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Monkey Wrench team
In General
- Alliterative Name: Shrike Sanchez and Bulldog Browns.
- Anime Hair: Both sport impressively spiked 'dos.
- Bash Brothers: They play off of each other well in a fight.
- Fat and Skinny: Shrike is rail-thin, while Beebs is quite rotund.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Shrike's the neurotic, loud red to Beebs' professional, level-headed blue. It also helps that Shrike dresses in red while some of Beebs' clothes are blue.
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: Beebs is grounded and professional, while Shrike is a neurotic mess.
Shrike Sanchez
Shrike Sanchez
- Voiced by: Jacob Barrens
A hyperactive ex-Navy-turned-mercenary and half of the Monkey Wrench crew.
- Alien Hair:
Word of God says his hair is made of "tentacle-type dealies". - Berserk Button: Damaging the Bucket in any way is a surefire way to make Shrike more violent than he already is.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Shrike is highly irritable, greedy, whiny, and constantly trying to find shortcuts for his work. But as the big battle between him and the other bounty hunters shows, he's an incredibly resourceful and effective combatant when the chips are down, being an expert sharpshooter and one slippery bastard to pin down.
- Exhausted Eye Bags: His eyes are darkly ringed, and his first appearance has him having a hard time waking up from a nap. He definitely earns those bags while dealing with Nobert.
- Flipping the Bird: Does this frequently, especially toward Scratch.
- Gratuitous Spanish: Shrike peppers his speech with Spanish words and phrases, some more profane than others.
- Guns Akimbo: Shrike is pretty handy with two pistols.
- Hammerspace: The back of Shrike's head functions as an extradimensional storage space, where he keeps weapons, ammunition, spare rolls of duct tape, and Lord knows what else. "The Lythop Liberation" reveals it's thanks to a blue gem ingrained in the back of his head, identified by the Lythop leader as "the mother gem."
- Klingons Love Shakespeare: Despite terrans being treated as a terrifying and dangerous race by the rest of the galaxy, Shrike loves their cartoons and pizza, though he seems to take a lot of it at face value.Shrike: Don't knock terrans, amigo. They were a huge part of history! They brought us cartoons, pizza, the galactic-wide cataclysm... Lots of fun stuff!
Beebs: I don't think a show about colorful cartoon characters should be taken seriously.
Shrike: They had to be onto something with this stuff! Why else would they make over fifty-seven episodes of the exact same thing? - Last-Name Basis: Downplayed. Beebs calls him "Shrike", but most other characters refer to him by his last name (Sanchez).
- Long-Range Fighter: Kara's dossier in a Freeze-Frame Bonus describes Shrike as heavily favoring long-range combat while being useless at close-range.
- Money Fetish: Shrike has what can be called a minor one (understandable given his current status)—he even drools a little when he thinks of Nobert's 10 million pixel bounty.
- The Noseless: Shrike doesn't have a nose which Beebs points out in "Us & Them" after getting a whiff of something from Scratch's bag.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: While generally not a bad guy, Shrike's more than capable of handling himself in a fight against multiple other opponents, and his eyes are as red as his suit.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The reactive and hyperactive red to Beebs' calmer blue.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Sometimes in English, sometimes in Spanish.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Pizza, specifically the sixteen-cheese Atomic Supreme. His profile picture even shows him chowing down on a couple slices. Hilariously, he's actually unable to stomach the Atomic Supreme, but never learns his lesson
. - Trigger-Happy: He tends to be shoot first, ask later.
- Vague Age: Old enough to have his own mercenary company, but otherwise his age isn't stated—looks to be anywhere from mid-twenties to early-thirties. Kara's profile on him outright says his age is unknown, as opposed to Beebs being 32 Galactic years old.
- When All You Have Is a Hammer… : Per his profile splash, he believes "a hot bolt of plasma" solves most problems. Lampshaded in episode 3, after Shrike shoots at the possessed arm of his ship, but it reflects all over the roomBeebs: Stop! You'll knock a hole in the bulkhead!
