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Characters specific to the Blackgaard and Novacom sagas in Adventures in Odyssey.

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The Blackgaard Saga

Regis Blackgaard

First appearance: “The Nemesis, Part 1”

Last appearance: “Blackgaard’s Revenge, Part 2” (actual appearance), “I Slap Floor” (as part of Bernard’s story)

Voiced by: Earl Boen

• The Ace: Wealthy, politically savvy, gifted businessman; formerly an agent with European Security while covertly working with a terrorist group, and master manipulator and intimidator.
• Bad Boss: Has a tendency to completely lose his temper and shout furiously at his underlings when things don’t go his way.
• Big Brother Bully: The scene between him and Edwin in “The Return” shows that he delights in intimidating and terrorizing his twin.
• Brain Uploading: In "Blackgaard's Revenge", he is revealed to have uploaded an imprint of his mind into the Imagination Station that then tries to implant itself in Aubrey Shepard's brain.
• Break the Haughty: In “Waylaid at the Windy City”, when Richard Maxwell has him at gunpoint and forces him to beg and plead for his life (and then reveals that it was actually a water gun).
• Crazy-Prepared: Records a conversation with Jason weeks in advance of actually piecing it together to accuse Jason of death threats and sending it to the police as a distractor.
• Deadpan Snarker: And a condescending one at that.
• Deal with the Devil: Blackgaard hints at having made such a deal during his confrontation with Jack Allen in The Final Conflict.
• The Dreaded: Not so much for the people of Odyssey or the main protagonists (who mostly hate his guts for what he did during the events of "The Nemesis" and "The Battle"), but for Bart and Rodney Rathbone, who can't even say his name and are thoroughly terrified of his reaction to their failures.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Sort of; he financed her hip operation, but he did order Edwin to tell her that she owed him the hospital bill.
  • Ultimately subverted; in “Welcome Home, Mr. Blackgaard!”, he’s perfectly happy to threaten Edwin—posthumously—with revoking the trust fund that takes care of her should Edwin refuse his inheritance of the Electric Palace.
• Evil Is Hammy: Earl Boen seems to be enjoying himself.
• Evil Is Petty: Part of the reason why he wants to blow up Whit’s End in "The Final Conflict"—not only will destroying the Underground Railroad tunnel prevent anyone else from finding and using the mineral, but Blackgaard also has a personal vendetta against the mere existence of Whit’s End.
  • He manages to cross over into petty Jerkass territory from beyond the grave—according to his will, Edwin takes legal ownership of the Electric Palace, infamously managed by greasy Snake Oil Salesman Bart Rathbone, and he stipulates that should Edwin refuse his inheritance, the trust fund that goes to taking care of their ailing mother will be revoked.
• Evil Plan:
  • Obtain land on McAlister Park over the Underground Railroad tunnel
  • Have political influence in the town such that no one suspects him
  • Get the mineral in the tunnel
  • Get the formula for TA-418
  • Attach TA-418 to the Ruku Virus to keep it from dying when exposed to air
  • Profit/Power
• Evil Old Folks: His age is never specified, but the gray streaks drawn in his hair indicate that he’s probably around Whit’s age, and Whit is in his mid-sixties; additionally, in "A Name, Not A Number, Part 1", Tasha has no trouble believing that Regis is old enough to have a granddaughter.
• Faking the Dead: In “A Name, Not A Number, Part 1”, he appears to be injected with a syringe full of Ruku virus. In actuality, the needle was filled with a vitamin compound, and he faked his death in order to make his operations more covert.
• Faux Affably Evil
• Hidden Agenda Villain: It’s rare that the audience knows exactly what he’s after up-front.
