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    Olive 

One of the main protagonists of the Ships Ahoy! universe. The former partner and ex-girlfriend of Agent Oscar as well as a former Investigation agent of Precinct 13579, she currently runs an Odd Squad precinct in Montreal as a co-Director along with her current partner, Agent Otto.


  • Absurd Phobia: Pies, of course, courtesy of Odd Todd. Her phobia of pies is what leads her and Oscar to nearly drown in Olive's Last Partner, as a matter of fact.
  • The Ace: Very skilled in the realm of mathematics.
  • Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In addition to the trauma from the pienado attack, she has sensitive hearing (touched upon in the franchise but fully canonized here), her rocky relationship with Oscar, and three Near Death Experiences to her name.
  • The Alleged Car: She drives a Mercedes Limo. Said Mercedes Limo is really a small toy car.
  • And I Must Scream: While she was a statue, she was completely unaware of her surroundings, meaning she didn't notice Oscar plant a kiss on her cheek as he and Otto walked by her.
  • Animated Actors: If the epilogue of Olive's Last Partner is to be believed, she is one. She watches Oscar's interview being filmed, takes part in chasing down the logo of Odd Squad during the PBS Kids version of its credits, and films an Odd Squad Needs You commercial along with Otto, Oscar and Oprah which is also attached to the show. And that's not even mentioning the numerous bits of other Medium Awareness — Olive doing voiceover work for the Odd Moments in History segments, Oscar recording the Training Videos, and Oscar and O'Connor sending in the Odd Reports segments they filmed together, among other things.
  • Benevolent Boss: Always treats her agents with kindness and respect, and contrasts with Oprah in that she doesn't have the same tendency to yell as her former boss.
  • Broken Tears: Ends up completely breaking down and crying on Oscar's shoulder after she tells him how hurt she was by his actions during the course of their rocky relationship. The tears are well-amplified by the fact that she faces an inevitable drowning.
  • Canada Eh: One chapter of Opalescent has her ask Otto "Isn't it too cold for ice cream?" when he poses the idea of taking Opal to get some on a date. She then reminds herself that she is a Canadian and is well-used to the cold.
  • The Chain of Harm: Ultimately why she doesn't tell Otto that Oscar was her first partner — she doesn't want to hurt him the same way Oscar seemingly hurt her back then.
  • Does Not Like Spam: Shudders at the thought of Weird Team installing a coffee maker in Precinct 13579. However, she drinks a coffee-flavored juice box in All Mixed Up!.
  • Endearingly Dorky: Inverted. It's implied that Olive comes from a Friendless Background as a result of being a bookworm and a "sports nerd", and so she views Odd Squad as a place where she can reinvent herself.
  • Et Tu, Brute?: Gets hit with betrayal from both Oscar and Odd Todd. The former's betrayal ends up putting an even bigger strain on their budding relationship.
  • Everyone Has Standards: She may hate Oscar's guts, but she's not below giving sympathy to him when the concept of him getting fired comes up. She's also not below helping him when he's in dire straits.
  • Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Uses "crumpets" as a stand-in for "shit" fairly often.
  • Greaser Delinquents: She dresses up as one for 50s Night in Full Circle, taking inspiration from the movie Grease.
  • Hates Being Called Cute: Olive doesn't take too kindly to Mariana Mag addressing her with "dear" in All Mixed Up!, but is too exhausted from Diesel's antics to tell her.
  • Heroic BSoD: She completely breaks down when Polly Graph tells her that Oscar had always wanted to be a Lab Director, not her partner. It only gets worse when she witnesses Oscar being promoted to the position with her own eyes, running to the Ball Pit and crying for hours.
  • Heroism Won't Pay the Bills: Averted. She's saved the world so many times that she's no stranger to being offered food on the house — saving the world from the Daves invasion causes her to accrue five free meals in the span of a week.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: She views Todd's nickname for her, "Scribbles", as cute, and praises him for paying attention to her and being nice to her — a contrast she has with Oscar, who doesn't like Todd because he thinks something is off with him and doesn't like the way he's rude to her.
  • Involuntary Dance: She contracts the Skips disease at one point, which causes her to skip around in circles without feeling the need to eat, drink, go to the bathroom, or sleep. Oscar speeds up her recovery in spite of Dr. O's chastising, but it has no negative effects on her.
  • Irrational Hatred: In the beginning of her budding relationship with Oscar, Olive despised Oscar with a burning passion. She would often insult him and berate him, both aloud and in her head, over a simple case of Poor Communication Kills. This doesn't become the case when they make up and enter Official Couple status.
  • Just Friends: Her relationship with Oscar following their breakup at the end of Ships Ahoy!.
  • Kids Driving Cars: She has her license at just 12 years old and has had it for three years. This is due to a law that vehicular licenses can be obtained at a certain age, but a person that looks too young to meet the legal age can still obtain one if they are a certain age.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Olive's memory of Todd's pienado attack is spotty, and when telling the story of the attack to Otto, Oscar has to help her fill in the gaps.
  • Leader Wannabe: She wants to be promoted to the Management department, become an Odd Squad Director, and run her own precinct. When she tells Todd this, however, he laughs at her and says she's not good enough to become a Director.
  • Life of the Party: Inverted. Olive doesn't like crowded, boisterous parties, and would much rather do more low-key things with friends and family for her birthday. Oscar and Otto honor this by taking her to a bowling alley and having a three-man party in a rented party room.
  • Like Brother and Sister: Her relationship with Otto. A chapter of Ships Ahoy! titled "The Counterparts" would have explored their relationship and why them being boyfriend and girlfriend would never work out, but was never published. In Chapter 32 of Ships Ahoy!, Oscar asks Olive if she ever saw Otto in a romantic light, and she tells him that she only sees him as her best friend and nothing more.
  • Living Emotional Crutch: Opal is of the belief that Olive and Otto can never be separated for the good of everyone in Precinct 13579. However, Otto is, in fact, Olive's emotional crutch.
  • Love Triangle: Enters one with Oscar and Todd beginning in Chapter 20 of Ships Ahoy!
  • Keeping Secrets Sucks: Olive manages to keep her relationship with Oscar secret from Otto for a time, but is found out when Otto catches her resting her head in the crook of Oscar's arm. She then manages to find out about Otto's own relationship with Opal (Dr. O) and immediately calls him out on his hypocrisy.
  • Memento MacGuffin: In Olive's Last Partner, she is revealed to have kept a food pill that Oscar had made in spite of her hatred towards him. She ends up giving it to him at the end of the story.
  • Mistaken for Cheating: Due to Oscar becoming Oprah's advisor, Olive believes that the two of them are dating and gets jealous that Oscar is spending more time with another girl than he is with her. However, their relationship is strictly professional.
  • Mistaken for Gay: Oscar believes she's a lesbian after a Suggestive Collision incident with Odie and cites that as the reason why she doesn't seem to like him back. Likewise, she thinks Oscar is gay.
  • Near-Death Experience:
    • In Olive's Last Partner, she becomes a Deer in the Headlights upon seeing Oscar using a pie in an attempt to scare the Blobisite towards Otto and ends up slamming into the boiler, which breaks and floods the Boiler Room with orange juice. Under the belief that the door is locked, she and Oscar have no choice but to climb as high as they can to avoid the flood, which ends up ultimately failing as she gives her Not-So-Final Confession to Oscar. Luckily for her, Otto saves both of them at the last minute.
    • Unlike in canon, Olive fully realizes that when she jumped out of an airplane while infected with the Skips, she very well could have died had Otto not saved her. Oscar is so shocked by this revelation that all he can do is pull her into a tight hug.
    • Her fighting off Sector 21's twilight oddities with Otto is described as this, although she doesn't want to think about her dying from the incident. Even more miraculous is that the chances of surviving in the Sector past sunset are 725 to 1.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her Absurd Phobia of pies and her Deer in the Headlights reaction to seeing one causes her to break the boiler in the Boiler Room, leading to her getting a head injury and leading to her and Oscar nearly drowning.
  • Poor Communication Kills: Her lack of communication with Oscar is what drives the plot of Ships Ahoy! Unfortunately for her, Oscar has the same issue.
  • Promoted to Love Interest: She is Oscar's girlfriend in this universe, when canon only gave them a few Ship Tease moments at best.
  • Proportional Aging: She ages far slower than others due to her Odd Squad badge.
  • Purple Is Powerful: Her Director uniform is predominantly purple, and she is a part of the Management department. She is also one of the strongest of the main characters.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives a very heavy-handed one to Oscar in Chapter 3 of Olive's Last Partner after reaching her Rage Breaking Point.
  • Relationship-Salvaging Disaster: The events of Olive's Last Partner rekindle the love Olive and Oscar have for each other as they restart their relationship on better terms.
  • Repression Never Ends Well: Olive's pain and agony that she has kept bottled up for months upon months in regards to Oscar not helping her on cases and seemingly abandoning her for the Lab ends up spilling over in Olive's Last Partner, to such an extent that she tells Oscar that she wishes she was never partnered up with him. This causes him to become Emotionally Tongue-Tied as she delves into Broken Tears.
  • Secret-Keeper: She finds out about Otto's crush on Dr. O and keeps it secret from Oscar, Oprah, and Otto himself, for various reasons.
  • Sensory Overload: The pienado attack caused her to develop ASPD note  that makes her sensitive to loud noises. She has to take medication to control it.
  • Shipper on Deck: When she gets wind of Opal and Otto being in love with each other, she's completely on board with shipping them.
  • Shrinking Violet: She was painfully shy when she first began working at Precinct 13579 and was promoted to the Investigation department, to the point where she relied on the more experienced Oscar to help her out on cases. As she grew older, she became more headstrong and serious.
  • Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Olive rejects Odd Todd's advances because he is rude, brags about his own accomplishments, and puts others down solely for their own benefit — all things that Oscar is not. He does not take this well.
  • Suddenly Bilingual: The pie that gets lodged into Olive's ears causes her to develop the ability to understand French, Vietnamese, and the language of Lemon. It comes at a hefty cost, though, of developing ASPD.
  • Taken for Granite: Gets turned into a statue during the disabling of the booby traps in Headquarters depicted in "Dance Like Nobody's Watching". By the time she gets turned back using the Un-Statue-inator, she is so drained of energy that she is left unable to walk without assistance.
  • Tap on the Head: Subverted in Olive's Last Partner. The blast of orange juice from the boiler sends Olive colliding into a wall, which knocks her out cold. When she comes to, she tries to speak, but Oscar tells her she received a bad hit to the head, and then it's revealed that she has a painful lump on the side of her head from the impact. Aside from that, however, she suffers no other ill effects nor any brain damage.
  • They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: In Chapter 2 of Full Circle, she corrects the Confalone brothers by referring to herself as Ms. O.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Her signature drink as a Director is herbal tea.
  • True Companions: With Otto and Oscar, through thick and thin.
  • Unknowingly in Love: In Ships Ahoy!, when Oscar mentions that the Truth-Sniffer-inator gadget is his favorite gadget, Olive gets butterflies in her stomach that she brushes off as nervousness as she tries to reassure herself that she has nothing to hide from him.
  • You Are in Command Now: While Oprah is away, Olive becomes a temporary co-Director of Precinct 13579 along with Otto and Oscar in All Mixed Up!.

