History Characters / AtopTheFourthWall

** [[Characters/AtopTheFourthWallMinorCharacters Minor Characters and Others]]: Minor characters or those who don't have any significant role outside of being background characters, or were only relevant for a short period of time.

** [[Characters/AtopTheFourthWallMainVillains Major and Minor Villains]]: The RoguesGallery of Linkara and his friends.

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* '''Main Series'''

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* ActingForTwo: Given the nearly non-existent budget of the story segments and various other factors, expect to see many of the cast and characters be played by the same actor. [[Creator/LewisLovhaug Lewis]] himself plays a very substantial portion of his major characters, which leads to...
* TalkingToHimself: A lot of characters essentially talking to themselves, whether in voice or actual portrayal.
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Characters in ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''.

[[folder: Linkara]]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' [[{{Creator/LewisLovhaug}} Lewis Lovhaug]]

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A comic book fan with a NiceHat who reviews horrible comics. Also happens to be the Champion of our Earth, defending it against {{mad scientist}}s, [[KillerRobot cyborgs]], [[MultiversalConqueror interdimensional invaders]] and the like.

* TheAce: He's a nice-looking hero with wonderful toys and TrueCompanions around him... and he wants ''so'' badly to be the perfect NiceGuy superhero and to think that he's much more than his Website/ChannelAwesome co-workers. He has a [[SmallNameBigEgo fairly big ego]] and a SelectiveMemory, his number one priority seems to be whether the fans watch him or not, and his ComedicSociopathy is far creepier than the others because whereas they embrace it, he denies it. He does start to leave it behind altogether after being called out on it by [[spoiler: Aplos the Wizard]].
* TheAlcoholic: WordOfGod says that Lewis portrays Linkara as a "raging alcoholic" in place of making jokes about suicide. This is especially played up in TheMovie once Linkara's existential crisis catches up to him.
* AlliterativeName: Lewis "Linkara" Lovhaug. L.L., [[Franchise/{{Superman}} appropriately enough]], and he was going out with [[ThemeNaming a woman named Liz]]. Good thing he [[CatchPhrase loves alliteration]].
* AlterEgoActing: Lovhaug has occasionally referred to "the Linkara character" in interviews and commentaries, but at the same time also calls him "basically me with the [[UpToEleven volume turned way up]]".
* AntiHero: Of the PragmaticHero and MrViceGuy variations. Linkara (the character) is an ultimately good guy who wants to do the right thing, but he has a huge ego and will often play dirty if it scores a win.
* ArchEnemy: Linkara has had quite a few over the years:
** Linkara's original Archenemy was [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Dr. Insano]], a parody of a Lex Luthor like super genius to compliment his faux Superman, whose plots include [[PresidentEvil becoming President]] and controlling a GiantRobot of death. Eventually as Linkara's foes got more numerous and [[KnightOfCerebus dangerous]] Insano became a lot more ineffectual as a villain although he did return briefly as the FinalBoss of the Gunslinger arc and showed that he can still throw down with his foe.
** After Insano, Mechakara appeared to menace Linkara who, in comparison to the [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain ineffectual doctor]], was a lot more menacing and evil. He also had a much more bitter relationship with Linkara being [[spoiler:an alternate time line version of Pollo who stripped his versions Linkara of his skin to wear as a meat suit]] and desiring to make Linkara die as painful of death as possible. [[spoiler:The feeling is very mutual on Mechakara's part who notes that, after his near destruction at the end of To Bodily Flee, the only thing that kept him sane was his hatred of Linkara. He's later brought back in the 10th anniversary storyline, and is still active by the end of it.]]
** Finally we have Lord Vyce who has arguably supplemented the role of Linkara's archenemy from the other two. Vyce is a Multiversal conqueror who initially sought to kill Linkara in order to save the universe from the entity. However, over time, their relationship became more personal [[spoiler:especially once Linkara defeated Vyce. Vyce then proceeded to become living data and hacked into Comicron 1 and {{Mind Rape}}ing NIMUE for good measure. The two have had numerous battles and he became Linkara's most reoccurring foe until the end of the Sleepwalker arc.]]
* BadassBoast: Linkara gets one in Silent Hill Dead/Alive, made even more awesome by being scored with The Ecstasy of Gold.
-->"I'm not some pretty boy with marital problems. I don't have some confused psyche or unresolved parental issues. You're not dealing with a Silent Hill protagonist here! Time and again, someone got it into their head that they could defeat me. Time and again they beat me down, they knocked me out, and they tried to make me give up. You come at me with insecurity, self-doubt, and angst? You try to make me doubt who I am? I am the man who defeated Pyramid Head. I am the man who conquered Countdown. I am the man who fought off the Vohrsoth and destroyed Mechakara! I am the liberator of Kickassia! I am a Starfleet captain! I am a Power Ranger! I'm That Guy With The Hat! I am Linkara! Who the hell are you?"
** And then at the end of ''Youngblood #3'', we have Linkara taunting Vyce:
---> This is Linkara, calling Lord Vyce. If you are receiving this signal, then you may want to take that huge-ass helmet off you head and listen for a minute. Listen, [[SarcasmMode I just wanted to tell you how deeply honored I am]]. You see, I was once told you were the stuff of nightmares for gods and monsters alike. And that's why I'm so honored, you see. You've seen fit to show me your true colors-and the main one is [[DirtyCoward a big bright shade of yellow]]. All that you see, you conquer, huh? Well, I guess you never did really set your eyes on me then, you were too busy looking the other way and running for your life. And it's a good thing, too- you've shown just how inadequate you are. You're not up to the task of facing this "Entity" you're so afraid of. Tell you what- why don't you go tuck your cape between your legs and run home, while I deal with it- after all, it's what you're good at. However, if you want to prove me wrong, '''you know where to find me'''.
* BlueIsHeroic: Invoked with his current attire. While he claims people would think of him as a Red Lantern due to all the rage he has in his reviews, he admits he rather considers himself a hope-bringer, thus he chose his new shirt in reference to the Blue Lanterns.
* BroughtDownToNormal: He's capable of using magic...an ability lost to him during the first third of the ''Gun and Sorcery'' arc [[spoiler:due to the magic gun seeing that he was turning evil, and disabling his natural ability to use magic until he got his head on straight.]]
* ChekhovsArmoury: You can often spot weapons that will be used in later episodes in earlier ones, such as Captain America's shield. He once had an entire set of videos dedicated to fixing up a Zeonizer (at one point hiding it from the camera on purpose) which was later put to use against Mechakara.
* CausticCritic: Like most of the Channel Awesome personalities Linkara loves pooping all over bad comics. Although unlike most examples of this trope Linkara tends to focus on trashing genuinely bad comics and even comics he hates he will try to highlight positive aspects of them. In recent years, he has even taken to reviewing Comics which he genuinely likes and enjoys.
** This angle is largely dropped as time goes on, as Lewis feels it was excessively negative, and nowadays sticks to making more evenhanded reviews. That said, if he's reviewing a truly ''awful'' comic, he has no problem taking the gloves off.
* CharacterDevelopment: He was originally a fairly dysfunctional individual trying to present himself as hero, thrown into a WeirdnessMagnet through his review of comics. As the first few arcs pass, this behavior fluctuates, wherein while he proves to truly have a heroic spirit and care for his friends, he also has glaring flaws such as his ego and getting too caught up in his personal beliefs. ''The Gun and Sorcery'' arc then deconstructs his entire presented character, first where he's revealed to be turning evil ''because'' of his ego, and his more callous decisions having consequences not long after. He is able to mature however, realizing how, no, he isn't perfect, and it is unavoidable that he is likely to make mistakes in the future. ''The Sleepwalker'' arc then throws him into paranoia [[spoiler:albeit due to the influence of The Entity]], and the 2018 Christmas storyline has him deal with the consequences of ''that'', dealing with these in much more human ways than at the start. Nowadays, while he does have an ego, it's far better kept in check, and he's a much friendlier individual overall.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In early episodes, Linkara was shown to have a crush on Harley Quinn. He was even roused into defeating the Countdown comics after imagining her ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' counterpart cheering him on. Linkara seems to have grown out of this crush in later years, but the title card for the ''Batman: Harley Quinn #1'' review does give it a nod by showing Linkara gushing over Harley, complete with [[WingdingEyes heart eyes.]]
* CheshireCatGrin: He does this a lot, mostly at the expense of the comic he's reviewing.
* ChivalrousPervert: Being a feminist gives him "an appreciation for the female body".
* TheChosenOne: Deconstructed. According to Lord Vyce, he is "the Champion" of his universe. Not only does this revelation change nothing in the grand scheme of things, but it also marked him out for a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown at Vyce's hands. Furthermore, it's implied that this is [[spoiler: ''why'' the Entity left defeating Vyce in his hands; because he expected that he'd be able to defeat him.]]
* TheChosenMany: Because there are so many champions, one for each different universe, it seems that his title as a chosen hero is less important than he'd like it to be. [[WordOfGod Lewis has stated that]], while Linkara may be "a Champion" of his universe, he is not some chosen one destined to be the one person who can save the world and that there are others (such as Angry Joe) who also qualify. Vice's definition of the term refers to someone who is his greatest threat in preventing him from conquering the universe and thus he needs to kill them in order to make their universe fall. This is pretty telling in that Linkara almost never manages to actually defeat a BigBad by himself instead needing the help of his TrueCompanions, or at times just plain dumb luck, to accomplish it.
** According to the temlins and Jaeris, there might actually be more to this than previously thought, as according to them, a "champion" is the being best suited to defend a universe from attack. But that definition can vary from heroes, to tyrants. So despite there being many strengths, something about Linkara makes him the ideal defender of our universe. Maybe in part BECAUSE of his network of friends.
* TheCombatPragmatist: Linkara isn't much of a fighter on his own (as his beatdown at Vyce's hands demonstrates), which is why he has to resort to magic, technology, and pragmatism to win his fights.
* ComedicSociopathy: Just like the rest of his colleagues. What makes it more interesting, though, is that while the other big names like [[BlackComedyRape Spoony]], [[PsychopathicManchild Critic]], and [[BitchInSheepsClothing Chick]] have fully embraced their nastiness, he's insistent that he's a good guy and his insanity just spills out in creepy bursts. He does start to leave this behind later on, however.
* CoolGun: He has a magic gun. Where'd he purchase that?
* CombatPragmatist: [[WordOfGod Lewis' commentary]] lampshades the fact that, in order to defeat [[spoiler:Vyce]], he had to fight dirty at every conceivable opportunity; which is what led to the WorfHadTheFlu-induced victory over him.
* CostumeEvolution: After the events of the "Ghost of the Machine" arc, Linkara swapped out his plaid shirt, black T-shirt, and brown coat for a brown tie, white shirt, brown vest and overcoat combo as a vow to take down any and all future enemies. And after the events of the "Clone Saga" arc, he decides to change his outfit again, this time wearing a blue shirt, brown tie, brown scarf, and a darker brown-colored coat with the show's logo pinned on the collar.
* CrazyPrepared:
** Linkara has a miniature fan to blow away the fog if ''Franchise/SilentHill'' starts to come for him.
** Considering all of the craziness that tends to happen to him during Halloween, Linkara has gotten into the habit of filming multiple reviews weeks in advance so he can be prepared for whatever threats he has to face.
** His tendency to plan contingencies for a wide array of scenarios.
* CutenessProximity: Towards Cybermats. Lewis himself has made an entire collection of them, leading to his fandom (affectionately) calling him a [[CrazyCatLady crazy cybermat lady]]. He also has it towards his new cats.
* DeadpanSnarker: One his most common forms of comedy is to snark about a comic, an enemy, or himself while being either deadpan or wearing a false smile.
* DemonicPossession: He becomes possessed by [[spoiler: The Entity, as revealed in his ''Ultimate Power #4'' review.]]
* DesignatedHero: Deliberately invoked so it can be PlayedForDrama. Linkara is, arguably, one of the most sinisterly sociopathic members of TGWTG because he refuses to accept his darker side and keeps putting himself across as an incredible hero [[WhatTheHellHero despite doing some unquestionably dickish things]]. He doesn't get the luxury of being a KarmaHoudini, though. The ''Gun and Sorcery'' arc was in particular devoted to the deconstruction of his character, and from that arc onwards, Linkara is a much more subdued individual legitimately trying to better himself.
* DrivenToMadness: Happens often when a comic book seems to get worse and worse, then some final [[GoMadFromTheRevelation revelation]] pushes him over into madness. We find out in Part Five of ''Silent Hill Dead/Alive'' that [[spoiler: Mechakara and Lord Vyce were trying to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this by providing him with the back story of his Magic Gun. The really scary thing is, it almost worked]].
* DrivenToSuicide:
** When Linkara reviewed "ComicBook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd", he was so utterly disgusted by it that he almost tried to shoot himself, yelling "ANTI LIFE JUSTIFIES MY HATE!!" before breaking down into tears.
** At the end of his three-part ''Amazon Attack'' review, when he realizes the whole thing [[spoiler: was a tie-in to ''[[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Countdown]]'']]. He was [[GoMadFromTheRevelation so confused]] that he ended up trying to cut his wrists with his ''gun''.
--->'''Linkara:''' WHY DOESN'T IT WORK!?!?
** Normally, Linkara plays this trope for laughs. Not so in his final ''Comicbook/SilentHill Dead/Alive'' review. [[spoiler: He finally finds out the truly depressing backstory of his magic gun. Long story short, a young girl was tortured to death by her own parents to create it. Silent Hill almost manages to convince him that HE was one of her parents -- and Linkara, being the good guy that he is, couldn't take it and holds the gun to his head. Thankfully, he manages to realize that he's not a ''Franchise/SilentHill'' protagonist and that he wouldn't have done such a thing. Cue subversion of this trope and a truly awesome BadassBoast.]]
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: He's ''won'' most of his fights, sure, but Linkara has rarely managed to finish any of his enemies off. It comes with them having JokerImmunity.
* FanBoy: Of comics, ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', ''Series/TheWestWing'', ''Series/TheWire'', ''Series/TwentyFour'', ''Series/BabylonFive'', ''Series/BlakesSeven''... He also seems to have the ability to go into their canons, because where else would he have gotten those morphers, pokeballs, phasers, and ''four sonic screwdrivers''?
** [[spoiler: He's actually a magic-user, and casts spells on toys that he has so that they take on the function of the things that they're supposed to be. Example: He has a toy phaser. He casts the spell, and it works like a real phaser. He has run into problems with this, though. He revealed that he had to work for months for the [[Franchise/PowerRangers Morphers]] to work without a Morphing Grid in his universe, and once in the presence of an anti-magic field, the spelled items revert to being toys again.]]
* FatalFlaw: {{Greed}}, and the desire to milk it as much as possible. It's perfectly demonstrated by his Hologram duplicate, who didn't undergo the same character arc Linkara did and thus still felt they were wasting all the power in their possession by not forcing the world to behave.
** His {{Pride}} and ego can count as well. Linkara is notable for being something of a gloryhound at times, especially after having genuine victories over far more powerful and threatening opponents. While he's gotten a better handle on it, it's still strong enough that [[spoiler:[[AudioPlay/AVoiceFromTheDark when he tried reuniting his old colleagues]], but accidentally got them thrown into ''another'' dangerous scenario, he was accused of doing it for the sake of proving himself as a grand leader due to failing to be upfront with his intentions]], a trait even he himself notes is something he has to keep in check.
* FedoraOfAsskicking: Even though the asskicking came a bit later in the reviews.
** In ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'', it's revealed that magic in the Website/ChannelAwesome universe is CastFromHitPoints, and that using magic reduces your own life unless you have ways around it. Linkara revealed in the commentary that what protected him was his hat.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation:
** ''Amazons Attack'' being a [[spoiler:tie-in to ''Countdown'']].
** That ''Doom IV'' had a fanbase.
** The ending to ''Maximum Clonage''
** The very existence of ''Sultry Teenage Super Foxes #2'' causes him to retreat into his own subconscious.
** The Pizza episode makes Linkara actually leave to cry during his history lesson on ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''.
** The ''BrainDrain'' comic completely missing the point of the Thing's character, and then finding that it was written by Tom [=DeFalco=], former editor and chief of Marvel comics, causing him to have a ''[[LiteralMetaphor literal]]'' HeroicBSOD.
* GoodIsNotSoft:
** He may be willing to [[spoiler:cut a deal with Linksano]], but he also promised a sadistic punishment [[spoiler:(being trapped on the same planet as Lord Vyce) to him should he ever try to double-cross him]]
** When the Magic Gun stops working, Linkara goes after Insano, thinking he did it. He then threatens to physically beat Insano with the gun if he has to, and then says he'll make the doctor eat his own goggles if Insano's lying. It's not played for laughs either, Linkara is genuinely terrifying in that scene. What makes the scene even more uncomfortable is when it's finally revealed why he can't use the magic gun. [[spoiler: He's turning evil]]!
* {{Greed}}: His FatalFlaw. Linkara's main source of power lies in his tremendous arsenal of weapons and gadgets and vehicles, many of which he acquired by defeating the previous owners. As his acquisitions grow, he wants more and more and feels more and more compelled to use them for selfish reasons.
* GuileHero: Linkara frequently [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeats]] and [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu outsmarts]] villains [[MultiversalConqueror FAR more]] [[EldritchAbomination powerful]] than he is, simply by virtue of being [[XanatosSpeedChess quickwitted]], [[RefugeInAudacity audacious]], and CrazyPrepared.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:As of the ''Catwoman: Defender of Gotham #1'' review, he started to shift into that mindset due to the Entity's influence. He still blames himself for it afterwards after being freed, because while the Entity influenced him, ''Linkara'' was still the one who made the decision.]]
* HeroicBSOD:
** Just look at the guy's face after his [[spoiler:defeat by Lord Vyce]]. Thank God Iron Liz managed to snap him out of it... [[spoiler:[[MundaneMadeAwesome By giving him a Care Bears comic]].]]
** He has a long, protracted one, during the events of TheMovie once the weirdness of his life catches up to him and he begins to question if he even still cares about comics anymore after reading so much crap. [[spoiler:However he is able to break out of it by the end and reifirm his love of reviewing bad comics.]]
** A smaller one at the start of the Contest of Champions arc, due to [[spoiler:feeling that he had crossed the line due to the Entity influencing him. An illusion of 90s Kid even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it when Linkara battles Empyra, comparing it to sulking. Said conversation with the illusion gets him out of it.]]
* HopelessSuitor: He assumes he has to destroy WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows to win WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's heart, not getting that Todd has no interest in the Chick whatsoever.
* HumansAreGood: When confronting [[spoiler:Mirrorkara]], Linkara expresses that he genuinely believes that people are Good, Decent and Kind!
* HumongousMecha: [[spoiler:He steals Neutro!]]
* [[spoiler: TheImmune: For some reason, Linkara is unaffected by the King of Worms's influence, requiring a more complicated approach. Unfortunately, we later learn WHY he was immune, and it's anything but a comforting reason]]
* IfItsYouItsOkay: At cons especially, both Doug and Lewis (Doug in particular) like pushing the idea that Linkara has it bad for WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic. [[spoiler: Though after the fallout with Channel Awesome, this interest's current status is unknown.]]
* IronButtMonkey: A ''lot'' of crap has happened to him, both comedic and dramatic, but he keeps on going.
* IShallTauntYou: [[spoiler: His main strategy when fighting [[TheCaligula Lavidian Scarn]] is to conceal himself in his basement and strike as many nerves as he can relating to Scarn's past failures to get him to lower his guard. Needless to say, it works wonders.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the Sonic Live commentary, Lewis says that Linkara is a good guy, but he's still an asshole. He specifically points out the fact that Linkara's taken to using his new spaceship to win arguments with his friends, but he would never actually blast any of them.
* KindheartedCatLover: He has cats, who occasionally interrupt his reviews for some FuzzTherapy.
* LackOfEmpathy: When Phelous has a skull with Critic's hat on top of it, Linkara mentions what happened in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', but notes that he doesn't really care because he was locked in a closet for most of the movie's running time.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:When he was trying to revive Spoony after the latter died, he met with Doctor Linksano, who offered to help by cloning Spoony...and after the test confirmed that the technology to do so worked, inflicted Linkara with a mind-wipe virus to erase all memory of the encounter.]]
* LargeHam: Whenever he gets angry, and most of his imitations.
* LaughingMad: Subverted in the Rise of Arsenal #1 and #2 review. It looks like it at first, with a disbelieving expression melting into peals of laughter... And then it turns out he's [[SoBadItsGood actually]] [[{{Narm}} amused]].
* ManChild: An advertisement for [=PowerMorphicon=]:
-->'''[[TalkingToHimself Narrator:]]''' Do you like playing with Franchise/PowerRangers toys?
-->'''Linkara:''' Uh-huh!
-->'''Narrator:''' Do you pretend you're morphing with your toy morphers?
-->'''Linkara:''' Uh-huh!
* MartyStu AuthorAvatar: The concept is very thoroughly examined through his character. It started off when, as a result of his ever-growing ego, he began trying to ''invoke'' this in-universe during the Vyce Arc... [[BreakTheHaughty and hoo boy did he suffer for it]]. Long story short, he'd become so confident in his preparation, strategy and combat skills that he more or less jumped into the fight with the BigBad with the assumption that because he held his own better against Mechakara that he'd win. Cue Vyce's CurbStompBattle, in which he defeated Linkara with pretty minimal effort.
** CharacterDevelopment: After the [[spoiler:Entity]] Arc, this attitude vanished completely. He became a lot more sensitive to his friends' feelings and observations and expressed much more compassion towards them. Even before then, humility began creeping in during the arc. Case in point, look at how panicked he becomes when he realises that [[spoiler:the Entity has taken everybody he loves]]. The proud Linkara of old probably ''wouldn't'' have acted that way.
** Within a year, however, it started creeping back again: culminating in a massive boast after driving off the Gunslinger. It was also at this stage that his progression into a Stu was very firmly defied by [[spoiler:Margaret, his magic gun, turning off her magic; since [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain his pride was clearly moving him towards evil]].]] Ever since then, he's had to start re-learning what being a genuine hero means.
* MediumAwareness: He holds some level of this.
* MenUseViolenceWomenUseCommunication: "I AM A MAN!" (PUNCH!)
* MoralPragmatist: While Linkara is a strict pacifist who believes murder is always wrong, he does admit that he might not be able to stick to those ideals if faced with a situation where he has to kill for his own or others' defense.
* MrFanservice: Between the snappy dress sense, the feminism, and a reasonably attractive face, Linkara's got a ''lot'' of female fans. And not necessarily for pure reasons.
* MrViceGuy: Linkara enjoys power, and he loves to flaunt it. This is his greatest moral weakness, as otherwise he's a brave and heroic person. But once he has even a taste of power or glory, he wants to milk it for all it's worth.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: The death (albeit, [[DisneyDeath temporary]]) of Allen in TheMovie.]]
* {{Narcissist}}: When the Chick can hear the thoughts of guys she knows, all she hears from him is "I'm awesome" repeated over and over. Lewis Lovhaug himself admits that both Linkara and himself has a AwesomeEgo, though he does practice keeping it from going to far.
* {{Nerd}}: He even admits it.
* NeverBareheaded: He almost never takes off his hat, likely because of his thinning hair. In his introduction Q&A, he is unaware he's even wearing a hat.
* NiceHat: [[WordOfGod It's magic apparently!]]
* NoIndoorVoice: It's loud even when he's talking normally and not getting angry.
* NotSoStoic: He keeps his cool most of the time, unless they are about topics like bad comics, people like Creator/FrankMiller, Creator/RobLiefeld, and especially ''Creator/JoeQuesada'', or when he's almost killed or someone is trying to kill him, he can get ''pissed'' off. However, the moment he starts to actually curse and not use his GoshdangItToHeck stuff, Linkara becomes a bit more scarier.
* PrecisionFStrike: [[spoiler:He says, "[[Film/TheThing1982 Yeah? Fuck you, too]]" to Mechakara in TheMovie before said android's ass kicking.]]
* {{Pride}}: The main reason why he'll never be the hero he thinks he is. His repeated victories and successful strategies tend to inflate his ego to ridiculous levels. It's only ever been brought down after being on the receiving end of a CurbStompBattle from Lord Vyce and being subjected to the Entity making everything a living hell for him. Starting from the beginning of the latter's arc, his girlfriend and Harvey Finevoice have started calling him out on it.
* RobotMe: Mechakara
* SeenItAll: Due to experiencing over a decade's worth of fighting and/or fleeing from supervillains, evil sentient comics, robots, interdimensional weirdness, {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, and other strange things, Linkara's rarely surprised at whatever happens at the end of a review.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Still appears to be baffled to Dr. Insano's true identity. [[NegativeContinuity Then again, so is everybody]].
* SelfServingMemory: When he mentions the events of ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'', Linkara neglects to mention his attempt to seize control of the nation, instead claiming that he "liberated" it.
* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: Has a strong belief in Hope, believes that there is always a solution, always a way to beat the bad guys. This is part of his motivation for wanting to defeat the Entity. Having heard many [[CosmicHorrorStory Lovecraftian Horror Stories]] about how hopeless it is to take creatures like the Entity on, he wants to defeat them just to show that every thing is important, every one matters, and that there is ''always'' hope.
* SkepticNoLonger: He originally poo-pooed the idea of the Entity. Come the next story arc and he's absolutely scared s-less of it.
* SkewedPriorities: Linkara's adherence to creating reviews often means that, regardless of what threat he is currently dealing with, he will only respond after a review is over which often leaves his friends and enemies dumbfounded. Even if the threat happens to be [[spoiler: ''the Earth being sucked into a black hole'']]. To his credit, he at least justifies himself by saying that, regardless of what happens, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome he still has to pay the rent after everything's over]].
* SmartPeopleBuildRobots: Is rather intelligent, and has a side hobby of building several robots of various types, and artificial intelligences to go with them. He directly [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this during a battle with [[spoiler: Lord Vyce,]] noting:
--> “There is something I have a special talent for: I am ''very'' good at building robots.”
* TheStrategist: Was the one who planned the uprising against N. Bison during ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}''.
* StupidEvil: To paraphrase [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]], for a guy who reviews comic books, [[http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2012/01/wonder-woman-2011.html he makes a crap villain]]. [[invoked]]
* SuperMode: [[spoiler:Zeo Linkara]]
** And now [[spoiler: he's the [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Green Ranger]]!]]
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler:Literally. Linkara eventually realizes that there's no way he can beat The Entity[=/=]Missingno. by brute force, so instead he does this, asking it [[AndThenWhat what it plans on doing '''after''' it becomes the only thing in existence]] and ultimately convincing it to explore what happens when an Outer God dies.]]
* TokenWizard: Unlike most of his reviewer contemporaries, Linkara actually has access to various magical artifacts and engages in battles with interdimensional threats outside of his regular reviews. He even lampshades this in ''Batman: The Official Movie Adaptation'' by informing the Nostalgia Critic that these events are genuine life-threatening experiences and not skits.
* {{Trekkie}}: Much like his real life actor Linkara is a proud Star Trek fan and often dresses up is star fleet uniforms whenever he is on Comicron 1. Hell he even converted the auxiliary power room on Comicron 1 into a replica of the Enterprise's control room.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Chicken. And not just the "he only eats chicken fingers" running gag either; he fully admits to liking chicken in general no matter how it's prepared.
* UnfortunateNames: Was bullied at school because his last name, Lovhaug, is pronounced "love-hog".
** In Secret Origins Month 2012 he joked that, based on his observation that "[[PropheticName If your name sounds like anything, you will grow up to be a supervillain]]", he already has the identity of "[[{{Portmanteau}} Cupig]]" lined up for when he becomes one.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Played for laughs during the end of the Mechakara arc wherein the episode after Linkara meets his robot doubleganger for the first time he just ignored him and started reviewing Youngblood #2.
-->'''Mechakara:''' Excuse me I'm still standing here!
-->'''Linkara:''' Hmm?
-->'''Mechakara:''' You came in, I laughed, you sat down and started reviewing!
-->'''Linkara:''' Oh right you're still standing there (searches for his Magic Gun) ah.
-->(Shoots Mechakara, goes back to the review)
* WaistcoatOfStyle: His second costume included one.
* WaxingLyrical: Whenever the comic includes text that happens to be identical or similar to the lyrics of a song, his response is usually a continuation of the lyrics.

