Characters from The Bad Guys book series. Due to the film having significant Adaptation Deviation from the book series, the character sheet for the film is on a separate page here.
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The Good Guys Club
Tropes shared by the group
- Badass in a Nice Suit: The four main characters wear black suits that give them a gang-like feel in their work, while also emphasizing their original bad personas.
- Character Development: Throughout the series, the characters grow into their roles as heroes. Mr. Wolf is already starting his development as soon as the series starts, Mr. Shark and Mr. Piranha start it at the end of the book, and Mr. Snake, the most hesitant, takes a good chunk of the series to change, while also lapsing back the most.
- Contagious Heroism: This is how Mr. Wolf manages to convince the others to stay on the side of good.
- Good Animals, Evil Animals: They're representatives of animal species popularly depicted as monstrous or disgusting.
- Heel–Face Turn: The four main characters’ plot starts when they attempt to go through one, Mr. Wolf in earnest, the others through force. Legs is introduced post-Heel Face Turn, having turned to the heroes' side before his introduction via the encouraging of Mr. Wolf.
- Hero with an F in Good: At the beginning of their quest to be good, they were originally awful, as their old habits were hard to break.
- Last-Name Basis: Despite having “Mr.” to list their species’ surnames, the main four have a tendency to drop that and just refer to each other by their last name in situations.
- Reformed, but Rejected: Thanks to their original reputation, not many are willing to believe the main characters are actually good now, still thinking they're up to their bad ways, even with vouch from others. It takes a message sent from the moon in "Intergalactic Gas" right before turning off the Cute-Zilla ray to get the citizens to believe them.
- Reformed Criminal: All of them are former criminals who have rededicated their lives to doing good.
- Tailfin Walking: Mr. Shark walks on his tail fins when not in the water. Mr. Piranha, on the other hand, simply drags himself around using his pectoral fins.
- Terrestrial Sea Life: Mr. Piranha and Mr. Shark are able to walk on land with no breathing apparatus. Despite this, Mr. Piranha still can’t handle swimming in salt water, justified in that he's a freshwater fish.
Mr. Wolf
- Abusive Parents: His father was this to him. Wolf’s father Vincent/Vinnie Wolf was in charge of a carjacking syndicate, which eventually grew into a Mafia, and often insulted his son for his incompetence. Wolf is barely phased even after his death, instead immediately going out for a drive to celebrate him becoming the new syndicate heir.
- All Love Is Unrequited: His obvious crush on Agent Fox isn't reciprocated at first.
- Badass Driver: While not to the same degree as his movie counterpart, he's still the driver of the group and is known for his Cool Car. He gets to demonstrate his skills in Book 12, where he manages to drive his car to the world's multiverse door while Underlord Mr. Snake rips apart the road around him, attacks his car, and even tries to corrupt him.
- Being Evil Sucks: Even before the series begins, Mr. Wolf realizes that he's sick of people being afraid of him, and wants to be the good guy for a change. It takes a bit of persuasion and example for the others, however. By the second arc, he tells Mr. Snake he'd rather die a good guy than become a bad guy again.
- The Big Bad Wolf: He's pointedly the same wolf from The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood. Despite this, he’s the first one to invoke the change to good, and is the most insistent of it.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: At the end of Book 8 and throughout Book 9, he's under Marmalade's control as "The Big Bad Wolf", growing massive and attacking the city.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: In the first book, he introduces himself and the rest of the gang directly to the reader.
- Childhood Friends: The second arc reveals in flashbacks that he and Mr. Snake became good friends when they were kids, and Mr. Wolf taught him everything he knows about being bad.
- The Chosen One: Believed to be The Beast that will do battle with The Serpent (Mr. Snake) for the fate of the multiverse.
- Cynic–Idealist Duo: He's this with Mr. Snake. Mr. Wolf believes he and the gang are all capable of being heroes, while Mr. Snake can't see himself as anything more than a monster.
- Disguised in Drag: He still holds onto the "granny" disguise from his evil past. The others point out that this disguised never worked.
- Disney Death: Looking inside Underlord Ghaāstly's box kills him instantly, but he's revived by Abe.
- The Don: Is this after his father’s death.
- Given Name Reveal: Moe.
