A list of tropes for the casts of Bomb Rush Cyberfunk.
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Bomb Rush Crew
In General
- Art Attacker: Spray painting graffiti on launched cops will instantly defeat them.
- Dance Battler: The same trick moves your character uses to show off during combos are also used to fight off police in combat. You can also dance freely when out of combat.
- Two Guys and a Girl: How BRC starts out, its members composed of the male Tryce and Red, and the female Bel. Once you start recruiting more members, it grows out of this.
Main Gang
Red
Red
- Voiced by: Pjotr Groothoff
A red cyberhead grafted to the decapitated body of Faux. In order to get Faux's head back, Red is challenged to make it All City.
Red starts off with a Skateboard equipped by default.
- Amnesiac Hero: Getting decapitated gave him a case of Identity Amnesia, so he doesn't remember his roots and wants to get his old head back to regain his identity. Turns out he's questing after the wrong memories, as revealed by Vinyl and DJ Cyber.
- Audience Surrogate: Since he lost his memory, he needs to be filled in on the ins and outs of the streets that most writers would already know about. This way, the player can receive exposition too.
- Back from the Dead: He's actually an amnesiac Felix, brought back to life by attaching his head to Faux's body. Then he's completely brought back after his head gets transplanted back onto his old body, courtesy of Rietveld.
- Cool Helmet: In a sense. Red’s cyberhead is completely cybernetic, though the rest of his body is flesh and blood and it can’t function without his head being attached to it. It's also quite tough too, as a headshot from Escher barely fazes Red (at first) in their first meeting. His head is later revealed to not house cybernetics at all, instead serving to support a real human head inside of it: Felix’s, to be precise.
- Expy: Of Beat from Jet Set Radio, being the main protagonist most notable for their "headgear".
- Fusion Dance: In a fashion, being that he's Felix's head attached to Faux's body, though his personality and memories belong solely to Felix. Then Felix's head gets ripped off again and gets reattached to his old body before the final boss, resurrecting Felix in his entirety.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: Since Felix is fully revived in both body and mind and Faux tosses his old body in the finale, Red shouldn't be playable past that point, yet he can still be called in a cypher and is shown side-by-side with Felix as his own person.
- Human All Along: A strange example, in that while getting shot by Escher reveals that he has a human head underneath the Cyberhead's casing, it's technically a man's head grafted to another man's body rather than a regular human.
- Made of Iron: His Cyberhead. He takes a shot from Escher right to the dome during the latter's introduction but isn't remotely fazed. It takes Escher shooting him point-blank to even chip part of his helmet, and even then, he's left no worse for wear bar a concussion and a shallow scratch.
- No Indoor Voice: Cyberheads as a whole are louder than the average human, but Red in particular practically shouts all of his lines. Compare it to how he talks as Felix, and the latter is no less enthusiastic but significantly more normal.
- Off with His Head!: Faux getting his head cut off by DJ Cyber in the prologue is what kickstarts the story. He suffers this again when Project Algo is completed and the real Faux decapitates him. At least this provides Rietveld a good opportunity to restore Felix's head to his original body.
- Red Is Heroic: His cyberhead is predominantly red and while a vandal, he is a heroic enough character. He is also infinitely more heroic than Faux ever was.
- Redeeming Replacement: In a fashion, he becomes this towards Faux when it's revealed that he was and still is a horrible person, being that they literally share the same body until Red gets decapitated for a second time near the end of the game.
- Security Blanket: Even after he's revealed to actually have a human head underneath his Cyberhead, he still continues to wear the Cyberhead, seemingly because it keeps his old memories from overwhelming him. It's only when he delivers the finishing headbutt to Faux that he loses the helmet, marking the point he fully becomes Felix again.
- Thrill Seeker: Tagging is nice, but in his own words, things are "hella boring" when the threat of the law coming after them is gone. He tells Faux as much after the latter reveals his grand plan to take out Writer and police alike to go All City.
- Use Your Head: He defeats Faux with a headbutt, which also shatters his helmet.
- Walking Spoiler: Even for being arguably the main protagonist of the game. Practically everything surrounding him is hard to talk about without revealing the many twists and reveals about his character from Chapter 3 onwards.
Tryce
Tryce
- Voiced by: Wola Badiru/YAPICO
The founder and leader of the Bomb Rush Crew. Originally the one who broke Faux out of prison, Tryce aims to find his head and restore him so he can fulfill his promise to go All City together.
Tryce starts off with a BMX Bike equipped by default.
- Arson, Murder, and Admiration: To get a newly awoken Red up to speed, he describes DJ Cyber as someone who enforces the Code of the Streets to a near totalitarian extreme, is rumored to collect people's heads to mess with their minds, and... is probably the best DJ in the city. Tryce is still waiting for his latest mixtape.
- Ascended Fanboy: If nothing else, Tryce gets the mother of all dream collabs in this plot. He started developing an interest in tagging because of Felix specifically, and got to adventure around with him the whole game unbeknowst to either of them. His track record with the rest of the Big 3 is similar: He meets Faux by accident and bonds with him after breaking him out of jail, however briefly, and got DJ Cyber, the man whose mixtapes Tryce enjoys, to respect and even potentially join his fledgling crew post-game.
- Broken Pedestal: Tryce’s reverence of Faux is completely shattered when he meets him again and bears witness to his true colors, seeing Faux as nothing more than a murderer as opposed to the artist he once looked up to.
- Expy: Of Corn/Tab from Jet Set Radio, more specifically his Future incarnation as the gang's leader.
- I Gave My Word: He only knew Faux for about a day, but saves his body and helps Red become All City to get Faux's head back because he promised to help.
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: He's the Savvy Guy to Bel's Energetic Girl, being the one who introduces Red (and by extension the player) to how being a writer works.
- The Stoic: Tryce is usually a pretty subdued guy who doesn't really let his emotions show. When he does get visibly emotional (such as when Red gets shot or when he's celebrating the Bomb Rush Crew going All City), it's a sign that whatever's happening is big news.
Bel
Bel
- Voiced by: Adrian Mayes
The Bomb Rush Crew’s second-in-command, and the only girl in the team prior to Vinyl's entrance. She’s usually upbeat and laidback, spending most of her time glued to her phone.
Bel starts off with Inline Skates equipped by default.
- Expy: Of Gum from Jet Set Radio, being the sole girl of the initial Power Trio who teaches the core game mechanics.
