Characters / LEGO Alpha Team

Characters from LEGO Alpha Team.

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Alpha Team

Dash Justice

• Cool Shades: Dash wears sunglasses in Mission Deep Freeze.
• The Leader: Dash is the commander of Alpha Team.
• Meaningful Name: Dash Justice is the team's motions expert and fights for justice.
• Obliviously Evil: Dash Justice has a brief moment of this in Evil Music when he starts playing a tune on Ogel's pipe organ, unaware that he's spawning storms as a result.
• Perma-Stubble: Dash perpetually had stubble until Mission Deep Freeze.

Tee Vee

• Designated Victim: In Into The Deep, wherein he is first destroyed by a Mutant Killer Whale and then gets captured by mutant sea creatures no less than a minute after being rebuilt. Although, in the Alpha Team Intelligence Database, Tee Vee denies that he was ever in danger.
  Tee Vee: "I was not almost lost in the maze of sea monsters. An Advanced Undersea Scout such as myself is never lost. My vehicle was merely being held captive by those mutant brutes."
• Dub Name Change: In Germany, Tee Vee's name was changed to AT-1 in the video game and early 2001 catalogs.
• Machine Monotone: Averted in the PC game, wherein he has a very expressive and enthusiastic voice despite being a robot, but Played Straight in the Mission Deep Sea online game Into The Deep, in which he speaks in flat monotone.
• Meaningful Name: Tee Vee's first appearance resembled a television on legs.
• Mr. Exposition: In LEGO Alpha Team, Tee Vee briefs the player on backstory and mission objectives.
• Robot Antennae: Tee Vee's original design had these, in keeping with his television set-inspired appearance.
• Robot Buddy: Tee Vee is Alpha Team's only robot.
• You Don't Look Like You: Drastically changes in appearance between missions, from a television on legs to an undersea rover in Mission Deep Sea to an android in Mission Deep Freeze. Justified in that Tee Vee can download his consciousness into different robotic bodies.

Crunch

• Badasses Wear Bandanas: Crunch is a no-nonsense Demolitions Expert wearing a black bandana.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Did not return for Mission Deep Freeze.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Tom Mott revealed that Crunch was modeled as "a no-nonsense Ernest Borgnine type".
• Demolitions Expert: Crunch is the team's explosives expert.
• Dub Name Change: In Germany, Crunch's name was changed to Tanxx in the video game and early 2001 catalogs.
• Perma-Stubble: Crunch always has a face full of stubble.

Radia

• Cool Shades: She wears sunglasses in Mission Deep Freeze.
• Designated Victim: In pretty much every adaptation of Mission Deep Freeze. Whether it's in the LEGO sets, the LEGO Magazine comics, the Red Lens training missions, or the Drones' Menace online game, Radia is always subjected to Harmless Freezing at one point and Alpha Team needs to rescue her.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Radia specializes in laser technology, but she's the Alpha Team's all-around scientist.
• Science Hero: Radia is Alpha Team's local scientist and lasers specialist, putting her skills to use to save the day.

Charge

• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Tom Mott revealed that Charge "was partially based on Wesley Snipes".
• Cool Shades: Until Mission Deep Freeze, Charge always wore sunglasses.
• Dub Name Change: In Germany, Charge's name was changed to Lexon in the video game and early 2001 catalogs.
• The Engineer: Works primarily with electronics.
• Meaningful Name: Charge is the electrical expert.
• Perpetual Smiler: In Mission Deep Freeze, Charge has a large wide grin.
• You Don't Look Like You: In Mission Deep Freeze, he lost his facial hair and Cool Shades, instead becoming a Perpetual Smiler like Flex. The homage to Wesley Snipes appears to be lost in the transition.

Cam Attaway

• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Did not return for Mission Deep Freeze.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Tom Mott revealed that, in designing Cam, they were "going for a Janeane Garofalo type of thing".
• Dub Name Change: In Germany, Cam's name was changed to Cosma in the video game and early 2001 catalogs.
• The Engineer: Cam is a mechanic who works primarily with motors.
• The Glasses Gotta Go: She stopped wearing glasses during Mission Deep Sea.
• Number Two: Cam worked very closely with The Leader Dash in Evil Music and Into the Deep, causing fans to interpret her as his second-in-command.
• Show Some Leg: Invoked in Into The Deep, where Cam Attaway volunteers to distract Ogel with her "irresistible charms" while Dash sneaks in and destroys the orb machine.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Cam, who is The Engineer, wears glasses... at least, in the videogame and first wave of sets. After that, she stopped wearing glasses.
• Wrench Wench: Cam is one of the team's only female agents, and she isn't afraid to get dirty while working with vehicles and motors.

