History Characters / InsideJob2021

* BigBadEnsemble: He's one of the main antagonists of season one as it's his horrendous upbringing of Reagan and attempts to get back into power--or just settle petty grudges--that usually drive the conflict. However, J.R.'s own stupid and corrupt actions as CEO also wind up causing their fair share of issues. [[spoiler:He becomes a far more direct problem after J.R. is removed by the Shadow Board and Rand is reinstated as CEO for Part 2, culminating in almost tearing apart reality when even his immense new powers can't get his wife and daughter to stay with him.]]

* TheHeavy: He and J.R. are the main antagonists of the first season as the corrupt founders of Cognito, [[spoiler:and both are appropriately sacked and sent to shadow prison in the finale for their attempts to tamper with reality]], but whereas J.R. mainly causes problems because of his greed or incompetence, Rand's abusive parenting is treated with far more seriousness as the source of Reagan's many issues and is the centerpiece of both of the season parts' climaxes.

* WalkingSpoiler: He's responsible for [[spoiler:erasing Reagan's memories of her childhood friend Orrin (making her into the maladjusted genius she is in the present)]], and the Season 1 finale also confirms that [[spoiler:he's actually the BigBad of the first season]].

* BigBadEnsemble: In season one, if the problem isn't caused indirectly by Rand's past actions or his negative influence over his daughter, then they're directly caused by J.R.'s own corruption and stupidity. [[spoiler:While J.R. is removed by the Shadow Board to be replaced by Rand for Part 2, and settles for getting demoted to a mere intern once he escapes, his desire to regain control eventually drives him to try to hijack Project Reboot in the penultimate episode despite the danger it poses to the universe.]]

A robotic duplicate of the sitting President of the United States created by Reagan to replace the real President once it became apparent he was too dim for Congnito Inc to manipulate. However, thanks to Rand’s meddling, he went rogue and attempted to isolate the country.

* AbusiveParents: His parents keep a running ranking of who their favorite children are, with Brett consistently ranked at the bottom, below even one of his generically identical cousins who can't even tell eachother apart. At one point he even gets knocked down a further rank in favor of his mother's dog. As a child he was forced to sleep in a treehouse located outside the family property. In "Brettwork" they threaten to disown him for being more successful in running for political office against his brother, despite Cognito having him parrot all of the ultra-right wing talking points that his parents favor.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He despises the Vietnamese, and when he was in the city mentally trapped in the 80s he also enjoys beating students. He has also been conspiring to have Myc deported back to Hollow Earth. Though he apparently doesn't seem to have any trouble working with a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%81fu Hafu]] (Reagan), a black woman (Gigi), and a Korean-American (Andre).

* AllTakeAndNoGive: Her relationship with Rand builds down to this. She's forced to constantly pull maintenance when it comes to Rand and bail him out of whatever mess he gets himself into, while he mooches off of her and meddles in her life over the pettiest reasons.

-->-- '''ROBOTUS''' describing the themes surrounding Reagan's character.

''"Someday, I hope to make the whole world like this... Efficient, that is. Not, not controlled entirely by me. That would be totally egomaniacal."''

* MadScientist: Although she is just enough of a consummate professional to downplay this trope, it is still very much present in her outlandish inventions and working for a dark cabal that rules the world from the shadows, even being as close to the top as she can before becoming the boss.

* LeftHanging: We're never told what happened to him specifically, only that Reagan's memories of him were deleted. If Rand went the [[MurderIsTheBestSolution extra mile]] of making sure Orrin and Reagan remained separate, we don't know.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Myc notes than Glenn thinks that Brett is attractive and later claims he's had sex dreams about the whole gang. Plus, he was practically drooling over [=MI6=] Agent Rafe Masters.

* DissonantSerenity: Despite having a miniature head attached to her own, the primary Kate is very friendly and outgoing.

* NoBiologicalSex: Myc can become pregnant, as demonstrated in Project Reboot. [[spoiler:Even though it turns out he wasn't pregnant in the alternate timeline, it's still implied that he can be impregnated.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He despises the Vietnamese, and when he was in the city mentally trapped in the 80s he also enjoys beating students. He has also been conspiring to have Myc deported back to Hollow Earth. Though he apparently doesn't seem to have any trouble working with a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%81fu Hafu]] (Reagan), a black woman (Gigi), and a Korean-American

* NiceGuy: Very much so. Just the thought of him and Reagan having to fire someone is enough to make him vomit. [[spoiler:Bear-o's rampage against Cognito in the finale notably excludes him from the rest of the team that the faulty robot decides need to be killed to remove all negative influences in Reagan's life]].

* {{Gonk}}: Having fused with Dolphin DNA has made him [[{{Understatement}} unappealing]] to say the least.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He despises the Vietnamese, and when he was in the city mentally trapped in the 80s he also enjoys beating students. He has also been conspiring to have Myc deported back to Hollow Earth.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Barring the real president, he's so far, the only character drawn with visible irises rather than just having BlackDotPupils.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Hints several times over the course of the series that she has plans for world domination via the Deep State, in order to 'make the world a better place.'

* WellDoneSonGuy: After he became a successful host of a far-right news show that his parents love, he let himself run for senator to the point where he had to fake his own death so that right-wing fanaticism over him would stop, just because he was gaining attention from his parents
* WhiteMaleLead: Downplayed as Reagan is the main character of the show, but Brett otherwise fills this role and is a major character in his own right. The show even lampshades this by frequently joking that Brett is as 'generic white guy' as it gets, at least In-Universe.

* PerkyGoth: He was this in high school in addition to being a LovableJock.

* TheNondescript: Downplayed. While he's a notably handsome man, he doesn't have much in the way of identifiable or recognizable features. In fact, his looks are so generically "attractive white male" that he can't be found by spy satellites.

[[folder:Masters, Rafe Masters]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's visibly exasperated by Jeff Bezos' whining aboard his yacht after it's captured by the Flat Earth Society, to the point where ''he'' is the one to point out Bezos' hypocrisy in complaining about how they're being basically treated as poorly as how Amazon (Bezos' company) treats its factory and warehouse workers.

* GreaterScopeVillain: They're Cognito Inc's bosses and the ones truly running the show behind the scenes, making them responsible for the series being set in a CrapsackWorld ConspiracyKitchenSink. [[OrcusOnHisThrone They don't really act much, though]], since ruling the world requires ''way'' more logistics than they want to get involved in.

* {{Hunk}}: He is quite muscular and multiple characters find him attractive.

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: While his attractive physique is occasionally played for {{Fanservice}} (i.e., the sexy pictures he took as a fitness trainer in the backstory of "Unpresidented"), it's also often used for the sake of comedy (i.e., him wandering through the ventilation shafts of the Reptoid High Council building and [[AmusingInjuries getting attacked by a swarm of rats]] in "Blue Bloods").

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Her left pinky is shot off by J.R. in Part 2, replacing it with a robotic one.]]

* FunctionalAddict: He's so around the bend with his casual drug use that he ''can't'' function unless he's high on something.

* FirstContact: In the intro sequence, he's shown standing in front of a crashed UFO and surrounded by ancient apes who are eating his spores, implying this. "Reagan & Mychelle's Hive School Reunion" reveals [[spoiler:his species arrived on Earth millions of years ago and ingesting their spores led to the apes eventually becoming humans.]]