History Characters / ThePenumbraPodcastJunoSteel

* ThreeAmigos: With Juno and Mick as kids in Old Town.

* ThreeAmigos: Sasha and Juno still adored him after he was proven a liar.

* HasTwoMommies: Raised by two female parents, whom he refers to as "Big Mom" and "Little Mom".

A drug dealer trying to create a perfect, addiction-free hallucinogen. Also [[spoiler:Nureyev's ex-boyfriend]].

* GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: Uses himself as the primary test subject for his experimental hallucinogen. [[spoiler:When the Executives drug him to try and make him give up information, this causes him to overdose]].

The titular detective of the Penumbra's space noir series. Extremely unhappy and determined to make Hyperion City a better place. Somehow.

A master thief and con artist. Very well versed in the history of heists and has connections everywhere.

!!Peter Nureyev (aka Rex Glass, Christopher Morales, Duke Rose, Perseus Shah, Leon Prince, Peter Ransom, Monsieur Dauphin, etc.)

!!Carte Blanche

* WorkOffTheDebt: The main reason he [[spoiler:took the Carte Blanche job is because he's millions of creds in debt to an unknown entity and needs to pay it off extremely quickly]].

* TheRedBaron: Known by many as "The Unnatural Disaster".

* ShadowArchetype: He represents Juno's worst traits taken [[UpToEleven to grotesque extremes]] - his ego and obsession with doing good, regardless of the feelings of others.

* [[FemmeFatale Homme Fatale]]
* KnifeNut: Superb with a blade.
* LoveableRogue

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has green hair.

* AcePilot[=/=]BadassDriver: In the Ruby 7.
* {{Asexuality}}: Jet is asexual and aromantic.

!!Others

[[folder:Miasma]]
!!Miasma
-->'''Voiced by:''' Kate Jones

A xenoanthropologist obsessed with Ancient Martian culture.

* ColdBloodedTorture: Performs painful experiments on Juno (and flat-out tortures Nureyev as motivation for Juno to comply) to collect data on the effects of the [[{{Telepathy}} Lassonionic Capsule]].
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: In the season 1 finale, she manages to activate the Egg of Purus, a bioweapon which she believes will wipe out all life on Mars. Except its true purpose is only to destroy all ''Martian'' life... and she's just injected herself with Martian DNA. As all the ancient Martians died millennia ago, [[SelfDisposingVillain she's the only one killed by the blast.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: Nureyev turns out to be a mercenary hired by her, unaware of her intentions with the artifacts she's paid him to steal. (When he learns [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt what she plans to accomplish with them]], he [[TheStarscream defects and helps Juno take her down]].)
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Splices Martian DNA into her genome; acquires superhuman strength and regenerative abilities as a result.
* StarterVillain: She's the overarching villain of Season 1.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Eats a concerningly large amount of soup.

[[folder:M'tendere]]
!!M'tendere
-->'''Voiced by:''' Anjimile

A former weapons designer who has a history with Jet.

* {{Transgender}}: Juno is canonically non-binary. He uses he/him pronouns but regularly calls himself and is called a lady.

* {{Transgender}}: "Juno Steel and the Shadows on the Ship" reveals that she's a trans woman.

* {{Transgender}}: Pilot is nonbinary and goes by they/them pronouns.

* {{Objectshifting}}: [[spoiler:Is an alien that has assumed the form of a vehicle for at least the past decade]].

!!Hyperion City

[[folder:SashaWire]]
!!Agent Sasha Wire
->'''Voiced by:''' Sophie Kaner

An old friend of Juno's from Old Town. After over a decade apart, she comes back into Juno's life as an agent of Dark Matters.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: She and the boys decided to play a few mean tricks on her little sister for being a pest. She went missing and was presumed dead after Juno sent her into the abandoned munitions factory.
* PutOnABus: She's promoted to Dark Matters subdirector midway through season 1, and doesn't appear in person again...
** TheBusCameBack: ...until [[spoiler:the season 3 episode "Juno Steel and What Lies Beyond", when she and her agents crash Buddy and Vespa's wedding to take the [[CaperCrew Aurinko Crime Family]] into Dark Matters custody]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She lays into Juno about his self-centered worldview and martyrdom after their ordeal in Old Town.
* TheStoic: Doesn't show much emotion, even when confronted with her past trauma. It's what makes her an effective Dark Matters agent.
* ThreeAmigos: With Juno and Mick as kids in Old Town.

[[folder:MickMercury]]
!!Mick Mercury
->'''Voiced by:''' Stefano Perti

Juno's childhood best friend. Has made significantly less of himself than either Juno or Sasha. Prone to bad investments.

