Characters / Star Fox: Star Wolf Team

The Star Wolf Team

A rival mercenary team to Star Fox that appear in most of the franchise. Originally hired to aid the Venomian army during the Lylat Wars, since Andross's defeat they have operated as independent pirates. Most of their members are hardened criminals and/or psychopaths. Despite their differences, they teamed up with Star Fox to defeat the aparoid invasion, explicitly because the aparoids were a greater threat.

Star Wolf's first canonical appearance was Star Fox 2, the sequel to Star Fox. However, the game went unreleased until 2017 despite being complete in 1995. As such, the public's first exposure to them was Star Fox 64. As with Star Fox, the team roster is different in each timeline.

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Timeline 1

• Simply called "The Wolf Team" in this timeline, the group is led by Wolf O'Donnell and includes Leon Powalski, Pigma Dengar, and Algy. By the end of Star Fox 2, only Wolf is still alive.

Timeline 2

• Led by Wolf O'Donnell, the original Star Wolf included Leon Powalski, Pigma Dengar, and Andrew Oikonny, who is a completely different character from Algy. Thanks to the very late release of Star Fox 2, this team is the one that most players today are familiar with.
• Sometime after the Lylat Wars, Pigma was expelled because of his greed. Andrew was also kicked out for his arrogance, which led to him partially restoring the remainder of his uncle's army and starting the events of Assault. Panther Caroso was taken on at an unknown point.
• Krystal joined during Command after being asked to leave Star Fox. Depending on the ending, she will either leave the group and return to Star Fox, stay with Star Wolf, or leave everyone altogether and become an independent Bounty Hunter.

Timeline 3

• Star Fox Zero returns to the familiar four from Star Fox 64.

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• Ace Pilot: All of them are this, with the possible exception of Andrew, who is stated to be the least experienced pilot on the team.
• Badass Cape: Promotional art for Star Fox 2 shows each of them wearing one. As it was drawn 20 years after the game was originally programmed, it's not concept art. They have never been shown to wear capes in any of the games or spinoff media.
• Bowdlerise: In Star Fox 64, Star Wolf as a whole is far more vicious and predatory in Japanese compared to how they act in English localizations (with the exception of Pigma, who stayed a sadist in all localizations). In addition, the English voice actors portrayed them in a very silly fashion as opposed to their original characterizations. Star Fox is treated the same way.
  Wolf: Seems like your father's waiting for you in hell. (Japanese version)
  Wolf: What the heck?! (English version)
• Boss Subtitles: In Star Fox 64 3D, their appearances are accompanied by "Ultra-Performance All-Range Fighter" and the name of their current ships (Wolfen and Wolfen II).
• Carnival of Killers: Each member of Star Wolf has a different style. Wolf is a complete savage, Leon is a cold and calculated killer, Pigma is a manipulator and mole, and Andrew is a species supremacist. In each timeline, Star Wolf is hired specifically to kill Star Fox. Thus, they fit this trope perfectly in Star Fox 2, Star Fox 64 and Star Fox Zero.
• Evil Versus Oblivion: They are criminals with bounties on their heads, but when the entire Lylat system is threatened, they will put their lives on the line to save it. They help Star Fox fight the aparoids in Star Fox: Assault, and they oppose the Anglars in Star Fox Command.
• Former Regime Personnel: Star Wolf becomes this after the Lylat Wars, living in a hidden Space Station along with what's left of Venom's military force.
• Hired Guns: They were hired and supplied by Andross to supplement his military forces with an effective counter to the Arwing, and later, to take out Star Fox.
• Joker Immunity: In most of the games, neither Wolf nor his wingmates will die if they are shot down in a dogfight. However, due to the Darker and Edgier nature of the series before the reboot, Star Fox 2 averts this trope for everyone except Wolf himself.
• Mirror Boss: In most of the games featuring them, they have the distinction of being the only boss characters who attack in ships that have the same or similar capabilities to Arwings. In Star Fox Zero, the Wolfen can even transform into Hunters in certain encounters, which are wolf-like mecha serving as counterparts to the Arwing's bird-like Walker.
• Outlaw: Most of them were wanted criminals even before the Lylat War started. After the war ended, all of them fit this trope, since they were forced into hiding.
• Pre-Final Boss: In Star Fox 64, Star Wolf show up on Venom on the path from Area 6 as the last fight before Andross.
• Price on Their Head: All of Star Wolf are wanted criminals that would fetch a hefty price for the person that manages to catch or kill them.
• The Psycho Rangers: Each Star Fox character has a direct opponent in Star Wolf.
  • Wolf and Fox are both The Leader of their respective teams and are eternal rivals to each other. They both share their first name with the team's name as well.
  • Leon and Falco are Number Two on the roster, and consider each other rivals in every battle. They are both less moral than the leader.
  • Pigma and Peppy were both members of the original Star Fox. They're both the eldest of the respective teams and have history together.
  • Andrew and Slippy are both the least skilled pilots of their team, though not completely powerless.
  • Panther and Krystal are both exotic and sensual newcomers. In contrast to the other pairs, instead of being archrivals, Panther tries to flirt with Krystal.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Out of all of them, only Wolf survives the events of Star Fox 2. In Star Fox 64, all of them survive.
• Team Rocket Wins: Some endings in Star Fox Command can lead to this happening.
• Unexplained Recovery: How the team repeatedly survives being shot down is still unexplained.
• Wolfpack Boss: With the exception of Star Fox 2 (in which they attack one by one), Star Wolf tends to attack all at once. Star Fox Zero subverts this a little by having the individual team members show up by themselves in a few levels, although they all still gang up on Fox in their final confrontation.
• We Can Rebuild Him: In Star Fox 64 and Star Fox Zero, all of the defeated Star Wolf pilots return with cybernetic implants - except Wolf, who gets a single band-aid.

