Follow TV Tropes

Following

Characters / Greasy Tales

Go To

Greasy Tales has a diverse cast of memorable oddballs. This is a list of the most prominent and recurring ones.

    open/close all folders 

Manwhore Industries

In general

  • Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo: Gooseman and Fernando, respectively, once Randy leaves their company. Gooseman typically plays it cool, but he's prone to hamming it up when he gets fired up. Fernando never raises his voice above a soft vocal fry.
  • "Friends" Rent Control: They're somehow able to afford a downtown floor office despite frequently struggling for cash.
  • Perpetual Poverty: The trio aren't very good at actually making money, either legitimately or illegitimately, and in more recent episodes Fernando and Gooseman are frequently forced to scrounge for scraps.
  • Villain Protagonist: As Manwhore Industries, Gooseman, Fernando, and Randy make most of their money running an organ trafficking ring, on top of engaging in theft, assault, and murder. They're more anti-heroes in Pleasure Island, as they were simply minding their own business until they got attacked by Vera.

    Gooseman 

Wayne / "Gooseman"

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gooseman.png
"You are a liability, my friend."
The sunglasses-wearing CEO of Manwhore Industries, Gooseman likes to sing and live a chaotic life.
  • Affably Evil: If you aren't his foe or anywhere in the vicinity of one of his foes, Gooseman is an easygoing and friendly guy. This only applies to Gooseman post-Pleasure Island, though, as before that he was definitely not friendly.
  • Ambiguously Bi: It's revealed that he once hooked up with Fernando while both were drunk and in drag, though the two agreed to put it past them as "no homo." He also has a closet full of BDSM gear and states that he likes to keep his boy toys in there. On the other hand, his song "Vertical Seafood Taco" is a pretty obvious reference to cunnilingus.
  • Animal Lover: He has a brief mental breakdown when he learns the walruses of the Walrus Pit were used to make the Man-Crab-Walrus, and vows revenge against Doctor Von Ironfist. Turns out Von Ironfist only grabbed walruses from the beach, he didn't even go the Pit.
  • Characterization Marches On: Gooseman is introduced in "Mooselove" as a nakedly menacing, deranged psychopath, as he first shows up offering Herb and Cliff $500 for a ride and Manny's organs, destroys several cars off-screen for honking at him, and later murders Manny and Herb for shits and giggles. He was also the manager of Manny's band Greasy Moose and is shown to be a Dreadful Musician, whereas nowadays he's got several original songs that are both sung and performed amiably.
  • Comedic Sociopathy: Gooseman is pretty blasé about preserving the lives of his friends and innocents, seeing as he has no qualms about killing innocent people for a laugh or killing an man for not telling him where the Walrus Pits are.
  • Conspiracy Theorist: When he runs for office, his whole platform is to expose the lizard people in government.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Frequently makes quips, especially when he can make them into a Double Entendre.
    Manny: "The beast is coming!"
    Gooseman: "Well, the beast better pull out or he'll get the bitch pregnant."
  • Human Resources: Gooseman makes most of his money by engaging in human organ trafficking, typically on unwilling victims.
  • Nephewism: Was raised by his Uncle Warren after his mom got devoured by lizards.
  • Inexplicably Awesome: Gooseman possesses superhuman strength and durability, and is able to clear immense distances in a single jump. On Fernando's Amazing Podcast, he claims it was the result of a Freak Lab Accident involving a particle accelerator, but isn't sure how this gave him superpowers.
  • Karmic Death: After murdering Manny and Herb for their organs in "Mooselove", Gooseman gets tricked into entering the trailer by Cliff with the promise of gold bullion. Said trailer contained an angry moose, who proceeds to maul Gooseman to death. To rub it in, Cliff sells off Gooseman's organs for money.
  • Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter": Lets out a triumphant Evil Laugh when he blows up Sergei's yacht with a Gauss rifle at the end of Ultimate Street Yacht Battle.
    • In Fernando and the Disk of Chaos, he does it again after blowing up Burgundy's sky phallus with a computer virus, killing at least hundreds of innocent people.
  • Sociopathic Hero: In Pleasure Island at least. He may be fighting against Vera, but he also assaults and murders an innocent man for not telling him where the Walrus Pits are.
  • Straight Man: Downplayed. He plays the cool and collected voice of reason to Randy and Fernando, but he's not above engaging in debauchery and extreme violence when he feels like it.
  • Sunglasses at Night: He never takes his sunglasses off.
  • They Killed Kenny Again: He gets mauled to death by an angry moose in "Mooselove". Obviously, it didn't stick.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: From his first appearance up until about halfway through Pleasure Island 2, he's extremely aggressive, violent, and impatient. Once he finds the Walrus Pit, though, he mellows out almost immediately into his trademark cool personality.
  • Vague Age: According to him, the Freak Lab Accident that gave him his superpowers happened while he was in college in the 1980s, which would put him in his late 50s or even 60s assuming the series takes place in the modern day. He doesn't look much older than 30, and his Uncle Warren, who apparently raised him, doesn't look to be older than 50.