Shrike: This is all I know!
Bulldog "Beebs" Browns
Bulldog "Beebs" Browns
- Voiced by: Jean-Francois Donaldson
A Walrinian who is Shrike's best friend and the second half of the Monkey Wrench crew.
- Artificial Limbs: His left arm is mechanical and stores his weapons and several other gadgets in a shoulder compartment.
- Close-Range Combatant: Kara's dossier in a Freeze-Frame Bonus describes Beebs as heavily favoring close-range combat.
- Fun T-Shirt: His shirt says "BEARD".
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Beebs' full name is only revealed in a Freeze-Frame Bonus—nobody calls him "Bulldog" until "Us & Them" where Us refers to him as "Bulldog" before given the insistence to call him "Beebs" as that's what his friends call him.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The level-headed and professional blue to Shrike's hyperactive red.
- Rubber-Forehead Aliens: Beebs is the most human-looking member of the cast, and if not for his cube-shaped skull, you could be forgiven for thinking he is a human.
- Stout Strength: Beebs is a hefty guy, and he's got plenty of power. Kara's dossier even describes him as the bigger threat of the duo.
- Team Dad: Has shades of this, such as when he stops Shrike from chasing after Nobert.
- Vague Age: Averted. The profile shown on Kara's communicator puts him at "32 Galactic years".note
Tyneen's Crew
Queen Tyneen
Queen Tyneen
- Voiced by: Niko Vargas
A Space Pirate Queen.
- Badass Cape: What kinda pirate queen would she be without one?! It's crimson red and torn, further denoting who you're dealing with.
- Benevolent Boss: Played with—she does launch one of the Fodder clones from the ship when he points out how her plan failed. However, she doesn't blame Ricket or his squad for losing Nobert to Monkey Wrench, and tries to calm herself down when she starts to get angry.
- Breath Weapon: She literally eats two shots from Shrike's blasters before spitting them back out as a single, much more powerful beam.
- Bright Is Not Good: She sports exotic, vibrant colours in complexion, outfit and maybe-feathers, she's also a ruthless pirate warlord.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: As if she wasn't intimidating enough, she has a large scar on her muzzle.
- Graceful Loser: She takes the loss of Nobert's bounty in stride since she got to see her idol Kara in action.
- Immune to Bullets: She tanks multiple shots from Shrike's blasters to no visible effect, and even eats a few of them so she can spit them back at him with much greater force.
- Large and in Charge: She runs her own crew of baddies, and easily stands head and shoulders above Beebs, who is already over eight feet tall.
- Lizard Folk: She resembles a humanoid dinosaur.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Her being a Space Pirate Queen is already ridiculously cool, so couple that with the fact she's a Cyborg Alien Dinosaur and can turn her cybernetic hand into a buzzsaw!
- Non-Mammalian Mammaries: Seemingly averted. She is a dinosaur-like alien and is noticeably flat-chested. The fact she asks Kara to "sign [her] pecs" rather than "breasts" also implies she has no mammaries to speak of.
- Obviously Evil: To Saturday-Morning Cartoon levels! She is a tough-looking dinosaur with a clawed cybernetic hand, crimson clothes with a complementary torn cape, a skeleton for a right-hand and a talon-shaped spaceship!
- Swiss-Army Appendage: She has a cybernetic left hand which can turn into a buzzsaw or act as a Grappling-Hook Pistol.
- Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: She is yellow-eyed and cold-blooded...but sneakiness isn't really this boisterous pirate warlord's MO.
Ricket
Ricket
- Voiced by: Logan Calderwood
Tyneen's second-in-command and an old friend of Shrike's.
- Affably Evil: As Shrike's old acquaintance, he's still friendly to the Monkey Wrench team when they find themselves on opposite sides.
- Exotic Eye Designs: He has diamond-shaped pupils and irises.
- Number Two: For Tyneen.
- Punny Name: "Rickets" is a childhood disease of the bones, and Ricket is a skeleton man.
