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!!'''Tycho Brahe'''
The head of the Startling Developments Detective Agency. Intelligent, well-read, with a minor pre-disposition to killing gods and destroying the entire universe.

* AnIcePerson: His elemental attacks in ''Episode 3''.
* BadassBookworm
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Brahe clan is ''very'' big and ''very'' crazy. As its last surviving descendant, Tycho gets a little tired of all the other doomsday cults giving him flak over it.
* BrainsAndBrawn: The Brains to Gabe's Brawn.
* [[spoiler:DemonicPossession: Possessed by Yog Ur at the end of ''Episode 4'', and has to be killed by Moira.]]
* [[spoiler:FinalBoss]]: By virtue of [[spoiler: DemonicPossession]].
* GuestStarPartyMember: In ''Episode 4'', he's kind of busy doing his own thing and jumps in and out of the group when it suits him.
* OmnicidalManiac: No, you're not reading that wrong. The Brahe clan is actively trying to end existence. Tycho, however, differs from his clan in that he wants to make a new world from the ruins of the last.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: His weapons in ''Episode 3'', though the animation looks like a Tommy Gun.
** GatlingGood
* [[spoiler: WellIntentionedExtremist: Sealed Anne-Claire in the Periphery in order to create a better world since the incoming apocalypse was unavoidable. May have done the same to Rake Guy for the same reason.]]
* WorkingWithTheEx: With Moira.
* [[spoiler: WhatTheHellHero: Moira is incredibly horrified when she finds out that Tycho sealed Anne-Claire in the Periphery and plans to shoot him. Yog Modaigh's arrival in the Periphery is the only thing that stops her. Though Tycho was fine with being shot as long as their job was done first.]]

!!'''Gabriel'''
The fists of the Startling Developments Detective Agency. Well-meaning but none too bright, he joined up with Tycho after winning a fistfight with Satan.

* AnimeHair
* [[spoiler: ArtificialHuman: Is apparently one, as ''Episode 4'' reveals. Though where he was made by the Brahes or enslaved by them is never made clear.]]
* BadassCape: Played for laughs. He dons one resembling Doctor Blood's cape towards the end of ''Episode 3'' and it's anything but badass. It's also been linked to spontaneous internal human combustion. And by "linked to" we mean "directly responsible for."
* BloodKnight: Gabe really likes punching things.
* TheChosenOne: In the RPG universe the party enters in ''Episode 3', to everyone's annoyance.
* [[spoiler:DemonicPossession: He's host to Lucifer, a fact Tycho uses to occasionally mess with his memories.]]
** The ending of ''Episode 4'' reveals that [[spoiler:Gabe isn't ''possessed'' by Lucifer, he ''is'' Lucifer, handed down through the Brahe clan as a bodyguard and general thing-puncher. Tycho is apparently the first Brahe who regarded him as an actual friend.]]
* DumbMuscle
* GoodIsDumb
* GoodOldFisticuffs
* PlayingWithFire: His elemental attacks in ''Episode 3''.
* HolyHandGrenade: His Devil Knuckle attack.
* IronicName: His Devil Knuckle, a Holy-elemented attack.
* PluckyComicRelief
* SelfMadeOrphan: Not exactly. He left home at a young age because he heard how all great people start as orphans... his parents are pretty worried about him.
** [[spoiler: AvertedTrope: as it turns out, he's not human.]]

!!'''"Rake Guy" A.K.A. "You"'''
The player character in ''Episodes 1 and 2'', who joins the Startling Developments Investigations after their house was destroyed by Fruit Fucker Prime. S/he is absent from the rest of the series. As explained in the ''Episode 3'''s ''Begining of the End'' prequel DLC, [[spoiler:Tycho sealed them in the Periphery and wiped Gabe's memory of them.]]