    Otto 
One of the main protagonists of the Ships Ahoy! universe and the main protagonist of All Mixed Up!. Opal's boyfriend (who later maintains a Long-Distance Relationship with him), he was a former Investigation agent of Precinct 13579 before becoming co-Director of an Odd Squad precinct in Montreal with his partner, Olive.


  • Adaptational Intelligence: Although his intelligence was upped over the course of Season 1 of the show, Otto is considerably more intelligent here — his IQ alone is in the early one-hundreds.
  • Age-Gap Romance: Opal is ten or eleven but is 25 years old legally. Otto, on the other hand, is legally ten years old. It's no wonder the duo agree to take things slow and not get serious.
  • Animated Actors: If the epilogue of Olive's Last Partner is to be believed, he is one. He watches Oscar's interview being filmed, takes part in chasing down the logo of Odd Squad during the PBS Kids version of its credits, and films an Odd Squad Needs You commercial along with Olive, Oscar and Oprah which is also attached to the show.
  • Bad Liar: He becomes one in Full Circle, nearly letting The Matchmaker plan slip out in front of Olive twice without her ever being the wiser.
  • Benevolent Boss: Otto is very kind towards the agents he leads.
  • Big Eater: He has limits, but he can pack away a fair bit of food and has an appetite for just about anything that's edible.
    Opal: Do...you always eat this much? I mean- every meal, do you...always eat so much food?
    Otto: Only when I'm super-hungry. Which is usually all the time.
  • Borrowed Catchphrase: In Chapter 8 of All Mixed Up!, Otto borrows Olive's "Let's go" catchphrase. Oscar doesn't have the heart to point out exactly how the catchphrase is borrowed.
  • Chick Magnet: He manages to attract the attention of nearly every girl in the precinct. The only one who doesn't fall for him is Oksana, who knows that the girls like him because he's new and interesting and not for his personality.
  • Child Prodigy: His IQ is incredibly high for being someone who was often distracted in school to the point where teachers tried to get him diagnosed with ADHD.
  • Competition Freak: Becomes this in Opalescent as he frequently one-ups Opal in regards to their "get-togethers".
  • Disabled in the Adaptation: Played with. Although he is an intelligent Child Prodigy, he was such a distracted child that he got tested to see if he could be diagnosed with ADHD. Doctors refused to diagnose him, and it's never stated whether he actually has ADHD, he has another disability entirely, or if he is neurotypical.
  • Even the Guys Want Him: In addition to attracting girls, he also attracts quite a few guys.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Big Eater he may be, but he is completely unable to stomach more than one-and-a-half egg salad pizzas and starts vomiting on Oprah's carpet.
  • Excellent Judge of Character: Throughout All Mixed Up!, Otto becomes suspicious of Mariana Mag and her aquarium, stating that something seems off with her. He's right — and what's more, he ends up being the only person able to stop her at the climax.
  • Genius Ditz: Otto may be a Cloudcuckoolander, but his knowledge of anagrams and word problems is nearly unrivaled.
  • Genki Guy: He was very hyperactive when he was first hired onto Odd Squad and sent to Precinct 13579. His excitability manages to unnerve his Shrinking Violet partner at first.
  • Grand Romantic Gesture: He loves Opal enough to team up with Oscar and get her a bike that she's always wanted but couldn't afford. She initially thinks it's from Otto himself, until the truth comes out.
  • Greaser Delinquents: His outfit for 50s Night in Full Circle makes him look like one of these. He even goes so far as to consider buying a motorcycle before Olive shoots the idea down.
  • Heroic BSoD: He goes through one in All Mixed Up! when Otto is turned into an anagrammed object by Mariana Mag. It takes Oscar using the Morality Chain Beyond the Grave for him to snap out of it.
  • Heroism Won't Pay the Bills: In Opalescent, he and Opal go to Chuck E. Cheese, and has to win a rubber squid and buy a Shmumber-Choco bar using tickets like any other customer, even after curing an employee of Polka-Dot-itis.
  • Hidden Depths: Otto loves rollercoasters and knows a fair bit about them.
    • He is also skilled in solving anagrams, to such an extent that he is The Ace in it and manages to stop a villainess completely on his own with his knowledge.
    • His knowledge of gemstones, exhibited in Opalescence, is something he got from his cousin, who enjoys telling him about gemstones. His cousin's birthstone being an opal and his lover's name being Opal is what inspires him to start calling her opalescent.
  • Instant Seduction: Pulls this on Opal at a laser-tag place, by way of backing her into a corner, caressing her chin while making intense eye contact with her, and shooting her in the chest with his laser gun before walking away.
  • Internal Reveal: Ships Ahoy! and its plot is kicked off by Otto realizing that Olive and Oscar are in love with each other and being completely blown away.
  • Keeping Secrets Sucks: He tries to keep his relationship with Opal secret from Olive, but she manages to find out anyway because of his inability to keep secrets.
  • Language Barrier: Otto is a Torontonian who works in Montreal, where, according to Olive, 56% of the population is bilingual and 67% prefer speaking French over English as their primary language. He speaks English and doesn't know any French, so he ends up feeling lost in Full Circle when Olive communicates with Oliver solely in French.
  • Like Brother and Sister: His relationship with Olive. He views her as an older sister.
  • Living Emotional Crutch: Serves as one for Olive.
  • Long-Distance Relationship: Following his promotion to the Management department at the end of Opalescent, he and Opal agree to let their relationship become one of these.
  • Love Makes You Dumb: Does numerous idiotic things in front of Opal and ends up embarrassing himself many times over. And yet, she still loves him.
  • Love Triangle: More like a Love Way-Too-Many-Sided-Shape — he's a Chick Magnet who attracts the attention of many girls and even some of the boys. However, the two girls that receive focus in regards to being attracted to him are Opal and Oksana.
  • The Matchmaker: Shares this role with Oprah, Olympia, Otis and Oona in Full Circle as he works to try and hook Olive back up with Oscar.
  • Near-Death Experience: With a 725 to 1 chance of making it out of Sector 21 past sunset alive, he manages to do it.
  • Oblivious to Love: Averted. He's able to pick up very quickly that Opal is in love with him. However, he struggles with figuring out when she started developing feelings for him and why she has feelings for him in the first place.
  • Opposites Attract: A comically serious Defrosting Ice Queen meets a Cloudcuckoolander Pollyanna Child Prodigy. And it works!
  • Pintsized Powerhouse: He's not as strong as Olive or Oprah, but he's able to, at the very least, break a board after receiving training from both O'Quinncy and Olive herself.
  • Promoted to Love Interest: He becomes Opal's boyfriend in this universe, even though canon never showed any romantic attraction between them.
  • She Is Not My Girlfriend: He is quick to assert that he and Olive have a sibling-like relationship when he gets wind of Olympia shipping them.
  • Secret Relationship: He and Opal's attempt at having one of these ends up foiled by Olive (who forces them to out themselves like how she was outed as being in a relationship with Oscar) and Oprah (who has security cameras placed around Headquarters), but it's also foiled by his sheer inability to keep secrets well.
  • Suddenly Bilingual: In All Mixed Up!, Otto is revealed to be able to read and understand Latin.
  • Supreme Chef: True to his Big Eater status, he's a pretty well-off cook. The only cooking mishap he has is in Opalescent as the result of cooking three different foods at one time.
  • Tap on the Head: In All Mixed Up!, he is knocked out from a blow to the head by the hexagonal platform in the Mathroom he lands on after he slides out of Mariana Mag's grasp. He wakes up only a few minutes later, almost completely unharmed aside from his paralysis.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: His signature drink as a Director is chocolate milk.
  • True Companions: With Olive and Oscar, bordering on Power Trio.
  • Ultimate Job Security: According to Olive in Full Circle, he's "not as qualified" to run his own precinct as his partner is, and has made numerous mistakes including leaving the door to the Robot Princess Room open (he couldn't latch the door), inadvertently setting the Breakroom on fire (he didn't know that giraffe's milk and loganberry juice was combustible when mixed with bran flakes) and set off the sprinkler system located in the Volcano Room which coated two entire weeks' worth of paperwork in orange juice (he didn't directly set it off, but he did approve the plans to have it installed in the room to begin with). Perhaps the only reason he hasn't gotten fired because of his Living Emotional Crutch status towards Olive...and Olive herself being an effective leader as a contrast.
  • Undying Loyalty: He is very loyal to Odd Squad and always seeks to put other agents' needs above his own. This carries into his role as a co-Director.
  • You Are in Command Now: In All Mixed Up!, he is left in charge of Precinct 13579 along with Olive and Oscar after Oprah goes away on business.