- Genki Girl: Upbeat and bubbly. She finds going against FUTURISM scary but also exciting.
- Nice Girl: Despite Tryce describing her as someone who "cares about nothing but her phone", she's easily the most emphatic of the main crew. She's the first to cry out when Red gets shot, and she's the one who first hears Solace out when he recognizes Felix's face and asks to be part of the Bomb Rush Crew.
- Phoneaholic Teenager: Almost never seen without her flip phone.
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: She's the Energetic Girl to Tryce's Savvy Guy, with her bubbly demeanour contrasting against Tryce's more stoic nature.
- Selfie Fiend: Her reaction to learning that Red has the head of the #1 Most Wanted in New Amsterdam inside of his cyberhead is to take a selfie with it. She's also the one that teaches Red how to take selfies with his phone.
Vinyl
Vinyl
- Voiced by: Kiana Green
A freelancer originally seen hanging with FUTURISM, who quickly realizes the truth about Red and swaps sides in order to help him regain his memories.
Vinyl starts off with a Skateboard equipped by default.
- Anime Hair: Her hairdo can only be described as a blueish-green sideswept afro.
- Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: As revealed at the end of Chapter 4, Vinyl didn't actually defect from FUTURISM. She was working for DJ Cyber the whole time while joined with the Bomb Rush Crew, it's just that DJ Cyber's goal was to help them all along as well.
- Faked Kidnapping: After beating Devil Theory on Pyramid Island, DJ Cyber confronts and attacks her as punishment for switching sides, forcing Red to confront him at the island's top. Once Red wins, DJ Cyber and Vinyl admit that they planned the whole thing to help Red realize who he truly is.
- Leitmotif: Her appearances in cutscenes are often accompanied by the song "you can say hi" by SOIA, a slow, bassy RNB song that fits her mysterious nature.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Vinyl joins the crew when Red is incapacitated by Escher shooting him, making him inaccessible for gameplay. Like Red, Vinyl's default is a skateboard, filling his role until he can get fixed and rejoin.
- Walking Spoiler: Due to her status as a freelancer (someone who bounces between crews but isn't formally a part of any one), her loyalty and motivations are left pretty vague initially. Talking about her without mentioning how she really factors into everything is tough.
Solace
Solace
Some weird dude dressed like a crash test dummy. You first meet him while he's sleeping in a dumpster, after Eclipse trash-talks him.
Solace starts off with Inline Skates equipped by default.
- Big Damn Heroes: He swoops in to save Felix from plummeting to his death after taking out Faux's One-Winged Angel form.
- Casual Kink: At one point, the Bomb Rush Crew finds him in an alcove by the Mall's entrance, and he admits to being a masochistic claustrophobe; he's scared of being in that small space, but also giddy from self-inflicting that fear. Tryce and the ECLIPSE girls find him disgusting, but nobody else really seems to mind.
- Chekhov's Gag: Solace's masochistic claustrophobia is introduced for laughs, but bizarrely gains serious relevance at The Reveal. Solace witnessed Felix's murder because he was indulging in his interest not too far away, thus allowing him to inform DJ Cyber of the culprit. If it weren't for his Casual Kink, the events of the game wouldn't have happened.
- Distressed Dude: He's kidnapped by Faux after Faux goes One-Winged Angel, with Faux intending to take Solace's body for himself.
- Extreme Doormat: He seemingly harbors no ill will towards the Eclipse crew for berating him and tying him upside down to a fence. He's also apologetic to a fault and hates to cause a fuss. Even when he's abducted by Faux at the end of the game, his SOS message to the player reads less like a desperate plea for help and more like he's sorry for being a bother.
- Feather Motif: He has a pair of small white wings attached to his boostpack, emphasising his kind, nervous personality. His wings foreshadow his connection with Felix, who also has a wing motif.
- Fetishes Are Weird: Tryce in particular is incredibly weirded out by Solace's Casual Kink and tries to avoid talking to him if he can help it, even initially rejecting Solace's request to join the Bomb Rush Crew (though he's quickly overruled by Bel). It doesn't stop him from readily agreeing to help save Solace after Faux abducts him with the intent of stealing his body in the final chapter.
- Forgotten First Meeting: Upon seeing Bel's selfie with the broken Red cyberhead revealing Felix's face, Solace immediately claims to know who that is because they were Solace's best friend, the only one to ever treat him with respect. Shortly after, when asked about it, Felix doesn't remember Solace at all.
- Spanner in the Works: If he didn't happen to be around when Faux murdered Felix, DJ Cyber wouldn't have known how Felix died or who killed him.
- Visual Pun:
- Eclipse literally trash-talks him, since you encounter him inside a dumpster.
- He looks like a crash test dummy, a type of mannequin used to measure vehicular collision injuries. Indeed, Solace does get bullied and tossed around quite a bit.
Optional Members
Rave
Rave
A potential recruit hanging out in Versum Hill's subway station. She starts off with a BMX Bike by default.
- Cool Helmet: An orange thing that mostly covers the back of her head, with a square halo.
- Distaff Counterpart: Serves as one for Garam from Jet Set Radio, being a tall, dark-skinned character with vibrant oval-shaped glasses who also wears large and baggy pants to compensate for a relative lack of topwear.
Mesh
Mesh
- Voiced by: Dom McLennon
A potential recruit hanging out at Brink Terminal. He starts off with Inline Skates by default.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: His recruitment demonstrates that he's unskilled at using a skateboard, but you can still swap out his vehicle like any other playable character, meaning he skateboards as well as anyone else in gameplay.
- Graceful in Their Element: Good at getting around in inline skates but an attempt at skateboarding sent his skateboard into the canal. After you get it back for him, he tells you to keep it since he'd rather stick to what he's best at.
- One-Way Visor: He wears something that resembles a VR visor.
Shine
Shine
A potential recruit hanging out in the Millennium Mall. She starts off with a BMX Bike by default.
- Practical Taunt: As part of recruiting her, you need to dance with her using the moves she's using.
Rise
Rise
A fashionable girl that hangs out on Pyramid Island. She blocks progress into the central area until the Bomb Rush Crew starts earning Rep there. Once they get past her, she can then be convinced to join them by helping her take some photos for her social media.
Rise starts off with Inline Skates equipped by default.
