Characters / Spaced

The residents of 23 Meteor Street are an... interesting lot. Here's all about them.

Main Characters

Tim Bisley

Played By: Simon Pegg

"As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a graphic artist. And one day soon, I will be."

Tim, rarely seen without his skateboard, his Chocolate beanie, or his PlayStation controller, is an aspiring comic book artist, amateur skateboarder, and passionate follower of cult fiction in many forms, including video games, science fiction, and especially - at least initially - the original Star Wars trilogy.

• Berserk Button: He is not a fan of The Phantom Menace.
  • Twiglets also make him violent, though this is probably more some sort of chemical imbalance than them driving him into a rage.
• Character Tic: Reaches for his ears if someone mentions how small they are. He even knows if someone is talking about them from several miles away (although that may have been a pun re: "his ears are burning").
  • He also flings the cushion away every time he sits on the sofa
• Creator Breakdown: In universe example. Check out his sketching pad after being dumped by his girlfriend. Not happy. Then see it after he moves in with Daisy and finds some measure of happiness. Happy!

• Geek: His aspirations of comic book artistry aside and working in a comic shop, he's a huge fan of 2000 AD, Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The X-Files amongst other things and is a fairly serious gamer and Robot Wars competitor.

• Informed Ability: Inverted. His talents aren't brought up much but he is an excellent graphic artist (His artwork was done by real-life comic book artist Simon Bisley). If anything, despite his obvious talent non-comic fans tend to snidely / condescendingly dismiss his work as 'cartoons' ("It's a bit more complicated than that.")
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's very grumpy, which tends to make him rather rude, thoughtless and mean, but has a heart underneath it all.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: His reaction to the cage full of kittens when rescuing Colin indicates this. He rescues them as well.
• Manchild: Has very childish interests. Sees nothing at all wrong with this. Also has a tendency to strenuously refuse to accept the fact that he's getting older.
  Tim: We've potentially destroyed her faith in today's youth!
  [Everyone looks at him skeptically]
  Tim: [Sheepish] Young adults.
• Neat Freak: Tim puts far more effort to keeping his and the communal rooms in good order than Daisy does. This doesn't necessarily imply that he actually enjoys cleaning or would do it if he didn't have to live in the area. When given a choice between cleaning up a mess in a restaurant after a food fight or having the police called, he actually votes for the police.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Daisy. In the series proper only; the Belated Happy Ending shows them raising a daughter together.
• Prayer Is a Last Resort: Pulls this before he sends his portfolio off to Dark Star Comics. Subverted, as it turns out he's praying to Buffy.
• Psychic Powers: As a gag. After losing his job, he has a conversation with Daisy and nervously rubs a fork the whole while, stating he wishes he "had a power to fall back on". Not that he notices, but the fork has been bent and twisted beyond repair.
  • Another time, he answers Daisy's thoughts.
  • When Sophie mentions his small ears in the Darkstar office, he reaches for them on his couch at home.
• Serious Business: The Star Wars trilogy... and its eventual decline.
  • One of the most traumatic experiences of his teenage years was the death of Johnny Alpha.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He's generally a bit nicer and more pleasant in the second series, after he's gotten over his break-up with Sarah.
• Tuckerization: Tim shares his last name with Simon Bisley, who drew Tim's artwork for the series.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Lampshaded & averted. Tim actually has really bad hair from bleaching it. Sarah calls him out and Daisy even compares him to Casper.
• Will They or Won't They?: Has this with Daisy throughout the series. They have finally gotten together at the end of the "Skip to the End" documentary.

Daisy Steiner

Daisy Steiner

Played By: Jessica Stevenson

"Oh, sorry, I thought you were a drug dealer!"

Daisy is an aspiring writer, although she tends to spend most of her time actively avoiding doing any writing - or any other actual work for that matter. Whereas Tim is often grouchy and sour, Daisy is sunny, enthusiastic and cheerful, and at times overwhelmingly so. She can also be aggressive and confrontational at times, as demonstrated when she joined an employment agency only to lose most of the jobs she was assigned through her negative attitudes.

