History Characters / IrregularWebcomic

* FourOneNineScam: What people think he's doing when he sends them e-mails, despite being entirely sincere. Ironically, he himself falls victim to a guy claiming to be the king of Nigeria, despite Nigeria having been a republic since its independence.

* HeroesWantRedheads: She's a redhead, and Monty clearly has a thing for her.

![[{{Tropers/Dmmaus}} David Morgan-Mar]]

The creator of the comic himself has his own theme, usually revolving around working on the comic, his everyday life, and later, [[spoiler: being on the run from Death]].

* {{Hobbits}}: Obviously.

* GodGuise: Likes to do this according to his character biography, though not seen in the story.
* KillItWithFire: "It" being "everything".

* BadassBookworm: Smartest guy in the group.
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: He can speak only in monosyllables in English, but in his native tongue, he speaks very eloquently.
* GeniusBruiser: Great big lizard man who's highly intelligent.

* SixthRanger: Debuts and joins the party much later in the story than the other five.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Yes, he did. Several times.
** He's also wrestled to death the Death of Being Wrestled to Death by Steve. Yes, this gets the Paradox Department involved.

* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Again, there's a Death ''specifically for people that he's wrestled to death''.

* OnlySaneMan: to Steve.

* EldritchAbomination

* {{Revenge}}: Wants revenge against Steve for killing him several times.

Cryptozoologist turned primate researcher and reluctant ally to Steve. She's in touch with the Yeti.

A sci-fi theme; the campaign-themed EarlyInstallmentWeirdness of the comic presented it as a campaign featuring the same four players as the Fantasy theme. A story about a group of interstellar merchants on the ''Legacy''. Even more so than the Fantasy theme, most of the story is told via gaming miniatures, though LEGO figures pop up occasionally, especially when the heroes are trapped in cyberspace.

* CatFolk: He is a sparrial, a sci-fi variant.
* ComedicSociopathy: Very common.
* {{Greed}}: One of his defining characteristics.
* HumanoidAlien: He looks like an anthro cat.

* TokenHuman: The only human in the otherwise alien crew of the ''Legacy''.

* NoRespectGuy
* WhipItGood: Occasionally use whips.

* BigEater
* PungeonMaster

* DragonInChief

* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has a scar on his face.
* HookHand
* HighClassGlass: Wears a monocle.

* HypercompetentSidekick
* [[spoiler:TheMole]]

Hitler's BrainInAJar. Need I say more? Anyway, he died in the Reichstag fire and his brain was put on life support by Adam Savage to win a [[ChessWithDeath Bet With Death]]. Plans to take control of powerful artifacts and take over the world.

* BrainInAJar: Natch.

* {{Ghostapo}}: Is obsessed with occult.

* TakeOverTheWorld

* BigDamnHeroes / DeusExMachina: Want to be rescued? Bet on him! Once inverted though.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Inverted.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Complete with scorecard.

* OverlyLongName: Her Russian name: Valentina Irina Ranevskaya Galina Ivana Natalya Iriyushka Anastasia Sonyechka Marinochka Ineslenka Tatyana Hvorostovskaya.

A dinosaur that showed up in several themes. Was eventually elected President of the United States.

* ImplausibleDeniability

* CelestialBureaucracy

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Really popular.
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity

* SitcomArchNemesis
* [[spoiler:ThoseWackyNazis]]: He is heavily implied to have been [[spoiler:Hitler]] in life. The comic's revival reveals this to have been just that, an implication, when he mentions that in life he was an elf from a fantasy world.

* BadBoss: Seems to go out of his way to screw over Fireballs.
* DeathGlare: [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/663.html Except it's not as effective.]]
* ObstructiveBureaucrat
* PurpleIsPowerful: Wears a purple cloak.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
* DeathByIrony: Gets wrestled to death by Steve, twice.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Though Head Death does mention a Paradox Department.

* QuintessentialBritishGentleman

* AccidentalHero

* PunnyName: "Stud, not Shaken".

