Characters / The Silverscale Arena Season One Second Placers

Acererak

Universe: Dungeons & Dragons
Submitted by: Anna Shattergaze
Appearances: Episode 1

A demilich who traveled throughout the multiverse to collect artifacts and places them in his Tomb of Horrors, where he uses them to lure adventurers to their deaths and trap their souls in his phylactery. And now he finds himself in the first Silverscale Arena...

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• An Arm and a Leg: As Megatron is destroying his phylactery, one of his arms falls off.
• Attack the Tail: He uses a shadowy hand to rip off Heavy Chonker's tail out of boredom.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: He rips off the cat Heavy Chonker's tail for no reason other than he was bored at that moment.
• Big "WHAT?!": When he tries to use the Force Cage to crush Megatron as the cage shrinks, he reacts this way when he's able to break out of it.
• Demonic Possession: After being 'killed' by Kael'thas Sunstrider, his soul possesses Judy Hopps for the remainder of the Arena until she's destroyed by Megatron, allowing him to attack in his true Lich form once more.
• Fingore: When trying to crush Megatron with his Force Cage, the cage begins to crack as Megatron is breaking out of it, with Acererak's fingers breaking trying to maintain it.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: When trying to destroy Megaton's spark, the Decepticon's anti-matter spark goes out of control, opening a rift through space/time...and causing his phylactery to be revealed to Megatron, allowing him to destroy it.
• I'm a Humanitarian: After Easy Pete gets killed by Samalla, Acererak possessing Judy's body proceeds to eat his remains.
• Kick the Dog: He has wisps attack and humiliate Kael'thas as a prank of his and ripped off Heavy Chonker's tail because he was bored.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: As the souls from his destroyed phylactery are being set free, he's lifted into the air and begins ranting about how he's still immortal, only for Megatron to shoot him with one final Plasma Cannon blast mid-rant.

  Acererak: "Not now! I'M IMMORTAL! I...I...I AM..."
  Megatron: "Nothing but dust."

• Killed Off for Real: When Megatron destroys his phylactery, it leaves him without any soul to resurrect with, allowing Megatron to permanently kill him. It's for this reason that he was one of two antagonists, the other being Alture Essun, to not reappear in "Infinity Pizza".
• Malicious Misnaming: During his fight with Megatron, he only refers to him as D-16, Megatron's original name.
• No Body Left Behind: After Megatron destroys his phylactery and all the souls are escaping it, he fires one final Fusion Cannon blast at Acererak, which reduces him to bones and mostly dust.
• Noodle Incident: He has some sort of history with The 12th Doctor, as his transportation method once crashed into him at some point.
• One-Shot Character: Unlike every other villain this season, his debut episode was also his only appearance in the series.
• Soul Jar: His phylactery. When Megatron destroys it, he has no more souls to resurrect from and he is destroyed for good.
• Starter Villain: The first major antagonist of the series.
• Thanatos Gambit: After planting the Gyaos eggs, He begins his next part of his plan, where he lets himself be killed by another contestant, that being Kael'thas. Since his phylactery wasn’t destroyed, his soul is still alive, which allows him to bypass all the remaining dangerous events in the episode, and also allows him to possess someone, that being Judy, and wait until his Gyaos eggs hatch. After that, he begins his scheme of invading the multiverse and taking as many souls as he can with his Gyaos army.
• Villainous Breakdown: After Megatron begins to destroy his phylactery, he begins freaking out, trying to pretend that Megatron isn't real and yelling at him to go away, acting like how many of his victims did in their final moments.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: After Megatron kills Judy, Acererak takes her soul and places it in his phylactery, which is what happens to all the souls of his victims.

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Alture Essun

Universe: Submitter's OC
Submitted by: Alture Essun
Appearances: Episodes 3 & 4

A dragon that has a love for music. He doesn't seem like he would be an antagonist, being a pacifist that would only fight if he needed to. That is, until "Episode 4", where he finds the Mind Stone, and begins to become exponentially more powerful...

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• Ascended Extra: He goes from a contestant of minor relevance in "Episode 3" to becoming the final contestant Tigress has to defeat and save the Valley of Peace from in the very next episode.
• Big Bad: He achieves this role once he hypnotizes the Valley of Peace and Tigress has to stop him in the final chapter of "Episode 4".
• Big "NO!": He roars one at the end of the climax when all of the Infinity Stones he gathered are shattered from the combined singing of Tigress, Artica, and Po.
• Big "WHAT?!": He screams one in panic when Tigress flings the Soul Stone into the Reality Stone in his chest, causing the other stones in his possession to crack.
• Bolt of Divine Retribution: In "Episode 3", he shows Chise and Mothra the Magic Conch and then boasts to Baskerra that they could survive anything with it and that they do this all day. Then, the Magic Conch, not Baskerra, brings down a bolt to non-fatally strike the dragon.
• Compelling Voice: He's able to brainwash others in "Episode 4" just by his singing through the use of the Mind Stone.
• Crossover-Exclusive Villain: He was created for this series, and the first OC to play this role.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: What prevents him from being able to brainwash everyone during the Abridged Dead Zone event is that he ate a hallucinogenic apple from a tree at Garlic Jr's castle, getting him very high. He's still reeling from the effects of it after the event is over for several days, preventing him from doing much before the finale.
• Ear Ache: As his body becomes unstable after the Infinity Stones are shattered, his right ear is blown off and his left ear turns into a black hole that sucks him in.
• Easily Forgiven: When he asks Tigress to forgive him in the first QnA, Tigress says that she found out he wasn't acting in the right state of mind when he attempted to hypnotize the Valley of Peace. And she notes that since the Arenas has caused mental anguish for them, she considers the offer if they meet again. Given that they seem to end things on amicable terms, this is why he was one of two antagonists, the other being Acererak, to not reappear in "Infinity Pizza".
• Faint in Shock: When Lord Death surprises everyone by loudly announcing his presence in their Team Introduction in "Episode 4", it causes Alture to faint for a moment.
• Fastball Special: He gets thrown by Ridley as part of Ridley's plan to kill Lucifer in "Episode 3".
• Forgot About His Powers: As he's nursing the headache he got when Ridley threw him at Lucifer, he bemoans that he should have attacked Ridley with his Stand, Electric Dreams, when he had the chance.
• Four Is Death: He's the final antagonist of the fourth episode in the series.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: In "Episode 4", after finding the Mind Stone, he starts to go from a pacifistic music-loving dragon to a musical supervillain that can brainwash others just by singing and comes very close to completely taking over the Valley of Peace.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: When he gets Tigress to join in on the singing, she has Artica sing as loud as she is, singing in operetta, reaching a crescendo that goes higher and higher. Then, when Alture's guard is down, she flings the Soul Stone into the Reality Stone that's in Alture's chest, causing all his stones to crack. What seals his fate is as he's trying to get Tigress and Artica to stop singing, Po joins in on the singing as well, with their voices being loud enough to shatter all of his stones.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: During the Replenishment in "Episode 3", when Judy points out how he could be gathering supplies but is instead trying to kill 'one dumb bunny', he realizes she's right and tries to apologize, only for her to apologize, and then kill him.

