History Characters / FarscapeMainCharacters

* WallCrawl: She has the ability to alter her centre of gravity, enabling her to walk across vertical surfaces.

* ShippedInShackles: For the first three seasons he has prominent rings attached to his collarbones that are the result of this. The Peacekeepers kept him chained to the walls of his cell, evidentally out of fear that he'd enter Hyer-rage and attack them. He eventually has the rings surgically removed during the "Into the Lion's Den" two-parter.

* BizarreAlienBiology: At just under two feet high, Rygel is broadly humanoid, but he has three stomachs, can breathe water, and farts helium when nervous or angry (which, being a noble gas, basically means he has a nuclear reactor in his guts). Also, his bodily fluids turn explosive if he eats tanna root, the main ingredient of the chakan oil which powers Peacekeeper pulse weapons.

* BigEater:

* BreakTheHaughty: Often subjected to this sort of thing; ultimately, it forces him to start cooperating with the others and actually become a better person -- not that he'd ever admit it.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: When the show started, the production crew had trouble with the lighting and as a result, the makeup for D'Argo looked much paler, fleshier, and blander than it was supposed to. During the first season, he looks almost Twinkie-colored at times. He also had green eyes for the first few episodes until Anthony Simcoe injured his eye. The crew decided to drop the contact lenses and just use Simcoe's natural eye color.

* ExtremeOmnisexual: She is the focus of most of the series' LesYay[[invoked]] moments. She also has no sexual boundaries when it comes to gender, age, and even species. [[spoiler: In fact, her tendencies in this regard were so well-known that the Nebari secretly infected her with a dormant STD so she could unknowingly further their plans for galactic domination; she was able to cure herself some time prior to the start of the series, but the revelation does leave Crichton more than a little disturbed.]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Crichton is a fairly easy-going kind of guy, especially in the first season; in later seasons, this crosses over with BewareTheSillyOnes as Crichton's behaviour takes a turn for the eccentric. One particular example of this occurs in "Suns and Lovers," when, upon encountering a suicide bomber who's magnetised herself to Moya's hull, he goes so far as to wearily congratulate her... before informing her that the door she's magnetised herself to is ''detachable''.

* BreakTheComedian: Provides most of the humour in the series, making up for being completely adrift in an unfamiliar galaxy by constantly spouting pop-culture references, coming up with crazy plans, and occasionally going full-blown CloudCuckooLander. However, as time goes on, the comedy begins to bleed away as the stress of being hunted, tortured, assaulted, experimented on and generally abused wears on him; the hallucinations of his greatest enemy haunting him do not help. This finally comes to a head in "Die Me Dichotomy," when [[spoiler: the Scorpius neural clone in his brain takes over his body and kills Aeryn]]; the incident destroys Crichton's sense of humour, and the finale breaks his spirit seemingly for good. In the next episode, he's all but suicidal, even encouraging Zhaan to kill him once it becomes clear that his situation isn't going to improve. [[spoiler: Thankfully, his defeat of the neural clone and Aeryn's return from the dead sets him on the path to recovery, and while he has a few major breakdowns in the future, none of them are anywhere near as brutal as this.]]

* HatesBeingAlone: Whilst it may seem surprising at first given her hostile exterior, she points out in "DNA Mad Scientist" that she spent her entire life growing up amongst the Peacekeepers surrounded by people like her at all times. This leaves her with a desire to find a place she can fit in.

* BizarreAlienReproduction: He comments in one first season episode that his people aren't "body breeders" whilst Zhaan is trying to seduce him. A couple of episodes later, he comments on his belief in keeping his wives pregnant. So, however Hynerians reproduce, it evidently isn't quite as simple as "females lay eggs, males spray semen on eggs", despite his frog-like nature.

* ImplacableMan: As a Scarran hybrid, Scorpius can take a great deal of punishment, and the body armour he wears only enhances his implacability.

* ImaginaryEnemy: He starts out as one, but by the the end of the series he’s more of an annoyance than anything else, even after Scorpius reprogram shim to be loyal to him once more.

* CloningAngst: [[spoiler:Crichton gets "twinned" into two -- each copy is completely identical to the other and there is no original. Both Crichtons remain worried that the original Crichton is dead and that they are merely a clone.]]

* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:Crichton gets "twinned" into two -- each copy is completely identical to the other and there is no original. Both Crichtons remain worried that the original Crichton is dead and that they are merely a clone.]]

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: An inversion, as she is quite educated. However, as Rygel noted, "You've learned, but you haven't experienced." For example, though book smart when it comes to Leviathans, she had never been on one before meeting Crichton, and he knew things she didn't thanks to living on Moya. There are some fairly inexplicable gaps in her knowledge as well; for instance, she didn't know that Leviathans aren't all arranged on a standard plan despite that being one of their most iconic features.

* AlienCatnip: He gets high on sugar.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Male version, towards Chricton. Initially D'Argo despised Chricton due to the fact that John looked ''exactly'' like the Peacekeepers that kept him prisoner for years. Eventually Chricton was able to get through to him by rationalizating that while they may not be friends, they could at least be allies. This softened D'Argo enough so that he was able to drop his guard and eventually warm up to Chricton. By the second season they are practically inseparable, and Chricton eventually declares D'Argo as the best friend he's ever had.

