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Mango and Brash
Tropes as a duo
- George Jetson Job Security: In Take the Plunge, they are demoted to janitors after being accused of flooding the city (which makes the General Inspector’s socks soggy), before becoming agents again near the end of the book.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Mango and Brash have a great bond with each other, not wanting to lose the other or getting hurt. They also tend to spend a lot of their time together outside of work, like watching a movie or getting breakfast.
- Odd Couple: Mango is more of a goofball while Brash is more hard-nosed.
- Old Cop, Young Cop: Brash is the more experienced member of the team.
Mango
- Bizarre Taste in Food: In Volume One, He is seen eating a PB and PB sandwich. (Which is not excess peanut butter, but rather peanut butter and pickle and bacon.) However, there are still certain food combinations he finds disgusting, like ketchup on waffles.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite his unusual taste in food and tendency to crack jokes, he is a top agent of S.U.I.T. and can have a sharp sense of wit when the situation calls for it.
- Cuckoosnarker: Usually directing comments at Brash.
- Mango: This is the point in the book where I tell you you can't reason with Daryl, Brash. It's like a theme or something.
- Cover Identity Anomaly: In Heist and Seek, he is given a S.M.O.C.K. that disguises him with a wig, smock, glasses and even changes his skin colour to blue. The problem is he did not come up with basic information like a city or even a name, so he calls himself Macaroni Ancheese from Lampurugalightswitchland.
- Genius Ditz: He can calibrate various tracking devices for anything from a painting to chocolate chips.
- Smart Ball: In Take the Plunge he hacks into a business card to track down the location of another S.U.I.T agent.
Brash
- Angry Collar Grab: He tends to do this with innocent witnesses he's interrogating, usually when he's really stressed out.
- Age Cut: In his subconscious, Baby Brash ages up from a kid with Pubescent Braces, to a teenager with acne all over his face and back to his adult self, who's overcome his fears and trauma.
- Blue with Shock: He gets a blue gradient with vertical lines on his face and Blank White Eyes whenever he finds out that Daryl/Crackerdile is still alive.
- Idiot Ball: While he is the more sensible and serious of the duo, he still makes occasional mistakes interpreting similar-sounding words.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite Mango’s many ridiculous antics, he still cares about him and finds him an okay partner to have around.
- Running Gag: He and other characters like to comment on the shape of his chin.
- Mango, upon meeting Baby Brash: Aw, so adorable! You never really grow into that chin, though, do you?
- Repressed Memories: Implied by RoboBrash. He's transferred with the real Brash's memories but can't seem to recall the ones that are related to Daryl or Crackerdile. Brash had pushed any memory of Daryl far back into his subconscious because he doesn't want to remember.
- Situational Sociability: Shown more in the batteryPOP shorts but he gets anxious during the board meeting at the bank and a news interview.
- Trauma Button: Whenever someone makes a passing mention on Daryl’s fate, Brash starts to look very emotional, almost about to cry.
- Troubled Backstory Flashback: He has one when he looks back at the concrete Waffledile statue standing on top of the Mother Of All Waffles building.
- Your Worst Memory: Throughout the books, Brash is reminded about the incident that happened with Daryl. He also gets flashbacks to when he was eaten by Waffledile.
S.U.I.T Headquarters
Bongo & Marsha (The B Team)
They're the B Team, and B stands for Best!
Identical badgers who temporarily replaced the Gators in Take the Plunge.- Identical Twin ID Tag: Bongo has a light pink nose & the same vest colour as Brash while Marsha has a dark pink nose and the same vest colour as Mango. In their spinoff book From Badger to Worse, they're drawn with more obvious features, Marsha having a short swoop of hair on her head and Bongo having fluffier ears and a larger nose.
- Money Dumb: They use up 80% of S.U.I.T.'s funding on frivolous things like custom-made gadgets, merchandise and 6-star hotels.
- General Inspector: Wait, I thought they only went up to five...Marsha: Oh, you have to ask for the sixth star! It's the only way!
- The Rival: They usually make small comments on the Gators and try to prove they're better than them.
