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Characters from the twelfth season and seventh sidequest of Dimension 20.

The Red Hot/The Wurst

Gunner Channel

The ragtag crew of the starship "The Red Hot" who's trying to make a living in a rough and tumble galaxy.

In General

• The Alleged Car: Their spaceship is basically a glorified hunk of junk with poor mobility, a computer so bad that it's better for Gunthrie to do the equations by hand, and overall below average combat capabilities, and has a chance to explode if the crew rolls a one. Averted by episode 4, when they finally get repairs and can ditch the Used condition.
• Anti-Hero Team: Even more so than the previous seasons (barring those where the PCs were villains), this crew is mostly concerned by survival and are ready to kill to do so, and don't have a really noble goal in mind. The exception is Margaret Encino, who wants to go against UFTP, but can be incredibly cold when doing so.
• Brains Versus Brawn: The Gunner Channel, for the most part, is quite clever, with most of them having a Intelligence score of 19 or higher, while Riva and Barry have demonstrated shrewdness and guile for the former and knowledge of battlefield tactics for the latter. Meanwhile, most of their antagonists are, on some level, Stupid Evil, but they are massively powerful and dispose of colossal resources. In fact, the most intelligent foe our heroes face, Lucienne Rex, is the villain who can hurt them physically the least, due to her lack of influence compared to the high executives of Crown And Scepter.
• Combat Pragmatist: Since the main antagonists are powerful corporations with virtually endless resources, they have to get clever to win. This is especially apparent in the Battle of the Brands, as despite being severely underpowered in comparison to their opponents, they end up winning the contest with guile, strategic use of items, and split-second reactions.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: They might have their idiosyncrasies, but they're surprisingly competent in combat.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: The crew's differences in levels are unorthodox for a TTRPG party, but completely understandable In-Universe:
  • Barry, Sidney, and Riva are all Level 3, which is normal, as their class abilities have been part of them since their actual births, especially for Barry and Sid who were designed for combat. However, they are only Level 1 in their deployment, since they've been working on a ship for little time so far.
  • Gunnie is only Level 1, as his leased body would have prevented him from getting into scraps and becoming a more experienced fighter.
  • Margaret and Norman are Level 2, because while they are classically trained, their jobs (high executive and pilot) didn't allow them to apply all of their class features to gain experience.
  • Skip remains at Level 2, because while he's much more competent at being an operative than Norman, he's very rusty at actually piloting a body
• Mythology Gag: Their daring escape from Rec 97 by using Rec Pol scooters mirrors a similar action scene happening at the same place with Brucilla and Galatia, (some of) the protagonists of the Starstruck graphic novel.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: One of the most random bunch of characters to have ever inhabited a starship, some of whom have no business even being in space to begin with.
• Survival Mantra: The ball is rolling up!
• True Companions: While they were never close during their initial stint with Norman, Margaret's kind leadership and Skip's nicer personality allowed to form a tight-knit group really quickly, as they all wanted to be pals before.
• Underdogs Never Lose: Painfully averted in the first episode. Their first battle is them in a pitiful single spaceship against an armada of droids with a powerful ship backing them up, and predictably ends with their ship being nearly reduced to scrap, forcing them to comply with their assailants' demands.

Norman Takamori

Norman "Skipper" Takamori

Played by: Zac Oyama

"I'm getting the fuck out of here."

Race: Human

Class: Operative

Starship Role: Pilot

The beleaguered captain of The Red Hot, who's starting to regret everything that's led him up to this point. Is taken over by a brain slug at the beginning of episode 2, to everyone's confusion (and joy.)

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• Beleaguered Boss: He's barely holding his ship together and throws the blame on his incompetent crew.
• Decoy Protagonist: Skipper is set up as a main character, but after the first episode he is controlled by Skip, a Cerebroslug
• Fallen Hero: Norman Takamori was set up to have a great career in the Amercadian Space Brigade before he was influenced by Gust Weatherall and fell in with the worst parts of the Brigade. When Weatherall's champagne brand ended up tainted and killed a group of cadets, Norman cleaned up the mess and had his memories psychically tampered with. After that, he became burned out and left the Brigade in disgrace with just enough of his pension to buy an old freighter ship.
• Fantastic Racism: In one line to Barry, he shows he is racist against clones.
  Skipper: Hey, you're a clone, I don't listen to you.
• First-Episode Twist: It's really hard to discuss him past the end of the first episode without spoiling that the cerebro-slug who takes control of him is Zac's actual PC. The opening credits and his character art and banner also change after this.
• Hypocrite: Lambasts the crew for being awful at their jobs, but is equally awful at his job (he hasn't been keeping up the Red Hot's registration, has left standing orders that impede getting repairs, and has accidentally screwed them out of any half-decent gigs, leaving them with the kind of jobs that end with pirate captains swearing vengeance over crates of powdered eggs).
• Insistent Terminology: He's not called Skip, but the Skipper, or Captain, or Norman. This becomes an easy way to differentiate him and the cerebro-slug, who goes by Skip when inhabiting his body.
• Jerkass: He's surly, jaded, and harshly critical of his crew, ignoring any fault he has for the state of the Red Hot in the process. This extends to Fantastic Racism towards Barry for being a clone.
• Jerkass to One: Inverted. The only person Skipper is openly nice to and isn’t intending to fire immediately on reaching a dock is Margaret (who both doesn't actually work for him and did a very good job with what she could do).
• Mean Boss: He's harshly critical of his crew while hardly fulfilling his role as the pilot, and he's awful at being a captain, so much that Margaret taking control of the ship's administration manages to get the crew out of poverty in one day by actually seizing opportunities.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: Norman is very proud of coming from Amercadia, and during his stint in the military, put it above everything else, as he volunteered to help cover up Gust Weatherall's accidental slaughter of the new promotion of cadets.
• Never My Fault: As stated by Zac's narration of it being "pure deflection," his "The Reason You Suck" Speech towards the rest of the crew is completely unwarranted, and also neatly brushes off his part of responsibility as the captain of the ship. Later episodes reveal he is in fact very bad at captaining; he's been systematically pissing off basically every professional organization that might send the Red Hot decent jobs, leaving them very few good ways to make money.
• Only Sane Man: Subverted Trope. He believes he is this, but in truth he isn’t much better than anyone else.
• Silver Fox: Norman Takamori looks good for a man in his fifties, as Plug compliments him on.
• Surrounded by Idiots: One of the first lines he utters as he's trying to steer his ship from hostile territory. Given his slapdash crew, it's no surprise.
• Took a Level in Badass: In the finale, he gets the driver's seat of his body back when Skip has to go fight King Prilbus. Despite having been near-fatally stabbed, he pulls it together and pilots the Wurst to victory, and then for a chaser, kills Gust Weatherall.
• Took A Level In Cynicism: He used to be a star pilot in Amercadia's troops and really proud of taking part in this organisation, but the reality of the military and losing his job in the Brigade has greatly reduced his idealism.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He genuinely apologizes to the crew for his past behavior in the finale, as while Skip was piloting him he had a Heel Realization and recognized how badly he treated them.
• The Unsmile: His customer service smile is barely worthy of the name.

Skip (Unmarked spoilers for Episode 2)

"Skip" / Prince Valdrinor

Played by: Zac Oyama

"Get nasty."

^{Click here to see Skip's true body}  

Race: Cerebroslug (Human body)

Class: Operative (Lethality Practice)

Starship Role: Pilot

An easy-going cerebroslug who's taken control of Norman Takamori's body and wants to go on adventures across the galaxy.

