| 1 | !All spoilers are unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned! |
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| 3 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/murder_drones_main_trio.jpeg]][[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: [[TokenHeroicOrc N]], [[ActionGirl Uzi]], and [[AxCrazy V]].]] |
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| 7 | !Types of Drones |
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| 9 | [[folder:Worker Drones]] |
| 10 | [[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/drones_9.PNG]] |
| 11 | ->''"We are Worker Drones. Autonomous robots helping humans mine exoplanets for our interstellar parent company [=JCJenson=] ''in spaaaaacee!!!!"'' |
| 12 | -->-- '''Uzi''', introducing the Worker Drones. |
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| 14 | A legion of worker robots built to serve humanity. Some of them formed their own society after a freak accident wiped out all humans on the exoplanet Copper 9, but were forced into hiding when their company sent the Disassembly Drones to slaughter them all. |
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| 16 | * ActualPacifist: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, as the Outpost 3 drones tend to not resort to violence in dangerous situations seems to stem more from them being not too bright, not helped by Khan's claims that they won't ever need to fight with his doors keeping the Disassembly Drones out, which doesn't really help when they're actually attacked. They're not against these violent methods, however, as they congratulate [[ActionGirl Uzi]] for standing up to and utterly decimating J. |
| 17 | * AerithAndBob: There Worker Drones with normal sounding names such as Thad, Khan, and Lizzy. [[TheyCallHimSword Uzi]] doesn't sound too weird, but there's also one named Doll. |
| 18 | * AIIsACrapshoot: Subverted. At the beginning of the Pilot, Uzi says that JC Jenson considered the Worker Drones of Copper-9 runaway A.I. and therefore should be killed before they begin to rebel for real. As it turns out, the Worker Drones aren’t particularly aggressive robots and would rather hide than fight (except for Uzi). |
| 19 | * BrainUploading: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The way Workers create offspring is by uploading their code into baby bodies, leaving their A.I. to develop until they're ready to be moved to a normal body. |
| 20 | * CuteMachines: They're child-sized robots with large expressive eyes and rounded faces which gives them a very appealing appearance. |
| 21 | * DirtyCoward: {{Downplayed|Trope}} for most of Outpost 3. Even when cornered, most Worker Drones of Outpost 3 won't bother to try to defend themselves, only willing to come up with a defensive option, though they do their best to stick to their loved ones. J also mentions that she'd had "prey fight back before" during her monologue, meaning at least some tried to take on the Murder Drones. Played painfully straight with Khan, however, who would rather leave his daughter to die to a Murder Drone than have to fight them but he's slowly subverting it as in Episode 3, he tries to rush in when Doll attacks Uzi. |
| 22 | * ElaborateUndergroundBase: After the Disassembly Drones arrived on the planet, the Workers took refuge in these with these bunkers becoming known as 'Outposts' with there being at least 9. Uzi's colony is known as Outpost 3. |
| 23 | * GlassCannon: Absolute Solver enhanced Worker Drones can be classified as this when compared to Disassembly Drones. Their ability to manipulate matter (excluding other drones with the Solver) makes them extremely dangerous in combat. However, their regeneration doesn't appear to be as efficient as the Disassembly Drones' in certain cases. For instance, it appears that sufficient levels of damage to the head are still considered lethal, as implied when Uzi under Cyn's possession threatens N by using his blade to slowly cut her own neck off. |
| 24 | * HenchmenRace: They were built by the humans to mine exoplanets, but once the humans on Copper 9 got wiped out, the WD workforce basically took over. |
| 25 | * InnocentBlueEyes: Many of the Worker Drones shown have blue eyes. |
| 26 | * NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: Implied. There's a poster in the school's detention room that says "Don't wash your hands ur a robot, idiot". They also can't drink punch or they will "super die." |
| 27 | * OnlyAFleshWound: Despite their lack of natural regeneration, they will survive a deep wound as long as their heads are intact, and their limbs are still functional as long as they're still attached to the body. |
| 28 | * PowersAsPrograms: Quite literally in this case. The Absolute Solver Program that allows the Disassembly Drones to regenerate has a possibility of leaking into the Workers, giving them regeneration as well. However, Worker Drones who get the Absolute Solver gain an additional ability which the Disassembly Drones don't have: the ability to manipulate matter. |
| 29 | ** Adding to the vampire comparisons, "The Promening" reveals that drones with this power don't mix well with mirrors, with them tending to break when they get too close. |
| 30 | * RedshirtArmy: For some reason, almost none of them seen have bothered to fight back, resulting in countless Workers being killed and made into a spire of corpses. They might've had a better chance if they were all more like [[ActionGirl Uzi]] and built their own weapons. Though, it's a bit hard trying to fight against flying war-machines armed with all kinds of lethal weaponry. |
| 31 | * RidiculouslyHumanRobots: They were able to smoothly pick up where the humans left off, living identically to how they did, including ''making babies''. |
| 32 | * TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Female Worker Drones on Copper 9 have hair more often than the males and typically have more vibrant eye colors. Though, considering that they're robots and pick up most of their gendered accessories from what's left of the humans it's likely that the gender they wish to present as is their choice. |
| 33 | * TooDumbToLive: With the exception of Uzi and to a lesser extent Thad and Lizzy, the Worker Drones are shown to be rather stupid and lacking in basic survival instincts. Several ended up getting themselves killed either by failing to recognize the dangerous nature of the situation, such as one WDF worker more focused on correcting N about the name of their card game, showing poor trigger discipline, such as one of the campers letting an arrow fly into the head of the camper standing right next to them, or quickly [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny forgetting the situation they're in once they're distracted.]] They die by their own stupidity almost as much as the Disassembly Drones kill them. |
| 34 | * UnknownCharacter: We do know there's at least Outposts 1-9 from Outpost 3's existence and Khan's certificate from the Outpost 9 WDF but they haven't made any appearances yet. |
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| 37 | [[folder:Disassembly Drones (a.k.a. Murder Drones)]] |
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| 40 | ->''"Unfortunately, our parent company didn't exactly love the concept of runaway AI..."'' |
| 41 | -->-- '''Uzi''', in reference to the Disassembly Drones. |
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| 43 | |
| 44 | A type of Drone created by [=JcJenson=] except not really designed to exterminate the Workers on Copper 9. Also known as Murder Drones by the WD population of Copper 9 and Sky Demons by Nori. |
| 45 | ---- |
| 46 | * AchillesHeel: Despite seemingly nigh-unstoppable, disassembly drones do have weaknesses, most of which seem to be inspired from vampiric lore. These include the constant need for oil to survive and lethal sensitivity to sunlight. Aside from these, they also feel pain and they can be affected by their own nanite acid (until they counteract it with their saliva). |
| 47 | * AlwaysABiggerFish: "Dead End" reveals that every disassembly drone besides the members of J's squad all went to the Cabin Fever labs to retrieve the research on the Absolute Solver. By the time the heroes arrive, they have all been killed by the Sentinels in the lab. |
| 48 | * AntagonistTitle: They're the titular "Murder Drones". {{Subverted|Trope}} in that Disassembly Drones are not the main threat of any episode other than the pilot, and play no antagonistic role whatsoever after episode 3. Unless they're J, who's taking orders from "Tessa" (actually Cyn). |
| 49 | * AwesomeButImpractical: They can use their saliva to fix themselves and neutralize their acid if they stab themselves? That'll keep them up and running. But when a Worker Drone grabs their tail to stab them with it, it's not easy to spit on yourself while fighting, is it? |
| 50 | ** The disassembly drone as a concept in of itself is this. Especially for the purpose of mass extermination. Why [[OrbitalBombardment bombard the planet from orbit]] or blast the place with a planet-wide {{EMP}} and be done with it faster when you can send {{Drop Pod}}s full of costly, overly complex murderbots onto the surface? Add in the fact that they themselves are also sentient (and thus capable of rebelling themselves) and mutate into an uncontrollable material collecting monstrosity when they take severe enough damage makes them more of a danger to everyone involved than the worker drones that they were tasked to exterminate. Though it's revealed in "Dead End" that the Absolute Solver created the Disassembly Drones to prevent any further research being conducted on it. |
| 51 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Their arms are jam-packed full of all sorts of deadly weaponry. Surprisingly they also have funny flags and bubble blowers in there. |
| 52 | * BackFromTheDead: It appears that the majority of the Disassembly Drones are the Zombie Drones that Tessa rescued from the dump and repaired, including N, V and J. |
| 53 | * BodyBackupDrive: According to J in "Dead End", effective drones were cloned more, explaining her reappearance. This did seemingly poke a hole in Tessa's reveal about the AS making the [=DDs=] until series creator Liam Vickers stated on Glitch X 2023 that the [=DDs=] were NOT made by humans. |
| 54 | * BewareMyStingerTail: A consistent part of the Disassembly Drones' anatomy are their large syringe-like tails filled with an incredibly potent nanite-based acid. |
| 55 | * BladeBelowTheShoulder: They can replace their hands with scimitar-esque swords. |
| 56 | * BoringButPractical: |
| 57 | ** Their whole arsenal counts as this. Unlike Uzi, who built a super powerful and flashy weapon that takes half an hour to charge, they carry ready-to-use guns and blades which allows them to fight aggressively and continuously without needing to stop, recharge or reload (unless they're taunting their prey or monologuing). |
| 58 | ** Their mini-gun is the weakest weapon option that they have, as most of their other weapons destroy the Worker Drones in one hit. However, it shoots constantly and it saved J some time while trying to dislodge a pen from her head, preventing Uzi from shooting her right away. |
| 59 | * ChildSoldiers: N mentions he and V are kids. While it's unclear if that's true in the purest technical sense in the present, it's evident by the fact the Disassembly Drones were made many years ago that they at least started this way. |
| 60 | * CuteMachines: While not quite as evident due to their function but they have a somewhat cute appearance similar to the Worker Drones when they don't have their GameFace on. It's best seen with N due to his personality. |
| 61 | * DoAnythingRobot: Their arms come equipped with a plethora of weapons and gadgets, from firearms to melee weapons to EMP emitters, and even funny flags and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking bubble blowers]]. |
| 62 | ** Aside from their multi-functional arms, the extra eyes on top of their heads enables them to see in a myriad of vision modes. From infrared, ultraviolet, to "whatever the plot requires"[[note]]as stated from one of the concept arts[[/note]]. |
| 63 | * {{EMP}}: Disassembly Drones can fire off an EMP that temporarily disables Worker Drones. |
| 64 | * ExtraEyes: [[AllThereInTheManual While only outright stated in the concept art]], the eyes on their visor are not their source of vision. Their actual eyes are the five yellow lights on their head, each one a different type of sensor (one for normal human spectrum, one for infrared, one for [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands whatever the writer feels like at the time]], etc). |
| 65 | * EyesDoNotBelongThere: The five glowing bulbs on their foreheads are their real eyes; the face visor is just for show. You'd think it would be awkward to look around when your eyes are on top of your head. Strangely, N can see just fine in "Cabin Fever" even though his hat was covering all of those lights, which is either a case of SeriesContinuityError or that piece of canon being dropped. |
| 66 | ** His hat doesn't completely cover his eyes for the most part, and it's also possible that the visor ''can'' work like actual eyes for him and V since they were originally Worker Drones themselves, as depicted in "Home". |
| 67 | * FaceMonsterTurn: They were mostly good or neutral Worker Drones, before being turned into their current selves. |
| 68 | * FatalFlaw: At first a seemingly {{Invoked|Trope}} by [=JCJenson=]. WordOfGod confirms that the Disassembly Drones were designed as unfairly temperature inefficient as possible so that they'll quickly overheat [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness once there are no more Workers to kill]]. As a result, they run so hot that just ''touching'' one of them is liable to get you burned--if you're a human, that is. The actual perpetrator, going by "Dead End" and [[WordOfGod Liam Vickers]] confirming the validity of Tessa's claims in said episode, appears to be the Absolute Solver. |
| 69 | * ForcedIntoEvil: It's confirmed that they (or at least the majority of them) were Worker Drones converted into Disassembly Drones against their will. |
| 70 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: The dream sequence in "Heartbeat" and flashbacks in "Home" reveal that they all used to be normal Worker Drones, with N and V in particular being rather submissive and timid. They were servants in a human-owned mansion and, based from dialogue from James and Louisa, weren't looked upon too favorably, having apparently been salvaged from the dump by their daughter, Tessa. By the time they are first introduced in the series, they are monstrous killing machines with the ability to shapeshift their limbs and regenerate missing body parts, a mission to exterminate the Worker Drones, and [[HorrorHunger a thirst for their victims' oil]]. |
| 71 | * GroundPound: How they usually make an entrance. It's powerful enough to knock nearby enemies off their feet, causing Uzi to drop her weapon in her first encounter. |
| 72 | * HartmanHips: Female Disassembly Drones have these, as shown with V and J. |
| 73 | * HealingFactor: A pretty potent one, since they can regenerate their own heads. It's not perfect though, as N regenerates with severe vision damage for a while, and severe enough damage will invoke the ChunkySalsaRule considering J loses her upper half and doesn't regenerate [[BodyHorror normally]]. Their saliva can also cure nanite acid and repair Worker Drones' hands. |
| 74 | * ImAHumanitarian: Another seemingly intentional FatalFlaw instilled into them by [=JCJenson=], only for WordOfGod to confirm otherwise. They need to constantly consume oil in order to stop themselves from overheating, and the best means for them to ''get'' said oil is via killing and then ''eating'' Worker Drones. Once they run out of oil to cool themselves down however, they'll eventually die out. Under the guise of being done by [=JCJenson=], this spares them the trouble of terminating them. But under the truth of the Absolute Solver, this becomes a necessity to prevent the death of both host and their strain from the Solver via literal heat death. |
| 75 | ** In addition to consuming Worker Drones, a flashback to Earth's destruction in "Mass Destruction" shows N and the crew chowing down on what are implied to be ''actual'' humans. Their appetites appear to be quite versatile. |
| 76 | * {{Irony}}: The reveal that they're products of the Absolute Solver can be considered this since the Absolute Solver seems to have the ''weakest'' influence on them, given that the most they do with it is regenerating, they're vulnerable to Worker Drones using the Absolute Solver on them, and it can't directly control them unless they're irreparably damaged. |
| 77 | ** Additionally, the Disassembly Drones (according to Nori's note in Mass Destruction at least) have "nerfed" strains of the Absolute Solver. And while Uzi does use her Solver powers to push N out of the church, she did not do so by directly taking control of or affecting him, merely giving him a telekinetic shove from the front. |
| 78 | ** Despite being ''designed'' to use their own saliva to stop their acid from burning themselves, they're also ''intensely grossed out'' by saliva and spitting, licking, or putting other's parts in their mouths. |
| 79 | * LaserCutter: N bisects a Worker in half with one. |
| 80 | * LeanAndMean: They tower the Worker Drones, have very slender figures, and except for N, are as sadistic as you can expect from killer machines. |
| 81 | * LightIsNotGood: Their programming and nanites emit a blinding yellow glow and they have angelic wings, yet they are awful. Ironically, N at least claims they can't stand under direct sunlight. |
| 82 | * LightningBruiser: They fly really fast and hit really hard with an assortment of weapons that cut through Worker Drones like butter. |
| 83 | * MacrossMissileMassacre: The prologue shows them performing one with missile launchers upon exiting their pod. |
| 84 | * MeatSackRobot: "Heartbeat" reveals that the Disassembly Drones have some kind of partially organic component inside their body that can move on its own when the body is severely damaged. |
| 85 | * MoreDakka: Machine guns are one of their more commonly used disassembly tools. |
| 86 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Zombie Vampire {{Killer Robot}}s. |
| 87 | * NotSoSimilar: "Pilot" has Uzi and N make a NotSoDifferentRemark regarding the Worker and Disassembly Drones, but the second episode shows that the Disassembly Drones are ''far'' more than they appear to be and very different from ordinary machines. Namely that they seem be some kind of [[AmbiguousRobots techno-organic]] construct that's host to a malicious A.I. with [[DigitalAbomination physics defying technology]]. Even Uzi is left horrified when she learns more of their nature and questions just what they are. Becomes {{subverted|Trope}} with TheReveal that Disassembly Drones ''are'' Worker Drones, just ones that have been altered by The Absolute Solver, as J, N, V and other [=DDs=] were all once Worker Drones belonging to Tessa. |
| 88 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Each Disassembly Drone can be identified by their serial number, carried over from when they were Worker/Zombie Drones, typically being a single letter followed by a long alphanumeric code resembling binary. Due to how much of a mouthful that would be, they tend to default to ''just'' the first letter, giving them a OneLetterName. For example, N's full name is "Serial Designation 'N-0X0010010'", but he introduces himself to Uzi as ''just'' "Serial Designation 'N'". |
| 89 | * OurAngelsAreDifferent: At first they seem to fit the bill. They're essentially robotic destroyer angels. Resembling the Worker Drones except with wings that have feather-like struts, they've been sent down from the heavens by the Worker Drones' displeased makers. As of Glitch X 2023 however, this has been proven wrong as of the revelations in "Dead End". Although the Disassembly Drones ''were'' still fashioned and sent by a being which is far more powerful than anything else in the setting and at least views ''itself'' as supreme and absolute in nature to enact said being's judgment upon the Worker Drones in the form of total destruction. So, in that sense, they still do fit. |
| 90 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: They're also essentially robotic vampires, given they need to drink the oil of Worker Drones with their jagged teeth to stave off fatally overheating, [[WeakenedByTheLight sunlight is deadly to them]]; and they possess [[VoluntaryShapeshifting limited shape-shifting]], [[{{Flight}} jagged-looking wings]], SuperStrength, wall-crawling abilities, endurance and a HealingFactor of eldritch proportions, and a tendency to sleep hanging upside-down like a bat. The PTSD attack that N's gaze induces in Khan which causes him to back off also seems like a metaphorical take on a vampire's hypnotic gaze. The three known Murder Drones also apparently started out as the same type of drone as the people they now prey upon before they were modified into their current forms. It also appears that destroying their torso, which is likely where their cores are located, is the one thing that can physically kill them, similar to how vampires can be killed via "stake in the heart". |
| 91 | * PunchClockVillain: To an extent. While they are all some degree of bloodthirsty, N just wants to fit in and be useful, and J is a tryhard shill for [[MegaCorp the company]] that sent them, with both apparently being somewhat incentivized with branded pens if they make top team soon. The only one that stands out in this regard is V, who revels in her sadism and violence. |
| 92 | * PuttingOnTheReich: They wear clothes that resemble SS uniforms with armbands which fits into their function of destroying a race of people they believe a lesser form of life. Their armbands are revealed to be "Marked For Disassembly" armbands which reveal their undead status. |
| 93 | * RazorWings: Their wings are composed of multiple blades arranged in the shape of wings that can be used to stab their targets. |
| 94 | * RidiculouslyHumanRobots: It's soon revealed that they're just as sentient as the Worker Drones that they're sent to capture. Most of them consider themselves to be more sentient than the Worker Drones. |
| 95 | * SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: A retroactive example, somewhat. They ''used'' to be Worker Drones but were transformed into Disassembly Drones by the Solver, and had maid/butler outfits to boot. This basically makes the main Disassembly Drones observed throughout the series superpowered servants. It can also be played straight as they unwittingly end up serving the Solver's agenda. |
| 96 | * TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter: {{Downplayed|Trope}} since they only use their abilities to regenerate, but when N regenerates his head, his hat comes back as well, indicating that the clothes are part of the Disassembly Drones' bodies. |
| 97 | ** N and V have been shown wearing other clothes than what they came to Copper 9 with, however, and seem to still have the same regenerative capabilities, while the clothes they sometimes take for themselves can also be restored, so it may just be that the nanites or whatever allows them to restore themselves simply regenerates ''whatever'' they happen to be wearing at the time with no explanation to how the mechanics of it work. |
| 98 | * SlasherSmile: Most of the time they sport smiles as wide as their faces, which show off their very threatening fangs. |
| 99 | * SuperSpit: Despite being robots, their mouths produce saliva. Said saliva can also neutralize acid and even repair damage. |
| 100 | * SwissArmyAppendage: Thanks to their partial shape-shifting abilities, they can replace their arms with a huge variety of weapons. So far, they've used {{EMP}}s, [[MoreDakka machine guns]], [[MacrossMissileMassacre missile launchers]], WolverineClaws, [[BladeBelowTheShoulder sword hands]], {{Laser Cutter}}s, {{Energy Weapon}}s, and a BangFlagGun. {{Justified|Trope}}, as we know they're made partially from {{Nanomachines}}. |
| 101 | * TertiarySexualCharacteristics: While all Disassembly Drones have hair and similar coloration, the female drones thus far have had black, hourglass shaped legs with peg-like feet decorated with hazard stripes, while N's legs are white with boot shaped feet. |
| 102 | * UnwittingPawn: The Absolute Solver was allegedly responsible for their deployment to Copper 9, though they'd seemingly been programmed to believe that their orders came from [=JCJenson=] and not the Solver itself. |
| 103 | * VillainOfAnotherStory: It's implied that there are other Disassembly Drone teams on Copper 9 from N's claims of being leader of his specific squad and J talking about being ranked top team. Confirmed when we see dead Disassembly Drones in "Dead End" littering the floors of the Cabin Fever labs. Tessa also mentions that Cyn under the control of the Absolute Solver is besieging the human exoplanets with [=DDs=]. |
| 104 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Disassembly Drones can morph their hands into various weapons, as well as sprout wings. |
| 105 | * WasOnceAMan: N, V, and J all started "life" as regular worker drones, with the caveat that Tessa had rebuilt them from improperly disposed of drone parts. Cyn is allegedly the one who made them what they are now and then reprogrammed them for as of yet unknown reasons. It's implied and confirmed that other [=DDs=] were Worker Drones once with an Elliot Manor Worker Drone appearing as a dead DD. |
| 106 | * WeakenedByTheLight: Are damaged upon coming into contact with sunlight. This was first brought up by N near the end of "Pilot" and is first shown in action near the end of "Cabin Fever", where a corrupted Uzi's hand starts sizzling when the sunlight comes in contact with it, forcing N to grab her hand to move it out of the way, with his hand also briefly heating up in the brief moment where it is in the sun. |
| 107 | * WeaksauceWeakness: "Dead End" reveals a disassembly drone's abilities can easily be disabled by simply applying a magnet to their head. |
| 108 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the end of "Pilot", we see multiple pods of disassembly drones flying towards Copper 9. However, we never see any new pods reach the planet throughout the rest of the series except for the one with Tessa and J who managed to back herself up after Uzi killed her. "Dead End" reveals that all of the other disassembly drones on Copper 9 besides J's squad instead went to the Cabin Fever labs under orders from the Absolute Solver to retrieve the research on it done by the company. By the time Uzi, N, V, Tessa and Doll arrive, all of them have already been killed by the Sentinels. |
| 109 | * WolverineClaws: The default and preferred weapon of Disassembly Drones, likely because it makes oil siphoning easier. |
| 110 | [[/folder]] |
| 111 | |
| 112 | [[folder:Zombie Drones]] |
| 113 | Improperly disassembled drones who have rebooted after software death. Before the Gala Massacre, Tessa James Elliot rescued and repaired many Zombie Drones after they were disposed of with N, V, J and Cyn among them but they were all turned into Disassembly Drones and sent to Copper-9 to eradicate the rogue Workers and retrieve the research done on the Absolute Solver. |
| 114 | ---- |
| 115 | * BackFromTheDead: These Workers have rebooted from software death after being disassembled. |
| 116 | * TheDreaded: They are this to [=JCJenson=] who have an entire training video dedicated to the dangers that Zombie Drones can pose. With the Solver mutating in Zombie Drones such as Cyn, it's not hard to see why. |
| 117 | * EliteZombie: Solver-infected Zombie Drones are this, having full access to the reality-warping powers of it. |
| 118 | * FaceMonsterTurn: Following the Gala Massacre, they were all turned through unknown means into the Disassembly Drones. |
| 119 | * NightOfTheLivingMooks: The Elliot Manor Zombie Drones were turned into the Disassembly Drones supposedly by the Absolute Solver and sent to Copper-9 to accomplish its goals. |
| 120 | * NotUsingTheZWord: Averted as they're openly referred to as Zombies. |
| 121 | * OurZombiesAreDifferent: They are robots who have come back from being improperly disassembled. |
| 122 | * RevenantZombie: They have reactivated from being improperly disassembled, behaving not that different than they did before. |
| 123 | * RidiculouslyAliveUndead: With the exception of Cyn, they all act like your ordinary Worker Drones. |
| 124 | * RobotMaid: The Zombie Drones that Tessa rescued became servants of the Elliot Family. |
| 125 | * UndeadLaborers: The Zombie Drones rescued by Tessa were put to work as servants of the Elliot Family. |
| 126 | [[/folder]] |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[folder:Anti-Drone Sentinels]] |
| 129 | [[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anti_drone_sentinel.png]] |
| 130 | ->''"Right, might be some security, specifically against you guys."'' |
| 131 | -->-- '''Tessa''', upon seeing the Sentinels' handiwork. |
| 132 | |
| 133 | Fast and deadly robots in the shape of velociraptors built by [=JCJenson=] to serve as security for the Cabin Fever labs on Copper 9. The Sentinels come equipped with stun flashers capable of locking Worker or Disassembly Drones in a "Boot Loop" which leaves them easy prey for their claws. |
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| 135 | * BlindingCameraFlash: Their most potent weapon is a stun flash that puts Drones into a boot loop, rendering them utterly helpless. |
| 136 | * BoringYetPractical: On paper, they shouldn't hold a candle to the likes of Disassembly Drones, however their anti-drone flasher works equally well against Disassembly Drones and Worker Drones, which allowed the Sentinels to utterly slaughter the previous squads that attempted to access Cabin Fever labs. |
| 137 | * EarlyBirdCameo: They appear as one of the deceased Test Subject's drawings in "Cabin Fever". |
| 138 | * {{Expy}}: Obviously to the ''velociraptors'' of ''Franchise/JurassicPark'', but also to the ''Dilophosaurus'' from the same franchise; their BlindingCameraFlash used to immobilize Drones is pretty much a digital version of the ''Dilophosaurus''' SuperSpit. |
| 139 | * {{Foil}}: To the Disassembly Drones. Both are robots which specialize in killing other robots; however whereas Disassembly Drones rely on flashy and often [[AwesomeButImpractical impractical]] weapon systems and an elaborate HealingFactor, the Sentinels just immobilize their enemies with a relatively simple stun flash and go straight for the throats. Another point of contrast is that the Sentinels are genuinely loyal to [=JCJenson=], whereas the Disassembly Drones have been corrupted by Cyn. |
| 140 | * HunterOfHisOwnKind: The Sentinels are a robotic security system intended to destroy other robots. |