Cilantro
- Forgettable Character: She is usually ignored by other characters, even if she isn't in camouflage.
- The One Who Wears Shoes: Inverted. She's the only agent at S.U.I.T. who doesn't wear clothes. She does eventually get a V.E.S.T. of her own in the spin-off books.
- Wingding Eyes: Her eyes get star-shaped when she dreams of being a Field Agent.
Monocle
- Brainy Brunette: She is good at inventing gadgets and has brown hair.
- Genius Cripple: She's always seen with her floating device, likely implying that she can't move without it.
C-ORB
- A.I.-cronym: Its name stands for Computerized Ocular Robotic Butler.
- Robot Maid: Its specialty is relaying messages to Agents and making sure they don't get lost in the Headquarters. It also helps to spy on antagonists like Crackerdile.
General Inspector
- Handicapped Badass: Sort of minor as he has a metal nose, though the continuity is inconsistent as to whether or not he still has his sense of smell.
Sven Septapus
- Artificial Limbs: He lost one of his arms and had it replaced with a cybernetic prosthetic. It's eventually explained in All Tide Up that he simply couldn't regrow the arm he lost after getting bullied as a kid.
- Cool Shades: He wears them all the time, though his eyes occasionally show when he's surprised.
RoboBrash
- By-the-Book Cop: He is programmed to follow S.U.I.T. rules and regulations to a tee, which includes ratting out Mango for wanting to include Cilantro in a mission.
- Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence: Average Joe Android. Analytical but literal-minded and lacks emotion.
Antagonists
Crackerdile (SPOILERS UNMARKED)
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Daryl chooses to act like a monster and is obsessed with getting his revenge, other characters acknowledge that even though it wasn't his fault he turned out the way he is, he never decided to change and instead proceeded to commit crimes that destroy the city.
- Given Name Reveal: Daryl.
- Laughably Evil: He could be easily defeated by getting some water onto him.
- Objectshifting: He started out as a crocodile, then changed to a cracker. He also turns into a waffle, a concrete statue and a radioactive rock monster.
- Start of Darkness: He used to be an agent of S.U.I.T with Brash helping out on a case of a bakery putting radioactive waste into their crackers. After an incident with a cat, Daryl falls into a vat of radioactive cracker dough, presumably never to be seen again. However, he survived and combined with the dough to become Crackerdile.
Prime Robot
- Guilt-Ridden Accomplice: He feels bad for all the combinations he made as he just wanted to make friends and hug them, not combine them with food items. He only helped Crackerdile steal a V.E.S.T. because he thought that they were friends.
Hookline and Slinker
- Hypnotic Eyes: Bill is being hypnotised by Slinker to become evil.
- Meaningful Name: Their name comes from the phrase ‘hook, line and sinker’ which means to be deceived or tricked.
Houdino
- Shout-Out: His name and overall character is a direct reference to Harry Houdini.
- Breaking the Bonds: Nothing can stop him, not even the seemingly impenetrable 50 cell doors that he's locked behind in Maximum Security.
- Fat and Skinny: The fat to Maestronaut's skinny.
Maestronaut
- Dreadful Musician: His flute playing is really bad according to Houdino.
- Fat and Skinny: The skinny to Houdino's fat.
- Punny Name: He's a maestro dressed as an astronaut thus, a "Maestronaut".
Recurring Townspeople
Doctor Copter
A normal brain surgeon..or is he?
Alias: Dr Jake Hardbones
- Involuntary Shapeshifting: He is able to involuntarily transform into a news helicopter every time he hears something newsworthy.
- Shout-Out: He's based off the film An American Werewolf in London.
Cici Boringstories
- Alphabet News Network: She hosts the ANN (Action News Now).
- Deadline News: In all of the books, Cici and her Action News Now crew unfortunately manage to get interrupted by the chaos in town.
Old Man
- Old Superhero: In Ants in Our P.A.N.T.S., it's revealed that he and his dog used to be a superhero duo named Pop and Lock, they were in retirement for years until Pop decided he had enough with all the crime in town and asks for help from the Aunty Crime Unit.
- Robot Dog: Lock, who is disguised under a coat of rust.