- Heroic BSoD: Suffers a nasty case of this after Snake seemingly dies at the end of Book 9. He starts off Book 10 completely emotionally broken, to the point where he admits that "Good Guys Club" is a stupid name.
- Interspecies Romance: With Agent Fox.
- It's All My Fault: Book 17 reveals he believes himself to be responsible for Snake thinking he was irredeemably evil: Wolf was the one who taught him to be bad when they were kids, and eventually roped him into his father's carjacking syndicate.
- Kids Driving Cars: As his father was a carjacker, Wolf learnt to drive from a rather young age to assist.
- The Leader: Founder of the Good Guys Club, with Mr. Snake as his second-in-command.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: He becomes prone to this in the second story arc. In Book 15, he even comments on how dark the story has gotten compared to their lighthearted, more accessible first adventure.
- Like Father, Like Son: Subverted. While the younger, pre-Heel–Face Turn Wolf was like this, the current Wolf isn’t.
- Love Redeems: Agent Fox being both his love interest and setting an example of the kind of hero he can be is what keeps him from giving up when all hope is otherwise lost.
- Master of Unlocking: In his criminal years, he was an excellent lockpick. He gets to use this skill again in Book 15 when saving himself, Agent Fox and Agent Shortfuse from Underlord Drillaärgh.
- Noble Wolf: He's loyal, brave, protective, and determined, never giving up on his friends, especially Mr. Snake.
- Not So Above It All: He can still have bouts of anger and mischief, despite his desire to be a good guy.
- The Paragon: As he's the one who chose to reform first, he serves this role towards the rest of the gang.
- Positive Friend Influence: Mr. Wolf's belief that the others have the capability for good helps fully sway them to the good side. It takes a while for Mr. Snake to fully embrace this.
- Super-Strength: His superpower in "Superbad".
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Flashbacks show he was never super keen on being a bad guy, but he was dragged into the life by his abusive father.
Mr. Snake
- Big Eater: During the mission to Sunnyside, instead of saving the whole room of chickens, he eats all of them; they can still be seen squirming inside his body.
- Childhood Friends: The second arc reveals in flashbacks that he and Wolf became good friends when they were kids, and it was him who taught Snake everything he knows about being bad.
- The Corruption: In "Dawn of the Underlord", Mr. Snake is influenced by the evil overlords in the multiverse door, corrupting him into a monster. He gains the ability to do so against the others as well, but Agent Fox is able to snap them out of it before they are corrupted in full.
- The Corrupter: Once he's corrupted by the Overlord, he has this power over others, with only Agent Fox and Piranha being immune to it.
- The Cynic: He genuinely believes he and the rest of the gang are Beyond Redemption, which puts him at odds with Mr. Wolf.
- Cynic–Idealist Duo: He's this with Mr. Wolf. Mr. Snake can't see himself as anything more than a monster, while Mr. Wolf believes he and the gang are all capable of being heroes.
- Deadpan Snarker: Thanks to finding most of the plans ridiculous, he spends plenty of time dryly commenting on them.
- Disney Death: He seemingly dies at the end of Book 9 when Marmalade's weapon steals back the heroes' powers, causing the giant Wolf to shrink and Snake falls into the city ruins. The end of Book 10 reveals he fell into Marmalade's weapon, causing him to absorb the other heroes' powers and come back more powerful than ever.
- Easily Forgiven: Despite his many lapses and betrayals of the gang, Mr. Wolf is always willing to forgive him and keeps giving him second chances.
- Face–Monster Turn: In "Dawn of the Underlord". Corruption from the evil dimension thanks to his superpowers turns Mr. Snake into a devil-horned monster bent on corrupting the others.
- Green-Eyed Monster: His anger towards Agent Fox is purely because Mr. Wolf likes her, which he translates into Mr. Wolf liking her more than himself. He admits this at the end of Book 5, which he feels like is keeping him from fully becoming a good guy.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mr. Snake is insistent that he's unable to become a good guy. As such, he keeps a harsh and rude demeanor towards others, but deep down, he really wants to be a hero, and shows capabilities at times. Slowly through the series, his heart of gold shows further and further, however.
- Mind over Matter: His superpower in "Superbad".
- My God, What Have I Done?: At the end of Book 17, Snake is horrified that all of his actions in the second arc culminate in Agent Fox being murdered by the Overlord.
