Alan Abernathy (Gregory Smith)

The Protagonist.

• Never Live It Down: An In-Universe example. Aside from some genuine havoc-making, he apparently managed to accidentally burn down his school and can't shake his reputation as a troublemaker.
  "I made one mistake and I'm branded for life!"
• Mistaken for Junkie: When he claims that the toys are alive his parents assume that he's on drugs.
• Space Whale Aesop: Remember kids; shady dealings to get hold of some toys will lead to them coming to life and trashing your father's store.

Christy Fimple (Kirsten Dunst)

• Action Girl: She seems to enjoy smashing up the mooks made from her doll collection a little too much.
• Love Interest

Stuart Abernathy (Kevin Dunn)

Alan's father and owner of a toy store.

• Hair-Trigger Temper: The reason they moved was to help him calm down.
• Moral Guardians: He refuses to sell war toys in his store. He also hates his neighbors' technophilia.
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Subverted. He starts saying he won't be bought... and then looks at the cheque Mars is offering him for his silence.

Irene Abernathy (Ann Magnuson)

Alan's mother. Does her best to keep Stuart calm and stress free.

• Action Mom: When the Commando Elite use a weapon which fires flaming tennis balls, she grabs a racket...
• Playing Tennis with the Boss: How she destroys one of the Commando Elites' tanks.

Timmy Fimple (Jacob Smith)

Christy's younger brother.

• Bratty Half-Pint

Phil Fimple (Phil Hartman)

Christie's technology obsessed father.

• Agent Scully/Arbitrary Skepticism: Finds the idea that his daughter's been brainwashed more likely than the possibility that the toys are alive.
• Adam Westing
• Dirty Coward: Tries to surrender the Gorgonites to the Commando Elite.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: When he pointed out it's possible to create an EMP blast by overloading the power grid, he claims that it "only happened once".

Marion Fimple (Wendy Schaal)

Christie's mother.

Gil Mars (Denis Leary)

The owner of Globotech.

• Bad Boss: Apparently fired everyone but his assistant and Irwin and Larry.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: He has no problem letting toy engineers get their hands on military hardware or bribing witnesses. He's quite nice about it though.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Buys off everyone at the end and plans to remarket the toys as weapons.

Irwin Wayfair (David Cross)

An employee at Globotech. Creator of the Gorginites.

• Bearer of Bad News: He's the one who realises that the Commando Elite now count the human cast members as part of the Gorgonites.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red oni to Larry.
• Writer Revolt: Kept most of his ideas for the Gorgonites' personalities in place even though they'd been made the villains of the toyline.

Larry Benson (Jay Mohr)

An employee at Globotech. Creator of the Commando Elite.

• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue oni to Irwin, favouring the more marketable Commando Elite.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His choice of computer chip is pretty much what sets off the plot.

Ralph (Robert Picardo)

The technician who designed the chips used to create the eponymous characters.

• Deadpan Snarker: When he admits that there is a flaw with the hardware;
  "The chips were a little sensitive to the electrical fields generated by nuclear devices. I don't think even the toy industry has got quite that competitive?"
• Mr. Exposition: He only appears in one scene and he spends all of it talking about the chips.
• Insufferable Genius

Joe (Dick Miller)

The delivery truck driver who agrees to "front" Adam some of the toys.

• Laser-Guided Karma: He sells some of the toys he was hauling on the side and said toys take him hostage.

Tropes that apply to the entire toyline include;

• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The chips enhanced their existing programming.
• Executive Meddling: They were originally planned as seperate toy lines.
• Instant A.I., Just Add Water: Or experimental computer chips anyway.
• Product Placement: The movie made more money from its merchandise than other movies with similar grosses made through the box office.

Tropes which apply to all the Gorgonites include;

• Designated Villain: In-Universe, their toyline was taken and merged with the commando elites' to serve as their antagonists.
• Fighting For A Homeland: Their goal is to find their way back home to Gorgon.
• The So-Called Coward: They have to overcome their programming to do anything but hide.