    Fernando 

Fernando the Manwhore

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fernando.PNG
"Hello, beautiful."
A spear-wielding squidhunter who moonlights as an unscrupulous manwhore, Fernando uses his incredible raw sexuality to both seduce others and to defeat his enemies.
  • Carpet of Virility: He's one incredibly hairy man.
  • Characterization Marches On: In early episodes like "Crabs Happened", Fernando is a Casanova Wannabe due to completely lacking Manwhore powers, and his "musk" is straight-up offensive BO. He is also a Lazy Bum who sits around at home, mooching drugs and food off of his roommate.
  • Extreme Omnisexual: He prefers women, but as a manwhore Fernando is willing to sleep with men and even goats.
  • Fan Disservice: Some of the bizarre poses he is often shown adopting in his music videos are too weird to be sexy, such as him laying shirtless on a bed undergoing open heart surgery.
  • Functional Addict: Fernando smokes crack cocaine, but it doesn't seem to affect his powers or ability to hunt squids.
  • The Heart: Of the three members of Manwhore Industries, he's the most emotional and empathetic.
  • Horse of a Different Color: His magical flying goat, Princess.
  • Intercourse with You: Pretty much his whole lyrical repertoire.
  • Latin Lover: With his dark complexion and hair, on top of being a Manwhore, he fits despite speaking with the same standard Australian accent as everyone else.
  • Limited Wardrobe: When he bothers to wear clothes at all, his attire is just a white tank top and black shorts. His idea of "Sunday best" is to basically add on a top hat and a feather boa.
  • The Pig-Pen: It's been noted on a few occasions that Fernando rarely bathes to protect his "musk".
  • Piss-Take Rap: His vocals on his original songs consist of moaning and whispery rapping about his sexual prowess.
  • Sex Magic: Being a Manwhore is more akin to being a sex mage, as Fernando is able to wield his musk to defeat opponents and mind-control others.
  • Smells Sexy: Fernando's musk is apparently so irresistible, Gooseman was able to bottle it and sell it as a fragrance.
  • Super Swimming Skills: As shown in "Vertical Seafood Taco", to be able to hunt squids Fernando has to swim to depths beyond what any human being should ever be capable of.
  • They Killed Kenny Again: Trying to comprehend Gooseman's economist-themed soap opera in "Sweet Nectar" causes his head to explode.
  • Tough Love: Fernando's father was very tough with him, and it affects him deeply. He even breaks down crying in the middle of "Dance of the Manwhore" after admitting (out of nowhere, mind) that his father never loved him.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Yoghurt. He's positively obsessed with the stuff, to the point getting distracted by a yoghurt shop while fencing stolen gold gets him into trouble in Ultimate Street Yacht Battle.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: He's clad only in tight gym shorts about half of the time.