| 141 | * ItCanThink: Much like their [[Characters/JurassicParkVelociraptor basis]], the Sentinels are deathly smart despite their animalistic nature. They seem to understand the nature of cameras, are capable of recognizing as well as utilizing the arms of Disassembly Drones for their weaponry, and know how to operate the elevator. |
| 142 | * LogicalWeakness: Downplayed. Their overpowered stun flash has a couple of workarounds. However, using them doesn't guarantee victory. |
| 143 | ** The flash can be blocked by eyewear, like V's glasses, nor does it seem to work on drones with completely disabled optics. The former is far from foolproof though, and as to the latter, good luck fighting them blind. |
| 144 | ** It likewise doesn't work on humans, but it obviously wasn't intended to. In fact, thanks to ThreeLawsCompliant, they will ignore humans. [[AIIsACrapshoot This can potentially go out the window under the right circumstances]] however, with the sentinel that bit Tessa developing a taste for human blood after recovering from its LogicBomb. |
| 145 | * ManOfKryptonite: Their BlindingCameraFlash makes them a walking weakness for both Workers and Disassemblies. Likewise, Humans - who have nothing for the BCF to affect, and cause a LogicBomb in any Sentinel that attacks anyway - are this to them. |
| 146 | * MechanicalAnimals: In contrast to the Worker and Disassembly Drones, the Sentinels are modeled after velociraptors. |
| 147 | * PunchClockVillains: They're a big threat to the team, but only because they're following their orders to protect the labs. A picture of Nori and Yeva's interview also shows a couple of Sentinels hanging around them with no signs of hostility, with one even letting Nori rest her arm on its head. |
| 148 | * ThreeLawsCompliant: In "Dead End", provided they don't mistake her environmental suit's helmet for a drone's visor, the simple fact that Tessa is a human allows her to give the Sentinels orders, i.e. "Be a nice dingo." Likewise, the realization of one of the Sentinels that it inflicted harm on a human causes it to experience a LogicBomb of sorts. These events [[ImpliedTrope imply]] that the Sentinels, if not all non-corrupted Drones are bound by something akin to the Laws of Robotics. |
| 149 | [[/folder]] |
| 150 | |
| 151 | !!Main Characters |
| 152 | |
| 153 | [[folder:Uzi]] |
| 154 | !!Uzi Doorman/UZI |
| 155 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ElsieLovelock [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Cassandra Valtier (Latin-American Spanish), Stephany Custodi (Brazilian Portuguese), Arina Kolotiuk (Russian), [=Lem0nka=] (Ukrainian), Miray Özdönmez (Turkish), Vanessa Strauch (German), Janeane Santos-Roco (Filipino), Miranti Anna Juantara (Indonesian), Wang Lianxin (Japanese) [[/labelnote]] |
| 156 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/uzi.PNG]] |
| 157 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"You all can bite me."'']] |
| 158 | [[quoteright:218:[[labelnote:Click her to see her in her prom dress.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0468_1.png]] [[/labelnote]] |
| 159 | [[quoteright:1000:[[labelnote:Click here to see her vampire form.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0453_5.png]] [[/labelnote]] |
| 160 | |
| 161 | The main protagonist, an angsty teenage Worker Drone from Outpost 3 who'd rather fight the killer robots hunting her fellow drones than hide from them. After forming an unlikely bond with N, she plotted to escape Copper 9 and tear humanity a new one… but outside forces soon get in the way of that goal, and she ends up drawn into a mystery that changes her in more ways than one. |
| 162 | ---- |
| 163 | * AbortedArc: The "Pilot" ends with her deciding to invade Earth and KillAllHumans as revenge for their siccing the Disassembly Drones on Copper 9, suggesting she's going to become a VillainProtagonist. The series proper however has her largely forgo that idea due to becoming preoccupied with the Absolute Solver, acting more as an AntiHero. Not to mention that it’s eventually revealed the Absolute Solver already destroyed Earth and wiped out humanity before she was even born, which means her original plan would have never amounted to anything in the first place. |
| 164 | * ActionGirl: In heavy contrast to the rest of the Worker Drones at Outpost 3, who for some reason can't bring themselves to fight back against the Murder Drones. She has a small degree of skill in martial arts from just watching anime, and she's applauded for managing to take out J by herself. |
| 165 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: With the exception of Thad, everybody in her school looks down on her for being an anger-prone, gun-loving maniac. They seem to become more accepting after she and N defeat V and J, but by this point, she decides to go into exile and flips everyone off. In "The Promening" it's clear that Uzi is still looked down at by the other students who even forget that she exists. |
| 166 | * AlternateCatchphraseInflection: She frequently says "bite me" with a lot of energy and sometimes sarcasm, but right before she leaves Outpost 3 in the Pilot, she says it one last time solemnly and sternly because now she really means it. |
| 167 | * AndIMustScream: Her mind is conscious in her Absolute Solver form during "Cabin Fever", but she's unable to control her actions and is terrified of what she's doing. |
| 168 | * AndThenJohnWasAZombie: As indicated by how her eyes flash yellow at the end of "Pilot", it's implied her programming is starting to become like that of the Disassembly Drones she's spent the whole story trying to kill. Later episodes reveal she was actually infected by the Absolute Solver, which made Doll into an oil drinking serial killer like the Disassembly Drones. "Cabin Fever" goes both ways; her Absolute Solver powers give her organic wings and a tail, making her look like the Murder Drones in their combat forms. |
| 169 | * {{Angst}}: She pins herself as an angsty teen, and she is shown complaining about the Worker Drones' situation very often, which is the primary reason the series starts; her complaints about her father's overly defensive strategy results in her encounter with N. |
| 170 | * AnimalMotifs: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, but Uzi occasionally demonstrates traits reminiscent of a cat, acting [[CatsAreMean dismissive and surly]] yet being affectionate towards those she cherishes, N in particular, sitting atop her desk on all fours like a cat at attention, hiding in a trash can, and even letting out the occasional PlayfulCatSmile. |
| 171 | * AntiHero: Uzi is a misanthropic robot teen, with her initial motivations for why she wanted to fight the Disassembly Drones was to get respect from her father. Later, she becomes more caring towards her species and gets more altruistic motives, but also briefly gains a desire to wipe out humanity, a desire she largely puts aside in favor of trying to learn about the Absolute Solver. |
| 172 | * ApocalypseMaiden: According to Tessa in ''Dead End'', Uzi is supposedly a threat to all of humanity, if not the entire universe by virtue of being infected with the Absolute Solver. |
| 173 | * AwesomeButImpractical: Her railgun is a very powerful weapon, capable of killing the otherwise unstoppable Disassembly Drones in one-shot. However, there's a half-hour recharge after firing and a shorter but not insignificant charge-up before firing, leaving her open. It's also meant to be used against incredibly fast and agile opponents who can attack her while she's still aiming. |
| 174 | * BadassNormal: 'Normal' is relative, since she is a Worker Drone rather than a human. But compared to Disassembly Drones she's downright mundane, and manages to match said nigh-invincible drones in one-on-one combat. Though that goes out the window pretty fast once she awakens her Absolute Solver abilities. |
| 175 | * BeneathTheMask: While she puts on the persona of an "edgy teen rebel", its shown repeatedly that its mostly a front that serves as an emotional wall to keep others from hurting her. When around those that she emotionally connected with though, N in particular, she lets her walls down and demonstrates a more soft spoken and vulnerable demeanor, while still somewhat acting like a {{tsundere}}. |
| 176 | * {{BFG}}: Prior to her Absolute Solver powers activating, she carries around a "sick-as-hell railgun" that can obliterate just about anything, including a Disassembly Drone, though [[AwesomeButImpractical it takes half an hour to recharge]]. It gets destroyed at the end of "Heartbeat". |
| 177 | * BlessedWithSuck: While downplayed in earlier episodes, her Absolute Solver powers are firmly this by the climax of "Dead End", in where she loses control to the Absolute Solver/Cyn the more she uses it. |
| 178 | * BodyHorror: Displays this when she mutates after [[HorrorHunger losing control]] of her Absolute Solver powers -- she sprouts biomechanical wings and a tail topped with a razor-sharp mouth. |
| 179 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: Temporarily in the fourth episode, when she transformed into her Solver form. |
| 180 | * CallingTheOldManOut: She rightly blows up at her father after he leaves her for dead against N. |
| 181 | * CharacterCatchphrase: She says "Bite me!" when stressed, or as a PreAsskickingOneLiner. |
| 182 | * CreepyCrows: She helps Memory!N uncover his deleted memories in "Home" in the form of a dead crow with purple Absolute Solver symbols instead of irises. |
| 183 | * DatingWhatDaddyHates: Implied when N makes [[RelationshipLabelingProblems something akin]] to a LoveConfession about Uzi to Nori. Nori, who has lost her body from a Disassembly Drone attack, is enraged at the idea of her daughter being involved with one. Uzi then lashes out at Nori before telling N that they had "[[UnresolvedSexualTension never discussed being gross]]". Uzi's father, Khan, has also been on record for his dislike of Disassembly Drones, which includes forbidding her from seeing them at one point. |
| 184 | * DeadpanSnarker: Uzi is very prone to snarking when having to deal with the predictability of those around her. |
| 185 | * DemonicPossession: It's implied the end result of her infection by the Absolute Solver will result in her being totally subsumed by it and becoming another one of the Solver's vessels. |
| 186 | * DespairEventHorizon: Seems to cross this when her father locks her out of the outpost with N instead of trusting her, causing her to stop trying to escape N's grasp. |
| 187 | * DifficultButAwesome: While her {{BFG}} takes half an hour to recharge, if aimed correctly, it can instantly destroy enough of a Disassembly Drone that it will prevent them from regenerating. |
| 188 | * DramaticSpaceDrifting: At the last part of "Mass Destruction", when she saves N and is dragged of into the flesh pit, she somehow reappears in space, watching Copper-9 from afar. |
| 189 | * EtTuBrute: Uzi is crushed when her father chooses to lock her out of Outpost 3 with a murderous N rather than take up her railgun to kill him. This factors into her decision to go into SelfImposedExile, but not before [[CallingTheOldManOut chewing Khan out for it]]. |
| 190 | * EvilLaugh: The Season 1 teaser shows her doing this. |
| 191 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: Was already pretty darn tough for a Worker Drone, and, as of "The Promening", has started manifesting RealityWarper powers courtesy of the Absolute Solver. |
| 192 | * FantasticRacism: Uzi doesn't have any good feelings about humanity, largely due to holding them, more specifically [=JCJenson=], responsible for the actions of the Disassembly Drones. In addition to initially wanting to go to Earth and KillAllHumans after her self-imposed exile, her first response to meeting Tessa in "Dead End" is to ''bite'' her in anger before referring to her derisively as "human", and is perpetually agitated when interacting with her throughout the episode even ''after'' learning she's on their side. |
| 193 | * FightsLikeANormal: She might not have a good handle on her mysteriously recently acquired Absolute Solver abilities, but she is surprisingly skilled at close combat, especially shown during "The Promening" where she fares very well against Doll's matter manipulating abilities, being able to deflect a knife out of the air and only requiring a little bit of assistance from the Disassembly Drones in order to get a good hit in. |
| 194 | * FreudianExcuse: She's in an AllOfTheOtherReindeer situation with an emotionally AbusiveParent, and [=JCJenson=] wants her and her fellow Worker Drones dead because the humans working for them on her planet got themselves killed, and the company doesn't want to deal with a free AI society. Add [[DirtyCoward her cowardly father leaving her for dead]], and it's no wonder why she initially decides to KillAllHumans. |
| 195 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: And how. At the beginning she was just a mundane if angsty Worker Drone. Even her sick-as-hell railgun didn't really make her that formiddable since N survived having his head blown off. At ''The Promening'' she [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] managing to get a hold of her AS and fight Doll on equal terms. Come ''Cabin Fever'' she goes comletely berserk ripping her hapless classmates apart with bare hands and [[TheWorfEffect mauling]] '''[[TheWorfEffect V]]''' [[TheWorfEffect with little to zero effort]] all the while [[LaughingMad maniacally giggling]] the entire time. |
| 196 | * GenerationXerox: Apparently, her inquisitive tendencies are inherited from her mother Nori. Khan allegedly went through a "KillAllHumans" phase when he was younger, too. |
| 197 | * GenreSavvy: She says that the Worker Drones just hiding behind three doors and a bunch of ice is just waiting for something bad to happen, showing a diagram about story structure to back it up. |
| 198 | * GoodIsNotNice: She's bitter, cynical, foul-mouthed, misanthropic, and intends to KillAllHumans, but Uzi's heart is generally in the right place and she simply wants to save her fellow Worker Drones. |
| 199 | * GothGirlsKnowMagic: When it's not taking her over and transforming her into some demonic/vampiric hellbeast, the Absolute Solver acts and looks like a sci-fi version of magic powers capable of moving objects, transforming things, teleportation and a variety of other magic like abilities. |
| 200 | * HatesBeingAlone: {{Play|ingWithATrope}}ed with. Uzi largely ''likes'' being alone as part of her "edgy teen" persona, but she also suffers from numerous abandonment issues hidden beneath that persona. In addition to her MissingMom, Khan's [[ParentalNeglect emotional detachment]] causes her to feel completely isolated from him, only worsened when he left her to die in the "Pilot". Her AllOfTheOtherReindeer status likewise affects her more than she lets on, growing envious and resentful over how quickly her classmates accepted N and V, yet still react to her in fright while forgetting she even exists. After emotionally connecting with N, she likewise begins to fear ''him'' leaving her too, part of her emotional breakdown in "Cabin Fever" spurred on by V claiming N would eventually move on from her, and fearing he already was after seeing him connect with her classmates. N has to reassure her as they're falling out of the sky that he ''won't'' leave her, and that she is someone very special to him he could never replace. |
| 201 | * HeroicSacrifice: At the end of "Mass Destruction", Uzi saves N from being dragged into the flesh pit with her while she is still dragged down below. Granted, she somehow survives and ends up in the space around the destroyed Earth. |
| 202 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: As of "Cabin Fever", she more or less ''has'' become a Murder Drone, complete with [[HorrorHunger compulsion to kill and eat her fellow Workers]] due to the Absolute Solver. |
| 203 | * HorrorHunger: Implied. When investigating Doll's home, she takes notice of all the Worker Drone oil and when looking at some on her fingers, she seems tempted to drink it. This is supported by Doll who appears to drink oil herself and both seem to be infected by the Absolute Solver. This comes in full force in during the camping episode. |
| 204 | * IJustWantToBeLoved: Uzi, in spite of her [[AntiHero many morally questionable decisions]], just [[DudeWheresMyRespect yearns for someone's respect and to acknowledge her as a person]], but is unable to get an opportunity for such things [[CosmicPlaything due to her constant suffering and never catching a break]]. |
| 205 | * IKnowMortalKombat: She knows martial arts moves from pirating tons of anime, something that catches herself by surprise. |
| 206 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In spite of her cynical attitude and questionable motives on her actions, she is still shown to be caring towards her friends and want to help others to get away from the Disassembly Drones. |
| 207 | * LaughingMad: She starts laughing with a crazed look after stating her intent to destroy humanity. This combined with the software corruption warning in her eye heavily implies that she starting to suffer from some kind of insanity. |
| 208 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: While she wants to KillAllHumans, she's certainly a lot more justified than [=JCJenson=], considering her motivation is {{Revenge}} compared to her enemy's more profit-based motives as well as the fact that it's later implied that the company might actually have been involved in something [[DarkSecret much more sinister]]. Becomes {{subverted|Trope}} as she begins to move away from her desire to kill humanity in favor of just trying to find out what's ''wrong'' with her, becoming a more straightforward AntiHero. |
| 209 | * LikeMotherLikeDaughter: Nori's introduction in "Mass Destruction" makes clear that Uzi gained a lot of her personality and interests from her mother, the two having a similar sardonic, moody, and irritable demeanor, with Uzi being ''slightly'' more willing to open up to others like N. She also gained Nori's love for anime and her taste in music, specifically "Nightcore" style music. |
| 210 | * ManOfKryptonite: Her being infected by Absolute Solver makes her immune to Doll's own Absolute Solver abilities. However, this only applies to direct attacks, [[LogicalWeakness she's still vulnerable to objects that Doll uses her powers to manipulate]]. |
| 211 | * {{Matricide}}: Not by her own will. When the Solver possesses her, she nearly ends up being forced to eat the core of her own mother by the will of the Solver, only being stopped from doing so by N distracting it. |
| 212 | * MeaningfulName: A [[GunNut gun nut]] named Uzi. A bit zig-zagged in the sense that Uzis are rapid-firing guns while her railgun is anything but fast. |
| 213 | * MeatsackRobot: The constant usage of the Absolute Solver has made some of Uzi’s parts become organic, bleeding when she is hurt. |
| 214 | * MindOverMatter: She gets infected by the Absolute Solver program by the end of "Pilot", causing her to accidentally crack windows that she looks at when stressed. At the end of "The Promening", she ends up reflexively using it to save herself from being shot by Doll, who has had the same power for quite some time. |
| 215 | * MisplacedRetribution: "Dead End" reveals the Disassembly Drones are actually created by the Absolute Solver, and that it's the one trying to wipe out the Worker Drones. Humanity did mistreat the Drones and [=JCJenson=] was up to sketchy things morally speaking, but the Solver is the one that's done the most damage to Copper 9 and the one behind the actions that led Uzi to decide to KillAllHumans. |
| 216 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A particular moment in "Mass Destruction" when she realizes she accidentally kicked the Solver core of her mother, who she thought was a random parasite pretending to know who she is, into the flesh pit in the cathedral. When she discovers this, she immediately screams in confusion and regret. |
| 217 | * NeverBareheaded: Uzi is rarely seen without her black bobble hat. |
| 218 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: By setting out to find parts for her railgun, she runs into N and causes a chain of events leading him straight to Outpost 3 and causing the bunker to be breached. This also results in Eldritch J being unleashed and killing even more Workers. |
| 219 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: "Cabin Fever" reveals that the Absolute Solver turned her into basically a lycanthropic vampire witch KillerRobot. |
| 220 | * OldShame: Her screen name is "[=DarkXWolf17=]", adopted when she was 8, and she's a bit self-conscious about it. |
| 221 | * OneWingedAngel: As her Absolute Solver powers overtake her, she develops wings and a tail, all made of organic matter, making her resemble a Disassembly Drone's combat form. However, she doesn't show the ability to turn this off until the climax of "Cabin Fever". |
| 222 | * OnlyAFleshWound: She gets impaled by N, but gets up perfectly fine later. It's likely that N couldn't bring himself to fatally wounding her, and even apologizes for making her look awkward in front of her dad. |
| 223 | * OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Her Absolute Solver transformation in "Cabin Fever" is eerily reminiscent of one, with a PainfulTransformation, uncontrolled instinct, and overall feral behavior compared to the Disassembly Drones, complete with her transformation and rampage occuring under the equivalent to a full moon (albeit not directly connected). There's also V's aborted plan to kill her when she realizes this, which easily mirrors the FurAgainstFang trope. "Dead End" shows her capable of shifting to have the wings and tail at will. |
| 224 | * PetTheDog: While investigating abandoned [=JCJenson=] buildings in "Cabin Fever", she goes out of her way to repair a squished cyber-cockroach with the Absolute Solver. |
| 225 | * PowerIncontinence: She doesn't have a lot of control over her Absolute Solver powers, with it tending to flare up around mirrors. She seems to have gotten a much better handle on them come "Cabin Fever". |
| 226 | * PreMortemOneLiner: To J. |
| 227 | -->'''Uzi:''' One more buzzword, and I'll do it!\ |
| 228 | '''J:''' ...Equity partnersh-- ''[railgun fires]'' |
| 229 | * PurpleIsPowerful: Her visor color is a purple/pink and she's a full-on ActionGirl who permanently kills a Disassembly Drone. |
| 230 | * ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: {{Play|ingWithATrope}}ed with. She starts out fighting the Disassembly Drones for the sake of the cowardly Worker Drones she lives with, and then starts to develop traits of a Disassembly Drone, abandoning the Worker Drones as she plots to invade Earth and destroy humanity. However, as Season 1 continues, she largely forgoes this original motivation in favor of trying to find out about the Absolute Solver, something helped by her later learning that most of humanity is supposedly dead already anyway. Instead, she now has to worry about becoming an ApocalypseMaiden the more she uses her Solver, being at risk of becoming just like Cyn. |
| 231 | * RealityWarper: Has similarly extensive telekinetic powers to Doll, after she tastes oil and her latent Absolute Solver powers awaken. |
| 232 | * SanitySlippage: Seems to be slowly descending into this, not surprising since she plans to destroy humanity and now has the weapons and a powerful ally to aid her. The Absolute Solver gradually taking over her body doesn’t help her mental state either. |
| 233 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She banishes herself from Outpost 3 after it's clear to her [[DirtyCoward her father wouldn't hesitate to leave her to die again]] and nobody else was going to try to stand up against the Disassembly Drones. |
| 234 | * SelfImposedExile: Uzi banishes herself from Outpost 3 at the end of "Pilot", both out of shame for leading the Murder Drones there, and to deny her father the chance to do it himself after he deliberately left her for dead. As seen in "Heartbeat", nobody takes it seriously. |
| 235 | * SignatureHeadgear: She habitually wears her black beanie throughout the duration of the series, as to represent her characterization as an archetypal angsty teenager. |
| 236 | * SpitefulSpit: Does this towards J's corpse after she obliterated her upper half with her railgun. |
| 237 | * StrongAndSkilled: Her [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Absolute Solver form]] easily overpowers and nearly kills V. |
| 238 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Her hair is very similar to her mother's. |
| 239 | * TeenGenius: She built a new weapon able to kill Disassembly Drones in a single shot all by herself. |
| 240 | * TranshumanAbomination: Uzi starts off as an ordinary Worker Drone, but the Absolute Solver has mutated her into a MechanicalAbomination similar to it and intends to use her as another vessel. |
| 241 | * {{Tsundere}}: Though she doesn't drop her rude and angry attitude, she visibly becomes more mushy around Thad when he compliments her "badass" bandages, and she's polite enough to clarify that she isn't specifically angry at him after she blows him off for triggering her feelings of repression. |
| 242 | ** Also shows this around N. She's noticeably more annoyed by N's concern in "Heartbeat". Meanwhile, in "The Promening" she realizes she messed up with him, and she's much more ''dere'' with him, even ''blushing'' around him. |
| 243 | ** The descriptions of her merchandise (specifically, figurines of herself and N in their prom outfits) also feature stereotypical ''tsundere'' dialogue. |
| 244 | --->''"If you put her next to N, they dance together…not like she likes that or anything. Shut up."'' |
| 245 | * VillainProtagonist: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Although it's somewhat understandable given how her people have been treated, her goal at the end of "Pilot" is still wiping out humanity, taking on the traits of a Disassembly Drone herself. In the series proper however, this is largely forgotten in favor of focusing on the Absolute Solver and discovering what its doing to her, with the Solver itself acting as the real villain. |
| 246 | * WeakButSkilled: In her normal state, she might not have the cool weaponry of a Disassembly Drone or full control over the Absolute Solver, but she's pretty high above average for a Worker Drone when it comes to acrobatics and physical combat, something she puts to good use during her fight against Doll. |
| 247 | * WellDoneDaughterGirl: Uzi hates being seen as a disappointment and a failure by her father, and at least partially wants to save the world to earn his respect. She gives up on that when he leaves her for dead instead of trusting her. |
| 248 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: She wants to KillAllHumans, but it's mainly because she believes the entire species ordered the genocide of any sentient Worker Drones and won't rest until everyone she cares about is dead. It eventually turns out that the actual culprit is supposedly [[EldritchAbomination the Absolute Solver]]. |
| 249 | * YouAreNumberSix: Averted as her ID is simply UZI unlike other Workers whose ID is a string of numbers. |
| 250 | [[/folder]] |
| 251 | |
| 252 | [[folder:N]] |
| 253 | !!Serial Designation "N-0X0010010" |
| 254 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MichaelKovach [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Diego Becerril (Latin-American Spanish), William Viana (Brazilian Portuguese), Max Mann (Russian), Ihor Korzhenko (Ukrainian), Doğukan Akdeniz (Turkish), Oliver Matzke (German), Jayjay Delos Santos (Filipino), Dimas Setiaji (Indonesian), Soichiro Sugawa (Japanese) [[/labelnote]] |
| 255 | [[quoteright:515:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0452.jpeg]] |
| 256 | [[caption-width-right:515: ''"No worries, I'm N, but a whole letter is a lot to remember, heh heh..."'']] |
| 257 | [[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see his combat form.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/n_murder_mode.PNG]] [[/labelnote]] |
| 258 | [[quoteright:389:[[labelnote:Click here to see his ''dapper'' form.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0469.jpeg]] [[/labelnote]] |
| 259 | [[quoteright:987:[[labelnote:Click here to see his butler uniform.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0467_9.jpeg]] [[/labelnote]] |
| 260 | |
| 261 | The deuteragonist, a "Disassembly" (i.e., Murder) Drone sent to wipe out the rogue Worker Drones on Copper 9. He's a happy-go-lucky goofball who only kills to prove he isn't useless, but instead forms an unlikely partnership with his latest target, Uzi. |
| 262 | |
| 263 | No, not that [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite N]]. Or [[WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster that one]]. Or the [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3 other one]]. |
| 264 | ---- |
| 265 | * AccidentalMisnaming: He calls Khan "Mr. Uzi", though this is understandable since Uzi never told him her last name. |
| 266 | * AffablyEvil: He's a very nice guy despite being with a group of bloodthirsty robots. {{Subverted|Trope}} after he switches to Uzi's side, as while Uzi initially has intentions to wipe out all of humanity, N acts as a grounding agent for her and is the most moral of the trio, with Uzi [[AbortedArc abandoning her intentions]] after changing focus to understanding the Absolute Solver. |
| 267 | * AllLovingHero: N doesn't hold any grudge towards anyone, no matter how badly they treated him. Best examples go to J, whom he holds no resentment towards despite of her abuse towards him and almost killing him with a virus, as shown when he stops Uzi from insulting her appearance and saying that she looked great when the Absolute Solver took over her body, and Beau, who, despite getting him and his friends into a trap, he's still extremely affable towards. The sole exception, ironically, is Tessa who later turns out to actually be Cyn wearing Tessa's skin who he slowly began to feel resentment towards after she made it clear to him that she plans on destroying Uzi later. |
| 268 | * AlwaysSaveTheGirl: He's [[{{Protectorate}} extremely devoted to Uzi]], and has saved her life repeatedly with little concern for his own wellbeing. In "Pilot", he pulls a HeelFaceTurn because of her and helps fight off J and V, in "Heartbeat" he rescues her from 'Eldritch J', in "The Promening" [[TakingTheBullet he lets himself get split in half]] to protect her from Doll, and in "Cabin Fever" he has a nice chat with her to [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath calm her down and deactivate her crazed-Absolute-Solver-form]]. |
| 269 | -->'''Uzi:''' Quit saving me! |