Archer (Frank Langella).

The brave and wise leader of the Gorgonites. His weapon of choice being a crossbow.

• The Hero: His personality is far more heroic than the Commandos.
• The Leader: He's the Goronnite calling the shots.
• Meaningful Echo;
  "Just because you can see it doesn't mean it isn't there."

Freakenstein (f.k.a. Troglokhan) (Michael McKean).

A Frankenstein's Monster look-alike. The navigator of the Gorgonites.

• The Smart Guy: The navigator
• We Can Rebuild Him: Smashed by the Commando Elite and then rebuilt.

Insaniac (Michael Mc Kean).

A hyperactive Gorgonite. He spins about rather than walk, speaks fast and constantly makes jokes and puns.

• Everything's Better with Spinning
• Motormouth
• Speaks In Shout Outs
• Talkative Loon
• The Lancer: His personality is the opposite of Archer's.

Ocula (Jim Cummings).

Gorgonite with a single eye. Can only speak in whistles and is rather shy.

• Faceless Eye

Punch-It (Harry Shearer).

Gorgonite resembling a humanoid Brontotherium. Best friend of Scratch-It.

• Fastball Special

Scratch-It (Christopher Guest).

Gorgonite resembling a frog with no hind limbs. Walks on front Limbs. She is the only female gorgonite and the best friend of Punch-It.

• The Chick: Only female of the gorgonites.
• Cute Monster Girl: Averted.
• Fastball Special: Can be launched by Punch-It.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Shows no visible signs of her sex.

Slamfist (Christopher Guest).

A Gorgonite hunchback. His left hand consists of a boulder-like fist. A slow-witted bruiser.

• The Big Guy: A slow-witted bruiser.
• The Ditz

Tropes that apply to all of or collectivelly to the Commando elite include;

• Armies Are Evil
• Badass Army
• Designated Hero: In-Universe, within the context of the toyline.
• Fantastic Racism: Their programming to fight the Gorgonites ends up at its logical conclusion.
  Chip Hazard: You've got guts, let's see what they look like! *stabs Archer*
  Archer: *Looking at the wound* They're wires and metal, the same as you.
  Chip: We're nothing alike. You. Are programed. TO LOSE!
• Homemade Inventions: They make quite a bit of deadly military gear from what they find lying around.
• Sociopathic Soldier: If they've decided you're in league with the Gorgonites they'll add you to their hit list.
• Testosterone Poisoning: They're essentially G.I. Joe or Action Man figures on steroids.

Brick Bazooka(George Kennedy).

Artillery specialist of the Commando Elite.

• Alliterative Name
• The Big Guy
• Half the Man He Used to Be: He recovers.

Butch Meathook (Jim Brown).

The sniper of the Commando Elite.

• Cold Sniper

Chip Hazard (Tommy Lee Jones).

Leader of the Commando Elite.

• Big Bad
• The Leader
• Punch Clock Villain: He's just following his programing rather than being genuinely malicious. For the record, he thinks he's a hero.
• There Can Only Be One: When he hijacks the truck of Commando Elite figures, he doesn't seem to bother activating any other Chip Hazards.

Kip Killigan (Ernest Borgnine).

Covert operations specialist of the Commando Elite.

• Alliterative Name
• The Dragon: He guards Chip with a flamethrower.

Link Static (Bruce Dern).

Communications officer of the Commando Elite.

• Evil Genius
• Love Is A Weakness: When he finds out Alan has a crush on Christine he calls it a "Age old weakness".

Nick Nitro (Clint Walker).

Demolitions expert of the Commando Elite.

• Alliterative Name
• The Brute:
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The other Commando Elites are visibly upset at his death.
• Killed Off for Real: A rare villainous example.

Zom-Gwendies

An army of mooks made form a Bland Name Product version of Barbie dolls. Given "life" by using a reverse engineered chip from Nick Nitro's brain.

• Dark Chick
• Mooks