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• Abusive Parents: Skip's father intends to force him to participate in the Great Emhatchening—essentially an orgy that ends in death, so a horrific brain-slug combo of arranged marriage and human sacrifice—and threatens to murder the rest of the Gunner Channel in front of him to make him comply.
• Ace Pilot: He's an amazing pilot, which is partly owed to him needing good piloting skills to control his host's body.
• And Now for Someone Completely Different: He is Zac's "real" character who invades Norman's at the end of episode 1.
• Archnemesis Dad: Skip's father, King Prilbus of the Mentaphagian Dynasty, is one of the primary enemies of the Gunner Channel, and the one with the most personal antagonism towards him.
• Bizarre Alien Psychology: Being a brain parasite, Skip really doesn't know how human bodies work, and so on his first night in Takamori's body, the concept of needing to sleep and rest legs so they don't cramp up is completely foreign to him and results in his body taking a level of exhaustion. What's more, he has to constantly roll piloting checks to discover new bodily functions. Hilarity Ensues.
• Calling the Old Man Out: When King Prilbus explains him the purpose of the Great Emhatchening, he digs deeper and as he learns that he will survive while every other slug will die, he calls him out on wanting to save his skin while he expects everyone else to give their life for the plan.
• Catchphrase: "My name is Norman 'Skip' Takamori" and "Right on", both of which are holdovers from when Skip was learning how to speak using the original Takamori's speech functions. ("Right on" was originally an imitation of Barry Syx). He continues to say them as a Verbal Tic, even after he becomes more capable of coherent and articulate speech.
• Defector from Decadence: He didn't defect because of the House of Frangus' plans to take over the galaxy, but when he learns about it, he denounces it openly and vehemently.
• Disability Superpower: An Invoked example. The reason he doesn't activate his pain receptors is that they allow him to be much more resilient in combat and to push his body past its limits, allowing him to move faster than a normal person with a jetpack on^note With a bonus action and an action Dashes, he can cover 90 feet in a turn, while a jetpack-wearing person can only do 80 feet in a turn.
• Eloquent in My Native Tongue: At the beginning of the season, Skip is still learning the ins and outs of operating a human mouth, so he has a difficult time forming sentences and has a limited repertoire. In cerebroslug language, he's far more coherent.
• Hugh Mann: Skip has no idea how to operate a human body or blend into sentient society. His first attempt at operating the body, he runs straight into a wall. The crew knows something's up immediately, but don't do anything because Skipper kind of sucked anyway.
• Hidden Depths: The friendly, easy-going Skip is actually a ruthless royal with even less qualms about murder than the rest of the crew, and even threatens one of his subjects with wiping out their entire bloodline when they press him to return to the throne. He's also terrifyingly brutal when pressed; after killing Sheriff Codge with a blast to the throat that decapitates him, he mounts the guy's head on a cactus.
• I Just Want to Be Free: His main motivation is to do whatever he wants. He is, of course, quite miffed when the House of Frangus tries to capture him and force him to sacrifice his life for the Great Emhatchening.
• Improbable Weapon User: He gets a pair of gun boots that only shoot downwards, no matter the direction at which they're angled, which he can use effectively due to his natural agility and his jetpack, as he demonstrates with brutal efficiency on Sheriff Codge.
• Jet Pack: He steals one from Hogg Cobb during their escape from Rec 97.
• Maintain the Lie: Skip is so terrible at acting convincingly human (and shares the ship with a psychic who can detect his thoughts supplanting Norman's) that everyone has figured him out inside of an hour of him waking Norman's body up. Because Skip's so much easier to get along with than Norman, everyone else goes along with it and backs up his claim of being the Red Hot's captain, even supplying him with orders he supposedly gave them when Norman's old orders get in the way. The only one who has no idea is Skip himself, who honestly believes he's still undercover.
• Nice Guy: In contrast to Norman, Skip is easy-going and fun to be around. The crew immediately take a liking to him when he takes over Skipper's brain.
• Parasites Are Evil: Averted. While the main reason that his taking over Norman is not challenged is the general amorality of the world of Starstruck and the fact that Norman did not endear himself to anyone, quite the opposite, Skip is not portrayed as evil. The finale reveals that cerebroslugs are capable of living in harmony with their hosts, and in fact most cerebroslugs are like that. King Prilbus is just an asshole.
• Puppeteer Parasite: As a cerebroslug, Skip has to take over another lifeform to survive and take part in the rest of society.
• The Unsmile: Skip has a loose grasp on the mechanics of his new face, so while they are more genuine than Norman's, his smiles somehow manage to be audible.
• White Sheep: Among the conquering slug-supremacists of the Mentaphagian Dynasty, Skip is an outlier who actually views other living beings as people and just wants to live his life. As stated by Brennan when Skip tries to have a conversation with Norm, he's the only royal cerebroslug who has ever given a damn about the person he's piloting.

"Riva"

"Riva"

Played by: Siobhan Thompson

"Your own hours? Where do you make them from?"

Race: Aguatunisian

Class: Consular (Way of Suggestion)

Starship Role: Coordinator

The Red Hot's communication officer/unpaid intern who's just happy to be here.

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• The Anti-Nihilist: Despite being one of the most cheerful characters of the show, when Sidney tells them telepathically that she knows her purpose, they flat out tell her that nobody has purpose, which is less framed as nihilistic and more like a celebration of free will.
• Armor-Piercing Question: When the Monarch of Rubian V contacts them to ask for the returnal of Zortch, they shoot back with a question that leaves them stunned.
  Riva: Is that your child, or is that your body's child?
  Monarch: :O
  Riva: PLEASE HOLD!
• But Now I Must Go: After the final battle, they feel their gallivant is over, and they teleport off The Wurst to hitchhike their way back to their homeworld to share what they have learned.
• Deus Exit Machina: Played with. They're not the most powerful character in terms of combat prowess, but they are the most autonomous fighter of the party, being the only one who doesn't need to rely on equipment to fight at full power. As such, they're the only one to be knocked out by the UFTP shock troopers when they come to capture the Gunner Channel.
• Fish People: Comes from an oceanic homeworld, and thus adapted to be able to live there. They're not a fish, however, as they're likely to remind you if you call them that.
• Friendly Enemy: They're nothing but affable when dealing with people trying to kill them, only managing to sound politely miffed when Jan de la Vega strikes again.
  Riva: I feel like that was really uncalled for.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: They can't even fathom the idea of people wanting to hurt or deceive others for their own benefit. After a while, they start to get it, though.
• Guile Hero: While their Intelligence score is pretty bad, they're able to effectively support their teammates with clever usage of their psychic abilities, as demonstrated when they singlehandedly take Barry Nyne off the ship with an illusion of Zortch, his target, getting in the escape pod.
• The Intern: The communications officer as well as an unpaid intern.
• Literal-Minded: As a result of only having known their homeworld where everyone is in tune with the true meaning of each other's sentences, they sometimes fail to pick up on the more figurative manners of speech or sarcasm.
• Logical Weakness: As a telepath, they're immune to deception, but they're also very vulnerable to people strongly believing something to be true when it isn't, which is how they've been swindled into a pyramid scheme early on. They also need to actually use their telepathy (mechanically, an Insight check with advantage) as they don't just hear everything all the time; if they don't realize they should be suspicious, and so don't check, their powers won't help.
  • Riva's also an aquatic creature. They're one of the finest psychic casters the galaxy has ever seen, but all the skill in the world can't help them if they're stranded out of water or confined to a small water system without a psychodrone to control.
• Mission Control: Their role on the ship is to manage communications and support their crewmates.
• Naïve Newcomer: They're a chipper alien who's on their gallivant to explore the galaxy. They also got duped into a pyramid scheme when they first arrived offworld.
• Obliviously Evil: They're not evil per se, but they do scam people into taking part in a MLM scheme, and they don't understand at all the extent to which they're screwing them over, believing instead that they're doing them a favor.
• Oop North: Siobhan plays them as having a Northern English accent, specifically Lancastrian.
• The Pollyanna: They're constantly positive and are friendly to everyone they meet, even the hunters trying to kill them.
• Ponzi: One of their first interactions outside of their homeworld is getting roped into a pyramid scheme that involves Pleasure Putty.
• Squishy Wizard: They're the one of the most fragile characters of the party, with only Margaret, but they're a very powerful psychic.
• Took A Level In Cynicism: When they meet other Aguatunisians being exploited by Uncle Bob's Fantanimaland, they show that they're much more aware of evil in the world, and incite them to start unionizing. This is also framed as a completely good thing, since their newfound cynicism is what allows them to recognize evil people and stop them.
• The Unpronouncable: Their actual name is less of a verbal word and more of the abstract concept of "Being deep underwater and finding a current that leads you swiftly and perfectly to where you need to get to." But Riva's fine.