    Randy 

Randy

A rude, crude and sexually aggressive transwoman who serves as the Head of Yoghurt Acquisition at Manwhore Industries.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Defeats Sergei's champion in Ultimate Street Yacht Battle by throwing a used condom at his face, which grosses him out so much he steps off the dock.
  • Commuting on a Bus: Leaves Manwhore Industries after having a falling out with Gooseman and Fernando in Fernando's New Fragrance and returns to her old job handling grease on Pleasure Island. She made a reappearance in World's Greatest Manwhore Pt. 2, but rejected Fernando's offer to return to Manwhore Industries. According to Fernando and Gooseman in Fernando's Amazing Podcast, she's happier on the island and Gooseman doesn't want her back anyway due to her irresponsible gambling. She later made a brief visit to Manwhore Industries on "Earthly Pleasures", though she was only in town to see her mother.
  • Fan Disservice: Randy is a busty, lascivious woman who also sports five-o-clock shadow, thick body hair, and an exceptionally masculine and guttural voice, so any of her attempts to seduce other characters are uncomfortable at best.
  • The Gambling Addict: In Ultimate Street Yacht Battle, when tasked to scrape up some money, she instead gambles away $100,000 of the company's money at the craps table. Later on, she does the same thing with Gooseman's stolen gold.
  • Jerkass: She's curt with just about everyone and has no qualms about stealing from others or ripping people off, which gets the gang into trouble on more than a few occasions.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: In Fernando's New Fragrance, she leaves in a huff, calling out Manwhore Industries as a miserable sweatshop, and elbows Fernando in the head after he tries to stop her from leaving. She's completely justified, though, since she hadn't been getting paid for months at that point and Gooseman had tried just moments earlier to feed her a banana loaded with a powerful sedative.
  • Mistaken Death Confirmation: Seemingly killed after being caught in the mouth beam of the Man-Walrus-Crab in Pleasure Island 3. 4 reveals she survived with minor injuries, berating Fernando for not bothering to check her pulse.
  • Stripperific: While on Pleasure Island, she's always seen wearing a skimpy pink bikini. While working for Manwhore Industries, she wears a more modest tank top and denim shorts combo.

Family and Associates of Manwhore Industries

    Uncle Warren 

Uncle Warren

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/unclewarren.png
"My life is a meaningless pit of despair."
Uncle of Gooseman, Warren is a dour pig farmer who occasionally helps out his nephew and his friends.
  • Animal Lover: He is friends with a group of magical forest creatures.
  • Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind: While Raymondo is monologuing after losing the seduction challenge, Warren runs up behind him and slits his throat.
  • The Eeyore: Most of his dialogue is melodramatic self-pitying delivered completely deadpan.
  • Hot Blooded Sideburns: He sports these, though he's generally pretty reserved and sour.
  • Smoking Is Cool: He's never seen without a lit cigarette in his mouth, and he's cool in much the same way his nephew is.
  • Sunglasses at Night: His sunglasses never come off.
  • Uncanny Family Resemblance: Much like his nephew, he's always sporting a pair of sunglasses that he never takes off. This may be intentional, as according to Gooseman Warren raised him "in his own image."

    Manny 

Manny

A frenemy of Gooseman's, who now runs a crab parlor on Pleasure Island.
  • Butt-Monkey: He gets humiliated in pretty much every one of his appearances, typically by Gooseman.
  • Out of Focus: Manny was a prominent character in the earlier episodes, such as "Mooselove" and "My Penis Is Evil", but from Pleasure Island 3 onwards he has been relegated to the background.
  • They Killed Kenny Again: Gooseman kills him in "Mooselove", but he comes back in "My Penis Is Evil".
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: In contrast to his rather jovial personality in early episodes, on Pleasure Island, he's snippy with the Manwhore Industries trio and tries to kick them out of his crab parlor. Considering that Fernando tried to buy crabs from him using Monopoly money, given to him by Randy who had apparently tried this in the past, it's hard to blame him. And the less is said about his relationship with Gooseman, the better.

    Hernando 

Hernando

Fernando's brother, and the bassist of Manny's band Greasy Moose.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Hasn't appeared since "The Great Chimp Heist". When asked about his absence in "Fernando's Amazing Podcast", Fernando says that Hernando is probably off smoking a lot of weed somewhere, and that if his brother ever needs him he'll be ready to help.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: He basically looks like Fernando with a goatee instead of a beard, and a more prominent Latin accent when speaking.

