Line #61 Characters/InfinityTrainThePerennialChild


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3	!Main
4	[[folder:Tulip]]
5	!!Tulip Olsen
6	[[quoteright:208:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/series_render_28fixed29.png]]
7	[[caption-width-right:208:''"It feels like every time I find something logical about this train, it's thrown back at me and I'm stuck without answers."'']]
8	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AshleyJohnson
9
10	The main protagonist of the show's first season. A 13-year-old girl who ran away from home after an argument with her mother, Tulip finds herself awakening on the Infinity Train after boarding what she believed to be a train to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Now she resolves to meet The Conductor so that she can return home, as well as uncover the mystery of the glowing green number that now adorns her hand.
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12	* ActionSurvivor: Though not all of the cars rely around surviving danger obviously, Tulip still manages to hold her own and figure out multiple hazardous situations after coming to terms with ''being'' in danger.
13	* AerithAndBob: Between her trio, she zig-zags it: She's the Bob to One-One, but the Aerith to Atticus.
14	* AffectionateNickname: Her parents call her "Bud".
15	* AllJustADream: She initially believes that her encounter with the Infinity Train was just a hallucination she had. Alas, we wouldn't have a series if that were the case, would we?
16	* ArbitrarySkepticism: One-One, perhaps unwittingly, calls out Tulip on this in the pilot when she thinks the number on her hand could have no relation to the monster menacing Corginia.
17	-->'''Tulip:''' It's just so unlikely...\
18	'''Sad-One:''' Unlikely like a ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext fart car]]''.
19	* AngerIsNotEnough: Her temper is front and center whenever her emotions spill out, and not only does it make it harder for her to see both side of the conflict, but tints her view to make things seem worse than they actually are. Her arc in the first book is to try learn how to deal with her emotions for this reason.
20	* ArcHero: Tulip is the protagonist of first season.
21	* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Her red hair and green jacket call to mind the red petals and leaves of...well, a tulip.
22	* BadassBookworm: She's both intelligent and athletically gifted. According to WordOfGod, she could join a sports team with ease, if she wanted to.
23	* BadassNormal: For a thirteen-year-old girl way in over her head on the train, Tulip acclimates rapidly to dangerous scenarios and does her best to resolve them while not only being quick on the uptake about puzzles but also surprisingly nimble. [[spoiler:This culminates in a direct fight with the Conductor/Amelia, hitting a moving Ghom'd Atticus with a focused shot to revert him to normal, and even getting a good hit on Amelia's cockpit while not getting hit at all.]]
24	* BizarreTasteInFood: Enjoys eating whole raw onions the way one would eat an apple. She calls it "having a sophisticated palate".
25	* BespectacledCutie: Tulip is very cute and wears a pair of glasses.
26	* BrokenTears: Break down at these in the end of "The Ball Pit Car" after [[spoiler:Atticus gets transformed into a Ghom.]]
27	* CharacterCatchphrase: Whenever she's convinced to try doing something in a different (usually less logical) way than she would prefer, she growls out an irritated "Ugh, ''fine''."
28	* ContrivedCoincidence: What are the chances that the car she first entered [[spoiler:just happened to contain the original Conductor of the Train?]]
29	* DeadpanSnarker: She does snark to herself from time to time when she gets annoyed or frustrated.
30	* {{Determinator}}: When her parents can't drive her to coding camp, she decides to walk there herself, which starts her adventure on the train.
31	* DecoyProtagonist: Downplayed but the show wasn’t revealed to be an anthology until after Book 1 ended before that the trailers and promotional material made it look like the entire show would have her as the protagonist.
32	* DisappearedDad: In this case, her parents are divorced and she lives with her mom with her dad rarely coming by for visits.
33	* DidntThinkThisThrough: When it turns out her parents can't take her to the camp they promised to take her, Tulip decides to go there by herself. On foot. With nothing but a backpack. And while the camp is ''several hundred miles'' away from where she starts. It's kind of a blessing the train comes to pick her up right then and there.
34	* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In the pilot, she had big glasses and large eyes. Both of these shrunk in the official show, with her also gaining more realistic proportions all around. Also, her boots were grey in the pilot but became blue in the TV series, and her skirt also became longer.