- Meaningful Name: It's pretty fitting that someone who goes by "Rise" primarily hangs out in places high off the ground.
- One-Way Visor: She wears what almost resembles ski goggles, which cover her eyes and her cheek bones.
- Selfie Fiend: To recruit her, you need to take a bunch of photos of her in various locations and while she's skating. Even when you're getting shot at by the police.
Coil
Coil
- Voiced by: Alex Hom
A potential recruit hanging out by Mataan's taxi stop. He starts off with a BMX Bike equipped by default.
- Catchphrase: "Coolio".
- Nonstandard Character Design: His boostpack looks notably different to anyone else's, being a large, back-mounted ring.
Base & Jay
Base & Jay
- Base voiced by: Robert FosterJay voiced by: Michelle Marie
A pair of out-of-town Writers that can support the Bomb Rush Crew. Base starts with a skateboard, while Jay starts with inline skates. They automatically join your crew if you've bought the Base and Jay DLC Pack.
- Animal Motifs: Jay is associated with sharks; her Boostpack is painted to look like one, and her S graffiti is a shark-styled "J".
- Expy: Base echoes Roboy from Jet Set Radio Future, as both are unlockable skating robots.
- Hidden Depths: Base has a few bonsai trees and tends to them in his spare time, while Jay is a fan of Fighting Games and street food.
- Production Throwback: They're both slight redesigns of characters from the Lethal League series, also by Team Reptile. Base the skateboarding robot is based on Switch, and Jay the bubbly inline skater is based on Jet, who herself was a walking Jet Set Radio shout-out.
The Rival Crews
Tropes shared by all crews
- Gang of Hats: In true Jet Set Radio fashion, all of the crews are themed in some weird way:
- The Franks are a bunch of stitched-together homunculi that love basketball.
- Eclipse has an astral and zodiac theme to their graffiti, practice fortune telling, and judge Red by his zodiac sign. They are also all female and dislike men.
- DOT EXE is a crew of breakdancing cyborgs who upgrade their bodies to win dance battles. Their "faces" are computer screens with pool ball designs displayed on them.
- Devil Theory are themed after samurai, but with red masks that have huge teeth to invoke Oni imagery. Their graffiti invokes other Japanese traditions, such as featuring daruma in their medium-sized sprays.
- Oldheads are a bunch of old men and women from a much older generation of hip hop, wearing a combination of wizard-like garbs and hip hop outfits (tracksuits and tall bucket hats).
- FUTURISM are a gang that are “damn near equipped for chemical warfare”, donning gas masks and Y2K inspired outfits. Every member is female except for their leader, DJ Cyber.
- Honor Among Thieves: The Writers are kept in order by a set of rules collectively dubbed the "Code of the Street", which are enforced by DJ Cyber and the Oldheads and prevent Writers from sabotaging, snitching or committing acts of violence on each other or law enforcement. The Code is treated with as much weight as actual written laws, and anyone who breaks them is liable to be shunned by the wider community and, in extreme cases (such as the Franks or Devil Theory), being ousted from their home turf entirely.
- Palette Swap: Each of the crews' members are just recolors of each other. The only exceptions are the BRC, and the plot-relevant leaders of the Franks and FUTURISM.
- Secret Character: A member from each gang, plus the Flesh Prince and DJ Cyber, can be recruited in the post-game by beating their challenge. The exception is the Oldheads, which instead requires tagging every graffiti spot in the game.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: The Code of the Street says that gangs aren't allowed to kill each other. The crew also doesn't kill any of the New Amsterdam Police. The only exception to the rule was Faux.
The Franks
The Franks (& the Flesh Prince)
- The Franks voiced by: Wola Badiru/YAPICOThe Flesh Prince voiced by: Curtis Arnott
The Frankenstein-like ballers of Versum Hill. The Franks are all walking patchworks of collected body parts stitched together by their boss, The Flesh Prince.
- Mad Doctor: The Flesh Prince is a freckled youth that has the ability to stitch together and reanimate bodies.
- Mirror Character: The Franks as a whole are very much a fleshier version of DOT EXE; both go to great lengths to augment themselves, but while the Franks are content with using their natural talents and those of the people whose limbs they're using, DOT EXE have long since forgone their "roots" and have completely converted to metal people.
- Mix-and-Match Man: The crew's grunts are basketballers that have replaced their original body parts with those of great athletes in a stitched-together Frankensteinian look.
- Shout-Out: The Flesh Prince of Bel-Air is shooting some B-ball. The name of their group is also a reference to Frankenstein, since they're a bunch of massive, strong dudes patched together from multiple different body parts.
- Small Role, Big Impact: The Flesh Prince is responsible for giving Red his Cyberhead and from that is indirectly responsible for everything that happens in the story, but he's only immediately relevant at the start of the game, the midpoint, and during a flashback near the end.
- Spanner in the Works: The final flashback sequence shows that the Flesh Prince just so happened to be watching basketball with DJ Cyber in the building beneath where Felix fell through that deadly fan. If he was anywhere else that night, Felix couldn't have been preserved and resurrected, and Faux would have gotten out of murdering him scot-free.
- Starter Villain: They're the first rival gang that Bomb Rush Crew has to deal with, and it's just to get some information. Their defeat and subsequent refusal to cooperate, which violates the Code of the Street and leads to them forfeiting their territory, starts the Bomb Rush Crew on the path to go All City.
- Youthful Freckles: Part of the joke with the Franks is that their grunts are massive, muscled athletes with patched-together skin of different colors; their leader, the Flesh Prince, contrasts this by being a scrawny, nerdy-looking kid in an ill-fitting coat with freckles all over his face.
Eclipse
Eclipse
- Voiced by: Rita Amparita
An all-girl crew obsessed with Astrology. When the stars align, they expand their turf. And their turf is Millennium Square.
- Amazon Brigade: Eclipse consists entirely of women due to their shared dislike of men.
- Astrologer: The group is themed after reading signs in the stars and planets. The leader will even read Red's fortune after being defeated, which serves as Foreshadowing.
- Cleavage Window: Their jumpsuits are slightly open below the neckline, showing some cleavage and a bit of skin below.
- Does Not Like Men: Downplayed. They're an all-girl group and refuse to talk to Red or Tryce because they "wouldn't understand women." This serves as a tutorial to show how you can change characters, since at that point only Bel is available to talk to them.