- Slasher Smile: Pulls a lot of these after his Face–Monster Turn.
- Snakes Are Sinister: The most genuinely ‘bad’ member of the group. Later becomes fully sinister in Arc 2.
- Sour Supporter: Mr. Snake is the most apprehensive of the change to good.
- Solitary Sorceress: Gender averted, but spends a lot of time alone in Book 11 trying to figure out his powers.
- Superpowered Evil Side: In "Dawn of the Underlord", the combination of super abilities given to Mr. Snake turns out to lead to a gateway to an evil dimension that corrupts him into a stronger supervillain.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: This is one of the reasons Mr. Snake insists that he can't be a true hero. He was seen as a bad guy to start, so he doesn't bother to change his reputation. This slowly starts to crack away throughout the series, as he becomes a truer hero. As of "Dawn of the Underlord", it turns out this change hasn't stuck, and he's actually worse off than when he was originally.
- Thousand-Yard Stare: He has this reaction when the Overlord murders Agent Fox, then leaves Wolf to be killed by the other Underlords.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Chickens, which made the mission to free chickens in “Mission Unpluckable” a difficult one for him.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: One of the reasons Mr. Wolf never gives up on believing Mr. Snake can change is because he was this when they first met, and it's only through Mr. Wolf's influence Mr. Snake grew up the way he did.
- What You Are in the Dark: In "Alien Vs Bad Guys", Mr. Snake is eager to take the escape pod and return to Earth, but is forced to stay with the crew to save Legs. Gradually, the others are captured until Mr. Snake is alone, right next to the primed escape pod. He launches it to distract Dr. Marmalade, then finds an alien robot and uses it to fight him and save his friends.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: In "Dawn of the Underlord", the corruption of Mr. Snake's superpowers causes him to turn into a full-on supervillain.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Mr. Wolf is insistent that Mr. Snake can change for the better, despite Mr. Snake's own denial of it.
Mr. Piranha
- The Baby of the Bunch: He's the youngest out of his family, and is taken a bit less seriously by his father thanks to this.
- Berserk Button: Don’t call him a sardine.
- The Chosen One: He's The Oracle, who's meant to help Agent Fox find and defeat the Overlord. While he gradually realizes his role and importance, he never remembers his actions as the Oracle.
- Comfort Food: Mr. Piranha's go-to comfort food is beef and bean burritos. He has a tendency to make them in mass amounts and scarf them down in times of stress.
- Disguised in Drag: In "Attack of the Zittens", Mr. Piranha is disguised in a bikini and ponytailed wig as "Mindy", a pet goldfish, much to his extreme embarrassment.
- Given Name Reveal: Pepe.
- Gratuitous Spanish: Being from the Amazon River, he randomly adds Spanish words to his speech at times.
- I Am Not Weasel: Mr. Piranha is often referred to as a “mutant sardine” by various news sources, much to his annoyance.
- Logical Weakness: Despite being able to move on land with no water, being a freshwater fish, he's unable to swim in saltwater.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: Mr. Piranha has 900,543 brothers and cousins. They fill up their own gang thanks to this, and Mr. Piranha is the youngest of them all.
- Piranha Problem: Mr. Piranha, also known as the “Butt Biter”. His family is made up of over 900,000 other brothers and cousins, causing a swarming gang when they're all together.
- Super-Speed: His superpower in "Superbad".
- Trademark Favorite Food: Beef and bean burritos. Even as his reputation as a “butt biter”, he still enjoys them, and has a tendency to make them when stressed, and then overeat them. The gas caused from eating too many of them ends up helping save the day in the book “Intergalactic Gas”.
Mr. Shark
A massive great white shark known for eating anything and anyone, and the third recruit. Soon develops skills as a master-of-disguise.
- Bad "Bad Acting": His acting skills leave a lot to be desired, but it's good enough to get the job done.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: In Book 15, Underlord Snake manages to corrupt him and Agent Hogwild.
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: Once he solidifies himself on the side of good, Mr. Shark's dangerous persona quickly drops, and he quickly becomes the emotional center of the team. He's more open with fears, but still won't hesitate to lash out in anger when things go wrong.
- Disguised in Drag:
- He disguises himself as a little girl who lost her puppy in the first book, much to his own irritation. This was his first disguise in the series, while also prepping him up to be the disguise guy for the team.
