Line #141 Characters/FutureMan


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4	[[folder:Josh Futturman, aka Future Man]]
5	-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JoshHutcherson
6	* ActionSurvivor: Initially just a normal, underachieving janitor, after fighting in the past and present and training with Tiger and Wolf, he does TakeALevelInBadass.
7	* ButtMonkey: If anything bad happens, it will happen to Josh.
8	* ClassicalAntiHero: He lacks many traits usually found in heroes, such as courage and being able to fight, but he's still far more moral than his other two compatriots.
9	* LoserProtagonist: He starts off as a janitor who still lives with his parents.
10	* MessianicArchetype: He's viewed as the ChosenOne by Tiger and Wolf who claims that he can save the world from the BadFuture. He's also been given the code name "Jesus" by the Pointed Circle and wears white robes that make he appear as Jesus.
11	* NiceGuy: Josh is usually polite and decent to the people he talks to.
12	* OnlySaneMan: Being an average person in modern times, Josh is the most grounded of the characters and is typically the voice of reason to Wolf and Tiger, often trying to encourage them to take less violent alternatives.
13	* TookALevelInBadass: Near the end of the first season, he's able to at least hold his own in a fight.
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16	[[folder:Tiger]]
17	-->'''Portrayed by:''' Eliza Coupe
18	* BloodKnight: Both her and Wolf are this initially.
19	* HiddenDepths: Despite being a hardcore ActionGirl, she feels out of place and wants to know her history. The DNA kit Diane provides her helps with this. She is also great at being a [[spoiler:nanny, though seeing as how she takes care of her team members, this isn't a stretch.]]
20	* TheHypocrite: Lectures Wolf on getting too attached to the past and going pleasure hunting while she endangers the mission by taking a DNA/heredity test to try and find family. Wolf calls her out on this.
21	* TheLeader: Seemingly was the leader of the Resistance in at least one timeline and the leader of Wolf and Josh in the present.
22	* MyGreatestFailure: Leading her entire team to their deaths in the tunnel, except for Wolf. [[spoiler:Later revealed this is a constant in all timelines, except Owl and Dingo survive while Wolf and Tiger die. This is actually a relief for her.]]
23	* TomatoInTheMirror: Both Tiger and Wolf are gassed by Biotics in the last episode. [[spoiler: Wolf starts dying, but Tiger is unaffected, revealing her to be a Biotic all along. We don't get to see past her initial reaction before she time travels.]]
24	* TookALevelInKindness: The more time she stays in the past, the more easy going she becomes. [[spoiler:Especially after travelling to kill baby Kronish only to end up as a nanny to him, developing a strong maternal instinct for children in general.]]
25	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: [[{{Squick}} Cat]]. Originally it came from being from a ReducedToRatburgers BadFuture, but even when she can get better food she'll default to cat.
26	* WouldHarmAChild: Almost eager to, [[spoiler:at least until she becomes a nanny for baby Kronish.]]
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29	[[folder:Wolf]]
30	-->'''Portrayed by:''' Derek Wilson
31	* AddledAddict: [[spoiler:During his stint in the 80s/90s, he develops a crippling cocaine addiction. Upon returning to 2017, Josh and Tiger force him to quite cold turkey by tying him to a bed.]]
32	* BecomingTheMask: Wolf has a habit of eagerly assimilating into any time period the team ends up in. This leads to him briefly becoming TheMillstone in Season 3 when he can't help his pathological desire to make his mark on history that instantly alerts the TimePolice to their locations.
33	* BloodKnight: Both him and Tiger are this initially.
34	* CharacterDevelopment: Begins the series as a jaded BloodKnight that remorselessly ''kills a police officer'' in the first episode. His trajectory shifts dramatically after Gabe Futturman introduces him to cooking, turning out that Wolf is an absolute prodigy of a chef that is recognized as the owner of the ''world's best restaurant'' after a stint of several years that he chooses to [[IChooseToStay remain in the 80s]]. Combined with his period as a ReplacementGoldfish for Torque's family, Wolf eventually ends up as arguably the most charming and intellectual of the core trio.
