History Characters / Oddworld

* HiddenDepth: Toby, along with Alf, used their extensive knowledge you wouldn't think they would have. He's the one who suggest the Communication Towers having the Tape Player to play Abe's message and that Feeco Depot likely having all the ingredients Abe would need to create a large cure for the brew's poison.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Spends all his time in his office at the dam. Justified, as being a rich CorruptCorporateExecutive he does not need to get his own hands dirty, he has henchmen for that.

* BetterTheDevilYouKnow: Wanting to hedge his bets on a potential Steef head, Sekto opts to not wait on the Stranger to get back to him, and calls up D. Caste to tip him off about it. Raider might be a crook, but he's one that Sekto is familiar with and has done work for him in the past, so he can be at least counted on to at least check if the Stranger's claims are bogus or not.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Of both ''Abe's Oddysee'' and ''Abe's Exoddus.''

* GreaterScopeVillain: Villian'''s''', plural, to Mullock, the other [=CEOs=], and the Magog Cartel as a whole.

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* TerribleTrio: Aslik is very clearly the dominant voice in the group, with the others quickly reigned in into the roles of his henchmen.

* ICanRuleAlone: Alsik's would-be plan. He obviously intends to use the current situation to boost his own career with no regard to Dripik and Phleg, but they are too stupid to realise it and so he convinces them to throw their lot with him. He does not get to actually follow through because Abe gets rid of him and other bosses before that.
* PointyHairedBoss: Among the trio of executives, he is the most out-of-touch (and the most incompetent) of them. In his first scene alone, he berates a Slig, who is alerting to him about Abe's attack, for disturbing his beauty sleep and dismissing it as a mere "conspiracy theory". Afterwards, when he goes back to settling down, complete with headphones and listening to a relaxing music, he completely misses Abe's arrival and chaos that ensue on his base.

* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: His outfit resembles one, fitting for his MadScientist-esque occupation (though according to [[http://www.oddworld.com/2012/03/dear-alf-march-2012/ Dear Alph]] it's actually a chef's jacket).

* PostFinalBoss: He appears in the story for the first time and is dealt with after the overall BigBad of the game - vice-president Aslik - has already been dispatched by Abe.

!Unseen/Concept/Other Characters:

[[folder:Fangus Klot]]
!!Fangus Klot

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The proposed hero of ''The Brutal Ballad of Fangus Klot''. He was a shepherd who was captured and forced to compete as a pitfighter before escaping and being infected with rabies. Now he needs to free his home before he succumbs to his rabies.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Fangus was going to be a more brutal story than other Oddworld titles.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Looks a lot more humanoid than any other ''Oddworld'' character.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: Fangus has to finish his mission before succumbing to his rabies.
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[[folder:The Vamps]]
!!The Vamps

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[[folder:Squeek]]
!!Squeek

The proposed third protagonist of the Oddworld Quintology. He's an alien of indeterminate origins who has been "evicted" from his body by Vykkers when his organs were repossessed.

* BrainInAJar: His true species would've been kept a secret for most of the game.
* GrandTheftMe: His story would've been reclaiming his body parts.
* OrganTheft: Everything but his brain was repossessed.
* TinCanRobot: He would've started out at least, in a very rickety barely functional robot body.

[[folder:Albino Slig]]
!! Albino Slig

The proposed protagonist for the potential game ''[=SligStorm=]''. A rare white Slig that must try to escape from the other Sligs trying to kill him for reasons unknown.

[[folder:Lady Margaret]]
!!Lady Margaret

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The current Glukkon Queen. Has only been mentioned in the newspaper articles and bad ending of ''Munch's Oddysee.'' She was originally supposed to play a greater role in ''Munch's Oddysee'', such as holding Molluck on trial for the destruction of Rupture Farms, but she was eventually cut due to time constraints imposed by Microsoft.
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* BigBad: This would have presumably been her role in ''Munch's Oddysee''.
* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: As of the events of ''Munch's Oddysee'' due to the lack of Gabbit lungs to replace her failing pair.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of both ''Abe's Oddysee'' and ''Abe's Exoddus.''
* TwoBeingsOneBody: In a horrifying early concept art for the bad ending of ''Munch's Oddysee'', Munch would have been surgically attached lung-to-lung with Lady Margaret.

