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Furlow
"Ol' Furlow can handle it. "Everything's gonna be just fine", that's my motto."
Played By: Magda Szubanski
A knowledgeable, yet somewhat arrogant, mechanic on the desert world Dam-Ba-Da
- Brawn Hilda: Very heavyset and not portrayed as particularly attractive.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Furlow always looks out for Furlow.
- Cigar Chomper: Almost always puffing on a stogey.
- Deadpan Snarker: Gets her share of smartassed remarks.
- Fat Bastard: Nearly as wide as she is tall, and utterly amoral. Not necessarily evil, but in her book her own self-interest comes first, last, and always.
- Genius Bruiser: Competent spaceship mechanic, able to figure out from very limited evidence that Crichton was running wormhole experiments, and pretty dangerous in brawl (at least, if she has a heavy tool to hand).
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Mostly neutral, smokes cigars.
- Honest John's Dealership: She's a perfectly competent engineer (enough to make a working copy of Crichton's module), but she's not too choosy about her employees: they're either "thoddoes" or disguised bounty hunters. She's also a hustler, trying to hustle Crichton out of his module twice, then convincing him to turn over his wormhole research data to pay for the repairs.
- Karma Houdini: While she loses the wormhole technology she'd been working on, the last we see of her she gets to vanish into the sunset. It's not even stated whether or not she salvaged the raw data, so she could possibly just start her experiments over. During his message to his Moya counterpart, Talyn!John made a point of noting she was still out there, so he at least considered it to be a possibility.
- Stout Strength: Short, overweight, but quite strong. Her Wrench Whack (part of a "Hey, You!" Haymaker) killed a bounty hunter that had been giving Aeryn trouble.
- Wrench Wench: Less comely than the trope is usually played, but she's still a highly skilled female mechanic.
- Wrench Whack: If she needs to defend herself, the tools of her trade make startlingly effective weapons when backed by her muscles.
Bekhesh
"It's been so long since anyone has told me the truth, I don't recognize it anymore..."
Played By: John Adams Actor
The leader of a Tavlek bandit gang. A tough and ruthless criminal, but not without moral standards.
- Arm Cannon: The gauntlet, which is a signature weapon of his crew and involves a good bit of drug dependency to use. Finding religion prompted him to try to live without it, though he couldn't simply throw it away.
- Badass Preacher: Or, as he calls himself, the "Holy Warrior of Tarou."
- Benevolent Boss: When he was still in charge of the Tavlek gang, it was demonstrated that he actually cared about his underlings — to the point of threatening to kill Moya's crew if they mistreated Kyr.
- Blindfolded Vision: The top of Bekhesh's head is covered by a thick metal faceplate; according to production notes, it's actually a cybernetic replacement for the top of his head.
- Functional Addict: While still clearly addicted, he doesn't need the gauntlet nearly as often as Kyr did. In his second appearance he claims he's built up so much resistance he needs a tripple dose to get any benefit, and is trying to quit altogether now that he's found religion.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Bekhesh is pretty much walking scar tissue.
- Heroic Vow: How heroic he is at the moment is debatable, but he insists he will deliver Teurac and Rorf's shares to their families.
- Only in It for the Money: "It's easier to reform when you're rich."
- Put on a Bus: Of all the recruited mercenaries, he's the only survivor and gets to leave with his share of the take from the Shadow Depository.
- Shoulders of Doom: Part of his uniform while still leading the Tavlek gang.
- Turn to Religion: In repentance for his brutality, he joined the same religious order that one of his victims had been part of. It happened offscreen, though. He also seems to be largely making it up as he goes along, only having part of a holy book to run off of; after being convinced to leave his isolation he goes from preaching pacifism to declaring himself a Holy Warrior on a dime.
Teurac
"I make it a point to someday kill my clever opponents..."
Played By: Derek Amer and Thomas Holesgrove
Voiced By: Philip Hinton
A Sheeyang space pirate who once tried to capture Moya.
