Characters from the 2022 shooter, High on Life.
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The Protagonists
The Bounty Hunter
The Bounty Hunter
Voiced By: None
The Player Character. An unassuming teenager living on Earth with their sister, the Bounty Hunter is thrown into an adventure of a lifetime as they go out to stop the G3 Cartel from destroying the planet with their talking guns.- Ambiguously Related: The Bounty Hunter can be any ethnicity the Player chooses while Lizzie and their parents remain Caucasian, the Bounty Hunter themselves could potentially be Happily Adopted.
- Blood Knight: Downplayed in that it's mostly how the actual player plays The Bounty Hunter that can imply this, and sometimes it's completely out of your control due to game mechanics.
- The loot you get is acquired through obviously living organisms shaped like boxes which are stripped down to eyes and bone when forced open, later in the game you can warp in a small household from a different planet who reveal that they are in fact sapient creatures, the joke is that it's all too tempting for the player to murder this family and gain whatever loot they hold, but you're fully able to spare them. Either way, it doesn't affect anything about the game, as you still need to open these containers to progress
- Featureless Protagonist: Double Subverted. The start of the game has the player character be allowed to choose their gender and ethnicity from a number of preset appearances, as Lizzie is snorting some powerful cocaine to pre-emptively celebrate them getting the house to themselves for a week and having trouble focusing on their sibling's appearance, and this affects their hands' appearance during the opening invasion, but once they successfully find Gene in Blim city, his full-body bounty Hunter suit comes with an opaque helmet and hand coverings, and is worn for the rest of the game, meaning that their appearance only really matters for a short while.
- Heroic Mime: They never speak except for Dialogue Trees, and the responses either aren't voiced or spoken by their Gatlien.
- I Know Mortal Kombat: The player character's retro FPS skills enable them to almost instantly jump into the life of an interplanetary bounty hunter when they're stuck in space and hunting a hostile alien cartel.
- Instant Expert: Downplayed. The player character spent large lengths of time playing FPS games whilst at their house, with part of the game's combat tutorials being presented through one such game, enabling them to quickly adjust to using Kenny to defend themselves and successfully steal a warp drive to escape earth. However, a Gatlien's biology means they don't have to worry about maintenance or manual reloading in a fight, meaning they can aim and shoot well, but not handle actual firearms themselves without prior training. Their hand-to-hand skills with Knifey are also unexplained, as well as some of the Le Parkour traversal stunts they can pull off once upgraded with the right gear, though it's implied the Bounty suit is helping with their physical performance.
- Loser Protagonist: Implied, the Player Character is to be in their adulthood (either as a late teen or young adult) and they spend their time playing video games in their room. Lizzie also says that their father's parting words were that he never loved the Player Character (Although the way she says it implies that she's lying) and the note on the fridge says their parents are disappointed that the Player Character is doing nothing with their lives except playing video games.
- Rage Breaking Point: After having disguised themself with goop to get close to Nipulon, the Bounty Hunter has to walk through a lounge where G3 Aliens are using Humans as drugs, draining their life force from them. As they wait in a booth with another alien talking about how delicious and weak the Humans are, the Bounty Hunter gets so mad that they start shaking in rage while their vision turns red. The Gatliens see this and tell them (and us) to go crazy and slaughter the bastards.
The Gatliens
In General
The various Living Weapons that the Bounty Hunter uses. Except for Knifey, they're a race of sentient guns from a planet that the G3 Cartel destroyed with a Zombie Apocalypse.- Bizarre Alien Locomotion: The Gatliens can wriggle around like caterpillars when they're not being held. On Gatlus, they originally used "hand-horses" to carry them around until they eventually invented robotic bodies.
- Dying Race: Most of the Gatliens were infected by the G3 with a zombie virus and forcibly grafted onto their foot soldiers, leaving only a handful of immune living free-willed ones still at large in the galaxy, and the few the Bounty Hunter encounters have all been suppressed with inhibitor chips by the time they encounter them.