* ConsummateLiar: Pinpoints this as the number one skill needed to be a senator.

Aspiring Roman senator. Cousin to one [[UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar Gaius Julius]].

[[/folder]]

Premiering in 2019, to date the only theme to debut after the comic's 2015 revival, the ''Series/StrangerThings'' theme started out reenacting the first season of the series, but has promised to go OffTheRails soon.

* WhatAnIdiot: Don't care about the germs and don't give your species immortality treatment before sending them to invade Earth? Why not?

* NiceHat: A red one that somewhat resembles a fez.

* NiceHat: He has a cowboy hat.

This comic has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters... But don't worry! There are a number of distinct "themes", so most of the characters are restricted to just one theme... [[CrossOver Most of the time]]...

The story of Creator/WilliamShakespeare, in a timeline in which before he became anything close to a famous writer, he was caught in a time warp that left him stranded in modern-day Australia, where he works a SoulCrushingDeskJob and writes ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fanfiction.

Debuting in 2004, a spoof on Film/JamesBond, reenacting the Bond films in chronological order. Due to the theme's unpopularity, currently only halfway through the second Bond film.

[[folder: Me]]

[[folder: Space]]

[[folder: Nigerian Finance Minister]]

[[folder: Death]]

The first theme to debut after the comic's 2015 revival, the ''Series/StrangerThings'' theme started out reenacting the first season of the series, but has promised to go OffTheRails soon.

For strips that don't fit into any of the existing themes; most commonly, those featuring the Allosaurus outside the context of him menacing the heroes of any theme in particular.

A dinosaur that showed up in several themes. Was eventually elected President of the United States, after which he showed up mostly in the Martians theme. The Steve and Terry, Mythbusters, and Shakespeare themes also acknowledge his presidency, confirming that all of these themes share a singular universe; the Pirates, Cliffhangers, and Scientific Revolution themes also seem to take place in this universe, but in the past.

Your old stereotypical dwarf with Scottish accent. Got persuaded to join the group by Kyrosâi, by predictable method.

* BigEater: While hobbits count "second breakfast" among their second meals, Lambert also indulges in second ''supper''.

This comic has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters... But don't worry! There are several different themes, so most of the characters are restricted to just one theme... [[CrossOver Most of the time]]...

The creator of the comic himself has his own theme, usually revolving around working on the comic, his everyday life, [[spoiler: his being on the run from Death..]].

* AuthorAvatar: He ''is'' David-Morgan Mar, though the comic transcripts always refer to him as "Me" even when this makes no grammatical sense.

%% * GenreSavvy

[[folder:Cliffhangers]]

This theme is mainly a spoof of ''Franchise/IndianaJones''.

!! The Jones family

! Montana "Monty" Jones

The main character of this theme. An Archaeology professor who constantly needs to fight against the Nazis to take control of powerful artifacts that the [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazis will use to conquer the world]]. ''Hates'' wurst.

* EmbarrassingFirstName: His birth name was North Dakota Jones Junior. He prefers Montana.
* NoRespectGuy
* WhipItGood: Occasionally use whips.

! Prof. North Dakota Jones

Monty's father. Obsessed with the Holy Grail.

* BigEater
* PungeonMaster

! Minnesota Jones
North Dakota's father, thus Monty's grandfather. Was presumably lost after he went on dinosaur chasing.

* OverlyLongName: His title? The Honourable Herr Schliemannian Chair Professor Doktor Doktor Jones, CBE, DCM, JP, FRS

!! [[ThoseWackyNazis The Nazis]]

* MadLibsCatchPhrase: Nazi science sneers at [thing to be sneered at]! Sometimes the science part is changed too.

! Colonel Haken

Monty's archnemesis. Hitler-brain-in-a-jar's primary lackey when it comes to gathering powerful artifacts.