Flex

• Author Avatar: Tom Mott always thought that Flex strongly resembled the team's lead animator, Kevin Jackson, although whether or not this was intentional could not be confirmed.
• Cool Shades: Flex wears sunglasses in Mission Deep Freeze.
• Dub Name Change: In Germany, Flex's name was changed to Migh in the video game and early 2001 catalogs.
• Meaningful Name: Flex works with ropes.
• Perma-Stubble: Despite being clean-shaven beforehand, Mission Deep Freeze depicts Flex with stubble.
• Perpetual Smiler: His distinguishing feature was his enormous smile, until Mission Deep Freeze considerably toned it down.

• You Don't Look Like You: In Mission Deep Freeze, he lost his signature smile and instead received Cool Shades and Perma-Stubble.

Gearbox

• The Engineer: He designed Alpha Team vehicles such as the Tundra Tracker.
• The Ghost: Our knowledge of his existence comes from a single mention of his name in an issue of LEGO Magazine.
• Meaningful Name: Gearbox is a vehicle designer.

Diamond Tooth

• Badasses Wear Bandanas: Diamond Tooth is a tough agent who wears a grey bandana wrapped around his head.
• Cool Shades: Diamond Tooth wears sunglasses.
• Sixth Ranger: Makes his first appearance in Mission Deep Freeze.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Towards Crunch. They both have the same uniform color (green), and some of Diamond Tooth's features are evocative of Crunch's design.
• Tunnel King: Fans speculate that this is Diamond Tooth's specialty, given the fact that he drives the Tundra Tracker which can transform into the Magma Drill.

Arrow

• The Engineer: Arrow is revealed to be a mechanic in a Brick Street Journal article.
• Number Two: Seemed to be Dash's second-in-command in Mission Deep Freeze, keeping with his role of a Suspiciously Similar Substitute for Cam. Note that in the online games, he is important enough that he is the only agent besides Dash who can hack specific computers, and he is trusted with operating Alpha Team's Mobile Command Center.
• Sixth Ranger: Makes his first appearance in Mission Deep Freeze.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Granted, they're opposite genders and look nothing alike, but Arrow seems to be molded to take over Cam's role in Mission Deep Freeze as a mechanic acting as Dash's Number Two.

Zed

• 11th-Hour Ranger: Makes his first appearance just before the Final Battle of Mission Deep Freeze.
• Meaningful Name: Zed is the last Alpha Team agent introduced.