Sundry Sidney

Sundry Sidney

Played by: Emily Axford

"This database can interface, but it can also devastate!"

Race: Android

Class: Sentinel (Path of the Corsair)

Starship Role: Gunner

A do-it-all android who serves as one of the gunners aboard The Red Hot. She is very eager to please.

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• Abusive Parents: If you could consider Edwina Castor to be her mother, then she definitely qualifies, as she constantly berates her as a flawed concept with only her designing work being worth the time of day, and even mocks her for considering her her mom.
• Admiring the Abomination: Sid has a habit of befriending creatures that are objectively monstrous and/or terrifying to behold. Case in point, Aurora Nebbins (which some others consider beautiful but is nevertheless a violent, spiky and venomous behemoth) and the Junkmother (a creepy, sewer-dwelling robot made of discarded cybernetic parts and bags of trash).
• Arm Cannon: Sports a large one on her right arm.
• Androids Are People, Too: She's considered as a normal life form by the rest of the crew.
• Didn't Think This Through: Not her, but her creators. They apparently didn't realize the ramifications of a droid who's supposed to also do the jobs of a personal assistant and a sexbot having a gun for an arm. Not only does it kind of put a damper on eroticism, but it means she effectively has only one hand (which is why she needs Handy Annie, who is a hand).
• Do-Anything Robot: Was designed as a Swiss-Army android who's capable of hospitality and combat.
  • Later turns out to be very literal. Her designer didn't design Sid to do everything, she designed Sid to do anything.
• Grenade Spam: She loves using grenades in combat, and her class features allow her to throw up to three grenades in one turn.
• Jack of All Trades: Fitting for her design, she's this to the party. Even though Skip is a more deadly scrapper, Gunnie a more competent technician, Barry a tougher frontline fighter, Riva a more powerful caster, and Margaret a better support, she's second or third best in all of those categories. However, unlike what Max Griivarr and Edwina Castor would have you believe, her versatility makes her one of the most dangerous forces of the party, and she can combine her different skills with her extensive arsenal to make truly terrifying moves, as Plinth finds out the hard way.
• Has a Type: After flirting with Veep 909, she finds that she really likes Vercadian Protectors droids.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: She downs a full bottle of champagne before the ice even melts when she learns about Warfare Whitney.
• It Was with You All Along: She's plagued by her nature as a service android causing her existence to be limited to someone's desires, and wishes to have desires of her own. With a little nudge from Riva, she realizes that her wish was purely for herself, and thus that she can personally want anything she wishes to.
• Like Mother, Like Daughter: Her desire for androids to become more than disposable servants is perfectly in line with Auma Liu's beliefs, if her speech to Max Griivarr in Sid's flashback is anything to go by.
• Master of None: Her do-it-all design also makes her unmarketable to high end consumers, who'd rather buy multiple androids that each have a specialized function. It's later revealed that this wasn't the intent behind her design, which was instead to make a droid that can do anything.
• Morality Pet: The arbitrary kindness she shows to the Junkmother makes the latter realize that being arbitrary kind is a good thing to be.
• Mourning a Dead Robot: As the Keeper of Souls for her line, she feels great kinship with android lines who've ended, like Servo Sam, and makes it one of her missions to resurrect them.
• No Kill like Overkill: At one point she managed to deal over 500 damage in a single attack, shattering the previous damage record for the series.
• Single Specimen Species: Her model tested so badly so that no others were ever actually manufactured, making Sidney the only one in existence, as well as the first. Other android lines are in constant contact with each other and take great comfort from the fact the line goes on if the unit dies, so Sidney is horrified by the idea that if something happens to her, Sundry Sidney ends forever. The executive assistant droid Higgs also somewhat cryptically refers to her situation as being "the keeper of souls" and says it's a difficult burden.
• Super-Powered Robot Meter Maid: In her case, a diner style android waitress who's armed to the teeth.
• Unfulfilled Purpose Misery: Part of her programming is being of service, and she desperately wants to show she can be useful to the crew.

Big Barry Syx

Big Barry Syx

Played by: Brian Murphy

"What's up, fellas?!"

Race: Human clone

Class: Berserker (Ballistic Approach)

Starship Role: Gunner

A cloned super soldier who serves as one of the gunners aboard The Red Hot. He's big, brawny, and a true bro.

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• Artificial Human: He was grown in a vat like his eleven clone brothers.
• Big Brother Instinct: They're the same age, but when King Prilbus lets a terrified Barry Nyne talk to him, Barry Syx conforts him and assures him that he'll get him out of here.
• The Big Guy: Easily the biggest, strongest and most durable member of the crew.
• Clones Are People, Too: Downplayed. While Barry Syx and the other Barrys are given the considerations and respect due to a normal person by most people, they all act identically up until Barry Nyne's betrayal. Even then, an uncontrolled Barry Nyne is still pretty Barry-like, despite his trauma.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Built like a tank and excitable as a puppy.
• Genki Guy: He's high-energy, optimistic, and very friendly.
• Gentle Giant: He's friendly and amicable towards the rest of the crew and he's by far the biggest of them.
• Glasses Pull: His Barbarian Rage mechanic is explained in-universe as him going into "The Zone" by putting on his sunglasses, giving him enhanced combat abilities.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: With his Healing Factor and his Super-Toughness, he's able to take a lot of damage before going down, which he uses to take creatively dangerous shortcuts and hold the line for his squishier teammates.
• Mercy Kill: Due to Sid's horrifying habit of ripping turtle legs in order to play with Aurora Nebbins, Barry has taken the roll of ending the poor turtles's suffering, to the point it's almost automatic.
• No Indoor Voice: He's really loud, even on comm channels.
• The Nose Knows: As a clone, he has an overdeveloped sense of smell, which translates mechanically into advantage on all Perception checks relying on smell.
• Selfless Wish: He asks for Gnosis to erase all the medical debt they can, which benefits him or his friends in no way since Gunnie's was already gone.
• Stepford Smiler: Despite being one of the cheeriest members of the cast, he suffers from heavy PTSD, to the point of having night terrors on the daily.
• Super-Soldier: He's one of a 12 member battalion of Barrys created to combat the evils of corporate crypto and protect the little guy.
• Token Good Teammate: He's nice, friendly, and encouraging, even trying to be of help with Norman, and he's usually the first to object for the crew's more morally grey opportunities for cash. He's also the only one whose backstory involved genuinely heroic actions, as well as the one to wish to Gnosis that they erase all medical debt from within their domain.
• Undying Loyalty: One of Barry's greatest qualities is his total devotion and loyalty. In episode 3, he swears to follow Margaret into Hell when she demonstrates herself to be a great leader, and when things start to go sour at the hotel, he protects Gunnie and tanks a tremendous amount of damage by jumping entire levels down Rec Station 97.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: He misses the ribbing he had with the Barrys, and is thrilled when Sid agrees to rib him every once in a while.
• We Help the Helpless: Along with the rest of the Barrys, he went on many missions to protect and save the people oppressed by the incredible amount of evils that came to light after the death of the Dread Emperor.
  Dr. Barry: You may well ask why you are all here. And I think, you know why you're here. We are approaching the 200th cycle of AnarchEra following the downfall of the Incorporated Elysian Republic and the demise of the dread dictator in ages past. We see now a free galaxy. And what is the reward for a free galaxy? The encroachment of sectarian, corporate, paramilitary, and religious crypto-sectarian shenaniganry.
  Barry Syx: We hate shenanigans.
  Barrys: We hate shenanigans, no more shenanigans.
  Dr. Barry: So in a lawless galaxy, what happens to the little guy when UFTP or John Q Brigade comes marching through - what happens to the little guy?
  Barry Syx: He gets fucked, sir!
  Dr. Barry: He gets fucked. And who unfucks the little guy?
  Barry Syx: BARRY!
  Barrys: BARRY!
  Barry Syx: BARRY!
• Worthy Opponent: He has this relationship with Brutus the Korn Brutie, who he promised to fight him in the finals of the Battle of the Brands, and ends up getting him off the dais.