• Action Girl: Becomes one at the beginning of Season 2, when she takes on the two agents that have been pursuing her and kicks their asses.
• All Women Are Lustful: When buying magazines for research for her job interview, she picks up a male-porno mag titled Huge Fat Cocks.
  • When she finds out that Tim watches porn in their shared flat she asks to borrow some.
• Character Tic: Whenever she wears her lensless glasses, she puts her fingers through the frames to make it seem as though she's busy or tired. This usually happens when she is trying (and failing) to write.
• Competition Freak: Becomes one whenever she exercises, due to some apparent allergy to endorphins. When she and Marsha go jogging, Daisy repeatedly pushes her down and even sends Colin after her.
• A Degree in Useless: Obtained a third-class honours^note A "third" is the lowest grade of honours degree, sometimes referred to as a drinking degree, because the kind of students who earn one tend to spend more of their time drinking than studying in humanities. It's a bit of a sore point for her, given how she reacts when it's brought up
• Genki Girl: Attempts to be one, but she's often morose and moody, and her genki antics are more often or not really an excuse to avoid doing any writing.
  Tim: Oh, let's have a party! Let's get a dog! Let's do some theatre! Let's stand in front of the bedroom mirror BOGELING TO ASWAD!
  • The latter turns out to be a subversion; Tim is surprised to realize that Daisy wasn't lying and it actually was research for an article.
• Heroes Love Dogs: She always wanted a dog, much to Tim's initial reluctance. So, they get Colin.
• Hipster: Wears lensless glasses to look smarter and uses an antiquated typewriter. Plus, her idea of a good evening is seeing a modern play by some unknown playwright (preferrably "with a swear word in the title").
• Informed Attribute: Marsha notes that Daisy looks well after returning from her trip, noting that most people lose weight while away. Likely because Jessica Stevenson was pregnant during filming of series 1, Daisy is noticeably slimmer in series 2.
• The Klutz: Frequently trips or falls over for no reason.
• Most Writers Are Writers: Even if They are spectacularly lazy.
• Motor Mouth: At times, particularly whenever she's trying to be Genki.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: She's an aspiring writer who actually does very little writing. Lampshaded by Tyres in this exchange:
  Tyres: And what do you do?
  Daisy: I write, actually.
  Tyres: In other words, you're on the dole.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Tim. They're just pretending to be a couple to rent the flat, but there are several hints that they should be more than friends. Until the "Skip to the End" documentary.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Jessica Stevenson was pregnant during the filming of the first series, which is why in series two Daisy suddenly becomes more active and goes from a total disinterest in physical activity to taking up jogging, practicing martial arts, and engaging in finger gun battles.
• Ridiculous Procrastinator: Tim calls her out for all the myriad of excuses as to why she hasn't done any work, which includes holding a party, getting a dog, doing theatre, and bogling in front of her bedroom mirror to Aswad.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Daisy tries this at her birthday party. Unfortunately, all the guys are more interested in the cake.
• The Slacker: Regularly avoids working. She also avoids exercise, but this is due to the aforementioned endorphin allergy that makes her violently competitive.

• Took a Level in Badass: When she comes back from Asia she apparently knows martial arts. Of course, she's still as clumsy and lazy as ever.
• Will They or Won't They?: Has this with Tim throughout the series. They have finally gotten together at the end of the "Skip to the End" documentary.

Marsha Klein

Marsha Klein

Played By: Julia Deakin

"Hullo, it's me. The weirdo from upstairs."

Marsha, the permanently sozzled landlady, is never seen without a lit cigarette in one hand, and a glass of red wine in the other. Once a promising young athlete, she retired from athletics after receiving a leg injury and became a groupie instead, resulting in several marriages that ended bitterly and a teenage daughter, Amber, with whom she is near-constantly arguing. She passionately lusts after Brian, an attraction which stems from a hazy, torrid incident in the past where rent negotiations became somewhat more sensual than usual as a result of Brian's sheer poverty. She is utterly delighted to have new, young friends, which is slightly awkward, as she's the only one who does not know that Tim and Daisy are not actually a couple.