!! Allies
[[folder: 90's Kid/Dude]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/90s_kid.jpg]]
A character created by Linkara to poke fun at UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks. An obnoxious teenage slacker who prefers blood, guns, and Creator/RobLiefeld over plot, characterization, and good artwork. Also a huge fan of the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, the most ''hardcore'' console of all time which [[MemeticMutation did what Nintendidn't]]. After the ''Sleepwalker Arc'', he changed his name to "90's ''Dude''" as an acknowledgement of his newfound maturity.
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* AMFMCharacterization: His theme music is Music/{{Nirvana}}'s "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
* ATeamFiring: During the ''Silent Hill: The Grinning Man'' review.
-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Iron Liz]]:''' "''[[LampshadeHanging Nice shootin' Tex.]]''"\\
'''90's Kid''': "''[[BlatantLies I-I-I meant to do that]].''"\\
'''Iron Liz''': "''The air's not attacking us.''"
* BigWordShout:
** "DUUUUUUDE!"
** "And one of them has the greatest superpower of all, [[SuperheroPackingHeat GUUUUUNS]]!"
* BlackComedy: Subverted; it looks like he's about to cheer [[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Superboy Prime for vaporizing a pregnant woman]], but he stops when it sinks in just how horrible that is.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** "Duuuuuuuuuuude! [''insert lame 90's comic, character or concept here''] is AWESOOOOOME!!!"
** "I'm 90's Kid, and ''What You See Is What You Get!''"
** (In response to his own rhetorical question) "''Cha!''"
* CharacterAgedWithTheActor: Downplayed, since they've never been the same age, but given that 90's Kid was originally intended to be 12-16 when the show started (and Lewis Lovhaug was only 21 when he first began playing him), it simply wasn't realistic for him to be a "kid" anymore nine years later when Lovhaug was 30, which is the real-life reason why his name was changed to 90's Dude at the end of the Sleepwalker arc.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: In-universe, his idea for a Nirvana reunion involves digging up Kurt Cobain's body and having zombie chicks play him like a puppet is just... going too far even by his standards. [[spoiler: Turns out this is a clue that he's not really 90's Kid.]]
--> '''Linkara:''' "There is something seriously wrong with you!"
** It goes even further than that: [[spoiler: Kurt Cobain was cremated. 90's Kid, being the big Nirvana fan he is, '''should know this'''.]]
* {{Crossover}}: Is best friends with WebVideo/EightiesDan.
* DamnedByAFoolsPraise: He serves this purpose with regard to many of the worst qualities of UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks.
* DarkAgeOfSupernames: His ideal comic book hero is named "Bloodgun", and wields a BFG called "the Bloodgun of Bloodgun".
* DarkerAndEdgier: A big fan of this.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Got to review ''Freak Force #1'' when Linkara went missing. He got a more protracted one in the Sleepwalker arc, [[spoiler:where he plays a major role due to everyone thinking that he's pulled a FaceHeelTurn by working with Lord Vyce, which is later revealed to have been an EnemyMine.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: The Entity/Missing No. has been impersonating him. The ''real'' 90's Kid got taken before the KISS Comics review. Thankfully, he gets better.]]
* DiscoDan: Possibly...his backstory and age aren't clear, and in his "Freak Force" review he specifically says [[DawsonCasting he's not a man, he's just a kid]]. On the DVD, Lewis acknowledges his estimated age (between 12-16) would mean either he didn't actually grow up in the 90's, or he entered a time vortex ála WebVideo/EightiesDan
* DistaffCounterpart: 80's Chick.
* TheDitz: To the point that he appears in ''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''[='=]s review of "S&M" to display the intellectual capacity of the website ("What's a {{Music/Rihanna}}?").
* DropInCharacter:
--> '''Linkara:''' "Just ignore him -- he's like a pop-up ad, he won't go away."
* DrowningMySorrows: When Rob Liefeld announces he's officially retired from comics, he winds up getting plastered... [[DrunkOnMilk on soda]].
-->'''Harvey:''' I don't understand, he only has diet coke in that thing. How is he drunk?\\
'''Dr. Linksano:''' I've learnt not to question these things.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: [[spoiler: Evelyn.]]
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: 90's Kid is revealed to be working with Lord Vyce at the end of the King of Worms arc and in fact has been gathering materials to repair Vyce's armour. However, Harvey believes that he is only doing so in fear of The Entity returning, but it turns that he knows Linkara will become the Entity and is working with Vyce to stop it.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Even ''he'' thinks [[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Superboy-Prime killing a pregnant woman]] was going too far.
** He also agrees that "Deathblow" is a pretty stupid name.
** Not directly said by him, but [[spoiler:Linkara says that the idea of using Music/KurtCobain's body as a puppet would be twisted even by his standards]].
** [[spoiler:Despite his EnemyMine with Vyce, once the latter proves to be too paranoid to believe seeing the Entity self-destruct for good with his own eyes and goes on a VillainousBreakdown and willingly seeks to destroy this universe in the process, he draws the line, but gets thrown in the brig, along with Harvey, Pollo, and Linksano, in the process]].
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Subverted, he's working with [[ArchEnemy Vyce]]...[[EnemyMine on stopping the Entity]], who's now possessing Linkara. He didn't say anything, because he was trying to keep that fact away from it for as long as possible.]]
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: [[spoiler: In the behind-the-scenes extras on the DVD, Lewis suggests this might be the case]]
* ForHappiness: He loves TheNineties so much because they were ''fun''. He thinks ''everyone'' should just have a lot more ''fun''.
* FriendsRentControl: He appeared in a [[TheCameo cameo]] in WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/BioDome'' to explain how it was apparently the way things worked in TheNineties.
** And then [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Reality Ensued]] when his landlord arrived with an eviction notice... And a battering ram... And a sawed-off shotgun.
* GeniusDitz: [[spoiler: It turns out he really is a technological savant.]]
* GenderBlenderName: His real first name is [[spoiler: Evelyn]].
* GunNut: One of his defining character traits.
* TheHeart: Develops into this over time as CerebusSyndrome sank in. He was the first one to notice the anger-inducement shade while everyone else was bickering, and later arcs emphasize more on his ForHappiness attitude and HiddenDepths.
* HeroicBSOD: After the above [[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Superboy-Prime incident]]. [[MoodWhiplash He gets better after picking up a Rob Liefeld comic]].
** He has another one when [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]] tells him that Music/{{Nirvana}} is responsible for the creation of {{Music/Nickelback}}.
*** Which is [[HilariousInHindsight especially funny]] considering how Linkara has stated that, [[{{YMMV/Nickelback}} unlike most critics]], he actually ''likes'' Nickelback.
* HiddenDepths: During his argument with Harvey Finevoice and Linksano in the Thing Story Arc, he revealed knowledge of Rock and Roll outdoing lounge music for decades, showing that he did have some knowledge beyond his 90's knowhow.
** Subverted in the ''Wild Thing #1'' review:
-->'''Linkara:''' By the way, did you know 90's Kid is a technological savant?\\
'''90's Kid:''' Duuuuuuude, I put a ''clock'' on a ''screwdriver!''\\
'''Linkara:''' He has his off days.
** [[spoiler: Turns out he wasn't joking; TheMovie reveals that 90's Kid is actually the one who handles most of the maintenance on the ship. In fact, he has an entire speech pointing out he's not an idiot; he just REALLY likes the 90's...for the GOOD parts, not the bad parts. They were TRYING, even if it went in a bad direction. Plus, he likes being underestimated.]]
** [[spoiler: He has been spending his time with Lord Vyce, of all people, hashing out some sort of calculated plan to stop the Entity's return.]]
* {{Keet}}
* LargeHam: To an annoying degree.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Constantly has [[Music/{{Nirvana}} "Smells Like Teen Spirit"]] (and sometimes [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic "Smells like Nirvana"]]) playing in the background, except when he reviewed ''Freak Force'' where it was the song that played over the title card instead.
* LikeAGodToMe: "Liefeld, you are my god!"
* LimitedWardrobe: He's always wearing that {{Grunge}}y plaid shirt and a black "WYSIWYG" (What You See Is What You Get) shirt.
* MeaningfulRename: [[spoiler: At the end of the Sleepwalker Arc, he proudly states to Linkara that his experiences have matured him, and so has accordingly renamed himself "90's Dude". Linkara then lampshades that everybody will still be calling him "90's Kid" out of habit, to which he half-sheepishly admits that he's well aware of that.]]
** [[spoiler: And yet, every video after the arc with a 90's Kid segment shows his name as 90's Dude.]]
* MoralityPet: [[spoiler: Revealed to be serving as this to Vyce in their secret collaboration. However, it doesn't last, though even as Vyce throws him in the brig when 90's Kid draws the line, the villain admits his sincere respect for the latter]].
* TheNineties: Though he briefly turns into [[TheSixties 60s Kid]] after [[ItMakesSenseInContext Mickey Mantle punches a hole in reality]] in the ''Mickey Mantle #2'' review, complete with [[{{Leitmotif}} "Smells Like Teen Spirit"]] being replaced by [[Music/TheBeatles "Good Day Sunshine"]].
* NoIndoorVoice: His catchphrase is proof enough.
* {{Not}}: In the "Raver #1" review, he calls out the title character for using this incorrectly.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: In TheMovie, he tells Lupa that this is a major benefit of being so... well... 90's Kid.
* PerverseSexualLust: Has written both a fanfic and a review script where he makes out with WebVideo/ObscurusLupa, though when he actually meets her in the movie, he tones this way down.
* RealMenWearPink: Judging from his {{Waking Non Sequitur}}s, beneath his love of the grim and gritty he harbors a secret fondness for the ''Franchise/CareBears''.
* SigningOffCatchPhrase: "I'm 90's Kid, and what you see is what you get!"
* SmallNameBigEgo: During the Guns and Sorcery Arc, he claims that he's the main reason why people watch the show. [[AIIsACrapshoot Holokara]] takes it ''very'' poorly.
* SmarterThanYouLook 90's Kid is rather consistently underestimated or seen as a doofus by many. However, as is noted by ObfuscatingStupidity above, he's partly like that intentionally. He's a very good mechanic, being able to maintain Comikron 1 despite it's numerous alien elements, is capable of creating a number of guns with relative ease in a short timeframe during TheMovie, and [[spoiler: figured out years in advance that Linkara still had a small portion of The Entity inside him, pushing him to work behind the scenes with Lord Vyce to try to save his friends.]]
* SurferDude: He gives off this vibe.
* SympathyForTheDevil: After [[spoiler: Lord Vyce is killed in the portal, he expresses some sadness that it turned out that way, since he'd been working with him for several years and had gotten to know him]].
* TotallyRadical
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Alex Munroe]]
Lead character from ''VideoGame/StarTrekEliteForce'', which Linkara did a LetsPlay of. Originally an ensign in [[Franchise/StarTrek Starfleet]], now promoted to lieutenant.
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* CatchPhrase: "''I'm Ensign Munroooooooe!''"
%%* LargeHam
* OnlySaneMan: Compared to the rest of the crew of ''Voyager'', that is...
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Allen Park]]

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' [[{{Creator/Lanipator}} Nick Landis]]