35	* DemolitionsExpert: He is most seen using explosives (grenades, mines, etc.) to blow stuff up. He even carries a 'gobulator', a device filled with deactivated Biotic brain bombs.
36	* HiddenDepths: He is an amazing chef, and has the ability to easily pick up new things like languages. He learns [[Film/{{Avatar}} Na'vi]] in a very short amount of time, though admittedly there aren't many words in the Na'vi language.
37	* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:After burning out as a restaurateur in the 90s, he eventually gets Skarsgaard to kill him by contacting him and taunting him about Santiago. Upon learning this, Tiger goes back in time to stop Skarsgaard]].
38	* SupremeChef: He develops a natural talent for cooking. [[spoiler:After he chose to stay in the 80s, he operated a very successful restaurant that serviced the stars of the time.]]
39	* TookALevelInKindness: Similar to Tiger, he becomes far less of a BloodKnight than initially portrayed. Especially after learning how to cook.
40	* WouldHarmAChild: Almost eager to.
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43	[[folder:Doctor Elias Kronish]]
44	-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/KeithDavid
45	* AwfulWeddedLife: A closeted gay man married to a cold {{Jerkass}}.
46	* {{Expy}}: Of Miles Dyson of the Franchise/{{Terminator}} series, as a well-meaning black scientist whose research leads to the apocalypse.
47	* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:To save the future, Kronish willingly injects himself with a needle full of the most deadly diseases on the planet so Josh doesn't have to dirty his own hands]].
48	* MadScientist: Averted. Apart from the animal testing that leads to countless dead possums, no matter the timeline, he is a very morally conscious person who just wants to help everyone. [[spoiler:Even in the seemingly BadFuture, it turns out that his supposedly secretive ways were simply his attempt at heeding Josh's advice from the 80s to keep his research from getting to the wrong hands.]]
49	* StraightGay: He is revealed to be a closeted gay man who chose to remain in an unhappy marriage with his wife rather than running away with the love of his life. [[spoiler:In an alternate timeline, he remains with his boyfriend, who later dies due to tetanus.]]
50	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His search for a miracle cure eventually leads to the Biotics taking over Earth and exterminating the rest of humanity.
51	* YouCantFightFate: No matter what changes to the timeline the protagonists do, Kronish eventually becomes a scientist whose research leads to the Biotics. [[spoiler:Even in a timeline where he goes out of his way to keep his research as private as possible]].
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54	[[folder:Detective Vincent Skarsgaard]]
55	-->'''Portrayed by:''' Robert Craighead
56	* ByTheBookCop: As doggedly determined as he is, he follows protocol to a tee and makes it clear that he wants to apprehend the heroes rather than just shooting them. [[spoiler:It takes being goaded about his dead partner by the one who killed him for him to pull the trigger]].
57	* ScarsAreForever: One trait that remains consistent throughout the timelines are the scars he received from Tiger. [[spoiler:He later gets scars on the other side of his face too]].
58	* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:At the end of the series, after dealing with all the time travel, he actually believes Josh did what he had to do to stop Kronish. Other than Josh, it seems he's the only one who has an idea of the truth.]]
59	* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: No matter where we find him in the various timelines, he’s a policeman of some sort, and he’s still trying to avenge the death of his partner, Santiago, at the hands of Wolf and Tiger.
60	* ThrowTheDogABone: [[spoiler:After apprehending Josh, his life seems to be looking up. He's no longer a traffic cop and it's implied that he's planning on hooking up with Santiago's widow.]]
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63	[[folder:Doctor Stu Camillo ]]
64	-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/HaleyJoelOsment
65	* BigBad: [[spoiler: Of Season 2. He's the one that created the cure that led to the BadFuture and masterminding the plan to download his followers' conciseness into his mainframe while killing off the rest of humanity.]]
66	* {{Jerkass}}: He's very degrading towards Josh, and in one timeline where he is a partner of the company is critical of Kronish. [[spoiler:In the Bad!2017 however, he is a soft-spoken and harmless person instead. However by the year 2162, he's become ''[[MadScientist far]] [[PsychopathicManchild worse]]'' than a Jerkass.]]