- Dung Fu: If Kenny is to be believed, the "bullets" they fire are apparently feces.
- Equippable Ally: The gatliens are an alien species that, except for Knifey, resemble Standard FPS Guns. They blur the line between this and Living Weapon, as they are fully sapient but are shaped like and function as weapons. Knifey in particular can't do anything but hop slightly when placed onto a table — and given how absolutely nuts he is about killing, this is arguably a beneficial thing for everybody in his immediate area.
- Everyone Has Standards: With one or two exceptions, they generally don't let you fire on unarmed civilians.
- Fantastic Firearms: It doesn't get much more fantastic than guns that are actually aliens who function like guns yet talk.
- Living Weapon: They're aliens that look like guns, can fire like guns, and are wielded like guns. Knifey also counts, being a sentient knife that can be used to either stab or traverse around the environment with his tether ability, but an optional conversation has him questioning whether or not he's actually the same species as the others, given he can't shoot like them and can barely move on his own, resorting to trying to beg others to violently stab him into others to attack, which he greatly enjoys.
- Meaningful Name: The name of their species, Gatlien, is a portmanteau of "Gat" (a pretty old-fashioned street slang term for firearms, mostly used for pistols, coined as a shortening for "Gatling gun"), and alien.
- Starfish Aliens: How else an you describe an entire species of living guns?
- The Symbiote: An optional conversation with Kenny has him lampshade how their species has basically evolved to be useful as Fantastic Firearms for other species to use in combat, justifying the odd quirk of their evolutionary development by pointing out how it's a vast multiverse, and literally anything can happen in it. Notably, the Gatlien team the Bounty Hunter assembles and actually forms a beneficial trusting relationship with proves to be vastly more effective that the Gatliens forced into servitude as the standard firearm of G3 Mooks. They are brain-dead and forcibly grafted into said Merkaloids' arms, permanently preventing their hands from being used for anything but shooting a singular Gatlien again, and apparently cannot use the Gatliens' trick holes. The Bounty Hunter meanwhile, can freely swap between multiple different modes of firing, enable them to become a One-Man Army because of the versatility caused by working alongside their Gatlien partners in tandem.
Kenny
Voiced by: Justin Roiland
Kind, optimistic, if not a bit snarky, Kenny is the first Gatlian the Bounty Hunter picks up when the G3 Cartel first invade Earth. Not long after, he helps the Bounty Hunter in their quest to stop the cartel from destroying their planet.- Deadpan Snarker: Snarks at things so often you'll wonder if he's also a living lampshade in addition to a gun.
- Dung Fu: According to Kenny, both his sludge projectile and his Glob Shot are his poop.
- Handguns: What his appearance is based on.
- In a Single Bound: His Glob Shot can make the Bounty Hunter leap across large gaps by being shot on platforms.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Kenny is pretty sarcastic and snarky, but also a nice guy who spares the lives of many and has remorse about his past actions, particularly telling the G3 about Gatlas.
- Launcher Move: His Glob Shot functions as this in combat.
- Poisonous Person: His attacks are all themed after shooting toxic goop.
- Punch-Packing Pistol: Has better damage per second (DPS) and a better fire rate than the other Gatliens.
- Put on a Bus: In the "High on Knife" DLC, it's stated that the Bounty Hunter dropped and lost Kenny sometime during the two years between the main game and the DLC. He's replaced with the mechanically-identical Harper.
- Standard FPS Guns: The Pistol.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Kenny originally just wanted to see the universe. After leaving Gatlus with an alien smuggler, he accidentally led the entire G3 back to his home planet and caused the near-extinction of his race.
Knifey
Voiced by: Michael Cusack
An extremely bloodthirsty sentient knife that used to belong to Gene until he gave him to the Torg Family, Knifey acts as the Bounty Hunter's melee weapon in combat. He won't shut up about wanting to kill and gut people like pigs.- A Day in the Limelight: The "High on Knife" DLC has him as the main focus.