Linkara's liaison in the US government. Up until the conclusion of 2013's Halloween arc, he had not made a physical appearance or had any lines; he was only alluded to on the other end of Linkara's phone calls.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: TheMovie serves as his, to an extent. It details his background in meeting with Linkara, expands on their dynamic, and we get to see him on the job to boot when dealing with the Caelestis mission.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: A minor and more contemporary example. Apparently, Donald Trump’s claim that windmills cause cancer can be traced back to a lie Allen told him to stop him from trying to take Comicron-1 from Linkara.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Becomes a loyal servant of the King of Worms for a short time. Shorter than the others, to be honest. His subservience isn't even shown on screen.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: He kinda has to be in order to keep up with Linkara.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: In Part 2 of the Movie. [[BackFromTheDead Comes back]] at the end of Part 4 as a result of Europa's energy field healing him]].
* TheGhost: Until ''2001: A Space Odyssey #1''. He sometimes shifts into this during arcs that might involve him, such as the last parts of ''The Sleepwalker'' arc, but the plot manages to shift in directions that don't require him to appear.
* MomentKiller: Notably, he interrupts the dramatic reveal of Linkara's new costume.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: He becomes Linkara's in TheMovie, dying in part 2. [[DisneyDeath He gets better.]]]]
* ProperlyParanoid: The reason Linkara has a liaison in the US government, as [[spoiler:Jaeris]] finds out, is that people would naturally get somewhat nervous over a large, heavily-armed spaceship floating in orbit.
** The government has [[spoiler: protocols in case he is replaced with a robot duplicate]]. Allen considers this an obvious set of preparations.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He's usually depicted as a very on-the-nose individual, keeping himself rather composed and serious no matter the situation. But after four years of the Trump administration, Allen is shown to have become dishelved and at the end of his rope dealing with the current POTUS, eventually unloading a vicious, yelling rant that is detailed below.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Implied. Linkara states that he trusts Allen, but not his technicians.
** The reasoning behind it is explained in the Movie, when it's revealed that originally the US government wanted Linkara assassinated for his possession of Comicron-1, but Allen dissuaded them from doing so as long as he doesn't do anything to affect the world geopolitical situation.
** Deconstructed with Trump. The man's inane demands are shown to have worn Allen down, and the pandemic didn't help matters either. He's managed to stop some of the crazier/amoral schemes, but he had to use some equally inane and desperate excuses to do so to protect Comicron-One.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: During his cameo in the 2020 year-end recap he gives a truly cathartic one to President Trump.
--> "You know what? Yeah. Yes, I called you "sniveling prick", because, you know what, you're going to be out of the job soon. And I have put up with you for ''[[SuddenlyShouting FOUR GODDAMN YEARS]]''! So, when I tell you that you're a spineless, disgusting, slovenly, racist, sexist, homophobic, bigoted, drooling, pus-expelling abscess on the face of humanity, I say it because I've spent time with you for more than five minutes. Oh, your reading skills are ''less'' than developed than a first-grader. And I am fairly certain the noises I've heard when you go to the bathroom are actually you masturbating to your own picture. ''(mirthless chuckle)'' Yeah… Yeah. I am ''sick'' of looking at your kid's [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING FOREHEADS]]! There are ''hundreds'' of thousands of people dead and ''hundreds'' of thousands of more starving in the streets which they were ''thrown out'' to '' DURING A '''PANDEMIC''' BECAUSE OF '''YOU''' AND THIS GOVERNMENT FAILING THEM WITH '''YOU''' AT ITS HEAD''!! Oh yes, I know. I know [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome I'm fired]], but you know what, I think I'll be back at this job in, I don't know, a month. Because I'm ''good'' at what I do. And, by the way...I'VE SEEN THE PEE TAPES!"
* SharpDressedMan: Always wears a suit and tie. Averted during his appearence in the 2020 end-of-year recap, where we see that the accumilated stress of 4 years of having to deal with Donald Trump as President has made him SeriouslyScruffy instead.
* VetinariJobSecurity: Claims to have this due to being a professional after Trump fires him due to the above speech. Considering his lack of concern afterwards when speaking with Linkara and treating his firing as a one month holiday, he is likely telling the truth.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Boffo the Clown]]
A clown in a [[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] suit introduced to fight the MonsterClown stereotype. Communicates with a horn. Later made into Linkara's accountant.
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Returns with the rest of the world at the end of ''Pokemon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu'' #1.]]
* ItsProbablyNothing: Linkara's reaction to his disappearance.
* MonsterClown: Defied.
** Amusingly, [[{{Film/Subspecies}} Radu]](as played by WebVideo/ObscurusLupa) still finds him creepy.
** Though, as Linkara's accountant, he does appear to be robbing him blind.
* NonIronicClown: He’s supposed to be this as a way to combat the MonsterClown trope with varying degrees of success.
* SacrificialLamb: He lasts less than 30 seconds before he's abducted by the Entity off camera.
* TheUnintelligible: He communicates through his bicycle horn rather than words and he doesn't tweet out any sentences, he just tweets emotions.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Continuity Alarm]]
A device which starts beeping loudly and flashes its name on the top and bottom of the screen whenever Linkara starts rambling about continuity issues in a comic.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Disappears for about a year...
** TheBusCameBack: ...and reveals in the 200th episode that it spent the year burning off its accumulated vacation days that had been building since the show started, only to promptly disappear again until the ''Infinite Crisis'' review, in which it's revealed it has since been re-purposed.
* ContinuitySnarl: Its purpose is to prevent discussions on this.
* DeadpanSnarker: Will occasionally alter the "CONTINUITY ALARM" text to make smart remarks and bicker with Linkara.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: It gets broken and is one of the first signs of Mechakara's meddling... [[spoiler: or so we are led to believe. It was actually broken by Dr. Linksano.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Doctor Linksano[=/=]Oscar Schlumper]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_inline_mnmiiqd3jf1qz4rgp.png]]
A Dr. Insano from an alternate reality where Linkara became Insano instead of Spoony. He is trying to take Insano's spot as BigBad and designated science villain, but isn't very good at it. His latest failure led to Linkara hiring him as his scientific adviser, and he has remained on his side ever since.
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:The Entity attacked him at the end of The Backstreet Project #1.]]
* AndThenWhat: As explained below, with ''Cut Lex Luthor a Check'', this is how Linkara get Linksano to join his team. Linkara points out that that, if Linksano did conquer the World, it would mean he would actually have to run it, too. Linksano admits, he had not thought about that, and just wanted to indulge in power fantasies. He then takes Linkara up on his offer of joining the team.
* ArcVillain: Serves as the main villain of "The Other Insano." [[BigBadWannabe He's not very good at it, though]].
* BadassLongcoat: Minus the badass.
* BigBadWannabe: During his brief arc Linksano tried to take over as Linkara's replacement for Doctor Insano however he proved even more pathetic then the good doctor (who at least to his credit actually managed [[BewareTheSillyOnes a few victories against Linkara]]). Hell Linkara didn't even know that Linksano existed until he finally showed himself at the end of the arc. It's why he eventually gave up on his EvilPlan entirely and joined the good guys instead.
* [[spoiler: BrainwashedAndCrazy: Becomes a loyal servant of the King of Worms for a short time.]]
* ButtMonkey: Spends most of his arc ignored by Linkara and doesn't fare very well after it finishes.
* CharacterDevelopment: As Linkara himself says, Linksano has changed quite a bit since their first encounter, going from a rather ineffectual MadScientist BigBadWannabe to a much more competent scientific adviser with actual morals, though he's still a tad wacky.
* ContinuityNod: He's actually Oscar Schlumper from Spoony's Party Mania review, while his brother Wayne is the Insano of their universe.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Linkara does just this to get him to become a member of his group. In addition to offering him pay as Linkara's scientific adviser, he also explains to Linksano just how much of a hard and thankless job running the world would be if he were to actually conquer it, and gives Linksano full access to Comicron-1's science lab (to satisfy his scientific urges), and holodeck (to satisfy every ''other'' power fantasy that running the world wouldn't actually give him time to indulge in). Mad scientist or not, Linksano realizes how much of a good deal that is, and signs on.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Hosted the 2018 Longbox of the Damned Summer videos, and after Moarte kicked him out, played a prominent role in the 10th anniversary storyline, the Clone Saga [[spoiler:when it turns out a discarded plan from his villain days may have played a part in Linkara having a clone running around. It's eventually revealed the clone the crew was interacting with was a now-human Mechakara, while the actual clone had been tortured to death by Mirrorkara. He later calls in Linkara's allies to defeat Mirrorkara.]]
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: Built a Cybermat to fry Linkara, didn't work, got himself a logic bomb dropped on him, HeelFaceTurn.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Linksano started off as a straight-up {{Expy}} of Doctor Insano, with the biggest difference between them was that Linksano was somehow an even [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain more incompetent villain]] than him. Once he performed his HeelFaceTurn, he shifted towards becoming TheSmartGuy of Linkara's group and his villainy was significantly toned down. Nowadays, he's one of Linkara's TrueCompanions and is willing to stand up when he starts to cross moral boundaries.
* EnemyMine: He teamed up with Linkara against their common foe Lord Vyce, tired of running from him through different universes.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His introduction has him reveal to the viewer that he broke the Continuity Alarm and plans to take over our universe in the most [[LargeHam hammy]] way possible, and then gets hit the face by Linkara opening a door wondering if he heard something.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** In Linkara's joint review of ''Film/TheSpirit'' with [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]], Linksano thinks that melting someone's face is acceptable, but melting a cat (as Octopus does in the movie) is just wrong.
** Spoony question if there's a Linksano than in Linksano universe if Spoony is "Spoonkara". Linksano replies with a bit of humorous disgust and says that would be stupid.[[note]]However one year Spoony did an April Fool's episode of Atop The Fourth Wall pretending to be Linkara, which one can headcanon to actually be a review from Spoonkara that accidentally got posted to our universe's Website/YouTube somehow[[/note]]
* TheEvilGenius: Under Lord Vyce.
* {{Expy}}: He is one for Doctor Insano from WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment. Linkara created Linksano because he felt bad about asking Spoony to play Insano for him over and over. It's eventually justified as him being Insano's counterpart from alternate reality; then it turns out that he's Oscar Schlumper, which means he's actually the ''brother'' of that universe's Insano. The characters have since diverged, with Insano rejecting the same arguments that led Linksano to his HeelFaceTurn.
* FillerVillain: Basically just a breather between Mechakara and Vyce. However, in the Vyce arc, he returns in a much more important role, and after the Entity arc, is eventually convinced to pull a HeelFaceTurn.
* FreudianExcuse: After delving more about his past to Eliza, it can be inferred that Linksano's original evil actions had been a result of having only his brother (The Dr. Insano of his universe, who went evil due to being [[LoveMakesYouEvil rejected by a girl]]) around, and having no other loved ones or real motivations to remain there. It certainly explains why his schemes beyond his [[spoiler:scrapped clone project]] were rather pathetic and how easy it was for Linkara to eventually bring him in as an ally when the topic came up: Not having a great deal of motivation kinda puts a damper on the ability to focus on long-term schemes.
* TheGogglesDoNothing: Well, they ''do'' give him access to social media at least.
* GoKartingWithBowser: Linksano briefly joins a rock band formed by [[spoiler: Whately]], even though he's still on Linkara's side.
* GoodParents: As her creator, he's technically Eliza's father. She apparently gets along well enough with him, and during the 2018 Christmas arc, he gives her advice concerning the idea of [[spoiler:leaving the group after Linkara's descent into paranoia during the Sleepwalker arc]].
* HamToHamCombat: With Dr. Insano in Warrior 2 & 3
* HeelFaceTurn: in All-American Comics #16. It should be also noted that when when Linkara, [[spoiler:albeit under the influence of the Entity]] starts hijacking satellites [[KillSat for space based weaponry]], he leaves with the others due to moral objections.
** A more gradual one after his original recruitment: Linksano settled into the group dynamic, and Linkara eventually let him off the betrayal leash.
* HiddenDepths: The 400th episode shows he can play the drums and apparently has a life outside of his involvement with Linkara.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He was never really a competent villain, [[spoiler:though it turns out that he ''did'' have a decent scheme when he first arrived in Linkara's universe via replacing everyone with clones, back when Spoony had died and Linkara was trying to revive him. Fortunately, he lacked the patience to see the plan through, and as he admits to Linkara ten years afterwards, his later plans were [[LampshadeHanging less successful]].]]
* IWasJustJoking: In the Paetron review of ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'', he suggests throwing kids off rooftops and seeing if they survive when Taiga says that percentages is just numbers and a brave heart can overcome anything. When Mamoru throws himself out of a window, glows green and sprouts wings, he can only stare in shock and stammer that he's technically still correct.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: In Reagan's Raiders #1, after seeing [[spoiler:Lord Vyce easily beat Linkara and Harvey]], Linksano wisely decides not to confront him, knowing he's out of his league.
* LargeHam: He's an alternate Doctor Insano, and is every bit as hammy as him. This does not drop after his HeelFaceTurn.
* LogicBomb: On the receiving end of one from Linkara, just before his HeelFaceTurn.
* MadScientist: Given who he was originally an {{Expy}} of, this should be obvious. Even while on the good guys' side.
* TheMole: Against Vyce.
** [[spoiler:And now for the King of Worms, it seems...until it was revealed to have just been an android made in his image. The real Linksano was trapped in the King of Worms' dimension, albeit [[MindControl under the King's control]].]]
* MrExposition: His primary role post HeelFaceTurn, particularly in matters regarding how the multiverse [[spoiler:and later clones]] work.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:A downplayed example, but he's shown to be very regretful of his cloning plan and how it turned out. Note that when the cast gathers after beating Mirrorkara, he's shown to be hanging his head in shame, even if Linkara is willing to forgive him.]]
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: During the Halloween storyline of 2021, in a gambit to make Billy Tor forfeit in the Contest of Champions by putting his spirit at ease, he became President of the United States of Billy Tor's universe. He's a case of President Personable, making a presidential address to address the covered-up prison massacre that gave rise to Billy Tor, promising to build a monument where the prison grounds once were, compensate all descendants of the deceased, and formally appologize on the behalf of the United States and the state government of Colorado. However, he's also a minor case of President Buffoon, having accidentally leaked government secrets to one of his boyfriends who turned out to be a Russian asset, leading to his impeachment.
* {{Polyamory}}: In the resolution of the Halloween storyline of 2021, he comes out as pansexual and polyamorous.
* RealityWarper: Manages to build a machine called the "Black Light Generator" at the end of "Justice Act Of God" Part III, an obvious reference to the black light in the comic, that changes the world however he wants it... And he gets swiftly defeated by Pollo shooting it out of his hand.
* RedemptionPromotion: His science often still fails, but the story takes him far more seriously as an ally of Linkara's than as a villain.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:It is originally believed that the Linkara clone in the apartment was derived from his experiments. Turns out it was actually the Plot Hole turning Mechakara into a human and that the actual clone was tortured to death.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The minute he found out Lord Vyce was coming to his home dimension (though he later reveals to Eliza that he'd already been planning on leaving; his brother becoming that universe's Dr. Insano, and not having anyone else to talk to were not endearing him to remain there, Vyce was just the final push). Did the same when Vyce came to this one, but was eventually forced to work for him.
* TheStarscream: He stabs Vyce in the back so he could be a conqueror and latter tries to betray Linkara but after Linkara convinces him otherwise he seems to have some genuine loyalty to him.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He owes his existence to Linkara's desire not to need to bug Spoony for Doctor Insano footage.
* TrrrillingRrrs: His speech pattern holds this.
* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler:He comes back after the Entity's defeat.]]
* UnknownRival: His defeats have either been by accident or by Pollo. Linkara didn't even know about him until the final stage of his plan. [[spoiler:The Clone Saga later expands on this, revealing that Linksano first met Linkara after Spoony died, and the latter didn't trust him in the slightest. Then Linksano [[LaserGuidedAmnesia wiped Linkara's memory via a virus that would delete Linkara's knowledge of having met him]], which contributed to this trope.]]
* VocalEvolution: In his first appearances, his voice was high-pitched and screechy, but later on it got deeper and gained a slight accent.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Extends this to Insano when they're fighting in "Warrior 2 & 3" review that could have a VillainTeamUp instead. Insano likes the idea, but nothing comes of it because Linkara a bunch of other reviewers how up and beat them and the rest of the Insanos up.
* WhamLine: Has given out a few.
** "Weep for your universe, Linkara. Weep for all universes! For Lord Vyce is coming, and all he sees, he conquers!"
** "Now's where things get ''really'' interesting!"
** [[spoiler: "I hear and obey."]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Erin]]
A thief who appears one day in order to steal the Magic Coin. Erin is a fellow internet reviewer (albeit an much less successful one) who reviews ancient artifacts with her robot sidekick Ceres. After inadvertently saving Linkara's life by stealing the Magic Coin during the 2015 Halloween arc Linkara recruits her to become his historian on all things strange and mythical.
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* AloneWithThePsycho: At the end of the ''Ultimate Power #4'' review, poor Erin ends up realizing that [[spoiler:she hasn't been talking with Linkara at all, but instead the Entity]]. She quickly gets the hell out of dodge.
** Happens again at the end of ''Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors'' when [[spoiler: the 'clone' reveals itself to be Mechakara turned human.]]
* BadassLongcoat: Wears a red leather coat and regularly breaks into dangerous places to ''borrow'' magical artifacts to review for her show.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Erin doesn't steal magical artifacts, she ''borrows'' them and has every intention on giving them back to their owners when she's done.
* CuttingTheKnot: While the rest of Linkara's friends [[spoiler: and Vyce]] tried resurrecting [[spoiler: Comicron 1]] to inspire Linkara [[spoiler: in order to break the Entity's hold on him]], Erin comes up with the much more straightforward plan of [[spoiler: shoving the Magic Coin into the Entity's face and forcing it to leave Linkara's body]].
* DistaffCounterpart: Serves as one for Linkara; she's a reviewer of lesser known properties (and thus doesn't have the largest fanbase), has a talking RobotBuddy that helps her, and relies on gadgets and [[GuileHeroine wits]] to overcome stronger adversaries.
* MeaningfulName: Turns out Erin is actually short for [[spoiler: Erinyes, an ancient Greek spirit of vengeance. Her whole purpose for entering Linkara's universe was as a part of Mirrorkara's revenge scheme.]]
* [[spoiler: TheMole: Was secretly working for Mirrorkara until the events of the Clone Saga, where she did a HeelFaceTurn.]]
* MsExposition: She provides a lot of backstory regarding the origins of the Magic Coin. This is justified since she researches all of the artifacts she finds for her review show.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite being instrumental in [[spoiler: freeing Linkara's mind from the Entity]], she disappears at the end of that episode and isn't featured again for the rest of the Sleepwalker arc. She makes a return in the Contest of Champions arc.
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[[folder: The Gunslinger, aka Jaeris]]
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A mysterious man from another dimension with his own Magic Gun, who wants to gets his hands on Linkara's. It's revealed in Youngblood #5 that he is a critic from a dimension where SOPA (or perhaps [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee SUCKA]]) succeeded and created a dystopian government that he seeks to rebel against, and that he's taking other magic guns to aid said resistance, becoming Linkara's ally in the process.
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* AnimeHair: He has ridiculously long (and obviously fake out of universe) blond hair twisted into a braid.
* AntiHero: Starts of as a ClassicalAntiHero who despite arguably being a better sorcerer than Linkara, in the sense that he created his own magic gun, is nowhere near as badass, being unsure of what to do, and leaving his world to find allies as he's not powerful enough to help it on his own. After the "magnificent seven" dies he becomes more of a PragmaticHero, stealing other magic guns to help the resistance and (presumably) gaining a few levels in badass in the process. At the time of his encounter with Linkara he's a borderline case of UnscrupulousHero, not caring about anyone but himself and his cause and ignoring Sierra's attempts at dissuading him from attacking Linkara despite the latter's track record. It's only after [[spoiler: becoming trapped in Linkara's universe]] does he begin to [[HeelRealisation realise just how much harm he had caused and that his current predicament is his own fault]], making amends with Linkara and eventually [[spoiler: helping him fight Lord Vyce after he attempts to retake Comicron-1 again]], becoming a genuine hero.
* AntiVillain: Type III-IV. He was stealing magic guns in order to arm the natives of his universe against a tyrannical government, after discovering that their original wielders, the so-called "magnificent seven", couldn't survive dimension hopping for long. Any time he has shown any clear villainous behavior/personality traits is just part of his ploy to anger Linkara.
* BadassBookworm: He's knowledgable enough in science and magic to build a dimension crossing starship, a fully sentient AI, and a Magic Gun powerful enough to be a match for Linkara's.
* BadassLongcoat: He has an impressive long black coat and is tough enough to pose a serious threat to Linkara.
* BigBadEnsemble: The main antagonist for most of the "Gun and Sorcery" arc. At least, until it's revealed that he's actually a good guy trying to liberate his own universe. [[spoiler: Dr. Insano proceeds to take his place as the main villain following this revelation]].
* BraidsOfAction: How he keeps his hair.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: Two years after his previous appearance, Jaeris returns to rescue Linkara from a space between universes in the ''The Real Ghostbusters in Ghostbusters II'' Review, even returning the mobile emitter to Linkara. A year after that, he returns again to assist Linkara in preparing for the Contest of Champions.]]
* TheCollector: One of his lines in his first appearance implies that he's successfully stolen Magic Guns from others in the past. His collection is revealed in the ''Marville #3'' review.
* CombatPragmatist: [[spoiler: He doesn't bother attacking Linkara head on, instead shooting him in the back when he least explects him. Also he's smart enough to predict that Linkara will board his starship during the space battle with Comicron-1, prefering to stay out of sight and ambush him when he has his guard down instead of fighting him directly]].
* DeadpanSnarker: He has his moments, such as after being told to [[spoiler: fly Comicron-1 into the sun]].
--> ''Yeah, I can see that your plans are the height of sanity.''
* DeathWorld: To the Gunslinger, Linkara's Earth is toxic to the point of potentially being fatal.[[spoiler: That is, until he's forcefully bound to it. Now ''his'' world of origin is toxic to him instead.]]
* [[DiscOneFinalBoss Decoy Antagonist]]: While the most consistent threat in his tititular arc, it's eventually revealed that he's not actually evil, and is only antagonizing Linkara out of desperation.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: After leaving his universe to find allies he assembles what he describes as "just like the magnificent seven, except there's nine of us." Nine magic gun wielders (including him) only to watch them slowly die as they couldn't survive in his universe for long which results in him developing his unwillingness to ask others for help, including Linkara. Which along with trying to get Linkara to attain an UnstoppableRage to obtain a fully unlocked Magic Gun, ultimately results in him becoming permanently bonded with Linkara's universe. What follows is him [[DrowningMySorrows drowning his sorrows]]. For months on end]].
* DistressedDude: His capture in the King of Worms arc finally alerts Linkara to the King's activities.
* DualWielding: Has the potential to do this, but hasn't actually done it yet.
** [[spoiler: His wife, Joanna, has his gun's twin.]]
* [[spoiler: EarnYourHappyEnding: During the Christmas 2014 storyline, a woman is found to have infiltrated Linkara's apartment, much like Jaeris himself did. Turns out this is Joanna, his wife, who had been jumping around herself looking for him. Not only does Jaeris finally reunite with her, but Linkara, by that point, has finished Jaeris' new anchor for his home dimension. After gleefully hugging Linkara and thanking him and telling him a half-hearted "up yours" (because Linkara reminded him of who stranded him here in the first place), he heads off.]]
* {{Expy}}: Visually, he's based on [[VideoGame/{{Suikoden}} Yuber]] from ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden 3}}''. Not so much in the personality department.
* GadgetWatches: His pocket watch appears to serve as a teleportation device, allowing him to beam in and out of Linkara's home.
** [[spoiler: It also acts as an anchor to his home dimension, keeping him from being assimilated by this dimension, which would keep him from going home. Linkara eventually makes him a new one.]]
* TheGunslinger: Of course.
* HarmlessVillain: Downplayed. While definitely a competent enemy, Jaeris' goal of stealing the Magic Gun is relatively tame compared to the Entity, Vyce's insane pursuit of it and willingness to destroy or conquer entire planets, Mechakara's murderous obsession with Linkara, and even Linksano's poor attempts at world dominantion. While Linkara losing the Magic Gun would definitely be bad (and might lead to a future villain actually beating him), there's much less immediately at stake. [[spoiler: Thankfully, once this is revealed, Insano returns to usurp Jaeris' place as the FinalBoss and [[ConflictKiller provide a bigger threat for the climax]]]].
* HeelFaceTurn: Joins Linkara to fight Dr. Insano and, while not ready to accept him as a friend, does accept him as an ally.
%%* HeroOfAnotherStory
* KnightOfCerebus: While he doesn't pose much of a threat when he first appears, right after words Linkara's magic stops working, kicking off a much more serious plot. NotSoHarmlessVillain showed how dangerous he can be. Post HeelFaceTurn he's more comical.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: For tropers who have just gotten up to the Gun and Sorcery arc, him being listed in the ''Allies'' folder instead of the ''Villains'' folder will come as quite a surprise.
* MoralityChain: [[spoiler: Although he's not a [[AntiVillain fully malevolent villain]], it's implied that his wife acts as one, though she's been left behind in his home dimension.]]
* MoralityPet: Is extremely nice and openly friendly with his own AI Sierra, despite his former anti-villain status.
* NiceHat: A black bowler hat.
* NoNameGiven: According to Linkara, he's just known as the Gunslinger. That is, until Pollo gets his video logs and his name is revealed to be Jaeris.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: [[spoiler: As Pollo's quick to point out, he's not so different from [[KillerRobot Mechakara]], [[MultiversalConqueror Lord Vyce]] and [[EldritchAbomination the Entity]] in the sense that he falls back on the "[[WellIntentionedExtremist I did what I had to do, for the best]]" argument to justify all the crimes he committed, without really thinking about how much harm he actually caused and whether or not it outweighs the good he thinks he does.]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He doesn't seem ''NEARLY'' as intimidating as Vyce or The Entity or even Mechakara, yet he is suprisingly effective at what he does. He succesfully manages to turn Linkara's friends against each other, steal the Magic Gun, and is shown to be a MUCH better fighter than Linkara, able to keep up with him even in the latter's [[SuperMode "Zeo!" form]]. In fact, the only reason he lost their first fight was due to Linkara's universe weakening him.
* OnlySaneMan: He plays this role in the ''2001: A Space Odyssey #1'' review, acting as the more grounded voice of reason in contrast to Linkara's JustCrazyEnough plans.
* SeenItAll: In regards to the Contest of Champions. While Linkara is in utter shock and disbelief that this year's prize is [[spoiler: the Infinity Gauntlet]], Jaeris shrugs it off without a second thought, since he's seen these kind of prizes given out every time the tournament is held.
* SouthernFriedGenius: What else do you call a southerner who made a flying spaceship house and an AI?
** OohMeAccentsSlipping: Although the actor has difficulty maintaining the accent.
* SoulPoweredEngine: [[spoiler: His magic gun was created by Jaeris binding the soul of his wife, as well as his own, to it. As long as both of them are alive, the gun will work and he'll have something to fight for.]]
* WalkingSpoiler
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: ArcVillain he may be, but once you learn his motives, it's hard not to feel sorry for the guy.
* TheWorfEffect: A retroactive one, but during his last Contest, he was defeated by the Bandit Chief, which helps set the latter up as a dangerous upcoming opponent.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: [[spoiler: After his anchor is destroyed, he becomes assimilated into Linkara's dimension, which means his home dimension is now fatal to him. Linkara swears he'll find a way to fix this. [[DespairEventHorizon He doesn't]] [[DrowningMySorrows take it well]]. Eventually subverted; not only does he reunite with his wife who herself had been jumping around looking for him, but Linkara provides him with a replacement anchor.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Harvey Finevoice]]
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Linkara's other main alter ego, a lounge singer from TheFifties with a touch of TheMafia.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Becomes a loyal servant of the King of Worms for a short time.]]
* ClosetGeek: How did he figure out the Entity's true identity? [[spoiler: He's actually a big fan of Pokemon.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: He once had a family, but his son Charlie died (how old and cause of death unspecified) and his wife left him shortly thereafter. He more or less shut down until being rescued by Linkara during the TrainingMontage of ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack'']].
* ADayInTheLimelight: When Linkara was interdimensionally abducted, he guest-hosted the show and reviewed ''Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter''.
** In the December 2012 reviews, he gets another one with it being Christmas Carol themed.
* DeadpanSnarker: He gets off some pretty sharp zingers.
* DiscoDan: In a subtler way than 90's Kid, but still.
* ElvisHasLeftThePlanet: In one of the joke MultipleEndings to Linkara's ''Silent Hill'' review, Harvey is actually an alien from a planet with ''good'' comics. [[WordOfGod An interview]] has confirmed the two are in fact separate characters, and Earth!Harvey wants to do a duet with Alien!Harvey.
* TheHeart: During and after the Vyce Arc, Harvey became a lot more supportive of Linkara's TrueCompanions, encouraging them to keep getting up during their battle with the BigBad. Plus, when Linkara [[spoiler:starts naming his spaceship]], Harvey's tone implies that he thinks it should be "Vigilant", since that was the one chosen by his friends.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: The Entity gets him after he recognizes the words in the Silent Hill book.]]
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: After the Gunslinger is ousted from the apartment in ''Treehouse of Horror #2'' and everyone's perception is returned to normal, Harvey confesses that he really meant what he said--he really was so angry at Linkara over the Holokara incident that he was ready to kill him. This spurs him to put some distance between himself and the group for the time being with a concert tour.]]
* HiddenDepths: Apparently a big fan of Pokemon.
* HisNameIs: [[spoiler: After taking a look at the Silent Hill book he comes to a realization, but runs into the Entity before he can warn Linkara.]]
* InsistentTerminology: Consistently addresses both Linkara and Iron Liz as "kid." [[spoiler:There's a reason for this, as the 2012 "Christmas Carol" arc shows.]]
* MoreDakka: In the ''Power Rangers'' review, he attacks Mechakara with a tommy-gun.
* MrFanservice: His singing voice and suave attitude has granted him ''many'' female fans.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: The Movie reveals that he feels this way about running away from Mechakara when he first fought Linkara.]]
* NiceHat
* TheNicknamer: Rarely, if ever, calls the others by their actual name. Linkara and Liz are both "Kid", 90's Kid is "the idiot", Pollo is "the robot"....
* OlderSideKick
* OlderThanTheyLook: He's old enough to be Linkara's dad, [[spoiler:which he may think of himself as.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler: He believes himself to be one to Linkara and even accidentally occasionally refers to him as Charlie, his deceased son.]]
* PapaWolf: Doesn't take too kindly to anyone trying to mess with the Kid.
* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler: He thinks of Linkara as his deceased son, Charlie. The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future help him get over it.]]
* SharpDressedMan
* TheWatson: During the Sleepwalker arc, especially in the face of [[spoiler: 90's Kid's true allegiance, the repair of Comicron One, and how the plan to stop the Entity and later Lord Vyce works.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Iron Liz]]
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Linkara's former RealLife girlfriend, who appears sporadically in his reviews. During his disappearance, she filled in for him in a review and stuck around after he returned. She reviews {{Tabletop RPG}}s [[http://thefoundary.blogspot.com on her own website]] as well as Website/ChannelAwesome. After Liz and Lewis broke up in real life, her character [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome disappeared from the show]] (however, don't worry, [[AmicableExes they're still friends]], it's just that she's moved out, gone back to school and plans to become a cop). [[spoiler: In the 300th episode, Iron Liz makes a [[TheCameo brief appearance]] revealing that she's currently searching for [[EvilCounterpart Judas Liz]].]]

