Major characters in Alex Has A Point include but are not necessarily limited to the following. Characters are sorted by their order of appearance.
Party Members
In General
Tropes which are applicable to either all or a significant number of potential party members include:
- Generic Guy: Tao, Georgy, and Derb are all relatively normal, if a little greedy in the case of Georgy and a little lonely and desirous of companionship in the case of Derb.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Included in this group are A Disciple of Brad, a fish, and a pantsless man dressed like a bird.
- True Companions: Kind of. Raven and Derb are only with you for the friendship, though it's not extremely reciprocated.It is also of note that, by the end of the game, all but one of them will leave your side.
Alex
"Fuck you."
The protagonist of "Alex Has a Point." Here, he is a skilled martial artist, a Disciple of Brad, a man of few words, and, generally speaking, a bit of an ass.
- Adaptational Badass: Alex, by virtue of being a Brad Disciple, uses the Armstrong fighting style, which is superior to his original Velvet Fu.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Alex is much less kind than in The Pointless. Indeed, one of the three people just outside the starting house calls him rude for referring to Joel Island as "garbage." Alex, naturally, responds with an expletive and murdering the man.
- Character Catchphrase: "Fuck you." He also calls people "whore" quite often. It's not necessarily a gendered insult, either. It would be rather difficult for it to be in Olathe, but he can be seen calling Chie one in a pre-Flash scene, and he uses the word on Arnold just before the end of the Downtown Olathe section of the game.
- Of note, saying "fuck you" to basically everyone seems to be a thing among Brad Disciples, as evidenced by Alex's conversation with a boy who is not a Brad Disciple but who does admire them. Chie also explicitly states this during her pre-Flash discussion with Alex.
- Made of Iron: There is a point in the game where a car may strike Alex. If it does, he survives relatively unscathed, but the car bursts into flames and everyone inside is killed.
- Omnicidal Maniac: For most of the game, Alex's only apparent motivation is to kill everyone, rather than his original motivation to find a place better than Joel Island or Downtown Olathe. This is true to the point that his querrel with Arnold is that Arnold is killing everyone, which Alex wishes to do, and his querrel with Rando is that he "stole his kill." Probably most of all, when Alex reaches the First Fold of Infinity, nothing happens and the attitude of the franchise is no different from his, except, perhaps, that it is too corporate, mild, and calm. It is worth noting, however, that, though Alex kills many of the characters he speaks to, he does leave a considerable other portion alive.
- The Protagonist: Probably in the Nominal Hero category or another category of non-heroic protagonist.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: See his catchphrases above or his quote.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Him being verbally cruel and his catchphrases don't seem to come naturally to him. He is much kinder in his flashback scenes. The cruelty is explicitly described as a part of the Armstrong style. He smiles at Chie Teal in the tournament, rather than immediately call her a "whore" or say "fuck you," though the player is given the option to do the former. As a school boy, he does not assault Vincent Lo, unlike in the original game.
Tao
Tao as he appears as a party member.
A speedster. He joins your party on Garbage Island, joining your party ahead of the fight with Roland. He disappears when Georgy transforms into a joy mutant. Georgy Hernandez
- Hidden Depths: He turns into a joy mutant at the end of the Joel Island segment. In order for this to happen, he must have been addicted to joy. This implies that he must have been unhappy enough to want to feel nothing. He shows no real signs of angst during the events of the game, so he must have had more going on than was immediately apparent.
Fish
Fish as he appears in your party.
A Fish you meet by talking a fisherman on Joel Island several times.- Mana: Averted. He has 0 SP and all of his Skills cost 0 MP to use.
- White Mage: Most of his skills inflict status effects on the enemy or heal party members. Furthermore, his attack, Flop, does not do very much damage at all and it cannot target a particular enemy in combat, instead just randomly hitting one of them, assuming that the player is facing off against more than one enemy combatant.
Derb Wesley
Derb as he appears in your party
A man in Downtown Olathe who joins you due to his loneliness.- Damage Over Time: One of his attacks, Scratch, can inflict the Bleed status effect.
- Doomed by Canon: Derb's time with you will end with his death. He either leaves your party upon the start of a fight with Senyor Keister, Alejandro Babbage, and Jessie Mack if you encounter them from the front - seemingly due to being stabbed - or he will die in the fall after the battle with Rando.
- Fantastic Fighting Style: Derb is not a martial artist. He fights by spanking his enemies, crying, scratching, and groping. It is much more effective than it sounds.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: His stated motivation for joining your group.
- Point of Divergence: In LISA: The Pointless, Derb is a member of Office Ottoman's gang. He still expresses loneliness and a wish to be Alex's friend. He does not join Alex's group, becomes a member of the Infinity Franchise, and is subsequently killed by Alex and Joel. In Alex has a Point, he joins Alex's group, never becoming a member of the Franchise.
- In Spite of a Nail: He ends up dead either way, either getting stabbed or dying as a result of falling off a cliff. Please see Doomed by Canon above for details. Either way, his ultimate fate in the story is to die. It is merely how he gets there that differs in the two games.
Raven Cheekmaster
"I love you!"
A somewhat pudgy man dressed in a bird suit. He joins your party for reasons similar to Derb Wesley. As he is a raven, or at least dressed as one, he allows you save your game at any time outside of combat. This is helpful, as this is still a LISA: The Pointless mod, and all save points are single-use and activate automtically.
Raven as he appears in your party
- Utility Party Member: Averted, actually! Raven is extremely useful to have for his game-saving abilities, but his base attacks are quite powerful and he has skills that can hit multiple enemies as well as render them Fallen and thus, unable to attack.