- Vocal Dissonance: He has a deceptively squeaky voice which saps away any threat he might pose.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Downplayed as he's a skeleton, but he only wears a red sash across his chest.
Spoops
Spoops
- Voiced by: Doug Drury
One of Tyneen's subbordinates.
- Adorable Evil Minions: Spoops is to smallest member of Tyneen's crew and looks and sounds adorable.
Fodders
Fodders
- Voiced by: Gehrig Schreiber
- Clone Army: They're apparently very easy to create, and are impossible to tell apart save from the color of their bandanas.
- The Dividual: Completely unremarkable save the colour of their bandanas.
- Eyeless Face: As pointed out by one of them, none of the Fodders have eyes. It's a miracle they can aim their guns in even vaguely the right direction.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Fodders shoot about as well as you'd expect from a species that doesn't have eyes.
- Inhuman Eye Concealers: The Fodders wear bandanas which conceal the fact that they have no eyes while also reinforcing the stereotypical Space Pirate image.
Cat Scratch Gang
Scratch
Scratch
- Voiced by: Chris Zito
A small cat mercenary who butts heads with Monkey Wrench over bounties on occasion.
- Animal Stereotypes: He's a black cat that brings bad luck wherever he goes. He's actually a unique case in this regard since he mostly brings bad luck to himself.
- Butt-Monkey: He's not very good at fighting other people and he encounters a good bit of bad fortune throughout the pilot. The last shot of the episode even shows him dejected and sporting a shiner.
- Cats Are Mean: He's introduced talking to Shrike in the phoniest Nice Guy attitude possible and threatens to upend him if he doesn't hand over Nobert. Too bad he doesn't really have the skill or firepower to back his attitude up.
- Didn't Think This Through: In the first episode, he threatens to blow up the Bucket if the Monkey Wrench crew refuses to hand Nobert over to him. Shrikes agrees and asks Scratch to reveal their location so that they can proceed with the exchange. Scratch excitedly does so... And Shrike promptly points one of the Bucket's heavy guns towards said location.
- Scratch: "...Wat"
- Does Not Like Spam: "Us & Them" reveals Scratch hates pizza.
- It's All About Me: What he lacks in vertical inclination he makes up for in blatant grandstanding. Unfortunately for him, he tends to bite off more than he can chew.
- Fat Bastard: Scratch is one chunky kitty, and also a selfish and mean-spirited one. He's introduced in "Ghost Egg" talking himself up and barely concealing his contempt for the people around him, especially Shrike. His toxic personality is balanced out by his inability to effectively throw his weight around, though.
- Hypocrite: He goads Shrike into bring him to a station to get his ship fixed in the pretense that the duo would be breaking the contract they made with him if they don't. Once they bring him to a station, he destroys his evidence of having made the deal in an attempt at getting out of payment, only for Beebs to reveal he has evidence of his own to ensure that Scratch has to pay lest he break the contract himself.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Subverted. At first, he's right to call out Shrike for bargaining with him while he's still in danger, with Beebs giving a disappointed "Shrike..." when he does so... but, as Shrike points out and as we see later, Scratch was absolutely going to try to weasel out of paying anything.
- Mr. Exposition: He tells the story behind the Agarians and the Cataclysm to Shrike and Beebs, and by extension the viewers.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Implied to be the case, since he keeps appropriating Shrike's language, calling him "amigo", in an obvious attempt to piss him off.
- Translator Collar: Most beings within the universe has translators that allow them to communicate with others. Scratch is no exception, as shown in one short which reveals he naturally meows like an ordinary cat without it.
Scritch
Scritch
- BFG: Relatively speaking. He lugs around a bulky laser cannon that's bigger than he is... meaning that it's slightly larger than a housecat.
- Cute Mute: An adorable kitten who doesn't speak a word.