* BlatantLies: As a kid, he claimed he was "King of the Freeway" and made outlandish stories about his travels to Hyperion City. He was proven wrong when a building he claimed to have been in one day ''blew up'' that morning. But Sasha and Mick still hung out with him.
* BreakThemByTalking: While under controlled by the Theia Soul, he nearly convinces Juno to give in to Ramses' idea.
* MindControlDevice: He's the first person Juno and Rita encounter who is controlled by the Theia Soul. It's not pretty.
* ThreeAmigos: Sasha and Juno still adored him after he was proven a liar.
* WhatTheHellHero: Delivers one to Juno, right after he gets a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech harsher one]] from Sasha.

[[folder:Alessandra Strong]]
!!Alessandra Strong
-->'''Voiced by:''' Kat Buckingham

A rival PI Juno met on a case. An ex-veteran who survived the war, known as 'Cockroach Strong' because she can survive anything.

* CrazyPrepared: Her time in the military and will to live means she'll carry two weeks of rations to a mission that was supposed to take a few days.
* DareToBeBadass: Encourages Juno to survive.
* {{Determinator}}: Unlike Juno, she refuses to falter when things get ugly.

[[folder:Benzaiten Steel]]
!!Benzaiten Steel
-->'''Voiced by:''' Marc Pierre

The twin brother of Juno Steel. Died about twenty years before the start of the story.

* DeadPersonConversation: Juno talks to the memory of his brother in Monster's Reflection.
* OffingTheOffspring: He was murdered by his and Juno's mother after she accused him of stealing her pills.
* SiblingYinYang: In every possible way with Juno.
* ThePollyanna: Was incredibly optimistic and tried to see the best in everyone. [[AbusiveParents Including his and Juno's mother]].

[[folder:Omar Khan]]
!!Omar Khan
-->'''Voiced by:''' Elliott Sicard

Captain of the 151st precinct of the Hyperion City Police Department.

* DaChief: He's the captain of his precinct, and he [[ByTheBookCop tries his best to maintain law and order]] despite the corruptness of the organization he works for. Juno describes him as "one of the few good cops left in Hyperion City".
* FriendOnTheForce: "Friend" might be pushing it, but despite the less than amicable circumstances surrounding Juno's departure from the HCPD, he's come to Khan on more than one occasion for help and advice.
* HappilyMarried: To his wife Noor.
* HasTwoMommies: Raised by two female parents, whom he refers to as "Big Mom" and "Little Mom".
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Has at least six children.

[[folder:Pilot Pereyra]]
!!Pilot Pereyra
-->'''Voiced by:''' Simon Moody

The notoriously corrupt mayor of Hyperion City.

* CorruptPolitician: Their administration is known for taking bribes and has deep ties to many of Hyperion City's crime syndicates. Hyperion City's voting population doesn't seem to mind -- according to the Promised Land liveshow, Pilot ran for office using the slogan "if the bad guys get to use bad guys, why don't we?".
* HighHeelPower: According to Juno, in "Juno Steel and the Promised Land":
-->'''Juno:''' Pilot Pereyra, mayor of Hyperion City for four years running, was famous for their stiletto heels. They had a new pair in a new hideous color every week, and Pilot made killings off of them. Both in the literal sense – just ask Sal Barone, found floating in Mars’s orbit with two of Pilot’s heels jammed into his throat – and in the financial sense – like how for a year after, every crime boss in Hyperion paid Pilot hand over fist for a pair like the one that killed Barone.
* {{Transgender}}: Pilot is nonbinary and goes by they/them pronouns.
* VillainousBreakdown: Their life goal was to find [[AdvancedAncientAcropolis the Free Dome]]; they have one of these at the end of "Juno Steel and the Promised Land" when they realize the Free Dome was never actually built.

[[folder:Ramses O'Flaherty]]
!!Ramses O'Flaherty, aka Jack Takano
-->'''Voiced by:''' Matthew Zahnzinger

A mayoral candidate who wants to end the corruption plaguing Hyperion City. He hires Juno Steel to protect him during his campaign.

* OfficialCouple: Vespa is her girlfriend.

* OfficialCouple: Buddy is her girlfriend.

!!The Carte Blanche

Tropes describing characters from the ''Juno Steel'' storyline of ''Podcast/ThePenumbraPodcast''. Note that only spoilers from Season 3 onward will be hidden -- all spoilers from Seasons 1 and 2 are '''unmarked.'''