- Femme Fatalons: They wear long, white nail sheaths, adding to their intimidating appearance.
- One-Way Visor: Part of their uniform is a round visor that covers their forehead, eyes, and over their ears.
- Sexy Backless Outfit: The back of their jumpsuits are exposed, from below the shoulders to stopping just above the butt.
DOT EXE
DOT EXE
- Voiced by: Carlos Ramirez
The masters of Millennium Mall. These breakdancers are so relentless in being the best that every single member chose to become a cyberhead to upgrade their skills.
- Broken Faceplate: When 8-Ball is shown dead, a shot lingers on his monitor's broken screen, revealing a rolled-over eyeball underneath.
- Expy: They're quite similar to the Noise Tanks, just with sleeker designs and a focus on breakdancing rather than Hollywood Hacking. Although they do get some hints of this through 8-Ball mentioning they (and Cyberheads as a whole) often tap into radio feeds.
- Full-Conversion Cyborg: They're all metal beneath those tracksuits. One of the Oldheads muses on this fact, concluding that they're still fundamentally human despite all these new parts.
- Head Swap: Each of the gangsters is dressed in an identical tracksuit (just with a different color) and all their Cyberheads are the same except for the billiards ball displayed on their screen.
- He Knows Too Much: After Bomb Rush Crew takes over their borough, they decide to warn the Crew about the police's "Project Algo" that they picked up on their scanners, but their boss gets sniped immediately after.
- Leet Speak: They tend to end their sentences in chatspeak like LOL or EZ.
- Meaningful Appearance: This crew is the only other group aside from the Oldheads that wears tracksuits as their signature outfit. Since they both debuted around the same time, it makes sense that they'd share similar tastes in fashion.
- Meaningful Name: Their gang's name is DOT EXE — or .exe, as in the file extension for programs — and they're a bunch of cyborgs.
- Older Than They Look: One of the Oldheads comments that they're around the same age as DOT EXE's members. Naturally, being Cyborgs lets DOT EXE age way more gracefully than a wholly organic person.
- Stealth Pun: The leader's cyberhead looks like an 8-ball. A magic 8-ball is a toy used for fortune telling or advice. The leader is the one who tips BRC about Project Algo.
- Took a Level in Badass: When you first visit Millenium Mall, 8-Ball's challenge involves a comment that Cueball has been attempting to score 100,000 points for four hours, and has been stuck on 98,000 for most of it; you get 90 seconds to beat his score, which is rather trivial given the number of rails and hard corners along the walkways of Millenium Mall. In the postgame, Cueball's managed to outdo himself by reaching an all-time high score of a whopping 4,000,000; beating it in the 5 minutes the game allows will involve carefully balancing growing your multiplier on the hard corners with doing actual tricks to score points and finding ways to sneak in non-rail tricks to keep things fresh, all while dropping your combo at all during those 5 minutes practically means failure given how high you need to build it up to clear the mission.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Only four of them show up as playable characters. 8-Ball is excused on account of being assassinated, but after 9-Ball's slide challenge, he leaves the scene and is never heard from again.
Devil Theory
Devil Theory
- Voiced by: Alexander Katnik
The biggest troublemakers around. This eastern-themed gang was thrown out of Mataan and took over Pyramid Island.
- Artificial Limbs: Each member of Devil Theory has a pair of blue bionic legs.
- Expy: Of Jet Set Radio's Poison Jam for being a gang of skaters dressed in monster-themed clothing, albeit recolored and with samurai influences mixed in. Earlier on in the game's development they were planned to have a blue color scheme, making them resemble Poison Jam even more.
- Heel–Face Turn: The Devil Theory member that can be recruited in the postgame is a lot friendlier to the Bomb Rush Crew, genuinely wanting to test the player's skills and encouraging them to continue trying if they fail, indicating that the gang turned over a new leaf after Faux trashed them.
- Hypocrite: They condemn DJ Cyber for breaking the Code, yet they themselves are pretty unrighteous. Tryce outright calls them rats.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Devil Theory are a bunch of assholes that disregard the Code of the Street, constantly locking challengers into confined spaces and siccing cops on them. They get their just desserts from the police when Faux, as the Project Algo lead, trashes them at the end of the game, very nearly pummeling them into paste until Solace stops him.
- Token Evil Teammate: For as antagonistic as the rival gangs could get, they still were willing to respect the Code of the Street and deal with matters nonviolently. Devil Theory really skirts the line as much as the Code of the Street can allow by ratting out the Bomb Rush Crew to the police when the Crew starts encroaching on their turf.
The Oldheads
The Oldheads (Classic, Old School and Boombap)
An elderly crew of hip hop fans who aren’t so much interested in controlling turf as they are overseeing crew battles. They also act as overseers to the code of the street.
- Brain Uploading: The "Classic" Oldhead said that he had to get himself uploaded into his Cyberhead so that he could avoid dying from a brain tumor. In the present day, he's quite chipper about it, stating that getting a Cyberhead should be treated with the same importance as having a child.
- Cool Old Guy: All the crews respect them and take their judgements as law.
- Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting: One of the Oldheads sits on a backwards chair when judging the results of Crew Battles.
- Emergency Transformation: The "Classic" Oldhead got his mind uploaded to a Cyberhead because he was dying of a brain tumor.
- Fame Gate: They place down massive speakers as roadblocks in certain areas, and only allow you to pass if you build up enough REP. With exception to the Millenium Mall entrance, they're generally optional areas, such as the mall's upper entrance area, the docks at Brink Terminal, or Versum Hill's Underground Bazaar. Appropriately, you can only play as them if you've tagged every other spot in the game—and therefore, have the best rep possible.
- Non-Action Guy: Due to their age, they don't actively participate in street fights, preferring to instead act as mediators/judges or otherwise watch as it unfolds.
- Nonstandard Character Design: They're one of the few crews where every member has a unique design, rather than being Palette Swaps or Head Swaps of each other or only featuring one unique member.
- The Triple: Two of the Oldheads have belts with inscriptions referring to their age: "Classic" and "Old School". The third Oldhead's belt says... "Boombap" (which, if you don't recognize as a genre of music, might seem like gibberish).
- Two Guys and a Girl: The "Old School" Oldhead's model looks very similar body-wise to the other two, but their lighter voice clips and speech show they're a girl compared to the less ambiguous "Boombap" and "Classic".
