History Characters / Starbound

* FrickinLaserBeams: Avian Blasters, which come in pistol and assault rifle variations.

* FrickinLaserBeams: When it's colored red, it fires beams of red light.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Get used to the laser sound, 'cause it's gonna be playing a ''lot''.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Occasionally stops to fire lasers at the player.

** This delves into FridgeLogic when you find out that most, if not all, of the arcade machine props are Hylotl-themed for the purposes of colonization.
* OurElvesAreBetter: The PC displays some rather haughty behavior now and then, but it's the other races' comments that tend to paint them as intolerable in a distinctively ... ''elfy'' way, for lack of a better word.
** Case in point, the PC Hylotl insults ''every flag except their own'', calling the Florans horrifying, the Glitch childish, the Avians stuck to old ways, the Apex barbaric, and the Humans crude and garish.
*** With the exception of the [[SixthRanger Novakid Flag]], in which they admittedly say are a "strange, but interesting species".

* HeroesEvilPredecessor: [[spoiler:She was originally one of Esther's students, as well as her surrogate daughter, and was training to become a protector. However, her FantasticRacism lead her to form Occassus, who become the primary enemy faction of the game.

* TheHeavy: Asra is the de-facto antagonist aside from the Ruin itself, and has plenty of dialogue to prove it.

* HomeworldEvacuation: Earth has been destroyed by an EldritchAbomination, leaving humanity scattered across the stars. They don't seem [[AngstWhatAngst entirely bummed out]] about it, though.

* [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Everything's Better With Ape People]]

* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: While they manage [[spoiler:to destroy the Ruin, they fail to escape it and are killed in the process. Thankfully, the Cultivator revives them.]]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Defeats several monsters and eldritch beings over the course of the story, including [[spoiler: the Ruin itself]].
* DoomedHometown: Earth.

** As well as forty thousand cubic feet of dirt, rock, tar, or any other substance you might come across (including liquids such as scorching hot lava or deadly poison, which you can carry by hand, apparently). And enough furniture to decorate a small mansion.

A god-like entity that wandered the Galaxy an untold amount of time ago, The Cultivator helped to uplift the main six races through powerful artifacts it gifted to each of them. Aeons before the story began, it vanished after battling The Ruin, leaving behind grand ruins such as the gateways, The Ark, and the challenge portals.

* BodyMotifs: Its hand is the most prominent feature of its statue in the Ark - held carefully over the galaxy hologram, and splayed out as though sheltering it. [[spoiler:When it addresses the player at the end of the game, it appears as a hand made of energy, held in the same pose.]]

* GodIsGood: The closest thing to a genuine, benevolent god the Starbound universe has.
* HeroicSacrifice: Sealed away the Ruin, but the damage to itself was so catastrophic that it 'shattered' afterwords. [[spoiler:These fragments would later form the first Novakids.]]

* TheNicknamer: Related to TranslationTrainWreck above, rather than refer to different races by their proper names, the Agarans create a variety of weird descriptive nicknames to use. For example, Glitch are 'clankbeast', Hylotl are 'squishfish', and Apex are 'hairthing'. The only exception is 'Kluex', implying that Avian missionaries have contacted them in the past.

** Or maybe not. Post 1.4, Agarans have been found working with bandits to imprison Florans and the guards will attack the player. This could be the work of the Frackin' Universe mod.[[/folder]]
* TranslationTrainWreck: What you ''can'' translate of their language ends up being a mishmash of alien words and severely-mangled English, though there are patterns.
--->'''(To Glitch PC):''' "Hoom, clankbeast. Habba nab cartography spaceshroom."
--->'''(To Avian PC):''' "Hoom flap! Bizarra no Kluex fry!"
--->'''(To Floran PC):''' "Hoom! Hoom hoom shroom! Plant naturra kissface!"

* UnwittingPawn: It's heavily implied it played on Asra Nox's human supremacist viewpoints in order to use her to carry out it's goals. And considering it's view on life, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness it'll be all but certain that she will become another body in it's wake once she overstays her usefulness.]]