- Ambiguous Situation: Knifey's unsure if he's a Gatlien like the rest of the weapons, or if he's part of some other alien race. He's revealed to be from a race of living knives.
- A Lizard Named "Liz": The name "Knifey" doesn't really leave very much confusion on what he is.
- Awesome Aussie: Michael Cusack is clearly having the time of his life. High On Knife reveals that he actually hails from the planet Australia-II, with the other Gatliens stating that Australia is simply a common name for worlds.
- Ax-Crazy: The knife does not shut up about his desire to violently murder everyone around him. His own wielders aren't even exempt from this, as he tries to talk the player into stabbing themself and his former owner Gene. High on Knife reveals that he was actually exiled from his planet due to his insanity since the others of his species are pacifists. Naturally, he decides to end the DLC by murdering them.
- Chainsaw Good: In "High on Knife" he gets upgraded into a chainsaw.
- Grappling-Hook Pistol: Has a tether ability that acts like a grappling hook on platforms and ziplines.
- Psycho Knife Nut: Bonus points given he is a knife.
- The Quiet One: Played With: Knifey will be a Talkative Loon when being used, but he rarely just talks for socialization like the gatlians will. After his introduction, the only time he really talks to someone else is reassuring Kenny he will keep quiet about Kenny's confession and he was there in the first place because the Bounty Hunter and Kenny forgot he was there. It isn't until High on Knife where he is motivated to try and find his homeworld that he has anything to actually say.
- Standard FPS Guns: The Knife. He becomes the Chainsaw after getting his package in "High on Knife".
Gus
Voiced by: J.B. Smoove
A chill, shotgun-like Gatlian the Bounty Hunter can pick up after killing Krubis.- Armor-Piercing Attack: One possible mod allows him to suck the goop armor off certain G3 enemies, making them much easier to kill.
- Deadly Disc: His Trick Hole ability.
- Lovable Lizard: He resembles a lizard, and is one of the more likable Gatliens.
- Mellow Fellow: He's certainly the most laid-back character.
- Playing with Fire: His disc ability shoots out a flaming disc that can burn enemies over time and also stick to lava platforms.
- Spotting the Thread: At first, he likes Dr. Joopy as much or more than Kenny, but this actually means he's less able to be fooled; since he considered Joopy a friend and committed the made-up names of his wife and children to memory, Gus notices right away when he gets one of them wrong. At the next section, once Joopy carelessly misnames his entire family, Gus immediately calls out the ruse and tells the player to shoot him.Gus: Okay, okay, that's it, I'm not gonna sit here and pretend no more — you slipped up again. You keep changing yo' kids' damn NAMES!
- Short-Range Shotgun: Though his vacuum ability makes up for it.
- Standard FPS Guns: The Shotgun.
- Weapons That Suck: His lock-on ability is a vacuum.
Sweezy
Voiced by: Betsy Sodaro
A very rude and condescending Gatlian that can stop time that the Player can pick up after killing Douglas. Despite her crass attitude, her heart's in the right place.- Bubble Gun: She can launch a Time Bubble as her secondary, which stops all time around it, including freezing enemies.
- Gemstone Assault: Her main projectiles are crystals.
- Fish People: Well, she's a fish gun technically, but still resembles a fish.
- Jerkass: She doesn't bother to thank the player for saving her from indentured servitude
- Power Crystal: Those crystals are pretty powerful, especially the big one that gets shot after you lock on.
- The Smurfette Principle: The only female Gatlien you'll ever wield.
- Solid Gold Poop: Defied. Although the crystalline bullets she fires are apparently her poop, an optional conversation with her reveals that the crystals are worthless and can't be sold for money, as much as she would like to.
- Standard FPS Guns: The Automatic.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Uses more profanity than any of the other Gatliens.
