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[[folder:The Killing Machine]]
* FaceHeelTurn: In the finale, Tiger appeals to his human nature and he is able to overcome his programming. He and Tiger end up together.
* ImplacableMan: He is a ''Terminator'' like machine that seeks out his targets no matter what.
* KillerRobot: A killer robot cyborg with the DNA of histories greatest warriors, programmed to seek and kill its targets through any means necessary.
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[[folder:Marshal Mathers]]
* EvilerThanThou: Compared with Susan. Susan views the Diecatholon as an art form, while Mathers simply as a means to an end. She is focused on ratings and always topping her rivals. While Susan is antagonistic towards the protagonists, he at least gives them a chance. Mathers does not care about them and simply wants to kill them.
* KarmicDeath: She constantly threatened Susan that his robotic family will either be reprogrammed or destroyed. She is killed by Susan's robot daughter.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Uploads his consciousness into Stu's mainframe knowing he might die. [[spoiler: He does die without getting close to killing Stu.]]

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* HeroicSacrifice: Uploads his consciousness into Stu's mainframe knowing he might die. [[spoiler: He does die dies without getting close to killing Stu.]]
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* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: While Stu's definitely the BigBad for season 2, he gets KilledOffForReal in the penultimate episode. Afterwards, Susan kidnaps Josh, Tiger, and Wolf from Stu's time and becomes the FinalBoss for that season.]]
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: On December 31, 1999, Tim attempted to create a massive computer virus to wipe out his dorm-mates computers. The intent was to hide accidentally giving them computer viruses in the first place from downloading movies and blaming the wipe on Y2K. The result was [[spoiler:creating the ability for time travel technology to be created and used, via creating a NegativeSpaceWedgie in time and space. Tim was sucked into and created Haven as a result as well.]]

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: On December 31, 1999, Tim attempted to create a massive computer virus to wipe out his dorm-mates computers. The intent was to hide accidentally giving them computer viruses in the first place from downloading movies and blaming the wipe on Y2K. The result was [[spoiler:creating the ability for time travel technology to be created and used, via creating a NegativeSpaceWedgie in time and space. Tim was sucked into and created Haven as a result as well.]]]]
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[[folder:Tim "Big Time" Kilvitis]]
* EmbarrassingNickname: The college dorm-mates call him "Big Time" because Tim bragged about being his high school's tether ball team captain.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: On December 31, 1999, Tim attempted to create a massive computer virus to wipe out his dorm-mates computers. The intent was to hide accidentally giving them computer viruses in the first place from downloading movies and blaming the wipe on Y2K. The result was [[spoiler:creating the ability for time travel technology to be created and used, via creating a NegativeSpaceWedgie in time and space. Tim was sucked into and created Haven as a result as well.]]

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* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler: While he has Josh, Tiger, and Wolf incarcerated in Ultra-Max, he informs them of all of their numerous time crimes, including the destruction of a cluster of planets, and tries to turn the team against each other. He also informs them that each time they time traveled they didn't change the future, they created an alternate timeline, meaning all of their efforts were wasted, to break their spirits. Come the TheReveal, that Ultra-Max is an advertisement for heavy duty menstruation products and they are in an AmusementParkofDoom, his explanations are made quite questionable.]]


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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He turns against the network executives to save his robot wife and daughter and allies with Josh, Tiger and Wolf.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler: While he has Josh, Tiger, and Wolf incarcerated in Ultra-Max, he informs them of all of their numerous time crimes, including the destruction of a cluster of planets, and tries to turn the team against each other. He also informs them that each time they time traveled they didn't change the future, they created an alternate timeline, meaning all of their efforts were wasted, to break their spirits. Come the TheReveal, that Ultra-Max is an advertisement for heavy duty menstruation products and they are in an AmusementParkofDoom, AmusementParkofDoom called the Diecathlon, his explanations are made quite questionable.]]

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** [[spoiler:It turns out he was telling the trio the truth, at least as far as they are time fugitives for messing with the time line.]]


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* Hypocrite: Lectures Wolf on getting too attached to the past and going pleasure hunting while she endangers the mission by taking a DNA/heredity test to try and find family. Wolf calls her out on this.

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* Hypocrite: TheHypocrite: Lectures Wolf on getting too attached to the past and going pleasure hunting while she endangers the mission by taking a DNA/heredity test to try and find family. Wolf calls her out on this.
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*Hypocrite: Lectures Wolf on getting too attached to the past and going pleasure hunting while she endangers the mission by taking a DNA/heredity test to try and find family. Wolf calls her out on this.

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-->'''Portrayed by:''' Ed Begley, Jr.

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* MessianicArchetype: He's viewed as the ChosenOne by Tiger and Wolf who claims that he can save the world from the BadFuture. He's also been given the code name "Jesus" by the Pointed Circle and wears white robes that make he appear as Jesus.

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* BloodKnight. Similar to Tiger and Wolf when they first travel back in time.

