The characters of Bear With Me and its prequel The Lost Robots. Work in progress.
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Main Characters
Amber Ashworth
- Allegorical Character: Amber is the embodiment of guilt and sadness she repressed after the tragic deaths of her family. Her creation Paper City is just The Last Straw to cope such trauma she had to go through over losing Flint.
- Big Little Sister: She's slightly taller than Flint, but is one year younger than him.
- Dark and Troubled Past: She was revealed to have been rushed to a hospital during her childhood after revealing to be allergic to bananas, so much that she had to be treated immediately from a life-threatening allergy. Then, tragedy struck when a fire erupted from her family home, which killed her older brother Flint. The rest of the final act embodies this trope as she has to confront her repressed tragedies all at once during the Grand Finale, before culminating in a climatic standoff against the Big Bad, the Red Man.
- Damsel in Distress: She was captured by Locke during the events of Chapter 2, forcing Ted to find her. At the same time...
- Damsel out of Distress: She later frees herself after Ted was shot by Locke and used her powers to turn Locke back to his original form.
- Demoted to Extra: In The Lost Robots, she's only a minor character in the game as her older brother Flint takes her place.
- Innocence Lost: The loss of Flint made her realise how Life Isn't Fair in the first place, as she was only a child.
- The Maker: She is revealed to have created all of Paper City, a city whose population is comprised of Living Toys, inside her head. On the inside she is simply an artistic demigoddess who has control over it, but everything about the city is simply an allegorical metaphor of her coping mechanism for the loss of Flint.
- Orphan's Ordeal: After losing both her parents and Flint, Amber goes through this as she deals with the painful side of being an orphan, combined with the trauma she went through over losing him.
- Younger than She Looks: She looks like a girl in her mid to late teens, but it is revealed from the game's digital art book and the cutscene during the Rooftop Confrontation that she is ten years old.
Ted E. Bear
- 10-Minute Retirement: At the start of Chapter 1, Ted is retired by all means, having had no interest in going back to his job as a detective. However, after much budging from Amber about the Red Man, he later goes with her to solve his mystery.
- Deuteragonist: He is the second most important character of both games, being the primary companion to both Amber and Flint in the original game and its prequel, respectively. Ironically, Ted has a much more principal focus in both games than Amber and Flint.
- Hardboiled Detective: Of the wannabe sort. He tries to be a tough, cynical detective by showing little emotions in front of Amber and by calling her "doll". But he often fails to exhibit some of the usual traits of this trope. Even at once instance he drinks a "carrot juice" that became the subject of Amber's teasing regarding his drinking habits initially. However, due to how corrupt the police force are in Paper City, Ted embodies this trope when he and Amber solve the mystery of the Red Man on their own.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Gets shot by Locke from the back in order to defend Amber from Mills, sacrificing himself from the process.
- In the Back: His final fate after he was shot dead by Locke.
- Living Toys: Like many of the Paper City's inhabitants, Ted is revealed to be an example of this after the big revelation regarding Paper City's true nature being a creation of Amber.
- Playable Character: He served as one during Amber's captivity from Mills and Locke.
- Punny Name: His name is a pun for "teddy bear", due to him being one.
- Retirony: From the start of Chapter 1, Ted stated to Amber that finding the Red Man around Paper City and cracking the case of his terror across the city is his last job. The Irony becomes more obvious when Locke, the chief commissioner of PCPD and Mills' right-hand, shot him in the back during the Rooftop Confrontation.
- Series Mascot: He's the definitive mascot of both the first game and its prequel game.
- Tempting Fate: Ted, ignoring Amber's warnings, decided to rescue Amber from her captivity, leading to Locke putting a bullet on him.
Flint Ashworth (Unmarked Spoilers)
- A Day in the Limelight: Started off as the central focus of Bear With Me's main story before becoming the main protagonist and the Playable Character of its prequel.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: To his sister from the first game who is different to her in many ways. Unlike the fragile but tough Amber, Flint is impulsive, abrasive and impatient. They are both clever who are able to escape from danger, but Amber does it through by being creative while Flint does it more structurally via general observation and hands-on experience.
- Dead All Along: He was already dead before the game's events began. Amber's pursuit of finding him is basically all for nothing as this was just the Red Man, in the Grand Finale, trying to confront her guilt of losing him.
