Main cast
Shiny
"I'm a hero!"
Voiced By: Eric Lopez
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Gets distracted easily when on missions.
- Attention Whore: Is shown to be one during the episodes Upgrades and Road Trip, where he gets dangerous upgrades just to get people to like him more than Thunder, and soaks up all the praise he gets in the new city where everyone is a fan of him.
- Book Dumb: In his own words, "I'm not a numbers guy."
- Borrowed Catchphrase: Does this to Thunder during the episode Upgrades.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Shiny gets distracted often and doesn't think things though, but he gets the job done nonetheless.
- Character Catchphrase: "Affirmaroonie!"
- Claustrophobia: During the episode Whack-A-Bot, Shiny is revealed to be claustrophobic after being asked to go into a dark hole in the ground to kill a kaiju.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: While he may be prone to getting distracted and goofing off, during episodes like Whack-A-Bot, Shiny is shown to be quite capable of completing missions, even without Thunder's help.
- Curse Cut Short: This happens to Shiny a lot over the course of several episodes.
- Determinator: Always tries to help and/or finish a mission, even when others tell him not to.
- Foil: To Thunder.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Over the course of the series, Thunder and Shiny become this after fighting Kaijus together.
- Giant Robot Hands Save Lives: During episode 1, Shiny saves a guy by catching him with his hand. However, an ambulance rushes to him seconds later, implying he is still greatly injured, therefore downplaying this trope.
- Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: Shiny is optimistic and cheerful, while Thunder is cold and grumpy.
- Idiot Hero: Not the sharpest tool in the shed, but he still has a heroic side.
- In-Series Nickname: Big Red.
- Large Ham: Has a habit of making things seem more dramatic than they actually are with his comically emotional speech.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: During several episodes, Shiny rediscovers his powers, usually when he is about to be killed by a Kaiju.
- Red Is Heroic: He's painted red, and also does heroic deeds.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Thunder's Blue Oni. While Shiny's general approach to fighting kaiju is to go with his gut and is very energetic, Thunder takes a more logical and planned-out approach and is usually very stoic.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Unlike his brother, Shiny is not afraid to go against protocol to do what he believes is right.
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: The wise guy to Thunder's Straight Man.
- The McCoy: Likes to act before he thinks, even if it is illogical.
- Verbal Tic: Shiny has a habit of putting his own spin on words, such as his catchphrase "Affirmaroonie" or when he describes Alex as "Paranoodle" during the episode Whack-A-Bot.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Has a very optimistic approach to fighting Kaijus.
Thunder
"You have performed an unauthorized landing on the planet Earth. State the purpose of your presence or prepare to be destroyed."
Voiced By: Chris Diamantopoulos
- A.I. Getting High: During one episode, Thunder comes into contact with toxic chemicals from a Kaiju burrow. It has a considerable effect on his reasoning, to the point where he acts "high."
- Arm Cannon: They come out of each of Thunder's arms.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Thunder analyses stuff a lot with the help of his robot machinery, and quite frankly, it's pretty awesome.
- Blue Is Heroic: He's painted a bluish gray, and also does heroic deeds.
- Book Smart: Displays a vast knowledge of things considered to be things smart people know.
- Character Catchphrase:
- "That was suboptimal."
- "Affirmative."
- By-the-Book Cop: Thunder is a stickler for procedure.
- Cold Ham: Though he does not speak in an overly-emotional manner like Shiny, his language is rather verbose and a little dramatic; therefore, he qualifies for this trope.
- Deadpan Snarker: Even though he tries to maintain an image of stoicism, Thunder occasionally dabbles in snark, especially when Shiny does something he thinks is stupid.
- Establishing Character Moment: During Episode 1 where he uses protocol to confront Shiny for the first time.
- Foil: To Shiny.
- Fire-Forged Friends: During the course of the series, Thunder and Shiny become this after fighting kaiju together.
- Genius Bruiser: Has a considerable intellect, and is very skilled in combat.
- In-Series Nickname: Big Blue.
- Not So Above It All: Although he is usually stoic, Thunder occasionally joins in on Shiny's antics.
- Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: Thunder is cold and grumpy, while Shiny is optimistic and cheerful.
- Not So Stoic: Though he is usually very composed, Thunder can at times crack when he is at risk of dying, or is under the influence of something else.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Shiny's Red Oni, with paint schemes to match. Thunder takes a calm and logical approach to fighting off kaiju, and while not sporting blue he wears a light gray, while Shiny, painted red, goes with his gut and is very energetic.
- Robo Speak: Thunder has a habit of speaking with verbose language commonly associated with robots.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Thunder tends to speak quite verbosely.
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: The Straight Man to Shiny's wise guy.
- Symbol Face: Thunder's face is a digital screen. His face usually consists of basic cyan semi-circles resembling two eyes and a mouth, but it can occasionally changes to match certain emotions, like an exclamation mark to express surprise.
