Final Space: The Team Squad / Characters

A crew of spacefaring misfits banding together to try and survive a cruel universe all while saving it from utter annhilation by horrid cosmic beasts from another plane of existence.

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General

Alliance with an Abomination: In Season 2, they ally with the Titan Bolo to free the latter from his prison since both parties want to access Final Space: Bolo so he can destroy his evil brethren and Invictus once and for all, the Team Squad so they can rescue Quinn. In Season 3, after they've all gotten access to Final Space, Bolo was clearly expecting the Team Squad to aid his war to save the whole of creation, but the Team Squad are on-the-fence about whether or not they want to have anything more to do with it.
Body Horror: In Season 3, pretty much every living member in the squad suffers from Final Space poisoning sans Quinn, who is in the clear due to her head implant.
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Their unofficial title comes from Gary describing their group as "A team. A squad. A Team Squad."
Despair Event Horizon: Most of them hit this point in Season 3 after they've lost Bolo (who was pretty much their ace against the Titans and Invictus), been poisoned by Final Space, and discovered there's hundreds of alternate Earths hatching a Titan army in Final Space. The defeats and setbacks they've suffered and their implications are so crushing, everyone except Ash votes to abandon the fight to stop Invictus altogether in favor of running and keeping themselves alive.
Dwindling Party: Downplayed, but the Team Squad has slowly been suffering heavy casualties.
- In Season 1, Avocato makes a Heroic Sacrifice to protect his son and Quinn pulls one herself to save Gary, ending up being sucked into Final Space. Thankfully, they both come back in Season 2.
- In Season 2, Clarence betrays them and then is abandoned, and Nightfall pulls a Heroic Sacrifice to free Bolo.
- In Season 3, AVA is heavily damaged shortly after they enter Final Space and can't download herself into HUE's body, seemingly dying when the Crimson Light is destroyed. Then, Fox is possessed by Invictus and then killed by it when Invictus possesses Gary's robot arm. Shortly afterwards, Clarence is killed in a Heroic Sacrifice to help the Team Squad escape Final Space. Just one episode afterwards, Kevin Van Newton makes a Senseless Sacrifice so the Team Squad can escape the Earth before it's destroyed, alongside setting up the KVN Net. And by the season finale, an emotionally distraught Ash betrays the Team Squad to become Invictus' new servant; and Mooncake stays behind in order to give the Team Squad an opportunity to escape Final Space, which ends up being yet another Senseless Sacrifice because, even though escaping Final Space cured the poisoning, Invictus is now free and made it to our dimension.
  Little Cato: We can't keep leaving people behind! We can't!
Dysfunction Junction: Each member has something messed up about them.
Fire-Forged Friends: The crew spends a great majority of season 1 threatening or falling into arguments with one another, but they mellow out as the stakes grow more serious.
Pyrrhic Victory: At long last, they escape Final Space with Quinn in tow at the end of season 3. All well and good...except not only does Gary's beloved friend Mooncake stay behind to keep a vengeful, distraught Ash off their backs, his efforts end with his powers getting used as the key to releasing Invictus from its prison and unto the greater universe to do god-knows-what.
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Especially as of Season 2 and onward. Their crew consists of a a fugitive with a robot arm gone mad from the isolation, his planet-destroying sentient green blob, several semi-sentient robots (including the ship's computer system himself), a space commander gone rogue, a Cat Folk bounty hunter and his son and a multi-eyed alien resistance leader. In season 2, Clarence, his two admittedly pretty crazy adopted children and Gary's mother, who is a notorious criminal on death row, are added to the crew. Season 3 introduces Tribore's badass Spanish-speaking son who grew from infant to adult in a second, a Cute Kitten who's borderline obsessed about Gary (and a few others by extension) and KVN's creator, who is pretty insane.
Your Days Are Numbered: Come Season 3, the remaining Team Squad members are all infected with Final Space poisoning.

Introduced in Season 1

Gary Goodspeed

"This is the real, raw Gary."

Voiced by: Olan Rogers, Caleb McLauglin (young Gary)

The main protagonist, a hyperactive yet good-hearted astronaut who finds himself on a journey to save the universe from whatever threats may come its way.

Affectionate Nickname: "Thunder Bandit", by Little Cato. Following Sheryl's Heel–Face Turn, she also calls him "Love" and "Sweetheart", except this time she genuinely means it.
Alliterative Name: Gary Goodspeed.
All-Loving Hero: His head might be in another dimension most of the time, but his heart is as huge as his personality; according to H.U.E., he puts others' lives before his, as demonstrated in episodes after Chapter Six.
Ambiguously Bi: Gary is unambiguously attracted to Quinn, yet he has called Rug Yorkvain handsome more than once. His entire dynamic with Avocato is also interesting, especially since, alongside his intense romantic love for Quinn, Gary seems to hold Avocato's friendship as equally important and holds the same self-sacrificial attitude towards him that he does Quinn. Also, most of that friendship is expressed with the two flexing their muscles, caressing the walls, staring intensely into each other's eyes, and, somehow reading each other's minds with nothing but the power of their friendship. On top of all of that, Gary insists that both him and Avocato are Little Cato's fathers and the two seem to co-parent him.
Arm Cannon: His robot arm can turn into one, as shown in the fourth episode of Season 3.
Artificial Limbs: As his picture shows on this page, he gains a robotic arm after episode 2 when the Lord Commander tears it off. The arm coming from the SAMEs maintenance bots, it takes until Season 3 to realize that he has the same armaments as they do.
Artificial Limbs Are Stronger: He ziplines down a metal cable with his bare metal hand. Unfortunately, stronger doesn't mean lacking pain receptors.
Badass Adorable: Compared to other sci-fi adult cartoon protagonists, he has a doll-like character design and a bubbly disposition but he's capable of taking on even the worst threats to the galaxy.
Badass Normal: Compared to the rest of the Team Squad, Gary is just a regular guy: Quinn/Nightfall is a trained Infinity Guard agent, Avocato is a veteran soldier, Little Cato received martial arts training from an early age, Mooncake is a creature powerful enough to obliterate planets, KVN is nigh-invulnerable and has a suit of power-armor on stand-by, Fox is a hulking cyborg, Ash has supernatural powers, Tribore is a skilled close-combat expert and tactician, Sheryl is an experienced spy and thief who also claims to be the "best pilot in the universe", Quatronostro is a master at fighting and Biskit is a tech-savvy expert roboticist, yet Gary manages to pull his weight and keep up with his team through thick and thin.
- Partway through Season 3, Gary figures out that his robot arm can turn into a powerful plasma cannon and a powered blade, making him more of an Empowered Badass Normal.
Belligerent Sexual Tension: His relationship with Quinn by the time of chapter 10.
Beware the Silly Ones: He's a Cloud Cuckoolander Manchild obsessed with cookies who just so happened to accomplish beating the living daylights out of Avocato upon the latter revealing Little Cato's origin story.
A Birthday, Not a Break: Olan Rogers has confirmed that each character has the same birthday as their respective voice actors. Taking into account that he voices both Gary and Mooncake, and that his father John gave his life to seal an interdimensional breach - an action which left behind a bit of residue that crystalized and became Mooncake - this implies that poor young Gary had to watch his dad die on his birthday.
Blade Below the Shoulder: His robot arm can do that too.
Break the Cutie: The events of season one visibly wears Gary down. He doesn't totally lose his goofiness in the second season, but he has mellowed out considerably.
But Not Too Foreign: An American born from an American dad and Australian mom.
The Captain: Gary remains fully convinced that he is the Captain of the ship, no matter how many times HUE tries to remind him that he isn't, he's merely a prisoner. From episode 8 onwards, he starts to play this trope straight, though he still keeps his sillier side.
Character Development: Gary starts off as a buffoon who was also kind of a jerk, but after being exposed to his friends and flying into the face of danger several times, he becomes a more reliable, independent and tough leader amongst his crew, more so than he once was in the past five years.
Chekhov's Gun: Remember how the SAMES are shown to be able to turn their hands into blasters or blades when they need to face a threat? Turns out, Gary's robot arm (which is a SAME arm) retained that ability, as shown in Season 3 Episode 4 where he uses the "blaster" mode to murder the Lord Commander's face off and the "blade" mode to try and free the rest of the Team Squad before Invictus can take them.
Cloudcuckoolander: Oh, so very much. 5 straight years of isolation has driven him to dress up a fridge as his wife, name all of the seemingly mindless prison robots and desperately cling to anybody who will play cards with him.
Cosmic Plaything: Heavily implied. Quinn mentions that the Sentient Cosmic Force Invictus is hunting for Gary specifically, and the number of dead Garys there are within Final Space along with the fact that it ignores Quinn sells the point home.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Gary starts out as an Idiot Hero but turns out to be a very competent leader and pilot.
Cyborg: In Chapter 3, he obtains his iconic robot arm after losing his real one to Lord Commander.
Dark and Troubled Past: At a young age, Gary witnessed the explosion that killed his father. His mother neglected and abandoned him in her grief, disappearing from his life until season 2. And prior to meeting and being arrested by Quinn, it's hinted that Gary led a less than law-abiding life.
Does This Remind You of Anything?: He allegedly has a very special bond with Avocato that they can speak through sensing each other in a very affectionate way. It doesn't help they both are really into it.
Dream Sue: Todd H. Watson's "Happy Place" device lets Gary live out his mental fantasy of being a buff, shades-donning Dance Battler with a cookie family who gets to take down an army of evil teddy bears and their overlord in a colorful neon city. And then Todd forcefully rips the illusion out from under him.
Dumb Blonde: Of the male variant. He has blonde hair and has shown off a lot of idiotic behavior.
Endearingly Dorky: His childlike approach to most situations as well as his infatuation with Quinn can be rather endearing.
Evil-Detecting Baby: Possibly. A flashback in "The Lost Spy" shows him as an infant crying while his mother is speaking to her mysterious superior. Gary's crying is what alerts his father to run into the room and catch Sheryl in the act.
Expy: He's got more than a few similarities to the MCU version of Star-Lord. His non-uniform clothes and general appearance looks a lot like movie Peter Quill, he's the Token Human on a team of mostly aliens of which he's the leader of, he's a plucky Guile Hero and a Manchild who is shown to have a deep fondness for dancing, and in particular, its shown he's a big fan of Footloose. He was also a petty criminal who through Character Development became one of the most heroic people in the galaxy.
Faux Horrific: In Season 3, Gary finds himself confronting an utter hell brought to life: an army of ragtag post-apocalypse KVNs on a post-Season 1 Earth.
Go Mad from the Isolation: Flashbacks show that Gary's always been a bit off, but his condition's only been exacerbated from being alone in prison for five years with no one but HUE, KVN (whom he hates), and his various robot wardens for company. Avocato is the first person he's talked to in-the-flesh in all that time, and Gary's initially happy to even see raiders if it means he has the chance to mingle.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Especially as he progressively became less immature and reckless and more openly heroic and kind.
Hate at First Sight: In contrast to instantly falling in love with Quinn, from the moment Gary meets KVN, he tells him in no uncertain terms that he hates him.
Heroic Sacrifice: A non-fatal example. He time-swaps with Avocato in the past, saving his friend from death but causing Gary to be stranded in The Lord Commander's deserted prison colony for several months.
Idiot Hero: In Season 1, he's impulsive, loud, very reckless, and has a pretty inflated ego. He grows out of it by Season 2.
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: While he does manage to hit his targets from time to time, Gary's aim is all over the place and he doesn't know a thing about the rules of gun safety; taken up to eleven in the second episode of Season 3, where he empties his blaster at a target that is standing still in the open a few feet in front of him and still misses every single shot. Of course, Gary is a completely untrained civilian who probably never even shot a gun in his life before the start of the series.
Insistent Terminology: Gary is proud to remind everyone that he's the Captain of the ship. The only problem is, he isn't, he's just a prisoner, a fact that HUE has reminded him of hundreds of times, but which Gary always ignores.
Intergenerational Friendship: With Little Cato, who's roughly half his age. Then again, being a Manchild, it's no surprise that Gary would get along very well with a young teen who also happens to be the son of his best friend.
Interspecies Adoption: Is forced into this by Avocato when his death leads to Little Cato being orphaned. Further cemented in Season 2, where Gary officially adopts Little Cato as his son.
Interspecies Friendship: His three best friends, Mooncake, Avocato and HUE are a (cute and friendly) Eldritch Abomination, an alien and an AI, respectively.
Irrational Hatred: For KVN. KVN can be a bit much at times, but MAN, does Gary's disdain for him go over the top.
It's All My Fault: Despite his goofy nature, Gary has a habit of feeling responsible for pretty much everyone, whenever he fails to help someone or if he hurts them, even accidentally, you can bet he will try everything to make it right.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As shown in the flashback in the first episode, he was far from a full-fledged Jerkass, but also wasn't exactly the nicest guy either. His imprisonment in a ship with robots by himself for five years mellowed him out greatly.
Keet: A very energetic, colorful and rather affectionate person.
Laser Blade: In Season 3, he gains such a sword when he discovers he can transform his robot arm into one.
Love at First Sight: He falls in love with Quinn from the moment he sees her, and believes they're meant for each other.
Loving a Shadow: Despite believing he and Quinn are soulmates, Gary knows nothing about her. The video messages he sent her everyday for five years were mostly him needing someone to talk to who he projected his feelings onto.
Magnetic Hero: Despite his eccentricities and buffoonish behavior, a lot of people are inevitably drawn to Gary. He wins over Mooncake instantly and even people who initially distrust his competence like HUE, Avocato and Quinn become loyal to him over time.
Manchild: Gary is immature, impulsive and somewhat disconnected from reality. It's implied some of these issues stem from the death of his father as a child, and Gary never really growing up well into his thirties.
Missing Mom: Gary’s mom is never mentioned at all in season 1 aside from a family photo in a flashback where her face is completely obscured. Season 2 reveals that she abandoned Gary shortly after John’s death.
A Mistake Is Born: According to his mother. Whether she means he wasn't a planned pregnancy or if she means that his birth threw off her plans by the baby Gary crying and alerting John about her true allegiance is left ambiguous.
Morality Chain: To Mooncake. If he's killed, Mooncake will go on a galaxy-wide rampage that will free the Titans.
Motor Mouth: He has a tendency to ramble, which he acknowledges in Chapter Six as "word-a-rhea".
Mr. Fanservice: Mostly played for laughs with his "Real, Raw" face. He's been seen naked a few times too, usually from behind.
Mr. Imagination: Gary has a very overactive imagination, which turns a mental prison into a death trap when he keeps imagining new ways for him and Avocato to die.
My God, What Have I Done?: Says this almost word-for-word when Invictus has broken out of Final Space, realizing that at least part of the blame lies on him and the Team Squad for their mistakes - chief of which, Gary admits earlier on, was failing Ash.
My Greatest Failure: While it was technically Invictus that set things into motion, Gary continues to blame himself for the death of Fox and the inexorable trauma it inflicts on Ash. For bonus points, he never uses his robot arm's built-in sword again, implicitly out of shame.
Older Than They Look: Gary is confirmed by the creators to be 30 years old, as there is no difference between this and what he looked like at 25, and in Chapter 8 it's confirmed he can't grow a mustache. In The Sixth Key, Gary mentions that he is 32.
Our Hero Is Dead: He seemingly dies from lack of oxygen in Chapter 10 but an anomaly that opens up right behind him. The next episodes reveal that the “anomaly” is actually the lights from a garbage ship that takes Gary inside and inadvertently resuscitate him.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In Season 3, after Invictus forcibly impales Fox with Gary's sword-hand, Gary is offered a cookie — and he responds by smashing the cookie-machine with his bare hands in anger.
Papa Wolf: Towards Little Cato, despite having no actual blood ties. Gary cares a lot about the kid, to the point that, when he learns that Avocato murdered Little Cato's biological parents and never told him the truth about his origins, he becomes absolutely livid and even outright attacks Avocato.
Parental Substitute: Becomes one for Little Cato throughout the series since Avocato asked Gary to take care of Little Cato right before sacrificing himself to save him. This eventually bites him in the ass when Invictus turns Avocato (who is Back from the Dead due to time travel) against him by exploiting Avocato's envy of Gary for "replacing" him as Little Cato's father.
Pet the Dog:
- Enforced in Chapter Nine. Quinn convinces Gary to give a thumbs up to KVN when he manages to save them with his Power Armor, even if it mentally (and physically) hurts Gary to do so.
- In "The Grand Surrender", you can hear Gary actually complementing KVN for successfully leading a crowd of cultists out of their way. Until he accidentally leads them to their deaths by floating over a cliff.
The Power of Friendship: Shares a very special bond with Avocato (that Quinn certainly wouldn't understand) that allows them to communicate with their hearts in a very...Ho Yay-like way.
Red Is Heroic: Wore a red spacesuit (which is also his prison uniform). He later changes into a red shirt with a leather jacket in episode 7.
Sad Clown: Gary's own VA explains that his very goofy personality is a front that resulted from tragically losing his father as a child.
Screams Like a Little Girl: He gives off extremely high-pitched screeches.
Sibling Team: Implied with him and his buddy Mooncake. It's revealed midway through Season 1 that Mooncake was created as a direct result of John Goodspeed's antimatter bomb, in a way making John Mooncake's "father" as well and thus making Mooncake Gary's brother.
Slap-Slap-Kiss: When he reunites with Quinn, Gary believes this is the relationship they have after she punches him in the face for calling her saucy nicknames. After the third or fourth punch, he gets that she's not flirting.
Small Name, Big Ego: Gary is shown to be hilariously arrogant as he constantly claimed that he is the captain of the Galaxy One when in reality he is just a prisoner serving a five-year sentence. H.U.E has been keeping a track record of how many times Gary claimed to be the captain since starting his sentence, stating to Gary that he has boasted about it 9,045 times.
Spell My Name with a "The": Both the Lord Commander and Invictus call him "the Gary".
Stalker with a Crush: Though he couldn't get up to much stalking while in prison, he did send a woman he didn't know a video message every day for the past five years. Said woman never saw or properly responded to those messages until she met him again.
Star-Crossed Lovers: It's hinted he and Quinn are ultimately this based on Nightfall's observation about how the latter can never be with Gary in any of the hundreds of alternate timelines she's traversed.
Strong Family Resemblance: Gary looks just like his dad, except for the different hair color which is closer to his mother's.
Sympathy for the Devil: It's a fleeting moment, but even after Ash acrimoniously betrays the crew for Invictus, Gary mournfully apologizes for failing her - implicitly acknowledging how and why she was driven to such a point.
Team Dad: Gary starts to take on this role during Season 2, especially towards Little Cato.
Time-Freeze Trolling Spree: After time-traveling into the moment before John's ship perished (causing everything else except John to freeze in time), Gary bonds with his dad over beating the ever-living shit out of the Lord Commander's frozen past self in payback for his future self's actions.
Took a Level in Kindness: Gary when first introduced was shown to be an arrogant and childish buffoon who takes nothing seriously and repeatedly flirt with Quinn. Starting in episode 6 however, Gary starts to chip away at his impetuous attitude when he decides to send a message to apologize to Quinn during his mission to rescue Little Cato. Chapter 8 seals this when Bolo calls him out for his insecurities and anxiety then sends him back in time to meet his dad, resulting in him becoming at peace with his dad’s death. His decision to adopt Little Cato in "The Lost Spy" shows how far Gary has developed.
Trademark Favorite Food: Cookies, and is greatly annoyed KVN gets to eat them but not him. He finally gets to binge on them in episode 7 when his sentence comes to an end, only to find out they're not that good.
Trauma Conga Line: The whole show is this for him. He, over the span of about 20 years, is forced to watch 3 of the people closest to him die to save someone, is isolated from all human contact for 5 years, has his arm ripped off, has to watch his father die twice, is given the responsibility of the survival of all life forms in the universe in a couple of days of being freed of his sentence, witnesses the slow destruction of his home planet, and has to witness as his leadership of the assault on the Lord Commander ends in disaster. This culminates to all of the crew's efforts so far being made futile as their allies are wiped out, Mooncake captured, the Earth pulled into Final Space by the Titans, and Gary and Little Cato left to suffocate in space. Enter season 2, and Gary still can’t catch a break. Through the course of the season, Gary is enslaved by Clarence, gets severely wounded by his Invictus-possessed best friend, and is being hunted by his criminal mother Sheryl, the DeWinters, and an evil maniac named Todd H. Watson, all three of whom blame Gary on the death of family members. In Season 3, Ash unfortunately joins the band wagon of blaming Gary for Fox's death when Invictus had already killed him.
Troubled, but Cute: Quinn's reaction to him when they meet again in episode 4, not recognizing him at first.
Undying Loyalty: No matter the odds, Gary will never leave a friend behind. Whether you're being held captive in an Evil Overlord's prison, trapped in another dimension or even if you're dead, if Gary Goodspeed likes you, he will save you.
Your Days Are Numbered: By the end of the ninth episode of Season 3, he notices that he and the rest of the team are starting to suffer from Final Space poisoning, just like Quinn did.