[[folder:Lady Margaret's Grandmother]]
!! Lady Margaret's Grandmother

* TheManBehindTheMan: Lady Margaret, who is herself powerful, needs to answer to her.

[[folder:Sam]]
!! Sam

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The current Mudokon Queen. She has only been seen as a caricature on the Mudokon egg cartons in ''Munch's Oddysee.''

* TheGhost: As mentioned, she's only appeared in caricature in ''Munch's Oddysee''. Her presence also hangs over the plot of ''Soulstorm''.
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:Assumed to be in effect by Abe (and by extension Alf and Toby, once Abe fills them in) as of the end of ''Soulstorm'', though it's left as part of the SequelHook.]]
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Her whereabouts, and reasons for her assumed ParentalAbandonment of her children, serves as this for ''Oddworld: Soulstorm''.]]

[[folder:Shrink/Guardian Angels]]
!!Shrink/Guardian Angels

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[[caption-width-right:350:You need to look within... ''it's time to confess!'']]

Robots with artificial intelligence designed by Vykker's Lab to conduct therapy on Sam in order to keep production rates of Mudokon eggs stable.

* LooseCanon: Although the first Shrink we see shows up exclusively in the 1997 ''Abe's Oddysee'' trailer advertising the game and in the bonus HundredPercentCompletion reward, [[AllThereInTheManual concept art and lore]] tells us that they serve an in-universe purpose to keeping Mudokon egg productions high. Later, the trailer would get a high-definition release that changed the Shrink's final line from "if you wanna be free!" to "it's time to confess!" Couple that with the room Abe is sitting in being the one he hangs from in ''Oddysee's'' finale, and it implies that the Shrink was there to torture a confession out of Abe for the damage he has caused [=RuptureFarms=].
* PsychoPsychologist: Due to their purpose, at best they have a LackOfEmpathy to Sam's situation despite being designed to alleviate her depression. The one seen in the ''Abe's Oddysee'' 1997 trailer on the other hand gives encouraging advice to Abe before proceeding to torture the poor Mudokon.
* RoboticTortureDevice: The one featured in the trailer is certainly equipped as such, though it's unknown whether all the Shrinks come with those instruments as the standard.
* UncannyValley: The monitor tends to sport a Mudokon face with jittery animation and ''[[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes.]]''
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Its uses both an almost normal Mudokon voice accompanied by a guttural voice when speaking.

[[folder:Skillya]]
!! Skillya

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[[caption-width-right:329:Concept art by Farzad Varahramyan]]

The current Slig Queen.

* AbusiveParents: She sells her children into terrible working conditions because she despises them all. She would even eat a lot of her babies the moment they're born.
* AdiposeRex: She's so massive, the concept art shows that Sligs would have had to push her around because she couldn't move on her own.
* TheDreaded: There's few things a Slig fears more than being sent back to their mom.
* EvilCounterpart: To Sam. She hates her babies and willingly sells them for profit, if she doesn't immediately eat them.
* FreudianExcuse: Her hatred for her children is said to be because the birthing process is extremely painful.

* GassHole: It's one of the thing's he's most famous for.

The leading industrial race of Oddworld. After attempting to use black magic and nearly driving their species to extinction because of it, the remaining Glukkons decided to move on to an industrial life, creating the Magog Cartel. Due to their weak state, they generally use Sligs to do the dirty work for them.

* MagicVersusScience: They are squarely on the side of science, rejecting natural balance and ancient mysticism for advanced technology, growing industry, and advanced economics. In the lore, they were once as spiritually orientated and mystic as the Mudokons. However, after dabbling with black magic in an attempt to earn notoriety and respect from other native Oddworld races, they almost caused their own extinction. This lead to the surviving Glukkons abandoning their spiritual ways and becoming an industrial species.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Glukkons used to be allies with the Mudokons, but after the arrival of the Mudokon Moon, leading the Mudokons to believe they were the superior race, Glukkons decided to hide underground and revolt against them.

