Characters / Consolers

About the characters from Consolers.

Work in progress, more will be added later as the comic goes on and characters become more developed. Feel free to contribute!

The "Big 3" Consolers

Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft.

The Consolers

"Well, good luck at E3! (You'll both need it, heh)"

— Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, to each other

• Fire, Ice, Lightning: Nintendo is the fire due to bringing new things people believe will ruin the market and many of her games feature fire. Sony is the lightning with everyday electronics. And lasty, "Xbox is about becoming the new water cooler!" nuff said.
• Friendly Enemy: Can be nice to each other at times. Though, a lot of the time it's to join up against the third one.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Most of the time, Nintendo is shown as "nice", Microsoft as "mean" and Sony can be either.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Smug, sarcastic Sony (blue) and aggressive, loud Microsoft (red)

Nintendo

"Eh, who cares? E3 is a time to have FUN!"

• Badass on Paper: She's one of the biggest, most powerful, richest game companies, has performed a lot of amazing feats through her history (including reviving and saving the American industry almost by herself after the Crash and dominating the industry for some time after that, having the best-selling handheld and the second-best selling console of all time)- but if you meet her you wouldn't believe that this silly Cloudcuckoolander would be capable of that.
• The Barnum: Regarding the Nintendo Creator's Program on Youtube, suckering creators off their money.
• Beware the Nice Ones / Beware the Silly Ones: Sure, she might look nice and friendly now, but there's a reason she got to where she is now.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Created the New Nintendo 3DS to get back at people who leaked details about the next Smash. forcing them to pay more money for exclusive games. Despite her friendly demeanor, she is not to be crossed.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Brought to You by the Letter "N": Wears a "N" for Nintendo on her hat and shirt
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Is sick of being looked down at or ignored by many other companies.
• Heroes Love Dogs: Well, she's not an outright hero, but man does she love dogs! In Mario, in Zelda, in Star Fox…, and even made a game based on taking care of them.
• Long-Lived: Has existed for longer than most of her competition, and still going strong.
• Not So Above It All: Often claims to not get into meaningless fights like the others, and lately to "not even compete anymore". Hit one of her Berserk Buttons, though...
• Really 700 Years Old: Has existed for over 100 years (although not always as a game company), but looks like she's in her later teens, or early twenties at most.
• Shout-Out: Her hat is shaped like a mix of Mario's cap and Link's hat.
• Super-Toughness: Can take a LOT of damage without getting particularily hurt- no wonder with all the Nintendium she has around - and seems to survive most things easily
  • Stone Wall: Like mentioned above, she can take a lot of damage, however she's not always the best fighter.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: Held in with a clip shaped like a D-Pad.

Sony

"So after showing you all our console's features that just *heh* happen to not be on that other console being shown, here's how to *heh* share your games..."

• Alien Blood: In his nightmareish Dream Sequence, he's shown to literally bleed money
• Closet Fanboy: Of Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series.
• Color Failure: Gets this when Nintendo cancels the contract.
• Deadpan Snarker: While not always "deadpan", he's prone to sarcastic remarks now and then.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Frequently, such as when he deleted the list of winners for the big PS4 Anniversary contest while clearing out his hard drive.
• Open Secret: Everyone knows he's struggling with money currently. Doesn't stop him from trying to hide and deny it.
• Pose of Supplication: Right after Nintendo rips apart the contract.
• Renaissance Man: Along with video games, he's also skilled in movies, music, photography, and all kinds of electronics.

Microsoft

"It's called the Xbox One... (because I'm number one!)"

• Evil Costume Switch: Parodied in comic 86 Start of Xbox.
• Expy: is very similar to America from Hetalia: Axis Powers in terms of personality, Justified as he's an American company and the author is a Hetalia fan.
• Flip-Flop of God: invoked, in regards to the Kinect being required for the Xbox One.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: Rips them off when it's time to get serious in the prequel comic 86.
• Smug Super: One of the powerful Big 3 Consolers... with an ego to match.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Doritos and Mountain Dew
• Waistcoat of Style: Made his suit jacket into this by ripping off the arms.