• The Alcoholic: She offers to share a bottle of champagne left over from the previous day with Brian to celebrate him getting an installation at an art gallery. When Brian asks what was so special about that day, Marsha replies "Sunday." She reassures Brian that she can resist the bottle for a day, before opening it less than ten seconds later.
• Atomic F-Bomb / Cluster F-Bomb: Whenever she's shouting at her daughter Amber.
  • "FUCK OOOFFFF!!!"
• Catchphrase: "Hullo, Brian."
  • "Bloody 'ell."
• Compliment Backfire: Pulls this on Daisy when she gets back from Asia.
  Marsha: You look really well! A lot of people lose weight when they're travelin'.
• Double Entendre: Frequently makes these in regards to Brian.
  Marsha: Brian, come back in one piece. You know what piece I mean.
• I Coulda Been a Contender!: She was a champion athlete until she was forced to retire due to injury, after being run over by the man she'd later marry.
• Lady Drunk: Rarely seen without a glass of wine. We find out later that she took to the bottle after an injury that ended her athletic career.
• Leg Focus: According to her, she's got good legs from her days as an Olympic runner.
  Marsha: Why do you think I've got such ace pins? They're me souvenirs.
• Mrs. Robinson: Is this towards Brian, and Mike for a little while. Although in Mike's case, he gets completely Squicked out by her advances.
  Mike: (disturbed) Is there a key to this lock?
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Her accent seems heavily based on Janet Street-Porter.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: It's initially implied that she was aware that Tim and Daisy aren't really a couple, but pretended to be oblivious because she loves having them downstairs. The penultimate episode, however, subverts this by revealing that she didn't know and is absolutely devastated to discover that Tim and Daisy had been lying to her.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: She's very fond of inviting herself into Tim and Daisy's and not leaving for very long periods of time. They're usually willing to put up with it, however.

Brian Topp

Brian Topp

Played By: Mark Heap

"I see contemporary art as a dirty plate heaped with worthless junk food and I want something more nourishing."

The lodger in the flat below Tim and Daisy's, Brian is a rather bizarre and somewhat angst-ridden and pretentious artist. Quietly spoken and intense, Brian gives the impression of being almost psychotic and sociopathic; in fact, he's just very shy and timid. His main artistic drives are anger, pain, fear and aggression, and his art is, according to him, 'a bit more complex' than watercolours.

• Ambiguously Gay: When pressed, Brian has asserted that he isn't gay... in a fashion that suggests he really thinks he ought to be.
  • And then, of course, there's his relationship with Vulva.
  Brian: I don't expect you to understand. Most people don't want to listen, they just tune out. It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.

• Creator Breakdown: Invoked. Brian works in a perpetual state of Creator Breakdown as it's the motivation for much of his artwork. When he starts dating Twist, he starts painting flowers and pictures of her. For a while he gets a creative block specifically because he's happy.
• Gag Penis: When Tim catches a glimpse of it (while Brian is using it as paintbrush), he simply remarks, "Huge." Of course, this was actually an ad-lib by Simon Pegg.
• Hairstyle Inertia: in an example similar to Mike's, he already sported a goatee in a flashback of him as a child.
• Mad Artist: Subverted; Brian comes off as one of these, but he's just very very shy and socially awkward; he's actually quite sweet once you get to know him.
• Mistaken for Profound: When asked to do an installation at a swanky art gallery at short notice, he paints a red cubicle that is empty save for a chair and a ringing telephone. Feeling that something is missing, he goes to add to it, only to knock himself unconscious with a tin of green paint. He awakes several hours later to a hearty congratulations from the gallery's owner who commends Brian's dedication and insight, offering him a regular position. Even when he states that he wants to go to the hospital, the owner assumes he means some trendy bar.
• No Social Skills: He is generally oblivious to social conventions, and even when he knows what he should be doing his shyness typically gets the best of him.
• Stalker with a Crush: Is this towards his ex-girlfriends.
  Brian: I see all of my ex-girlfriends. Although... not so much see, as... watch...
• True Art Is Angsty: Inuniverse. He finds himself unable to paint when he becomes happy as a result of dating Twist, and can only return to his craft when he hears that his uncle has died. Marsha even lampshades it.

Mike Watt

Mike Watt

Played By: Nick Frost

"Sergeant Mike Watt, TA. It's the longest way up, shortest way down."

Mike is Tim's best friend. He wishes dearly that he could join the British Army, but unfortunately is ineligible owing to the detached retinas he received following a painful childhood accident when jumping from a tree after being egged on by Tim, and as must console himself with membership in the Territorial Army instead. The first series revealed that Mike had been thrown out of the TA because he stole a Chieftain tank and tried to invade Paris with it while on weekend manoeuvres in France.