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* BloodKnight. Similar to Tiger and Wolf when they first travel back in time. This turns out as a bad thing as without the characterization, she's the one that technically cause the biotic to swarm the tower


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* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Zigzagged, as while she was obfuscating her spoiled brat persona as mention below, her personality is different enough to separate her from the original Tiger.
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* ButtMonkey: If anything bad happens, it's happens to Josh.

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* ButtMonkey: If anything bad happens, it's happens it will happen to Josh.
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* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler: Despite being a particularly intelligent fellow, his demeanor is comparable to that of a petulant child in a man's body. One particular example of this is when he throws a temper tantrum when the people of the Mons learn about Stu's true intentions, before ordering his killbots to murder them all.]]

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* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler: Despite being a particularly intelligent fellow, his demeanor is comparable to that of a petulant child in a man's body.child. One particular example of this is when he throws a temper tantrum when the people of the Mons learn about Stu's true intentions, before ordering his killbots to murder them all.]]
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** In the season 2 alternative future, this happens again. [[Spoiler: Except this time instead of her head exploding, the rest of her explodes, leaving her head perfectly intact. Tiger finds it both ironic and humorous.]]

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** In the season 2 alternative future, this happens again. [[Spoiler: Except [[spoiler:Except this time instead of her head exploding, the rest of her explodes, leaving her head perfectly intact. Tiger finds it both ironic and humorous.]]



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* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler: She is really Achilles, the leader of the Pointed Circle.]]

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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Ty-Anne is an adult woman who acts like a spoiled teenager and speaks with an obnoxious high pitched whine. [[spoiler: She is really Achilles, the leader of the Pointed Circle.]]

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* ButtMonkey: If anything bad happens, it's happens to Josh.
* ClassicalAntiHero: He lacks many traits usually found in heroes, such as courage and being able to fight, but he's still far more moral than his other two compatriots.
* LoserProtagonist: He starts off as a janitor who still lives with his parents.
* NiceGuy: Josh is usually polite and decent to the people he talks to.



* TookALevelInBadass: Near the end of the show, he's able to at least hold his own in a fight.

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* TookALevelInBadass: Near the end of the show, first season, he's able to at least hold his own in a fight.



* {{Jerkass}}: He's very degrading towards Josh, and in one timeline where he is a partner of the company is critical of Kronish. [[spoiler:In the Bad!2017 however, he is a soft-spoken and harmless person instead]]

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* {{Jerkass}}: He's very degrading towards Josh, and in one timeline where he is a partner of the company is critical of Kronish. [[spoiler:In the Bad!2017 however, he is a soft-spoken and harmless person instead]]instead. However by the year 2162, he's become ''[[MadScientist far]] [[PsychopathicManchild worse]]'' than a Jerkass.]]


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* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: He claims to be "saving" humanity by uploading their consciousness into his mainframe, but in truth he just wants complete control over it.]]
* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler: Despite being a particularly intelligent fellow, his demeanor is comparable to that of a petulant child in a man's body. One particular example of this is when he throws a temper tantrum when the people of the Mons learn about Stu's true intentions, before ordering his killbots to murder them all.]]
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[[folder:Susan]]
* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler: While he has Josh, Tiger, and Wolf incarcerated in Ultra-Max, he informs them of all of their numerous time crimes, including the destruction of a cluster of planets, and tries to turn the team against each other. He also informs them that each time they time traveled they didn't change the future, they created an alternate timeline, meaning all of their efforts were wasted, to break their spirits. Come the TheReveal, that Ultra-Max is an advertisement for heavy duty menstruation products and they are in an AmusementParkofDoom, his explanations are made quite questionable.]]

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* {{Jerkass}}: He's very degrading towards Josh, and in one timeline where he is a partner of the company is critical of Kronish. [[spoiler:In the Bad!2017 however, he is a soft-spoken and harmless person instead, though by 2162, he's [[BigBad''much'']] [[MadScientist worse]]... than a Jerkass.]]

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* {{Jerkass}}: He's very degrading towards Josh, and in one timeline where he is a partner of the company is critical of Kronish. [[spoiler:In the Bad!2017 however, he is a soft-spoken and harmless person instead, though by 2162, he's [[BigBad''much'']] [[MadScientist worse]]... than a Jerkass.]]instead]]

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* {{Jerkass}}: He's very degrading towards Josh, and in one timeline where he is a partner of the company is critical of Kronish. [[spoiler:In the Bad!2017 however, he is a soft-spoken and harmless person instead.]]

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* BigBad: [[spoiler: Of Season 2. He's the one that created the cure that led to the BadFuture and masterminding the plan to download his followers' conciseness into his mainframe while killing off the rest of humanity.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: He's very degrading towards Josh, and in one timeline where he is a partner of the company is critical of Kronish. [[spoiler:In the Bad!2017 however, he is a soft-spoken and harmless person instead.instead, though by 2162, he's [[BigBad''much'']] [[MadScientist worse]]... than a Jerkass.]]



* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: It is hard to know when Stu finally crossed it. It might have been when he went through thousands of test subjects for his brain uploader or when he finally has a successful subject and immediately deletes her consciousness, leading her to a CessationOfExistence.]]



