History Characters / TravisStrikesAgainNoMoreHeroes

* ArtShift: His opening cinematic is is akin to an old school UsefulNotes/PlayStation CG cutscene.

* {{Eagleland}}: He's a very hard Type-2 lampooning of several American clichés, one who just happens to also be [[spoiler:Japanese]].
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Implied. His backstory and encounter with Travis Touchdown suggest that he's not much more than a seriously strong and psychotically homocidal man with a baseball bat much like his BadassNormal daughter in the first game. With the power of the Death Glove's Skill Chips, he's able to access the same array of array of superpowered attacks as Travis does at least within the [[{{Cyberspace}} Death Drive.]]

* MadScientist: He more or less created his universe's version of [[spoiler:VideoGame/{{Polybius}}]] and [[spoiler:by the time Travis meets him, John has effectively made himself the "guardian" of Mars, out to sabotage any human attempts to gentrify the place and stain its crimson beauty.]]

* GutturalGrowler: Years of drinking beer and smoking cigars have done a number of Badman's larynx, giving him his deep and gravelly voice.

* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: [[spoiler:Resolved. Jeane is shown with Sylvia at the end of No More Heroes One, however, due to how it's never specified when in time the scene is set, it coult have taken place either in the present, where Jeane was the daughter of Henry, or in the future, where she would be Travis' daughter.]]
** [[spoiler:It was revealed in Travis Strikes Again that she was Travis' daughter.]]

[[folder:The Hellion]]
!!Real Name: Dan Smith
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MichaelJGough
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-->''"This is your final ball."''
The infamous revolver-toting SociopathicHero of the VideoGame/Killer7. He has a major bone to pick with Badman, having been fatally sold out to Curtis Blackburn by him…but curiously, he also would like to see Travis—the "champ up aboveground"—dead, if not more so than Birkin does.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only shows up in the second opening intro cutscene[[note]]added with the "Day [[ArcNumber 7]] Patch"[[/note]], but it's his past with Badman and Curtis Blackburn that kickstarts the entire plot of ''Travis Strikes Back'', giving Badman a Death Ball and the location of his daughter's killer.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Jasper Batt Jr. from the second game. While both are powerful businessmen who gentrify Santa Destroy, Batt is a thorough PsychopathicManchild while Damon is able to keep his composure and at least be outwardly respectable. Batt makes himself the star of the [=UAA=] rankings while Damon stays out of the Galactic Superhero Rankings. [[spoiler:Batt's motivation for hating Travis is understandable, but Damon's is extremely petty at best]].

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: Of ''No More Heroes III'', as it is revealed that he had orchestrated the events of the game to put FU and his generals in a position to kill Travis for [[DisproportionateRetribution beating him up in ''Travis Strikes Again''. Once this fails, he kills FU himself and decides to take Travis on himself]]]].

* HumongousMecha: [[spoiler:The first post-FU gameplay sequence has him piloting Thunder Break, a mecha that absolutely dwarfs Santa Destroy and the [[VideoGame/DaemonXMachina Radiant Gleam]] Travis is piloting]].

* LethalJokeCharacter: On Death difficulty, [[spoiler:his boss fight has just as much a chance of killing Travis in one hit as any other. He's also much more aggressive and mobile than the likes of Mr. Blackhole or Ohma despite having attacks that are about as telegraphed.]]

* MaskOfSanity: [[spoiler:A very literal one in this case. For most of the game, he's composed and pragmatic in contrast to FU's violent flights of fancy and bombast. Then he betrays FU in the end and removes his holographic mask, revealing his deranged and deformed face. With the mask no longer on, he proceeds to manically rant and rave at Travis, showing that he was about as crazy as his former best friend the entire time.]]
* MoralMyopia: He had no problems with attacking Juvenile and hijacking development of Serious Moonlight. And yet, when Travis beats him up in disgust, Damon goes utterly apeshit, swearing bloody vengeance

* MotiveRant: Has one to Travis after [[spoiler:killing FU]], which is also the only reason Travis even remembers him.

