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Specific/Recurring Characters
Characters that stand out in that they actually contribute to the story, unlike most characters.
Bob
Bob the Ragelot
A short-tempered, battle hungry Protoss Zealot.
- Aerith and Bob: A few examples of Protoss names are Tassadar, Raszagal, Fenix... and then there's Bob.
- The Berserker: Unlike most depictions of Zealots, Bob shows absolutely zero emotional restraint in combat and practically throws himself into battle. It gets to the point where he even experiences Unstoppable Rage in a few sequences.
- Big Brother Instinct: He's very protective of the Probes and when he finds out that they've been suffering because of the Executor's greed, he goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge that spans multiple seasons to make him pay for it. In response, the Probes idolize and love him as family.
- Blood Knight: At the end of season 3, he's so angry that he didn't get to fight Derpfestor's army since they lost all their structures, triggering a Non-Standard Game Over that he's more than willing to forgo the Enemy Mine and go right for Patches, Crackhead, and the SCV. His eyes also appear bloodshot, so this crosses over with Ax-Crazy.
- Butt-Monkey: If he's present, the main punchline of the episode is always made at his expense, no exceptions.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Even if he spends most of the time being used for humor, he's quite capable. He can best other zealots in hand-to-hand (which for zealots doubles as ham-to-ham) combat, understands how to pilot a phoenix, can hold onto ledges despite being attacked, and after being picked up by a friendly deathball he managed to reorient himself and run along the top of it. He's also quite agile despite his endless struggle with opponents running away.
- The Faceless: Unlike Patches and Crackhead, the other two recurring characters introduced prior to season 3, he has no distinguishable features from other zealots. It's even possible that the only true recurring zealot is the one from the season 2 finale, who returns for the season 3 episode 11, and he might have died off in that episode. Most notable in the Season 3 finale, as Bob has to fight Red!Bob, and they are nearly identical in characterization.
- The zealot from "Choked Up" is the same one in "Cyclowned," but there isn't evidence that this particular zealot appears any other time.
- Fire-Forged Friends: After the final battle, he actually salutes the Medivac the Terrans are flying away in and says "En taro" (Khalani for "in honor of", traditionally used to celebrate great heroes). The epilogue even includes a photo of him as the best man at Patches and Medic Girl's wedding (looking annoyed as usual).
- Heroic Willpower: He actually resists the Derpfestor's mind control through sheer force of will and rage.
- Implacable Man: Nothing deters him from going after his target, and if they get away, he'll kill the nearest group of enemies to let off steam.
- Killed Off for Real: He dies in an epic standoff against the Derpfestor's armies, after shrugging off the Derpfestor's attempt at mind control!
- Averted in the Series Finale - A Probe revives him by turning him into an Immortal, then when the Immortal gets disabled, Medic heals him back to normal.
- Leeroy Jenkins: He'll willingly charge armies comprised of all 3 races and sporting two motherships.
- Legacy Character: Possibly, as each appearance may or may not be the same zealot.
- Made of Iron: He can get run over by entire enemy deathballs multiple times, and survive.
- A friendly high templar once dropped a psionic storm directly on top of him to get rid of the pile of zerglings he was under, and he came out completely unscathed, so it's likely he's Friendly Fireproof.
- The biggest example is in the finale, where he survives the nuclear strike that kills Crackhead and the entire Red Army (which apparently does in the Donut Marine, who was standing right next to him) on top of all the crap he went through while fighting them.
- Power Of Hate: Or Anger. Whatever it is, he has enough of it to overcome the Derpfestor's mind control.
- Running Gag: Chasing down someone else and never actually reaching them.
- Screaming Warrior: Literally only communicates by screaming.
- Taught by Experience: Early on in the first season, Bob allows several Zerglings to enter the base he was protecting by allowing himself to get out of position. He remembers this 5 seasons later, complete with a flashback to the earlier episode where you can see how far the animation style has come in 5 years.
Patches
"Let's rock!"
A Terran marine distinguished by the seat of his pants having been patched up.
Patches provides examples of:
- Acrofatic: Despite being as stocky as all Carbot marines, he's shown to be able to do some impressive dodge rolls, including a running somersault into a forward dive, and is quick enough to dodge zealot strikes in melee combat.
- He's also pulled off arguably while running in a straight line away from Bob, does a somersault jump, then shoots Bob in the face with a burst from his gauss rifle (the entire burst, not just one or two shots), lands, pirouette jumps, and uses the momentum of the pirouette to hit Bob in the face with his combat shield. The total training and repetition needed to simply execute such a maneuver, let alone do so as accurately as he did, would probably accumulate to months.