- Breath Weapon: As a Sheeyang, he can breathe fire. Unfortunately, he's getting old, and not as efficient at it as he once was.
- The Captain: Of his vessel, up until it's crippled in an attack.
- Cool Old Guy: Deconstructed. He's getting on in years when he first encounters the crew, and one of his younger underlings tries to usurp him when perceiving weakness (although this attempt fails). When he reappears in Season 2, he's finding it much harder to use his Breath Weapon at will and needs a special potion to better increase his chances. Ultimately, he still can't do it during the heist and resorts to blowing himself up to complete his part of the plan.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Perhaps hypocritically, he denounces Tavleks as criminal scum.
- A Father to His Men: Not quite as clear in his first appearance (where he primarly has to deal with The Starscream), but when he reappears, Aeryn finds he was Going Down with the Ship in order to protect his crew's escape pods from an attacker.
- Graceful Loser: Compliments D'Argo on managing to bluff his way through negotiations and ultimately foil his attempt at claiming Moya and the Zelbinion. Note that he still threatened to kill D'Argo one day — he just did so in a very respectful manner.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Twice. Once by remaining at his post when his ship was crippled so his crew could evacuate, and later by blowing himself up to help save Crichton.
- The Last Dance: He never had any intention of surviving the depository raid.
- Made of Explodium: The same biological quirk that allows him and his species to breathe fire. It doesn't normally pose a problem, but Teurac's older age required him to take a special potion so that he could fulfill his role in the heist. He still couldn't do so conventionally to take out the reactor, so he had to trigger an explosion by shooting himself, and he went up in a big way.
- Only in It for the Money: "You said you had an opportunity for profit..."
- Villain Respect: He tells his lieutenant that there is no shame in losing to a clever opponent like D'Argo.
- Xanatos Gambit: His second-in-command tried to usurp him and go on offense to claim the Zelbinion, only to fail miserably. A recovered Teurac punished him with a Suicide Mission, knowing full well that either his traitorous underling would be killed or that the prize would be successfully claimed.
Rorf and Rorg
Rorf
Rorg
Played By: Jeremy Sims and Jo Kerrigan
A pair of bounty hunters, of the Vorcarian "blood tracker" species.
- Beast Man: They're dog people. Crichton exploits this fact by using dog trainer techniques to manipulate them and effectively take charge.
- Eye Scream: Natira cuts out one of Rorf's eyes for kicks.
- Happily Married: They are completely devoted to each other. Mortally wounded, Rorf cries out Rorg's name and his only request is that she know he was thinking of her in his last moments.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Rorf takes a shot for Crichton.
- Mirror Character: To D'Argo. The couple reflect his initial proud warrior attitude and they eventually attempt to leave the bounty hunting business and form a family. Both Rorf and D'Argo sacrifice themselves to save their friends and both Rorg and D'Argo must raise their respective children after their spouses' deaths.
- Scarily Competent Tracker: Rorg more so than Rorf. It's why Crichton decides to hire them for the Shadow Depository raid.
- Someone to Remember Him By: Rorg was pregnant when Rorf left for the Shadow Depository and never returned. Presumably she and their offspring are still alive, as Bekhesh promised to deliver Rorf's share of the loot to her before departing Moya.
Maldis
"I admit, I feed on death. But don't we all? Some eat plants. Some meat. I consume the life essence itself. Preferably medium rare."
Portrayed By: Chris Haywood
Nobody quite knows what Maldis is, but he has powerful mystical powers, feeds on souls, and is a sadistic predator to the weaker, which is just about everyone.
- Emotion Eater: He likes to spice up his meals by encouraging his victims to excesses of fear or anger — as an appetizer. Unfortunately for his victims, he's very good at knowing which buttons to push due to his telepathy.
- Evil Sorcerer: Explicitly called as such.
- Dimension Lord: His second appearance sees him acting from a pocket dimension he created.
- Fate Worse than Death: Maldis was dispersed by Zhaan and left as a disembodied mind trying to pull his body back together again. He describes the experience as "Less than pleasant."
