The cast of ''Literature/PerryRhodan'', and associated tropes.

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[[folder:Immortal Characters (those currently still alive)]]

'''Perry Rhodan''', born 1936 A.D., was an American astronaut and the first man on the moon in 1971.
* TheChosenOne
* TheHero and TheEmperor
* EmperorScientist
* MagneticHero and ThePowerOfFriendship
* ActuallyIAmHim: Perry seems to enjoy pulling this one on the hapless Julian Tifflor.
* HeroicWillpower
* TheFettered
* DysfunctionalFamily: let's just say that Perry has not the best of luck when it comes to having a normal family.
* {{Omniglot}}: Fluent in about twelve languages.

'''Reginald "Bully" Bull''', born 1938 A.D., accompanied Rhodan on the lunar mission and has been his friend and right hand ever since.
* FaceHeelTurn (TheEmperor / BigBad)
* GunboatDiplomacy
* HeelFaceTurn
* HeroicSpirit: or in his case, bullheaded stubbornness
* TheLancer
* JerkAss

'''Atlan''' (Mascaren da Gonozal), born 8045 B.C. (10,479 [[AlternativeCalendar da Ark]] in the Arkonide calendar)
* ActionHero
* AncientAstronauts: Atlantis is named after him
* BlueBlood
* TheCasanova
* TheChosenOne
* CosmicPlaything
* DeadpanSnarker: Atlan's logic sector
* DefeatMeansFriendship
* DefectorFromDecadence: Atlan's chosen home is Terra
* TheEmperor: Ruled the Great Empire for 69 years
* OfficerAndAGentleman
* TheOlderImmortal
* PhotographicMemory: Graduate of the famous and dangerous Arkonide trial, the [=ARK SUMMIA=].
* RebelLeader: In his youth.
* TheRival
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Subverted. He may be Rhodan´s cynic rival, but he is one of the good guys.

'''Homer G. Adams''', born 1918 A.D., is a financial genius who joined Rhodan early. His holding "General Cosmic Company" provided money and economic influence for Rhodan, in exchange for Arkonide technology. A hunchback.
* TheSmartGuy
* OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding: the General Cosmic Company, which generated enough wealth to fund a country.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
* PhotographicMemory

'''Pucky''' (''Gucky'' in the German original, his alien name is Plofre), a small, mischievous and far too powerful furry alien psychic.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: The textbook offender
* PsychicPowers: telepathy, teleportation, telekinesis.
* LastOfHisKind: his species survived the destruction of their homeworld (thanks to him) but their descendants developed shorter lifetimes and eventually went extinct about 2000 years later. And he was estranged from them for most of the time.
* VitriolicBestBuds with Reginald Bull

'''Julian Tifflor''', born 1961 A.D., gormless cadet who keeps getting pitched into the deep end.
* AccidentalHero
* SuperSoldier : went through the [[TrainingFromHell Upanishad]] and was granted with the title [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Eternal Warrior]], which most autors tend to overlook.
* [[spoiler:BreakTheCutie]] Recently forced to [[spoiler: walk for several million years through a white corridor of nothing, which made him start to behave like [[TheStoic The Stoic]], and effectively turned him into a [[TimeAbyss Time Abyss]].]]

'''Ronald Tekener'''
* TheGambler and ProfessionalGambler
* TheMagicPokerEquation
* AntiHero
* DatingCatwoman: Fittingly, Tekener was married to Dao-Lin H'ay for a time.

'''Icho Tolot''', a four-armed, 3.5 meters tall alien from the planet of Halut
* TheBigGuy (Class 2 and 5)
* ImmuneToBullets: He is literally immune to bullets. Haluters can transform their whole body into a nearly indestructible form of matter on a cellular level, although they cannot move in that condition.
* GeniusBruiser: is well regarded as a scientist and capable of calculating faster than most computers (which is a racial trait for his species)
* GentleGiant: has motherly feelings for "his" Terrans.

'''Roi Danton''' (actually '''Michael Reginald Rhodan'''), born 2405 A.D. as son of Rhodan and his second wife
* LukeYouAreMyFather
* TheEmperor
* [[ObfuscatingStupidity Obfuscating Foppishness]]: Not wanting to stand in his father's shadow all his life, the young Michael Rhodan went underground and invented the foppish persona of the rake "Roi Danton" for himself, completely with the historical costumes of an 18th century French aristocrat, and finds himself allies in a bunch of space traders.