  Alture Essun: "Yeah...the FUCK am I doing? Sorry, it's this game. You see-"
  Judy: "No, I'm sorry." (Shoves a coke/mentos combination into his mouth, causing his head to explode.)

  • In the next episode, in the middle of his Villainous Breakdown after all his Infinity Stones are shattered, his body becomes unstable and gets sucked into a black hole back into the Arena.
    NOOOOOOO! I was so close! SO CLOSE! It can't end like-
• Mauve Shirt: In "Episode 3"; while he didn't amount to doing much, he survived for a decently long time.
• The Music Meister: He becomes a carbon copy of the actual Music Meister in "Episode 4", down to singing two of his songs in the episode!
• Psychic-Assisted Suicide: After having his brainwashed minions get Zaigorg back under his control, Alture then attempts to have them form a kick-line straight to the barrier, which disintegrates anything that touches it on contact. Before any of them can make contact with it, however, everyone is transported to the Abridged Dead Zone event.
• Villain Song: He takes two songs from the actual Music Meister, with slight edits to have it be about him instead; those being "I'm the Music Meister", which he has him and the contestants he brainwashed sing just before the Abridged Dead Zone Event, and "The World Is Mine", which he has everyone, including those from the AFTERLIFE, sing as Tigress has to fight off him and the controlled populace of the Valley of Peace.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: The only clothing he wears are cargo shorts.
• Whole-Plot Reference: His arc of villainy is a big reference to the Batman: The Brave and the Bold character The Music Meister and his episode "Mayhem of the Music Meister", where his first act of villainy is him brainwashing several people into singing along to his musical number with his voice and then manages to Take Over the World by brainwashing the entire populace (Though in this case it's the Valley of Peace rather than the whole world), with our hero being the only person left that hasn't been brainwashed and has to stop the musical villain.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: When he comes across the Mind Stone, then gaining most of the other Infinity Stones over the course of the episode, the normally mild-mannered dragon very quickly goes mad with all the power he's obtained, and then attempts to take over the Valley of Peace, coming very close to succeeding in the process.
• Your Head Asplode: He's killed by Judy in "Episode 3" by shoving a combination of coke and mentos into his maw, with the build up causing his throat to expand and his head to explode into ash.

Draka

Universe: Submitter's OC
Submitted by: Dakota Crimson
Appearances: Episode 5 | Infinity Pizza | Episode 36^note as a non-contestant

A draconic alien Super-Soldier, disgraced by his people due to his focus on endless conflict. He seeks to earn 'redemption'...and is willing to do anything to get it.

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• Aim for the Horn: After firing a cluster beam and a lot of knives at Heavy, the only damage Heavy received was him losing a horn.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When he realizes that Heavy is about to throw his head into the Draenei House, he begs for Heavy not to do it, pleading that it isn't a warrior's fate. Heavy ignores his pleas and throws him in anyway.
• And Then What?: A problem he faced once peacetime came for his homeworld is that he felt he had no purpose left, since he feels that he only exists for fighting. He decided that the best plan of action was to wish for endless conflict, thus never having to face this dilemma again.
• Arch-Enemy: To Heavy, for killing his girlfriend Dawn, his ally Po, and for wrecking his beloved weapon Sasha.
• Back for the Finale: He returns to be the main antagonist of "Episode 36", the last Arena of the third season.
  • Back for the Dead: When he finally makes a return in the 36th episode, his fight with Toriel ends up putting him down for good, with her completely destroying his skeleton, leaving nothing left for him to regenerate his body back from.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: He doesn't actually do much for the first half of the episode, mostly meditating and biding his time. Once he gets the Power Stone, he sets his plan into motion and later becomes a huge threat.
• Big Bad: He cements himself as this for "Episode 5" late into it. He reclaims this role for "Episode 36".
• Big "NO!": He has a MASSIVE one when he fires a cluster beam and throws a bunch of knives at Heavy, thinking it killed him, only to find him alive and only missing a horn.
• Blood Knight: After being turned into a super soldier for his homeworld, he feels that the only thing he has to live for is to fight on the battlefield. When peacetime came to his world, he couldn't stomach the idea of living in a world without conflict, so he joined the Arena to wish for never-ending conflict for him to thrive in. And in "Infinity Pizza" as he leaves his Dream Universe for the rematch with the heroes, he admits he doesn't care whose blood is spilt. Innocent, guilty, doesn't matter. He's not living unless he is fighting someone and blood is being shed.
• Calling Your Attacks: "DRAGON LIGHTNING FINISH!"
• Came Back Wrong: When he returned in the season 3 finale, the void that he and Cleopterix were sent to from Megatron's mini-black hole gave him scars covering his entire body, with several causing parts of him to glitch out. He hopes that him defeating the winner of the 36th Arena can help him find a solution to fix this.
• Crossover-Exclusive Villain: He was created for this series.
• Enemies List: When Heavy has split up from his allies and is scavenging the K-Mart for food, he finds Draka’s drawings and descriptions of the other contestants of the episode, most of them having x's around them. He then finds the names end at his, Po's, and Dawn's, with arrows pointing at them and the words 'BREAK THEM DOWN' written nearby. By the time Heavy realizes splitting up was a mistake, it’s too late.
• Enemy Mine: He works with Heavy, Dawn, and Po to defeat the Fatalis. Once they've defeated it, he goes back to trying to kill them all.
• Faking the Dead: After receiving enough damage by Metal Gear RAY and Rimuru Tempest, he has to play dead so they'll ignore him and he can heal from his wounds.
• Flechette Storm: One tactic of his is to throw a lot of his Ender Knives at his opponents.
• Foil: To Heavy. While Heavy was forced into violence and war, he still remains relatively sane and even heroic. Not to mention, all of his actions were done for his family. Draka, on the other hand, was literally made for war and never moved past his purpose, becoming a maniacal Blood Knight in the process.
• Forever War: Turns out his idea of 'redemption' is to wish for there to be endless conflict for him to reign supreme in and to prove to his planet that he isn't obsolete.
• From a Single Cell: Thanks to the Power Stone amplifying his regenerative abilities, he's able to survive just about anything that would have been lethal, so long as his body isn't entirely destroyed. Sure enough, when Toriel kills him with a massive blast of fire and he doesn't have the Power Stone, it consumes his entire skeleton leaving nothing that he could regenerate back from.
• Gone Horribly Right: He was created by his homeworld to be the ultimate warrior when war came. And once the war ended and he felt he had no more purpose, he joined the Arena hoping to create endless conflict that no doubt would have gotten his homeworld wrapped up in, and nearly succeeded in winning because of his abilities.
• Hero Killer: He kills Dawn and Po late into "Episode 5".
• Home Base: He makes one out of an abandoned K-Mart in "Episode 5".
• Kick the Dog: In his fight with Heavy in "Episode 5", he destroys his minigun, Sasha, just to be a dick. This, however, gave Heavy a Heroic Second Wind, allowing him to kick Draka's ass and ruin his plans.
• Killed Off for Real: He meets his ultimate end from Toriel destroying his entire skeleton with a massive fire blast, with it being made clear that he wouldn't be coming back from that.
• Kill It with Fire: He's ultimately killed from a blast of blue and orange fire from Toriel's maw, which reduces his entire body to ash, completely destroying him.
• Losing Your Head: After Heavy sends him through a roof of the K-Mart with a Tri-Blaster beam and Draka explodes, his still speaking head still leaps at Heavy in desperation to kill him. Said head is tossed into the Draenei House. By the time of "Infinity Pizza", he had to get his head stitched back onto his body.
• Motive Rant: At beginning of his fight with Heavy, he explains to him his backstory and what his idea of 'redemption' actually entails:

  The both of us! Bred for war! War is all we’ve ever known! Is that right?! But while you were merely indoctrinated into it, I WAS BORN FOR IT! Created by my homeworld to be the ultimate super soldier…to bring chaos and RUIN to my foes! It's all I know how to do! And what you see here...is just me taking my time! Every death gave me strength! You can do nothing to harm me! NOTHING! But then PEACE CAME! They told me I was obsolete! That I was useless! That I should 'seek inner peace'! WHAT FOOLS THEY WERE! A warrior can only live on the battlefield...so...through my wish...I shall redeem myself in front of their eyes...I shall create an endless conflict where I remain supreme! And those like you...will exist as more numbers on the floor!

• Long Bus Trip: After his last appearance in "Infinity Pizza" at the end of the first season, he doesn't come back until the surprise reveal that he's the final draconic opponent in "Episode 36", the last episode of the third season.
• Must Have Caffeine: Implied; where late into "Episode 5", as he's watching everyone enjoy a moment of peace, it's mentioned that he drank enough coffee to wake up an entire army.
• "Not So Different" Remark: As shown in his Motive Rant, he claims that both he and Heavy were made for war. The difference is that, while Heavy was forced into war, Draka was LITERALLY made for it.
• Our Dragons Are Different: He's an alien that happens to look like an anthro Chinese Dragon.
• Purple Is Powerful: Thanks to obtaining the Power Stone, he gains a purple aura around his attacks and becomes a very powerful threat that Heavy struggles to defeat.
• Put on a Bus to Hell: He gets dragged into a void alongside Cleopterix, in "Infinity Pizza", and doesn't come back until the last episode of the third season.
• Returning Big Bad: It's revealed that he was the one who set up the 36th Arena so that he could challenge the eventual winner of it and defeat them in combat to prove that he's the strongest in the universe.
• Sociopathic Soldier: He was created by his planet to be an ultimate super soldier. he refused to seek inner peace when peacetime came to his planet and wants to use the wish to cause endless conflict just to satiate his bloodlust.
• Stripped to the Bone: He gets nearly skeletonized from the Fatalis' Nova Burst attack. He survives it thanks to his regenerative abilities.
• Super-Soldier: He was created to be one for his planet and, after swallowing the Power Stone, he can survive just about any kind of attack that would have been fatal to others.
• Thanatos Gambit: Once he begins his plan, he gets himself into fights with Metal Gear RAY and Rimuru Tempest, and allows them to seemingly kill him, only for him to recover and bolster his Healing Factor.
• There's No Kill like Overkill: When he kills Dawn, he stabs her with a spear through the abdomen, splits her in half with his tail, then finally snaps her neck.
  • The first dragon he sent out to challenge and slaughter the contestants of "Episode 36"? Yiazmat, a Superboss infamous for having 50 million HP in its game.
• Time Stands Still: After Draka's attempt of breaking Bardin and Heavy in the Time Realm by showing them their worst memories fails, he stops time in the realm and tries killing them by throwing a bunch of his knives at them a la DIO, before resuming time. They fail to actually hit them however.
• Torso with a View: He kills the Fatalis in "Episode 5" by going straight through his chest with his Dragon Lightning Finish attack.
• Uncertain Doom: He, along with most of the other villains, are last seen being sucked into Megatron's mini-black hole in "Infinity Pizza", with him being declared missing in the epilogue and hasn't been seen since that episode. He finally returned in "Episode 36", where his fate was made explicitly clear.
• Villainous Breakdown: As the fight goes on and Heavy begins to wear him down, he starts breaking down at how anyone could stand an even fight with him, and it gets worse when the tide of the battle turns to Heavy's favor.
• The Worf Barrage: In his big fight with Heavy, he fires a cluster beam and a lot of knives at him, expecting it to kill him, and all the damage Heavy receives from it is losing one horn.
• You Are Already Dead: When he distracts Po long enough for a Swampus to inflict a poisonous bite through his neck, he allows Po to run to Heavy since he's already doomed.

