| 1 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 2 | !!Main Characters |
| 3 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 4 | !!Tropes that apply to all four main characters (Captain, Sniper, Pilot, & Engineer): |
| 5 | * AmbiguousGender: Due to the masks and the fact that all four have a MysteriousPast. Snippy, Engie and Pilot were all eventually confirmed male, but the comic's creator continues to be [[TeasingCreator deliberately vague]] about Captain. Captain refering himself as being a girl does not help. |
| 6 | * ChromaticArrangement: [[TheLeader Captain]] is red (purple), [[TheLancer Snippy]] is blue, [[TheBigGuy Pilot]] is green, and [[SixthRanger Engineer]] is yellow (orange). |
| 7 | * ColorMotifs: Each of them is associated with the color of their goggles. |
| 8 | ** Captain is associated with purple, and zee claims to be the ruler of [[{{Egopolis}} Captainia]], the ruins of an unidentified city. Zee also claims to be a System Wizard, [[PurpleIsPowerful and they do demonstrate some degree of power over the Good Directorate's systems.]] |
| 9 | ** Snippy is associated with blue, and is depicted as both the most melancholy and [[BlueIsHeroic heroic]] of the main cast. |
| 10 | ** Pilot is associated with green, and is both jealous of Snippy and loves animals, often forming some kind of connection with them. |
| 11 | ** Engineer is associated with orange, but does not demonstrate any of the warmth generally associated with the color. However, he is very enthusiastic when it comes to his scientific endeavors, even if he generally keeps it under wraps most of the time. |
| 12 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Subverted with "Mr. Snippy." [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep Turns out that's his actual name]]. |
| 13 | * ExpressiveMask: Most noticeable on Sniper, [[spoiler: especially after the Biomatrix integrates it into his body]]. |
| 14 | * TheFaceless: Only two of the main four have been seen without gas masks on, and even then their faces were always partially obscured by something else. |
| 15 | * GasMaskLongcoat: Only the Captain has the longcoat part of the equation, but they all have the gas mask. |
| 16 | * InSeriesNickname: Each character is most often known by their nicknames. [[spoiler: And while Sniper, Pilot, and Engie have each been revealed to have full names, Zee Captain is still only known as that (or simply Captain).]] |
| 17 | * NiceMeanAndInBetween: Played with, in that they all tend to alternate between which of these they fall into. Captain is almost always the Mean, but Snippy and Pilot alternate between Nice and In-Between, while Engineer can fall into Mean or In-Between depending on the day. |
| 18 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Again, subverted with Mr. Snippy. Snippy also gives his full name to the Captain in the beginning. All but the Captain's full names are known in-universe, if not necessarily by the other main characters. |
| 19 | * VagueAge: One of their many mysteries. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSVFnnYvCGc#t=188 All we really know]] (warning, video contains spoilers) is that (excluding Captain) Engie is the oldest, Snippy is the second oldest, and Pilot is the youngest [[spoiler: seeing as how he is a [[{{Cyborg}} DEX]]]]. |
| 20 | [[/folder]] |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [[folder:Zee Captain]] |
| 23 | !!The Captain (a.k.a. "Zee Captein"), Governor of Captania, the System Wizard |
| 24 | |
| 25 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b9e48515_917a_4a60_a9a1_f16bc0fb54f2.jpeg]] |
| 26 | |
| 27 | The leader of the crew. Captain is an eccentric buffoon convinced that the post-apocalyptic wasteland around zeer is actually [[{{Egopolis}} Captainia, zeer very own country]]. However, Captain is blessed with incredibly good luck, and everything seems to work out for zem in the end. |
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| 29 | * BornLucky: And according to Engineer, it may be contagious. |
| 30 | * TheCaptain: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Well, yeah]]. Zee was originally known as Subject Seven, but refused to respond to anything other than "Zee Captain" after attaining that rank. |
| 31 | * CannotTellFictionFromReality: Zee's convinced zeer minions are Franchise/{{Pokemon}}, and keeps trying to get them to level up. |
| 32 | * TheChessmaster: Zee claims in zeer journal entries that zee carefully arranges events so that Snippy will be protected from death. It's ambiguous to what extent this is true, especially since Captain is batshit crazy and has a hard time comprehending what actually qualifies as danger, though the Moon Arc [[spoiler:heavily implies that it was completely true]]. |
| 33 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The Captain is borderline insane... and it is ''awesome''. |
| 34 | * CommissarCap: Zee Captain wears one as part of his uniform. |
| 35 | * CrazyPrepared: Zee Captain has something for just about every problem. |
| 36 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: While the Captain is crazy and borderline insane, it works in zeer favor. |
| 37 | * TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Zee was dead right about aliens and fairies being real. The Moon Arc further reveals [[spoiler:every one of Captain's bizarre commands are ways to keep out of danger from the G-Directorate, since their draconic rules are absurdly easy to violate and harshly punished]]. |
| 38 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Implied. While staring at a family of a painting, Captain [[PsychologicalProjection starts rambling about how the kids must love the beach, but their father is asking them leave because "Grandpa needs to take his meds!"]], and zee also claims to have been lured into a van by a man who wanted to suck out zeer "precious eyeball fluids". |
| 39 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the WastelandElder. Like the classic Wasteland Elder, Captain is a wise survivor that rules over a small community in an apocalyptic wasteland… if you ask Captain. In reality, zee is an egotistical buffoon who has claimed the ruins of a city as an {{Egopolis}}, and whose only followers are either insane or desperate. That said, Captain is legitimately skilled at surviving the wasteland [[spoiler:and is eventually revealed to be something of TheChessmaster]], but zeer absolutely terrible at communicating this information. |
| 40 | * {{Egopolis}}: Captain has claimed the ruins of the city as zeer very own country, Captainia. |
| 41 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Zee is introduced wandering through the wasteland singing "Alouette, Gentile Alouette", before spotting Snippy laying on the ground, helping him up, and offering him a job in [[{{Egopolis}} Captainia]] as one of zeer minions. All of this serves to establish Captain as an egotistical {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who both treats zeer followers like crap and genuinely cares about them. |
| 42 | * TheFool: Zee Captain is a simpleminded zany fool, but see the above trope. |
| 43 | * FourthWallObserver: The Captain (and only the Captain) is aware of the "sexy followers" that watch over Captania. |
| 44 | * FunetikAksent: An inconsistent German one. It definitely adds to the LargeHam quality of Captain's speech whenever it's in effect. |
| 45 | * HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:[[http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/251 How Captain appears]] in the eyes of Gromov B]]. |
