History Characters / PennyArcade

* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: Gabe's knee-jerk reaction to nearly everything. He once curb stomped Tycho to death because he thought there was only one copy of PuzzleQuest left in the store, and tore out Tycho and Charles's throats with his teeth when he panicked over the proper pronounciation of "Gif".

* BiTheWay: Arguable. His fantasies about SpiderMan and PatrickSwayze tend to point this way. Not to mention his weird on-off HoYay with Apple fanboy Charles.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: His eyes turn red when he gets ''really'' angry. Its implied in an early strip that he may have brought '''something''' back with him from the dream world after having two consecutive nightmares about hell.

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Frequent. In the Penny Arcade card game, there is an attack of his that deals damage based on the number of letters in a given card.

* TheBeastmaster: A pet dragon, unicorn, and several VideoGame/{{Pokemon}} to his name. At one point he also managed to aquire a flock of {{Pikmin}} that proceeded to trash the apartment and kill Tycho. And his roster may grow at any time...

* IThoughtItMeant: In one strip, Gabe asks Jesus for info on the coming Nintendo Revolution (the development name for the Wii), and Jesus thought he was talking about an unspecified future cataclysm that would lead to humanity being forced underground.

The wordy, intellectual, and cynical half of the ''Penny Arcade'' duo, when the characters of Gabe and Tycho first diverged Tycho was something of the StraightMan to Gabe's more wild enthusiasm. However, [[CharacterDevelopment he quickly developed into a character]] [[NotSoAboveItAll as strange if not stranger]]. Tycho is known for his love of literature and wordplay, his overwritten fantasy series Epic Legends of the Hierarchs: The Elemenstor Saga, his *ahem* love of animals, and his deep knowledge of [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow horrors that man was not meant to know]].

** Like giraffe necks?

* BottomOfTheBarrelJoke: Gabe loves himself some low-hanging fruit when it comes to humor.

* HiddenDepths: Very seriously into Country-Western dancing.

** PsychopathicManchild

* NiceGuy
* PalsWithJesus

* HumanoidAbomination: Maybe, maybe not. He seems to enjoy cultivating that appearance, and his eyes subtly glow red when he's particularly angry, not to mention his [[ToThePain infamously disturbing speech]] in [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/4/10/ "I Hope You Like Text"]]... This may or may not be caused by demonic possession if an early strip from 1999 is to be believed.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Gabe, obviously

* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Not exactly, but as RedEyesTakeWarning shows, there is probably something REALLY dark inside him

* HumanoidAbomination: Maybe, maybe not. He seems to enjoy cultivating that appearance, and his eyes subtly glow red when he's particularly angry, not to mention his [[ToThePain infamously disturbing speech]] in [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/4/10/ "I Hope You Like Text"]]... This may or may not be caused by demonic possesion if an early strip from 1999 is to be belived.

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood

* TheBeastmaster: A pet dragon, unicorn, and several VideoGame/{{Pokemon}} to his name. And his roster may grow at any time...
* BiTheWay: Arguable. His fantasies about SpiderMan and PatrickSwayze tend to point this way.

* HumanoidAbomination: Maybe, maybe not. He seems to enjoy cultivating that appearance, and his eyes subtly glow red when he's particularly angry, not to mention his [[ToThePain infamously disturbing speech]] in [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/4/10/ "I Hope You Like Text"]]...

* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Not exactly, but as [[RedEyesTakeWarning]] shows, there is probably something REALLY dark inside him

The wordy, intellectual, and cynical half of the ''Penny Arcade'' duo, when the characters of Gabe and Tycho first diverged Tycho was something of the StraightMan to Gabe's more wild enthusiasm. However, he quickly developed into a character as strange if not stranger. Tycho is known for his love of literature and wordplay, his overwritten fantasy series Epic Legends of the Hierarchs: The Elemenstor Saga, his *ahem* love of animals, and his deep knowledge of horrors that man was not meant to know.

* NightmareFetishist: He longs for the day when games include StarfishAliens and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s as romance options. We're not told ''what'' his heart's desire is... just that acquiring it would be enough to ''[[tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlasphemousBoast damn Jesus to hell]]''.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: His eyes turn red when he gets ''really'' angry. He ''[[WildMassGuessing may]]'' be an EldritchAbomination of [[{{Zalgo}} some sort...]]

* NightmareFetishist: God yes. He longs for the day when games include StarfishAliens and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s as romance options.
** Oh, and we're not told ''what'' his heart's desire is... just that acquiring it would be enough to ''[[BeyondTheImpossible damn Jesus to hell]]''.

* NightmareFetishist: God yes. He longs for the day when games include StarfishAliens and EldritchAbominations as romance options.

* PsychopathicManchild

* BadassLonghair

Yeah, [[Literature/TheBible that one]]. In addition to being the Lord and Savior of Mankind, he loves fighting games, first person shooters, and is, in general, [[JesusWasWayCool awesome]].

* FlatEarthAtheist: A noted atheist... despite the fact that [[JesusWasWayCool Jesus Christ plays Mario Kart with Gabe regularly.]]

The idealistic, immature, and scatterbrained half of the duo, Gabe's enthusiasm and inability to think things through makes him the perfect Wise Guy to Tycho's straight man, though these roles are often reversed as he possesses a degree of common sense that Tycho lacks. Obsessed with immature humour, male genitalia (mostly his own), and Star Wars, he harbors homosexual tendencies, not so much repressed as simply unrealized and usually centering around ComicBook/SpiderMan. He is independently wealthy from his Doctor Raven Darktalon Blood series.

* TheBeastmaster: A pet dragon, unicorn, and several Pokemon to his name. And his roster may grow at any time...
* BiTheWay: Arguable. His fantasies about Spider-Man and Patrick Swayze tend to point this way.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The Cardboard Tube Samurai IS Gabe. Therefore he can slice things up with a perfectly round tube. He can actually cause nosebleeds by hating someone, which MAY be caused by the fact that Darth Vader might be his dad. Oh, and he got a blood infusion from SpiderMan. Hell, in ''the very first comic'', he gained psychic powers.

Tycho's young niece who shares her uncle's intellect and love of gaming, but only a ''little'' of his depravity. Despite her age, she played Final Fantasy on the Famicom... in the original Japanese. Is not to be trifled with.

* EnsembleDarkHorse

* MemeticMolester

* {{Squick}}

!Jesus Christ

Yeah, [[Literature/TheBible that one]]. In addition to being the Lord and Saviour of Mankind, he loves fighting games, first person shooters, and is, in general, [[JesusWasWayCool fucking metal]].

Orignally known as Chuck, an anti-Apple strawman, he had a great fall and was retooled as the hipper Charles. Lives across from Gabe and Tycho and occasionally visits to talk about Apple-based matters.

* CatchPhrase: Shut your pie hole!

* GuestFighter: One of the opposing players in PokerNightAtTheInventory.

The idealistic, immature, and scatterbrained half of the duo, Gabe's enthusiasm and inability to think things through makes him the perfect Wise Guy to Tycho's straight man, though these roles are often reversed as he possesses a degree of common sense that Tycho lacks. Obsessed with immature humour, male genitalia (mostly his own), and Star Wars, he harbors homosexual tendencies, not so much repressed as simply unrealized and usually centering around SpiderMan. He is independently wealthy from his Doctor Raven Darktalon Blood series.

* BiTheWay: Arguable. His fantasies about SpiderMan and Patrick Swayze tend to point this way.

* BlackComedyRape: Gabe has described it as "a literal rapist", although its only actual victims have been oranges and zombies so far. It has been shown acting... ''creepily'' towards the protagonists' wives, however.