- In "Mission Unpluckable", he uses a mother hen disguise to attempt to rally the clueless chickens to follow him.
- In "Alien Vs Bad Guys", he once again puts on a female disguise, this time his approximation of a female version of the alien species that Dr. Marmalade truly is. Unfortunately, he has no idea what they actually look like, so this one fails.
- Given Name Reveal: Lou.
- Master of Disguise: His role on the team, either to cause distractions or to get into highly secure areas.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Mr. Shark's disguises are obvious to the audience, as he's a shark disguising as other animals or personas. Despite this, the only people who seem to be able to tell it's a disguise is the rest of the crew. This would eventually be subverted in "The Bad Guys in Alien Vs Bad Guys", because Mr. Shark doesn't know what the females of Dr. Marmalade's alien species looks like, his disguise is readily foiled.
- Threatening Shark: Mr. Shark, aka “Jaws”. He’s so dangerous, that his case file hardly even has any info on it, and has the most major warning.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: His superpower in "Superbad".
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Mr. Shark is originally terrified of spiders. Meeting Legs turns him into a shivering wreck, while having the tarantula land on his snout causes him to faint. He later befriends him, losing his fear and becoming the one to vouch for him the most.
Mr. Tarantula, aka "Legs"
The fourth recruit, a tarantula with incredible hacking skills.
- Friendly Neighborhood Spider: Legs is a kind and creative tarantula, and had already shifted to the side of good before he was introduced. Unfortunately for him, the stereotype that spiders are scary has dragged on for him. This was a heavy plot point in "Mission Unpluckable", where the others (primarily Mr. Shark) had to realize that yes, he means no harm, despite the fact he looks scary to them.
- Given Name Reveal: Stevie.
- Odd Name Out: Legs is the only member of the team to not be named after his species. It is later revealed that this is a nickname, as "Do-You-Think-He-Saurus?!" reveals that his last name is "Tarantula", while his first name is revealed as "Stevie" in "The Baddest Day Ever".
- The One Who Wears Shoes: After complaints from the others on wearing nothing, he gains a baseball cap and four pairs of tennis shoes, making him the only member of the heroes to actually wear shoes. Still no pants, despite that suggestion.
- Playful Hacker: Legs is the tech person on the team, as his multiple legs let him quickly hack into computers, which he demonstrates with Mr. Snake’s criminal records, which are meant to be highly secured.
- Spiders Are Scary: Legs the tarantula manages to freak out the others (minus Mr. Wolf, who is already acquainted with him). Despite this, he’s already ground into being a hero, and quickly wins the others over.
Milton the Velociraptor
- 11th-Hour Ranger: Is introduced as a hero only in Book 8 and is the last of the Others to be revealed.
- Improbably High I.Q.: He has his IQ boosted to 512, making him the smartest creature in the world. Agent Doom is uncomfortable with the idea of it.
- Smart People Speak the Queen's English: He suddenly gains a posh accent when his brain levels are boosted.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: He gains a pair out of nowhere when his brain is boosted to genius levels. He loses them when his intellect is taken away, but regains them when his intellect is restored later.
- Super-Intelligence: The faulty time machine that gives The Bad Guys superpowers also mutates Milton's brain, turning him from an angry dinosaur into a cultured genius. He temporarily reverts back to his savage form after he is stripped of his powers at the end of "The Big Bad Wolf", but regains them by the end of "The Baddest Day Ever".
The International League of Heroes
Tropes shared by the group:
- Distaff Counterpart: They're this to the Good Guys Club.
- Furry Female Mane: All of the members of The International League of Heroes, made up of all women, have extra hair additions, while the boys have no additional features.
- Government Agency of Fiction: Their organization is so secret that regular authorities don’t even know they exist.
- Heel–Face Turn: All of them were thugs or criminals before meeting each other. Bonding over their shared struggles, they decided to rededicate themselves to using their skills for good instead of evil.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: All of them used to be sweet kids, but were bullied and turned bitter because of it.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: "Superbad" reveals that the members of the The International League of Heroes were bad guys before they met each other, purely because others saw them like that to start, so they decided to fit the mold others saw them as.