- Time Master: She can generate bubbles that slow down time in a limited area, and an additional mod allows her to rewind time when she reloads.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Downplayed. She definitely doesn’t show gratitude when you first meet her but some optional dialogue later on implies she's a bit more appreciative than she lets on.Sweezy: Alright, dipshit. Let's go.Kenny: What? No "hello, nice to meet you" or "thank you for saving me"?Sweezy: Why? Like you not dying there was some sort of favor to me? (mockingly) Hi, I'm Sweezy. Thanks so much for rescuing me. (normally) How was that, dipshit?
Creature
Voiced by: Tim Robinson
A grenade-launcher like Gatlien found being experimented on. Despite his current condition, he tends to look on the bright side of things.- Appropriated Appellation: It is implied that "Creature" was just what the scientists experimenting on him called him and Creature took it up after forgetting his own name. Supporting this, Kenny reacts like Creature is a weird name for a Gatlien, and Creature replies with something akin to a Sure, Let's Go with That. Furthermore, Creature's memories of his pre-experimentation life are nearly non-existent; he doesn't know who Lezduit is and doesn't remember Gatlas.
- Hypno Ray: His secondary attack consists of hypnotizing enemies to make them fight for you.
- Large Ham: He is voiced by Tim Robinson, after all. Doubles as No Indoor Voice
- Mook Maker: His main power consists of shooting out his children like grenades.
- Mysterious Past: Initially, Creature doesn't remember anything about his original life on Gatlus. However, in High On Knife, Gene notes that the Bounty Hunter eventually figured out what his deal was on a prior adventure, but doesn't say anything more about the incident.
- Nice Guy: He's the only Gatlien that forgives Kenny for his part in the destruction of their planet and the player for putting him in Garmantuous instead of Kenny under the logic that the player knew he'd survive because he was the strongest.
- Standard FPS Guns: The Rocket Launcher for his main attack, mixed with the Utility Weapon for his hypnosis power.
Lezduit
Voiced by: Mike Stoklasa
The final Gatlien, located dead in a lab because of Dr. Giblets excessive tests on him, then fixed up(and semi-accidentally-more broken) by Gene when rescued.- Ambiguous Situation: He's the only one besides Kenny who seems willing (if not eager) to sacrifice himself to stop Garmantuous. Since all he can say is his name, it's hard to tell whether it's because he doesn't fully know what's going on or if he's genuinely willing to sacrifice himself.
- Body Horror: A lot more serious case than Creature. He's got so much mechanical parts he resembles an engine block with a Gatlien's face, and thanks to Gene's tinkering, he can only say his name.
- Cyborg: He has a lot of mechanical parts.
- 11th-Hour Ranger: Mixed with 11th-Hour Superpower due to the nature of Gatliens. As a Lightning Gun that can kill multiple enemies and deal heavy damage to bosses, you acquire him in the final level.
- Famed In-Story: Gus and Sweezy both say he was a legend on Gatlas.
- Handicapped Badass: He may have lost his ability to speak normally and his Trick Hole, but he's still the strongest Gatlien you'll get.
- Pokémon Speak: He can only say his name. And "We did it!" in the ending, after the Gatlien you sacrifice to destroy Garmantuous falls down and is revealed to be alive and well.
- Put on a Bus: He's traveling with your character's parents on an intergalactic road trip during the events of High on Knife, preventing you from trivializing the DLC.
- Simple, yet Awesome: Unlike the other Gatliens, his extensive renovations under the G3's experimentation seem to have removed his trick hole, meaning he only has one mode of firing, and moreover, lacks even an ammo counter or a need to reload. However since said firing method is a BFG Lightning Gun that can devastate a small army, it's plenty enough to still make him a massive powerhouse in the Bounty Hunter's arsenal.
Harper
Voiced by: Sarah Sherman
Kenny's replacement in High on Knife. An almost identical Gatlien found sometime after the Bounty Hunter accidentally dropped Kenny on one of their missions.- Cyborg: She notably has metal pieces grafted to her.
- Hero of Another Story: She was originally part of an elite Gatlien strike force attempting to take down Garmantuous during the events of the main High on Life storyline, but the Bounty Hunter got there first.