67	* KilledOffForReal: He is killed when his computer network comes crashing down. Since he was already a computer program, he dies with it.
68	* MadScientist: [[spoiler: He becomes this in his plan to "save" humanity via brain uploading. He uses thousands of people as test subjects which results in their deaths and after his first successful attempt of uploading someones mind he immediately deletes it. In the future, he is coercing, and later forcing, everyone to upload their consciousness into his mainframe where he will have complete control. When none of this works out, he decides to unleash his killer robots to wipe out everyone.]]
69	* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: He claims to be "saving" humanity by uploading their consciousness into his mainframe, but in truth he just wants complete control over it.]]
70	* PreFinalBoss: [[spoiler: While Stu's definitely the BigBad for season 2, he gets KilledOffForReal in the penultimate episode. Afterwards, Susan kidnaps Josh, Tiger, and Wolf from Stu's time and becomes the FinalBoss for that season.]]
71	* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler: Despite being a particularly intelligent fellow, his demeanor is comparable to that of a petulant child. One particular example of this is when he throws a temper tantrum when the people of the Mons learn about Stu's true intentions, before ordering his killbots to murder them all.]]
72	* ReplacementGoldfish: Feels this way for Ty-Anne, Tiger's genetic duplicate he adopted as his daughter.
73	* TheReveal: [[spoiler: There is no Mars launch. Stu's plan is to upload all of surviving humanity into his mainframe, called MARS, via BrainUploading and kill of the rest.]]
74	* VillainousBSoD: [[spoiler: As a computer consciousness, this literally happens to Stu at the mere sight of Josh. Note that the Josh he is familiar with is a convicted terrorist from his own time and Stu is terrified that somehow Josh is alive and possibly after him.]]
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77	[[folder:Gabe Futturman ]]
78	--> '''Played by:''' Creator/EdBegleyJr
79	* GoodParents: He loves Josh unconditionally and is very patient with Wolf in regards to teaching him how to cook.
80	* HappilyMarried: As far as he's concerned, there is no woman more attractive to him than his wife.
81	* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler:In the alternate timeline where "[=JFutz=]" put them in a nursing home, he bluntly tells Josh that he no longer gets to call him dad.]]
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84	[[folder:Diane Futturman ]]
85	--> '''Portrayed by:''' Creator/GlenneHeadly
86	* GoodParents: Like her husband, she is very loving towards her son.
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89	[[folder:Jeri Lang ]]
90	--> '''Portrayed by:''' Creator/BrittLower
91	* DeepCoverAgent: [[spoiler:She is a Biotic sleeper agent sent back in time.]]
92	* LoveInterest: To Josh.
93	* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:She offers a variant to Josh. While they would not rule anything, she offers him the chance to join the Biotics and betray Tiger and Wolf. This would then lead to the Biotics completely defeating the Resistance.]]
94	* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:All over Josh]].
95	** In the season 2 alternative future, this happens again. [[spoiler:Except this time instead of her head exploding, the rest of her explodes, leaving her head perfectly intact. Tiger finds it both ironic and humorous.]]
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98	[[folder:[[spoiler:Owl]]]]
99	--> '''Portrayed by:''' Jon Daly
100	* FiveSecondForeshadowing: [[spoiler: While infiltrating Kronish's tower, Owl begins walking funny and talking weirdly. Moments later it is revealed he was myrmed back in the future.]]
101	* TheSmartGuy: Seemingly the most knowledgeable when it comes to technology. At least before getting myrmed.
102	* YouCantFightFate: In the original timeline, he was myrmed: he was implanted with a small burrowing worm-like creature in his brain that slowly destroyed his intelligence and killed him. [[spoiler:In the new timeline, when he and Dingo travel to the present, it seems he was rescued before this happened. Turned out it is another constant.]]