* DragonInChief
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may be a Nazi, but [[spoiler:he enlisted to collect various [[ArtifactOfDoom Artifacts of Doom]] and is completely disgusted by genocide.]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has a scar on his face.
* HookHand
* HighClassGlass: Wears a monocle.
* LightIsNotGood: His uniform is light tan, while his alternate-universe good counterpart [[DarkIsNotEvil has a black uniform]].
* TheMillstone: When he was [[TakenForGranite petrified]], Hitler took over Europe easily.
* ObviouslyEvil: Let's see... DuelingScar, HookHand, [[GoodHairEvilHair stereotypical "bad-guy" mustache]], and a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] to boot.

! Erwin

Haken's main lackey. Is not really as committed to the Nazi principle as others, thus is a bit more reasonable.

* HypercompetentSidekick
* [[spoiler:TheMole]]

! [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler's]] Brain

Hitler's BrainInAJar. Need I say more? Anyway, he died in the Reichstag fire and his brain was put on life support by Adam Savage to win a [[ChessWithDeath Bet With Death]]. Plans to take control of powerful artifacts and take over the world.

* BrainInAJar: Natch.
* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: Hitler was burnt at the Reichstag fire and is a {{brain in a jar}}.
* {{Ghostapo}}: Is obsessed with occult.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Part of the reason that he's a BrainInAJar is because Lego, for obvious reasons, does not make Hitler minifigs.
* StupidJetpackHitler: Complete with multiple clones of his own brain.
* TakeOverTheWorld

!! Others

! Sallah

The Jones family's Arabic friend who will always come to their rescue.

* BigDamnHeroes / DeusExMachina: Want to be rescued? Bet on him! Once inverted though.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Inverted.

! Ginny Smith

A US archaeology expert who defected to the Soviets. Can and will backstab everyone.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Complete with scorecard.
* HeroesWantRedheads: She's a redhead, and Monty clearly has a thing for her.
* OverlyLongName: Her Russian name: Valentina Irina Ranevskaya Galina Ivana Natalya Iriyushka Anastasia Sonyechka Marinochka Ineslenka Tatyana Hvorostovskaya.

[[folder: Death]]

Agency of Deaths and the main point of CrossOver.

* CelestialBureaucracy
* NoIndoorVoice: Every death (except Charon) speaks in ALL CAPS when talks to mortals.
* OddJobGods: Most of them watch over a very specific (and often very unlikely) aspect of death.

! Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs

Probably the main character of Death theme. Has really bad luck on the job. Has been the Death Of Being Sat On By A Giant Frog, Fate Worse Than Death, Death Of Being Stared At Angrily By A Giant Frog, and Death Of Being Run Through The Spleen With A Toothpick.

* ButtMonkey: Gets who get job shuffling the most?
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Really popular.
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity
* ReassignmentBackfire: He could lead the Deaths' Strike without being drawn to do his job because at that point, he had been demoted to Fate Worse Than Death, and as such was no longer a Death. The Head Death ends up breaking the strike by rehiring him as Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs.
* SinisterScythe: He uses one, made by cutting one blade off a lego pickax.

! Death of Choking On A Giant Frog

Fireballs's competitor, since he wanted to be Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs, but otherwise friendly to each other. Apparently he originally died when an aide of his shoved a giant frog down his throat.

* SitcomArchNemesis
* [[spoiler:ThoseWackyNazis]]: He is heavily implied to have been [[spoiler:Hitler]] in life. The comic's revival reveals this to have been just that, an implication, when he mentions that in life he was an elf from a fantasy world.

! Head Death

The boss. He is in charge of the Deaths' positions, and will demote and promote the lesser Deaths based on their performance. Really hates the Paradox Department.

* BadBoss: Seems to go out of his way to screw over Fireballs.
* DeathGlare: [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/663.html Except it's not as effective.]]
* ObstructiveBureaucrat
* PurpleIsPowerful: Wears a purple cloak.

! Death of Being Wrestled To Death By Steve
The Death responsible for collecting people who've been wrestled to death by Steve. Wears a cowboy hat and a green cloak.