* ButtMonkey: House gets stomped on by a giant robot, roped into fighting Elder Gods, temporary home gets destroyed, you finally find a new place to stay... gets burnt too the ground. [[spoiler: And then you see SealedBadassInACan below.]]
%%* CosmicPlaything: [[spoiler:Then you learn Yog Ur was behind your getting involved.]]
* DeadPanSnarker: Some of your dialogue opinions are these.
%%* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:A comment in ''The Begining of the End'' hints that there is more to you then meets the eye.]]
* FeaturelessProtagonist: Parodied in ''Episode 3'': since his or her appearance was customizable in the first 2 games, the short extra chapter in the ''Episode 3'' involving them solves this problem by having Gabe and Tycho randomly decide to refer to everyone with gender-neutral pronouns, with the latter stuffing them in a sack for the entirety of the episode so that nobody can tell what they actually look like.
%%* TheGenericGuy
%%* {{God}}: [[spoiler:It's implied that this is what happened at the end of ''Episode 4'' if that Rake constellation is any hint. Or God's bodyguard, at least.]]
%%* HelloInsertNameHere
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Uses a rake in the first game, and a hoe in the second. [[spoiler: Uses a rake again in the Third's DLC.]]
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Who knew you could fight Elder Gods with gardening tools?
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: You start on one. You get it by the end of ''Episode 2''.
* SealedBadassInACan: [[spoiler:Is cast into the Periphery by Tycho in the prequel to ''Episode 3''.]]
* SecretAIMoves: Hard to say which this counts as, but if you fight every battle in the third game's extra chapter, beating its final boss gains them just enough EXP to reach level 17, which gives them a move called Rake Armageddon. Too bad the episode ends at that point and there's no way to actually use it in battle. [[spoiler: Considering the implications about Rake Guy's nature and abilities listed below, maybe it's for the better.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Was deliberately inserted into the group by Yog Ur to help along the destruction of the universe.]]

!! Anne-Claire
Tycho's beloved niece and SDI's go to GadgeteerGenius.

* GadgeteerGenius
* [[spoiler:{{God}}: Becomes this at the end of ''Episode 4''.]]
* KillItWithFire: Attacks enemies with a flamethrower in ''Episode 1''.
** MoreDakka: Rains missiles down from a blimp in ''Episode 2''.
* OutOfFocus: Disappears after the first act of ''Episode 3'' to spend time with her parents. [[spoiler:This turns out to be a lie: Tycho instead sealed her in the Periphery so that she could recreate the universe into a far better one after its inevitable collapse.]]
* RobotBuddy: Fuschia, her pet [[spoiler:Reformed Fruit Fucker]].
* TeenGenius

!!'''Jim'''
A skull in a jar that was once Gabe and Tycho's partner. He's their head of security in ''Episodes 1 and 2'' and thus serves as a prop. He joins them in field work in ''Episode 3'' and regains his voice (if not his skin) in ''Episode 4''.

* AscendedExtra: Becomes a playable character in ''Episode 3'' and ''4'' after being a prop in ''Episodes 1 and 2'' .
* [[BrainInAJar Skull In A Jar]]: Until ''Episode 4''.
* CastingAShadow: One of his two primary elemental magics.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite being a skull in a jar who specializes in dark magic and raising the undead he's fairly nice once he gains the ability to speak in ''Episode 4''.
* DishingOutDirt: One of his two primary elemental magics.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: His equipment is jars and containers.
* [[{{Necromancer}} Necromaster]]
* NoodleIncident: How he became a skull in a jar is unclear, though Tycho mentions that something called the Geometricus was involved and that Tycho blames himself for it.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: His jar rapidly changes colors when a woman plays with its cork in ''Episode 3''.
* TemptingFate: Makes a ''really'' bad habit of this in ''Episode 4''. [[spoiler:At least two boss fights can be attributed to it.]]

!!'''Moira'''
A PI and Tycho's ex-wife, introduced in ''Episode 3''.

* BlowYouAway: Her primary elemental magic.
* TheLancer: Is usually the one to call out Tycho in ''Episode 3'' [[spoiler: and tries to shoot him when she finds out Tycho sealed Anne-Claire in the Periphery]].
* LightningBruiser: Is the fastest of the three characters and gains buffs for it late in the game.
* OnlySaneMan: When the next-sanest member of your party is trying to end the universe, you sort of fall into this role by default.
* PrivateDetective
* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler: Kills Tycho and, by extension, the entire cosmos in the series ending.]]
* WorkingWithTheEx: With Tycho.