    Mr. Flaster 

Mr. Flaster

Fernando's old mentor. He alerts Fernando of Raymondo's resurrection and sends him off to stop him.
  • The Cassandra: The last thing he tells Fernando is make sure to wear a chastity belt...which Fernando ignores, and regrets when he finally confronts Raymondo.
  • Fauns and Satyrs: He looks like a satyr or a Baphomet-like demon, but he isn't villainous.

Enemies of Manwhore Industries

    Vera the Dominatrix 

Vera the Dominatrix

The de-facto leader/dictator of Pleasure Island, for whom Gooseman, Fernando, and Randy are a perennial pain in the rear.
  • The Baroness: As a dominatrix who runs an island nation with an iron fist, and who spends as much time seducing her enemies as she is trying to kill them, she definitely fits.
  • Big Bad: Of the Pleasure Island series.
  • Chain Pain: Her weapon of choice is a metal chain.
  • Evil Is Petty: What's her motivation for deploying awful creatures against Randy, Gooseman, and Fernando, destroying both the island and her control over it? It's all because Randy stole the Pleasure-mobile.
  • Kiss-Kiss-Slap: Vera has made out with both Randy and Fernando, in both cases while still locked in combat with them.
  • Ms. Fanservice: A rare example for Greasy Tales, and she gets a noticeable boost in Pleasure Island Final Climax where she dons lipstick and a leather corset.
  • Phallic Weapon: Tries to take out Gooseman and the Man-Crab-Walrus with a minigun that has two testicle-shaped ammo containers.
  • Stripperific: Wears a bikini in most of her appearances. The only time she "dresses up" is in Pleasure Island Final Climax where she's still only clad in bikini bottoms and a leather corset.
  • Unexplained Recovery: Takes a nasty blow to the head from Gooseman at the end of 4, yet she shows up fine and dolled-up in Final Climax despite it taking place maybe only a few hours after 4 and 5.
  • Zero-Effort Boss: Gooseman takes her out with a single rock throw to the forehead.

    Doctor Phineas Von Ironfist 

Doctor Phineas Von Ironfist


  • The Dragon: To Vera.
  • Karma Houdini: After trying to kill the trio with his creations, in their final confrontation with him Fernando and Gooseman abruptly decide to simply let him go and go relax at the sauna.
  • LEGO Genetics: Von Ironfist splices together the DNA of random animals to make monsters to fight the main trio. In his final encounter with Fernando and Gooseman, he offers to give them animal parts.
  • Mad Scientist: He's like a slightly less batshit insane version of Dr. Weird.

    Man-Crab-Walrus 

Man-Crab-Walrus


  • Ax-Crazy: The first thing it does after activating is destroy Von Ironfist's laboratory, and then half of Pleasure Island in its search for Gooseman.
  • Breath Weapon: It can shoot a massively destructive laser beam out of its mouth, which is shown to be powerful enough to annihilating several acres of forest at once.
  • The Heavy: Of Pleasure Island 3 and 4. It nearly kills Randy, and was within seconds of killing Gooseman had it not been for Fernando's intervention.
  • In the Back: How it meets its end to one of Fernando's spears.
  • Lightning Bruiser: It can go toe-to-toe with Gooseman, on top of possessing an immensely destructive laser blast.
  • Mix-and-Match Critters: A bipedal walrus with crab claws.
  • Monster Modesty: Why this creature feels the need to wear jeans is never explained.
  • Near-Villain Victory: It ultimately pins Gooseman during their fight and had him dead-to-rights. Had it not been for Fernando spearing it in the back, it would have killed Gooseman with its laser blast.
  • Your Costume Needs Work: Gooseman says that he's seen a lot of walrus costumes in his time, and this creature's is above-average.