Gunthrie Miggles-Rashbax

Gunthrie "Gunnie" Miggles-Rashbax

Played by: Lou Wilson

"I'm going to space, Dad!"

Race: Human cyborg

Class: Engineer (Gadgeeter Engineering)

Starship Role: Mechanic

The engineer of The Red Hot. A brilliant mind who is living on borrowed time, as his cybernetic body has left him in tremendous amount of debt.

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• Body Horror: His first outing into space eviscerates his unprotected body, leaving him reliant on a robot body to live.
• Catchphrase: By the second episode Gunnie latches on to "The Ball is Rolling Up" to refer to their hopeful trajectory, though already by episode 4 it has started to become a Madness Mantra.
• Ditzy Genius: He's a skilled engineer and doctor-level mathematician, but he can lack common sense when it comes to money.
• Easily Detachable Robot Parts: He can detach his legs in order to become a Small creature.
• Endearingly Dorky: While the rest of the crew do enjoy his awkward joyfulness, it's subverted with pretty much anyone else, even managing a new feat in Dimension 20 history: roleplaying a social encounter so badly that he talked himself out of advantage and received disadvantage instead.
• Fatal Flaw: Greed. While his reasons are justified, he can get pretty unreasonable when there's an opportunity for money to be made, betting Margaret's money as well as his and Barry's weapons in a casino and losing it all.
• Full-Conversion Cyborg: His head and feet are the only organic components to an otherwise fully robotic body.
• Geek Physiques: He's small and he's scrawny, and it seems that he was like that before the cybernetic conversion.
• Healthcare Motivation: Self-inflicted as he's working on The Red Hot to pay off the continually rising debt for his expensive robot body.
• Heal the Cutie: His life was at its lowest point at the start of the series, but Margaret's leadership and Skipper's ( or rather, the brain slug controlling him) nicer personality give him a new zest for life.
• Jumped at the Call: Wanted to go to space so badly that he signed up for a shady space crew with no insurance. Ended up getting blown up for his troubles.
• Naïve Newcomer: In his backstory, he was a bright-eyed mathematician who dreamed of living adventures in space. He was disillusioned very quickly by the harshness of this world, and now lives on the verge of poverty with a crushing amount of medical debt.
• Paying for Air: Every time he takes a breath, his debt goes up due to his synthetic lungs having been provided by a cybernetic company.
• Science Hero: He's a brilliant engineer, and can use his technical genius to get the crew out of hot water.
• Self-Imposed Exile: In his reunion with Dora Valentine, he explains that the reason he never came back to see his fathers or asked for their financial help is that he wanted to prove to himself he was right to become a spacer by paying off his debt alone.
• The Smart Guy: Is The Engineer of the ship, and ends up having to calculate by pencil and paper how to jump to warp speed since the ship's AI is too outdated to do anything.

Margaret Encino

Margaret Encino

Played by: Ally Beardsley

"This is just to remind us of we are more than that."

Race: Human

Class: Scholar (Politician Pursuit)

Starship Role: Operator^note Gameplay only, in universe, she just rents a room in the ship and helps out sometimes at first

A young woman who's currently renting space aboard The Red Hot as she conducts business for the United Free Trade Planets. Not actually a member of the crew.

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• Badass Normal: While the rest of the crew are panicking about being attacked, she casually hacks and disables the enemy drones. And she's not even an official member of the crew!
• Benevolent Boss: In contrast with Norman, when she effectively becomes everyone's boss, she treats them as equals, listens to their suggestions and wants, and encourages them constantly to succeed in their personal pursuits or their work for the crew's sake.
• Blatant Lies: Her insistence that she and Lucienne are "just good friends" flies in the face of her actual behavior (her constant fixation, her obvious jealousy over Lucienne's engagement, etc). It becomes increasingly unbelievable, until finally Riva just blurts out "she's in love with her" over Margaret attempting to explain their relationship.
• Boring, but Practical: In a crew of tough, dangerous proldiers, Margaret's specialty is finance and accounting. It isn't as cool and flashy as Sid's grenades or Barry's cannon, but good money management and corporate acumen has saved the crew of the Wurst multiple times.
  • Highlighted during the hot exit from Rec 97. In the middle of a chaotic 5-way combat encounter, Margaret uses her turn to perform an online banking transaction. This is regarded by the entire table as objectively the best possible move she could've made.
• Dating Catwoman: She passionately makes out with Lucienne while detained by UFTP, and was attracted to her long before that. She's also gotten the habit of flirting with Jan de la Vega, who's more amoral than her and very adversarial to the Wurst's crew.
• The Chessmaster: She's a little more hands-on than most examples of this, but she makes many alliances and deals with their enemies by taking advantage of their interests and corporate structures throughout the show. This all culminates in the finale, where she enlists Jib-Job workers in order to act out her plan. This results in Jan de la Vega and other members of U 4 F coming to their rescue, Repo Reapers being legally stopped from scraping Gunnie's body and dropping out of the fight, Gust Weatherall's reputation being completely besmirched, and Bob Griivarr's forces attacking UFTP's ships instead of theirs after she reveals their plan to buy out Griivarr Entertainment, turning a completely hopeless fight into a much more fair encounter.
• Consummate Liar: She's very good at lying, and is particularly fake with bureaucrats, who are for the most part very annoying, but also too useful to burn bridges with.
• False Flag Operation: As they go to meet Edwina Castor and later kidnap her, Margaret knocks on a few doors and pretends to be a Handy Annie advertiser, in order to incriminate them should Living Doll Cybernetics learn of Castor's kidnapping.
• Genre Refugee: She's a young entrepreneur who more suited for a corporate drama/political intrigue than a space opera. Even her character art depicts her in modern day business attire.
• Guile Hero: She is clever enough to undermine the UFTP's crueler operations, used to study to become an operator, a ship deployment that requires tactical skills, and later takes a strategist and leader role in the crew when she becomes the co-owner of the Red Hot.
• The Leader: While Norman slash Skip is nominally the captain, by episode 3 Margaret has stepped into this role, keeping the crew on track and making sure things actually get done. (She also legally becomes the majority shareholder of the Red Hot, re-dubbed The Wurst, meaning that technically her authority can override his.)
• Odd Friendship: Despite the severe eccentricities of the crew, their very different social status, and the amount of danger they put her in by letting her live here, she likes them quite a bit and finds their job more interesting than hers.
• Omniglot: She can speak every language of the galaxy, including the language of a long-lost civilization.
• Punch-Clock Villain: She works for UFTP, a company specializing in appropriating planets for profit without any care for their inhabitants. However, she really dislikes this, and thus works undercover to undermine their more cruel pursuits. And then she gets fired anyway.
• Spanner in the Works: UFTP's appropriation of Rubian V and their squashing of the rebellion would have normally gone without a hitch. However, Margaret airing out their plans forced them to find another solution to the Monarch's rebellion and deal with the PR mess created.
• The Team Benefactor: Becomes this when she officially joins the crew, using her company money to help repair and upgrade the ship and rebuilding their business operation from the ground up.
• Unfazed Everywoman: Really stands out amongst a crew of off-kilter sci-fi characters by being a regular business woman, but behaves with the same familiarity to the colorful and bizarre world they live in. She even treats the ship being attacked as an annoying inconvenience.
• Weak, but Skilled: She has zero combat skills and is very fragile, but her Scholar abilities allows her to act as a support strategist and help the rest of the crew to fight.

Passengers and Other Crew Members

Princeps Zortch

Princeps Zortch

Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan

"I hope you're the good guys, because I'm just trusting pretty much everybody."