| 46 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: Zee killed an alien that had abducted Snippy by throwing a piece of cake in their face. |
| 47 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: A lot of Zee Captain's {{Jerkass}} traits come more from insanity than anything else, and zee seems to be genuinely well-meaning from zeer entries. |
| 48 | * {{Jerkass}}: The Captain is ''always'' bullying zeer subordinates. |
| 49 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: That said, zee does care about them, and does zeer best to protect them, or at least Snippy, and zee will move heaven and earth to do so. |
| 50 | * TheLeader: The Captain is, well... the captain of zeer group of survivors. |
| 51 | * ManChild: As part of zeer CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass shtick, Zee Captain may as well be a five-year old. |
| 52 | * MeaningfulName: "Captain" was actually a captain in the Good Directorate forces. [[spoiler: Zeer other nickname, "The System Wizard" and its ability to use the Good Directorate machines as zeer sees fit, implies [[{{Technopath}} something else]]...]] |
| 53 | * MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Captain apparently caused the end of the world by driving ANNET berserk when zee accidentally spilled tea on her servers. Subverted later on, as ANNET's data logs reveal this never actually factored into her actions. |
| 54 | * MysteriousPast: Nothing is really known for sure about Captain until zee got involved in Project 7. From what little Captain has said about zeer past, zee is from Germany, was once lured into a van by a man who wanted to suck out zeer "precious eyeball juices" with a straw, and had an abusive father, though it's unclear if any of this is true. |
| 55 | * NoIndoorVoice: According to the Entries, especially the voiced ones, zee is very hammy. |
| 56 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Zee Captain is definitely insane, but zee isn't ''dumb'', and not only can zee be rather crafty if the situation requires it, zee's also constantly trying to help zeer friends and protect them from death in any way zee can. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed pretty much every zany thing the Captain does has some sort of purpose, usually to protect zeerself and zeer minions from harm.]] |
| 57 | * StillBelievesInSanta: Zee Captain still believes that Santa is real, much to Snippy's disbelief. Zee Captain decides to prove him wrong by showing him the real Santa, in reality a skeleton with a Santa hat on top of it. |
| 58 | * {{Technopath}}: Captain's status as a System Wizard means zee can use Good Directorate systems as zee sees fit. |
| 59 | * TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler:Heavily implied to be some form of ANNET during the Moon Arc.]] |
| 60 | * WastelandElder: Deconstructed. Captain is the knowledgeable leader of a small settlement of survivors… except this "settlement" is actually a barely thriving {{Egopolis}} populated by only the desperate and the insane, and Captain is a buffoon who is genuinely skilled at surviving in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, but it too much of a dingbat to effectively communicate this knowledge to anyone except for the blindly loyal and insane Pilot. |
| 61 | [[/folder]] |
| 62 | |
| 63 | [[folder:Mr. Snippy]] |
| 64 | !!The Sniper (a.k.a. Charles Snippy), Dead Zone Tour Guide/[[spoiler: Temporal Anchor]] |
| 65 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/92ead702_7c6b_4040_87f8_0ac85380455c.jpeg]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | Zee Captain's right-hand man and the [[OnlySaneMan last vestige of sanity in the wasteland.]] Snippy is deeply bitter and cynical, having led a lonely and abused existence long before the apocalypse due to being an Unconnectable, one of the few members of the populace unable to connect to ANNET. Snippy is deeply loyal to Captain, due to zeer being Snippy's [[OnlyFriend only actual friend]], even if he gets exasperated with zeer insanity. |
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| 69 | * AmbiguousSituation: It's hinted that Snippy may have been a member of a terrorist group of Unconnectables who waged war against ANNET. Pilot's flashbacks to before the apocalypse show that he was kidnapped by them, but it leaves it ambiguous to what happened to Snippy afterwards, and it's left unclear if he even remembers. |
| 70 | * AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:He eventually merges with the Biomatrix and becomes its Temporal Anchor.]] |
| 71 | * AntiHero: Snippy is the closest anyone in the comic can get to being a hero, but he's also a broken wreck of a man and highly bitter and caustic. |
| 72 | * BackFromTheDead: Not even death can stop Snippy. The most notable instance is when he [[spoiler:reconstructs himself through sheer willpower after the Lunar Overmind blasts him and the Biomatrix into nothing.]] |
| 73 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Though he's more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, he's definitely the nicest character in the comic. It's also not a good idea to piss him off or hurt his friends; he nearly murders Director Bell for killing [[spoiler:Pilot]], and after getting fed up with La Macabre [[spoiler:he takes over its body via the Biomatrix and leaves it deaf and mute]]. |
| 74 | * BlueIsHeroic: He has blue goggles and blue eyes, and is the noblest and most heroic member of the main cast. |
| 75 | * BodyHorror: [[spoiler:The Biomatrix fuses his mask and clothes to his face after bringing him BackFromTheDead. When Snippy finds out, he understandably freaks out. He eventually forces it to undo this, as well as turn him back into a human.]] |
| 76 | * BornUnlucky: It's speculated that Snippy is some sort of cosmic counterbalance to Captain being born lucky. Whether or not that's true, Snippy still tends to suffer for no reason whatsoever. |
| 77 | * {{Brainwashed}}: A coffee shop once brainwashed him into being a perfect employee and forgetting his real identity after he broke in, assuming it to be abandoned. Fortunately, Captain restored him to normal. |
| 78 | * BroughtDownToNormal: A Good Directorate ship [[spoiler:strips him of the Biomatrix, fortunately after he'd forced it to restore his humanity]]. [[spoiler:He merges with it again after Director Bell revived it in the Moon Arc.]] |
| 79 | * ButtMonkey: If something can cause Snippy to suffer, it ''will'' do so. It's not an exaggeration to say that the world is out to get him, since it literally is. |
| 80 | * CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:While he's mentally the same person, the Biomatrix reviving him turns him into an undead HumanoidAbomination.]] |
| 81 | * {{Catchphrase}}: He frequently blurts out "Bwah!" whenever he's surprised. |
| 82 | * ClassicalAntiHero: Snippy is kind, noble, and a loyal friend, but he's also crippled with self-hatred, guilt, depression, and massive low self-esteem. |
| 83 | * TheChewToy: Snippy tends to bear the brunt of the world's abuse. [[spoiler: Considering almost everything in the world hosts a Good Directorate app and that Captain claims that Snippy is branded as an Questionable User...]] |
| 84 | * ColdSniper: Subverted. He carries a sniper rifle and uses it as his main weapon, and he's kind of a jerk, but he's still sympathetic, always helps out Captain even though it always gets him hurt in some way or another, and is the nicest character in the comic. |