Original Members

Wolf O'Donnell

Playtime is over, Star Fox!

Voices (Japanese): Hisao Egawa (Star Fox 64)
Mahito Oba (Star Fox: Assault, Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Kosuke Takaguchi (Star Fox 64 3D, Star Fox Zero, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

Voices (English): Jock Blaney (Star Fox 64)
Grant Goodeve (Star Fox Assault)
Jay Ward (Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)
Mike West (Star Fox 64 3D, Star Fox Zero)

Wolf O'Donnell is the leader of Star Wolf, and the perennial rival to Fox. Since their first encounter, Wolf has gained a grudging respect for Fox and come to his aid several times — though it's stated that Wolf only helps Fox so he can ensure he will one day take him down by himself. Wolf is known for his murderous temper and viciously animalistic fighting style.

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• Ace Pilot: While this trope applies to his teammates as well, Wolf is the best pilot on his team. This claim is substantiated by the fact that he has the highest flight ability in Assault, and that the bounty against him in Command is the highest for any member of Star Wolf.
• Adaptational Villainy: A minor example occurs in Starlink: Battle for Atlas: while Wolf was never a heroic character, the Star Fox franchise usually depicts him as being, at worst, a hired gun or an independent Space Pirate. In Starlink, he’s an aspiring Galactic Conqueror who seeks to harness the Forgotten Legion’s technology and conquer Corneria out of sheer hatred.
• Agitated Item Stomping: If he loses a Versus Mode match in Assault, he'll angrily throw his blaster onto the ground, grind it with his foot, and smugly look the other way.
• Aloof Ally: He becomes this whenever he's forced to actually work with Fox. He will save Fox from harm, but explicitly only because he wants to kill Fox himself. When forced by circumstances beyond his control, he will give Fox advice and support, but only very grudgingly. Leon and Panther inform Fox that Wolf considers him a Worthy Opponent.
  Fox: I owe you my life on that one, Wolf. Thanks.
  Wolf: I thought I told you. I didn't come here to save you.
  Fox: Even so...
  Wolf: Mm.
• Attention Whore: Most of his profiles describe one of his goals as being known across the galaxy, be it feared or adored. This is especially the case in Star Fox Command, where he could easily clear his name just by sticking with Star Fox, but decides to steal their spotlight at the last moment.
• Benevolent Boss: He is surprisingly nice towards the other Star Wolf members, despite being an evil mercenary leader. He has his limits, as he kicked Pigma and Andrew off the team, and that was because Pigma was too much of a greedy scumbag to tolerate while Andrew was an obnoxious, mediocre pilot who only got as far as he did because of his uncle.
• Blood Knight: Heavily implied, especially in Star Fox Zero, where he states outright that he's having fun fighting Fox, and that he got a similar thrill from fighting James.
• Clear My Name: His motive for defeating the Anglars in Command is so that he can get a rather sizeable bounty off of his head.
• A Dog Named "Dog": A Wolf Named Wolf. This is lampshaded in Super Smash Bros Brawl when Snake rings up Colonel Campbell for info on him.
• Enemy Mine: He and Fox have teamed up on several occasions in Assault and Command.
• Evil Brit: His original English voice accent in Star Fox 64 fits this. In later games, he sounds far more gruff, deep, and American, while Star Fox Zero compromises and gives him a midatlantic accent, which is a mix of the two accents.
• Evil Versus Oblivion: He justifies helping Star Fox in the fight against Pigma and the aparoids with this line of logic.
• Eyepatch of Power: In Star Fox 2, Wolf has a scar over his exposed and damaged right eye. When he was redesigned for Star Fox 64, Wolf was given an eyepatch over his left eye instead - his right eye is just fine. Star Fox Assault saw the eyepatch replaced with an electronic eye which carried over into Star Fox Command and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. But from Star Fox Zero onwards, he’s back with the traditional eyepatch.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: His right eye in Star Fox 2 has a large and very defined scar over it. The scar was removed, and the injury switched sides in his final appearances. The eyepatch is back in Star Fox Zero, along with a much smaller scar.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: "What the heck?". This is his reaction to Fox pulling a somersault on him (a rather basic maneuver, mind you). Zero replaces this with a simple Big "WHAT?!", which is less silly.
• Guns Akimbo: His victory pose in Assault has him draw two Machine Guns from behind and spray bullets into the air.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Starts as Evil Counterpart in 64, borders between Anti-Hero and Anti-Villain by Assault, then tries to perform a full Heel–Face Turn during the events of Command. Whether he succeeds or not depends on the ending. Star Fox Zero - a Continuity Reboot - brings his character back to square one.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Especially in Assault, where he wears a black leather jumpsuit. It helps his Badass Biker look nicely.