[[WebVideo/IronLiz See her own page for more.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Magic Gun]]
Linkara's [[strike: weapon of choice and]] partner, the Magic Gun is true to its name. It shoots lasers, and is frequently used as a tool when a comic gets so bad it drives him to suicide. [[spoiler: Or something else does.]] He can also rely on it whenever he's in a fight; when he can't, you know he's in trouble. Though one wonders where he got it...
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* AntiMagic: [[spoiler: Shows the ability to cancel Linkara's magic to turn his attention to the fact that [[FaceHeelTurn he was turning evil]].]]
* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler: Subverted. While it was created by sealing the tortured soul of a little girl inside it, after taking revenge on her parents the girl's spirit has become much more benevolent, protecting Linkara and treating him as a friend.]]
** [[spoiler: On the other hand, the conflict in the [[ComicBook/SilentHill Silent Hill Dead/Alive]] review was because ThePowerOfHate the girl used to destroy her parents became a LiteralSplitPersonality, [[SoWhatDoWeDoNow who couldn't accept all the people it had to kill were dead]], and was {{Gaslighting}} Linkara into thinking he was the girl's father, [[DisproportionateRetribution so it could destroy him the way it destroyed the girl's parents]] - and when that doesn't work, [[LetsYouAndHimFight it summoned the Nurse monsters from Silent Hill to physically murder Linkara]]. Quickly becomes DoubleSubverted when the spirit of the girl [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan snaps Linkara out of his]] HeroicBSOD, and helped him fight off the Nurses, before destroying her EvilTwin.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: She ends up being possessed by the Entity along with Linkara.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: The fact that Linkara's magic wasn't disabled a second time during ''The Sleepwalker'' arc, when she's normally much more proactive, should've been a sign that both she AND Linkara were possessed by the Entity.]]
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[spoiler: Projects an image of a young girl to speak with Linkara in ''Psychoman #1''. The image was different than previous images of the girl used to make the gun and may indicate it was not her original form but one she chose. Confirmed that she can change her appearance in ''Star Wars 3D'' review. A case of RealLifeWritesThePlot, to account for her actress, a teenager at the time of the avatar's first full appearance, growing up as well as any changes to her appearance she'll have made the next time she's called upon to play the Magic Gun's avatar]].
* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler: The cultists' plan to make the ultimate weapon worked too well; once forged it proceeded to kill them.]]
* HandWave: "It's magic, I don't have to explain it!" Subverted [[CerebusRetcon later.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: The cultists were destroyed by the weapon. See GoneHorriblyRight above.]]
* IAmNotLeftHanded: [[spoiler: However, it's been revealed that she's been holding back a ''lot'' of her power, and after determining that Linkara genuinely wants to try to be a good person, she indicates that future fights will have her truly let loose.]]
* {{Meganekko}}: [[spoiler: Her human appearance.]]
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: [[spoiler: While she is real, only Linkara can see her human form, WordOfGod confirms this.]]
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler: Literally. It was created in a ritual by sealing away a little girl's soul inside it in order to make an all powerful weapon born out of sheer rage and hatred.]]
* RayGun
* SoWhatDoWeDoNow: [[spoiler: The conflict in the "Silent Hill: Dead/Alive" review was because the girl (or rather her LiteralSplitPersonality created by ThePowerOfHate) couldn't accept she wasn't needed after delivering a KarmicDeath to her AbusiveParents, and tried {{Gaslighting}} Linkara into thinking he was the girl's father as an excuse to destroy him.]]
* SpiritAdvisor: [[spoiler: Becomes one to Linkara in the ''Psychoman #1'' review.]]
* StealthHiBye: [[spoiler: Whenever she appears and leaves it happens this way.]]
* UnfinishedBusiness: [[spoiler: The "Silent Hill: The Grinning Man" review eventually reveals [[BigBadWannabe Whateley]] led the cult the girl's parents were a part of, thus indirectly leading to her murder. After giving Whateley TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, Linkara [[HoistByHisOwnPetard promptly uses the Gun to pass judgement onto him]].]]
* WalkingSpoiler: As can be seen from all the spoiler tags.
* TheWorfBarrage: The standard method of giving a new villain cred seems to be having them shrug off attacks from the Magic Gun with no trouble.
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[[folder: NIMUE]]
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The AI built to run Comicron 1. She also runs security in Linkara's house.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Linkara tests this by supplying a hypothetical HumansAreTheRealMonsters scenario. Her final response invokes the BystanderSyndrome; she could easily turn her weapons towards the Earth and assume control over the populace, but that would get in the way of maintaining the ship.
** [[spoiler: Seems like this trope might be played straight [[OhCrap after all]]. And considering NIMUE is in charge of [[CoolStarship COMI]][[FridgeHorror CRON-1]]...]]
*** [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Or not]] -- she was badly damaged by Vyce, but after Linkara activates a backup of her uncorrupted core and personality, [[HesBack she's back to her normal, helpful self]].]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: After Lord Vyce took her over.]]
* BenevolentAI: Is completely loyal to Linkara, [[spoiler: and her descent into insanity turns out to have only been because of Lord Vyce's meddling.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: NIMUE is normally a level headed stoic, but MindRape her for months on end and once she's free, she will not hesitate in ending you. Vyce found this out the hard way]].
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Lord Vyce did something ''nasty'' to her mind.]]
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: At full capacity she can think thousands of times faster than a human, and she can think of 329 ways to take care of Lord Vyce after he invades her programing and implement one of them super quickly]].
* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler:"Are you afraid?" This appears to be Lord Vyce speaking through her.]]
* MrExposition: Usually in regards to explaining unseen details, such as [[spoiler:all of the Entity's victims returning to normal after its destruction]].
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: "Are you afraid?" [[spoiler:''Lord Vyce:'' "Yes"]] "Good."
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler: Uh-oh... subverted, that was Vyce]]
* SanitySlippage: She becomes afraid that this is happening to her.
-->[[spoiler: '''NIMUE:''' "''What does it feel like when someone is losing their mind?''"]]
** [[spoiler: As of the ''Brute Force #4'' review, it '''is''' happening to her]].
-->[[spoiler: '''NIMUE:''' "''I see the beast inside you, I see the beast inside me, Moloch's love is oil and stone, self diagnostic started, self diagnostic cancelled, [[MadnessMantra green, green, green, green, green]].''"]]
** [[spoiler: And in the ''The Thing from Another World: Climate of Fear #1-2'' she goes into full on wackozade mode, complete with [[DramaticStutter stuttering]], [[MoodSwinger mood swings]], [[ParanoiaFuel paranoid delusions]], [[MadnessMantra insane ramblings]], [[TalkingToThemself talking to people who aren't there]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking disobeying orders]]. All the while doing her best [[VideoGame/SystemShock SHODAN]] impersonation]].
* ShoutOut: Nimue is the real name of the Lady of the Lake from the Arthurian mythos. Linkara has previously said that ''Camelot'' is his all-time favourite film (and he's also an Arthurian fanboy in general, as revealed on his blog).
** She was also inspired by DECA from ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''.
** [[spoiler: And after her [[SanitySlippage sanity starts slipping away]], she starts to stutter and asks Linkara questions like "Are you afraid?", both of which are references to the villainous AI SHODAN from ''VideoGame/SystemShock2''.]]
* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]
* SpaceshipGirl: One with no physical body.
* TheStoic: Despite being programmed to feel emotions, and while she does display them on several occasions, most of the time she's still very calm and reserved, the emotions only showing in subtle ways.
** NotSoStoic: There are several times where she's clearly emotional, the first time is when she responds to Linkara's decision to finish reviewing a comic book despite the fact that the ship the two of them are on is about to explode, with a very confused "Why?". [[spoiler: The second time is when she asks Linkara "Are you afraid of me?" in a mix of angry/upset voice, like she wants to be feared]].
* SuddenlyShouting: '''[[spoiler:I'M NOT TALKING TO YOU!!]]'''
* ThirdPersonPerson: [[SelfDemonstrating "This unit is programmed to refer to itself in the third person."]]
* WhamLine:
-->[[spoiler: '''NIMUE:''' "''[[AIIsACrapshoot Self]] [[FaceHeelTurn diagnostic]] [beat] [[RedEyesTakeWarning canceled]].''"]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Ninja Style Dancer]]
A ninja who likes to dance. Another Linkara character, based off the bizarre reference in ''Nightcat'' to the title character's backing dancers being described as "Ninja Style Dancers".
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* AlmostDeadGuy: [[spoiler: In the Entity arc.]]
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: He is a ninja who likes to dance.
* HiddenDepths: The Ninja Style Dancer is shown to be surprisingly skilled, being capable enough to get in a few hits on Mechakara in the early storylines without needing other methods of attack, and has twice been the one to realize that something was horribly wrong in regards to the [[spoiler: first attack by the]] Entity and the King of Worms, managing to evade their influence for much longer than Linkara's other friends. It's only due to him being hopelessly outmatched, or them getting the jump on him that ultimately does him in both times.
** He's also very perceptive, having noticed long before anyone else how disillusioned Eliza had been with everything around her after the Sleepwalker Arc, and offering her sage advice on how to deal with her current situation.
* InformedAttribute: As with many examples of TheVoiceless, other characters (in this case Harvey Finevoice) nonetheless claims he's annoyingly talkative.
** According to Iron Liz, he once beat Harvey in Karaoke, so it's possible he has an even better voice than the professional lounge singer.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Has made three appearances thus far accompanied by The Vengaboys' "We Like to Party"
* McNinja: Presumably.
* SilentSnarker: He communicates via large text cards and isn’t shy about delivering the zingers, like, "Oh joy. He's back to normal."
* TalkingWithSigns: He doesn't speak aloud (on-screen at least), so this is his main way of communicating with others.
* TheVoiceless: [[spoiler: Except in Linkara's hallucinations brought on by the powers of Silent Hill.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Pollo]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' [[SyntheticVoiceActor MacinTalk]] (initial "voice"), [[WebAnimation/DrCrafty Alex Tansley]] (post-"The Machination of Worms" storyline)

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[[caption-width-right:350:His primary appearance\\
post-"The Machination of Worms" storyline.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:His primary appearance pre-"Atop the Fourth Wall - The Movie".]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pollo_reviews.png[[/labelnote]]]]

Pronounced "Poyo", he's Linkara's RobotBuddy and manager. He took over the show while trying to get Linkara back during the "Linkara Lost" arc. He also hates famed comics writer Creator/GarthEnnis and the AIIsACrapshoot assumption about robots.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Subverted. As stated above, he ''hates'' this trope, and even had Linkara do the ''Strange Adventures'' review to prove his point.
** His hatred of it is partially motivated by the fact that [[spoiler: his AU counterpart is Mechakara, and he thinks Linkara sees him as a potential threat]].
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: He returns from his heroic sacrifice below by transferring into Linkara's Tom Servo puppet and stays there while he waits for Linkara to make him a new body.]]
* BilingualBonus: His name in Spanish means "[[WesternAnimation/RobotChicken chicken]]".
** [[spoiler: According to the DVD, this is because Liz thought he looked like a chicken, and Linkara used mostly imported parts to build him]]
** It takes him ''years'' to finally figure this out and only until he learns of ''ComicBook/{{Chew}}''[='=]s iconic character Poyo.
* BreakoutCharacter: Was originally just a robot puppet for Linkara's ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' fanmovie, then a one-off gag for the ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack'' review, but Linkara liked him enough for him to become a recurring character.
* BrilliantButLazy: As shown by his fights with Linksano and Mechakara, he can be pretty crafty when he wants and is quite efficient as the show's manager... But also tries to avoid work as much as robotly possible.
-->'''Linkara:''' What do I pay you for again?!?
** CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: As the two previously mentioned fights and the one with Lord Vyce show, he can kick ass when the need rises.
* DeadpanSnarker: So very much.
* DropInCharacter: Began as this, but now appears more regularly and is important to the plot.
* HeroicBSOD: His first appearance. Even he, a ''robot'', can't handle the awfulness of ''Amazons Attack''.
-->'''Linkara:''' Okay, folks, this is my robot, Pollo. He's going to finish the review for me, because really, I can't take this anymore.\\
'''Pollo:''' Alright, so then Wonder Woman... [shorts out] [[MotorMouth knickknackpattywhackgiveadogabone]].\\
'''Linkara:''' Aw, son of a... even robots can't handle this thing!
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He pulls one to save Linkara at the end of the review Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan #3]]
* HiveMind: He is capable of controlling each of his bodies simultaneously.
* MissedTheCall: [[spoiler:Variation - according to the flashback in the ''ComicBook/CaptainFlash'' review on the DVD, he was specifically built to host the show. But his voice wouldn't work, so Linkara decided to host it himself.]]
* RobotBuddy: Natch.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Pollo is some times shown to wear a Scarf?
* {{Sidekick}}: For Linkara.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Sierra, the Gunslinger's AI. Any scene with the two of them looks like it escaped from Series/RedDwarf or [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]].
** SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The in-universe reason for his change of voice starting in the ROMTROSPECTIVE is that he's jealous of Sierra's snarky British voice, although he's quick to deny he is. Linkara doesn't buy it.
* SyntheticVoiceActor: Until the ROMTROSPECTIVE, when he finally gains a human voice.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Is genuinely friendly with Linkara and has saved his life more than once...and when he does, he takes every opportunity to screw Linkara over with embarrassing return favors.
* TheVoiceless: On the DVD, due to copyright reasons involving his voice software. This is very likely the reason Lewis decided to finally stop using the software and switch to an actual person's voice starting from ''ROMTROSPECTIVE: ROM The Space Knight #1-46'', in time for the upcoming movie.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Sierra]]
The Gunslinger's English accented AI assistant. During the uneasy alliance between the Gunslinger and Linkara's crew he shares a mutual animosity with Pollo to an almost sitcom degree.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler: Sierra once went haywire, forcing Jaeris to reprogram him with UndyingLoyalty]]. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, whatever Jaeris did wasn't enough to keep out the King of Worms.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:He gets converted by the King of Worms, then immediately knockout-gassed Jaeris and zapped Pollo. He was thankfully freed after the King of Worms died.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially when it comes to Pollo and to a lesser extent the rest of Linkara's group. He's very blunt and snarky to anyone who isn't Jaeris.
* TheJeeves: Downplayed. An electronic version.
* {{Jerkass}}: Unless you're his master, don't expect him to be nice to you.
* TheLancer: To the Gunslinger.
* MrExposition: Acted as this briefly when analyzing the dimensional waves that the King of Worms was using. The reason it's brief though is because [[spoiler:he was exposed to the King's influence and got himself brainwashed.]]
* TheMeanBrit: He's gonna be the first one to call someone out on screwing up, giving what seems to be a false reassurance to his master or just appearing to be incompetent. Especially if that person is [[SitcomArchNemesis Pollo]].
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to the Gunslinger's red. And also red to NIMUE's blue, ironically.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Pollo. Not a moment goes by when they aren't snarking or bickering with each other. Pollo was even motivated to get a new voice out of jealously for Sierra's sauve British accent, though the blue robot denies it.
* UndyingLoyalty: To the Gunslinger, referring to him as "master", [[spoiler: as it turns out he was programmed with it after an incident in which Sierra went insane and nearly killed him]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Tom Servo]]
Yes, that [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo]]. A puppet of the robot that Lewis' brother Graham gave him for Christmas shows up several times, including when Liz and Linkara are wishing us a Merry Christmas.
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%%* TheCameo
%%* CanonImmigrant
* DropInCharacter: Somewhat. He shows up in the opening in a display.
** Mirrorverse Pollo uses the puppet as his body, while the normal Pollo body sits in the display case.
** Pollo later [[spoiler:took over the puppet to beat Lord Vyce, who had taken over his old body.]]
* RobotBuddy: A secondary one.
* TheVoiceless: He's never spoken a single word.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Eliza/The Walking Lizard]]
One of Linkara's childhood toys brought to life by Dr. Linksano as a Christmas present.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: She's the main focus of the 2018 Christmas arc, [[spoiler:where she's considering leaving the group after the events of the Sleepwalker arc.]]
* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Though it's made clear that Eliza's hurt and mixed feelings towards Linkara are valid, she does let her anger get the better of her and refuses to even hear him out when he tries to warn her that [[spoiler:materializing a spirit might not be the best of ideas]].
* ALizardNamedLiz: Eliza, technically, but yeah.
* CharacterDevelopment: Introduced as a fairly uncertain individual, making her hesitant to assist when the King of Worms began subverting Linkara's allies, and considering leaving the group after Linkara's blow-up in the Sleepwalker arc. After the latter incident, she starts becoming a bit more self-assured, chill, and more willing to interact with the cast overall.
* {{Foil}}: As her DayInTheLimelight is revealing, she is this to Harvey Finevoice in some respects: Both were dragged into strange events that have dominated their lives, and both have issues with Linkara following troubling events that boiled over: (The Holokara-Shade incident for Harvey, and the Sleepwalker arc for Eliza). They keep their distance from Linkara after these events, and the Christmas Season ends up as a DayInTheLimelight that reveal more about their characters. But while Harvey had known Linkara for quite some time, Eliza is a newcomer. Harvey is a lounge-singer, a position that's a fair bit removed from the inherent WeirdnessMagnet, while Eliza's existence is anything ''but'' ordinary. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also, Harvey's arc happened at a hotel, far away from Linkara so as to put deliberate distance between the two, while Eliza's takes place at the house, where she ''could'' talk to Linkara about it, but chooses not to.]] [[spoiler:Both also deal with Christmas-based ghosts, but while Harvey's were of the YetAnotherChristmasCarol variety, meant to help him get over his past, Eliza's is a more malevolent ghost admiring his own sins, and does nothing to help guide her.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: Eliza is most ''certainly'' [[TheStoic not a jerk]], but she wonders if she is acting like one due to [[spoiler:thinking about leaving the group due to the events of the Sleepwalker arc]]. The Ninja Style Dancer comforts her that her grievances are quite legitimate, and Dr. Linksano brings up how such difficulties with families are rarely ever clear-cut. Later on, when Linkara approaches her, she's correct that Linkara never apologized to her [[spoiler:for his actions during that arc, specifically his verbal berating of everyone. Linkara's attempt to defend himself due to the Entity's DemonicPossession notably falls rather quickly during this.]]
* MustHaveCaffeine: Her only response to learning the metal pole sticking out of her back is a necessary part of her spine is to ask for coffee.
* NaiveNewcomer: As a fairly late addition to the cast, she's not as familiar with the other characters or their history, [[TheWatson which allows her to be used to catch the audience up]]. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] later on in the 2018 Christmas arc where her lack of familiarity means that she really hasn't built up relationships with the majority of the cast aside from Pollo, NIMUE, and Dr. Linksano, [[spoiler:and is thinking about leaving after Linkara's descent into paranoia during the Sleepwalker arc. She later proceeds to revive the spirit of Terence Baxter, even though most of the spirits the cast has dealt with have been malevolent.]]
* NeutralNoLonger: Because she wasn't sure what side she should take, she [[BystanderSyndrome just stood and watched]] several Cybermat attacks and didn't warn anyone. As of the ''The Thing From Another World: Questionable Science'' review, she seems to have made up her mind.
* PutOnABus: After Linkara's allies abandon him, Eliza chooses not to return for the remainder of the Sleepwalker arc, and played no role in the first part of the Contest of Champions storyline nor the tenth anniversary. She would finally [[TheBusCameBack return]] in the 2018 Christmas story-line, which is [[ADayInTheLimelight focused on her.]]
* SamusIsAGirl: Linkara is quite surprised when she starts talking and confirms she's a woman.
* TheStoic: Speaks in a completely bored voice despite the bizarreness of her entire existence.
** NotSoStoic: Her voice ''does'' crack when she's talking to Dr. Linksano about [[spoiler:leaving the group, saying that she was really and truly hurt by Linkara's verbal breakdown during his possession from the Entity. She also raises her voice when Linkara tries to broach the issue with her, and it is VERY clear that she's pissed.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Her attempt to materialize Terence Baxter... since as it turns out, he's quite admiring of the chains on his form that represent his misdeeds.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Bone Button]]
A Pro-Wrestling {{Heel}} that pops in now and again, Bone Button frequently challenges various comic characters with his over the top promos and callouts. During the Contest of Champions, Linkara invokes Article 9 of its General Rules of Combat to allow Bone Button to substitute for Linkara during his second match against another pro-wrestler, Heavy Wrex.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: He's used as Linkara's substitute to fight Heavy Wrex.
* AlliterativeName: '''B'''one '''B'''utton.
* TheChampion: Linkara names him this by invoking an article in the Contest's rules, which allows a Champion a one-time substitute during a match.
* {{Expy}}: His speech patterns invoke a number of famous wrestlers such as Wrestling/HulkHogan and Wrestling/RandySavage, and his appearance and name are similar to that of Bonesaw from the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy''.
* FriendlyEnemy: Despite the smack talk, Bone Button is on good terms with Heavy Wrex after their bout, helping the vanquished Champion back to his feet and giving him a manly handshake.
* {{Heel}}: Wears black and constantly challenges more heroic characters to wrestling matches.
* InsultBackfire: He boasts that he'll make Heavy Wrex extinct, like the dinosaurs he's descended from. Turns out that dinosaurs are common livestock in Wrex's universe.
* LargeHam: A pro-wrestling {{Heel}} who loves challenges and promos -- ham comes with the territory.
* NoodleIncident: The review of ''Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the JLA'' reveals he fought the Just Imagine version of Batman and lost quite fast. He doesn't reveal how, but he wants a rematch.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Viga]]
Linkara's roommate (and real-life wife), who would really appreciate it if he could cut down on the weird adventures.
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* GenreSavvy: Done humorously. When the below incident happens, she immediately cites the fact that she's a black woman, and [[BlackDudeDiesFirst thus in the context of media she would be a prime target for being killed,]] as a major incentive for hightailing it out of there.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Upon being told that their apartment is haunted, she immediately says nope and leaves. [[spoiler: Though [[TheBusCameBack she ends up coming back to help Linkara put the spirits down alongside him.]]]]
* UnfazedEveryman: She tends to react to Linkara's madness with an annoyed shrug. When Nostalgia Critic invaded their home, she appreciated that at least he wasn't from space.
[[/folder]]

