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The Blasterpals
The original trio of characters from the early games.
Tropes pertaining to the group as a whole:
- Retro Rocket: Their original ship. It got destroyed and replaced in the second game featuring all three of them. Then their new ship gets replaced in that game's remake.
Blasternaut
- Debuted in: Math Blaster Plus! (1987)Voiced by: Mark Sawyer (In Search of Spot, Secret of the Lost City)
- Anime Hair: His most recent incarnation has this.
- Jet Pack: Uses one in some form in all of the games. Secret of the Lost City is the only one where it doesn't factor into gameplay, instead being used to reach the buildings.
- Mighty Glacier: He's stronger than GC or Spot, but heavier and not as fast. Puzzles in both Secret of the Lost City and Ages 9-12 have him as unable to jump gaps or pull chains hanging from the ceiling to open doors (even ones that look incredibly easy to reach!), but he can universally operate lifts in the latter and activate pressure plates in the former.
- Order Reborn: In his most recent incarnation.
- Player Character: The original Player Character for the entire series, in fact.
- Punny Name
Galactic Commander
- Debuted in: Math Blaster Episode 1: In Search of Spot (1993)Voiced by: Laura Boedeker (In Search of Spot, Secret of the Lost City)
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: Looks exactly like a human girl save for her color-scheme.
- Mission Control: Had this role in In Search of Spot and in Mega Math Blaster until you reached the generator.
- Not So Above It All: The intro to Ages 9-12 shows her dancing with her teammates while the ship is clearly in danger of crashing.
- Player Character: One of two you can choose from in Ages 9-12.
- Tricked-Out Shoes: She has rocket boots in Ages 9-12.
Spot/MEL
- Debuted in: New Math Blaster Plus! (1990)Voiced by: Mark Sawyer (In Search of Spot, Secret of the Lost City)
- Deadpan Snarker: Both of them to some degree.
- Distressed Dude: In Search of Spot and Mega Math Blaster revolve around rescuing Spot from the Trash Alien and Gelator respectively.
- Flight: Spot has internal jets that he uses to both fly and hover in place.
- Mission Control: He acts as this in Invasion of the Word Snatchers, providing instructions for each puzzle.
- Robot Buddy: Both of them.
- Robot Dog: MEL.
Enemies of the Blasterpals
Trash Alien
- Voiced by: Mark Sawyer
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Littering is a rather minor offense, especially in comparison to kidnapping.
- Cephalothorax
- Evil Laugh: His only dialog is a very hammy and high-pitched laugh.
- Extra Eyes: He has three eyes.
- Flying Saucer: His ship is a red one.
- For the Evulz: He's never given a motivation.
- Jet Pack: The cave level shows that he has one.
- Self-Destruct Mechanism: He activates one on his ship after the last part of the game.
- Tractor Beam: His ship has one. He used it to capture Spot.
Dr. Minus
- Voiced by: Mark Sawyer
- Didn't See That Coming: He was not expecting the planet he stranded the Blasterpals on to be the one that contained the Lost City. Nor did he expect the city to be the parts of a space ship. Then again, it's not something even most smarter villains would expect.
- Evil Laugh
- Evil Sounds Deep
- Large Ham
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: He has "Doctor" as a title.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: His "Wanted!" Poster shows him with these while the game shows him with a green light in the middle of his face.
Gelator
The slimy villain of Mega Math Blaster. He kidnaps Spot to drain his intelligence.- Blob Monster
- Expy: Of the Trash Alien. He has three eyes and kidnaps Spot.
- Extra Eyes: He has three eyes.
- Full-Name Basis: The parent ending has Blasternaut and G.C. call Gelator's mother "Mrs. Tor" suggesting that "-tor" is his surname.
- Liquid Assets: He drains Spot's intelligence.
- Parent ex Machina: His parents show up in the "good" ending. Considering that the normal ending has him incarcerated and the "perfect" ending has him turned to stone, this is probably the happiest ending.
- Taken for Granite: He gets turned to stone in the "perfect" ending...
- Literally Shattered Lives: ... after which he crumbles to pieces.
Illitera
The villain of the early Reading Blaster games.- Jerkass: She's your opponent in the game show in Reading Blaster 6-9 and isn't a particularly good sport.
- Intangible Theft: The Excuse Plot of Invasion of the Word Snatchers involves her stealing all of Earth's words, the letters of which leak from her ship during the game's first puzzle.
The Terrible Monkey King
The king of the flying monkeys that inhabit the setting of Math Blaster Ages 9-12. The Blasterpals seek him out to get a new ship after the crash theirs and he tries to make them trade Spot for it.- Evil Laugh: When he tries to make them trade Spot for the ship.
- Evil Sounds Deep
- Expy: Of the Wizard of Oz.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Really bright ones. The Blasterpals notice that they dim when he speaks.
- Humongous Mecha: He's pretty big and pretty mechanical.
- Large Ham: He's probably the loudest of the villains and he has some of the hammiest lines in the series. It's all an act.
- The Man Behind the Curtain: It turns out that what the Blasterpals were interacting with as just a robot controlled by the real Monkey King who is a pretty unimposing guy.
- Walking Spoiler
Characters unrelated to the Blasterpals