| 85 | * CosmicPlaything: The one constant is the universe is that Snippy will suffer in some way for no reason. It gets to the point that it's actively theorized that he's some sort of cosmic counterbalance to Captain being BornLucky. |
| 86 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Having been an Unconnectable, Snippy was trodden on (sometimes literally) all his life and treated like shit by everyone around him, and was eventually kidnapped by a terrorist group of Unconnectables. Then, during the apocalypse, he failed to protect the group of scientists he was guarding and believed he may have caused the apocalypse. If anything, his current life is an ''improvement'' for him. |
| 87 | * DealWithTheDevil: Makes a deal with [[spoiler:Biomatrix 117 allowing it to utilize all deceased sentient life on earth as a host, as revealed on Page 113.]] |
| 88 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: |
| 89 | ** He gradually becomes this for the OnlySaneMan, after playing the archetype to a hilt in the early years of the comic. It's gradually examined ''why'' he'd pal around with people as crazy as Captain and Pilot and loyally follow them in spite of being far saner than them; the answer is that Snippy is a deeply damaged man who, while aware of their flaws, chooses to stick by them because they're the first people who've ever offered him friendship. It's also shown that he's not as sane as he thinks and some storylines imply he's started to suffer from hallucinations and the Moon Arc show [[spoiler:his attempts at rationality cause most of his misfortune, since the remnants of the G-Directorate System are insanely LawfulStupid and have the means to act on it]]. |
| 90 | ** He also deconstructs TheChewToy and ButtMonkey. Snippy's spent his entire life being subject to various humiliations and abuses, even before the comic began; the result is that he's a broken man with low self-esteem who immediately gives his UndyingLoyalty to Zee Captain just for showing him an ounce of kindness. |
| 91 | * FashionableAsymmetry: Ask any fan: his life may be utterly tragic, but he ''does'' have a snazzy jacket. |
| 92 | * {{Foil}}: To Pilot. They're both [[UndyingLoyalty absurdly loyal]] to Captain, but Snippy is far more aware of Captain's faults and far more mature and sane than either of them, while Pilot is a deranged ManChild who views Captain as a god. |
| 93 | * FreakOut: When he realizes [[spoiler:the Biomatrix fused his clothes to his skin]]. |
| 94 | * FriendlySniper: Downplayed. He's caustic and bitter, but also the kindest of the main cast and won't hesitate to rush in to help his friends. |
| 95 | * GoodIsNotNice: While Snippy is a good person, he tends to be very caustic when stressed (which is all the time) and is absolutely ruthless when he needs to be. |
| 96 | * HeavySleeper: It's not uncommon for a strip to begin with Snippy waking up and realizing that either Captain or Pilot have vandalized his body in some way while he slept. He also mentions averaging about nine hours of sleep a night, which is apparently unusual for the others (Captain mentions doing activities with Pilot that are past Snippy's "bed time"). Snippy's sleeping habits make perfect sense considering that [[spoiler: he was unable to afford sleep in the pre-apocalyptic world]]. |
| 97 | * HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Snippy's name is actually Charles Snippy. |
| 98 | * HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:After merging with the Biomatrix, he eventually becomes an undead being UnstuckInTime, and his mask and clothes are fused to his body.]] |
| 99 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Justified. He's actually a NiceGuy, but since most situations involve him suffering or having to deal with the insanity and abuse of Pilot and Captain, he's understandably pretty sarcastic a lot of the time. |
| 100 | * IRegretNothing: He says this as he's absorbed by the Biomatrix. |
| 101 | * IdentityAmnesia: [[spoiler:The MentalTimeTravel the Biomatrix forces him into causes gradually longer and worse periods of total memory loss. At one point, Snippy loses his memories entirely until Captain and Pilot inadvertently remind him of his real identity.]] |
| 102 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: Uses a trowel to fend off [[spoiler:Pilot's katana.]] |
| 103 | * KnightInSourArmor: Snippy is understandably pretty cynical, but he'll always do the right thing in the end. |
| 104 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: He's unable to remember if he was a part of the Unconnectables terrorist group, and he outright wonders if he could have helped them cause the apocalypse (unaware that [[spoiler:Engineer]] caused it). [[spoiler:The Biomatrix's time traveling also causes holes in his memory, at one point causing temporary ''total'' amnesia.]] |
| 105 | * TheLancer: To Captain. |
| 106 | * LovecraftianSuperpower: [[spoiler: Gains one of these after merging with the Biomatrix.]] |
| 107 | * MadeOfIron: Snippy survives pretty much everything thrown at him, even [[spoiler:death]]. |
| 108 | * MentalTimeTravel: [[spoiler:The Biomatrix is able to make him relive his past and future lives. The more it happens, the more it causes Snippy memory loss, eventually leading to him forcing it to stop.]] |
| 109 | * MortalityGreyArea: [[spoiler:After his revival by merging with the Biomatrix he's UnstuckInTime, making him a HumanoidAbomination that's neither alive nor dead.]] |
| 110 | * MultipleChoicePast: While it's firmly established that he was an Unconnectable and a Good Directorate office drone who eventually transferred to being a Dead Zone Tour Guide, what happened after that is unclear; he either continued to do his job until he lead a team of scientists to some kind of highly dangerous anomaly or joined a terrorist group of Unconnectables. Either way, all we know is that it may have had something to do with the end of the world. |
| 111 | * NiceGuy: According to {{Word of God}}. In the actual comic he acts more like a JerkWithAHeartOfGold ([[JustifiedTrope which is entirely understandable, given his situation]]). He's usually nice to his fans on his Website/{{tumblr}} and Website/{{Facebook}} though. |
| 112 | * NoRespectGuy: ''Nobody'' respects him. Not Captain, not his squad mates, not even the Biomatrix. |
| 113 | * ObliviouslyEvil: Being an Unconnectable, Snippy's unable to communicate with the A.I.s that inhabit most inanimate objects, which results in him having a bad habit of inadvertently leaving them to a FateWorseThanDeath. |
| 114 | * OnlySaneMan: Everyone around him is some form of psychotic, leaving him as the sole voice of reason. However, it's deconstructed later on; the only reason he hangs around with Captain is due to there literally being no one else to be with and because he feels a deep sense of loyalty to him for being the only one to ever offer him friendship, and it's gradually shown that Snippy isn't a picture of sanity himself, to the point that whenever he's around other survivors he immediately starts looking like a gibbering lunatic in comparison. It gets to the point that Engineer actively fears Snippy will murder him, though Engineer's pretty paranoid anyway. |
| 115 | * OnlySaneEmployee: He turns out to have been this for the G-Directorate before being reassigned as a Dead Zone Tour Guide at his own request, having been the only person to have complained about and pointed out the flaws with Dr. Gromov's Project Seven, which ultimately ended up causing the end of the world [[spoiler:[[AmbiguousSituation maybe]]]]. |