- Oh, and at a 45-degree angle jump, he can gain vertical distance upwards of two stories. Without crouching.
- Action Survivor: He struggles to pull his weight in large-scale engagements, and has fallen off ledges more than once, but for the sake of having a character that's survived the entire series, he gets better each time.
- Aside Glance: when he learns that reaver scarabs can't path through mineral lines.
- Bash Brothers: With Crackhead.
- Genius Bruiser: The 2016 Christmas special has him setting up a pretty intricate set of traps for the Zealot to fall into, one after the other.
- Made of Iron: He has tanked huge falls many a time, including one into lava. He's also tanked a Tempest blast before it could hit the battlecruiser he was standing on in the finale of Season 2.
- Named After the Injury: A zergling tore out the seat of his pants and he, well, patched it up.
- Rescue Romance: With Medic Girl.
- Too Dumb to Live: Shows shades of this.
- When he falls from height onto his face in the middle of battle, his first course of action is to dust himself off, letting Bob get the drop on him. Minutes later, this happens again. He knows better by the end of season 3.
- After watching a Tempest shot cleave a Battlecruiser in half, he tries to save the cruiser he's on from a similar fate by body blocking the shot. Either he knows how the series he's in worksnote , and that he's got Plot Armor, or it's this.
- In "All for One," he climbs on top of a supply depot instead of shooting from its cover, and ends up losing his balance.
Crackhead
"Get some!"
A Terran marine distinguishable by his cracked visor.
- Bash Brothers: With Patches.
- Dying Smirk: After running himself to exhaustion and collapsing, he gives the red army a cocky grin when they turn him over... to reveal a familiar red dot under his body. He's last seen giving Patches a thumbs-up as the nuke comes down.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: the season 3 finale shows that Derpfestor's army had a marine with a cracked visor itself.
- Killed Off for Real: Narrowly averted. A mind-controlled Patches shoots him through the chest at the end of Season 3, and he would've died of blood loss had Medic Girl not shown up.
- Played straight in the Series Finale, where he baits the entire Red army into a nuclear strike.
- Named After the Injury: Named for the crack in his visor, which was first sustained when witnessing an Archon's power overwhelming.
- Seen It All: In "The Duel," he and Patches watch as a ghost fights a dark templar, which is permanently cloaked (so it looks like the ghost is dodging air, screaming in terror.)Crackhead: *shrugs* Sure.Patches: *scratches his butt*
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Crackhead is completely disintegrated by a nuclear blast at point-blank.
- Too Dumb to Live: He's had less combat scenes than Patches due to being created much later on, but certain episodes show this may be the case.
- Most prominent in the season 3 finale. At the end of part 2, he's gotten himself captured by nothing but a pair of infested Terrans. Then, in part 3, he does nothing but run away once Derpfestor uses neural parasite on Patches, despite being a barracks that had lifted off the ground and had no cover besides a table that was knocked over. He never attempts to free Patches, look behind him, or change direction, giving Patches plenty of time to line up a shot.
Medic Girl
A Terran medivac pilot.
- Big Damn Heroes: Her most prominent trait. She gets Patches, Crackhead, and Football Marauder out of nuke range with no time to spare, and the three were quite worse for wear note . Later, in the same episode, she dives into a sea of Roaches to save Patches.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Falls to the bottom of the ocean from orbit, burning up in the process. It's even accompanied by a shot of her sinking to the bottom, as if to reassure us that yes, she's really dead.
- However, she survives.
- Good Is Not Soft: She's generally a nice person, but she's not above unceremoniously dropping her teammates out of her passenger section.
- Love Interest: for Patches.
Derpfestor
Derpfestor
A Zerg Infestor who eventually breaks away from the purple Zerg to create the Red Army.
- Arc Words: RED IS NOT DEAD. First shown, along with a image of him, in a static-filled screen in Season 4's zeroth episode, then repeated over and over in morse code by the Adjutant in the end of Season 5.
- Beware the Silly Ones: He's an adorable, childish creature but a scarily competent commander and the Big Bad of the series.
- Big Bad: Of the series overall. He goes solo in Season 3, forming the Red Army comprised of all three factions to take over the world.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: With Obnoxious Executor from Season 5 onward. The Executor is responsible for funding the Red Army while Derpfestor commands the troops. Their partnership isn't confirmed until The Stinger of Season 6's finale, and they go on to become the main villains of the final seventh season.
- Big Eater: Seen eating several different things across the series, often sneaking food in when nobody is looking. Astute viewers will note that most of what he eats are Zerg Larvae, which he regurgitates when he decides to go solo...
