History Characters / CobaltCore

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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Nearly all of the common enemies in the Lazuli Nebula are ships piloted by robots. He's the sole exception.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Occasionally suggests that the group would be best served by cutting out of fights ''entirely'', especially when they're already using lots of evade to break away from their opponent. Not that she's ''opposed'' to solving problems with, say, a hand cannon...

* RobotMe: If she's in your crew, her ship, the Fireball, is piloted by a robotic version of herself called Drakebot 2. She gets rather defensive when asked about her design choices. Unfortunately for you it doesn't recognize Drake, meaning you'll still have to fight it.

* LivingMacGuffin: [[spoiler:She is the personality created when the Cobalt interfaced with the ship's computer - the Cobalt Core.]]

* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Her ship's devastating offense means that she's exceptionally vulnerable to the Parry card, which can wipe her out in a single turn]].

* ForScience: His M.O. After defeating the first boss, he may take a sample of the crystal with him to experiment on, and states this trope verbatim when asked why. [[spoiler:Peri is aware of this, which is why she hired Isaac make sure he didn't try any non-mission critical experiments.]]

* DeclarationOfProtection: It takes her about two minutes to reach this point with [[CheerfulChild Books.]]
--> '''Peri:''' Why don't you get timesickness like the rest of us?
--> '''Books:''' I drink eight glasses of Hydration Potion a day!
--> '''Peri:''' I see.
--> '''Books:''' The only ingredient is water!
--> '''Peri:''' If anyone ever hurts you then I will kill them with my bare hands.
--> '''Books:''' Cool!

* TokenEvilTeammate: She doesn't even try to hide it, even when she becomes a crewmate. She outright tells the core singularity that she's not a good person.

* ForScience: His M.O. After defeating the first boss, he may take a sample of the crystal with him to experiment on, and states this trope verbatim when asked why. [[spoiler:Peri is aware of this, which is why in one memory she had Isaac make sure he didn't try any non-mission critical experiments.]]
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: His cards focus on shielding, and with the right artifacts, you can build up a steady amount of it to guard against most attacks. He's also a huge fan of armoring sections of your ship, and expresses a desire to invest in an armor manufacturing company once you escape the loop.

* ThemeNaming: Likes to follow themes when naming specialized drones; Energy Drones tend to get names like Juice, Sparky and Battery, while Jupiter Drones are primarily named after the various moons of Jupiter. {{Downplayed}} with the standard drones, as among the wide range of names he gives to those are [[ShoutOutThemeNaming shout outs]] to [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosTheKoopalings all seven Koopalings]].

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: His cards focus on shielding, and with the right artifacts, you can build up a steady amount of it to guard against most attacks.

* AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler:How she ends up freeing the crew from the time loop. By bringing the other characters onboard the Cobalt, she's able to break through the boundary using their combined abilities. In game, this is her gimmick when she becomes a playable character, as she's able to grab cards from the other crew mates.]]

* SweetTooth: When visiting Grandma's Bakery and Weapons Shoppe, she may declare that she wants cookie dough.

* RobotMe: If she's in your crew, her ship, the Fireball, is piloted by a robotic version of herself called Drakebot 2. Unfortunately for you it doesn't recognize Drake, meaning you'll still have to fight it.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Most of the crew dislikes her, and for good reason. Even the core singularity outright tells Drake that the only reason it's helping her is because it couldn't find an acceptable scenario that would abandon her to the time loop.

* EldritchAbomination: Implied. It may give you a card called "Abyssal Visions".

* HeroesPreferSwords: Eagerly leaps at the chance to include a sword-swinging hero in his chess game with Dizzy, and fanboys over the blade Sir Ratzo carries. Swords also tend to show up in his dreams...

* SaveScumming: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Save State, which enables Max to set the point it's played in the battle as a state he can potentially return to with the Load State card which spawns upon its usage.

* SuperiorSpecies: He seems to think very highly of crabs. Most of his dialogue is him talking crab facts.

* TimeLimitBoss: The crew just needs to keep him alive for six turns by blasting his missiles in order to get a reward: the glitchy targeting system, his Seeker missiles, or a random artifact.
* UngratefulBastard: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; should the team manage to save him, he cracks a joke about how he can't thank them enough, "so I won't." He also complains when you pick your reward.

* LethalJokeItem: By their own, none of his inventions are useful: Lightning in a Bottle grants 3 energy but costs 3 to play, Buckshot fires your cannon three times for zero base damage, Bruise makes you take one damage to your hull before recovering one hull, and Waltz shifts the ship two spaces left followed immediately by moving one space right twice in a row, and their upgraded versions are equally useless. However, they can become devastating when combined with another card or artifact that, respectively, lets you play certain cards for free, increases the base damage of all attacks, increases all healing effects[[note]]or, with the upgrade that swaps gaining one hull with gaining and losing a Perfect Guard, the Boost effect that adds another stack of a self-applied status effect[[/note]] and/or gain Overdrive when damaged, or fires your cannon every time you move.