Starscream (& Gul)

Universe: Transformers
Submitted by: Baskerra Hellmane^note Starscream only
Appearances: Episode 6 | Peace Through Tyranny | Infinity Pizza | Episode 37

The infamous Second-in-Command of the Decepticons, as well as his new minicon partner, have fallen into hard times after Gigatron has taken over Cybertron and the disappearance of their leader, Megatron. They eventually hope to find a way to rise back to their former glory.

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• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Instead of a purely antagonistic relationship, Megatron and Starscream actually have a lot of respect for each other, though their relationship was far more typical of their usual routine during the early days of the war. Starscream's animosity towards Megatron in "Infinity Pizza" is mostly because he feels his leader abandoned his group to be at the mercy of Gigatron. By the end, they reconcile.
• Awesome, but Impractical: The Apex Armor that Starscream finds and gets in "Episode 6". While it does make him virtually indestructible and boosts his strength, it reduces his mobility, including removing being able to transform altogether, taking away his flight capabilities. This ends up causing his downfall when he falls into a hole made from a Combination Attack by Teostra and Lunastra filled with lava and he can't fly out.
• BFG: Gul's alt-mode.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Despite their best efforts to wipe out the remaining competition in "Episode 6", most of their screentime is them just trying to find and kill any contestant, and failing to kill the few they could find. Finally, in the climax, they get upstaged and taken out by the Elder Dragon duo of Teostra and Lunastra.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: Starscream is a giant compared to the Minicon Gul.
• Big "NO!": Starscream's last line in "Episode 6" is a huge "NOOOOOOOOO!!!" as he falls into the lava-filled hole to his death.
• Big "SHUT UP!": Starscream's first line in "Episode 6" is him yelling to Ed "WILL YOU SHUT UP ALREADY!?", having gotten annoyed by Ed monologuing in his 'Super Warrior' persona.
• Brutal Bird of Prey: Gul's robot mode resembles one.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: As Starscream himself admits to Ridley, he'll betray anyone that doesn't suit his interests.
• Clingy Costume: Starscream gets a Santa hat stuck on his nosecone in "Episode 6", and despite his best efforts he can't get it off.
• Clones Are People, Too: Starscream was literally made off the assembly line on Vos, possibly as a reference to how many Seekers share his body type. However, he proved to be a 'defect' due to his individuality.
• Composite Character: Starscream's basically the "Transformers: Animated" version of himself, but he shares some of the sympathetic traits of his 2009 IDW series counterpart. He also dons the Apex Armor like in "Transformers: Prime" and even gains his minicon partner from the toyline of that show.
• The Day the Music Lied: When they find and attack Zodd, Zhima, and Squeak, Starscream’s theme from Transformers: Devastation plays as they fight. A while later as they're fighting, Starscream gets a fireball to the back, which alerts him to the presence of Teostra and Lunastra, who make short work of everyone but Zodd and become the true final antagonists of the episode.
• Didn't Think This Through: It's stated in the "Silverscale Guide to the Transformers!" that Starscream's biggest failing is his rash decision making.
• Disney Villain Death: Their deaths by Starscream falling into a hole filled with lava made by two Elder Dragons and dragging Gul down with him.
• Enemy Mine: When they realize that Ridley is a madman that only wants power and to annihilate all life, they, along with Wario, join forces with the heroes to restore things back to normal and stop the other villains.
• Even Evil Has Standards: While they joined Ridley and the other villains to get revenge on Zodd in "Infinity Pizza", when he realizes after initially defeating the heroes that all Ridley wants to do is continuously annihilate all life, they're so horrified by his goals that they along with Wario bring the heroes a knock-off Time Stone to fix all the damage he caused and to stop the other villains.
• Human Snowball: When attempting to kill Liru in the snowy peaks of the Arena, the bulkiness of his armor causes him to tumble and roll down the mountain, turning him into a giant Decepticon snowball.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: According to the "Silverscale Guide to the Transformers!" it's stated that Starscream really just wants to have friends, but he usually reacts to compassion with aggression, as he's not used to positive reinforcement.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: Starscream wrecks a vending machine to take the Energon Wine out of it, which he goes to town on, as it's a rare delicacy and he wants to savor it.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: It wouldn't be Starscream if he didn't try to make himself feel better with constant boasts. Even Gul is like this, if not worse.
• A Molten Date with Death: They die in "Episode 6" by Starscream falling into the hole made by Teostra and Lunastra that is filled with lava and Gul being dragged into it by Starscream. And for good measure rubble closes the hole they fell into, preventing any possible escape for them.
• Oh, Crap!: Starscream's reaction to the unexpected reunion between him and Megatron in "Infinity Pizza" is to stutter his name with a horrified expression.
• Profane Last Words: Gul's last words in "Episode 6" are him screaming "SON OF A BIIIIIIiiii..." as he's being dragged down into the hole filled with lava.
• Secret-Keeper: They and Shockwave are the only ones that know that Megatron is stuck on Anduruna and alive, with Starscream only keeping it a secret just to watch the look on everyone else's faces when he returns and puts him back as his second-in-command position.
• Sixth Ranger: A rare evil example, as Gul wasn't an official contestant of the sixth episode, but is found and teams up with Starscream to take out the rest of the competition. They both later join the heroes side in "Infinity Pizza" after realizing that Ridley is a complete psychopath.
• The Starscream: Despite being the literal Trope Namer, this surprisingly DOESN’T happen. Sure, he betrays Ridley during their team-up in "Infinity Pizza", but he doesn't do it to try and take over command. Instead, he joins the other heroes in stopping him because Ridley's an Omnicidal Maniac who needs to be stopped. That being said, in the epilogue of "Infinity Pizza", it's stated that he might use the knowledge of Megatron's survival to ascend over Gigaton, the current ruler of Cybertron.
• Taking You with Me: As Starscream falls into the hole filled with lava, he grabs Gul's wing as he tries to escape and drags him down into the hole too.
• Tempting Fate: After stabbing Teostra's tail with Gul, Starscream boasts that "No mere organic can fell the mighty Starscream!". Teostra and Lunastra then make a combined Supernova attack that causes Starscream to fall into a hole filled with lava, killing him.
• Where I Was Born and Razed: When the Decepticons took over Cybetron, Starscream was eager to destroy Vos, the city of his creation. Considering they tried to lobotomize him for daring to show individuality, it's obvious as to why he wanted revenge.