The most common enemy faction in the main quest, Occasus was originally a Human supremacist group obsessed both with ejecting other races from Earth (thus ending the protectorate) and with making Humanity the galaxy's dominant species no matter the cost. After the arrival of The Ruin, they have transformed into a cult that worships it like a god and seeks to hasten it's escape from The Ark. They are led by Asra Nox, a powerful warrior who harbors a bitter grudge against the Protectorate, and Esther Bright in particular.

** PronounTrouble: However, this occasionally leads to some confusion between strangers:
--->'''Floran Guard:''' ''(To Floran PC)'' "Floran had better not cause trouble, or Floran will eat... Floran? Floran is confused."

** TinTyrant: The others, including the Impervium-tier armor, tend to invoke this instead.

** TranslationTrainWreck: What ''does'' come out ends up being a mishmash of alien words and severely-mangled English, though there are patterns.
--->'''(To Glitch PC):''' "Hoom, clankbeast. Habba nab cartography spaceshroom."
--->'''(To Avian PC):''' "Hoom flap! Bizarra no Kluex fry!"
--->'''(To Floran PC):''' "Hoom! Hoom hoom shroom! Plant naturra kissface!"

* InformedAbility: Although it has the ability to draw people inside itself to mutate them into Moontants, it never tries this trick on you and simply settles for trying to kill you in it's boss fight.

* ZombieApocalypse: Uses it's ability of assimilating and transforming people into mutated abominations [[spoiler: to kickstart an especially nasty one at the Erchius Mining Facility.]]

** BadBoss: He can still accidentally kill them with his own UFO laser, however.

** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: The end of the Bounty Hunter questline sees her finally arrested and brought to justice.]]

* GoneHorriblyWrong: The Glitch created the first one by trying to create an advanced form of Glitch. Unfortunately, it went berserk due to the monster brain.
** Greenfinger and Big Ape tried recreating the experiment but used a Floran brain instead. It went berserk too.

* ZeroEffortBoss: It wasn't rebalanced for Upbeat Giraffe, and by the time you have defeated the last boss, Shockhopper Mk1, you'll be already at Level 6, two levels ahead of when it was supposed to be fought. [[ThatOneBoss Averted when you try to fight it at Level 4]].

* RecurringBoss: You fight her in person twice - First as the boss of the Grand Pagoda Library, and the second time just before facing the Ruin itself. Three times, if you count her riding atop the Bone Dragon.

* WholeCostumeReference: The Seeker, Wanderer, Adventurer and Trailblazer sets for Humans strongly resemble [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Spartan armor]], while the Universalist set resembles [[Franchise/DeadSpace Isaac Clarke's engineer suit]]. Similarly, the Scouter and Scavenger armor sets are dead ringers for [[Francise/{{Alien}} Colonial Marines]].

* DaChief: Plays this role to the player character in the Bounty Hunter questline.

* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: After being defeated for the final time, she realizes that her life with Occasus wasn't really much better, describing it as being surrounded by hateful people.]]

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!! Fatal Circuit
Formerly the game's second boss, a constructed robot gone amok.

* CoolSword: The Solus Katana, which is powered by a solarium core and [[SwordBeam can fire a spread of explosive projectiles]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: She simply warps away before you fight the Heart of Ruin, and is never mentioned again.]]

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* PettingZooPeople: Sort of fox-like, and also sort of pangolin-like, but mostly just another humanoid like the main races.

As the name would imply, humanoid frogs. Froggs can be found in almost any swamp in the Galaxy. Despite being almost toally silent, they have integrated themselves into the galactic economy just fine.

* TheGrotesque: Its a giant, slimy maggot creature who just wants to share with you some life lessons.

* IceCreamKoan: Much of his advice is just profound sounding gibberish
-->'''Maggot Man''':"Maggot Man says: mighty swords are not good pens!"

* CardCarryingVillain: Penguins are proud of their reputation as troublemakers and pirates.