History Characters / ApeEscape

* GratuitousEnglish: In the anime, he often says a few short lines in English. To be fair, what he says actually fits in context, and some of his lines are [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish done quite well.]]

* PutOnABus: Outside of a cameo appearance in ''Ape Escape 3'' alongside Spike and the Professor, and a minor role in ''Saru Saru Big Mission'', Jimmy hasn't appeared in any subsequent games in the series. He didn't even appear in the anime. However, he was the main character of two short-lived ''Ape Escape'' cartoons that aired on Nicktoons (a CGI one made around 2004 by the makers of the games themselves, and a flash cartoon helmed by Creator/DougTenNapel in 2010.)

* NoPronunciationGuide: Pronounced ''Ah-key'' in North America, and ''Ay-key'' in PAL regions.

* DubNameChange: She is called Casey in the original game, then is given her Japanese name in ''Ape Escape 2'' artwork, then called Casi in ''Pumped & Primed''. Most English fans usually refer to her P&P name.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The original game's ending credits refer to her as "Casey", but [[AllThereInTheManual the booklet that came with the game]] refers to her as Casi.

* BareYourMidriff: In ''Pumped & Primed'', ''Million Monkeys'' (reprising appearance in 1st anime series and 2nd anime series (Episode 1-25)) and the Frederator cartoon.

* {{Shorttank}}: A redheaded girl in a [[BareYourMidriff midriff-baring]] top with a {{Tsundere}} streak. She even shares a voice actress with [[Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries the original Shorttank]].

* TownGirls: She is a neither, Natalie is a butch, and Casi is a femme.

!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/JulieNathanson (''Ape Escape 3'')

!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Tana Jayne (''Ape Escape 2)

-->'''Voiced by (English):''' Michael Sousa (''Ape Escape''), Creator/DanGreen (''Ape Escape 2''), Simon Prescott (''Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed''), Phil Proctor (''Ape Escape: On the Loose'', ''Ape Escape 3'')

** Exaggerated in the Fredorator cartoon.

* OnlySaneMan: Ironically, Specter is this in the Fredorator cartoon. He's the only character in it who isn't a CloudCuckooLander.

* SpaceIsCold: In the [=PlayStation=] Move reboot, Specter is shown to greatly dislike the cold. It doesn't help that he's up in space for most of the game, [[spoiler:and it's hinted that this was a partial reason for his FaceHeelTurn decades earlier.]]

!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Pete Burrows (''Ape Escape''), Greg Abbey (''Ape Escape 2''), Charlie Shattler (''Ape Escape 3'', ''Ape Escape Academy''), Creator/CrispinFreeman (''Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed''), Creator/DeeBradleyBaker (''Ape Escape: On the Loose'')\\

* BadassNormal: His proficiency with his [[UtilityBelt tools]] was all he needed to take down Specter the first time. And as of ''Pumped and Primed'' and ''Million Monkeys'', he's gotten ''really'' good with that Stun Club.

* ActionGirl: In the anime, she's out there helping Spike catch monkeys. In ''Pumped and Primed'', she's a very much able contestant in the tournaments.
* BareYourMidriff: In Pumped & Primed, Million Monkey (reprising appearance in 1st anime series and 2nd anime series (Episode 1-25)) and the Frederator cartoon.

* DropTheHammer: His melee weapon of choice in Pumped & Primed is a mechanical hammer.

* PutOnABus: Outside of a cameo appearance in ''Ape Escape 3'' alongside Spike and the Professor, and a minor role in ''Saru Saru Big Mission'', Jimmy hasn't appeared in any subsequent games in the series. He didn't even appear in the anime. However, he was the main character of two short-lived Ape Escape cartoons that aired on Nicktoons (a CGI one made around 2004 by the makers of the games themselves, and a flash cartoon helmed by Creator/DougTenNapel in 2010.)

The protagonists of Ape Escape 3, the player chooses which one of them to play as for the remainder of their game. They made recurring appearances in the anime, with Yumi being a major character in three episodes (two involving the Pipotrons kidnapping her, and the third involving a drawing contest between her and Pink Monkey.)