Mooncake

"Chookity pok!"

Voiced by: Olan Rogers, John DiMaggio ("The Other Side"; translator voice)

Gary's adorable alien sidekick... who's actually an unbelievably powerful Planet Destroyer.

Adorable Abomination: He was born from Final Space, which is home to the Titans and he is an extremely powerful Planet Killer, but he's a cute Cuddle Bug at the end of the day.
Badass Adorable: Called a "planet destroyer", but you wouldn't know because of how cute he looks.
Batman Can Breathe in Space: He repeatedly ventures out into space without any form of protective suit or oxygen, and is completely fine. By extending, episode 9 shows he can also go underwater without having to worry about oxygen or the pressure.
Bouncing Battler: He is capable of bouncing off surfaces like a rubber ball, and he uses this to subdue Infinity Guards at one point.
Breath Weapon: He can shoot a green laser from his mouth that is strong enough to wipe out celestial bodies.
Brought Down to Normal: The Lord Commander using him to tear open a rift to Final Space in the season 1 finale completely drains Mooncake of his energy. Thus, he spends about half of Season 2 without his powers, but regains them in "Arachnitects".
Cuddle Bug: Mooncake is adorable and very openly affectionate with people he likes, and loves to hug.
Demoted to Extra: Plays a much less prominent role in Seasons 2 and 3.
Doom Magnet: Nightfall describes him as one, saying that everywhere he goes, death follows. So far this is less to do with Mooncake than it is with the Lord Commander killing everyone in his path to obtain his power.
Face Hugger: When Gary first meets him, he's terrified Mooncake is one of these. It turns out, he's a more literal kind of face hugger.
Intelligible Unintelligible: Somehow, most of the cast can understand exactly what he's saying despite his One-Word Vocabulary.
Killer Rabbit: He has the power to destroy entire planets in an instant.
Living MacGuffin: Mooncake has immense power and the plot of the first season is mostly driven by the Lord Commander trying to seize that power for himself. And that is only about half of it. In the following seasons it’s revealed where Mooncake came from and why he’s so powerful. When John Goodspeed closed the rift to Final Space the first time, the energy solidified into the adorable planet killer we all know. However, this also meant a literal piece of Final Space was missing and, according to the Arachnitects, the missing piece must be returned in order to stabilize the dimensional barriers holding Invictus in their cage.
- This gets horribly inverted in the Season 3 finale: As Ash is using her powers to prevent the Galaxy II from crossing the Bridge, Mooncake goes out to confront her... And loses, with Ash draining his powers to free Invictus, who then proceeds to escape Final Space.
Nice Guy: Mooncake is unfalteringly friendly, reliable, and upbeat.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His decision to confront Ash so the Team Squad can escape Final Space ends with him being defeated and Ash draining his powers to free Invictus.
Nigh-Invulnerability: Being squeezed into a closet doesn’t injure him. In Chapter Five, neither does the Galaxy One crash-landing on an alien planet since he always floats and when he gets shocked in the electric maze he seems more surprised than hurt.
One-Word Vocabulary: "Chookity-pok!" Later, he starts saying, "Gar!"
Out of Focus: In Season 2 and to a lesser extent Season 3, where he's more of a supporting character after being more or less the central focus of Season 1.
Post-Stress Overeating: When Gary starts ignoring him in favor of his mom, Mooncake goes on a (mainly pancake) eating spree that turns him into a giant, man-eating, bulbous monster. He calms down after HUE tells him that he doesn't just need Gary's attention.
Power Floats: He's a powerful little alien whose main form of movement is levitating.
Reluctant Warrior: Despite being a planet destroyer, Mooncake appears not to enjoy killing.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: According to Nightfall, in hundreds of previous timelines, Mooncake goes insane after the Lord Commander murders Gary. He then proceeds to destroy multiple worlds and breakthrough to Final Space, allowing the Titans to go free and ravage the universe.
Sibling Team: Implied with him and Gary. See Gary's folder for details.
Suddenly Voiced: In "The Other Side", he speaks for the first time via a translator in Little Cato's Bad Future, although it should be noted that was All Just a Dream.
Trademark Favorite Food: The creators have stated that Mooncake's favorite food is marshmallows.
Vacuum Mouth: Pulls off a pretty good Kirby impression to suck KVN and the dimensional keys out of an energy vortex.
Wave-Motion Gun: He can fire a massive beam of ultra-concentrated energy capable of bisecting ships, slicing monsters into pieces, or destroying entire planets.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Not the main timeline's Mooncake, but Nightfall reveals that this happens to his counterparts across a multitude of Alternate Timelines: Gary getting killed by the Lord Commander causes something in Mooncake to snap and ravage the entire universe with his planet-destroying powers.
You Shall Not Pass!: Gives his best efforts to stall Ash so the Team Squad can leave Final Space in "The Devil's Den." Alas, this blows up spectacularly in his face when she takes hold of him and repurposes his powers for the sake of releasing Invictus from its prison and unto the universe at large.

KVN

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"Embrace the KVN!"

^{Season 2 and onward}

Voiced by: Fred Armisen

A robot that was assigned as Gary's "deep-space insanity avoidance companion", though this backfired due to him being incredibly annoying.

Ambiguously Bi: KVN is very clingy to Gary and has once gazed at Gary's butt in chapter 3 but in chapter 5 he is shown to be in love with a fridge named Beth and chapter 6 has him fall for Quinn after she pretends to flirt with him.
Back from the Dead: Initially dying in battle, KVN managed to rebuild himself through sheer force of will in The Torra Regata.
Cloudcuckoolander: Likes eating cookies, yet as Gary notes can't even eat cookies, just smashes them to his face while making eating noises.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He mostly comes across as The Load, but for a character that is both this and The Friend Nobody Likes, KVN gets several Big Damn Heroes moments. And he does all of them from the Galaxy One.
Cyber Cyclops: He's a robot with only one eye.
Eating Machine: Fully deconstructed. He can't eat but he loves smashing cookies into his "mouth", essentially just wasting food.
Expy: Of Claptrap from Borderlands, but somehow even more obnoxious. If you don't want to kill him within a minute of meeting him, you're made of pretty stern stuff.
The Friend Nobody Likes: In addition to Gary despising him, the rest of the crew is annoyed by his antics, to the point where even HUE says he's a jag-off. It comes to a head in "Chapter 10" when Gary cries Tears of Joy when he sees KVN die.
- In season two, his status has been slowly dropped. Gary seems to be less dismissive of him and tolerates him just a little more than last time. "The Set-Up" reveals that KVN formed a genuine bond with Fox and Ash to the point that he is willing to sacrifice his sanity to save the former. By the third season this trope has been mostly dropped, with Gary actually allowing KVN to hug him without much anger.
Hated by All: A heroic case, but KVN seems to be at best mildly disliked or at worst hated by everyone else he interacts with. Besides his The Friend Nobody Likes points above; Bolo, who's generally shown to be very friendly and soft-spoken, seems to quickly develop a dislike for KVN, wondering how Gary can put up with him and agreeing with him on wanting KVN to die.
Heroic Sacrifice: Dies in battle, when protecting the Galaxy One from the Lord Commander's Hives.
- He does this again in "The Set-Up", but this time, it is a non-fatal example. At the cost of his own sanity, KVN extracts a personality chip from himself to save Fox when he is severely wounded by Clarence.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Apparently invoked by his programming. While he's an incredibly obnoxious, childish asshole, he's specifically designed for the purposes of preventing Gary from killing himself, so when he or the others are in a situation where they could be in danger, he always comes through and helps them.
Last of His Kind: Once the KVN Net goes up in smoke at the hands of the Lord Commander fusing with the incubating Titan, he's the very last model still standing/floating.
Made of Iron: As revealed in "The First Times They Met", killing KVN or any other KVN is nearly impossible as they're practically indestructible, not flame throwers, machine guns, or even being thrown out into space can stop them. You can only kill a KVN by destroying its robot heart, which is what our KVN did to the final evil KVN.
- In the third season he withstands Mooncake's blast with minimal damange. Remember that Mooncake is a capable Planet Destroyer.
Motor Mouth: He never shuts up.
Murder the Hypotenuse: After being tied up, Quinn flirts with him to convince him to release her. It works and he immediately offers to kill Gary.
Not Now, Kiddo: People usually don't take KVN seriously for good reason, and ignore his presence to focus on the problem at hand. Even when KVN has the means to save all their lives, Quinn and Avocato just ignore him. Though when he does save their lives, they're truly thankful for him (Gary, on the other hand, doesn't believe this).
Not Quite Dead: A heroic example (not that it makes Gary feel any better) at the start of Season 2. He seemingly died after being severely damaged fighting the Lord Commander's forces during the Season 1 finale, before he comes back with a new look after having repaired himself using scrap, helped in no small part by the fact KVN units are designed to be next to indestructible.
Plucky Comic Relief
Powered Armor: He's revealed to have a large mech suit on standby, it's standard issue for his model.
Robot Buddy: Subverted. He was meant to be this towards Gary, but his obnoxiousness immediately made Gary hate him.
Scars Are Forever: Starting near episode 4, KVN is permanently distinguished with his color skin being partially torn off due to Hue's core attacking him. Presumably, the only reason he hasn't been fixed up is that he's The Friend Nobody Likes or because since he is Made of Iron and that repairing him would not really be that useful.
Sitcom Archnemesis: KVN was designed to be Gary's robot companion so that Gary wouldn't go insane from loneliness while a prisoner. This didn't work out to anyone's advantage since KVN's presence caused Gary to go insane, lonely and annoyed for five years.
Takes One to Kill One: He effortlessly destroys the last evil KVN in one second with his own hands while the rest of the crew had no way of beating the other evil KVNs other than throwing them out the airlock.
Trademark Favorite Food: Cookies, much to Gary's great annoyance, since KVN can't even eat them.
Trigger-Happy: He enjoys laughing off at whatever he's shooting.
Troll: He loves trolling Gary in many ways.
The Unapologetic: Part of the reason Gary hates him with a passion is because KVN never apologizes for any of the times he screws up or complicates things for Gary, often giving the impression that he is doing it on purpose. One such example is in "Chapter 7", when KVN claims he is making helpful repairs to the ship by "fixing a hole", but all he actually did was weld the door to the bathroom shut. When Gary points this out, all KVN does is laugh and uncaringly state that puts Gary in a bit of a situation before leaving, forcing Gary to try to deal with this mess he created.
Undying Loyalty: Despite his annoyance and the animosity he receives from others, he is extremely loyal to Gary and the Team Squad without question.
Unexplained Recovery: It's never revealed how he survived being destroyed at the end of Season 1.

HUE

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"Does anyone want a piece of this Hubie-doobie?"

HUE from "The Torra Regata" to "The Hidden Light"

Voiced by: Tom Kenny

"Have I really sunk this low?"

An A.I. that watches Gary during his imprisonment.