    Oscar 
One of the main protagonists of the Ships Ahoy! universe. The former partner and ex-boyfriend of Olive, he was the Lab Director of Precinct 13579 before Oona became his successor, and he currently serves as the President of the Scientists.


  • Advice Backfire: Subverted. He tries to give Oona advice on how to stay awake in the Lab in The Gadgetmaker and the Elf by telling her to try posing as a Night Shift agent. It doesn't seem to work at first, but after striking up a conversation with the leader of the night shift, she manages to spot movement in the Lab and manages to find out who the culprit is.
  • A Good Way to Die: Subverted in Olive's Last Partner. He is well aware he's going to drown, but still hoists the much-shorter Olive up and out of the flood as much as possible anyway, and even when he's told that his efforts are being wasted, he declares his intentions of dying with the agent he loves doing the job he loves. However, he and Olive don't actually drown, and are saved by Otto last-minute.
  • Amicable Exes: After his breakup with Olive, he still remains on friendly terms with her.
  • And I Must Scream: Ends up paralyzed and frozen by Mariana Mag in a position that depicts him on the floor with his eyes wide open in horror.
  • Animated Actors: If the epilogue of Olive's Last Partner is to be believed, he is one. He films an interview with a cameraman and takes part in chasing down the logo of Odd Squad during the PBS Kids version of its credits. He also films an Odd Squad Needs You commercial along with Otto, Olive and Oprah which is also attached to the show. In addition, Oscar also films and sends in Odd Reports and Training Videos for other agents to watch (the former with O'Connor).
  • The Atoner: Oscar feels terrible about his poor communication skills hurting Olive in Ships Ahoy!, and so he tries to make up for it in Olive's Last Partner. It doesn't go over too well.
  • Bizarre Taste in Food: At the end of Olive's Last Partner, Oscar eats a food pill that tastes like a rapid succession of fish fingers, celery, and banana custard (but no orange juice this time).
    • Also at the end of Olive's Last Partner, he tastes an egg salad pizza and finds it to be delicious. As a result, he takes the rest of the egg salad pizzas off of Olive and Otto's hands as an early birthday present for himself, relieving them of the duty of eating every single one of them.
  • Brain with a Manual Control: Opalescent implies that Reginald, the little man residing in Oscar's head, has at least some control of his brain, as when Opal asks Oscar how his first year with Olive has been going, Oscar is shown happy memories of them using a tiny slide projector, and relays the memories to Opal.
  • Cannot Spit It Out: The entire plot of Ships Ahoy! hinges on his inability to tell her that he's planning on becoming a Lab Director, but wants to remain an Investigation agent and remain Olive's partner to help her reach her full potential, even after Oprah orders him to tell her numerous times.
  • Can't Take Criticism: After filming an Odd Report with O'Connor, he sends the report to every agent's tablet for them to see. Olive's disgusted reaction when she sees it on hers doesn't settle well with him as he tells himself not to take it personally. And then he takes it personally.
  • Child Prodigy: He got into the Odd Squad Academy before the age of five and graduated in only six months' time, as he was already qualified to fill a Head of Department position off the bat.
  • Crazy Cat Lady: A variant with bunnies instead of cats and minus the mentally-ill aspect — a bunny storm ravages Toronto, and as a result, Oscar's home becomes filled with bunnies which he takes in.
  • Cute Kitten: He's turned into a basket of orange kittens by Mariana Mag in Chapter 9 of All Mixed Up!.
  • Didn't Think This Through: When Olive gets the Skips and has to be quarantined, he decides to use his Speed-Up-inator gadget on the quarantine room to speed her and the Baker up so they can be cured faster. It works — instead of taking a week to be cured, it takes two-and-a-half hours — but he doesn't factor in Dr. O, who now has to spend two-and-a-half hours of time she doesn't have watching the duo and seeing if there are any complications, nor does he factor in her comment about the gadget being used on a person with an odd illness not being medically tested.
  • Did You Get a New Haircut?: In The Quarantined, The Wallflower, and the Party, Olive and Otto greet Oscar at their party, and they're quick to notice that he looks and sounds different.
    Olive: You've gotten taller.
    Otto: And your voice has...dropped? How'd you grow up so fast in the past week?
    Oscar: Oh, hehe, you noticed. Yeah, zapped myself with a Make-Yourself-Older-inator on accident. But I kinda like the new voice, and Ms. O didn't make me switch back, so I guess she liked it too.
  • The Dog Bites Back: When getting his Flip-Flop-inator back from Todd, Oscar bucks up and decides to enact revenge on him for how he hurt Olive, making sure to put power and muscle into every attack he throws at the ex-agent.
    Oscar: [thinking] This is what you get for thinking you can mess with Olive. For taking away her kid honor and replacing it with grownup shame. For taking away her love of pies and replacing it with fear and loathing. For taking away her name and replacing it with only Scribbles. Don't...you...dare...hurt...my...girl!