    Raymondo 

Raymondo, the First Manwhore

The legendary gigolo, brought back from the dead with the goal of taking over the world.
  • Big Bad: Of "World's Greatest Manwhore".
  • Combat Tentacles: Fights using his tentacle limbs.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: Warren slits his throat while he's distracted after losing the seduction challenge.
  • Humanoid Abomination: He appears human at a glance, but his ability to turn his limbs into tentacles show he's closer to a supernatural demon-creature.
  • Near-Villain Victory: Succeeds in fending off Gooseman, Warren, and Fernando, and holds the latter helpless to his tentacles, not least because he ignored Flaster's advice to wear a chastity belt. He only relents after Fernando challenges him to seduce the nearest woman...who happens to be Randy.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: His skull was locked away in a chest hidden in a cave on Pleasure Island...that is, until a hapless member of Vera's entourage opened it, releasing him into the world.
  • Villain Ball: He had absolutely no reason to agree to Fernando's battle of seduction, since he had him, Gooseman, and Warren incapacitated and at his mercy. Doing so grants the heroes an opportunity to defeat him.

    Todd McGovern 

Todd McGovern

A powerful drug trafficker who runs a gopher farm as a front. He despises Gooseman and publicly calls him out on his past crimes during his campaign for office.
  • Enemy Mine: When Gooseman tells him about his plan to legalize Mexican crazy beans, he agrees to help him out with his campaign.
  • Fantastic Drug: His Mexican crazy beans, which for some reason have effects similar to cocaine and are illegal.
  • Getting High on Their Own Supply: At the end of "Gooseman Runs for Office", to Gooseman's displeasure.

Meth Orcs

    Treshtog 

Treshtog

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/trestog.PNG
"That's a lot of meth...are you sure I can just have it?"
An orc warrior who sets out on a quest...for meth.
  • Barbarian Hero: A badass Orc warrior whose weapons of choice are an axe, his muscles, and his wits. Instead of glory and girls, though, his goal is to smoke more meth.
  • Heroism Incentive: Why does Treshtog go out of his way to defeat an evil drug-dealing elf queen, a sorcerer who turns hapless victims into snake women, slay a deranged wizard who kills people by inflating them, and climb a mountain to rescue someone from a wyvern nest? It's only because someone offered him meth.
  • Nominal Hero: He's not really a hero, he's just wants to get high on meth. It just so happens most of the people he kills are attacking him unprovoked, and he only goes out of his way to rescue people if they offer him meth.
  • Potty Failure: In "The Stench of Failure", he gets spooked while relieving himself and accidentally gets pee all over his legs. As multiple characters point out afterwards, orc piss is extremely pungent, much to Treshtog's embarrassment. This ends up inadvertently saving his life, as the creature that was stalking his caravan and slaughtered the elves holding him captive took one good whiff of him and left him alone.
  • Token Heroic Orc: While most orcs are meth-addicted savage brutes, Treshtog is...still a meth-addicted brute, but also one with something of a moral compass. Instead of killing Fanny Ranger, he cuts her loose because killing gnomes is bad luck, to the consternation of the orc who handed him the axe.
  • Strong and Skilled: Treshtog owes his formidable fighting capabilities to his reflexes and quick thinking as much as his prodigious strength as an orc. A shining example would be in "The Stench of Failure", where he sprints up a hill towards an elf archer all the while deftly dodging the archer's arrows, before finally deflecting the elf's last arrow with a rock and cleaving him in half with a single swing to the waist.
  • You Kill It, You Bought It: After killing the Dark Elf Queen in "Meth Harder", the guards tell him that he now owns the castle. Treshtog refuses, though he walks away without hearing about the meth storerooms.

    Fanny Ranger 

Fanny Ranger

A gnome bard who decides to accompany Treshtog after he rescues her in "Dancing With Death".
  • Damsel in Distress: In "Inflates You Big and Round", she gets abducted by a wyvern and taken to its nest. To make sure Treshtog would come to her rescue, she made sure to scream out that she had some leftover meth.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: The fact she insists on introducing herself as a "celebrity bard" to everyone should be a good indicator of her actual fame.
  • The Load: Parodied. She's a bard who only does interpretative dances and a gnome who cannot invent, but insists on accompanying Treshtog anyway. When Treshtog retorts that she wouldn't be able to keep up with him, she says she will because he'll have to carry her everywhere. Treshtog only agrees after she bribes him with meth.