11th-Hour Superpower: After having spent all of season 2 with a less than ideal body, AVA gives HUE an upgrade so he can fly in the penultimate episode.
Actor Allusion: Tom Kenny voices HUE, who has to always keep an eye on a character named Gary. Does it sound familiar?
Apologetic Attacker: After the Infinity Guard hijacks his system and turns him against the crew, the last thing HUE does is apologize before attacking his friends.
Big Damn Heroes: In "The Devil's Den" he uses his new mech body to save Gary and the Catos in the nick of time from Ash.
HUE: Sorry I'm late, Gary! Oh, hello Ash.
Black Comedy: Seems to be a fan of this if his joke in episode 2 is anything to go by.
Body Backup Drive: In episode 10, he transfers his AI into Gary's spacesuit after their ship is destroyed. He later transfers his AI into the body of a run-down robot in "The Toro Regata".
Brutal Honesty: It's against his programming to humor Gary's delusions.
Butt-Monkey: Transferring his A.I. into an actual robot body has caused a lot of problems for him. Mostly in regards to his inability to master body movement and AVA mocking him.
Character Development: In season 1 he was seen as a serious AI. In season 2 ever since he got his own body he has been showing more emotions and began being more laid back.
The Comically Serious: HUE's brutal honesty and monotone demeanor contrast wildly with Gary's Large Ham tendencies. He hasn't made a single joke in five years.
Cute Machines: His garbage bot form throughout season 2 is short and very huggable.
Defrosting Ice King: He starts out as a cold, unfeeling, by-the-book, AI that doesn't even give Gary the time of day. Eventually, he starts becoming more and more casual with Gary, becoming Sophisticated as Hell. He sticks with Gary until the very end, despite firmly believing that whatever reckless action Gary is about to perform will result in his demise. In "Chapter 7", he even tells Gary that he's his Only Friend.
Demoted to Extra: His role in Season 3 is significantly smaller than his roles in Seasons 1 & 2.
Extendable Arms: HUE new robot body has extendable limbs (He learns this the hard way.
It Has Been an Honor: HUE tells Gary this during the final two minutes of his life, but stays online for a while afterward.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: HUE is incredibly blunt and has no problem retaliating against Gary's antics with Amusing Injuries, in addition to extending Gary's sentence for trivial offenses due to a strict adherence to his programming. Despite this, HUE cares about Gary and the entire crew, to the point where he sides with them over the Infinity Guard and agrees with Avocato to wait for Gary even if it means risking capture.
Lethal Chef: Implied. Little Cato's hallucination of Nightfall in "The Other Side" claimed that H.U.E.'s cooking was what killed Fox and Ash. The next episode had all of the team squad members except Mooncake ignored the pancakes he made for them.
The Load: He hasn't been that useful ever since his mind was transferred into a robot body. And he's painfully aware of it. Made only worse when AVA starts purposefully completing all of his responsibilities much quicker than he ever could.
Nightfall: HUE start the engines.
HUE: You can always count on HUE to quickly-
(AVA activates the engines just when HUE is about to press the button)
AVA: Engines are a go!
HUE: All I had left were the engines, AVA, and now you have taken that too.
Machine Monotone: HUE's an AI who always speaks in a subdued monotone, even when he's angry or annoyed. He starts sounding more emotive inflections in his monotone voice in season 2.
Only Friend: When Gary's sentence is over and he prepares to leave the ship, HUE admits to Gary that he's his only friend, and KVN is a jag-off.
Pet the Dog:
- He offers Gary a cookie after seeing Gary display bravery for the first time. He immediately retracts the offer when Gary presses his luck by claiming he's the captain.
- After Gary is blown out of the Lord Commander's ship and left drifting in space, HUE stays online in Gary's spacesuit during the last ten minutes of his life. Then there's his parting words when Gary's ten-minute oxygen supply elapses:
  HUE: (after Gary's final breath) I'll miss you, friend.
Promotion to Opening Titles: He's been added to the Season 2 intro in his new robot body.
Ship Tease: He gets a few moments with AVA throughout season 2 as she slowly gains respect for him.
Sophisticated as Hell: He usually speaks in a mechanical manner, but he refers to the Infinity Guard (those on the Lord Commander's payroll, at least) as "dickheads" once. He later proclaims, "Hell yeah, dawg," twice in the same monotone voice, and uses a countdown ending with "Boom-town" during the battle with the Lord Commander's forces in episode 10.
Throw the Dog a Bone:
- He finally scores a solid win in "The Set Up", where he returns a stolen case of 10,000 dropnoids... only to be rewarded with 50,000 dropnoids, as well as that fancy hat he wanted earlier on. Even A.V.A. digs the look.
- In "The Hidden Light", he finally ditches his robot body to become the AI of the Galaxy Two, proving he's still got it by effortlessly shooting down a horde of Landfishes with his new guns.
Took a Level in Kindness: HUE was first introduced as an overbearing warden to Gary while he was a prisoner on the Galaxy one, going as far as not letting him have any cookies, pinching his hand on the cookie door, lying to Gary about putting a bomb in his brain as a joke, and, extending his sentence multiple times for ridiculous reasons. His level in kindness gets invoked when he gets liberated from Infinity Guard control and become an independent A.I because KVN installed a flash drive given to him by Nightfall that allowed this to happen. Since then, HUE has taken a much softer stance again and has not mentioned Gary’s sentence again after it was fully served.
Undying Loyalty: Declares this to Gary in his last 2 minutes before oxygen runs out.

Quinn Ergon

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"Speaking of problems, maybe you should leave before you become one."

^{Quinn from "Change is Gonna Come" onwards}

Voiced by: Tika Sumpter

A space officer who crosses paths with Gary.

Accidental Misnaming: The first time she reunites with Gary, she can't get his name right no matter how many times he corrects her. Humorlessly, she's instantly able to remember the names of every other person onboard the ship who she just met.
Action Girl: She knows lots of fighting techniques.
Ambiguously Brown: Her pilot design had a tan skintone. As for the series itself she seems to have been redesigned to be black.
Belligerent Sexual Tension: Her relationship with Gary by the time of chapter 10.
Big Damn Kiss: With Gary in episode 10.
Blue Is Heroic: The color of her Infinity Guard uniform. She later changes out of it into a green outfit with an olive colored vest in season 3.
Body Horror: At the end of All the Moments Lost, her Final Space poisoning has progressed to a stage where her face has glowing yellow veins and her eyes turn a bright yellow, which she can't hide from the others anymore.
Broken Pedestal: When she learns the Infinity Guard now serves Lord Commander, she is very distraught and later removes the insignia from her uniform.
Brutal Honesty: Like HUE, Quinn doesn't hold back on the truth. Unlike HUE, she's not programmed to be that way, it's just how she is.
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: She arrested Gary five years ago for impersonating an officer and destroying most of the Infinity Guard's ships (and a Mexican family restaurant), but she doesn't remember him at all when they reunite. It takes an entire episode for her to finally remember him, much less get his name right.
Cowboy Cop: She's not much of a cowboy, but she does go rogue from the Infinity Guard when they refuse to let her investigate a breech in space. It turns out the Infinity Guard leadership is corrupt and the reason they opposed her investigating the breech is because they're the ones behind it.
Cyborg: In order to save her from dying to her Final Space poisoning, she receives a cranial implant that looks exactly like the one Nightfall had.
Defrosting Ice Queen: Towards Gary in particular, who she doesn't take seriously at first because of his erratic behavior, but eventually grows to trust. She warms up to him more when HUE shows him all the messages Gary made for her over the past five years.
Disappeared Dad: The whereabouts of Quinn's father are a complete mystery; even when we learn more about her past through a series of flashbacks in Season 3, he's nowhere to be seen and his name isn't mentioned. However, it's established that he was still part of Quinn's life when she was still an Infinity Guard soldier in training, and that they likely had a good relationship.
Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Responsible to her younger sister's Avery's foolish. Quinn was the most level-headed of the two, but Avery was reckless and stubbornly disobeyed Quinn, even when she was her captain.
Freudian Excuse: Some of Quinn's negative traits listed below can be seen coming from her mother's harsh tactics to groom her into be an Infinity Guard captain (which mind you, included locking a young Quinn inside a morgue).
Girlish Pigtails: She had that hairstyle as a teenager, as seen in the fifth episode of Season 3.
Good Is Not Nice: Quinn doesn't mince words and can be really abrasive, to the point of calling her superiors or allies "idiots" right to their faces. She's also willing to sacrifice a single life if it means saving more people in the long run. That said, she is not a bad person, and firmly sets herself on the heroic side by trying to save as many people as possible.
Heroic Sacrifice: She detonates the anti-matter bomb in the breach, thus preventing Final Space from being activated. However, Season 2 reveals that she's still be alive, trapped in Final Space.
Insufferable Genius: Quinn's a genius but she has a bit of an ego about it, to the point where her distress signal has her screaming for help from any idiots in the area.
It's All My Fault: She has this reaction when Superior Stone tells her that the highly complex math equation she was doodling on a bar napkin in the first episode is exactly what the Lord Commander needed to open the breech in space.
- In The Dead Speak, this comes back full force when Avocato chews her out for her actions leading them to not have an Earth to return to and the Lord Commander's fusion with a Titan, and then admitting that everyone barring her is gradually contracting Final Space poisoning.
I Work Alone: This is her most prominent flaw along with her ego about her intelligence, since she's been considered "unattainable" even among her other Infinity Guard members and is not above striking out on her own when frustrated enough with people's ignorance/ idiocies, or even (somewhat overtly) focusing on the end goal/ big picture with little regard for others' well-beings/ putting her own survival below everyone else's. The bulk of the first season focuses on her overcoming her reluctance to trust the Galaxy One crew for support, which she ultimately does get better at by the end of the first season. She is still prone to the latter, however, as Avocato resentfully points out.
The Needs of the Many: She may not like it, but she was willing to leave Gary to die in a supernova because he was just one person and billions of other lives are counting on what she's found out. She later argues against prioritizing saving Little Cato because Earth being in danger is the more pressing matter.
Older Than She Looks: She looks to be in her early to mid-20s but Word of God reveals that she is 32 years old.
Only Sane Man: She's the only Infinity Guard who believes looking into evidence of a gravitational anomaly that could endanger the planet is a good thing.
Run or Die: She frames giving up the fight against Invictus and the Titans in favor of running and staying alive for as long as possible this way after a series of harrowing defeats including the loss of the only being on their side who could physically take on Titans — whether she's right about this or she's just giving up too early (which Ash calls her out on) is another matter, especially when considering that Quinn doesn't even contemplate containing the alternate Earths using their alternate KVN nets.
Selective Obliviousness: Despite otherwise being highly competent, episode 5 has her in deep denial over the Infinity Guard's corruption even though the evidence is so overwhelming even Gary's figured it out. Change Is Gonna Come explains that she was actually raised in the Infinity Guard from birth, so she didn't fully realize how low they fell in their ideals until much later.
Slap-Slap-Kiss: Played for laughs. Gary thinks this is their relationship after she decks him for calling her saucy nicknames. He eventually admits he was wrong after several more punches, only to push his luck at the end of the episode and have her snap his finger.
The Smart Girl: She's a genius by the standards of the Infinity Guard, and definitely the smartest person in the main cast.
The Smurfette Principle: The only woman among the main cast, at least until Ash, AVA and Sheryl are brought in.
Spell My Name With An S: The series creator has confirmed that her surname is written as Ergon, although it's sometime mispelled as Airgone, Airgon, or Aragon.
Surrounded by Idiots: She calls her superiors "idiots" right to their faces after they refuse to investigate the gravitational anomaly that could endanger Earth. Her closest ally in the Infinity Guard, Tribore, is one of the dumbest people in the cast. In Chapter 5, it turns out her superiors aren't idiots— they're corrupt, and working on expanding the breech that she wants to investigate.
Survivor Guilt: She never forgave herself for the death of her younger sister, Avery, who was under her command as a soldier. While it's still not clear exactly how Avery died, the events of All the Moments Lost seem to imply it was a Heroic Sacrifice.
Team Mom: Takes up the leadership half of this trope among the Team Squad after she's rescued, with Sheryl (Gary's blood mother) fulfilling the caring half.
Token Good Cop: She fulfils this for the Infinity Guard. Whilst in the past the Guard were genuinely heroic protectors of the galaxies, at present the majority of members come across as incompetent and/or authoritarian. Quinn meanwhile is still highly intelligent and dedicated, but bogged down by her superiors ignoring her reasonable concerns: such as forbidding her from investigating the breach despite it endangering the Earth. This often leads to her having to go out on her own to actually get things done. As it turns out the vast majority of the Infinity Guard are actually in the pocket of the Lord Commander and deliberately sabotaging their efforts, to help spread his tyranny. In particular her boss Superior Stone. Learning this causes Quinn to wash her hands of the organisation, though she makes it clear she still believes in the ideals they used to hold.
Took a Level in Kindness: It's subtle, but Quinn becomes more kind towards others around her in the later chapters of Season 1, and by the time of Season 3, she barely has any cold moments and stops being abrassive.
Tsundere: Even as Quinn grows to care about Gary more and more, she still insults him and treats him abrasively. It's rather downplayed by chapters 9 and 10, though, and outright subverted in Season 3.
We Can Rule Together: Superior Stone makes this offer to her. Gary freaks out and begs her not to, despite it being abundantly clear she has absolutely no interest whatsoever in taking him up on that offer.
Your Days Are Numbered: After coming out of Final Space, she suffers from gradual Final Space poisoning and only has about a day and a half to live before she dies.
- She gets better in Change Is Gonna Come, as the episode focuses on the Team Squad's efforts to find a cure to her condition, which manifests as a cranial implant similar to the one Nightfall had.

Avocato

Voiced by: Coty Galloway

A Ventrexian (not a cat) who teams up with Gary to rescue his son.