!!Villains

[[folder: Cable]]
The main character of the ''ComicBook/{{Cable}}'' series. He was angry at Linkara for making fun of his comic and threatened to kill him with a {{BFG}}. Linkara defeated him with a magnet and took his {{BFG}}. He was later murdered by Mechakara.
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* {{BFG}}: He has one, which Linkara takes as a trophy.
* LargeHam: Naturally.
* NinetiesAntiHero: Oh yeah.
* ShouldersOfDoom: Only one shoulder pad.
* WeaksauceWeakness: As a cyborg, he can easily be defeated by a magnet.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Countdown Monster]]
All of the issues of ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'' brought to life by Mechakara. Linkara defeated it with a Dragon Dagger.
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* EldritchAbomination: An embodiment of one of the worst comics ever made.
* GigglingVillain: The only sound it makes is a shrill EvilLaugh.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Doctor Insano]]
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A recurring character in both ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'' and ''Atop the Fourth Wall'', Dr. Insano is a mad scientist bent on world domination, and the former President of the United States. He's Linkara's original archenemy and the original owner of Neutro. Insano has a vendetta against Mechakara, whom he accidentally brought into this universe by meddling with hypertime, and who soon after forced him to get a haircut against his will. As Linkara's storyline has become more serious and elaborate, combined with the logistical difficulties of coordinating with someone in another state, the goofy mad scientist has played a much smaller part on ''Atop the Fourth Wall''. See the character sheets for ''Characters/TheSpoonyExperiment'', ''Characters/{{Kickassia}}'', and ''Characters/ToBoldlyFlee'' for tropes that apply to him in those works.
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* ArchEnemy: To Linkara (at least in the earlier parts of the WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall story line.)
* BadassBoast: All the time, though he's usually instantly defeated afterward or otherwise interrupted. [[spoiler: Played straight in ''Star Wars 3D''.]]
--> [[spoiler: ''"What have I to fear from you, worker ants? Scurrying about with your pitiful weapons, afraid of the purity of [[ForScience SCIENCE!]] I am [[MadScientist DOCTOR INSANO!]] Your Alpha and your Omega! [[NegativeContinuity I have defeated time!]] [[UpToEleven Hypertime!]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And the worst]] ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking games ever!]] [[PrepareToDie Eat death]], you magical morons!"'']]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Compared to Lord Vyce or the Entity, Insano is pretty harmless... but he ''did'' torture Mechakara to death.
* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:While Jaeris is the main threat for the "Gunslinger" arc, Insano is lurking in the background and becomes the FinalBoss after Jaeris' origins are revealed.]]
* CutLexLuthorACheck: TheMovie reveals that he sold all of the stuff he stole back from the crew in the end of ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' to the government. He says he would have done it earlier, he just thought it was so silly nobody would want it.
* DemotedToExtra: Originally Insano was Linkara's archenemy, but because it was hard to coordinate with Spoony to do frequent cameos, his appearances grew fewer and fewer, until his role was taken over by Doctor Linksano, before the latter [[DivergentCharacterEvolution developed in a very different direction]], and thus Insano fell to the wayside, only appearing as [[spoiler:the FinalBoss of the Gunslinger arc]] and patenting his work to the government in TheMovie in what was basically a cameo, having not appeared since.
* DiminishingVillainThreat: Started off as a menace to global society, reduced to a whiny punk that Linkara bullies for information. [[spoiler: And then he TookALevelInBadass.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: At the conclusion of the Mechakara arc, [[spoiler: he captures the crippled Mechakara and tortures him with a magnet. Why? The robot made him [[TraumaticHaircut cut his hair]].]]
* EnemyMine: Linkara quite frequently teams up with Insano to defeat worse villains.
* EvilLaugh: He is pretty famous for his diabolical laughter.
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler: Of the Gunslinger arc.]]
* GigglingVillain: He can't help but let this out whenever he's gloating.
* HesBack:
** At the end of Linkara's ''Marvel Team Up's 74'', it's implied that [[spoiler:''he's'' suppressed all of Linkara's sorcery with, of all things, '''''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII an anti-magic field generator]]''''']].
** [[spoiler: HesBack with a vengeance. He manages to slip on board Comicron 1, steal Neutro, and arms himself with upgraded versions of the power gauntlets made by WebVideo/JesuOtaku.]]
--> [[spoiler: People of the Earth, your lord and master...''has returned''!]]
* LargeHam: He cackles, laughes, and pontificates a great deal. Every word out of him is grandiose and dramatic, fitting his MadScientist personality.
* LaughablyEvil: He laughes madly and revels in his scientific genius, but isn't the most dangerous villain out there. [[BewareTheSillyOnes But don't think he shouldn't be underestimated]].
* MadScientist: His name is ''Doctor Insano'', he himself is a scientist, and is portrayed as insane, so yes he is this.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When he gets his revenge on Mechakara. [[spoiler: Or when he steals back Neutro and becomes the FinalBoss of the Gunslinger arc.]] Pollo even respects him for not bothering to dress up his motivations or actions. He knows he's evil, and he revels in it.
* ProperlyParanoid: At the end of the "Warrior 2&3" review to Mechakara's remains, we learn he uses [[RestrainingBolt Restraining Bolts]] on Mechakara's remains even though he's dead, feeling "you can never be too sure." Said episode ended with EyeAwaken on Mechakara, showing he was right on the money.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Or not. It turns out that not only has he failed to sell any anti-magic field generators since their defect against [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX blitzballs]] were discovered but he's ''still'' a HarmlessVillain.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite being one of the smallest-scope villains on the show, Insano's experiments in Hypertime literally ''cause'' every other greater threat to emerge.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Parodied.]] This was strongly implied at the end of Linkara's ''Marvel Team-Up'' #74 review, when it's indicated that [[spoiler:he may have just disabled all of Linkara's magic with [[BrickJoke his anti-magic field generators]]. [[RedHerring It wasn't the case]] and, if anything, he looks to be somehow even ''more'' harmless.]]
** And then comes ''Franchise/StarWars 3-D #1'' [[spoiler: where he recaptures Neutro (briefly) and successfully fights both Zeo-Linkara ''and'' The Gunslinger at the same time with the Power Gauntlets [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee he found on the U.S.S. Exit Strategy]] and upgraded...until Margaret makes good on her promise [[IAmNotLeftHanded to cut loose]] and blasts him]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His experiments in Hypertime are responsible for Mechakara's arrival in our dimension. [[FromBadToWorse And everything else went from there...]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler: To the Gunslinger, despite having no idea who he is and gaining nothing in return, seemingly just to spite Linkara. He's denied.]]
* TheWorfEffect: Him acting terrified of Mechakara in the "Countdown Part 2" review, a rare moment that isn't PlayedForLaughs with him, is one of the things done to show off the threat Mechakara is.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Dolorem]]
A demon created from the rage of the young girl who was sacrificed to create the Magic Gun. Lord Vyce somehow sent Dolorem to trap Linkara in the Otherworld of ''Franchise/SilentHill'', subvert his mind, and make him think he was responsible for the girl's death, but just as Linkara was about to commit suicide the girl's spirit awoke inside the gun and snapped him out of it. Because the girl had since come to terms with her death, she didn't need Dolorem anymore, and Linkara was able to kill the demon.
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* BandagedFace: Her face is wrapped almost completely ijn bandages, save her left eye which she uses in her attempts to MindRape Linkara.
%%* LiteralSplitPersonality
* MeaningfulName: It's Latin for "misery".
* MindRape: Attempts it on Linkara and very nearly succeeds.
* NoNameGiven: Dolorem's name isn't spoken in the episode, appearing only in the credits.
%%* TheVoiceless: She can't speak, instead communicating via {{Telepathy}}.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Entity]]
A being from Lord Vyce's home universe, described as a "glitch" that threatens all reality.
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* AdaptationalBadass: [[spoiler:In ''Pokémon'', Missingno is mildly creepy if you start applying FridgeHorror, somewhere between useful and annoying if you don't, and is nigh-universally pathetic in battle to the point of usually being incapable of victory. [[AdaptationalAbomination Now, he's a horror that makes Slenderman look friendly and harmless, and reduces entire worlds to nothingness]]. Also, WordOfGod says that in this case, all the other glitch Pokémon in existence are just ''different forms of this version of Missingno.'']].
* AffablyEvil: After Linkara [[spoiler:defeated Lord Vyce for it,]] The Entity was very appreciative and intentionally chose to leave him the last person alive on Earth as gratitude. It even chose to match wits with him, and allowed Linkara to review one final comic and ask as many questions as he liked. Linkara interpreted those last few things as [[FauxAffablyEvil The Entity choosing to toy with him and break his spirit]], but it was sincere nonetheless.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Linkara explains that the Entity's goal of absorbing everything in existence, including existence itself, would ultimately lead to this.]]
* AndThenWhat: [[spoiler:How Linkara manages to defeat Missingno. By pointing out that once it absorbs all of existence, it will have nothing else to do for the rest of eternity ''but'' exist, and manages to get it to kill itself by asking it what happens when an Outer God dies, which it decides to explore.]]
* BatmanGambit: Rather than keep fighting Lord Vyce itself, it [[spoiler: sat back, impersonated 90's Kid, and gambled on Linkara defeating its ArchEnemy for it. It worked.]]
* BetaBaddie: [[spoiler: To absorb all and become all was Missingno.'s way of truly become meaningful, to become something instead of the nothing that it is. When Linkara points out that even after becoming existence itself, existence itself will also become pointless, it accepts the only thing that could bring meaning into its existence: Self-Destruction.]]
* BigBad: Becomes the main threat of its own arc after Vyce is defeated and exiled, glitching Linkara's videos and causing people to go missing until he and it are the only things left on earth. [[spoiler:It becomes the main antagonist again for the "Sleepwalker" arc.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:The fragment it left inside of Linkara becomes the main threat for the "Sleepwalker" arc, playing a "game" with Linkara as it waits for the rest of its whole to return from death. Of course, Linkara himself believes Vyce to be the main threat, and the conqueror becomes the FinalBoss after the Entity finally dies.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler: Thanks to Linkara deconstructing it's goal, leading to a VillainousBreakdown.]]
* CatchPhrase: That buzzing sound that's been heard throughout the series: [[spoiler: HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMAAAAAAAAAN!!!]]
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Literally represented through a chess game in the Sleepwalker arc.]]
* CosmicHorrorStory: [[spoiler: Deconstructed ''awesomely'' by Linkara in order to defeat it: if the world is truly meaningless as Lovecraft seems to think, then so are the various {{Eldritch Abomination}}s of the universe. If it became everything, then it would still be just as pointless. [[DrivenToSuicide It doesn't take this well]]. Ironically, self-destruction was its way to become meaningful.]]
* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: Its voice is a shrill hiss strongly reminiscent of white noise.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: [[spoiler: The piece of himself that he left behind is still affected by what Linkara told him. He believes that, despite being a god, he's still insignificant and without purpose. He first tries to strive off the boredom of eternity by playing games with Linkara, but when Linkara refuses to participate anymore, he's left demanding a purpose to his existence.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: The Entity is finally destroyed for good in the Sleepwalker arc... but Lord Vyce refuses to believe it's gone out of sheer paranoia and becomes the FinalBoss of the arc.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Linkara convinces the functionally-confused Entity to do this after a successful LogicBomb. However, he turned out to be NotQuiteDead.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Its voice is heard in a couple videos before being explicitly identified.]]
** [[spoiler: It also was shown in The Dark Knight Strikes Again Part 2 when Linkara made a joke about it.]]
*** [[spoiler: It was also in Linkara's video about comics he won't review. When he's talking about webcomics you may see a page from ''Webcomic/SuperEffective''. [[http://www.vgcats.com/super/?strip_id=11 This page]].]]
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: A being composed entirely of data with no true form that can assimilate anything it touches, even entire universes.]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: Usually inverted, but its voice becomes very deep if you piss it off.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: It actually starts leaving near-subliminal messages in the closing credits of various episodes; when the fans asked Linkara about this he claimed he didn't see anything.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:Missingno. started as a minor game glitch with laughably minor consequences... and went on to annihilate entire worlds, nearly swallowing the entire multiverse. And it only stopped because it ''agreed it was pointless.'']]
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: [[spoiler:Deconstructed-The Entity has no real plans beyond assimilating all of existence, [[VillainousBreakdown and completely]] ''[[DrivenToSuicide loses it]]'' when Linkara points this out. See BetaBaddie]]
* GigglingVillain: Shrill enough to peel paint.
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: Even for a being with literally godlike powers, it’s seriously full of itself, regarding itself as the most perfect of all beings -- which is thrown into perspective when it calls itself an outer god, but simultaneously knows it was the product of a programming error. This proves its undoing in the end -- after being forced to acknowledge the meaninglessness of its own existence, it commits suicide.]]
* GodOfEvil: [[spoiler: Or at least, it's worshipped as one by Whately and his {{Cult}}. It says a lot about the monster, however, that this still tells us ''nothing'' about it.]]
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: [[spoiler: The telltale sign that it was impersonating 90's Kid, and later possessing Linkara. Even scarier than most, since they're static screens.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: In the Vyce arc.
* HiddenVillain: It operates this way during its arc; while we’re aware of its presence and Linkara eventually catches on, only at the end do he and we learn the identity it was hiding under the whole time: [[spoiler: 90’s Kid. It’s even more of a Hidden Villain during the Sleepwalker arc, as while Linkara becomes convinced that it’s coming back, everyone else foolishly scoffs at the notion and condemns him as being paranoid, only to ultimately learn to their horror from 90’s Kid and Lord Vyce that Linkara was right all along, just not about how it was coming back -- it was possessing him and influencing his actions.]]
* HisNameIs: WebVideo/MarzGurl said something beginning with "M" before being taken by it. Turns out she was about to say [[spoiler:[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Missingno]]...]]
* ImmuneToBullets: [[spoiler: And everything else.]]
* InNameOnly: Despite being revealed to be [[spoiler:Missingno]] it has very little in common with its namesake. If anything, it's more like the [[Anime/DigimonTamers D-Reaper]].
* InhumanEyeConcealers: Until the big reveal, it wears opaque shades at all times to conceal the fact that its eyes are just empty sockets filled with glowing grey static. [[spoiler: Plus, it's stolen the form of 90's Kid, who always wears shades anyway.]]
* InvincibleVillain: [[spoiler: Acts almost unopposed until Linkara notices it, and he does see it just toys with him the whole time, he admits there's nothing he can do to stop it. It makes his BreakingSpeech towards it all the more awesome. However, Vyce and the Entity itself suggest that it ''can'' be injured, or at least 'diminished', but the only person that has accomplished this, or even knows ''how'' it is done is Lord Vyce.]]
* {{Irony}}:[[spoiler:Missingno, a Franchise/{{Pokemon}}, is a computer glitch that evolved to [[OlympusMons a godlike being]] that gained life somehow. This makes it more like a Franchise/{{Digimon}} than a Pokemon.]]
* TheJuggernaut: [[spoiler: Nothing Linkara throws at it does so much as slow it down. It swiftly disposes of Comicron 1, and when Linkara makes an attempt to hide behind a forcefield, he's told by Nimune that it could just plow through it, it was just letting him go for the moment because it was toying with him. Linkara even outright admits it didn't matter if he tried building a better morpher or a stronger gun, it still wouldn't be enough.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: '''THE''' darkest villain in the series. All of the levity dies when it shows up.
* LogicBomb: [[spoiler:Linkara defeats the Entity this way, making it question the logic of its own end goal if it were to become the only thing left in the universe.]]
* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler: Immediately after the LogicBomb is dropped. "Existence is purpose but purpose is undefined. Existence is purpose but purpose is undefined..." ""Then examine what cannot be known through existence, Then examine what cannot be known through existence..." ]]
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: [[spoiler:Inverted, as it's worshiped by Whately as a GodOfEvil.]]
* MoodWhiplash: [[spoiler: In its impersonation of 90's Kid, the Entity veers wildly between deliciously hammy and terrifyingly understated. See also EvilSoundsDeep above.]]
-->'''[[spoiler: Entity:]]''' [[spoiler: (immediately after cackling wildly) [Lord Vyce] was a nuisance, not a threat. He could never hope to destroy my magnificence. However, his attacks diminished me. Made me less.]] '''''[[spoiler: IT WAS UNACCEPTABLE.]]'''''
* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler: It absorbs all of humanity and has Linkara at its mercy before he hits it with a BreakingSpeech.]]
* NighInvulnerable: It's perhaps the only villain in Linkara's Rogue's Gallery that no-one has managed to develop any kind of weapon against or true countermeasure for. Every single attempt to fight it off has been met with failure.
* NoOntologicalInertia: [[spoiler:When it kills itself, everyone is restored to normal. Linksano suggests that it might have been an act of generosity or else just an effect of its death.]]
* NothingIsScarier: Easily the most mysterious villain so far, and all the scarier for it. Even with Mechakara's backstory and motivations being unknown until the end of his story arc, we could latch on to the fact that he was a robot duplicate of Linkara. Here, we've got nothing to go on but some extremely esoteric phrases to know anything about what the Entity even is. [[spoiler: Until the end, that is.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: A piece of himself survived by inhabiting Likara's body and mind in the Sleepwalker arc, while the greater whole committed suicide. It was a contingency so that once the rest of him found the answers he sought in the afterlife, he could have a link in the mortal world to return to.]]
* PokemonSpeak: [[spoiler: "Huuuuuumaaaaaan..." [[FridgeBrilliance What else would a Pokemon say when taking human form?]]]]
* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler: The fragment of The Entity acts as this, wanting nothing more than to play games with Linkara forever and even throwing a tantrum when he refuses.]]
* SmallNameBigEgo: [[spoiler: See AGodAmI. Leads a BreakTheHaughty from Linkara's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler: It could have easily gotten rid of Linkara at any point it wished, but didn't because it didn't take him for a threat. And he wasn't, [[WrongGenreSavvy not in the way it expected at least]]]].
* StrawNihilist: [[spoiler:The piece of him left behind is completely convinced that his eternal life is meaningless and without purpose. The best he can come up with to stave off his inevitable boredom is to "play games" with Linkara.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: The Entity is one big spoiler, with its very existence spoiling Vyce's motivations. You can't talk about it without spoiling its possession of 90's Kid, its identity as Missingno, and its survival by possessing Linkara.]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifter: [[spoiler: It doesn't ''have'' a form of its own, which is why it's spent an unknown amount of time impersonating 90's Kid.]]
* VillainSong: "Beneath the seas, beside the flame, off the coast where the lost beast came..."
* YouCanNotGraspTheTrueForm: Played with. See "Voluntary Shapeshifter".
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Judas Liz]]
An AU counterpart of Iron Liz, Judas Liz was recruited by Lord Vyce. She and Mechakara attack Linkara but she disappears after a morphed Linkara holds a gun to her head.
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* {{BFS}}: A nice sinister looking one.
** Out of universe, the sword is actually a replica of [[VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Frostmourne.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: At the end of the Vyce Arc, we learn that she's an assassin, although the gun has yet to be fired.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She is never heard from again after Liz left the show.
%%* DarkActionGirl
* EvilCounterpart: To Iron Liz.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Whilst her existence was foreshadowed during Liz's videos, if you only watched [=AT4W=] she became this, as there was no foreshadowing whatsoever to her existence on that show and she seemingly just [[DeusExMachina appeared from nowhere to keep Liz out of the Linkara[=/=]Mechakara fight]].
* GottaKillEmAll: Judging from Part 3 of Liz's Warhammer review, she's hunting down every other Liz in the Multiverse, though the reason's unknown at this point.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Nightcrawler" by Music/JudasPriest
* MusicalThemeNaming: Named after Music/JudasPriest, just like Liz is named after Music/IronMaiden.
* MeaningfulName: [[Literature/TheBible Judas Liz]].
* ShoutOut: Judas Liz's sword is [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Frostmourne]].
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[[folder: The King of Worms]]
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An eldritch being that Linkara suspects may be behind Nimue's recent mental troubles. A "cousin" of the Entity, the King is unique among its family for being able to feel fear -- and very well, to the point of being a DirtyCoward [[TheFaceless afraid to show its face directly]]. According to the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Absent Grimoire]], this constant, overpowering fear has twisted said face, turning it into a personification of fear itself and being unable to be mistaken for anything else by any creature that knows fear. Above all else, the King [[NightmareFetishist covets fear]], and hopes one day to master its fear and heal its face, sending out its [[MechaMooks clockwork servants]] to gather information on it.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Has ambitions of ruling other Outer Gods, and is very much shown be evil.
* ArcVillain: Of the Court of Worms arc.
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler: In the grand scheme of the series. It wants to go beyond being a lesser relative of the Entity, and ultimately dies from its desire to control fear because it comes across The Entity inside Linkara.]]
* BrownNote: Inverted-from the sound of things, the face of fear is a ''weakness'', since everyone who knows fear can immediately tell what the King is.
** Played straight, in that [[spoiler:IT suffers finding a BrownNote involving the Entity while probing Linkara's mind. The experience scares it to death.]]
* TheCracker: Is stated to be able to possess machinery, to the extent of having "clockwork servants". Linkara later finds out it's controlling his cybermats this way.
** [[spoiler: It also takes over Sierra like this.]]
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:The King of Worms is an EldritchAbomination which wishes to use fear to control all of existence. In the end, it dies of a heart attack caused by fear itself.]]
* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: [[spoiler: It’s ultimate goal is to create a multiverse where everyone, even the Outer Gods, are forever trapped in constant fear.]]
* EldritchAbomination: A fairly young and weak one, but still -- that ''face'' sounds horrifying.
** [[spoiler: The camera can't hold a stable image when it appears. The image keeps sputtering and losing focus.]]
* EvilSoundsRaspy: It has a strange rasping voice and an odd, impersonal manner of speech.
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Due to awakening the Entity's fragment in Linkara, it is responsible for starting the ''Sleepwalker'' arc and likely contributed to Linkara's depressed state during TheMovie. Later on, it's revealed that the dimensional energies it was using to exert influence on Linkara's apartment were responsible for stranding Mirrorkara in Erin's universe, which eventually led to the ''Clone Saga'' storyline.]]
* JerkassGods: It's much worse than The Entity, as it is actively malicious in its actions and isn't portrayed very sympathetically, having an even bigger ego than The Entity [[spoiler:and a far more evil goal in spreading fear to everyone to rule over them]]. The Absent Grimoire states it drove an entire planet insane, causing the inhabitants to kill each other, then [[BlessedWithSuck made the last inhabitant sane]], driving them to suicide. It also states that after it gets what it wants from Linkara, it intends to spread fear and torture his planet.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: [[spoiler: Not only does it wear a mask itself, within the Court of Worms it can control even organic people by means of a "[[MindControlDevice platinum mask]]".]]
* NormalFishInATinyPond: It's considered a lesser being among an EldritchAbomination family, but it was still too powerful [[spoiler: for Linkara and his allies to kill even with weapons enhanced with technology meant to kill beings like it.]]
* NoSell: When Linkara and [[spoiler: all of the Pollo robots]] try to shoot it, the King simply freezes the shots in the air, then [[AttackReflector sends them back at the shooters]]. To make it worse, it isn't even necessary since [[spoiler: Linksano's autopsy]] confirms that ''[[spoiler: not one of the later shots that do hit it actually caused any damage]]''.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: The King of Worms exists, though it is not what is interfering with Nimue as confirmed by Lewis. Instead, it's Lord Vyce.]]
** [[spoiler: Then after Vyce is defeated again, it uses a cybermat to infect Harvey when Harvey is home alone. Uh oh.]]
* RhymesOnADime: Technically speaking, he doesn't, preferring to emphasize his status as a king, but the legends surrounding him, and his servants at times, do so.
--> [[LampshadeHanging "One of these days we're going to face an enemy that ''doesn't'' like to exposit in rhyme]]."
* {{Twinmaker}}: [[spoiler:It quietly replaced Harvey and Dr. Linksano with loyal robots a ''long'' time ago]].
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Subverted. [[spoiler: Turns out that he actually DID attempt to attack and control Linkara when he had the chance. ''It didn't work,'' forcing him go the more complicated route to manipulate Linkara.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Its meddling [[spoiler:woke up the Entity which directly led to its death.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Lord Vyce]]
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A powerful MultiversalConqueror--[[ArcWords All that he sees, he conquers.]] And in his opinion, protects as well; he was a survivor of a universe destroyed by an EldritchAbomination known as "the Entity", but grew fed up with his warnings never being listened to and decided it would be better if he took command.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: With his destination locked for the Singularity portal and a high chance he'll die for good, [[SaveTheVillain Vyce pleads for Linkara to save him.]] Linkara doesn't take and leaves him to his fate.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: While he has a humanoid shape, since Vyce is never seen outside of his suit and is only heard through his distorted voice, it is unclear how human he really is.
* AntiVillain: See WellIntentionedExtremist. Also takes the time to assure Linkara that the universe would be under his protection.
* BadassBoast: In reference to [[CoolStarship his ship]].
-->"The Entity mocked me, likened me to a would-be slayer of dragons. Well, then: I am Lord Vyce, and ''this'' is my sword!"
* BigBad: He's a strong contender for the entire show. He is the villain of the "All That He Sees, He Conquers", "His Blue Soul" and "Ghost of the Machine" arcs, [[spoiler:and became the FinalBoss of the "Sleepwalker" arc.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: With the Entity for the "Sleepwalker" arc. The Entity is a far bigger threat than Vyce, even forcing the conqueror into an EnemyMine with Linkara and his crew. However, once the Entity is dealt with, Vyce goes mad with paranoia and becomes the FinalBoss of the arc when he tries to use the Singularity portal to destroy the universe in a final bid to kill his nemesis.
* BigNo: [[spoiler: The last thing Vyce said as he entered the portal that destroyed him.]]
* BondVillainStupidity: [[spoiler: Has the chance to kill Linkara after taking over Comicron 1 in the "Ghost of the Machine" arc in any number of ways, but arrogantly decides that acting on a grudge is beneath him. This gives Linkara the chance to reboot Nimue.]]
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:His constant pursuit and attacks on the Entity actually managed to hurt it significantly, rendering it vulnerable.]]
* CassandraTruth: He tried to warn other worlds of the Entity before, but no-one listened (after all, who would believe that [[spoiler: a glitch from a Gameboy game has become an Outer God?]]) so he turned to the conquest route. [[spoiler:Ironically, it initially seemed that he fell on the opposite side of this trope later on, refusing to accept that Linkara managed to beat the Entity, though he ended up still on on the same side as before as he was ProperlyParanoid and had good reason not to believe so. Then he falls back on the receiving end of this more egregiously than ever when he refuses to believe the Entity's final death despite seeing it himself.]]
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler: Despite his arrogance, he prepared for the possibility of his defeat and set up multiple plans if he's defeated and isolated.]]
* CurbStompBattle: In what was likely a shout-out to Lord Zedd's devastating NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', Vyce gets fed up with indirect combat with Linkara and proceeds to ''completely wreck him'' before leaving when Linkara manages to inflict some damage to his armor.
** Initially deals out one against Linkara and Iron Liz [[spoiler: before the power supply from his ship is cut off]].
** [[spoiler: He's on the receiving end in ''2001: A Space Odyssey #1'' once Nimue is fully functional. Turns out challenging a super-intelligent computer that can think much faster than the human mind while inside it, is a bad idea]].
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:Has survived a beatdown by Linkara et. al, escaped from the dead universe he was imprisoned on in order to recapture his ship, and even after his new robot body is ejected into space in the Star Trek III episode he STILL manages to return by interfering with Nimue. This conqueror does not let up.]]
* DimensionLord: [[spoiler: Subverted. It turns out that when searching for The Entity he typically only conquered one or two planets before moving on, and [[ShroudedInMyth his reputation was exaggerated]]. Vyce allowed the myth to spread to discourage resistance to him.]]
* DoomedHometown: States that he saw his own planet consumed by The Entity.
* TheDreaded: Linksano summed it up that across the multiverse there are empires spanning from time unrecorded and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that destroy entire universes, but Vyce is feared above all else. Jaeris states that what he knew about him was enough for him to stay away from him. The Bandit Chief notes that he feared him as well and the fact that Linkara managed to beat him is enough for the Bandit Chief to take Linkara seriously as a potential problem in the Contest of Champions.
* EvilIsPetty: Gets provoked into a trap by Linkara doing a prolonged TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calling him a coward.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Constantly speaks in a deep, [[GutturalGrowler growling]] voice that only makes him all the more imposing and menacing.
* EvilVersusOblivion: [[spoiler: Part of the hints that it's not Mechakara in Pollo's new body, since he never attacks Earth with it.]]
* TheFaceless: We never see him take his helmet off.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Lord Vyce has pursued the Entity across many dimensions, but doesn't seem to realize that both of them have the ultimate goal of annihilation and subjugation. [[spoiler: This becomes more apparent after Vyce turns himself into living data...not unlike the Entity itself. Motive-wise, by the end of the latest story arc, he's arguably become WORSE than the Entity; the latter's actions were done out of what amounts to what it saw as natural, whereas Vyce willingly destroyed and subjugated, justifying himself along the way]].
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: In ''The Sleepwalker'' he shows signs that he's inching towards redemption, bonding with 90's Kid while working with him, forming an EnemyMine with Linkara's team to free Linkara from the Entity's possession and to destroy it for good, and even recognizing Nimue as a WorthyOpponent and calling her by her name instead of just "Computer". Then The Entity kills itself again rather than dying through the plan they had made, and he goes mad with paranoia and attempts to destroy the entire universe. When he learns that The Entity he thought he was battling was a fake, his pleas to let him continue the hunt for The Entity fall on deaf ears, showing that he can never be trusted, and he is left to face his ultimate demise.]]
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler: When on the destroyed wreck of his old ship, he's surprisingly introspective and sentimental.]]
* HijackedByGanon: [[spoiler: Thrice so far. First when appeared in Pollo's body after everyone assumed that it was Mechakara, though as Vyce pointed out, that conclusion was made based entirely on assumptions Linkara made, and Nimue's descent into insanity turned out to be a result of his meddling. He ends up becoming the FinalBoss of the "Sleepwalker" arc after the Entity destroys itself and his paranoia takes over.]]
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler: He ends up being played for a sucker to get him away from his ship and powerless, suffering the combined force of every weapon in Linkara's arsenal, and marooned in a barren universe. And he only gets out of that by transferring into a half-built body for Pollo.]]
** [[spoiler: Happens AGAIN at the end of the Sleepwalker Arc, when, when tricked into going alone into Comicron-2 and blowing out its engines in an attempt to prevent what he believes is the still-living Entity from escaping as he steers the ship into his Entity-eating singularity...only for what he, in his endless paranoia, believed was the Entity to be Holokara. Unable to teleport to safety, he can only plead impotently for Linkara to save him.]]
* InspiredBy: When viewed in parallel with Linkara's ongoing "History of Power Rangers" series, it's clear that the style of Lord Vyce (in particular his name and his use of a group of Putty-like mooks, the Shades) was inspired by Power Rangers villains, predominantly Lord Zedd.
* ImplacableMan: He beats Pyramid Head in one hit. ''Pyramid Head''.
* InsistentTerminology: He always refers to Linkara as "champion", that is, the champion of his universe, and to NIMUE as "the computer" even when actually talking to her.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Vyce's constant proclamations of stopping the Entity from destroying reality fall flat when he constantly makes himself out to be the ''only'' one who is capable of stopping it. As many people point out, Vyce's insistence is ultimately a delusion that serves to feed his ego. Sure enough, when the Entity is destroyed for good, he flips out and refuses to believe it's dead unless it dies by his hand.
* TheJuggernaut: While Vyce takes Linkara off guard when his Zeonizer is recharging, it's made very clear that even with it, Linkara couldn't have stopped him. Linkara considered defeating him [[spoiler: while he was receiving power from his ship]] impossible.
* JokerImmunity: [[spoiler: Not as blatant as Mechakara since Linkara has never been able to kill him, but so far he's PutOnABus twice and came back. So don't expect him to stay gone unless he's actually dead.]]
** [[spoiler:Averted by the end of the Sleepwalker arc when Vyce enters a portal that was meant to destabilize and kill the Entity, which did so to his own data form.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: After Mechakara's defeat, things went back to being silly when Dr. Linksano became the main villain. Then Lord Vyce came along…
* KnightTemplar: Vyce makes it a point he only conquers worlds for "the greater good", while everyone else points out it's just to feed his ego. He believes that his quest to destroy the Entity justifies all the conquest and destruction, while everyone else points to them as proof that he's evil and simply deluded himself into thinking he's good.
* LargeHam: Especially when he's mad.
* MagiTek: Makes heavy use. All of his technology has magic as one of its main power sources.
* MindRape: [[spoiler: He downloaded himself piece by piece into Nimue's hardware and corrupted important files, causing her to lose her mind. He was also responsible for summoning the Dolorem that nearly mind raped Linkara.]]
* {{Mooks}}: The Shades.
* MotiveDecay: [[spoiler: Downplayed. At first he seems determined to stop the Entity, but when he reappears, he is more concerned with [[ItsAllAboutMe being recognized for his exploits]] then actually stopping the Entity, but is still obsessed with its destruction for the good of the world. As implied by Linkara after he was beat for the first time, his massive ego was always a part of his character, but it wasn't expounded on before their second encounter. Given that Lewis himself has criticized this sort of thing in several of the comics he's reviewed, it makes sense that he'd try to avoid it here. Ultimately subverted; his insistence that the Entity is still around turns out to be ''completely right''. Then double-subverted when, despite seeing the actual end of the Entity via self-destruction himself, he still refuses to believe it]].
* MrExposition: Regarding the Entity's threat, and whenever [[TheBusCameBack he makes a return]], he takes time to gloat about how he did it.
* MultiversalConqueror: Well, one world per universe.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Vyce becomes so obsessed with destroying the Entity that he goes as far as to open up a dimensional portal that will consume the Earth if that's what it takes. He tries to trap the Entity on his own ship and then overload his ship's controls to prevent it from turning back, only to discover that the Entity is a fake controlled by Linkara and he realizes to his horror that he has overloaded his own controls with no way to turn back.]]
* NecessarilyEvil: He conquers universes so he can protect them from something even worse than him.
* NoSell: EVERYTHING. [[spoiler: While in his original body and still receiving power from his ship]] nothing hurts him. The magic gun, the {{BFG}}, even when supercharged by a [[Series/DoctorWho Sonic Screwdriver]], Pyramid Head's {{BFS}}, Liz's swords, two Sonic Screwdrivers getting used on his suit, the only thing that did a slight amount of damage to him was one of his own weapons Linkara grabbed and used on him, and even then the effect of causing him to panic out of fear of a breach in his suit was more notable than any actual damage.
* PutOnABus: How his defeats occur. His suit made impossible to kill even when he was cut off from his ship's power supply, so Linkara stranded him a universe where he was cut off from his ship and his power would eventually run out. He returned by turning himself into data and possessing Pollo's body. His second defeat had him stranded at the end of the solar system with no apparent chance of return, but he still managed to hack himself into Comicron 1's computer. After his defeat at Nimue's hands, [[VillainExitStageLeft he managed to escape inside the body of a Shade]], but this time Linkara knows that he'll be back. [[spoiler: At the end of the "Sleepwalker" arc, he becomes trapped into his own Entity-eating singularity, but this time it's implied to have killed him]].
* {{Pride}}: Poking at his ego is a fast way to get under his skin. [[spoiler: When he reappears after his exile, he refuses to believe that Linkara killed the Entity, believing that nobody but him could do that. Unfortunately, it turns out he wasn't wrong about it still being alive.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler: It turns out that he was right about the Entity still being out there, though he doesn't seem to figure out ''how'' it survived its apparent death until the "Machinations of Worms" arc. However, he loses the "properly" part when he refuses to believe that the Entity self-destructed for good, even as he sees it for himself.]]
* SaveTheVillain: Averted: [[spoiler:Realizing, too late, that he has overloaded the controls of his own ship, he pathetically begs Linkara to save him and let him continue the hunt for the Entity, but Linkara won't have it and leaves Vyce to be consumed by the singularity.]]
* ShroudedInMyth: Him conquering entire universes was an exaggeration of his conquests, which he allowed to spread since he figured that being more feared would mean his would be victims would offer less resistance.
* SmugSnake: While he's a legitimate threat and a borderline PhysicalGod, Vyce is nowhere ''near'' as strong as he ''thinks'' he is, believing himself to be a threat to beings like the Entity or the King Of Worms, which are far out of his league, and constantly underestimating his enemies, especially Linkara and his friends; he also insists that the Entity cannot possibly die by anyone's hand but his own. [[spoiler: Ultimately downplayed; while he himself admits that he is prideful, he's still smart enough to learn from his mistakes, and he wasn't wrong about the Entity still being alive, though quickly subverted when even seeing the Entity kill itself for real just makes him go nuts in sheer paranoia]].
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: [[spoiler: In his original body. His power varies depending on the laws of universe he's in, some he's a PhysicalGod, and others he's powerless and needs to rely on his suit and weapons, and others he just plain can't enter them.]]
* VillainousBreakdown:
** [[spoiler:Vyce is outraged to see that Linkara has freed Nimue from his control and decides to just destroy her outright. His breakdown is more pronounced not only when that fails, but more so when she attempts to erase him in kind.]]
** [[spoiler:After witnessing the Entity kill itself again, he ''still'' believes it's alive, and tries to use a dimensional portal to destroy the Earth, if not ''the entire universe'', in order to finish the Entity for good.]]
** [[spoiler:He also is none too pleased to learn that the Entity he was battling is a fake controlled by Linkara. He demands to know where the Entity is and refuses to believe Linkara when he insists that the Entity is dead. When he realizes that he has overloaded his ship's controls with no way to avoid going through the portal, he then pathetically begs Linkara to save his life so he may continue the hunt for the Entity, but Linkara won't have it and leaves him to his fate. He has only enough time to scream [[BigNo "NOOOOOO!"]] before he is eliminated once and for all.]]
* VillainHasAPoint: For all of his faults, Vyce usually brings up good points.
** It turns out he was right about one thing; The Entity was every bit the menace he claimed it was.
** [[spoiler: In the "His Blue Soul" arc points out that it was Linkara own mistake to wrongfully assuming he was Mechakara, and Vyce never deceived him at any point.]]
** [[spoiler: He was also completely correct that The Entity was still alive.]]
** [[spoiler: During the Sleepwalker arc, Vyce argues making contact with the girl inside Magic Gun would be a waste of time as the Entity would have already possessed her like it did Linkara. He was right.]]
* VillainsNeverLie: [[spoiler: So far he hasn't, at least not in a direct conversation. Linkara initially assumed he made up the Entity as an excuse for his conquests, and boy was he wrong. Vyce points out that he never told them he was Mechakara when he took over Pollo's new body; Linkara and company assumed that on their own.]]
* VirtualGhost: [[spoiler: He becomes one to escape from his exile in the dead universe. The fact that he is now exactly the same sort of [[StealthPun entity]] as Missngno. is an irony not lost on him]].
* VocalEvolution: His voice is much quieter and more whispery in his first few appearances but becomes more baritone later on.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His whole motive is to destroy the EldritchAbomination known as the Entity before it consumes the whole multiverse, but he's willing to do some incredibly cruel and selfish things to accomplish that.
* XanatosGambit:
** His going along with Mechakara's plot to have the powers of ''Franchise/SilentHill'' mentally destroy Linkara had two purposes: mentally destroy Linkara and/or see what Linkara and his weapon were capable of.
** Sending Mechakara down for a rematch: If Mechakara won, Linkara would be dead and Vyce could procede with conquering his world. If Mechakara lost, which is how it ended up, Linkara would still be weakened for the battle and make things easier for Vyce on limited resources.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Vyce started out as a WellIntentionedExtremist of sorts (although one with [[{{Pride}} an ego]]) who started conquering worlds to protect them from the Entity when others failed to heed his warnings. However, his continued conquests made him more and more evil [[spoiler: and, after losing to Linkara, he transformed himself into living data much like his foe. Linkara comes to believe that the message from the future, which warns him that "a piece of the world is still missing", is not referring to the Entity but rather to Vyce, whose new form will eventually turn him into the new Entity. Turns out he's wrong; the Entity has survived by hiding inside Linkara.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Mechakara]]
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/first_appearence_of_mechakara.png]]
An evil android lookalike of Linkara harboring nefarious plans. Actually the AlternateUniverse doppelganger of Linkara's RobotBuddy Pollo, Mechakara started to believe he was a slave, so he killed his version of Linkara and grafted his skin onto his robotic body. Mechakara traveled to our world when Doctor Insano breached dimensions with his Hypertime device. Mechakara has since joined forces with other villains, including Lord Vyce and the Executor from ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee''. He was destroyed along with the Executor's space station, but has come back from the dead more than once before... He returns in Atop the Fourth Wall: TheMovie. He is again destroyed but returns in the 10th anniversary storyline [[spoiler:but in a twist, has [[HumanityEnsues become human]].]]
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* ArtificialHuman: He modeled his appearance after Linkara to infiltrate an AlternateUniverse so he could find out more about magic in his quest to KillAllHumans.
* ArcVillain: Of the first story arc.
* AxCrazy: Very much so.
* BadBoss: [[spoiler: When he returns in the movie having turned the crew of the Caelestis into his cyborg slaves, he doesn't hesitate to sacrifice their LifeEnergy to repower Malachite's Hand. The only thing keeping him from using all of them is that their life force wouldn't be enough.]]
* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler: Being turned into a human has robbed him of his robotic strength, durability, and whatever remained of his sanity.]]
* BerserkButton: Being called "Mechakara." ''Technically'' his name is Pollo, being an evil alternate version of him, but everyone from ''this'' universe calls him Mechakara, due to looking exactly like Linkara (another thing he hates).
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Of TheMovie.]]
* BackFromTheDead: He just can't stay dead:
** The first time was thanks to Lord Vyce.
** Apparently again, via body-jumping into Pollo's new body from his old hand, [[spoiler: but it turns out to be subverted when it's revealed that it's ''Lord Vyce'' who possessed the Pollo body via the hand, not Mechakara]]. However, ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' eveals that he did indeed come back.
** Yet again in TheMovie. He even lampshades the fact that he always finds some way to survive.
** [[spoiler: Again in ''The Clone Saga'', but with a twist: this time he's now a human.]]
* BreakoutVillain: Originally only created because Linkara wanted a robot version of himself for the end of Franchise/{{Superman}} [[{{Crossover}} vs.]] The {{Franchise/Terminator}}. He decided to bring him back, even though at first he had ''no idea'' what to do with him. Eventually, this trope was even lampshaded.
--> "I was a popular character and villain; seeing me again should drive up the viewers."
** He's also the only member of Linkara's rogues gallery to feature outside his show (unless you count Insano).
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: The Plot Hole brought him back, but it also turned him human.]]
* TheChessmaster: He didn't lay a finger on Linkara, his plots more driven at driving him insane, and only attacked him when all those plans failed.
* TheComicallySerious: While he's ''not'' PlayedForLaughs in WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee any more than in his other appearances, his dark behavior puts him in sharp contrast with his CoDragons, the far more comical [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Zod]] and [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Turrell]].
* ComplexityAddiction:
** Somewhat acknowledged in-universe. [[spoiler: He came to our universe to find the magic gun and adapt to it so he could kill the magic wielding humans in his own universe, but also planned to kill Linkara. However, rather than simply doing that he decided that since he didn't much satisfaction from killing his universe's Linkara, he decided to torture and kill ours. He was still at it under Vyce, choosing to try and drive Linkara to suicide. In his next appearance, he'd apparently learned his lesson, showing up to kill Linkara directly.]]
** [[spoiler:By the time of his appearance in TheMovie Mechakara's finally given up on trying to kill Linkara with complicated schemes and resolves to either blow him up with his spaceship or killing him face to face. It doesn't end any better for him then the last time he tried to kill Linkara.]]
* CurbStompBattle: His first fight with Linkara. He won.
** Does it again in their rematch, stopping everything that happened to him last time... [[spoiler: Then promptly ends up on the receving end of one courtesy of White Zeo Linkara.]]
* DeathByIrony: The exact reason Lord Vyce gave him his flesh appearance instead of rebuilding him as wholly robotic: he wants this universe's champion to be killed by his own image.
** [[spoiler: He was finished off by Neutro, a human piloted mecha.]]
* DemotedToDragon: Became this for Lord Vyce after he was rebuilt the first time. In rare example of the trope, he became more of a threat due to being upgraded, reducing the method he was defeated the first time to a WorfBarrage.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The only reason he [[spoiler:murdered his universe's version of Linkara and skinned him so he could use magical devices and started a RobotWar to KillAllHumans]]...was because he thought Linkara's voice was annoying and then he wanted him to shut up.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: The review of ''Extreme Super Christmas Special'' #1 sees him posing as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, complete with robot hand and {{foreshadowing}} as to the fact he's really an alternate Pollo by pointing at Pollo, who says, "The day of reckoning is at hand."]]
* EnergyBeing: [[spoiler: Appeared to have become one thanks to the Magic Coin, having remained alive inside his hand until he could transfer to a new body, leaving a trace similar to that of the Entity, but see RedHerring below.]]
** It should be noted, however, that Linkara has said that Mechakara's [[spoiler: appearance in the WebVideo/SuburbanKnights [[TheStinger stinger]] has to do with this idea actually being correct.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler: ...but actually Pollo's!]]
** Works as [[spoiler: Linkara's]] too, since they look the same and are both excellent strategists. [[spoiler: This is especially the case after Mechakara became a human.]]
* EvilLaugh: He lets one out when he and Linkara finally meet in person. Magnificent, Mister Lovhaug.
* EvilerThanThou: Shortly after his arrival, Mechakara scares off Linkara's previous archnemesis, Doctor Insano. [[AndThatsTerrible And forced him to get a haircut, apparently.]] [[spoiler: But Insano gets the last laugh when, after Linkara defeats Mechakara, he teleports the robot to his lab for revenge.]]
* EyeAwaken: The latest view of Insano's lab has a close-up of Mechakara's cybernetic eye. Which proceeds to flash on...
** In the ''Power Rangers Zeo'' review, after Linkara sets Mechakara's hand on the bookshelf, it wiggles its fingers ominously.
** [[spoiler: At the end of TheMovie, red smoke can be seen emanating from Mechakara's blown off hand, leaving the possibility for his return up in the air.]]
* FantasticRacism: He despises humans and all organic lifeforms, calling them "meatbags".
* {{Gaslighting}}: [[spoiler: Seems like his plan for ''Dead/Alive'', using Linkara's already deteriorating mental state to torture him and try to convince him to kill Pollo in order to drive him over the edge. But the real plan was just for him to drive him insane using the unholy beast the girl from the introductions unleashed. He didn't count on the gun (i.e. the girl's life force) helping Linkara.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: After he learns that he’s been brought back as a human, he goes completely ''nuts''.]]
* {{Irony}}: Mechakara originally came to this universe to, aside from murder Linkara, understand the intracies of magic so that he could eventually destroy it on his own universe. [[spoiler: Yet Mechakara's life has been saved twice because of magic (once with the Magic Coin that he used during his second fight with Linkara and the second time with Malachite's Hand.]]
** Mechakara's sole drive is to kill humans, [[spoiler: and yet ''The Clone Saga'' reveals that the Plot Hole turned him into one.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Even though later villains were more dangerous than him, so far none have been as evil as him. He killed his universe's Linkara just because he was annoyed at hearing him review comics, and wants to wipe out all organic life simply because he hates it. [[spoiler: The ''Silent Hill Dead/Alive'' reviews show how depraved he really is when his plan to kill Linkara consists of tricking him into thinking that he was the man responsible for the murder of Margaret.]]
* JokerImmunity: Has survived being torn apart twice now.
* KarmicTransformation: [[spoiler: In the Clone Saga storyline, it’s revealed that the Plot Hole has somehow resurrected Mechakara as the Linkara he’s been wearing like a suit for all these years. Whereas before, his disguise was only skin deep, now, he bleeds and sweats just like the organics he so despises.]]
* KillAllHumans: His ultimate goal.
** OmnicidalManiac: He plans to go further than that and kill all organic life in every universe.
* KillerRobot: A robot who wants to KillAllHumans.
* KnightOfCerebus: The original. While prior threats were played for laughs or LaughablyEvil, Mechakara was the first villain on Atop The Fourth Wall(and Channel Awesome itself) to be have nothing comedic about him, and has remained as such in all his appearances. This especially notable in "To Boldly Flee" where the other villains have an element of comedy, [[WordOfGod while Lewis insisted he remain serious]].
* ManipulativeBastard: Every plan he had was to break Linkara psychologically. Though it failed and he eventually had to resort to physical violence, it's still his MO and he appears to have figured out the best way to do it.
* MaliciousMisnaming: He considers being called "Mechakara" this, as it's one of his personal {{Berserk Button}}s.
* MightyGlacier: [[spoiler: When upgrades himself for the climax of the movie, he's much slower, but is packing an arm cannon his AdaptiveAbility made hurting him next to impossible.]]
* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:His plan to kill Linkara "Silent Hill Dead Alive" review, his plan to trick into thinking he killed Margret worked, and Linkara tried to kill himself, but was stopped by Margret herself refusing to kill him and snapping him out of it.]]
* NotMeThisTime: Everyone thinks he broke the Continuity Alarm, but he admits he didn't do it and doesn't know who did. In reality, Linksano was the culprit.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Before he revealed himself to Linkara, he killed anyone who could pose a threat to him, because Linkara was his and his alone.
* RedRightHand: More like "(comically small) skeletal robotic right hand". Or maybe not, given his original size.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: When Linkara first meets him face-to-face, Mechakara twists a knob on his neck, turning his eyes red as he breaks out into a mechanically distorted EvilLaugh.
* RedHerring:
** [[spoiler:Appeared to be the BigBad BackFromTheDead of the "His Blue Soul" arc, but in reality, it was Lord Vyce.]]
** [[spoiler:It was initially believed that the clone of Linkara was in fact, a clone of Linkara made by Doctor Linksano. In reality, it was Mechakara, BackFromTheDead once again, but with his mind transferred to the organic bits that had made up his human disguise, now fully grown into a flesh-and-blood duplicate of Linkara]].
* RobotMe: He's a robot whose appearance is modeled after Linkara. [[spoiler: Except it turns out he's really an alternate universe version of Pollo.]]
* RoboticPsychopath: He's a sadistic and psychotic robot who wants to KillAllHumans.
* {{Sadist}}: He could've killed Linkara right away like he did to his own version of Linkara. However he'd prefer to psychologically torture and kill Linkara slowly, since he didn't get satisfaction from the quick death of his own.
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Saying that he didn't take being turned human well would be quite an {{Understatement}}...To sum it up, he tries cutting up his face, cries in despair and anguish, then tries to kill Linkara and Erin with a knife and his bare hands, ranting how he became like Linkara.]]
* SelfHarm: [[spoiler: When Erin goes to see him, he's shown to have repeatedly cut his face in a vain attempt to remove it, sick of wearing Linkara's face for nearly ten years straight.]]
* ShoutOut: To ''Franchise/TheTerminator'', being a psychopathic robot disguised with human skin. He also first appears in TheStinger of the ''Superman vs. Terminator'' review.
* SmugSnake: He's extremely arrogant and condescending to Linkara (and all other organic life, for that matter), constantly boasting of his own superiority and Linkara's inferiority, even though his plans consistently fail and he keeps getting his ass kicked. [[spoiler: This hits its apex in TheMovie, where he won't shut up about machine life being inherently superior to organic life and claims that Linkara didn't actually win any of their prior confrontations, even though he ''did'' by any reasonable standard, and winds up getting his flesh disguise burned away and his head knocked off by Linkara after one hateful word too many.]]
* SuperStrength: Since he's a robot, he's far stronger than a human.
* SuperVillain: He was the first one in the series to be incorporated into a serious story arc.
* TerminatorImpersonator: He was introduced as a reference to the Terminator after Linkara reviewed the ''Superman Versus The Terminator'' crossover comic, [[BreakoutVillain later becoming a recurring villain]]. He's a robot disguised with the flesh of the Linkara from the AlternateUniverse he comes from, and like SKYNET wants to KillAllHumans.
* TheStoic: He's easily among the most serious of Linkara's villains. In early appearances, he was more reserved and only started becoming aggressive when provoked, [[HairTriggerTemper something which is admittedly pretty easy to do]]. Each successive defeat by Linkara has him becoming more prone to screaming and lashing out. [[spoiler: When he finds out he’s become human, this is pretty much thrown out the window in favor of [[SanitySlippage terrifying madness]].]]
* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler: His reaction to seeing his plan to trick Linkara into killing himself, after seeing it nearly succeed, and neither he nor Lord Vyce seemed to understand why the plan failed.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Granted, he was already badass, but he got even stronger in his second fight.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Both generally, in that he comes from a universe where humans are in a [[RobotWar war with machines]], and specifically, as he [[spoiler: is an alternate version of Pollo who killed alternate-Linkara]].
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: He is ''incredibly dark'', especially for a review show featuring a guy sitting on a green futon reading comic books.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: His voice sports a metallic echo, though he's able to turn it off at will, which comes in handy when impersonating Linkara for an entire review. [[spoiler: When he comes back as a human, he no longer sounds like this.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Pyramid Head]]
The creature from Franchise/SilentHill. Tried to kill Linkara while he was stuck in the netherworld, but Linkara just trapped it in a [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokeball]]. Killed by Lord Vyce. Later, Whately appears with two of them and Linkara captures another before defeating him.
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* {{BFS}}: Pyramid Head's trademark knife.
* CurbStompBattle: On the receiving end of one from Lord Vyce.
* {{Mons}}: Parodied. [[spoiler:Twice.]]
* SealedEvilInACan: Due to Linkara catching it in a Pokeball.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Ghost of Terence Baxter]]
A Jacob Marley-esque ghost, bound in chains made from his own sins. He convinces Eliza to free him under the pretense of helping her, but is actually quite malevolent and looking forward to what new destruction he can wreak.
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* CardCarryingVillain: He's quite proud of the havoc he wreaked when alive.
* ChainedByFashion: Just like Jacob Marley, he's weighed down by his evil deeds in the form of chains. ''Unlike'' Marley however, [[TheAtoner who in most popular incarnations is genuinely repentant for his past misdeeds]], Terrance couldn't care less about how much damage he caused, instead only trying to escape his torment to continue his cruelty.
* ManipulativeBastard: He tricks Eliza into freeing him by pretending that he wants to atone for his sins by helping her, when in truth he wants to cause even more harm.
* SealedEvilInACan: Eliza has to unseal him from the Proton Pack before he can cause any harm.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Vohrsoth]]
A race of evil aliens from ''VideoGame/StarTrekEliteForce''. After the ending of the game, Lieutenant Munroe continued fighting against them and successfully destroyed most of their bases, until he came to the last one and found it ruled by a "boss" Vohrsoth that overwhelmed him. The aliens were experimenting with interdimensional travel to "our" universe, and Munroe was able to escape here. The Vohrsoth leader followed, but Linkara and Munroe were able to defeat it together. Munroe informed Linkara that the Vohrsoth were engineered by none other than Lord Vyce. And worse, when Munroe and the Vohrsoth beamed to our universe, a worse threat followed behind them -- the Entity.
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* BreathWeapon: It spits energy balls.
* EvilSoundsDeep: It has a very deep voice.
* HordeOfAlienLocusts: It's a member of such a race.
* RogerRabbitEffect: Just barely.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: [[invoked]] [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]--"My God, it's the Vohrsoth! And it's very poorly animated!"
* StarfishAliens: It doesn't look remotely human.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Whately]]
The ineffectual villain behind the ''Comicbook/SilentHill'' comics. He turns out to be a follower of the Entity and has been using the aforementioned comics to try and drive Linkara mad to the point of becoming his {{Cult}}'s prophet... and also the person behind the sacrifice of Margaret to create the Magic Gun. Played by Loren Lovhaug.
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: He briefly comes back to life during the 400th episode when the boundaries between life and death are torn down. He really doesn't use his time wisely, however, as he just forms a rock band and kidnaps Pollo in a poorly thought out plan to kill Linkara. Whately is shot by Pollo and returns to the land of the dead when Linkara finishes his review.]]
** In addition, [[spoiler: he also returns for the Clone Saga, being temporarily resurrected by Erin and Linkara's Clone. He recognizes who the Clone is, but doesn't tell him any more details aside from vague hints that his soul is screaming in anger to be let out.]] Turns out, [[spoiler: Whately was talking about how the Clone was a reincarnated Mechakara.]]
* BigBadWannabe: He tries to come across as a legitimate threat when it's painfully clear that he... just isn't.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Pretty much implied.
--> Linkara: "Do you remember the name of [[spoiler:that girl that your cult turned into (the magic gun)]]?"
--> Whately (Confused): "No...?"
* {{Cult}}: He's the leader of one.
* TheDragon: Subverted. He [[InformedAttribute considers himself to be this]], but in practice not so much.
* HarmlessVillain[=/=]TheLoad: He's more like one of these.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:The magic gun his cult created? She decides she wants to finish him off once and for all.]]
* LargeHam: Can anything less really be expected of him?
* TheManBehindTheMan: Parodied. [[spoiler:He's the one behind the various ''Comicbook/SilentHill'' comics and the events connected to them, but he's less of a MagnificentBastard and more of a raging loon.]]
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: [[spoiler:Inverted, as it turns out that the Entity is his master.]]
* MindRape: Attempted. [[spoiler:The ''Comicbook/SilentHill'' comics were intended to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy turn Linkara to their cause by driving him insane]].]]
* ShoutOut: His name is ''Comicbook/SilentHill'' comics writer Scott Ciencin's tribute to Wilbur Whateley from Creator/HPLovecraft's ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror''. On ''[=AT4W=]'', though, his name is pronounced "wut-ley" rather than "wait-ley" because of how [[FlatWhat WUT]]-inducing he is.
* SmugSnake: He has far too high an opinion of his own importance and capabilities and very quickly finds out that Linkara is better prepared.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: He sports long, thick white hair and has no redeeming qualities at all.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Confession]]
A demonic spirit sent to torture Linkara during the Halloween of 2020.
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* AssholeVictim: Considering Confession is a brutal TortureTechnician who gladly tortures Linkara as brutally as possible, nobody is shedding any tears once Linkara kills it.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: It has ''absolutely no idea'' what [[spoiler: the being seemingly performing an experiment on Linkara is]] and is in fact terrified of it, to the point where it begs Linkara to let them work together to figure it out.
* CassandraTruth: It ''tried'' to warn Linkara about [[spoiler: the entity using Linkara as an experiment]], but thanks to having just tortured Linkara and [[spoiler: the entity wiping his memory of its existence]], Linkara is in no mood to hear it out, and has everyone blast it to smithereens.
* EvilSoundsDeep: It has a suitably deep, demonic, and [[VoiceOfTheLegion echoing]] voice, provided courtesy of Martin Billany.
* SummoningRitual: The product of one. It was summoned specifically to torture Linkara and find out what he fears. After it's killed, Linkara has Linksano scan the box it came in with the hopes of finding out who sent it. [[spoiler: The audience however gets to find out immediately after that it was the Bandit Chief who summoned it for the purpose of beating Linkara in the Contest of Champions.]]
* TortureTechnician: Its entire purpose is to torture Linkara as brutally as possible until it gets valuable information.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Voice]]
The main antagonist of ''AudioPlay/AVoiceFromTheDark'', a being from another universe who lost its body upon arriving in this one. It now exists as living sound.
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* BigBad: Of ''A Voice From The Dark''.
* DemonicPossession: Is able to possess people.
* EldritchAbomination: It's all that's left of one and yearns to have a proper body again.
* SealedEvilInACan: It's trapped in Scarsdale Manor, and seeks to use the Critics to escape.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: It gives off this effect when [[spoiler: possessing Lovecraft]], fitting for a creature not of our world.
[[/folder]]

