A list of characters appearing in the songs by the Power Metal band Gloryhammer
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Forces of Justice
Angus McFife
Angus McFife is the Prince of the Land of Fife and the protagonist of Tales From the Kingdom of Fife.
- Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: The Amulet of justice which can break evil magic.
- Create Your Own Villain: Keeper of the Celestial Flame of Abernethy reveals that his ancestor Dundax's establishment of Fife ended up destroying the home of a peasant who would later become the Evil Sorcerer Zargothrax.
- Dreaming of Things to Come: Angus has a dream of three magic artifacts that will allow him to overpower Zargothrax and goes out on a quest to obtain them.
- Dragon Rider: One of the three magic artifacts he collects is a Magic Dragon which he rides into battles.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: At the end of The Epic Rage of Furious Thunder he saves Fife which eventually develops into a galactic civilization.
- Forgot About His Powers: When he needs to break into Zargothrax's tower he has to sneak in through hidden dwarven tunnels instead of simply having his Magic Dragon fly him over the walls.
- Heel–Face Brainwashing: Seemingly played straight: he uses a magic scroll to turn the Magic Dragon to his side. Actually subverted--the dragon was actually a dragon-shaped defense droid he spoke the manual override to via its scroll-shaped manual override instructions.
- Impossibly Cool Weapon: The Hammer of Glory/Astral Hammer/Gloryhammer/Holy Flaming Hammer of Unholy Cosmic Frost which the gods granted to him after he reached an ancient shrine.
Angus McFife XIII
Angus McFife XIII is Angus I's descendant and the protagonist of Space 1992 and Legends From Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex.
- 13 Is Unlucky: In his time, Earth is destroyed by the Heroic Sacrifice of the Hootsman, and he himself is stabbed by a Knife of Evil, requiring him to leap into a volcano or become a Deathknight.
- Driven to Suicide: While Angus wins the final battle against Zargothrax, during it he's stabbed by the Knife of Evil. He decides to end his own life by jumping into a volcano rather than turn evil.
- Dragon Rider: Like his ancestor, he rides a dragon, but in his case it's a laser dragon.
- Heroic Suicide: Angus commits suicide by jumping into an active volcano in order to avoid the evil that would arise from his corruption as a result of being stabbed with the Knife of Evil.
- Identical Grandson: So much so that you could almost give him and his ancestor one character page entry.
- Impossibly Cool Weapon: He has inherited the Gloryhammer.
Angus McFife II
The son of Angus I and the protagonist of Return to the Kingdom of Fife.
- Failure Hero: Seriously, Angus II doesn't manage to get anything right. He even gets his universe destroyed.
- Inadequate Inheritor: His father defeated Zargothrax but he struggles against Zargothrax's clone (granted, said clone is hardly a pushover and was in fact responsible for killing Angus I via nuclear weapons).
- Not Quite the Right Thing: In the music video for "Keeper of the Celestial Flame of Abenathy", he damages Zargothrax's prison with his hammer due to an illusion by Alpha-1.
Angus McFife V
Another of Angus I's descendants and the protagonist of the non-album single "Fly Away."
- Aborted Arc: While his "I know I'll find my destiny, In outer space in 1993" line reveals that his song takes place a year after the Earth was destroyed in Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards, as Return to the Kingdom of Fife takes place in 1022, he is apparently not the same Angus as that album and never comes up again.
- Face Death with Dignity: His lyrics state that his fate is to die in the ultimate fight.
The Hootsman
The Hootsman is a barbarian hero movie star cyborg demigod who is one of the McFife family's greatest allies.
- Ascend To A Higher Planeof Existence: His Heroic Sacrifice at the end of Appocalypse: 1992 caused him to be reborn as the Astral Demigod of Unst.
- The Ageless: In Contrast to Angus Mcfife, it's the same Hootsman in all four albums, possibly because of his nature as a cyborg.
- Barbarian Hero: He is an Affectionate Parody of this trope.
- Blood Knight: "With his mighty battleaxe he slaughtered everything, till all of California did call the hero king!"
- Character Catchphrase: Variations of "Taste the power of hoots!" with a side order of Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
- Expy: He's clearly based on Conan the Barbarian as portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- Heroic Sacrifice: The Hootsman detonates his nuclear heart in order to prevent the end of the universe... he gets better though.
- Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie: He's a barbarian hero who's also a cyborg and movie star and the king of California.
- Super-Speed: The Hootsman can fly faster than light itself.
Forces of Evil
Zargothrax
Zargothrax, the Dark Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty, is the main antagonist of the first three Gloryhammer albums.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: He attempts to do this using a ritual at the time of a Solar Conjunction but is killed by the Forces of Justice.
- Batman Gambit: Tricks Angus McFife II into setting him free from his Crystal Prison in the Fortress of Crail.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Not as obvious as with his Knights of Evil, but he does have shades of this.