- I Will Find You: The primary focus of Bear With Me is Amber finding him who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Subverted near the end when it is revealed that it is just a Red Herring as Flint was already Dead All Along before the events of the game, who died from the house fire.
- Older Than He Looks: The complete opposite to his younger sister, who is 10 years old but looking like a girl in mid-to-late teens, as Flint is an 11-year-old boy who looks like 9 to 10 years old.
- Playable Character: He serves as one in the prequel game The Lost Robots.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: Amber's overarching goal throughout the game is to find Flint, who somehow disappeared across Paper City, while avoiding the terror of both the Red Man and Mills. It turned out that he was already Dead All Along during the house fire that killed him and their parents a year ago, making her goal completely fruitless at the end as the Flint that appeared in The Lost Robots is just another of her manifestations stemmed from her guilt.
- Tender Tears: In one scene at the bar, where he is seen crying next to Ted while retelling everything about Amber when she was sent to hospital for her near-death allergies.
- Walking Spoiler: It is hard not to talk about Flint without spoiling the reveal of the game.
Other Characters
C.B.G.
- Big Damn Heroes: At the penultimate moment before the Rooftop Confrontation, C.B.G. attacks two PCPD police officers, which gave Ted the necessary time to reach Amber and save her from Mills and Locke.
- Expy: A bizarre parody of Batman from the titular comic book. He wears a cowl and a cape, as well as black pants and a belt that has a bat logo that is suspiciously similar to the superhero. The main difference is C.B.G. is wearing a straitjacket around him, compounding on how he is a bizarre version of Batman.
- Institutional Apparel: Straitjacket, which was assumed that he was once sent to a mental asylum due to his insane, erratic behaviour.
Millie
Amber's giraffe caretaker who is often seeing inside her room.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Mother: Non-parent variation. Millie doesn't want Amber to get out on her own to find out what the Red Man is up to and instead insists her on teaming up with the sour detective Ted inside his closet.
- Put on a Bus: Of a sort. After the Red Man visited Amber's room and either killed Millie or not on the player's choice, she is nowhere to be seen in the next few chapters. Granted as she's a Living Toy, being a manifestation of Amber's trauma.
Rusty Rocket
The robot that guards Amber's room. He was a former employee before he was forced to evacuate during the Red Man's terror.
- Small Role, Big Impact: After Amber and Ted took his battery for the flashlight, his deactivation eventually kickstarts the main plot of the first game when the Red Man shows up.
The Mugshot Brothers
- Brains and Brawn: Jimmy is the brains to Jon-Jon's brawn.
- Master Forger: They are both forgers who are able to create rather convincing fake legal documents that would fool anyone else.
Clark
- The Faceless: His face is often hidden, where only his white eyes can be seen.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: After drinking a tea that was spiked with a pepper, he later sneezed on impulse before falling down as he was sitting backwards.
- Stalker without a Crush: To Betty's own dismay, Clark is seen "fishing" next to Shell Bay Dinner, while hiding the fact that he is in it for her. Unsurprisingly, Ted and Amber know what he is up to and Clark tries to hide it badly. Both of them are able to use it to let him give his own fishing rod.
Tigren Jones
- The Hermit: She lives at an abandoned building at a remote area of the city all by herself.
- Killed Off for Real: Unlike in Millie and C.B.G.'s case where their deaths entirely depend on the player's choice while controlling the Red Man, Tigren was killed by the Red Man completely.
- The Omniscient: She has been predicting many of the game's events within the future, as shown within the walls of her lair where she was able to predict Amber's abduction at the hands of Mills and Locke.
- Witch Doctor: She is stereotypically as one, as she is into the occult, with her lair being littered with bizarre artifacts and unusual writings on the wall that were basically predictions in the future.
Reef King
- Arch-Enemy: To Mills, who sees him as a rival for being the city's new mayor.
- The Don: He is the leader of his own criminal empire across Paper City and has a significant influence in the underground crime world.
- Good All Along: Despite his tough, antagonistic demeanour and his way of speaking towards Amber, he is revealed to be a good guy to Amber all along, assisting Amber and Ted posthumously in stopping Mills.
- Immune to Bullets: Zig-Zagged. When Ted attempts to kill him in one of the choices with his gun, King is seemingly immune to getting shot and the bullet lands on his bodyguard to the immediate right. It is revealed that this is because of the candle that Tigren lit which makes him immune to anything. Subverted once Tigren blew the said candle off, making him vulnerable to bullets where he met his inevitable fate at the hands of PCPD officers.