Nova LeMarche

Universe: Submitter's OC
Submitted by: KT Fosterite
Appearances: Episode 7 | Infinity Pizza

An Ambiguously Human owner of her own line of sex toys that was personally hired by KT to be put into the game.

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• A God Am I: During her final fight with Krystal, she boasts that with the upgrades she got and the powers she obtained in the Arena, she's basically a God.
• Ambiguously Human: She looks human, given the pic used for her during the Arena, but some of her physical capabilities make her qualify as this trope.
• Arch-Enemy: To Krystal, given that whenever Nova shows up, the space vixen is also there to stop her.
• Asshole Victim: Given everything she did in her debut episode and openly admitting that she would kill a whole world just to get back at Krystal, no tears were shed when she was permanently killed in "Infinity Pizza".
• Atop a Mountain of Corpses: On the sixth day, she sits on a throne of Astro-Zombie corpses while receiving a blowjob by Khanivore.
• Bad Boss: Of the minions she gets from either the Bee Girls or from corrupting someone into being her minion/sex slave, she treats her corrupted minions as just sex toys to play with. She'll devour them if they fail her, have no worth to her anymore, or if she thinks that it can give her an advantage.
• Beam-O-War: She gets into one with a Gravios in the climax over Nova nearly killing the creature's child during an earlier fight with Krystal. Krystal uses the beam struggle to attack her while she's distracted.
• Big Bad: Becomes one of "Episode 7".
• Body Horror: She doesn't just have to use her mouth to digest her victims, she can also use her tits and her dick to swallow them up.
• Boomerang Bigot: In "Episode 7" she accuses Krystal of being a 'lesbian whore', even though all the people she forced into being her sex slaves were women.
• Crossover-Exclusive Villain: She was created for this series.
• Curse Cut Short: Her last word before she's killed by Krystal's, Torque's, and Legoshi's Combination Attack is an interrupted "Motherf-".
• Forced Transformation: When a Spark rams into her body, it gives her metallic armor that forms around her body and leaves a reactor in her chest. She actually appreciates the change, given the power boost she gets from it.
• Four Is Death: The main antagonist of "Episode 7", and she's part of the fourth team that was submitted for it. She's also the last member of her team to be submitted into the simulation.
• Groin Attack: She finds herself on the receiving end several times, since she leaves her genitals out in the open for everyone to see.
• Hermaphrodite: She's a woman that has male genitalia.
• Horrifying the Horror: After an offscreen battle with the Shimmer Bear that results in the mutated bear losing a leg, the soul inside the creature screams for someone to save her, moments before she's devoured by Nova.
• I'm a Humanitarian: As a big advocate for hard (as in, fatal) vore, she has no qualms about eating and digesting people, especially if they're still breathing when she devours them.
• Interplay of Sex and Violence: Eating people alive is her fetish and she can also use her jizz beams as a projectile attack.
• I Want My Mommy!: Nova's last word before exploding from all the energy overloading in her body in "Episode 7" is a pathetic "...mommy?"
• Killed Off for Real: Unlike the rest of the villains in "Infinity Pizza", she's the only one to be explicitly killed and is the only character to STAY dead by the end of it.
• Sadist: Just ask anybody who gets corrupted by her, gets eaten by her, fights her, or all three.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: When she gets her armor transformation from the Spark, it exposes her tits and genitals. She doesn't care one bit about that. In "Infinity Pizza", she appears without any pants, exposing her genitals.
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: She makes her and Wario known to Krystal and Torque as they're trying to retrieve the Space Stone by yelling "MISSED ME, BITCHES?!"
• Token Evil Teammate: She serves this role for the team she starts out on.
• Two Girls to a Team: She and Cleopterix are the two female villains of the season, and both join the team-up of the other season 1 antagonists in "Infinity Pizza".
• Vacuum Mouth: Among the powers she gets after having the Spark transform her, one of them is that she can suck anything into her mouth and can blow it back out if she wants to.
• Villainous Glutton: Given all the tropes relating her utilizing hard vore, this doesn't come as a surprise.
• We Will Meet Again: During "Infinity Pizza", as Nova and Wario are sent spiraling out of control from her jetpack malfunctioning in the realm of the Space Stone, she swears to Krystal and Torque that they will be back.

  This ain't over! Not by a long shot! You hear us?! YOU'RE GONNA REGRET WINNING AGAINST THE FUCKING LEMARCHE!

• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When Striva Voros gets crippled from a surprise attack by lasers fired by The Astro-Zombies and begs for Nova to help her, she decides to eat Striva.

Cool Cat

Universe: Cool Cat Saves the Kids
Submitted by: Baskerra Hellmane
Appearances: Episode 8 | Infinity Pizza | Non-Fungible Tok-Ed

A kids mascot created by Derek Savage as a way to teach kids how to stand up to bullies (and also fight the Coronavirus). But as the series goes on, it becomes clear that that something is very, very wrong with him...