FUTURISM
FUTURISM
- Voiced by: Laura K. Welsh
DJ Cyber's gang, which conquered Mataan.
- Amazon Brigade: Subverted. It seems to be another all-girl group like ECLIPSE, but their leader is a man.
- Animal Motifs: They use poison traps to gate off their turf and their gas masks have something that looks like a long proboscis attached, giving off a loose mosquito theme.
- Cyber Green: Both DJ Cyber and FUTURISM are associated with a bright neon green, and aside from the heavily augmented DOT EXE, they are among the most technologically advanced crews. Cyber's eyes themselves are the same shade.
- Gas Mask Mooks: As Bel says: "They are damn near equipped for chemical warfare". Their identifying uniform includes half-face gas masks.
- Light Is Not Good: Their team colors consist of a light and pale palette, and they are the primary enforcers of DJ Cyber's draconian Code of the Street. Subverted when it's revealed that DJ Cyber was Good All Along, making their actions seem more like a part of his plan to help Red recover from amnesia.
- Navel Window: Their uniform has one, as well as being open at the sides.
- The One Guy: DJ Cyber appears to be the only man in the team, with the rest of the members being women.
The Big 3 (UNMARKED SPOILERS FOR ALL CHARACTERS)
Tropes shared by all members
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: You can't immediately piece it together when DJ Cyber and Felix have their masks on, but Faux is the blond, Felix is the brunet, and Cyber is the redhead of the trio.
- Breaking the Fellowship: While they weren't in and of themselves a crew, Felix did leave the group to go All City solo some time before the events of the game. DJ Cyber eventually formed FUTURISM after the split, while Faux's resentment for Felix leaving partly drove him to go solo in the worst way possible.
- The Champion: These three were the best Writers in all of New Amsterdam, with one even managing to go All City by himself without the assistance of a boostpack. In the present, DJ Cyber still stands above the rest by enforcing the Code of the Street, Faux managed to usurp and control the Police in his efforts to take everyone else out, and Felix (through Red) built his rep back up and gained tons of allies despite losing his body and memories.
Faux
Teun "Faux" Vogelaar
As Project Algo
One of the three best writers in New Amsterdam, known for having never gotten caught by the police. When he’s eventually jailed, Tryce helps him break out... only for Faux to lose his head in a surprise attack from DJ Cyber.
Faux’s head would land in the hands of the New Amsterdam Police, where he would be resurrected as “Project Algo”: an operation to eliminate crime and vandalism across New Amsterdam. Being fed all this power brought Faux’s true colors to the surface, along with a number of truths regarding the death of one of his fellow writers some time ago.
- Beauty Is Bad: He's labelled as a Pretty Boy by Tryce, and it turns out that face hides a very devious and selfish mind. In the final confrontation, he's also shown to be somewhat vain, given his desire to take Solace's body for a "younger" flesh vessel despite not looking much older than him.
- Big Bad: Though Berlage is initially set up to be something of a Greater-Scope Villain partway through the game, Faux quickly takes over after spreading his corruption throughout the police force and killing Berlage. Once DJ Cyber is revealed to have been Good All Along and more of Faux and Felix’s origins are explained, Faux takes center-stage as the final antagonist in the game’s finishing act.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: For as much as he appeared to value his friendship with Felix, Faux quietly resented him for going All City solo and robbing him of something he felt he deserved. This leads him to push Felix’s ladder as he’s painting and cause him to fall into a vent fan and to his death.
- Decoy Protagonist: He's the main character at the start of the game. Then he's beheaded at the end of the tutorial, and Red takes over his body.
- Disney Villain Death: Twice! The first half of his final fight ends with him getting knocked off of the lion statue platform, seemingly to his demise. He turns out to be fine and reveals his much larger robot form, which also gets knocked off a building—this time to a more definitive end.
- Evil Former Friend: Formerly friends with Felix and DJ Cyber, at least until he killed the former and pissed off the latter. Whether Faux actually saw the other two as friends is also debatable, since he could have been hanging around them purely for his own goals.
- Evil Sounds Raspy: His voice clips are noticeably raspier when he's completely taken over Project Algo, compared to his lighter-sounding clips pre-beheading.
- Eviler than Thou:
- Berlage, for as extreme as he took things, legitimately wanted to end crime in New Amsterdam. Faux kills him after it comes to light that Faux has been abusing Project Algo to kill all the Writers in the city.
- Devil Theory, a group of Writers who rat their rivals out to the Police, are seen getting trashed in the endgame by Faux, who's planning to do the same on a much larger and deadlier scale.
- Fake Ultimate Hero: Downplayed— his skill as a Writer is genuine, but the claims that he's never been arrested are very much not. He's actually been arrested quite a few times, but every time his Crooked Cop of a father would let him out and wipe his record, pinning his misdemeanours on that of other Writers operating in the city.
- Final Boss: The final enemy in the main campaign, with his own unique boss battle taking place in the heart of Mataan.
- Freudian Excuse: His motivation for going All City at any cost stemmed from the resentment he had for his father, a Dirty Cop who would wipe Faux's record and pin his crimes on other Writers whenever he got arrested, and his fear that he would be exposed as a fraud and the son of a cop. The rest of the cast aren't having any of it, with Felix calling him a coward who refused to admit how he was willing to betray his friends for the sake of his own pride.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Even before he acted on the urge to kill, Faux wasn't totally accepted by his peers. Vinyl outright warns Felix that Faux seems shady, and Solace mentions that one of his favorite hiding spots felt ruined becuse of Faux. Granted, Tryce was more than fine with him in the prologue, but that's because—contrary to what he asks of him— he didn't get to know the real Faux yet.
- Given Name Reveal: In a world where people are otherwise known by their street name, Faux's legal name, Teun Vogelaar, gets revealed a little ways into the story when the police are going over his record.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Faux's jealousy towards Felix managing to make it All City is so fierce that it ultimately drives him to attempt to murder him by pushing him into a fan - and it would've worked, had Solace not been nearby to witness what happened.
- Ironic Name: His real given name, Teun, means "support" in Dutch. He most certainly was not supportive of Felix when he left to go All City solo, nor when he literally kicked Felix's support from under him on that fateful night.