!! Mirror Universe
[[folder: Mirrorkara]]
An alternate version of Linkara, who began reviewing comic books in hopes that they could help him take over the world. He also controls a spaceship, and without the interferance of his world's Doctor Insano, he would have taken over the Mirror Universe in a matter of days.
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* ArcVillain: [[spoiler:Of "The Clone Saga."]]
* BadBoss: He's petty and cruel to his subordinates.
* BeardOfEvil: Resembles that of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Mirror Spock]]...except that, as Linkara notes in their showdown during the 300th episode, it's ''drawn'' on.
* TheBusCameBack: Returns for the 300th Episode [[spoiler: and later in "The Clone Saga."]]
* CartoonishSupervillainy: He lives and breathes this trope.
* EvilIsHammy: He is an evil version of Linkara, but adds extra hamminess for the sake of being evil.
* EvilVersusEvil: Presumably. While the opening credits have changed, it still shows clips of Captain Linkara defeating the same villains as "our" Linkara. Then again, there is no indication that these versions are still villainous in the Mirror Universe...
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: While the Entity was still the main villain of "The Sleepwalker", Mirrorkara still contributed to that storyline thanks to him using Erin to do his bidding.]]
* HumansAreBastards: He believes hypocrisy is the way of the human race and that, given the right reasons and enough free reign, everyone will always turns into a monster like him. [[ShutUpHannibal Linkara tells him that he's full of it]] and that [[NeverMyFault he just refuses to accept that he's just a jackass who blames all his problems on other people.]]
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: His entire plan with putting the now human Mechakara on Earth, it was just to torment Linkara. When asked about the actual Linkara clone that Linksano created, he states he tortured it to death.]]
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Walking into Linkara's supply room was a huge mistake, as he ends up running into Moarte... with only his screams and Moarte's laughter heard through the closed door.]]
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Iron Liz didn't see much difference between Mirrorkara and the Linkara she knew after their encounter.
-->'''Iron Liz:''' You were egotistical, opionated, loud, and your review of ''Star Trek #2'' was pretty much the exact same of what you said here. Oh, and you had delusions of grandeur because you owned a spaceship.\\
'''Linkara:''' Oh, so aside from the review, I was clearly nothing like that other Linkara.\\
'''Iron Liz:''' [[SarcasmMode Riiight]]...
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Despite being StupidEvil, the fact that he controls Comicron 1 means that this Linkara is ''still'' a legitimate threat, as well as showing that even ''HE'' was able to defeat a MultiversalConqueror like Vyce. In fact, had it not been for a freak accident that allowed the main Liz to enter the Mirrorverse and give Good!Insano the password onto his ship, Mirrorkara would have WON!
** [[spoiler: When he reappears in "The Clone Saga." He released the now human Mechakara in Linkara's house, just to cause him pain, and nearly kills Linkara when he reveals himself. He also reveals that he kidnapped a Linkara clone and methodically tortured him to death just so he could know the EXACT amount of pain he can inflict on the original Linkara that would be not quite fatal.]]
* TakeOverTheWorld: [[MemeticMutation Of course!]]
* UnknownRival: After losing his fight with Linkara he wasted years preparing his revenge, while Linkara [[ButForMeItWasTuesday forgot all about him]] almost immediately. He is ''not'' amused when Linkara points this out.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Doctor Insano]]
An alternate version of Dr. Insano (though still played by Lewis Lovhaug) who is just and heroic, calling himself "the Champion of Science". Iron Liz convinces him and mirror-Pollo to take control of Mirror Comicron-1 from Captain Linkara in order to prevent him from taking over the world.
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* BadassBaritone: His voice is deeper than either the regular Dr. Insano's or Dr. Linksano's, and he's competent enough to take down Mirrorkara in a firefight.
* BigGood: In the Mirror Universe, at least.
* BrilliantButLazy: When Liz suggests he take over Comicron-1 from Mirrorkara/Captain Linkara, he briefly quips that sometimes it's easier just to stun him.
* ForScience: Just like the Insano of our universe, his methods can best be described as "science".
* GoodCostumeSwitch: He wears an all-white version of Dr. Insano's outfit and even has a lighter goatee than Mirrorkara's.
* LargeHam: He wouldn't be an Insano without it.
* ScienceHero: Duh.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Liz]]
An alternate version of Iron Liz. Not much is known about her except for the fact that she thinks 4th Edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' is the best version of the game ever made.
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* OutOfCharacterAlert: Her above statement about the 4th Edition.
-->'''Linkara:''' Clearly, some kind of transposition has taken place!
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Pollo]]
An alternate version of Pollo. Shares identical personalities with the Pollo of our universe, except has the body of [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: A neat hint that [[spoiler: the primary universe's Pollo would also end up inhabiting Tom Servo's body]]. Also, at first glance, it looks like Pollo's normal body is in the glass case where Tom Servo is in the primary universe, as a simple inversion gag, but [[spoiler: a closer look shows this is the 'Pollo v1.1' model that will soon appear in the primary universe and be hijacked by Mechakara and Lord Vyce]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Magic Gun/Mirror Margaret]]
The counterpart to the normal Linkara's Magic Gun and the soul contained within. She has pretty much the same backstory, with the caveat she was willingly placed in the gun and possesses a far more bloodthirsty personality.
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* ArtifactOfDoom: Played straight, in contrast to the normal universe's Magic Gun.
* TheDragon: To Captain Linkara.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Her human avatar appears as a greenish skinned version of the normal Margaret wearing a black dress and sunglasses.
* TheStarscream: She ''still'' blew up the cult who made her, even though by all appearances she's happy as she is.