    Oscar: [thinking] And this...this is what you get...for ever thinking...that you could degrade her, insult her, traumatize her...and take advantage of her...without me hearing about it.
  • Emotionally Tongue-Tied: In Olive's Last Partner, Oscar hears Olive's Not-So-Final Confession about how she felt when he abandoned her, and he finds himself unable to say anything as she breaks down crying. He eventually decides to answer with his own Not-So-Final Confession. Chapter 5 also has him asserting that he meant every word of his confession, but keeps tripping over his words — luckily, Olive realizes what he's saying and asserts that she spoke from the heart as well.
    • Oscar has this reaction to Olive telling him that she had another Near-Death Experience, falling to her death when infected with the Skips and jumping out of an airplane without a parachute on.
  • Epic Fail: He manages to get fifty-three gutterballs in only one game of bowling. And he still thinks he has a shot of hitting a pin!
    "YEAH! Almost got 'em that time! Your days are numbered, pins!"
  • Evil Laugh: Gives a mock one in Full Circle when Oprah jokingly tells him that as President of the Scientists, he's doing a good job of not trying to Take Over the World.
  • Excellent Judge of Character: Dislikes Todd because he feels something is off about him and doesn't like how he's a Jerkass to Olive. As it turns out, his judgement is very much justified.
  • The Gadfly: He teases Olive by inviting her for a not-date at Ms. Baker's bakery just on the sole fact that it's having a half-off sale on pies. She grows terrified, but once she sees he's kidding, she starts chasing him around Headquarters, realizing that he picked up Otto's mischievous tendencies.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: Just like his canon counterpart, he's skilled in making gadgets to the point where being a Lab Director is pretty much his destiny. Since his grandma disapproves of his career choice, however, he tries to seek out other careers, but Oprah continues to steer him towards various Lab Directors so he can learn about gadgetry.
  • Gag Haircut: One of the haircuts he tries out is an afro, which Olive takes a dislike to. He asks her if she likes it, only to turn the question on his head and ask if he likes it, and it's only when he picks up a mirror and sees himself in it does he realize that an afro doesn't suit him.
  • Grand Romantic Gesture: He helps Otto buy the bike that Opal had been eyeing but couldn't afford, although his involvement with buying it isn't revealed to her by Otto until much later.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Oscar puts himself in the line of fire of the pienado to allow Olive to aim one last shot at it to stop it. Unlike in canon, however, the pies are explicitly stated to be contaminated, making the sacrifice far more lethal in nature. Luckily, he comes out of the massacre alive.
  • Heroism Won't Pay the Bills: Averted. Like Olive, he's no stranger to getting free things for saving the world from oddness. Getting rid of the Daves invasion earns him his third free meal in the span of a week.
  • Just Friends: Following his breakup with Olive, he agrees on being friends. Full Circle has him move past this trope in a limbo between being friends and being an Official Couple.
  • Insistent Terminology: Opalescent states that he's not too keen on seeing Olive as a girlfriend to him. What he actually does call her, though, is left unanswered.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In Chapter 16 of Full Circle, Oscar and Olive both realize that entering a more serious relationship with each other means that they would have to quit their jobs. Neither one of them wants to do that for the sake of the other, so instead, they decide to put their relationship status in limbo between being Just Friends and being an Official Couple.
  • Like Brother and Sister: His relationship with Opal, whom he attended the Odd Squad Academy with. He views her as an older sister while he is the younger brother.
  • Love at First Sight: This is how he falls in love with Olive — he bumps into her, takes in her brown eyes and brunette hair, and immediately starts swooning over her, even when she's apologizing to him.
  • Love Triangle: Enters into one with Olive and Todd. Oscar is hesitant about Olive loving him because he thinks she loves Todd, while Todd has his sights set on Olive, who is in love with Oscar.
  • Mistaken for Gay: A Suggestive Collision incident with Odie causes him to ask Oscar if he's gay. Oscar states that he doesn't believe he's gay, but that doesn't stop Olive from believing that the reason he's avoiding her is because he's gay.
  • Must Have Caffeine: In place of the adult-oriented drink of coffee, Oscar has a Coffee-inator that he uses to give himself energy.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Has one of these moments when he realizes that Olive, for all of her actions and feelings towards him, was in love with him, and all he's done is push her away.
  • Named by the Adaptation: Chapter 30 in Ships Ahoy! reveals his full name to be Daniel Oscar Berryman.
  • Near-Death Experience: Nearly dies by way of drowning, along with Olive, in Olive's Last Partner.
  • Nervous Tics: He tends to scratch his neck whenever he's around Olive.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Him at least not trying to obscure the pie he uses to scare the Blobisite towards Otto, or at the very least him telling Olive to turn around, causes Olive to become a Deer in the Headlights, break the boiler in the Boiler Room, and nearly kill herself and Oscar.
    • He ends up nearly killing not just Olive, but Otto, Olympia and Otis as well, in the beginning of Full Circle when he turns off the Catcher-inator too early and sends the ice cream truck they're in plummeting downwards for the rest of the few feet. Luckily, everyone ends up unharmed.
  • Number Two: Becomes Oprah's advisor in Ships Ahoy!, which doesn't help Olive's jealousy any.
  • Older Is Better: This is pretty much his stance on technology. According to him, his Polaroid camera holds up much better than any piece of modern technology on the market.
  • Pintsized Powerhouse: Averted. He remains in high ranking, but doesn't have the same strength as those like Oprah or Olive — his attempt at breaking a wooden plank ends with a Sickening "Crunch!", lots of pain, and a misunderstanding that he broke his hand when he really broke the plank.
  • Poor Communication Kills: Suffered the same communication issues as his eventual girlfriend, which made their relationship shaky.
  • Promoted to Love Interest: Oscar falls in love with Olive and becomes her boyfriend in this universe, when canon showed only Ship Tease moments at best.
  • Pubescent Braces: Oscar has worn braces since he was four years old, and eventually gets them taken off.
  • Related in the Adaptation: He's Polly Graph's cousin in this universe, even though canon shows that they aren't related.
    • His parents are, for whatever reason, Flo and Dr. Forrester. Canon material never reveals who his parents are for intentional reasons.
  • Relationship-Salvaging Disaster: The Blobisite incident in Olive's Last Partner, which was caused by Todd, manages to help Olive and Oscar see each other on much better terms and repair their relationship.
  • Sarcasm-Blind: He has a bit of trouble picking up on Olive's snark and sarcasm.
    Olive: Well, let's fix Zoboomafoo first. I wasn't planning on sleeping tonight, anyhow.
    Oscar: Really?
    Olive: No, Oscar, that was sarcasm.
    Oscar: Oh.
  • Shrinking Violet: Much like Olive, Oscar was very shy in his early days working for Odd Squad, and having a Speech Impediment in the form of a stutter only added insult to injury. He manages to grow out of his shyness, though, especially with Olive as his partner.
  • Speech Impediment: As a young child, he had a bad stutter. It went away as he got older, comes back when he gets word of Opal moving to the Medical department, and then goes away for the most part when he gets partnered up with Olive, only stuttering when nervous, stressed, or upset.
  • Take Care of the Kids: He silently gives Otto parting words to "take care of her" when he and Olive leave for their new Headquarters via the tubes at the end of Ships Ahoy!.
  • They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: In Chapter 2 of Full Circle, he corrects the Confalone brothers by referring to himself as President Oscar, following his promotion.
  • True Companions: With Olive and Otto. The trio have been through quite a lot and are very tight-knit.
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend: Inverted. Oscar is a Nice Guy who's loyal to Olive and to Odd Squad and will always help his girlfriend out in a pinch. Hurt Olive, however, and he will not hesitate to try and make sure the pain is given back to you in equal measure.
    Oscar: [thinking] Just try and mess with Olive again. Just try. Because next time you do, you'll have me to answer to. And I won't be this nice again.
  • Women Prefer Strong Men: Worked out for fourteen years just to impress Olive. Eight of those fourteen years, however, were devoted to playing Wii Sports as a workout.
  • You Are in Command Now: Is left in charge of Precinct 13579 along with Olive and Otto in Full Circle while Oprah goes away on business.
  • You Can't Fight Fate: It's made pretty clear in Ships Ahoy! that his destiny in Odd Squad is to restart the Science department and become the Head of Science. However, since his grandmother actively prevents him from being a scientist of any sort like his father, Oscar decides to try out different careers instead in the hopes of one sticking to him. Oprah still keeps sending him to different Lab Directors so they can convince him otherwise, and he eventually becomes the Lab Director after many trials and tribulations.

    Ms. O / Oprah 
One of the main protagonists of the Ships Ahoy! universe. The former partner and ex-girlfriend of O'Donahue who has loyally served as the Director of Precinct 13579 since 1983.