Aborted Arc: It's clear that the writers wanted to resolve his newfound strain with Little Cato, with it being revealed in Season 3 that Avocato is not the boy's father, and even killed his birth parents, who happened to be Ventrexian royalty. But thanks to the sudden cancellation of the series? This arc is sadly left dangling.
Action Dad: He's an asskicking father and a Papa Wolf.
The Atoner: Episode 6 reveals he used to be the loyal right-hand man of the Lord Commander until his boss tried to force him to kill his own son. Avocato joining with Gary to fight the Lord Commander is both a way to save his son and as an attempt to atone for the evils he committed in his past.
Badass Adorable: Insanely skilled at asskicking in practically every way, even killing a fellow bounty hunter. He's a cat-man (essentially) so that helps.
Barefoot Cartoon Animal: In his pilot incarnation, he didn't wear space boots. In the series proper he is Fully Dressed.
Berserk Button: Calling him a Dirty Coward is a sure way to piss him off.
Big Ol' Eyebrows: His eyebrows are measurably bigger than just about everyone else's.
Bishie Sparkle: Can apparently summon these at will and taught his son to do the same.
Bounty Hunter: He's introduced as a bounty hunter on the Lord Commander's payroll.
Came Back Wrong: The crew manages to go back in time and save him in exchange for leaving Gary behind, but the damages to his nervous system were so extensive he doesn't remember them anymore.
- Doubled in that him being brought back inadvertently leads to him becoming possessed by Invictus.
Cat Folk: He's a Ventrexian, essentially an alien cat-man. Don't call him a real cat, though.
Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: If it wasn't for him, Gary and him would've died in episode 3 due to Gary's idiocy. Also plays straight man to Gary a lot.
Cooldown Hug: How he breaks Little Cato free from the Lord Commander's control.
Dark and Troubled Past: He used to be the Lord Commander's right-hand man and committed all manner of atrocities on his master's command.
Death Seeker: It's heavily implied he used to be this, most likely due to outliving his elder son, until Little Cato came into his life and gave him a real reason to live again. In Avocato's flashbacks to this time, he led a squad into enemy territory and insisted on pressing forward despite being advised they were straying too far from friendly territory, and by his own admission he felt anything but gratitude toward the Lord Commander after the latter saved him and his squad from a deadly ambush that could have spelled all their dooms at the time. Avocato all but confirms he was this in "Devil's Den".
Declaration of Protection: "The Ventrexian" shows that when Little Cato first came into his life, Avocato made a vow there and then that he would keep him safe, even if he had to give his own life to do so (which he technically did in Season 1).
Disappeared Dad: Justified, since the Lord Commander is using his son as blackmail. In the long run, it becomes zig-zagged after he dies in episode 6, and after he's rescued through time travel (The Remembered) and from possession by Invictus (The Sixth Key).
The Dragon: Served as one to the Lord Commander for at least fourteen years or so.
Even Mooks Have Loved Ones: In his flashback during episode 6, Avocato refused to obey the Lord Commander's order to kill his son and turned the gun on his boss after killing the guards holding Little Cato. If only he only had the damn chance to shoot...
Eye Scream: In All the Moments Lost, the crushing gravitational pull of the black hole results in one of Avocato's eyes getting pulled out of its socket. Thankfully, he gets better (with help from KVN, unfortunately).
Fantastic Racism: He showed dislike towards Tryvullians as he questioned Little Cato if he was hiding any after smelling Fox’s scent and saying that the smell was bad. This is obviously a result of the thousand year war between their races. He also refers to Gary as "humanoid trash" in the same episode.
Freudian Excuse Denial: He hates himself deeply for assassinating his own king and queen for the Lord Commander, even more so for the fact they were his son's birth-parents and he never told Little Cato the truth, and despite Ash pointing out he was a victim of the Lord Commander's psychological manipulation, he still holds himself accountable and doesn't consider his circumstances an excuse. When Gary tries to comfort him and accept him back after finding out the full story, Avocato's first instinct is to scream at Gary's willingness to forgive him that he doesn't deserve it.
Furry Reminder: Has occasionally been shown to hiss when angry or meow when surprised and, in episode 2, he actually lands on all fours like a regular cat would following a long fall. He hates being compared to a cat, though.
Green-Eyed Monster: Invictus used this tropes to corrupt him. Specifically, Invictus exploits Avocato's envy of Gary becoming more of a father figure to Little Cato, calling Gary a thief who stole Little Cato from him.
Gun Nut: Avocato seems to have the hobby of collecting weapons including a huge variety of guns. He stored a bunch of guns on his back to take with him in chapter 5 and was in revealed in chapter 7 to have somehow configured his bedroom into a hidden armory that only revealed itself through a switch hidden in a bonsai tree.
Heel–Face Turn: His backstory has him doing such a turn when he refused to kill Little Cato under direct orders from the Lord Commander. Episode 2 cements this after he meets and befriends Gary.
Heroic Sacrifice: He dies at the end of episode 6, saving his son and his friends by Jumping on a Grenade.
Hoist by His Own Petard: He carries quite a few sticky bombs in his belt pack during his rescue mission for Little Cato in Episode 6, using one to blow open a prison door. As he's fleeing, some even fall out of his bag and into the hole the Lord Commander was knocked into. This allows the Lord Commander to activate one of them and place it on Little Cato in a last-ditch effort to kill the Galaxy One crew. Once Avocato notices the bomb, his death becomes a very rare completely literal example of this trope.
I Have Your Wife: The only reason he worked for the Lord Commander is because Little Cato was being held hostage.
"I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight: He has one with Little Cato in episode 6 after the Lord Commander possesses the latter. Luckily, Avocato is able to get through to him. Unfortunately, their victory doesn't last long.
- In Season 2, He's on the receiving end of this. After getting possessed by Invictus, he cold-bloodedly shoots Gary, forcing Little Cato to try and appeal to his fatherly love and begging for mercy. It doesn't work, and Little Cato is forced to shoot him.
Insistent Terminology: He's not a cat, he's a Ventrexian.
It's All About Me: Downplayed and justified. He cares enough about the world to want to save as many people as possible (especially after his genocidal tenure with the Lord Commander), but in Episode 6, he prioritizes rescuing Little Cato over securing the dimensional breach. This puts him in conflict with Quinn, and they don't get a chance to make up before he's killed.
Jumping on a Grenade: The Lord Commander uses his psychic powers to plant a sticky grenade on Little Cato's back. When Avocato sees it, he takes it and runs to the far end of the ship to shield everyone with his own body.
Killed Off for Real: He dies in chapter 6, which Olan Rogers said would be a permanent change. Subverted since he is brought back by a temporal loophole, then subverted again as he is possessed by Invictus and seemingly destroyed. Then subverted yet again as, by the end of the second season's finale, he's finally freed from Invictus' Demonic Possession and gets back on the Team Squad.
Lame Comeback: When Gary calls him a coward for lacking the guts to tell Little Cato the truth about his parents, Avocato angrily shoots back with "and you murdered Fox!", despite being fully aware that it wasn't actually Gary's fault. Following their big fight, he admits that it was just his anger speaking and that he didn't mean any of it.
The Lancer: He was Gary's best friend and second-in-command. As of his liberation from Invictus, he seems to be both again.
Love Redeems: The Lord Commander ordered all of his top lieutenants to murder their first-born child as a show of loyalty to him. Up until that point Avocato had been loyal, but he refused to murder his son and tried to turn against his master. He only continued to work for the Lord Commander afterwards because his son's life would be forfeit if he didn't.
- Season 3 also shows that at one point Avocato was bloodthirsty enough that he willingly followed the Commander's every word and even killed the King and Queen of Ventrexia, only to find out that he orphaned the prince, Little Cato, and follow by adopting said prince even against the Lord Commander's orders.
Meaningful Name: The "-cato" part of his name nearly sounds like the Spanish word "gato" for "cat" (though his race isn't Cat Folk). It serves as a last name of sorts.
Mr. Exposition: When he isn't talking about trying to find his son or trying to keep Gary from doing something stupid, most of his dialogue tends to be explaining the different alien worlds to Gary and what's at stake on their adventures (just look at both episode 2 and 3).
My Greatest Failure: Betraying Ventrexia for the Lord Commander, and assassinating the King and Queen who trusted him with their lives. He never forgave himself for it, and is so ashamed of it that he never even told Little Cato about it.
My Significance Sense Is Tingling: His "danger gland" flares up from seeing Ash return from Invictus, now grown up as well as traversing Bolo's corrupted mindscape. Turns out, it's an actual organ on his neck that warns him of danger, much to Gary's discomfort.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He lies one more time to Little Cato about his heritage rather than at least trying to tell him the truth in "The Leaving", then later frets to Gary about it within earshot of Ash who happens to be passing by. This unfortunately proves to be the final tipping point for her fraying loyalty to the crew versus Invictus' influence and she venomously betrays the former for the latter, while stealing away Little Cato in a misguided attempt to protect him.
Not So Above It All: Although he usually plays the Only Sane Man to balance Gary's antics, there have been moments where he shows he can be just as silly as he is. Like giving "words of wisdom" after being shrunk in Chapter 5 and acting like his reduced height increased his intelligence, enjoying the music Gary plays when they do an aerial drop to the Lord Commander's prison planet, even shouting "what no tunes baby?" during the second jump, and shooting wildly with Gary when they first bust into the prison before realizing it is completely empty.
Not So Stoic: His son's life being in danger is one of the few things that can really get to him. Probably his biggest show of emotion when it comes to Little Cato is when he's reduced to a tearing, self-loathing wreck after confessing to Gary that he assassinated Little Cato's birth-parents before adopting him.
Only Sane Man: Can be this (aside from Quinn and HUE) when you compare him to most members of the prison ship.
Outliving One's Offspring: "The Ventrexian" reveals he had another son who apparently died before he had Little Cato. It's heavily implied that Avocato was a Death Seeker because of this loss until Little Cato came along.
Papa Wolf: Even if he is technically a cat, Avocato won't let anyone or anything stand in the way of rescuing his son, Little Cato. He is also implied to have had a previous family back on Ventrexia when he remembers having a son of his own as he discovers a baby Little Cato.
The Power of Friendship: Shares a very special bond with Gary that allows them to communicate with their hearts in a very... Ho Yay-like way.
Punny Name: His name sounds like "avocado". Apparently, all Ventrexian have such names.
Really 700 Years Old: Word of God states that Avocato is 512 years old.
Regretful Traitor: In his past, he was immediately remorseful after he assassinated the King and Queen of Ventrexia (whom he was originally fighting for) on the Lord Commander's orders. In the present, his remorse has only grown massively since then, as they were also Little Cato's biological parents and he never told the kid.
Sacrificial Lion: He's built up as Gary's lancer and best friend, and his tragic backstory is revealed in episode 6. At the end of that same episode, he dies by by Jumping on a Grenade to save his son and friends. Ultimately subverted, as he's eventually brought back and joins the team again.
Single Tear: He sheds a tear after finally rescuing his son and hugging him in the Galaxy One. The tear is hard to see because the camera zooms out in a blink and you’ll miss it moment.
Spell My Name With An S: For some reason, it's fairly common to see his name written as "Avacato", even on this very website.
Start X to Stop X: Part of the Lord Commander's speech that convinced Avocato to side with him to end Ventrexia's wars was that he would make a world where death was nonexistent — and then the Lord Commander's first order to Avocato was to assassinate the King and Queen of Ventrexia.
The Stoic: Doesn't tend to show a lot of emotion, unless it comes to his son.
Tears of Remorse: Lets some out in "Forgiveness" when Gary calls him out on not only killing Little Cato's biological parents, but getting into his heart and keeping his true heritage a secret all his life; not to mention the inevitable heartbreak when he does find out.
This Cannot Be!: His very-understandable reaction to watching the Lord Commander become a Titan and kill Bolo with ease in Season 3.
Verbal Tic: "Baby". Depending on who he's talking to, it can either be an Affectionate Nickname (Gary) or the exact opposite (the Lord Commander).
Walking Armory: Literally covered in guns at one point, which Quinn lampshades.
Quinn: I have no reason to trust any of you, so I'm going with the guy literally covered in guns.
Your Days Are Numbered: As of Season 3, Episode 11, he suffers from Final Space poisoning.

Little Cato

Voiced by: Steven Yeun

Avocato's son, once a prisoner of the Lord Commander.

Affectionate Nickname: Gary calls him "Spider Cat".
The Baby of the Bunch: Little Cato is the youngest of the heroes, both in terms of pure numbers and relatively, being 14 in a species where ages above 500 is seemingly considered young. He also explicitly admits to being a child when Avocato accuses him of being childish.
Badass Adorable: He's a cute little cat guy with a punk edge, but damn if he can't kick some ass well. As shown in episode 5 where he's dangling over a ledge and swings up to take out an overlooking guard. He also shows great skills in computer hacking and climbing through ventilation shafts.
Brainwashed and Crazy: In episode 6, he himself is used by the Lord Commander as a mind-controlled puppet in attempt to trick Avocato. However, Avocato already knows it's a trap and doesn't fall for it. Once Lord Commander figures he can't tempt Avocato with sympathy for his son, he forces Little Cato to fight and kill his father.
Catchphrase: "He's gonna ____ so good, he's gonna ____ so hard."
Cat Folk: Just like his father although decidedly more edgy in attire with his blue mohawk.
Character Development: In season 1 he was so hellbent on revenge that he was always dark and serious. In Season 2, thanks to Gary, he became more laid back and learned to act like a kid and have fun. Even joining in some goofy moments with Gary.
Combat Parkour: He is very proficient with guns and agile despite his very young age. He is seen performing such parkour in episode 5 when he swings up from and kicks a guard over a ledge, and in episode 9 when he guns down two Infinity Guard members while doing a flip.
Commonality Connection: He at first wants little to do with the Team Squad after his father's apparent death. The main turning point is when he learns Gary went through the same thing as a kid, and when Gary gets a time-traveling reunion with his father and a front-row seat to the man's Heroic Sacrifice.
Cosmic Plaything: The poor kid never catches a break and has for the whole of season 2 been stuck in an unending Trauma Congaline, that includes but is not limited to getting his father back via time travel only to have Avocato develop Laser-Guided Amnesia and then get possessed by an Eldritch Abomination almost immediately after getting his memory back.
Cute Little Fangs: All Ventrexians have prominent fangs, but Little Cato qualifies for the trope by virtue of being a little kid.
Dark and Troubled Past: Little Cato is heavily implied to have been alone most of his childhood while his father was a servant of the villainous Lord Commander. There's no mention of what became of his Missing Mom. Then, he's sentenced to execution and is almost killed by his own father but is spared in a moment of regret on the latter's part, but spent the next three years in isolation and abused by Lord Commander.
A Day in the Limelight: "The Other Side" focuses on Little Cato. Primarily his mental state and his way of coping with his father's death.
Defiant Captive: Even when he's the Lord Commander's prisoner, he remains snarky and unafraid, to the point where he attacks his warden and badmouths the Lord Commander himself.
Little Cato: You look like crap. You always looked like crap, but right now you look like if crap built a house on crap.
Deuteragonist: Takes over Quinn's role as this in the second season.
Distressed Dude: He's the Lord Commander's prisoner until episode 6.
Emo Teen: Episode 7 demonstrates that he's one, given his personal chamber in the ship is decorated with gothic iconography and that he's kind of grumpy towards everyone else, though the latter at least is justified given that he had just witnessed his father's death.
Fantastic Racism: Towards Tryvuulians as a result of the thousand year war between his and Fox’s races. He once negatively compared Fox to garbage in “The Remembered”. After Fox's death, Little Cato admits that he grew to like the guy and that it made him question why he should hate Tryvuulians, realizing that hating people for no reason is dumb.
Fiery Redhead: His fur is mostly orange (sand the blue mohawk) and he's an impulsive kid.
Hairstyle Inertia: His blue mohawk, which he also has as an adult (as seen in Season 1 when he gets trapped inside Nightfall's self-destroying ship), and as a baby as we see in Season 3, when Avocato finds him after murdering his actual parents.
Happily Adopted: Gary adopts him to make up for Avocato's second death/corruption. Little Cato's response? Hug him and cry a little.
- Even before that, Little Cato was adopted as an infant by Avocato after the latter murdered his actual parents. While Little Cato doesn't know that, he loves his "father" dearly.
Heartbroken Badass: Becomes this after witnessing Avocato's death, and it comes to a head in "The Other Side" when he experiences 60 years alone in a space-time-wrecked half of the Crimson Light.
- After hearing from Ash and Avocato that his real parents were murdered by Avocato, he is devastated.
"I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight: The Lord Commander takes control of him and forces him to try to kill his dad. Luckily Avocato is able to get through to him.
Improbable Infant Survival: To a rather ludicrous extent : as a baby, he not only survived the explosion that killed his parents (who were carrying him at the time) and destroyed their ship, he also survived the ensuing fall, being found by Avocato among the pieces of the flaming wreckage without so much as a scratch on his body.
Interspecies Adoption: By Gary, after his father's death.
It's All My Fault: When it looks like he's going to die, Little Cato outright says this to Gary regarding Avocato's own death.
Little Cato: [glitching back and forth in age, sobbing] This was all my fault... he died because of me.
Manly Tears: Little Cato, for a kid his age is surprisingly quite brave and mature as he seemed to be more concerned for his fathers safety than his own. At the end of episode 6, we first see him cry when he witnesses his father’s tragic death.
Missing Mom: Little Cato’s mother (A.K.A, Avocato’s supposed wife) is never seen or mentioned in the show. Whether she is deceased or has split from Avocato is unknown. However he cringes a little when KVN asked if he could act in that parental role. His mother was revealed to be the queen of Ventrexia, whom Avocato kills under the Lord Commander’s orders.
Morality Pet: When his father was a villain, Little Cato served as this. Best shown when he was set up to be killed by the Lord Commander as a show of loyalty, and Avocato attempted to kill the Lord Commander rather than follow through.
Oblivious Adoption: He's not actually Avocato's biological son; Little Cato is actually the heir of Ventrexia's royal family, which was murdered by Avocato on the Lord Commander's orders. When Avocato found him as a baby (while in the middle of a big My God, What Have I Done? moment), he couldn't bring myself to kill him and adopted him on the spot and never told him of his true origins. He finally learns about how he was adopted towards the end of season 3.
Older Than They Look: In "The Other Side", Little Cato gets stranded on the other side of a time shard, where he is trapped for 60 years and goes mad from the isolation, as well as the guilt (he thinks the rest of the crew is dead and that it's his fault), and hallucinates that several of them are with him. He is returned to his original age at the end, but retains all his memories of the ordeal. Strangely, this doesn't appear to have any significant lasting effect on him, as his personality is back to normal by the next episode, and the events are only subsequently given one off-hand mention.
Sheryl: I mean, how old are you again?
Little Cato: 14. Well, technically, 74, but for the sake of birthday presents, I'm 14.
Sheryl: Care to explain?
Little Cato: Uh... pain spot.
Playful Hacker: He has a cheerful personality and has a talent for hacking, even boasting that he's surpassed his father at it.
Posthumous Sibling: It's revealed in "The Ventrexian" that Avocato had another son who died before Little Cato was born. The fact that the infant Little Cato reminded Avocato of this son was an additional side-reason why Avocato adopted him as his own.
Revenge Before Reason: After his father's death, Little Cato goes on what is essentially a suicide mission against a much larger ship that the Lord Commander isn't even on, just to have some outlet for revenge. If not for Nightfall's intervention, he, Gary, KVN and Mooncake would've died.
Royal Blood: He isn't Avocato's biological son. He's actually the child of Ventrexia's King and Queen, who were assassinated by Avocato under the Lord Commander's orders.
Secret Legacy: Little Cato does not know this but he was revealed to be the son of the king and queen of Ventrexia, meaning that he is a prince who is next in line for the throne.
Ship Tease: With Ash. It's mostly on her end, but after having a heart to heart, he displays a dorky face.
Strong Family Resemblance: While he's switching between ages on Nightfall's ship, one has him have the same build and features of his father. The only difference being in fur color. See here.
- Interestingly, despite that resemblance, Avocato isn't actually Little Cato's biological father. That being said, Little Cato still does resemble his biological parents: he has the same general features as his father, the King of Ventrexia (which includes fur color), and he inherited his mother's blue mane. Little Cato himself lampshades it in "The Leaving", when he muses that he must take a lot after his mother since he "looks nothing like Avocato".
Tragic Keepsake: Little Cato keeps and uses his father's helmet after the latter's apparent death.
Tranquil Fury: In Chapter 10, when he confronts the Lord Commander, his Pre Ass Kicking One Liner is unusually calm and cold in comparison to his outright rage during his imprisonment and the bulk of Chapter 7.
Little Cato: I wish killing you would last a lifetime. Ready for your turn?
Trauma Conga Line: As Gary lampshades, Little Cato has been dealt a crap-ton of bad hands in his life.
- Season 1: In his introduction, Little Cato was implied to have been alone for the majority of his childhood while Avocato led the Lord Commander's army. Little Cato was then chosen for execution and was almost shot dead by his own father, who spared him out of regret. For the following three years, he was put in isolation and constantly abused by prison guards. When Avocato came back from his defection to rescue Little Cato, the latter gets possessed and is forced to attack his father, then right as they are finally reunited, Avocato takes a bomb for him and dies. Finally, he got injured in one attempt to avenge Avocato, nearly got wiped from existence in another attempt to rescue him, and nearly lost all of his new friends in a second attempt at revenge.
- Thinking all of that's pretty horrible? Season 2 just keeps it coming: We find out that he survived the battle with the Lord Commander just to become Clarence's slave, and given his joyful reunion with Gary he probably thought he was the only one left. Later, he got trapped in a pocket in time for about 60 years (a few hours from the crew's view) after accidentally crashing into a solid shard of crystallized time. He finally managed to go back in time to save Avocato, but not only does Avocato not remember him— right as he regains his memories they are attacked by Invictus possessing Gary. Avocato is then possessed, with Invictus promptly making him attempt to shoot Gary to death and Little Cato being forced to shoot Avocato to prevent him from finishing off the already comatose Gary. And while this is going on Invictus is, through Avocato, guilt tripping Little Cato for choosing Gary over Avocato as a father (figure). We're lastly treated to a shot of Little Cato breaking down after putting Gary in the medical bay. Bear in mind that Little Cato is only 14 years old in a species that lives well past 500 human years.
- In The Ventrexian, it's revealed that that conga line started when he was just a baby; turns out that Avocato worked under and, under the Lord Commander's orders, assassinated his birth parents, the King and Queen of Ventrexia. Little Cato nearly died with them, but survived the attempt and was spared by Avocato discovering, then swearing to adopt and protect him. And to top it all off, at the end of Season 3 he learns the truth, and is utterly devestated.
Undying Loyalty: After getting over his father's death at the tail end of Season 1, he began to show a rather extreme loyalty to Gary, being the first to rally the troops for him and generally impulsively standing for him.
Unwitting Pawn: It turns out the figure secretly helping him was the Lord Commander, who manipulated him into sending a distress signal to his dad in order to lead Avocato and Gary into a trap.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Ash. And Fox on a good day, with emphasis on the vitriol. Little Cato's eulogy at Fox's funeral in Season 3 reveals that he liked him more than he let on, meaning that some of that vitriol, at least by the end of Season 2, was just an act.
Little Cato: Seriously? You’re like, half dead and you’re still threatening to kill me? ...Respect.
Your Days Are Numbered: As of Season 3, Episode 11, he suffers from Final Space poisoning.
You Killed My Father: He desperately wants revenge on the Lord Commander for his father's death.

