History Characters / ThunderbirdsAreGo

* {{Foil}}: To the Tracy siblings and Kayo. All of them are competent pilots of fantastic machines with their own unique specialties that helps to aid in their respective missions, and they have a reputation of being exceptionally talented and headaches for their respective enemies (International Rescue for the Hood, The Chaos Crew for the GDF and International Rescue). However, the Tracys are a tight-knit family who, even if they have their moments of childishness and idiocy, come together very well and have immense respect for Scott's leadership. By contrast, despite being brother and sister, Havoc and Fuse tend to bicker often and tend to sometimes get in each other's way. Both are also prone to being [[Manchild manchildren]] when things don't go their way, dedicating all of their exceptional skills into doing nothing but causing as much chaos as possible under the leadership of the Hood, who leaves a ''lot'' to be desired as a leader.

* {{Foil}}: To Brains. Both are dark-skinned brilliant inventors and engineers who provide much of the machinery in their respective organizations [[spoiler: at least until the Hood betrayed the Mechanic]]. However, Brains prefers to create mostly non-lethal machines aimed primarily at the betterment of humankind and for rescue operations, and is very soft-spoken, kind, and loyal to those he considers his friends. The Mechanic tends to employ more aggressive machines based on various animals, and while relatively quiet is absolutely ruthless when it comes to getting what he wants. He mostly works alone [[spoiler: in large part due to being under the control of the Hood, and it takes him until the end of Season 2 to even consider anyone except himself to be worthwhile to trust.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He deemed Project Sentinel too extreme to continue with even though it was his brainchild, and has decided that the Mechanic must be prevented from continuing it.

* HeroKiller: Or rather, machine killer. He has the distinction of being one of the few villains in the entire franchise who successfully and intentionally destroys the Thunderbirds machine, also putting their pilots in grave danger. He heavily damages Thunderbird 2 in his debut episode, resulting in a crash landing, and in a later episode also destroys Thunderbird 4. Thankfully both were eventually recoverable.

* IOweYouMyLife: when Fuse got caught between the two armoured doors in season three episode 16 chain reaction Fuse makes the stupid mistake of trying to blast his way out, finding out after it's too late but if he doesn't get out of there the charge they put on the door will set off the plutonium he's carrying and he would be vaporised. it's a good thing that Scott used Thunderbird one to rip the door off Saving Fuse's life. Fuse later returned the favour by opening the alternative exit door before they all died of radiation poisoning.

A gravelly voiced astronaut first met on Moonbase Alpha, Captain Lee Taylor was a close friend of Jeff Tracy, with a talent for engineering...and minimal ability to remember anyone's names.

* CoolOldGuy: Misnaming aside, he's a cool old man who manages to keep up with the younger Tracy brothers, and proves to be essential in helping out the Martian colonists.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Well, looking for a purpose in retirement at least. After Moonbase Alpha was destroyed by a meteor shower, Captain Taylor struggled to figure out what to do in retirement due to his energetic nature, and eventually decides to spend his golden years in retirement on the Martian Colony.

[[folder: IR Agents]]

* NiceGuy: Both are very friendly individuals who treat those who help them well, especially getting on well with one of their usual rescuers, Gordon Tracy.

* IronicName: Tanusha, depending on how it's interpreted, can mean "feminine, playful, and joyful". While Kayo is certainly quite feminine, she's more of a DeadpanSnarker with a bit of a complicated and dark history, especially in Season 1.

* AdaptationalBadass: In the original series, she was a DamselInDistress with barely any role in IR operations; now she is Security Chief with her own Thunderbird vehicle.

* {{Xenafication}}: While the original Tin-Tin was mostly a DamselInDistress, Kayo is head of security with her own Thunderbird designated "Thunderbird S".

* HandicappedBadass: Buddy has a prosthetic leg, and lives a highly adventurous lifestyle nonetheless.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When the GDF finally arrest The Hood, he warns that there's a bigger threat out there, meaning the mechanic.

* HeroKiller: heavily damages Thunderbird 2 in his debut episode, resulting in a crash landing. Later he also destroys Thunderbird 4. Thankfully both were eventually recoverable.

* TheDragon: The Mechanic, introduced in season 2, causes trouble for International Rescue while the Hood is in jail. It didn't take long for the Tracys to discover he was working for the Hood.

