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Main Characters
Max Newling
Max, immediately after the transformation
The titular protagonist of the Max's Big Bust series.Tropes in Max's Big Bust:
- The Ageless: Due to her body reseting every few hours she is basicly immortal but can still be killed via fatal injuries.
- Corrupt Cop: Not intentionally, but after she was bribed by Hector von Haus during his murder trial to get him largely acquitted, she starts working for him in return for things like free rent, sportscars, and likely illegal gifts. She only realizes that she's become one when everyone points all this out after she's no longer a ditz. It's revealed that it was actually a sting operation that she and Commissioner Pandarai came up with so they could find von Haus's full operation and shut him down completely instead of letting him run his criminal empire from inside prison.
- Dumbass No More: Becomes much more intelligent when her morphic field is stabilized in Max's Big Bust 2. Unfortunately, the previous two years became a blur for her...
- Elemental Embodiment: After accidentally touching a MinX marbel she becomes a lightning elemental and after unlocking her full elemental form she is able to shift between it and her human form freely.
- Expository Pronoun: She still identifies as male to a degree, likely explaining why she keeps on using the masculine "ore" to refer to herself.
- Fond Memories That Could Have Been: Played for laughs. After the death of Martin, Max mourns a future that, most likely, never would have happend.
- Genius Ditz: Max is a good cop when she focuses but a bit of a scatterbrain otherwise. She apparently had a serious reputation at the police station long before the game started. She can actually become less ditzy in the game itself it the player makes sure to do things like getting everyone's coffee orders correct. The second game explains this as her lightning form and powers being unstable, causing memory and cognitive issues.
- Shock and Awe: The marble that gender-bent her also gave her lightning powers and an immunity to electricity.
- Super Gender-Bender: Max discovers that her transformation actually gives her some degree of lightning powers. In fact, she's actually been transformed into an immortal lightning elemental and has a more powerful elemental form that she eventually learns to shift to.
- Trigger-Happy: Really likes pulling out her stun shotgun and shooting people with it, and will look for ANY excuse to do so.
Tropes in Alluna and Brie:
- Mundane Utility: Lorilynne asks for Max's help in jumpstarting her car in Alluna and Brie. Unfortunately, Max instead sets the car on fire due to not being entirely in-tune with her powers. For added mundane utility fun, they call in Holly, a water elemental, to put the car out.
- Offscreen Breakup: She and Brad broke up between the end of Max's Big Bust and the start of Alluna and Brie.
- Still Believes in Santa: During December, in Alluna and Brie, while the crew is trapped in a lamp (Long story), Max reveals she still believes in Santa. When Brie explains that Santa isn't real, Max is devastated. It turns out that Santa is real, in Max's Big Bust 2. However, he's nothing like the Jolly Old Saint Nick we know and love.
- Walking Techbane: Since she has become a lightning elemental, most electronics overload when she touches them without gloves.
Brad Sandon
- Best Friend: Brad is Max's best Friend and a potential love interest.
- Nice Guy: He is a genuinely nice guy to almost everyone, Ethan being the main exception.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: In the second game, finds him/herself able to switch between male and female forms, though only for short periods of time.
Holly O'Connor
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Holly after her transformation
One of Max's coworkers and a potential love interest.Tropes in Max's Big Bust:
- Afraid of Needles: Very afraid of needles. When Holly needs to get an injection for her cat allergies after becoming a catgirl, Max is roped into holding her down for the shot, and Holly flails around hard enough to dislocate Max's shoulder.
- The Ageless: After becoming a water elemental, her body-resets every few hours making her functionally immortal but still vulnerable to fatal injuries.
- Cat Girl: Holly becomes one after the girls' night at the bar. To her horror, she loses the cat ears and tail near the beginning of Max's Big Bust 2, after being exposed to the same gas that Max and Brad were.
- Elemental Embodiment: She becomes a water elemental after being struck by a MinX marbel and is able to shift between it and her human form freely.
- Magical Girl: Cosplays one during the anime convention chapter.
- Making a Splash: Gains water based powers towards the end of the first game, after a water marble launches from a cooler Max opens and conks her on the forehead.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Of the lesbian variety. She's a hyperactive, perverted, and quite silly police officer who enjoys trolling her friends and getting up close and personal with them, all while being super friendly and bubbly.
- Otaku: In-universe, it's noted by several characters that Holly would be able to afford a much larger and nicer place to live if she didn't obsessively spend all her money buying manga and manga-related merchandise every month.
- Sucks at Dancing: She is a terrible dance, though Max can teach her the basics.