Past consolers

Sega:

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"For some reason I suddenly feel kinda... rejected?"

Previously a Consoler and Nintendo's biggest rival. Now he and Nintendo are friends, but he still longs for the past at times.

• Empty Shell: compared how he used to be.
• Expy: Is basically designed as a human Sonic the Hedgehog.
• Glory Days: Thinks a lot about his past time as a big Consoler.
• Totally Radical: Used to be this when he was still popular.

Atari

"don't make... the same mistake... I did... rushing games... was... a mistake..."

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• Big Sister Mentor/Cool Big Sis: Was this for Namco in the past, whom indeed found her really cool and inspired him into making games.
• Bizarre Human Biology: Has a square dot of hair floating and detached from the rest of her hair.
• Buried Alive: And by all the unsold copies of ET, no less!
• Color Failure: Following the crash, the only color left on Atari is the logo on her dress.
• Disease Bleach: Used to have red hair, but some time after "the Crash" it turned white.
• Ethereal White Dress: Her white clothes fit her role as the resident Cute Ghost Girl of sorts. Before the crash it fits her hiding corruption making her mysterious.
• The End of the World as We Know It: The Great Video Game Crash of 1983 was this for her.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Used to be red, after The Crash it gradually turned white and more messy and stringy.
  • Following the announcement of the Ataribox, she has regained some of the color in her hair, although the effects of the Crash are still very prominent.
• Fate Worse than Death: Nearly died several times (Crash, later failed releases) but just keeps living on, even though she gets weaker and weaker.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: After two years buried under unsold copies of ET, Atari awoke to a new world where Nintendo was synonymous with video games, not herself.
• Gratuitous Japanese: her name is Japanese, Atari herself however isn't.
• I Was Quite a Looker: In so far as a Moe personification of a video game company can be attractive, but she was certainly a lot healthier looking before the Crash.
• Meaningful Name: it's a Japanese word that loosely means "Score".
• Mystical White Hair: Her ghostly self has white hair , and isn't much of a bother to anyone. But then again it was herself with her Greed and worse that got her in that situation in the first place.
• Pooled Funds: Bathes in money after getting rich from licensing Space Invaders.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: When she was powerful her hair was red, when her power left, the color disappeared as well.
• She's Back: It took her over thirty years to recover from the Crash, but Atari is finally back in the game with the Ataribox.
• When She Smiles: Her smile in the first part of the second Q&A is simply adorable.

Asian companies

For more than one:

• Friendly Rivalry: Capcom and Namco, who loves fighting each other just for fun.
• Fusion Dance: Several companies, like Square Enix and Koei Tecmo, are "merges" of two other companies - when merging, companies will fuse together to turn into one new character. Most of them will stay in this form after being merged.

Capcom:

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• Blood Knight: Loves fighting just for the sake of fighting, and enjoys fighting other companies when she can. Especially Namco.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Her shirt has one long sleeve and the other arm is sleeveless.
• Supreme Chef: One of her hobbies is making new dishes for the Capcom Bar.
  • Chef of Iron: "Ordinary" type

Game Freak

HAL

• Blush Sticker
• Genki Girl

Namco

"Where I got the idea? Well, I was eating some pizza, and... yeah, that's pretty much it..."

• Cloudcuckoolander: Seems to space out quite a bit and has a bunch of strange ideas.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: Loves to make all kinds of different ice cream flavors... some of which are rather strange. How about snake, curry or horse-flavored ice cream?
• Disney Owns This Trope: Owned the patent for interactive loading screens until the day this comic was released.
  • Later was planning to trademark the term "Finishing Move".
• Fusion Dance: Can merge with Bandai to become Bandai-Namco. Though unlike most other merges, they usually don't stay in merged form.
• Hidden Depths: Even the Cloudcuckoolander can become serious when his business isn't going well.
• Imagine Spot: When the Yakuza offers to help him, he starts imagining himself as The King of All Cosmos, being much more powerful than all the other companies.
• Screw The Power, I have Rules!: The Yakuza offers to help him become the most powerful company in the industry. Despite an initial tempting Imagine Spot scene, he refuses.
• Shout-Out: Not only is his belt pacman, but it's also really similar to Jade's
• Vanity License Plate: A more subtle example: His license plate says "76-50"... or "na-mu-ko" = Namco.