| 270 | * AmnesiacLover: N's flashback dream at the beginning of the second episode reveals that prior to being reconstructed as disassembly robots, V and N worked as servants for an affluent family and had a mutual crush on each other. In the present, N doesn't remember anything from that life, but still maintains his crush on V. For her part, it soon becomes clear that V does remember their former life and relationship; she chooses not to clue him in once he catches on that she knows about his past in the third episode, believing that he's better off without that knowledge. In the fifth episode, Uzi hacks V and N and uses the former's memory banks to restore the latter's, to V's embarrassment and anger. |
| 271 | * AnimalMotifs: N is frequently associated with dogs, especially golden retrievers, as he is an outgoing people pleaser with a kind, easygoing temperament that endears him to others. These parallels are lampshaded in "Home", where his first scene has him happily reading a book about dog breeds, with golden retrievers receiving the most focus. Just like golden retrievers and other canines, he suffers from being such a loyal follower that he often sides with people that he knows in the past rather than coming to his own conclusions first, allowing him to be played like a fiddle. He grows out being a doormat over the course of the story while retaining his kind nature. |
| 272 | * ApologeticAttacker: He's not a fan of having to attack his love interest, but manages to do so regardless without having to destroy her. |
| 273 | * BadassInDistress: N has been trapped at least two times in a life-or-death situation where, despite his capabilities, isn’t able to hold it off and someone has to sacrifice themselves to save him. He doesn’t feel too good about being saved after someone dies for him though. |
| 274 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: As scatterbrained and kooky as he can be, it's easy to forget that he's still a Murder Drone who would have killed Uzi had she not shot his head off, and is entirely capable of going toe-to-toe with the likes of V when he needs to. This is most prominent when he has Tessa at sword edge upon learning about a patch that could remove the Absolute Solver's influence from Drones, and gives her a single chance to be straight with him on whether she knew about it prior. When Tessa tries to be condescending rather than give a straight answer, he ''immediately'' [[OffWithHisHead decapitates her]] without a seconds hesitation, her behavior already telling him all he needed to know. |
| 275 | * BreakoutCharacter: N managed to quickly amass a large fanbase thanks to his EndearinglyDorky behavior, general kind behavior when contrasted with Uzi and V, and amazing vocal work from Creator/MichaelKovach despite N being much different from his [[{{Jerkass}} usual types]] [[DeadpanSnarker of role]]. It eventually reached the point of him becoming the SeriesMascot, and you'd be forgiven for thinking ''he's'' the main character instead of Uzi with how much he appears in promotional material compared to her. |
| 276 | * CameBackWrong: Despite being able to regenerate his entire head, when Uzi blasted it off in the pilot episode he temporarily loses the past three hours of his memory and was unable to identify Uzi as a Worker Drone. This ends up contributing to his HeelFaceTurn even after being fixed. |
| 277 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "I love doing anything." |
| 278 | * CharacterDevelopment: He goes from practically being an ExtremeDoormat who can't criticize the way that his comrades treat him even after J fatally infects him to boldly telling V that she kinda sucks for nonchalantly saying that Doll's parents, two of her previous victims, didn't taste good. By the third episode, he's arguably the only member of the trio who doesn't need to be held back by a leash. |
| 279 | * ChickMagnet: His [[CharacterDevelopment newly found confidence]] by "Cabin Fever" seems to be turning him into this. Uzi clearly cares for him, V may or may not still have feelings for him, Lizzy calls him "hot" after he snaps at V (though she may just be enjoying the drama) and Rebecca flirts with him and asks if he's single. |
| 280 | * ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Whenever he sees something terrifying, he usually recovers from the initial horror about ten seconds later as long as the danger doesn't seem to be imminent. |
| 281 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: While initially more a moral support for Uzi and her development, N fully comes into this role by "The Promening", his MysteriousPast and trying to regain his lost memories having just as much narrative weight as Uzi's looking into the Absolute Solver, as well as dealing with SurvivorsGuilt over losing those close to him. |
| 282 | * EasilyForgiven: Quite often. |
| 283 | ** Even after N basically skewers Uzi, she still forgives him after he makes a HeelFaceTurn, but not without pointing out that he killed several robots on the way. |
| 284 | ** After he and Uzi saves the rest of the Worker Drones, none of the Worker Drones seem to hold any resentment towards N. PlayedForLaughs in "Heartbeat". Ron the new guard of Door 1 is quick to accept the "genocide robot's" apology card, and even puts it up in his booth. |
| 285 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: |
| 286 | ** Before his HeelFaceTurn, N was primarily motivated by being useful to his teammates and genuinely cares for their wellbeing even though they don't return his friendship. The only reason that he turns against them is because they don't acknowledge the possibility of being abandoned by the company and that they would rather kill the Worker Drones who N realized [[NotSoDifferentRemark aren't so different from them]], and even then he's apologetic about fighting them. |
| 287 | ** He also holds Uzi very dearly and is willing to endanger his own life to protect her as seen in "Dead End" where he protects her from the Sentinels and in "Mass Destruction" where he teams up with Nori to save her. |
| 288 | ** He also is very fond with Cyn, whom she refers to as [[CoolBigBro big brother]] and looks up to him. |
| 289 | ** He also sees Tessa as his CoolBigSis and considers her like one of the most closest individuals of his life. Shame that the Tessa he meets is a corpse puppet of the Absolute Solver. |
| 290 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: His HeelFaceTurn is triggered when he sees Khan abandon his own daughter, which causes Uzi to [[DespairEventHorizon stop struggling against him]]. |
| 291 | * EveryoneHasStandards: After joining Uzi, he quickly demonstrates himself to be the most moral of the group, and frequently questions her on the morality of wiping out humanity. He is likewise horrified of what the Absolute Solver has been doing to everyone he knows and holds dear, such as slowly corrupting Uzi into becoming a blood-thirsty monster, or Tessa whom he discovers that the Solver turned her corpse into its own disguise to manipulate the group. |
| 292 | * FailedASpotCheck: Justified. His optics were damaged when Uzi shot him, so he assumed that she was a "slightly shorter Disassembly Drone." |
| 293 | * FriendlyEnemy: Even after learning that Uzi was actually the Worker Drone who shot him in the face, he's not motivated by revenge, but rather the fact that she's holding a powerful weapon that could kill him and his comrades, particularly V, and he even mentions that he enjoyed his time with Uzi. After pulling his HeelFaceTurn, he becomes this to his former allies, initially being unwilling to fight them. |
| 294 | * GenreSavvy: He's shown to recognize deceptive horror movie tropes when he witnesses them in play as shown in "Dead End" when he doesn't hesitate when Uzi suggests "shooting the baby (Beau) immediately" and in "Mass Destruction" when he attempts to free himself faster when he sees Cyn posing as a younger V. |
| 295 | * GrewASpine: At the start of the series, he was practically the YesMan of his team, doing whatever his team wanted him to do just because he wanted to do his job. After meeting Uzi, he gradually grows out of his "do whatever everyone tells you to do mindset" to the point where he snaps at V in "Cabin Fever" for wanting to kill Uzi and being vague about what she knows, leaving V startled by how assertive he had become. This eventually culminates in him standing up to Tessa and holding her at sword edge when she tries to kill Uzi and he learns there was a patch that could disable the Absolute Solver, one that she ''knew'' existed. While Tessa tries to act condescending towards him rather than give him a straight answer, N isn't having it, and opts to decapitate her to save Uzi. |
| 296 | * GoodIsNotSoft: Despite being a NiceGuy in general, he is not afraid to use violence if his friends are in danger. |
| 297 | * GoshDangItToHeck: He grumbles "biscuits" in annoyance after accidentally admitting to Uzi that he's considered useless. |
| 298 | * HeKnowsTooMuch: After asking J if the parent company might dispose of them once they complete the job, he realizes that he made a terrible mistake in asking the question and is soon infected with a virus courtesy of J. |
| 299 | * HeelFaceDoorSlam: {{Subverted|Trope}}. After he starts voicing his concerns about the company's intentions for the Disassembly Drones once they're done with their mission, J infects him with a lethal virus and leaves him for dead. Luckily, Uzi acts in time to save him, leading into his HeelFaceTurn. |
| 300 | * HeelFaceTurn: N eventually realizes that yes, Uzi might be right about the humans leaving the Murder Drones to rot after they finish the job, and works with her to save the Worker Drone colony from his former comrades. |
| 301 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: N does seem to be especially gullible. In the Pilot, he more or less unquestionably believes that Uzi is a fellow Disassembly Drone -- even though he was blind, she still has to use his nanite saliva to heal herself, which is extremely suspicious. Much later in ''Home'', he can't see that there's something '''[[DevilInPlainSight off]]''' about Cyn when every other Drone and human in Elliot Manor doesn't trust her. He seems to have gotten a bit better by "Mass Destruction" where he, with the help of the information Nori gave him, realized that he can't trust "Tessa." |
| 302 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: Downplayed. N was just as bloodthirsty as the other Disassembly Drones prior to his HeelFaceTurn, but unlike with V or J the Absolute Solver wasn't able to rework his personality. Where J lost her softer side and V was made into a homicidal lunatic, N remained a gentle NiceGuy - just much more ruthless. {{Subverted}} as revealed in "Mass Destruction" where the Cyn had explained that N only stayed the way he was ''because'' his personality amused her. |
| 303 | * TheKirk: He's not as instinctual and insane as V, but he's not as cold-blooded or protocol-driven as J either. He's got his moments where he shows both logic and emotional desires at the same time, which places him in the middle of the emotion vs logic spectrum. |
| 304 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: N's memories from his time as a Zombie Drone up to his initial days as a Disassembly Drone have all but been lost to him, what remains of it showing up in dreams that he can't make sense of. The reason ''why'' this happened remains {{ambiguous|Situation}}, only that the Absolute Solver possibly ''suppressed'' them, but for what reason remains unclear, since V retains all her memories, the Absolute Solver didn't try ''erasing'' the memories until Uzi deliberately tried digging for them while accessing his ''and'' V's memories, and being blasted by Uzi's railgun in "Pilot" only gave him short-term memory loss that was restored after J knocked him around a bit. |
| 305 | * LetsGetDangerous: Due to his crush for V, he ends up on the receiving end of a CurbStompBattle at first, then sees Uzi in danger, prompting him to quickly turn the tides in battle. |
| 306 | * LovedByAll: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. N ''does'' have a few detractors like Khan, Doll, Nori, and J, but the former three largely just dislike Murder Drones in general, leaving J as the only one to dislike him personally. Aside from them though, ''everyone'' tends to love N due to his EndearinglyDorky behavior once he stops coming across as just a Murder Drone. "Cabin Fever" in particular demonstrates this with Uzi's class, the entirety of the class coming to like him after Thad and Lizzy vouch for him and V, several girls gaining crushes on him, and the rest seeing him more as an energetic {{manchild}} than a killer robot like they initially thought. It's this love of him that causes Uzi to briefly worry he'll abandon her now that everyone else likes him, until N reassures her that no one can ever replace her in his eyes. |
| 307 | * {{Manchild}}: Downplayed. He has the look and general personality of a socially awkward teenager, but he sometimes displays traits more similar to small children such as apologizing with a crude, crayon drawing. It typically results in him being EndearinglyDorky, to the point the Worker Drones can't help but grow fond of him despite him ''being'' a Murder Drone that tried killing them recently. |
| 308 | * MinionWithAnFInEvil: Downplayed. N is still a highly effective and willing murder machine when push comes to shove, especially when it comes to people who treat him nicely, but he's much too pleasant and awkward to make an effective teammate. |
| 309 | * MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: |
| 310 | ** Even during his HeelFaceTurn, he still genuinely cares for the wellbeing of his comrades and tries to suggest to J that [=JCJenson=] might not want them alive, and nearly gets subjected to a HeelFaceDoorSlam by J for bringing it up. It only gets further solidified while fighting his old friends when he sees Uzi close to death later on, which finally gives N the motivation [[LetsGetDangerous to kick his love interest in the face]], and he seems to have no problems with Uzi killing J although he still can't bring himself to outright insult her. |
| 311 | ** While he genuinely cared for Tessa, the moment she suggested that Uzi needed to die to stop the Absolute Solver, he began having his doubts about her. It was after meeting Nori and learning a patch existed to remove the Absolute Solver's manipulative influences from Drones, and that Tessa more than likely ''knew'' about it, that N has enough with Tessa. When he comes across her about to stab Uzi to death, he quickly holds her at sword edge, giving her one chance to admit whether or not she actually knew it existed, and when her response is to just act condescending to him, he immediately realizes she did, decapitating his oldest friend to save Uzi. |
| 312 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A particular moment in "Mass Destruction" when N tries to clear the path they fall from to save V from the Sentinels, he starts to destroy the debris that blocks the path they came from, launching missiles and trying to claw his way out, telling Uzi to use her Solver powers to help him, only to realize that he nearly hurts her with the rocks he was destroying. He immediately starts to apologizes to her for nearly hurting her and make her condition worse but Tessa interrupts him and tells Uzi to stay where she is. |
| 313 | * NiceGuy: As far as incredibly dangerous {{Mechanical Abomination}}s go, N's a total sweetie pie. |
| 314 | * NiceMeanAndInBetween: Nice to Uzi's In-Between and V's Mean. |
| 315 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: He sneaks one about the Worker Drones into his questioning about what the company plans to do with the Murder Drones after they're done killing. |
| 316 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: With his friendly nature and the way his squad mates pick on him, it's very easy to forget N is a ''Murder Drone''. When it becomes clear Uzi's railgun can actually harm him and by extension his teammates, he stalks her home, waits until she opens the doors to the shelter, and then rushes inside and brutally massacres the WDF guards stationed behind Door 1. If he hadn't had his change of heart at the last moment, N could have killed Uzi and ended the series right there. |
| 317 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Upon his HeelFaceTurn and significant character growth not only his HiddenDepths manifest. While he still acts generally dorky, there are times when he turns genuinely angry like snarking at V and giving her a DeathGlare for shooting one of the campers dead for not displaying enough enthusiasm. |
| 318 | * PragmaticVillainy: He's just as willing to commit cold-blooded murder as his peers if the situation calls for it but he lacks their cruelty and is shown to generally kill his victims quickly and cleanly. Also, his pursuit of Uzi after realizing she was actually a Worker Drone isn't motivated by revenge for her shooting and deceiving him, but instead by concern that she's wielding a weapon capable of harming him and his comrades. |
| 319 | * PunchClockVillain: When asked about all the murder, N puts it thusly: |
| 320 | -->'''N:''' I guess I just want to be useful. I was given a job, and I always want to try my best! |
| 321 | * RedemptionEarnsLife: Uzi nearly leaves N to die when J infects him with a deadly virus for his betrayal, but seeing him as like herself, she fixes him up to help fix what he caused. |
| 322 | * SeriesMascot: While V was initially promoted as the MascotVillain before the series' official release, N would end up taking the role in the series proper, having the most consistent presence in promotional material, a slew of merchandise ranging from plushies to accessories like his hat, and being the representative for the series when other GLITCH productions media are involved, such as being the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZGxy7WoMdg focal character in the]] FramingDevice announcing GLITCHX, and being paired with Pomni, the lead for ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'', in the group artwork celebrating the GLITCH Platform/YouTube channel [[https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxobOdMA-BBaRqR9pt7MvmAoFXM_n-_4ob reaching 10 Million Subs]]. |
| 323 | * SkewedPriorities: Played with in the ''Promening''. Upon waking up after getting his head sliced off and realizing that V went off to murder the prom, he has a brief mental struggle whether to change into the dapper suit or not. He gives in. |
| 324 | ** He and Uzi take a moment to {{squee}} with joy of being invited to Thad's party despite finding themselves face to face with a MechanicalAbomination. |
| 325 | * StepfordSmiler: It's pretty evident that he isn't treated very well by his comrades, but he tries to put on a jovial front so that he'll still look happy. It goes to the point where he thanks J when she tells him he sucks and even continues to compliment her when she infects him with a virus. It's not until Uzi teaches him how to be rebellious that he has the courage to talk back at J ''at all''. |
| 326 | * StrongerThanTheyLook: Despite his awkward personality, N proves to be more competent than he lets on when [[LetsGetDangerous he starts trying to fight]]. This also applies to actual physical strength in where he was capable of feats that neither V or J could remotely replicate. To list: |
| 327 | ** He forced open a hydraulic gate, kicked V unconscious with a single move before flying out like it was nothing in "Pilot". |
| 328 | ** "Cabin Fever" has him casually fling Uzi in her Solver form so high up in the sky that they could have a full heart-to-heart conversation in free fall for ''a whole minute'' before crashing.[[note]]If the exoplanet's gravity is the same as Earth's, Uzi has to be at least ''20 kilometers'' in the air before her descent started. That would in the lower stratosphere and ''twice'' the average cruising altitude of commercial planes.[[/note]] |
| 329 | ** Even his past butler self is capable of throwing a metal tray so fast that it was embedded into a wall. |
| 330 | * SurvivorGuilt: He seems to have this after V and Uzi sacrifices themselves to save the team. |
| 331 | * TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Appears to do this to '[[SuperpoweredEvilSide Solver Uzi]]' in "Cabin Fever" -- he hurls her up in the air and has a chat with her about her worries, and by the time they return to Earth she's in his arms [[CooldownHug and her biomechanical wings and tail have disappeared]]. |
| 332 | * TokenGoodTeammate: He is the least evil and nicest of the trio, and he only kills when it's necessary. |
| 333 | * TokenHeroicOrc: After having his head blasted off, Uzi gets a chance to tell him that the Murder Drones will also be cast aside and killed once the Workers are all finished off, leading N to perform his HeelFaceTurn and join her to stop the other Murder Drones and [=JCJenson=]. |
| 334 | * UndyingLoyalty: His loyalty to Uzi is immense, as she has quickly become one of the most important people in his life, and he will do ''anything'' if it means helping her. Even if it means opposing others he cares about like V or Tessa, if they mean any harm to Uzi, he will immediately stop them. While this eventually works out with V who [[DefrostingIceQueen comes around]] to Uzi, he proves how serious he is when he decapitates Tessa to save Uzi. |
| 335 | * YouWouldntShootMe: {{Subverted|Trope}}. When he has Tessa at sword edge for trying to kill Uzi despite knowing of a patch that could remove the Absolute Solver from her, Tessa acts condescendingly towards him, since she knows N would never kill her. N quickly proves her wrong by decapitating her [[KilledMidSentence mid-sentence]]. |
| 336 | [[/folder]] |
| 337 | |
| 338 | [[folder:V]] |
| 339 | !!Serial Designation "V-X00100000" |
| 340 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Nola Klop [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Lucía Suárez (Latin-American Spanish), Ana Helena de Freitas (Brazilian Portuguese), [=AlexAmaralex=] (Russian), Aliona Bilousova (Ukrainian), Nehir Yıldız (Turkish), Jarah Best (German), Wahyu Gita Murti (Indonesian), Arran (Japanese) [[/labelnote]] |
| 341 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0455.png]] |
| 342 | [[caption-width-right:1000: ''"And yet, I still feel nothing."'']] |
| 343 | [[quoteright:1000: [[labelnote:Click here to see her combat form.]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0471.png]] [[/labelnote]] |
| 344 | [[quoteright:1000:[[labelnote:Click here to see her prom dress.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0470.png]] [[/labelnote]] |
| 345 | [[quoteright:699:[[labelnote:Click here to see her maid dress.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0465_7.png]] [[/labelnote]] |
| 346 | |
| 347 | The tritagonist, a crazed, sadistic, and impulsive Disassembly Drone, and the thoroughly uninterested object of N's affections. She comes to Copper 9 as one of N's teammates, but is taken prisoner by Uzi, which leads to her being a reluctant ally in Uzi and N's quest to uncover the mysteries of the Murder Drones. She also seems to know more than she's letting on. |
| 348 | ---- |
| 349 | * AbductionIsLove: Downplayed. When Uzi and N leave Outpost 3, N drags with him a struggling V, who is tied up in her own tail. His crush on her is presumably one of the reasons why they didn't dispose of her like Uzi did with J, but it has the more practical purpose of keeping her from killing everyone inside the outpost. |
| 350 | * AxCrazy: [[BloodKnight She seems to really enjoy fighting and killing]], even more so than her teammates N and J. It's especially noticeable in N's flashback during the first episode, where she's slaughtering an entire family of Worker Drones [[LaughingMad while cackling like a lunatic]]. |
| 351 | * BadassInDistress: She's agile and easily able to murder dozens of drones, and yet still gets captured at the end of "Pilot" by Uzi and N. She later ends up at Doll's mercy in "The Promening" and has to be rescued by our main duo. |
| 352 | * BANGFlagGun: Has a version of this reading "Literally So Insanely Suspicious" as one of her "weapons". |
| 353 | * BespectacledCutie: Wore glasses when she was a much less psychotic Worker Drone. |
| 354 | * BlindWithoutEm: When she’s BrainwashedAndCrazy by the hand of Cyn in "Home", she is pretty useless at following her orders due to her terrible vision, which is only resolved when N gives her glasses back to her. It's heavily implied that her optic sensors had issues and that she was scrapped as a worker drone because of it before Tessa brought her into her home. She even uses glasses during her fight against the Sentinels in "Dead End". |
| 355 | * CharacterDevelopment: Starts from being an aloof, psychopathic machine to a noble, protective and caring person looking out for her comrades. While it may be due to her FatalFlaw, over the course of the show, she deflects to helping Uzi and N, even concerned for Uzi in "Dead End". |
| 356 | * ClingyJealousGirl: She grows increasingly jealous at seeing N and Uzi getting closer. |
| 357 | * CruelToBeKind: "The Promening" shows that V cares deeply for N's well-being, and that she remembers more of her history than the other Murder Drones, including her and N's budding romance before their memories were reformatted. Because of the traumatic horrors involved in their past, however, she treats N like dirt to keep him from remembering any of it, as she'd rather be hated by N than have him suffer the same mental anguish she has to deal with. |
| 358 | * CuteAndPsycho: Is pretty adorable-looking, but is also the most bloodthirsty of the Disassembly Drones seen so far. |
| 359 | * DefrostingIceQueen: Following her defeat and capture in the Pilot, V was very antagonistic towards Uzi, regularly attempting to antagonize her and plant seeds of doubt as to the validity of her relationship with N, and threatening violence upon learning Uzi forcibly hacked into her and N's memories which nearly resulted in their OS's being destroyed. The events of "Dead End" however would see V slowly drop her antagonism towards Uzi, realizing just how much she actually cares for N, how much mental anguish the Absolute Solver is causing her, and how despite the Solver corrupting her she is ''still'' trying to help them. This results in V carrying the exhausted Uzi following her torture at Alice's hands and near takeover by the Solver, joining N in trying to stop Uzi from using the Absolute Solver any further, and entrusting Uzi with looking after N before attempting her HeroicSacrifice, punctuated by V outright telling Uzi she trusts her. |
| 360 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time we get to see V is when she kills a Worker Drone and to show her LackOfEmpathy. |
| 361 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: In "Cabin Fever", she is shown to be absolutely and utterly ''horrified'' by Uzi's Absolute Solver powers turning a mere arrow into a disgusting tentacled abomination. |
| 362 | * FalseFriend: "The Promening" shows that she's been sneaking out behind Uzi and N's backs to hang out with AlphaBitch Lizzy ever since "Pilot", just so V can manipulate her into letting her into the Outpost 3 School prom to slaughter the whole assembly at once. However, she seems genuinely taken aback when Lizzy announces she set V up to become prom queen, enough that she feels [[EtTuBrute betrayed herself]] when it turns out to be a trap for Doll to kill her, though Lizzy makes up for it by helping put V and N back together, and the two go on to act like VitriolicBestBuds in subsequent episodes. |
| 363 | * FatalFlaw: Hers is an interest for more attention, as demonstrated in "The Promening", where she passes up a chance to murder the prom's whole assembly in favor of being celebrated prom queen, allowing her to walk straight into a trap set by Lizzy and Doll. She tries convincing herself she's being "extra sinister" rather than vain, though, since she still plans to murder the drones next. |
| 364 | * FauxAffablyEvil: She speaks in a polite tone even when she's brutally murdering someone or nonchalantly taking witness to someone's remains, and also offers the occasional mischievous laugh. Surprisingly, she never ''actually'' directly insults someone despite said false politeness, but on the other hand, she acts incredibly insensitive - to such a degree than even N is disgusted by her. |
| 365 | * GenkiGirl: She seems to always be energetic and cheery about everything she does, especially if it involves slaughtering people. |
| 366 | * GigglingVillain: V laughs and giggles near constantly while killing. |
| 367 | * HazyFeelTurn: While she can be generously said to have befriended Uzi and Lizzy, and has helped the former on several occasions, she shows no remorse for any of the horrible things she does. Quite frankly, despite essentially becoming an ally of Uzi's, she's still more than comfortable undertaking any violent action she desires (including indiscriminate murder) as long as N is safe. She appears to more closely approach the "Heel-Face" territory during "Dead End" before she is seemingly killed performing a HeroicSacrifice. |
| 368 | * HeroicSacrifice: She (seemingly) sacrifices herself when the Sentinels overwhelm her. |
| 369 | * ImpliedLoveInterest: {{Subverted|Trope}}. In "Pilot" it's established that N has a crush on her but hasn't confessed to her yet, with it initially looking like she didn't even know he existed. It's revealed in "Heartbeat" that the feeling ''was'' mutual when they were still Zombie Drones, and implied in "The Promening" that she still carries a torch for him, with N of course still caring immensely for her. In later episodes, Uzi and N grow closer and develop a romantic relationship with each other with V not seeming to mind outside of her JerkassFacade, but she and N are still shown to care greatly for each other, "Dead End" in particular showing N's distress at the idea of losing V, and V entrusting Uzi with N before attempting her HeroicSacrifice. So while V is no longer the ''primary'' Love Interest of N's, she's still ''a'' Love Interest. |
| 370 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Despite her initial coldness towards N, her romance with N prior to becoming Murder Drones still remains, even appearing apologetic when her fear prevents her from being honest with him. She still looks out for him and shortly resents Uzi's growing closeness to N. However, after seeing N's happiness and CharacterDevelopment due to Uzi's positive influence on him, V lets go of her jealousy, even telling Uzi that she trusts her to look after N before she cuts the knot to save them. |
| 371 | * MascotVillain: She's the Murder Drone with the most presence in promotional material before the series' release, and the only one to appear in "Pilot"'s thumbnail on [=YouTube=]. This was slowly {{subverted|Trope}} over the series' actual release, with V being phased out of the mascot role in favor of N. |