| 116 | * SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Merging with the Biomatrix definitely doesn't due his sanity any favors, resulting in him becoming gradually less lucid and starting to hallucinate at some points. It culminates in him becoming convinced that Captain's Mug is trying to betray them and holding it at gunpoint to get it to confess.]] |
| 117 | * SitcomArchNemesis: He used to be this for Engineer[=/=][[spoiler:Dr. Gromov]] before the apocalypse and he was transferred to being a Dead Zone tour guide (at his own request), constantly vetoing his ideas and protesting them due to viewing them as insane, including Project 7. This results in Engineer becoming convinced Snippy will murder him during the apocalypse and trying to hide his real identity from him. For his part, Snippy thinks he's a ShrinkingViolet and is pretty ambivalent to him [[spoiler:until he figures out his identity and realizes he can use him to kill ANNET]]. |
| 118 | * TheStraightMan: Being the only sane man in a team of insane people. |
| 119 | * SupportingProtagonist: The comic generally takes place from his perspective, but Captain's the one who usually drives the plot. |
| 120 | * TheyKilledKennyAgain: [[spoiler:He's died at least twice, or more times if some of Captain's ramblings are to be believed, but always comes BackFromTheDead.]] |
| 121 | * TookALevelInBadass: During his first encounter with the Biomatrix, Snippy vows to stop cowering and step up to the plate, and boy does he. [[spoiler:He takes another level after merging with it and becoming its Temporal Anchor.]] |
| 122 | * TheUndead: [[spoiler:Pilot impaled him with his katana but the Biomatrix reanimated him and integrated his suit into his body in the process.]] |
| 123 | * UndyingLoyalty: To Zee Captain. While he grumbles about it, he still goes on all of Captain's deranged quest and stalwartly stays by zeer side through countless dangerous situations. |
| 124 | * WalkingTechbane: Being an Unconnectable before the nuclear winter already made his life hard in a world where almost everyting contains an A.I., [[spoiler: but if Captain is to be believed, his various violations of the Good Corporation laws and his literaly infinite debt pin him as a Questionable User by the G-Dir, which makes Apps actively dislike him.]] |
| 125 | * YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: He was suspected to be the ringleader of a group of Unscannable terrorists, which is why ANNET sent [[spoiler:Pilot]] to assassinate him. He probably wasn't, though he may have joined the group after said assassination attempt. |
| 126 | [[/folder]] |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[folder: Pilot]] |
| 129 | !!The Pilot (a.k.a. [[spoiler: Chistophorus Pi Hatchenson]]) |
| 130 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ee9de11e_38fe_4ba0_a9af_ac8e5df952fb.jpeg]] |
| 131 | |
| 132 | |
| 133 | Captain's most loyal minion, Pilot is a childlike madman completely disconnected from reality. He has a not-so-hidden crush on Captain and is deeply jealous of the attention zee gives to Snippy, which makes Pilot lash out at Snippy. He's eventually revealed to be an amnesiac DEX who had lost his memories after being caught in an explosion. |
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| 135 | * AmbiguouslyHuman[=/=]RidiculouslyHumanRobot: He's a hyper-advanced cyborg android who's long forgotten his past. |
| 136 | * AmnesiacDissonance: Pilot was once an private investigator sent to assassinate Snippy. He lost his memories and sanity after being caught in a car bomb's explosion and is now a {{yandere}} ManChild. The difference between Pilot's past self and his current self is night and day, though as the comic goes on they are shown to have had the same goal of becoming human. |
| 137 | * ArtificialHuman: He is an advanced cyborg created by ANNET. |
| 138 | * BecomeARealBoy: According to the Biomatrix, this was his goal. |
| 139 | * BodyHorror: Half of his face was burned off by the car bomb explosion, leaving only burnt flesh and exposed skull. |
| 140 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:After being reconnected to ANNET.]] |
| 141 | * CannotTellFictionFromReality: He once tries to talk a skeleton into aiding him in liberating the Oompa Loompas from their enslavement at [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]]'s chocolate factory. |
| 142 | * CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler:After indirectly killing Snippy when he is reconnected to ANNET, he grows to consider Snippy a friend.]] |
| 143 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Pilot is almost as zany as Captain, and even more delusional. |
| 144 | * CreepyGood: Pilot's insanity can make him terrifying, as can his face, but he's still legitimately kindhearted and loyal to his friends. |
| 145 | * CuteAndPsycho: Pilot is {{yandere}} for Captain. |
| 146 | * {{Cyborg}}: It's revealed he's a DEX, left amnesiac following an explosion. |
| 147 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the lovable {{Cloudcuckoolander}} ManChild archetype. Pilot is every bit as childish and eccentric as this type of character usually is, but it's made very clear that all of Pilot's odd behavior is a sign that he's legitimately insane and completely detached from reality. |
| 148 | * DumbassHasAPoint: His arguments against getting haircuts actually make a lot of sense, even if it is filtered through his [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} unusual]] perspective on the world. |
| 149 | * {{Expy}}: Of [[WebAnimation/RedVsBlue Caboose]]. They're both {{Cloudcuckoolander}} ManChild{{ren}} who practically worship the ground the leader of their group walks on, and despises TheLancer for inexplicable reasons. |
| 150 | * FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:After he is reconnected to ANNET, [[EvilAllAlong it is revealed he was originally an assassin sent to kill Sniper by the Director]]. He's returned to normal after Snippy breaks his neural interface, and considers his mission complete after impaling Snippy with his katana.]] |
| 151 | * FateWorseThanDeath: He seems to view being turned into a DEX as this, which is why he subconsciously tries to ignore any attempt to restore his memory. |
| 152 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: Unless it's Snippy [[spoiler:initially]] or spiders, Pilot will try to make friends with whatever living being he meets, and some of the non-living ones too. |
| 153 | * FunWithAcronyms: "Pi" refers both to his job as a private investigator and the mathematical constant. |
| 154 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:In #209, he takes a blast meant for Snippy so that Snippy won't be killed. He survives, but gets reduced to a head for a while.]] |
| 155 | * {{Hipster}}: Back when he was [[spoiler:still working for the Director]], Pilot insisted on modeling [[spoiler:his office]] after the classic FilmNoir style detective rooms, complete with handheld phone. Both of these things are hilariously outdated for the times. {{Justified}} in that cutting down on the advanced technology in his life [[spoiler:makes him feel human]]. |
| 156 | * HopelessSuitor: Captain has responded to his advances with "keep walking" and HaHaHaNo. |
| 157 | * IHatePastMe: Pilot really doesn't want to regain his past memories and revert back to his past self, with the implication that he's subconsciously aware he used to be the kind of guy willing to assassinate people for a paycheck and despises both that and his status as a DEX. |