- It's All About Me: Faux wants to be legendary and go All City at any cost, because he feels entitled to it over anyone else. His anger at Felix for going All City on his own leads Faux to murder him. This behavior hasn’t died down at all after being revived as a cyborg in present day; with the New Amsterdam Police’s superior firepower on hand, Faux is more than happy to eradicate all crews in New Amsterdam so he can be the only All City King forever.
- Karmic Death: Once he's finally defeated, he dies in the exact way he tried to kill Felix - falling from a great height after criticizing his All City venture. While his human body was long gone, his final moments are shown as an Ironic Echo of that fateful night, where this time he's the one thrown into an industrial fan and chopped into pieces. Fortunately, the audience is spared from seeing the gruesome aftermath.
- Living MacGuffin: Bomb Rush Crew's desire to make it All City isn't just to make it big, but to get Faux's head back from FUTURISM. Then it's taken to a whole new level when the New Amsterdam Police obtain the head to use in "Project Algo".
- Meaningful Name: It’s fitting that the game’s Decoy Protagonist has a name meaning “fake”. It also echoes how his whole “legend” has been fake all along, with his “perfect” record only facilitated thanks to having his misdemeanors scrubbed by his father, who was in the force. The fact he was (possibly) a fake friend to Felix and DJ Cyber also helps.
- "Faux" is also pronounced the same as "foe", Foreshadowing his role as the game's final boss.
- Never My Fault: Tries to justify his actions by blaming the circumstances of his origins, being born the son of a cop (especially a corrupt one) and believing no one would accept him because of it, only for Felix to call him out as being a coward running away from the reality that he's just a scoundrel who tried to betray and murder his friends for his own personal gain.
- Odd Name Out: Whereas everyone else's street names are either descriptive or have a positive meaning, Faux's is the only one with a word that can be read negatively: either referencing his own duplicity, or condemning the scene for setting rules he considers arbitrary in place for people he considers fickle.
- One-Winged Angel: Of the mechanical variety. After the police plug his cranium into Project Algo and he’s taken control, Faux shows up to the final battle inside the same kind of tank mech Red faces at Millennium Mall. Only after that war machine is dealt with and Faux falls off the building, he returns as what can only be described as a robot leviathan ready to rampage.
- Phony Psychic: While plugged into Project Algo, he fakes predictions of crimes committed by Writers in order to get the police to justify use of force. By Chapter 6, he drops all pretense when his final prediction states every Writer will die but him, who instead becomes All City King.
- Pretty Boy: Per Tryce, who labels him it outright. The game even uses it for his name until a proper introduction is made.
- Red Herring: For most of the game the player is led to believe that Faux is Red’s original identity, given that they just played as him and Red uses his body, he’s actually an amnesiac Felix who was grafted on Faux’s body and Faux himself is nothing like he appeared to be.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Thanks to being the son of a corrupt cop, he has no criminal record, with his various misdemeanors instead pinned on other innocent Writers. He actually resents this and is afraid of the other Writers finding out, which fuels his desire to go All City at any cost.
- Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: On the other hand, he's very amused by the Code of the Street, mocking the main crew and DJ Cyber for enforcing "made up rules" amongst a bunch of gangs.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: His voice lines give him a rather soft, calm voice, even when he's mockingly calling Felix an "All City King" before killing him and rattling off his plans to kill every writer in the city.
- Special Person, Normal Name: He's one of the Big 3, the literal brains of Project Algo, and his head being split from his body drives the plot, yet his given name is common for Dutch boys.
- They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Frankly put, he's pretty plain and unimpressive-looking, lacking the overt flair for fashion that every other gang member has. The lack of memorability let alone anything ominously villainous with his design as opposed to someone like DJ Cyber makes his true sinister colors all the more surprising.
- Transhuman Abomination: He turns into one of these after he's plugged into Project Algo, with his head being attached to a giant mechanical spine that grants him the ability to brainwash anyone and anything that interfaces with him.
- The Unfettered: He wants to become the All City King and is willing to do just about anything to get there, from murdering the previous All City King to taking over the police force of New Amsterdam in order to kill every other Writer in the city.
- Villain Has a Point: For as violently selfish and prideful as he is, he's certainly not outright wrong when he calls out his fellow Writers for being such sticklers to their own rules when they're all wanted criminals anyway.
- Villain Override: Him being plugged into Project Algo allows him to directly control the police force and its various robotic weaponry, which he abuses in his bid to rid New Amsterdam of its Writers so that he can hold the title.
- Villainous Breakdown: His final moments are spent angrily and psychotically ranting and raving in a vain attempt to justify the horrible actions he committed, blaming everything but himself.
Felix
Felix
- Voiced by: Pjotr Groothoff
The legendary Writer that made it All City without even needing a Boostpack, becoming New Amsterdam's #1 Most Wanted and inspiring other gangs to compete for dominance after his untimely death.
- Aerith and Bob: Among the cast of eccentric and bold street names, the fact that he has a conventional first name makes him stand out all the more.
- Back from the Dead: It took a roundabout way of revival after his wasting, but his head was resurrected in Cyberhead technology (as Red), then his memories, then finally his old body, which had been preserved.
- Badass Beard: He's a legendary figure and one of the few characters with full facial hair, though it's only seen in Red's flashbacks and during the ending after Red's helmet completely shatters, as most people have only seen him with his mask on.
- Badass Normal: He's legendary for making it All City without the assistance of a Boostpack.
- Cool Mask: He wore one in public, with only the other Big 3 and their closest associates knowing what he looks like underneath. DJ Cyber would end up wearing it after Felix's death, seemingly as a Tragic Keepsake. It's why none of the Bomb Rush Crew could immediately identify Red as Felix after his face was revealed.
- Deadly Rotary Fan: Faux did him in by kicking the ladder Felix was standing on, causing him to fall off into a nearby industrial fan and getting ground up (save for his head, which was recovered by Flesh Prince and DJ Cyber).
- Facial Markings: The real head that was placed inside Red's cyberhead is identifiable as Felix's by the wing tattoo on his left cheek, though the Bomb Rush Crew don't immediately make the connection because he was the original owner of DJ Cyber's face-covering Cool Mask.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: It's said that he doesn't need a boostpack to perform tricks but since the boostpack is part of the game's Anti-Frustration Feature for maintaining combos, he still uses one like any other playable character in gameplay.
- He Knows Too Much: Felix knew that Faux had a corrupt cop for a father, who was scrubbing his son's records and pinning his misdemeanors on innocent writers. This gave Faux even more reason to murder him (on top of the immense jealousy he was already feeling towards Felix).