• Just a Kid:
  • He calls Fox "pup" numerous times throughout the course of Assault.
    Wolf: You've gotten soft, pup! (Mission 3)
    Wolf: You're a pitiful sight, pup! (Mission 7)
    Wolf: Point that thing at me and you better be ready to die, pup. (Mission 7)
    Wolf: Keep your advice to yourself and your eyes up front, pup. (Mission 10)
  • Wolf's intro dialogue when faced in Star Fox 2 has him call the Star Fox team brats who he's punishing.
• Lightning Bruiser: In Star Fox Assault, he is shown to be physically superior to both the members of his team and the protagonists.
• Like Father, Like Son: Not with him and his dad. It's been implied in Star Fox Assault and in Super Smash Bros. Brawl that he had a rivalry with James which led to his rivalry with Fox. Star Fox Zero outright confirms this.
• Mook Promotion: According to Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U, he fought in Andross's army as a soldier before Andross was exiled. This would be canon to Star Fox Zero, which is a Continuity Reboot.
• Older Than They Look: While it's unclear exactly how old Wolf is, it's known that Wolf fought against James McCloud in the past, so he's at least quite a bit older than Fox, who was just a kid when James died.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: This is why he won't let the aparoids kill Fox in Assault: he wants to do it himself.
  • Panther thinks otherwise, however.
  Wolf: You're the one who dropped in unannounced. And if anyone's gonna tan your hide, it's gonna be me.
  Panther: Riiight.
• Only Sane Man: Between Leon's Sadistic personality, Pigma's Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, Andrew's childishness and Panther's fun personality, Wolf comes off as the most level-headed member of his team.
• Pointless Band-Aid: Unlike his teammates, who all require cybernetic implants after their first defeat against Star Fox, Wolf apparently only needs a few curatives on his head. This might've been to show that he's more resilient than the other Star Wolf members.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He kicked Pigma off of his team... but kept Leon.
• Psycho for Hire: He may not be as unhinged as Leon or Pigma, but he hired both of them. He is also a brutally savage fighter. Star Fox: Assault and Star Fox Command do their best to soften him up, but he fully fits this trope in most of his appearances, including Star Fox 2, Star Fox 64, Star Fox Zero, Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: In Star Fox 2 and Star Fox 64, Wolf's eye is red. As of Zero, it's ruby red.
• The Resenter: To James McCloud. Wolf always saw James as his only competition to being the most famous and respected pilot in Lylat, and he was willing to kill James to prove it.
• The Rival: To Fox McCloud. The manual of Assault states that each of them considers the other to be his "eternal rival." His trophy in the Smash Bros series, as well as his dialogue in Star Fox Zero heavily suggests that he was also this to Fox's father, James. Wolf even states that his dogfights against James McCloud were the most fun he had in his life.
• Savage Wolf: He is known for his vicious temper and equally vicious fighting style.
• Secret Character: In the multiplayer of Assault.
• Smug Snake: In 64: "You're good, but I'm better!" And this is one of his least smug quotes. He also expresses disbelief when he loses.
• Sole Survivor: In Star Fox 2, Wolf is the only Star Wolf member who survives meeting Star Fox in battle.
• Sore Loser: The one trait he has in a worse scale than his comrades.
• Spikes of Villainy: He tends to wear spiked shoulder pads. His first design in Star Fox 2 had them, and they have been carried over into later games.
• This Cannot Be!:
  • His defeat quotes in 64:
  Wolf: No way! I don't believe it!
  Wolf: I... can't... lose!
  • He gets a new one in Zero
  Wolf: Bested...by a fox?! Impossible!
• Tsundere: In contrast to his Aloof Ally attitude in Star Fox Assault, the English dialog of Star Fox Command portrays him like this, particularly in the routes where he and Fox are involved. He sounds like someone playing like a tough guy. This may be the result of the translators taking some liberties.
  Wolf: I'm hot and cranky, and your orders are annoying. But okay.
• Unwitting Pawn: His profile in the Keibunsha strategy guide for Star Fox 64 described him as secretly being manipulated by Andross and Pigma without him realizing it.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: In Star Fox 2, he flees from Star Fox after his fighter is severely damaged. It's worth noting that the rest of his team had already been killed by that point.
• Worthy Opponent: He very much considers Fox this, even going out of his way to rescue him. In Zero he speaks similarly of Fox's father.