!''Juno Steel''

[[folder:SashaWire]]
!!Agent Sasha Wire
->'''Voiced by:''' Sophie Kaner

An old friend of Juno's from Old Town. After over a decade apart, she comes back into Juno's life as an agent of Dark Matters.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: She and the boys decided to play a few mean tricks on her little sister for being a pest. She went missing and was presumed dead after Juno sent her into the abandoned munitions factory.
* PutOnABus: She's promoted to Dark Matters subdirector midway through season 1, and doesn't appear in person again...
** TheBusCameBack: ...until [[spoiler:the season 3 episode "Juno Steel and What Lies Beyond", when she and her agents crash Buddy and Vespa's wedding to take the [[CaperCrew Aurinko Crime Family]] into Dark Matters custody]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She lays into Juno about his self-centered worldview and martyrdom after their ordeal in Old Town.
* TheStoic: Doesn't show much emotion, even when confronted with her past trauma. It's what makes her an effective Dark Matters agent.
* ThreeAmigos: With Juno and Mick as kids in Old Town.

[[folder:MickMercury]]
!!Mick Mercury
->'''Voiced by:''' Stefano Perti

Juno's childhood best friend. Has made significantly less of himself than either Juno or Sasha. Prone to bad investments.

* BlatantLies: As a kid, he claimed he was "King of the Freeway" and made outlandish stories about his travels to Hyperion City. He was proven wrong when a building he claimed to have been in one day ''blew up'' that morning. But Sasha and Mick still hung out with him.
* BreakThemByTalking: While under controlled by the Theia Soul, he nearly convinces Juno to give in to Ramses' idea.
* MindControlDevice: He's the first person Juno and Rita encounter who is controlled by the Theia Soul. It's not pretty.
* ThreeAmigos: Sasha and Juno still adored him after he was proven a liar.
* WhatTheHellHero: Delivers one to Juno, right after he gets a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech harsher one]] from Sasha.

[[folder:Alessandra Strong]]
!!Alessandra Strong
-->'''Voiced by:''' Kat Buckingham

A rival PI Juno met on a case. An ex-veteran who survived the war, known as 'Cockroach Strong' because she can survive anything.

* CrazyPrepared: Her time in the military and will to live means she'll carry two weeks of rations to a mission that was supposed to take a few days.
* DareToBeBadass: Encourages Juno to survive.
* {{Determinator}}: Unlike Juno, she refuses to falter when things get ugly.

[[folder:Buddy Aurinko]]
!!Buddy Aurinko
-->'''Voiced by:''' Sarah Gazdowicz

A retired thief who now runs the Aurinko Crime Family and Captain of the Carte Blanche.

* BrutalHonesty: Kicks things off with her new crime family by telling them all point-blank that none of them are the best at what they do, and they need to rely on each other if they want to succeed.
* {{Cyborg}}: She has a cybernetic eye [[spoiler:and a cybernetic heart and stomach to match]].
* EyeScream: Thanks to being exposed to Mars radiation for a prolonged period of time, one eye has severe nuclear damage.
* FieryRedhead: As described by Juno in "Juno Steel and the Time Gone By":
-->'''Juno:''' The woman who’d just taken my drink was a bombshell, by which I mean she looked extremely dangerous and made a hell of an entrance. She had big plumes of flame-red hair trailing over her neck and half her face and a dress so avant-garde I would’ve believed her if she said she got it next year. The first thing she did when she sat down was put a blaster on the table in front of her and, in the process, reveal she had another one, two knives, and what looked like a grenade strapped to her leg. She looked ready for a war -- hell, she looked ready to fight on both sides.
* HatesTheirParent: Despises her father, [[{{Pun}} Palomine]], although what exactly he did to deserve it is unclear.
* MoralityPet: She was the catalyst for [[TheAtoner Jet's]] HeelFaceTurn several years before the start of the series, although by their first appearance, Jet's clearly committed to doing good on his own.
* TheNeedless: She jokes to Juno that, as a result of her radiation damage from the Cerberus Province, she's "allergic to food." Turns out it's because [[spoiler:her mechanical stomach can't handle solids, and alcohol is all she needs to power her cybernetic organs]].
* NeverGetsDrunk: As revealed in "Juno Steel and the Heart of it All", [[spoiler:her [[{{Cyborg}} cybernetic heart]] runs on alcohol]]; thus, she's constantly drinking, but never shows any signs of inebriation.
* OfficialCouple: Vespa is her girlfriend.
* TeamMom: Becomes this for the Aurinko Crime Family. {{Lampshaded}} by Rita.

[[folder:Vespa Ilkay]]
!!Vespa Ilkay
-->'''Voiced by:''' Chloe Cunha

A specialist in field medicine and assassinations. Reunited with Buddy after being presumed dead for several years and is now a part of her crime family.