  • A Child Shall Lead Them: Temporarily led the entirety of Portugal in a Faking the Dead gambit in order to make a ruler of another country cooperate with the actual leader of Portugal in political affairs, as Queen Oprah I of Portugal.
  • Achilles' Heel: She's skilled in a wide variety of things, but two subjects she isn't so good at are spelling and history (although part of her World Tour helps with the latter).
  • Adaptational Angst Upgrade: It's bad enough she's a G-rated alcoholic in canon. Now, she's not only a G-rated alcoholic, but she has to deal with recurring emotional breakdowns regarding O'Donahue breaking up with her. For decades on end.
  • Advice Backfire: Subverted. In Opalescent, Oprah gives Oksana some advice on how she can fix her corporis quiritatus. It backfires, but it doesn't deter her any, and Oksana eventually takes the advice to heart.
    Oksana: Change my meal routine? That's impossible!
    Oprah: Whoa there, no it's not. You don't have to completely change your meal routine, do you? Why not just ask agents to vote for three different meals, and only prepare the one with the most votes? That way you're still having agents tell you what they want, but it's less stressful on you.
    Oksana: Are you saying you know how to do my job better than I do?
    Oprah: No, I'm asking you why that wouldn't work.
    Oksana: It would. Very well. I'll change my routine tomorrow.
  • Affectionate Nickname: Often referred to as "baby doll" or simply just "doll" by O'Donahue when he undergoes Character Development.
  • Affection-Hating Kid: In All Mixed Up!, she winces and attempts to break free of a hug that a newly-reformed Mariana Mag gives her.
  • All Love Is Unrequited: Narrowly averted. Oprah toyed with the idea of developing feelings for Oscar (who quite obviously would never reciprocate the feelings), but realizes that Oscar is nothing like O'Donahue and that she shouldn't meddle in the rocky relationship he had going with Olive lest she lose her leadership position over it, so she drops the idea.
  • Amicable Exes: Once she copes with her meltdowns, she's more than willing to remain friendly with O'Donahue. By Chapter 41 of Ships Ahoy!, they move on from this trope and become boyfriend and girlfriend again.
  • Animated Actors: If the epilogue of Olive's Last Partner is to be believed, she is one. She takes part in chasing down the logo of Odd Squad during the PBS Kids version of its credits and films an Odd Squad Needs You commercial along with Otto, Oscar and Olive which is also attached to the show.
  • Badass Bureaucrat: She was one of the top Investigation agents of Precinct 13579, behind only Olesya (who would go on to become her boss), Obfusco, and Osage.
  • Became Their Own Antithesis: Downplayed. Oprah despised Odd Squad agents due to them taking the easy way through life and never experiencing the trials and tribulations of hard work, believing that they were smug and stuck-up. However, as time goes on and O'Donahue helps her in finding and catching a thief who stole her fruit, Oprah starts to realize that what agents do for a living is actually fun and she eventually joins Odd Squad, although she learns that not every agent is incredibly egotistical and she doesn't develop a giant ego herself.
    • She also eventually learns that yelling at her agents makes her just as bad of a bully as Olga was to O'Donahue.
  • Benevolent Boss: Although she can dip into being a Mean Boss at times (All Mixed Up! showcasing her at her complete worst), she is very kind and supportive of her agents and whatever endeavors they go through.
  • Busman's Holiday: Invoked. Agents of the Odd Squad precincts in Copenhagen and Munich prohibit Oprah from working while traveling, and even when she tries explaining to the former why she's in Copenhagen to begin with, her words fall on deaf ears. In the case of the latter, she finds a loophole by getting a job shelving books at a bookstore for no pay.
  • Create Your Own Villain: By forcing agents to love, appreciate and understand math even if their skillset lies in another subject, she causes Mariana Mag to perform a Face–Heel Turn and leads her on her Start of Darkness.
  • Crossing the Burnt Bridge: In Ships Ahoy!, Oprah goes back to O'Donahue for assistance with the Equal Evan case three decades after their breakup. She's nervous and nearly has another breakdown, but the pair reconcile and eventually team up to solve the case.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: She is an orphaned runaway slave who is found by a family of an aunt, an uncle, and two cousins. However, they rarely gave her any affection, neglecting her and frowning upon her dream of running a successful fruit stand in favor of joining Odd Squad instead. This caused her to become hardened and left her to tough life out on her own.
  • Declaration of Protection: She gives one to O'Donahue in Ships Ahoy! after he ends up hospitalized from a car accident.
    Oprah: I started taking karate for protection. To defend myself while fighting off any odd villains. But why can't I use it to protect my own partner?
  • Descent into Addiction: O'Donahue breaking up with her caused her to go from drinking juice boxes habitually to becoming The Alcoholic and drinking them frequently as a full-on addiction.
  • Disconnected by Death: A non-lethal variant. Oprah gets turned into her own personalized anagrammed object by Mariana Mag while she's on the phone with Otto and Oscar, meaning she can't tell them who Mariana really is.
  • Does Not Like Spam: She hates drinking water and will only tolerate swimming in it.
  • Everybody Knew Already: Downplayed. She knows about Oscar and Olive, as well as Otto and Opal, because of the security cameras placed around her Headquarters. She tells Oscar and Olive in Ships Ahoy!, but in Opalescent, she refuses to tell Opal because she knows she has a strong and stoic reputation to uphold.
  • Everyone Has Standards: As badass and strong-headed as she is, seeing Candle Cove for the first time renders her in a state of fear enough to actively avoid watching television for nearly an entire year, as doing so makes her too unnerved.
  • Everyone Hates Mathematics: Inverted. She loves mathematics — she's the leader of an Odd Squad precinct, so it's practically a given — but she despises the subject of language because words can be used to hurt and manipulate people for their own personal gain. Her hatred originally stemmed from Olga telling her that numbers had nothing to do with her fruit going missing back when she ran a fruit stand, but given her past with O'Donahue, it makes sense that she wouldn't be too fond of words as a concept.
  • First-Name Basis: She's referred to by "Oprah" instead of her title of "Ms. O" by numerous characters of high ranking. In Full Circle, she gets upset at Oscar because he accidentally called her "Ms. O" and not by her actual name.
  • Functional Addict: Her addiction to juice is likened to substance abuse by Olesya (who herself is addicted to jellybeans), although she and Oprah both practice moderation with their addictions.
  • Hard Work Hardly Works: Averted. Oprah despises Odd Squad because she feels that all its agents do is brag about perks they get as government employees and brag about their feats of fighting oddness, and because of it, she is of the belief that hard work is the way to achieve her own goals. When she actually does join Odd Squad, she completely drops this mentality.
  • Heartbroken Badass: She was one of the top agents in Precinct 13579 and was deeply in love with O'Donahue. Being promoted to the Management department and becoming an Odd Squad Director though, is where it all went downhill — the pressure and the mounting work as leader of the precinct causes her to drift apart from O'Donahue, and even though they try and spend some time together (up to and including making O'Donahue her Number Two), they never manage to recapture the love they once had. It eventually reaches a point where O'Donahue simultaneously quits his job while also breaking up with her, which ultimately caused her to grow into the Tiny Tyrannical Girl everyone knows and caused her to develop mental illness of an unnamed sort where she has frequent meltdowns.
  • Heel Realization: At the end of All Mixed Up!, she realizes that Mariana Mag was right in stating that Odd Squad needed to broaden its horizons past mathematics and include other subjects in its repertoire.
  • Individuality Is Illegal: Oprah runs a very tight regime for her precinct — if you prefer to deal with language rather than mathematics and don't eventually conform with being skilled at mathematics while leaving language behind, then she won't take too kindly to it. And if you rebel against her, then you can expect to face very dire consequences. This is what fuels Mariana Mag's Start of Darkness in All Mixed Up!, as Oprah scolds her for hanging out with Carlos too much despite her tasking her agent with language-based cases.
  • Renaissance Man: Invokes this on her entire precinct at the end of All Mixed Up!. She opens up the precinct to cases involving subjects outside of math, meaning that if an agent is skilled in something that isn't mathematics and is assigned a case involving oddness and that subject, they have ample opportunity to solve it instead of being ignored or outright fired from Odd Squad.
  • It's All My Fault: She fully takes the blame for Olive and Oscar nearly dying in the Boiler Room in Olive's Last Partner, realizing that she should have realized the threat Blobisites had to humans and should have sent Olive and Otto with more backup. Part of this is because she never realized just how much of a Dangerous Workplace Odd Squad really was until Olive and Oscar's Near-Death Experience — had they died, she and her precinct would have been criticized and put on severe blast until she forcefully stepped down from her Director position.
  • Jerkass Ball: She forces Olive and Otto to eat every last egg salad pizza they've been gifted. Not only that, but her first action upon seeing them get sick and vomit on her office's carpet is to give them trash bins before ordering them to clean up their mess and not to come out of her office until they're done.
  • Living Legend: Becomes known as a legend among Odd Squad for thwarting Orla's thievery and for her World Tour around Europe. She's unaware of this until O'Donahue tells her himself.
  • The Matchmaker: Shares this role with Otis, Oona, Olympia and Otto in Full Circle, helping to hook Olive and Oscar back up.
  • Mistaken for Cheating: Due to how much time Oprah spends with Oscar in regards to his work, Olive believes that the two of them are dating. While Oprah does consider the idea of falling in love with Oscar, her experience with O'Donahue and the stakes involved of losing her position cause her to scrap the idea, and she never dates Oscar.
  • Not Good with Rejection: O'Donahue breaking up with her and quitting his job at Odd Squad caused her to briefly become an Empty Shell that only remembers bits and pieces of what happened afterwards. The very next day, she turns into a Tiny Tyrannical Girl with a Hair-Trigger Temper, and has stayed that way ever since.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: This version of Oprah isn't too different from how she's presented in canon, but when she cries, it's an immediate cause for alarm.
  • Parental Neglect: Aunt May and Uncle Chester, Oprah's adoptive aunt and uncle, never gave her any real affection as she grew up. Luckily, Oprah develops the wits and the intelligence to make it by on her own.
  • Promoted to Love Interest: She becomes O'Donahue's girlfriend, and later teases the idea of becoming Oscar's girlfriend as well, in this universe. This is despite canon showing O'Donahue flirting with his old boss instead of Oprah, and showing that she and Oscar have a strictly professional relationship.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: She is pure Red Oni to O'Donahue's Blue Oni.
  • The Runaway: Oprah was found by Aunt May and Uncle Chester at two years old, as a runaway slave from the American South with no memory of anything besides her own name. Whether this origin story is true, though, is up for debate, but it's the story Aunt May frequently tells Oprah.
  • Save the Villain: At the end of All Mixed Up!, she decides to turn Mariana Mag back to normal instead of destroying the Anagram-inator. This is part of what causes her to make a Face–Heel Turn.
  • Secret Test: She receives one from Olesya that consists of handling work solo while O'Donahue is hospitalized, doing things such as answering her phone while she's away and showing agents-in-training around Headquarters, as well as the test depicted in the episode "Totally Odd Squad".
  • Smart People Wear Glasses: Like her canon counterpart, she wears Purely Aesthetic Glasses. Unlike her canon counterpart, however, she relies on them for reading.
  • Suddenly Bilingual: Averted. Unlike her canon counterpart, who becomes fluent in 45 languages by the time she starts up the Odd Squad Mobile Unit (none of which she speaks in any official material, aside from English), she only knows English. She does learn French from her Europe World Tour, but she's not fluent in it.
  • They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason: Since Odd Squad has a "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding the home lives of agents, Oprah isn't used to Olesya talking so freely about her life before she joined Odd Squad, and thus is horrified when Olesya tells her that both of her parents died shortly before she joined the organization.
  • Unknowingly in Love: Oprah initially feels herself falling in love with O'Donahue, but she brushes the feelings away because she's unfamiliar with the very concept of love.
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Two Odd Squad agents hook up? She doesn't even bat a single eye, no matter how ludicrous the relationship is. The act only happens every few years, but the formula is still cookie-cutter — two agents go out, one of them transfers or quits, and then they break up.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Oprah may be on the side of good and is incredibly skilled at mathematics, but wiping one of her own agents' memories for rebelling against Odd Squad because she wasn't skilled at math and wanted to stick to the one subject she was skilled at can be seen by some as her taking things a step too far, even though the memories wiped only include where the victimized precinct is and how to get there.
  • We Used to Be Friends: Once she is promoted to the Management department and succeeds Olesya in ruling Precinct 13579, she and O'Donahue begin to drift apart, and try as they might, they can't salvage their relationship — something O'Donahue realizes first, as he both breaks up with her and quits his job as her Number Two.
  • What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: She knows nothing about the concepts of love and flirting. When she sees three Odd Squad clients hitting it off with O'Donahue and flirting with him, an uneasy feeling — the feeling of jealousy, as a matter of fact — settles in her stomach, and she grows angry that he is dancing with other girls.
  • Workaholic: She was this from the time she started up a fruit stand with Yucks to the time she joined Odd Squad. When she becomes an Odd Squad Director, though, it turns into her Fatal Flaw that makes her and O'Donahue's relationship fall to shambles.
  • You Said You Would Let Them Go: In All Mixed Up!, Mariana Mag turns Oprah's coworkers into their own personalized anagrammed objects and turns parts of Headquarters into anagrammed objects. She offers a deal to Oprah — if words and language are adopted into Precinct 13579's skillset, then she will turn everyone and everything back to normal. Oprah agrees, but when Mariana goes through with her end of the deal, Oprah reneges and sics her agents on Mariana, ordering them to destroy her Anagram-inator gadget and ordering her to reveal who built the gadget and who helped her. She also bans any agent from going to see Carlos again, demotes Oksana to the Food and Beverage department, and to top it all off, she takes Mariana's badge and wipes the part of her memory that reveals the location of Headquarters (which Mariana compares to the pain of lobotomy).