35	* EarnYourHappyEnding: At the end of season one, she returns home as a kinder girl, one more willing to accept love and loss equally. Though she never sees Atticus and One-One again, she is satisfied knowing they are both restored to their proper forms and that [[spoiler:Amelia is on the path to redemption]].
36	* EnragedByIdiocy: Has very little patience for One-One's antics during the first few episodes, though to be fair, at that point One-One acts as TheLoad who operates on too much vagueness for Tulip's liking. She eventually gets better.
37	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first half of "The Grid Car" shows off everything we should know about her: she has a love of onions, she's trying hard not to think about her parents' divorce, she isolates herself and shows off a love of coding and does not understand how her mom and dad are struggling through said divorce and blames them for everything that happened.
38	* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Seven months after she returns home, Tulip gets her hair cut to about chest-lenght and has real bangs instead of having part of her hair cover her forehead.
39	* FatalFlaw: Her biggest flaw is her refusal to actually confront and work through her emotions, instead preferring to ignore them, deflect, and try to bury them.[[spoiler:[[Recap/InfinityTrainS1E5TheCatsCar "The Cat's Car"]] is all about her confronting this fact about herself.]]
40	* FloralThemeNaming: The Tulip, obviously. Taking her red hair into account, the ''red'' Tulip comes to mind.
41	* FieryRedhead: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] most of the time, since although she has a temper, it takes a while for it to blow up. It's when her parents' divorce comes up that she plays the trope straight.
42	* {{Foil}}:
43	** According to WordOfGod, Tulip is intended to be a foil to the Infinity Train itself. The Infinity Train is bizarre and illogical, which contrasts with Tulip's need for everything to be logical and make sense.
44	** She's also one for [[spoiler:the Conductor]], since both are {{Control Freak}}s in a sense, who want the world to do their bidding. The main difference is that [[spoiler:Tulip understands and [[CharacterDevelopment eventually]] accepts that life can't always go her way. She also cares about the friends she makes on her journey while the Conductor sees the character on the train as puppets who have to stay in their cars for all eternity. If they rebel, she'll [[ForcedTransformation turn them into Ghoms]] without hesitation, in direct contrast to Tulip, who encourages her to explore. Just like Tulip, the Conductor/Amelia was also a person who entered the train, but while Tulip was able to make friends and lower her number by resolving her issues, Amelia just became more and more obsessed with what she had lost, thus increasing her number to an amount that has crawled up to her neck and eventually taking control of the train itself in a desperate attempt to recreate her old life and her lost love in one of its cars, which Tulip is able to reject when Amelia offers to do the same for Tulip, creating a world where her parents were still together, because she knew that it wouldn't be ''real''.]]
45	* GamerChick: She's shown creating her own video game.
46	* GiverOfLameNames: The characters in her video game are "Good Guy" and "Bad Guy". The game itself is named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Good Guys Popping Bad Guys,"]] which at least sounds catchy, but it's still rather weird.
47	* HeroesLoveDogs: Unlike with One-One, Tulip and Atticus hit it off pretty well.
48	* HypocriticalHumor: When One-One first tells her his name, Tulip comments that it's an unusual name, unlike her own. Except that "Tulip" ''is'' [[AerithAndBob an unusual name]]. It's PlayedForLaughs, and The Cat spends a good portion of the series mocking her "perennial" name.
49	* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:Despite having resolved all her personal issues keeping her on the Train by [[Recap/InfinityTrainS1E9ThePastCar "The Past Car"]], she puts off leaving to save Atticus.]]
50	* InSeriesNickname: She's regularly called "Ms. Tulip" by One-One and "Tulip the Literate" once by Atticus. The Cat also calls her "kitten" from time to time.
51	* IRejectYourReality: Her memories about the past are a lot more rose-colored than is probably true — but her memories of pain, such as her parents' separation, are ''worse'' than the mundane dinner-table discussion they actually had. The videotape prison in [[Recap/InfinityTrainS1E5TheCatsCar "The Cat's Car"]] forces her to confront the fact that her parents' marriage was troubled, but that they really did want the best for her; and that while selfishly blaming them for ruining her life wasn’t fair, her pain itself was reasonable.
52	* {{Irony}}: Her hair is a bright orange/red and tulips in those colors can either symbolize happiness or love. She certainly doesn't have any of that in her life or else she wouldn't have been on the train, now would she?
