History Characters / PennyArcadeAdventures

* FanNickname: Because his name isn't provided in the game itself, he is commonly called "Yog Baomun" because of a snippet of narration in ''Episode 1''. The ''Episode 3'' prose indicates that this phrase is a salutation.

** [[spoiler: CosmicPlaything: Then you learn Yog Ur was behind your getting involved.]]

* DummiedOut / SecretAIMoves: Hard to say which this counts as, but if you fight every battle in the third game's extra chapter, beating its final boss gains them just enough EXP to reach level 17, which gives them a move called Rake Armageddon. Too bad the episode ends at that point and there's no way to actually use it in battle. [[spoiler: Considering the implications about Rake Guy's nature and abilities listed below, maybe it's for the better.]]
* [[spoiler: EldritchAbomination: A comment in ''The Begining of the End'' hints that there is more to you then meets the eye.]]

* TheGenericGuy
* [[spoiler: {{God}}: It's implied that this is what happened at the end of ''Episode 4'' if that Rake constellation is any hint. Or God's bodyguard, at least.]]
* HelloInsertNameHere

* [[spoiler: SealedBadassInACan: Is cast into the Periphery by Tycho in the prequel to ''Episode 3''.]]
* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn: Was deliberately inserted into the group by Yog Ur to help along the destruction of the universe.]]

* GenreSavvy: [[spoiler: At least enough to know that you don't try to directly fight heroes yourself.]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Brahe clan is ''very'' big and ''very'' crazy. As its last surviving descendent, Tycho gets a little tired of all the other doomsday cults giving him flak over it.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: His weapons in episode 3, though the animation looks like a tommy gun.

* [[spoiler: ArtificialHuman: Is apparently one, as Episode 4 reveals. Though where he was made by the Brahes or enslaved by them is never made clear.]]
* BadassCape: Played for laughs. He dons one resembling Doctor Blood's cape towards the end of Episode 3 and it's anything but badass. It's also been linked to spontaneous internal human combustion. And by "linked to" we mean "directly responsible for."

** The ending of episode 4 reveals that [[spoiler:Gabe isn't ''possessed'' by Lucifer, he ''is'' Lucifer, handed down through the Brahe clan as a bodyguard and general thing-puncher. Tycho is apparently the first Brahe who regarded him as an actual friend.]]

* PlayingWithFire: His elemental attacks in Episode 3.

!!'''"Rake Guy" a.k.a. "You"'''
The player character in episodes 1 and 2, who joins the Startling Developments Investigations after thier house was destroyed by Fruit Fucker Prime. S/he's absent from the rest of the series. As explained in the third episode's "Begining of the End" prequel DLC, [[spoiler:Tycho sealed them in the Periphery and wiped Gabe's memory of them.]]

* [[spoiler: EldritchAbomination: A comment in the Episode 3 prequel hints that there is more to you then meets the eye.]]
* FeaturelessProtagonist: Parodied in ''Episode 3'': since his or her appearance was customizable in the first 2 games, the short extra chapter in the 3rd episode involving them solves this problem by having Gabe and Tycho randomly decide to refer to everyone with gender-neutral pronouns, with the latter stuffing them in a sack for the entirety of the episode so that nobody can tell what they actually look like.

A skull in a jar that was once Gabe and Tycho's partner. He's their head of security in episodes 1 and 2 and thus serves as a prop. He joins them in field work in Episode 3 and regains his voice (if not his skin) in Episode 4.

* AscendedExtra: Becomes a playable character in ''Episode 3'' and ''4'' after being a prop in the first two episodes.

* NoodleIncident: How he became a skull in a jar is unclear, though Tycho mentions that something called the Geometricus was involved, and that Tycho blames himself for it.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: His jar rapidly changes colors when a woman plays with its cork in episode 3.

A PI and Tycho's ex-wife, introduced in episode 3.

A mysterious doctor who helps Gabe, Tycho and the Player in the second episode [[spoiler: He's revealed to be serving Yog Modaigh in ''Episode 3'' and steals the paintings it needs to enter this plane. He joins the party in ''Episode 4'', revealing that he was doing so to save his lover Hestia.]]

The fourth and final god of the Quartet of the Dusk of Man. [[spoiler:He is in fact the narrator of episodes 1 and 2. His true form is a hideous mass of meat that hangs over the entire Underhell.]]

* VillainsOutShopping: [[spoiler:If his dialogue in episode 1 is anything to go by, he has a soft spot for windsurfing. How he does it when he's the size of a continent, we'll never know.]]

* BreakThemByTalking: Yes, an inanimate object did this. At the end of episode 4, it [[spoiler: revealed itself to have taken the form of Tycho's sword, and taunted him with images of the many ways Anne-Claire would die at the hands of Yog Ur. After spending the entire game being subtly drained by the Necrowombicon's power, plus the despair this display gave him, allowed the fourth God to possess Tycho]].