** For ''Pumped and Primed'', where she gets a playable role and becomes a third ActionGirl alongside Natalie and Helga.
* DemotedToExtra: Casi never really did much to begin with, but outside of ''Pumped and Primed'' and ''Million Monkeys'', she never appeared outside of the first game. Interestingly, concept art and even an in-game photo of her and Natalie appear in the second game, despite Casi herself not being in it.

* EvilKnockoff: Million Monkeys had Virus Casis, which were [[EvilTwin Evil Twins]] that were murderous, used machine guns, and could multiply and overwrite Casi herself.

* RobotGirl: Becomes this in Million Monkeys and shortly after her debut in the anime.

* YouDontLookLikeYou: She gets a ponytail in Pumped and Primed onwards, and later has giant "ear bolts" sticking out of her head in ''Million Monkeys'' and the anime.

!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Pete Burrows (''Ape Escape''), Greg Abbey (''Ape Escape 2''), Charlie Shattler (''Ape Escape 3'', ''Ape Academy''), Creator/CrispinFreeman (''Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed''), Creator/DeeBradleyBaker (''Ape Escape: On the Loose'')\\

* BigBad: For most of the series, excluding ''Pumped and Primed'', where the story is hijacked by a [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Giant Computer Core From Nowhere]], and ''Million Monkeys'', where he is playable and fights against that game's Big Bad. [[spoiler: Subverted in the ''Playstation Move'' game.]]

* FinalBoss: Sans ''[[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Pumped and Primped]]'', ''[[NotMeThisTime Million Monkeys]]'' and the [[DistressedDude PlayStation Move]] game, Specter usually plays this role.

** Played straight in ''Pumped and Primed'' however, partly due to the plot being [[TournamentArc negligible]], partly due to a more pressing threat at the time.

** ''VideoGame/MonsterRancher 4'' would let you unlock three Pipo Apes if the player inserted the original Ape Escape, Ape Escape 2, and the first ''VideoGame/SplinterCell''.

** They become {{Not So Harmless Villain}}s in Million Monkeys. Due to being ordered around by a human dictator and his four mutated monkeys, the monkeys dress up in military garb and act rather seriously and use hi-tech gear, realistic mechs. Only the six or so monkeys remaining under Specter's command still act this way, although since they are playable, it can become a case of BewareTheSillyOnes.

* TheUnintelligible: They make typical monkey screeching noises throughout the majority of the games. In ''Pumped and Primed's'' Pipo Ape/Team Monkey cutscenes, ''Ape Escape 3'' (in Mesal Gear Solid and Monkey Theater only), and all three animated adaptations, they "Ukki".

* DubNameChange: A odd case in that all the members had their names changed three times in the US. In Ape Escape 2, they were referred to as their color first, then "Monkey" last, in Ape Escape 3, this was swapped around, and in Ape Escape Academy they were referred to by their Japanese names (example: Blue Monkey in ''2'', Monkey Blue in ''3'', and Ukki Blue in ''Academy'').

* FatBastard: Notably the fattest member of the Freaky Monkey Five and the series itself. It's especially prominent in Ape Escape 2 where he's larger than Jimmy. Pink Monkey lampshades this in Ape Escape 3 after she discovers from Spector that he was defeated by Yumi/Kei.

* KingMook: In his own odd way towards the default monkeys in yellow shorts. Their only defining feature is throwing down more banana peels than monkeys of other colors, and Yellow Monkey is fat and banana obsessed, [[spoiler:to the point of becoming a giant after overdosing on Vita-Z Bananas in ''2''.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In the American dub of Ape Escape 3, his voice is based on Creator/EdWynn.

* ExposedAnimalBellybutton: He has one like Yellow Monkey, but it's not as prominent, and only visible in Ape Escape 3.

* HumongousMecha: He pilots a giant robotic dragon in his boss battle in Ape Escape 3.

* RobotMe: He uses one of Jimmy in Ape Escape 2 for his boss battle.