53	* {{Jerkass}}: Downplayed but present at the beginning of the series. Between the three main characters, she's easily the most aggressive, impatient, irritable, and above all else tends to lock away how she really feels, which leads to a multitude of social issues. She's not overly mean, and has a genuine friendship with Mikayla, but is also somewhat unfriendly to the first few people she meets on the train and is cold towards her parents because of the divorce. [[spoiler:By the end of the book, this is all but gone entirely, leaving her as quite the NiceGirl. Turns out the train did her a lot of good in the end.]]
54	* JerkassRealization: [[spoiler:Realizes in [[Recap/InfinityTrainS1E5TheCatsCar "The Cat's Car"]] that she's been demonizing her parents over their divorce when in reality they were as torn up by it as she was, and that her behavior wasn’t making it any easier to deal with.]]
55	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Regardless of this, she's also supportive, loyal, and cares deeply about those around her, and the entire series is her evolving past her biggest issues.
56	* KarmicJackpot: [[spoiler:At the end of the Past Car, she has her door home but refuses to enter until she saves Atticus and stops the Conductor. This turned out to be the best choice over all: she frees Atticus, stops Amelia from causing more trouble and brought One-One, the true Conductor, back to his proper role.]]
57	* LogicalLatecomer: As the newest arrival on the train, she questions everything that happens on it.
58	* TheMagnificent: Atticus calls her "Tulip the Literate" (since she introduced herself that she likes books) when they first meet.
59	* MeaningfulName: Discussed. When One-One asks if she's called "Tulip" because she has a big bulbous head, she explains that when she was born she had breathing problems, but she bounced back "like a perennial flower", so her parents named her Tulip after said flower.
60	* MissingReflection: [[spoiler:While it's not obvious after the Chrome Car, the final episode of Season 1 shows that Tulip no longer has her reflection even when returning to the real world.]]
61	* NiceGirl: What she's become by the final few episodes of the series, being much happier to play with the train's denizens and much more forgiving to others.
62	* NotSoAboveItAll: She's embarrassed to admit that one of her happiest memories was singing loudly to pop music during road trips with her parents. The problem for her is that it's the clue to a puzzle that demands she sing a meaningful song that reflects love. After realizing that she doesn't have a choice, Tulip opens her mouth and belts a silly pop song that she adores. It ends up doing the trick, and making her feel better about regaining that memory.
63	* NotSoDifferentRemark: This is how she convinces [[spoiler:Amelia to pull a HeelFaceTurn. While angry about Amelia transforming Atticus into a Ghom ForTheEvulz, Tulip sincerely tells her that she knows what it's like to lose someone you love, and with them a past that seems magical. The divorce was as painful for her as Alrick's death was for Amelia. She also says that they can't recreate a past that has long vanished like the desert sand in the wind]].
64	* OnlySaneWoman: It comes with her logical mind and thinking. Unlike practically everyone else that got on the train, Tulip realized that it had to have a conductor, ergo someone as an authority figure. Her quest was to find the conductor and ask how to get home. She figured out the solution to the train in days, while some like Simon and Grace were trapped for ''years'' and had some EntertaininglyWrong conclusions that ended up hurting more than it helped. [[spoiler:This tendency also allowed her to figure out that Amelia wasn't the real conductor, after viewing the Cat's videotape of the latter, and to get the means to restore Atticus from Ghom form]].
65	* OnlyChildSyndrome: Tulip is the only child of her divorced parents.
66	* ParentalIssues: Her parents are divorced and you can tell by the first episode alone that this is having an effect on her. By the finale, she's accepted it and recovered.
67	* RedheadInGreen: Wears a green hoodie as part of her outfit. Her hairclip is also the same color. She also wore a green shirt in the family photo from her vacation at [=DolphWorld=].
68	* TheRunaway: Played with. She planned to go to Game Design Camp by herself after both of her parents declined, without telling anyone.
69	* ShmuckBait: Tulip had absolutely no reason to trust The Cat, and the entire setup reeked of a trap, but the idea of a videotape with all the answers (and her name on it) was too much to resist.