    Dr. O / Opal 
One of the main protagonists of the Ships Ahoy! universe. Otto's girlfriend, she serves as the head Odd Squad Doctor of Precinct 13579.


  • Act of True Love: Initially gives up her relationship with Otto so he can be promoted to the Management department with Olive and leave with her to run his own precinct alongside her. Although she's heartbroken, she manages to find a compromise by posing the idea of having her relationship with Otto become long-distance.
    Oprah: [thinking] Well, if anyone were willing to give up their loved one for the greater good like that, it would have to be our very own Doctor. And I envy her for making a hard decision so easily.
  • Age-Gap Romance: She's ten or eleven, but legally, she's 25. Otto, on the other hand, is legally ten. There's a reason they decide to take things slow.
  • And I Must Scream: While ill with the Sillies, she is unaware of her surroundings and cannot think straight.
  • Bad Date: Her first date with Otto — a ploy that he calls "Operation Bring-Fun-to-Opal" — consists of them going to a place called Harvey's Diner to eat, then to Silver Dollar City, an amusement park in Missouri, to ride rollercoasters. It doesn't go well initially, but it does get better.
  • Broken Tears: Once she gets wind of Olive's promotion and becomes burdened with the thought of what lies ahead for Otto, she breaks down in the Medical Bay after hours and becomes a sobbing mess.
  • The Cameo: She attends 50s Night in Full Circle, which surprises Otto, as he never expected his significant other to attend.
  • Coming of Age Story: Opalescent is about her struggling with her love for Otto while she's still a child with Proportional Aging abilities. In Chapter 7, she explains to Otto that when an agent is employed with Odd Squad long enough, they may start to reach a point where there's a part of them that grows into an adult.
  • Competition Freak: She starts to become one as she consistently tries to one-up Otto on their "get-togethers".
  • Cry Laughing: Her reaction to Otto accepting his promotion to the Management department and becoming an Odd Squad Director. The reason why she's doing both at the same time is because she's sick with the Sillies disease.
  • First-Name Basis: Once things get serious between her and Otto, she allows him to call her by her actual name instead of her "Dr. O" title.
  • Good Angel, Bad Angel: In Chapter 7 of Opalescent, she gains these when Otto asks her if relationships are allowed in Odd Squad. Her shoulder devil tells her that relationships just aren't done at the organization because everyone employed is a child, while her shoulder angel responds by saying that just because romance doesn't belong in the realm of youth doesn't mean it hasn't happened before because Olive and Oscar have already been in a relationship that is (at the time) going steady. Humorously, despite the wacky universe Odd Squad takes place in, the angel and devil aren't visible or audible to anyone but Opal herself.
  • Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Borrows Olive's "crumpets" catchphrase at one point before immediately realizing whose catchphrase it is.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Starts out as a comically serious character who has no idea what "fun" is. Enter resident happy-go-lucky agent Otto, who enters a relationship with her and helps her open up.
  • Heroism Won't Pay the Bills: Zig-zagged. Opal gets a free Nerf gun from the manager at Chuck E. Cheese for curing him of polka-dot-itis, but she has to win a giant teddy bear the same way that everyone else does.
  • I Can Still Fight!: She gets hit with a contaminated pie and knocked out. A few hours later, she wakes up, and the first thing she does is begin treating agents despite still being dizzy and poisoned herself.
  • Informed Poverty: Subverted. It's stated in Chapter 6 of Opalescent that Opal used to be poor, living in a tiny apartment and often having to choose between paying tuition or paying the rent and bills, but is presumably much better off now that she works as an Odd Squad Doctor...that is, until her cousin was diagnosed with leukemia, and since her immediate family was unable to pay the hospital bills, Opal had to send quite a bit of money their way for treatment, which sends her far from her goal of wanting a bike to make getting to her apartment complex easier.
  • Instant Waking Skills: Even on Christmas morning, she is a very early riser.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She has to make a tough decision between letting Otto go with Olive, or making him stay here with her. She ends up going for the former, even after weighing the risks, stating that Otto and Olive shouldn't be separated under any circumstances.
  • Letting Her Hair Down: It's unintentional on her end, but the Prim and Proper Bun she always wears manages to come undone when she goes tobogganing with Otto.
  • Like Brother and Sister: Her relationship with Oscar. She views him as a younger brother, while he views her as an older sister.
  • Long-Distance Relationship: What her relationship with Otto moves into at the end of Opalescent. She eases into the idea by lying to Otto that she has to leave on a long-term trip since the Big Office picked her for a crucial mission and then posing the idea of a long-distance relationship to him. After he accepts his promotion to the Management department, she reveals that she lied about the trip in order to make him accept the promotion, but didn't lie about wanting a long-distance relationship with him.
  • The Medic: She's in the Medical department. Healing people is her stock-in-trade.
  • Not What It Looks Like: At one point in Opalescent, Olive and Otto walk in on her sitting in a huge vat of pink goo and about to give herself an injection of a mysterious white liquid. Once she spots Otto, she hastily sticks the syringe into her Prim and Proper Bun and refuses to elaborate on any details.
  • Oblivious to Love: Not so much "oblivious to love" as "denial of love" — every time she makes a move towards Otto, she tries to convince herself that what she's doing is strictly platonic and not romantic. Naturally, this convincing doesn't last for very long.
  • Opposites Attract: The Comically Serious meets The Pollyanna. She even lampshades her and Otto's opposite personalities a couple times.
  • The Prankster: Averted. Otto is the prankster in the relationship, but it doesn't stop her from seeking out advice to pull a fast one on him.
  • Promoted to Love Interest: Becomes Otto's girlfriend in this universe when canon shows no romantic attraction between them.
  • Secret Relationship: After confessing her love for Otto, the pair decide to lay out some ground rules for the relationship, the first thing being not to tell anyone. This falls flat when Olive and Oscar both find out, and then Oprah finds out from the security cameras around Headquarters — in the case of the latter, though, she doesn't tell Opal because she knows of her reputation.
  • Shipper on Deck: Has Olive and Oscar as her invoked One True Pairing.
  • Sleep Deprivation: Suffers from this as a result of staying up all night on New Year's Eve. Luckily, Oscar has a Coffee-inator she can use to give herself a burst of energy.
  • The Tell: Although she has trouble reading other people's emotions, she's quick to tell that Otto isn't thrilled with Olive's promotion the second she sees him exiting Oprah's office with Ohlm in tow because she and him have spent enough time together.
  • Third Wheel: She's been a third wheel to Olive and Oscar's dates on more than one occasion.
  • Undying Loyalty: As one of its medics, Opal is very loyal to Odd Squad, and like Otto, she will put other agents' needs well above her own.
  • What Is This Feeling?: Unlike Otto, she doesn't really grasp the concept of "fun" all too well, and asks him what "fun" would entail in regards to their dates.

Side Characters

    Olympia 
An Investigation agent who works in Precinct 13579. Otto's successor and fellow Fangirl of both him and Olive, she is an avid Shipper on Deck who views Olive and Otto as soulmates and aims to have the market cornered on romance in Odd Squad.