* PragmaticVillainy: While he'll sell the crew in half a heartbeat if he has something to gain, he can be surprisingly cunning at protecting them if betraying them would gain him nothing. A great example from early in the series is when bluffs the Zenetian Pirates. The moment they came aboard, looking for the deserter Stanz (who was off with D'Argo rescuing Chrichton and Aeryn), he has Pilot falsify a comms frequency. Drawing the pirate captain into a gambling game, Rygel uses a move he learned from Stanz, "accidentlly" revealing that Stanz had been aboard, then plays for the comm frequency that will let the pirates track them -- the fake one he told Pilot to establish earlier. When he explains all this to Zhaan (including losing deliberately, which he claims wasn't easy since the captain sucks at the game), she's stunned he did something sheerly for the benefit of everyone else. Rygel goes on to explain that the pirates would never have left peacefully without something they percieved to be of value. The only thing Moya has of value is herself and her crew of escaped prisoners, which includes Rygel, thus he had nothing to gain by trying to bargain with them.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Discussed. She gives her full name to Chrichton, and when he asks what people call her for short, icily replies "My ''full'' name." The crew quickly give up and call her "Jool," though Pilot at least once addresses her as "Joolushko."

* DrFeelgood: Among her skills is a breathtaking knowledge of pharmacology, specifically how to make and use a staggering array of {{Fantastic Drug}}s. She keeps Chrichton in a drug that suppresses his feelings for Aeryn.

* TricksterMentor: Frequently gives Chrichton advice. Whether this advice is genuinely good, her perception of genuinely good, or deliberately misleading to manipulate him into doing something else changes almost completely at random.

* YouAreNumberSix: However, this is because Chrichton named it after a year, rather than de-person-ised it by assigning a number.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Melts metal, which is weaponized whenever anyone scares or injures her. Especially on her ''feet.''

->'''Played By:''' Virginia Hey

* BareYourMidriff: Full-blown in the first-season episode "Back and Back and Back to the Future" and when dressed as a hippie in "Kansas", but her season two look where she rarely wears anything under her jerkin tends to create a lot of navel-visibility.

* BareYourMidriff: Is that light-coloured strip in her first costume bare skin or cloth? The opening of "Taking the Stone" suggests it's meant to be skin, but in other episodes it looks like cloth, possibly to reduce the amount of real-world make-up needed.

* BareYourMidriff: Especially her second costume.

%%* BareYourMidriff: Her default outfit.

* YouAreNumberSix: However, this is because Chrichton named it after a year, rather than de-person-ised it by assigning a number

* RememberTheNewGuy: She's just... there as a member of Moya's crew at the start of Season 4. She claims that they rescued her from Scorpius's Command Carrier. No-one can remember how she got there, and [[JustifiedTrope given her ability to affect memory with her potions]], it may never have happened at all.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Takes Zhaan's place as the ship's resident medic and mystic, though a significantly less reliable one. This got meta by ''The Peacekeeper Wars,'' as Melissa Jaffer got health problems from her makeup just like Virginia Hey did.

* {{Expy}}: Averted. He's actually the only Peacekeeper ArcVillain (unless you count Xhalax Sun) who's ''not'' directly based on an antagonist from ''Series/BlakesSeven''. PlayedStraight in that he has very noticible shades of [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Grand Admiral Thrawn]]. Scorpius is a contrast to previous, more unhinged villain Crais, Thrawn was a contrast to both Darth Vader and the Emperor. Thrawn and Scorpius are both smooth and sometimes charming {{Chessmaster}}s. Scorpius is a hybrid in a service that prizes blood purity but rose through the ranks purely on sheer skill and force of will, Thrawn is an alien in a notoriously pro-Human Empire, but acheived high rank within that service simply by being too valuable to not promote to ever-higher responsibility. And both Thrawn and Scorpius are frequently at least a step ahead of anyone plotting against them, even if they sometiems get ''too'' far ahead and get blindsided.

* {{Expy}}: Averted. He's actually the only Peacekeeper ArcVillain (unless you count Xhalax Sun) who's ''not'' directly based on an antagonist from ''Series/BlakesSeven''. PlayedStraight in that he has very noticible shades of [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Grand Admiral Thrawn]]. Scorpius is a contrast to previous, more unhinged villain Crais, Thrawn was a contrast to both Darth Vader and the Emperor. Thrawn and Scorpius are both smooth and sometimes charming {{Chessmaster}}s Scorpius is a hybrid in a service that prizes blood purity but rose through the ranks purely on sheer skill and force of will, Thrawn is an alien in a notoriously pro-Human Empire, but acheived high rank within that service simply by being too valuable to not promote to ever-higher responsibility. And both Thrawn and Scorpius are frequently at least a step ahead of anyone plotting against them, even if they sometiems get ''too'' far ahead and get blindsided.

* {{Expy}}: Averted. He's actually the only Peacekeeper ArcVillain (unless you count Xhalax Sun) who's ''not'' directly based on an antagonist from ''Series/BlakesSeven''.

* BrokenBird: Her tough and carefree persona isn't a pure facade, but it does cover up a lot of damage.
* TheChick: Doesn't do a great deal of on-screen fighting. According to Gigi Edgley, the writers wanted to give her more action scenes but they kept getting cut because directors were worried that the make-up would come off. To compensate for this, when she does get violent the violence tends to be [[CombatPragmatist really, really vicious]].

* LikesOlderMen: And possibly LikesOlderWomen as well. May be a bisexual example. She has heavy LesYay with the much older Noranti in "Bringing Home the Beacon" and Altana in "Home on the Remains", and towards the end of "A Prefect Murder" she starts hitting on the incredibly wizened Paroos. Her main LoveInterest in the series is Ka D'Argo, a widower with a son around Chiana's age (although by his race's standards he's barely an adult).

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Throughout Season One, Chiana randomly slips between an Australian and FakeAmerican accent. This is due to disagreements between directors over which accent Gigi Edgley should stick with. Eventually she settled into the latter.

->'''Played By:''' Lani Tupu

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Pale grey skin and a white SciFiBobHaircut, and the subject of most of the series' fanservice.