70	* ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler:In the season 1 finale, Amelia tries to win her over by offering to create a car where her parents are still together, Tulip shoots her down by pointing out her failure to even create a car without any turtles in it.]]
71	* SmallRoleBigImpact: In the grand scheme of things, she's just another passenger. But she happened to luck into the right set of circumstances to meaningfully change the train itself, and the events of Books 2 and 3 would have been much different without her intervention.
72	** Specifically, she [[spoiler:dethroned Amelia and restored One-One to being the Conductor of the train, sending the woman on a path of redemption to reduce her astronomical number down to zero, leading to the end of the Apex in Book 3 and allowing One-One to help new passengers with his introductory videos.]]
73	** She also [[spoiler: released her reflection from the Mirror World, and MT would go on to pull off the presumably unprecedented feat of making it into the real world as a denizen, along with helping Jesse come to term with his problems.]]
74	* SmartPeoplePlayChess: In the pilot, one of the previous cars Tulip puzzled her way through was built around chess pieces. On the floor, walls, and ''ceiling''. In the show proper, she was heading for programming camp before winding up on the train.
75	* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Tulip is interested in coding, and wears U-framed glasses.
76	* SpannerInTheWorks: She ends up being this to Amelia, who had taken over as Conductor for the train. The train deposited her in the Snow Car, where Amelia had left One-One. Despite herself, Tulip bonded with the robot and refused to let either of their halves go over the course of their journey, even for the slightest hint on getting to the conductor. By staying loyal, she ended up undoing Amelia's plan, convinced the lady that they were not so different about wanting a past they couldn't reclaim, and said goodbye to everyone on the train with no hard feelings and One-One restored to their rightful place.
77	* SourOutsideSadInside: To most people, Tulip seems like an ill-mannered jerk who has a lot of trouble keeping her emotions in control. However, beyond that layer lies a girl who's still processing her parents' divorce, and who honestly doesn't know what to do with her situation.
78	* TomboyishPonytail: Wears her hair like this when we first meet her and all across her journey through the train.
79	* TomboyishVoice: Has a rather raspy and boyish voice later on, fitting with her personality and mannerisms.
80	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Onions. She's shown eating them like one bites into an apple.
81	* {{Workaholic}}: A child variant. She's completely obsessed with finding out all of the rules of the train, [[JustifiedTrope because she fears that the train might kill her if she breaks one]]. However, she can get so into it that it overwhelmed One-One.
82	* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Her father rarely visits her and her mother after their divorce which, coupled with everything else Tulip's going through at the moment, only further fuels her own angst.
83	[[/folder]]
84
85	[[folder:One-One]]
86	See [[Characters/InfinityTrain the main character page]]
87	[[/folder]]
88
89	[[folder:Atticus]]
90	!!Atticus
91	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/krul_9.png]]
92	[[caption-width-right:350:''"I must warn you, I am a pacifist by nature, but a warrior by necessity."'']]
93	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ErnieHudson
94
95	A talking corgi who rules Corginia, an entire land of talking corgis in one of the Infinity Train's cars. Desiring to ensure that a creature known as the Steward is no longer a threat to his people, he joins Tulip as her second companion on her quest to see the Conductor, in hopes that doing so will also solve his dilemma.
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97	* AncientGrome: His culture is very much Athens-inspired while his own name is Latin.
98	* BadassAdorable: Isn't he just the cutest heroic corgi you ever saw?
99	* BlackBeadEyes: His eyes, like the other corgis, are drawn like this.
100	* BreakoutCharacter: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HL1jZHHkoE&t=1734s an early interview]] with WebVideo/RebelTaxi, Owen Dennis commented that he had no immediate plans to make Atticus a main character, despite the positive fan reaction he received. Jump forward to the premiere and Atticus is very much a main character.
101	* TheCameo: He's shown in One-One's pre-recorded message in "The Black Market Car".
102	* CivilizedAnimal: He's the leader of a small kingdom of talking dogs.
103	* TheComicallySerious: His wisdom and seriousness is bellied by the fact he is [[MyInstinctsAreShowing still a corgi, and acts accordingly]].
104	* CoolCrown: He wears a small dome shaped crown over his head and [[spoiler:when Tulip manages to turn him back to normal, she places the crown back on his head and he admits he felt odd without it on.]]