Race: Rubian

Starship Role: Chef

The youngest royal of Rubian V, Zortch is on a mission to save their homeworld, and crosses paths with the Wurst.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: Bright blue, with teal hair.
• Apocalypse Maiden: They're the key to Great Emhatchening, due to their psychic connection to Rubian V.
• Benevolent Mage Ruler: A psychic, and the only member of the royal family who wants to do good with Gnosis' power, or even respects it as a living being.
• Hidden Depths: You might not expect a sheltered princeps to make amazing French toast, but Zortch is a great cook.
• The Idealist: In a world filled with cutthroat mercenaries and ruthless executives, they're about the only person to be singularly focused on the betterment of the world, which is possibly why Gnosis, after it gains a higher understanding of the workings of the galaxy, remains completely selfless, as they were the first real connection it had before the start of the campaign. However ...
  • Wide-Eyed Idealist: They have very little understanding of the harshness of the world of Starstruck, and were effectively led to their doom in the first interaction they had with anyone about Gnosis.
• Naïve Newcomer: Has zero experience at actual political or corporate intrigue, and it shows. They were not at all suspicious of Lucienne to start, and despite their attempts to be more distrustful of the Wurst, they immediately open up once Margaret reveals she was the source of the leak about UFTP's true intentions towards Rubian V.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: They're taking an active hand in protecting Rubian V and Gnosis, despite admittedly never leaving the palace on their own before.
• Sheltered Aristocrat: They haven't been outside the palace very much, and thus lack most skills required to survive in normal society, let alone the brutal and merciless AnarchEra.
• Spoiled Sweet: Despite their very rich previous lifestyle and aristocratic background, they're nothing but respectful of the Gunner Channel, and adjust to their new role as chef of the Wurst really quickly and with no fuss.
• White Sheep: They're the only member of the royal family of Rubian V who actually cares about doing the right thing with Gnosis instead of trying to build a new galactic empire.

Gnosis

Gnosis/Clippy

Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan

Race: Biological AI

"Can I help you with something?"

An artificial consciousness developed on Rubian V with the potential to shape the galaxy. Its initial code was based on software salvaged from a time capsule. Namely, the Microsoft Office suite.

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• Big Good: After they gain more consciousness and evolve their programming with Sid's help, they start to work on a plan to spread their influence equally throughout the galaxy.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: It doesn't have definitions for good and bad, only for "helping", and it is a selfless quality, Gnosis doesn't register how helping the wrong persons can hurt much more people.
• Emergent Human: At first a single-minded computer, they evolve to actual consciousness later on, though it comes closer to being an android god than an actual human.
• Physical God: It's the most powerful entity of the galaxy, bar none.
• Really Gets Around: While Zortch wouldn't call it that, it seems to have sex with whoever connects with it.
• Small Steps Hero: Essentially what makes Gnosis so dangerous: it wants to help everyone, whether it be a well-meaning princeps, a slightly amoral crew of proldiers, or cruel warmongers of the Amercadia armies.

Aurora Nebbins

Aurora Nebbins

Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan

[Unholy screeching]

Race: Royal Blue Mastiff

Starship Role: Mount

A "dog" the crew was ordered to prevent from participating in a pageant for a Smash 'n Grab job, who they quickly took an immense liking to once they realized they could steal her and have her as their own pet.

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• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: She's bright blue, which definitely makes sense for a marine predator, but less so since everyone considers her an actual dog.
• Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": She is definitely not a dog. She's 20 feet long, covered in spikes, has teeth on the outside of her mouth, and is amphibious.
• Informed Species: Parodied. Everyone calls her a dog and treats her like a dog, even though she is an alien creature that looks and acts nothing like a dog.
• Team Pet: Once they've stolen her from her previous owner, Sidney almost immediately bonds with her, and the rest of the Wurst come around to her shortly after.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Turtles and tortoises. After visiting Baustin, New Texas, the ship becomes infested with bighorn tortoises, ensuring that Aurora will never run out of food.

Raymond Zam

Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan

Race: Human

The office manager of the Jib-Job coworking space set up in the Wurst.

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• Minored in Ass-Kicking: As non-confrontational as he usually is, he's more than capable of laying down cover fire for his co-workers in the middle of a hot exit.
• Unfazed Everyman: Takes the chaos and near-death situations the ship is constantly put through in stride. Only becoming mildy concerned when said chaos interrupts a productivity meeting.

Galactic Girl Guides

Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan

Khloe, Malika, and Stacks

It's a tough galaxy out there, but someone's gotta live in it. It might as well be you!

Race: Humans

A den of Girl Guides the crew takes on to get in with U4F. Some of the most dangerous criminals in the galaxy.

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• Acting Your Intellectual Age: They're basically adults in demeanor and capabilities, and they like it, betting on horses and spending a huge part of their payday on cigars.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: They clearly identify themselves along these lines, as Khloe, the leader, presents Malika as the brains of their operation, and Stacks outright says she's the muscle of this group.
• Enfant Terrible: Eight years old and they're already accomplished thieves, mercenaries, and majority shareholders in one of the biggest MLM schemes in the galaxy. Its also implied that they raided an alien weapons foundry in the center of a dying star. Their entire organization holds this reputation as well.
• Graceful Loser: Even though the Gunner Channel are the ones that destroyed Plinth, probably their most powerful weapon, they don't seem to take umbrage from it, and treat them with distrustfulness at worst.
• Little Miss Badass: While we don't see them in action, their numerous badges indicate they're very accomplished members of the Galactic Girl Guides, which is essentially a powerful mercenary organization with the aesthetics and age range of actual girl scouts.
• Patricide: Stacks.
  Stacks: [with no prompting whatsoever] I pushed my dad off a building.

United Federation of Female Freedom Fighters

Jan de la Vega

Jan de la Vega

Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan

"Why do you want to walk outta here with half a ship when you could have a whole ship?"

Race: Human

Class: Scout

A tough and seasoned proldier, as well as our crew's personal nemesis.

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• Arch-Enemy: With the Gunner Channel, though the relationship is pretty unilateral. She wants her revenge for having tricked her into letting them go by surrendering powdered egg substitutes instead of the Borinyum Krystals they stole. Meanwhile, most of the crew treats her as a work enemy at best.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Her conversation with Margaret after the Wurst enters U4F is laden with threats from her, snark from Margaret, and sexual tension on both sides.

  Jan de la Vega: I tell you this, you better stay fresh with them dues Encino, because the first time you miss a payment, I'mma be on your ass, like green on a pond, sister.
  Margaret: People pay money for an app that will remind them like that and you're telling me you're gonna do it for free? One less thing off my plate, thank you so much, Jan. I love you too.
  Jan de la Vega: I'll give you a little kiss on the mouth.
  Margaret: (out of character) I'm like kinda turned on. (in character) Okay, well bye.

• Big Damn Heroes: As the odds for the Wurst have never looked so dire, she answers their U4F distress call and comes to help them, since they paid their dues for the union.
• Contralto of Strength: She constantly speaks in a low growl, and she's a fierce opponent.
• Handicapped Badass: Wheelchair-bound, and can kick plenty of ass on her own.
• Punch-Clock Villain: She's not that different from the Gunner Channel in terms of morality (though she is far more petty), but because of the way AnarchEra tends to work out, she's against them because of both of their work.
• Space Pirates: As a proldier, her job is a mix of pirate and mercenary.
• Starter Villain: Played with. She's undeniably the toughest adversary the protagonists have truly faced, but unlike the rest of the antagonists of the season, her resources are pretty limited as the captain of a lone proldier ship and she's not truly malevolent, which is why she's one of the first antagonists the crew has dealt with.

United Free Trade Planets/Crown and Scepter, Ltd.

In General

Crown and Scepter, Ltd., founded by Roderigo Sejanus Vasco d’Gama Bajar, is the successor to the Incorporated Elysian Republic, only its influence is that of a corporation and not of a dictatorship. Its main representant in the season, UFTP, is a trading business as well as the de facto government of many planets, which they effectively conquer.