Nightfall

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Voiced by: Tika Sumpter

A mysterious individual who assists Gary from the shadows. Actually a Quinn from an alternate timeline.

Alliance with an Abomination: Nightfall began time-traveling after she was contacted by the Titan Bolo, who gave her the means to do so so they could save Gary and the universe.
Alternate Self: Nightfall is revealed to be one to Quinn, not just her future self. In Nightfall's original reality, Gary was a member of the Infinity Guard and they met each-other under considerably less wacky and more heartwarming circumstances.
But Now I Must Go: After introducing the crew to Bolo and giving them information they need to save the universe, she leaves, saying they don't need her anymore. At the start of the second season, she returns to the team after saving them in the Toro Regatta race and killing Lord Commander.
Chekhov's Gun: The headpiece on the right side of her forehead? It's a chip implant to halt Final Space poisoning, which present day Quinn suffers from after escaping from Final Space.
Despair Event Horizon:
- Bolo recruited her at her darkest moment, when her timeline had fallen and she was a second away from committing suicide.
- Implied in "The First Times They Met". After seeing in this episode that Gary has no romantic interest in her because it's his timeline's Quinn specifically that he's in love with, she uses the Virtulasium to create a duplicate of her world's Gary (whose relationship reached the engagement stage before he died closing the breach to Final Space) even though this will ultimately cause the deaths of herself and everyone onboard, and it's hinted she knew she was going to die and wanted her last minutes to be spent in simulated happiness.
Dimensional Traveller: In Season 2 Nightfall reveals not only is she from the future, she's also from an Alternate Timeline where Gary was an officer in the Infinity Guard, instead of a con artist impersonating as one in this universe. She has since traveled through many other alternate timelines trying to Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
Future Badass: The masked figure is really a future, more grizzled version of Quinn.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: She's a morally ambiguous character with some scars over her eye.
Heroic Sacrifice: In the season 2 finale, she acts as the sixth key for Mooncake to destroy along with the five dimensional keys in order to free Bolo.
Killed Off for Real: She sacrifices herself in the season 2 finale by acting as the sixth key, allowing Mooncake to destroy her so they can free Bolo.
The Mourning After: Her Gary died twenty years ago from her perspective, and it's all but stated they were romantically involved.
Mysterious Protector: The masked figure watches over Gary and his allies, subtly helping them to ensure their survival.
No Body Left Behind: In the process of dying to free Bolo, she gets atomized as part of her role as the "sixth key".
Not So Stoic: She is by far one of the most stoic members of the squad, even more so than her main timeline counterpart. But in Season 2, she is at one point on the verge of mentally collapsing over everything she's seen and lost and over being forced to live with a Gary who has successfully cheated his alternates' demises but is not the same Gary that she loved in her timeline.
One-Man Army: She effortlessly carves through the SAMES when she gets onboard the Galaxy One.
Parental Substitute: To Ash, who idolizes her as the mentor/motherly figure she feels she desperately needs. This unfortunately generates a knock-on effect on the kid's interactions with Quinn, whom Ash comes to see as a pathetic shell of what Nightfall was, even attacking her to that end in "The Leaving".
Promotion to Opening Titles: As of Season 2, she's been added to the intro.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: In episode 4 she gives a brief one to Mooncake, telling him that where ever he goes death follows and it will endanger Gary.
Samus Is a Girl: Under all that armor she's a woman, specifically a version of Quinn from the future.
Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Is apparently trying to do this, especially with an incident involving Gary getting hurt, or even killed, because of Mooncake. In episode 7 she reveals she's been to hundreds of timelines and in each one where the Lord Commander kills Gary, Mooncake goes insane with grief and opens Final Space, freeing the Titans who lay waste to the universe.
Shoot the Dog: In episode 7 she tries to murder Mooncake to stop him from causing the apocalypse. To be fair to her, she'd already made hundreds of attempts to go back and right history other ways, so her desperation isn't unreasonable.
Star-Crossed Lovers: She solemnly comes to the conclusion that she and Gary are "always meant to be together, but never meant to be" after realizing that even in a timeline where Gary doesn't die (and where the main Quinn takes his place performing the alternate Garys' Heroic Sacrifice no less), it's his world's Quinn that he's in love with.
Walking Spoiler: Her identity as Quinn from the future and her motivations for coming back in time are major spoilers.

Tribore Menendez

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Voiced by: Olan Rogers

Quinn's friend and contact in the Infinity Guard after she went rogue, and eventual leader of the Resistance. Has a habit of asking rhetorical questions in a needlessly dramatic whisper, then answering by saying "It is."

Action Fashionista: One of his many quirks is an obsession with improving his outfit, and fashion advice is an easy way to bribe him. When it comes to a fight, all this does is make dishing out a Curb-Stomp Battle look good.
Advertised Extra: Downplayed in Season One. He was featured prominently in the trailers and Season One's opening, but is virtually irrelevant for most of the first few episodes and missing during the middle-late half. He does come back in the final two episodes though.
Beware the Silly Ones: Quirks aside, he’s a very effective battlefield commander and takes Todd down single-handed with an almost casual ease.
Big Damn Heroes: In the Season 3 finale, he answers Quinn's call for help and activates the other end of the Trans Dimensional Bridge.
Birds of a Feather: Due to their mutual ditziness, he immediately hits it off with Gary.
Bizarre Alien Biology: He switches between "goods" every six months. Also, his species apparently gives birth through their back, are born from eggs, grow to adulthood within seconds after they hatch and can gain clothes and even weapons seemingly out of thin air as they do.
Chekhov's Gunman: Tribore mostly seems like a plucky comic relief character who remains out of focus for most of season one. Then the penultimate episode roles around and it turns out he's formed a resistance that's fighting against the corrupt Infinity Guard and he proves instrumental in locating the bomb needed to close the breech into Final Space.
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Tribore isn't really all there.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: On the surface, Tribore seems like a useless ditz. Then episode nine reveals that for all his quirks he's actually a complete badass who formed a resistance movement to fight back against the corrupt Infinity Guard. When he goes around the Galaxy in season 2, he starts freeing and helping species and when called to help out, he can curb stomp Todd.
The Ditz: He's one of the ditziest characters in the series, and with Gary as the lead, that's saying something. He's so clueless that he takes time out of warning Quinn that the Infinity Guard are right on her tail to try on her makeup and clothes.
Extra Eyes: He has six eyes total.
Expy: He bears a strong resemblance to the little green men from Toy Story.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Nobody in the Crimson Light really cares about him that much and like KVN and Clarence, his annoying nature tends to get on Gary's nerves. Demonstrated perfectly in Arachnitects, where nobody is bothered with Tribore leaving the ship for good.
Friend on the Force: He remains Quinn's ally in the Infinity Guard even after she goes rogue. Unfortunately he's too clueless to be much help, or so it seems.
Gender Bender: Claims to switch between sets of "goods" every six months.
Humanoid Alien: He's a green-skinned alien with an antenna and six eyes.
La Résistance: Turns out he's actually the leader of a resistance movement within the Infinity Guard.
Literal-Minded: Tribore doesn't seem to understand when Quinn's asking a rhetorical question or using sarcasm.
Tribore: Why would they be twiddling their wieners? Why?
Maternity Crisis: It turns out he's not fat and that he's been pregnant for a long time now, though his body decides to go into labor after the team falls into a desolate planet's caverns before a bunch of zombie Garys try to kill them. It's later subverted when the baby immediately hatches and reaches adulthood in the span of a second to fight back.
Promotion to Opening Titles: As of season 2.
Shoo Out the Clowns: Tribore and Quatronostro escape from Final Space in "Hyper-Transdimensional Bridge Rising". The episodes that follow are some of the darkest, with them involving Kevin van Newton's Senseless Sacrifice, the Lord Commander achieving Titanhood and wiping out the Earth, the KVN Net and Bolo, and especially Ash betraying the crew for Invictus.
- In the Season 3 finale, they return just in time to answer Quinn's call for help, and activate the other end of the Hyper Trans Dimensional Bridge, allowing the Team Squad to flee Final Space.
Single-Target Sexuality: For himself, unfortunately for Shannon Thunder. Since he switches gender every six months, his male incarnation is in love with his female incarnation and vice-versa.
Skewed Priorities: In "One of Us" he takes his sweet time bartering with a hidden town's merchant and demanding he word his plea for help instead of actually helping take on the invading army.
Supporting Leader: Turns out, while the heroes were having their own adventures, Tribore was forming a resistance to fight against the corrupt Infinity Guard. He calls on his army for aid during the heroes' battle against the Lord Commander in the season one finale.
Uncertain Doom: During chapter 10, his ship gets shot down while he was still inside it, causing it to spin out of control. However, that ship was never seen exploding or crash landing.
- As of Season 2 Episode 2, he is confirmed to be alive and joins Gary's crew by the end of the episode.
Verbal Tic: Does he tend to phrase his thoughts in the form of a question and then answer it immediately? Yes, he does.
We ARE Struggling Together: Played for Laughs. The aftermath of the Lord Commander's defeat saw various factions splinter from his Resistance. Now the Resistance is resisting the Rebellion, the Uprising is rebelling against the Insurgency, and the Insurrection is all-around bad news.
Tribore: It's been hell trying to schedule drinks with everyone...

Clarence Polkawitz

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Voiced by: Conan O'Brien

A black market tradesman who helps Avocato and Gary infiltrate one of the Lord Commander's prison planets. Returns in season 2 to reclaim his debt and ends up reluctantly staying with the crew with his children due to a conflict with Gary and Little Cato over the ownership of the Crimson Light.