105	* FaceMonsterTurn: [[spoiler:After the Conductor turns him into a Ghom in [[Recap/InfinityTrainS1E8TheBallPitCar "The Ball Pit Car"]]. [[TurningBackHuman He gets better.]]]]
106	* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:His transformation into a Ghom, which erases his entire personality and appears to be a painful process. However, Tulip does find a way to turn him back to normal by the final episode.]]
107	* FemaleFelineMaleMutt: As the King of Corginia he is most definitely the male mutt to The Cat, the female feline.
108	* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler:In [[Recap/InfinityTrainS1E8TheBallPitCar "The Ball Pit Car"]], the Conductor punishes him for leaving his car and siding with Tulip by turning him into a Ghom.]]
109	* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:When the Conductor shoots Atticus; combined with DeadHatShot when his crown drops on the floor shortly thereafter.]]
110	* HeroicDog: Is an adorable corgi who is also one of the good guys.
111	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:In [[Recap/InfinityTrainS1E8TheBallPitCar "The Ball Pit Car"]], he distracts the Steward to give Tulip and One-One the chance to escape. He survives this, but is then captured by the Conductor and turned into a Ghom.]]
112	* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: The reason he joins the group is to hunt down the Steward and ensure she never threatens his kingdom again and fights her in all her appearances. [[spoiler:He's ultimately the one to destroy her in the end.]]
113	* LongBusTrip: While other denizens like One-One, Randall and the Cat have appeared after the end of Book 1, Atticus has yet to make another appearance. Presumably he's kept quiet busy ruling over the Corginians.
114	* TheMagnificent: His full title is "Atticus, King of the Corginians, and Uniter of the Cardigans and the Pembrokes".
115	* MyInstinctsAreShowing: To his embarrassment, he still acts very much like a corgi who likes belly rubs and eats spiders.
116	* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Corgi]]: With Tulip usually on the edge of a nervous breakdown and One-One being One-One, it's usually Atticus that is the calm voice of reason.
117	* OutOfFocus: Out of the three protagonists in Book 1, he doesn't get as much character development or focus until "The Ball Pit Car". [[spoiler:And even then it ends with him turned into a Ghom for the last two episodes.]]
118	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Atticus personally joins Tulip to defeat the monster, and braves the Steward's machine gun fire in a valiant (but ultimately futile) attempt to attack it. He subsequently fights the Steward every time it threatens the heroes [[spoiler:and is eventually the one who destroys it]].
119	* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:He is transformed into a Ghom in [[Recap/InfinityTrainS1E8TheBallPitCar "The Ball Pit Car"]], bringing about the DarkestHour in the series. Fortunately, Tulip turns him back in the season finale.]]
120	* TheSpock: While being a dog gives him a fair share of eccentricities, he is usually right to be suspicious whenever Tulip is convinced by an AmbiguouslyEvil character tries talking Tulip into doing something.
121	* TurningBackHuman: Or corgi, in this case. In the final episode [[spoiler:Tulip finds the gun used on Atticus, inserts a corgi orb, and manages to turn him back to his original form.]]
122	* VocalDissonance: He's an adorable corgi with Ernie Hudson's legendary deep voice.
123	[[/folder]]
124
125	!Supporting
126	[[folder:The Cat]]
127	!!"The Cat"/[[spoiler:Samantha]]
128	See [[Characters/InfinityTrain the main character page]]
129	[[/folder]]
130
131	[[folder:The Steward]]
132	!!The Steward
133	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_steward.png]]
134	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AshleyJohnson
135
136	A robotic entity who enforces order on the train on the behalf of the Conductor.
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138	* TheBrute: It's the Conductor's enforcer. Denizens of the train who know what it is are terrified of it.
139	* CombatTentacles: Its whole body is made of a giant bundle of wires.
140	* TheDragon: For the Conductor. In [[Recap/InfinityTrainS1E5TheCatsCar "The Cat's Car"]] we see that it actually takes orders in form of tone sequences.
141	* FireballEyeballs: The Steward has blue flame coming out of its eye sockets. Behind the mask is a pair of tubes generating the flame, which also contain its machine guns.
142	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Despite being equipped with machine guns, it never actually seems to hit anything with them. Probably justified, since it isn't a combat robot but a Train service bot.