- Rogue Soldier: She deserted the military at some point during the two-year timeskip and joined the Bounty Hunter.
- The Stoic: She's more professional and reserved than the other guns.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Kenny, after his voice actor was involved in a Role-Ending Misdemeanour.
B.A.L.L
Voiced by: None
A gun-like device operated by 3 small aliens. While it was originally purposed for Peroxosqush, it's taken in during Knifey's trip to see his family.- Fun with Acronyms: Its name is an acronym, but the previous owner admits he forgot what it stands for.
- Standard FPS Guns: Looks to be a mix of Utility Weapon and the Marksman Gun.
- The Unintelligible: The 3 small aliens speak in a language that the translator microbes can't translate.
Lizzie
Voiced by: Laura Silverman
The Player Character's laid-back sister. While the Bounty Hunter jumps headlong into space travel stopping the G3, she typically stays at home but tries to make the most of the new world she's been brought into.
- Deadpan Snarker: Almost everything she says has varyingly thick layers of sarcasm applied to it, to the point she consistently has to clarify when she's being genuine about certain things, such as having another girl join the team.
- Fish out of Water: A part of the reason she's so snarky is that she's trying to come to terms with getting displaced from her home and landing on an alien planet.
- Interspecies Romance: Strikes one up with an alien named Tweeg as part of her own ventures into the city, the game kind of delves into the whirlwind romance angle of such a thing, as they try to make it work even with Bizarre Alien Biology in play. They eventually break up, not due to how different they are in this regard but because Tweeg proclaims in a boldfaced way how he is a flakey, greedy jerkass, which overrides his affection for her when it matters and almost (and if choices are made, actually does) sell out their location to the G3 .
- Little Sister Heroine: Downplayed, as neither she nor the player's ages are clarified.
- Put on a Bus: She's no longer with the protagonist as of "High on Knife", with Gene making allusions to the two having a falling out at some point.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: A complicated version with Gene. They are constantly at each other's throats with their verbal sparring, but Gene seems to take more fun with it and grows fond of both Liz and the Bounty Hunter fairly quickly. Lizzie is far more reluctant to welcome Gene into their home and crash on their couch, viewing him as someone who just wants the Bounty Hunter to live vicariously through. As Gene continuously questions her decisions out of concern for her, she slowly warms up to him as a father figure and eventually even helps him in his project to revitalize Lezduit.
- So Proud of You: Lizzie tells the Bounty Hunter that she's proud of them and that she's happy they're doing some good during their adventure. She clarifies that her being proud of her sibling for going out and doing something and Gene's squatting in their home are separate situations.
Gene Zaroothian
Voiced by: David Herman
A famous Bounty Hunter that Kenny directs the player to for help, which he ends up doing by teaching them how to be a bounty hunter in exchange for letting him stay at their house.
- Bounty Hunter: His trade, which he teaches to the player.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Clearly a talented bounty hunter in the past, who now just sits on the player's couch, watching TV and porn, and letting the player go on his bounties itself. Possibly Justified given his age and lack of legs.
- Character Development: Fully admits during the High on Knife DLC that he loves the bounty hunter and sees them as family. Mostly by admitting how bad he feels when he thinks that the bounty hunter is dead and how having the house is barely any consolation.
- Dented Iron: The years have not been kind to Gene—one of his eyestalks is floppy and blackened and he's lost both his legs.
- Hidden Depths: He has a natural talent at fixing guns, which he first does with Creature and later with Lezduit in the finale.
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: Gene was originally a famous and feared bounty hunter. However, he had an accident, which cost him one of his eyes and both legs. By the time the Player and Kenny first meet him, he's a washed-up homeless man who got evicted from his apartment and now lives on a bench. By High on Knife, he is fully acknowledging that having the player as a protege/family is the most he has in life and has gone from looking forward to owning their house to feeling it is barely any consolation when he becomes convinced that the player is dead.