• I Don't Pay You to Think: Says this almost word for word to Glossman in "Checkmate" when frustrated at Glossman's failure to give him full access to Whit's End.
• Impossibly Cool Clothes: Most official pictures of Blackgaard depict him in a stylish purple suit with a cane and a cape. This from a politically savvy villain with a smiling, benevolent public image.
  • There is only one other known depiction of him, on the back of the original cassette box of “Daring Deeds, Sinister Schemes”; there he is depicted as a fairly ordinary-looking man in a business suit with a moustache and a dark complexion. (Of course, personal mileage may vary—this is a radio show, after all.)
• Knight of Cerebus: To quote the official website, “Where Bart Rathbone’s schemes are comical, Blackgaard’s are terrifying”. His mere presence turns the formerly comical scene of Edwin and Shakespeare frantically trying to leave town into an intense, foreboding exchange.
• Meaningful Name: “Regis” is a Latin word for “of the king”, and Blackgaard is a different spelling of “blackguard”, which refers to a person who behaves in a dishonorable way or to insult someone.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Phillip Glossman claims that he specializes in child psychology in “The Nemesis, Part 1”.
• Murder-Suicide: Attempts to kill both himself and Jack Allen in an explosion in the Underground Railroad tunnel; unfortunately, he hadn’t rigged the explosives as well as he thought he did, and ends up killing himself while Jack lives.
  • He also has terrorist group Red Scorpion's leader Mustafa killed this way in "A Name, Not A Number, Part 2", ordering Mustafa's lackey Abdul to "make it look like an accident".
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast
• Obviously Evil: Not so much in the actual show, where he's remarkably talented at putting on a front of geniality and we're never told much (if anything) about his appearance, but his most recent design features him as a Perpetual Frowner with a black cape and a cane that looks more like a scepter, and a few large white skunk stripes that are apparently supposed to indicate gray hairs. If this◊ doesn't scream "megalomaniacal bad guy", few other things will.
• Pet the Dog: Leaves Edwin property in his will, as well as a trust fund to care for his invalid mother. Subverted, as that property is the Electric Palace, and the will stipulates that the trust fund will be revoked if Edwin does not accept his inheritance.
• Right-Hand Cat: Sasha, in “The Battle”.
• Shadow Archetype:
  • To Whit—both are experienced in international security, savvy businessmen, and skilled orators.
  • To Jason—both are former international security agents; ambitious, goal-oriented, headstrong leaders; and incredibly arrogant and bull-headed when things don't go their way.
  • To Edwin—they’re twins who are both egotistical and ambitious, but Edwin is lovably hammy while Regis is malicious and vindictive.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: According to official artwork.
• Suddenly Shouting: In "The Nemesis, Part 2":
  Blackgaard: And what about Tom Riley?
  Maxwell: Well, uh...I'm not so sure about that; I mean—well, manipulating kids is one thing, but...that's too much.
  Blackgaard: You silly little COWARD!
• Surrounded by Idiots: So he believes, anyway; he outright snarls in "Waylaid in the Windy City, Part 1" that he's "surrounded by bunglers".
• Villain with Good Publicity: Played with; in “The Nemesis” and “The Battle” he is a straight example, but once the citizens of Odyssey realize the crimes he has committed, they take their grudge out on his twin brother Edwin, who moves to town after Regis has left. Once Regis returns, Edwin’s vastly improved reputation among the citizenry has helped to elevate Regis’s name back in a positive light.
• Virtual Ghost: Given a pretty close examination, too.
• Wicked Cultured