143	* MiniMecha: [[spoiler:In Book 2, it serves as this for One-One after being rebuilt. He rides in the slot behind its mask, and the brief shot we got of that slot in Book 1 implies that this was its original purpose for whenever One-One needs to personally confront/fix something and/or go outside the engine room]]. [[spoiler:This is confirmed in Book 4, while also being revealed as his method of making Train-wide announcements and restraining passengers through their mag-boots before Amelia's takeover removed the boots.]]
144	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Steward tosses Atticus next to the broken pipes in "The Corgi Car". While it goes after Tulip, he manages to turn off the water to stop the flooding.
145	* NonMaliciousMonster: It doesn't seem to have much intent of its own, acting solely on the orders of the Conductor.
146	* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Atticus bursts out of his Ghom form right through the Steward's mask face.]]
147	* ShoutOut: Visually, it bears a strong resemblance to Koh the Face Stealer from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''.
148	* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: Unlike One-One it appears to be completely non-sentient, requiring directions from the Conductor in order to take any action.
149	* StarfishRobots: It's a humanoid face that moves around on tentacles.
150	* TinmanTypist: Its three-pronged claws can open into more intricate fingers to access the equipment behind the holographic shells of the cars.
151	* YouHaveFailedMe: All signs indicate that its retaliation against [[spoiler:The Cat]] for failing to detain Tulip was going to be pretty gruesome.
152	[[/folder]]
153
154	[[folder:The Conductor '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS FOR BOOK 1!)''']]
155	See "Amelia" on the [[Characters/InfinityTrain main character page]]
156	[[/folder]]
157
158	!Minor
159	[[folder:Mikayla]]
160	!!Mikayla
161	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/70f08671_67d9_4c97_ad8c_ca09d26ff7ad.jpeg]]
162	[[caption-width-right:350:I thought your game was cool when I played it. And you know how I feel about video games.]]
163	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ReaganGomezPreston
164
165	Tulip's best friend at home.
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167	* {{Hipster}}: Maybe. She hates video games, but she liked Tulip's. Since Tulip's game is in its early stages, it implies [[IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam she never played a video game before]].
168	* InnocentlyInsensitive: She asks Tulip for details about her divorced parents and seems to be oblivious to how upset it makes Tulip.
169	* OnlyFriend: May be Tulip's only friend as she's seen in the beginning of Book 1 and in one of Tulip's memories in "The Cat's Car".
170	[[/folder]]
171
172	[[folder:Tulip's Parents]]
173	!!Megan and Andy Olsen
174	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1312612_4.jpg]]
175	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AudreyWasilewski and Mark Fite
176
177	Tulip's recently divorced parents.
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179	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Tulip certainly thinks so, to the point that sharing a memory about them makes her uncomfortable.
180	* AmicableExes: They're ''trying'' to be this, but they still get frustrated at each other. By the final episode of Book 1, they seem to have finally found common ground.
181	* ParentsAsPeople: They appear to be trying their best for the sake of their daughter, but they both have demanding jobs and communication can be an issue. Unfortunately, Tulip's needs, such as needing a ride to coding camp, end up lost in the shuffle and kickstarts the plot.
182	* PassiveAggressiveKombat: A number of their fights utilize this. They're outwardly polite but passive-aggressively digging into each other. Their fight at the water park being a primary example, with the issue of Tulip's eyesight being ammunition for an argument.
183	* PoorCommunicationKills: Andy got the schedule of coding camp wrong, which only fueled Tulip's anger at her parents and the divorce, which culminated in her heading out to Minnesota on her own and onto the train itself. To his credit, he realized his mistake and sent an apology text.
184	* SmallRoleBigImpact: Without the divorce and her father accidentally getting the schedule of the coding camp wrong, Tulip would never have run away and boarded the Infinity Train.
185	[[/folder]]
186
187	[[folder:Greige]]
188	!!Greige
189	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_crystal_man.png]]
190
191	A crystalline gentleman who helps Tulip get through his car.
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193	* AllThereInTheScript: His name is only mentioned in the credits.
194	* TheCameo: He makes a brief appearance in "The Lucky Cat Car" playing a dance game.
195	* HeroicMime: Conveys most of what he needs to say via mime, which Atticus helpfully translates.