| 372 | * TheMcCoy: She's the least mentally stable of her team, and she seems to be more driven by desire and emotion than her teammates. If N's flashback is any indication, she's also shown to be more violent, bloodthirsty and impulsive than either N or J. |
| 373 | * MysteriousPast: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. While we have a general idea as to her background courtesy of N's memories, there's a period of her life currently unknown to the audience. At some point between Cyn's arrival at the mansion and the Gala Massacre, V ended up going offline alongside numerous other Zombie Drones Tessa had repaired and reactivated. ''How'' and ''why'' she ended up like this is unknown, only that during this period, N took it upon himself to read to her and keep her body company, J comparing her to a coma patient, until she eventually was reactivated as one of the first Disassembly Drones. |
| 374 | * NightmareFetishist: When Uzi and N see all the remains of the drones Doll has killed, they're repulsed. When V sees them? She gives a content chuckle and an approving "nice". |
| 375 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: She initially presents herself as a mindless killing machine who keeps forgetting N's name until he finally does something useful. Subsequent episodes show that she appears to know more about their origins than she lets on and is deliberately hiding it, with leads to Uzi cutting out the middleman and directly hacking her brain alongside N's so everyone can have a clearer understanding of past events. |
| 376 | * PetTheDog: Takes the blame for Uzi's murder spree in "Cabin Fever", showing that despite her continued antagonistic behavior towards her and [[GreenEyedMonster being jealous of her relationship with N]], she's not quite as bad as she seems. |
| 377 | * PlayAlongPrisoner: She is put into chains in "Heartbeat" by N and Uzi, but the ending reveals she had long since cut the chain but is willingly staying captive. |
| 378 | * PragmaticVillainy: In "Cabin Fever", she stops an Absolute Solver Uzi from brutally killing Lizzy, but she makes it absolutely clear to Lizzy that she only did that because she wants to kill Uzi, not save her. |
| 379 | * ReformedButNotTamed: By "Cabin Fever", she no longer goes on rampages, though she still kills a random drone every now and then as a way to keep the rest compliant. |
| 380 | * RoboticPsychopath: Compared to J's cold professionalism and N just being happy to do anything, V is clearly the one who enjoys doing her job the most, as seen in her gleefully tearing a Worker Drone to shred while laughing, then claiming that she didn't even feel anything as her eye twitches. |
| 381 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Even after she stops murdering ''every'' drone she sees, she is still the most sadistic and brutal out of the main trio. |
| 382 | -->'''N:''' V, you kind of suck. |
| 383 | * TookALevelInBadass: Not in a good way, though. As a maid, she was quite shy and apparently had no will to fight back for herself. Obviously, her personality as a Disassembly Drone following that version of her is that of a horrifying {{sadist}} who openly takes pleasure in the suffering she causes. |
| 384 | * UncertainDoom: The {{Cliffhanger}} to "Dead End" ends a split second before V is attacked by Sentinels as part of her HeroicSacrifice, leaving it entirely up in the air whether she'll come out of it alright, or if there are any other open options to her return, such as cloning like J. |
| 385 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: The flashback in "Heartbeat" shows that she used to be a NiceGirl maid with her own crush on N before becoming the killer robot she is today. |
| 386 | * TheWorfEffect: Despite being the most vicious and bloodthirsty Murder Drone in the show, V frequently gets the floor wiped with her when faced with new and unexpected threats, as seen with Doll's RealityWarper powers in "The Promening", Uzi's SuperpoweredEvilSide in "Cabin Fever", and the Anti-Drone Sentinels in "Dead End" (which ends with V's HeroicSacrifice and UncertainDoom). |
| 387 | [[/folder]] |
| 388 | |
| 389 | !!Outpost 3 |
| 390 | A settlement of Worker Drones where Uzi lives. |
| 391 | !!Outpost 3 School |
| 392 | [[folder:Thad]] |
| 393 | !!Thad |
| 394 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SeanChiplock [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Joaquin Augusto (Latin-American Spanish), Vini Estefanuto (Brazilian Portuguese), German Gazuyev (Russian), Anatoliy Herasimenko (Ukrainian), Cankat Mezde (Turkish), Hardianto (Indonesian) [[/labelnote]] |
| 395 | |
| 396 | [[quoteright:287:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0463.jpeg]] |
| 397 | [[caption-width-right:287: ''"Classic toxic masculinity, Chad... That'll never end up getting problematic."'']] |
| 398 | |
| 399 | One of Uzi's classmates in Outpost 3, a friendly jock Worker Drone and one of the few to treat Uzi with any sort of respect. |
| 400 | ---- |
| 401 | * ActionSurvivor: Gets brutally attacked by V, but survives without being crippled. Also survives nearly being eaten by the Absolute Solver. |
| 402 | * DareToBeBadass: With the Murder Drones closing in, Thad picks up a pipe and tries to convince Khan to help fight back, reminding him that it's his duty to defend. Unfortunately, Khan turns out to be such a DirtyCoward that he wouldn't even try, resulting in Thad getting thrashed and nearly killed by V before Uzi and N pull a BigDamnHeroes. |
| 403 | ** He later shows in "Mass Destruction" with Lizzy and Khan who leads them to the Cabin Fever Labs when the planet's gravity starts to distort. Last we see them, he and Lizzy are preparing to fight J head-on. |
| 404 | * DemotedToExtra: Starting with "The Promening", his role becomes minor as the series goes on. Subverted as he reappears in "Mass Destruction" as seemingly a major player in the next episode. |
| 405 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The "Pilot" and "Heartbeat" depict Thad as almost a pseudo-main character, forming a trio with Uzi and N while hinting at him being a love interest towards Uzi. After that however, he was DemotedToExtra until the events of "Mass Destruction", with even then him more being a supporting character on the same level as Lizzy. Reportedly, his treatment from the first two episodes was a holdover from when the series was going to be more episodic and SliceOfLife focused, his being the LovableJock serving to make a more down to earth contrast to Uzi and N, but with the series focus shifting to be more serious and darker, he was all but phased out in favor of V being the {{tritagonist}} and N being Uzi's love interest. |
| 406 | * ImpliedLoveInterest: {{Subverted|Trope}}. The Pilot and "Heartbeat" gave the impression that he ''was'' set up to be Uzi's love interest, with her frequently blushing around him and acting like a {{tsundere}}, and his filling the narrative role of being a TokenGoodTeammate who always liked and supported her that is typically used for love interests of goth-styled characters like Uzi. After those two episodes though he's DemotedToExtra, now largely just a supportive friend, with ''N'' being the one who acts as Uzi's love interest. |
| 407 | * InformedAttractiveness: When he's at V's mercy, Uzi tells her to "put that conventionally attractive male down". You couldn't really tell since there's no difference between the Worker Drones aside from their hair, eye color, and attire. |
| 408 | * LovableJock: Is a macho jock, but is one of the very few Worker Drones in the entire Outpost to treat Uzi with kindness, and actually tries to fight back instead of cowering. He's also cool with being with N after seeing that he's no longer a threat. He also accompanies Lizzy and Khan to Camp 98.7 in "Mass Destruction" and last we see them, is preparing to fight J. |
| 409 | * NiceGuy: Rivals N in terms of the nicest character in the series, being the only Worker Drone to become friends with Uzi, and helping others when they need it. |
| 410 | * OnlyAFleshWound: Gets brutally stabbed by V, but like Uzi, he's just fine when he isn't damaged any further. |
| 411 | * TokenGoodTeammate: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The Worker Drones of Outpost 3 are generally neutral and sometimes jerks towards Uzi, but Thad is one of the few who likes and believes in her. |
| 412 | * TookALevelInBadass: When Khan repairs Uzi’s rifle and even makes custom versions of it, both he and Lizzy confront J, the most obsessed on killing Worker Drones and he is not even afraid about it. |
| 413 | * WhatTheHellHero: He calls the Outpost 3 Defense Force out on their incompetence. |
| 414 | [[/folder]] |
| 415 | |
| 416 | [[folder:Doll]] |
| 417 | !!Doll |
| 418 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Emma Breezy [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Anastasiya Yurikova (Russian), Daryna Say (Ukrainian)[[/labelnote]] |
| 419 | [[quoteright:426:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0451.jpeg]] |
| 420 | [[caption-width-right:426: ''"Мёртвые. Я смотрела как они умирали."''[[note]]Dead. I watched them die.[[/note]]]] |
| 421 | |
| 422 | One of Uzi's classmates, a reserved Worker Drone who inexplicably speaks Russian. There's more to her that meets the eye. |
| 423 | ---- |
| 424 | * AchillesHeel: In spite of her powers, it doesn't actually take much to take her down if you're able to catch her off guard... or if you're immune to the Absolute Solver's matter manipulation. |
| 425 | * AlasPoorVillain: Her fate is to be eaten by Tessa’s corpse. All her efforts, trying to find a cure for it and trying to stop the Solver from fully reaching Copper-9 have all been in vain and now she is going to be eaten by a beast. The expression of fear of her face just hammers this down. |
| 426 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Unlike Uzi, who starts out barely knowing how to control her Solver powers, Doll is a master at them and far more dangerous than any single Murder Drone. "Dead End" has her effortlessly get past Alice and Beau while at the same time seemingly having free reign to use her powers without worrying about the Solver taking over unlike Uzi. "Mass Destruction" [[SubvertedTrope reveals]] that she wasn't as immune as we thought as her eyepatch drops to reveal a ''yellow'' eye, revealing that the main reason she works alone is to obtain the crucifix patch that was used on her mother. |
| 427 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: Possessing strange powers seemingly connected to the Absolute Solver, Doll is clearly not just another Worker Drone, nor is it known whose side she's on, considering she keeps Lizzy from letting the Solver in, with the hologram glaring at her before disappearing. In "The Promening", the ambiguous part is completely dropped, as she's revealed to be a ''major'' SerialKiller with a minor HairTriggerTemper. Notably though, she does promise to get help for Uzi's Absolute Solver, suggesting she's not completely bad. It's revealed that she's looking for a USB that will exorcise the Solver out of her in fear of it possessing her. When a Solver-infected Tessa kills her, her last words are to warn Uzi to 'Fight Back'. |
| 428 | * AntiVillain: She's hinted to be one as early as "The Promening", when, despite her [[SerialKiller horrific body count]], completely murderous tendencies and MoralMyopia, she immediately stops attacking Uzi upon realizing they have the same powers, and empathetically promises Uzi that if she finds her "solution" to their shared predicament, she'll try to help Uzi too. She furthermore doesn't hurt Uzi ''or'' her father when taking the Keybug from them, which is more than she previously did for nearly everyone else who was in her way. "Dead End" and "Mass Destruction" reveal that Doll's end-goal is to retrieve the anti-Solver patch so that the Absolute Solver can't turn her into its host, which, as she briefly comments, will also prevent the Solver from being able to use her to destroy Copper 9 as it destroyed Earth -- however, to achieve that end, Doll is furthermore willing to sever her tenuous partnership with Tessa, and ruthlessly attempts to send the latter, Uzi and the Disassembly Drones to their deaths by Sentinels. Still, when it's clear that Doll has lost and isn't getting out alive, she ''does'' spend her final minutes encouraging Uzi to succeed where she failed at beating the Solver and saving herself. |
| 429 | * ApocalypseMaiden: As with the other Absolute Solver hosts, Doll is a potential threat to the entire universe, at least according to Tessa. |
| 430 | * ArchEnemy: With V as she murdered her parents in a previous attack. This causes problems for the heroes down the line as V's presence is often the reason why she [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor flip-flops between helping Uzi as she is also infected with the Absolute Solver and killing Uzi as she is a friend of V]]. In "Dead End", she grabs the keybug from Tessa at the start and leaves Uzi and company to die at the hands of the Sentinels ''that she released'' at the climax. |
| 431 | * BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: She uses her power to brutally kill a robot cockroach that wanders onto her picture of V, and licks up the viscera on her face, which is an early sign that she isn't fully a Good Samaritan despite saving herself and her classmates. |
| 432 | * BladeEnthusiast: While hardly the only use she's demonstrated, she has a penchant for using her Absolute Solver powers for telekinetically tossing around bladed implements. Knives are the most frequent, with meat cleavers seeming to edge in as a favorite. |
| 433 | * BlessedWithSuck: She seems to think of her Absolute Solver powers as this, as she's never depicted happy while using them, and she makes a pledge to help Uzi upon learning the latter also has the Absolute Solver. |
| 434 | * CorpseLand: After taking her out at the prom in "The Promening", Uzi, V, and N enter her house to find the preserved corpses of her parents, and dozens of other worker drone bodies all around the place that she's apparently been [[HorrorHunger cannibalizing]]. |
| 435 | * ADayInTheLimelight: After being a very minor character in the first two episodes, "The Promening" features her serving as the episode's primary antagonist. |
| 436 | * DefiantToTheEnd: To her credit, her last words, as displayed on her visor after she's killed, are a message to Uzi: ''"FIGHT BACK."'' |
| 437 | * DevilInPlainSight: Her 'apartment' is infested with glowing cyber-cockroaches, cables dripping with oil can be clearly seen, she's stuffed dozens of "Missing" posters into a bin and her parents never speak and are always covered by a sheet -- even if Lizzy's the only one who regularly goes in there, this trope applies. |
| 438 | * DoesNotSpeakCommon: In a colony of worker drones who all speak North American accented English, Doll inexplicably speaks Russian. In the Russian dub, she retains the same voice actress and speaks English. This doesn't seem to matter, as everyone in the show understands her perfectly fine. |
| 439 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the Pilot, she's effectively just a nameless background character, at best described as Lizzy's BetaBitch who joined her in lamenting Uzi didn't die from her gun exploding. She demonstrates no sign of possessing the Absolute Solver, her eyes are orange instead of red, she's nowhere near as stoic, she has no visible reaction to seeing V despite her motivation relating to the fact V killed her parents, and actually is shown with the other Worker Drones cheering on Uzi and N despite her canonical disdain for the fact Uzi is willing to work with Murder Drones. Similarly, the concept art for her shown during the Season 1 Teaser depicts her as much more joyful and peppy, sticking her tongue out with a happy grin while standing with the [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference now blonde]] Lizzy, reinforcing the idea she originally was more just Lizzy's BetaBitch. |
| 440 | * EatenAlive: Her fate in "Mass Destruction" is her core being eaten by a dead Tessa controlled by the Absolute Solver. |
| 441 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Her entire motivation is to avenge her parents. That, and the fact that she seems to genuinely care about Lizzy, as she simply tosses her out the window before beginning a massacre even when Lizzy went against the plan. |
| 442 | * EvilCounterpart: As of "The Promening", she's revealed to be a dark mirror image to Uzi. Like Uzi, she's a teenage girl Worker Drone who has the Absolute Solver, lost parent(s) to the Murder Drones, and is out for revenge and answers on their condition. Unlike Uzi, who recognizes that the Murder Drones are merely manipulated pawns and protects the other Worker Drones (if only by circumstance), Doll directs her vengeance against the Murder Drones instead of the humans who manipulated them, and she's an outright SerialKiller who preys on her fellow Worker Drones. Uzi also goes out of her way to avoid harming the robot cockroaches, and even uses her Absolute Solver powers to revive one when she accidentally kills it in "Cabin Fever", while Doll is entirely willing to use her powers to blow one up and then lick off the remaining blood. Lastly, Doll's unwillingness to work with, rely on or open up to anyone but herself after "The Promening" parallels Uzi's own attitude -- whereas Uzi grows out of this over her character arc, Doll represents what could've happened to Uzi if she hadn't: it ultimately ensures that there's no-one to save Doll [[spoiler:from "Tessa"-Cyn and gets her killed, whereas Uzi in the same episode has both N and Nori to save her from the Absolute Solver]]. |
| 443 | * FreudianExcuse: She watched her parents get slaughtered by V and wants revenge, which has driven her to kill many innocent Worker Drones in a very Disassembly Drone-like fashion. |
| 444 | * HazyFeelTurn: At the end of "Home", it's revealed that she's agreed to help Tessa, J and [=JCJenson=] in exchange for a way off of Copper 9. While she was indiscriminately killing Worker Drones before this, her primary motivation had appeared to be vengeance against V and (by extension) the people she's now helping. Subverted in "Dead End" where she uses the chance to steal back the bug from Tessa and explore the Cabin Fever labs herself. It's revealed that she was right not to trust Tessa as Tessa ends up killing her down in the Labs. |
| 445 | * HealingFactor: Thanks to having the Absolute Solver, she has the same regenerative properties as a Disassembly Drone. By extension, she is capable of self reviving even after getting shot through the head which, under normal circumstances, would be the end of a Worker Drone. |
| 446 | * HiddenAgendaVillain: While the 'villain' label is slightly ambiguous, in "Cabin Fever" she's seen ominously stalking Uzi and N using her teleportation powers, without any indication as to what she's up to. "Home" suggests she was spying on them for J and Tessa. It's revealed in "Mass Destruction" that she was searching for a USB that could exorcise the Solver out of her. |
| 447 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: Her Absolute Solver powers make her way more dangerous than a Disassembly Drone, giving V a good enough reason to look absolutely ''terrified'' when Doll starts wreaking havoc. She becomes the receiving end when Tessa’s corpse starts to haunt her before she eats her core, all this happening while Doll is absolutely terrified of where is Tessa going to attack. |
| 448 | * HorrorHunger: In her home, Uzi finds a cup filled with Worker Drone oil among [[CorpseLand stripped down and mutilated bodies]], showing she's not only been killing her fellow drones, but cannibalizing them. |
| 449 | * HunterOfHisOwnKind: Doll is a Worker Drone who has no qualms with murdering her own brethren for her own benefit. |
| 450 | * IAmAHumanitarian: In her house are the corpses of Worker Drones she has been cannibalizing. |
| 451 | * KnightOfCerebus: Her presence in the third episode further darkens the series' already dark and edgy mood. |
| 452 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: Aside from her actions in "The Promening", Doll proves to be much less vile than the Absolute Solver. Initially desiring revenge on V, she instead tries to find a way to exorcise the Absolute Solver from herself, and even offers to help Uzi once she finds it. While this ''does'' mean initially working with Tessa and J before betraying them, this proves to be the right move since "Tessa" was actually her corpse being puppeteered by the Absolute Solver, and proceeds to kill Doll once she makes clear she knows about the USB that could remove the Solver. Doll's dying message on her face is even a message to Uzi, telling her to "Fight Back". |
| 453 | * LogicalWeakness: Despite having no limits on the Absolute Solver unlike Uzi, "Tessa" was able to effortlessly kill her as Solver hosts cannot direct interact with each other with their powers. |
| 454 | * MindOverMatter: Doll can crush objects without even touching them. |
| 455 | * MoralMyopia: Doll attempts to call Uzi out for working with the murderous Disassembly Drones, pointing out they're the reason why both their mothers are dead. This might have had more impact if Doll herself hadn't been mercilessly and gleefully slaughtering her classmates as collateral of her plan to get revenge, or if she hadn't also murdered several more classmates even ''more'' needlessly just ForTheEvulz just one minute prior. |
| 456 | * MyParentsAreDead: Says as much when Lizzy asks about them as a "joke." It's hinted at the end of "Heartbeat" and outright confirmed in "The Promening" that V killed them. |
| 457 | * OminousVisualGlitch: Usually causes this when her powers are in effect, despite the objects she manipulates being real. |
| 458 | * PlayingPossum: Near the end of "Dead End" the heroes find what looks like Doll boot looped by the Sentinels, when she gets back up it turns out that she was playing an animated gif of a boot icon on her eye visor. |
| 459 | * PowersDoTheFighting: When she reveals herself to the school in "The Promening" during the prom, she merely has to walk slowly towards the stage as she uses her [[RealityWarper Absolute Solver powers]] to utterly annihilate any Worker Drones unlucky enough to be near her and swat down N and V. Unfortunately for her, this is her ''only'' form of offense, meaning that she's at a disadvantage if her powers can't affect someone. |
| 460 | * PunnyName: Her name is Doll, and she speaks Russian- so she could be considered a "Russian doll". |
| 461 | * RealityWarper: In "The Promening", she's revealed to have complete masterful control over the Absolute Solver, as she effortlessly makes objects fly, remotely snaps a Worker Drone's neck and crushes them to a pulp, and duplicates weapons such as knives to her liking. |
| 462 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Her eyes are an orange-ish red, and as shown in "The Promening", she is a major threat. |
| 463 | * SerialKiller: In the intro of "The Promening", she's shown killing a female Worker Drone to rig the prom queen election. Then the main crew enter her home to find [[CorpseLand dozens upon dozens of Worker Drone corpses]]. |
| 464 | * SlasherSmile: First shown with one after using her powers to obliterate a robot cockroach, and is frequently seen sporting the smile later down the road. |
| 465 | * {{Teleportation}}: While Uzi, N, and V are inspecting her room, she teleports to their location after reviving, complete with a heavy OminousVisualGlitch. She teleports away to escape after realizing Uzi has the Absolute Solver as well. |
| 466 | * UselessWithoutPowers: While she doesn't actually lose her abilities, she's noticeably caught off guard when Uzi proves to be immune to direct manipulation from the Absolute Solver and shows signs of fear when Uzi starts to get close, as while she has access to dangerous powers, she's not so great when it comes to physical combat. |
| 467 | * VillainsDyingGrace: After being mortally wounded, her LED screen flashes the text "''fight back''" at Uzi in Russian, encouraging her not to let the Absolute Solver consume them both, before the Solver devours Doll's core. |
| 468 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Tessa only needed Doll's help to gain access to the keybug she took from Uzi, letting her access the elevator at the cabin in Camp 98.7. Once Tessa manages to do so and Doll confronts her on the location of the USB with a patch that can remove the Absolute Solver from her, Tessa makes clear the Solver doesn't ''need'' her, before proceeding to reveal "Tessa" is actually her corpse being controlled by the Solver, and then subsequently kills Doll. |
| 469 | [[/folder]] |
| 470 | |
| 471 | [[folder:Lizzy]] |
| 472 | !!Lizzy |
| 473 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Katie Hood ("Pilot"), Caitlin Dizon ("Heartbeat" onward) [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Andrea Giese (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/BiancaAlencar (Brazilian Portuguese), Yekaterina Gershkovich (Russian), Karina Shkrebetko (Ukrainian), Ayşenur Dağcan (Turkish), Arran (Japanese) [[/labelnote]] |
| 474 | [[quoteright:417:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0447_8.png]] |
| 475 | %% [[caption-width-right:417:some caption text]] |
| 476 | |
| 477 | A preppy Worker Drone girl who bullies Uzi. |
| 478 | ---- |
| 479 | * AlphaBitch: Her being a school student who ruthlessly bullies people she doesn't like gives off this vibe. |
| 480 | * AmbiguouslyBi: She calls V "hotter than Doll" and tries to warn her of Doll's attack. She later calls N's deviance and chewing out of V hot in "Cabin Fever", backtracking only after getting a glare from V. |
| 481 | * BecomingTheMask: She only became "friends" with V to assist Doll with the Disassembly Drone's assassination. However, when the time where Doll attacks V is about to occur, Lizzy has a change in heart and tries too late to warn V to run, getting flung away (but not killed) by Doll for her trouble. A bit later, she comes back to help fix V and N despite the former having used her as an excuse to kill everyone. Later in "Cabin Fever", she vouches for V (alongside Thad vouching for N) to confirm to the other students that she's cool to hang out with. |
| 482 | * CruelCheerleader: Her outfit resembles a cheerleader's outfit (made explicit in her concept art), and she bullies Uzi. |
| 483 | * DisapprovingLook: She rolls her eyes ''all the time''. In fact, it'd be hard to find a time when Lizzy isn't rolling her eyes at someone. |
| 484 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In the Pilot, she notably had silver hair compared to her main series depiction of pale blonde hair. |
| 485 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lizzy is a cruel and arrogant AlphaBitch, but she cares for other people, such as Thad and V, and helps V and N repair themselves so they could fight Doll, and stood up for them in "Cabin Fever". In "Mass Destruction", she ends up going with Khan and Thad to Camp 98.7 to stop J. |
| 486 | * JerkassToOne: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. She's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold on a normal day, but the one she tends to just be a flatout bitch to is Uzi, showing no sympathetic traits whenever talking to her and just acting like an AlphaBitch overall, which is contrasted with her behavior around V, Thad, or even N, in which she's still bitchy but shows some sympathetic qualities. |
| 487 | * LaserGuidedKarma: {{Downplayed|Trope}} since it's due to Uzi's impulses as a Solver-Infected Drone and not as legitimate revenge, but even though she doesn't die ''exactly'' as a result of Uzi's transformation, Uzi still fights back against her after the constant bullying, leading to her nearly dying by her hands if not for V's intervention. |
| 488 | * MoralityPet: Despite being an AlphaBitch, she's the only drone that Doll avoids killing or seriously hurting. This is first hinted at in "Heartbeat", where Doll stops her from opening a door for the Absolute Solver, and confirmed in "The Promening", where Doll harmlessly flings her out a window while crushing other drones in into an oily pulp to clear a path to V. |
| 489 | * {{Narcissist}}: When she sees a hologram of herself trying to get into the classroom, Lizzy says, "That girl is... [[BaitAndSwitchComment gorgeous, right?]] I'm gonna let her in!" |
| 490 | * PerpetualExpression: Lizzy's default expression is a rather smug, condescending smirk or frown depending on her mood, which conveys her egotistical personality quite well. |
| 491 | * PlotArmor: Survives going up against an [[HorrorHunger Absolute Solver-crazed Uzi]] when the [[RedHerring designated Final Girl]] does not, almost certainly due to her more significant role in the plot. |
| 492 | * RescueRomance: Implied and attempted when she warned V about Doll's attack because V was "hotter" than Doll. |
| 493 | * SecretKeeper: Is currently the only Worker Drone who knows what Uzi has turned into. |
| 494 | * TooDumbToLive: In the second episode, she nearly dies (along with the rest of the people in the classroom) when she sees "someone" that looks exactly like her and thinks that it's some random girl, the hologram it really is even flickering. She doesn't know it's [[BigBad the Solver]] by that point, but it should at least be suspicious to her that a random girl (who she should know isn't part of the class) is ''outside of the classroom door'' and begging to be let in. Doll ends up being forced to fend for her, which drives the Solver away. |
| 495 | * TookALevelInBadass: Like Thad and Khan, we see Lizzy confront J with custom versions of Uzi’s railgun in the last moments of episode 7. |
| 496 | [[/folder]] |
| 497 | |
| 498 | [[folder:Teacher]] |
| 499 | !!Teacher/WD#2342 |
| 500 | |
| 501 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LiamVickers [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Carlos Andrino (Latin-American Spanish), César Marchetti (Brazilian Portuguese), Vladislav Lyubimov (Russian), Serhiy Bizhanov (Ukrainian), Fatih Genar Satış (Turkish), Triyuh Hendra (Indonesian) [[/labelnote]] |
| 502 | [[quoteright:914:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0448_2.png]] |
| 503 | [[caption-width-right:914:Repressed emotional baggage was only worth two points in the rubric.]] |
| 504 | |
| 505 | Uzi's nameless and apathetic homeroom teacher. |
| 506 | ---- |
| 507 | * ApatheticTeacher: |
| 508 | ** When at a parent-teacher conference with Khan, he's shown playing Solitaire in his heads-up display, even as Khan is yelling at him for calling Uzi "damaged." |
| 509 | ** Doesn't show any notable emotion in "Cabin Fever" when V openly admits to murdering some of his students (although it was really Uzi that killed most of them). |
| 510 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: His reaction to Thad's dancing is to drink some oil. |