Sam/Blabbermouth
- Meaningful Name: As in the name blabbermouth, which is a person who talks excessively and indiscreetly. He is a journalist who has non-stop obsession over writing articles and news headlines regarding the city's true inner workings, as well as talking about them without any filter.
Otto "O.C.D." Chameo Dillinger
- Meaningful Name: O.C.D. (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), which points out to him having OCD in the job when it comes to the slightest mistakes imaginable and will stop at nothing to correct them.
Robbie Robotson
- Tritagonist: After being rebooted by Flint and Ted, he becomes the third important character in The Lost Robots, helping both of them to stop the Big Bad Lifty after she betrayed both of them.
Fixy Mender
- Ms. Fixit: Fixy is a chief car mechanic who is heavily skilled in fixing broken cars, as well as broken-down robots.
Antagonists
Mayor Daniel Mills
- Arch-Enemy: To King, who sees him as a rival for being the mayor of Paper City.
- Big Bad Ensemble: Serving as one of the main antagonists of Bear With Me with the Red Man over the course of the game, who also actively targets Amber and Ted. But he's a Non-Action Big Bad where his right-hand Locke does most of his heavy work and is the more active threat to the protagonists than himself. After he is taken out of the picture, the Red Man becomes the sole Big Bad in the final chapter. At the end...
- Big Bad Wannabe: Mills is comparatively the weakest of the two antagonists in the game, as he serves more of an annoyance to the protagonists than a genuine threat (to say nothing of Locke). Despite Mills being responsible for King's death, his threats are often overshadowed by the game's true Big Bad Red Man, who actively hounds the protagonists far more often. And at the final end of the game, the Red Man takes over completely as Amber's Arch-Enemy and the real enemy she faces in the Grand Finale.
- Corrupt Politician: He's the Paper City's mayor who is not above using underhanded tactics like bribing the police to kill his rival candidate King inside his residence.
- Disc-One Final Boss: After Mills is defeated by Amber, there is still the Red Man for her to deal with at the end.
- Non-Action Big Bad: He's the city's corrupt mayor with a grip over the corrupt elements within it. Burt most of his dirty deeds are always done with Locke, who is seemingly the more personal threat to Amber and Ted than himself.
- Villain with Good Publicity: He is the mayor of Paper City who is reputably popular amongst the city's populace. In reality he's a corrupt Smug Snake who is feuding with the crime lord and rival candidate King, going so far in sending Locke and his PCPD police officers to storm his mansion and kill him and his minions, as well as kidnapping Amber.
Red Man (Unmarked Bear With Me Spoilers Inside!)
- Anti-Villain: The Red Man, while actively burning a city for his reasons and even killing some people despite being inside Amber's head, is a representation of her repressed memories during the house fire that killed Flint and her family. His true motivation is to force Amber to confront her past instead of bottling it.
- Arch-Enemy: He is Amber and Ted's most persistent foe throughout the game. In the final end of the game, he is the main foe that Amber faces.
- Ax-Crazy: If burning an entire city and killing Millie and Tigren isn't an indication enough, the main characters' goal is to uncover his involvement in both of them. His constant pursuing of the protagonists throughout the game is another indication of his unrelenting madness, making him undoubtedly a more violent threat than Mills.
- Big Bad: The main antagonist of Bear With Me. He is a mysterious serial killer and an enigmatic criminal across Paper City, responsible for a string of murders and arsons, and actively pursues both Ted and Amber across the city. He started out as part of the Big Bad Ensemble between Mills, who also pursue Amber and Ted over 4/5ths of the game, before he ultimately becomes the sole main antagonist for the rest of the game after Mills was taken care of.
- Big Bad Ensemble: Initially starting as one of the two main antagonists of Bear With Me along with Mills, the corrupt Paper City mayor, for the majority of the story, as he and him both wanted to target Amber and Ted but for different reasons of their own. He later grows out of this trope after Mills' death, thus eclipsing him completely, and the Red Man becomes the true Big Bad, which makes Amber's utmost enemy to face.
- The Faceless: His face is just a black void with two white eyes glinting amongst it.
- Final Boss: He is the last foe Amber faces at the climatic end of the game, but the way of stopping him completely differs, where she either kills him with the sword or giving the cloth to him.
- Irony: Being that he's from a piece of a fireman's cloth that Amber ripped apart. But he's an arsonist.