!!'''Doctor Blood'''
A mysterious doctor who helps Gabe, Tycho and the Player in ''Episode 2'' [[spoiler: He's revealed to be serving Yog Modaigh in ''Episode 3'' and steals the paintings it needs to enter this plane. He joins the party in ''Episode 4'', revealing that he was doing so to save his lover Hestia.]]

* [[spoiler:TheAtoner: In ''Episode 4''.]]
* [[spoiler: BadAssCape: Has one starting in ''Episode 4''. Gabe tries to copy it... and fails.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: To Gabe, who spends what amounts to an eternity punching him on their way to Underhell after his actions lead to the end of the world.]]
* CoolCar: How he gets everywhere in ''Episode 3''. And we mean ''everywhere,'' logic, physics, or fuel economy be damned.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: The Necrowombicon dupes him into becoming Yog-Modaigh's vessel in ''Episode 3.'']]
* TheDragon: To [[spoiler: Yog Modaigh]] in ''Episode 3''.
* LargeHam: He manages this in ''Episode 3'' without ever actually saying anything. [[spoiler:Becomes a classic variety in ''Episode 4.'']]
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: Gets shivved by Hestia when they reunite. He kinda-sorta forgot to mention that she was only in Hell because he sold her soul for power.]]
* [[spoiler: MyGreatestFailure: Selling Hestia for power.]]
* [[spoiler: TooDumbToLive: Did you really think Hestia would be happy to see you after you sold her to a demon?]]

!!'''Hestia'''
The new party member of ''Episode 4.'' A no-nonsense lady with a solid grasp of the arcane arts, she has some troubled history with Doctor Blood.

* AxCrazy: Hestia's got herself some anger issues.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Imprisoned in a giant tower/slave camp in the Underhell. [[spoiler: Haha, no. She was running the place within a month.]]
* HeroicComedicSociopath: According to Blood, she was in the past a kind, gentle soul. Now? not so much.
* NightmareFetishist: The horrors of the Underhell don't faze her much. [[spoiler:Not to mention how she keeps her "prison's" former warden around as man-candy.]]
* StoneWall: Her trainer bonuses tend towards building defense, and her initial monster, Fuchsia, is one of the sturdiest units in the game.

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[[folder: The Four Gods '''(WARNING! SPOILERS)''']]

!!''Tropes that Apply to all of them''

* BigBad: Of the episodes they appear in.
* ElderGod: They have all been around since the creation of the universe.
* GodIsEvil: Well... they are called Gods... And they have rather grim designs for humanity...

!!''Yog Sethis, the Silent One''
God of silence and mimes.

* BigBad: Of ''Episode 1''.
* TheDragon: The Silent Pope is his.
* EldritchAbomination: His head certainly gives off this vibe.
* EnemyMime: Leads an entire ''cult'' of this.

!!''Yog Kathak, God of Gears''
The god of machines, [[spoiler:and the true identity of Fruit Fucker Prime]].

* BigBad: Of ''Episode 2''.
* HeroKiller: All those professors you got to know over the first two episodes? Yeah, he slaughters all of them except for Anne-Claire and Blood.
* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan: To Professor Mordo.]]
* [[spoiler: MagiTek: All the Fruit Fuckers are powered by Dark Steam, making them a blend of science and magic.]]
* NoCureForEvil: Averted. Every few turns, his "Self Repair" skill restores him to full health and heals any status effects or debuffs.
* NotSoAboveItAll: [[spoiler:Although his main goal, like the other gods, is to destroy the world, the fact that he is possessing Fruit Fucker Prime means he's just as susceptible to oranges as the lesser Fruit Fuckers.]]
* PuzzleBoss: [[spoiler:Defeating him requires you to constantly debuff his speed and buffing your own attack so you're able to defeat him before he can use his Self Repair skill.]]

!!''Yog Modaigh, God of Doors''
Don't let the title fool you, Yog Modaigh is no pushover. Rather than simply doors, his domain includes anything that can be considered a passageway, including ''death''.