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105	[[folder:Dingo]]
106	--> '''Portrayed by:''' Carla Gallo
107	* BloodKnight. Similar to Tiger and Wolf when they first travel back in time. This turns out as a bad thing as without the characterization, she's the one that technically cause the biotic to swarm the tower
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110	[[folder:Ty-Anne]]
111	--> '''Portrayed by:''' Eliza Coupe
112	* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Zigzagged, as while she was obfuscating her spoiled brat persona as mention below, her personality is different enough to separate her from the original Tiger.
113	* ReplacementGoldfish: She is for Stu. Ty-Anne is Tiger if Tiger had been raised as a relatively normal girl.
114	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Ty-Anne is an adult woman who acts like a spoiled teenager and speaks with an obnoxious high pitched whine. [[spoiler: She is really Achilles, the leader of the Pointed Circle.]]
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117	[[folder:Torque]]
118	--> '''Portrayed by:''' Derek Wilson
119	* HeroicSacrifice: Uploads his consciousness into Stu's mainframe knowing he might die. [[spoiler: He dies without getting close to killing Stu.]]
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122	[[folder:Susan]]
123	--> '''Portrayed by:''' Creator/SethRogen
124	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He turns against the network executives to save his robot wife and daughter and allies with Josh, Tiger and Wolf.]]
125	* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler: While he has Josh, Tiger, and Wolf incarcerated in Ultra-Max, he informs them of all of their numerous time crimes, including the destruction of a cluster of planets, and tries to turn the team against each other. He also informs them that each time they time traveled they didn't change the future, they created an alternate timeline, meaning all of their efforts were wasted, to break their spirits. Come the TheReveal, that Ultra-Max is an advertisement for heavy duty menstruation products and they are in an AmusementParkofDoom called the Diecathlon, his explanations are made quite questionable.]]
126	** [[spoiler:It turns out he was telling the trio the truth, at least as far as they are time fugitives for messing with the time line.]]
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129	[[folder:Marshal Mathers]]
130	--> '''Portrayed by:''' Kimberly Hébert Gregory
131	* EvilerThanThou: Compared with Susan. Susan views the Diecatholon as an art form, while Mathers views it as simply a means to an end. If she had her way, she would simply have prisoners killed. She is focused on ratings and always topping her rivals. While Susan is antagonistic towards the protagonists, he at least gives them a chance. Mathers does not care about them and only wants to kill them.
132	* KarmicDeath: She constantly threatened Susan that his robotic family will either be reprogrammed or destroyed. She is killed by Susan's robot daughter.
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135	[[folder:The Killing Machine]]
136	-->'''Portrayed by:''' Nicholas Grimes
137	* HeelFaceTurn: In the finale, Tiger appeals to his human nature and he is able to overcome his programming. He and Tiger end up together.
138	* ImplacableMan: He is a ''Terminator'' like machine that seeks out his targets no matter what.
139	* KillerRobot: A killer robot cyborg with the DNA of histories greatest warriors, programmed to seek and kill its targets through any means necessary.
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142	[[folder:Osama Bin Laden]]
143	--> '''''' Fajer Al-Kaisi
144	* AccidentalMurder: How he dies. Josh attempted to fire a warning shot at Osama. The bullet ricocheted and Bin Laden was shot in the head.
145	* MirrorUniverse: He seems to be a good version of Bin Laden that Josh was able to save long before the 9/11 attacks. However, he does have outbursts about "infidels", [[spoiler:which are really about Josh's other friends who Osama doesn't care for.]]
146	* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: It was Osama's voice Josh heard in his head in season 3. Osama was able to talk with Josh through time and space through an interconnected device powered by [[spoiler:another Josh's severed ear.]]
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149	[[folder:Tim "Big Time" Kilvitis]]
150	* EmbarrassingNickname: His college dorm-mates call him "Big Time" because Tim bragged about being his high school's tether ball team captain.
151	* SmallRoleBigImpact: On December 31, 1999, Tim attempted to create a massive computer virus to wipe out his dorm-mates computers. The intent was to hide accidentally giving them computer viruses in the first place from downloading movies and blaming the wipe on Y2K. The result was [[spoiler:creating the ability for time travel technology to be created and used, via creating a NegativeSpaceWedgie in time and space. Tim was sucked into and created Haven as a result as well.]]

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