- Yuri Fan: She loves yuri doushinji. When she found out that the Axon City library had a system where people could vote for what books it should buy, she got a bunch of other yuri fans to vote for those books, and now the Axon City library has a yuri section.
Tropes in Alluna and Brie:
- An Odd Place to Sleep: After her tranformation into a water elemental, she has taken to sleeping in bathtubs and buckets.
- Intoxication Ensues: In Alluna and Brie, while trying to spy on an opposing team's planning session for Mermaid Strikers as a puddle, she passes through the kitchen where a waitress accidentally drops a bottle of vodka on her, which shatters. Since, in her liquid form, she absorbs anything water would, she absorbs every last drop of it and gets completely hammered. The best part? She goes from utterly smashed to stone cold sober in three seconds once they get back to the mansion and it is not a pleasant experience for her.
- Power Perversion Potential:
- After becoming a water elemental, she can turn into a puddle at will. She's used this skill at least once to spy on her friends while they were trying on clothes.
- In Alluna and Brie, she quite literally evaporates while in a hot spring. Her steam form collects around the other women's breasts in a way everyone else notes cannot be accidental. She reforms a bit later, none the worse for wear, don't worry.
- Troll: Loves messing with her coworkers. In Alluna and Brie, Ember states that Holly once put a bucket on top of a door and filled herself with it, specifically to get her. Brie remarks about how kinky this sounds.
Amber/Ember Drummond
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Ember after her transformation
One of Max's coworkers and friends, as well as a potential love interest.Tropes in Max's Big Bust:
- The Ageless: After becoming a fire elemental, her body-resets every few hours making her functionally immortal but still vulnerable to fatal injuries.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: She thinks so (initially), and specifically grabs a red marble like the one that transformed Max, in the hopes of getting a bigger rack. She does get much bustier, but finds a few downsides, like back pain, and going from blackout drunk to stone-cold sober in an instant (due to her body magically resetting every few hours) to be annoying tradeoffs.
- D-Cup Distress: Or G in her case, it causes her a lot of back pain and trouble when buying clothes.
- Elemental Embodiment: She becomes a fire elemental after deliberately touching a MinX marbel and after unlocking her full elemental form she is able to shift between it and her human form freely.
- Godiva Hair: In her fire elemental form, her hair always moves back in front of her breasts and genitals when pushed away.
- Homeless Hero: At some point between the two games, she was forced to move out of her house and took up sleeping in her car.
- Immune to Fire: After she gains her fire powers she becomes immune to damage from fire and heat.
- Lives in a Van: In the second game, after Kitty finds a mini-fridge, a microwave, and a bunch of cereal that Ember says is her breakfast in the back of her car, she asks if Ember is living in said car. She neither confirms nor denies this. She confirms that she's been living in her car for months in chapter 13 if Max is in a relationship with her.
- Logical Weakness: Averted. Even when in her fire elemental form, she's not harmed by water any more than usual, though it does turn it into steak really quickly. She did use to fear water at first, though, until she discovered that fact when Holly drenched her once as a puddle in a bucket on top of a door at work.
- Meaningful Rename: She decides to call herself "Ember" after gaining her fire elemental form.
- Playing with Fire: Gains fire based powers from her minx marble.
- Suddenly Sober: A literal example. After she is transformed her body resets every so often, meaning she can go from extremely intoxicated to completely sober. She describes it as the most horrifying experience of her life.
Tropes in Alluna and Brie:
- Adaptation Personality Change: After her transformation, she changes from having a serious to a more easygoing personality. In Alluna and Brie she reverts back to being more on the serious side.
Victoria Elizabeth Duval
Tropes in Max's Big Bust:
- The Ageless: Becomes this after activating her morphic field.
- Hot Witch: Also becomes one after discovering magic is real.
- Spell Book: She uses one to cast magic.
- Take This Job and Shove It: After Captain Pandarai takes over the precinct, Victoria quits due to him giving her job to Ellie and trying to force her to work the night shift (which in addition to having worse hours also doesn't pay as well). By the time of Max's Big Bust 2, she's become a professional video game streamer.
Tropes in Alluna and Brie:
- Artificial Limbs: After losing against the robot S.E.R.A in pinball, she had her arms replaced with robotic ones. Brie first accuses her of this after winning in Insectivirus against Tiffany with reflexes too fast for humans. She regularly denies to Brie that she has them, though.
- Cyborg Wizard: Given the above trope and her use of magic, she definitely counts as one.
- Throw the Book at Them: Her basic attack is hitting the enemy with her spell book.
Ethan Oxley
- Put on a Bus: He's the only character from Max's Big Bust who doesn't appear at all in Max's Bigger Bust. He's not even mentioned.