- Jaded Washout: He hasn't done anything with his life since one big bounty, now he's homeless and wants to mooch off of the player's house.
- Older Than They Look: He's 300 in alien years, but looks, talks, and acts like a middle-aged human.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: Lizzie at least regards him as such given her annoyance with him and his laziness.
SuitO
An obnoxious AI in the Bounty Hunter Suit, which takes the form of a purple spherical robotic character in the HUD when speaking.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: His defining character trait is how actually useless he is, at one point he decides to push a "detective mode" onto the player, making observations from scans in the environment that they and the Gatlians could easily make themselves. By the end he explains that he essentially wasted everyone's time with this segment after telling the player where to go.
Antagonists
The G3 Cartel
The G3 as a Whole
An absurdly callous interplanetary cartel who cultivate and harvest other living beings as drugs for profit. Their latest exploits take them to earth, where humans seem to be their next target.
- Beware the Silly Ones: very much quirky and dumb, but it accentuates how heartless and petulant their criminal activities are
- Hate Sink: They are cartoonishly vile, everyone that associates with them are either victims or are uncaringly profitting from the suffering involved, sometimes both.
- Obviously Evil: They are a planet hopping criminal organization that abduct and farms living creatures if they find that they can be used as narcotics. Their crimes, naturally and heinously go to unforgivable levels in the name of profit.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: They tend to look down on humans and any other race they have considered "Products" in particular. Even when you get to the highest ranking Members they still have the gall to call you a product despite the fact that they have ruined much of their operations at this point.
Garmantuous
Voiced by: Hal Lublin
A fat, ugly tumorous creature who leads the G3 in the exploitation of species as drugs.
- Adipose Rex: Garmantuous is the head of the G3 Cartel and incredibly hefty.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: He and his species resemble huge fleshy bongs or hookas. Makes sense considering they can directly smoke other creatures and are heavily involved in drug dealing.
- Big Bad: As the leader of the G3 Cartel and the one in charge of the invasion of Earth, he slouches into this role by default.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: He possesses the ability to smoke aliens.
- Nigh-Invulnerable: His skin is apparently as tough as armor. In the first phase of his boss battle, he gets shot a lot and his flying saucer explodes with him still on it, and all it does is briefly stun him for a minute or so. His insides, however, are vulnerable.
- Red Right Hand: He has one of his eyes on a strange asymmetric stalk growing out of the side of his head and he's the head of the G3 cartel. The player gets to see others of his species and it's clear that Garmantuous is actually deformed to some extent.
Krubis
Voiced by: Echo Kellum
An alien with drills for hands and on top of his head, using Furgles as a drug to take the edge off while doing paperwork for the G3.
- Catchphrase Insult: He likes to call the player "jagoff".
- This Is a Drill: His main ability. Knifey implies that they're actually a part of him.
Douglas
Voiced by: Tom Kenny
- The Alcoholic: The entire "Dr. Joopy" incident happened because Douglas was hung over after a wild party and couldn't find his way back to the local G3 base in time. It's implied that he regularly indulges himself heavily, such as Giblets noting in a recording that Douglas got drunk and had sexual contact with one of the Skrendels.
- Boss-Altering Consequence: Averted. It is possible to kill him earlier than intended, but you'll still have to complete his level to reach his corpse, since you need a piece of it in order to get his bounty. Once you do, the game will throw an identical boss at you: Douglas' own robo-suit, set on autopilot and containing his dead body.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: He trains new G3 mercenaries by putting them through a battery of brutal initiations that eventually culminates in a free-for-all death match.
- Manipulative Bastard: He masquerades as the friendly "Dr. Joopy" in order to trick the Bounty Hunter into helping him back into his suit so that he can kill them.
- Octopoid Aliens: This is what he looks like under his suit.
- Power Armor: His spacesuit is implied to be one given that he had to trick the player into helping him get to it. It is so well programmed that it fights exactly as he would when he dies in it.