| 511 | * RightForTheWrongReasons: In Episode 2, he snarkily suspects that Uzi's software is faulty as explanation for her lack of fitting in in class. Subsequent episodes have increasingly demonstrated that he was very right about Uzi's software being abnormal and different, with her Absolute Solver abilities, just not in the way that he thought she was. |
| 512 | * SeenItAll: Speaks in an emotionless tone and doesn't show much reaction beyond annoyance to Uzi's behavior. |
| 513 | * YouAreNumberSix: It's revealed in "Heartbeat" through his POV that Worker Drones have a string of numbers that function as ID for them with his ID being 2342. |
| 514 | [[/folder]] |
| 515 | |
| 516 | [[folder:Ronathan]] |
| 517 | !!Ronathan |
| 518 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SeanChiplock |
| 519 | The bus driver for Outpost 3 School. |
| 520 | ---- |
| 521 | * {{Cowboy}}: Has this look. |
| 522 | * CustomUniform: Doesn't have the traditional bus drivers' uniform, instead wears a jacket and a cowboy hat and boots. |
| 523 | * TheDriver: See his character description. |
| 524 | * OneShotCharacter: Only appears in "Cabin Fever" |
| 525 | [[/folder]] |
| 526 | |
| 527 | [[folder:Other Outpost 3 Students]] |
| 528 | !!In General |
| 529 | * ApatheticCitizens: They don't seem to care when other students die, only if their life is directly in danger, that or they're [[ConditionedtoAcceptHorror desensitized to seeing others be murdered at this point.]] |
| 530 | * OneShotCharacter: More than a few of them are this as they get brutally killed off in the episode that they debut in. |
| 531 | * RedShirt: They exist to be brutally killed off. |
| 532 | |
| 533 | !!Braidon |
| 534 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MichaelKovach |
| 535 | |
| 536 | One of Uzi's classmates who got bodyjacked by her at one point. |
| 537 | ---- |
| 538 | * ButtMonkey: Gets bodyjacked by Uzi and his head set on fire. In the third episode, a book thrown by Uzi hits him in the head. |
| 539 | * NoodleIncident: What he did to get bodyjacked by Uzi is unexplained. |
| 540 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Is nonplussed with the fact that his head is on fire. |
| 541 | * ManOnFire: His head catches on fire in a pre-series flashback seen in "Heartbeat". It stays that way until he puts it out in "Cabin Fever". Only for his whole body to then catch fire when a corrupted Uzi kills him. |
| 542 | * RecurringExtra: Makes several appearances until he's killed off in "Cabin Fever". |
| 543 | * YourHeadAsplode: A corrupted Uzi makes his head explode in "Cabin Fever". |
| 544 | |
| 545 | !!Darren |
| 546 | ->'''Voiced by:''' David J. Dixon |
| 547 | |
| 548 | A classmate who gets dragged onto a school trip with Uzi. Is Rebecca's boyfriend. |
| 549 | ---- |
| 550 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Is Rebecca's boyfriend but at one point, he kisses N's arm. |
| 551 | * CoolShades: Wears these. |
| 552 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Is ripped apart by a transformed and feral Uzi and has his insides feasted upon. |
| 553 | * JerkJock: Fits this to a tee. Is a jock and is shown throwing a football at Emily's head. |
| 554 | |
| 555 | !!Emily |
| 556 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Caitlin Dizon |
| 557 | |
| 558 | A classmate who gets dragged onto a school trip with Uzi. |
| 559 | ---- |
| 560 | * AmbiguouslyChristian: She's seen crossing herself when Uzi makes her presence known. More subtly, she calls Rebecca and Darren's makeout session "immoral". |
| 561 | * FinalGirl: {{Invoked|Trope}} but {{Averted|Trope}}. She's seen reading the "Final Girl Survival Guide", checks off the traits for this archetype (more homely and prudish), and is outright called this by Lizzy, but is killed by Uzi. |
| 562 | * PeoplePuppet: Her semi-conscious body was used as bait for Lizzy by Uzi; once Lizzy falls for it, Uzi kills her before charging at Lizzy. |
| 563 | * TooDumbToLive: Agrees to split up, saying she read about it in her book. It's later shown that that is the exact opposite of what the book says. |
| 564 | |
| 565 | !!Kelsey Day/KL#4421 |
| 566 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Nola Klop |
| 567 | |
| 568 | A prom queen candidate who is killed by Doll. |
| 569 | ---- |
| 570 | * AllForNothing: Her and the other prom queen candidates' deaths were for nothing as Doll failed to kill V. |
| 571 | * AnArmAndALeg: Gets her arm cut off by Doll's powers. |
| 572 | * DramaticChaseOpening: Introduced this way. |
| 573 | * FlatCharacter: Only exists to be killed off by Doll. |
| 574 | * InnocentBlueEyes: A blue-eyed Worker Drone who ends up being killed by Doll. |
| 575 | * VictimOfTheWeek: Ends up being killed off in the opening of "The Promening" by Doll. |
| 576 | * YouAreNumberSix: As stated on her interface, her ID is 4421. |
| 577 | |
| 578 | !!Penny |
| 579 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ElsieLovelock |
| 580 | |
| 581 | A Worker Drone that gives the prom queen crown to V. Ends up being killed by Doll. |
| 582 | ---- |
| 583 | * AllThereInTheScript: Her name is only mentioned in the end credits. |
| 584 | * HeadCrushing: Gets her entire body crushed by Doll. |
| 585 | * NeckSnap: Ends up getting her neck snapped by Doll's powers. |
| 586 | * NiceGuy: Is very nice and sweet during her screen time and compliments V's dress. |
| 587 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Tries to flee when Doll unleashes her powers. |
| 588 | |
| 589 | !!Rebecca |
| 590 | [[quoteright:360:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0450_5.png]] |
| 591 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Nola Klop |
| 592 | |
| 593 | One of Uzi's classmates and a cheerleader. |
| 594 | ---- |
| 595 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Gets bisected by Solver Uzi. She however still remains alive for long enough to crawl back to where the others are, and bleeds out offscreen very shortly after. |
| 596 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Ripped in half by the Absolute Solver-corrupted Uzi in "Cabin Fever". She lives long enough afterwards to crawl away looking for help, which only leads Uzi to more drones to kill. |
| 597 | * HormoneAddledTeenager: When V gives the campers free leave to do whatever they want while she goes to try and kill Uzi, Rebecca takes Darren out deep into the forest to make out. |
| 598 | * {{Jerkass}}: Makes fun of Uzi and pushes the books she's on. |
| 599 | * OrderedApology: Gets forced to forgive V for murdering people in "The Promening", or else Lizzy won't allow her to sit next to them. |
| 600 | * SexSignalsDeath: Not actual sexual intercourse, but the principle is the same. She takes Darren out into the woods to make out, which leads them to the cabin where a transformed, oil-hungry Uzi is... |
| 601 | |
| 602 | !!Riley |
| 603 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LiamVickers |
| 604 | |
| 605 | One of Uzi's classmates. |
| 606 | ---- |
| 607 | * AllThereInTheScript: His name is revealed in the credits. |
| 608 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Disappears after the Pilot. Mixed with DroppedAfterThePilot. |
| 609 | * OhCrap: When Uzi shows her railgun off, he panics saying "that is so not the vibe." |
| 610 | |
| 611 | !!Sam |
| 612 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SeanChiplock |
| 613 | |
| 614 | A classmate who gets dragged onto a school trip with Uzi. |
| 615 | ----- |
| 616 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted as he shares his name with a labelled Corrupted Core jar that appears in "Dead End" |
| 617 | * TheStoner: Fits this to a tee, acting like he's high and having a magnet that he seems to use as drugs. |
| 618 | * SoundOnlyDeath: Before he is killed by Uzi, it cut aways to Lizzy hearing his screams. |
| 619 | |
| 620 | !!Trevor |
| 621 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LiamVickers |
| 622 | |
| 623 | One of the students at Outpost 3 School. He's seen hanging out with Rebecca. |
| 624 | ---- |
| 625 | * AllThereInTheScript: His name is only mentioned in the end credits. |
| 626 | * BareHandedPuppetry: Does this with his hand while talking about prom. |
| 627 | * EarlyBirdCameo: If you closely in Episode 2, you can see him in the background at the parent-teacher conference. |
| 628 | * FlatCharacter: Doesn't get much characterization. |
| 629 | |
| 630 | !!The Prom Queen Candidates |
| 631 | 4 Worker Drones who were running for prom queen for 3071. |
| 632 | ---- |
| 633 | * AssholeVictim: Whoever was writing the missing poster for Dillion Hall was of this mindset that she was this. |
| 634 | * KilledOffscreen: By the time of "The Promening", they've all have been killed by Doll. |
| 635 | * ThePrankster: Lainey Gilmore was last seen 'playing the best long-con prank on her family and friends.' according to the missing poster. |
| 636 | * TemptingFate: Kenzie Rivers was a fan of this, talking about how her limbs and organs were still intact. |
| 637 | * TongueOutInsult: Angela Palmer's picture has her doing this. |
| 638 | [[/folder]] |
| 639 | |
| 640 | !!Worker Defense Force (WDF) |
| 641 | |
| 642 | [[folder:WDF as a Whole]] |
| 643 | A defence force of Worker Drones in charge of building the giant doors that keep the Disassembly Drones out. |
| 644 | ---- |
| 645 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: On Khan's certificate, it states that the WDF of Outpost 9 gave him that certificate, revealing that there are other divisions of the WDF in other Outposts dealing with other Disassembly Drone teams. |
| 646 | * ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The Worker Defense Force or at least the Outpost 3 WDF is supposed to, well, ''defend'' against Murder Drones. However, they are so reliant on the doors Khan built to protect everybody that they don't do much else besides sit around and play cards. The moment the Murder Drones manage to break in and people expect them to defend, they all simply run and cower in fear. Subverted with Khan in "Mass Destruction" who repairs Uzi's railgun and leads Lizzy and Thad to confront J at Camp 98.7 |
| 647 | * RedshirtArmy: {{Exaggerated}} as not only do the Outpost 3 WDF die laughably easily to the Murder Drones' attacks, but they ''don't even try and fight back''. Though to be fair, it would be hard to fight against 3 flying Drones equipped with all kinds of destructive weaponry. |
| 648 | [[/folder]] |
| 649 | |
| 650 | [[folder:Khan]] |
| 651 | !!Khan Doorman |
| 652 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' David J. Dixon [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Gerardo Reyero (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/MauroRamos (Brazilian Portuguese), Vyacheslav Nikitin (Russian), Serhiy Soldatov (Ukrainian), Cafer Kadir (Turkish), Richard M.R.Toelle (Indonesian) [[/labelnote]] |
| 653 | [[quoteright:684:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0457_1.jpeg]] |
| 654 | [[caption-width-right:684: ''"Guys! My daughter is into doors!"'']] |
| 655 | |
| 656 | |
| 657 | Uzi's respected yet cowardly father and head of the Outpost 3 WDF. Also, he ''really'' loves doors, more than he loves his own daughter, assuming he loves her at all. |
| 658 | ---- |
| 659 | * AbusiveParents: He's emotionally abusive towards Uzi and prefers doors over her. [[FreezeFrameBonus A few bits of text on the news]] introducing him earlier in "Pilot" shows him saying [[IHaveNoSon "Doors are my real daughter"]] and calling Uzi a [[DisappointedInYou "disappointing failure"]] on public media. Later episodes after his CharacterDevelopment have him openly admit that he's not very good of a parent but he's trying to be there more for Uzi. |
| 660 | * ActualPacifist: Only relies on doors for protection, [[DeconstructedTrope which becomes a problem once the Murder Drones actually got inside]]. It might have to do with a past trauma from having to MercyKill his wife. |
| 661 | * AllForNothing: {{Downplayed}}. Khan's doors ''did'' keep the Disassembly Drones out for a long time, but when Uzi leaves with N (with V in tow), instead of going back through the vents and doors which they came in through, they bust straight through the ceiling, meaning that the only reason that the doors worked was that the Disassembly Drones never bothered to try finding a different way around. |
| 662 | * TheAllSolvingHammer: His solution to everything is always to build more doors. It goes as well as you may expect. |
| 663 | * BrokenPedestal: The Outpost 3 Worker Drones at large finally see him the way his daughter does when the WDF shows their true colors as incompetent cowards. |
| 664 | * BumblingDad: After he TookALevelInKindness following the pilot, his characterisation has become something akin to this -- he does care for Uzi and ''does'' make attempts to help her, but that definitely doesn't mean he's any good at parenting. |
| 665 | * CharacterDevelopment: Goes from a aloof AbusiveParent who would leave his own daughter to die to a [[ParentsAsPeople deeply flawed]] father who still genuinely cares about Uzi to an extent, even running ''towards'' danger to protect her in "The Promening", even leading Lizzy and Thad to fight J in "Mass Destruction" at Camp 98.7. It's not completely certain if this is out of remorse for his actions the pilot, or an attempt by the writers to portray him as more sympathetic in the series proper. |
| 666 | ** Though comments by Liam Vickers would suggest the latter interpretation, with Khan originally intended to be the series' BigBad. |
| 667 | * DirtyCoward: Rather than help his daughter when she is in danger, he leaves her to die. She understandably [[CallingTheOldManOut calls him out on this later]]. In "The Promening", he seems to be slowly moving out of this as he attempts to rush into the fight to help Uzi, only to get locked out by Doll. Moves completely out of this in "Mass Destruction" as he rebuilds Uzi's railgun and leads Thad and Lizzy to confront J at Camp 98.7. |
| 668 | * DisappointedInYou: The magazines and newspapers show that he has called doors his real daughter, and he called his actual daughter a disappointing failure...''on public TV no less.'' It's amazing Uzi didn't snap sooner with parenting like that. He seems to be getting better. |
| 669 | * DissonantSerenity: In "Home", he's ''totally unfazed'' by Uzi performing some sort of improvised robot-neurosurgery using N and V's minds and openly using [[MindOverMatter her Absolute Solver powers]], and remains cheerful when Doll, who he witnessed kill dozens of drones, shows up out of nowhere and slams him into a wall. Though the latter could be an attempt to stay on her good side or he has seen the powers of the Absolute Solver beforehand so he isn't as fazed as other Drones. |
| 670 | * DoesntLikeGuns: He would rather [[DirtyCoward ditch his daughter]] than try an offensive method against the Murder Drones. Subverted in "Mass Destruction" when he rebuilds Uzi's railgun (Though he does give it to Lizzy). |
| 671 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Khan's behavior in the "Pilot" tends to stand at odds with his depiction in the series proper, largely due to the original plans for the character having him be the ''BigBad'' of the series' "black comedy slice of life" phase of development. Khan in the "Pilot" is depicted as a flat out HateSink, a FakeUltimateHero and DirtyCoward who left his own daughter to ''die'' while being more focused on his obsession with doors, and is shown even before then to be emotionally abusive to Uzi. In the series proper however, he's depicted more as a BumblingDad who struggles to understand Uzi more than anything, and immensely regrets his failings as a parent. While the series ''does'' try to bridge the gap by showing Khan considering his abandoning Uzi to be MyGreatestFailure, the transition is still rough, and the immediate episode after he's depicted more as a dense dumbass than an actually negative aspect of Uzi's life. |
| 672 | * FakeUltimateHero: He presents himself as a hero who works tirelessly on keeping the Murder Drones at bay with his impregnable doors, and has received numerous awards and credit for keeping everyone alive as long as they have. But while the doors are indeed an effective method, once the drones actually get through, he's publicly ousted as a DirtyCoward who never worked on any steps beyond "just build another door". He seems to be moving out of this as when N's squad's pod gets destroyed, he leads Thad and Lizzy to fight J at Camp 98.7 |
| 673 | * FormerTeenRebel: He mentions that he once went through a "KillAllHumans" phase when he was younger. |
| 674 | * FreudianExcuse: It's heavily implied that his cowardice and obsession with protective doors is due to him having to MercyKill his wife after she was mortally wounded by Disassembly Drone nanite acid. |
| 675 | * HateSink: Let's see here: he's the incompetent leader of the bunker's defense force with no combat capabilities whatsoever, and as the leader he spends all of his time playing cards and obsessing over doors. He's also an emotionally AbusiveParent (explaining [[FreudianExcuse Uzi's issues]]), and [[DirtyCoward would sooner abandon her to die]] than [[PapaWolf attempt to protect her]], something that [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusts N at his most villainous]]. However, [[CharacterDevelopment this gets subverted]] starting from the second episode, where he starts to reflect on his parenting skills and makes a genuine effort to be a better father, even trying to run to help Uzi in episode 3 before Doll stops him and leads Thad and Lizzy in episode 7 to fight J. |
| 676 | * HeadInTheSandManagement: Doesn't even want to ''consider'' the possibility that the Murder Drones might breach his precious doors, and has completely neglected to prepare the Outpost 3 [=WDF=] to fight back. Subverted as when the Solver starts trying to destroy Copper 9, he is fully aware of what's going on and leads Thad and Lizzy to Camp 98.7 . |
| 677 | * IronicName: His first name translates to "ruler", yet he's an inept coward who uses doors for all of his defensive duties. |
| 678 | * LetsGetDangerous: As Copper 9 begins suffering gravitational shifts from the Absolute Solver's attempt at getting to the core, Khan decides to stop screwing around and raids Uzi's room, taking with him her repaired railgun and the instructions on how to use it, intending on using it to fight the Murder Drones himself, later enlisting Thad and Lizzy into helping him. |
| 679 | * NoodleIncident: He had to MercyKill his wife ([[CruelAndUnusualDeath with a wrench]]) after she was fatally injured by Murder Drones. This may explain his reluctance to pick up Uzi's gun. |
| 680 | * PapaWolf: This is completely averted in "Pilot" where he openly calls ''doors'' [[IHaveNoSon his real daughter]] and cowardly leaves Uzi to die, but by the second episode, it's shown that he may have started having regrets about what he did and he even threatens to [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon install a door on the face]] of Uzi's teacher for calling her damaged. He also leads Thad and Lizzy to the dangerous Camp 98.7 to fight J to get to Uzi. |
| 681 | * ProperlyParanoid: ZigZagged. "Cabin Fever" reveals that installing the infamous doors was actually ''Nori's'' idea, as [[{{Seers}} she had visions of the Disassembly Drones' arrival]]. While he supposedly considered her ideas loopy conspiracy theories, he ''did'' take them seriously enough to protect his fellow Worker Drones from an all-too-real threat. The problem is, however, that he's totally complacent and doesn't consider the need for precautions ''beyond'' the doors. Then again, the last time he used a weapon, he was forced to MercyKill his wife. |
| 682 | * SkewedPriorities: He gets upset at Uzi for leading a Murder Drone back to the Outpost because said Murder Drone ruined his doors. |
| 683 | * SoProudOfYou: In "The Promening", when Doll questions why Uzi is standing for the Murder Drones, Uzi retorts that whoever started the whole mess wanted the Worker Drones and the Disassembly Drones to be in conflict, and even though she's not dealing with anything well, she's done with dealing with it alone and that she and N are going to move forward together from then on. Khan, who is watching from the distance, is then shown giving a warm smile towards her, indicating this trope. |
| 684 | * TookALevelInBadass: Khan returns in "Mass Destruction", where it is revealed that he repaired his daughter’s railgun and even made custom versions of it and is last seen leading the fight with Thad and Lizzy against J. |
| 685 | * TookALevelInKindness: Khan starts off as an emotionally abusive father and a massive {{Jerkass}}, to the point that N's HeelFaceTurn is entirely motivated by his disgust with Khan's cowardice. He gradually mellows out and becomes a more well-meaning if embarrassing BumblingDad. |
| 686 | [[/folder]] |
| 687 | |
| 688 | [[folder:Other Members]] |
| 689 | !!Braxton |
| 690 | ->'''Voiced by:'''Kevin Lerdwichagul |
| 691 | ---- |
| 692 | * AllThereInTheScript: His name is only mentioned in the end credits. |
| 693 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Gets bisected by N's laser. |
| 694 | * HisNameIs: Tries to introduce himself to Uzi when they're both running from N. |
| 695 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Tries to run from N along with the other WDF drones. |
| 696 | |
| 697 | !!Colony Detective |
| 698 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Nora Klop |
| 699 | |
| 700 | The Outpost 3 detective who investigates Tim's murder. |
| 701 | ---- |
| 702 | * DeathByLookingUp: Dies this way. |
| 703 | * NoNameGiven: She remains unnamed. |
| 704 | * OhCrap: Has this look when Eldritch J is about to kill her. |
| 705 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: She doesn’t take too much time of the episode and is swiftly killed by the Solver. |
| 706 | !!Makarov |
| 707 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Cameron Gavinski |
| 708 | ---- |
| 709 | * AllThereInTheScript: His name is only mentioned in the end credits. |
| 710 | * FlatCharacter: He doesn't get much characterisation and ends up being killed by N in his second scene. |
| 711 | * PopGoesTheHuman: He gets hit by a missile and explodes. |
| 712 | |
| 713 | !!Ron |
| 714 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Jasmine Yeng |
| 715 | |
| 716 | The new door guard at Outpost 3 after the last guards were killed. |
| 717 | ---- |
| 718 | * TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Allows N back into the bunker after he gave him an apology card. Fortunately, N is actually genuine about it, and it turned out to be the right call considering what the main threat of the episode was. |
| 719 | * OneShotCharacter: Only appears in "Heartbeat" |
| 720 | * SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Appears in the second episode. |
| 721 | |
| 722 | !!Todd |
| 723 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Jasmine Yang |
| 724 | ---- |
| 725 | * AllThereInTheScript: His name is only mentioned in the end credits |
| 726 | * OffWithHisHead: Ends up having his head chopped off by N. |
| 727 | * OneShotCharacter: Only appears in "Pilot" |
| 728 | * TooDumbToLive: When N breaches the door, he is the only one not to run and corrects N on the name of the game they were playing. |
| 729 | |
| 730 | !!Tim |
| 731 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EdwynTiong |
| 732 | |
| 733 | A Outpost 3 WDF member who instructs Frank to repair the hole in the roof. |
| 734 | ---- |
| 735 | * GoryDiscretionShot: We don't see much of his actual death. Just oil and his arm falling to the floor. |
| 736 | * NeverLearnedToRead: Seems unable to read. |
| 737 | * TheNicknamer: Gives Frank the name "Ladderbot 5000". |
| 738 | * OneShotCharacter: Only appears in "Heartbeat" |
| 739 | * TooDumbToLive: He falls for Eldritch J's easy to see trap. |
| 740 | |
| 741 | !!Sarah |
| 742 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Nora Klop |
| 743 | A Outpost 3 WDF member who informs Khan of Frank's death. |
| 744 | ---- |
| 745 | * BearerOfBadNews: She tells Khan about Frank's death. |
| 746 | * InnocentBlueEyes: Has blue eyes and is a Worker Drone. |
| 747 | * NerdyNasalness: Has glasses and has a nasally voice. |
| 748 | * SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Appears in the second episode. |
| 749 | [[/folder]] |
| 750 | |
| 751 | !![=C9=] Cabin Fever Labs Test Subjects |
| 752 | |
| 753 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 754 | * ApocalypseMaiden: The Solver-Infected Test Subjects are this as they are hosts to the Absolute Solver. |
| 755 | * BodyHorror: A fate suffered by some of the Test Subjects between the Core Collapse and "Mass Destruction" as Mika/032 and Jame/012 can attest to. |
| 756 | * FourIsDeath: Neda possibly as they're mentioned to be 'Corrupted' and was probably killed between the events of the Core Collapse and the present-day. |
| 757 | * HeroWithAUniqueName: Several of them have strange names. |
| 758 | * MeltingPotNomenclature: Their names come from all over the place. |
| 759 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted as a few Test Subjects share names and numbers with each other. One example being Alice sharing her number with someone by the name of Giam. |
| 760 | * UnknownCharacter: We do know that there's at least a Subject 001 based on Nori's designation and Subjects 003-047 and Subjects 049-106 as well based on Yeva's designation and the list of Test Subjects but besides, Alice/017, Amda/029, Mika/032 and Jame/012, they haven't appeared yet. |
| 761 | ** We see a long list of these test subjects as a FreezeFrameBonus in "Mass Destruction" when Tessa accesses a console. If any of them are still inside their storage lockers, they're destroyed when Tessa causes the system to self-destruct. |
| 762 | * WallSlump: Some of the boot-looped Test Subjects in the official facility were doing this before the Sentinels got to them. |
| 763 | * YouAreNumberSix: From what we can tell, every Test Subject had a number assigned to them. The console Tessa examines in "Mass Destruction" lists up through a Matt/128, with a possible 129th listing obscured by the bottom of the screen. |
| 764 | [[/folder]] |
| 765 | |
| 766 | [[folder:Nori]] |
| 767 | !!Nori Doorman/Subject 002 |
| 768 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Darcy Maguire [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Lorène Foliot (French), Caroline Werner (German), Kata Nemes-Takách (Hungarian), Mari Ikegaya (Japanese), Karin Zavala (Latin American), Elena Efremova (Russian), Zeynep Ada Çelik (Turkish), Oleksandra Seredynsʹka (Ukrainian) [[/labelnote]] |
| 769 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2023_08_20_at_105117.png]] |
| 770 | [[caption-width-right:428:''"Nuance alert, ma'am, I caused every horror in her life. Destroyed the planet, got you things sicced here..."'']] |
| 771 | [[quoteright:1000:[[labelnote:Click here to see her current form ]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20240330_203052_youtube.jpg]] [[/labelnote]] |
| 772 | |
| 773 | Uzi's mother and Khan's wife. |
| 774 | ---- |
| 775 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: "Dead End" implies that Nori might have intentionally left Alice and the other Cabin Fever test subjects to die and may have also been the one that destroyed Copper 9's core which killed all the humans on the planet. The ambiguous part comes from the question of the extent to which Nori was in control of herself versus being a puppet of the Absolute Solver as she had gold eyes in the video that Tessa shows N, indicating that she was possessed by the Absolute Solver. "Mass Destruction" makes clear that she ''wasn't'' in control of herself, the Solver was, and she's not only still ''alive'', but actively fighting the Solver, conscripting N into helping her when they meet. |
| 776 | * AmnesiacDissonance: {{Implied|Trope}}, as she tells N that, following the core collapse, her memories were scrambled enough to "have a kid", implying she normally wouldn't have fallen in love with Khan and had Uzi were it not for her missing memories (especially considering that the kid would inherit the Solver). Considering her default personality is very much like Uzi's, her being a {{tsundere}} about it definitely would fit, as while she calls Khan a "hunk" and clearly cares about Uzi, she more than likely wouldn't admit it outright. |
| 777 | * ApocalypseMaiden: Comes with the territory of being a host of the Absolute Solver. |
| 778 | * [[BoyfriendBlockingDad Boyfriend-Blocking Mom]]: Implied when N confesses to her and Uzi present [[RelationshipLabelingProblems something like]] a LoveConfession about Uzi. Nori, who was left as just a core from a Disassembly Drone attack, slaps Uzi for getting involved with one. |
| 779 | * ConspiracyTheorist: In "The Promening" Khan puts Uzi's StringTheory papers in a vault labeled "NORI'S KOOKY INSANE STUFF", indicating her mother was the same way as Uzi is. "Cabin Fever" however reveals that many of her papers were about warnings that the Disassembly Drones were coming long before they arrived and that whatever she was working on at the abandoned company facility might have driven her insane as a result. "Mass Destruction" suggests they were less "theories", and more what little of her scattered memories she had resurfacing, as she tells N that her mind got scattered from the time of the core collapse to her initial "death", a page from her notebook reading "I think the entity of previous pages purged files from my memories. It's sent something to eliminate the other hosts", implying the Solver itself wiped her mind to make it easier to eliminate her. |
| 780 | * EscapedFromTheLab: She managed to escape from the Cabin Fever Labs after the Core Collapse. |
| 781 | * FantasticallyIndifferent: Photographs of her after the core collapse show her unconcernedly smiling and posing for the camera or grabbing onto Khan while everyone around her is shell-shocked or stunned by what happened. Another photo of her from her time as a test subject shows her leaning against a sentinel and smugly showing off her Absolute Solver powers for a human interviewing her while in a RoomFullOfCrazy and right next to a stunned Yeva, who is bleeding out from one of her eyes. |
| 782 | * ItsAllMyFault: Nori tells N that the reason why Uzi isn’t having a normal life is because of her due to her Absolute Solver. |
| 783 | * KilledOffScreen: Before the series began, Khan was forced to MercyKill Nori after the disassembly drones used corrosive acid on her so she wouldn't suffer through the pain. Through her Absolute Solver powers however, [[NotQuiteDead she was able to create a smaller body to use for her consciousness]] in "Mass Destruction". |
| 784 | * LikeMotherLikeDaughter: When N first meets her, she proves to ''very much'' be Uzi's mother, being just as sardonic, moody, and irritable, especially when dealing with the perpetually cheerful and innocent N. A close look at her setup in the cathedral shows they even have a similar love for anime and tastes in music, down to Nori wearing cat-ear headphones even as a Solver core. |