- Genre Refugee: He's an evil wizard straight out of a gothic horror story. The characters openly comment that he makes no sense by the series' rules.
- Long Bus Trip: After being dispersed twice, he never bothered the crew again, even though it's established that he can return from the dead, if given time. It's speculated that because his main interest was in Zhaan, he simply lost interest in Moya's crew following the events of "Self-Inflicted Wounds."
- Master of Disguise: Appeared in different guises as part of his plots against the crew, with his actor appearing in different costumes and make-up for the effect.
- Master of Illusion: When not using his magic powers in a "real" sense, he's not above confusing his victims with images from their past.
- Our Vampires Are Different: Crichton refers to him as basically a psychic vampire.
- Sorcerous Overlord: In his first episode, he was ruling an entire planet with ambitions to take over Crais' command carrier to spread his influence to other worlds by inflicting death.
- Telepathy: Uses it to find out facts about his potential victims to lure them in.
Natira
"Animal, you have lovely eyes. I love red eyes. Very sensual. Very unusual."
Portrayed By: Claudia Karvan
A corrupt banker to gangsters, and Scorpius's ex.
- Brains and Bondage: Her interactions with Scorpius are our first indications of his decidedly non-vanilla predilections. She may even have introduced him to them.
- Bullying a Dragon: She heard rumors that Scorpius was dead and stole his property. He literally showed up on her doorstep to take it back, making her rather uneasy.
- Contemplative Boss: She manages this with the windows of her office while torturing Crichton.Blue eyes, look out at that. That is the last sight your eyes will ever see.
- Dark Mistress: To Scorpius. She's actually planning to assassinate him.
- Evil Mentor: Apparently, she served as this to Scorpius when he was younger.Natira: Without me, you'd still be the same angry, hotheaded young creature I took in so many cycles ago.
Scorpius: Without me, your head — among other things — would be a trophy on the wall at Peacekeeper Command. - Eye Scream: Those flexible spines on her head — the ones that stand upright and twitch when she gets sexually excited? Those are used for stabbing people's eyes out.
- Feet-First Introduction: She's introduced in Between My Legs shot as she walks slowly to the captured D'Argo. The shot also draws attention to the fact that her exoskeleton has High-Heeled Feet.
- Foil: To Scorpius. While Natira sees their relationship as a sort of game and her attempt to kill him as part of said game, Scorpius takes it completely seriously and does not appreciate her attempted murder of him. Scorpius sees torture as a means to an end. Natira plucks people's eyes out for her own twisted pleasure.
- Gorgeous Gorgon: Not literally, but her appearance does lend itself towards this — to the point that Crichton calls her "Medusa."
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: Your mileage may very heavily on "babe" due to her arachnid/arthropoid appearance, but if that doesn't bother you, she's definitely attractive.
- High-Heeled Feet: Apparently they're part of her exoskeleton since she doesn't wear any other clothes.
- Hypocrite: She's rather displeased to learn that Scorpius was intending to kill her, despite having been plotting to kill him when he came looking for his stolen property.
- Insectoid Aliens: Okay, more crustacean than insect...
- Long Bus Trip: She escapes the Shadow Depositry shortly before Talyn levels the place. The producers wanted her to return in a later episode, but Claudia Karvan didn't want to put herself through the prosthetics and animatronics again.
- Morally Bankrupt Banker: Apart from the torture and murder committed on a daily basis, she also claimed the contents of Scorpius' vault for herself, presuming that Scorpius had died in the destruction of his Gammak base. Then, when Scorpius showed up alive and asking for his money, Natira was very happy to steal the contents of someone else's vault to repay him. However, it's actually a deathtrap... which the crew of Moya end up stealing.
- Nonhumans Lack Attributes: Seems to be wearing nothing at all aside from her natural exoskeleton.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Quite apart from having orange-red eyes of her own, she has a thing for red eyes in general.