Nipulon
Voiced by: James Urbaniak
- Chemically-Induced Insanity: Tries to gas the Bounty Hunter with a highly dangerous drug in an attempt to kill them, or at least induce an acid trip an severely weaken them. It backfires.
- Deflector Shields: Has a personal bubble shield that makes him very durable.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: His psychedelic gas was meant to make the Bounty Hunter and the Gatlians to go insane and become easy pickings. Instead, the latter have an epiphany and somewhat reconcile with each other, while the Bounty Hunter enters some sort of battle rage, eventually becoming able to break through Nipulon's shields through sheer brute force.
- Shout-Out: He makes several references to Psycho Mantis, like suggesting you to switch controller ports or attempting to read your memory card data.
Giblets
Voiced by: Kevin McDonald
- Crazy-Prepared: He set up an arena-style trap in case he got assassinated, complete with recordings of himself to mock his killer. Moreover, he made a list of his potential assassins and calculated how long they would have been able to survive his deathtrap, using this information to ensure that his virtual self would have been able to name the "correct" killer.
- Dead Man's Switch: Had contingencies in place for when he's killed due to his paranoia. His entire boss fight is actually against his contingency plan Death Course that activates on his death. Also Played for Laughs, he had a computer to upload photos of Douglas having sex with one of the Skrendels from a party when his heart stops. He admits that they're actually hot and that people would like them rather than it shaming Douglas.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: If you survive his trap until the end, his recording will come to the conclusion that he killed himself. He's right, but it assumes that it was a deliberate suicide, while in reality it was an accident.
- The Friend No One Likes: Giblets believed each member of the G3 wanted to kill him and considering the fact he did things like convince Krubis's wife to leave him and took pictures of Douglas having a drunken affair with one of the Skrendels, he's probably right.
- The Paranoiac: Was absolutely convinced that someone he knew would kill him, from his son to other members of the G3 Cartel. By the time the player finds him, he has completely gone off his rocker and killed all his men himself.
- The Unfought: Accidentally falls down a ladder and breaks his visor, resulting in his death by suffocation. Too bad that the real challenge happens after his death.
Skrendel Bros
- Fusion Dance: They can combine by climbing on top of each other. This actually makes them more durable, since they can be properly damaged only when separated: if you attack them enough while they're combined, they simply split for a while.
Dr. Gurgula
Voiced by: Wayne Pygram
The scientist responsible for unleashing the Zombie Apocalypse on Gatlas.- The Heavy: He made the bioweapon that destroyed Gatlas and manipulated the Bounty Hunter into destroying the G3 Cartel through Clugg.
Other Antagonists
9-Torg
Voiced by: Jennifer Hale
A crime boss that rules the Slums, and the player's first bounty.- Big Creepy-Crawlies: She's a humanoid mantis.
- Enfant Terrible: Subverted. 5-Torg reveals that the Torgs are numbered by age, not order of creation, which would normally make her this, but she also says their species matures very rapidly, meaning by their standards she's actually old.
- Starter Villain: She's the first boss of the game.
9-Torg's Minions
Ant aliens that work for 9-Torg.- Big Creepy-Crawlies: They're humanoid ants.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: They do this about as often as Kenny.
- The Goomba: At first they think they're really the strongest enemies in the game, but after the player massacres a few they realize they're really this.
- Mook Horror Show: They experience one at the player's hands as soon as they realize they're really The Goomba and from that point run the gamut between being terrified of you and resigned to their fate.
Mux
The CEO of the Muxxalon Shipping Company who uses parasites to control her workers.- Arc Villain: Of "High on Knife".
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: She uses parasites to control workers.
- Meat Moss: Her body is spread all over her ship.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: She can generate additional arms from her biomass, she uses them to pick up mooks to give them a vantage point to attack.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: A CEO who forces her workers to suck up to her social media posts and invent things for her so that she can take all the credit, all while bragging about her family's lucrative mine and her terrible Elden Ring builds? Sounds a lot like Elon Musk.
- Puppeteer Parasite: She creates these to control her workers.