196	* MeaningfulName: Greige is a beige/grey color...which is exactly the color he is.
197	* SiliconBasedLife: Obviously.
198	* TheSpeechless: Comes with the territory of being made of crystal, and thus having no vocal chords. His vocalizations are limited to the occasional quiet "Ah" noise.
199	[[/folder]]
200
201	[[folder:Nancy]]
202	!!Nancy
203	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nancy_0.png]]
204	->'''Voiced by:''' Lindsay Katai
205
206	A humanoid flower who resides in the "Straight Up Italy"-Car. She owns a restaurant, Tulip helps her deliver her goods.
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208	* TheBlank: She doesn't seem to have a face, or if she does, it's hidden in her petals.
209	* TheCameo: She's seen in "The Lucky Cat Car", selling some of her homemade pasta.
210	* NonHumanHead: She looks perfectly human, save for the head, which is a giant rose.
211	* PlantPerson: She has a rose for a head.
212	[[/folder]]
213
214
215	[[folder:Aloysius III]]
216	!!Aloysius III
217	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aloysius_2.png]]
218	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MatthewRhys
219
220	A talking Galapagos tortoise who is the king of the turtle people inhabiting the Unfinished Car.
221	----
222	* CoolCrown: He wears a crown on his head.
223	* FurryConfusion: Unlike the rest of the turtles which are {{Funny Animal}}s that walk on two legs, he looks like a regular tortoise.
224	* InterspeciesFriendship: Forms one with Atticus, who is eager to meet a fellow royal.
225	* TheMagnificent: His full title is "Aloysius III, emperor and unifier of the hard and soft shells".
226	* NonMammalianHair: He has BigOlEyebrows.
227	* SignificantDoubleCasting: [[spoiler:Aloysius is voiced by Matthew Rhys, who also voices Alrick. WordOfGod says this is intentional, as Amelia had created the Unfinished Car in an attempt to recreate her life with Alrick and got ''so'' close to recreating him that she got the voice right.]]
228	* TalkingAnimal: A tortoise in this case.
229	* UncertainDoom: He's not seen at all when the Apex raid his car in "The Musical Car". [[spoiler:Amelia herself doesn't even mention his name when she brings up that she sent the car all the way back to the caboose.]]
230	* WiseOldTurtle: He is elderly and a wise king.
231	[[/folder]]
232
233	[[folder:Mirror One and Mirror Atticus]]
234	!!Mirror One and Mirror Atticus
235	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_chrome_car_090.png]]
236	-> '''Voiced by:''' Jeremy Crutchley (Mirror One), Creator/ErnieHudson (Mirror Atticus)
237
238	The reflections of One-One and Atticus, respectively.
239	----
240	* {{Foil}}: Mirror One is much closer to One-One's original self before they'd became a LiteralSplitPersonality, while Mirror Atticus is more timid compared to his prime.
241	* MirrorSelf: Like MT, they function as this to One-One and Atticus, only they never attempt to escape the Chrome Car.
242	* NaiveNewcomer: Mirror Atticus nervously admits he doesn't know how to help Tulip since it's his first day reflecting anywhere else, since his prime has only reflected himself in a river from Corginia.
243	* NeverGivenAName: Promotional materials only refer them as "Mirror One" and "Mirror Atticus", since they're reflections like MT and were treated the same way as she was.
244	* SmallRoleBigImpact: They only appear for a brief time, but Mirror One alerting the Reflection Police about MT going rogue set the events of Book 2 in motion [[spoiler:and by extension, indirectly brought about the Flecs' downfall]].
245	[[/folder]]
246
247	[[folder:Khaki Bottoms]]
248	!!Khaki Bottoms
249	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_c5572413f2c7f13cea54bf8f1b222925_a813392c_540.jpg]]
250	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RonFunches
251
252	A living plush rabbit who resides in the Ball Pit Car.
253	----
254	* BunniesForCuteness: He fits the bill.
255	* TheCameo: Shows up in "The Lucky Cat Car" carrying the jiggle-wiggle.
256	* EarAche: "The Lucky Cat Car" reveals that he survived the incident of "The Ball Pit Car", though not without losing an ear.
257	* LivingToys: He's made from plush and can walk and talk about.
258	* ManChild: Considering how he resides in a Ball Pit Car.