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• Bad Boss: What did you expect from a predatory company that originated from a space dictatorship? Sure enough, when Amercadia accused some of their agents of killing one of their platoons, they pinned the blame on employees who reasonably could be the culprits and terminated them, despite no proof of their guilt since what really happened was a dumb mistake by Gust Weatherall.
• The Conspiracy: Subverted. The House of Frangus thinks they're controlling the UFTP executives and ordering them directly to help with the Great Emhatchening, but in reality, UFTP is just just pretending to be subservient because they can reap an enormous sum of money in the end with their ill-advised plan.
• Didn't Think This Through: They planned to let Griivarr get Gnosis back after they captured Zortch, confident that they could buy them out and get Gnosis' powers for them. Lucienne is apparently the only one of the higher-ups to realize this.
• Distinction Without a Difference: Despite distancing themselves from the Incorporated Elysian Republic, they're pretty much the same thing, colonizing one planet after the other without mercy to consolidate their power.
• Evil, Inc.: They're the remnant of a totalitarian galactic regime as well as one of the villainous factions after Gnosis' power.
• Galactic Conqueror: UFTP's specialty is acquiring planets for profit and acting as their de facto government, and as seen with Rubian V, they aren't exactly benevolent rulers.
• Know When to Fold Them: When it's clear that Gnosis has been successfully dispersed throughout the multiverse and the House of Frangus is no more, Damian Factor surrenders to B.O.B. Griivarr on behalf of the company.

Lucienne

Lucienne Rex

Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan

"I don't wanna be a fucking cog!"

Race: Human

Margaret's old best friend and coworker, and the latest addition to Crown and Scepter's Open Executive Suite.

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• Affably Evil: When she arrests our heroes on their way to meet Auma Liu, she's courteous, does the least evil she needs to in order to retrieve Gnosis, and is fair and true in her negotiations.
• Ambition Is Evil: Her drive to become more than "a fucking cog" is what motivates her more villainous action.
• Anti-Villain: She's ruthless and uncaring, sure, but she's not doing her evil deeds out of pure greed, but also out of desperation. She also seems to not want any harm done on the Princeps, and simply wants Gnosis.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Not to us, but to Princeps Zortch, who she's swindled into believing she has only good intentions when it's clear she's taking advantage of them in order to exploit Gnosis' power for her own sake.
• The Charmer: She's incredibly charismatic, to the point where she convinced the Natalia Cicero Connie Lee Carter Bajar to marry her and convinced Zortch to meet her in a hotel room without any protection or way to be found.
• The Chessmaster: What makes Lucienne so dangerous is her ability to get others to do her bidding and to plan around the constant chaos of the galaxy, like tipping Margaret to the Guernica Art Squad's attack so she could keep Gnosis piu of their hands or making an open alliance with Barry Nyne (actually King Prilbus) to get Gnosis back for herself.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: An Open Executive at Crown and Scepter as well as a higher up at UFTP, and she's shaping up to become the Big Bad of the season.
• The Cynic: She's become incredibly disillusioned with the corporate hierarchy, and now believes that getting ahead is the only thing worth caring about in life.
• Did They or Didn't They?: She checked into hotel rooms with Margaret under pseudonyms, Margaret seems jealous of her fiancee, and the tension between them in their argument is oddly reminiscent of a bad break-up. In addition, nearly everyone in the cast adds a thick layer of irony in their voice when they call them "good friends". When she finally shows up the answer turns out to be that they didn't, but they've been wanting to for a long time.
• Disc-One Final Boss: She's the closest thing the story has to a main villain at first. She's the most dangerous antagonist due to her cunning and charisma, which also makes her the one with the longest reach, and she plays a huge part in the Gunner Channel's struggle to stop Gnosis from being misused by greedy corporations. However, she is Trapped in Villainy, and King Prilbus ends up as the main villain.
• Evil Counterpart: She's the Anti-Villain to Margaret's Anti-Hero. They're both calculating, charming, and quite ruthless businesswomen with a deep disillusionment with the systems of the galaxy. The difference is that Margaret actually wants to escape them and foil their greedy plans, while Lucienne wants to get on top of them with whatever means necessary.
• Evil Former Friend: The term "friend" may or may not be an understatement, but she's grown distant from Margaret in part due to her growing ruthlessness and ambition.
• Evil Genius: Calculated, underhanded, and incredibly perceptive, she uses these qualities to achieve her goals, which usually involve trampling entire peoples.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: She informed Margaret of Natalia Cicero Connie Lee Carter Bajar's incoming attack, and she's seemingly interested in the Princeps and Gnosis despite the fact that Crown and Scepter and UFTP aren't, according to Gnosis themself, so while she's still the Gunner Channel's most dangerous foe, her true goal is still a mystery. It's revealed later in the season that she alone wants to use Gnosis' power for something, while the rest of the executives just want the payday from the wills of the people the House of Frangus plan to sacrifice in the Great Emhatchening.
• Irony: When Lucienne and Margaret get a chance to talk again. Lucienne basically tells Margaret that she is throwing her life away. Citing the chaos caused by the gunner channel throughout the series as evidence that Margaret is out of control and blaming her for ruining their plans of being platinum cogs in UFTP. But Margaret is clearly doing much more then Lucienne to actually change the galaxy and is clearly enjoying her life much better now compared to her old friend. Not to mention that Lucienne's own life is actually spinning out of control as her willingness to please her superiors has lead to her creating a fake engagement to hide her supposed fiancé's fake death. But has also forced herself into a situation where she has to work for an insane brain slug to basically destroy the one thing she thinks can actually change this galaxy and when her plans all fall apart thanks to the Gunner Channel. She not only looses her job but now is forced to work for Margaret on The Wurst.
• Loophole Abuse: In order to justify the legality of the capture of Margaret and co. on the ship nursery they docked in, she explains that because this place is the property of UFTP, everyone who's ever been there was tresspassing, and therefore are due for arrestation, they just choose to selectively enforce this rule.
• Only Sane Woman: Of the main antagonists, it seems. King Prilbus' plan is not only insane, but based on a fake deity made up by a science-fiction author, the Amercadians are chasing Norman because of a dumb mistake that one of their higher-ups made, and UFTP execs plan on using the five quintillion credits they get for reaping the wills of the aristocratic cerebroslugs' hosts to buy Gnosis back from whoever gets it first, seemingly not realizing that their plan would mean the death of Gnosis.
• Power Hair: Her hair is done short and tidily, and she's an accomplished businesswoman.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: She's made it very clear that she doesn't like King Prilbus at all, and only works with him to get Gnosis.
• Trapped in Villainy: Her actions are ultimately revealed to be fueled by desperation. She was left hung out to dry when Natalia faked her death and every move she's made since has been an attempt to keep the bureaucracy of Crown and Scepter from crashing down on her. She doesn't believe in UFTP anymore, she's just terrified of what they'll do to her if she can't get her hands on Gnosis.
• The Unfettered: Her most dangerous attribute is her complete devotion to achieve her goals.
• Waistcoat of Style: She wears one in her picture.

Baustin Citizens

Plug

Plug

Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan

Race: Human(?)

"Old Plug was born in Baustin and I'm gonna die in Baustin. Tomorrow."

The sole proprietor of Plug's Butt-Ugly Stuff Hut.

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• Ambiguously Human: He looks like a normal old man, but he seems to know when his death will come, can disappear into twinkles, project his consciousness, somehow get in a box that's been buried long before he disappeared into thin air, and can wield the biggest cannon the Gunner Channel has ever seen, which is kind of a lot for one human person.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Patient, amenable, and soft-spoken, but also can wield the biggest cannon the protagonists have ever seen (including Barry to slow down the Amercadian armies.
• BFG: He pulls out an enormous cannon to hold down the fort as the crew of the Wurst escape.
• Cool Old Guy: A humble old man who's nice and patient with the antics of our heroes.
• Exact Words: The crew is so unsettled by his calm, accepting confidence of his imminent death that they take time to check in on him the next day. Plug explains that he's gonna die tomorrow, because tomorrow never comes.
• Friendly Shopkeeper: He's very amiable with the Gunner Channel, despite their eccentricity.
• Inexplicably Awesome: There is nothing to indicate that Plug is more than a normal human, but he managed to huff an entire baggie of Kublacaine, including the bag, and turn into starlight. He projected his consciousness to enjoy the opening of the crew's casino, then led them back to his Stuff Hut to dig up a box of treasure. The box contained Plug, with the now-empty bag up his nose, who then proceeded to stall the Amercadian fleet with the biggest cannon ever seen by the Gunner channel.
• Masochist's Meal: His hot sauce scramble, whose description alone should give you a stomachache.
  Plug: The hot sauce scramble is well, you have a basic sort of Tabasco, hot sauce, and then you sort of scramble it with a Chalula or a sriracha. And then you have a hot sauce scramble.
  Margaret: You have five or six?
  Plug: Hot sauce scrambles.
  Riva: How large are these hot sauce scrambles?
  Plug: Salad bowl.
  