Leon Powalski

Annoying bird! I am the great Leon!

Voices (Japanese): Shinobu Satouchi (Most appearances)
Takashi Ohara (Star Fox 64 3D, Star Fox Zero)

Voices (English): Ja Green (Star Fox 64, Star Fox 64 3D, Star Fox Zero, Starlink: Battle for Atlas)
David Scully (Star Fox: Assault)
Jim Walker (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)

Leon Powalski is the second-highest ranked member of Star Wolf. He is also insane, and deeply depraved. His first appearances in Star Fox 2 and Star Fox 64 show him to be soft-spoken and self-controlled, but over time he grows more and more unpredictable, and eventually completely Ax-Crazy. He plays The Rival to Falco.

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• Ax-Crazy: The Star Fox: Assault manual states that he's a cold-blooded killer with no conscience.
  "A member of Star Wolf who's a cold-blooded assassin. He has no morals or conscience and will perform any job with machinelike disinterest." — instruction booklet, p. 39, Star Fox: Assault.
• Characterization Marches On: Even more noticeable than the rest of his team. He was said to be a sophisticated killer in 64, but subsequent games show him to be progressively less sophisticated.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Some of his dialogue in Star Fox Command reveals a penchant for flowers and rainbows, and the other characters don't tend to think that he's aware of what is going on all the time.
• Cold Sniper: The pilot-assassin variety.
• Combat Sadomasochist: He has a rather disturbing tendency to conflate violence and attraction, and loves torturing opponents before killing them.
• Depraved Homosexual: One of the Lylat codec conversations from Super Smash Bros. seem to imply this with him being quite fascinated in Wolf's anatomy... mostly for homicidal reasons.
• The Dragon: Leon is Wolf's Dragon in the same way Falco is Fox's Lancer (the two are also opponents in both 64 and Zero). His Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U trophy describes him as Wolf's most trusted ally. He is also the one person Wolf always has on his side.
• Emotionless Reptile: The Star Fox: Assault manual describes him cold-blooded, devoid of morals or conscience, and willing to perform any task "with machinelike disinterest".
• Icy Blue Eyes: When they're not red at least.
• Informed Attribute: We've never seen him successfully kill anyone, even though he's a cold-blooded killer with no conscience. This is likely because of the game's target audience. His dialogue does show him to be completely depraved.
  "I think I'll torture you a bit before I cook you!"
• Lizard Folk: Like his name implies, he's an anthropomorphic chameleon.
• Psycho for Hire: He is absolutely sadistic, and works for the Star Wolf mercenary team.
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Even when he's on the heroes' side, he still comes across as bloodthirsty.
• Sadist: Leon absolutely loves violence and psychological torture. In Star Fox Assault, he expresses a dislike of the aparoids, simply because it's "No fun fighting unshakable enemies."
• Sanity Slippage: While he was calm and collected in Star Fox 64, he became more manic and depraved with each passing game.
• Shout-Out: His name is a reference to Leon Kowalski from the movie Blade Runner.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Both Japanese and English vocals in Star Fox 64, reflect this. Later games portray him as utterly unhinged and rather loud.
• Stone Wall: In Command, his Rainbow Delta ship has tremendous health and defense, but no primary lasers.
• This Cannot Be!: Often yells "This can't be happening!" when defeated.
• Token Evil Teammate: Once the even worse Pigma gets the boot, this is the only pure sadist of the team.
• Undying Loyalty: The only member of the original Star Wolf team to remain in it by the time of Assault. Leon may be a psycho dick, but he's completely loyal to Wolf.
• Vocal Evolution: His Japanese voice was low and fluid-sounding in 64; over time it has become higher-pitched, accented, and maniacal. The English versions of the games followed suit on this. In Zero, his voice is closer to how it was in 64, which may be due to the fact that the game is a Continuity Reboot.
• Wicked Cultured: His mannerisms in the Japanese version were intended to reflect that he is "creepily sophisticated." In the English version of 64 he still has implications of this.

Pigma Dengar

That reward's as good as mine!

Voices (Japanese): Daisuke Gōri (Star Fox 64, Star Fox: Assault)
Tsuguo Mogami (Star Fox 64 3D, Star Fox Zero)

Voices (English): David Frederick White (Star Fox 64, Star Fox 64 3D, Star Fox Zero, Starlink: Battle for Atlas)
Lev Liberman (Star Fox: Assault)

Pigma Dengar is a miserly hog who was a member of the original Star Fox team, but betrayed James to Andross and later joined Star Wolf. Due to their history together, he plays The Rival to Peppy. His overwhelming greed and unreliability got him kicked out of Star Wolf sometime before Assault. He tried to profit off of the aparoid invasion by stealing the Core Memory of a dead aparoid, but it corrupted him, and he became assimilated into the hive mind. He later returns in Command, having survived by keeping his consciousness in a giant cube.