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Is one for Sarah Silke, even offering her to become the queen of all Crypto in "Non-Fungible Tok-Ed". Not that she's interested in that at all.
• Ambiguous Situation: How much of him killing Sarah was him being possessed by the Goke, or that he was jealous that she wasn't starting a relationship with him? Judging by how he's still trying to win Sarah's affection in "Non-Fungible Tok-Ed", we can infer that it might have been the former.
• Angry Eyebrows: Whenever he gets mad, he gets these on him that look like they were hastily pasted on.
• Arch-Enemy: To Shockwave. It's so bad that the usually calm Decepticon freaks out upon seeing him again.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: When he emerges from the portal of his own dream universe for a rematch with the heroes in "Infinity Pizza", he's grown to kaiju size.
• Ax-Crazy: In his efforts to stop bullying, he has become willing to kill anyone, even children, for committing what he deems as bullying, becoming a multiversal threat in the process. It's later revealed that he murdered his entire neighborhood when they tried to stop him.
• Big Bad: Of "Episode 8" and "Non-Fungible Tok-Ed".
• Big "SHUT UP!": When he gets confronted and pressured by everyone over him murdering his neighborhood in "Non-Fungible Tok-Ed", he yells at them to "SHUT UP! ALL OF YOU!"
• Black-and-White Insanity: To him, there are 'bullies' and 'those that are not bullies'. If he deems somebody to be in the former category, he'll berate them endlessly or even outright try to kill them.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: After showing Eddy how much NFTs are selling for, he turns to the audience to explain that the acronym NFTs stands for 'Non-Fungible Tokens'.
• Boom, Headshot!: Shockwave ultimately defeats him in "Episode 8" by his beam attack, which was aimed at his head.
• Engineered Heroics: To prove to Sarah that he has what it takes to stop all bullying, he throws down a tentacle bomb he stole from Lien Vo, which attacks several contestants, including Sarah and Shockwave. However, his attacks are ineffective at stopping them, leading to others having to stop the tentacles for him.
• Eye Scream: In the second fight with the heroes in "Infinity Pizza", Ed grabs Draka and whips him into Cool Cat's eyes. Cy then shoots Judy with his cannon into Cool Cat's eyes.
• Fallen Hero: He goes from someone that teaches kids how to stand up to bullies and how to stop it to someone who uses bullying as an excuse to kill those that don’t like him and is willing to risk the multiverse to achieve his own goals.
• Fingore: When he keeps tapping at Dora the Anthropluera's head while insulting her, Dora retaliates by biting his hands, resulting in many of his fingers being either broken or chomped off. They're better in the next scene with him.
• Foil: To Shockwave. While the Decepticon is seemingly cold and logical, he's actually quite sweet and heroic. Meanwhile, Cool Cat is loud and obnoxious, yet he proves to be murderously psychotic and spiteful when push comes to shove.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: He gets everyone else on his team to hate him for his obnoxious behavior and loud voice. And this is BEFORE he kills Sarah Silke and later becomes a multiversal threat.
• Friend to All Children: He constantly proclaims that he loves all kids. He may have started out as one, but his actions that are revealed and shown to happen later prove that this trope DEFINETELY no longer applies.
• He Who Fights Monsters: In his efforts to stop bullying, he has become something far, far worse than the bullies that he stops. He also works with the other villains of the season, becoming a multiversal threat in the process, all to get back at Shockwave. Something that Shockwave calls him out on.

  Shockwave: YOU'RE WORKING FOR AN OBJECTIVE BULLY, YOU DUNCE!

• Insane Troll Logic: What convinces him that Shockwave is a 'bully' and starts a long rivalry between them? Shockwave and Sarah sitting far away from each other and doing nothing, which according to him, is something friends don't do.
• It's All About Me: Another reason that he believes that Shockwave is a bully is that not once did he compliment him, leading him to think that Shockwave wasn't nice to his other teammates.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: He has already somebody that had a zero tolerance policy for those he deemed 'bullies', but, at some point prior to joining the Arena, Cool Cat snapped and began killing not just the actual bullies, but anyone who interacted with them for any reason, and anyone who he deems a bully.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: When he and Shockwave are locked in Beam-O-War in "Episode 8", he proclaims that it isn't over and he will "save the kids", only for Shockwave to tell him to shut up in the middle of his sentence, ending the fight with a beam to the feline's head.
• Kick The Son Of A Bitch: The Goke are all eradicated after one tries to possess him, but it all just ends in their destruction at Cool Cat's hands. Considering that the extraterrestrials were genocidal monsters, nobody will be mourning them.
• Laughing Mad: When he sends out his possessed minions to kill Shockwave in "Episode 8", he dramatically proclaims that he's going to stop bullying forever, and then lets out a legitimate mad laugh.
• Lethal Joke Character: Given how infamous his films are and how annoying he comes across, no one would expect him to last very long in the Arena. Once he gets possessed by the Goke and his darker actions from the past are revealed, he becomes a formidable threat, and later becomes a threat to the multiverse twice.
• The Load: For his team, as he does nothing to help in any meaningful way, and in a few cases, actively gets them into dangerous situations. He averts this whenever he teams up with villains in later episodes, as he proves quite capable.
• No Body Left Behind: His body gets eradicated by Shockwave's huge beam attack at the end of "Episode 8".
• No Indoor Voice: What annoys his initial teammates to no end is that he frequently talks in a raised voice, which quickly gets grating on their ears.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: For all the extremes that he goes to, he claims that he's doing it to stop bullying. Except this idea gets thrown out the window when Ridley gives him his own dream universe for defeating the heroes. And even in his dream universe, where he could have made it so bullying as a concept didn't exist, he still felt the need to kill children for what he deems 'bullying'. And by the time of "Non-Fungible Tok-Ed", he just uses bullying as an excuse to turn anyone who disagrees with his scheme into NFTs.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: When Ed calls him a stinky cat in the NFTverse, he mistakes it as Ed getting his name wrong, yelling at him that it's Cool Cat and to get it right, and then calls him a retard. This gets everyone else to gasp at what he just said.
• Precision F-Strike: After Ed calls him a stinky cat, he calls Ed a retard for seemingly not getting his name right, which is especially shocking since he never used any vulgarity up to this point, let alone a word as extreme as that.
• Returning Big Bad: After being the main villain of "Episode 8", he becomes the main antagonist again for "Non-Fungible Tok-Ed".
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: In a sense, Cool Cat is right in calling Shockwave a bully, considering that he's on the side of the Decepticons. The problem is that his 'reasons' for why he believes this are completely illogical and irrational.
• Self-Made Orphan: It's heavily implied that he killed his mother when she confronted him about his murderous rampage.
• Team Killer: On both ends of the trope; When he gets initially possessed by the Goke, he kills Sarah Silke by shoving his fist through her chest. Then, at the end of the episode, Shockwave, Sarah's boyfriend, kills him in return.
• Too Spicy For Yog Sogoth: When the Goke attempts to take possession of Cool Cat, he proves to be so annoying to it that the Goke opts to kill itself just so it doesn't have to listen to him anymore, allowing Cool Cat to take control of everything the Goke possessed.
• Torso with a View: He gets a big hole through his chest during the events of "Infinity Pizza" by a Combination Attack by Shockwave and Cy. He's later able to patch this up by the time of "Non-Fungible Tok-Ed" by finding Connie floating in the void between universes and filling him into the hole in his chest.
• Uncertain Doom: He was presumed to be dead alongside the explicitly dead Nova LeMarche at the end of "Infinity Pizza". When he shows back up in "Non-Fungible Tok-Ed", he's last seen sinking into the depths of the NFTverse. Considering how everyone else was able to somehow escape the verse even after the portal to the NFTverse fizzled out, it's entirely possible he managed to escape too.
• Unknown Rival: To Shockwave, who he sees as a romantic rival for Sarah's affection and a bully, who Shockwave initially dismisses as only an annoying idiot. It isn't until he admits that he was the one who killed Sarah that Shockwave begins to take him seriously.
• With Us or Against Us: What his idea of 'bullying' has devolved into; If you're not on board with whatever he wants, then you're just a bully and you have to be killed.
• Would Hit a Girl: It’s heavily implied that he murdered Maria for hanging out with Butch, as well as his mother for confronting him about his actions. The Goke-possessed Cool Cat also kills Sarah Silke.
• Would Hurt a Child: He has become completely willing to kill children if he catches them 'bullying', as evidenced by the necklace of children's skulls he's seen wearing when leaving his dream universe.
• Wham Line: After angrily watching Shockwave and Sarah have sex, Cool Cat whines that Sarah wants to go out with Shockwave over him, where he then drops this hint into his past actions:

  Why do my friends always leave me?! First Maria, then my neighbors, then Momma Cat, then Daddy...what if I have to...kill again?

• Wrong Genre Savvy: He spends the first few chapters of "Episode 8" thinking that he can use his anti-bullying methods to drive off anyone that's attacking him. This proves to completely fail him.

Cleopterix

Universe: Raid: Shadow Legends
Submitted by: As K or Hawkestone
Appearances: Episode 9 | Infinity Pizza

Hailing from the 'hit' game Raid: Shadow Legends, she constantly sings its praises about it to everyone and tries to get them to play it. Unfortunately for her, no one is all that interested in her talking about it.

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• Arch-Enemy: To Cy, for killing his allies-with-benefits in "Episode 9".
• Atop a Mountain of Corpses: After killing the Terror Birds that attacked her, she stands on top of the mound of their bodies.
• Big Bad: The closest one "Episode 9" has to an overall antagonist.
• Big Bad Slippage: In her debut, she starts out as someone who only wishes to promote her game so that others will want to get it. However, the relentless mocking her game receives from everyone she talks to get to her, and near the end of the episode fights Cy in desperation to win. When she loses to him, she joins the other villains in "Infinity Pizza" for payback against Cy and to force everyone to accept 'the word' of her game.
• Big "NEVER!": When Judy tells the illusion of Cleopterix to hand over the core holding the Reality Stone, she tells her "NEVER!"
• Big "NO!"/What: When Cy is able to break free from her illusion of being able to fight endless Doomguy clones in the realm of the Reality Stone, she screams "WHAT?! NO!".
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Given that she lost and killed by a demon from the DOOM universe, her death wasn't exactly going to be very pleasant. After Cy slices the Reality Stone off her staff, he grabs her, rips both her wings off, uses one to slice her legs off, before burying the other into her head.
• Doppelgänger Attack: Using the Reality Stone in her fight with Cy in "Episode 9", she casts multiple illusions of herself to attack and overwhelm the cyberdemon.
• Driven to Villainy: Having gotten sick of everyone relentlessly mocking her game and wanting to reverse the curse the people were put under, she resorts to using the Reality Stone to have a chance of winning against Cy. When she fails to kill him, she later joins with most of the season 1 antagonists in "Infinity Pizza" to get back at Cy for defeating her and to force everyone to accept 'the word' of Raid: Shadow Legends.
• Four Is Death: The final opponent Cy has to face and the one who killed his allies in "Episode 9", and she was part of the fourth team that was submitted for it.
• Heteronormative Crusader: During the Hallowed Jhen Mohran and the Dah'ren Mohran Boss Event, she kills Kass for sensing him having engaged in gay sex, which she considers sodomy.
• Kill It with Fire: She kills Risen Anubis by throwing a molotov to his back and then cuts his staff in half, which allows the flames to quickly consume him and reduce him to bones.
• Lethal Joke Character: Seeing as how she's there to just be one big joke about Raid: Shadow Legends' advertising, one would not expect her to last that long in the Arena, let alone be important. But despite all odds, she manages to survive long enough to where it's just down to her and Cy. And in their fight, she nearly manages to kill him. She later then became a multiversal threat alongside most of the other season 1 antagonists.
• Medium Awareness: She's aware that she's from a video game and tries to get others to play it.
• No, You: After spending most of the episode having her game ridiculed by everyone, in one of her later interactions with Cy, she decrees that his game is hot garbage and hers is total perfection. Cy's response is to half-heartedly warn her of the Terror Birds that are about to attack her.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: She managed to beat 2B offscreen and managed to take out both of her arms.
• Parody Product Placement: Most of her screentime is spent shilling 'the word' that is Raid: Shadow Legends and trying to convince people to play it. Unfortunately for her, no one wants to listen to her talk about it. And as she's leaving her dream universe to have a rematch with the heroes in "Infinity Pizza", she's wearing merch entirely related to her game.
• Put on a Bus to Hell: Her last appearance was in "Infinity Pizza" where she gets dragged into a void alongside Draka, and has yet to reappear after that story. It's implied by Draka that the void also gave her the glitching scars across the body like he did.
• Running Gag: Anytime she tries to speak 'the word' of Raid: Shadow Legends, most of the time she's interrupted and/or has the game get ridiculed by everyone she brings it up to.
• Take That!: Her sole purpose in "Episode 9" is to be a mockery of Raid: Shadow Legend's very aggressive and misleading advertising campaign.
• Two Girls to a Team: She and Nova are the two female villains of the season, and both join the team-up of the other season 1 antagonists in "Infinity Pizza".
• This Cannot Be!: She is quite understandably shocked when even after using her copies to stab Cy in the heart and brain, he still manages to get back up. That's because she missed the part that generates hate to his brain. And he's feeling a lot of hate at this moment...
• Uncertain Doom: She along with most of the other villains are last seen being sucked into Megatron's mini-black hole in "Infinity Pizza", with her being declared missing in the epilogue and hasn't been seen since that episode.
• Why Won't You Die?: Late into her fight with Cy, she screams this to the demon after landing several hits that should have been fatal, but he's still standing and fighting her.