- Satellite Love Interest: He's got much less connection to the game's plot than any of Max's other options and seems to exist largely to add another male option.
Side Characters
Heather Newling
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Really likes the idea of having bigger boobs, to the point where she steals Max's bustier body at one point.
- Everyone Has Standards: As much of an excessive flirt she is, even she wouldn't resort to going after someone Max is deciding to date, if you raise your Relationship Values with Brad to maximum.
- Grand Theft Me: Steals Max's body in chapter four of Max's Bigger Bust for the sole reason that she wants Max's bigger boobs.
- It's All About Me: She is an incredibly selfish individual who takes advantage of Max at every turn and never apologizes for her actions. In the first game, she winds up getting Max evicted from her apartment (after simultaneously flooding it and setting it on fire). In the second she attempts to permanently steal Max's body and complains when Max steals it back. Max is understandably furious with her and declares she never wants to see Heather again.
- Not Blood Siblings: It's revealed during the whole Grand Theft Me affair that she and Max are not related by blood.
- Really Gets Around : She flirts and tries to sleep with everyone she meets, men, women, magical creatures, much to Max's dismay.
- Succubi and Incubi: Becomes a succubus after sleeping with 1000 different people. Max finds this mildly disturbing.
Captain Tom Nekorai
- Author Avatar: In the second game he functions as this and a Hint System, offering commentary and advice for moving forward in the game.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: As a hint system in the second game, he breaks the fourth wall every time you choose to go see him for hints, and explicitly states his appearances (outside the sixth chapter) are non-canon.
- Cat Girl: Nekorai is a rare Cat Guy.
- His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Nekorai really is his surname. Compared to Commissioner Pandarai, who was originally Dumaresq before changing it to match his ears.
- Ironic Allergy: He is lactose intolerant.
- My Instincts Are Showing: Officers are not allowed to use the laser sight on their stun guns near him, due to his catlike tendency to chase after the red dot.
Tropes in Alluna and Brie:
- Parental Obliviousness: He has no idea that Kitty is selling confiscated weapons in the police station.
Kathrine 'Kitty' Nekorai
- Blackmail: Threatens her own dad with a call for child services if he won't take her to a cruise ship, which just so happens to have a criminal operation going on and the cops are going to bust it. Max is unable to believe that that just happened.
- Cat Girl: She, like her father, modified herself with cat attributes.
- From the Mouths of Babes: Upon encountering Max at the convention, she calls her costume an "old timey pirate whore". Claire promptly scolds her for it.
- My Little Panzer: She has her own police stun gun, and is frighteningly good with it. She even shot Natara when she was trying to run from the cops.
Tropes in Alluna and Brie:
- Arms Dealer: Runs a black market weapon exchange and uses the profits to buy tabeltop board games and miniatures.
Claire Nekorai
- Cat Girl: Like every Nekorai, she is a cat girl.
- Kindly Vet: In Alluna and Brie she treats JayBubs when he is sick, despite being freaked out by him.
Ryley/Pherusa
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: As part of her latest gimmick for her restaurant, she forces Max to take a serum that turns her into a dog furry, having fun in Max's humiliation. However, this only ends up getting her illegal debt tactics exposed to Max's fellow police officer, who promptly confronts and arrests her for the scam.
- Little Bit Beastly: Has fox ears and a fox tail, and makes all her workers use a temporary transformation serum to sprout their own.
- The Nose Knows: Her fox ears give her an enhanced sense of smell.
- Work Off the Debt: Enjoys trapping people in debt and then forcing them to work at her coffee shop to pay said debt off. This gets her arrested in Max's Bigger Bust, however.
Commissioner Pandarai
- Hate Sink: Between his incompetence and abrasiveness, the only members of the police force that like him are those directly hired by him.
- Skewed Priorities: Wants to watch a football game (admittedly, it's the finals) rather than investigate a murder that just happened within his vicinity, relegating it to Max and her companions instead. In fact, this is apparently not the first time he's done this.
Ellie Erskine
Tropes in Max's Big Bust:
- Evil Laugh: MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This gets lampshaded.
- Hates Rich People: So much so that she tries to kill a boatload of them.
- Mad Scientist: She created a card game about taking over the world with Mad Science and is one herself, with most of her creations being robots. She's also been working with drug distributors, though the plots are actually bigger than that.
Tropes in Alluna and Brie:
- Animal Mecha: In Alluna and Brie she built and operates a crab-like mecha.
Tropes in My Mad Scientist Roommate Turned Me Into Her Personal Robotic Battle Maiden?!?