* PsychopathicManchild: He keeps it under wraps with a stiff businessman-like façade, but he has a serious problem letting even minor slights go, which speaks to an overall lack of emotional maturity. [[spoiler:After he lets his quite literal MaskOfSanity drop, he starts flinging insults at Travis and making proclamations like a delusional grade-schooler.]]

* TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler:He's the real final boss of ''III'', his fight coming after he kills FU.]]

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Despite the fact that Juvenile is essentially the game's "antagonist" for having created the Death Drive and its games, she serves as the tutorial throughout the game and is also revealed to have a sordid history with several corporate and authoritative figures whom Travis holds an equal grudge against. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that despite their similarities and mutual appreciation of one another, she never wanted Travis to beat the Death Drive games, and is forced into a tight spot once he does.]] Juvenile then returns in ''NMHIII'' via holograms on Travis' Death Glove as an ally and his personal VoiceWithAnInternetConnection, due to her goals in the prior game being fulfilled.
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:She did manipulate Travis into effectively slaughtering the entirety of the CIA, but it was all to stop their plans to use her technology to breed super soldiers and assassins.]] Once that's dealt with, she has no problems becoming Travis's ally in ''III''.

* TheBadGuyWins: She ultimately succeeds in [[spoiler:tricking Travis into slaughtering hundreds of CIA operatives and sabotaging the organization's plans for the Death Drive.]] He doesn't view her as a bad guy, though, and come ''III'' she's actively helping Travis.
* TheChessmaster: As if her looming presence in the background of the box art wasn't already ominous on its own, she is the developer of the console and all of its denizens that try ending your life. [[spoiler:Somewhat averted however, in that she has been on the run from the government who want to pull ''her'' strings.]]

* FaustianRebellion: [[spoiler:She was enlisted by Hazre in order to create technology that, while initially meant for space travel, was co-opted by the CIA and the Military to breed next generation assassins and super soldiers, which caused her to quit the project and go into hiding after sabotaging it. When Travis Touchdown and Badman are in the process of inadvertently reactivating it, she eventually uses it to her advantage and has the entire CIA massacred.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: She becomes another ally of Travis by the third game and acts as his VoiceWithAnInternetConnection.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: Secondary lead of ''Travis Strikes Again'' and arguably more important than Travis since the primary reason they're travelling through the Games of the Death Drive is for the sake of locating the Death Balls that will allow him to revive his dead daughter. Travis' involvement is largely just to get Bad Man off his back with the bonus of being an avid gamer and having a chance to play rare video games by a developer he deeply respects.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Carries around a corkscrew for opening wine bottles. It's what he used to kill his wife and when he attempted to kill his daughter afterwards.

* ArtShift: His opening cinematic is shaped like an old school UsefulNotes/PlayStation CG cutscene.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Mainly fights wielding a pair of swiss army knives with the corkscrew wine opener sticking out between his fingers and a pair of blades on each end. Before fighting him, you get to see him use them to swiftly execute the poor victim in his game's intro.

* IronicEcho: After he's slain, he mockingly imitates the last words of the victim from his game's intro before going LaughingMad.

* VillainOfAnotherStory: He has almost nothing to do with the overall narrative, outside of being based on an actual serial killer who once had a connection to [[spoiler:Dr. Juvenile]].

* EvilIsBigger: Towers over Travis even when his idle pose has him slouching.

* CombatPragmatist: He tries to trick Shinobu into either giving up or simply leaving him alone by making her question her existence as a video game character. In the final phase of his fight, he also lowers the barriers surrounding the arena revealing metal prongs on the walls that will stab at Travis if he gets too close to them.

* CombatPragmatist: He tries to trick Shinobu into either giving up or simply leaving him alone by making her question her existence as a video game character.

* {{Expy}}: For Garcian Smith from ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}''. He has slight visual similarity to the man in terms of skin tone, hair style, and stature. Also both are not quite the badasses that their respective games initially make them out to be: Garcian prefers to let the other personae of the Smith Syndicate kill, since he himself would "never hurt a fly"; and Silver Face is actually very squeamish and averse to physical exertion until he gives in to the [[BloodKnight "Settings"]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy programmed]] into him as "Silver Face".