- Rubber-Forehead Alien: Blurs the line between this and a Starfish Alien. With the aid of amazing prosthetic makeup, costuming, and animatronics, she's about as "Starfish" as it's possible to get while being played by a human in makeup and costume. Definitely the show's most creative alien that wasn't built from the ground up by the Jim Henson shop.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: Very much so. She coos and purrs seductively, even as she's about to perform Eye Scream on an increasingly terrified victim. Taking Rorg's eye got Scorpius vital intel on the crew's rescue plan, but Natira was more concerned with how enjoyable the act was. She later makes an attempt on one of Crichton's eyes while he's all laid up and takes her time talking pleasantly while approaching him, though she is distracted at the last moment.
- Torture Technician: So much so that in a game of Good Cop/Bad Cop with Rorg, Scorpius turns out to be the good cop and lets Natira take over. Rorg loses one of his eyes in the process and gives up everything he knows in order to avoid a repeat.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Why she sided with Crichton at the last moment. Scorpius was prepared to have her executed (albeit quick and painlessly, according to Harvey) once she no longer served a purpose.
Grunchlk
"This is business: I have the supply, I make the demand."
Portrayed By: Hugh Keays-Byrne
The crooked fixer to a Diagnosian super-medic.
- Beard of Evil: Grows one of these in The Peacekeeper Wars.
- Betrayal Insurance: He at least claims that he always intended to hand over the Scarran spy that he had put on ice, but when Peacekeepers stormed the place, he set a timer to release the guy in a few arns as a precaution. When things were not going as promised, he kept his mouth shut and waited for the clock to run out. It doesn't work out in practice, though, as Scorpius ensures he's face-to-face with the awakened Scarran.
- Beware the Silly Ones: He's an overweight slob and general asshole, but as Stark learned firsthand, he possesses Stout Strength and has no problem displaying it.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Backstabs Crichton by alerting Scorpius, backstabs Scorpius by defrosting a Scarran spy, who he'd backstabbed a lot earlier to hand over to Scorpius if everything went well...
- Face of a Thug: For a salesman, Grunchlk has an extremely rough, heavy-browed face that wouldn't look out of place on a caveman.
- Fat Bastard: An impression not helped by the fact that, in the event that he's not being a complete asshole, he's usually eating something.
- Fingore: Ends up being forced to eat one of his own fingers by Scorpius.
- Honest John's Dealership: Though the Diagnosan doctors he represents are as skilled as advertised, Grunchlk will always ensure that their services are ridiculously overpriced. Plus, the "donors" frozen in the cryogenics facility are patients that didn't survive their treatments... or looked like they were going to die before they were operated on... or related to the deceased...
- Ironic Echo: Some time after the Scarran agent locks him into one of the cryopods, Stark finds him... and leaves him there, reporting him as "dead, effectively."
- Large Ham: Assuming he's not actually eating something, he'll often be vigorously chewing the scenery in the sleaziest way possible.
- Laser-Guided Karma: The donors in his facility aren't actually dead; they're just as good as that and left on ice to preserve any transplant material in the best possible condition. The Scarran spy he backstabbed later locks him in one such cryopod. Stark later stumbles onto this, but he opts to report Grunchlk as "dead, effectively" to the others.
- Not Quite Dead: When Stark reveals that Grunchlk's frozen donors are preserved just before they die, trapping their souls inside their bodies, Grunchlk reassures him that they're "effectively dead".
- Only in It for the Money: Most react to a war between the Peacekeepers and the Scarrans will abject horror and sorrow. Grunchlk, however, sees it as a chance to rake in cash and charge high prices for his Diagnosan's services.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He's a complete scumbag, but he's clearly uncomfortable with the procedure to remove parts of Crichton's brain.
- Red Herring: In the miniseries, he is the top suspect for being a Scarran mole, due to previously dealing with them before, but he's innocent this time.
- Slimeball: Oily, ingratiating and smarmy, he's prepared to ooze his way into the service of anyone who might pay... assuming, of course, they don't get tired of his endless preening.
