Characters of Skin Horse.
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Tip
Dr. Dennis "Tip" Wilkin
He's definitely not transgender, but he makes a point to always wear extremely stylish vintage women's clothing, even when it catches him flack from his superiors.
- Agent Peacock: Insistent on wearing women's clothing (and sometimes makeup). He's also decently good at his job and definitely a man's man, with nigh supernatural powers of seduction. He says it’s a matter of self-confidence.
- Attractive Bent Species: When Tip is temporarily turned into a werewolf he becomes irresistible to female dogs
as well as humans. - Beware the Nice Ones: Tip is flirtatious, flighty, and easily distracted by clothing sales. He also is not someone you ever want to have angry at you.
- Brains and Bondage: Tip has a doctorate in psychology, and definitely seems to enjoy a bit of kink now and then.
- The Casanova: He can seduce pretty much any woman. He apparently slept with every humanoid female in his building (except Unity, who misunderstood his invitation to get physical), and most every other female that's been on panel. The only exceptions seem to be Tigerlily (immune due to being a mad scientist) and Violet Bee, who Tip has no interest in (possibly due to being a man piloting a remote body without proper anatomy, though he also was brooding over failing to seduce Tigerlily when they first met, and the second time he was distracted by Artie and Dr. Lee). Also Niue, the very human-looking Macaw woman, who immediately began hating him when he put on a hat.
- The Charmer: Tip can charm anyone who's female by presence alone, and can win over most hostile men in enough time, too.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: It's easy to forget, but he was in the military, and he earned his status as a war hero. All while wearing heels. Unity does note that this is easy to forget.
- Ethical Slut: Cheerfully admits to having one-night stands without knowing the names of his partners, yet at the same time goes out of his way to try to make, and keep, everyone happy.
- Extreme Omnisexual: Tip. Before meeting Artie, it was "anyone humanoid and female," now...Ruby: [a humanoid battle-android] I'm married.
Tip: Kismet! So was the couple I spent last Thursday with!
Ruby: He's a shapeless protoplasmic ur-entity.
Tip: Sorry, am I not known here? - Even the Guys Want Him: He managed to do this to H.T. while wearing a suit.
- Hand Puppet: An occasional recurrent joke is Tip’s use of hand puppets in psychotherapy. Everyone but him seems to see this as silly, but he’s clearly a great believer in the technique.
- Instant Seduction: Might as well be superhuman in this regard; Kinsey 7 lesbians, straight men, and (when he was temporarily a werewolf) intelligent dogs find him irresistible.
- Ladykiller in Love: Tip falls hard for Tigerlily Jones, which causes him to lose his mojo. He even loses the ability to pick handcuffs with a bobby pin. Don't ask why he would need to.
- The Narcissist: Subverted. Tip is extremely self-absorbed, and often oblivious to things people are trying to communicate to him because they don't get through his shell. However, as is mentioned in the comic's comments when discussing this aspect of him, self-absorbed does not always equate to self-centered, and Tip consistently acts in an altruistic manner and genuinely cares about the people around him, even if he's an unmindful twit at times.
- Not That Kind of Doctor: Tip is a research psychologist, not a therapist, although he seems to dabble in semi-therapeutic work from time to time.
- The Pornomancer: To the point that his "usual pattern" on a date is "naked in the coat closet" by the time the salad comes out - and sometimes the waitress and his date insist on making it a threesome!
- A later strip has him angsting about being out-Mojo'd by Artie, prompting their guide to hit on him insteadGuide: What just happened and how did my underpants leave my body?
- A later strip has him angsting about being out-Mojo'd by Artie, prompting their guide to hit on him instead
- Really Gets Around: And how.
- Selective Obliviousness: Tip shows an amazing lack of self-awareness towards his lack of long-term relationships.
- Teleporters and Transporters: His mojo is so strong that he can literally teleport a woman he's on a date with to an appropriate venue. Began simply as a gag, but later became an explicit power.
- Token Human: On a team with a Revenant Zombie, a talking dog, and a brain in a jar flying a tiltrotor.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Since grade school, apparently.
Unity
- All Girls Like Ponies: Played with. Unity's reaction when she ends up in an allegedly wish-granting grove is "I'mo get a pony made out of bacon!"