- Meaningful Name: Felix means "lucky" in Latin. When he's murdered, the stars happen to have aligned in his favor: not only was Solace randomly in the area to be a witness, his body fell into a basketball court the Flesh Prince was at, allowing his head to be preserved so he could be resurrected later.
- Never Bareheaded: When he was alive, he was never seen without a mask covering his head. On the rare times he was caught without it, he had a beanie on instead. Even after death the trend persisted: his head was hidden in the Cyberhead that would become Red's until the endgame, which showed his hat was still under there when it shattered.
- Posthumous Character: He was wasted shortly after making it All City, which led to the various gangs forming in order to follow in his footsteps. Later subverted in that Red is revealed to be Felix, resurrected thanks to the Flesh Prince’s efforts and attached to Faux’s old body.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: His response to Faux's frantic justifications for why he couldn't tell anyone about his parentage? A loud "NOT MY PROBLEM!"
- Special Person, Normal Name: The greatest of the Writers...is named Felix, a completely normal first name amidst a cast of eccentric street aliases.
- Vocal Dissonance: His beard and boxy facial structure make him look like a man well into adulthood, but his voice lines sound like they belong to someone in their early 20's at most, more fitting Faux's more youthful looks. It's part of the reason why the player likely won't put it together right away that Red is actually Felix.
DJ Cyber
DJ Cyber
- Voiced by: Wola Badiru/YAPICO
The leader of FUTURISM, and one of the best writers in New Amsterdam. DJ Cyber is infamous for screwing with people’s heads—figuratively and literally, as his decapitation of Faux would suggest. Tracking him down is the Bomb Rush Crew’s top priority, though the DJ may just have ulterior motives of his own, too...
In his playable form, DJ Cyber starts off with a Skateboard equipped by default.
- And the Adventure Continues: Once BRC achieves All City at the end of the game, DJ Cyber heads out warning them not to sit on their laurels, implying a continued rivalry with FUTURISM for turf.
- Anti-Villain: He only antagonized Red in order to push him to conquer the other gang territories and regain his memories as Felix.
- Baritone of Strength: The only surviving member of the legendary Big 3 and the leader of FUTURISM, DJ Cyber easily has the deepest voice of any character in the game. This helps to emphasize his authority and make him seem more threatening as an antagonist.
- Catchphrase: He always ends his sentences with "Dig it" or "Can you dig it?". Played for awkward laughs when he politely asks Red to "dig" going back in his memory machine near the finale.
- Collector of the Strange: Purportedly collects people's heads so he can poke around their minds. This rumor leads Tryce to believe DJ Cyber is in possession of Faux's head, forming the initial goal of defeating FUTURISM to get it back. It's later confirmed that he doesn't have such a collection.
- Cool Mask: Ever since Felix was offed, he's been wearing Felix's white mask, which covers his entire face.
- Disc-One Final Boss: Cyber's initial antagonism toward the Bomb Rush Crew was entirely so he could draw Felix's memories out of his amnesiac mind. Once Red defeats him in Pyramid Island and figures out his true identity, DJ Cyber becomes an ally for the remainder of the campaign, and even in the post-game he seems more than happy to hang with the Bomb Rush Crew after you beat his high score in Millennium Plaza.
- Expy: A very loose one for DJ Professor K. Though he doesn't run a radio station himself, the entirety of the game's radio mixtapes are curated by him. Even his voice is somewhat similar to K's when he speaks.
- Foreign Cuss Word: One of his unused lines when doing a boost move has him shout "Bombaclaat", which is a Jamaican Patois slang word roughly equivalent to "goddamn/motherfucker".
- "Get Back Here!" Boss: The second phase of his boss fight entails chasing after him while being bombarded with landmines.
- Good All Along: It turns out he had pretty good reasons for killing Faux.
- Hypocrite: He's a strong advocate of the Code of the Street, forcing the Franks to give up their territory when they refuse to help the Bomb Rush Crew after losing a fair challenge. He's also responsible for decapitating Faux, which is the biggest possible violation of the Code, though it's later revealed that he had good reason to do what he did.
- Instrument of Murder: DJ Cyber throws bladed vinyl disks as weapons, and cleanly chops Faux's head off with one at the end of the tutorial.
- Karmic Nod: He acknowledges that he deserved getting punched in the face after Red regained his memories. He does however seem to deem it Worth It as long as Red remembered his past.
- Knight Templar: Has shades of this with how hard he enforces the Code of the Street, though it's later revealed that he primarily did it to help out Red.
- Light Is Not Good: Wears primarily white but decapitated Faux and enforces his will on the streets to a harsh degree, making him Red's adversary. Later subverted when he actually turns out to be a cool dude who was only trying to help Red, becoming his ally during his final showdown against Faux.
- Malevolent Masked Men: He started wearing Felix's mask after the latter's death and enforced the Code of the Streets with an iron fist. That said, he's not the true villain of the story, and likely kept the mask as a Tragic Keepsake. Once his intentions are revealed and Red recovers from his amnesia, he stops wearing the mask.
- Meaningful Appearance: His wavy orange hair resembles a stylized brain, fitting a man with an interest in the mind. Combine this with his stark white coat and mask, and he comes off as a Mad Doctor; given he leads the most technologically advanced group in the city and rides in a brain scanning machine, which he does use in an unconventional way to restore his "patient", the look isn't out of place.
- Not So Above It All: The most emotion you can ring from him in the main game is either levelheaded authoritative intent or cold fury. Yapico, his voice actor, describes him as putting on a bombastic performance whenever he acts the part of the top authority of the gangs. When you play as him though, he's just as loose and enthusiastic as everyone else. He also lets out a lot more slang and laughter when he's enjoying himself.
- Odd Name Out: Among the members of the Big 3, his name doesn't start with F and end with X.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: His murder of Faux turns out to have been this, since Faux had just murdered Felix and was likely going to get away scot-free unless someone intervened.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: It turns out his rampage through the New Amsterdam police department was his looking for Faux so that he could kill him in revenge for Faux killing Felix.
- Shout-Out: His Spider Tank looks very similar to a greyscale, faceless version of the Tachikoma, fitting DJ Cyber's association with memories and the mind.