Agent Fox (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
- Big Good: She's the most overarching and active heroic character in the series, and with her own dark past, she serves as the image of what Mr. Wolf aspires to be. Her role is taken further in the second arc, where she's revealed to be "The One", the hero destined to slay the Overlord and save the multiverse.
- Disney Death: "Do-You-Think-He-Saurus" opens with her getting killed by aliens waiting for the guys to get back. Fortunately, since the guys are in the past with a time machine, they just so happen to return to the present before she dies and accidentally crash into the alien that would have killed her, saving her life.
- Later in “Let the Games Begin!”, Fox gets crushed to death by the centipede when he finally shows himself, but in the next book, she’s shown revived, albeit now and Underlord herself.
- Later in book 18, it’s revealed that she’s been revived after being crushed to death by Splaarghön, albeit now corrupted by Snake.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: After being revealed as The Unchosen One at the end of book 17, the Overlord unceremoniously crushes her.
- Given Name Reveal: Ellen. After she and Wolf become an Official Couple, he refers to her by her real name more often than "Fox".
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: She's completely immune to the Overlord's corrupting influence and can stop stop others in her vicinity from being corrupted as well. While she believes this means she's "The One", this turns out to not be the case by the end of book 17.
- Interspecies Romance: With Mr. Wolf.
- It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: She spent years hiding her status as "The One" to the other Agents; Kitty Kat takes the revelation especially hard. And once the Overlord knows where she is, he won't stop pursuing her until she's dead, meaning anyone by her is in danger.
- Mentor Archetype: She serves as Mr. Wolf's mentor, showing him the kind of hero he can become.
- Ninja: She's reminiscent of one when first introduced in Book 3, wearing an all-black outfit with only her eyes visible and wielding a katana.
- Parental Abandonment: "Superbad" reveals that her parents were killed by hunters when she was young.
- Samus Is a Girl: Legs quickly mistakes her in "The Furball Strikes Back" as a guy before she reveals her face.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: She spends the entire second arc believing she's "The One", and she has to endure hell trying to find the Overlord so she can reunite with "The Others" and bring him down. But in the climactic moment, when the Others are united to bestow their power onto her... the energy beam misses her. The Overlord takes the opportunity to gloat before crushing her to death. Ironically, it's revealed after she did succeed in reuniting the Others with the One, except that the One is Shortfuse, not her.
- The Unchosen One: In the second arc, she's presented as "The One", the only person capable of destroying the Overlord. In reality, Shortfuse is "The One". Shortfuse is actually her mentor.
- Women Are Wiser: Agent Fox is a much more seasoned, capable, and serious hero compared to the others.
Agent Kitty Kat
- Afro Asskicker: She has a large black afro. Until "Superbad", she was only seen from the back, with her afro being her defining feature.
- Broken Pedestal: Her trust in Agent Fox is briefly broken when she learns Fox knew she was The One all along and kept it a secret from her and the others.
- Damsel in Distress: Subverted in Book 17, where Snake tries to tie her up to get Wolf to quit, but then she frees herself and takes down Snake.
- Dark Is Not Evil: A black, but good cat.
- Cats Are Mean: She might be cold and aloof on the outside, but deep down, she cares for her team.
- Despair Event Horizon: Despite all the horrible things that happen during the second arc, she seems to hold up remarkably well... right up until Shark and Hogwild are corrupted, Piranha is captured by Snake, and all the Underlords confront her at once. Seeing how bleak things have become breaks her.
- Escape Artist: Escapes Snake tying her up in Book 17.
- Given Name Reveal: Pam.
- Katanas Are Just Better: They're her weapon of choice.
- Shout-Out: Her fighting style, hairdo, and true name all evoke the Blaxploitation era of Pam Grier's film career.
Agent Hogwild
- Abhorrent Admirer: She's very overt with her romantic advances, and it's obvious that the boys that she flirts with are uncomfortable with her. She actually weaponizes this by using it as a taunt to get Mr. Piranha to test his super speed without being caught by her.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: In Book 15, Underlord Snake manages to corrupt her and Mr. Shark.
- Given Name Reveal: Emmylou.
- Hayseed Name: Agent Hogwild, the Southern biker member of the group, is actually named Emmylou.
Agent Doom
- Creepy Crows: Not creepy outright, but very emo and weird.
- Deadpan Snarker: Fitting her dour nature, she quips dryly about most things, complimenting the fact that she's often teamed up with Mr. Snake.