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: In her normal state, she can't really focus on anything for an extended period of time unless she wants to, which causes no end of trouble for the team due to forgetting things that would have been extremely helpful.
- Attractive Zombie: Despite her stitched-together nature, she's very cute and has been the target of interest of men, women, and abominations of science.
- The Big Guy: She's the muscle of the team and is exuberantly cheerful about laying into adversaries.
- Blood Knight: She was created to be a Super-Soldier, and she tells the base General "I love you" after the General called in the troops to take Skin Horse's agents away.
- Brutal Honesty: When she's eaten brains, her smart self doesn't hesitate to tell people the unvarnished, often tactless truth.
- Cultured Badass: Unity (when on a brain high) once quoted "Blight" after destroying a plant monster.
- Eats Babies: Reportedly. (link)Y'all tried eating unoiled babies?
- Expressive Hair: Her ponytails will sag when she's sad.
- Expy: Unity is a psychopathically violent Genki Girl much in the vein of Mell. Which only makes sense, as the filename hidden story strongly implies that her brain is a clone of Mell's. And mostly confirmed in the author's notes here.
- Extreme Omnivore: She's frequently eaten things that would be utterly impossible for a baseline human to even try to consume.Unity: Yeah! I ate a little old lady like you for breakfast!
Hooded Figure: I thought you ate steel for breakfast.
Unity:
Oxygen tank. - Flashback Fail: Unity is prone to this.
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: Spends some time in Dr. Lee's body as part of an initiation to the Order of Notaries Public. It Makes Sense in Context.
- Fun with Acronyms: Her name is actually U.N.I.T.Y.; the project leads figured they'd get an acronym to go along with it later. A super-advanced AI went insane trying to come up with one. She eventually came up with one on her own, based on something Sweetheart said: "Unity's Nice, I Tell You".
- Gayngst: Averted completely. Sweetheart gives a whole speech about how she's accepting Unity dating Bubbles (actually a big deal for Sweetheart) ... only to find that Unity doesn't need support to begin with.
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Unity is equal parts adorable and disturbing.
- Hidden Depths: Sure, a lot of her is goofy distractability and love of violence. But that's by no means the whole story.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: Quite caring and protective about her friends, especially Sweetheart and Bubbles.
- Last of His Kind: Due to a secret UN agreement making sure no one ever makes more of her. That said, Anasigma has their own version called Trinity, who calls Unity "the prototype".
- The Lad-ette: Enjoys guns, violence, brawling, and eating brains.
- Nanomachines: It's revealed that the actual U.N.I.T.Y. is a nanite goop that wears the patchwork-zombie body as a suit.
- Jekyll & Hyde: Unity's ground state vs her much more ruthless and intelligent smart state. They don't usually fight, but they definitely think of themselves as different people, to the point that Unity has a spirit quest to talk to herself...by being given a Tap on the Head by Zombie Emperor Norton.
- Martial Arts and Crafts: She has preternatural sewing skills, which she applies to things like making dresses. Sewing is not a traditional martial art, but it's how she puts herself back together on the battlefield after getting blown up or torn apart.
- One-Woman Army: To the point that US soldiers have to request a gunship to deal with her.
- Our Zombies Are Different: Non-infectious, can sew on new body parts, super-strong, and gets smarter after eating brains. Also not actually a zombie. She's a collective swarm of nanobots that can control biological systems. Her black blood is actually her.
- Restraining Bolt: Has one (the phrase "Blueberry Waffles"), but the team didn't even know it until they met Dr Lee, her creator. Lee was shocked they were able to work with her WITHOUT one, and they don't use it afterwards out of politeness.
- Super-Intelligence: After eating enough brains she develops a completely different personality, with prescient predictive powers and no sense of tact. It's only temporary though.
- Super-Strength: Apparently she can chuck Jeeps at people.
- Turned Against Their Masters: Spends a good portion of the strip planning to kill Dr. Lee, though she eventually gets over it. Oddly, it plays out more like an estranged daughter reconciling with her mom than anything else...except with more body swapping.
- The Virus: Unity is, technically, a set of nanobots in a special fluid; anything injected with the fluid then becomes Unity. Fortunately for the rest of us, she can't replicate very well and non-dead tissue tends to reject her after a while.