  • Genki Girl: Just like in canon, she is loud, excitable, and energetic.
  • Shipper on Deck: She believes so strongly in Olive and Otto being in a romantic relationship that she is more than willing to go to war over it. Even when Otto asserts that he and Olive are Like Brother and Sister, she refuses to have it.
  • Genre Savvy: She's got a fair bit of knowledge of romance stories to back her up in a story about agents who play matchmaker with two of their own. Combined with her frequent fourth-wall-breaking, she's a force to be reckoned with.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She wants Olive to be with Otto as her One True Pairing despite Olive being in love with Oscar. As Otis and Oona talk with Olympia about various ship pairings, Otis asks his partner if she wants Olive to be happy, or if she wants Olive to be with the person that she loves, and when Olympia sees The Big Damn Kiss between Olive and Oscar, she eventually decides to help for the sake of Olive's happiness instead of for the sake of her own desires.
  • The Matchmaker: Shares this role with Otis, Oona, Otto and Oprah in Full Circle as she works to get Olive and Oscar back together.
  • Medium Awareness: Full Circle has her Breaking the Fourth Wall numerous times, from asking why her life is a plot device to calling out how cliche the ending is.
  • Serious Business: Shipping is this for her. She finds it important enough to actively wage battle with one of her co-workers over it, weapons and all.
  • Shipper on Deck: She believes so strongly in Olive and Otto being in a romantic relationship that she is more than willing to go to war over it. Even when Otto asserts that he and Olive are Like Brother and Sister, she refuses to have it.
  • Ship-to-Ship Combat: She and Oona constantly butt heads over whether Olive/Oscar or Olive/Otto is the superior ship. They eventually end up having a Showdown at High Noon over it.

    Otis 
An Investigation agent who works in Precinct 13579. Olive's successor, he is a Socially Awkward Hero who isn't as much into romance as his partner is, but will play Matchmaker when the time calls for it.


  • Food Slap: He snaps Olympia and Oona back to consciousness after they Faint in Shock by dumping milkshakes on them.
  • The Matchmaker: Shares this role with Otto, Oprah, Olympia and Oona in Full Circle, working to hook Olive and Oscar back up.
  • Only Sane Man: In the Power Trio of him, Olympia and Oona, he's the one who has his wits about him.
  • Shipper on Deck: Definitely not to the degrees of Olympia and Oona, but once he learns about shipping, he begins to ship Olive and Oscar, just like Oona.
  • Socially Awkward Hero: The entire plot of The Quarantined, The Wallflower and The Party revolves around him attempting to deliver a sick Olympia's gifts to Olive and Otto at the latter's party, to hilarious extents as he does things like wear a masquerade mask and stutter when he speaks.
  • They Just Dont Get It: It takes two hours to explain to him what shipping is, and even then, the only way he gets it is by seeing a GIF of Vladimir from Tangled making two ceramic unicorns kiss. His reasoning is that he's a visual learner, not an auditory one. And then he has to ask what Pinterest is...

    Oona 
A Scientist who works in Precinct 13579. Oscar's apprentice (and later his successor as Head Scientist), she is also a Shipper on Deck but for Olive and Oscar instead of Olive and Otto.


  • The Alleged Boss: In The Gadgetmaker and the Elf, Oona has trouble dealing with Owen, who doesn't believe Oscar is the President of the Scientists and she is his successor even though Owen was the one who apprehended the previous President. Even though she's the Lab Director, though, she doesn't assert her position over Owen, and thus, can't get the security footage she needs (at least not directly).
  • A Round of Drinks for the House: At Club 21, she decides to treat Olympia and Otis with a round of milkshakes on her. Olympia points out that the milkshakes are free, however, and all she says in response is, "Precisely!"
  • The Chains of Commanding: The Gadgetmaker and the Elf takes place only a short few days after Oscar's promotion to President of the Scientists, with the equally-newly-promoted Oona struggling to function and cope now that her predecessor and mentor is gone.
  • Crazy-Prepared: She has molds made of everyone's ears, which helps in making earpieces for everyone to use in the plan.
  • Dissonant Serenity: Olympia mentions that if Oona is calm, then she's most likely freaking out and just isn't showing it.
  • Faint in Shock: Needless to say, if she spots Olive and Oscar sharing a kiss, she can and will faint.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: Of course, just like her canon counterpart.
  • Holding Hands: She does this with Otis while she watches security camera footage of Olive and Oscar's breakup. Naturally, Otis wrenches his hand free when he starts to feel pain.
  • Instant Costume Change: When Oona's labcoat lapels are tugged, she can change into any outfit she desires. With this ability, she hasn't had to wash her clothes in months, something that Oprah, Otis and Olympia all grow unnerved by as they slowly back away from her. In Chapter 13 of Full Circle, she uses the ability to dress herself up in an authentic 1950s-era dress, eliminating the need for her to make one.
  • Instant Waking Skills: In Chapter 2 of The Gadgetmaker and the Elf, Oona is woken up by Oprah shouting her name. The Scientist bolts immediately upright, then she sees who woke her up and hastily scrambles out of her chair.
  • Kids Driving Cars: She can drive, but since she taught herself how to do so while actually doing it, she Drives Like Crazy, which unnerves Otis and Olympia as the former asks the latter if they're really okay with putting their own lives in the hands of an incompetent driver.
  • The Matchmaker: Shares this role with Otto, Oprah, Olympia and Otis in Full Circle as she helps Olive and Oscar hook back up with each other.
  • Never Sleep Again: She tries to do this in The Gadgetmaker and the Elf, staying up so she can get her work done. Every attempt fails, and she always wakes up the next day to find that her work has somehow been completed by a mysterious culprit. It's not until the end of the story that she finds out who said culprit is.
  • Obviously Not Fine: Gets hit with this a couple times in Full Circle.
    • She tries to convince Oprah that making her dress, in addition to all the other things she has to do in preparation for the plan, is too much, and while it seems to work, her brain is screaming at her the exact opposite.
    • When she is offered help by Olympia later on, she tries to assert that she's fine. Olympia, knowing her coworker all too well, doesn't buy it, and states that just as she has a problem with not saying "no", Oona has a problem with saying "no" way too much. She then suggests that Oona allow her to help lest she goes through Sanity Slippage and descends into mathness the same way Olympia herself did.
  • Say My Name: Oprah's tendency to scream Oscar's name is lampshaded by her in regards to doing the same thing with Oona.
    Oprah: Anyhow, just wanted to congratulate you on a job well done, and let you know that I think Oscar made the right decision by hiring you as his successor. Although, it'll be kinda weird if I ever have to yell "OOOOOOOOONAAAAAAA!" to call you over. Really, it only ever worked with Oscar's name...
  • The Scream: At one point in Full Circle, she becomes overloaded with preparations for the plan, including making Olive's outfit, Otto's outfit, and Oscar's outfit. Then Oprah asks her to make alterations for her outfit, and the Scientist completely hits her limit. She pulls out the Personal-Soundproof-Room-inator, zaps herself with it, and lets out a blood-curdling scream that Oprah can clearly hear in spite of the gadget's intended use.
  • Serious Business: Shipping is this for her. She battles Olympia over it, and when Olympia loses, she treats her as though she's lost a loved one.
  • Shipper on Deck: Not as extreme as Olympia, but she believes in Olive and Oscar hooking up and butts heads with Olympia over it.
  • Ship-to-Ship Combat: Olympia wages war on Oona for having a different ship, and she decides to fight back by brandishing a projector as a weapon.

    Ori 
The protagonist of O is for One of a Kind. An agent-in-training, he is taken under Olive and Otto's wing and promptly becomes a complete nightmare for both of them to take care of. However, his disobedience has a lot more under the surface than one would imagine.


  • Ambiguous Disorder: This trope is perhaps the best way to describe his unique power, introduced in O is for One of a Kind. He can understand people speaking to him with their mouths, but he can also understand things that they inadvertently manage to tell him, which is what he listens to. This allows him to simplify Obfusco's Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness that other agents have a hard time understanding. It's a form of selective hearing that only he has, but it's never revealed whether he just has attention issues or some other disorder.
    Ori: I just know that, for as long as I can remember, I can...hear things. Like, people might tell me things with their mouths, but then they "tell" (but not really "tell") me other things, too, and I hear {but not really "hear") it and so I do my best to listen to that. It wasn't even until the end of my time at the Academy that I slowly began to realize everybody else couldn't do it too.
  • Children Are Innocent: Although he causes massive grief for some agents, he really doesn't mean anyone (aside from villains, of course) any harm.
  • New Meat: Subverted. He's new and inexperienced, but he manages to defeat the Shapeshifter by turning her into her own Absurd Phobia of ants-on-a-log.
  • Ship Tease: Gets a fair bit of it with Orchid, but they aren't as romantically involved as Olive and Oscar, Otto and Opal, or Oprah and O'Donahue.

    Oswald 
A Scientist who works at the Odd Squad Academy in the Science Building. Oscar's Number Two following his promotion to President of the Scientists, she does her job well and is very polite.


  • The Big Damn Kiss: Has one with O'Daniel, her boyfriend, in Chapter 18 of Full Circle.
  • Hypercompetent Sidekick: She serves as a good foil to Oscar's klutziness.
  • Number Two: Serves as Oscar's assistant when he gets promoted to the position of President of the Scientists.
  • Official Couple: With O'Daniel, a Security agent.
  • One-Steve Limit: Shares her name with one of the main characters of Season 3 of the show.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She knows when Oscar's not feeling his usual self, and in Full Circle, she's quick to call Oprah and ask her for advice.
  • Undying Loyalty: To Oscar. She's more than willing to give him a day off so he can go with Oprah while she stays behind and cleans up his failed experiment, and never treats him with anything less than politeness.

    Oatmeal 
A Lilliputian agent who grew up in one of the little cities that Precinct 13579 houses. Oona's "secret partner", she helps the Lab Director with fixing gadgets and other chores in the Lab while she sleeps, and wants to become an Odd Squad agent but does not qualify due to her small size.