Great Destiny Man

    Great Destiny Man 

Great Destiny Man

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/greatdestinyman.png
"Move aside, swine! I am on a journey, a journey of great destiny!"
A Ronin who walks the earth, hoping to achieve his Great Destiny.
  • Attention Whore: Once he reveals to Keenwa that he put the million crown bounty on himself just so he could make a name for himself slaying powerful bounty hunters, it becomes immediately evident that fame is what he's really after.
  • The Fatalist: Everything that happens to him was meant to happen, no matter how contrived it may be.
  • Invincible Hero: He is a Master Swordsman so swift nobody is even able to touch him. Even when he's tied up at the mercy of an enemy mage, when by his own admission he is no good against mages, he can just Flash Step out of the way of the magic blasts.
  • Ludicrous Mêlée Accuracy: In "The Forest Glade of Doom", he cleanly splits the hair on a man's face - in the same slash he cut Keewna's head off with. He later does the same to Robard, severing his head in the same slash he used to cleanly shave his belly.
  • Never My Fault: Doesn't matter what he does, good or bad, it was always meant to be a part of his "Great Destiny."
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: Clearly a parody of Steven Seagal and the Invincible Heroes he plays. He gets mistaken for the actor in "The Shadow of Treachery" and in "The Forest Glade of Doom", his wanted poster even points out the resemblance.
  • Price on Their Head: His "Wanted!" Poster offers a prize of 1,000,000 golden crowns for him. "The Berry Good Time" reveals he put the bounty on himself, just so he could become famous.

    Gendo 

Gendo

A swordsman addicted to hallucinogenic berries, who gets forcibly recruited as Great Destiny Man's apprentice.
  • Addled Addict: Spends nearly every night getting completely trashed on berries.
  • Drunken Master: Even when high on berries, he can still swing a sword around on a level comparable to his master.
  • Mundane Utility: His berries have the added property of granting mild magic resistance. After downing a bunch of them he's able to tank Keenwa's magic missiles, though he takes a beating doing so.

    Keenwa and Robard 

Keenwa and Robard

A pair of bounty hunters who are pursuing Great Destiny Man.
  • Actually a Doombot: When Great Destiny Man first defeats Keenwa in "The Forest Glade of Doom", her body disappears, revealing itself to be a magical construct of the real Keenwa. When he fights her for real in "The Berry Good Time", it turns out that one too was a construct, and now the real Keenwa knows the truth behind his wanted poster.
  • Anti-Villain: Keenwa wants to claim the bounty on Great Destiny Man's life so she can repair an orphanage and an animal shelter.
  • Baritone of Strength: Robard is a hulking ogre of a man and he has a voice to match.
  • Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Robard fights front and center with a halberd, while Keenwa prefers to hang back and throw magic bolts at their enemies.
  • Off with His Head!: How Great Destiny Man slays Robard. He also defeats Keenwa like this, but neither attempt sticks.
  • Stout Strength: Robard has a prominent paunch, but he manages to overpower Gendo without much effort.
  • Vine Tentacles: Keenwa summons vines to restrain Great Destiny Man, though he slips out of them when she attempts to kill him with a magic blast.

Others

    "Tracksuit Man" / Chris Voigt? 

"Tracksuit Man" / Chris Voigt?