'''Alaska Saedelaere''', born 3400 A.D., victim of a transporter accident that fused him with ''something else''
* BlessedWithSuck: what he hides behind his [[WhiteMaskOfDoom mask]].
* TheFaceless
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: what happens if a sentient being looks at his face without him wearing his mask. Usually ends with the hapless onlooker being DrivenToSuicide.
* LonersAreFreaks
* TheQuietOne
* [[CosmicPlaything Cosmic Traveller]]
* CelibateHero
* TeleporterAccident: what caused his face to become a miniature EldritchAbomination

'''Dao-Lin H'ay'''
* CatGirl
* PsychicPowers: weak telepathy, unless she is using an UpgradeArtifact
* ActionGirl

'''Bostich''' (really Gaumarol da Bostich, or Emperor Bostich I.), born 4799 A.D. (the year 21,345 in the Arkonide calendar)
* BlueBlood
* IGaveMyWord: when Bostich gives his word, he sticks to it
* PhotographicMemory: Graduate of the famous and dangerous Arkonide trial, the [=ARK SUMMIA=].
* BadassBookworm and a GentlemanAndAScholar: [[CunningLinguist Fluent in several old languages]], encyclopedic knowledge of Arkon's imperial history and court etiquette, and has impeccable manners if he wants to.
* DarkAndTroubledPast
* BewareTheNiceOnes: In his youth, Bostich was a gentle, erudite person and a dutiful son. Then, his family was murdered.
* StartOfDarkness put him on the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism to AntiVillain status.
* TheEmperor and ThePrince: A textbook example of Machiavellian politics, but he is never cruel for cruelty's sake.
* EmperorScientist: Sorta, as Bostich outsources the science part to his childhood friend and HypercompetentSidekick Aktakul.
* TheChessmaster
* {{Determinator}}
* HeroicWillpower
* DreamingOfThingsToCome / WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Bostich's logic sector, when first activated, exhibited [[SplitPersonality multiple personality disorder]] and spoke to him only in visions and dreams until Bostich finally managed to [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind exorcise himself in a dream]] by killing all his "advisors" who had prophesied he would be emperor one day. Only afterwards was he able to hear the voice of his normal ''Extrasinn''. Years later, when he received his own immortality device, Bostich got confirmation that the same cosmic entity who had granted Rhodan immortality had been [[CosmicPlaything manipulating]] Bostich's dreams (and maybe his life) all those years ago.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: ''"For the might and glory of Arkon."''
* WorthyOpponent and EnemyMine to Rhodan
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Bostich is a skilled swordfighter.
* MightMakesRight
* NecessaryEvil and DirtyBusiness
* GreyAndGrayMorality
* ShootTheDog turned him into the BigBad: During his darkest time, Bostich crossed the MoralEventHorizon when he had a former friend (who had started a rival empire) tortured and executed as a traitor and all of the 20,000 enemy spaceships mercilessly destroyed ''after'' they had been shut down by a computer virus and were helplessly drifting in space - with the crews still in them. Shortly afterwards, he had the Terran minister of defense, Reginald Bull, abducted and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] for information.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Bostich considers himself a pragmatist, but he has the hidden heart of a romantic. Unfortunately, as a young man he fell in love with Atlan's daughter Jasmyne da Ariga although they only spent a few days together as a couple, and decades later he is [[LongingLook still yearning for her]], despite the fact that she has rejected him and threatened to slit his throat if he continues on his dark path.
* MindRape: Which happened ''to'' Bostich when an evil newly ascended cosmic power named [=SEELENQUELL=] took over his mind and the minds of everyone on Arkon and forced Arkon into a direct war with Terra.
* BreakTheHaughty
* HeelFaceTurn (see the entry in the main ''Literature/PerryRhodan'' article), but oddly enough ''not'' due to LoveRedeems.
* TheUnfettered: both as the VillainProtagonist and later as the elected President of the New Galacticum
* LonelyAtTheTop
* MarriedToTheJob: He's still single.

'''Monkey''' (actual name!), a human from a high-gravity world, a former Terran secret agent and trained assassin, leader of the ''New United Stars Organisation''.
* SinisterShades
* TheStoic
* ImplacableMan and more or less ImmuneToBullets
* TheBigGuy (Class 1)
* DirtyBusiness
* IDidWhatIHadToDo
* TheUnfettered

'''Mondra Diamond''' (really Agalija Teekate), born 4843 A.D. on Horrikos, Rhodan's latest female companion, originally a circus artist
* CircusBrat
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower
* gave birth to a "star child" that ascended
* ActionGirl
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'''IT''', the main higher entity of the series. IT rules the local group of galaxies and gave Rhodan and the others their immortality. Unlike other beings of its level, IT usually doesn't command the peoples in these galaxies (but tends to secretly nudge them in the "correct" direction).

'''ESTARTU''' shares a common origin with IT and refers to IT as her brother.
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[[folder:Others]]

'''Mirona Thetin''', born ca 25,000 B.C. on Tamanium, was a lemurian scientist and Factor I of the Masters of the Island.
* ManipulativeBastard
* SmugSnake
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