- Spider Tank: While others get around on skateboards, blades, and bikes, Cyber chooses to roll in an armed ant-like mech that he built. Said mech comes equipped with a special chair in the back for entering your own mind. However, once he becomes playable he just rolls the same way as the others, with a skateboard for his default.
- Tennis Boss: His boss fight entails knocking his vinyl disks back at him to stun him and open him up to hits.
New Amsterdam Police
Rietveld
Irene Rietveld
- Voiced by: Laura K. Welsh
A jetpack-wearing operative in the New Amsterdam Police’s anti-corruption division, who frequently has a bone to pick with the Bomb Rush Crew — specifically Red, with whom she has history.
In her playable form, Rietveld starts off with a Skateboard equipped by default.
- Artificial Limbs: Her hands have a mechanical look to them and her sleeved arms look disproportionately big compared to the rest of her body, suggesting that she's using some kind of replacement arms.
- Big Damn Heroes: After Faux severs Red/Felix’s head from his new body and kidnaps Solace, Rietveld flies in to provide Red/Felix his original body and give him another chance at stopping Faux from bringing chaos to New Amsterdam.
- BFG: In the boss fight between her and Red. She arms herself by ripping off a weapon from a downed police aircraft, the fact she's able to carry it and still fly is impressive enough.
- Defector from Decadence: After bearing witness to the corruption seeping through Faux into the police force, Rietveld temporarily joins forces with the Bomb Rush Crew and gets Red/Felix his old body back. This trope fully comes into play in the post-game, where she’s ambushed by police in Versum Hill; saving Rietveld has her abandon the force and join the BRC as a playable character.
- Facial Markings: Has two black, vertical lines over her right eye.
- Gas Mask Mooks: She wears a half-face gas mask as a part of her uniform.
- Internal Reformist: In the postgame, she attempts to combat the corruption in the police force from within, only to quit the force entirely after being met with heavy armed resistance from her fellow officers.
- Jet Pack: Unlike the boostpacks used by Writers, the fight against Rietveld has her constantly airborne as she fires handcuff missiles at Red.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Is named after the Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld.
- Only Sane Man: She vocalizes her objection to using Faux's decapitated head for "Project Algo", which Berlage notes before authorizing it anyways.
- Still Wearing the Old Colors: Even when she leaves the force due to the corruption being unmanagable by her, she still wears that police tracksuit.
Escher
Escher
- Voiced by: Tom Schalk
A cyberhead sniper working for the New Amsterdam Police, who encounters Red and the Bomb Rush Crew in Brink Terminal.
- BFG: Escher's weapon of choice is a sniper rifle that's about as long as he is tall.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Retroactively revealed to have had this happen to him, as he was plugged into Project Algo after voicing his doubts to Berlage that the Bomb Rush Crew are actually a threat, meaning he was under Faux's control afterwards.
- "Get Back Here!" Boss: As a sniper, he's constantly running away, putting distance between himself and the player to take potshots with a rifle. Fighting him involves punching him, then figuring out where he ran off to before hunting him down, using cover to safely close the distance.
- Hitman with a Heart: When reporting back to the police chief, he starts having second doubts about taking down the Bomb Rush Crew, stating that they don't fight back unless provoked and don't use lethal weapons. Unfortunately, being plugged into Project Algo erases these doubts, leading him to shoot Red the second time around completely unprovoked.
- In the Hood: His uniform includes a cloak with a hood, which he's seen wearing in his introduction (though he discards the hood at the start of his boss fight and keeps it off for the rest of the game).
- Just Following Orders: Says as much during Red's first encounter with him. He has reservations about the level of lethal force being used against the writers, but ultimately complies with his superiors anyway.
- Mirror Character: He serves as this to Red - they're both Cyberheads, but they're on different sides in the conflict between the Writers and the NAPD. They also have differing perspectives on their "roots"; Red, as an Amnesiac Hero, is seeking his old head in order to find out who he used to be before he originally died, while Escher is of the belief that someone's past doesn't matter compared to what they make of themselves in the present, and is confused as to why Red seeks his old head when he's fundamentally a different person now.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Escher pretty much disappears from the plot after he's knocked unconscious during his infiltration of the Hideout. Considering he was only whacked upside the head and the crews have a code against killing people, he's likely not dead, but where exactly he went after Faux's defeat remains a mystery.
Berlage
Chief Inspector Berlage
The Chief Inspector, who's planning to remove crime from his beloved city with "Project Algo".
- Creepy Blue Eyes: His cybernetic eyes are so pale, they're practically white. Definitely not the eyes of a good guy.
- Horrible Judge of Character: He believed Faux's father was a fine officer, leading him to not question plugging Faux's head into Project Algo under the belief that Faux would share the same sense of justice. Not only does Faux not care at all about the police other than using them for his own selfish purposes, but Faux's father was in fact a Dirty Cop who covered up his son's wrongdoings.
- Improperly Paranoid: He clamps down hard on Writers out of what is basically a Slippery Slope Fallacy. Even though the gangs settle their disputes non-violently thanks to the Code of the Street, he views their acts of vandalism as just a step away from encouraging people to commit actual violent crimes.
- Irony: He authorizes violent measures to be taken with Writers that he believes are potentially dangerous, but he unknowingly plugs the most dangerous Writer of all, Faux, right into Project Algo, a machine meant to stop crime.
- Killed Offscreen: When Rietveld realizes that Faux's head has been duping them, she gets a squad to bust into the Project Algo room and finds Berlage already on the ground in a pool of his own blood.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: His sole motivation is to keep New Amsterdam safe from crime, which he does by authorizing snipers, attack helicopters and the occasional Humongous Mecha to take out potentially dangerous Writers.
Other characters
Benni
Benni
A taxi driver/chauffeur who offers his services to the Bomb Rush Crew after they help him out of a bind with the police.- Because You Were Nice to Me: He gives the Bomb Rush Crew free access to his services as a chauffeur out of gratitude for taking out the cops that were about to arrest him.
- Cool Car: He rides about in a roofless muscle car with what look to be jet engines affixed to the back (and if him being able to take the player to and from Pyramid Island is any indication, those engines are capable of flight).
- Expy: He's to B.D Joe what the Bomb Rush Crew are to the GGs.
- Mellow Fellow: About the only time he gets nervous is when he's being accosted by the police for driving a taxi without a taxi driver license. Otherwise, he's cool as a cucumber.
- Verbal Tic: Tends to call people "fam".