Richard Maxwell

First appearance: “An Encounter With Mrs. Hooper”

Last appearance: “The Last Resort” (officially); “I Slap Floor” (in Bernard’s story)

Voiced by: Nathan Carlson

• Anti-Hero: He works against Blackgaard in the Darkness Before Dawn saga, but he’s not above attacking people with an electrical stunner or threatening someone at (false) gunpoint.
• The Atoner: After “The Battle”.
• Badass Boast: To Blackgaard’s henchman Jellyfish in “Another Chance”:
  Maxwell: Looks like you’ll have to take me by hand…if you think you can.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: He knows he can go to Whit because Whit has never been anything but kind, fair, and forgiving to him, even saving his life in “The Battle”. He knows to approach Jack Allen for help in “Hard Losses” because he knows Whit and Jack are like-minded.
• Big Damn Heroes: Saves Lucy from the Bones of Wrath in “Checkmate”.
• Break the Haughty: When Blackgaard reminds him of the fact that Maxwell’s criminal record means that he has nowhere else to go besides jail if he betrays him.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Deuteragonist: During the Blackgaard saga.
• The Dog Bites Back: To Regis in “The Battle” and “Waylaid in the Windy City”.
• The Dragon: To Regis in “The Nemesis” and “The Battle”.
• Draw Aggro: While he and Rodney Rathbone are infiltrating Whit’s End, which has been taken over by Blackgaard in “Another Chance”, he shatters some glass (probably the kitchen window) to draw Blackgaard’s attention away from a laptop computer full of incriminating information about him.
• The Dreaded: To Jellyfish, who is consistently reluctant to challenge him and falls into a stuttering wreck every time they meet.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In “The Battle”, his choice to betray Blackgaard is facilitated by the fact that Blackgaard was willing to send a power surge through the Imagination Station while Lucy was still in it.
  • Even before that, in “The Nemesis, Part 2”, he questions the morality of possibly harming Tom Riley.
• Frame-Up: Indicates having been the victim of many of these while back in the Campbell County Detention Center with Jellyfish.
• Good is Not Nice: He’s not above threats, intimidation, or physical violence.
• Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Puts Eugene through this in “Eugene’s Dilemma”—either Eugene can reveal Maxwell’s use of Nicholas in his grade-changing scheme and Maxwell can take revenge on Nicholas by giving the college a bad report of him and send him back to an orphanage, or he can keep his mouth shut and allow Maxwell to continue profiting off of other students’ desperation and dishonesty.
• Heel–Face Turn: In “The Battle”.
• Laughing Mad: When watching Blackgaard panic as Blackgaard’s Castle catches fire in “The Battle, Part 2”.
• Manipulative Bastard: Toward Lucy in “The Nemesis” and “The Battle”, trying to convince her to give him and Blackgaard information on Applesauce.
  • Also to Nicholas Adamsworth in “Eugene’s Dilemma”, using his access to the computers at Campbell County Community College and his role as Nicky’s counselor to facilitate a grade-changing scheme—students pay Maxwell to have Nicky change their grades. Nicky is forced to do it because the program he’s in allowing kids to go to college could be dissolved if they get a bad report, which Maxwell threatens to give if Nicky doesn’t help him along in the scheme.
• Morality Pet: Lucy is his.
• Must Make Amends: The reason for his return in “The Homecoming”—apologizing to all the people he’s wronged.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He sets Blackgaard’s Castle on fire in “The Battle” in order to get revenge on Blackgaard for harming Lucy, but an enraged Blackgaard turns an arcade game over on top of him, trapping him with the intention of letting him burn to death.
• Outside-Context Problem: Appears to be this at first in “Waylaid in the Windy City” when he basically kidnaps Whit, but it turns out he's actually working against Blackgaard rather than for him and he's out of prison for good behavior.
• Redemption Quest: Is determined to win back Tom Riley’s trust in Darkness Before Dawn while at the same time fighting against Blackgaard; he ends up trying to steal Jellyfish’s computer because of a tip-off that it had information on it about Blackgaard’s activities and the true story behind an election intended to recall Tom as mayor.
• Reformed, but Rejected: Tom refuses to forgive him—up until Richard’s last appearance—for burning down his barn and almost killing both him and his horses.
• Rejected Apology: He’s rejected by both Lucy and Tom during “The Homecoming”, although Lucy comes around by the end.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome
• Vengeance Feels Empty: Discussed and defied in “Waylaid in the Windy City, Part 2”, where he has Blackgaard at gunpoint begging for his life on his knees and reveals that he was actually using a water gun—he had no intention of wasting his second chance at freedom on Blackgaard and just wanted to feed him a slice of humble pie.
• Vocal Evolution: His voice gets gradually less nasally over the course of the show as he reforms.