Sweetheart
Captain's Fancy Valentine Sweetheart
A Canadian talking dog and field commander. Often conflicted between her meek, civilized demeanor and her identity as a Mad Scientist's creation. Also the Only Sane Man pretty frequently.
- Armoured Closet Gay: She's a deeply closeted lesbian; it takes her the majority of the comic's run through 2019 to get to a point where she can truly acknowledge that she's in love with Unity. At one point, she suggested "curing" a gay opossum couple out of fear that their relationship would harm the non-human sapient cause. Everyone else, on the other hand, is concerned about the opossums because they want to use Mad Science to evangelize people for the Church of Happyology they're founding.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Sweetheart has no problems believing in the products of Mad Science, but the supernatural is out of bounds.
- She has difficulty believing werewolves exist.
- Similarly, she has trouble accepting the idea of someone being possessed.Remy: No, I'd never say anything so absurd to a talking dog.
Sweetheart: Pass me that rum. - Lampshaded here.Sweetheart: I won't be so open-minded my brains fall out. I can be a talking dog who lives in a giant robot and still think your thing is weird.
Unity: Don't worry about her! Your thing is awesome.
Sweetheart: Ignore my zombie girlfriend!
- She has difficulty believing werewolves exist
- Beware the Nice Ones: It takes a lot to get Sweetheart angry, but when finally provoked she is fierce.
- Covert Pervert: At work, she's obsessed with proper filing and completion of all necessary paperwork. When not at work, she's obsessed with goblin erotica. An unmade version of her first date with Unity (the script was revealed in a Sunday strip) would have had her get all Lawful Stupid about the venue probably having leash laws, until Unity asked if she wanted her to put her on a leash and got the reply "Oh, god, yes."
- Immune to Drugs: She was engineered with a minor Healing Factor; she gets drunk fairly often but the buzz doesn't last as long as she'd like.You want room service to do '''what'''?
Sweetheart: Salt the rim of my bathtub! It's not... that... hard! - In-Series Nickname: Unity always calls her "Babe", even when not addressing her.
- Moose and Maple Syrup: She's got the politeness and the heavy drinking down. By her own admission, though, she's never had a Kraft dinner in her life.
- Noble Bigot: She tries to be a good civil servant and help all sentients. But she's secretly pretty homophobic (and self hating because of it), and when drunk has been known to go on rants about how miscegenation is a sign of the end times.
- Rule-Abiding Rebel: Her massive acts of rebellion include spilling coffee on a lawn, citing the "No Trespassing No Littering" sign. No one is sure if this is due to the way she was built, or just due to being Canadian.
- Stockholm Syndrome: Seems to be the case with Sweetheart, who loved her creator despite all the crazy things he did to her.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Sweetheart fears frogs.
Moustachio
Moustachio the Thinkonium
- Antiquated Linguistics: Because of his age and origins, a lot of his dialogue uses terms that are very out of date.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Moustachio has an "evil mode" that he could potentially slip into if the parts of himself that maintain his good-mannered gentlemanly nature are disturbed.
- Clockwork Creature: He's a giant bronze (if somewhat tarnished) steampunk robot who needs to be wound up every day. Apparently at one point he once had arms and legs, but had them removed so he wouldn't be a threat to the community. Tigerlily installed tiny, mostly-cosmetic arms to him later.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: Apparently "missed all of the 1970s", and still has a number of very...antiquated social mores.
- My Skull Runneth Over: When his clockwork spring is overwound, he reverts from his kind, genteel receptionst's persona to a rampaging, villainous state.
- Smart People Speak the Queen's English: Well, it's more of a steampunk staple in his case.
- Team Dad: Of the office as a whole. He does his best, though the fact that he's immobile and behind the times limits his options.
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl: He'd never harm a delicate flower such as his paramour Hitty. Despite her being a fusion-powered, armored deathbot weighing several tons, armed with a massive hammer and Hulk Speak, and not even any Tertiary Sexual Characteristics. He was also willing to fight her up until her gender was mentioned.
Gavotte
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: She bosses around even those who aren't in her chain of command by dint of being a large and angry swarm of bees.
- The Chessmaster: Cheerfully secretive and manipulative.
- Cool Old Lady: Despite her occasionally creepy and manipulative nature she has a kind, nurturing personality.