* AdaptationalBadass/AdaptationalWimp: An interesting case of being both. In the original series, the Hood was a highly enigmatic criminal whose powerful hypnotic abilities made him able to terrify and incapacitate his enemies. By comparison the Hood here is mostly a regular man with a liberal usage of holographic tools and technology to aid in his crimes, who gets subjected to no shortage of indignities and defeats due to his greater number of appearances. ''However'', the original Hood for all of his power was also much less effective and was by all accounts just a solo criminal petty villain in the grand scheme of things, [[VillainDecay oftentimes veering into the comical and never succeeding despite his capabilities]]. By contrast, the TAG series has Hood often have many henchmen and ties to various criminal outfits, being considered one of the most dangerous men on the planet and having quite a few victories under his belt, [[spoiler: such as having disappeared Jeff Tracy with a malfunctioning Zero X, and having held a powerful villain in the Mechanic under his control with his eye implant.]].

* HatedByAll: Needless to say, even compared to just about every other idiot and egotist that International Rescue has had to deal with, Fischler manages to push ''everyone's'' patience with the sheer depth of his stupidity and incompetence. Even ''Brains'', who can generally tolerate the antics of many weird and annoying people, basically ''despises'' Fischler for his utter lack of care for safety and responsibility.

* LethallyStupid: On top of everything else, he is one of the most ridiculously stupid "geniuses" in the entire series, arguably causing almost as much havoc as some of the ''villains'' just from his sheer stupidity.
* {{Narcissist}}: The biggest case of this. Extremely grandiose, only thinks about himself, superficially charming enough to sell his inventions until they inevitably go horribly wrong, and ''never'' takes any responsibility and prefers to shunt the blame onto everyone else.

** His drones for helping to make desert into farmland malfunctioned as a result of the very electrical discharges meant to help generate rainfall mixed with bad coding, turning them into rogues that nearly caused the demonstration platform Fischler and his investors were on to collapse in the freak thunderstorm generated, ''and'' made every machine in range into a target for the drones to accidentally destroy.

** His drones for helping to make desert into farmland malfunctioned as a result of the very electrical discharges meant to help generate rainfall, turning into rogue drones that nearly caused the demonstration platform Fischler and his investors were on to collapse in the freak thunderstorm the drones generated, ''and'' made every machine in range into a target for the drones to accidentally destroy.

** His drones for helping to make desert into farmland malfunctioned as a result of the very electrical discharges meant to help generate rainfall.

** His CIRRUS station lacked any safety redundancies and even basic weather protection, causing it to build up electrical discharge that '''fried Thunderbird 2'''. To put things into perspective, a Season 2 episode had Thunderbird 2 get hit by ''high powered plasma beams'' that didn't do anywhere near the same degree of damage despite being fired from a supercharged solar collector. Only the ''Mechanic's'' mecha drones cause anywhere near the same level of damage, and that's doing so ''deliberately'' compared to Fischler's near lethal accidents.

** His CIRRUS station lacked any safety redundancies and even basic weather protection, causing it to build up electrical discharge that '''fried Thunderbird 2'''. To put things into perspective, a Season 2 episode had Thunderbird 2 get hit by ''high powered plasma beams'' that didn't do anywhere near the same degree of damage despite being fired from a supercharged solar collector.

** His CIRRUS station lacked any safety redundancies and even basic weather protection, causing it to build up electrical discharge that '''fried Thunderbird 2'''. To put things into perspective, a Season 2 episode had Thunderbird 2 get hit by high powered plasma beams that didn't do anywhere ''near the same degree of damage'' despite being fired from a supercharged solar collector.

** His CIRRUS station lacked any safety redundancies and even basic weather protection, causing it to build up electrical discharge that '''fried Thunderbird 2'''.

A self-righteous, ignorant, borderline incompetent "genius" innovator who becomes one of International Rescue's biggest headaches by virtue of the sheer amount of damage his creations cause, and his own inability to take ''any'' responsibility for his part in the disaster that usually follows.

* ButtMonkey: Easily one of the biggest in the series. No matter what job he tries out, no matter how he tries to avoid getting into danger, ''something'' always keeps happening that puts him into trouble (and usually out of a job).
* Cloudcuckoolander: His years alone on the mining asteroid have made him a bit kooky, talking to his plant Gladys like it's a living being, and overall being rather literal-minded and stubborn to a fault.