* ArtImitatesLife: How he got sealed. Apparently, an effigy of a god become the god.
* BigBad: Of ''Episode 3''.
* EvilGenius: He seems to be the most intelligent and cunning of the Four Gods, at least compared to Sethis and Kathak.
* HumanoidAbomination: He's the most human-like of the Four Gods...except for the ''giant black hole in his ribcage''.
* InTheHood: His first form.
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:To Doctor Blood in ''Episode 3'']].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Ironically, going after Anne-Claire in the Periphery actually ends up saving Tycho's life, as Moira was literally seconds away from shooting him [[MamaBear in a rage over what he did to Anne-Claire]] when Modaigh attacked.]]
* OneWingedAngel: Two of them.
* SealedEvilInACan: His essence is trapped with four paints.
* [[spoiler:TakingYouWithMe: When the party defeats Doctor Blood and ruins his plans, Yog Modaigh uses the last of his power to literally tear Tycho apart]].

!!''Yog Ur [[spoiler:(The Narrator)]]''
The fourth and final god of the Quartet of the Dusk of Man. [[spoiler:He is, in fact, the narrator of ''Episodes 1 and 2''. His true form is a hideous mass of meat that hangs over the entire Underhell.]]

* BigBad: Of ''Episode 4'' [[spoiler:and the entire series]].
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:He's responsible for everything that's transpired up to this point, even providing "inspiration" for the Quartet For the Dusk of Man to get the ball rolling.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Does this to Tycho in a last attempt to save himself at the end of ''Episode 4''.]]
* EldritchAbomination: His first form is [[spoiler:an entire living ''continent'']].
* InterfaceScrew: [[spoiler:Since the Narrator provides all the game's flavor text, a lot of it becomes a lot less friendly after TheReveal. See IShallTauntYou.]]
* IShallTauntYou: It's a lot more chatty than the other Gods. [[spoiler:And since the Narrator controls the game's flavor text, said taunts even extend to the enemy descriptions and the recap screen.]]
* [[spoiler:LemonyNarrator]]
* [[spoiler:NarratorAllAlong]]
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: "And we shall rouse, with raised rod, to pierce the very house of God."
* RealityWarper: To a limited extent. [[spoiler:He can only control events if they make some degree of narrative sense. Summoning giant monsters with the justification that Tycho and co. hadn't seen them yet is fine. Going "and then the good guys' heads all exploded" is not fine.]]
* TheOmniscient: Certainly believes itself to be this. [[spoiler:In fact, it's the reason behind his masterminding of the gods' deaths - he's so sick of the constant noise from everyone else's presence that he wants to be the only remaining thing in existence.]]
* VillainsOutShopping: [[spoiler:If his dialogue in ''Episode 1'' is anything to go by, he has a soft spot for windsurfing. How he does it when he's the size of a continent, we'll never know.]]
* WordOfGod: The Fourth God's name is unmentioned in the game. Jerry Holkins provided the name at a Q&A panel at PAX Prime 2013.
* WorfHadTheFlu: After severing the pillars supporting Overhell, Yog Ur keeps it afloat through his power. But doing this takes a lot out of him, rendering him significantly more killable than he otherwise would be.

!!''The Necrowombicon''
Not a god per se, but a TomeOfEldritchLore that exists to do their bidding - and does a damned good job of it, too. Appearing as a gold-plated tome with Penny Arcade's classic wombat logo on the front, the Necrowombicon keeps popping up to cause trouble for our heroes.

* ArtifactOfDoom: In a world filled with artifacts of varying levels of doom-ness, the Necrowombicon is the doomiest of them all.
* BookOfShadows: Its pages can show whatever needs to be shown to further its plans. Tellingly, it stays completely blank whenever Tycho tries to read it (Gabe probably doesn't bother).
* BreakThemByTalking: Yes, an inanimate object did this. At the end of ''Episode 4'', it [[spoiler: revealed itself to have taken the form of Tycho's sword, and taunted him with images of the many ways Anne-Claire would die at the hands of Yog Ur. After spending the entire game being subtly drained by the Necrowombicon's power, plus the despair this display gave him, allowed the fourth God to possess Tycho]].
* TheCorrupter: For a mostly inanimate object, it's very good at enslaving people to do the Four Gods' bidding, [[spoiler:including Dr. Blood and Tycho himself.]]
* TheDragon: Effectively acts as this for each of the Four Gods.
* ShapeShifter: [[spoiler:Disguises itself as Tycho's sword for the entirety of ''Episode 4''.]]

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