- Hive Mind: Extremely literally. She's a collective organism, a gestalt entity of all the bees in her hive.
- Team Mom: Though they're often too obtuse to realize it, she takes care of the building.
Nick
Nick Zerhakker
SPOILER
The newest member of the team. He is the Black Helicopter (an unarmed-to-the-teeth V-22 Osprey
controlled by a Brain in a Jar, to be precise) and has made friends with the nerds in the Department of Irradiation. Not technically an employee since he doesn't get a salary; his fuel and WoW access are currently budgeted under "furniture".- Actual Pacifist: Nick would rather die than kill, and uses his guns exclusively to shoot other peoples' guns. He does make an exception for zombies, though.
- Black Helicopter: A modified V-22 Osprey, with the brain of a foul-mouthed gamer.Tip: We've got a black helicopter! You know what that makes us? An officially intimidating secret organization!
- Brain in a Jar: But at least he has cool wings.
- Character Blog: Nick had one (originally a LiveJournal, later on Wordpress, now possibly defunct), which explains, among other things, that he is a practicing Jew. Probably NSFW, as his censor filter doesn't apply here. During "If I Ran the Zoo", while the comic was following Tip and Sweetheart in Cleveland, the blog was following Nick and Unity going down to New Orleans. And Unity had seized control of it. When the team was split up, it gave us further details of life with AG-I, and why he hated it.
- Cluster F-Bomb: As a nerd, he lets the profanity flow freely; subverted once he becomes a brain in a jar thanks to the profanity filter.
- Cyborg: His brain was scooped out by Dr. Lee without his knowledge or consent. He got over his initial outrage pretty quick.
- The Driver: As is to be expected, considering he's the team's most reliable form of transportation.
- Fantastic Religious Weirdness: His Judaism becomes a minor issue in his Character Blog.
- Fun with Autocensors: Depending on which author comes up with them, the profanity filter's word substitutions can be amusingly accurate or entire nonsense.
- Gender Bender: Never played straight, but Nick seems to be a magnet for related scenarios. See the Lad-ette entry below for one. Later, to save costs on hiring beta testers, Whimsy creates an AI duplicate of him, adjusted to better reflect the female demographic, effectively giving Nick a twin sister. Not to mention the princess training (and accompanying powers) he eventually receives.
- Hikikomori: Nick, before joining Skin Horse...or at least he thought he was. His brain had already been removed and he was living in a simulation of his own dingy apartment.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Nick's heart is strong and full of love!
- Lad-ette: Briefly...sort of. He took over Violet's gynoid body briefly, before deciding to give it up following the Whimsy mission.
- Oblivious to Love: After regaining a human body, Nick proves himself to be this, admitting he's "really bad at picking up signals."Nick: *to Dr. Lee* You been leaning forward and licking your lips. Could that interfere with the reception?
- Parental Neglect: Given his surprise at Jonah talking about a mother keeping her childrens' old school papers and hasty attempt to Change the Uncomfortable Subject, Nick likely had a set of these.
- Religious Robot: Nick has an entry in his Character Blog about going to see a rabbi about how he can keep Judaism while being a sentient helicopter.
- Restraining Bolt: Besides the swear filter, Dr. Lee installed a lot of command words into his cybernetics, most of them breakfast foods. They almost never get used though, and when they are it's Played for Drama.
- Sir Swearsalot: And still does in his blog. Managed - briefly - to circumvent his profanity filter by swearing in Yiddish before it adapted; he then demanded that Dr. Lee teach him to swear in Korean.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He really dislikes Tip and makes no effort to hide it, although he does show concern for Tip after Tip willingly surrenders himself to Anasigma to keep them from killing the personnel at one of their bases.
- Unusual Euphemism: Nick is forced into this by his swearword-replacement control chip.
- Was Once a Man: Legally, he's no longer human, simply because he no longer sees himself as human.
- Wetware CPU: Nick got his brain attached to a black helicopter because the company that produced the helicopter were too inept or too lazy to produce an actual AI for it.
- White Elephant: Explicitly described as such by Mercurio, which leads to the creative accounting in the introduction.
Annex One
Basement Dwellers
Annex One's basement holds a vast ecosystem of failed or escaped experiments. They have recently created their own government (and newspaper).