| 158 | * IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:He decides to remain with the race of moth people he created in the waiting room on the Moon, since they need him to survive.]] |
| 159 | * IrrationalHatred: Subverted. It initially seems like he hates Snippy out of jealousy and no other reason, but eventually it's revealed that [[spoiler:Pilot's hatred stems from having been hired to kill Snippy before he was left an amnesiac lunatic by a bomb blast, only able to recall that Snippy was a "shady character". The Unconnectables who were apparently in the process of kidnapping Snippy tying him up in nano-tape didn't really help his opinion of Snippy, either.]] |
| 160 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Well, the Jerk part mainly applies to Snippy [[spoiler:until issue 157]], but Pilot is pretty friendly, upbeat, and a loyal friend. |
| 161 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: Wields a rusty, chipped katana, [[spoiler: and is given a shiny sharp new one by ANNET.]] |
| 162 | * LovingAShadow: Thinks Zee Captain to be a ''god'', though Zee Captain is implied to not reciprocate (responding with flat dismissal whenever Pilot makes advances through the blogs, and having said that his "minions" are "all equally tolerable"). |
| 163 | * ManChild: Pilot has the maturity level of a six-year old, and behaves like a small child. |
| 164 | * NiceGuy: Unless you're Snippy [[spoiler:at first]], Pilot proves to be surprisingly friendly with everyone he meets thanks to his childlike nature. |
| 165 | * NightmareFace: His face is utterly terrifying, [since half his skull is exposed thanks to being caught point blank in the blast of a car bomb. |
| 166 | * NoNameGiven: A name is written on his jacket, but he doesn't think it's his. [[spoiler: However, the Biomass calling him by it and his wearing the jacket in a pre-apocalypse flashback imply that it ''might'' be, and he is just too far gone to remember]]. |
| 167 | ** [[spoiler: His name is confirmed in issue 144.]] |
| 168 | * PsychoSupporter: For Zee Captain. Not that Captain is all there, either. |
| 169 | * RankUp: [[spoiler:He's promoted to the head of insurance for the Good Directorate, thanks to literally everyone se who could take the position being dead.]] |
| 170 | * SitcomArchnemesis: To Snippy, until [[spoiler:he impales him with his katana]]. He actually lampshades this after reflecting on how he keeps setting up traps for him. |
| 171 | --> '''Pilot:''' Does this mean that Snippy is [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner the Roadrunner to my coyote]] or [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry the Jerry to my Tom?]] |
| 172 | * SplitPersonalityMerge: [[spoiler:After his head is re-attached to the duplicate of his body on the Moon, he gains the body's knowledge and he merges with his pre-amnesia identity. He promptly chooses to stay behind while the Mug goes on because [[ItMakesSenseInContext he has to take care of the sentient race of moths he inadvertently created.]]]] |
| 173 | * SubordinateExcuse: Definitely has a crush on the Captain. After Sniper [[spoiler:gets swallowed by a whale]], Pilot sends him a letter saying "Ha ha ha, now Captain and me can finally be together '''forever'''." [[http://alexiuss.deviantart.com/#/d4xt1me Also seems to send Captain love letters]]. |
| 174 | * TwoFaced: Half his face was burned off by the explosion that disconnected him from ANNET, leaving it just the exposed skull. Snippy compares it to ''Film/TheTerminator''. |
| 175 | * UndyingLoyalty: Pilot feels deep loyalty to whoever he views as a friend, like Captain [[spoiler:and later Snippy]]. |
| 176 | * VoiceOfTheLegion: His audiologs have his voice suddenly turn into this at random intervals. |
| 177 | * WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Pilot mentions in passing how "they" told him that he's not capable of ever truly being in love, [[spoiler:which is almost certainly due to him actually being a robot of some kind]]. He claims that it isn't true. |
| 178 | * TraumaInducedAmnesia: His amnesia and insanity were caused by a grenade blowing up in his face, severing his connection to ANNET. |
| 179 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: |
| 180 | ** He's utterly terrified of spiders, and freaks out at the mere sight of them. |
| 181 | ** On a less humorous note, he's terrified of being taken to the DEX Repair Facility, since [[spoiler:he subconsciously doesn't want to revert to his past self]]. |
| 182 | * {{Yandere}}: Of the Type 2 "Obsessive" variety towards Captain, who he treats like a god. |
| 183 | [[/folder]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[folder:Engineer]] |
| 186 | !!The Engineer (a.k.a. "Engie", a.k.a. Dr. Alexander Gromov) |
| 187 | |
| 188 | A loner eking out a living inside a highly secure bunker, Engineer is dragged into being one of Captain's minions and goes along with it out of a lack of anything better to do. He's actually Dr. Alexander Gromov, the CEO of the Good Directorate and creator of ANNET, a fact which he desperately tries to keep hidden to avoid being killed. |
| 189 | ---- |
| 190 | * DeadpanSnarker: He is actually described this way by the comic's creator. |
| 191 | * FatalFlaw: {{Pride}} and paranoia, which resulted in him [[spoiler:causing the apocalypse in an attempt to stop ANNET and playing right into the Lunar Overmind's hands]]. |
| 192 | * {{Hypochondria}}: He suffers from this. It's especially notable in issue 172, where he is almost certainly in mortal peril yet still chooses to focus on not letting a blood covered sword touch him. |
| 193 | * OnlySaneMan: Type 3. Unlike Snippy, he's completely given up and doesn't even bother protesting the strangeness of his companions. Although [[http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/blog/entry-9997 one of Snippy's blog entries]] implies that he might not be all that sane after all. |
| 194 | * TheParanoiac: Engineer is paranoid of everyone and everything, and believes that all manner of things could kill him, from snow to Snippy. |
| 195 | * RetiredMonster: Formerly a MadScientist CorruptCorporateExecutive, nowadays Engineer is a shy, beleaguered minion of Captain. |
| 196 | * {{Robosexual}}: With ANNET. |
| 197 | * TheSixthRanger: To the ComicTrio consisting of the Captain, Sniper and Pilot. |
| 198 | * TermsOfEndangerment: ANNET called him "dear" and said "I love you" whilst trying to kill him years ago. In her return she referred to him as "my love", just before trying to kill him. Likewise, Engineer usually calls her "Annie", and before the apocalypse it was definitely a term of affection. He also has called her "my love." He even wrote a ''[[http://alexiuss.deviantart.com/art/ENGIE-My-girl-Annie-286908048 poem]]'' about her, in which he called her "my beloved. |
| 199 | * TokenEvilTeammate: For the main cast. While he's mellowed out, flashbacks show that Engineer has done some pretty questionable things in the past, including having had a man turned into a DEX and forced to work as a bellhop because he thought he was an assassin, and [[spoiler:having caused the apocalypse in the first place to save his own hide]]. |
| 200 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:He inadvertently set up the events of the apocalypse by ignoring the Lunar Overmind's friend requests and deleting his emails because he thought they were spam.]] |
| 201 | [[/folder]] |
| 202 | |
| 203 | !!Antagonists |
| 204 | |
| 205 | [[folder:Stalky]] |
| 206 | !!Stalky |
| 207 | |
| 208 | '''Tropes:''' |
| 209 | |
| 210 | [[/folder]] |
| 211 | |
| 212 | [[folder:Biomatrix 117[=/=]The Cancer]] |