Abhorrent Admirer: Clarence had a one sided attraction towards Sheryl Goodspeed, going as far at attempting to seduce her by dressing in nothing but a red thong and a fur robe. Sheryl though does not show any romantic interest in him and only thinks of him as a “disgusting little toad”.
Abusive Parents: While he isn't as neglectful as Sheryl, Clarence shows a lot of passive aggressive behavior towards his adopted children Fox and Ash. He treats them less like his kids and more like bodyguards, creates a holiday for the sole purpose of having his kids lavish him with praise, and, when the two of them pick other people to compliment, he calls them ungrateful for everything he's done for them and stomps out like a child. In sharp contrast, when Clarence sends the group to a strip club, Gary and Quinn cover the kids eyes, while Clarence in the episode right before has them shove him up the ass of an alien queen and mentions that they've burned through nine other stepmoms before. This comes to a head when Clarence electrocutes Fox for not getting out of his way and, although he didn't mean to affect him fatally, he is all too eager to abandon both him and Ash for Sheryl regardless.
Alien Blood: In season 2 he is shown bleeding magenta when his fingers get shot off by Nightfall, but in season 3 he has purple blood when Todd shoots him to death.
Ascended Extra: Originally a One-Shot Character for "Chapter 2", but became a main character in Season 2.
Back for the Dead: He finally returns in "Hyper-Transdimensional Bridge Rising", only to be killed off.
Beard of Sorrow: Grows one following the events of Season 2.
Confusion Fu: He wears and sheds a series of nested skin suits from different species in “The Set Up,” and can move in them naturally to the point that one is flight capable. This makes him much more slippery during a getaway.
Con Man: Clarence is an obvious con artist. He has been shown so far to have conducted two scams with both ending in failure. The first was when Clarence makes a fake bidding war to sell a ship that was not his to Fraskenhaur, only to bail out of the scam when Fraskenhaur moons him. The second was when he married a queen for her crown and fortune but he loses the treasures upon being picked up by the Crimson Light.
Depraved Bisexual: Word of God confirmed that Clarence is bisexual, and he's not at all a pleasant person.
Disproportionate Retribution: Deconstruction. Clarence Polkawitz made a holiday for people to lavish praise upon him, and breaks down when his adoptive children praise the other members of Team Squad before him. Because of that he decides to betray Team Squad by stealing the dimensional keys for Sheryl to win her over, betraying everyone he knew just because he felt he was not being given enough attention. However, Sheryl ends up coldly rejecting him even after he helps her, and when Gary, Little Cato and Nightfall catch up to Clarence and he tells them where Sheryl went, they leave him behind. So, because Clarence overreacted to feeling like he wasn't being given enough attention, he loses his ship, his membership with the team and his adoptive children, leaving him with nothing and nobody.
Dirty Old Man: A real sleazeball through and through who even pre-Heel–Face Turn Sheryl calls a "disgusting little toad".
Face–Heel Turn: Originally helped out Gary from time to time, but betrays him and the entire Team Squad in “The Set Up” by stealing the dimensional keys for Sheryl and seriously wounding Fox (although he didn't intend to actually wound Fox to the point of nearly dying).
Face Death with Dignity: He spends his final moments looking at a picture of himself, Fox, and Ash, smiling.
Fan Disservice: When he dressed down in nothing but a thong in "The Notorious Mrs. Goodspeed" and "The Lost Spy".
Fantastic Racism: Refers to Gary as "primate" on their first meeting, and Little Cato as "[Gary's] Ventrexian" when arguing with Gary again.
Faux Affably Evil: He talks like a gentleman even when scheming and double-crossing people.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears goggles and has basically no redeeming qualities, except for him actually loving his adoptive children.
- When we see him again in Season 3, it's clear that he genuinely regrets betraying the Team Squad, and he's deeply saddened when he learns that Fox had died.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Compared to KVN, who genuinely cares about those around him despite their annoyed attitudes at him, Clarence's status as this is justified since he’s willing to resort to betraying his new companions for a quick buck. Deconstructed as said betrayal resulted from his feelings of unappreciation, and in turn resulted in the group disowning him.
Genuine Human Hide: He skins the corpses of alien beings. He's allowed Gary to use two of his skinned corpses as suits to disguise himself. There's no knowing way of knowing whether Clarence has ever skinned an actual human... but it wouldn't be a big stretch for him.
Go Out with a Smile: He spends his last moments smiling over holographic looping footage of Ash and Fox lifting him up, content that he managed to get the Hyper-Trans-Dimensional Bridge running on his end and help his only remaining adopted child escape Final Space.
Gold Digger: Shown to be one in “The Lost Spy”. He marries the queen of Gulang-22 just so he could take her crown and fortune, using Fox and Ash as gadgets to accomplish this. However his plan fails when he accidentally drops the items he stole after being picked by the Crimson Light. It’s implied that he has done this to other women as well, having stolen things from them after poisoning them.
Heel–Face Turn: Months of isolation as punishment for his actions and temperament forces him to take the hint that he fucked over the only people who could stand him, including his own family. When Ash reaches out to him a chance to do something right for once in his life (not exactly hiding her disdain for the stunts he pulled in "The Set Up") in "Hyper-Transdimensional Bridge Rising", he jumps on the chance - leaving all his belongings to his drone Amy - and dies content with having activated the bridge on his end and saving his last surviving family member and her friends.
Heroic Sacrifice: Gives his life activating the Hyper Transdimensional Bridge, which doubles as Redemption Equals Death.
Hidden Heart of Gold: Although he does seem to treat his adoptive children Ash and Fox better than the rest of the squad, it's ambiguous in Season 2 whether he truly cares about them or is just using them as valuable muscle and being a Benevolent Boss to that end. Whilst he does backstab Ash and Fox along with the rest of the squad, it's confirmed in Season 3 during Clarence's dying moments that yes, he did love them.
I Love the Dead: Implied. Immediately after meeting Sheryl and becoming smitten with her, he asked her what the prison guards were going to do with her body after her execution. He was also shown to have skinned corpses but it was never revealed what he does to the bodies that have been skinned. He showed a perverted look at the corpse of Melanie DeWinter moments before throwing it out a window and into a dumpster for his past self to collect.
Interspecies Adoption: His two adoptive children are from different species than him: Ash is a Serepentian, and Fox is a Tryvuulian.
It's All About Me: Clarence is best described as a selfish, bigoted, and greedy man. He only helps Gary find dimensional keys so he could have them for himself, not caring about the fact that Gary needs them to help Bolo and Quinn. Even when he helps Gary try to find Mooncake, this too is done for selfish reasons as Clarence only cares about having Mooncake play games with him in his room. He even made a holiday for people to lavish praise upon him, and broke down when his adoptive children found the other members of the Team Squad more family than he. His most selfish act, however, was stealing the dimensional keys for Sheryl because he believed that by doing so he could win her over.
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He is a selfish and racist man who placed Gary in indentured servitude and creates numerous scams. He even used his adoptive children as gadgets for the crimes he committed. There are also a few moments throughout the series that imply Clarence isn't a complete dickwad. The most notable example is him adopting Fox and Ash and seemingly caring for them. Then it's revealed he's more than willing to betray them and the rest of the Team Squad.
Killed Off for Real: He dies in Season 3, while activating Van Newton's dimensional bridge to allow everyone trapped in Final Space to escape.
Never My Fault: He seems to never accept his part in a given situation and is quick to shuffle blame or responsibility to someone else, or downplay whatever bad thing he did as totally justified. For example, he creates a holiday specifically for people to lavish him with praise, but gets upset that Ash and Fox compliment people other than him, despite the fact that his horrible personality (In sharp contrast to the semi-parental way Quinn and Gary act) is what drove them to do so. Ironically, when he tries to compliment Gary, he can't find any kind words to say. Instead of being happy for his children's newfound friendships with others, he calls them ungrateful and stomps away in a dramatic huff. Later, when he shocks Fox, he is genuinely surprised, but can only offer the defense that he didn't mean to fatally shock him, as if he had any business doing it at all anyway.
Miniature Senior Citizen: The only character who doesn't dwarf him is Little Cato.
My God, What Have I Done?: In "The Set Up", he is visibly horrified to learn that his attack on Fox nearly killed him.
Obviously Evil: The show doesn't even try to hide the fact that he's evil.
Pet the Dog:
- As much of a racist Jerkass as he is, he seems to genuinely care for Fox and Ash, his adopted children. So much so that the main reason he betrayed them was because he thought they didn't care for him anymore, and was even horrified when he learned that when he tased Fox to get away with the Dimensional Keys, the wound almost killed him.
- In "Arachnitects", he helps Gary find Mooncake with no ulterior motive in mind (Gary even questions this at one point). He also plays a game called "Shadow Blockers" with Mooncake on a daily basis and seems to genuinely enjoy it.
Put on a Bus: Exits the story after "The Set Up", which is the third-to-last episode of Season 2. He returns in the ninth episode of Season 3.
Redemption Equals Death: His attempt to help open up a way out of Final Space for the Team Squad and prove to Ash that he has some trace of good in him, while successful, ends with him dying at Todd's hands.
Small Parent, Huge Child: Both of Clarence's adopted children, Ash and Fox, are larger than him due to his diminutive size. Fox in particular is built like a WWE wrestler.
Spell My Name With An S: In the one scene in which he mentions his surname, all of the Netflix subtitles spell it as "Polkawitz", except for English, which spells it as "Pulkowitz".
Sympathy for the Devil: He of all people offers this to Todd H. Watson, sensing that his whole situation's driven him to a horrible, self-destructive lifestyle and headspace with which Clarence has become all too familiar with. Although critical, he stays gentle and understanding.
Token Evil Teammate: He's a racist, conniving jerk who tags along on Gary's mission. He predictably betrays the team in "The Set Up".

Introduced in Season 2

Ash Graven

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^{Her S 3 appearance}

Voiced by: Ashly Burch

Clarence's adopted daughter. A young Serepentian woman with strange telekinetic powers who joins the crew at the start of Season 2.

Aborted Arc: Had the show been renewed for a fourth season, it's likely that some form of closure would've happened following Ash's descent into villainy and betraying the entire universe due to buying Invictus' manipulation tactics. Whether it would've possibly been a resurrected Fox or Evra trying to snap her out of it, or a climactic showdown between Gary and the Catos.
Ambiguously Bi: As mentioned below, Ash has a lot of Ship Tease with Little Cato in Season 2 and once had a crush on a boy named Jordan Hammerstein, but the Season 3 episode "Forgiveness" has her develop a close relationship with Evra that's laden with romantic undertones, and while Evra has No Biological Sex, when asked what form Ash wants her to take, she has her take on a distinctly female form.
Anti-Anti-Christ: It's revealed in Season 3 that her powers came from Invictus, just like the Lord Commander's powers, and Invictus subsequently tries to convince her to join the dark side and aid Invictus in burning the universe to nothing under the justification that "all of us can begin again". Driving the trope further home is that Invictus considers Ash its "child" the same as the Lord Commander. Ash initially remains loyal to the Team Squad while Invictus persists in trying to corrupt her — come the season finale however, Ash makes a Face–Heel Turn and becomes The Antichrist.
The Antichrist: At the end of Season 3, she makes a full Face–Heel Turn and joins Invictus willingly, and is directly responsible for freeing Invictus from its can so it can make war again the whole of reality.
Affectionate Nickname: Fox calls her "Ashy". He's also the only one allowed to call her that.
Ascended Extra: Went from being a supporting character in Season 2 to one of the principal characters of Season 3.
Ax-Crazy: Violently attacks Gary after mistaking him for her childhood crush and is seen laughing menacingly while destroying corrupted KVNs with a flame thrower. It only gets worse after she begins going down a dark path that leads to her joining Invictus.
Badass Adorable: Similarly to Little Cato, even though she's a bit insane.
Bad Powers, Bad People: After her Face–Heel Turn, she gleefully uses her powers to torture Mooncake and set Invictus loose on the universe. It's implied that the discovery that her powers came from Invictus was one of the influences in Ash's descent and her decision to turn to Invictus.
Bad Powers, Good People: She semi-unintentionally killed her own parents with her destructive psychokinetic powers when she had her Traumatic Superpower Awakening, and it's revealed in Season 3 that her powers came from Invictus, yet despite her more unnerving tendencies she's a good person. Until she makes her Face–Heel Turn, at which point the "Good" goes completely out the window.
Batman Can Breathe in Space: Zig-Zagged. Some episodes such as "Arachnitects", "Descent into Darkness", and "The Hidden Light" show that she does need a helmet to survive in a vacuum, but in some episodes such as "All the Moments Lost", "Change is Gonna Come", and "Forgiveness", she is shown to be able to survive in the vacuum of space with no problems or protection whatsoever. This is most likely a side-effect of her powers, especially considering that Final Space is basically Invictus' realm and Invictus is the source of Ash's powers. She does generate a thin force field around herself when she does, so it's possible the field makes air for her.
Berserk Button: Two so far.
- She gets explosively angry whenever someone mentions prom to her, which she apparently had a bad experience at. On the bright side, she can exploit this to activate her powers.
- She stops mid-battle to tell Little Cato off for calling her "Ashy". Since Fox has done the same without provoking her, it's possible that nickname is reserved for him.
The Berserker: She's absolutely brutal and ruthless against her enemies, as best seen when she battles Todd's minions in the Happy Place.
Big Sister Instinct:
- She was fiercely protective of her little sister, Harp, and was willing to confront the demonic snake Werthrent to save her.
- In Season 3, this is Played for Drama. When Ash finds out that Avocato murdered Little Cato's biological parents and adopted him, she steals Little Cato away from the Team Squad and takes him to Invictus under the belief that she is protecting him, completely unaware that she is only traumatizing him more by exposing Avocato's secret to him with no preparation, taking him away from his found family, and bringing him to the series' equivalent to Satan.
Body Horror: Her fight against Lord Commander wrecks all her fingers. Thankfully, she gets them fixed in the next episode and returns the favor in turn on the Season 3 finale.
Break His Heart to Save Him: After she accidentally learns what happened to Little Cato's birth parents in "The Leaving", she bluntly tells him the truth before she abducts him and takes him to Invictus' inner sanctum, in a misguided attempt to protect her closest friend.
Character Development: Was first introduced as a strange girl who often had violent emotional bursts and said strange things. Gradually, she began to mature and became just as level-headed as the rest of the group. Then she finds out that Avocato murdered Little Cato's birth parents, which sends her into an anger-fueled Sanity Slippage.
Character Tic: She tends to tuck her hair behind her ear when happy, as shown when Little Cato comforted her over her sister's death, Evra showed her the Hidden Lights, and when Clarence activated the Hyper-Transdimensional Bridge.
Child Soldier: Of course, since her father is Clarence, Ash along with Fox (who are most likely adolescents) act as Clarence’s muscle for the first half of season 2, getting dragged in with his shady schemes and fighting off enemies for him when needed.
Cloudcuckoolander: Her grasp on reality is... questionable, to say the least. She's the most likely to say strange or outright unintelligible stuff, but this tendency is almost entirely gone by Season 3.
Creepy Good: Dark and mentally disturbed she may be, Ash still aligns with the Team Squad. Sadly, Invictus' influence combined with Gary allegedly killing Fox and the revelation of Avocato having killed Little Cato's biological parents proceeds to bump off the "good" part.
Cyclops: Downplayed. Her left eye seems to be the only eye she was born with. Then Invictus gives her a right eye.
Dark and Troubled Past: She and her younger sister were to be sacrificed to the fire serpent Werthrent, a deity their people praised as a god, by their own parents. Once someone let slip that they would most certainly die, Ash started panicking and eventually, after being held back and forced to watch her sister get eaten, snapped and killed the other cultists; including her parents. Once the guards showed up she was chased out of the town, where she met Fox and Clarence.
Dark Is Not Evil: While she's got some issues, she's seemingly much more heroic than the Lord Commander, who she has similar powers to, but a dark purple-colored as a contrast to his Light Is Not Good. Then she fully upgrades to Dark Is Evil in the Season 3 finale after becoming Invictus' new Dragon and releasing her master from Final Space while torturing and draining Mooncake of power purely for her selfish personal revenge.
Despair Event Horizon: After a season's worth of psychological manipulation by Invictus, Ash hits it when she overhears Avocato admit that he killed Little Cato's birth-parents. Thanks in no small part to a lifetime of horrific betrayal by every parent figure close to her (her birth-parents and Clarence) and also due to not having Fox by her side anymore, Ash snaps and rushes to the conclusion that the entire Team Squad except Little Cato are more of the same, and she goes straight to Invictus to tell it it was right.
Drunk with Power: During the Season 3 finale, she finally accepts being Invictus' servant and gains enough power to trounce the Lord Commander Titan and defeat Mooncake. She even says it's great to be the strongest being.
Emotional Powers: Her powers are triggered by anger, which for better or worse is easy for her to come by. If the circumstances alone won’t do it, she can just ask someone to mention prom.
Evil Laugh:
- In "The First Times They Met" when she attacks the Mega-KVN with a flamethrower.
- Played much more straight in the Season 3 finale, just before she absorbs Mooncake's powers.
Eye Scream: Subverted. Her long hair hides the right side of her face, which turns out to be missing an eye (she was actually born without it).
Face–Heel Turn: Becomes Invictus' servant in the Season 3 finale.
Fingore: Her fingers get broken when she fights the Lord Commander in Season 3. She later returns this in kind in the Season 3 finale.
Game Changer: The series seems to be building her up as the key to defeating Invictus, except not, she ends up becoming the key to Invictus’ escape from Final Space.
Genki Girl: Her personality in her first two appearances has shades of this.
Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Her Fatal Flaw. She falls for every single trick Invictus pulls in order to sway her to his side just so she's blindly loyal to him. Despite all the atrocities Invictus has done to countless dimensions, she is tricked to believe his side is the good one. It doesn't help she's rather awful at listening to logical reason and often lets her emotions go overboard and do the talking. This all culminates in her unleashing Invictus without a single care that countless living beings will die as a result of her actions, with very few of them having to do anything with her grief.
- On top of that, Revenge. In the Season 3 finale, she tortures Mooncake as a way to make Gary suffer for "killing" Fox, despite Mooncake never, ever pissing her off once. Her vendetta against Gary is also largely unfounded as it's pretty damn obvious to everyone (except her) that Fox's death was Invictus' fault, not his..
Good Counterpart: To the Lord Commander. Both started out as being powerless until some incident grants them their powers (there is the implication that Invictus was the one who staged for both of these characters acquiring their powers). Unlike the Lord Commander who happily accepts his powers and tosses his former life as Jack away, Ash was horrified by her powers seeing them more as a curse. Their turns to evil and servitude to Invictus are also framed differently, as Jack developed a God complex as a result of being empowered and served Invictus out of selfish intent to become a Titan, while Ash was driven to insanity by losing her brother and several other people over time, and then was deceived by Invictus into believing that it wants to help her, and using Gary as an emotional scapegoat.
Goth: Her new appearance given by Invictus has shades of this.
Green-Skinned Space Babe: Serepentians look just like humans with blue skin and purple eyes; as a result, this trope is in effect when Invictus ages Ash into an adult in Season 3, turning her into an attractive young woman.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Just about everything pisses her off, be it thinking that Gary is an old crush of hers that doesn't remember her, Clarence annoying her or general stressful deadly situations. It eventually leads to her Face–Heel Turn when Invictus uses her temperament and emotional instability to manipulate her into releasing it from Final Space.
Horrible Judge of Character: She genuinely comes to believe that Invictus is the good guy and Gary, Avocato and the rest of the crew sans Little Cato are the bad guys.
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Much, much shorter than her big brother Fox, even after Invictus gives her a big makeover.
Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: If she doesn't jump off it by attempting to gleefully murder Gary and Avocato by throwing them into the vacuum of space in front of Little Cato (bear in mind she does this before Invictus fully corrupts her and her eyes turn permanently pink); then she absolutely jumps off it when she attacks and viciously tortures Mooncake, partly as an underhanded way of getting back at Gary even though Mooncake never did anything hurtful to her, and partly to free her new master.
Large Ham: Not usually, but she's prone to hammy threats and Badass Boasts during displays of her power.
Mercy Kill: Gives one to Stan the giant so he won't have to suffer from the long-term effects of Final Space poisoning anymore.
Mind-Control Eyes: Implied and downplayed. Notice that in the Season 3 finale, after she takes Little Cato to Invictus' cage and announces her intent to join Invictus, she gains lasting bright-purple Glowing Eyes of Doom which she previously only displayed when in psychic contact with Invictus, implying that from this point onwards, Invictus is corrupting her personality directly now that she has fully submitted to its previous More than Mind Control tactics.
Misplaced Retribution: Gary lands on her shitlist for his perceived misdeeds towards her (chiefly, "murdering" Fox), which is brutally exacerbated when she overhears Avocato telling his darkest secret and deems the entire crew pure scum. Even worse, she ultimately takes all this out not on Gary, but Mooncake - who, as Gary stresses, never inflicted any sort of ill on her - draining his powers, leaving him stuck in Final Space, and letting loose Invictus to eradicate everything.
Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: This is how she frames her own defecting from the Team Squad for Invictus. Between Gary seemingly killing her beloved brother Fox, Avocato orphaning Little Cato and never telling him his whole life, Quinn not living up to Nightfall's standards, and in general no one still alive beyond Little Cato really forging a strong bond with her, Ash comes to see them all as murderous lying bastards to rescue her adoptive little brother from, even if Invictus getting into her head and spurring on her negative feelings results in some history revision and excessive demonizing from her skewed, mentally-unbalanced perspective.
Mood-Swinger: Basically owns this trope. She can go from gloomy and reserved to furious and outwardly violent within the span of a second at the slightest provocation and vice-versa.
Moral Myopia: She blames Gary for Fox's death even after Bolo clarifies things for her, and later on holds Avocato and Gary equally accountable for Little Cato's deceased parents and truth about his heritage, to the point that she nearly kills them for it. She also has no issue with painfully draining Mooncake, who never did anything to her, of power to release Invictus who very likely will kill countless living beings that are equally innocent of anything that she went through.
Morality Pet: Season 3 solidifies her as one for Clarence, as it's her words (plus over a month of self-inflicted isolation) that spurn him on to think over what he's done and prove he has a conscience by helping his only surviving (if estranged from his actions) family member escape Final Space.
New Powers as the Plot Demands: It's not really clear how far her abilities extend or what her limits are, and she's shown to be capable of dozens of powers, from telekinesis, the power of flight, energy beams strong enough to break time shards, pyrokinesis, and even exorcising cosmic beings out of people.
- Season 3 reveals that her powers actually come from Invictus, which properly explains how she is able to achieve her incredible feats with her abilities.
Nightmare Fetishist: She’s oddly enthusiastic about contracting a UTI, the graphic effects of snacks from her home world, and other disturbing things.
Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: It isn't particularly hard for Ash to turn on that "creepy" switch when she wants to. One episode points out she even makes a hobby out of collecting people's spleens.
Overnight Age-Up: It's not all that obvious to the viewer due to the show's animation, but the Team Squad's dialogue makes it explicit that her Season 3 makeover has turned her from a teenager into an adult form.
Power Echoes: Her voice gains a menacing distortion when she powers up.
Psychic Powers: A mix of telekinesis, levitation, and some kind of energy projection.
Purple Is Powerful: Her powers are a purple color since they come from Invictus.
Pyromaniac: In "The First Time They Met", she enjoys using a flamethrower on Evil KVN a little too much.
The Quisling: By the end of Season 3, she joins forces with Invictus and betrays the Team Squad and the entire universe as a whole.
Revenge by Proxy: Following her Face–Heel Turn, instead of directly going for Gary when the Team Squad are getting away from her, she decides to repay Gary for supposedly murdering her brother with a low blow: attacking and viciously draining the innocent Mooncake.
Sadist: She's a bit of a Pyromaniac, but during her Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, she's taking intense pleasure and viciously laughing in delight when torturing Mooncake.
Sanity Slippage: In "The Leaving", she becomes so irate when she learns that Avocato killed Little Cato's parents that she takes matters into her own hands and basically kidnaps Little Cato to take him to Invictus whom Ash thinks is going to give Little Cato a good place to live. By "The Devil's Den" it worsens to the point that she willingly and gleefully allows Invictus to escape its prison while torturing and draining Mooncake, who never did anything to her, to get "revenge" on Gary for "killing" Fox.
Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: It's fairly subtle, but when Ash gets emotional, the mere threat of her unleashing her powers in a moment of passion is enough to cow everyone around her, even Bolo, and she seems to be aware of this. When she's feeling emotional or threatened, Ash's powers are her go-to response and defensive tool, to the point that she rarely even thinks to use anything else as a defensive or offensive tool. After Invictus fully corrupts her mind, Ash relishes in overpowering Mooncake's beam with her powers.
Self-Made Orphan: Though entirely by accident; she killed her parents (and several other bystanders) when her powers first manifested after she saw her sister get sacrificed to the Serpent God Werthrent.
Ship Tease: With Little Cato. She the primary instigator, trying to get with him every time she gets. Though it's somewhat ambiguous if she sees him as boyfriend material, a pet, or both. Word of God says she doesn't have any romantic feelings for him, but she gets plenty with Evra in "Forgiveness".
Slasher Smile: She has an Invictus-like smile on her face when she's going after Mooncake post-Face–Heel Turn and when Invictus is freed by her actions.
Then Let Me Be Evil: In the Season 3 finale, she fully embraces her dark powers and joins Invictus' side.
Tragic Keepsake: Following Nightfall's Heroic Sacrifice in the Season 2 Finale, Ash keeps her helmet just like Little Cato kept Avocato's helmet after his death in Season 1.
Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Her powers first emerged after she watched Werthrent devour her sister as a sacrifice. Killing her parents and several other cultists while running for her life didn’t exactly improve the day from there.
Tsundere: Lets slip that she "kind of likes" Little Cato, then tries to backtrack.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
- Her relaying instructions to where and how Clarence would turn on the Hyper-Transdimensional Bridge ends up leading a slew of Season 2 characters with beef against him and Gary to his location, resulting in his death at Todd Watson's hands.
- While it's not really touched upon, it's her link to Invictus that leads the Lord Commander and the Zombie Garys to Earth so that they can utterly crush the Team Squad's plans to fight off the Titans with the KVN Net, push away their only means of escaping Final Space, and slay Bolo. Of course, she loses the "unwitting" part by season's end.
Walking Spoiler: In case it wasn't clear, most of what happens with Ash in the third season is spoiler territory - namely, everything to do with her ties to Invictus and the consequences thereof.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Beneath the vitriol, kidnapping and attempted murder, there is a degree of understandable motive fueling Ash's actions after finding out Avocato's dark secret; she simply wants to keep Little Cato - the only one still alive who really maintained a solid bond with her - safe from an actual war criminal who orphaned him without ever having the balls to tell him (which even Gary was rightfully disgusted by), his best friend whose ineptitude and (in her eyes) senseless bloodlust caused the death of her beloved brother Fox, and a whole crew of people who aren't really any better morally or competence-wise. However, the "well-intentioned" part of the equation is clearly out the window when she takes Mooncake and uses his powers to release Invictus from its prison. Implicitly, since Little Cato clearly made up his mind and went back to the Team Squad even after their misdeeds, Ash decides that if she can't even have the only living person she cares about, the whole universe might as well get fucked and die.