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Averted. The silverfish and centipedes are the normal size.
- Creepy Cute: The cobras, anyway.
- Crystal Prison: The crystalline entities like trapping trespassers in these.
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The silverfish are this to Renaissance-era Italy. They even have Opera! The centipedes preying upon them are trying to be Amish but the robots are using their fields as an airstrip.
- Rodents of Unusual Size: A giant rat which feeds on zombie heads is the best friend of the crystalline entities.
- Our Zombies Are Different: A race of zombie heads are preyed on by the aforementioned giant rat prior to Tip unifying the Basement Dwellers.
Bubbles
SPOILER
Formerly Annex One's sentient water cooler, its AI has since been uploaded into a humanoid chassis.
- Bond One-Liner: Uses "Service Is My Only Joy" as one after acts of improbable badassery.
- Extreme Doormat: Has some issues standing up for herself, though Unity is trying to get her better about and Tigerlily taught her to add 'NOT' to her vocabulary ("Service is NOT my only joy").
- Intelligible Unintelligible: "Service is my only joy", and various combinations of those words. She gets a surprising amount of mileage out of it. Mustachio starts off as the only character who can understand her perfectly, but in later strips everyone can understand her, regardless of what she actually says. It appears to be entirely based on inflection and context. She also later acquires 'destroy' as a word. This bodes well.Chris: You can understand her, M?
Mustachio: Of course! One only needs to learn five words!
Gerda
A lesbian working in the Department of Cyronics who the other ladies try to get ice for girly drinks for their male mud wrestling viewing session. She claims she has no interest until it is mentioned that Tip is involved.
Marcie
Dr. Marcella "Marcie" Riley
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Prior to dating Tip, Marcie appeared fairly plain. After she hooked up with Doc Wilkin, the term "Nerdy Hot" definitely applies, and she hasn't gone back since.
Chris
Dr. Christopher Sanders
- Everyone Can See It: He is blatantly in love with Marcie.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: With some help from Tip, he's able to enhance his wardrobe and appearance like Marcie.
Department of Jetpack Suppression
The most cheerful of the employees in the building. And why not? They're the ones with the jetpacks.
- Hypocrite: Played for laughs. They're allowed to have jetpacks. For research, of course.
- I Want My Jetpack: They're keeping the general public from obtaining the technology.
Ira
MASSIVE SPOILER
Security guard at Annex One who had his mind wiped so many times he has no short term memory left.
- Forgetful Jones: His memory after a certain period a couple of decades ago until, oh, a few seconds ago, is shot. He's still mostly able to function, though, and his lack of need to sign any NDAs makes him a great asset for a black ops social services group. Turns out it's all a sham, and he is in fact Mr. Green.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: For some reason. Maybe to make sure that everyone keeps their passes on them at all times?
- Unsettling Gender-Reveal: He has one EVERY SINGLE TIME he sees Tip, since he's forgotten being corrected the last time.
Konstantin
- Meet My Good Friends Lefty and Righty: He's named all his muscle groups.
- Mother Russia Makes You Strong: He claims the only way for men to settle anything is with wrestling.
Anasigma
Dr. Lee
Doctor Virginia Lee
- Adorably Precocious Child: She was studying Trigonometry when her classmates were eating paste and playing with Duplos.Teacher: And why don't you enjoy Shape Time, Virginia?
Toddler!Lee: It's too theoretical! What are the applications of these "triangles"? - Affably Evil: She's friendly, she has a lot of affection for her creations and her friends, and she's completely cute. She also works for Anasigma, designs terrible weapons, and most notably schlooped Nick's brain out of his skull and brainwashed him into being a helicopter.
- G.I.R.L.: Inverted; when she first appeared to Nick in cyberspace, she used her real form, which earned her jeers and catcalls. She switched to a virtual old white guy body.Nick: Dude, you're doing it backwards.
- Evil Laugh: She can't really get the hang of it...
- I Am Not Pretty: She has this reaction when Nick realizes that the Dr Lee who's been visiting him in virtual reality is actually Dr Virginia Lee.Nick: So in VR you're a fat beardy guy, and in real life you're a smokin' hot Asian chick? You realize you got that fluffin' backward?