* ShapeShifter: [[spoiler:Disguises itself as Tycho's sword for the entirety of ''Episode 4.'']]

The player character in episodes 1 and 2, who joins the Startling Developments Investigations after his house is destroyed by Fruit Fucker Prime. He's absent from the rest of the series. As explained in the third episode's "Begining of the End" prequel DLC, [[spoiler:Tycho sealed him in the Periphery and wiped Gabe's memory of him.]]

* ButtMonkey: House gets stomped on by a giant robot, roped into fighting Elder Gods, temporary home gets destroyed, you finally find a new place to stay... gets burnt too the ground. [[spoiler: And then see SealedBadassInACan below.]]

* FeaturelessProtagonist: Parodied in ''Episode 3'': since his or her appearance was customizeable in the first 2 games, the short extra chapter in the 3rd episode involving them solves this problem by having Gabe and Tycho randomly decide to refer to everyone with gender-neutral pronouns, with the latter stuffing them in a sack for the entirety of the episode so that nobody can tell what they actually look like.

* [[spoiler: {{God}}: It's implied that this is what happened at the end of Episode 4, if that Rake constellation is any hint. Or God's bodyguard, at least.]]

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Who knew you could fight Elder Gods with garden tools?

!!'''"Rake Guy a.k.a. You"'''

* {{Badass}}
** BadassCape: Played for laughs. He dons one resembling Doctor Blood's cape towards the end of Episode 3 and it's anything but badass. It's also been linked to spontaneous internal human combustion. And by "linked to" we mean "directly responsible for."

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:Goes after Anne-Claire in the Periphery specifically because he knows doing so will draw Tycho to him]].
** NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Ironically, this actually ends up saving Tycho's life, as Moira was literally seconds away from shooting him [[MamaBear in a rage over what he did to Anne-Claire]] when Modaigh attacked.]]

* AnIcePerson: His elemental attacks in Episode 3

* [[spoiler: WhatTheHellHero: Moira is incredibly horrified when she finds out that Tycho sealed Anne-Claire in the periphery and plans to shoot him. Yog Modiagh's arrival in the Periphery is the only thing that stops her. Though Tycho was fine with being shot as long as their job was done first.]]

The player character in episodes 1 and 2, who joins the Startling Developments Investigations after his house is destroyed by Fruit Fucker Prime. He's absent from the rest of the series. As explained in the third episode's "Begining of the End" prequel DLC [[spoiler: Tycho sealed him in the Periphery and wiped Gabe's memory of him.]]

* FeaturelessProtagonist: Parodied in Episode 3: since his or her appearance was customizeable in the first 2 games, the short extra chapter in the 3rd episode involving them solves this problem by having Gabe and Tycho randomly decide to refer to everyone with gender-neutral pronouns, with the latter stuffing them in a sack for the entirety of the episode so that nobody can tell what they actually look like.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: You start on one. You get it by the end of Episode 2.
* [[spoiler: SealedBadassInACan: Is cast into the Periphery by Tycho in the prequel to episode 3.]]

* KillItWithFire: Attacks enemies with a flamethrower in episode 1.
** MoreDakka: Rains missiles down from a blimp in episode 2.
* OutOfFocus: Disappears after the first act of Episode 3 to spend time with her parents. [[spoiler: This turns out to be a lie: Tycho instead sealed her in the Periphery so that she could recreate the universe into a far better one after it's inevitable collapse.]]
* RobotBuddy: Fuschia, her pet [[spoiler: Reformed Fruit Fucker]]

* SomethingElseAlsoRises: His jar rapidly changes colors when a woman plays with the cork to his Jar in episode 3.
* TemptingFate: Makes a ''really'' bad habit of this in episode 4. [[spoiler:At least two boss fights can be attributed to it.]]

* BreakThemByTalking: Yes, an inanimate object did this. At the end of episode 4, it [[spoiler: revealed itself to have taken the form of Tycho's sword, and taunted him with images of the many ways Anne-Claire would die at the hands of Yog Ur. After spending the entire game being subtetly drained by the Necrowombicon's power, plus the despair this display gave him, allowed the fourth God to possess Tycho]].

* SelfMadeOrphan: A partial subversion, he left home at a young age because he heard how all great people start as orphans... his parents are pretty worried about him.

* [[spoiler: {{God}}: It's implied that this is what happened at the end of Episode 4, if that Rake constellation is any hint.]]

* FeaturelessProtagonist: Parodied in Episode 3: since his or her appearance was customizeable in the first 2 games, the 3rd episode solves this problem by having Gabe and Tycho randomly decide to refer to everyone with gender-neutral pronouns, with the latter stuffing them in a sack for the entirety of the episode so that nobody can tell what they actually look like.

* BadassDamsel: Imprisoned in a giant tower/slave camp in the Underhell. [[spoiler: Haha, no. She was running the place within a month.]]

* OmnicidalManiac: No, you're not reading that wrong. The Brahe clan is actively trying to end existence. This is actually a good thing, in a way.