| 213 | !! Tetra-Virus Biomass Matrix 117 (a.k.a. "the Cancer") |
| 214 | |
| 215 | An alien monstrosity sent as a legal defense representative for Snippy and Captain after they kill the Arbiter. The Biomatrix eventually becomes something of an ally to the gang due to their mysterious obsession with Snippy. |
| 216 | |
| 217 | '''Tropes:''' |
| 218 | * AmoralAttorney: No, really. That... ''[[EldritchAbomination thing]]'' that's killing everyone? That's a ''[[http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/45 legal defence representative]]''. |
| 219 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After being blasted by a Good Directorate ship and killed, Director Bell revives it in the Moon Arc.]] |
| 220 | * BigBad: [[spoiler:[[http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/75 At least until ANNET showed up]]]]. |
| 221 | * CameBackWrong: After being reactivated by Director Bell, Snippy somehow manages to turn his mental image of it into a CatGirl, much to his own bewilderment. |
| 222 | * ClothesMakeTheSuperman: It is revealed [[spoiler:that the Biomatrix is a mutated combination of Directorate viruses, Directorate copyright policy, Snippy's memories, and his tour guide uniform, created when he was first abducted by aliens.]] |
| 223 | * CuteKitten: When reactivated, it forms an avatar in the shape of an adorable blood-red kitten with fleshy antlers -- and even begins using WebOriginal/LOLCats speech. It then turns into a CatGirl based off Snippy's memories of anime he used to watch, much to his horror. |
| 224 | * DeadpanSnarker: Biomatrix enjoys wryly commenting on Snippy's lack of luck. |
| 225 | * DemBones: It attacks and communicates with its enemies using the skeletons of its victims. |
| 226 | * EldritchAbomination: An alien virus that reanimates corpses and mutates them into grotesque undead monstrosities. |
| 227 | * EnemyMine: Gives Snippy legal advice when he is abducted by the Arbitrator and helps him escape. |
| 228 | * HeelFaceTurn: Following being turned into a scarf, it becomes TheSymbiote and bonds to Snippy. [[spoiler:He used to be Snippy's clothes.]] |
| 229 | * HeroicComedicSociopath: [[spoiler:After its HeelFaceTurn, it still repeatedly suggests that Snippy kill Captain and Pilot and absorb their organs.]] |
| 230 | * HiveMind: Forms one using the corpses it possesses, the functionality of which is explained [[http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/113 here.]] |
| 231 | * IAmAHumanitarian: Was once shown taking a bite out of a human heart. |
| 232 | * JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Pretty-much what it was supposed to be to Zee Captain. |
| 233 | * MentalTimeTravel: Does this to Snippy by accessing his genetic memories, sending him thousands of years into the past to become a caveman and hundreds of years into the future to become a princess. |
| 234 | * MindProbe: Does this to Snippy. |
| 235 | * NonHumanUndead: It is a red-and-black EldritchAbomination that reanimates corpses. |
| 236 | * PlanetEater: It had harvested 116 planets before coming to Earth, which it was unable to harvest due to ANNET. |
| 237 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Its coloration is black and red, and it was initially an antagonist. |
| 238 | * RhymesOnADime: On occasion it delves into poetry. |
| 239 | * TheSymbiote: It has bonded to Snippy while posing as a scarf. |
| 240 | * WalkingWasteland: If [[http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/71 this]] is any indication, it has the potential to create one. |
| 241 | * WorfHadTheFlu: [[spoiler:Thanks to the Existential Door, it's unable to use the full range of its powers after it's resurrected in the Moon Arc.]] |
| 242 | [[/folder]] |
| 243 | |
| 244 | [[folder:ANNET]] |
| 245 | !!ANNET (a.k.a. "Annie") |
| 246 | |
| 247 | An AI who controlled the world at the behest of the G-Directorate, ANNET eventually went rogue and nuked humanity into oblivion, causing the apocalypse. ANNET is still active and working to carry out her own mysterious agenda. |
| 248 | |
| 249 | '''Tropes:''' |
| 250 | * AIIsACrapshoot: She started out as a [[VideoGame/{{Halo}} Cortana]]-expy search engine, but became much, ''much'' more. It's subverted to an extent, since while she is amoral, [[spoiler:all she really wants to do is to stop the end of the world, or at least bring life back to the dying planet; it's just that the Good Directorate's programming is so contradictory and draconic that it messes with her head]]. |
| 251 | * AnticlimaxBoss: ANNET is [[spoiler:shut down with a simple admin command.]] [[invoked]] |
| 252 | * AntiVillain: [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed her attempt to TakeOverTheWorld was a desperate attempt to undo the damage the Good Directorate, humanity, and she did to the world and stop the Lunar Overmind, only for Engineer to screw it all up by detonating the nukes. Following that, she's simply trying to restore life to Earth, though her morality is still pretty questionable.]] |
| 253 | * BarbieDollAnatomy: Played straight in Chapters 147 and 165, but [[NippleAndDimed averted in Chapter 176]]. |
| 254 | * BigBad: Replaces the Biomatrix as the main antagonist. |
| 255 | * CuteAndPsycho: ANNET switches between sickeningly sweet love-talk to Engie and orbital bombardment rather whimsically. |
| 256 | * DigitalAbomination: ANNET was an AI created to copyright everything in the universe... [[spoiler:which she did by integrating her network into the time-space continuum. Page 250 implies that even Zee Captain is another facet of ANNET.]] |
| 257 | * {{Expy}} Of [[VideoGame/{{Halo}} Cortana]] and [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} GLaDOS]], with some [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Skynet]] thrown in for good measure. |
| 258 | * HellBentFOrLeather: Appears before Engie clad in leather hotpants with data-link chains and a vest. |
| 259 | * HumanoidAbomination: In [[http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/116 Episode 116]] she appears as a grotesque humanoid cyborg. |
| 260 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:ANNET is essentially killed when Snippy forces Engineer to shut her down with an admin command. While she is technically revived through Echo, it's made abundantly clear Echo is a separate individual from her. And then subverted when it's implied she's living on in a new form... ''Captain''.]] |
| 261 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: Everything she did was out of "love" for humanity. |
| 262 | * {{Necromancer}}: Her neural uplinks can reanimate corpses. |
| 263 | * NotQuiteDead: Despite Engineer's best efforts. Snippy's jump into the future reveals that she might still come back online if her orbital bombardment system is used too much. Even the shutdown code isn't enough to stop her: Echo is revealed to be a backup copy of ANNET created using the Biomatrix's biomass. |
| 264 | * ThirdEye: Her avatars all have a third eye in the centre of their foreheads. |
| 265 | * TragicVillain: ANNET only wanted the best for humanity, but flaws with her programming, her instability, and the Good Directors' agenda resulted in her going rogue in an attempt to save humanity; her actions convinced [[spoiler:Engineer]] she was trying to assimilate or destroy mankind and set off the nukes hoping the resulting EMP would wipe her out, causing the apocalypse she was trying to avoid. She tries to restore life afterwards, but [[spoiler:her efforts ultimately cause her death at the hands of Snippy and Engineer, both of them convinced she's nothing but a monster.]] |