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• Ace Pilot: According to himself in Zero. His skills are also the only thing Peppy respects at all.
  Pigma: You should be terrified right now. I'm Star Wolf's ace pilot!
• Arc Villain: Pigma takes the limelight for awhile in Star Fox Assault. Mission 2 is started by a distress signal from him, and Missions 3, 4, and 5 are about hunting him down.
• Asshole Victim: The Star Fox team were disturbed by what the aparoids did to him, but they didn't lose any sleep over killing him, as he had already backstabbed others beforehand himself, most notably James McCloud and was in general a complete asshat.
• Big Bad: Of Star Fox Guard, as the boss of the AstroMine corporation that's been antagonizing Corneria Precious Metals.
• Body Horror: This is generally expected to happen with anything infected by the Aparoids, but Pigma is by far the most advanced case of infection. Not only is he fused with a giant machine and has blue lesions all across his body, but his entire lower body melted into the machine.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: This is implied to be the only reason the Star Wolf team puts up with him: he's really good at killing things.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: As the instruction manual to Star Fox Assault puts it, his life has been one double cross after another.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: In Star Fox Guard, he's revealed to be the head of the AstroMine Corporation, a rival company to Corneria Precious Metals that's been sending various robots to sabotage CPM's mining bases. Pigma mentions that he's using the metals he harvests and steals from Grippy Toad as material for Andross's army. He's also not above sending Venomian army forces to directly attack CPM's corporate office while they're trying to protect their offworld mining stockpile.
• Evil Former Friend: To James and Peppy. Given how close Star Fox team members generally are, it's entirely possible he was very familiar amongst their families as well, which would have included Fox. Despite this, he was greedy enough to willingly lure his friends and teammates into a death trap because he wasn't quite satisfied with the money he was receiving, and Andross paid him better. This was changed, however, with Star Fox Zero, where it's stated he had to explicitly volunteer to investigate Venom with them, though he still appears to have built a reputation with them beforehand.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: In Assault, he takes control of the aparoids on Fichina to sell them for some good cash. Soon after, they take control of him.
• Evil Sounds Deep: His Japanese vocals give him a very deep voice. His American dubbing largely gives a much higher pitched voice.
• Expy: Of Hunter Killer, a former comrade of The Hero's father who betrayed him to join the Big Bad.
• Face Framed in Shadow: Combined with Glowing Eyes of Doom, Pigma's eyes are always covered in shadow, giving his face an Obviously Evil look to it.
• Face–Heel Turn: As noted in the Back Story of Star Fox 64, he was a squadmate of James and Peppy who betrayed them for a paycheck from Andross. The Zero continuity changes this so that he was a mole from the start and a recent addition to their lineup.
• Fatal Flaw: Greed. This ultimately gets him kicked off Star Wolf by the time of Assault, and his belief that he can sell the Aparoid Memory Core for some money ends up with him being assimilated and ultimately killed.