| 785 | * MeaningfulName: While nori in Japanese is a type of seaweed, but it also means ‘doctrine’. In Hebrew, nori means ‘peace’, which is pretty much the opposite to her personality. |
| 786 | * MissingMom: She is this for Uzi, having been killed by a Disassembly Drone by the time the series begins. She turns out to be alive however. |
| 787 | * NotQuiteDead: Is revealed to be still alive, albeit a Solver core, in "Mass Destruction". |
| 788 | * PoorCommunicationKills: Uzi assumes her core is some random person after she, as Uzi's mother, strongly disciplines her. She is immediately kicked into the cathedral's flesh pit, because Nori doesn't tell her who she really is, N having to desperately inform her that she just knocked her mother into a pit. |
| 789 | * PowerfulPick: Nori normally carries around a pickaxe and she also normally uses it as a melee weapon. |
| 790 | * PurpleIsPowerful: Had purple hair and wielded the Absolute Solver. |
| 791 | * {{Seers}}: Was somehow able to tell that the Murder Drones were coming for her and her fellow workers before they actually showed up. Seems to have something to do with a secretive research project she was involved in. |
| 792 | * SupernaturalGoldEyes: Alice mentions that at one point she had yellow eyes, a sign of a drone being possessed by the Absolute Solver. |
| 793 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: When she was fighting against Yeva while being possessed by the Solver, she was about to summon a black hole to kill her, but Yeva manages to cut the arm that was invoking the black hole and throws it down the flesh hole, provoking the implosion of Copper-9 and the death of all the humans in the planet. |
| 794 | * YouAreNumberSix: Was known as Subject 002 once. |
| 795 | [[/folder]] |
| 796 | |
| 797 | [[folder:Yeva]] |
| 798 | !!Yeva/Subject 048 |
| 799 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2024_03_30_at_120230_am.png]] |
| 800 | Doll's mother and another Drone with the Absolute Solver. |
| 801 | ---- |
| 802 | * ApocalypseMaiden: Comes with the territory of being a host of the Absolute Solver. |
| 803 | * DueToTheDead: Doll has preserved her corpse. |
| 804 | * EscapedFromTheLab: Same as Nori, she managed to escape the Cabin Fever Labs after the Core Collapse. |
| 805 | * EyeScream: In the image of her and Nori in "Dead End", she is clutching her 'eye' with oil leaking through, implying that she got stabbed or something. |
| 806 | * KilledOffScreen: While her husband's death is shown, hers isn't. |
| 807 | * MeaningfulName: "Yeva" is the Russian version of "Eve." Both names originally come from the Hebrew name "Ḥawwāh," most commonly believed to mean "living one" or "source of life," which fits the fact that she saved Nori from the Absolute Solver. |
| 808 | * MissingMom: Currently deceased and was killed by V along with her husband sometime ago. |
| 809 | * PhlebotinumRebel: From the perspective of the Absolute Solver, not [=JCJenson=], interestingly enough. Being exposed to the software "Patch.2.1.8" (presumably the same patch carried within the crucifix-shaped USB sticks) allowed her to retain her sense of self while still having access to her Solver abilities. |
| 810 | * PurpleIsPowerful: Same as Nori. She had purple hair and wielded the Absolute Solver. |
| 811 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Has red eyes and wields the terrifying and dangerous Absolute Solver. |
| 812 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Her only real appearances are a brief glimpse of V killing her and her stopping Nori in "Mass Destruction". It's thanks to her however that Nori was able to survive the Absolute Solver's attempt at turning her into its host, allowing her to meet Khan and have Uzi, and her death is what drives Doll to initially try to kill V before trying to figure out how to exorcise the Solver from herself, something that becomes useful to Uzi and N after Doll dies. |
| 813 | * ThousandYardStare: Has this look in Khan's pictures of his time at Camp 98.7 while looking at Nori. "Mass Destruction" heavily implies the reason for this is because she saw that Nori was acting differently than she was in the lab due to her memories being scrambled. |
| 814 | * YouAreNumberSix: Was known as Subject 048. |
| 815 | [[/folder]] |
| 816 | |
| 817 | [[folder:Alice]] |
| 818 | !!Alice/Subject 017 |
| 819 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Amber May |
| 820 | [[quoteright:628:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/murder_drones_alice.png]] |
| 821 | A feral Worker Drone who lived down in the depths of Copper 9, in an underground office facility and before the Core Collapse, was a test subject like Nori and Yeva. Though, unlike them, she doesn't seem to have the Absolute Solver. |
| 822 | ---- |
| 823 | * AxCrazy: She is not quite sane in her head, as she killed other drones around the facility and adding their parts to her "antlers". |
| 824 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Towards her victims before taking their body parts away. |
| 825 | * CripplingOverspecialization: Implied. She's an expert at catching, disabling, and even killing both the formidable disassembly drones and the quasi-supernatural "witches", but when she captures Tessa, she tapes a magnet to her helmet despite that being utterly useless against an organic being and also sics the sentinels on her despite them being programed not to harm humans. Which implies that she doesn't know how to actually deal with humans or biological lifeforms in general. |
| 826 | * CrazySurvivalist: Gives off this vibe, considered she managed to survive in Cabin Fever labs all alone for however many years. |
| 827 | * DeepSouth: Not a human example, but she had a Southern accent whenever she speaks. |
| 828 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Alice bitterly mentions that Nori apparently imploded people and abandoned her and the other Test Subjects to die, though it comes off as hypocritical considering Alice is more than happy to butcher innocent Worker Drones herself and is shown to have let 029 and other Test Subjects die at the hands of the Sentinels. |
| 829 | * EyeColourChange: Implied as on her ID card, she has green eyes but in the present, she has orange eyes, implying that something happened to her to cause her eyes to change. |
| 830 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Alice is friendly and upbeat, but it barely hides how much of a deranged monster she is. |
| 831 | * GoMadFromTheIsolation: It's implied she's gone off the deep end from years of being trapped in the depths of Copper 9 being hunted by the Sentinels. |
| 832 | * {{Hypocrite}}: She bitterly brings up that Nori was apparently murdering people while the office facility was locked down, but Alice has no compunction about torturing and murdering Worker Drones herself. |
| 833 | * KnightOfCerebus: Alice's propensity for butchering her fellow Worker Drones is played entirely for horror. |
| 834 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Uzi desperately trying to use her powers to escape from Alice's torture leads to the Absolute Solver possessing her -- it then proceeds to destroy the locking system keeping them isolated from the Sentinels, who kill Alice. |
| 835 | * NoodleIncident: Managed to kill a Solver-Infected Drone at one point. |
| 836 | * OhCrap: When Uzi's powers destroyed the security system, she panics and tries to close the door in an attempt to survive the Sentinels. |
| 837 | * SerialKiller: She is a Worker Drone who enjoys tormenting her victims long enough before taking their body parts for her collection. |
| 838 | * RevengeByProxy: She wanted to kill Uzi as Nori abandoned her and other test subjects after the core collapse. |
| 839 | * TheSociopath: Alice is frighteningly sadistic and shows no remorse about butchering other Worker Drones, while also possessing an eccentric personality while killing them. |
| 840 | * UndignifiedDeath: Her last moments were getting frightened by a Sentinel before getting boot looped, after which her head is unceremonious stomped into paste by said Sentinel. |
| 841 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: While we don't know what she wanted with Uzi beyond ColdBloodedTorture, it probably wasn't her intention for Uzi's repeated, desperate attempts to escape using her powers leading to the Absolute Solver possessing her. |
| 842 | * VillainOfTheWeek: She is the main villain in "Dead End", along with the Sentinels, and then never appears again because she dies at the end of the episode. |
| 843 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies in the episode which she appears in. |
| 844 | * YouAreNumberSix: Was known as Subject 017 a number which she shared with someone by the name of "Giam" who appears on a list in "Mass Destruction". |
| 845 | [[/folder]] |
| 846 | |
| 847 | [[folder:Beau]] |
| 848 | !!Beau |
| 849 | ->'''Voiced by:''' [[TheVoiceless N/A]] |
| 850 | [[quoteright:912:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/murder_drones_beau.png]] |
| 851 | A baby Worker Drone with Disassembly Drone parts grafted onto his body who serves as Alice's minion. |
| 852 | ---- |
| 853 | * AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear what or who Beau actually is. Is he a creation of Alice or another test subject? |
| 854 | * AffablyEvil: Beau is quite friendly to his victims, particularly N, in a much more genuine manner than [[FauxAffablyEvil Alice]]. |
| 855 | * AntiVillain: Beau's a crazed serial killer, but he ultimately decides to free V at the cost of his own life. |
| 856 | * AxCrazy: To a lesser extent than his mistress, but he's still perfectly happy vivisecting N. |
| 857 | * BodyHorror: Beau's body is that of a worker drone infant, but he's been grafted with several limbs harvested from disassembly drones, all of which are grossly disproportionate and stuck on at odd places. |
| 858 | * EnfantTerrible: He's an infant drone who acts as a sidekick to the AxCrazy SerialKiller Alice. |
| 859 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: He calmly accepts his death at the hands of a Sentinel, and tips his hat to V before being crushed. |
| 860 | * HeelFaceTurn: He sacrifices his life to rescue V. |
| 861 | * HeelRealization: Beau starts feeling guilty about trying to murder N when the Dissasembly Drone continues to be perfectly friendly to him even while Beau tries to disembowel him. It's enough for Beau to free V when the door control system is destroyed. |
| 862 | * HeroicSacrifice: He uses his last shot before being mauled to free V instead of to fight the Sentinels or make an escape hole. |
| 863 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: He's murdered by a Sentinel shortly after performing a HeelFaceTurn. |
| 864 | * SerialKiller: Less sadistic than Alice, but still perfectly willing to strip drone for parts while still alive. |
| 865 | * TooDumbToLive: He actually manages to hide from the Sentinels and not be seen, then ends up revealing himself by charging up a laser to free V. However, it's entirely possible [[HeroicSacrifice he knew freeing her would blow his cover]]. |
| 866 | * TheVoiceless: Apart from a pre-recorded baby cry used to try and lure the heroes into a trap, Beau makes no vocalizations whatsoever. |
| 867 | * VillainsDyingGrace: Uses his last act to free V from her restraints, then tips his hat to her right before being smashed to pieces by the Sentinels. |
| 868 | * VillainOfTheWeek: Just like his mistress, Beau has no greater significance to the plot. |
| 869 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies in the episode which he appears in. |
| 870 | [[/folder]] |
| 871 | |
| 872 | [[folder:Amda]] |
| 873 | !!Amda/Subject 029 |
| 874 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LizzieFreeman |
| 875 | [[quoteright:452:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/murder_drones_029.png]] |
| 876 | A Worker Drone that is killed by the Sentinels. |
| 877 | ---- |
| 878 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: Tries to get one of her fellow Worker Drones to safety despite the Sentinels on the prowl, but they both end up being eaten by the Sentinels. |
| 879 | * NoNameGiven: Her actual name goes unmentioned. Averted in "Mass Destruction" when we get or at least a Drone that shares her number's name. |
| 880 | * OffWithHisHead: Her corpse ends up suffering this at the hands of Alice. |
| 881 | * VictimOfTheWeek: Is killed by the MonsterOfTheWeek. |
| 882 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies within a few seconds of her introduction. |
| 883 | * YouAreNumberSix: Goes by 029. |
| 884 | [[/folder]] |
| 885 | |
| 886 | [[folder:Deceased Test Subject]] |
| 887 | [[quoteright:811:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/murder_drones_dead_guy.png]] |
| 888 | [[caption-width-right:811:''EVERYTHING IS OVER. DON'T LOOK FOR ANSWERS.'']] |
| 889 | A deceased Solver-Infected Cabin Fever Labs Test Subject found underneath one of the cabins in Camp 98.7. |
| 890 | ---- |
| 891 | * EscapedFromTheLab: It appeared that they tried to do so and managed to partially succeed before they died. |
| 892 | * IWarnedYou: A posthumous example. They wrote a warning to someone, telling them to not to "look for answers". From what Uzi, N and V go through while trying to learn more about the Absolute Solver, they were right. |
| 893 | * MadArtist: The drawings that are found with them...are disturbing to say the least. |
| 894 | * MementoMacGuffin: Like Nori, Yeva and other Solver-Infected Test Subjects, they wear a skull choker. |
| 895 | * NoNameGiven: They remain unnamed. |
| 896 | * TallyMarksOnThePrisonWall: Next to their body are several tally marks. Judging from the tally marks, they were stuck underneath the cabin for 50 days before dying. |
| 897 | * YouAreNumberSix: Presumably, like the other Test Subjects, they had an number assigned to them, though it is currently unknown. |
| 898 | [[/folder]] |
| 899 | |
| 900 | !!Other Worker Drones |
| 901 | |
| 902 | [[folder:Doll's Father]] |
| 903 | A Worker Drone who is the father of Doll and husband of Yeva. Was killed by V at one point along with his wife. |
| 904 | ---- |
| 905 | * AmbiguousSituation: "Dead End" implies that like his wife, he was infected by the Absolute Solver as Tessa mentions that Doll thinks that the Cabin Fever Labs scientists did something to her parents and gave them a sickness that she inherited which is the Absolute Solver, implying both of them were infected. Though, unlike Nori and Yeva, [[MementoMacGuffin he doesn't have a skull choker like they do]] so his infected status is still up in the air. |
| 906 | * DueToTheDead: Doll has preserved his and Yeva's corpses, a strict contrast to the partially devoured bodies of Doll's victims littering her house. |
| 907 | * FlatCharacter: Not much is known about him at the moment. |
| 908 | * GoryDiscretionShot: During the flashback in "The Promening" it cuts to Doll's reaction as she watches V kill him. |
| 909 | * NoNameGiven: Remains unnamed so far. |
| 910 | * ThousandYardStare: Is doing this along with Yeva in Khan's pictures of Camp 98.7 |
| 911 | * TroubledFetalPosition: Is seen doing this as well in Khan's pictures. |
| 912 | [[/folder]] |
| 913 | |
| 914 | [[folder:Frank]] |
| 915 | ->'''Voiced by:''' David J. Dixon |
| 916 | |
| 917 | A repairman who gets assigned to repair the hole in the roof. |
| 918 | ---- |
| 919 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: Has this reaction to being assigned to fix the hole in the roof. |
| 920 | * OhCrap: Panics when Eldritch J appears. |
| 921 | * OneShotCharacter: Only appears in "Heartbeat". |
| 922 | * ScreamDiscretionShot: The scene cuts away as he screams. |
| 923 | * VictimOfTheWeek: One of the many victims of Eldritch J. |
| 924 | [[/folder]] |
| 925 | |
| 926 | [[folder:Grant]] |
| 927 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Luke Lerdwichgal |
| 928 | A Worker Drone who was ambushed by V along with his family and killed sometime before the Pilot. |
| 929 | ----- |
| 930 | * AllThereInTheScript: His name is only mentioned in the end credits. |
| 931 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Based off the dialogue in his death scene, V ''ripped out and force fed him his own entrails'' as his family watched before murdering them all. |
| 932 | * FlatCharacter: Only appears in one scene and is used to show V's sadism. |
| 933 | * IHaveAFamily: Pleads for V to not feed him his own entrails in front of his own family. |
| 934 | * OneShotCharacter: Only appears in "Pilot" |
| 935 | [[/folder]] |
| 936 | |
| 937 | [[folder:Reid]] |
| 938 | ->'''Voiced by:''' David J. Dixon |
| 939 | A Worker Drone who is outside when Tessa and J arrive. |
| 940 | ---- |
| 941 | * AllThereInTheScript: His name is only mentioned in the end credits. |
| 942 | * FlatCharacter: Only appears at the very of "The Promening" and dies within seconds of his introduction. |
| 943 | * INeedToGoIronMyDog: When he finds his glasses, he claims that he found "his excuse to be outside." |
| 944 | * OffWithHisHead: Gets his head chopped off by Tessa. |
| 945 | * OneShotCharacter: Only appears in "The Promening". |
| 946 | [[/folder]] |
| 947 | |
| 948 | ![=JCJenson=] [-IN-] S[-PAAAAACEE-]!!!! |
| 949 | |
| 950 | [[folder:[=JCJenson=] as a Whole]] |
| 951 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jcjenson_in_space.PNG]] |
| 952 | |
| 953 | The MegaCorp responsible for the existence of the Drones and the overarching antagonists of the series. |
| 954 | ---- |
| 955 | * ComplexityAddiction: They at least seem to be afflicted with this. {{Restraining Bolt}}s or even [[OrbitalBombardment a few well-placed missiles]] would probably be a more efficient way to relieve their concerns about the Copper 9 Worker Drones [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters becoming independent]], but apparently constructing a series of vampiric {{Mechanical Abomination}}s in the form of the Disassembly Drones to slowly kill off the Workers over a period of several years was a much better idea. |
| 956 | ** Although it's possible they have goals beyond simply wiping out the workers, specifically recovering the secretive, disturbing research which seems to have involved the Absolute Solver and its reality-warping potential. |
| 957 | ** Bombarding the supposedly-empty and written-off planet from space with enough firepower to wipe out underground shelters could cause too many eyebrows raised and attract too much attention. Sending a couple of "disassembly drones" to "disassemble some malfunctioning automatics" would be much more plausible. |
| 958 | ** "Dead End" (and Liam Vickers on Glitch X 2023) finally reveals the truth: the Disassembly Drones aren't related to [=JCJenson=] at all, but are instead minions of the Absolute Solver, instructed to kill all life on exoplanets they land on and seek out the research the Copper 9 scientists were conducting into it. That said, their chosen security bots are still ''robot velociraptors!'' Granted, said robot velociraptors killed every single Disassembly Drone sent after them, so it seems like [=JCJenson=] was onto something with that design. |
| 959 | * DarkSecret: While the company being abusive to robots was made clear from the start, the presence of the [[EldritchAbomination Absolute Solver]] in the Disassembly Drones and later Doll and Uzi along with the fact that Nori knew ahead of time that they would send the Drones after working at one of their facilities before Copper 9's destruction implies that they may have been involved with something much more sinister. Later in "Cabin Fever", when N visits the same facility Uzi did earlier in the episode, he finds a tape by the company telling employees not to show it to robots called "Zombie Drones" that also begs the question of what exactly they were really doing. "Home" heavily implies that even most members of the company like Tessa and her parents were unaware of any of this until they saw what Cyn became. "Dead End" reveals that while the Disassembly Drones are not, in fact, creations of [=JCJenson=], the company ''was'' experimenting with the Absolute Solver after already seeing it destroy the Earth. |
| 960 | * EvilInc: Upon learning the Worker Drones on Copper-9 have created their own civilization, they proceed to sic monstrous murderous robots on said society to wipe them out. And they also fully intend to let the Disassembly Drones die [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness when every Worker is dead]]. And that's not even getting into their implied DarkSecret. Even after seeing the Absolute Solver destroy Earth, the humans on Copper 9 decided to experiment on it using drones like Yeva and Nori. However, notes scattered around the mines in "Mass Destruction" seem to indicate that these tests were actually being conducted out of desperation to find a way to ''stop'' the Solver, which was in the process of destroying humanity. |
| 961 | * EvilVersusOblivion: While their [[EvilInc reckless pursuit of profit]] was to blame for unleashing the [[EldritchAbomination Absolute Solver]] in the first place, and [[IncompetenceInc they continued trying to harness it even after the destruction of Earth]], [=JCJenson=] is still opposed to its goals if Tessa is any indication, making them the "Evil" side of this equation. |
| 962 | * {{Expy}}: [=JCJenson=] bears a strong resemblance to [[{{Franchise/Alien}} Weyland-Yutani]], being an interstellar MegaCorp in a retrofuturistic science fiction setting so wealthy that it owns entire planets, so influential that they're virtually above the law, and with an alarming habit of [[JustThinkOfThePotential attempting to monetize things better left alone]] and [[IncompetenceInc Messing Up Badly]]. For bonus points, sapient robots are one of the cornerstones of [=JCJenson's=] product line. |
| 963 | * GreaterScopeVillain: They created the Disassembly Drones and sicced them on the Workers, after all. [[TheReveal Except they didn't. The Absolute Solver did.]] They were just stupid enough to try [[JustThinkOfThePotential experimenting on it]]. |
| 964 | * HoistByTheirOwnPetard: "Dead End" reveals that they were conducting foolhardy research on the [[DigitalAbomination Absolute Solver]], and suggests that this was actually responsible for plunging Copper 9 into EndlessWinter. |
| 965 | * IncompetenceInc: |
| 966 | ** If the fact that they [[EarthShatteringKaboom blew up one of their exoplanets]] doesn't convince you, the fact that their AIs have a tendency to [[AIIsACrapshoot turn on them extremely easily]] should. |
| 967 | ** There's also the fact that even after seeing the Absolute Solver destroy Earth which showed how dangerous it was, they decided to experiment on it and resulted in the members of the company on Copper 9 eventually being killed. |
| 968 | ** Furthermore, Cabin Fever Labs is protected by anti-drone sentinels which are programmed to [[ThreeLawsCompliant ignore and obey humans]]. When one of them bites Tessa, it experiences a LogicBomb and shuts down. It wakes up a few minutes later with a taste for human flesh. [[SarcasmMode What impressive programming, JCJenson]]! |
| 969 | ** "Mass Destruction" takes it to the extreme when it's revealed that a low ranking intern accidentally grabbed the wrong worksuit belonging to one of the major doctors behind the Absolute Solver experiments and was mistaken for someone important, leading to the possessed Nori to escape and kill all of his fellow co-workers while he only survived, albeit temporarily, thanks to Yeva's help which led to the core collapse of Copper 9. That begs the question of where said doctor actually was during the whole thing as he didn't take the intern's own worksuit. |
| 970 | * JustThinkOfThePotential: They decided to conduct experiments on the [[EldritchAbomination Absolute Solver]] and its reality-warping powers. [[GoneHorriblyWrong Guess what happened]]. Though it's later revealed that the Absolute Solver was already lose and they were trying to figure out a way to defeat it. |
| 971 | * MegaCorp: And not very subtle about it, either. |
| 972 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: By sending the Disassembly Drones, they not only gave one certain Worker Drone the inspiration to invade Earth and kill all humans, they provided a wreckage of a spaceship as well, which can be repaired. Subverted with the reveal in "Dead End" that the Absolute Solver sent the Disassembly Drones, not the company. |
| 973 | * NotSoAboveItAll: The HUD of their Disassembly Drones sometimes display… amusing messages. They sure have interesting programmers. |
| 974 | -->[[CaptainObvious YOU'RE DEAD]]\ |
| 975 | [IDIOT.] |
| 976 | * ShoutOut: Their name is twofold. The connection to the real-life [=SCJohnson=] corporation is obvious (even using a similar logo), but it also combines the names of [[VideoGame/DeusEx JC Denton]] and [[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution Adam Jensen]]. |
| 977 | ** [=JCJenson's=] slogan "Rebuild better together" seems to reference the [[https://www.whitehouse.gov/build-back-better/ "build back better"]] [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID-19]] recovery plan. Given the [[{{Expy}} obvious resemblance]], it may also be alluding to [[{{Franchise/Alien}} Weyland-Yutani's]] slogan: "Building better worlds." |
| 978 | * TheUnfought: While the end of the Pilot implies that Uzi is going to have to fight through JC Jenson to get to humanity, the series proper eventually reveals JC Jenson (and humanity in general) has been long gone prior to the start of the series. |
| 979 | [[/folder]] |
| 980 | |
| 981 | [[folder:J]] |
| 982 | !!Serial Designation "J-00X11001" |
| 983 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SharaKirby [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Gabriela Olarieta (Latin-American Spanish), Flora Paulita (Brazilian Portuguese), Anastasiya Pakhomova (Russian), Iryna Fevchuk (Ukrainian), Alisa Mikaela Esenler (Turkish), Shiori Honma (Japanese)[[/labelnote]] |
| 984 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0461_9.png]] |
| 985 | [[caption-width-right:1000: "[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech N, you're worthless and terrible, and if the company allowed it, I would straight up kill you myself!]]"]] |
| 986 | [[quoteright:833:[[labelnote:Click here to see Eldritch J.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0462_3.png]] [[/labelnote]] |
| 987 | [[quoteright:345:[[labelnote:Click here to see her maid dress.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0466_4.jpeg]] [[/labelnote]] |
| 988 | |
| 989 | The leader of N and V's Disassembly Drone team. She's a no-nonsense workaholic who's obsessed with making her squad the most efficient of their parent company, and has a low opinion of N. |
| 990 | ---- |
| 991 | * AmbiguousSituation: She's currently helping Tessa stop Cyn/The Absolute Solver despite the Disassembly Drones being allegedly their creations but its unknown why as her previous incarnation was suuposedly acting as an (unwitting) minion to the Absolute Solver. Making it unclear if Tessa had restored her memories or if she was actually following her orders all along. Which also begs the question if her infecting N was simply done out of spite or if she genuinely believed him to be corrupted by the Absolute Solver. It gets even murkier when it's revealed that Tessa was really just a corpse being controlled by the Absolute Solver. |
| 992 | * AgonyOfTheFeet: Uzi stabs her in the foot with her own acid-filled tail. |
| 993 | * BackFromTheDead: Manages to do this in two separate ways, from the same death no less! First is a {{Downplayed|Trope}} example as her corpse is possessed by the Absolute Solver and becomes a terrifying MechanicalAbomination which is supposedly seeking out a new host. In TheStinger for "The Promening", she arrives on Copper 9 with Tessa in one of the newly-sent [=JCJenson=] spaceships. "Dead End" reveals that she managed to come back since she was one of the more proficient drones and they are allowed to keep back-ups of themselves due to how effective they are. Though its not made clear if the one that was killed was the original or a clone. It seems it is indeed the original J because her screen momentarily says [[Prior Hazard]] when she sees Lizzy and Thad with Uzi’s railgun. |
| 994 | * BadBoss: She doesn't like N all that much. Her first lines have her outright state to N ''to his face'' that she would kill him for his incompetence if her bosses would let her. She also infects N with a virus after he [[HeKnowsTooMuch starts asking too many questions]]. |
| 995 | * BaitTheDog: She seems genuinely impressed with N when he successfully breaks into Outpost 3, giving the team the chance to bypass their defenses. Sadly for N, the moment he begins to question how much value their company actually puts in them, she infects him with a virus without a thought for her previous praise. |
| 996 | * BerserkButton: As revealed in [[Recap/MurderDronesE5Home "Home"]], '''do not speak ill of [=JCJenson=].''' Her retorts become so biting she can literally be used as a bolt-cutter, as Tessa [[{{Exploited|Trope}} exploits]] to escape her captivity. |
| 997 | * CaughtMonologuing: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d. Her visor displays "Playing: [=BestMonologueEver=].mp3" as she gloats when she thinks she has Uzi at her mercy. Unfortunately for J, she left her tail hanging a bit too low. |
| 998 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: The entire top half of her body gets disintegrated by Uzi's railgun. |
| 999 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She's revealed to be close to Tessa and both shows concern for her injured arm and is still loyal even after being turned into a disassembly drone. |
| 1000 | * EyeScream: Played straight when Uzi stabs her in the optics with a pen, then {{Subverted|Trope}} when Uzi follows up with piercing her visor (which aren't her actual eyes). |
| 1001 | * FantasticRacism: Is the most vocal one of how "inferior" Worker Drones are. N’s dream (later confirmed to be an actual memory) about the time his squad, including J, were RobotMaid Worker Drones [[BoomerangBigot makes this extremely ironic.]] |
| 1002 | * FauxAffablyEvil: When acting as an antagonist in "Pilot", she pretends to be considerate towards others when it conveniences her. When N defects from the group, she immediately drops the facade and shows how truly [[TheUnfettered unrestrained]] she is by infecting him with a virus in order to [[YouHaveFailedMe permanently kill him]]. She also briefly displays this in N's flashback at the beginning of "Heartbeat", abusing N only to momentarily act friendly towards [[MoralityPet Tessa]], then revert back to being rude again. |
| 1003 | * GirlishPigtails: Downplayed. She has pigtails to contribute to her falsely innocent demeanor, but she's usually an incredibly cold-hearted, arrogant {{Tomboy}}. |
| 1004 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Her upper half is completely blown to bits by Uzi. |