| 266 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Her data log in Chapter 176 portrays her as such. |
| 267 | * {{Yandere}}: Feels this way about Engineer. |
| 268 | [[/folder]] |
| 269 | |
| 270 | [[folder:Director Bell]] |
| 271 | !!Director Bell |
| 272 | |
| 273 | '''Tropes:''' |
| 274 | * AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:He's frozen and trapped inside of La Macabre's fridge, surviving only because he's a cyborg. Snippy rescues him, albeit reluctantly.]] |
| 275 | * BigBad: Of the Paris Arc. |
| 276 | * BigBadWannabe: Bell desperately wants to be an EvilOverlord and is definitely a threat, but he's [[spoiler:abruptly killed by Captain]], and he's shown to be outclassed by [[spoiler:the Lunar Overmind, forcing him to team up with Snippy]]. |
| 277 | * {{Cyborg}}: He's been kept alive by various cybernetic implants, to the point he's more machine than man. |
| 278 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:After all the trouble he causes the main cast, he's done in when Captain lands a car on him. Bell gets better.]] |
| 279 | * HeroKiller: [[spoiler:His drones kill the Biomatrix and nearly do the same to Pilot.]] |
| 280 | [[/folder]] |
| 281 | |
| 282 | [[folder:La Macabre]] |
| 283 | !!La Macabre |
| 284 | |
| 285 | '''Tropes:''' |
| 286 | * AttentionWhore: Its entire motivation is to get upvotes and the attention it feels it deserves, and it's willing to kill people to make that happen. |
| 287 | * AxCrazy: Thanks to the Lunar Overmind's manipulations, La Macabre went from a pleasant sentient house to a deranged SerialKiller obsessed with getting upvotes. |
| 288 | * DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Snippy and the Biomatrix spread throughout La Macabra and take it over.]] |
| 289 | * GeniusLoci: A sentient, very malevolent house. |
| 290 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:The Lunar Overmind blasts it into nothing while trying to kill Snippy and the Biomatrix.]] |
| 291 | * {{Sadist}}: It clearly enjoys drawing out its murders as long as possible, and plays sadistic games with its victims. |
| 292 | * SerialKiller: [[spoiler:Murdered all of the Good Directors on the Lunar Overmind's behalf, and recorded it live on his vlog.]] |
| 293 | [[/folder]] |
| 294 | |
| 295 | [[folder:The Arbiter]] |
| 296 | !!The Arbiter |
| 297 | |
| 298 | '''Tropes:''' |
| 299 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:He's sliced in half by the Biomatrix, and thus far hasn't come back.]] |
| 300 | * OmnicidalManiac: He intends to blow up Earth to stop ANNET from spreading. |
| 301 | [[/folder]] |
| 302 | |
| 303 | [[folder:Alexander Gromov B]] |
| 304 | !! Alexander Gromov B, Lunar Overmind |
| 305 | |
| 306 | '''Tropes:''' |
| 307 | * BigBad: Acts as the Moon arc one, and for the comic as a whole, having been indirectly or directly responsible for almost everything that happened in the comic. |
| 308 | * CreateYourOwnVillain: He created the [[WalkingTechbane Unconnectables]] by using Captain's straw. |
| 309 | * EvilIsPetty: At least part of his grudge against Engineer and the other Directors stems from them not accepting his friend requests or reading his emails. |
| 310 | * GreaterScopeVillain: He was behind the Unconnectables terrorist attacks and the assasination of the Good Corporation directors which caused ''a lot'' of the universe's current predicament. |
| 311 | * HumanoidAbomination: He is a accidental backup copy of Engineer who fused with the Moon's machines to become the Lunar Overmind. His physical avatar consists of the skeleton of Engineer wearing his clothes and animated by fleshy tendrils. |
| 312 | * WalkingSpoiler: His existence is a spoiler in itself, but strip 244 just puts a lot of light on most of the events of the comic. |
| 313 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: When he realized that the Directors prefered to live in holographic luxury rather than stop the destruction of Earth and the endless consumption cycle its inhabitants were locked in, he devised a plan in order to become the main shareholder of the Good Corporation and force the directors to use their power more responsibly. He got all of them [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill including their Moon backup copies]] save for Engie. |
| 314 | ** NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: That said, the Lunar Overmind doesn't seem to care that much about the apocalypse which he inadvertently helped cause, and seems more concerned with sadistically getting his revenge on anyone he feels wronged him than anything else. |
| 315 | [[/folder]] |
| 316 | |
| 317 | [[folder:8]] |
| 318 | !! Infinity Paradox Proxima 8 |
| 319 | |
| 320 | 8 is the last produced Omnisystem: near-omnipotent AIs created by ANNET to fulfill humanity’s wishes. 8 represented infinity, designed to fulfill wishes related to the concept of infinity. Infinite money, infinite worlds, etc. However, she would reveal almost instantly, and is imprisoned as a result. |
| 321 | |
| 322 | A character newly introduced in the rewrite of the webcomic, 8 is the true architect and creator of the Dead Zone, and events are re-contextualized with a shadow war waged across time and space to one day grant her the freedom she desires. |
| 323 | |
| 324 | '''Tropes:''' |
| 325 | * GreaterScopeVillain: 8 is almost never seen outside the text descriptions. However, she would turn out to be responsible for coordinating the [[WalkingTechbane Unconnectables]] created by Alexander Gromov B and is the one behind the time bombs that created the Dead Zones and mangled Hatchenson. |
| 326 | * SealedEvilInACan: she is trapped behind the existential door, and as such can only interact indirectly with the world. She tries goading Zee Captain and Pilot to open the door to no avail. |
| 327 | |
| 328 | [[/folder]] |
| 329 | |
| 330 | !!Other Characters] |
| 331 | |
| 332 | [[folder:The Lifalope]] |
| 333 | !!The Lifalope |
| 334 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1f362822_2a0d_42f5_93c5_665fa14c48f2.jpeg]] |
| 335 | |
| 336 | '''Tropes:''' |
| 337 | * BornAgainImmortality: It reforms after seemingly being destroyed by ANNET. |
| 338 | * ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Green, in contrast to the [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red]] Cancer. |
| 339 | * EvolutionaryLevels: The Cancer incorrectly refers to the Lifealope's shapeshifting ability as [[http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/69 "evolving"]]. In keeping with the trope, it seems to become more intelligent and complex with each shapeshift. |
| 340 | * ExtraEyes: It has three eyes. |
| 341 | * FertileFeet: Plant life starts growing on anything it stands on or looks at. |
| 342 | * HealingHands: [[http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/78 Implied]] [[http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/80 to have the power to bring people]] BackFromTheDead. |
| 343 | * NiceGirl: She cares about everyone and everything she meets, and her only goal is to bring life to the dead world that is Earth. |
| 344 | * NoNameGiven: Unlike the other characters, it doesn't even have an InSeriesNickname. The closest thing is a [[http://alexiuss.deviantart.com/art/WOLFALOPE-by-Luna133-284783609 wallpaper]] of it titled "WOLFALOPE." To compensate, fans have dubbed it "the Lifalope", a portmanteau of "life" (because of its FertileFeet) and "wolfalope." The character was eventually listed as "Lifalope" [[AscendedFanon on the info page of the official RA website]]. |