Konami

"HEY! Those pachinko machines aren't gonna build themselves!"

• Disproportionate Retribution: Her in-universe reason for acting terribly? ...The others made fun of her E3 2010 presentation.
• Freudian Slip: Gets some unfortunate autocorrect errors, like "Forever pachinko" for "farewell party".
• Highly-Conspicuous Uniform: sure, the main uniform is perfect for sneaking around at night, in the shadows, swimming through dark waters… if only not for… the bright red helmet, the DDR shoes, and the big fluttering vampire cape…
• Jerkass: Given her treatment of Hideo Kojima, though he doesn't seem particularly crestfallen
• Konami Code: Printed on her shirt lapels.
• Mercury's Wings: Wears a helmet with wings. They're only decorative, though.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: "Ultra Games" and "Palcom", which are just Konami dressed in a t-shirt with the Ultra Games or Palcom logos, and a seashell on her head.
• Poke the Poodle: At times. One of her ideas of "terrible evil revenge" include... taking down a retweeted Twitter fanart.
• Rummage Sale Reject: Blue suit-shirt over a tight bodysuit, MGS-style harness, Konami Man's helmet, vampire cape, and DDR-themed boots...
• Villain Ball: At times. When looking for Hideo Kojima, she ends up ignoring a suspicious "box"... because it makes some rather convincing "box sounds".

Taito

"Guess who just invented difficulty curves!"

• Accidental Discovery: Her Space Invaders game ends up having the aliens going faster and faster - something originally unintended, but caused by limitations of the hardware. At first she gets annoyed at it not working but then realizes that this ended up not only making the game itself better, but would also introduce the game world to difficulty curves.
• Anime Hair: Shaped like a Space Invader
• Black Bead Eyes: Well, dark gray, but they stand out among the more detailed eyes of the other characters.
• "Eureka!" Moment: When her game starts going faster as she plays. "And why does it keep going faster now? This just makes it keep getting harder and-" "Wait a minute..."

Bandai

• Sentai: Designed after this kind of hero.

Square

• Decomposite Character: He and Enix were made by splitting Square Enix into two characters, both representing their respective company before the merge.

Enix

Tecmo:

Namco... I will NEVER forgive you for this unforgivable insult.

• Disproportionate Retribution: Considers a joke comment about his game enough to hold a years-long grudge.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Towards Namco upon hearing him joke about his game series.
• With Catlike Tread: Tries sneaking into Namco's house... while narrating his own actions. Is noticed by loudly bragging about his ninja skills... while right above Namco.

Atlus:

• Global Ignorance: Doesn't seem to know what Europe is.

Platinum

• Expy: Looks similar to Bayonetta, with some W101 thrown in.
• It's Personal: Wants revenge against Capcom for shutting down Clover (past life) and taking their IPs - or what might now be Platinum's IPs.

Sora

• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Is pretty much an expy of Masahiro Sakurai.

Tose

"After all... My only aim is to help developers."

• Anonymous Benefactor: A variant: while the other companies know about them and go to them for help, exactly who they are is not known - and they prefer it this way.
• The Faceless
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: They are always hidden from view, speaking from behind a closed door. They are never seen, and nothing is known about them.
• Mysterious Backer: They are a "secret" company who secretly helps the other companies with development behind the scenes when asked, and has done so for years. Despite the large number of projects they have worked on, nothing else is known about them, and it sometimes seem unclear just what Tose's motivations for helping this way is.