* ButtMonkey: He's been killed twice by Steve.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
* DeathByIrony: Gets wrestled to death by Steve, twice.
* NiceHat: He has a cowboy hat.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Though Head Death does mention a Paradox Department.

! Death of Inhaling Hatmaking Chemicals
The Death responsible for collecting people who died by mercury inhalation. He doesn't get much work nowadays, although he gets to collect the Mythbusters (they get sent back, however). He speaks in a cockney accent, and wears a top hat because "the class system's dead".

* QuintessentialBritishGentleman
* WildMassGuessing: Is Lewis Carroll from Scientific Revolution. Maybe.
* YankTheDogsChain: He finally gets to collect the Mythbusters, but they get sent back to the land of the living.

! Charon

The Ferryman of the Underworld, but there is no indication of how does he fit into the organization.

* PublicDomainCharacter: From Greek mythology.

[[folder:Fantasy]]

An RPG campaign that is a big spoof on [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Tolkien]].

! Lambert
The group's merchant. Highly protective of his money.

%%* BigEater
* {{Hobbits}}: Obviously.
* IncrediblyLamePun: He's the originator of the hobbit puns that show up every hundred strips or so.

! Alvissa
The group's elf and bard. Also the OnlySaneMan of the group.

* AllThereInTheManual: The fact that she's a bard went entirely unmentioned in the original run of the comic; in strip #4298, 17 years into the comic, Mordekai is surprised to learn she's not a cleric.

! Mordekai

The group's thief. But never call him that.

* InsistentTerminology: He's a LovableRogue not a thief!
* KleptomaniacHero: He steals from everyone they meet.
* LovableRogue: Insisted being called that instead of thief.

! Kyros

The group's wizard. A pyromaniac wizard that frequently kills off his teammates.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: To the point that none of his companions mourned him when he got pulled into the abyss by a Balrog.
* GodGuise: Likes to do this according to his character biography, though not seen in the story.
* KillItWithFire: "It" being "everything".
* LastOfHisKind: His character biography mentions he's the last survivor of an unknown civilization.
* {{Pyromaniac}}: Fire magic is basically the only kind of magic he knows, but he's damn good at it and loves to use it.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: How did he kill a Balrog? More fire!

! Draak

A lizardman hired by Lambert to help with the group (and protect his money from Mordekai).

* BadassBookworm: Smartest guy in the group.
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: He can speak only in monosyllables in English, but in his native tongue, he speaks very eloquently.
* GeniusBruiser: Great big lizard man who's highly intelligent.
* HulkSpeak: He speaks in this sort of simplistic grammar, plus never uses any word that has more than one syllable.
* RaceNameBasis: Due to the rule of writing his dialogue (that he only speaks in monosyllables), he cannot pronounce the names of any of his teammates. Therefore, Alvissa is "elf", Dwalin is "dwarf", Kyros is "mage", and Mordekai is "rogue". Lambert, however, he calls Bert.
* SmarterThanYouLook: His brutish appearance and limited grasp of English belie a deep understanding of scientific concepts.

! Dwalin

Your old stereotypical dwarf with Scottish accent. Got persuaded to join the group by Kyrosâi, by predictable method.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Unashamedly, he is an axe-wielding, alcohol-drinking, thick-bearded Scotsman who lives in an underground kingdom and has a grudge against elves.

[[/folder]]

Originally a sci-fi campaign with the same players as fantasy, but eventually grew into its own story about a group of interstellar merchants on the ''Legacy''. They get stuck in cyberspace a lot.

A sparrial, a cat-like alien, and the one who does most of the actual 'merchanting' on the ship. He's very greedy and has a penchant for bad ideas.

The ship's pilot. Was dead for a while.

The ship's scientist and diplomat, a fungoid alien called a pachekki.

The ''Legacy'''s engineer, a mantis-like alien of unknown origin.

[[folder:Harry Potter]]
ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, but later the theme is mostly in William Shakespeare's fanfic.