Phillip Glossman

First appearance: “Recollections” (flashback), “The Nemesis, Part 1”

Last appearance: “A Capsule Comes to Town”

Voiced by: Paul McCusker

• Arch-Enemy: To Tom Riley, with whom Glossman had a rivalry ever since the two were members of the city council together.
• Break the Haughty: Every time he loses, but especially in “The Final Conflict” (see Villainous Breakdown).
• The Bus Came Back: Appears in a radio interview in “A Capsule Comes to Town”, twenty-five albums after his last appearance.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: The multiple times he’s tried to screw over the town, particularly Tom Riley, have all ended up backfiring.
• Dragon Ascendant: Subverted; as Dr. Blackgaard’s plans draw to a close, he publicly contemplates running for mayor himself right before he is exposed as a criminal.
• Evil Is Petty: He can never resist taking shots at the protagonists—especially Tom Riley.
• Faux Affably Evil: His polite manner is always a cover for his haughtiness.
• Freudian Slip: Glossman, in attempting to dodge allegations of making racist remarks about Japanese people by saying "some of his best friends were of Japanese extinction before correcting himself and saying "extraction".
• The Heavy: In "Tom For Mayor".
• Jerkass: When he's not involved in legitimately evil schemes, he does his level best to simply make life miserable for the people around him.
• Meaningful Name: “Gloss” is a prefix referring to “tongue” or “speech”, and Glossman is a master of manipulative rhetoric.
  • “Gloss” also indicates a kind of shininess, and Glossman’s manner is nothing if not oily.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat
• Obviously Evil: A recent picture from one of the albums depicts him as a greasy, underhanded weasel—which isn't inaccurate, but in the show, he's almost always outwardly polite and respectable.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: The kickstarter to the plot of “Not One of Us” is his resignation in disgrace from the city council after making racist statements against the Japanese.
• Pragmatic Villainy: With the territory of being an Obstructive Bureaucrat comes the ability to use the system as a means of accomplishing his own personal ends.
• Put on a Bus: The aforementioned resignation was a result of his voice actor, Paul Mc Cusker, taking a job in London; Glossman would later return in the Darkness Before Dawn saga. It’s also explained in-universe that he’s going to work for the Webster Development Firm, which is owned by Regis Blackgaard.
• Smug Snake
• Some of My Best Friends Are X: In “Not One of Us”, he tries to downplay his racist remarks about the Japanese by claiming that he has close friends who are Japanese.
• Villain with Good Publicity
• Villainous Breakdown: In "The Final Conflict", when he realizes he has been publicly implicated by Jellyfish and has no way out, what follows is a good fifteen seconds of stammering and dead air before he dumps everything on his lawyer and ducks out.

Jellyfish

First appearance: “Gathering Thunder”

Last appearance: “The Final Conflict”