- Smug Snake: He clearly likes to think he's smarter than his clients — a notion that quickly fails when confronted by Scorpius.
- Spear Counterpart: He's just as overweight and opportunistic as Furlow.
- Stout Strength: Forces Stark into paying extra by casually performing a Neck Lift on him.
- The Unpronounceable: Scorpius is the only character capable of pronouncing his name properly.
- Villainous Glutton: Always seems to be eating something while on-screen — to the point that Braca was able to find him by noticing that he'd dropped his sandwich right in front of his hiding-spot.
Pathfinder Neeyala
"'Will' is a poor substitute for beersian alloy when crushed by astronomical tidal forces!
Portrayed By: Victoria Longley
An alien scientist pitted by circumstances against the Moya crew, after a wormhole accident.
- Apologetic Attacker: "I have never before released my bristles to kill. Your forgiveness."
- Benevolent Boss: She talks quite pleasantly to all of her subordinates. When sending one mook on a dangerous mission to sabotage Moya, she expresses regret over having to do this rather than coldly ordering the guy to just do it.
- Chekhov's Gunman: At the end of her second and final episode, she implants Moya with a beacon that will alert the Pathfinder elite to their presence; though Crichton worries, nothing more is thought of it... until Moya is unexpectedly yanked down a wormhole at the end of the third season. "Unrealised Realities" reveals that Einstein, inspecting the state of wormhole knowledge in the region, detected the Pathfinder beacon and brought Moya in for examination.
- I Have Your Wife: One of the reasons why Neeyala is so fanatically devoted to saving her ship is because the Pathfinder government would have her family and the families of her crew executed if they returned without it and the data they'd acquired.
- Lovecraftian Superpower: Like all Pathfinders, she can shoot poisonous bristles from her gills.
- Shadow Archetype: To Crichton, being out to develop wormhole technology to the point of obsession and a group leader who would do anything for shipmates. However, she's willing to sacrifice Pilot and Moya for the sake of her own shipmates and engages in secret sabotage to that end, whereas Crichton would've tried to find a way to save everyone.
- Spock Speak: Even when clearly under great stress, she's still adept at flinging technobable about.
- Sssssnake Talk: Even though she's technically piscine.
- Translator Microbes: Her species is so far removed from the main setting that they don't have these, leaving opening negotiations rather difficult. She and a colleague marvel over hearing the crew talk to each other in vastly different languages and not miss a beat. Neeyala agrees to be injected for the sake of communication and cooperation.
- Xanatos Gambit: With both ships about to be separated and her fate uncertain, she activates a homing beacon that will stick to whichever ship survives. As she says, her fellow Pathfinders will either find the data they desire or the ones responsible for its destruction.
Br'Nee
"By juka! I have heard stories of the existence of Delvians! But to actually stand in the presence of one-!"
Portrayed by: Marton Csokas
An alien botanist whose team and mate were killed by a Calcivore named M'Lee. Of course, it turns out that Br'Nee isn’t exactly Mr. Rogers himself.
- It Works Better with Bullets: Part of his undoing. As Crichton is about to restore Zhaan, Br'Nee threatens to shoot him dead with his own pulse pistol. Crichton responds by showing Br'Nee the removed ammo cartridge and then activates the device.
- The Needs of the Many: His argument for wanting to use Zhaan to further his research. He insisted that she is the key to medical cures that will benefit countless lives.Br'Nee: Is that not a fair trade off?
Crichton: Not to her, and not to me. - Subverted Suspicion Aesop: While it initially seems he is a murderous monster and M'Lee is an innocent victim, it turns out he is a botanist trying to save the Moya crew from M'Lee. Then it turns out that Br'Nee’s species placed the calcivores on the asteroid to wipe out the native herbivores and waited for them to die out, and M'Lee was the sole survivor, and Br'Nee is a psycho who wants to shrink Zhaan and experiment on her For Science!.
- Ungrateful Bastard: He rewards Zhaan’s kindness and trust towards him by shrinking her and planning to experiment on her the second he learns she’s a Delvian.
