History Characters / Thunderbirds

* ActionGirl: In the 2004 movie, at any rate; one of the few good elements in the eyes of fans.

Voiced by: David Graham (original), ? (Latin American Spanish dub, series), Creator/YamilAtala (Latin American Spanish dub, movie); Played by: Ben Torgersen

Voiced by: David Graham (original), Pedro D'Aguillón Jr. (Latin American Spanish dub, movie); Played by: [[Film/RevengeOfTheNerds Anthony]] [[Series/{{ER}} Edwards]]

Voiced by: David Graham (original), Fernando Rivas Salazar (Latin American Spanish dub, series); Played by: Bhasker Patel

Voiced by: David Graham (original), Juan José Hurtado (Latin American Spanish dub, series), Raúl de la Fuente (Latin American Spanish dub, movie); Played by: Ron Cook

* LukeIMightBeYourFather: On the commentary for Thunderbird 6, Sylvia Anderson refers to him as "Hood Jr." implying that he may be related to The Hood.

* Manchild: A [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] example - Alan is generally as mature and responsible as any of the team. But as the youngest of the brothers, he is often the most likely to whine or complain when things are not going his way. Examples include when he realises he must rescue an annoying DJ (on whom Tin-Tin also seems a bit too keen), or when he's left out of his brothers' night out in Paris due to being too young to attend the same clubs as them.

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Although engineering is his main forte, he is shown to be into chemistry in "[[Recap/ThunderbirdsS1E19DangerAtOceanDeep Danger At Ocean Deep]]", geology in "[[Recap/ThunderbirdsS1E4TerrorInNewYork Terror In New York]]" and archaeology in "[[Recap/ThunderbirdsS1E8DesperateIntruder Desperate Intruder]]".

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Although engineering is his main forte, he is shown to be into chemistry in "[[Recap/ThunderbirdsS1E19DangerAtOceanDeep Danger At Ocean Deep]]", geology in "[[Recap/ThunderbirdsS1E4TerrorInNewYork]]" and archaeology in "[[Recap/ThunderbirdsS1E8DesperateIntruder Desperate Intruder]]".

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Although engineering is his main forte, he is shown to be into chemistry in "[[Recap/ThunderbirdsS1E19DangerAtOceanDeep Danger At Ocean Deep]]" and archaeoligy in "[[Recap/ThunderbirdsS1E8DesperateIntruder Desperate Intruder]]".

!John Tracy
Voiced by: Ray Barrett (series and ''Thunderbirds Are Go''), Keith Alexander (''Thunderbird 6''), Jorge Lapuente (Latin American Spanish dub, series), Luis Alfonso Mendoza (Latin American Spanish dub, movie); Played by: Lex Shrapnel

Third eldest son of Jeff Tracy and operator of Thunderbird 5. He ostensibly shares this duty with Alan, which would also make John a principal pilot of Thunderbird 3, [[TheUnfavorite but...]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: He gets into action in a grand total of one episode: "[[Recap/ThunderbirdsS1E19DangerAtOceanDeep Danger At Ocean Deep]]". Even then, he didn't do much.
** A much straighter example is the novel "Situation Critical", where he's the main focus of the story.
* AllThereInTheManual / ExpansionPackPast: John is said to be the quietest and most intellectual of the brothers. Part of his background is his expertise in electronics and (fittingly) astronomy. Regarding the latter, he has written and published four textbooks and has also discovered the Tracy Quasar system.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: John's facial features are based on those of Creator/CharltonHeston and pop star Adam Faith.
* TheGenericGuy: He only serves as a space monitor and is pretty much a two-dimensional character, despite his ExpansionPackPast stating he is a professional astronomer who wrote textbooks and discovered a quasar.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: John claims he has been on "a dozen or so" rescues, despite "[[Recap/ThunderbirdsS1E19DangerAtOceanDeep Danger At Ocean Deep]]" being the only episode in which we see him take part in one.
* NiceGuy: He's somewhat friendly.
* TheUnfavorite: Creator/GerryAnderson hated this character with a vengeance. To what extent? He was initially unimpressed with the design of Thunderbird 5, but he approved it anyway so that John would [[KickedUpstairs be stuck in space]] for most of the series.

* StaticCharacter: After she's been rescued and her financial troubles are over, she goes right back to gambling.

* SpotOfTea: Even her icon on Scott's Mobile Command Center is a teapot.

* SkunkStripe: His hair is blue around his temples.

* AdventurerArchaeologist
* BadassBeard: Wilson has one.

Voiced by: Christine Finn (original), Amparo Garrido (Latin American Spanish dub, series), Sherlyn González (Latin American Spanish dub, movie); Played by: Music/VanessaHudgens

* WeakWilled: The Hood has the poor old guy in his power. Kyrano is utterly powerless to stop him, and not brave enough to tell Jeff or anyone else about this.

* ScienceHero: They use science, awesome vehicles and gadgetry to save the day.

* NiceGuy: He's intelligent, kind and has a good sense of humour

* {{Troll}}: In ''Vault of Death'' she deliberately drives FAB-1 in a manner that scares the hell out of Parker. (Granted the latter was up to something.)

* TheMentor: According to tie-in material for [[Series/CaptainScarletAndTheMysterons Captain Scarlet,]] she was one for Dianne Simms A.K.A Rhapsody Angel.

* KarmaHoudini: While the members who were about to bomb a nuclear facility are killed at the climax, it is left up in the air as to what happened to the man who made Tom Prescott bomb his own building.

Voiced by: Slyvia Anderson

* LittleStowaway: Sneaks off into Thunderbird 2's pod which transports him to Tracy Island.

* WeakWilled: The Hood has the poor old guy in his power. Kyrano is utterly powerless to stop him, and not brave enough to tell Jeff or anyone else about this.

* InkSuitActor: Her appearance was loosely based on Sylvia Andersons', although Sylvia holds she was oblivious to the fact at the time.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: His eyes glow yellow when he uses his psionic powers. (The 2004 movie has them glowing red instead.)

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Jeff's design was based off of Lorne Greene.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: The reason he bears the most resemblance to Virgil is because his facial features are also based on Robert Reed.

Housekeeper of Tracy Island. He once had his life saved by Jeff Tracy and is eternally grateful for the fact. He does his bet... but there's the downside of him being mindcontrolled [[TheMole occasionally spying on International Rescues on behalf of The Hood]], his evil older brother. It is unclear whether he is entirely aware of this.

* NiceGuy: he's intelligent, kind and has a good sense of humour

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: To an extent. His puppet's features were based off of Sean Connery.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: John's facial features are based on those of actor Charlton Heston and pop star Adam Faith.

* DoggedNiceGuy: He has a crush on Tin-Tin, especially evident in ''End Of The Road''. The romance never really takes off, as the series had other things on its mind.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Brains' facial features are based on those of actor Creator/AnthonyPerkins.

* ExpansionPackPast: Gordon used to be a Olympic champion at the butterfly stroke and served at this universe's version of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol (the main organisation from ''Series/{{Stingray|1964}}'' however it is unknown if this is a shard universe) and commanded a deep sea self-propelled submersible and spent a year beneath the ocean investigating marine farming methods. (Similar to ''Scott's'' namesake) On another note, he was in a near lethal hydrofoil speedboat crash at over 400 knots. He also designs SCUBA equipment.

* AcePilot: In ''[[Recap/ThunderbirdsF2Thunderbird6 Thunderbird 6]]'', she's doing some impressive stunt flying to mess with Parker.