Villains

Evil Ogel

• Big Bad: Evil Ogel is the sole major villain of LEGO Alpha Team.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He proudly calls himself Evil Ogel.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In the PC game, Ogel's shoulder armor has a very different design, and his yellow hands are exposed rather than covered with black gloves.
• Evil Brit: Courtesy of his voice actor in the PC game, Oliver Fredericks, Ogel is given a British accent to suit the Spy Fiction genre.
• Evil Gloating: Evil Ogel is fond of gloating towards Alpha Team in his monologues.
• Evil Is Hammy: The villainous Ogel is especially hammy when fully voiced in the PC game.
  Evil Ogel: I am Ogel, and I cannot be stopped!
• Evil Laugh: Evil Ogel loves to laugh menacingly. In the videogame, every time the player failed a mission, Ogel would laugh, with a multitude of randomized laughing voice clips to choose from.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Evil Ogel is given a fitting deep voice in the PC game and Into the Deep.
• Faux Affably Evil: Especially in the PC game, wherein he acts polite and good-mannered towards the Alpha Team agents as he threatens to trap them forever and feed them to the sharks, serving to accent how evil he is.
• Genre Blind: Evil Ogel clearly wasn't catching on to the fact that Alpha Team was easily trumping every single challenge he threw at them or that every single one of his door locks was specifically catered to an Alpha Team agent's specialty.
  Evil Ogel: True, you've opened my plunger doors, my double plunger doors, the laser doors, gotten past all of my guards and sentries, opened the electric doors, and the motorized doors, and rescued the entire Alpha Team, but [evil laughter] you'll never get past my rope locks! Why not? Because you can't!
• Gratuitous Italian: Despite being an Evil Brit, Ogel says "bravissimo" while commending Alpha Team on successfully rescuing Charge in the Goo Caverns.
• Hook Hand: Starting with Mission Deep Sea, Evil Ogel's left hand is replaced by a hook.
• Legacy Character: In an interview, Evil Ogel revealed that he is the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Lord Vladek.
• Meaningful Name: The Sdrawkcab Name Ogel stands for the opposite of all that is good about LEGO.
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Parodied. In an interview, Ogel claims that he is legally changing his name from Evil Ogel to Misunderstood Ogel. However, he clearly has no intention of being any less evil and was just making a half-hearted attempt to garner sympathy.
• Obviously Evil: He dresses almost entirely in black, he has a red eye, he has a Hook Hand, he calls himself "evil"... the list goes on.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Ogel wears all black and his right eye is red. In Mission Deep Sea, his Hook Hand was also red.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Ogel's right eye is red, fitting for a villain.
• Red Right Hand: His red eye and Hook Hand both identify him as villainous.
• Right-Hand Cat: In The Return of Ogel, he had a cat named Mr. Whiskers.
• Sdrawkcab Name: "Ogel" is "LEGO" spelled backwards. In an interview with the Great Redini, Ogel claimed that this was because everything he stood for was the opposite of LEGO.
• Shoulders of Doom: In the LEGO sets, Ogel wears the same enormous shoulder pads as the Zotaxians.
• Villain Ball: If Ogel did not gloat over Alpha Team's failure to turn off the D.O.O.M. machine, they would never have found out about his secret Arctic Command Base. Lampshaded by Ogel immediately after the reveal.
  Evil Ogel: Nobody knows about it! Nobody! Not even you! [Beat] D'oh! Just kidding about that secret Arctic Command Base!
• Villainous Breakdown: At the end of LEGO Alpha Team, Ogel drops his polite and classy act and throws a childish temper tantrum when his plan is foiled. He accidentally activates the base's Self-Destruct Mechanism in his fit of rage.

Ogel Drones

• Brainwashed and Crazy: Courtesy of Ogel's Mind-Control Orbs, these once-ordinary civilians were turned into Ogel's evil minions.
• Dem Bones: Possibly. We don't know for sure whether or not these skull-faced minions have flesh beneath their uniforms, so they might be entirely skeletal.
• Depending on the Artist: In the PC game, the Zombies' model has some Early Installment Character-Design Difference, with a unique face sporting Wingding Eyes and Slasher Smiles instead of using the standard LEGO Skull for a Head seen in the later toyline. However, there is some artwork for the PC game (such as a large banner depicting Ogel and his Zombies in the Goo Caverns) that do show them with the regular skull.
• Elite Mooks:
  • The Ogel Shark Sub is piloted by an unique Skeleton Drone wearing a badge.
  • The Scorpion Orb Launcher is piloted by a Super Ice Drone, which looks like a normal Ice Drone with a black skull and a slightly different uniform.
• Everything's Deader with Zombies: Although LEGO Alpha Team is Spy Fiction instead of the usual Zombie Apocalypse genre, Skeleton Drones are essentially Ogel's undead minions. They were even called "zombies" in the videogame and first wave of sets.
• Evil Minions: Zombie Workers and Zombie Barrel Pushers, who operate equipment in Ogel's bases and ignore Alpha Team agents unless they interrupt their work.
• Gas Mask Mooks: Zombie Barrel Pushers are always wearing gas masks as part of their hazmat suits.
• The Guards Must Be Crazy: In the intro cutscene to LEGO Alpha Team, Dash easily distracts a zombie Guard by whistling. In the game itself, Guards will never leave their post and Troopers will never break formation, even if there is an Alpha Team agent in plain sight.
• Hazmat Suit: Hazmat suits are worn by Zombie Barrel Pushers.
• Mooks: Ogel Drones serve as Ogel's minions.
• Obviously Evil: They wear Red and Black and Evil All Over uniforms and have a Skull for a Head, so they're not going to be mistaken for good guys anytime soon.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Their uniforms are always red and black.
• Skull for a Head: In the LEGO sets, Ogel Drones have the standard minifigure skull representing their heads. Assuming they aren't completely skeletal underneath those uniforms.
• Wingding Eyes: In the PC game, Zombies have spiral eyes to indicate that they are Brainwashed and Crazy.

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