- Ascended Extra: She's the titular Mad Scientist Roommate of the game, acting as Deuteragonist to Sam/S.E.R.A., the roommate she forcibly converted into her robotic servant.
Evelyn Li Castro
- Casting a Shadow: Has dark based powers in Alluna and Brie.
- Long Neck: Her neck is three times as long as Max's relatively normal sized one. Lampshaded, of course.
- Obviously Evil: A lot of characters think this, in part because of how her name is pronounced, and how her company property keeps ending up being used to transport Minx. They're right.
- Visionary Villain: She became a drug lord to open the gateway to a benevolent civilization to make the world a better place, but was tricked.
Trixie & Millie Erskine
Twin maids at LiCastro Manor.
- Always Identical Twins: Are so identical that even their own parents can't tell them apart. Apparently, they did some weird stuff in the 80's, but Millie doesn't think that's relevant.
- Evil Twin: Millie gets labeled this by Max despite never doing anything evil. But it's Max accusing Trixie of having this that makes her confess. But neither was the murderer of Mr. Rockvale (they admire him even), all they pulled was a work scam.
Natara Couturier
- Blackmail: Was forced to deal in Minx thanks to her cousin Johnno having forged her passport years ago, and threatening to call immigration to send her back to France if she doesn't comply. Since she didn't want to leave Australia, she complied.
- Brutal Honesty: If you screw up, she will let you know in the bluntest of terms.
- Clothing Damage: Her cat shirt shows the entire front of her midriff, because it was torn on broken glass right before the first puzzle of the first game and she never bothered to repair it, calling it a style change.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Has earth based powers in Alluna and Brie and Max's Big Bust 2. In the latter she routinely threatens to throw boulders at people who piss her off.
- Everyone Has Standards: When she realized she was coerced into working for her cousin Johnno into smuggling Minx, she wanted out since she had at first thought she was going to just forge I Ds or but teenagers or alcohol. But she was forced into it as a result of Blackmail.
- Iconic Outfit: Her cat tongue shirt.
- NPC Roadblock: Acts as one during Chapter Five of Max's Big Bust 2, preventing you from reaching the secret elevator at the back of her shop that leads to Ellie's underground workshop. Nothing you can do will get her to let you by, either, forcing you to find another way in.
- You Don't Look Like You: Compare her appearance
◊ in Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme to her appearance◊ in Max's Big Bust. Her bust size went up some and her hair went from brown and shoulder length to black and longer, done up in a bun.
Jude Winterson
- Antiquated Linguistics: Speaks in, what Max calls, a medieval accent.
- Evil Is Petty: The reason why he robbed and vandalised the mall was beacuse he dislikes the other mall staff, especially Zara.
Zara Ferolie
- Gender Bender: Was gender flipped a year before the events of Max's Big Bust.
- Previous Player-Character Cameo: She was one of the playable characters in Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme.
Sarah Weingartner
Serena
Jude's cousin who works at Fruit Faire and Coffee Shrine.
Sam Maurez
Martin S. Gully/Maritn S. Ghoulie
- Back from the Dead: Dies near the end of the first game from a MinX overdose, but returns as a ghoul in Alluna and Brie.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: In 2, he's given up crime because he can make billions legitimately by raising the dead due to having a monopoly on the technology needed to resurrect people outside of the Frakk.
- Insistent Terminology: He's a ghoul, not a zombie (he doesn't go looking for brains, for one), and don't you forget it.
- Jacob Marley Apparel: In Alluna and Brie he is still wearing the same shirt that he died in which is now ripped and exposing his midriff.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: He says that his overdose death was not an accident at all, even though it looked like one. He wants to hunt down the people who did it to him.
- Meaningful Rename: He changes his last name to Ghoulie after becoming a ghoul.
Alluna
- Ascended Extra: She and Brie become the titular main protagonists of Alluna and Brie.
- Light 'em Up: Has light based magic powers.
- Magical Girl: Became one after summoning and making a deal with Lilith.
Brie
- Ascended Extra: She and Alluna become the titular main protagonists of Alluna and Brie.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Being able to summon grilled cheese sandwiches may not sound like an awesome power, but when your team needs to heal and you don't have any healing food on you, it becomes amazingly useful.
- Healer Signs On Early: Is one of the two characters you start with in Alluna and Brie, and functions as the protagonist, while having healing powers.
- Superpower Lottery: Got the short end of the stick with it, because she summoned Lilith when the latter was hungry.
Jaybubs
Brie's pet from the Frakk.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Loves Brie's grilled cheese sandwiches, and it's implied that to get him to attack the enemy, she feeds him one. He also becomes very sad when Brie says she won't feed him any.
