History Characters / TheOrville

** The sun is regarded as a symbol of suffering and death, and as such find the concept of the sun as a ''positive'' thing to be uncomfortable and disturbing.

* EveryoneHasStandards: What causes him to reevaluate his long-standing prejudices in "Midnight Blue" is him finding out that Topa had been tortured and nearly killed by his own government. He might have been initially disgusted with Topa choosing to live as a girl, but even he's horrified that the rest of his people would hold such virulent hatred for the opposite sex that they'd be willing to ''kill her''.

* EveryoneHasStandards: What causes him to reevaluate his long-standing prejudices in "Midnight Blue" is him finding out that Topa has been tortured and nearly killed by his own government. He might have been initially disgusted with Topa choosing to live as a girl, but even he's horrified that the rest of his people would hold such virulent hatred for the opposite sex that they'd be willing to ''kill her''.

* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: She becomes a Dolly Parton mega-fan after hearing "9 to 5", even using the song's lyrics in her speech to the Union Council. In "Midnight Blue", she's listening to Dolly's music for inspiration, and has papered an entire wall of her house with pictures and sketches of her.

* VerbalTic: She doesn't use contractions when speaking. Ed lampshades it.

A human woman from the 21st century who has left her phone in a time capsule for Union anthropologists to study.

* ChekhovsSkill: She managed to swipe a comscanner from the ''Orville'' during the events of "Majority Rule". When she's about to go home in "Future Unknown", she palms another one stuffed full of stolen technical specs. It turns out that the ''Orville'' crew anticipated she might try that and installed a detector on the shuttle that was going to take her home.

* CultureJustifiesAnything:
** This is the Moclan stance in "About A Girl." Their culture teaches that being born female is a genetic defect that is to be corrected as soon as possible. Even after being shown empirical evidence that this is not so even among their own species, they still hold to their beliefs.

* IndustrialWorld: Moclus, is almost entirely covered in arms factories.

[[caption-width-right:300:Played by Creator/SethMacFarlane]]

* TooMuchInformation: Has a tendency to do this with his crew.

* TheWorkaholic: Was apparently this before his marriage disintegrated.

[[caption-width-right:300:Played by Creator/AdriannePalicki]]

* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' tell her to calm down.

* DeadpanSnarker: Every bit as much as the Captain.

* StatuesqueStunner: Goes with being played by Adrianne Palicki.

[[caption-width-right:300:Played by Peter Macon]]

[[caption-width-right:300:Played by Creator/PennyJohnsonJerald]]

* ActorSharedBackground: is from UsefulNotes/{{Baltimore}}.

[[caption-width-right:300:Played by J. Lee]]

* BrilliantButLazy: It's discovered in the first season that he's second only to Isaac in raw intelligence, but preferred to coast in jobs that don't require him to reveal his full intellect (see TallPoppySyndrome below).
* TheCasanova: To the point where he dated a two-headed alien woman without one head knowing about the other. He tries to give Malloy and Isaac dating advice, though Isaac hilariously misinterprets some of it.
** He's never been dumped, and his ''worst'' breakup ended with the girl telling him that he could still come over and have sex with her anytime he wanted. He and Talla reluctantly break things off because [[ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex he keeps getting injured]].

[[caption-width-right:300:Played by Creator/JessicaSzohr]]

[[caption-width-right:300:Played by Creator/ScottGrimes]]

[[caption-width-right:300:Played by Creator/HalstonSage]]

[[caption-width-right:300:Played by Creator/AnneWinters]]

** Is the recipient of one of these from Mercer after an attack by a Kaylon ship inadvertently puts reviving Isaac on a time limit. As she is the only person on the ship who has any chance at reviving him, Mercer orders her to report to engineering and do it. However, such is Charly's hatred of the Kaylon that she outright refuses to carry out the order and is promptly relieved of duty as a result.

[[caption-width-right:300:Played by Mark Jackson (voice)]]

A mid-level exploratory ship of the Planetary Union.

[[caption-width-right:250:Played by Creator/NormMacDonald (voice)]]

[[caption-width-right:250:Played by Creator/LarryJoeCampbell]]

[[caption-width-right:210:Played by Mike Henry]]

[[caption-width-right:250:Played by Creator/PatrickWarburton]]

[[caption-width-right:250:Played by Creator/ChadLColeman]]

[[caption-width-right:250:Played by Blesson Yates (season 2) Imani Pullum (season 3)]]

[[caption-width-right:250:Played by Chris Johnson]]

[[caption-width-right:250:Played by Rena Owen]]

!! Teleya

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!!Laura Huggins

!! Anaya
The daughter of Ed Mercer and Teleya.

* ChildOfForbiddenLove: Well, even though the love between the individuals in question was arguably one-sided, ''any'' sort of friendly- let alone ''carnal''- relations between Krill and humans (or any Union-affiliated race) were a huge no-no at the time of her birth.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: By the internal chronology of the show, she can only be a little over a year old, but already has the size and intellectual maturity of a human eight year old child.

!! Lysella

!!The Kaylon

!!The Moclans

* AlienBlood: Moclan blood appears to be black

* ActorSharedBackground: revealed in "Pria" that he's from New England, although Ed is from Boxford, Massachusetts and Seth is from Kent, Connecticut.
* TheAlcoholic: Downplayed; One of the irks Kelly had was that he liked to have a beer for breakfast, citing "German tradition" (even though he doesn't have a lick of German ancestry), and the bottle was one of his solaces after his marriage fell apart. In Season 2, the ship's bartender half-jokingly mentions he's going to have to start keeping an entire extra supply of whiskey just to keep up with Ed's intake. The captain even glibly refers to himself as an alcoholic at one point.
** Prior to the start of the series, this trope was played straight, with Ed coming to work hung over several times following the divorce, destroying his previously up-and-coming reputation to the point that the ''Orville'' is his last chance to save his career.

* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: Unlike Alara, Talla comes from a military family and has a better handle on the scorn other Xelayans feels about her chosen occupation. Also, Talla is much more self-confident in her own abilities and what she can contribute to the ''Orville'' and the Union. She is also more prudent and more likely to come up with a clever solution than one relying on strength.

* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: Unlike Alara, Talla comes from a military family and has a better handle on the scorn other Xelayans feels about her chosen occupation. Also, Talla is much more self-confident in her own abilities and what she can contribute to the ''Orville'' and the Union.