- Given Name Reveal: Joy.
- Ironic Name: The dour and gothic Agent Doom's real name is Joy. Mr. Snake taunts her mercilessly over this.
- Kuudere: She's emo and dour to most people, but eventually softens up to Mr. Snake. She claims her support is "ironic", but Mr. Snake doesn't believe it.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: She is initially the most suspicious of Buck, and it turns out she was right.
Agent Shortfuse
- A God I Am Not: She’s The One, but she still has her own flaws and regrets, and shows no pride or arrogance in her position.
- The Chosen One: She's the real one, making her the only person capable of destroying the Overlord.
- Dark Is Not Evil: She’s a black Tasmanian Devil, but she’s on the side of good.
- Given Name Reveal: Rhonda.
- Interspecies Adoption: She adopted Fox as a child
- Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: The light to Splaarghon’s darkness, as she describes it.
- Literal Split Personality: Split off most of the aspects of her personality from herself in the form of The Others to hide her identity as The One. This is what resulted in her silence and short temper, as that was all she had left of herself.
- The Napoleon: Small, but very aggressive.
- Pintsized Powerhouse: Agent Shortfuse is a tiny creaturethat can easily whup enemies much bigger than her.
- Odd Name Out: Similar to Agent Doom, unlike the rest of the Shadow Squad G, who are either commonly referred to as their species name (Fox) or a something related to their species, she is called ‘Shortfuse’ instead.
- Really 700 Years Old: Trillions of years old, in fact
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Took an interest in Mr. Snake and Mr. Wolf believing them to potentially be the Serpent and the Beast from the prophecy. Unfortunately this ends up becoming true solely because of her accidental influence.
- Suddenly Speaking: After "The Others" fuse into her, she gains the ability to speak.
- Viewer Species Confusion: An In-Universe case. The form that she's currently taking is a Tasmanian Devil, something that no one exactly could guess.
- The Voiceless: Agent Shortfuse never talks. While Legs is able to learn her real name, it's never revealed how. That is until the end of Book 17.
Allies
Tiffany Fluffit
A news reporter in town who constantly gets entangled in the Good Guys Club's adventures.
- Cats Are Mean: Her commentary can be pretty nasty, especially in the books prior to Book 6. As revealed in Book 14, when she feels scared, she falls back on established stereotypes to make herself feel safe. She sheds this attitude by the end of Book 16.
- Character Development: She starts off as a shallow reporter that immediately judges the Good Guys Club for their looks alone, judging them as bad guys despite their insistence on proving themselves as heroes. She comes around to them after they stop the Cute-Zilla Ray, but is still otherwise shallow and begins to relapse back to her old habits after Mr. Snake is corrupted and starts ripping the world apart. She puts all her faith into Buck Thunders being a hero that can help them, but once Buck is revealed to be a spy, she is forced to confront how her beliefs failed her and finally sheds them, becoming a legitimate hero in the process.
- Given Name Reveal: In Book 16, she reveals that her given name is Delores Gristlewurst. Upon discovering that Buck Thunders was a spy for the Overlord, she abandons her "Tiffany" name and persona.
- Kent Brockman News: She has a very clear bias against the Good Guys Club at first; even when the Sunnyside Farms chickens are praising the gang for saving them, Tiffany can't help but paint the gang as bad guys. It takes the gang stopping Marmalade's Cute-Zilla Ray at the end of Book 5, a truly undeniable heroic act, before she finally changes her tune.
- Meaningful Name: "Fluff" is often used as a derogatory term for news reporting that's superficial, which basically describes Tiffany's whole reporting style.
- Rage Breaking Point: She completely snaps when she discovers that Buck Thunders isn't a hero like she thought, but really a spy working for the Overlord, and her beliefs and attitude had clouded her judgement from the obvious warning signs.
- Stage Names: "Tiffany Fluffit" is a stage name she had invented for herself.
- Tagalong Reporter: She has a habit of showing up wherever major events are happening. She gets sucked into the plot of the second arc because of this.
- Wild Card: She doesn't have any allegiance to any factions in the story. She just provides commentary, whether positive or negative, on whoever she happens to report on. Book 16 shows her switch to being a proper ally for Shadow Squad G.