  • Forgot About His Powers: Lampshaded by Oona, who asks Oatmeal why she's afraid of the world outside her little city when she has Super-Speed and Super-Strength. She justifies it by saying that although she doesn't know for sure, she thinks it might be instinct — since everyone else in her city is afraid of the outside world, she thought she should be scared as well.
  • Lilliputians: Less than two inches tall, and yet brave enough to explore nearly everywhere in Headquarters without even getting remotely injured. Unfortunately, her small size means she can't join Odd Squad as an agent, as is her dream.
  • Mouse World: She grew up in one of the many little cities that are kept in the back of the newly-expanded Lab.
  • Nice Girl: All Oatmeal wants to do is explore as much of the outside world as she can without getting trampled on, help anyone who's willing to accept it, and become an Odd Squad agent of her own. She manages to find a friend in Oona.
  • No Name Given: Her real name is unknown, but Oona gives her a name of "Oatmeal" — a name beginning with O that allows her to become Oona's unofficial partner.
  • Super-Speed: She can run from one end of Oona's counter to the other in less than two seconds. She can also climb from Oona's labcoat to the top of her head in under three seconds.
  • Super-Strength: Oatmeal can lift up to 5,000% of her weight — she displays this to Oona by lifting up a beaker that is five times her height and ten times her weight onto her shoulder with ease.
  • True Companions: With Oona, once she discovers her. The pair become "secret partners", and Oatmeal decides to reside inside of Oona's labcoat.

    Olga 
An Investigation agent who once worked for Precinct 13579 during the late 1800s. Currently O'Donahue's former partner and ex-girlfriend (on her side only), she was manipulative and very overprotective of O'Donahue when the pair were dating, and would often deride Oprah in regards to her fruit stand.


  • Aggressive Categorism: She is the reason why Oprah believes every Odd Squad agent is a Smug Super who doesn't know anything about working hard — all it takes is one appearance from her for the Young Entrepreneur to go off.
  • Alpha Bitch: Just like her canon counterpart, she, as "the epitome of stuck-up, high-and-mighty Odd Squad agents", is a complete jerk to pretty much anyone and everyone. In particular, she wastes no time in belittling Oprah about her entrance exam.
  • The Artful Dodger: Downplayed. She still has a job working for Odd Squad, but she also makes a living stealing various other items.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She appears to be a sweet girl who just loves her boyfriend on the outside. Get her mad, though, and her far more nasty side will come out to play.
  • Yandere: Ohoho, yes. She is manipulative and a Mood-Swinger, going from seething rage to innocent sweetness on a dime, her rage comes out whenever she sees O'Donahue even so much as talk with another girl, and she believes herself to be in love with O'Donahue despite him clearly not loving her back. Since she is a wealthy child with famous lineage, no agent, not even O'Donahue himself, dares speak up against her lest they receive harsh consequences. In Chapter 8 of Ships Ahoy!, O'Donahue tells Oprah just how abusive and just how evil Olga really was, even after she was fired.
    O'Donahue: O'Donahue: Olga...had to be in control. If she wasn't in control, she wasn't stable. I don't know why. But if she wasn't stable, she was vicious. It was scary to see her like that. So I...well, I guess I tried to keep her happy. Keep her feeling like she was in control, you know? She distanced me from most of the other agents, didn't want me talking to them, watching them, nothing. And she demanded constant praise from me, or she'd get upset and say I didn't know anything. Back then I thought it was all part of being a rookie agent. If I paid attention only to my partner and did whatever she said, I'd gain her trust and she'd relax her grip. [...] But seriously, you don't understand. I could avoid her all day and she'd still find me and attack me for being the worst agent in the world, then turn around and go on and on about how I'd "promised myself" to her. And I couldn't talk to anyone! Olga could get mad and go crazy, Old Missie wouldn't hear any complaints about her top agent, you weren't on the Squad and didn't want to understand, and thanks to Olga's controlling, I didn't know any other agents well enough. Even today I still don't. For all I know everyone still thinks I'm nothing but a stupid pale fream!

    O'Donahue 
An Investigation agent who worked for Precinct 13579. Olga's and Oprah's ex-boyfriend, he is the catalyst for Oprah's Heartbroken Badass status, as they have been closely bonded since Oprah's fruit stand days.

  • Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: In Ships Ahoy!, he gets drunk on unicorn tears and ends up hanging with a crowd of people who get into a car with a Drunk Driver. The fun night comes to a swift end when said driver gets into an accident with casualties and injuries galore, and O'Donahue is taken to the hospital with no severe injuries.
  • Amicable Exes: Even after breaking up with Oprah, he is still on friendly terms with her, and even calls her up in Chapter 41 of Ships Ahoy! to ask if she wants to see a movie with him.
  • Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: He originally broke up with Oprah because she became too overwhelmed with work and had no time available to see him, unlike what Olesya had promised him. By the end of Ships Ahoy!, they decide to become boyfriend and girlfriend again.
  • Character Development: At the beginning of Ships Ahoy!, he was shy and submissive, especially around the more domineering Olga. Once she is gone and he becomes partners with Oprah, his true personality of being witty and upbeat only comes out every once in a while. It's not until he vents to Oprah about Olga that he decides to embrace his true personality, becoming a more outgoing Chick Magnet.
  • Dancing Royalty: Terrible at square dancing and doing the waltz, but can dance incredibly well to rock n' roll music.
    Oprah: Since when did you learn all those moves?
    O'Donahue: I dunno! It just sort of happened! Unreal, right?
  • Dogged Nice Guy: Starts out as this, repeatedly asking Oprah to join Odd Squad so she can become his partner. He gets shot down every time, but eventually, she decides to join, and the two start dating.
  • I Can't Dance: Unable to do the square dance and the waltz. This doesn't put him in the best of circumstances during Square Dance Night, where he proceeds to embarrass himself in front of the entire precinct on both the square dancing and the waltz sessions.
  • Long-Haired Pretty Boy: O'Donahue grows his hair long at one point in Ships Ahoy!, and it's made abundantly clear that Oprah and other agents don't like the change — he's referred to as a "countercultural hippie" by one of them.
  • Number Two: He once served as Oprah's advisor, with Olesya creating the position just for him (although it wasn't an officially-made position) so he could remain by Oprah's side and keep their relationship steady following her promotion to the Management department. Unfortunately for her, it didn't work out as well as she had hoped it would.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Oprah's Red Oni.

    Todd 
One of Odd Squad's most consistent and most threatening foes. A former Investigation agent of Precinct 13579, he is directly responsible for the pienado that contaminated and nearly killed hundreds of agents, although how he got to that point is a little different than how it all started in canon.

  • Child Prodigy: Just like in canon, he is very skilled in math and often takes the helm on cases, leaving Olive in the dust.
  • Classified Information: The pienado incident, as well as his Face–Heel Turn in general, is a taboo subject in Precinct 13579. Not even Olive herself knows the full story of what happened to him — the only one who knows is Oprah. It extends to the point where it's taboo to even mention his name.
  • Food Slap: He is on the receiving end of a pie to the face when Olive rejects him, as she gives him back the Oreo creme pie he had been offering her. It has so much force behind it that he stumbles backwards and his head collides with the concrete floor, leaving him stunned for a few moments before he gets up and promptly declares his revenge.
  • Informed Judaism: At one point in Ships Ahoy!, he mentions to Olive that he's Jewish. However, he still has a craving for bacon when he gives himself a pig nose.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: He is right that Oscar is too busy to spend time anymore, with his supposed "long-term case" that is supposedly a rumor come true — even if Olive hates to admit it.
  • Love Triangle: He's in one with Olive and Oscar. He loves Olive, although it's unrequited and she instead gives him a rejection. Oscar believes Olive loves Todd, even though she doesn't.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The Blobisite he releases, which is documented in Olive's Last Partner, becomes a Relationship-Salvaging Disaster for Olive and Oscar, as they both spar with each other and then eventually make up.
    • In addition, him pulling a Wounded Gazelle Gambit during the O Games also helps Otto realize his true feelings for Opal, and they eventually enter a slow but steady relationship.
  • Not Good with Rejection: Similar to Oprah, Todd does not take rejection well. Specifically, Olive pointing out his flaws, followed by her slamming a pie into his face, is the final straw for his Face–Heel Turn and causes him to eventually unleash the pienado on the precinct.
  • Related in the Adaptation: Has an older sister named Onya who he attended the Odd Squad Academy with. She taught him about phone numbers and addresses.
  • Yandere: Todd starts slipping into, and eventually falls into, being this. While Oscar is away solving cases and repairing gadgets in preparation for his Lab Director position, Todd decides to be Olive's unofficial partner, having developed feelings for her and wanting her to love him back. She notes that he flips between being genuinely nice to her and bullying her so frequently that she can't tell whether he's being nice or mean at times, and it's made abundantly clear that whatever love he has for her is one-sided. It doesn't help that he starts doing odd things that make her question him, but she never puts two and two together until he shows her a gadget he's made that can create any nose he desires, and she realizes that he likes her. In Chapter 21 of Ships Ahoy!, she rejects him, and although she realizes she's made things worse, it's still the last straw that makes him undergo a Face–Heel Turn and become evil, harming Olive and her coworkers with a pienado just like in canon.

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