Voiced by: Jerry Houser

• Always a Bigger Fish: He is this to Rodney Rathbone, being tougher, smarter, and more competent; Dr. Blackgaard is this to him, as without Blackgaard’s bigger picture, Jellyfish would be little more than a glorified street thug.
• Arch-Enemy: To Richard Maxwell.
• Because I Said So: Responds this way when Butch questions why the Bones switch targets from Whit’s End to the Harlequin Theatre in “Gathering Thunder”.
• Big "NO!"/Little "No": He lets out a few of the former and then one of the latter when overwhelmed by the Israelites in “The Final Conflict”.
• The Brute
• Embarrassing First Name: Myron.
• Frame-Up: Richard remarks that coincidentally enough, he got blamed for any kind of trouble at Campbell County Detention Center, but when Jellyfish left, trouble mysteriously stopped.
• Hey, Catch!: When cornered by Rodney, Billy, and Sam in “The Final Conflict”, all of them demanding his laptop computer (with all the incriminating information about Blackgaard on it), he throws it to them and runs. It doesn’t work, as Billy has Israelites stationed all around Whit’s End and simply calls them in to swarm Jellyfish.
• Hidden Depths: He’s actually very shrewd and knows what he’s doing, even if what he’s doing is vandalism, assault and battery, and attempted murder.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Sneers in "Gathering Thunder" that he's more fit to lead the Bones of Rath than Rodney is because at least he didn't get his vandalism foiled by "a group of Middle-Eastern ten-year-olds armed with sponges and dishwashing liquid". That very same group would be the ones who physically took him down when he attempted to escape in "The Final Conflict".
  • He scoffs at Rodney's meltdown over the Bones choosing Jellyfish's leadership over Rodney's, telling him to "save himself a little dignity", but his ultimate defeat at the hands of the Israelites could not possibly be less dignified.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers two in succession to Rodney Rathbone in “Gathering Thunder”:
  • In the first, he explains to Rodney that he’s got a spy within the Bones of Wrath and berates him for the possibility never occurring to him when the thread is remarkably easy to spot (why would the Israelites know exactly when and where the Bones were going to hit every time?).
  • In the second, he finds out that Rodney bought spray paint from a hardware store with which to vandalize Whit’s End and snaps that the clerk would probably get a bit suspicious to see recently-bought spray paint involved in an act of vandalism that would be sure to be reported in the media.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: His laptop invokes this; it's a “little insurance policy” in case Blackgaard’s plan goes south—he’s been keeping records of all of Blackgaard’s schemes and who all is involved on his laptop, which he’s willing to hand over to the authorities if he gets caught in order to bargain the consequences.
• Villainous Breakdown: He tries to fight back against the Israelites swarming him in “The Final Conflict” before finally succumbing and unable to do anything but cry out pitifully.
• Would Hurt a Child: Butch’s age isn’t specified, but he is at least a minor, and Jellyfish, clearly an adult, willingly partakes in beating him up for spying on the Bones for the Israelites.
  • He doesn’t enact physical violence on Lucy, but he does threaten to have her lost in unfamiliar woods in the middle of the night.

Bart Rathbone

See Adventures In Odyssey Citizens Around Town

The Bones of Wrath

See Adventures In Odyssey Child Characters

The Novacom Saga

Arthur Dent

First appearance: "Opportunity Knocks"

Last appearance: "Exactly as Planned"

Voiced by: Christopher Snell

• Affably Evil
• Broken Record: Following his Sanity Slippage and him bombing the original Novacom tower, he wants to be absolutely sure you are aware that he "saved the world," a phrase he repeats several times in quick succession much to the annoyance of Jason. Or so he thinks...
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: For a few episodes, anyway, before dropping out for a while, he comes across as a younger, caffeinated businessperson to Dr. Blackgaard's commanding stage-presence.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive
• Evil Brit
• Heel–Face Turn
• Reasonable Authority Figure: After being depicted as a creepy villain for his first few appearances, he still finds the time to calmly, sympathetically explain one of the more frustrating aspects of show business to Connie in "Fifteen Minutes".
• Sanity Slippage: It’s never specified what exactly Bennett Charles did to him for his defection (though Joanne mentions in “Plan B, Part III” that he looks like someone who’s been through shock therapy), but whatever it was took a serious toll on Dent’s mind—Agent Bourland remarks that he has become “a slightly less reliable source than Mr. Potato Head”.
• Suddenly Shouting: In "Box of Miracles", when Whit tries to leave without taking his warnings seriously — "NOOOOO, YOU CAN'T!!!"

Bennett Charles

First appearance: “Breaking Point”

Last appearance: “Here, Today, Gone Tomorrow?, Part 3”