! Franchise/HarryPotter

! Hermione Granger

! Ron Weasley

! Draco Malfoy

[[folder:Imperial Rome]]

! Marcus

A Roman senator.
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* ConsummateLiar: Pinpoints this as the number one skill needed to be a senator.

! Julius

Aspiring Roman senator. Cousin to one [[UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar Gaius Julius]].

[[folder:Steve and Terry]]

! Steve

A herpetologist who loves getting up close and personal to dangerous reptiles- and then wrestling them. Has wrestled crocodiles, snakes, a shark, and Cthulhu.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
* [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Did You Just Wrestle Cthulhu To Death?]]: Yes, he did. Several times.
** He's also wrestled to death the Death of Being Wrestled to Death by Steve. Yes, this gets the Paradox Department involved.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: He finds dangerous things fascinating.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The author vehemently (jokingly) denies that he is in any way inspired by Creator/SteveIrwin.
* OnlyOneName: He's only ever called "Steve", even when it would make far more sense for a last name to be mentioned, as part of NoCelebritiesWereHarmed above.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Again, there's a Death ''specifically for people that he's wrestled to death''.

! Terry

Steve's wife and voice of reason.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: As with Steve, the author denies any connection between her and Terri Irwin; notably, they spell their first names differently.
* OnlySaneMan: to Steve.

! Cthulhu

"Mighty Cthulhu is one of the Great Old Ones, an Elder God who lies in eternal deathless sleep in the sunken nightmare city of R'lyeh. Even being aware of his very existence is enough to push strong men to the brink of insanity. Not that that would ever stop Steve."
-Irregular webcomics character description

* EldritchAbomination
* MixAndMatchCritter: How the author made his LEGO Cthulhu: his body is a theropod dinosaur, its head replaced with a giant octopus, and his "wings" are made of the sails on the backs of other LEGO dinosaurs.
* {{Revenge}}: Wants revenge against Steve for killing him several times.

! Charity Collector Guy

->"Hi, I'm campaigning for greater community awareness of trigonometry."

A guy who regularly volunteers to collect money for a variety of unusual charitable organizations. [[spoiler:Even volunteers as a subsitute Death briefly.]] Also an expert in origami [[spoiler:and astrophysics.]]

* AlmightyJanitor: His aforementioned unusual combination of expertises make him very helpful in one of the latest attempts to reboot history.
* IncrediblyLamePun: A lot of his appearances have this as the punch line.

! Jane Goodall

Cryptozoologist turned primate researcher and reluctant ally to Steve. She's in touch with the Yeti.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Very often. Especially when confronted by Steve.
* KnightInSourArmor: She protects the world from paranormal threats and grumbles about it the whole time.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Averted; unlike Steve and Terry, there's no ImplausibleDeniability that she's based on the real Jane Goodall. One strip sees Morgan-Mar receiving a (fake) phone call from Goodall criticizing the script, while in another, an opportunity he had to meet her for real produced a strip in which she recognizes and slaps him.
* PrimAndProperBun: Made from a blob of blu-tack.

[[folder: Nigerian Finance Minister]]
A spoof on the FourOneNineScam, focusing on the ''actual'' guy in charge of the Nigerian treasury, with legitimate requests that never work out because they look almost exactly like the classic scam.

! Nigerian Finance Minister

The beleaguered finance minister of Nigeria. Often tries to use e-mail to implore foreigners to help transfer money, with little success.
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* FourOneNineScam: What people think he's doing when he sends them e-mails, despite being entirely sincere. Ironically, he himself falls victim to a guy claiming to be the king of Nigeria, despite Nigeria having been a republic since its independence.
* BeleagueredBureaucrat: Nobody helps this guy do his job.
* CassandraTruth: Nobody he sends his e-mails to actually believes that he's not a scammer.
* SincerityMode: The heart of all his gags- he's what would happen if those scam e-mails really were from the Nigerian government.