Dr. Lee:: "I'm not hot..." - Mad Scientist: Per the standards of this 'verse, she's not actually mad; her inventions don't warp reality, and she can't even pull off an evil laugh. But she can decipher mad inventions and make them sane, and has admitted to enjoying the "schloop" noise brains make when she scoops them out of their skulls.
- Minion with an F in Evil: In a better world, Dr. Lee wouldn't even be in the business of creating horrible sentient weapons out of people. She tries an Evil Laugh once and fails at it. She also has a confused motherly affection for her creations, even if they don't return it.General: You're not very good at evil conspiring, are you Doctor?
Dr. Lee: I'm not, General. I'm really not.- Even Sweetheart points it out when Dr. Lee suggests being honest and forthcoming about a zombie attack.
- Even Sweetheart points it out
- Omnidisciplinary Scientist: She was introduced as a brilliant neurosurgeon, and while that remains her specialty, she's also skilled at robotics, physics, and a host of other scientific pursuits, likely because part of her job description at Anasigma is reverse-engineering Mad Scientist inventions so they can be reconstructed by sane ones.
- Paralysis by Analysis: She suffered from this as a toddler with a cultural ritenote , "failing" it because she didn't actually pick something.
- Theme Naming: All of Anasigma's passwords and verbal shutdown codes are foods, and apparently she's the one who comes up with them.Unity: [regarding Nick] So what random food am I not allowed to order when I take him through the drive-through?
Dr. Lee: I'm sorry, I get hungry on those long nights!
Violet
Violet Bee
The young and oddly friendly liaison to Skin Horse, who has a way of getting every individual on her side. Also completely fails to seduce Tip.
- The Chessmaster: To a point. But still, how bad can you be, to be a cute young girl and not be able to seduce Tip?
- Remote Body: Gets one eventually. Or rather, she is one for Mister Green. After he tries to use it to blow up the team, Nick gets the body for a storyline, as well as the Whimsy Intelligence, and eventually the Water Cooler AI.
Others
Artie
See Narbonic.
Tigerlily
Dr. Bernice "Tigerlily" Jones
- Blaxploitation Parody: She's a walking homage to the genre, with a huge afro, era-accurate clothes, and tons of attitude. Invoked on the comic's cast page:Also, she seems to be channeling a 1970s blaxploitation movie at all times, but I'm told that's a mild quirk for a mad scientist.
- Crazy Sane: Oddly enough, for a mad scientist.You think I'm crazy because I don't know I'm not an Egyptian Princess reincarnated on Planet Lovetron. But I DO know. I'm crazy 'cause I don't CARE.
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: As it turns out, she really is a princess of Planet Lovetron — which is also Gavotte's homeworld. It has two sapient species: bees, who guide and counsel, and statuesque bisexual humanoids who do Afrofuturist stuff.
- Homemade Inventions: She's extremely skilled at coming up with wacky devices wherever she is. She once built a spring-powered wormhole generator out of wire coathangers lying around in Tip's apartment, and also built a six-foot-wide sentient spider-shaped robot out of an old Cadillac.
- Impossibly Cool Clothes: She's brought out of the van used to transport her from the asylum, and once they take the straitjacket off, she's wearing 70s clothes. It's specifically noted that they put her in the straitjacket in institutional grey. When pressed for an explanation of how she does it, her only answer is 'The same way I do everything, with TERRIFYING groove.'
- Improbable Hairstyle: Tigerlily has an impressive, well-maintained afro, despite living in a mental institution and wearing a straitjacket frequently
- Jive Turkey: As noted, she actually grew up twenty years after the culture she is imitating.Social Worker: For heaven's sake, you grew up in Brentwood in the '80s.
- MacGyvering: Tigerlily can break the rules of space-time using only springs.
- Outdated Outfit: In keeping with her blaxploitation theme, her wardrobe consistently features Painted-On Pants, long dresses that usually have plunging necklines, halter tops, and tied-in-the-front shirts.
- Rebellious Spirit: Actually, standard mad scientist worldview, but viewed through a lens of seventies Black Liberation philosophy. "Man keeps me down! Man keeps me from conquering the world!"
- Sassy Black Woman: In the same vein as other Blaxploitation icons such as Foxy Brown and Coffy, both of which are explicitly referenced.