Toaplan

• Brilliant, but Lazy: A skilled game developer, but also a bit of a procrastinator who enjoys taking a lot of breaks from work.
• Cool Mask: Similar to CATS's metal plate.
• Triple Shifter: Gets little time leftover for sleep due to the time he spends on both work and fun activities. He apparently chooses to sleep less just to get more time for breaks:
  "There's way more time for fun with less sleep!"

North American companies

Valve:

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• Kitsch Collection: Has a huge collection of hats and other headgear - the stranger the better.
• Ridiculous Procrastinator: Partially because of her Valve Time.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: They appear to be this in the second part of the second Q&A.
• Time Dissonance: Lives on "Valve Time", which is completely incomprehensible to anyone else - she even gets 3 days late to a presentation because of this.
• The Hilarity of Hats: Loves all kinds of hats and has a huge collection.

EA:

• The Bully: tries to be this towards Nintendo, causing everyone to laugh at him.
  • Loving Bully: pretends to be this.
• Irony: for being a huge sports fan and participant does he have a severe lack of sportsmanship. This is also his Fatal Flaw.
• Totally Radical: Tries way too hard to sound young and with it.

Bethesda:

• Large Ham

Kee Games

• The Mole: Pretends to be Atari's rival... in reality, he's Atari's subsidiary working together with her to release the "same" games to different publishers.
• Unusual Eyebrows: His left eyebrow has 2 curls.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Disappeared after his One-Scene Wonder and didn't show up again for the rest of the storyline.

Niantic

• Bold Explorer

Digital Homicide:

• Can't Take Criticism: To the point where he thinks people leaving negative reviews is a bug.
• Frivolous Lawsuit: A speciality of his. He'll sue people for just leaving negative reviews about their games.
• The Generic Guy: Purposefully designed to be plain and generic-looking.

European companies

Ubisoft:

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"No, it's not a glitch... that's just a new feature"

• Body Horror/Nightmare Face: His "glitch" form makes him lose his face with only the eyes and mouth left, a reference to the infamous Assassin's Creed: Unity glitch.
• In the Hood: Usually wears a hoodie.
• In-Series Nickname: "Ubi".
• Light Is Not Good: Wears light colored clothes and has blond hair, is a jerk. He seems to have gotten better.
• Used To Be A Sweet Company: used to be a pretty sweet company that cared about his customers and fans, although a little ditzy. Is now a prideful French Jerk.

Rare

I hacked your console to make this game!

"So... please look at this collection of old games from back when I still was allowed to make good ones..."

• Adopted to the House: was adopted by Nintendo for a while, but she Took a Level in Jerkass for a while, so he got fed up and was adopted by Microsoft instead.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: He starts wanting more money for development. Too bad it comes at the price of his games selling terribly under his new boss...
• British Stuffiness: averted.
• Dirty Kid: Has filthy humor while looking like a kid.
• Deal with the Devil: How his contract with Microsoft apparently was considering the consequences…
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Things started going downhill for him ever since he left Nintendo and started working for Microsoft.
• Jack of All Stats: like Nintendo is he pretty good at most genres. This made Microsoft throw genres he's not too fond of at him.
• Older Than They Look: Looks and has the idealism of someone about 12, is about 30.
• Wanting Is Better Than Having: One of the reasons Rare leaves Nintendo is that she won't give him enough money for development. Microsoft, on the other hand, gives him the development money he wants... however, he finds out his games aren't actually appreciated by Xbox gamers, or Microsoft himself when he sees the terrible sales, so he can't make what he wants most anymore...

Tiger Telematics

• Fangs Are Evil: A huge Jerkass, at least.
• Impossibly Tacky Clothes: His bright orange tiger-striped suit and huge Gizmondo logo-shaped necklace makes Microsoft refer to him as "painful-looking".
• Named Like My Name: The reason he gets mistaken for Tiger Electronics, a different (and more well-known) company, by Microsoft. He is NOT happy about this. Previously, several readers has believed him to be the more well-known Tiger Electronics.
• Suspicious Spending: For a company with an unsuccessful console, at least. His criminal reputation doesn't help...