Wario

Universe: Wario
Submitted by: Eboness the Eternal (Episode 10), Rictor (Episode 24)
Appearances: Episode 10 | Infinity Pizza | Episode 24 | Star Fox: The Spawning | Episode 31^note as a non-contestant

The greedy, treasure hunting, microgame-making rival to Mario, anything he does will usually only be done for his own benefit. Most of the time, it's to fill his pockets with cash.

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• A Lighter Shade of Black: Unlike the rest of the antagonists this season (aside from Alture Essun, who only became a villain due to the Infinity Stones), he doesn't do that much villainy in "Episode 10" (Outside of biting Holo's head off) and only fights Torque because 1. he's possessing a Crimson Fatalis and has three Infinity Stones in his possession, giving him a massive advantage against her, and 2. she's literally the last contestant he has to kill to win. In "Infinity Pizza", he joins the other villains only for revenge against Torque (and for the snacks), with no interest in causing others harm. He eventually joins the heroes in stopping Ridley.
• Ass Shove: Torque ends up shoving her gun up his butt when preparing the kill-shot...and then she pulls the trigger, generating a massive explosion that takes him out.
• Batman Gambit: During the Replenishment in "Episode 10", he interrupts the girl love-making by yelling at them not to forget about him and stripping down completely naked. The sight of him naked makes all the ladies immediately book it out of the Replenishment area. This is what Wario actually wanted, as it leaves all the supplies in the center for him to take.
• Beyond the Impossible: His farts can be smelled in space, as Torque has the misfortune of discovering.
• Big "OMG!": Wario screams one in every appearance he makes, just before he's harmed/killed.
• Catch and Return: He eats the bullets that Torque fired at him and then fires back a laser out of his mouth in their fight in the Space realm in "Infinity Pizza".
• David vs. Goliath: He’s the Goliath to Torque’s David in their fight in "Episode 10", having possessed the Crimson Fatalis and has three Infinity Stones attached to it.
• Defeat Equals Explosion: In the episodes that he’s killed in, his death has him exploding.
• Drunk on the Dark Side: After taking control of the Crimson Fatalis with the Infinity Stones he has, he quickly becomes even more smug and boisterous than usual.
• Enemy Mine: He and Starscream join forces with the heroes to restore things back to normal and stop Ridley and the other villains in "Infinity Pizza".
• Fartillery: He can use his farts as an attack, and uses his gas to travel through the Space Realm in "Infinity Pizza".
• Fastball Special: When he attempts to team up with Dimitrescu in "Episode 10" because he assumes she's rich, she tells him that she needs a better view of the woods. To do that, she tosses Wario through the trees, which takes out an entire treeline.
• Gasshole: He’s so gassy that when he explodes, a giant cloud of gas is released from his body.
• Heel–Face Turn: In "Infinity Pizza", feeling that everything in his Dream Universe came too easily for him, he joins Starscream in helping the heroes stop Ridley from destroying the multiverse.
• Jaw Drop: He lets his jaw hang open when he realizes that the egg he was carrying for most of "Episode 10" had a Crimson Fatalis in it the whole time.
• Just Here for the Free Snacks: He admits that he only came to the villains' meeting at the beginning of "Infinity Pizza" for the snacks, before quickly adding "And revenge!"
• Major Injury Underreaction: After Dave Johnson runs him over at the end of his track, his only response is to let out a little "Ow".
• Meme Acknowledgement: Wario's Big "OMG!" moments in the series are a reference to the Wario Dies meme, where he would scream "OH MY GOD! WAAAAAH!" right before he dies.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Him bribing Mr. Shine to make night come faster for the Space Gurion event before Krystal and her friends have dealt with the mutated piranhas causes everything to go to hell and results in the deaths of several of the patrons at his hotel.
• No Body Left Behind: In the two episodes he's killed in, a giant gas cloud emerges from where his body was after exploding.
• No Sympathy: When the Lakitu points out all the safety issues on his Gold Mine track in "Episode 31", he dismisses these concerns as a 'skill issue'.
• Once an Episode: Every appearance he makes in the series has him scream a big OMG just before something bad happens to him. It gets so bad that, during one of the Ask fics, he's cowering in fear when he makes an appearance, fearing this will happen again.
• The Peeping Tom: He spies on Felicia masturbating in "Episode 24", disguising it as him doing lookout.
• Spanner in the Works: Done posthumously; When Frieza kills him in "Episode 24", the gas cloud that’s released goes to him and gives him a massive coughing fit, allowing all the other remaining contestants to escape for the time being, denying him the chance to kill everyone then and there.
• Still Sucks Thumb: He sucks his thumb while taking a nap in "Episode 10".
• Suit with Vested Interests: He wishes to keep the Space Gurion going even with evidence that mutated piranhas will attack and kill the patrons there, as he’s too blinded with the thoughts of how much money he could make from the event.
• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: In "Star Fox: The Spawning", he bribes Mr. Shine to make night come faster before Krystal and her friends can come up with a proper plan to stop the mutated piranhas, which results in several of the patrons attending the Space Gurion Night to get killed by the creatures. This gets him sued by the survivors and potentially shutting down his new venture for good.
• 13 Is Unlucky: He's the final victim of the Golden Frieza event in "Episode 24", and comes in 13th place overall.
• This Is Gonna Suck: He realizes that he’s in a load of trouble when Baskerra catches him eating her pizza at the end of "Infinity Pizza", knowing that whatever she does to him, it won't end well for him.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He loves garlic so much that in "Star Fox: The Spawning", he makes a cake and an entire statue of himself out of the stuff.
• Under New Management: By the time Krystal and her friends get to the hotel on Aquas, he has taken over the hotel and is currently changing the name from "Hotel Elysium" to "Hotel Wario".
• Verbal Backspace: In, "Star Fox: The Spawning", as he’s introducing Krystal and Miyu to his hotel, he welcomes them as suckers and then quickly switches it to customers.
  • He does this again after bribing Mr. Shine:
    Thanks a ton, Mr. Shine! Now, go back to your feud with Mr. Bright or something. I don't care. Have a rotten day-I mean...night.