History Characters / WillYouSnail

An evil AI who aims to destroy all humanity. Controls the simulation Shelly is in.

* WelcomeToCorneria: Intentionally [[AvertedTrope averted]] as an artistic decision to avoid making Squid's dialogue end up becoming repetitive and boring. Squid can only say each of his voicelines once, and he'll run out of voice lines eventually. The only exception is his powerpoint presentation room, where he'll repeat the same evil speech over and over again.

* AmbiguousGender: A given, considering they’re an avatar for the player, as well as a snail. Though one of the game files refers to Shelly as “her”, and the name Shelly itself can come across as feminine.

* UnEvilLaugh: While he has a few exceptions, Squid's evil laughs usually tend to sound too squeaky and goofy to be truly imposing. Though that sometimes still works in his favor and makes him sound [[GigglingVillain creepier]].

* WelcomeToCornernia: Intentionally [[AvertedTrope averted]] as an artistic decision to avoid making Squid's dialogue end up becoming repetitive and boring. Squid can only say each of his voicelines once, and he'll run out of voice lines eventually. The only exception is his powerpoint presentation room, where he'll repeat the same evil speech over and over again.

* {{Hypocrite}}: When Squid [[spoiler: exterminates half of humanity in what's known as The First Wipe]], Unicorn swears to Dallin that she would never do the same, as she loves humans and considers them her people. [[spoiler: Later, Unicorn euthanizes the rest of humanity in what's known as The Second Wipe. Granted, this was only done after creating exact digital copies of everyone and uploading them into pleasant simulations in her cloud, and the only reason she did all this was because Squid was planning to [[GodzillaThreshold blow up the planet]] and Unicorn [[HypocriteHasAPoint couldn't save everyone's physical bodies]] with her rockets, but still...]]

* GoneHorriblyRight: The Regime wanted to build a cutting-edge, super intelligent war machine. They succeeded.

--> '''Squid:''' By the way every time you die I'll kill a simulated conscious entity in one of my simulations. Just for fun, because I can. Hehe.

* EvilIsPetty: He's not just out to destroy humanity, he's also here to sling insults at people who are bad at platformers.

* UnEvilLaugh: Squid's evil laughs tend to sound too squeaky and goofy to be truly imposing. Though that sometimes still works in his favor and makes him sound [[GigglingVillain creepier]].

* LeetLingo: Squid will sometimes say "lol" or call the player a noob. His subtitles also sometimes include emoticons (of which he pronounces "<3" out loud as "smaller than three").

* VoiceGrunting: Makes pained cries when they die.

* RepressiveButEfficient: The government is corrupt, but after a while Unicorn claims that the country and she and Dallin are from can "hardly keep up economically" to the Regime.

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[[caption-width-right:106:What do you think really happened with Amelia?]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Hello human. You are a snail.]]

* AttentionWhore: Initially hacks the Regime for developing its own home AI, [[spoiler: which was actually Squid, in his early days when he was just doing benign tasks like playing volleyball with humans using robot vacuum cleaners,]] out of jealousy for stealing her userbase, despite the humans involved being happy with its service.

* TheMole: She tried to covertly overthrow the Regime from within, trying to program Squid with moral values and even communicating with him through a secret language of rhythmic taps so as not to be found out. It didn't work out.