- Hidden Depths: Throughout "Us & Them," Scritch's body language strongly implies he hates working for Scratch, especially how he bickers with Monkey Wrench at the most inappropriate times. At one point, he even laughs at Scratch's misfortune in the background. However, he readily gets along with Beebs; the two of them come to a silent, mutual understanding as they navigate past Them's attacks on the Bucket.
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: He's a lot more capable than Scratch and holds his own better in fights.
- The Voiceless: Never says a word or even makes a sound.
League of Aligned Worlds
General
- Ambiguously Evil: While they seem to be the group that keeps the universe in check, there are hints that they may not be as noble as they claim including Shrike's heavy disdain for them, the fact they have a dangerous package capable of corrupting things from a mere touch along with the fact that their own members are willing to pawn said package off to others without detailing the risks, and the fact they have essentially ordered mass genocide of Terrans for causing the galactic wide cataclysm by having wanted posters for the entire Terran race.
- Big Good: Well, from what we know, at least. They're the organization that keeps order in the universe, and are shown to be generally good, arresting Dr. Agness and keeping The Cataclysm at bay.
- Fun with Acronyms: The acronym for the league which is more commonly used throughout the series than the full name, is L.A.W. which spells out law.
Chester McNevins
Chester McNevins
- Voiced by: Matthew Curtis
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He tries to convince Kara not to kill him by offering her first a fistful of pixels, then ownership of one of his casinos. When these don't work, he starts begging for his life in earnest, claiming that he can be more useful to Kara and her employer alive. His words fall on deaf ears.
- Do You Want to Haggle?: He begs Kara to spare him by bribing her. It doesn't work.
- Gory Discretion Shot: His death is not seen, but the audience hears Kara's claws slashing him and him death throes.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies within the first few minutes of the pilot.
- You Are Too Late: He possessed some mysterious object which prompted Kara's employer to put out a hit on him. By the time Kara corners him, he tells her that the object has already been sent to L.A.W. HQ and killing him won't change a thing about that. She kills him anyway.
Killix and Sixty-Two
Killix and Sixty-Two
- Voiced by: Matthew Curtis
A pair of L.A.W. officers tasked with handling a package.
- Plot Device: Their presence is essentially to push the plot forward by handing over the package to the titular duo to deal with rather than deal with it themselves.
- Those Two Guys: Neither of them have yet to be seen apart from one another.
Commander Tezzoree
Commander Tezzoree
- The Ghost: At the moment, she has yet to appear in person.
Others
Kara
Kara
Kara is a notorious assassin who is extremely good at her job, fitting the phrase "silent, but deadly" to a tee. Though stoic and professional, she is not above flaunting her superiority through her body language. A chance encounter with Monkey Wrench in the pilot sees her develop a grudge against them.- Absurdly Sharp Claws: As a humanoid caracal, she has large claws that she uses to kill her targets.
- Bait-and-Switch: As she's introduced as a Professional Killer who assassinates Chester, a birdlike alien, the viewers are led to believe that she will do the same to Nobert, another birdlike alien with a huge bounty on him. Her actual goal is to return him to his mother, as evidenced by collecting her bounty after doing so.
- Combat Pragmatist: Kara knows her limits, as such, she prefers surprise ambushes when everyone in the melee is too distracted to notice her presence.
- Expressive Mask: Kara's mask is able to express emotions like anger, annoyance, surprise, and playfulness.
- It's Personal: During their chase in "The Ghost Egg," Shrike manages to restrain Kara mid-run with some tape, causing her to trip and crack her mask. While she still succeeds in her bounty over Monkey Wrench and their contract with Nobert, she's also sore that Shrike staggered her the way he did. During the final scene of "Us & Them," her agent informs her that the Cataclysm package she's after is under the duo's care. She is very eager to face them again, angrily running a hand across her hastily mended mask as her agent promises her a chance at revenge.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: She was willing to kill Shrike and Beebs, but she backed away when they were attacked by many enemies. She only intervenes when everyone is too distracted to notice her presence.