- Combat Pragmatist: Since his offensive magic isn't all that great, he carries a laser gun just in case. One of his titles is even "Wielder of the Laser Blaster." It turns out to be the Vorpal Laserblaster of Pittenweem, the final Star Lord weapon.
- Cool Ship: In the music video for Hootsforce, Zargothrax has an entire fleet of starships.
- The Corrupter: Zargothrax possesses the Knife of Evil which he can use to turn people evil.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: For all his evil power he stands no chance against the godlike Star Lords.
- Evil Weapon: Zargothrax uses the Knife of Evil, an evil knife that turns anyone stabbed with it evil.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: He used to be a simple basket-weaving peasant before his home was destroyed in the establishment of the Kingdom of Fife, motivating him to become an Evil Sorcerer.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: After winning for almost two full albums he's finally destroyed by the Forces of Justice at the end of The Fires of Ancient Cosmic Destiny.
- Motive Decay: He initially became an evil sorcerer to get revenge on the prince who destroyed his home, but by the time of Space 1992 he has set his sights on wiping out all life in the universe.
- Playing with Fire: Zargothrax made it rain fireballs and lightning when he and his allies attacked Dundee.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: After the earth is destroyed he makes a hasty retreat through a newly created space portal while fleeing the enraged Angus Mcfife the Thirteenth.
- Sorcerous Overlord: In the first album he conquers a city, by the third he rules a planet and possibly an entire universe.
- Squishy Wizard: Inverted. Zargothrax's offensive magic isn't very strong, usually relying on his minions or his star ship to kill his enemies. However, he's nearly invulnerable to the point that being frozen for centuries and an explosion so massive it vaporized the earth while he was on it didn't harm him.
- Try to Fit That on a Business Card: When Angus confronts him at the siege of Dunkeld, he introduces himself as "the Bane of Cowdenbeath, the Scourge of Auchtermuchty, arch-foe of the Questlords of Inverness." In his Image Song "Keeper of the Celestial Flame of Abernethy," he gains the further titles "Dark Lord, Master of Nightmares, Keeper of Celestial Flame, Wielder of the Laser Blaster, Wizard-King, Chaos Incarnate."
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He says that his actions are to liberate the multiverse from slavery and fear. Ending the MacFife dynasty's just for him, though. How setting loose an Eldritch Abomination to scour the Universe of life is going to do that, though, is unknown (although it's probably related to everyone being dead).
- Where I Was Born and Razed: Zargothrax is referred to as The Dark Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty, but he also sends his Death Knights there to slaughter the peasants living there.
- Xanatos Gambit: In "Apocalypse 1992", Zargothrax carries out the ritual to summon Kor-Virliath, the Elder God of the 18th Hell Dimension while his vast demon army lays siege to Mars. The Forces of Justice are thus left with the choice to either try to stop the demons or to try to find and stop Zargothrax, and failing either objective would presumably result of the destruction of the universe. Even with the sacrifice of the Astral Dwarves of Aberdeen and the Space Knights of Crail, the Forces of Justice are only barely able to stop the demon army, which bought enough time for Zargothrax to complete his ritual. His plan was only thwarted by the Heroic Sacrifice of the Hollywood Hootsman detonating his neutron star heart and destroying the earth before Kor-Virliath could emerge. Even in defeat, Zargothrax is able to flee to the distant past and become even more powerful.
- The Worf Effect: The Star Lords kill him so easily it barely gets a sentence of description.
- Why Isn't It Attacking?: He spares Angus II's life for some unknown reason after the hero sets him free. Angus is absolutely gobsmacked at the turn of events, judging by his expression.
Zargothrax Clone Alpha- 1
The clone of Zargothrax activated at the end of Legends From Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex. He is the primary antagonist of Return to the Kingdom of Fife.
- Body Backup Drive: Though the clone's goal is to free the original.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: Upon activation, he immediately destroys Dundee with nuclear weapons instead of relying on his predecessor's sorcerous strategies such as undead unicorns.
Dreadlord Proletius
Dreadlord Proletius is an Alternate Universe counterpart to Sir Proletius who was corrupted by Zargothrax
- Blood Knight: Dreadlord Proletius enjoys going on rampages and slaughtering peasants for basically no reason.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Dreadlord Proletius only became evil because of the power of the Knife of Evil.
- Card-Carrying Villain: He leads a group referred to as the Knights of Evil, the Deathknights of Crail.
- Fallen Hero: Dreadlord Proletius was just as noble as the original universe's Proletius before he was stabbed by the Knife of Evil.
- Everybody Hates Mathematics: He's said to have "anti-telharsic" power, which means letters as they pertain to math. Simply put, his evil magic comes from knowing how to do algebra.
- Giant Flyer: He and his Death Knights ride undead eagles into battle.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: "Stabbed through the heart with the Knife of Evil, it corrupted his brain."