Granny Gumbo
A witch doctor alligator.
- Apothecary Alligator: Parodied. Granny Gumbo is an alligator in this case, while also being a witch doctor.
- The Bus Came Back: After not being seen since her debut in Book 4, she returns in Book 15 and is revealed to be one of The Others, a group of outsiders destined to help Agent Fox defeat the Overlord.
- Gate Guardian: She built a doorway from Earth to the next universe.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: Granny Gumbo, despite being a bit senile, is still a capable witch doctor. She doesn't hide the fact that she's prepping to eat Mr. Snake as well (she thinks he's a worm).
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Her Scatterbrained Senior act is revealed to be this in Book 16, and she's far more in the know of what's going on than most of the major characters.
- Plot Allergy: Her allergy to "mutt-dogs" (which translates into being allergic to Mr. Wolf) ends up saving Mr. Snake after Granny Gumbo swallows him (due to thinking he was a worm).
- Scatterbrained Senior: Despite being a powerful witch doctor, she's a bit loopy thanks to age. Subverted in Book 16: it's part of her act to hide that she's one of the Others.
- Witch Doctor: she is a elderly alligator living in the swamplands. Despite being a touch senile in her old age, she is the only one with the cure for the Zittens.
Nathan
An alien from the planet :( that deflects to become an ally.
- Aerith and Bob: The Bob to Kdjfloerhgcoinwerucgleirwfheklwjfhxalhw’s Aerith.
- Token Good Teammate: To the rest of Marmalade’s alien army.
- Sixth Ranger Traitor: "Betrays" his home planet by allying with the Shadow Squad G in Book 12.
Buck Thunders
A mysterious bull the heroes meet at the far reaches of space.
- A Dog Named "Cat": A bull named "Buck".
- Finding Judas: Buck only helped Group B in order to find The Others
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Aside from Tiffany (initially), the rest of the B Team don’t seem to like him.
- The Leader: Subverted, as only Tiffany was the only one who followed him.
- The Mole: For Splaarghon
- Sympathy for the Devil: Implied. When Shaard’s tragic backstory is revealed in front of everyone, Buck expresses ‘dang’ at the revelation
Abe
A bat in Underlord Drillaärgh's world that's waiting for The One. He's one of the Others, a group of four heroes destined to help The One defeat the Overlord.
- Cannot Tell a Lie: He can't lie at all, not even by inaction, and is immediately compelled to help anyone that can be helped by him speaking up. This gives Mr. Wolf, Agent Fox, and and Agent Shortfuse trouble when trying to avoid Drillaärgh and Ghaāstly.
- Irony: Despite his insistence on honesty, he has trouble trusting anyone else. When Agent Fox tells him she's The One he'd been waiting for, he has a hard time believing her, even when Mr. Wolf's life is on the line.
- Poor Communication Kills: He tries to warn Wolf about Ghaāstly's box, but he does so by pestering him with "I have to tell you something" instead of saying the warning outright. Wolf, who is busy trying to get the group to the next doorway safely, keeps dismissing him. By the time he tells Agent Fox about the box, Wolf has already looked inside and immediately dies.
- Shout-Out: To Abraham Lincoln, who was also called ‘Honest Abe’.
Antagonists
Doctor Rupert Marmalade (SPOILERS UNMARKED)
A wealthy and powerful guinea pig who seeks revenge on the Good Guys Club after they disrupt his chicken farm. In reality, he's a prince from an alien planet attempting to take over the world.
- Alien Among Us: He's actually an alien prince from the planet :(, bent on conquering the Earth to prove himself to his father.
- Berserk Button: Don't call him "cute". This is what actually drove him to villainy. This even extends to his alien form, which is terrifying by Earth standards.
- Cute Is Evil: A billionaire mad scientist that also happens to be an adorable guinea pig. Despite being cute, he hates being called cute, to the point of using his scientific abilities to un-cutify anything else on the planet that's considered cute. It also turns out the guinea pig appearance is just a ruse, he's actually an alien that used it because he wouldn't be taken as seriously in it, though he was still considered "cute" by alien standards on his planet.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: He's introduced as a normal guinea pig at the end of "Mission Unpluckable". It's only when the others leave (after they think they're rescuing a normal guinea pig) does his true colors show, and he becomes the main antagonist of the series for the first arc. And then it turns out he's not even a guinea pig...