* PlayingWithFire: He also uses two flaming torches in Ape Escape 3.

* BigBadDuumvirate: With Specter [[spoiler: until TheReveal.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He stays behind on Specter's space station in Ape Escape 3 to activate the self-destruct sequence. [[DisneyDeath He somehow survives.]]]]

!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/BeauBillingslea (''Ape Escape: Pumped and Primed - As Grid Core'')

* BigBad: Of ''Pumped and Primed'' and ''Million Monkeys.'' [[spoiler:At first.]]

* EvilLaugh: Does this a lot during ''Pumped and Primed'', especially after getting Helga's father's disk.

* FinalBoss: As Grid Core in ''Pumped and Primed''.

* LoadBearingBoss: Played straight at first, but quickly averted. After his defeat in ''Pumped and Primed'', the virtual world starts to fall apart due to the damage inflicted at the core during the final battle. However Casi uses her skills to bring the virtual world back to normal and warping everyone out.

* TakeOverTheWorld: Tries to take over the virtual world in ''Pumped and Primed.'' He fails.

* TheVoice: His physical appearance is never shown during "Pumped and Primed" outside of the Pipotrons' Intermission. It wasn't until ''Million Monkeys'' that he finally shows himself.

* DependingOnTheWriter: The Pipotrons in the anime are very different to the ones in the games; in the anime, they're completely goofy. In Pumped and Primed, they were mysterious, threatening, and also really creepy.

* HeelFaceTurn: In Pumped and Primed.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: ''Twice'' in the anime. The first time they had to detach a piece of a rocket in order to get Spike to Specter's base, and later in the series finale where Specter tries to shoot the heroes' HumongousMecha only for the Pipotrons' mecha to take it instead. Both are [[DisneyDeath Disney Deaths.]]]]

* TheUnintelligible: In Pumped and Primed, they speak odd sounding gibberish with distorted voices. Red speaks in a deep murmer, Blue speaks with a higher pitched voiced of mostly vowels, and Yellow speaks only in beep noises. In Ape Escape 3, they sound much like any other monkey. Subverted in Academy and the anime, where Pipotron Red and Blue can speak perfect English or Japanese (still distorted in the games), whereas Pipotron Yellow talks in beeps in the games and PokemonSpeak in the anime.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Happens to them in both Pumped and Primed and the anime.

A young girl around Spike's age. She first appeared in Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed, where she was the previous champion of the tournament that Spike and company enter. Her father mysteriously went missing, and she's determined to find him.

* DisappearedDad: He was kidnapped and she's still searching for him. [[spoiler: The culprits were the Pipotrons]].

-->''Voice by:''
-->''(Japanese):''
-->''Creator/FujikoTakimoto (game)''
-->''Shizuka Ishikawa (anime)''
-->''(English):''
-->''Scott [=McGregor=] (Ape Escape)''
-->''Creator/DanGreen (Ape Escape 2)''
-->''Creator/BarbaraGoodson (Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed)''
-->''Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz (Ape Escape: On the Loose)''

-->''Voice by:
-->''(Japanese):''
-->''Creator/KazueIkura (game)''
-->''Creator/JunkoMinagawa (anime)''
-->''(English):''
-->''Peter Bayham (Ape Escape)''
-->''Creator/DerekStephenPrince (Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed)''
-->''Joshua Seth (Ape Escape: On the Loose)''

-->''Voiced by:
-->''(Japanese):''
-->''Creator/TomokoKawakami''
-->''(English):''
-->''Christiane Crawford (Ape Escape)''
-->''Creator/RachaelLillis (Ape Escape 2)''
-->''Creator/WendeeLee (Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed)''
-->''Amber Hood (Ape Escape: On the Loose and Ape Escape 3)''

-->''Voice by: Michael Sousa (Ape Escape)''
-->''Dan Green (Ape Escape 2)''
-->''Simon Prescott (Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed)''
-->''Phil Proctor (Ape Escape: On the Loose and Ape Escape 3)''

-->''Voiced by: Creator/VeronicaTaylor (Ape Escape 2)''

The protagonist of Ape Escape 2, Jimmy is a friend and cousin of Spike.

* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: Suggests this to Specter before the [[TrueFinalBoss True Final Boss]] in ''2.''

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-->''Voiced by: Tana Jayne (Ape Escape 2)''

-->''Kei voiced by: Hope Levy (Ape Escape 3)''
-->''Yumi voiced by: Anndi [=McAfee=] (Ape Escape 3)''

-->''Voiced by: Julie Nathanson (Ape Escape 3)''

-->''Voiced by:''
-->''(Japanese):''
-->''Creator/TomokoKawakami (game)''
-->''Creator/RinaSato (anime)''
-->''(English):''
-->''Voiced by: Peggy Small (Ape Escape)''
-->''Creator/AmandaWinnLee (Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed)''
-->''Creator/JenniferHale (Ape Escape: On the Loose)''

!!Playstation Move Hero (NoNameGiven, seriously)

Tohko and Tsukushi are sisters who aid the protagonist in the Playstation Move game.

The grandmother of Tohko and Tsukushi in the Playstation Move reboot. She went missing after trying to build a machine to find [[spoiler: her pet monkey Specter]].

-->''Voiced by: Pete Burrows (Ape Escape)''
-->''Greg Abbey (Ape Escape 2)''
-->''Charlie Shattler (Ape Escape 3 and Ape Academy)''
-->''Creator/CrispinFreeman (Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed)''
-->''Creator/DeeBradleyBaker (Ape Escape: On the Loose)''
-->''Marc Silk (UK)''

He is the only character returning for the new storyline of the Playstation Move reboot. [[spoiler: Here he is a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who was forcibly separated from his owner Haru and shot up into space, in a constant state of discomfort and fear due to his dislike of cold.]]

* AntiVillain: His backstory in the [=PlayStation=] Move reboot [[spoiler:makes him much a more sympathetic character.]]

* FinalBoss: Sans ''[[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Pumped and Primped]]'', ''[[NotMeThisTime Million Monkeys]]'' and the [[DistressedDude Playstation Move]] game, Specter usually plays this role.

* PlotHole: It's almost never explained how Specter keeps coming back after he is caught by the heroes. Only Ape Escape 2 and the anime give explanations to his return.

* SpaceIsCold: In the Playstation Move reboot, Specter is shown to greatly dislike the cold. It doesn't help that he's up in space for most of the game, [[spoiler:and it's hinted that this was a partial reason for his FaceHeelTurn decades earlier.]]

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Yes, they're a bunch of monkeys that tend to do typical monkey things, but remember that these guys can be potentially armed with rocket firing backpacks, lasers and machine guns. They act goofy, but are capable of pulling an invasion of Earth off, [[spoiler:and in the Playstation Move continuity, they even go so far as to kidnap Specter, who had a HeelFaceTurn at the end.]]

-->''Voiced by: Greg Abbey (Ape Escape 2)''
-->''Michael J. Gough (Ape Escape 3)''

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: In Ape Escape 3, Blue is shown to have a crush on Pink Monkey, and swears that after he defeats either Yumi or Kei that he will go on a date with her.
-->'''Monkey Blue:''' "Then I'll....I'll ask Pink out for a date! And then....(sinister laughter)

-->'''Blue Monkey:''' "Don't take this personally. I'm doing this for all the little monkeys out there!"

-->''Voiced by: James Carter Cathcart (Ape Escape 2)''
-->''Creator/SteveBlum (Ape Escape 3)''

The fat, goofy and ambiguously gay member of the group. He often utilizes sumo techniques in battle.

-->''Voiced by: Creator/VeronicaTaylor (Ape Escape 2)''
-->''Creator/DebiDerryberry (Ape Escape 3)''

* KingMook: Averted in her case. There are no monkeys with pink shorts, except in the Playstation Move game that has [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome none of the previous cast except for Specter]], and even then, they don't have anything in common with Pink Monkey.