* CombatMedic: A field medic who is also skilled in assassinations.
* HandyShortcoming: Vespa suffers from psychosis as a result of her radiation poisoning, and constantly experiences vivid hallucinations. This ends up being an asset in "Juno Steel and the Shadows on the Ship", when [[spoiler:the Carte Blanche is attacked by [[HumanShifting a shapeshifter]] and Vespa, because she's spent so long learning how to distinguish her hallucinations from reality, is the only person who's able to [[SpotTheImpostor correctly determine who her real crewmates are and who is the impostor]]]].
* HealthcareMotivation: After she almost died following a heist with Buddy Aurinko gone wrong, she was forced into slavery under the [[LoanShark Board of Fresh Starts]] in order to work off her medical debts, and spent half a decade in indentured servitude as a mob boss's personal doctor and assassin.
* OfficialCouple: Buddy is her girlfriend.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: One of the symptoms of her radiation poisoning is that she often experiences hallucinations that vary in intensity based on her mental state. When she's [[SwitchingPoV narrating an episode,]] it's often hard to tell what's actually happening and what's just a hallucination. For example, "Juno Steel and the Shadows on the Ship" starts with her getting into an argument with Juno and Peter; it lasts for several minutes before the audience realizes that [[spoiler:Peter's asleep in the medbay and Vespa's been hallucinating him the entire time]].
* {{Transgender}}: "Juno Steel and the Shadows on the Ship" reveals that she's a trans woman.
* VolleyingInsults: Seems to happen quite often with Juno.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has green hair.

[[folder:Jet Sikuliaq]]
!!Jet Sikuliaq
-->'''Voiced by:''' Alexander Stravinski

Also known as "The Man in the Brown Jacket", he is a pilot and initially met Juno after tailing him for Buddy.

* AcePilot[=/=]BadassDriver: In the Ruby 7.
* {{Asexuality}}: Jet is asexual and aromantic.
* TheAtoner: He knows he can't truly make up for his actions in the past, but he's determined to do good in spite of them.
* TheComicallySerious
* ConspiracyTheorist: Watching some of [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Rita's]] streams is enough to convince him that the government is secretly run by aliens in disguise.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: In his younger days, he was an infamous thief and a murderer. It is a past he is not proud of.
* VenturousSmuggler: During the War, he made a living by smuggling goods across the Outer Rim border.

[[folder:Miasma]]
!!Miasma
-->'''Voiced by:''' Kate Jones

A xenoanthropologist obsessed with Ancient Martian culture.

* ColdBloodedTorture: Performs painful experiments on Juno (and flat-out tortures Nureyev as motivation for Juno to comply) to collect data on the effects of the [[{{Telepathy}} Lassonionic Capsule]].
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: In the season 1 finale, she manages to activate the Egg of Purus, a bioweapon which she believes will wipe out all life on Mars. Except its true purpose is only to destroy all ''Martian'' life... and she's just injected herself with Martian DNA. As all the ancient Martians died millennia ago, [[SelfDisposingVillain she's the only one killed by the blast.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: Nureyev turns out to be a mercenary hired by her, unaware of her intentions with the artifacts she's paid him to steal. (When he learns [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt what she plans to accomplish with them]], he [[TheStarscream defects and helps Juno take her down]].)
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Splices Martian DNA into her genome; acquires superhuman strength and regenerative abilities as a result.
* StarterVillain: She's the overarching villain of Season 1.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Eats a concerningly large amount of soup.

[[folder:Pilot Pereyra]]
!!Pilot Pereyra
-->'''Voiced by:''' Simon Moody

The notoriously corrupt mayor of Hyperion City.

* CorruptPolitician: Their administration is known for taking bribes and has deep ties to many of Hyperion City's crime syndicates. Hyperion City's voting population doesn't seem to mind -- according to the Promised Land liveshow, Pilot ran for office using the slogan "if the bad guys get to use bad guys, why don't we?".
* HighHeelPower: According to Juno, in "Juno Steel and the Promised Land":
-->'''Juno:''' Pilot Pereyra, mayor of Hyperion City for four years running, was famous for their stiletto heels. They had a new pair in a new hideous color every week, and Pilot made killings off of them. Both in the literal sense – just ask Sal Barone, found floating in Mars’s orbit with two of Pilot’s heels jammed into his throat – and in the financial sense – like how for a year after, every crime boss in Hyperion paid Pilot hand over fist for a pair like the one that killed Barone.
* {{Transgender}}: Pilot is nonbinary and goes by they/them pronouns.
* VillainousBreakdown: Their life goal was to find [[AdvancedAncientAcropolis the Free Dome]]; they have one of these at the end of "Juno Steel and the Promised Land" when they realize the Free Dome was never actually built.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ramses O'Flaherty]]
!!Ramses O'Flaherty, aka Jack Takano
-->'''Voiced by:''' Matthew Zahnzinger

A mayoral candidate who wants to end the corruption plaguing Hyperion City. He hires Juno Steel to protect him during his campaign.
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[[folder:M'tendere]]
!!M'tendere
-->'''Voiced by:''' Anjimile

A former weapons designer who has a history with Jet.

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