* AbusiveParents: Their mean demeanors come from the harsh and loveless manner in which they are raised. Slig queens are noted to have no emotional attachment towards their offspring and willingly sell them off to buyers. On occasion, they also ''[[EatsBabies eat their newborns]]''.

* ButtMonkey: Not as much as the Mudokons, but if ''Soulstorm'' is anything to believe, the Sligs are always seen as expendable and are so disrespected, their Glukkon Bosses feel the need to stiff them of their pay. [[spoiler:They soon realize that even a Sligs' patiences has limits]].

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Even though he is the savior of his fellow Mudokons, they still mock and disrespect him. Only Munch has genuinely thanked him. This is averted in the ''Soulstorm'' reboot where he rightfully gets the respect from Mudokon slaves and practically view him as a savior.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: A few of this in ''Abe's Oddysee''. Abe initially spoke with a creepy monotone voice that become deeper and more expressive in later games. He narrated cutscenes with rhyming, which was also abandoned in later games. Any possessed Slig would have been immediately killed by other Sligs on site, and he was unable to possess Scrabs and Paramites.

Head of [=RuptureFarms=], member of The Magog Cartel and Abe's boss. Molluck The Glukkon's only desire is to make more and more wealth. To do so he has hunted down The Meeches, Scrabs and Paramites and turned them into Snack Food, driving The Meeches into extinction as a result. When he hears that Scrabs and Paramites are no longer turning up, he decides to make something "New N Tasty", Mudokon Pops out of his own workers and make a fortune off of them. Molluck seemingly died at the end of ''Oddysee'' with [=RuptureFarms=]' destruction, but it was revealed he had survived and gone into hiding. When learned that he may still live the Glukkon Queen ordered his capture to be put on trial and executed for Abe destroying [=RuptureFarms=].

* CloseRangeCombatant: Shock Rockers in ''Soulstorm'' only carry stun rods and lack any long ranged capabilities. Despite being the least threatening, they wear a helmet that renders them immune to being struck in the head, and also cannot be possessed.
* ColdSniper: ''Soulstorm'' introduces snipers, they are deployed in strategic areas (and away from Abe's possession range), and are precise shots at great distances (despite being noted for their poor vision), being capable of picking off Abe the moment their sights are on him.

* BrutalHonesty: He's fond of speaking his mind without mincing his words. [[spoiler:This ends up being his demise in bad ending, where Molluck throws him out of the blimp after saying some rather unpleasant remarks. In very bad ending there's even a newspaper stating that his splattered remains were found.]]

* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler:Happens for bad ending where he's thrown out of the blimp after pissing off Molluck.]]

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:During the good ending he persuades Morguer's and Aslik's sligs to stage a coup on their bosses plus Brewmaster while the three were trying to undo Abe's exploits in the brewery, effectively allowing for the brew antidote to be distributed across the Mudos]].

* DrJerk:: They are devious doctors.

The proposed protagonist for the potential game ''Slig Storm''. A rare white Slig that must try to escape from the other Sligs trying to kill him for reasons unknown.

* TheSymbiote: Fleeches are the Mutualism kind with Slurgs. Slurgs can alert the Fleeches of invaders, and the Fleeches allow the Slurgs to eat their dropplings as a result ([[FridgeHorror But how do Fleeches poop?]])

* UglyCute: As per the norm with Oddworld protagonists.

* OneManArmy: Takes on more enemies than both Abe and Munch put together. And in comparison to both of them, he does it with almost no outside help. All he has are his crossbow, the critters he carries, and his fists and head.

The BigBad of Stranger's Wrath. Head of Sekto Industries and owner of the power plant that dams the Mongo River.

The proposed hero of The Brutal Ballad of Fangus Klot. He was a shepherd. He was captured and forced to compete as a pitfighter before escaping and being infected with rabies. Now he needs to free his home before he succumbs to his rabies.

The proposed protagonist for the potential game SligStorm. A rare white Slig that must try to escape from the other Sligs trying to kill him for reasons unknown.

* TwoBeingsOneBody: In a horrifying early concept art for the bad ending of ''Munch's Oddysee'', Munch would have been surgically attached lung-to-lung with Lady Margaret.

* SequelHook: [[spoiler:She is one to ''Oddworld: Soulstorm''.]]