Merges

Composite Characters, simple as that. Represents merged companies.

Square Enix

• BFS: Has a giant sword... doubling as a giant Swiss Army Knife containing various weapons... including knives, scissors, buzzsaws, lasers, more swords, another Swiss Army knife and a cup holder. Would likely be impractical, but who cares? It looks badass.
• Fusion Dance: He's a fusion of Square and Enix. The Composite type.
• Impossibly Cool Weapon: A Swiss Army Knife-BFS.
• In-Series Nickname: Often called "Squeenix" by the others.
• Too Many Belts: Even has one in his hair. And that one even has a zipper...
• Troll: In the E3 2015 comic, introduces Kingdom Hearts 3 as just another mobile game, before announcing that he was kidding and it's really a proper console release. Truth in Television.
• Two Beings, One Body: A fusion of Square and Enix combined into one body. Has appearances and personality traits from both.

Bandai Namco

• Fusion Dance: A merge of Bandai and Namco.

Koei Tecmo

• Chivalrous Pervert: many of his games are fanservice oriented, but the girls can still fight back.
• Fusion Dance: A merge of Koei and Tecmo.
• The Gadfly: Will make up convenient but not-fully-true excuses to get attention from customers.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: his debut, "DoA: Xcuses", is about him doing this.

Branches

Companies' younger cousins and siblings, representing their branches in another country/region.

• Adorably Precocious Child: Most of them will have shades of this - as expected of a kid taking on an important task like this.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ameritendo (red) and Eurotendo (blue)

Ameritendo:

Yeah! We don't need a big conference to kick ass and take names!

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Represents Nintendo of America.

• Fountain of Memes: In-universe, is known for his internet fame.
• Sibling Rivalry: With Eurotendo at times, mostly arguing over which region has it the worst in terms of release dates and available games.

Eurotendo:

Represents Nintendo of Europe.

• Omniglot: She has to translate to major European languages and even the booklets to some who doesn't have their language in-game.

Non-game companies

Companies that doesn't make games (or currently doesn't) but might still have had a part in the industry.

Apple

• Anime Hair: Shaped like the Apple logo.
• Blackmail: Claims to know something about Microsoft which made him help him in the past. He never dirctly called it blackmail though, and we never really get to know what it was.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Microsoft calls him "Crapple".
• No True Scotsman: Considered "not a real Consoler" by the other Consolers.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Is considered a huge threat to the handheld market by Sony and has one red eye.
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Philips

• The Ghost: So far, only mentioned once by Nintendo.

Non-companies

Characters who aren't companies.

PC

"Good FPS... ON CONSOLES? But THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE???!!??"

• Jerkass: To the Consolers, who he has a huge superiority complex towards. (He seems to act nicer around other companies, though)
• Non-Human Head: His head is a computer screen. Word of God says this is to differentiate him from the company characters, since "PC" is not a company.
• Stalker without a Crush: He stalks Microsoft around in comics 86 to 91 out of jealousy and feeling betrayed. But it's not like a Crazy Jealous Guy would do it, more like a best friend who feels betrayed.
• TV Head Robot: Or rather, computer-screen head.
• Villainous BSoD: While he's not outright a villain and is just a jerkass, does he gets a literal BSOD upen hearing that the N64, a console (as opposed to PC) has a great, top-selling shooter game.
• Übermensch: sees himself as this.

Mobile Demon:

• Demonic Possession: Can do this to companies. Usually lives in their phones.
• Sickly Green Glow
• Speech Bubbles: It speaks in green, partially transparent speech bubbles with wavy lines and uses a different font from the other characters.

IGN:

• Non-Human Head: Has a news mic with the IGN logo for a head.

ESRB

North America's rating system.

• Good Job Breaking It Hero: Ran away after indirectly causing Atlus' Persona 5 cover problem.

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