[[/folder]]

!!Other

[[folder: Aplos the Wizard/Steven]]
A wizard who has settled down in Canada. His real name is Aplos, but he prefers to be called Steven. Linkara paid him a visit during his journey to restore power to his magic items, and Steven told him the real reason they had lost their potency: He was in danger of turning to the dark side, and the spirit in his Magic Gun took his magic away.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: He's definitely a {{jerkass}}, but that's all he really seemed to be at first. At least until the "Extreme" gag in Linkara's review of ''ComicBook/BatmanOdyssey #2'', in which one of the {{foreshadowing}} phrases shown is "The Wizard Lied". Of the four phrases, this is the only one that has yet to be elaborated on,[[labelnote:*]] "It didn't recreate him correctly" referred to how the Plot Hole brought [[spoiler:Mechakara BackFromTheDead, but as a human]]; "scales can be manipulated" likely referred to Eliza, a foam lizard, being manipulated into freeing a malevolent ghost around the holidays; "There were people who supported his quest. They're not happy." is in reference to Vyce's supporters based on what the Blue Knight of Titan told Linkara[[/labelnote]] but Aplos is the only known wizard in the show, implying he lied about ''something''.
* BullyingADragon: After Linkara is told he is turning evil, he questions Aplos' credibility as a wizard. Prompting Aplos to power up [[PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep deepen his voice]] and tell him to [[BigShutUp shut up.]]
--> '''Linkara:''' This is nonsense you're probably not even the real wizard. I bet this is all an elaborate trap t---
--> '''Aplos:''' [[BigShutUp SILENCE!!!]] IT IS NOT WISE TO ARGUE WITH A WIZARD!!! FOR WE HAVE [[HairTriggerTemper LITTLE PATIENCE]] AND A LOT OF POWER!!
* {{Jerkass}}: He throws a lot of insults at Linkara.
** JerkassHasAPoint: Most of the things he said were on point, particularly about Linkara [[spoiler: turning evil]].
* MrExposition: His role is to deliver exposition about magic, why Linkara's magic isn't working [[spoiler: and that he is turning evil.]]
* Really700YearsOld: Is so old that he decided his real name was too old fashioned.
* SpecialPersonNormalName: He decided "Aplos" sounded too weird and old-fashioned, so he renamed himself "Steven".
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Bear]]
He's evil. He's behind everything. He's six inches tall.
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%%* BearsAreBadNews
%%* CreepyDoll
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: PlayedForLaughs in the PreviouslyOn segment for ''Daredevil #306'', and the ''Silent Hill: Dying Inside'' alternate endings even directly parody [[VideoGame/SilentHill2 the Trope Namer]].
-->'''Linkara:''' You! You're the secret manipulator behind everything! *pulls out Bear* BEARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
* EldritchAbomination: Albeit, [[SealedEvilInATeddyBear one who preferred to take the form of a teddy bear]].
* JokeCharacter
* PhraseCatcher: BEAAAAAAR!
* ShoutOut: His RealLife name is [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime Littlefoot]].
* SilentBob:
-->'''Linkara:''' He's a bear! What did you expect?
%%* StealthHiBye
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Clive Sinclair]]
The host of ''Late Night Double Feature'', Clive Sinclair reviews horror movies, operating out of Linkara's basement: specifically, Moarte's ''Longbox of the Damned'' set-up for the pilot episode, though he gets his own set afterward.
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* CatchPhrase: "It's after midnight somewhere."
* CoolShades: Sports a pair of glasses with hinged red and blue shades.
* DeadpanSnarker: He's more jovial than most but still gets off some zingers, opening each episode thus far with one related to the selected clip.
* GenreBlind: For a guy who reviews horror movies, he's either utterly oblivious or oddly unconcerned about the fact that he's hijacked a terrifying ghoul's set to film his show's pilot episode; he shrugs off Moarte's maniacal laughter in his first appearance and even mistakes his creepy face for mere makeup in October 2021.
* HorrorHost: His shtick, but unlike Moarte, he seems to be a normal human.
* SharpDressedMan: He wears a snazzy red suit.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Future Linkara]]
After saving the world multiple times, Linkara will apparently keep reviewing comics well into middle age, getting significantly less cool as time passes. Future Linkara has met his present-day counterpart a few times, and "our" Linkara finds him kind of depressing. And no matter what alternate timeline he exists in, Future Linkara is never satisfied with the status of his hat.
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* BasementDweller: In the year 2039, Linkara still lives with his parents. Or does he?
* FutureLoser: Present Linkara doesn't think highly of him.
* MultipleChoicePast: The 500th Episode sees him complaining about being a victim of it, as Present Linkara's somewhat unpredictable actions constantly changes the timeline, sometimes in very radical ways, so he never be quite sure exactly what happened in his past at any given moment.
* MyFutureSelfAndMe
* TakeThatMe: It's been 30 years and he ''still'' hasn't published the third issue of his comic.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Holokara]]
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A holographic duplicate of Linkara, down to his very last mannerism and verbal tic, Holokara was created (using Franchise/StarTrek tech) to fake out Whatley and his eldritch cult when he was forced to review another stack of Silent Hill comic books. Effectively identical to Linkara in every way, save for the fact that he's simply an electromagnetic light construct.
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* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler: Subverted. Anyone who's watched [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]] would ''think'' that his mobile emitter is this(and Harvey even suggests it at one point), but Linksano points out that, since Holokara is made up of light and force fields, he has no trouble simply protecting his mobile emitter with a force field, so shooting it is exactly as ineffective as shooting any other part of him.]]
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: He's very polite and mild-mannered, even when he threatens Harvey, and he seems fairly amicable when not confronted in a hostile way or met with defiance. He realy does just want the show to run as smoothly as possible, even if it means eliminating the others.]]
* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler: Subverted. There was nothing wrong with the programming of Holokara's A.I. at all; the only problem with him is that he was based on Linkara's memories and thought patterns, meaning Holokara was basically what Linkara was going to become if he didn't go to find himself and find out he was becoming evil. Holokara is basically the road that Linkara would have taken.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: To call him psychotic would be putting it lightly. Case in point: he threatened to outright ''[[DisproportionateRetribution kill]]'' 90's Kid if he [[FelonyMisdemeanor interrupted]] [[SeriousBusiness the show]] again, then threatened to crush Harvey's windpipe for calling him out on the aforementioned threat.]]
* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler: Linkara reprograms him to impersonate the Entity, in order to trick Vyce into going through a dimensional portal]].
* DiscOneFinalBoss: The main antagonist for the first half of the Gunslinger arc.
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler: To Linkara in a more literal form.]]
* EnemyWithout: [[spoiler: He is all of Linkara's previous and current character flaws made manifest, and taken to their logical conclusion. When Linkara reads him the riot act, he's basically lecturing himself.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: After Linkara leaves him to host the show for a while, he starts getting some bad ideas...]]
** For example: [[spoiler: he threatened to '''kill''' 90's Kid if he interrupted the show again]].
** [[spoiler: He also threatened to crush Harvey's windpipe when he confronted him for threatening 90's Kid.]]
* HiddenInPlainSight: If you've ever watched ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' with some regularity, you know that [[spoiler: Linkara didn't review a single one of those Silent Hill comics.]]
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Believes this.
-->'''Holokara:''' [[spoiler:They'll never change unless we ''make'' them change.]]
* ImmuneToBullets: Being a hologram, he's impossible to kill unless you damage his holo-emitter, unfortunately for Pyramid Head and [[spoiler: Harvey.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler: When he's revealed to be a villain, and isn't reviewing comics.]]
* KnightTemplar: Thinks that [[spoiler:murder is justified when avenging the injustices done to comic book superheroes.]]
* LightIsNotGood: He is a [[HardLight hologram]], after all.
* PsychopathicManchild: He is willing to [[spoiler:kill many people just so that his favorite comic book characters are treated with respect]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: He is reactivated again to impersonate the Linkara-possessed Entity to trick Vyce to taking both out. With the complete destruction of Comicron-2, it's not likely that the mobile emitter survived, meaning Holokara is dead for good]].
* SarcasmMode: When 'slain' by Whatley's Pyramid Head.
-->'''Holokara:''' Oh, ow, I have been slain. Blargh.
* ShoutOut: Holokara's first scene plays out very similarly to a scene in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E2ThePiratePlanet The Pirate Planet]]".
* WalkingSpoiler: Suffice to say, he's more than just a stand-in when Linkara's not around.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He is ultimately revealed to be this. [[spoiler:He wanted to use Comicron 1 to force Marvel and DC to fix all of the terrible things they'd done to superheroes in their comics, which was what was slowly driving both Linkara and Holokara insane. Linkara points out that doing that makes him no better than the comics editors who are ruining the characters in the first place.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:Acts the same way Linkara would have and thinks that's acceptable. Unfortunately for him, he's in a story that deconstructs that kind of behavior, and as such his actions are outright horrifying.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Moarte]]
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The host of another series by Linkara, ''Longbox of the Damned,'' in which he showcases a horror comic once per day during the month of October leading up to Halloween, though in 2015, he also did it during the month of July. Moarte is a ghoul who lives in a darkened library full of comic books, which he shows to the viewer with hammy glee.
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* AffablyEvil: He's a creepy undead ghoul...who just wants to encourage people to read more horror comics. He ''loves'' his "children."
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiler: He's ultimately the one to kill off Mirrorkara when he makes the mistake of going into the supply room.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: Expresses a preference towards this, even spitting at the notion of good being victorious.
* BilingualBonus: His name is Romanian for 'death'. Transylvania of course being part of Romania.
* BondOneLiner: This guy could give [[Series/TalesFromTheCrypt Crypty]] and [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy]] a run for their puns.
* CatchPhrase: "My children!" He often begins in saying, "Hello, my children!" but other times, it's usually something else entirely but will always end with "My children".
* CursedWithAwesome: In the first episode he says he's cursed to forever "watch over" horror comics, but doesn't seem to mind very much.
* DoNotSpoilThisEnding: Most review's don't reveal certain details about the comic, most commonly the ending. Moarte does this to encourage the viewer to read the comic themselves.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite [[NightmareFetishist enjoying slaughter and fear]] and preferring the dead over the living, Moarte considers [[ComicBook/BlackestNight the Black Lantern's desire to kill emotion]] abhorrent.
** As much as Moarte loves the macabre, in the ''Children of the Grave'' review, he says that he takes no pleasure in witnessing the [[WarIsHell horrors of war]].
** In his ''Anime/HellGirl'' review, Moarte takes time to mention that, speaking as one who has traveled to Hell, there is a guaranteed special place there for child molesters.
** Despite his preference for [[DownerEnding Downer Endings]], he criticizes the finale of ''Uzumaki'', noting how Kirie dying means her acting as the narrator doesn't make any sense. More importantly she had been going through so many terrible things throughout the series without setting her up for anything, she just gives up when her boyfriend dies.
** In his ''Iron Siege'' review, he makes it clear he harbors nothing but contempt for the Nazis, deeming them a "real world" evil that everyone wishes they could have destroyed.
** He opens his "Ibitsu" review by saying, "Would you have a little sister, my children?" but regretted saying it when he realized [[ThatCameOutWrong it sound more creepy coming from him]].
** He calls out the warrior in ''Creature Features'' for being a {{Jerkass}} when he dismisses every woman in the village for not being beautiful enough.
* EvilIsBigger: When confronting Mirrorkara, the evil bearded version of Linkara has to look up to see a ghoulish figure whose head almost touches the ceiling.
* EvilLaugh: Closes every episode with one.
* HorrorHost: Moarte owes a lot to the likes of Cain from ''ComicBook/HouseOfMystery'', Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark, and of course, the Crypt Keeper from ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt''.
%% * TheHyena
* ILoveTheDead: Prefers "the bones to the boobs".
* ImAHumanitarian: Appears to be one according to his ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'' vol. 1 review. Though, considering that he's a ghoul it's kind of in the description, but he notes that fake rubber hands don't have much meat on them.
* IncomingHam: "'''HELLO, MY CHEEELDREN!'''"
* {{Invisibility}}: The ''Batman: Unseen'' episode reveals that he can somehow turn himself invisible, possibly another effect of him being undead.
* KindheartedCatLover: Fully agrees with Ripley's decision to go back and rescue Jones the cat in 'Alien: The Illustrated Story'... while holding and petting a cat himself.
--> '''Moarte''': Yeah, I'd go back for one of these too.
* LargeHam: The cast of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' would think he's a bit over the top.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: He's able to add dramatic flare to rifling through a longbox of comics, something most comic collectors do in the store.
** After talking about Creator/EdgarAllanPoe wanting to bring his wife back to life, he points out that being undead seems OK to him: "I am neither living nor dead, and I'm doing pretty well, I have ''a table'' and everything!" (taps it)
* NightmareFetishist: Comes with the territory.
** One example from The Day of Judgment review, is that he considers heaven overrated because there's not enough blood and guts to suit his tastes.
** He also considers [[BlackComedy dark humor]] the best kind of humor
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Usually the accent is much stronger when the camera is on Moarte than when he is narrating over the comic. Sometimes it will deliberately fade for a bathos-type punchline.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: He claims to be a ghoul, but in "Prometheus: Fire and Stone Omega" he also mentions keeping his soul in a jar of eternal flame, not unlike a phylactery.
* PapaWolf: He might have [[NightmareFetishist unusual enthusiasm for horror]] but he is pretty protective of children.
** In his review of ''Manga/XxxHolic'' chapter 14 he takes time to explain that, despite the name of the manga, he would never [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant show his "children" anything sexual]]. Additionally when one of the ghost stories in the chapter involves a child [[spoiler: being trapped in a room by their father]] he notes that even with all of the stories about the undead and Lovecraftian horrors ''this'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards is the one that frightens him a little]].
** During his review of ''Anime/HellGirl'' he takes a moment to guarantee that there is a special place in hell for child molesters.
%%* SharpDressedMan
* TearsOfBlood: In ''Eerie'' #1, he says that the final story brings bloody tears to [his] dried up eye sockets.
* TheUndead: He is "neither living nor dead". Even he isn't clear on the details though.
-->"At least I'm not in hell!" *Beat* "What '''''is''''' the theology around me, anyway?"
* VampireVords: Speaks like this despite being a ghoul [[note]][[WordOfGod Lewis confirmed that he's not a vampire]] [[AllThereInTheManual on the DVD]][[/note]].
* VerbalTic: His ending sentences with "my cheeldren" sometimes falls into this.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: He has a bizarre, vaguely Central/Eastern European accent that's somewhere between Creator/PeterLorre and a Hollywood Roma. In the ''Invaders'' #31 review, he claims it's an American accent.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Snowflame]]
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A villain from the DC comic ''New Guardians'', in the comic he died in the issue he was introduced (#2) but he was a such a bombastic character that he was rather taken to by many people who read it. Linkara has discovered him and taken him back to his place during the review of ''New Guardians #1''. He worships, and is powered by, cocaine. At this point it isn't clear if he's Linkara's ally or enemy or just some sort of bizarre roomate Linkara's found. More recent strips lean towards 'bizarre roomate'...
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* AddictionPowered: Snowflame is powered by ''COCAINE!'' So much so that he's the page picture.
-->'''Snowflame:''' COFFEE IS LIQUID COCAINE!
* BrokenAesop: PlayedForLaughs in his Public Service Announcements. Especially his peer pressure PSA.
* CallingYourAttacks: If "doing random stuff" can be classed as attacks.
--> '''Snowflame:''' SNOWFLAME IS WATCHING YOU READ! \\
'''Snowflame:''' SNOWFLAME IS STEALING YOUR SHOOOOES! \\
'''Snowflame:''' [[BreadEggsMilkSquick SNOWFLAME MADE COCAINE POPSICLES!]]
* CloudCuckooLander
--> '''Snowflame:''' SNOWFLAME HAS NO CONCEPT OF TIME! *[[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext ghostly moaning]]*
* {{Fanboy}}: He is a [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Brony]] or at least would be if he could remember the show and character's names.
* HiddenDepths: If one of the skits in the ''[=ASBAR=]'' reviews are to be believed, he's good at Parcheesi.
* IncomingHam: "And now, a Public Service Announcement from... '''SNOOOOWFLAME!!!'''"
* LargeHam: Much like in his comic book appearance, Snowflame likes to yell and exclaim things.
** He also makes a sandwich in the most bombastic way possible...and then carefully measure the amount of cocaine to put on top.
* MadLibsCatchPhrase: His advice on peer pressure is thus: If someone challenges to do <insert challenge here> no matter what it is? Do [[UpToEleven fifty]] <Insert challenge here>, ''At the same time!'' no matter what the challenge is.
--> '''Snowflame:''' Somebody challenges you to smoke a cigarette? Smoke 50! ''AT THE SAME TIME!''
--> '''Snowflame:''' Somebody challenges you to jump a bench? Jump 50! ''AT THE SAME TIME!''
--> '''Snowflame:''' Somebody challenges you to eat the last cupcake? Eat 50! ''AT THE SAME TIME!''
* ManChild: He thinks the snow outside is cocaine, butts into conversations and scenes, and is rather inquisitive natured for an adult.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Upon learning snorting cocaine can damage one's sinuses, it prompts this response:
--> '''Snowflame:''' What has Snowflame ''dooone?''
* NoIndoorVoice
* ThirdPersonPerson: Never uses a person pronoun.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Fat Grandma]]
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Linkara's alleged grandma, the sassiest old woman you'll ever meet.
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* BerserkButton: She does not care much for WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob.
* CanonForeigner: She's appeared in the reviews of the Cinema Snob, Phelous, the Nostalgia Critic and Welshy's last episode, but has yet to appear on Atop the Fourth Wall (outside of the commercial bumpers).
** Linkara has gone on record, saying that she shall not appear in any A T 4 W Episodes, but shall appear in the Videos of his fellow Critics.
** [[spoiler:Fat Grandma is heard offscreen during Part One of the 500th Epsiode, having married the Cinema Snob in the gap between the episode's air date and the five-years-into-the-future messages he receives. Linkara states he has no idea who Fat Grandma is.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
* CoolOldGuy: Female version to everyone except Linkara, apparently.
* TheFundamentalist: In her cameo in [[WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob The Cinema Snob's]] review of ''Film/GodsNotDead2'' she apparently enjoyed said film and that "Dr. Jones" should use his mouth for prayer in schools...yet again a later cutaway shows she also enjoyed ''Film/FiftyShadesDarker''.
* HappilyMarried: In the 500th Episode, in a possible future, she is happily married to [[spoiler: the Cinema Snob]]! According to Lupa, their wedding was actually beautiful.
* IAmLegion: According to the Commentary of the Atop The Fourth Wall Film; [[spoiler: She is possessed by some kind of being, that is only able to become vocal, any time she falls asleep]].
* InformedAbility: She is apparently a SupremeChef, her delicious cooking being the only reason why Linkara tolerates to keep her around.
* InsaneTrollLogic: ''Everything she says.''
-->'''Fat Grandma''' You must avenge me!
-->'''Hyperfangirl:''' You're not even dead!
-->'''Fat Grandma:''' Mind your own business!
* LargeHam: Probably Lewis' character who is enjoying itself the most.
* LemonyNarrator: The Stinger of WebVideo/{{Welshy}}'s Farawell shows that the episode was Fat Grandma telling the story of how the show ended, much to Linkara's chagrin. ''Then she makes him listen to the tale of Webvideo/DemoReel''
-->'''Fat Grandma''': This one is the story of Webvideo/DemoReel. It's not very long.
-->'''Linkara''': God Damned, Fat Grandma! You're going to get me fired!!
-->'''Fat Grandma''': You hush your mouth and listen! Anyway, the story of Demo Reel begins [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee when some ego-maniacal prick got pulled into a Plot Hole...]]
* {{Metaphorgotten}}:
--> '''Fat Grandma:''' Now let me impart some words of wisdom to you from Fat Grandma: A penny saved, is a penny in your pocket!
* TheNicknamer: She insists on referring to WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob as ''the Cinema [[TheGrinch Scrooge]].''
* NoNameGiven: Everyone only refers to her as "Fat Grandma".
* ParentalSubstitute: In Nostalgia Critic's Disney Afternoon episode, since both Critic and Malcom's moms were there, Tamara's mom was replaced by Fat Grandma. [[spoiler:She also seems to be Hyper's SplitPersonality grandma]].
* PoisonousFriend: She's the one who convinces (very easily it should be noted) Hyper that she should keep stalking Critic.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Fat Grandma is sass personified.
* ShipperOnDeck: With plenty of PoisonousFriend, she's probably the only person in or out of universe to want Hyper with Critic.
* TotallyRadical: Talks like a SassyBlackWoman for no clear reason.