- Natural Weapon: Kara has many high-tech gadgets as weaponry, but she prefers to use her claws as her main weapon to kill targets.
- Not So Above It All: Kara actually taunts Shrike by wagging her fingers and waving goodbye at him during their chase.
- Not So Stoic: The first half of the pilot has Kara barely emoting. The climax of the episode shows her having a playful and sadistic side as she taunts Shrike.
- Professional Killer: She's described as an elite assassin by the news. Her first appearance has her kill Chester as part of a hit.
- Punny Name: Her name is Kara, and she appears to be a humanoid caracal woman.
- Silent Antagonist: She doesn't utter a word with her only using facial expressions and body language as her use of communication.
- Silent Snarker: Some of her body language visibly shows her mocking others with an annoyed expression as mostly shown when her agent is communicating to her in "Us & Them".
- Weapon Specialization: Kara has many gadgets to kill, but she prefers to use her claws when aiming at her personal targets.
- The Voiceless: Never speaks onscreen, instead depending on body language to get her point across.
Nobert
Nobert Potoo
- Voiced by: Joshua Palmer
- Catfishing: Beebs and Shrike's first impression of Nobert is the profile picture on his contract. In it, he looks a lot more sinister and well-adjusted than the kooky Nervous Wreck he turns out to be when the duo meets him in person. Combined with him hiding in a remote location for his own safety, it's implied he did this to try and cover his tracks from those seeking him... But the facade is immediately broken the second Beebs and Shrike notice how the contract is written; it lines up with Nobert's speech patterns perfectly. It's later shown that the picture Queen Potoo gave Kara for her contract is dead-on to his actual appearance.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: He's a very odd fellow with many eccentricities and an unusual manner of speaking. This makes it difficult for others to understand or deal with him; Shrike is ready to kill Nobert within minutes of meeting him, and he's teetering on the verge of a nervous breakdown after putting up with him for six days.
- The Load: Acts as this to the Monkey Wrench crew, especially Shrike. Could be considered The Gadfly even, depending on how intentional his annoying behaviour is.
- Really Royalty Reveal: It turns out that he's the son of Queen Potoo, despite dressing up like a hobo and acting like a neurotic mess.
- Rebel Prince: Turns out he's the runaway prince of an interstellar empire.
- You No Take Candle: Tends to speak and write in this manner though he briefly drops it when his mother gets angry with him.
The Queen (SPOILERS)
Queen Potoo
- Voiced by: Ashley Palmer
The queen of the Potoo race and Nobert's mother.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Just as dopey-looking as her son and seemingly an ineffective negotiator when begging him to come home. If her Voice of the Legion moment is anything to go by, though, Queen Potoo can be downright terrifying when angered.
- Butter Face: She looks attractive enough during her Feet-First Introduction, only for the camera to pan up and show the same goofy, wall-eyed bird face as Nobert.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her eyes flash red when she loses patience with her son.
El Bandito
El Bandito
- Voiced by: Sr. Pelo
A Terran cartoon character whom Shrike is a huge fan of.
- Show Within a Show: He is the main character of a cartoon of the same name that Shrike obsesses over.
Dr. Agness (SPOILERS)
Dr. Agness
- Voiced by: Laila Berzins
A grandmotherly L.A.W. scientist who hires Monkey Wrench to help her evacuate the Lythops from their home planet before it explodes. But as Beebs and Shrike suspect, something about her isn't on the level...
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: She mulches most of the Lythops using a blender made from their own crystals and pulls out a sword made of the same while fighting Beebz and Shrike. She casually demonstrates its sharpness by slicing through her own consoles. It can even cut through Beebs' Hard Light weapons.
- Animal Motifs: Agness bears some angler fish influences in her design; she has a lure atop her head that she uses as the head of her L.A.W. scientist disguise, and a gaping, toothy maw dominates her actual face. The resemblance ties in to how she manipulates Beebs and Shrike into luring the Lythop colony to their doom.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She acts like a kindly scientist working to save an endangered species from extinction, but she's really a greedy arms dealer who wants to make a profit by exterminating that species to exploit their minerals for herself.