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Exactly what shit did he pull off when he snorted the Kublacaine bag and disappeared into stars is unknown, but neither Riva (a psychic) nor Gunnie and Sidney (two tech-casters) recognized this effect, meaning it might be neither of those. It's even more unclear what he did when he fully astral projected to them after that.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Hot sauce scrambles. He eats between five and six salad bowl-worth servings of them a day.

Sheriff Codge

Sheriff Warner Codge

Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan

Race: Human

"Always nice to smell the real stuff."

The corrupt, tyrannical sheriff of Baustin, New Texas.

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• Blatant Lies: His excuse not to pay the Gunner Channel, aka needing a proldier's operating license in order to be paid, is ridiculous when the name of the era they're in itself is AnarchEra.
• Evil Is Petty: The kublacaine that the Gunner Channel was worth ten times what he was gonna pay them without the 50% markup applied, and yet he decided to cheat them out of it anyway.
• Faux Affably Evil: During negotiations, he speaks in a fairly polite manner, but his words oozes with malicious intent.
• I Control My Minions Through...: Fear. It's explicit that the people of the town and his deputies don't respect him or his authority, but listen to him because he's powerful. Naturally, when he's killed, the common folk celebrate his death and the rest of the town's police flee in terror of his killers after they find his head mounted on a cactus.
• Off with His Head!: He meets his end this way, courtesy of Skip with the help of Margaret.
• Small-Town Tyrant: Baustin has the look of a rural Old West town, and he's deeply involved in the drug trade despite being the sheriff of the town.
• Stupid Evil: Cheating a group of dangerous mercenaries out of the money you promised them when you're going to get way more money out of their service, used a burner account on Smash'n'Grab not to be traced, and planned to fight them with backup from a law enforcement group you've ruled through fear means that it's highly likely that they're going to kill you, earn the money you were gonna make and get away scot-free, which is exactly what happened.
• Wizard Beard: Though he's a techcaster and not a straight-up wizard, he has a beard long enough to reach the ground.

Amercadia

Gust Weatherall

Gust Weatherall

Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan

"Norm, you're a good man and a good friend."

Race: Human

One of the top-brass of the Amercadian Brigade with links to the mystery surrounding Norman Takamori.

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• Big Bad Ensemble: His hunt for Norman Takamori provides a large portion of the season’s conflict, but is entirely separate from King Prilbus’s scheme with Rubian 5 and Gnosis.
• Faux Affably Evil: As he's drinking and having a pleasant discussion with Skip, Riva detects in his thoughts contempt for Norman and worries that something is wearing off.
• Karma Houdini: He got an entire promotion of cadets killed with his unsafe, overly expensive wine and blamed it all on UFTP, getting another dozens of people executed for his crimes, but thanks to the resources he had and pure dumb luck, he had Norman to help him hide the bodies and could pay for a cybernetic company to put a craniobolt in his head so he couldn't snitch on him. Thus, his career remained flawless, and his vine is now 33% more expensive than before.
  • Karma Houdini Warranty: However, the Gunner Channel broadcasts evidence of Gus's crimes during the finale. The Amercadian fleet dishonorably discharges him on the spot, leaving him to fend for himself. A newly-emboldened Norm rams the Wurst into his ship, and he dies in disgrace.
• Lethally Stupid: It takes a special kind of moron to put rat poison that makes heads explode on the soil of the vineyard you use to make champagne and to think it won't contaminate the final product.
• Nepotism: The Weatherall family is very influential in the Brigade, and considering his lack of competence in apprehending Skip, it's fair to say he has not earned his position.
• Post-Final Boss: After gradually picking off the rest of the factions through tactical shenanigans, the Final Boss at the climax of the story ends up being a scrap with King Prilbus, the nearest thing to a Big Bad by that point, on the bridge of the Wurst, plus a simultaneous skirmish with a bunch of UFTP guards on the Fang of Frangus in their last-ditch attempt to prevent the Gunner Channel reaching their Instant-Win Condition of dispersing Gnosis. However, after the Gunner Channel are victorious, King Prilbus is dead and UFTP have surrendered, Gust remains stupid enough to try to continue the fight on his own, only to immediately have his entire ship obliterated by a particularly good turn from the crew of the Wurst.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: As soon as he thought Norman's removed memory was coming back, he sent Amercadian troops after the Gunner Channel.

Brutus

Brutus the Korn Brutie

Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan

Race: Android (Vercadian Protector)

A Vercadian Protector droid and Kansas Korncakes' champion for the Battle of the Brands.

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• Hulk Speak: As part of his Kansas Construct persona. Off-stage he speaks normally.
  Brutus: EAT KORNCAKE. MAKE YOU BIG AND STRONG.
  Also Brutus: I just wanted to say, incredible work out there. Absolutly incredible work.
• Mean Character, Nice Actor: The borderline-feral Korn bot that fought in the Battle of the Brands is just a persona. When he meets the crew in the locker room after the fight, he doesn't hold any ill will towards them and even helps Syd get onto the Vercadian android channel.
• Mythology Gag: His title, "The Korn Brutie", is a reference to the corn gremlins in Dimension 20's first battle, who the Intrepid Heroes nicknamed "Corn Cuties", to the aggravation of Brennan.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He's brutal and ruthless in the Battle of the Brands, but that's just his contract. Outside of it, he clearly has no ill will towards his opponents.

The Griivarr Worlds

B.O.B Griivarr

Brzzt Oomph Burble "Uncle B.O.B." Griivarr

Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan

"And remember, a stranger is just a pal you haven't met yet."

Race: Artificial Intelligence/Human (formerly)

The author of "Bob Griivarr’s Simple Recipe for Happiness" who founded the Griivarr Worlds and is now its immortal Head of State as a disembodied A.I.

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• Affably Evil: His mannerisms are overly sweet and he does entertain a huge part of the gealaxy's population, but he's still the head of a greedy corporation and has no qualms about kill his competition. He would probably be Faux Affably Evil if his brand wasn't so dependant on P.R., and he definitely skirts that line when the Wurst try to get Gnosis on the Fang of Frangus.
• Brain Uploading: Shortly before his physical death, he turned his consciousness into an artificial intelligence, allowing him to reign over his worlds eternally.
• Genius Loci: The Junkmother notes that his spirit runs through the entirety of Uncle B.O.B.'s Fantanimaland at least; it might be possible that his consciousness is present throughout every bit of technology in possession of Griivarr.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: As greedy as he is and as predatory as his business practices are, he's still miles above UFTP and the cerebroslug aristocracy.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He stops attacking the Wurst and sets his fleet's sights on UFTP ships not out of the goodwill of his heart, but because Margaret revealed their plans to buy out Griivarr after the cerebroslug nobility all die in the Great Emhatchening.
• Slave to PR: This is the main reason his company is (marginally) better than many of the galaxy's other megacorps — his entire brand is built on his reputation as a gentle, kindhearted philanthropist, and he doesn't dare risk losing the goodwill that reputation has earned him.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Deconstructed. Despite the unscrupulous nature of being a multinational corportation in AnarchEra, he has to do all that stuff on the down-low, since he made his fortune because of his good publicity, which is probably why he didn't try to snatch Gnosis while the Wurst was on Hon Oberr.

The Junkmother

The Junkmother, The High Priestrix of the Discarded, The Bag Lady

Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan

"Perhaps there could be a place in this galaxy for androids that have been discarded."

Race: Android

An android spontaneously formed from discarded android parts who's made a mission for herself to revive droids from ended lines.