- Knight of Cerebus: The moment the Red Man showed up in Amber's home and either kills Millie or not, the whole tone of the story becomes serious.
- Meaningful Name: The Red Man is named as such due to the colour of his clothing. Similarly, it is the same colour of the cloth piece that Amber ripped off from a fireman during the house fire.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Unlike most characters in Paper City who are based off of Amber's toys, the Red Man is designed more crudely, being based off of a piece of cloth.
- Player Character: In two instances, where the player takes control of him. The first instance is the player controlling Red to either kill Millie or simply escape through the window. The second instance is the player controlling him to kill Tigren Jones.
- Pyromaniac: Before the events of the story's Chapter 1, the Red Man started a string of multiple fires across Paper City, which became the central focus of the story, at first.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Averted to a sort. While he has a red and black motif who is the Big Bad of Bear With Me, it is revealed at the end that he is simply an Anti-Villain trying to help Amber out of her trauma.
- Red Herring: Ted and Amber's pursuit to find the Red Man's link to a series of arsons across the city is initially the main goal. But it is revealed that it is not their main goal whatsoever. Their attempt to solve the mystery about the Red Man instead resulted in a drastically different situation that put them on Mills' radar.
- The Reveal: The Red Man is revealed to be another of Amber's manifestations in Paper City, who was derived from the red cloth from the fireman's clothing she ripped apart after the house fire that killed her brother Flint.
- Walking Spoiler: It is hard not to talk about him without revealing who he actually is in reality and his connection to Amber.
Commissioner Locke R.
- Dirty Cop: He is willing to work with Mills in order to murder his political rival King at his own mansion. It's not hard to know that he is already embodying this trope when he was mostly dormant during the mass-disappearances of many robots across the city in the prequel. This is pretty much Foreshadowing him working with the corrupt mayor. It's saying something when Ted brutally lampshades it in his confrontation with him about him being a former good cop before working with a Corrupt Politician and throw every moral code he had known out of the window.
- The Dragon: He serves as the second-in-command to Mills, being his personal bodyguard. However...
- Dragon-in-Chief: Mills is the obvious threat to Amber and Ted, for sure. But between the two, Locke is the one who often does the mayor's dirty work for most of the time with the PCPD's corrupt officers on his side and is more of a competent threat to the protagonists than the mayor himself.
- Evil Former Friend: He was once Ted's friend, but he became more underhanded as the years go by, even siding with the equally corrupt Paper City mayor Mills as his bodyguard. The Rooftop Confrontation at the end culminates with Locke not wanting to be put up with Ted's black-and-white view and sees the world as grey.
- Grey-and-Gray Morality: Discussed during the Rooftop Confrontation. Ted curiously points out how his once-former friend in the force has become more and more pragmatic, before Locke points out that nothing is made of good and evil and the concept of Black-and-White Morality does not exist, but rather it is always grey in terms of morality.
- Villain Has a Point: During the climatic Rooftop Confrontation between Ted and Mills, the Commissioner notes how the world around is not purely black and white where everything is strictly evil and good, but simply grey for all of the time.Locke: This city happened to me, Ted. It took me a while, but eventually I saw it. There is no right and wrong, you see? Nothing is black nor white. It's rather grey... All of it. All the time...
The Real Culprit (Unmarked The Lost Robots Spoilers Inside!)
WARNING: This is a Walking Spoiler character as she is core to the story of The Lost Robots, so EVERY spoilers about her are UNMARKED!
- '20s Bob Haircut: Downplayed. While the game is set in 1937, her hairstyle is a bobbed bowl-cut, which was a popular haircut for women back in The Roaring '20s.
- Bad Boss: She doesn't like her employees Barry and Harold to the point that she spends most of her time calling them out for their idiocy. Takes this to another level at the end when she threatens Harold with death after he and Barry turned against her.
- Big Bad: The true main antagonist of The Lost Robots. She is the seemingly grouchy leader of the Robot Union who protests against Skinner's questionable labour practices including him stealing relays just to power up his headlights, before she is revealed to be the employer of Barry and Harold and later the mastermind of the mass-disappearances of the robots across Paper City and the mass-theft of ratchet relays from their husks.
- Big Bad Ensemble: With Skinner of The Lost Robots but he later gets eliminated by both Ted and Flint halfway through the story, making her the true main antagonist of the game after her past motivations were revealed.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: While she's already a grump in her first appearance, she is a well-meaning robot who is simply pissed off of Skinner for his stupidity and enlisted Ted and Flint to expose his crimes to the public. In reality, she's actually more sinister than who she initially is.