-->''Don't you see I love you, don't you see I love you''
-->''I can't spend the rest of my life, I can't spend the rest of my life CRYING''
-->''So I'll spend the rest of my life, so I'll spend my entire life chasing you! HERE I COME!''

-->''Voiced by: Marc Silk (Ape Escape)''
-->''Phil Proctor (Ape Escape 3)''

-->''Voiced by: Greg Abbey (Ape Escape 2)''
-->''Creator/GreggBerger (Ape Escape 3)''

The leader of the Freaky Monkey Five (aside from Specter, that is). He's very muscular and uses a combination of wrestling, kung-fu and flatulence in his attacks.

* {{Gasshole}}: One of his attacks in ''Ape Escape 2'' was a fart-based counter-attack. In ''Ape Escape 3'', he uses an entire fart based martial art.

-->''Voiced by: Creator/NolanNorth (Ape Escape 3)''
An eccentric scientist who teams up with Specter in ''Ape Escape 3'' with a plan to split the Earth in two. [[spoiler: Turns out years ago he was a colleague of Aki and the Professor. After a disastrous experiment which left a helmet permanently grafted to his head, he became an outcast to society and hid.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: Has no issues attacking the heroes in his mech. He claims to be [[WorthyOpponent levelling the playing field.]]
* TragicVillain: He only became a villain because [[spoiler:he thought all of society would shun him because of the monkey helmet grafted onto his head.]]

-->''Voiced by: Beau Billingslea (Ape Escape: Pumped and Primed - As Grid Core)''

!!The new Pipotrons

[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Pipotron Meta, Pipotron Krack, Pipotron J and Pipotron G.]]

The anime portrays them as goofy [[TheKlutz klutzes]] with the goal of becoming "big". They started out as the Big Bads of season two, demoted to the QuirkyMiniBossSquad once [[HijackedByGanon Specter hijacks the plot]]

-->''Voiced by:
-->''(Japanese):''
-->''Creator/TomoeHanba''
-->''(English):''
-->''Creator/SandyFox''

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* IdolSinger: Yumi is one in both the games and anime. This attracts the wrong attention in both, a rivalry with Pink Monkey in the games and being kidnapped twice by the Pipotron Brothers (as part of an attempt to become famous by performing with her) in the anime.
** Because of this, picking her makes ''Ape Escape 3'' slightly easier, as a handful of the monkeys are part of her fan club. Instead of running away or attacking her, these ones simply fall to the ground and stare at her with hearts in their eyes.

* HotScientist: A tall, curvy, and very well-endowed inventor.

* IWasQuiteALooker: [[spoiler: She was a [[HotScientist cute scientist]] who was responsible for raising Specter.]]

* CryCute: Defeating her after she TurnsRed causes her to collapse onto the floor and begin weeping.

* NoCelebretiesWereHarmed: In the American dub of Ape Escape 3, his voice is based on Creator/EdWynn.

%%* FatBastard

* ImprobableWeaponUser: She uses a MartialArtsStaff in ''Pumped & Primed'', but when it comes to projectile battle, she uses a lacrosse stick.
* MartialArtsStaff: This is her melee weapon of choice in ''Pumped & Primed''.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: She uses a SimpleStaff in ''Pumped & Primed'', but when it comes to projectile battle, she uses a lacrosse stick.

* SimpleStaff: This is her melee weapon of choice in ''Pumped & Primed''.

* NiceGuy: Lacks the hot-headedness of Spike and Kei, being portrayed as just a nice boy. He's notably less antagonistic towards Specter, as shown in their second encounter.

* NoMouth: It's obscured by his mustache.

* TheVoiceless: Taken UpToEleven in the cutscenes. There are moments where he says something, but it is ''always'' in text, despite everyone else actually having [[VoiceActors VAs]].

** It got taken UpToEleven in the Fredorator cartoon.

* {{Gasshole}}: One of his attacks in ''Ape Escape 2'' was a fart-based counter-attack. This is taken UpToEleven in ''Ape Escape 3'', where he uses an entire fart based martial art.