- Evil Old Folks: Dr. Agness is an elderly criminal who kills off the entire Lythops tribe just so she can use their remains to make a super weapon for profit.
- Fatal Reward: After she reveals her true colors to Beebs and Shrike, she declares that she's going to reward them for their hard work with "a taste of Granny's home cooking". She then transforms her hoverchair into a battlesuit and tries to kill them.
- Freudian Slip: She blurts out that she's looking forward to getting paid while urging Beebz and Shrike to do their jobs, making it clear that the safety of the Lythops is not her priority.
- Knight of Cerebus: The episode takes a bit of a dark turn midway when she reveals her true colors and commits genocide on the Lythops, leaving its ruler as the Last of His Kind.
- Light Is Not Good: Her visage appears to be cheerful and bright yellow. That's actually her lure, and the Lythops name her the "Striking Sun" because of it.
- List of Transgressions: After she's defeated and imprisoned by L.A.W., they list off her crimes, including illegal weapons production, arms trading, impersonating a L.A.W. Science official, and of course, genocide.
- Metaphorically True: She mentions that the Lythops are an endangered species. She's technically right, because she's the one endangering them.
- Never Mess with Granny: Dr. Agness is a grumpy old woman who frequently grouses about how things were different back in her day. She's also a murderous Mad Scientist with a hoverchair that can transform into a superhumanly strong, nearly indestructible battlesuit. She gives Beebs and Shrike a very hard time during their battle because of this.
- Smug Snake: Once she powers up her hoverchair with the Lythops, she displays cockiness in fighting the mercs she hired under the presumption that she is unbeatable. The moment she notices the Lythop leader on Shrike's shoulder though, she begins to panic.
- Super Wheelchair: She spends the episode sitting in a hoverchair, which is later revealed to possess deployable arms strong enough to pick up the Bucket and toss it around like a football. It can also transform into a suit of nearly indestructible Powered Armor.
- Treacherous Quest Giver: Her plan to hire Monkey Wrench to help save the Lythops from their home planet's imminent destruction turns out to be actually capturing them to use as materials for her weapons. After doing so, she repays the Monkey Wrench duo by trying to kill them off.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Minus the minor amounts of swearing, Monkey Wrench is a relatively goofy, light-hearted, and comedic series and then there's this character who quite casually commits genocide on an entire race.
- Villain of the Week: The antagonist of "Lythop Liberation", though this isn't apparent until the latter half.
- Walking Spoiler: Her stated goals and affiliations are revealed to be complete lies halfway through the episode, turning the plot on its head. The fact she is under others rather than L.A.W. is just one hint of her true nature.
The Lythop Ruler/"Puntiagudo"
Puntiagudo
- Voiced by: Kelly Boyer
- A Father to His Men: Calls the other Lythops their "bwodders" (brothers) and expresses gentle concern when one of the others slices a hand on their head-crystal.Careful! You're gonna get a boo-boo.
- Ambiguous Gender: Shrike refers to them with male pronouns, but they have a high-pitched voice and they don't indicate one way or another whether they are male or female.
- And This Is for...: In the climactic battle against Dr. Agness.FOR MY BWODDERS!
- BFS: Comparitively. Under pressure, the super-sharp crystal on their head expands to several times their body size. Huge compared to a Lythop, but a fairly normal-sized sword otherwise.
- Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Speaks in a very cutesy manner, such as calling the other Lythops "my bwodders."
- Equippable Ally: They allow Shrike to wield them as a sword while fighting Dr. Agness.
- Heroic BSoD: Once the adrenaline of the final battle wears off and the reality of being The Last of His Kind sets in, they can only stare blankly ahead and whimper softly.
- The Napoleon: They fit in the palm of Shrike's hand, but insist on carrying themself like a fearsome warrior monarch.
- No Name Given: Shrike nicknames them "Puntiagudo" (meaning "Pointy" in Spanish), but they don't offer any real name or title themself.