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tracksuit.PNG
"Hello there."
A strange-looking man who's strongly implied to be the Author Avatar of creator Chris Voigt. Aside from Gooseman and Fernando, he's arguably the closest thing to a main character the Greasy Tales universe has.
  • Ambiguously Bi: He has a wife in "My Mother-in-Law is a Scorpion", but he also makes out with Felix Argyle in "Despair" and has a deeply homoerotic obsession with Tobey Maguire.
  • Ass Shove: Receives a rectal computer to aide his digestive issues in "Rectal Computer", and according to him, the doctor's hand felt "he had a handful of stuffing and I was some kind of pheasant."
  • Author Avatar: Channel updates are typically delivered through him being shown working on a drawing tablet, so it's safe to assume he's meant to be Chris's self-insert.
  • Barefoot Loon: Always depicted barefoot, even when he's walking around in public, and he's a weird, greasy shut-in with a creepy stare.
  • Butt-Monkey: Frequently on the receiving end of humiliation, such as having his rectal computer getting hacked to give him gas, or getting poisoned by his scorpion mother-in-law.
  • Depending on the Writer: Unlike Chris' other recurring characters, who have their own linear storylines and defined personalities, his self-insert's personality, living situation and even ultimate fate are subject to change from episode to episode - while he is typically depicted as a socially stunted shut-in who lives with his parents, he is sometimes shown able to maintain his own house, a wife and children, and even ends one episode trapped in an alternate reality with no obvious way to escape.
  • Interrupted Suicide: Ponders shooting himself after receiving a sponsorship request from Raid: Shadow Legends in "Despair", but is stopped by Felix Argyle.
  • Leitmotif: Plays the song from "Cucumber" during channel updates.
  • Limited Wardrobe: He's typically shown wearing a dirty dark gray tracksuit, but he has also appeared in pajamas and a tuxedo.
  • No Name Given: He's never been referred to by name, aside from "Despair", where Felix calls him "Tracksuit-chan". If he's a straight Author Avatar, he may share a name with creator Chris Voigt.
  • Occidental Otaku: As shown in "Final Form", he grew up watching anime, and as an adult he stays in his room all day watching tentacle hentai.
  • The Prankster: Once filled his friend Curtis's drink with bubble soap, causing the latter to spend an entire week farting out bubbles until his ass started bleeding, and eventually, shooting out of his ceiling in a flatulence-powered explosion.
  • Progressively Prettier: He looks less unkempt and deranged in more recent episodes. This can be seen most clearly in comparison to channel updates, as they recycle animations from Chris' early 2010s videos.
  • The Unblinking: In his channel update videos, Tracksuit Man maintains an unwavering, wide-eyed stare with the viewer. While it's most likely a form of Limited Animation, it's also effectively creepy.

    Dr. McFitzgammon 

Dr. McFitzgammon


  • Mad Scientist: When he's first introduced in "The Body Count", he shoots live chickens at crowd of people out of a cannon, his reasoning being that "comedy has therapeutic value" and nothing is funnier than chickens being fired at high velocity.

    Todd McSwain 

Todd McSwain

The anchor of The Body Count.
  • The Bus Came Back: Made a sudden reappearance in "Gooseman Runs for Office" in 2023 after not appearing since 2009's "The Body Count".
  • The Hedonist: He cares more about sexually harassing his female colleagues and engaging in grease wrestling than actually doing his job.
  • Intrepid Reporter: Walks off his show and treks all the way across the city to cover the battle between the police and Dr. McFitzgammon on "The Body Count". In reality, he just wanted to play in the grease with the girls there.

    Captain Planet 

Captain Planet

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captain_planet_5.png
A parody of the environmentalist hero with particularly deranged ideas on how to bring pollution down to zero.
  • Adaptational Villainy: The original Captain Planet definitely didn't murder countless masses of innocent people to cover up his tracks, nor did he eat birds.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: He vaporizes a cop for using "frittata" as a verb.
  • Eco-Terrorist: His plan to save the environment is to kill all of the world's leaders at the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference, though to be fair this only occurred in Kevin Rudd's dream.
  • I Am a Humanitarian: When asked why he eats birds, he chillingly responds that it's the only thing that keeps him from craving human flesh.
  • Irony: The destruction he wrought in Captain Planet Rampage is stated to have released more carbon into the atmosphere than human industry ever did.
  • Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: He destroys the world in a misguided attempt to cover up his murders.
  • Unexplained Accent: Assuming this is the same Captain Planet from the cartoon, how and when he adopted a gruff Australian accent is unknown.
  • Vicious Cycle: His first killing in Captain Planet Rampage leads him to start eliminating witnesses, which only creates more witnesses, and which ultimately spirals into global destruction.

Top