- The Chessmaster: Her plan to stop Skinner is this. She enlists the help of Ted and Flint into exposing Skinner's crimes by directly breaking to his own company office and discover many clues about his mass-hoarding of relays, while also finding a ratchet relay to fix Robbie. This was revealed to be a mere ruse on her part as she uses it to remove him from sight and instead this was largely due to her being the real mastermind behind the disappearances of many robots across the city. By putting both the criminal duo Barry and Harold as her right-hands within her employ, she was the one who allowed them to supply the relays that Skinner ordered, all of which were directly stolen from the robots she gutted out.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Prequel in this case, she is this towards the Red Man, the Big Bad of the original game. The Red Man is motivated by his plot to cause chaos across Paper City, who has an extremely enigmatic personality and appearance. Lifty is a robot who is the head of the Robot Union who, at first, starts off as a Good All Along helper towards Flint and Ted to stop Skinner's plans to revive Robbie with a relays before revealing to be Evil All Along who is actually the mastermind behind it. Also, while the Red Man works alone and is largely a threat to Paper City's citizens, Lifty hires Barry and Harold to her own employ to do her dirty deeds, but at the same time she's a threat to the robots she gutted out for their relays. The Red Man is also an Anti-Villain who represents Amber's repressed memories, while Lifty is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who is corrupt and self-serving, being non-hesitant to betray Flint and Ted once Skinner was put behind bars. While Amber faces the Red Man at the finale of Bear With Me, Lifty is unceremoniously defeated by Harold at the end of The Lost Robots.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: The head of the Robot Union is later revealed to be the true culprit of the disappearances of the robots.
- Evil All Along: Her grumpy, straightforward persona is a front for who she actually is: the mastermind behind the mass-disappearances of Robots across Paper City.
- Faux Affably Evil: Comes off as well-meaning and polite, but it doesn't take long before she is revealed to be a grumpy, pissed-off robot who is hiding her more sinister side.
- Good All Along: She is initially seen as a helper to both Ted and Flint, even planning to revive Robbie Robotson by helping them find a ratchet relay to reboot him back to life, as well as solving the case of the missing robots across the city. Subverted when it is later revealed at the end that she's the mastermind behind their disappearance and not Skinner, who is only the one who orders the parts and both her Co-Dragons Barry and Harold are the suppliers of it.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Lifty has a long cigarette holder that she uses to smoke, which fits her highly manipulative personality hidden within her Robot Union persona.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: She has a very short fuse whenever her patience is tested.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: After losing it, she now attempts to kill both Barry and Harold for their betrayal. She instead gets killed at the end when she and Harold plunged themselves to their deaths in the lighthouse.
- Killer Robot/Serial Killer: Later revealed to be this as she was the one behind the disappearances of the other sentient robots across Paper City in the past, when she gutted their bodies out and stole their ratchet relays before burying their corpses in inconspicuous areas.
- Manipulative Bitch: Her goal is to give Ted and Flint the pretence of solving the mystery behind the disappearances of robots across the city by confronting Skinner about the relays that he hoarded, with one relay that is essential to revive Robbie. However this was all just a scheming front for her true nature as she is the real perpetrator to the crime.
- One-Wheeled Wonder: She only has one foot that is a wheel.
- Secret Identity Vocal Shift: During the finale, Lifty, who is hidden with her jacket, is seen talking to both Barry and Harold with a very different voice. It was not until she reveals her true identity to Ted and Flint, where she ultimately goes back to her normal voice.
- Serious Business: She loses her cool after both Barry and Harold turned against her, ordering both of them to kill Ted and Flint for their nuisance. Unfortunately, it doesn't work.
- Surrounded by Idiots: She exhibits this towards her subordinates Barry and Harold due to their laughable incompetence.
- The Unfought: She was set up as the Final Boss for both Flint and Ted, but Harold later grabbed her and both fell down to their deaths instead.
- Villainous Breakdown: When Ted bluntly stated that both her employees "sold her out" and her plans falling apart, she goes into psycho mode after revealing that they refused to kill Ted and Flint.Ted: They sold you out... Is what he's trying to say.Flint: It's over, Miss Workofsky...Lifty: Harold, you spineless bastard! ARGHHHHHHHH!
- Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Unlike her incompetent, laughable Co-Dragons, Lifty is a no-nonsense villain.
- Walking Spoiler: Knowing all too much about her being the Big Bad of The Lost Robots and the real culprit of the robots' disappearances gives away every spoilers about her.
Barry Trout and Harold Mackerel (Unmarked The Lost Robots Spoilers Inside!)
- Bumbling Henchman Duo: Barry and Harold are not exactly the brightest tools in the shed, tending to be bumbling idiots towards their employer Lifty.
- Co-Dragons: They are later revealed to be the right-hands of Lifty, being the suppliers of ratchet relays to Skinner. But they ultimately betrayed her at the end of the game, when Harold grabbed his former employer after Ted revealed her complicity behind the robots' mass-disappearance before both of them plunged to their deaths.
- Heroic Sacrifice: After Barry and Harold turned against Lifty, thanks to Ted's help, Harold later grabs her as they both fell all the way down from the lighthouse.
- Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: They are Lifty's incompetent right-hands that she even does not hesitate calling both of them out as one.
- Walking Spoiler: Mentioning the duo is impossible without giving away the true identity of who they work with.
Smiley G. Skinner
- 0% Approval Rating: He's virtually disliked by everyone due to his business practices, including Lifty who even makes a mocking remark at how he would never spare a single lightbulb to save his own son, showcasing his ego.
- Big Bad Ensemble: With Lifty in The Lost Robots. Skinner is responsible for the massive relay shortage by mass-ordering through an "unknown source" in order to stay to the competition, as underhanded as his business practices are, where he was ultimately the cause of the city's unstable economy and the subsequent relay shortage. Lifty, who turns out to be the "unknown source", is the actual mastermind of the disappearances of the robots across the city and is also antagonistic towards Skinner, making her a case of Enemy Mine when she uses Ted and Flint to eliminate him from the picture. Dealing with him only finishes two-thirds of the game as both Ted and Flint later deal with the main Big Bad Lifty in the game's final third, the true menace that the protagonists directly confront at the end of the game.
- Bullying a Dragon: He actively gloats at both Ted and Flint about his egotistical actions being just a part of his term as a CEO, but his arrogance ultimately backfires on him badly when both of them uncovered his dirty deeds across the city, ultimately putting him behind on bars.
- Cigar Chomper: He is fond of cigars that he is seen smoking on them, reflecting his nature as a dirty, underhanded businessman.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Mayor Mills in the first game, who are both part of their respective games' Big Bad Ensemble and are a Non-Action Big Bad. Mills is a Corrupt Politician working as Paper City's mayor who has the support of others including the PCPD to do his dirty work, while Skinner is a Corrupt Corporate Executive who is the Illuminarium's CEO, largely working all by himself and is hated by everyone due to his questionable business practices.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He is the CEO of his own company, but he is also known for his corrupt, questionable business practices when he hoarded several relays all to power his own headlights, while pushing the city into the brink of relay shortage and hyperinflation in the post-war economy.
- Disc-One Final Boss: His arrest only reveals the true fact: Skinner is just the one who orders the ratchet relays. The supplier of them are later revealed to be both Barry and Harold, who are directly working with Lifty, her Co-Dragons. Dealing with Lifty in the finale is the last matter that both Ted and Flint have to go through.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Skinner smokes a lot of cigars, which befits his nature as the corrupt CEO of Illuminarium. He's also a part of The Lost Robots' Big Bad Ensemble.
- Hate Sink: Not only he is a slimy Smug Snake hypocrite who steals and hoards ratchet relays out of his ego to power his headlights, but he is also uncaring towards his own actions.
- Jerkass: He is an ass whose way of speaking and his attitude pisses both Ted and Flint off.
- Laser-Guided Karma: His arrogant gloating of Ted and Flint got the best of him when he was later put in prison after they uncovered his crimes.
- Non-Action Big Bad: Similarly to Mills in the first game, Skinner prefers to do his own dirty work but he's largely non-action as he does it more in the shadows.
- Smug Snake: After Ted pointed out his utterly hypocritical business nature, Skinner deviously claims that it is just a "company secret" as a CEO. When he was arrested, he later becomes utterly pissed-off at how he miserably failed at stopping both of them.
- Too Awesome to Use: His hoarding of ratchet relays, a core part for the robots that went missing, just for his car headlights brings more problems than good to the city.