Voiced by: Jess Harnell

• Bald of Evil
• The Brute: He’s known unofficially as “the enforcer” for Andromeda.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Enacts some on Arthur Dent to get information out of him in “Plan B”. It’s never made clear what exactly he did, but Joanne later remarks that Dent looks like someone who’s been through shock therapy.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive
• The Dragon
• Early-Bird Cameo: First mentioned in “Chains, Part 2” as the man who put Tony up to planting a dictionary with a hidden camera in it in Whit’s office.
• The Heavy: He does a lot of Novacom's dirty work.
• It's Personal with the Dragon: Whit only ever directly faces Mr. Charles, not the actual Chairman for whom Charles works.
• Lack of Empathy: He’s perfectly aware that the reverse effects of the Novabox—converting brain waves into radio waves and then converting radio waves to brain waves—has an effect on the user, who will have likely bought it for its health benefits, such that the user is worse off than they were before. He just doesn’t care.
• Mysterious Stranger: All we know about him in his first full appearance is that he works with people trying to steal the plans to the Imagination Station and he has an intimidating presence.
• Rage Against the Legal System: His main motivation for his prison break-out in “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?”.
• Red Herring: His smug attitude as he asks Agent Bourland whether or not they’ve found anything in their investigation into Mitch’s death and the tone of his voice as he expresses that he’d hate that someone would get away with it hints to the green listener that Charles was behind it. It was really the FBI, and Mitch wasn’t actually dead.
• The Unfettered: His ruthlessness is part of what allowed him to rise so quickly through the ranks at Novacom, and in "Exit", he declares to Whit that if the FBI doesn't lock him up, his boss will do something worse, and therefore he has nothing to lose by kidnapping or harming Connie.
• Villainous Breakdown: Upon his arrest in “Exit”, his cool, condescending demeanor is replaced by desperate attempts to bargain for a lesser sentence.

The Chairman

First appearance: “Exit”

Last appearance: “Exit”

Voiced by: Brian Cummings

• Big Bad
• Corrupt Corporate Executive
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He’s known only as “The Chairman”.
• Karma Houdini: Although the Novacom Saga ends with his plans foiled, Novacom ruined, and his subordinates arrested, the Chairman himself escapes to scheme another day. He also gets away at the end of 28 Hours despite his plans being foiled once more.
• The Ghost: His first and only appearance is in “Exit”, the last episode of the Novacom saga.
• The Bus Came Back: Nearly 20 years after his first appearance, the Chairman returns in the Relaunch Era as the brains behind the 28 Hours Album.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: He declares ominously that “it’s over…for now” at the end of “Exit”…and is promptly never heard from again, even in the follow-up three-parter “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?”. He finally returns 20 real-life years later in the 28 Hours Album.

Monica Stone

First appearance: “Plan B, Part III: Crossfire”

Last appearance: “Exit”

Voiced by: Melissa Disney

• The Atoner: After she finds out that she was used by Novacom, she testifies against them at trial, cementing her Heel–Face Turn by refusing to plea bargain to minimize the consequences.
• Becoming the Mask: Freely admits to Jason that she did less and less acting as she went along in her efforts to manipulate him into obtaining Eugene’s research.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Plays this role in the aptly titled “Sheep’s Clothing”, getting close to Jason in disguise in order to obtain Eugene’s radio wave research, although she was revealed to have taken this role earlier in “The Black Veil, Part 2”.
• Bluff the Imposter: Walter, the pastor working with Jason in Alaska, talks about Kirtland, Ohio having an annual Blueberry Festival, with which Monica-as-Paula-Jarvis nervously concurs; as he tells her later when he catches her cracking the safe with Eugene’s research in it, Kirtland doesn’t have a blueberry festival—it’s a strawberry festival.
• Broken Bird: “Exceptional Circumstances” reveals that she feels responsible for the “stupid diving accident” that caused her brother to become a quadriplegic.
• Character Development: Goes from insisting that she isn’t a criminal and she’s doing what she does for a greater good to testifying against herself without qualifications and then accepting that she’s going to go to prison for what she’s done.
• Cover Identity Anomaly: She doesn’t seem to have followed through on trying to impersonate Paula Jarvis, the intern who was supposed to be working with Jason. She doesn’t familiarize herself with missions circumstances in Suriname, even though Jarvis did some work there, and she also doesn’t learn things that she should have known about the hometown she claimed to have been born in.
• Dark Action Girl
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Growls at Jason that she doesn’t want his pity after she reveals that she feels responsible for her brother’s diving accident.
• Dramatic Gun Cock: Twice—once in “Plan B” when threatening Whit and Jack to hand over Arthur Dent’s package in the post office parking lot, then in “Sheep’s Clothing” when telling Walter to open up the station’s safe so she can get the disk Eugene sent to Jason. She admits to Jason that she really doesn’t like doing this, though.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Technically speaking (as this is a radio show), she first “appears” as a woman ostensibly sent by the phone company to fix the Whit’s End phone lines who actually plants a self-destructing modem in Whit’s office.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones
• Evil Redhead: Much is made of the fact that she has red hair.
• Freudian Excuse: Her brother became a quadriplegic in a diving accident, and she feels responsible enough that she’ll do whatever she has to in order to help him get proper care.
• High-Heel–Face Turn: She’s one of only two people to outright turn against Novacom (the other being Arthur Dent).
• Honor Before Reason: She testifies to incriminate herself in “Exactly as Planned” during Tom Riley’s trial as a witness against Novacom, and she refuses to plea bargain to minimize the consequences.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Tells Jason in no uncertain terms that she will do what she must to help her brother.
• It's All My Fault: Blames herself for the diving accident that cost her brother his mobility—blame that is her primary motivator for everything she does for Andromeda.
• Knight Templar Big Brother
• Manipulative Bitch: Plays around with Jason’s affections—at least in the beginning—in order to find the disk with Eugene’s radio wave research on it.
• Morality Pet: Her brother Duncan is hers.
• Plea Bargain: Notably averted; in Tom Riley’s trial, during which all the evidence against Novacom is brought to light, Monica testifies to all of the crimes she committed without plea bargaining to minimize the damages.
• The Vamp: Uses Jason's clear attraction to her in order to get access to the safe where he's placed the package from Eugene.