Fox

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Voiced by: Ron Funches

Clarence's adopted son. A childish hunk of a Tryvuulian. Joins the crew in Season 2 due to conflict over the ownership of the Crimson Light between his father and Gary and Little Cato.

Alien Blood: A nasty bump on the head leaves him bleeding purple.
Arm Cannon: His right arm has a gun where his hand would be.
Badass in a Nice Suit: He briefly wears one in "The Lost Spy".
Big Brother Instinct: He's Ash's adopted older brother and is very protective of her. In "Descent into Darkness", he threatens to kill Little Cato if he let anything happen to Ash on their mission.
The Big Guy: He is the largest member of the crew.
Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: Downplayed example, but in "One of Us" he is the only member of the Team Squad to get possessed by Invictus, costing them their biggest and one of their strongest members. Invictus later uses him to manipulate Ash to turn against Gary, and forces Gary to kill Fox in front of Ash, though Bolo claims Fox was already dead when he was possessed by Invictus.
Child Soldier: For the first half of season 2, at least. Like Ash, Fox has to assist his adoptive father no matter what, whether helping him in his shady schemes or violently fighting off his enemies.
- He's also revealed to have been a literal example in Season 3: according to his backstory, he was forcibly recruited into the Tryvuulian army and forced to fight in their war against the Ventrexians.
Cyborg: On the outside, his Arm Cannon is the only mechanical component, but after being injured by Clarence in "The Set Up", we learn he has an internal life support system, for which A.V.A. needs Tritanium to fix it, revealing he has more mechanical components inside his body.
Dark and Troubled Past: While it hasn't been explored yet, Season 3 sheds some light on the massive war his people fought against the Ventrexians, and it reveals that having their right hand replaced with a big gun was standard issue in the Tryvuulian infantry. Therefore, it is very likely that Fox used to be part of the Tryvuulian army at some point, and most likely fought in the Thousand Years War before Clarence "adopted" him.
- Confirmed in The Chamber Of Doubt: Fox was forcefully enlisted into the Tryvuulian military and had his right hand amputated to be replaced by an Arm Cannon. Tragically, Fox was always a peaceful man at heart, and he loved playing music; his instrument of choice was very similar to a violin, meaning that losing his hand made him incapable of ever playing that instrument anymore.
Determinator: Best displayed after Clarence’s betrayal. While lying on the floor with a critical injury, he drags himself through the Crimson Light with his gun arm to reactivate AVA and call for help.
Dies Wide Open: After getting impaled he collapses to the ground with a positively chilling wide-eyed expression plastered onto his face.
Dumb Muscle: Fox is more about manpower than planpower.
Fantastic Racism: His people, the Tryvuulians, have a long history of war with Ventrexia. It's his main reason for bickering with Little Cato.
Flat Character: He has little to no development or backstory compared to the other crew members, and by the time we do learn his backstory, he's already dead.
Gatling Good: Has a minigun for a right hand.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Fox is very prone to losing his temper at the drop of a hat and sometimes inadvertently triggers his own temper due to his frequent mood swings
Hot-Blooded: His blood is boiling.
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: He utterly towers over his sister Ash, even after Invictus physically ages her up.
I Coulda Been a Contender!: He wanted to be a violonist, but his superiors punished him by sawing his right hand off and force him to have an Arm Cannon.
I Will Only Slow You Down: In "One of Us", he tells Ash to forget saving him, since Invictus was too close and if she and Gary didn't leave him they would have been possessed by him too.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Even if the Fox we know was essentially dead by then as per Bolo, Invictus seals the deal by taking Gary's arm blade and gruesomely plunging it into his chest against his will.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is impulsive, sassy, and trash talks a lot. But he does try to bond with Gary and Little Cato, and has a tight sibling bond with Ash.
- He is the first to realize that Mooncake is trying to eat away his depression and tries to help him emotionally.
- He saves Little Cato from being Thrown Out the Airlock.
Killed Off for Real: Invictus possesses his body and then possesses Gary's robot arm to pierce his chest through. However, according to Bolo, Fox was already dead when Gary's arm stabbed him.
Large Ham: He is very over-the-top and loud.
The Lost Lenore: He remains on Ash's mind well after his death at Invictus and Gary's hands. She goes between loathing, forgiving, and loathing Gary again for what she perceives to be his fault more than anything, to frightening results.
Manchild: He is very immature as shown in "The Happy Place", when he gets all giddy about the amusement park-like ship and the fluffy creatures, until he finds out that they secretly harvest peoples happiness for energy and kill them. His childish fights with Little Cato and his tendency to cry very frequently also show this.
Mood-Swinger: Has a tendency to go from YELLING. VERY. LOUDLY. AND. BEING. VERY. ANGRY to become sweet and loving in a matter of seconds, then LOSES IT ALL OVER AGAIN.
- While spraying an enemy ship with bullets, he switches between laughing at how fun it is to kill people and crying over how tragic it is that he has to be the one to do it (and also makes sure to water a random plant to balance out the brutality of his shooting spree).
No Indoor Voice: He tends to yell or scream a lot.
Real Men Wear Pink: His idea of an ideal father-son bonding activity is a night at the opera.
Screams Like a Little Girl: He does this when frightened. When he does it in "The First Times They Met", Ash recognizes it as "Fox's little girl scream".
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Little Cato. They share a room on the Crimson Light and tend to pick fights with each other, mostly due to a case of Fantastic Racism. He even accuses Cato of dipping his paws into Fox's mouth while he sleeps to give him hairballs which Cato admits to while eulogizing him.
Slasher Smile: Courtesy of Invictus' possession in "The Chamber of Doubt".
There Was a Door: Something of a Running Gag with him. In "The First Times They Met" and "The Remembered," he blasts a door to smithereens without even checking to see if it was unlocked (it was).
- Also, in the Season 2 opening, he uses his Arm Cannon to blast open the door leading to the Crimson Light's cockpit... Even though there is clearly no need to do so since it is, y'know, the ship they're living on.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His death is a major factor in Ash's Face–Heel Turn at the end of Season 3. Tragically, knowing his personality, Fox would most likely have been mortified by his little sister's actions following her Sanity Slippage.
Vague Age: Being an alien, it's not clear exactly whether Fox actually looks his age or if he's younger than he looks. Either way, he's either a teenager or a young adult, and his origin story told in Season 3 confirms that he was at least old enough to be enlisted in the Tryvuulian army before he met Clarence, but given how desperate the lengthy war with the Ventrexians was making them, it's within reason to assume they had started conscripting minors.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Little Cato, on a good day.
Vocal Dissonance: He speaks with a rather high-pitched voice.
Would Hit a Girl: He doesn't hesitate to knock Sheryl out cold when she points a gun directly at Gary's head.

AVA

Voiced by: Jane Lynch

The Crimson Light's AI.

Call a Human a "Meatbag": She refers to Gary this way in "The Remembered" when citing their relative mortality.
Deadpan Snarker: Especially towards HUE.
Defrosting Ice Queen: She grows a little more respect for HUE as the series goes on, especially after he tased Clarence. Still likes to tease him, though.
Forgotten Fallen Friend: She's never mentioned again following the loss of the Crimson Light at the beginning of Season 3.
Sharing a Body: She downloads herself into HUE's body in "Descent Into Darkness" to experience what it is like to have a body herself. The two treat the experience as if it were their first date.
Ship Tease: She gets a few moments with HUE throughout season 2 as she slowly gains respect for him.
Sitcom Archnemesis: Used to be one for HUE for most of Season 2, before she grew to like and respect him.

Sheryl Goodspeed

Sheryl Goodspeed / Prisoner Y

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Voiced by: Claudia Black

"Truth? The day I lost your dad, my heart shattered. Whatever was left was too small to love anything anymore."

Gary's mother. A notorious intergalactic criminal that left him behind after having a breakdown over his father's death.