• Ambiguously Gay: Mike seems to have it really bad for Tim, and is never suggested to have any kind of interest in the opposite sex... Was also once seen holding a copy of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Word of God is that they thought about making him end up with someone like Dexter or just admit he was gay.
• Artistic License – Gun Safety: Despite his military training in the TA, he's actually quite careless with his guns, doing things such as wiping tears of laughter from his eyes with the muzzle of one of his pistols and leaving a submachinegun lying around the flat in a Shout-Out to Vincent Vega's death in Pulp Fiction.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: His invasion of Paris with a tank was thwarted because he stopped off at Disneyland Paris to ride Space Mountain.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension / Birds of a Feather: With the aforementioned Dexter.
• Blood Knight: A non-crazy or villainous example. It's established to be of benefit to get him back in the TA.
• Cool Shades: He is never seen without his sunglasses.
• Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Has apparently devised an infiltration tactic that involves draining a man's blood and replacing it with Tizer.

• Dumbass Has a Point: Mike often comes across as a bit of a blundering ditz, but is capable of laser-sharp insight from time to time.
• Genius Ditz: Despite his childlike manner and usual cluelessness, he's quite good at reading people and articulating himself regarding emotions. An excellent example comes during his TA re-evaluation where he makes and erudite point about his emotional wellbeing at the time he stole the tank and when asked he thought this happened, his response is to shrug and mumble "I dunno."
• Gentle Giant: He's pretty crazy but is a giant teddy bear of a man overall.
• Gun Nut: Has a small armoury that he tends to leave lying around the flat.

• Manchild: Logically, since he's friends with Tim. Tends to come across as a kid who desperately wants to play at war and soldiers.
• More Dakka: His solutions to problems tend to involve this.

• Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation: Subverted. He tells Daisy that he'd have to kill her if he told her what he does for a living. We discover that he's a lollipop man, who makes the best of it by acting like he's in a war movie.
• Rank Up: At the end of the second series, gets promoted to Sergeant.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Mike's life is consumed with the Territorial Army and his guns and war fixation... when he's not wearing pink aerobics gear to work out or a frilly apron to bake scones, that is. In series 2, he combines both with a pretty pink Beretta 92 pistol.
• Serious Business: Because he couldn't get into the Army, Mike applies his rigid military discipline to not only the TA, but also to paintballing, the Rough Ramblers (which he joined to compensate for the fact that he'd been thrown out of the TA), and his job as a lollipop man.
• Tank Goodness: Tried to invade Paris with a tank he stole.

Twist Morgan

Twist Morgan

Played By: Katy Carmichael

"Come now, Daisy, don't start feeling like a big, fat, ugly failure!"

Twist, Daisy's best friend, is (in the words of Tim) either 'sweet and stupid, or an evil genius'. She 'works in fashion' (i.e. a dry cleaner) and is an atrociously superficial 'fashion fascist'. She is prone to giving backhanded compliments to Daisy, particularly about her size, weight or clothing choices.

• Alpha Bitch: A rare post-high school version, with a particular tendency to pick on Daisy.
• Backhanded Compliment: They're usually well-intentioned (see Compliment Backfire below), but she's deliberately insulting some of the time as well.

• Compliment Backfire: Most of Twist's communication with Daisy is in the form of possibly unintentional but definitely snide backhanded compliments.
  Twist: Oh, a bit of a midriff show! Big's in this season, good for you!
• Demoted to Extra: In Season 2.
• Dumb Blonde: Averted, as she seems to be of relatively average intelligence. She also takes a genuine interest in the art exhibit Brian takes her to. Of course, she's generally unfamiliar with nerd culture, which leads to a couple of misunderstandings...
  Twist: Is Jabba the princess?
• Fag Hag: What would seem to be Twist's eventual end-of-series fate, at first enthusiastically, but it palls. Until Brian arrives to make up with her.
• The Fashionista: Prides herself on her fashion sense, and even attempts to help Daisy pull a She Cleans Up Nicely by taking her shopping.

• Insistent Terminology: Tells everyone that she works "in fashion." She's a shop assistant at a dry cleaner's.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Despite how vicious she can be, she is quite nice to Brian when they begin dating.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Works in fashion... apparently. Actually works in a dry cleaning shop.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Daisy's Tomboy.

Colin

Colin

Played By: Ada

Colin is Daisy's dog, a Miniature Schnauzer, bought from a dogs' home where he was shortly due to be put down, to cheer Daisy up after she is dumped by her boyfriend Richard. He is named after the cardboard box Daisy played with as a child when she wasn't allowed to have a real dog.

• Cross-Cast Role Though it doesn't really show on a dog...
• Distracted by the Luxury: Goes to live to Daisy's neighbour for a while because the latter has a wide-screen TV.
• Hell Hound: A running gag for a while is that Tim believes Colin to be evil.