- The Comically Serious: Thunder reacts to even the most absurd of situations with at most mild snark, which can be pretty funny at times.
- The Lancer: While logic-wise Thunder and Shiny equally contribute to the story's events, Shiny is focused on more, therefore making Thunder a lancer.
- The Spock: He is very cold and logical.
- The Stoic: Thunder handles even the most stressful of situations with minimal emotional interference.
- Verbal Tic: Thunder has a habit of stretching out the final syllable of his sentences.
Alex Rose
Voiced By: Marisa Davila
- Child Prodigy: Exaggerated. Alex had 14 PhDs, 32 masters degrees, and 112 associate's degrees, and had entirely designed Shiny by the age of three.
- Curse Cut Short: Happens a lot to her, much like Shiny.
- Deadpan Snarker: Snarks a lot about the absurdly of some of the situations she gets into.
- Geniuses Have Multiple PhDs: Exaggerated. Alex had 14 PhDs, 32 masters degrees, and 112 associate's degrees by the age of three!
- Parental Abandonment: Alex's parents disappeared when she was three.
- Teen Genius: Alex has designed two giant robots and has earned over 100 degrees by the age of 13.
- The Smart Guy: The brains of the Kaiju fighting organization.
- The Kirk: While Thunder is cold and logical, and Shiny is impulsive and optimistic, Alex serves as the middle ground, as she is logical, but not too much.
Creed
Voiced By: Delbert Hunt
- Benevolent Boss: He takes the welfare of his crew seriously, but never forgets the needs of the many either.
- Colonel Badass: Is a colonel. Is also a badass. For example, Creed takes down a multitude of alien invaders infecting Thunder by himself after the rest of his team dies.
- Jock Dad, Nerd Son: Or daughter in this case. Although they are not related, Alex and Creed seem to have a father-daughter dynamic in which Creed constantly makes sports metaphors and prefers the old fashioned ways, while Alex is into new technology and is annoyed by copious amounts of sports metaphors.
Other characters
Sarge
Voiced By: Rena Owen
- Fun with Acronyms: She proudly states:Sarge: Who am I? Just your lead pneumatic operating overseer pragmatition. P.O.O.P. for short!
- Mad Scientist: Her upgrades for Shiny were unauthorized and highly experimental. She's later revealed to have a history of things like this.
- One-Shot Character: She stars in the episode "Upgrades" and is responsible for causing the episode's plot. At the end of the episode, Creed sends her away for counseling where she is never seen or mentioned again despite Creed saying that she can rejoin the team after she finishes said counseling.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: She starts out with the intention of helping Shiny show the EDF that he's more than a tool, but when the others begin to question her ways, she becomes increasingly more aggressive, attacks Creed and even tries to attack Alex after she realizes that she's "the weirdo who built the dangerous washing machine in the research department".
- Top-Heavy Guy: Gender inverted; her upper body is designed to look muscular, but she also has short legs with a funnel shaped body.
Vanessa (Alien spy)
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Voiced By: Tiana Camacho
- Bad "Bad Acting": In "Boybotfriend", she pretends to be injured after making it look like Starface attacked the EDF. Her acting is way over the top, but Alex is fully convinced.
- Eyes Are Mental: Aside from her Impossible Hourglass Figure, her eyes don't change with her disguises.
- Kill and Replace: Jeff from the biological cleanup crew and the real Vanessa were both killed by her so she could steal their identities.
- The Mole: She is a spy working for Overlord Master.
- Rubber-Forehead Aliens: Her appearance is very humanlike, save for her purple skin and eyebrow antennae.
- Would Hurt a Child: In "Road Trip", she is chosen at random to guide Alex through the server room where she attempts to kill her, but stops upon hearing who Alex's parents are and in "The Hand of Fate", she slaps Alex for being rude in front of her boss.
Blorgo Starface
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Voiced By: David Errigo Jr.
- Bizarre Alien Biology:
- His species expels waste once a month out of the backs of their necks.
- He says to Alex that his father is younger than her... somehow.
- His blood becomes toxic when mortally wounded.
- According to his backstory, his species have a larval and pupal stage.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: Gender Inverted; Alex crushes on him at first sight and Starface later reveals that he feels the same way in an example of Mutual Pining.
- Humongous Mecha: He pilots a mech suit that is smaller than Shiny and Thunder, but still humongous nonetheless.
- Red Herring Mole: In-universe; everyone suspects that he's the alien spy, but Starface reveals that he tricked Alex into thinking he was injured so that she'd bring him into the base, however, it's not the Big Bad who sent him, but Alex's parents.
- Teen Genius: Just like Alex, Starface is a young scientist on his home planet and is said to be around 14 in earth years.