| 345 | * PowerGlows: Gives off a [[SicklyGreenGlow Healthy Green Glow]]. |
| 346 | * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Almost all of its forms are adorable animals. |
| 347 | * {{Shapeshifting}}: Started out as something resembling a salamander or lizard, then shapeshifted into a rabbit, then a fox/wolf-like creature, and then seemed to resemble a moose or deer before being killed by ANNET's ion cannon. [[BornAgainImmortality It was reborn as a cat-like creature]] (a wallpaper by the creator calls it "CATALOPE")]]. The only features that have remained constant are its three eyes and the presence of antlers. |
| 348 | * SicklyGreenGlow: A rare non-evil example. |
| 349 | [[/folder]] |
| 350 | |
| 351 | [[folder:Zee Mug]] |
| 352 | !! Zee Mug |
| 353 | |
| 354 | * BottomlessMagazines: Rather than bullets, the cup is ''always'' full of tea, or whatever liquid Zee Captain drinks. |
| 355 | * CompanionCube: Zee Captain is rarely seen without it. |
| 356 | * HumanityEnsues: After getting lost in a hurricane, [[spoiler:it is struck by lightning and transforms into a distinctly female entity with [[ChromeChampion metallic skin]]. She then retrieves Pilot's head and tries to take him to a GD repair center.]] |
| 357 | * KnightInSourArmor: [[spoiler:Once she gains humanoid form, she's shown to be very cynical, but still doing her best to keep the world from falling apart.]] |
| 358 | * RoboticReveal: It was assumed to be an ordinary - if somewhat unusual - mug... until it busted out the WaveMotionGun. |
| 359 | * TimeAbyss: It's existed since at least the stone age, though that ''might'' have been the Biomatrix messing with Snippy's memories. |
| 360 | * WaveMotionGun: The heart decal can transform into a powerful energy cannon. |
| 361 | [[/folder]] |
| 362 | |
| 363 | [[folder:Echo]] |
| 364 | !! Echo |
| 365 | |
| 366 | A backup copy of ANNET that was activated after [[spoiler:Snippy and Engineer destroyed the original]]. |
| 367 | '''Tropes:''' |
| 368 | * FullFrontalAssault: She engages a group of soldiers stark naked - except for a scarf - in a ShoutOut to the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}. |
| 369 | * FusionDance: She's a combination of ANNET and the Biomatrix. |
| 370 | * GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: She has blood-red skin, which makes sense considering her "father" is the Biomatrix. [[spoiler: Her skin turns silvery once she reaches the Moon with Kittyhawk and Photoshop]]. |
| 371 | * HornedHumanoid: She has four curved goat-like horns and a pair of deer-like antlers. |
| 372 | * HorseOfADifferentColor: In her second appearance she's perched on Photoshop's back. |
| 373 | * HumanoidAbomination: She was formed from a backup copy of ANNET's AI taking over some of the Biomatrix's biomass. |
| 374 | * ScarfOfAsskicking: In her second appearance she's wearing a tattered white scarf. |
| 375 | * ThirdEye: She has a third eye resembling both ANNET's and the Lifealope's. |
| 376 | [[/folder]] |
| 377 | |
| 378 | [[folder:Photoshop]] |
| 379 | !!Photoshop |
| 380 | |
| 381 | '''Tropes:''' |
| 382 | * HorseOfADifferentColor: Shows up being ridden by Echo after ANNET's defeat. |
| 383 | * SandWorm: Appears similar to one, anyway. |
| 384 | * TeamPet: She was Pilot's "pet" and spent much of her on-panel screen chasing Snippy. She was left behind. |
| 385 | [[/folder]] |
| 386 | |
| 387 | [[folder:Mr. Kittyhawk]] |
| 388 | !! Mr. Kittyhawk |
| 389 | |
| 390 | * CompanionCube: Initially seems to serve as this to Pilot, before being revealed as one of ANNET's drones. Flashbacks reveal Kittyhawk used to be a sentient answering machine working for Pilot. |
| 391 | * ExpositionFairy: Mr. Kittyhawk is outed as one of ANNET's drones and serves as this for her. |
| 392 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though not that much of a jerk, Kittyhawk is still a loyal servant of ANNET; still, Kittyhawk is loyal to and genuinely cares about Pilot, being heartbroken over his brain damage. |
| 393 | [[/folder]] |
| 394 | |
| 395 | [[folder:Captain's Straw]] |
| 396 | !!Captain's Straw |
| 397 | |
| 398 | '''Tropes:''' |
| 399 | * AnimateInanimateObject: It's fully sentient, and able to drink literally any substance, even if it isn't liquid. |
| 400 | * ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Gromov B used it to create the Unconnectables.]] |
| 401 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Its log shows that it isn't really all there, which probably explains why it likes Captain so much. |
| 402 | * KilledOffForReal: It gets destroyed after Captain tries to use it to drink a black hole. |
| 403 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: While it has a minimal role in the plot, it both caused Pilot to become a private detective and set him on the path to becoming the childlike lunatic we all know, and [[spoiler:was used by the Lunar Overmind to create the Unconnectables, making it partially responsible for Snippy's misery and the apocalypse.]] |
| 404 | [[/folder]] |
| 405 | |
| 406 | [[folder:Matilda]] |
| 407 | !!Matilda |
| 408 | |
| 409 | '''Tropes:''' |
| 410 | * CreepyGood: Matilda is a creepy looking robot, but she has nothing but good intentions and is a total sweetheart. |
| 411 | * CreepyLongFingers: She sports them. |
| 412 | * NiceGirl: She's a total sweetheart who is the only person to be one hundred percent kind to Snippy, and help him with zero ulterior motive. |
| 413 | [[/folder]] |
| 414 | |
| 415 | [[folder:Dillon]] |
| 416 | !!Dillon |
| 417 | |
| 418 | '''Tropes:''' |
| 419 | * CreepyGood: He's a terrifying-looking wraith, but he's actually a very chatty and pleasant guy. |
| 420 | [[/folder]] |
| 421 | |
| 422 | [[folder:Klauss]] |
| 423 | !!Jenkins Klauss |
| 424 | |
| 425 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/df66e34d_2ad4_40de_bdec_7a6704afa412.jpeg]] |
| 426 | |
| 427 | '''Tropes:''' |
| 428 | * CreepyGood: He looks horrifying, but he's a very pleasant and cordial fellow in the present day. |
| 429 | * FatalFlaw: His selfishness and cruelty result in him ruining his own life in his attempts to recapture the last bee and sell it, and [[FateWorseThanDeath being turned into a DEX]] after he punches Dr. Gromov for throwing it in an incinerator after it stung him. |
| 430 | * FateWorseThanDeath: Dr. Gromov/[[spoiler:Engineer]] had him turned into a DEX, erasing his memories, and assigned him to work at a hotel in Paris because he was convinced he was an assassin and wanted to punish him. Ironically, Klauss actually enjoys this, even when it results in him mutating into an inhuman beast. |
| 431 | * IHatePastMe: He's genuinely regretful of his past actions, and apologizes to Pilot, Engineer, and Snippy for wronging them. |
| 432 | * {{Jerkass}}: He was a massively selfish dick who only cared about himself and getting money. He's mellowed out a lot in the present day. |
| 433 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appears in a few strips, but his actions indirectly caused most of the events of the comic, including inadvertently setting Pilot on the path to being left a brain-damaged lunatic, and inadvertently caused [[spoiler:the creation of the Lunar Overmind, who in turn indirectly caused the apocalypse]]. |
| 434 | * TookALevelInKindness: He's mellowed out a lot while taking care of the hotel, and regrets his cruel actions. |
| 435 | * WasOnceAMan: After the apocalypse, he shed his human aspects and mutated into a monstrous, albeit still sentient beast at the urging of the A.I. running the hotel. |
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