- Car Fu: Exaggerated; he uses a mind-controlled battlecruiser to smash a Stalker into paste.note
- Color-Coded Armies: His forces are red, to contrast the teal independent Protoss, blue Terrans, and purple Zerg.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Acts like a child from time to time but is all together one of the most dangerous Zerg units, often times being single-handedly responsible for dealing with a threat that otherwise took on the entire zerg force.
- Disney Villain Death: An SCV forces him off of a flying Barracks building, and he plummets to his death. He survived the fall, and returned in season five.
- Enemy Mine: His actions frequently cause the other teams to do so.
- Fate Worse than Death: He's finally defeated when Patchling tricks him into using his Neural Parasite on his clone as the latter does the same to him, trapping him in a permanent closed loop.
- Fluffy the Terrible: Seems to be a rather cheerful sort, until he gets certain ideas...
- From Nobody to Nightmare: He goes from a comical recurring character to the closest thing the series has to a Big Bad. Although, he still retains his quirks.
- Frontline General: Derpfestor has no qualms personally leading his army into battle and his direct involvement actually generates a Mass "Oh, Crap!" moment for the heroes.
- Good Colors, Evil Colors: Once he breaks off to form his own team, he changes from the standard Zerg purple to a permanent red.
- Greater-Scope Villain: To the Protoss Executor in season 5. Look carefully at the silhouette in the background during the ending scene of "The Fall".
- Hidden Depths: Despite his childish behavior, Derpfestor is surprisingly competent as a leader, able to command three distinct races under his banner, and is well loved by them.
- Mirror Match: Enabling these was the original Doylist reasoning behind his formation of the Red Army in season 3.
- Keystone Army: Subverted, it's not the Derpfestor himself that is the lynchpin of the army, it's the buildings. Once all his buildings are destroyed, no thanks to his Viper, the entire army keels over, which is true to the gameplay.
- Knight of Cerebus: A downplayed example. He retains his humorous quirks but the series takes a more serious turn when he forms the Red Army.
- Leitmotif: His presence is typically accompanied by the song "From Russia With Love" by Huma.
- Not Quite Dead: Makes an appearance in season 5, apparently back in the Zerg ranks.
- Oh, Crap!: He rarely shows much emotion beyond his childish derp face, but there are two instances he shows genuine shock.
- First time is when his Infested Marines expire due to their timed life, leaving him exposed to Patches and Crackhead.
- Second time is when Bob not only resists his mind control, but severs his Neural Parasite and charges straight for him.
- Psychopathic Manchild: He exhibits traits of psychopathy in his bid for world domination, while simultaneously acting like an immature child.
- The Starscream: Spends the entirety of season 3 fighting the other three races.
Obnoxious Executor
Obnoxious Executor
You have not enough minerals!
A Protoss Executor known for pointing out the obvious in the most obnoxious manner possible.
- Annoying Video Game Helper: Parodied in is initial appearance.
- Arch-Enemy: When Bob realized he'd been hoarding his people's minerals for himself, he really takes it personally, and goes out of his way to make sure he dies by his blades.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: With Derpfestor from Season 5 onward, with the Executor providing the financial backing to fund the revived Red Army. Their partnership isn't confirmed until The Stinger of Season 6's finale. They go on to become the main villains of the final seventh season.
- Big Bad Slippage: Initially an ally of the Protoss, until he enacts a plan with Derpfestor to tank the mineral market so they can fund the new Red Army.
- Big "NO!": As he is thrown to his death, he emits a very familiar sounding one.
- Captain Obvious: A major trait he's known for, much to the chagrin of his teammates. Even if the base is under attack, he'll take the time to vocally point it out. Tellingly, the moment he stops being this is when he starts veering into villain territory.
- Convenient Color Change: To cement his shift in allegiance to Derpfestor, the Executor's colors change from teal to red for the seventh season.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Is revealed to be this in season five, where he begins hoarding minerals for himself, causing the market to tank and his people begin suffering from it.
- Disney Villain Death: He meets his demise when Bob chucks him down a shaft in the same vein as Vader did to the Emperor in Return of the Jedi.
- Face–Heel Turn: He's revealed to have been in league with Derpfestor as early as season six, and they finally form a partnership in season seven.
- Morally Bankrupt Banker: He's revealed to be this in season five, as his greed causes the mineral market to tank, while he lives the high life. He later becomes the financial backer of Derpfestor's revived Red Army.
- Non-Action Big Bad: Unlike Derpfestor, the Executor hangs back in the Mothership away from the fighting. Of course, since he's in charge of the Red Army's resources, it makes sense for him to avoid direct combat. While he's not completely helpless, he goes down really quick once Bob gets the drop on him.