Erica Colburn

First appearance: "Under the Influence, Part 1"

Last appearance: "Twisting Pathway"

Voiced by: Lawren Donahue

• Delinquent Hair: In one scene, Aubrey drily describes her hair as "patriotic".
• Et Tu, Brute?: She convinces Aubrey to run away from home, then gets her to drive a car owned by a guy who's with them; when Aubrey's pulled over by the police and doesn't have a license to show, Erica promptly throws her under the bus and accuses her of recklessly endangering her and the friend who owns the car.
• Manipulative Bitch: Aside from The Vamp example below, she convinces Aubrey to go up to the Whit's End library with her under the guise of needing prayer for "deep trouble" that she's in but won't elaborate on; Aubrey agrees, but they're locked into the library to give thieves from Novacom time to get in through the Underground Railroad tunnel and steal the Imagination Station.
• Perky Goth: They aren't all nice.
• Put on a Bus: By Mr. Charles, thereby skirting the issue of just how Aubrey would deal with her after her actions. (See Xanatos Sucker.)
• Skipping School: Gets Aubrey to do this twice (and has done this herself several times more) in "Under the Influence"; the first time, they just go to the mall, but the second time, they end up caught in the middle of a Wild Teen Party.
• Toxic Friend Influence: To Aubrey in "Under the Influence".
• Undisclosed Funds: It's never mentioned exactly how wealthy she is, but it is clear that Novacom pays its employees very well.
• The Vamp: Uses the fact that Nick Mulligan is into her to get a "tour" of Whit's End that shows her where the Imagination Station is and also gives her insight as to how someone might break in covertly and steal it (through the Underground Railroad tunnel), all so she can get the information to Novacom so that they can get the Imagination Station and her father won't get fired.
• Xanatos Sucker: She learns where the Imagination Station is and how to get it and makes a deal with Mr. Charles such that she will tell him the information if her father's job is ensured and her name isn't dragged into it, and Charles agrees. When her father meets with Mr. Charles after the successful theft, Charles casually informs him that Erica told him where it was and how to get it, and has him fired and relocated for their family's safety.