- Rock Monster: Like all Lythops, they resemble nothing more than a tiny doll made of stone. Their distinguishing trait is the (relatively) large crystal growing out the top of their head.
Agari Us
Us
- Voiced by: Gooseworx
An Agari who wishes to be with their friend.
- Good All Along: When first encountered, it seems to be a hostile creature with no sentience. Then Beebs learns he can communicate with them by playing his guitar and learns their hostility was with Scratch for unknowingly stealing and corrupting their friend.
- Face–Monster Turn: Scratch states the Agari used to be benevolent before the Terrans caused the galactic wide cataclysm which turned them into mindless drones that devoured all in their path and were after him to devour him. Subverted with Us who proves to actually be a benevolent entity who was only after Scratch because he had their friend.
- Hive Mind: Us reveals that the Agari are mentally connected, even referring to Beebs and his companions as seperates. Their connection with Them gets severed when Them is corrupted.
- Mushroom Man: Is an Agari, a fungal alien race that was peaceful and prosperous before most of them got infected and assimilated by the Cataclysm.
- Together in Death: When it becomes clear that Them can't be saved, Us becomes willing to sacrifice themselve by pulling Them into the sun. Subverted as Beebs saves Us while giving Them a Mercy Kill. Us parts ways with the duo in peace.
Agari Them (Unmarked spoilers)
Them
Us's fellow Agari and friend.
- Alas, Poor Villain: It's hard not to feel bad for Them as they weren't exactly a villain by choice. And Us watching Them burn up just hits really hard.
- Face–Monster Turn: Due to touching the package that Monkey Wrench was tasked to deliver, Them becomes corrupted in the way that Scratch had initially described the Agari.
- Mercy Kill: When it is clear that Them is beyond saving, Monkey Wrench is forced to have Them burn up in the sun.
- Mushroom Man: Is an Agari, a fungal alien race that was peaceful and prosperous before most of them got infected and assimilated by the Cataclysm.
- Not Quite Dead: Them is accidentally blown up by Scratch with their remains ending up on a frame. However, this doesn't actually kill them due to having regenerating abilities. Unfortunately, this does not keep them from being corrupted by the package.
The Cataclysm (Unmarked spoilers)
A corruptive virus unleashed by the Terrans which infects and takes over both organics and machinery, turning them into hostile drones that seek to spread the infection. The cargo that Chester passed to L.A.W. contains something infected by it.
- The Assimilator: Those infected by it seek to assimilate others and infect them, spreading the Cataclysm.
- Dark Is Evil: Its primary color is black with a Sickly Green Glow and it's a corruptive, assimilative superweapon unleashed by the Terrans.
- Leaking Can of Evil: Simply bumping into the cargo containing part of the Cataclysm is enough to spread the corruption, as shown by what happens to the Bucket's arm and Them.
- Production Throwback: It appeared several years before in Walking City OCT as The Beast in Lariat and Triangle's entries by Zeurel (who are all from Monkey Wrench universe).
- Sickly Green Glow: Its corruptive energy takes the form of unnatural green energy.
- Superweapon: It's implied to be one that was unleashed by the Terrans, corrupting the Agari as well as much of the galaxy.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Minus the minor amounts of swearing, Monkey Wrench is a relatively goofy, light-hearted, and comedic series... and then there's this virus that infects and corrupts both organics and machines into assimilative drones that spread it, and has taken over a quarter of the entire galaxy.
- The Virus: It turned the Agari from a once peaceful race into mindless drones hell-bent on spreading the corruption. It also acts like a Computer Virus, capable of infecting the Bucket's systems and causing them to go haywire.
Jax and Kinger
Jax and Kinger
- Voiced by: Michael Kovach (Jax) and Sean Chiplock (Kinger)
Characters from the tape Scratch found, who happen to be characters from The Amazing Digital Circus.
- The Cameo: They originate from The Amazing Digital Circus.