- Oh, Crap!: He visibly panics when Bob smashes through the window of the mothership, and nearly succeeds in killing him.
- Shock and Awe: He can fire psychic lightning from his hands.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: He went from annoying, overprotective Protoss announcer in the early seasons, to a greedy, mineral grubbing Corrupt Corporate Executive in season five, and onward. By season seven, he's now part of a Big Bad Duumvirate with Derpfestor.
Cackles
Cackles / Laughing Viper
A red Viper who serves the Derpfestor.- Back from the Dead: He returns alive and well in season seven as part of Derpfestor's revived Red Army.
- The Dragon: He's the second most powerful character in the Red army, behind Derpfestor.
- Dragon Their Feet: Derpfestor is defeated, but his army is still going strong... until Cackles drinks their last building, causing a Non-Standard Game Over for the entire army.
- Evil Laugh: All. The. TIME.
- Spanner in the Works: Even with Derpfestor himself defeated, the red army was still poised to crush the vastly outnumbered alliance. Unfortunately, Cackles couldn't stop drinking the Zerg buildings to replenish his energy, thus causing the entire army to keel over.
- Troll: He uses his grappling ability at the most inopportune times, then yucks it up at his victim's expense.
Red Bob
Red!Bob
A red Protoss Zealot who shares Bob's lust for battle.- Blood Knight: If there's one thing he and Bob have in common, it's their undying love for battle.
- The Brute: His only concern is on fighting, and not much else.
- Evil Counterpart: Of Bob.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: His duel with Bob ends with Red!Bob being run through by the former's psi-blades.
- Killed Off for Real: Despite the Red Army returning in season seven, Red!Bob is nowhere to be seen, possibly implying that his death was final.
Donut Marine
Donut Marine
An obese Red Marine who's usually seen eating a donut.- Back from the Dead: After seemingly being crushed to death in the season 3 finale, he shows up again in season 7.
- The Dragon: For Derpfestor and the Executor in the final season.
- Fat Bastard: Eating all those donuts hasn't done any favors for his health, nor his attitude.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Humorously fat as he is, he's still capable with a rifle and nearly killed Bob twice, only being stopped by forces outside his control (i.e. Cackles triggering a Non-Standard Game Over and Crackhead terminating the entire Red Army by luring them into a nuclear strike).
- Killed Off for Real: He seems to die in the final nuclear strike.
- Villainous Glutton: A villainous marine who's eaten himself into obesity.
Gun Overlord
Gun Overlord
A Zerg Overlord who picked up a Marine's gun to defend himself.- Bolivian Army Ending: Is last seen grounded, firing his gun at the oncoming Red Army.
- Emergency Transformation/Took a Level in Badass: In the final, he mutates into an Overseer when under heavy fire, then uses his new abilities to cause tremendous damage to the Red Army.
- Go On Without Me: In the series finale.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Overlords are normally completely defenseless. This one isn't.
Generic units
Marauder
Heavily-armored Terran infantry with grenade launchers. As the armored backbone of the terran infantry, they make frequent appearances.
- Butt-Monkey: Frequently the butt of many jokes. Even marines are treated better than marauders at times.
- I Know Madden Combat: Sometimes, marauders can be seen launching footballs instead of grenades.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Marauders tend to be full of themselves, which is of course Truth in Television.
Immortal
While immortals were anti-armored powerhouses in the original game, the series ramps up their destructive power something fierce.
- The Big Guy: Usually serves this role in Protoss squads. One immortal even picks up an entire nexus in its arms and tosses it over a cliff!
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Go ahead, try to fight an immortal with an armored unit. It will not end well for you.
- One-Man Army: Exaggerated with the immortals. Usually, only one appears per episode. One is all that is needed.
- Weaksauce Weakness: As a result of their Hardened Shield ability, immortals will flee at the sight of zerglings, marines, or sometimes even workers.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: They are deathly afraid of zerglings, and for good reason.
Hybrid Destroyer
Hybrid Destroyer
Protoss-Zerg hybrids created by Amon and serving as his elite forces, they rally his armies in the Co-op videos.- Adaptational Wimp: Despite being among the toughest enemies in Co-op Missions, Hybrids in the StarCrafts videos... don't do much of anything and always get defeated in short order.
- Butt-Monkey: Every single one of their appearances has the Hybrid getting defeated in humiliating fashion, as per their role as The Usual Adversaries in Co-op.
- Mook Lieutenant: They're the ones directing the enemy forces in Co-op Missions.