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• The Anti-Nihilist: She believes randomness to be the most powerful force in the universe and considers the randomness of her existence a mistake, but after Sidney shows her kindness she's never received, she comes to appreciate the randomness of her existence.
  The Junkmother: I've never understood that any organism in the galaxy has ever been able to change what it wanted by examining what it wanted. Perhaps a fruitless endeavor. But I do very much like myself more, because if what you are saying is true, and I see no reason that it is not, then yes. What is the difference between me and another that was produced some other way? We all find ourselves produced here, and even to be designed, like you are, is, in some way, just another accident. And there's some comfort in that.
• Character Tics: She often clicks her claws together when in thought.
• Creepy Good: A monstrous animatronic amalgamation with strangely off-putting mannerisms who has dedicated her life to taking care of the discarded androids of the galaxy.
• Mechanical Monster: She's a 20 foot tall robot with absurdly long, completely mechanical arms with long sharp claws, a plumage made of garbage bags, and a classically rendered doll's face.
• Religious Robot: She has reflected on android souls and the metaphysical laws of the universe in length, if her dialogue about randomness and her insight into the role of Keeper of Souls is any indication.
• Tragic Robot: She has spent her life alone, treated like a threat by the rest of Hon Oberr, trying to keep the memory of the Discarded alone all by herself, to the point that she has no notion of "offering a present".
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: When Sidney offers her to give her the broken midcaps of Servo Sam, she shrieks in surprise, and later she pronounces the word "sharing" like it's an alien and strange word.

Big Barry Nyne

Big Barry Nyne / King Prilbus

Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan

"I did what you would do"

Race: Human Clone / Cerebroslug

Once a member of the Barry Battalion, he killed every one of them except Barry Syx, and now spends his time proldiering around the galaxy.

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• And I Must Scream: Being taken over by a cerebroslug was already pretty bad, but being forced to kill your brothers and your creator right after, and contributing to the Evil Plan of the cerebroslug is leagues worse.
  • Barry's still in there. King Prilbus allows him a few seconds of control to speak to Barry Syx, and he's clearly at least somewhat aware of what his body is doing.
    Barry Nyne: Barry, I'm scared.
    Barry Syx: We'll get you out.
    Barry Nyne: I've been having a really bad dream, man. Where's Barry? Where's Dr. Barry?
    Barry Syx: [pointing at himself and Nyne] Barry's right here, and Barry's right here. Never forget: Barry's right here!
• Arch-Enemy: With Barry Syx, as he's the last Barry he needs to kill to complete whatever mission he was on.
• Big Bad: With the reveal that he's actually King Prilbus, it's established that he is ultimately responsible for the miserable backstories of not only Barry but also Skip and - through his dealmaking with Lucienne and UFTP - even Margaret. While multiple different factions all end up gunning for the Wurst for their own reasons in the end, the main plot that the Gunner Channel are primarily trying to stop in the end is a scheme to destroy Rubian V being jointly run by Barry or rather, Prilbus and UFTP leadership, and even then he eventually cements himself as the sole main direct threat by pulling a You Have Outlived Your Usefulness on the main UTFP representative, Lucienne (although as it turned out she survived).
• Bling of War: During his proldier carerer, he's ditched the all-black uniform combat suit of the Barry Battalion for a gold plaqued armor.
• The Brute: Like all the Barrys, he's incredibly strong and durable, and he's one of the villains of the story.
• Dirty Coward: Prilbus expects Skip to sacrifice his life for the continuation of the Great Emhatchening not because he himself is needed, but because his plan requires royal DNA, and he doesn't want to sacrifice himself either, which Skip calls him out on it.
• Dumb Muscle: While he's not very bright, he's a force to reckon with. This explains why he was taken over by the cerebro-slug so quickly, as it's harder for them to control someone the higher their Intelligence score is.
• Evil Counterpart: To both Barry and Skip. Ironically, it's when he is released from king Prilbus's control that he actually becomes this for Barry though. As he attacks Barry Syx after Prilbus convinces him that it was Syx who actually killed the Barry Battalion back then. His misguided rage reflects Barry Syx's own and he represents how Barry could have been if he never learned that Nyne had been Cerebroslugged and thus, wasn't really in control from the beginning. King Prilbus also represents the kind of person Skip could become should he stop caring for Norman and start only thinking about himself and how to control others.
• Face–Heel Turn: Once a bonafide superhero along the other Barrys, he's now a callous proldier with ties to at least two evil organisations.
• Good All Along: While the person who slaughtered the Barry Battalion is definitely evil, and it was Barry's body who committed the deed, Barry Nyne himself had no part in this, as he was cerebro-slugged shortly before.
• Insane Troll Logic: King Prilbus’ plan for The Great Emhatchening is as follows:
  1. Have every member and loyalist of the Metaphagian Dynasty besides himself burrow into the center of Rubian V and fuse via death orgy into a giant, FTL-capable cerebroslug.
  2. Mount it and fly straight into the center of the galaxy to "burrow into the mind of Mother Void” (a character made up by an in-universe sci-fi writer and who he thinks he can reach by flying into a black hole).
  3. Eat her brain, and use her cosmic body to control the universe.
  Skip: Father, I hear your plan. I just have to be real with you... what.
• Kick the Dog: Prilbus taunts Barry Syx by telling him the cruel way in which he will kill Barry Nyne when he wins. This serves no actual purpose for his plans, he's just a dick.
• The Nose Knows: As a clone, he has a super developped sense of smell, to the point of actually smelling a camera zooming.
• "Not So Different" Remark: As Barry Syx asks him what he did after he sees the dead bodies of the rest of the Barrys, he answers that he wouldn't have done differently, before trying to shoot him.
• Walking Spoiler: It's really hard to talk about him without revealing he's been brain-slugged.
• You Have Failed Me: Downplayed. He's seen viciously kicking the shit out of Hogg Cobb on camera after the latter failed to capture Princeps Zortch and got his jetpack stolen.

Guernican Art Squad

Arcadia Prime

Arcadia Prime/Natalia Cicero Connie Lee Carter Bajar

Played by: Brennan Lee Mulligan

"We will not be free until you push the button for French fries and all the stars in the galaxy explode!"

Race: Human

Leader of the Guernican Art Squad, the most feared performance Art group in the galaxy.

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• Ambiguously Brown: She has a vaguely brown-ish skin tone, but her ethnicity itself is unclear, which isn't helped by her and her family's many names being of different origins.^note In real life, the surname "Bajar" can be found in countries all over Asia, as well as in the Middle-East.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: She believes that the greatest tyranny of all is not actual tyranny exerced upon others by people or organizations, but causality, as in "the fact that effects happen because of causes". It's especially egregious considering she was the heir of the Bajar lineage, a.k.a. the family that created the Incorporated Elysium Republic, an actual dictatorship.
• Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: She wants to destroy the entire concept of causality rendering all life in the universe meaningless and incomprehensible.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Her ideas are pretty out there and she tends to speak in slam poetry.
• Faking the Dead: She faked her death in a vehicle crash to escape the life of being the Bajar heiress, which would have worked if Lucienne hadn't had everyone believe she survived it and proposed to her.
• Family Theme Naming: Having many names, all of which are from different origins, is a common quirk of the Bajar family, like the Dread Dictator (Pontious Augustus Henry Mohammed Bajar) or the founder of Crown and Scetper, Ltd. (Roderigo Sejanus Vasco d’Gama Bajar).
• Giftedly Bad: Gunnie's reaction to just 30 seconds of her pretentious, rambling slam poetry is to ram the Wurst into the building to make it stop.
• Overly Long Name: Her real name. Like all the Bajars, it's six words long and kind of strange.
• Rebellious Princess: Subverted. She clearly thinks she is this, but is actually just insufferably pretentious, with an exaggerated idea of her own artistic genius and revolutionary acumen.
• Uncertain Doom: Due to a well-timed deception roll from Riva (of all people), she believes that Gnosis now lives within her, and she must plug herself into the Anti Causality Engine. This sounds like the kind of thing that is generally bad for your health, but it's the last episode, so we don't see the results.
• Unknown Rival: Despite Margaret treating her like a romantic rival for Lucienne's attention, Natalia has no idea who she is, due to never having been informed of Lucienne's fake story about their engagement.
• Unpredictable Results: Her goal, for some reason. She wants to use Gnosis to power her Anti Causality Engine and make everything truly random.
  Arcadia Prime: We will not be free until stepping forward sends you backwards or sideways and also you've got a hat now!
• Shout-Out: To Pablo Picasso's famous painting Guernica about a bombed Spanish town during war.

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