* TheReveal: [[There is no Mars launch. Stu's plan is to upload all of surviving humanity into his mainframe, called MARS, via BrainUploading and kill of the rest.]]

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* MadScientist: [[spoiler: He becomes this in his plan to "save" humanity via brain uploading. He uses thousands of people as test subjects which results in their deaths and after his first successful attempt of uploading someones mind he immediately deletes it. In the future, he is coercing, and later forcing, everyone to upload their consciousness into his mainframe where he will have complete control. When none of this works out, he decides to unleash his killer robots to wipe out everyone.]]
* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: It is hard to know when Stu finally crossed it. It might have been when he went through thousands of test subjects for his brain uploader or when he finally has a successful subject and immediately deletes her consciousness, leading her to a CessationOfExistence.]]
* ReplacementGoldfish: Feels this way for Ty-Anne, Tiger's genetic duplicate he adopted as his daughter.
* TheReveal: [[There is no Mars launch. Stu's plan is to upload all of surviving humanity into his mainframe, called MARS, via BrainUploading and kill of the rest.]]
* VillainousBSoD: [[spoiler: As a computer consciousness, this literally happens to Stu at the mere sight of Josh. Note that the Josh he is familiar with is a convicted terrorist from his own time and Stu is terrified that somehow Josh is alive and possibly after him.]]



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* HeroicSacrifice: Uploads his consciousness into Stu's mainframe knowing he might die. [[spoiler: He does.]]

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* ReplacementGoldish: She is for Stu. Ty-Anne is Tiger if Tiger had been raised as a relatively normal girl.

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** In the season 2 alternative future, this happens again. [[Spoiler: Except this time instead of her head exploding, the rest of her explodes, leaving her head perfectly intact. Tiger finds it both ironic and humorous.]]



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* ReplacementGoldish: She is for Stu. Ty-Anne is Tiger if Tiger had been raised as a relatively normal girl.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler: She is really Achilles, the leader of the Pointed Circle.]]
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[[folder:Torque]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Uploads his consciousness into Stu's mainframe knowing he might die. [[spoiler: He does.]]
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* BiTheWay: Wolf will happily have sex and get romantically involved with people regardless of gender.
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* YouCantFightFate: In the original timeless, he was myrmed: he was implanted with a small burrowing worm-like creature in his brain that slowly destroyed his intelligence and killed him. [[spoiler:In the new timeline, when he and Dingo travel to the present, it seems he was rescued before this happened. Turned out it is another constant.]]

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* YouCantFightFate: In the original timeless, timeline, he was myrmed: he was implanted with a small burrowing worm-like creature in his brain that slowly destroyed his intelligence and killed him. [[spoiler:In the new timeline, when he and Dingo travel to the present, it seems he was rescued before this happened. Turned out it is another constant.]]
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* YouCantFightFate: In the original timeless, he was myrmed: he was implanted with a small burrowing worm like creature in his brain that slowly destroyed his intelligence and killed him. [[spoiler:In the new timeline, when he and Dingo travel to the present, it seems he was rescued before this happened. Turned out it is another constant.]]

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* YouCantFightFate: In the original timeless, he was myrmed: he was implanted with a small burrowing worm like worm-like creature in his brain that slowly destroyed his intelligence and killed him. [[spoiler:In the new timeline, when he and Dingo travel to the present, it seems he was rescued before this happened. Turned out it is another constant.]]
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* WouldHarmAChild: Almost eagerly to, [[spoiler:at least until she becomes a nanny for baby Kronish.]]

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* WouldHarmAChild: Almost eagerly eager to, [[spoiler:at least until she becomes a nanny for baby Kronish.]]



* WouldHarmAChild: Almost eagerly to.

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* ScarsAreForever: One trait that remains consistent throughout the timelines are the scars he received from Tiger. [[spoiler:He later gets scars on the other side of his face]].

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* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: No matter where we find him in the various timelines, he’s a policeman of some sort, and he’s still trying to avenge the death of his partner, Santiago at the hands of Wolf and Tiger.

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* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: No matter where we find him in the various timelines, he’s a policeman of some sort, and he’s still trying to avenge the death of his partner, Santiago Santiago, at the hands of Wolf and Tiger.



* {{Jerkass}}: Is very degrading towards Josh, and in one timeline where he is a partner of the company is critical of Kronish. [[spoiler:In the Bad!2017 however, he is a soft-spoken and harmless person instead.]]

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* {{Jerkass}}: Is He's very degrading towards Josh, and in one timeline where he is a partner of the company is critical of Kronish. [[spoiler:In the Bad!2017 however, he is a soft-spoken and harmless person instead.]]



* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:Offers a variant to Josh. While they would not rule anything, she offers him the chance to join the Biotics and betray Tiger and Wolf. This would then lead to the Biotics completely defeating the Resistance.]]

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* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:Offers [[spoiler:She offers a variant to Josh. While they would not rule anything, she offers him the chance to join the Biotics and betray Tiger and Wolf. This would then lead to the Biotics completely defeating the Resistance.]]

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