These are some of the characters from Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and tropes which are associated with them.
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Captain Scarlet
- Voiced by: Francis Matthews
Real Name: Paul Metcalfe. Spectrum's primary agent. Captain Scarlet was killed shortly after the Mysterons' declaration of war and was reconstructed by them to serve as one of their agents. However, events led to him being freed from their control and becoming Spectrum's greatest asset in their fight against the Mysterons, in part thanks to being near-indestructible.
- Bring My Red Jacket: Wears red and frequently receives fatal injuries.
- Clone Angst: Averted - it never really comes up, and his colleagues seem to treat him as the "original" Scarlet with no trouble. Played with in the CGI remake. Scarlet witnesses a replicant's construction and angsts over his state. A pep talk from Blue snaps him out of it.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: His puppet and voice was based on Cary Grant.
- Death Is Cheap: Even in situations that would normally kill an ordinary person, he manages to recover.
- Forgot About His Powers: His ability to sense when a Mysteron is nearby doesn't show up in every episode.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: Fatal wounds heal completely in just a few hours. (The one exception, stated by Captain Blue, is a High-Voltage Death.)
- Healing Factor: What his indestructibility is like in practice. Not being able to withstand anything, but recover from anything.
- Heel–Face Turn: It's easy to forget that this isn't the original Captain Scarlet and is instead a mysterious replicant tool of the enemy, who turned against his creators. Of course, since he has the original's memories and for all intents and purposes is him, from his own perspective it's probably more like having had a brief, mind-controlled Face–Heel Turn.
- High-Voltage Death: His Achilles' Heel, as Captain Blue makes clear: "High voltage is the one thing that can kill you."
- Phlebotinum Rebel: Having being reconstructed by the Mysterons and then freed from their control.
- Red Is Heroic: He wears red and is a brave and reliable man.
- The Hero Dies: in "Attack On Cloudbase", he is finally killed by The Mysterons. Subverted. It turns out to be a nightmare that Symphony was having.
Captain Blue
- Voiced by: Ed Bishop
Real Name: Adam Svenson. One of Spectrum's main agents, who often works together with Captain Scarlet.
- Blue Is Heroic: Extremely dedicated agent. To the point that White sometimes has to order him to back off and let Scarlet do something dangerous, because Blue would never survive.
- Honor Before Reason: Bluntly put, may be the reason he often chooses to stick with Scarlet when going into dangerous situations unless explicitly ordered to stay out, considering that he would die in such situations where Scarlet has at least a better chance of getting out.
- Ship Tease: With Symphony.
- The Lancer: Though on rare occasions, this role falls to Lieutenant Green.
- Undying Loyalty: He would rather jump out Cloudbase's window than spill confidential information. Fortunately, the one time he decides to prove it, he was just in a mock-up.
Colonel White
- Voiced by: Donald Gray
Real Name: Charles Gray. Commander-in-chief of Spectrum.
- The Captain: For Spectrum.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Regardless of what his agents have to do to complete their assignments, White always understands and accepts the consequences of their actions.
Lieutenant Green
- Voiced by: Cy Grant
Real Name: Seymour Griffiths. Chief controller of operations aboard Cloudbase.
- Black Dude Dies First: Inverted Trope. In the "Attack on Cloudbase" in Symphony's dream, he is the last person to die before the dream ends.
- Promotion to Parent: According to promotional materials, he found himself in charge of raising his eight siblings at the age of twelve, when they lost their parents in an air disaster.
- Token Minority: He is of Trinidadian origin.
Captain Black
- Voiced by: Donald Gray
Real Name: Conrad Turner. Former Spectrum agent and the Mysterons' primary agent. Captain Black led the mission to investigate the alien signals coming Mars. Discovering the Mysterons' complex, he mistook their scanner for a weapon and opened fire, leading to the Mysterons declaring war against the Earth, taking him over to serve as their primary agent.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: The entire reason why the war of nerves started was because Captain Black had ordered the crew of the Martian Exploration Vehicle to open fire on the Mysterons even though the purpose of the mission was to make peaceful contact with the aliens and not attack them, simply because he believed that the Mysterons were about to open fire on him and his crew.
- Cold Sniper: Has shades of this, like shooting a target in the heart or through his glasses, all while maintaining his creepy stoicism.
- Dark Is Evil: Yeah, he used to be a good guy (if a somewhat trigger-happy one, based on what we see in the first episode). His name says it all for his role in the show, though.
- The Dragon: As the Mysterons' primary agent on Earth.
- Evil Sounds Deep: When under the control of the Mysterons.
- Evil Wears Black: Special mention to his badass leather jacket and shades he's occasionally seen in.
- Fallen Hero: He was once a respected agent of Spectrum before he was converted by the Mysterons.