Robert “Mitch” Mitchell

First appearance: “Green Eyes and Yellow Tulips”

Last appearance: “Something Old, Something New, Part 2”

Voiced by: Steve Burns

• Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: He moves on to a woman named Maureen after he and Connie break up.
• Brick Joke: He remarks to Jared in "It's All About Me" that if he's ever kidnapped and being thrown in the trunk of a car, he can break his hand through the taillight and wave to get someone's attention. This ends up being how he escapes being kidnapped by Bennett Charles in "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?, Part 3" later on in that season.
• Death Faked for You: He didn’t volunteer to be in the Witness Protection Program; a group of FBI agents under Peter Bourland essentially kidnap him to protect him from the potential consequences of covertly blowing the whistle on Novacom, and they claim that he was murdered to cover it up.
• The Lost Lenore: Downplayed; his close friend Justine, whom he also dated, was murdered by someone from Andromeda, but while Mitch's investigation into her death was part of what led him to Odyssey, he was also concerned about the reason for her death—asking too many questions of the wrong people about the company's unethical activity, her suspicions of which she had disclosed to Mitch.
• Love Confession: A rather abrupt one on live radio in “Secrets”.
• MacGyvering: He’s almost absurdly resourceful; in a call-in radio advice show, he begins to suggest to a kid that there are certain locks that can be made with only a bobby pin and a cheese grater.
• Married to the Job: Ends up this way in “Something Blue”. Justified, as he works for the FBI, and it’s an incredibly demanding job that Connie knows she'll find difficult to keep up with. His desires for his life and Connie’s are completely at odds with one another, which is why they break up. He gets together with another FBI agent, though, and they’re very happy due to their shared ambitions.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: He's usually only called "Mitch", even by his boss Peter Bourland.
• Punk in the Trunk: In "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow", Mr. Charles takes him hostage and puts him in the trunk of his car. He's rescued when he sticks his hand out the taillight to get someone's attention.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: With Connie.
• Second Love: Maureen McFadden, a fellow FBI agent to whom he is engaged in "Something Old, Something New".
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Connie.
• Walking Spoiler: He wasn't actually dead when everyone thought he was, he and Connie break up, and he moves on to a woman named Maureen.
• Will They or Won't They?: With Connie. They don’t.

Special Agent Peter Bourland

First appearance: “Plan B, Part 2: Collision Course”

Last appearance: “Something Blue, Part 2”

Voiced by: Keith Silverstein

• Action Dad: Has a daughter named Michaela (nicknamed Mike).
• Daddy Didn't Show: He's supposed to go to Mike's basketball game, but he has to suddenly work late and can't show up. Conversely, when he isn't there and then shows up unexpectedly, Mike, who'd been slumping, began to play one of her best games.
• Deadpan Snarker:
  Mitch: [Dent] sure went through a lot of trouble to get that disk to Jack, but the man isn't exactly lucid these days.
  Bourland: Making him a slightly less reliable source than Mr. Potato Head.
• Family Versus Career: His wife Janelle archly reminds him that she and their daughter Michaela do in fact exist, and that he hasn’t really seen them in months with how busy he’s been on the Andromeda case.
• A Father to His Men: Yes, he can be a bit brusque and surly, but he clearly cares about the agents under him and wants what’s best for them, and it’s he who takes Mitch under his wing and suggests that he take up a job with the FBI because he sees the potential in him.
• Good is Not Nice: Subverted; he was introduced as brusque, insensitive, and cold, but in the fallout from the events of “Plan B”, he and Mr. Whittaker begin working together and develop a genuine respect for one another, and he's cordial and welcoming to Connie and supports her relationship with Mitch in "Something Blue".
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Nerves of Steel: Dangerous situations are all in a day’s work for him. "Something Blue" mentions his being held hostage for two days at one point as if it's nothing.
• Parents as People: He's not intentionally neglectful; he just has a stressful and demanding job.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Aloof though he may be, he is working for the government to do some good in the world, and he genuinely does care about the people with whom he has come into contact.
• "Well Done, Daughter" Girl: Mike misunderstands him at one point, thinking that he wanted a boy instead of a girl, and so she tries to act more like a tomboy and plays basketball to get his approval when she really likes doing girly things and dancing ballet. In truth, he was saying that he would like a boy as well as a girl, not instead of.

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