunslinger with a one-of-a-kind ship. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath And yet, somehow that doesn't seem right considering how he dies.]] That said, discussions with people who knew him indicate he did fit the description. The man programmed ADA’s personality, was a close associate of the head of Sublight, and had a ton of schemes and plans in his back pocket.
* GadgeteerGenius: May have helped cause ADA to become sentient. Also helped turn SAM into a super-robot.

* OddFriendship: Had multiple ones of these.
** Is friends with his maybe-sentient starship ADA.
** Is friends with both a Board bureaucrat devoted to finding Phineas Welles ''and'' Phineas Welles himself. Both of these friendships appear to be genuine.

* SelfAppliedNickname: Keeps trying (and failing) to get people to call him "the Broker".

-->''Are you feeling anything that can be construed as... explosive cell death? No? Wonderful! Let's get started.''

* DespairEventHorizon: If you turn him over to the Board, [[spoiler: Phineas will start a prison riot and hold Adjutant Akande hostage. Suggesting the board could still spare him has Phineas respond that he has no intention of surviving, and that it's time he "paid the price for (his) failures". Depending on certain dialogue routes, he will either go down in one last fight, or commit suicide.]]

* FailureHero: If you side with the Board. [[spoiler: All his human test-subjects die in agony, apart from a single person who then turns around and betrays him. His attempts to take down Akande (and you, if you don't manage to talk him down) will also be for nothing, ending in his death. The ''Hope'' colonists are then jettisoned like trash. Everything he spent his life working towards ends in failure.]]
--> '''Phineas: ''' [[spoiler: Yes, I failed. There - I've said it. I'm a failure. I failed the colony. I failed myself. I failed you.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction to [[spoiler: discovering that Earth is no longer there. His war against the Board potentially threatened human extinction. You can either reassure him or say that he was foolish.]]
** [[spoiler: If you side with the Board, Phineas will bitterly place the blame on himself for having revived you. However, if you treat him with compassion, he will also apologise and ask you to forgive him for involving you without ever giving you a choice.]]

! Monarch

[[folder: Hiram Blythe]]

[[folder: The Mather Family]]

A seemingly wholesome family living outside of Stellar Bay.

* AmbiguousDisorder: The daughter apparently has a learning disability due to her childlike mannerisms.
* AxCrazy: All of these tropes should give you an idea of their habits.
* BigOlUnibrow: All of them have big bushy unibrows.

* CannibalLarder: [[spoiler: There's one upstairs in their house.]]
* CannibalClan: [[spoiler: A family of happy friendly humans in the wilderness? Must be cannibals.]]
* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler: To the ''Film/TexasChainsawMassacre''. Possibly also to ''VideoGame/Fallout3'''s Andale.]]

* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: They're cannibals.]]
* InterfaceSpoiler: In order to prevent [[spoiler:the player from merely walking out or fast-travelling to escape their home]], walking into their front door requires instancing a new area, like entering a dungeon. This easily tips off the player that they are in danger.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: They get caught because their drug dealer started missing his shifts. [[spoiler: Subverted as it was because they killed and ate him.]]

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: They ambush what is, in all likelihood, a trio of heavily armed mercs.]]

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[[Characters/TheOuterWorldsTheCrew The Crew]] | Factions (Corporations: [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsCorporationsTheBoard The Board]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsCorporationsAuntieCleos Auntie Cleo's]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsCorporationsSpacersChoice Spacer's Choice]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsCPBoarstFactory C&P Boarst Factory]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsCorporationsMSI MSI]]), [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsCorporationsSubLight SubLight Salvaging & Shipping]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsIconoclasts Iconoclasts]], Other Groups: [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsGroundbreaker Groundbreaker]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsDeserters Deserters]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsMarauders Marauders]], [[Characters/TheOuterWorldsOutlaws Outlaws]] | '''Other Characters''']]-]]]

* TooDumbToLive: If you decide to betray him, he won't notice the signal transmitting from the Base, until the Board's soldiers are at his doorstep. Ada will even state as this.

* FakeUltimateHero: Phineas' early narration makes him sound like a Han Solo-like dashing rogue, an impressive gunslinger with a one-of-a-kind ship. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath And yet, somehow that doesn't seem right considering how he dies.]] That said, discussions with people who knew him indicate he did fit the description. The man programmed Ada's personality, was a close associate of the head of Sublight, and had a ton of schemes and plans in his back pocket.

* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Even though Dr. Welles frees the Unplanned Variable, the player can turn around and betray him by helping the Board capture him. However, he doesn't mind the idea of you getting into their good graces and will even encourage you to plant a tracking signal (albeit a corrupted one) in his lab on the basis that they'll find him eventually and it will curry favor with Akande.

* UndignifiedDeath: Sadly suffers one that is only later revealed to be tragic rather than funny.

** Boyarsky said he's a cross between Rick from ''Franchise/RickAndMorty'' and Walter Bishop from ''Series/{{Fringe}}''.

* EinsteinHair: Like any self-respecting mad scientist, his hair stands up, giving him a [[Film/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]] or [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Rick Sanchez]] look.

** Boyarsky said he's a cross between Rick from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' and Walter Bishop from ''Series/{{Fringe}}''.