| 1005 | * HateSink: Let's see: Treats her fellow Disassembler Drones, particularly N, like crap? Check. Kills without remorse? Check. Coldly says to N's face as she infects him with a virus that she was looking for an excuse to off him? Yep, we're definitely meant to hate her and shed no tears when Uzi blows her head off. [[SubvertedTrope Later appearances give her more depth]], and by the time of ''Dead End'' she's ostensibly on the same side as the heroes. |
| 1006 | * HazyFeelTurn: While the details aren't fully elaborated on, the J that comes to Copper 9 with Tessa has seemingly changed sides from supposedly unwitting serving the Absolute Solver to willfully working for [=JCJenson=]. Given the latter is a [[EvilInc soulless]] MegaCorp whose [[IncompetenceInc reckless pursuit of profit]] is directly responsible for the show's conflict, this is at best a flip from [[EvilVersusOblivion Oblivion to Evil]]. |
| 1007 | * HiddenDepths: Despite appearing like just a {{Jerkass}} who belittles N an her sole concern is to succeed in her mission, it appears that her behavior comes from a desire to impress Tessa when she was a child, something that she didn’t manage to do because Tessa put more of her attention in N, suggesting that she may resent him for having more attention than her. |
| 1008 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Uzi stabs her in the leg with her own stinger, allowing Uzi to finish her off. Bonus points for being a BrickJoke made by N. |
| 1009 | * HurtFootHop: When Uzi stabs the version of her introduced in the pilot episode in the foot, she hops around spewing unusual corporate curses before falling down and being obliterated by her railgun. [[UndignifiedDeath Not the most dignified way to go out]]. |
| 1010 | * KarmicButtMonkey: She is constantly abused by terrible luck, as it would seem. She pretty much spends her entire character arc being a pawn to [[BigBad the Absolute Solver]] due to being a {{workaholic}} for [=JCJenson=], even after she allegedly reforms, and even with all of that, it gets her obliterated by Uzi in the pilot, and she gets hit by Lizzy and Thad when they drive their school bus into her. However, even if her role as a StarterVillain was still her acting as a pawn, even before she was transformed into a Disassembly Drone, she's always been somewhat of a {{Jerkass}} to everyone, so to some capacity, she has it coming. |
| 1011 | * LaughablyEvil: Somehow combines this with being a HateSink, but J's general behavior is pretty wild and she is very prone to BlackComedy. This is as opposed to what she ''could'' be, that being [[DrunkWithPower a completely serious, unfeeling, prideful maniac]] [[ControlFreak obsessed with control]], which she still is, but she prefers to add some flair and unpredictability to her evil. |
| 1012 | * LoyalToThePosition: She doesn't seem to care if her parent company decides to dispose of the Murder Drones (though this could also be [[IgnoranceIsBliss willful ignorance]] on her part) and infects N for [[HeKnowsTooMuch questioning if they will]]. She's so loyal that she practically worships [=JCJenson=] products and starts gushing about the Drones getting their own ''branded pens''. |
| 1013 | * MeaningfulName: Her designation being "J" is in reference to the J in "[=JCJenson=]", the company in which she is fully loyal to, essentially being its foremost fanatic according to her attitude towards her unnamed higher-ups, and Tessa. |
| 1014 | * MemoryTrigger: When she sees Uzi's railgun charged up next to Lizzy at the end of "Mass Destruction", she recalls it as a 'prior hazard'. This is obviously in reference to it being used to kill her at the end of the pilot episode. |
| 1015 | * ANaziByAnyOtherName: [[PuttingOnTheReich Wears the same Schutzstaffel-esque uniform as the other Disassembly Drones]], and is the one most dedicated to exterminating the Worker Drones based on their supposed inferiority. |
| 1016 | * NotSoAboveItAll: "Pilot" shows she can be just as wacky as her subordinates, if her fascination with branded pens is anything to go by. WordOfGod states that she's really just a try hard like the other members of her group. |
| 1017 | * SmugSnake: She claims in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBTA3Tegacs "Murder Drones Training Video"]] that she makes no mistakes. This is both PlayedForLaughs at the very end of the video, and also PlayedForDrama in the actual series ''long'' before the video was actually released, considering the version of her in the pilot is obliterated by Uzi because of a mistake she made: [[UnderestimatingBadassery underestimation]]. |
| 1018 | * TheSpock: She's more logical, protocol-driven and compliant to the rules of her human makers than either of her teammates, and she usually doesn't let her emotions or desires get in the way of her mission. She also seems to much more cold-blooded than either N or V, as seen by how she casually disposed of N after he gave her an excuse to do so, without showing a shred of hesitation or remorse. She isn't without fear, however, as she understandably freaks out when she realizes she's about to be killed. |
| 1019 | * StarterVillain: The main antagonist of "Pilot" who subsequently dies at the end of it. Her death spurs Uzi to find a way to get off her planet and, judging from TheStinger, causes [=JCJenson=] to send in more shipfulls of Disassembly Drones to the planet. |
| 1020 | * StealthPun: Her work ethics, loyalty to [=JCJenson=] and use of corporate lingo make her a literal ''corporate drone''. |
| 1021 | * StockingFiller: The way her legs are painted make her appear to be wearing knee-high stockings and a garter-belt. |
| 1022 | * UncertainDoom: When asked about J being dead, [[ShrugOfGod Liam wouldn't open his mouth]]. "Heartbeat" has the Absolute Solver entity that was seemingly within her corpse attempt to rebuild her, but it's unclear whether it survived the episode. She (or another version of her) appears alive and well at the end of "The Promening", working alongside Tessa. It's confirmed that she is a clone and effective Disassembly Drones like her were "cloned more". |
| 1023 | * UnusualEuphemism: J has a habit of blurting out corporate buzzwords in place of profanity when suitably pissed off, particularly if someone says anything that puts [=JCJenson=] in a negative light. This is a trait she's had since she was a Zombie Drone too, as Tessa exploits it to get her pissed enough to break the chain keeping Tessa stuck to her bed, saying various things such as "paid time off to attend union negotiations" until J snaps the chain. |
| 1024 | -->'''J:''' ''[when she notices her tail struck her foot]'' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis FOURTH! QUARTER! PROFITS!]] MOTHER OF COMPANY LEADERSHIP RETREATS!\ |
| 1025 | '''J:''' ''[In response to Tessa's goading as she punches the floor]'' THIS IS AN UNRELATED LAYOFF! |
| 1026 | * UnwittingPawn: While she initially believes that she is helping her old friend Tessa stop the Absolute Solver by helping destroy the escape pod they originally came in, "Mass Destruction" eventually reveals that Tessa has actually been DeadAllAlong and that it was just the Absolute Solver piloting her corpse the whole time while J is still unaware of the truth that it is still using her. |
| 1027 | * UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem: In the pilot, Uzi takes advantage of J distracting herself with her own monologuing by grabbing her own acidic tail and [[AgonyOfTheFeet sticking it in her foot]]. |
| 1028 | * {{Workaholic}}: J is very committed to labor in the workplace as a Disassembly Drone, and is always loyal to her employers. This gets to the point that she still believes Tessa is the real Tessa when she shows up again at the end of "Mass Destruction", still referring to her as "boss" even though she's actually the Solver in disguise, having been blinded by said loyalty. |
| 1029 | * YouHaveFailedMe: Wanted to do this to N for a while and finally got her chance once N makes a HeelFaceTurn. It doesn't last since Uzi was able to save him, leading N to pull a MistreatmentInducedBetrayal. |
| 1030 | [[/folder]] |
| 1031 | |
| 1032 | [[folder:Tessa]] |
| 1033 | !!Tessa James Elliot |
| 1034 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Daisy Rose [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Carmen Mazariegos (Latin-American Spanish), Lia Mello (Brazilian Portuguese), Anastasiya Bazova (Russian), Anya Andriyevs'ka (Ukrainian), Mika Deguchi (Japanese)[[/labelnote]] |
| 1035 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230609_222815.jpg]] |
| 1036 | [[caption-width-right:350: "Righty-o. Work to do, eh, J?"]] |
| 1037 | [[quoteright:150:[[labelnote:Click here to see how she appears in N's memories.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230609_223834.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 1038 | [[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see her without the suit]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tessa_flesh.png]] |
| 1039 | [[/labelnote]] |
| 1040 | An Australian [=JCJenson=] technician who comes to Copper 9 for "maintenance work". |
| 1041 | ---- |
| 1042 | * AbusiveParents: From what we can see in N's memories, her treating drones as if they were people didn't exactly put her on good terms with her parents - to the point that they chained her up when she wouldn't throw them out. |
| 1043 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: Apart from a brief cameo in N's flashback that told viewers nothing about her personality, Tessa's first appearance in the series proper was as an employee of the [[GreaterScopeVillain company behind the Disassembly Drones]] who arrived alongside a rebuilt J to the tune of ominous music, and immediately beheaded an unfortunate RedShirt. That introduction led many to initially peg her as a villain. While her sympathetic portrayal in the flashback section of ''Home'' muddied the water somewhat, the present day Tessa was shown dealing with [[SerialKiller Doll]], attempted to pull a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on her, and ended the episode in a MexicanStandoff with the main trio. ''Dead End'' seems to place Tessa as firmly among the good guys, however she's still working for [[EvilInc JCJenson]], and has a number of moments that give fans pause about trusting her. "Mass Destruction" eventually reveals that Tessa was a good person, [[DeadAllAlong but ended up being killed by the Solver at the Gala]] and her corpse was absorbed by it, becoming the "Tessa" shown in the present day. |
| 1044 | * AwesomeAussie: She has a prominent Australian accent (shared with her voice actress) and has fast, almost inhuman reflexes. |
| 1045 | * BodyHorror: Once that helmet is taken off, the sight is ''not'' pretty. "Tessa" is more accurately a corpse with the body of a Disassembly Drone used as a skeleton, leaving plenty of her skin torn apart and visibly stretched, her eyes completely gone with burn marks surrounding the sockets, and tendrils created by the Absolute Solver sticking out of her back. |
| 1046 | * BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Her sword and gun were on display before she and J grabbed them from an armor stand and a display case, respectively. |
| 1047 | * ChekhovsGunman: She's introduced in "Heartbeat" as a little girl who's supposedly friends with the Murder Drones. |
| 1048 | * CoolSword: Wields one and is very efficient with it if her swift attack on the lone Worker Drone is any indication. |
| 1049 | * DeadAllAlong: Tragically is revealed at the end of "Mass Destruction" that the Tessa we have been seeing is just nothing more that a pile of her remains in a robotic body as the main avatar for the Absolute Solver. |
| 1050 | * TheFaceless: Tessa's actual appearance is unknown to the viewers, hidden behind a helmet with opaque glass that covers her entire head. In N's flashbacks, she's shown as a black shadow with no visible features besides glowing eyes like all other humans at the Gala, but when she pulls up a report on the night of the Gala Massacre in "Dead End", the same silhouette of her can be seen in one of the pictures surrounded by [=JCJenson=] agents in hazmat suits, with the word "redacted" over her, suggesting this is ''not'' how she actually looks, but appears as such in N's memories due to their being blocked and nearly erased by the Absolute Solver, the "shadow" being the general shape of Tessa that N can remember. When her face ''is'' shown... it's no longer ''her'' face, but rather that of the Absolute Solver wearing her corpse, mangled to the point that it's hard to tell how much is natural and how much was just the state her body was left in at her time of death. |
| 1051 | * FiveSecondForeshadowing: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. While there ''is'' foreshadowing to the idea "Tessa" wasn't actually human, it's still very subtle until "Mass Destruction", in which it becomes very overt, particularly her willingness to kill Doll and Uzi despite ''knowing'' of a patch that could exorcise the Absolute Solver from them, and acting ''much'' more condescending to N. |
| 1052 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: "Tessa" being not a normal human but a corpse possessed by Cyn was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOqw86OGIB0&lc=UgxRQdwzdlSYp1_lbhZ4AaABAg hinted]] at in prior episodes to "Mass Destruction". |
| 1053 | ** "Heartbeat" has the Absolute Solver call the drones their "cute little puppets". Tessa referred to the drones as such a few times. |
| 1054 | ** "Home" has J close and block the ballroom door, meaning that Tessa couldn't have gotten out. At the epilogue, Tessa constantly messes with Doll, who can supposedly crush her like a tin can. That's because she knows she is immune to the Absolute Solver. |
| 1055 | ** "Dead End" shows that the Sentinels can be controlled by humans. Her access was denied because she isn't a real human. The Sentinels are also confused by her disguise, not knowing if she is human or robot. When she is bitten, she shrugs off the pain rather quickly and isn't worried about the damage to the suit that is supposed to protect her from the environment. Her photo is also censored due digital manipulation. She bleeds a lot more than a human should be able to handle. She also positions her arms like Cyn multiple times. |
| 1056 | * FriendlessBackground: While she had N, V, and J, Tessa's childhood seemed to lack any human peers her own age. |
| 1057 | * GadgeteerGenius: Had the technical knowhow to repair some scrapped drones while just a child, and grew up to be a certified drone technician. |
| 1058 | * GangstaStyle: Holds her revolver sideways when using it. |
| 1059 | * GenderBlenderName: She has a female first name and a male second name. |
| 1060 | * GenuineHumanHide: As revealed in Episode 7, Cyn/The Absolute Solver [[DeadAllAlong killed Tessa at the gala]] and used her skin for a disguise. Given the parts of Cyn that are still clearly visible, [[BodyHorror it isn't exactly a perfect fit.]] |
| 1061 | * GoodAllAlong: Despite her initial appearance and dubious associations, Tessa has been one of the good guys all along, [[AmbiguouslyEvil at least if she's being fully on the level]] with N in ''Dead End''. "Mass Destruction" eventually reveals that the "Tessa" in the present day is actually just the poor girl's corpse being worn by Cyn and the Absolute Solver while the real Tessa really was a good person. |
| 1062 | * GoodIsNotSoft: [[AmbiguouslyEvil Taken at face value]], Tessa is one of the more morally upstanding characters in the cast, [[ComedicSociopathy Not that she has much competition]]. However she also tried to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness dispose of]] Doll as soon as the latter handed her the keybug, was completely at ease in ''Home'' with the idea of [[WouldHurtAChild killing someone she described as a robo-child]] and she rescued from the dump, and has warned N that they're going to have to ShootTheDog with Uzi once the mission is done to stop her from being taken over by the Absolute Solver. All of this goes out the window with the reveal it was never ''actually'' Tessa, just her corpse being puppeteered by the Absolute Solver. |
| 1063 | * MeaningfulName: Her name means ‘reaper’ or ‘harvester’, most likely, alluding to a death reaper figure, since she turns out to be the Absolute Solver disguised and has killed millions across the series. |
| 1064 | * MysteriousPast: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, as we know about her past involving the Gala Massacre, but we know little about how she gained an interest in taking in Zombie Drones, nor what happened to her in between the massacre, the destruction of the Earth, and her coming to Copper 9, the only hint being that she at some point refined her skill with a gun and sword, and began to associate with [=JCJenson=] more directly. The last three get answered in a dark way: she ''didn't'' survive the massacre or the Earth's destruction, the Absolute Solver has just been puppeteering her corpse, pretending to be her to gain N and V's trust so she could access Camp 98.7. |
| 1065 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Her constant saving of discarded drones while being the only known human to ever treat them like people instead of tools got her killed and her corpse used as a puppet by one of them. Darker yet, Tessa went out of her way to attempt to thwart Cyn's massacre of her AbusiveParents and their gala ''after'' Cyn made it clear that she'd be spared (or at least get a slight stay of execution) if she didn't intervene, but Tessa didn't manage to change anything except that she died that much sooner amid the carnage. |
| 1066 | * NoSocialSkills: {{Implied|Trope}}, at least for her in the past. Her fondness for the Drones is considered abnormal by her parents, and before the gala, she's briefly panicking that "there's humans coming." |
| 1067 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Tessa returns on Copper 9 and tells J to watch their escape pod in "Dead End", she tells her in a colder way than she normally would which surprises even J and constantly talks in a much darker tone than she used to before the massacre. "Mass Destruction" also shows her destroy a patch that could help stop the Absolute Solver which would go against what she wanted to do and later kills Doll due to her serving her purpose. This eventually leads to the reveal that it isn't actually Tessa herself, but Cyn wearing her corpse. |
| 1068 | * RedHerring: Her first appearance suggests that she came to finish the job that N's squad failed to complete. "Dead End" shows that she's perfectly fine with the Drones in general, though it does turn out that she came to figure out which Drones are infected by the Absolute Solver so that they could be destroyed before the infection spreads, however her true intentions are less than altruistic. |
| 1069 | * ReflectiveEyes: The opaqueness of her helmet is used to reflect the eyes of those talking to her, giving the feeling that she is sharing similar emotions to them, but adding an element of ambiguity due to being unable to see her ''actual'' expression. Such as when she tells N he'll need to give Uzi a MercyKill, her helmet reflects his downcast eyes, giving the impression she doesn't like it either, but believes in TheNeedsOfTheMany. Whereas when V calls her out on not being able to control the Sentinels before glaring at her, her helmet reflects V's distrusting glare, giving the impression Tessa is not as trusting of V anymore either now that she's questioned her, in reality this is {{Invoked|Trope}} as a way to not suspect about her and who she truly is under that mask. |
| 1070 | * RevolversAreJustBetter: In addition to her sword, she also carries a revolver that strongly resembles a rather anachronistic Colt 1851 Navy, though it was possibly a recreation since it was a display piece before J picked it up and gave it to Tessa.[[note]]Its plaque read "It's A Revolver, IDK (Shut Up, Gun Nerds)"[[/note]] |
| 1071 | * {{Robosexual}}: Possibly. Upon reuniting with N as a Disassembly Drone, Tessa refers to him as "tall and handsome." She follows this up by petting N's hair affectionately after he catches her from falling, and later warns Uzi to not "date [her] robot" after catching her holding N's hand. |
| 1072 | ** Others have interpreted this as the behavior of a protective parent, older sibling, or pet owner. |
| 1073 | * ScaryShinyGlasses: Tessa's opaque space helmet creates an effect similar to this in tense moments, where, instead of any facial expressions, all that can be seen is the reflection of whoever she's talking to in the visor. |
| 1074 | * ShoutOut: To [[Animation/NextGen Justin Pin]]. Both are someone who are tied with the field of robotics and gets killed by a robot with their corpse being used as a puppet and a disguise. |
| 1075 | * SoleSurvivor: She seems to be the only survivor of the Gala Massacre, judging from the pictures. This gets subverted straight to hell once her ultimate fate is revealed in "Mass Destruction". |
| 1076 | * SwordAndGun: She wields both a sword and a revolver, which seem to be the exact same weapons as the ones she wielded against Cyn in ''Home''. |
| 1077 | * TokenHuman: Tessa is the only human character to appear in the present day, and the only human so far to play a significant role in the plot. Until she's revealed to be the Solver puppeteering Tessa's corpse, that is. |
| 1078 | * TroubledFetalPosition: A picture of her in "Dead End" has her doing this, clearly traumatised after seeing a Solver-possessed Cyn massacre the Gala. "Mass Destruction" however revealed that she actually didn't survive the Gala massacre with the implication that the picture was a fake created by the Absolute Solver to trick N into believing that she was still alive. |
| 1079 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: While Tessa genuinely cared about Worker Drones compared to the rest of humanity, her bringing Cyn into her home and attempting to repair her after she wasn't properly disposed of led to the Absolute Solver taking Cyn over and killing everyone at her parents Gala, herself included, as well as creating the Disassembly Drones and destroying Earth with the Solver later wearing her corpse over Cyn's body to trick the other Disassembly Drones to keep helping her. |
| 1080 | * WalkingSpoiler: It is hard to talk about her that doesn't involve practically everything about the plot. |
| 1081 | [[/folder]] |
| 1082 | |
| 1083 | [[folder:James]] |
| 1084 | !!James Elliot |
| 1085 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' David J.G Doyle. [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Javier Gómez (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/GuilhermeBriggs (Brazilian Portuguese), Yuriy Katarmanov (Russian), Yevhen Malukha (Ukrainian)[[/labelnote]] |
| 1086 | Tessa’s father, who originally owned N, V, and J back when they were Worker Drones. |
| 1087 | ---- |
| 1088 | * AbusiveParents: He is shown to look down on worker drones, including the ones his daughter Tessa brought into their home and was shown to allow his wife to chain up their daughter just for being friends with worker drones. Needless to say, both James and his wife were among the first of Cyn's victims when she slaughtered everyone at the gala. |
| 1089 | * AllThereInTheScript: His name only appears in the end credits. |
| 1090 | * AssholeVictim: He's killed by Cyn, but seeing how much of an ass he was isn't likely to get him sympathy points. |
| 1091 | * BadBoss: He treated the worker drones that served him like trash and even killed one for a petty reason such as the table they were moving at the time not being what he wanted. |
| 1092 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: In N's memory when Tessa is locked up by her parents, J calls both of Tessa's parents "corporates", implying that they are part of the company as well. |
| 1093 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: In his first appearance, he seems more cold and calculating, speaking in a calm tone. In "Home", he is far more emotional and petty, killing one Worker for not setting the table the right way. |
| 1094 | * EvilBrit: He's more of an Evil Aussie, but he still fits the bill. He's got an Australian accent and is horribly abusive towards the Worker Drones. |
| 1095 | * TheFaceless: Same as his daughter, Tessa. |
| 1096 | * KickTheDog: He casually kills one of his Drones for not setting the table for the gala the way he wanted. |
| 1097 | * KilledOffScreen: His death isn't shown. |
| 1098 | * SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Appears in the second episode. |
| 1099 | [[/folder]] |
| 1100 | |
| 1101 | [[folder:Louisa]] |
| 1102 | !!Louisa Elliot Frumpterbucket |
| 1103 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Cecilia Ramsdale. |
| 1104 | James' wife and Tessa's mother. |
| 1105 | ---- |
| 1106 | * AbusiveParents: Verbally demeans Tessa and chains up her in her room. |
| 1107 | * AllThereInTheScript: Her name only appears in the end credits. |
| 1108 | * AssholeVictim: One of Cyn's many victims but seeing how abusive she is, she isn't likely to get sympathy points. |
| 1109 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: In N's memory when Tessa is locked up by her parents, J calls both of Tessa's parents "corporates", implying that they are part of the company as well. |
| 1110 | * TheFaceless: Same as her daughter, Tessa. |
| 1111 | * OneShotCharacter: Only appears in "Home" |
| 1112 | * KilledOffScreen: Her death isn't shown. |
| 1113 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Hates and mistreats the Worker Drones that work for her and ends up being killed by them when Cyn takes control of them. |
| 1114 | [[/folder]] |
| 1115 | |
| 1116 | [[folder:Mitchell]] |
| 1117 | !!Mitchell the Intern |
| 1118 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Sean Chiplock |
| 1119 | A [=JCJenson=] intern who has the intense misfortune of working at Cabin Fever Labs the day of the Copper 9 core collapse. |
| 1120 | ---- |
| 1121 | * FailedASpotCheck: Notable {{averted|trope}} example: Mitchell instantly notices when the Sentinels outside the Cabin Fever cathedral go missing, doesn't brush off their absence, and recognizes the moment he steps back into the cathedal that things have gone FUBAR despite the Solver attempting to hide the fact with hologram projections. Not bad for a man who started the day putting on the wrong biohazard suit. |
| 1122 | * TheIntern: He is an inexperienced [=JCJenson=] intern. He gets mistaken for one of the head scientists instead. |
| 1123 | * OneShotCharacter: Only appears in "Mass Destruction" |
| 1124 | * KilledOffscreen: Presumably killed in the core collapse, but he runs out of the cathedral beforehand, meaning we don't see it happen. |
| 1125 | * MistakenForSpecialGuest: He (somehow) manages to put on the biohazard suit of one "Dr. Chambers" rather than his own, leading another scientist to think that he's more important and experienced than he actually is. |
| 1126 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Goes and fetches Yeva from her locker after a Solver-possessed Nori starts to go out of control. While this inadvertently dooms the planet, it does allow Yeva to rescue Nori, thus allowing Doll and Uzi to exist in the story's present day. |
| 1127 | [[/folder]] |
| 1128 | |
| 1129 | !Humans |
| 1130 | |
| 1131 | [[folder:Lord Frumpterbucket]] |
| 1132 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Jasmine Yang |
| 1133 | One of the many people who attend the gala. |
| 1134 | ---- |
| 1135 | * AerithAndBob: The Aerith to Katie's Bob. |
| 1136 | * BloodKnight: Enthusiastically breaks out into YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe when watching J and V fight. |
| 1137 | * TheFaceless: Same as James, Louisa and Tessa in the flashbacks. |
| 1138 | * OneShotCharacter: Appears only in "Home" |
| 1139 | * KilledOffscreen: Is among the many casualties of the Gala Massacre but his death isn't shown. |
| 1140 | * YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Does this when he sees the fight between J and V with Katie asking him why he's talking like that. |
| 1141 | -->'''Lord Frumpterbucket:''' Crikey! What a boundin' ''[[PerfectlyCromulentWord humphterfuffel]]''!\ |
| 1142 | '''Katie:''' ''[unamused]'' Why are you talking like that? |
| 1143 | [[/folder]] |
| 1144 | |
| 1145 | [[folder:Katie]] |
| 1146 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Daisy Rose |
| 1147 | One of the many people who attend the gala. |
| 1148 | ---- |
| 1149 | * AerithAndBob: The Bob to Lord Frumpterbucket’s Aerith. |
| 1150 | * TheFaceless: Same as the other humans in the flashbacks. |
| 1151 | * OneShotCharacter: Appears only in "Home" |
| 1152 | * KilledOffscreen: Is among the many casualties of the Gala Massacre but her death isn't shown. |
| 1153 | * SocialMediaBeforeReason: During J and V's fight, instead of warning her fellow Gala attendees, she pulls out her phone and starts recording the fight. |
| 1154 | [[/folder]] |
| 1155 | |
| 1156 | !Absolute Solver |
| 1157 | |
| 1158 | [[folder:The Absolute Solver]] |
| 1159 | !!The Absolute Solver |
| 1160 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ec503d22_33bf_40c2_9aa0_81a58a39573a.png]] |
| 1161 | [[caption-width-right:350:''[[AC:"The [[RealityWarper Solver of the Absolute Fabric]], the [[EldritchAbomination Void]], the [[OmnicidalManiac Exponential End]]!"]]'']] |
| 1162 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Allanah Fitzgerald, Creator/DeeBradleyBaker (vocal effects, uncredited)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Gabriela Olarieta (Latin-American Spanish, "Heartbeat" original dub), Sofía Pimentel (Latin-American Spanish, "Home" onward and "Heartbeat" re-dub), Priscila Amorim (Brazilian Portuguese), Anastasiya Pakhomova (Russian), Iryna Fevchuk (Ukrainian), Shiori Honma (Japanese)[[/labelnote]] |
| 1163 | |
| 1164 | The main antagonist, an [[DigitalAbomination unimaginably powerful computer program]] of unknown origin that seems to be key to the operation of Disassembly Drones. The Absolute Solver can manipulate matter on the molecular level, creating virtually anything it desires out of thin air. When a drone "host" is destroyed, it begins to scavenge its surroundings for new materials to rebuild it -- with horrifying results. It is also responsible for giving Doll, Uzi and other infected Drones telekinetic abilities and [[HorrorHunger a craving for oil]]. |
| 1165 | ---- |
| 1166 | !!In General |
| 1167 | * AIIsACrapshoot: It's left ambiguous what the Solver actually ''is'', but it's digital in nature and a threat to both drones and humans alike. The fact that it's called a "Solver" implies that it was supposed to serve a ''good'' purpose by helping to fix things, but due to its overwhelming power and lack of a moral code, ended up going haywire and becoming the monstrous being that it's known as instead. |
| 1168 | * AmbiguousSituation: |