- Evil Counterpart: Where the main characters are traditionally fearsome animals tired of being called bad and wanting to do good, Marmalade is a cute animal tired of being called cute and wanting to do bad.
- Hates Being Called Cute: Dr. Marmalade. He's a billionaire mad scientist who also happens to be an adorable guinea pig. Him being tired of called "cute" is what drove him to become an evil scientist in the first place. It turns out, by alien standards, this holds true of his actual form, a tentacled mess of stalks with butts for hands, which looks terrifying to the others.
- Long-Lived: His alien species can live over 10,000 years. Marmalade himself is on the young side, being only 900 and still in preschool.
- Mad Scientist: Dr. Rupert Marmalade, an evil scientist guinea pig who is the main antagonist to the heroes and secretly an alien.
- Manchild: Played with. To Earthling eyes, Dr. Marmalade is an eccentric mad scientist. To the eyes of his alien species, he has the mental maturity of a preschooler.
- Royal Brat: Dr. Marmalade is the crown prince of his planet. He was sent to Earth to become a better ruler, but he ended up just wanting to conquer everything, much to the irritation of his much-nicer members of his species.
- Starfish Aliens: His true form is revealed as a tentacle alien with butts for hands.
- They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: In "The Furball Strikes Back", Wolf, Snake, and Shark meet Rupert Marmalade for the first time:Wolf: Wait a minute! I know you! You're that cute little guinea pig from the old house next to Sunnyside... You're Marmalade!
Dr. Rupert Marmalade: That's DOCTOR Marmalade to you! - The Unpronounceable: His real name is KDJFLOERHGCOINWERUHCGLEIRWFHEKLWJFHXALHW. Most of the others end up keep calling him "Marmalade" to skirt this issue. Somehow, Mr. Shark and Mr. Snake can pronounce the real name.
Dread Overlord Splaarghön
A demon that lives in the darkest depths of the multiverse, his ultimate goal is to reach and destroy the main universe.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: He resembles a massive demonic centipede.
- The Corrupter: The moment Snake is able to use his newfound powers to perceive him, the Overlord wastes no time in corrupting him to evil.
- Dark Is Evil: A dark force in the multiverse.
- Don't Celebrate Just Yet: He and his Underlords celebrate the One’s ‘death’, and Wolf and the actual One escape.
- Eldritch Abomination: It lives outside the multiverse, resembles a massive, demonic centipede, has the power to corrupt almost anyone into evil, and just saying his name triggers the sound of hardcore metal guitar strings.
- Empty Eyes: His eyes have no pupils
- Evil Counterpart: To Shortfuse, the One.
Underlord Shaård
One of the Overlord's underlings, a demonic creature with chainsaw hands.
- Animate Inanimate Object: He's actually a little spoon from a universe of anthropomorphic silverware, mutated beyond recognition by the Overlord's powers.
- Chainsaw Good: He has chainsaws for hands, as well as for other limbs.
Underlord Onsàáy
One of the Overlord's underlings, a monstrous queen bee.
- Bee Afraid: She and her race are all man-sized bees who can rip off their stingers to attack their enemies.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: A tall, menacing queen bee with huge swarms of underlings doing her every bidding.
- Insect Queen: A queen to her bees.
Underlord Drillaärgh
One of the Overlord's underlings, a jackal dentist with mutilated teeth.
- Alliterative Name: David Drillaärgh.
- Depraved Dentist: He's not even trying to hide that he wants to cause his "patients" as much pain and suffering as possible.
- I Was Quite a Looker: He shows Wolf and Agent Fox a photo of himself before the Overlord's corruption, where he was much more conventionally attractive.
- Scary Teeth: His teeth are so mutilated, sharp and grotesque it's a wonder they don't constantly stab him when he speaks.
Underlord Esmeralda Ghaāstly
One of the Overlord's underlings, who resembles a scorpion attached to a human body.
- Nothing Is Scarier: What's in her box is never shown, but it's apparently so terrible that one glance from Mr. Wolf causes him to immediately have a heart attack and die. When Abe revives him, he doesn't remember what he saw.
- One-Hit Kill: Inside her box is something so horrible that looking at it causes the viewer to die immediately.
- The Voiceless: She does not speak throughout book 16.