Recurring Characters

Sarah

Sarah

Played By: Anna Wilson-Jones

Sarah is the ex-girlfriend who broke Tim's heart by leaving him for his friend, Duane, and kicking him out of their flat. Sarah is a rather antipathetic person, feeding her own vanity with Tim's lame attempts to get her back, while, at the same time, ruthlessly ignoring him.

Richard

Richard

Played By: James Lance

Daisy's boyfriend. Their pet names for each other are "Daisy Duke" and "Boss Hogg". They are in a long-distance relationship (he lives in Hull) but he later breaks up with her over the phone after she confesses to having cheated on him.

• Long-Distance Relationship: He's studying in Hull, so the only times we ever get to see him is during phone calls with Daisy. Eventually, he dumps her, though this was due to her cheating on him.

Duane Benzie

Duane Benzie

Played By: Peter Serafinowicz

"Hi, Dom. This is Duane Benzie. How you doing?"

The gravelly-voiced back stabber who stole Sarah away from Tim. He was Sarah's boss and Tim's good friend until Tim learned of their affair.

• The Ace: Tim certainly sees him as this, as in all of his flashbacks Duane is the one is more attractive, more successful, and overall much cooler than him.
• Asshole Victim: He gets nailed in the balls with a paintball gun and his final appearance has him getting violently beaten up by a gang of thugs with no word on if he even survived. Nonetheless, he's such an arsehole it's hard to feel any sympathy for him.
• The Chew Toy: In the first episode he appears in, he gets shot in the groin with a paintball. In his second and final appearance, he gets beaten to a pulp by a gang of teenagers. Not that he didn't have it coming.
• Dirty Coward: Duane's smarminess and overconfidence disappears when someone actually stands up to him or poses a real threat. His final scene has him desperately plead and apologize when the gang of teens start beating him up.
• Evil Is Bigger: He's played by Peter Serafinowicz, who towers over every other cast member, and is the closest thing the series has to a villain.
• Evil Is Hammy: Peter Serafinowicz is clearly enjoying himself, as evidenced by the ridiculously deep, borderline demonic voice he provides.
• Evil Sounds Deep: He has the menacing voice of Darth Maul but even deeper and more gravelly and is Tim's main rival throughout the series.
• Faux Affably Evil: He can pretend to be nice for short periods and as though he just wants to be Tim's friend but it takes very little for his true nasty colors to come out.
• Groin Attack: Suffered one from Tim in their paintball battle.
• Jerkass: He's rude, smug, stole his friend's girlfriend and mocks him about it later and is generally just a terrible human being all around.
• Large and in Charge: He's 6'5" and definitely thinks he's in charge. The reality is usually otherwise.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • Gets it twice and thoroughly deserved it each time.
  • In addition to his comeuppances in the episodes, it's also heavily implied that Sarah's started cheating on him with someone else in the same fashion that she originally started cheating on Tim with him.
• Mean Character, Nice Actor: Simon Pegg has called Peter Serafinowicz "the sweetest man on the planet".
• Pragmatic Villainy: Why he didn't sue Tim after getting shot in the bollocks. He knew Tim had nothing of value.
  • Not to mention its not exactly the kind of thing you want a lot of people to know about.
• Romantic False Lead: For Tim, regarding his old girlfriend. The bad kind.
• Self-Serving Memory: Appears to have this going on regarding the circumstances of how Tim's girlfriend came to be his girlfriend.
  Daisy: You're Duane. Duane Duane. The Duane who...
  Tim: Stole my girlfriend.
  Duane: Well, that depends on how you look at it.
  Daisy: I think that's how Tim looks at it.
  Tim: Yes, I do.
• Smug Snake: He's very self-confident with little to back it up.

Amber Klein

Amber Klein

Played By: Jessica Stevenson (voice)

Marsha's bratty teenage daughter. She and her mother constantly argue and the arguments always end with Amber storming out of the house. The sound of Amber leaving becomes a cue to Tim and Daisy that Marsha will come by wanting to talk.

• Bratty Teenage Daughter: She's always arguing with Marsha and eventually moves out after a spat.
• The Faceless: We only ever see her running out of the house or unfocused shots of anywhere but the head.
• Leg Focus: Because we never see her face, she's mostly shown from the waist down.

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty

Played By: Michael Smiley

"Oi, oi! You lucky people!"

A Northern Irish bike messenger and a friend of Tim and Mike's. He is a raver and everyday noises such as a phone ringing, or a car horn honking, sound like rave music to him, often prompting him to start dancing. The raving and the drugs also make him prone to hair-trigger mood swings. Tyres possesses a very short attention span and is easily distracted.

• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Played with. Tim starts to explain to Daisy about how easily distracted Tyres has been an certain occasions, but both of them are immediately distracted by the TV.
  Tim: "Tyres has got a really short attention span; I remember once we were — oh look, wrestling!"
• Berserk Button: He doesn't like seeing Tim and Daisy collect unemployment without needing it.
• Courier: His job is a bicycle courier. Tim makes use of his services to deliver his artwork to prospective employers.
• Drugs Are Bad: The constant ectasy and clubbing got him a real bad case of FUCKING MOOD SWINGS. On the other hand, he's not at all a bad guy, and he's always lending money to Tim — albeit because he also has poor memory from over-use of drugs and can never remember that he's lent it or whether Tim's paid him back, which Tim exploits.
• Flash Step: When getting into one of his better moods after one of his rants, he is able to be suddenly seated. Tim and Daisy usually look on in surprise.
• Intercontinuity Crossover: Appears in Shaun of the Dead as a zombie.
• Leitmotif: Everytime he changes into an outburst of anger, a rave music starts to sound, and it stops when he calms down. Abruptly.
• Mood-Swinger: Oh, so, so much a swinger. He can't, literally, hold a single emotion for a long time.
  • Fortunately his angry moments cycle in and out so quickly he never actually acts on them beyond some shouting.
• Motor Mouth: presumably as a side effect of aforementioned addiction.
• Mundane Made Awesome: Random sound effects take on a rhythm in his head. As a result, he can be found raving to everyday things such as telephones and traffic lights.

Bilbo Bagshot

Bilbo Bagshot

Played By: Bill Bailey

Tim's boss at the comic book store, "Fantasy Bazaar". He explains to Tim the story of Gramsci, the dog that attacks only the rich people on Hampstead Heath. At one point in series 2, Bilbo fires Tim for his inability to get over his dislike of The Phantom Menace, but later begs him to return, inspired by Tim leaving a message begging him to do so on his answer-phone. He once beat up his dad for saying Hawk the Slayer was rubbish.

• Benevolent Boss: He gets on very well with Tim due to their common interests, and only fires him when Tim's behaviour towards customers regarding The Phantom Menace starts losing them customers.
• Berserk Button: Insulting Hawk the Slayer will cause him to punch you in the face. It's not even that he particularly likes the film or disagrees with the view, he just defends the fantasy genre with what he calls "terminal intensity".

Damien Knox

Damien Knox

Played By: Clive Russell

The head of Dark Star Comics, the company that Tim desperately longs to work for. When Tim first submitted his portfolio, Damien laughed him out of the office. Since then, Tim has been haunted by visions of Damien laughing at him, and is afraid of submitting a new portfolio to him.

• Dark Is Not Evil: After Mike and Tim meet him they conclude that he's actually rather nice.

• Large and in Charge: He's the head of a big comic book company and stands at an imposing 6'6, taller even than Duane Benzie.

Sophie

Sophie

Played By: Lucy Akhurst

Damien's beautiful assistant who helps Tim get hired at Dark Star. They immediately begin dating and have a fun relationship, provoking jealousy in both Daisy and Mike.

• Boyish Short Hair: Wears her hair very closely cut in her first appearance and, while it grows out a bit, is still quite tight.

• Defrosting Ice Queen: Her initial appearance shows her as quite aloof, but once she and Tim start dating, she comes across much nicer.

• Nice Girl: She's very friendly towards Daisy, in spite of the fact that Daisy quite clearly doesn't like her.

• Romantic False Lead: For Daisy and Mike, regarding Tim. The nice kind.
• Yoko Oh No: Neither Daisy nor Mike particularly like her once she starts dating Tim. Mike is particularly put out, because Tim promised to be there when Mike got his stripes and missed the ceremony.

Dexter & Cromwell

Played by: Reece Shearsmith & Jonathan Ryland

• Foe Romance Subtext: Word of God suggests that Dexter is interested in Mike.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: They fill that role for Mike, mostly related to animosity over an incident that happened during a qualifying bout for Robot Wars which gets really out of hand as the episode progresses
  Dexter: You were lucky!
  Mike: We were BETTER!
• The Rival: To Mike and Tim in the Robot Wars qualifiers. Particularly to Mike, as they're all in the TA together. There's clear resentment when Mike gets promoted to Sergeant.

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