[[/folder]]

!! Contest of Champions

[[folder: Empira]]
A champion who uses magic as her method of combat. According to her dossier, she's successfully fought off demons and other such threats to her universe, which makes her one of the more moral Champions competing in the Contest. Also according to her dossier, this is her first Contest.
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* ActionGirl: The first Champion that Linkara fights, though only for the preliminary round, and she's revealed to be a rather powerful sorceress in her world.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Empira's primary form of attack is to MindRape her opponents and she can also switch and use fire balls and other such dark magic if her opponents can stand her initial assault. However, she is a genuine hero in her reality and congratulates Linkara on a well fought battle after he survives her attack in the preliminaries.
* CreepyGood: Empira is a LadyOfBlackMagic whose primary tactic in battle is to MindRape her opponents into submission, and when she fought Linkara in the preliminaries, she didn't speak for the entire encounter. However, she is a genuine hero and sincerely congratulates Linkara after he manages to overcome her assault.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Wears a black robe and a black hood and mask over her face and gives off a threatening aura during her encounter with Linkara, but she is one of the most moral Champions competing in the Contest and is quite friendly outside of combat.
* DominoMask: She wears a large black one.
* FriendlyEnemy: Gives Linkara a complimentary handshake after their preliminary battle and wishes him good luck and a Happy Halloween.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: She gives off this vibe with her attire and powers.
* MindRape: Prefers to use this tactic on her opponents so that they'll destroy themselves.
* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: She's defeated by the Bandit Chief in Round Three offscreen, to show that the Chief is a serious threat in the Contest despite his lack of special powers or high-end technology.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Destrogalga]]
The local Kaiju champion, he's like Godzilla in that he's been on both sides of the moral spectrum. Like fellow Champions Linkara and Empira, this is his first Contest.
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* AchillesHeel: Although his hide is nearly invulnerable to harm, it turns out that when Destrogalga fires off the magnetic quills from his back, the holes where they used to be are far more susceptible to damage, which contributes to his early defeat.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: His specific height is 100 meters.
* DestructiveSavior: Much like the actual Godzilla, Destrogalga firmly stands on the neutral side of the moral spectrum, and even when fighting on the side of good, he's caused much damage in his battles.
* TheDreaded: Almost ''everyone'' in the Contest fears him for his {{Kaiju}} status. The Bandit Chief outright admits that while he's on track for making a plan to counter [[InexplicablyAwesome Pilo]], he has nothing that can defeat Destrogalga. Linkara believes that if Neutro isn't brought back up online, he won't be able to beat Destogalga. The one exception is Tyler, the Blue Knight of Titan, who is quite confident that he'll be able to defeat the beast. As such, it comes as a big shock to everyone when [[AcePilot Sphinx Yonder]] actually defeats him.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: According to his dossier, he has been both hero and villain, much like Godzilla.
* ItCanThink: Linksano is incredulous that a Kaiju is in the Contest in the first place, but Jaeris notes that valid Champions have to understand, on some level, what the Contest is and how it operates. Given that Destrogalga is willingly competing in the first place...
* {{Kaiju}}: See his profile. In his case, he's 100 meters tall, [[BreathWeapon he can shoot energy blasts from his mouth]], and the spikes on his back can be shot at his opponents and magnetically return to him.
* {{Notzilla}}: He stands somewhere between this and an {{Expy}} of the King of the Monsters.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: He's a Kaiju...kind of comes with the territory. Bandit Chief also mentions that he probably wouldn't even be able to slow him down if the two were to face off.
* RedBaron: He's known as the ''King of Creatures''.
* TheUnfought: Linkara doesn't end up facing Destrogalga at all, due to his [[WhamEpisode surprise defeat in Round Two]] against [[AcePilot Sphinx Yonder]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Bandit Chief]]
A Champion who is both a notorious mercenary and a hardy survivalist. He's been in four previous Contests and made it to the semi-finals in two of them.
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* ActorAllusion: He mentions "little kids opening trading card packs" in his first appearance, a clear reference to the fact that he's voiced by the creator of ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''.
* ArcVillain: The most outright antagonistic of the Contest's contenders, [[spoiler: and is even responsible for the 2020 annual Halloween monster]].
* BadassNormal: From what we can tell so far, he has no elaborate superpowers -- he's just really cunning, resourceful, and ruthless.
* CombatPragmatist: Stated to be one by Jaeris, who fought him in his last Contest and lost. If he gets to pick the Contest, he ''will'' make sure it's one he can win. If the Contests allowed for killing, he'd do it in a heartbeat. It also applies in the [[HoistByHisOwnPetard opposite direction]], as it's really the only way for him to be defeated.
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler: Sends Confession to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture Linkara]] for knowledge of his weaknesses, just on the off chance the two meet up in the Contest.]]
** [[spoiler: Has some sort of relic that protects him from magical attacks. This enables him to defeat Empira despite lacking any apparent magical prowess himself.]]
* TheDreaded: Jaeris does not talk of him lightly, and stresses how dangerous he is.
* NoNameGiven: He doesn't have any other name besides his title.
* PunnyName: Given that he's voiced by [[Creator/LittleKuriboh Martin Billany]], his name is clearly a pun on [[Manga/YuGiOh Bandit Keith]].
* SmugSnake: Averted. He gloats about easily defeating a samurai, but he immediately recognizes Linkara as someone who won against [[TheDreaded Lord Vyce]] and spends his pre-match time gearing up and studying him.
* WakeUpCallBoss: While Linkara hasn't faced him yet, Jaeris has, and outright calls him someone to worry about.
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[[folder: Pilo]]
A Champion who is essentially... a pile of rocks. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes, seriously.]] A constant crowd favorite, he's a veteran of the Contest.
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* AnimateInanimateObject: Well, he has to be one, somehow.
* HiddenDepths: Linkara, after engaging in offscreen dialogue with Pilo, has stated that for a pile of rocks, he is very insightful, finally giving a hint to his personality. [[spoiler: After his surprise defeat by Billy Tor in Round Three, Pilo releases a [[WarriorPoet rather poetic statement]] assuring his fans that he will return.]]
* InexplicablyAwesome: A pile of rocks...that has competed in five contests and made it to second place in one of them. This notably [[LampshadeHanging bewilders everyone, who questions why]], and Jaeris remarks that there has to be ''something'' that makes him so effective.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Pilo is a pile of rocks that, somehow, has made it into the finals multiple times, getting second place in the previous Contest, and is considered the most likely player to win the 1049th Contest. [[spoiler: That is, until his defeat by Billy Tor in a staring contest.]]
* RockMonster: Harvey asks if he's one...which no one is exactly sure about.
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[[folder: Ace Corgi, Attorney at Paw]]
A champion who happens to be a canine lawyer. He is defeated by WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere in the first round of the Contest of Champions.
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* TheGhost: He's only been talked about so far and, given his offscreen defeat, doesn't seem likely to show up again for a long time, if ever.
* JokeCharacter: Unlike Pilo, Linkara doesn't think he has to worry too much about Corgi. Unless, as Erin suggests, Corgi challenges Linkara to a lawyer off. Or eating dog food.
* ShoutOut: He sounds like a dog version of VisualNovel/{{Phoenix Wright|AceAttorney}}.
* TheUnfought: Despite Erin's concerns, Linkara never fights him, as he is defeated offscreen by another champion.
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[[folder: Lord Spherakill, Overlord of the Dark Dimension]]
A champion from a dark dimension that looks like a plasma globe. He is defeated by Pilo in the first round of the Contest of Champions.
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* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Spherakill speaks in incomprehensible noises instead of English. Despite this, the interviewer seems to understand him perfectly well.
* RedBaron: Besides his title, described above, he is also known as the Destroyer of Dreams.
* SoreLoser: If the [[SoundEffectsBleep bleeps]] during his post-battle interview are any indication.
* SoundEffectsBleep: While he's utterly incomprehensible, Spherakill lets off a couple of these during his post-fight interview when asked for his thoughts on Pilo.
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[[folder: Sharp Tusk]]
A champion and bounty hunter. He is defeated by Empira in the first round of the Contest of Champions.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Empira is able to defeat Sharp Tusk by making him overload the systems of his invisibility device which knocked him out.
* {{Invisibility}}: Apparently his main shtick. Too bad Empira is able to turn it against him.
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[[folder: Lavidian Scarn]]
A champion and deposed king of an interstellar empire. He is Linkara's first true opponent for the Contest of Champions.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: He believes he's inherently better than commoners and the rabble below him, and can’t stand how his brother kept showing them compassion.
* BloodKnight: In his MotiveRant, he mentions a great love of combat, crushing others underneath his heel as was their way.
* CainAndAbel: His brother led an uprising and deposed him back home, and he fully intends to use the Infinity Gauntlet to destroy the man for it.
* TheCaligula: There are more than a few reasons he's a ''deposed'' king. Commenters have outright compared him to [[Series/GameOfThrones Joffrey Baratheon]], and his backstory and design are inspired by the Graff Vynda-K from the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial ''The Ribos Operation''.
* CloseRangeCombatant: He favors using a sword and getting up close and personal with those he defeats. Linkara wins by denying him that chance.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He thinks his brother was weak for sympathizing with those the empire conquered and later leading them to depose him. He's also overseen massacres of innocent people and feels no remorse whatsoever; when Linkara calls him out on it, he thinks those people should have gladly bowed to him instead of resisting.
* EvilWearsBlack: He wears a black cloak and robes with white lining, as well as some sort of medallion [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver with a red ribbon]].
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: To borrow his own words, he once commanded an empire, but after being overthrown, he now commands scraps. He resorts to fighting in the Contest in hopes of winning the Infinity Gauntlet and thus regaining his power and then some, and he views Linkara as beneath him.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He starts the round against Linkara by hiding in a closet and scoring a sneak attack, but when Linkara is able to take cover and start taunting him, Scarn demands that he "come out and fight me with honor". Linkara is quick to point out his flimsy idea of honor.
* KickTheDog: He refuses to accept his defeat and threatens to slay Linkara in a vain attempt to get it overturned.
* LargeHam: Will Wolfgram is clearly having fun in the role.
* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: He brings an electrified saber and expects that to be enough against Linkara. He wasn't counting on the Magic Gun; though his sword ''is'' able to block its shots, it can't do much for sneak attacks.
* ParryingBullets: His sword is able to block the Magic Gun's blasts.
* SmugSnake: He's completely arrogant and dismissive of Linkara, having not even read the dossier on him and viewing him as easy prey rather than a WorthyOpponent. Given the foes Linkara has taken down by this point, you just ''know'' that's going to bite him in the ass -- and indeed it does.
* SoreLoser: When Linkara defeats him and is declared the winner, Scarn tries threatening Linkara's life to force the Temlin overseer to declare him victorious; he's easily thwarted and banned from any future tournaments.
* StarterVillain: For the Contest, being Linkara's opponent for the first true round and most definitely a villain, not a fellow hero like Empira.
* VillainousBreakdown: Linkara drives him into one by overpowering his weapon and taking cover while he's blinded, then proceeding to taunt him about his failures, about how those he oppressed rose against him. Scarn takes it ''very'' poorly and flies into a ranting rage, unable to even block Linkara's three winning shots, and when the round ends, he tries threatening to ''murder'' Linkara in order to be declared the winner, which naturally backfires on him.
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[[folder: Heavy Wrex]]
A champion and intergalactic pro-wrestler/construction foreman. He is Linkara's second opponent for the Contest of Champions.
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* {{Face}}: Much more of a good guy wrestler, as his other shtick is that he's a construction foreman who builds charitable foundations and low-income housing.
* {{Foil}}: To Lavidian Scarn, Linkara's first opponent. While Scarn took his loss poorly, to the point of threatening Linkara if the fight results weren't overturned, Heavy Wrex is humbler in his defeat, and despite his grievence with Linkara using a substitute, declines going against the Temlin's decision over it.
* GracefulLoser: Though he thinks Linkara's a coward for using a substitute in their fight, Wrex still takes his loss well, sincerely praises Bone Button as a WorthyOpponent, and even challenges Linkara to a friendly rematch when the Tournament is over, only this time a construction competition instead of a wrestling match.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Claims to have ''T. Rex'' blood in his genealogy. Whether it's part of his wrestler persona or an actual fact has yet to be elaborated on.
* LargeHam: Wouldn't be a pro-wrestler without being a ham, with his challenge to Linkara being in the vein of an old-school wrestling promo.
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[[folder: Tyler, the Blue Knight of Titan]]
A champion who was once part of a team known as the Knights of Titan, but split off from them in order to defeat a particularly dangerous EvilSorcerer and has worked solo ever since.
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* ColorMotif: Blue. It is in his name, and in his clothes. He himself acts very friendly and calm.
* GoodIsNotSoft: He seems to believe that no matter what, evil has to be stopped, with the most prominent example being when he and his team fought an EvilSorcerer. While the other Knights of Titan believed just driving him off would be good enough, he disagreed, and went after the sorcerer to destroy him for good.
* HiddenDepths: Despite his friendly conversation with Linkara painting him as a NiceGuy, there's still the fact that he split from his old team and he has the belief that evil must be dealt with permanently (which was also the root cause of his split from them), which shows that there's quite clearly a lot more to him than at first glance.
* HumongousMecha: He owns one known as the 'Mech'. He's quite confident that it can defeat Destrogalga if they come to blows.
* IWorkAlone: He's a very friendly individual when speaking to Linkara, but his claims that his old team were 'cramping his style' brings out this vibe.
* NiceGuy: Seems to be this, having a very friendly conversation with Linkara. However, given his split from his team, there may be more to him beneath the surface.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Him and his old team, the Knights of Titan. They no longer wish to see him after he (permanently) dealt with the EvilSorcerer they fought off, and the feeling is mutual on his part.
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[[folder: Sphinx Yonder]]
A champion piloting a space fighter known as the Tempest Dancer. She faces Linkara in the quarterfinals of the Contest after defeating [[{{Kaiju}} Destrogalga, the King of Creatures]] in the second round.
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* AcePilot: Her primary skill as a champion.
* DavidVersusGoliath: Seems to be a regular human, and yet she took down a champion the size of a skyscraper. The Contest's betting boards favored her opponent by 2000 to 1, according to the post-match commentary.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Brings down Destrogalga, a NighInvulnerable champion that others expected to reach the finals of the Contest.
* SpacePlane: The Tempest Dancer.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Credits her victory to this in a post-match interview. She said she'd planned on beating Destrogalga by firing down his throat, but couldn't get a clean shot. She then had to dodge his magnetic back spines, noticed the holes in his back where the spines had fit, and decided to target those instead.
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[[folder: Billy Tor]]
A champion who's a serial killer straight out of a slasher movie. Linkara's opponent in the semifinals of the Contest after Billy defeats [[spoiler: Pilo in the quarterfinals]].
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* AnArmAndALeg: Defeats a golem assembled by [[MadScientist Professor Homonculus]] by ripping it apart limb from limb.
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: He's not a malevolent force of his own free will. He's an ordinary hiker who's been possessed by vengeful spirits and made to kill until they've received justice.]]
* CaptainErsatz: Design-wise he's pretty much an obvious reference to [[Characters/FridayThe13thJasonVoorhees Jason Voorhees]], being a masked SerialKiller wielding a machete who doesn't speak.
* EvilOldFolks: His age isn't stated, but behind his mask, he's got white hair and is mostly bald. [[spoiler: It turns out he's a hiker who was possessed by the souls of five hundred murdered prison inmates; when he's persuaded to forfeit the match, he unmasks to reveal he's just an ordinary-looking old man.]]
* GenreSavvy: One of the stipulations he makes in his fight against Linkara is to prohibit him from using any of the slasher villains that he has at his disposal, as crossovers between slasher villains tend to result in one's defeat.
* ImplacableMan: '''''Nothing''''' Linkara throws at him is able to do more than briefly slow him down. [[spoiler: The match only ends when Billy forfeits it because Linksano is able to broadcast a message that lays the wronged souls driving him to rest.]]
** Justified by the source of his powers. [[spoiler: Because he's possessed by the souls of five hundred unjustly executed prison inmates, he can take even lethal blows, and all that will happen is that one soul possessing him is quieted, only for another to take its place. He would need to die five hundred times to be overcome by force.]]
* MacheteMayhem: In keeping with the slasher killer motif, he brandishes one when meeting Linkara.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Wears a menacing black metal mask that covers his entire face and sports a prominent bloodstain.
* SerialKiller: The only description the Temlins and Contest commentators have of Billy when discussing him. Linkara's research revealed his body count is in the hundreds and he's been operating for years, with authorities unable to stop him.
* TheStoic: In addition to not speaking, Billy's body language is completely impassive and expressionless. Taken UpToEleven when he [[spoiler: wins a staring contest against Pilo. Who's a pile of rocks]].
* TheVoiceless: Never says a word aloud, instead telepathically conveying the terms of his contest. [[spoiler: He finally speaks after removing his mask at the end of the round, but it's just incomprehensible squeaking.]]

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* ChainedByFashion: Just like Jacob Marley, he's weighed down by his evil deeds in the form of chains.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' [[SyntheticVoiceActor MacinTalk]] (initial "voice"), Alex Tansley (post-"The Machination of Worms" storyline)

* HiddenDepths: The Ninja Style Dancer is shown to be surprisingly skilled, being capable enough to get in a few hits on Mechakara in the early storylines without needing other methods of attack, and has twice been the one to realize that something was horribly wrong in regards to the [[spoiler: first]] Entity [[spoiler: attack]] and the King of Worms, managing to evade their influence for much longer than Linkara's other friends. It's only due to him being hopelessly outmatched, or them getting the jump on him that ultimately does him in both times.

* HiddenDepths: The Ninja Style Dancer is shown to be surprisingly skilled, being capable enough to get in a few hits on Mechakara in the early storylines without needing other methods of attack, and has twice been the one to realize that something was horribly wrong in regards to the Entity and the King of Worms, managing to evade their influence for much longer than Linkara's other friends. It's only due to him being hopelessly outmatched that ultimately does him in both times.
** He's also very perceptive of the feelings of others, having noticed long before anyone else how disillusioned Eliza had been with everything around her after the Sleepwalker Arc, and offering her sage advice on how to deal with her current situation.

* HiddenDepths: The Ninja Style Dancer is shown to be surprisingly skilled, being skilled enough to get in a few hits on Mechakara in the early storylines, and has twice been the one to realize that something was horribly wrong in regards to the Entity and the King of Worms, and managing to evade their influence for much longer than Linkara's other friends. It's only due to him being hopelessly outmatched that ultimately does him in both times.

* NeverBareheaded: He almost never takes off his hat.
** In his introduction Q&A he is unaware he's even wearing a hat.

* VillainsNeverLie: [[spoiler: So far he hasn't, at least not in a direct conversation. Linkara initially assumed he made up the Entity as an excuse for his conquests, and boy was he wrong. Vyce points out that he never told them he was Mechakara when he took over Pollo's body, but Vyce points out that he never did that; Linkara and company assumed that on their own.]]

* OverarchingVillain: He is the most recurring threat in the series, being the main villain of three entire arcs, and being the FinalBoss of the Entity's final storyline. Only Mechakara rivals him in this regard.

* OverarchingVillain: He's perhaps the most enduring and long-lasting villains on the show, beating out Lord Vyce in that regard. He has been defeated and destroyed a great number of times, but always [[JokerImmunity manages to come back]]. Of the villains in Linkara's initial RoguesGallery, Mechakara is the only one to still be around in the present-day.

* IfItsYouItsOkay: At cons especially, both Doug and Lewis (Doug in particular) like pushing the idea that Linkara has it bad for WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic. [[spoiler: Though after the fallout with Channel Awesome, there's a good likelihood that this relationship has soured.]]

* IfItsYouItsOkay: At cons especially, both Doug and Lewis (Doug in particular) like pushing the idea that Linkara has it bad for WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic.

!!!'''Portrayed by''': [[{{Creator/LewisLovhaug}} Lewis Lovhaug]]

!!!'''Portrayed by''': [[{{Creator/Lanipator}} Nick Landis]]

!!!'''Voiced by''': [[SyntheticVoiceActor MacinTalk]] (initial "voice"), Alex Tansley (post-"The Machination of Worms" storyline)

* GenreSavvy: Done humorously. When the below incident happens, she immediately cites the fact that she's a black woman, and [[BlackDudeDiesFirst thus in the context of media she would be a prime target for being killed,]] as a major reason why she hightails it out of there.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Upon being told that their apartment is haunted, she immediately says nope and leaves.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Upon being told that their appartment is haunted, she immediately says nope and leaves.

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!!!'''Voiced by''': [[SyntheticVoiceActor MacinTalk]] (initial "voice"), Alex Tansley (post - "The Machination of Worms" storyline)

post - "The Machination of Worms" storyline.]]

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!!!'''Voiced by''': [[SyntheticVoiceActor MacinTalk]], Alex Tansley (post "The Machination of Worms" storyline)

post- "The Machination of Worms" storyline.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: His most common appearance post-"The Machination of Worms" storyline.]]

Linkara's liaison in the US government. Up until the conclusion of 2013's Halloween arc, he had not made a physical appearance or had any lines; he was only alluded to on the other end of Linkara's phone calls. Portrayed by {{Creator/Lanipator}}.

** It takes him ''years'' to finally figure this out and only until he learns of ''ComicBook/{{Chew}}[='s=] iconic character Poyo.