259	* MundaneMadeAwesome: He makes a trip across the Ball Pit Car sound like it's some epic quest.
260	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Steward destroys the Ball Pit Car for the most part, and he's never seen again. He appears in "The Lucky Cat Car", jiggle-wiggle in hand although he lost an ear and had to patch it up.
261	[[/folder]]
262
263	[[folder:Alrick '''(Unmarked Spoilers for Book 1!)''']]
264	!!Alrick Timmens
265	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akrick.png]]
266	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MatthewRhys
267
268	The deceased husband of the Conductor, Amelia Hughes.
269	----
270	* AliceAllusion: The first flashback in "The Past Car" showed him with a book report in regards to ''Alice in Wonderland'', with the two paragraphs talking about growing up and identity.
271	* ChildhoodFriendRomance: He and Amelia have known each other since they were kids, which is probably what made his death even harder for Amelia.
272	* DarkIsNotEvil: He wore a black hoodie just like the Conductor, but he was a really sweet person in life.
273	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Had blond hair and was such a sweet person.
274	* HiddenDepths: Given what Owen revealed about his death, it's likely that he participated in [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motocross motocross, a dirtbiking sport that originated in the UK]]. According to WordOfGod, he died from a dirt-biking accident.
275	* InTheHood: He was shown to be wearing a black hooded jacket.
276	* IronicName: His name means "old ruler"...but he's dead when Book 1 begins.
277	* LateArrivalSpoiler: He's mentioned in "The Hey Oh Whoa Car" when Amelia explains how she got on the train in the first place.
278	* TheLostLenore: Amelia's grief over his death is why she boarded the train, and her inability to let him go is why her number is so unfathomably high.
279	* LovedByAll: In life, no one disliked Alrick. His and Amelia's friends mention they're all attending the funeral and want her to come. Likely, this is what made his death so much harder for her, why a good person she loved had to perish.
280	* MeaningfulName: His name is French for "old/noble ruler", which is probably a RedHerring to make people think that ''he'' was the Conductor and not his wife, Amelia.
281	* MoralityChain: When Amelia lost him, she started sliding into villainy on the train. She cries TearsOfRemorse on realizing this, that he wouldn't have liked the person he would become.
282	* NiceGuy: He's a bit of TheGadfly and ThePrankster, but we see that in life he liked everyone, and doted on Amelia. That's what made his death all the more tragic.
283	* NothingIsScarier: Thanks to One-One messing with the tape, Tulip doesn't find out how he died. He was a fairly young man, didn't seem to have any health issues, and didn't seem to take risks. We just know it happened.
284	* PlotTriggeringDeath: Had he not died, Amelia would have never gotten on the Infinity Train, and never tried to meddle with Tulip's quest, wouldn't have indirectly make Grace kickstart the Apex, and would never have made everyone's lives more miserable.
285	* PosthumousCharacter: He's only seen in flashbacks from Amelia's tape.
286	* ThePrankster: It's implied he put a whoopie cushion at the teacher's desk to cheer up Amelia.
287	* RedHerring: Is thought to be the Conductor due to him wearing a similar black hooded jacket and the flashback having him use a voice modulator that emulates the Conductor's robotic voice. It turns out that it's actually his ''wife'' emulating those quirks to keep his memory alive.
288	* SatelliteCharacter: His biggest contribution to Book 1's plot is that he is the catalyst for Amelia's descent as the Conductor.
289	* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only appears in flashbacks in the penultimate episode of Book 1, but it's his death that sparks Amelia's trip to the Infinity Train and subsequently becoming the Conductor along with unintentionally creating the Apex in Books 2 and 3.
290	* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: He wears glasses, and is shown to be fairly intelligent.
291	* SweetTooth: He loved jelly, and in the first flashback of "The Past Car", he's eating out of an open jar of grape jelly on his desk. This explains the jelly on the road found in "The Unfinished Car".
292	* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: So good that his wife was unable to move on and tried to make other passengers aboard the Infinity Train miserable if she couldn't get him back.
293	* WalkingSpoiler: This character's ''entire existence'' is the biggest spoiler of Book 1. How big? His existence ties to the '''Conductor's''' true character.
294	[[/folder]]

Context Characters / InfinityTrainThePerennialChild