A spoof on Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds, but gets veered into different direction lately.

The last 3 Martians who still plans to conquer Earth, but pretty inept at it.

* LastOfHisKind

[[folder:Espionage]]
A spoof on Film/JamesBond.

! James Stud (0x0a)
* AccidentalHero
* CasanovaWannabe: Unlike Bond, he really fails with women.
* PunnyName: "Stud, not Shaken".

[[folder:Miscellaneous]]
! The Allosaurus

A dinosaur that showed up in several themes. Was eventually elected President of the United States, after which he showed up mostly in the Martians theme. The Steve and Terry, Mythbusters, and Shakespeare themes also acknowledge his presidency, confirming that all of these themes share a singular universe; the Pirates, Cliffhangers, and Scientific Revolution themes also seem to take place in this universe, but in the past.

* AnimalAthleteLoophole: Applied to politics. Strictly speaking, the U.S. Constitution doesn't specify that the president must be ''human''.
* BreakoutCharacter: "The Allosaurus" is easily the most popular option in Irregular Webcomics polls when available.
* ImAHumanitarian: Ate his entire Cabinet at one point.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Difficult to characterize, but "President Dinosaur" isn't on the list to begin with.
* TheUnintelligible: "RAAARRRHH!!!"

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* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: He can speak only in monosyllabus in English, but in his native tongue, he speaks very eloquently.

* HulkSpeak: He speaks in this sort simplistic grammar, plus never uses any word that has more than one syllable.

* {{Expy}}: Almost certainly one of [[Series/CrocodileHunter Steve Irwin,]] althogh the author [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial has regularly insisted otherwise]].

* {{Expy}}: Of the real life Dame Jane Goodall.

%%* KnightInSourArmor

* AuthorAvatar
* GrandfatherParadox: Once went back in time to kill his past self.

! Montana (Monty) Jones

* [[spoiler:ThoseWackyNazis]]: He is heavily implied to have been [[spoiler:Hitler]] in life.

The group's elf and archer. Also the OnlySaneMan of the group.

%%* KleptomaniacHero

* GodGuise: Likes to do this.

%%* LastOfHisKind
%%* {{Pyromaniac}}

%%* SmarterThanYouLook

%%* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame

A rat-like alien, and the one who does most of the actual 'merchanting' on the ship. He's very greedy and has a penchant for bad ideas.

* HumanoidAlien: He looks like an anthro rat.

* RatMen: He appears to be a sci-fi variant.

The ship's scientist and diplomat.

The ''Legacy'''s engineer.

[[folder:Franchise/HarryPotter]]

* MixAndMatchCritter: How he was put together.

* [[spoiler:AlmightyJanitor : His aforementioned unusual combination of expertises make him very helpful in one of the latest attempts to reboot history]]
* IncrediblyLamePun: A lot of his appearances have this as the joke.

* [[DeathByIrony Near-death by Irony]]: Claimed to be descendant of Allesandro Volta when rewiring his pizzeria. Guess what happens next.

! The Allosaurus

A dinosaur that showed up in several themes. Was eventually elected President of the United States, after which he showed up mostly in the Martians theme.

* AnimalAthleteLoophole: Applied to politics. Strictly speaking, the U.S. Constitution doesn't specify that the president must be ''human''.
* BreakoutCharacter: "The Allosaurus" is easily the most popular option in Irregular Webcomics polls when available.
* ImAHumanitarian: Ate his entire Cabinet at one point.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Difficult to characterize, but "President Dinosaur" isn't on the list to begin with.
* TheUnintelligible: "RAAARRRHH!!!"

* [[spoiler:ReverseMole]]

* [[BadassGrandpa Badass Grandma]]: Old and still awesome.

* KnightInSourArmor

* GeniusBonus: His codename is hexadecimal for 10 (and his co-worker [[ThemeNaming James Shaken]] was "0x0b", 11)
* TheLeisureSuitLarry: Unlike Bond, he really fails with women.