Abusive Parents: Quickly became neglectful to Gary after John's death and abandoned him while he was still just a child. To this day she still exploits him when she can, though her Heel–Face Turn saw her reconcile with Gary after some weird therapy and stay with him so she doesn't lose him.
Ace Pilot: She calls herself the "best pilot in the Universe" and, while we don't see much of her piloting skills onscreen, the way she manages to fly the Crimson Light out of the collapsing Inner Space in the season 2 finale definitely hints that it's more than a mere Badass Boast.
Action Mom: She's a mother and one of the most badass criminals in the universe, but in order to become one, she ditched her son, and denied her duty to raise him.
- In the Season 2 finale, however, she plays the trope straight after her Heel–Face Turn as she attacks an Invictus possessed Avocato first out of the group and is much more affectionate to her son.
Affectionate Nickname: Gary calls her "Mother Unit" as she's about to go on a dangerous mission with Avocato in "Until the Sky Falls".
- "Grandmaster Goodspeed" by Little Cato. Because she didn't like being called "Grandma Goodspeed".
Awesome Aussie: Sheryl is Australian, and definitely one of the most badass Human characters in the entire show.
Becoming the Mask: In "The Lost Spy," it was revealed that Sheryl was a spy assigned to get information from John Goodspeed but she wound up falling in love with him and giving birth to Gary.
Big Bad: She is the most active and prominent antagonist of Season 2.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Sheryl gives off a cool, friendly nature, but she is also unremorsefully manipulative. This changes in Season 3, where she reconciles with her son and becomes nicer as a whole to the rest of the crew.
Casting Gag: An emotionally distant, highly trained badass pilot on the wrong side of the law. Are we talking about Sheryl or Aeryn Sun?
Character Development: Sheryl goes from being a manipulative and cruel criminal to becoming the mom that Gary always wanted thanks to an extreme therapy session and realizing that she has someone more important than the husband that she lost: the son that they created together. It culminates in her telling Gary that he's the most important thing in her life when she's about to go on a dangerous mission with Avocato in "Until The Sky Falls" and they have a warm hug.
The Charmer: She can be surprisingly friendly if she wants to be, and knows what buttons to push to get people to like her. In her first episode, she quickly managed wrap the whole Team Squad save for Nightfall around her finger and trick them into helping her with a heist.
Dark and Troubled Past: Her husband died saving the Earth, which broke her heart. She became neglectful of their son, Gary, before abandoning him. She then spent the next decade or so as a criminal.
Dark Is Evil: Wears a black-colored armor and is a manipulative antagonist. At least until her Heel–Face Turn.
Deal with the Devil: She made a deal with the Titan Oreskis when he contacted her, as she was unaware (and probably didn't even care either way) that he's evil: she would prevent Bolo's freedom by collecting the dimensional keys, and in exchange, Oreskis would bring John back to her.
Escape Artist: Sheryl has shown that she could escape from almost anything. She breaks out of handcuffs like Harry Houdini multiple times and easily breaks free from the restraints Todd Watson places her in. She even tricked Tribore into letting her out of prison, and has the easiest time out of the team freeing herself from Invictus' prison slabs— keep in mind it was one of many that was designed by a Titan.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She's a terrible mother and a manipulative person but she genuinely loved John Goodspeed. "The Set Up" reveals that the reason why she wants to collect Dimensional Keys is to be able to see him again since his body was never found which means he could possibly be in Final Space.
- A huge part of her Heel–Face Turn is her acknowledging that despite everything, she does love her son and makes an earnest attempt at reconnecting with him, which they eventually do. She also loves Little Cato, being his adopted "grandmom" and becomes extremely protective of him.
Evil Matriarch: She's the mother of protagonist Gary and the end of her debut episode sees her becoming one of Gary's antagonists.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Sheryl has a total of three — A rather nasty, deep one on her right cheek and two small ones on the left side of her chin.
Hate Sink: While she became the way she was in response to her husband's death, Sheryl emotionally abused and neglected Gary until she couldn't feel love for anyone ultimately leaving him by his lonesome. It is only until the season 2 finale that the hate for Sheryl starts evaporating after Tribore gives her a therapy session.
Heartbroken Badass: Outright admitted that when John died, her heart was broken to the point she was incapable of loving anyone else.
The Heavy: During season 2, Sheryl is the most notable, recurring and driven antagonist.
Heel–Face Door-Slam: She experienced Becoming the Mask when she got close to John to learn about his plans, but when he found out he was disgusted that she went as far as having a child with him seemingly just as part of some espionage job and kicked her out. It's heavily implied this is what cemented Sheryl's hatred for her son, pinning all the blame for what happened on Gary's birth.
Heel–Face Turn: A therapy session from Tribore, Fox and HUE convinces her to try and fix things with Gary.
Honey Trap: She was sent out by her employers to trick John into giving them information.
Hypocrite: Although she was deceived by Oreskis into believing this, she told Gary that Bolo was evil and was playing him yet Sheryl manipulated Gary in the same way when she manipulated him into helping her escape prison and participate in a heist with her so she could get the third dimensional key
Icy Blue Eyes: She is one of the few characters in the show with colored pupils. She has an icy blue color to her eyes, reinforcing her presence and good looks.
I Have No Son!: She tells baby Gary that she wishes he'd never been born.
In Love with the Mark: While she didn't care for him at first, She did eventually develop genuine feelings for John
It's All About Me: After the death of John, all Sheryl seemed to focus on was her grief, completing ignoring her young son's grief. That is until the season 2 finale.
Jerkass: She has a nasty mean streak, to say the least. She tells Gary, as an infant, how she wished he was never born, and it only goes downhill from there. Fortunately, she realizes the error of her ways and mellows out a lot in the Season 2 finale.
Kick the Dog:
- "I wish you were never born." Said to her own newborn son, right before she walks out on him and John.
- This exchange:
Gary: Mom, maybe we could try therapy? Y'know, just a few visits, to explore things...
Sheryl: Sure, hon, I'll start. You were a mistake.
Kick The Son Of A Bitch: After Clarence betrays the Team Squad and delivers their dimensional keys to her, Sheryl abandons him with a well-deserved "Reason You Suck" Speech.
Laser-Guided Karma: She finds herself imprisoned in the Crimson Light, and KVN is appointed as her new deep-space insanity avoidance companion.
Mama Bear: After her Heel–Face Turn, she's the first to attack an Invictus possessed Avocato when he tried going after Gary. And when Little Cato was in danger during "The Leaving," Sheryl became a Grandma Bear by unhesitatingly arming herself and Quinn to save "her grandson."
Manipulative Bitch: Was shown be highly manipulative of others including her own family. She initially married John only so she could steal intel from the infinity guard for her superiors. Then she deceived Gary into letting her out of prison and help her steal the third key and later convinced Clarence to double cross the team squad and steal their dimensional keys to give to her.
Missing Mom: To Gary, as she abandoned him when he was only a child and never made an effort to come back.
Ms. Fanservice: Sheryl is aware of her good looks, and happily recounts a tale of her fighting naked against enemies, which makes Clarence blush. Her outfit showcases a lot of her huge buxom and it's even subject to the occasional jiggle.
Mysterious Past: It is still a mystery on what her life was before she met John.
Never My Fault: Her relationship with John started out as a Honey Trap to steal secrets from the Infinity Guard. Even after developing genuine feelings and having a child with him, she kept lying to John and using him for information. But he never would have known that if Gary hadn’t cried while she was calling her superiors, so naturally it’s all Gary’s fault that John kicked her out. After Gary chews her out for being a terrible parent to him, though, her reaction implies that though she only shows shame for finally being caught out of excuses, her attempts at dodging responsibility for her heinous actions are more of a front to deal with a hidden guilty conscience.
Notorious Parent: And how! After the death of John, Sheryl was quick to fall into her own grief and seemed to have a new start... as a criminal so notorious that she was on death row.
Parental Abandonment: She left Gary behind after her husband's death and having a major breakdown. She's a big part of why Gary has so many issues as an adult.
Parental Neglect: Sheryl was painfully neglectful of Gary after John's death — brushing off her son's attempt for comfort at John's funeral, slamming the door in his face when she was having a breakdown, and becoming alcoholic.
Resentful Guardian: She really wished Gary was never born. After giving birth to him, her life as a wife and thief was ruined.
Silver Vixen: Since Gary is 32 years old, Sheryl can't possibly be younger than 50, and it's likely that she's in her late 50s/early 60s. Nevertheless, she remains a very attractive woman. Gary actually refers to her as Little Cato's grandmom in "The Leaving", and LC starts calling her "Grandma Goodspeed", explaining that, because Gary adopted him, it technically makes her his grandmother.
Strong Family Resemblance: Gary inherited Sheryl's blonde hair and nose shape, and the general shape of his head seems to be a mix between his mom's face and his dad's Lantern Jaw of Justice.
Stupid Evil: Sheryl doesn’t seem to realize that even if she did succeed in reviving John, he still wouldn’t take her back. How exactly is she going to explain to him how she became a galactic criminal, bought his life with a cosmic demon, and menaced their own son in service of a vengeful psycho?
Team Mom: After her Heel–Face Turn, she fulfills the caring half of this trope while Quinn fulfills the leadership role on the Team Squad, giving emotional support to Ash and gradually mending her relationship with Gary, to the point where she decides to stay with the Team Squad out of her newly-developed love for him. And when Ash decides to kidnap Little Cato in "The Leaving" (despite having good, if misguided intentions), Sheryl's first reaction is to pick up a large gun and toss another one to Quinn, stating that nobody is going to threaten "her grandson".
Unexplained Recovery: During her fight against Gary and Nightfall in Episode 12, she gets impaled through the right shoulder with an energy blade. In the next episode, which seems to take place immediately after the twelfth one, she can use her right arm just fine and even manages to put up a fight against Avocato, who is possessed by Invictus. While it's very possible that she received immediate medical care when she was taken aboard the Crimson Light, it's never outright stated, thus playing this trope straight. It should also be noted that her catsuit shows no damage either, and it's very unlikely that she had a spare one on hand.
Unwitting Pawn: Was tricked by Oreskis into collecting dimensional keys for him by lying to her and making her think that Bolo was evil and that by getting all of the dimensional keys for Oreskis, he would bring John Goodspeed back to her.
Villain Team-Up: With Todd H. Watson as of "The Lost Spy". She agrees to help him get his revenge on Gary in exchange for assisting her in gathering dimensional keys.
Wild Card: She joins Gary and his crew for a brief period, and seems to be hunting for the Dimension Keys like her son. She eventually ditches them, seemingly after some mysterious goal. In "The Setup," this goal is revealed to be bringing John back to life.
Yandere: Don’t EVER try to ruin her mission with getting her John back. She made it clear she was willing throw every bit of humanity remaining out the window all for desperate reconciliation with her husband. And don’t ever try to imply that maybe it was her fault after all that John departed. She was finally able to overcome her violent obsession and warm up to the heroes in the S2 finale.

Introduced in Season 3

Quatronostro Menendez

Quatronostro Menendez / Quatro

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Voiced by: Oscar Montoya

Tribore's Spanish-speaking son whom he gave birth to in Season 3.

Big Ol' Eyebrows: His eyebrows are noticeably thicker than Tribore's.
Bilingual Dialogue: He only speaks Spanish, but he seems to understand English just fine. As a result, this trope is in effect whenever he talks to someone.
Dashing Hispanic: For some reason, he speaks fluent Spanish. Tribore explains he knows how to speak Spanish because "it's the language of love."
Deus ex Machina: Quatro growing to adulthood in the span of a second after being born and turning out to be an expert fighter (not to mention getting an outfit and a pair of blasters out of nowhere) allows the heroes to survive an ambush of zombie-Garys.
Expy: He looks a lot like a four-eyed, gun-wielding Piccolo. The way he was born resembles Piccolo as well.
Like Father, Like Son: On the surface, he appears to be much more serious than Tribore. In the sixth episode of Season 3, he reacts to Tribore having to give away his pretty scarf like it's a heartbreaking tragedy.
Shoo Out the Clowns: Quatronostro and Tribore escape from Final Space in "Hyper-Transdimensional Bridge Activated". The episodes that follow are some of the darkest, with them involving the Earth being destroyed, the Lord Commander betraying Invictus and becoming a Titan, and the deaths of Kevin Van Newton and Bolo.
Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: As soon as he hatches, he reaches adulthood in a second, complete with an outfit.

Biskit

Biskit the Tiger-Tiger

Voiced by: Olan Rogers

A diminutive Ventrexian that lives on Earth with Kevin Van Newton.

Cat Folk: He's a Ventrexian, like Avocato and Little Cato.
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Biskit has been completely gone since "All the Moments Lost" with no explanation given, a rarity for the series. He later reappears in "Until the Sky Falls" with no one commenting on him having been missing, meaning he was most likely just somewhere aboard the Galaxy II.
Cute Kitten: He even purrs when he's happy!
Cuteness Proximity: Gives Quinn one of those when she sees him.
Foreshadowing: He makes comments that Gary's arm is going to waste and has special abilities. It helps set up the blaster and blade reveal.
Gadgeteer Genius: He's very talented at crafting all sorts of devices in a very short time with whatever he has available. In "Until the Sky Falls", he equips the Galaxy II with a Hard Light holographic drill of his own design that allows the ship to dig its way to the center of the Earth in a very short time and in "The Dead Speak", he repurposes the ship's cookie dispenser into a rapid-firing turret in order to fight off some Zombie Garys.
Human Subspecies: Well, Ventrexian subspecies, actually. According to Olan Rogers, Biskit is part of a Ventrexian subspecies, which is why he has rounded ears and looks more like a tiger than other Ventrexians such as Avocato and Little Cato, who look like housecats.
Intelligence Equals Isolation: Biskit is a very talented roboticist and engineer, and while he doesn't mind hanging out with the rest of the Team Squad and lending a hand, he spends most of his time on his own doing his own thing aboard the Galaxy II. This leads to him being absent from several episodes with nobody commenting on it, before returning like nothing happened in "Until the Sky Falls".
Interspecies Friendship: Like Avocato and Gary, Biskit is a Ventrexian who's friends with a human, said human being his boss/mentor Kevin Van Newton.
Older Than They Look: He looks and acts like a kid, but he's at least 30 years old.
Punny Name: Like all Ventrexians, his name is a food pun; a play between "biscuit" and "kitten"
Shipper on Deck: Towards Quinn and Gary.

Kevin Van Newton

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Voiced by: Tom Kenny

A European world-renowned roboticist and the original creator of KVN, as well as the other KVN units.

Affectionate Nickname: KVN calls him "Papa Kev".
Face Death with Dignity: When a horde of Zombie Garys are about to descend upon him he greets his death with a tearful smile and open arms. Either from the zombies or the ensuing explosion.
Forgotten First Meeting: Claims to have met Quinn in the past, despite her having absolutely no memory of him. It's because he actually met Nightfall six years before the events of the episode.
Fun with Acronyms: The first letters in all three parts of Kevin Van Newton's name form the same acronym as his most notorious creation: the KVNs.
Go Mad from the Isolation: While we don't get to see what Kevin was like before he was pulled into Final Space alongside Earth, it's pretty obvious that the experience has taken a mean toll on him.
Hate at First Sight: He's responsible for creating KVN; as a result, Gary's first reaction upon meeting him is opening fire on him, although he missed every single shot despite Van Newton standing perfectly still a few feet in front of him and not even bothering to move or take cover.
Heroic Sacrifice: He remains behind on Earth to activate the KVNs, dying in the ensuing explosion. Unfortunately, it all turns his sacrifice into a Senseless Sacrifice once Lord Commander breaks through the KVNs in his Titan form.
Irony: He designed the KVNs as a line of therapy robots meant to prevent people from going crazy from the loneliness in space. Following the fall of Earth, he spent several months on his own with nobody but KVN units (and Biskit) for company. It should have worked wonders for his sanity, right ? Well... Not quite.
- That's because the true purpose of the KVN units was to serve as a planet-wide defense mechanism against Titans. Them being therapy robots was therefore most likely an excuse to cover up the real reason why he created them.
I've Never Seen Anything Like This Before: In "Until the Sky Falls", comments that the global quakes caused by the Titan incubating in the Earth's core are unlike any geothermal activity he's ever seen.
Mad Scientist: A brilliant roboticist, and he's just as bonkers as his creations. Whether he was always like that or if he lost his mind as a result of living on a doomed Earth in Final Space for months is left ambiguous, but pictures of him before Earth's fall depict him as well-groomed and serious-looking, making the latter interpretation more likely.

Characters / Final Space: The Team Squad

Introduced in Season 1

Gary Goodspeed

Mooncake

KVN

HUE

Quinn Ergon

Avocato

Little Cato

Nightfall

Tribore Menendez

Clarence Polkawitz

Introduced in Season 2

Ash Graven

Fox

AVA

Sheryl Goodspeed / Prisoner Y

Introduced in Season 3

Quatronostro Menendez / Quatro

Biskit the Tiger-Tiger

Kevin Van Newton

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Characters / Final Space: The Team Squad

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Introduced in Season 1

Gary Goodspeed

Mooncake

KVN

HUE

Quinn Ergon

Avocato

Little Cato

Nightfall

Tribore Menendez

Clarence Polkawitz

Introduced in Season 2

Ash Graven

Fox

AVA

Sheryl Goodspeed / Prisoner Y

Introduced in Season 3

Quatronostro Menendez / Quatro

Biskit the Tiger-Tiger

Kevin Van Newton

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