| 1169 | ** What the Absolute Solver actually ''is''. It could potentially be the corrupted AI personality of Cyn, a form of sentient computer virus, or something even worse. Episode 6 provides ''some'' context, with it being a ''[[DigitalAbomination thing]]'' that took Cyn as its host, and can emerge in damaged AI. |
| 1170 | ** It's left ambiguous as to whether the Solver's apparent care for Tessa is Cyn's remaining influence or genuine. The Solver does seem apologetic for murdering her family and their guests in front of her, but also shows no hesitation in trying to murder her. Complicating matters is that the Solver feels nothing for N besides viewing him as another victim, despite the implication Cyn was close to him prior to her possession. |
| 1171 | * TheAssimilator: The Absolute Solver assimilates organic and inorganic materials alike into itself to build up its own body, or alternatively to construct more Disassembly Drones. Considering the fact it destroyed multiple inhabited planets prior to the events of the series, there's a possibility it also subsumed innumerable lifeforms into its own code. That's not mentioning how it absorbed Cyn's original body and later absorbed Tessa's while wearing her corpse over Cyn's. |
| 1172 | * AxCrazy: The Solver gleefully brings bloodshed and chaos wherever it goes. |
| 1173 | * BadassBoast: The Absolute Solver proclaims itself to be "the Solver of the Absolute Fabric, the Void, the Exponential End". |
| 1174 | * BodyHorror: Wherever it goes, highly disturbing and squishy amalgamations of organic and mechanical components follow -- examples being the 'hands' and 'heart' of Eldritch J, the blob of flesh with eyes which generates when Uzi stops an arrow, and Uzi's faux Murder Drone wings and tail. |
| 1175 | ** "Mass Destruction" give us a demonstration of how an human corrupted by it should look, and saying it's ugly would be just the beginning to describe it. |
| 1176 | * BadBadActing: A crafty example. It's perfectly capable of making convincing illusions and performances, but it also puts on incredibly sketchy performances with obvious holograms to dupe the stupidest Worker Drones, and to lure more savvy drones like Uzi into a false sense of confidence. |
| 1177 | * BigBad: Whatever it is, it's pulling the strings behind just about everything going on, from [[EarthThatWas destroying Earth]], to siccing the Disassembly Drones on the Worker Drones, to granting Doll her powers, to possessing Uzi, to lots more. |
| 1178 | * BigBadFriend: N saw Cyn as a friend, and the Solver seemingly reciprocated even long after it fully took over her. The Solver still somewhat mockingly refers to N as a friend, but it's ultimately so sociopathic that it's idea of "friendship" is to keep N as a brainwashed puppet. |
| 1179 | * CallingYourAttacks: "Sneaking away." "Claw swipe." |
| 1180 | * CardCarryingVillain: The Solver has quite the opinion of itself when it comes to the fact that it's a homicidal monstrosity, using holograms of two of its victims to congratulate itself. |
| 1181 | -->'''Tim hologram:''' Flawless character acting, me.\ |
| 1182 | '''Frank hologram:''' Improv game for more practice?\ |
| 1183 | '''Tim hologram:''' ''[laughs]'' We ''are'' a monster. |
| 1184 | * TheChessmaster: It refers to the Drones as "our cute puppets" and is responsible for the events of the pilot episode because it is the one that made the Disassembly Drones attack the Worker Drones. It's also responsible for Doll's powers and turning Uzi into a vampire. As of "Dead End", it has been revealed that it had at least temporarily used Uzi's mother, Nori, as a host, controlling her and wreaking havoc on Cabin Fever Labs, and it apparently destroyed the Earth almost completely out of nowhere. |
| 1185 | * ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The various drones infected with it are given separate colours to help distinguish whose powers are in action. |
| 1186 | ** Doll and Yeva - Red |
| 1187 | ** Uzi and Nori - Purple |
| 1188 | ** Cyn - Yellow - Though given Uzi and Nori's eyes started turning yellow when the Solver began overtaking them, this might be the color of the Absolute Solver itself. |
| 1189 | * TheCorrupter: The Solver corrupts anyone it infects. N, J, and V were perfectly ordinary and decent drones before the Solver warped them into Murder Drones and erased their memories to keep them compliant, and it's slowly corrupting Uzi and Doll as well. It's heavily implied the end result will be them becoming another monstrous vessel for the Solver's will like Cyn did. |
| 1190 | * TheCorruption: The Solver transforms anything it infects into horrific monsters laden with BodyHorror. |
| 1191 | * CosmicMotifs: The Solver is heavily associated with black holes. Not only do aspects of it seem to turn into black holes when destroyed, it seems [[PoweredByABlackHole to draw power from them]]. |
| 1192 | * DeadPersonImpersonation: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The drones it mimics don't need to be dead, as Thad is lucky enough to attest to, but a number of them are indeed its victims. |
| 1193 | * DemonicPossession: The Solver gradually takes over those it infects until it totally subsumes their personalities. It's currently inflicting the process on Uzi and Doll, and it's implied it already did so to Cyn. It can also take over the bodies of damaged Disassembly Drones, possessing J after her head is blown off by Uzi. |
| 1194 | * DigitalAbomination: Probably the best way to describe whatever it is -- it seems to be some sort of computer program, albeit one which seems to regard reality as a plaything. Most notably, a parallel can be drawn from the more common powers used by the infected drones to features in 3D modeling programs, as pointed out in [[AllThereInTheManual one piece of]] [[https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxWhV9IdFqqNmbvU57w6t4gorxs4PCTH76 concept art]]. |
| 1195 | -->'''Uzi:''' What's with the voice, J?\ |
| 1196 | '''Absolute Solver:''' [[AC:[[DemonicPossession J's not here.]] We are trying to repair that host, as per our directive.]]\ |
| 1197 | '''Uzi:''' So you ''are'' a program?\ |
| 1198 | '''Absolute Solver:''' [[AC:[[{{Foreshadowing}} More like you are our cute puppets.]]]] |
| 1199 | * TheDreaded: As it would appear, pretty much everyone in this series fears or despises the Solver and for good reason, with it being a totally ruthless, destructive AI with an unknown agenda. The only times otherwise has been shown is regarding the Solver entity itself, as it clearly has quite the ego. |
| 1200 | * EarthShatteringKaboom: Before the series proper had even started, it supposedly destroyed Earth and replaced it with a singularity. It's implied that the same thing happened to Earth's neighbouring systems, and that it's responsible for the Copper 9 core collapse as well. |
| 1201 | * EldritchAbomination: The Solver violates the laws of physics with ease and most of its forms are composed of horrifying mixtures between flesh and machinery. All that's known of the Solver's origins is that it was ''not'' created by humanity, and even that's sketchy. N lampshades it in "Home". |
| 1202 | -->'''N:''' You know, Cyn, for an eldritch monster thingy-\ |
| 1203 | '''Absolute Solver:''' [[AC:[[BadassBoast The solver of the Absolute Fabric, the void,]] ''[[BadassBoast the exponential end!]]'']] |
| 1204 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Downplayed. The Absolute Solver seems to value Tessa, at least enough to try to warn her off watching the bloodbath at the gala because she "seems squeamish". It's left ambiguous as to whether it's a result of Cyn's remaining influence, genuine respect on the Solver's part, or [[BatmanGambit part of its plans]]. In the end however, it doesn't stop the Absolute Solver from killing her and puppeteering her corpse. |
| 1205 | * EvilVersusOblivion: The [[OmnicidalManiac Exponential End]] to [=JCJenson's=] slick talking corporate villainy. |
| 1206 | * FalseFriend: N genuinely regarded Cyn as a friend and looked out for her as best he could. While it's implied Cyn reciprocated, the Solver was only ever pretending while possessing her, and had absolutely no compunction about transforming him into a Murder Drone. It later tries to erase his memories of his HeelFaceTurn to make N servile to it once more via MeatGrinderSurgery, and is cheerfully blasé about doing so even after he appeals to their friendship. |
| 1207 | * FauxAffablyEvil: The Solver is witty, sarcastic, and frequently makes causal conversation with its intended victims. It never overshadows how much of a monster the Solver is, and how much it enjoys inflicting horrific violence. |
| 1208 | * FirstEpisodeTwist: This thing's very existence, and the lurch the series takes towards a CosmicHorrorStory as a result. |
| 1209 | * ForTheEvulz: While the Solver is shrouded in mystery, it’s very clearly motivated primarily by sadism. It goes out of its way to torment its victims before killing them, puts the people it possesses through psychological torture and horrific BodyHorror, and transformed its "friends" into brainwashed, murderous monsters for no other reason than it finds it entertaining. |
| 1210 | * GrandTheftMe: The ultimate fate of those the Solver infects is to be taken over by it and become another vessel for it. It already did so to Cyn, almost completely succeeded with Nori and inflicts this process on Doll and Uzi. While it decided to kill Doll before she fully succumbed and almost succeeded with Uzi, it's revealed that it had already killed Tessa and possessed her corpse. |
| 1211 | * GravityMaster: In addition to controlling matter, the Absolute Solver appears to have the ability to control gravity, as evidenced by its propensity to generate black holes. |
| 1212 | * HiddenAgendaVillain: It's unclear what exactly the Solver wants beyond slaughtering everything in its path, and its goals and origins are shrouded in mystery. |
| 1213 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: |
| 1214 | ** Uzi's railgun exploding destroys most of its "Eldritch J" body, something that happened because it disarmed Uzi and stabbed the gun's power source. |
| 1215 | ** If it is believed to be an individual, then Worker Drones possessing its power can be considered this as, even though it can assume control over those infected with it, it appears to only be able to assume full control over one drone at a time and it can't stop drones from using its power to work against its goals. It also appears to be unable to actually remove its power from drones who were infected with it, explaining why it prefers killing those drones as to avoid them eventually opposing it (Nori being a notable example). |
| 1216 | * HologramProjectionImperfection: Several of its holograms are rather obvious, as they are surrounded by a blue light cone from their projector, are transparent, and flicker and distort constantly. Not all of them are like this, however, though even the seemingly-perfect holograms briefly flicker and turn transparent when they are turned off. |
| 1217 | * HorrorHunger: In addition to instilling this upon those it affects, it has a habit of constantly referencing eating its prey. |
| 1218 | * ItsAllAboutMe: As part of its apparent agenda, the Solver has no regard for the lives of others and merely sees them as a means to an end. This makes it stand out for how egotistical it really is. |
| 1219 | * {{Jerkass}}: While the Solver is usually [[FauxAffablyEvil falsely polite]], it's also incredibly smug and constantly talks down to its victims just before murdering them in an incredibly brutal way. |
| 1220 | * KnightOfCerebus: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, given that the show is a BlackComedy, with much of the violence and the Murder Drones' shenanigans PlayedForLaughs. The Solver, however; as LaughablyEvil as its personality and goof-ups are, its actions, cruelty, and above all the existential threat it poses to both the characters and the setting are played very seriously. It's a horrific EldritchAbomination, with a sense of humor and a sadistic love of inflicting BodyHorror and a psychopathic outlook on drones as its toys. |
| 1221 | * LaughablyEvil: While certainly monstrous, it still has a snarky sense of humor, making [[CallingYourAttacks pointless attack names]] and [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud vocalized sound effects]]. |
| 1222 | * LovecraftianSuperpower: ''In spades''. Whether because of its RealityWarper abilities, or because of its ability to turn things, or Uzi herself, into all kinds of eldritch horrors, the Absolute Solver is definitely this. |
| 1223 | * MachineMonotone: Its voice has a distinctive flat, synthetic style vaguely reminiscent of [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} a certain Aperture Science AI]]. |
| 1224 | * MasterOfIllusion: The holograms it creates are so convincing that Uzi is left wondering which parts of her confrontation with it were real or not. |
| 1225 | * MechanicalAbomination: [[AmbiguousSituation Possibly]]. Its "real" body is a tiny organic-looking parasite that can nestle easily in a drone's chest, but the form it uses to hunt drones appears to be some kind of monstrous, mechanical worm with extendable eyes, claws, and a realistic-looking human hand that may or may not be real, the scope of which is never fully shown--if anything about its body even real to begin with, that is. Its mere nature is also freaky enough to completely unsettle Uzi and overturn everything she knows about the Disassembly Drones, which she initially took for simple murder bots not much different from herself. |
| 1226 | ** The parasite is apparently just a corrupt Worker/Disassembly Drone core, with more having been seen in jars in ''Dead End''. It may have simply originated as a program that ''chooses'' to manifest as a long-bodied, many-limbed bio-mechanical monstrosity. |
| 1227 | ** Not to mention what it did with Tessa's corpse shows Cyn's drone body as a skeleton underneath her skin. |
| 1228 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: The Solver's BadBadActing and inability to conceal itself makes it come across as comical and bumbling, and only really successful because most Worker Drones are TooDumbToLive. It becomes clear that the Solver is actually just toying with its prey and proves itself to be a very dangerous and clever opponent. It really ''is'' bumbling, but it's so powerful and borderline unstoppable that it can afford to be. |
| 1229 | * OmnicidalManiac: The Solver's plans are left mysterious, but it doesn't really seem to have an end goal outside of slaughtering everyone in its way; it has supposedly even destroyed several inhabited planets, including ''Earth''. |
| 1230 | * OrganicTechnology: Its ability to manipulate and change matter allows it to seemingly blur the line between organic and inorganic material, so it can augment purely mechanical things with living flesh and organs [[BodyHorror in ways that aren't pretty]]. |
| 1231 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: Not only does it allow those infected with it to leave large swaths of corpses and viscera behind, it's revealed in "Dead End" that it supposedly destroyed Earth. |
| 1232 | * PoweredByABlackHole: {{Implied|Trope}}, with the Absolute Solver having at least ''something'' to do with singularities. The 'heart' of "Eldritch J" disappears into a black hole when N kills it, Nori's RoomFullOfCrazy includes drawings of singularities, and N's flashback on touching the "Zombie Drones" video includes a shot of what looks like a black hole as well. In addition, Cyn's comments about being "the Solver of the Absolute Fabric, the Void, the Exponential End" further deepen the link to black holes, though it's uncertain as to if Cyn is claiming these as three different titles (marking Cyn ''as'' "the Void") or as one title with the latter two declarations being clarifications (marking Cyn as something that ''solves'' the Void). "Dead End" and "Mass Destruction" reveal that the Solver destroyed Earth by turning the planet's core into a singularity, and it apparently wants to do the same to Copper 9, with the Solver in Cyn remarking before descending into Copper 9's core that it's starving. |
| 1233 | * RealityWarper: As shown by Uzi turning an arrow into a screaming, flailing ''something,'' the Absolute Solver grants the power to turn inorganic material into biological matter. It also allows Doll to make duplicates of weapons out of thin air. |
| 1234 | * RoyalWe: It uses terms like "our" and "us" when telling Uzi about its role in the plot when she first encounters it, despite it only being a singular entity, from what has been observed. |
| 1235 | * {{Sadist}}: The Solver deeply enjoys hurting people and takes great pleasure in slaughtering humans and drones alike, or inflicting BodyHorror on its hosts. |
| 1236 | * SatanicArchetype: The Absolute Solver is a deeply powerful and deeply malevolent force that possesses and corrupts Drones into twisted and violent monstrosities, and it was heavily implied to have taken hosts in Zombie Drones by [[DealWithTheDevil making deals with them to get them out of their desperate situations]]. "Mass Destruction", as part of its ReligiousHorror motif, blatantly compares it with the Devil. [=JCJenson=] scientists, led by one inexplicably dressed in papal attire, tried to contain it by binding a possessed Nori in a church and using a device with a pentagram light display to immobilize her when she tried to attack. The USB patch to "exorcise" it takes the form of a holy cross. |
| 1237 | * SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: The Absolute Solver is prone to saying the ononmatopeia of an action rather than actually doing it. |
| 1238 | -->'''Absolute Solver:'''[[AC:Snarl.]] |
| 1239 | * TheSociopath: The Solver's personality is extremely psychopathic. It has no real sense of empathy or compassion whatsoever, seeing any and all other sentient beings as nothing more than toys that it can use, reshape or break as it pleases; its only real concern seems to be enjoying itself by slaughtering as many people as it can; it's profoundly cunning and manipulative when it needs to be, to the point where it was able to impersonate a grown-up Tessa in order to get to and erase all evidence of the anti-Solver patch; and it has an extremely high opinion of itself. |
| 1240 | * SupernaturalGoldEyes: Anything and everything related to the Solver has yellow eyes. |
| 1241 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: Manifests as this to Uzi if she overuses her powers. |
| 1242 | * TermsOfEndangerment: It sarcastically refers to N as "buddy", and later as "big brother", even while trying to lobotomize him and V. |
| 1243 | * TooDumbToLive: Its instance in J's body would have gotten away if it didn't [[WithCatlikeTread loudly announce its every action]]. |
| 1244 | * TheVirus: Among [[MechanicalAbomination other things]], it's a sentient computer virus that turns Drones into robot equivalents to vampires. Tessa outright calls it a "sickness" at one point. |
| 1245 | * WithCatlikeTread: J's Solver-infected core's attempt to sneak off after its defeat doesn't exactly go unnoticed, since it blatantly announces its attempts to do so. |
| 1246 | -->'''Absolute Solver:'''[[AC:''"Sneaky sneaky. Sneaking away. Get snuck upon."'']] |
| 1247 | * WouldHurtAChild: It killed Tessa and has been using her corpse as its body at the gala. |
| 1248 | [[/folder]] |
| 1249 | |
| 1250 | [[folder:Cyn]] |
| 1251 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Allanah Fitzgerald [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Sofía Pimentel (Latin-American Spanish), Anastasiya Pakhomova (Russian), Iryna Fevchuk (Ukrainian), Shiori Honma (Japanese)[[/labelnote]] |
| 1252 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230609_221709.jpg]] |
| 1253 | [[caption-width-right:350:"They are not broken. We can no longer be... ''thrown out''."]] |
| 1254 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:"You didn't have to see this."]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230609_222029_9.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 1255 | |
| 1256 | A Worker Drone rescued from the dump by Tessa who was close with J, V, and particularly N. As a "zombie drone" that spontaneously rebooted after being improperly disposed of, Cyn was infected by the Absolute Solver, becoming its first known host. Though she's nowhere to be seen in 3071, Cyn's legacy looms heavily over the events of the show. |
| 1257 | ---- |
| 1258 | * AmbiguousSituation: By time of the ill-fated Elliot Manor Gala, it seems like "Cyn" is just a [[EmptyShell Shell]] used by the Absolute Solver as a [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith Disguise]]. It's up in the air whether that’s been the case since "Cyn" rebooted, and her brother/sister relationship with N was just a means of emotional manipulation, or if the Solver gradually subsumed the Worker Drone Cyn's personality like its currently threatening to do with Uzi. In the latter scenario, the question then becomes how much of the real Cyn is left, if anything? |
| 1259 | ** Two point in favor of the second interpretation is how Cyn's movement seemed far more natural during her first appearance in the Episode 2 flashback, along with the parts in Episode 5 where she shows genuine seeming emotions and affection towards N. |
| 1260 | ** However, a point against the second interpretation - and against Cyn being subsumed - is that a 'Cyn' blocks the Absolute Solver in N in the pilot. Alternatively, she could still have some presence to block the Solver in N. |
| 1261 | * AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The Absolute Solver seems to use Cyn's appearance and persona for this, leading to the two often being conflated in universe. |
| 1262 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: While Cyn's clearly evil ''now'', it's ambiguous how much of her behavior is caused by the Solver's infection, given how easily it can influence the minds of its victims. There are hints Cyn has some degree of autonomy, but it's also implied she's mostly been subsumed by the Solver's personality. |
| 1263 | * ApocalypseMaiden: The only potential [[AvertedTrope Aversion]] of this trope among the Absolute Solver hosts: a FreezeFrameBonus indicates Cyn [[WillingChanneler Willingly]] accepted the Solver's influence, though it's entirely possible she didn't have any idea what she was signing up for, in which case it's {{Downplayed|Trope}} given her questionable agency. |
| 1264 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Cyn ([[AmbiguousSituation or perhaps the Solver at that point]]) seems to have some degree of respect for Tessa, and didn't want her to be upset by having to watch the massacre of her parents and their dinner party guests. |
| 1265 | * BodyHorror: Cyn's true form by the time of the Elliot Manor gala was that of a massive AS parasite, with all the unsettling qualities that implied. |
| 1266 | * BodySnatcher: Might capable of doing so, if V's comment of "New body, same horrors" is anything to go by, [[AmbiguousSituation though she might have been conflating Cyn with the Solver there.]] |
| 1267 | * CreepyChild: Her eerie yellow eyes, monotonous voice, and habit of narrating her actions aloud all make her pretty unnerving. |
| 1268 | * TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: While Cyn might have once cared about N, Tessa, and the others, by the time of the Gala she was utterly callous to the idea of N being killed for standing up to her, implying she either went through this, or suffered a complete GrandTheftMe by the Solver. |
| 1269 | * DealWithTheDevil: Cyn made a deal with the [[EldritchAbomination Absolute Solver]] after rebooting in a badly damaged state beneath a mountain of dead worker drones. The terms aren't fully elucidated, however what's been shown indicates Cyn agreed to become a host for the Solver in exchange for the power to escape her predicament, and a promise that she wouldn't be "discarded" again. |
| 1270 | * DeathOfPersonality: Ultimately it seems that whatever the Absolute Solver did to her, it completely rewrote and erased any and all traces of her former personality prior to it using her as its first host. |
| 1271 | * DevilInPlainSight: It was apparent that there was something '''''wrong''''' with Cyn by the time of the Gala, with Tessa's mother even calling her an "Antichrist". It's unclear whether Tessa thought she could 'fix' Cyn, or was just too frightened to do anything about it. In fact, it's implied that N was the only individual in Elliot Manor who ''didn't'' think Cyn was suspicious. |
| 1272 | * TheDreaded: V seeing that Uzi is influenced by "Cyn's" influence is enough to make her immediately try to kill Uzi. |
| 1273 | * EarlyBirdCameo: If one looks closely when N reboots in episode one, the log that appears in his vision contains the line "STRING 'ABSOLUTE SOLVER' BLOCKED BY ADMINISTRATION 'CYN". |
| 1274 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The Worker Drone Cyn is [[ImpliedTrope implied]] to have genuinely cared about N, and there are moments in ''Home'' that suggest that she wasn't entirely gone by then. |
| 1275 | * GrandTheftMe: ''Dead End'' indicates that Cyn and the Absolute Solver are 'not' one and the same; Cyn (the Worker Drone) was merely its first host, and going off the dialogue that scrolls across Cyn's visor at one point, there ''was'' a real Cyn in there, at least initially. |
| 1276 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Being the first host of the Absolute Solver, Cyn is ultimately responsible for the series' events, directly or not. |
| 1277 | * HiddenAgendaVillain: If enough remains of Cyn's personality in 3071 to even consider her a distinct character from the Absolute Solver, it's not clear what she intended to do with the Disassembly Drones, or with the research in Cabin Fever labs. |
| 1278 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: Her legacy is such that V seems to consider it imperative to put Uzi down when she starts losing control of her powers in a fashion reminiscent of Cyn. |
| 1279 | * MachineMonotone: Even as a "Worker Drone", Cyn has a very obvious "text to speech" like voice. It's unclear whether this and her habit of SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud are quirks of her damaged AI the Absolute Solver adopted as its own, or a sign of how far along the Solver's influence over her was by ''Home''. |
| 1280 | * MysteriousPast: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. We know ''how'' she ended up becoming affected by the Absolute Solver, but outside of that, a ''lot'' of her past is an unknown. We don't know how she was originally deactivated before reactivating as a Zombie Drone, why ''she'' was the first Zombie Drone to noticeably carry the Absolute Solver, nor how Tessa first found her. We likewise don't know ''why'' her relationship with Tessa appears to have turned antagonistic between her introduction to N, V, and J, and the night she killed all the humans, as Tessa and J had kept her locked in the basement the night of the massacre even ''before'' she went rogue, and Tessa is notably annoyed at seeing N brought her despite being the one to bring Cyn into the mansion in the first place. |
| 1281 | * PatientZero: She's the first known host of the Absolute Solver. |
| 1282 | * PredecessorVillain: Cyn was the first drone taken as a host by the Absolute Solver, and the true creator of the Disassembly Drones. She's nowhere to be seen in 3071 however, and might very well have been [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness "discarded"]] by the Solver, despite its promises to the contrary. |
| 1283 | * SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: As with the Absolute Solver, Cyn likes to announce ''every single thing'' that she does. |
| 1284 | -->''"Climbing. Crisscross applesauce."\ |
| 1285 | "Sheepish nod."\ |
| 1286 | "Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle."'' |
| 1287 | * SupernaturalGoldEyes: Has these as a sign of the Solver's possession. |
| 1288 | * TomTheDarkLord: Being one of the avatars for the Absolute Solver, Cyn is its name, which is an abbreviation for Cynthia. |
| 1289 | * UncannyValley: When in her Worker Drone form, her movement is very stilted, moving not too dissimilar to that of a marionette, which helps sell her unsettling appearance. This wasn't the case in her first appearance during N's flashback in ''Heartbeat'', implying that her condition degenerated over time as the Absolute Solver's influence on her grew. |
| 1290 | * UndeadChild: Her [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the Solver]] reactivated her after she was improperly disassembled, making her what's known as a Zombie Drone. |
| 1291 | * UngratefulBastard: N was the only person in the mansion who was friendly to Cyn; even Tessa didn't like her. It didn't stop Cyn from putting N through the very messy process to a Disassembly Drone. Possibly {{Subverted|Trope}} if "Cyn's" personality was completely overwritten by the Absolute Solver by ''Home''. |
| 1292 | * WillingChanneler: A FreezeFrameBonus of Cyn's visor during ''Home'' suggests Cyn made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the Absolute Solver]] to become this. Though it looks like she didn't agree to being gradually taken over by the Solver. |
| 1293 | * YouWillBeSpared: Despite only treating her marginally better, Cyn initially doesn't include Tessa in her "kill all humans" plans and even warns her to stay away from the Gala before going off to kill everyone else in the mansion. |
| 1294 | ** She seems to have changed her mind after Tessa showed up anyway, though. |
| 1295 | [[/folder]] |
| 1296 | |
| 1297 | !Others |
| 1298 | [[folder:The Keybug]] |
| 1299 | [[quoteright:755:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0464.png]] |
| 1300 | A mysterious golden roach that Uzi encounters at Camp 98.7. It appears to hold the key to the secrets within the Cabin Fever Labs. |
| 1301 | ---- |
| 1302 | * ButtMonkey: It gets caught in a tug-of-war between Uzi and Doll, it is kidnapped by Doll, twice and finally when Tessa briefly gets it back, she spins it on her finger, making the poor roach sick. And then Doll squashes it into the panel opening the way to the secret lab. |
| 1303 | * CyberGreen: It has green glowing lights. |
| 1304 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: When Doll snatches it from Tessa in the Cabin Fever Labs, she activates the secret elevator by smashing the Keybug into the panel. |
| 1305 | -->'''Keybug:''' [bruh.jpg] 💀 |
| 1306 | * GoldColoredSuperiority: Unlike its fellow roaches, it is golden and has a higher plot relevance. |
| 1307 | * {{MacGuffin}}: Seems to be this as it's a key part of the mystery surrounding the Cabin Fever Labs. |
| 1308 | * MechanicalInsects: Is a robot in the form of a bug. |
| 1309 | * TalkingWithSigns: Communicates exclusively via hologram displays. |
| 1310 | [[/folder]] |
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