- Faux Affably Evil: In the CGI version
- One-Steve Limit: One of the councilmen from "Codename Europa" is also named Conrad.
- Pet the Dog: In the episode "Manhunt", he kidnaps Symphony and attempts to kill her, however he chooses not to go through with it at the last minute, and allows Symphony to escape, at the expense of having to use the SPV he had hijacked to distract Spectrum from himself.
- Red Right Hand: His eyes are glazed, making him look even more cold and remorseless.
- We Used to Be Friends: The reboot had him and Scarlet be best friends before the Mars incident, to play up the trauma of Scarlet's arch nemesis having the face and voice of the partner he used to depend on.
Destiny Angel
- Voiced by: Liz Morgan
Real Name: Juliette Pontoin. One of the Spectrum Angels.
- Action Girl: As with all of the Angels, she is an excellent pilot, and laments her inability to help the other Angels during the Mysterons' assassination attempt on her life.
- Ace Pilot: The apparent leader of the Angels.
- Everything's Sexier in French: Has the name and accent.
- Odd Name Out: Destiny is the only one of the Angels not to have a Code Name based on a musical term.
Rhapsody Angel
- Voiced by: Liz Morgan
Real Name: Dianne Simms. One of the Spectrum Angels.
- Action Girl
- Ace Pilot
- Sacrificial Lion: In Symphony's dream of the "Attack on Cloudbase", Rhapsody is the first to be killed.
Symphony Angel
- Voiced by: Janna Hill
Real Name: Karen Wainwright. One of the Spectrum Angels.
- Action Girl
- Ace Pilot
- Damsel in Distress: In "Manhunt", where she's kidnapped by Captain Black.
Melody Angel
- Voiced by: Sylvia Anderson
Real Name: Magnolia Jones. One of the Spectrum Angels.
- Action Girl
- Ace Pilot: Destiny explicitly states after seeing her pull out of a near-fatal dive that only Melody could have pulled it off.
- Token Minority: The first African-American character in an Anderson production (simultaneously with Lieutenant Green, who was Trinidadian).
Harmony Angel
Real Name: Chan Kwan. One of the Spectrum Angels.
- Action Girl
- Ace Pilot: A very unusual example. Even after she ejects when battling the false Angels, she still gives her fellow Angels target locations.
Captain Magenta
- Voiced by: Gary Files
Real Name: Patrick Donaghue. One of Spectrum's main agents.
- Butt-Monkey:
- Keet: He's the most excitable agent.
- Not Even Bothering with the Accent: According to promotional material, he's Irish. Depending on the episode, his accent ranges from very light in his first appearance to non-existent in later ones. According to his backstory, he was born in Dublin but grew up in New York, which may be a retroactive justification.
- Reformed Criminal: According to promotional material.
- Yes-Man
Captain Ochre
- Voiced by: Jeremy Wilkin
Real Name: Richard Fraser. One of Spectrum's main agents.
- School Is for Losers: According to his biography, he never had much of a liking for school.
Captain Grey
- Voiced by: Paul Maxwell
Real Name: Bradley Holden. One of Spectrum's main agents.
- Big Damn Heroes: He arrives in the nick of time to save The Director General of The United Asian Republic from a Mysteron assassin at the beginning of "Winged Assassin."
- Career-Ending Injury: According to tie-in material, he ended up with a back injury which forced him to give up Stingray to Troy Tempest.
Doctor Fawn
- Voiced by: Charles Tingwell
Real Name: Edward Wilkie. Spectrum's chief medical officer. Replaced by Doctor Gold in the CGI series.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: While explaining Scarlet's newly found retro-metabolism to him, he tells Scarlet that's he exactly the way he was before the "episode", making it sound as though he was referring to the first episode rather then referring to the incident that resulted in him becoming indestructible in the first place.
- Like Father, Like Son: His own father was a doctor.
- The Medic: Spectrum's primary medic, responsible for (among other things) analysing Scarlet after he was Mysteronised and helping him recuperate after he's injured.
The Mysterons
- Voiced by: Donald Gray
- Criminal Mind Games: The Mysterons often describe their campaign as a 'war of nerves', often providing hints of their future plans for no apparent reason than to psyche Spectrum out and leave them desperately trying to stop a plan that they can't fully predict.
- Disproportionate Retribution: They start a war on humanity because a group of astronauts had blown up their city out of paranoia (wrongly believing it to be a weapon system). Thing is, they rebuilt said city instantly, AND there's no indication that any Mysterons died, yet they still insist that all of humanity must die for it.
- Evil Sounds Deep: The Mysterons' projected voices always sound deep.
- They Who Must Not Be Seen: All that's ever seen of them are twin rings of green light.
- Karma Houdini: They are sometimes able to get away with their plans.
- Kill and Replace: The Mysterons possess the ability to create an exact likeness of an object or person, but only by killing the target first.