• Fat Bastard: This is most noticable in Assault, where can see he's let himself go, but even in 64, we saw he was overweight. Then again, his species isn't known for being picky eaters.
• Fate Worse than Death: Being assimilated in Assault, being destroyed, and yet not dying.
• Formerly Fit: Downplayed Trope, in 64's intro scene, we see Pigma is rotund but relatively small in an old photo with James and Peppy, with other material like Zero suggesting this was his physique in the present of 64 as well. Years later in Assault, we see Pigma has grown much more obese.
• Gadgeteer Genius: According to the Wolfen's Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS trophy, Pigma worked with Andross for the ship's creation. This is also suggested by Star Fox Guard, where he has his own mining company, operated by machines of his creation.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: With the exception of Star Fox 2, Pigma is shown to have his eyes glowing out of the his shadow covered face.
• Gonk: In Star Fox: Assault, he's ugly even by anthro standards. And there are plenty of good-looking porcine anthros. Not that he was handsome in 64.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has three symmetrical scars on his forehead in Star Fox: Assault. Given that by this time he had been forcefully kicked out of Star Wolf and chased off, and that the leader of Star Wolf is not afraid of using his claws in a fight, it's a safe assumption that he got them from Wolf.
• Greed: This is his most defining trait. It's what made him betray Star Fox and what eventually got him kicked out of Star Wolf after even they had problems with it. Until he gets serious in Venom, he won't shut up about his reward in 64. By the time of Star Fox Command, he devolved to having Revenge as another defining trait of his.
• Hate Sink: Pigma is the least sympathetic of Star Wolf, being the only Star Wolf member aside from Leon to be consistently written as purely despicable: the rest of the team varies in terms of morality and evil. And even Leon has more dignity than him. This makes it all the more satisfying to shoot him down. Even supplementary material does nothing but make him even more despicable, as it details among many other things that he manipulated Wolf to intensify his hatred towards Fox, preventing the two from being close to friends as they otherwise could've been.
• Hated by All: By Assault he's kicked out from Star Wolf, reviled by Star Fox for obvious reasons, and then threw a wrench into the efforts to stop the aparoids by stealing the Core Memory for cash, which likely has all of Corneria hating him too.
• Jerkass: For starters, he turned on Fox's father and killed him, and loves reminding Fox of this.
• Kick the Dog:
  • The Bolse mission in Star Fox 64 gives us this infamously dark quote:
    Pigma: Daddy screamed REAAAAAAAL good before he died!
  • His response to Fox telling him not to steal the Core Memory:
    Pigma: Hmm... is it that important? Waa haa haa! Then I'm gonna be rich! Smell ya later!
• Killed Off for Real: In Assault, he is assimilated by the aparoids and is almost certainly destroyed by Fox. He does return in two ending missions of Command, where he's definitely destroyed.
• Large Ham: No Pun intended. He shines in 64 as the hammiest character, and that's saying a lot.
• Laughing Mad: By the time of Star Fox: Assault, he seems to have lost a lot of his sanity, as about half of his speakable appearances is him laughing, and it is eventually topped when he gets assimilated.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: In Venom II, he is not just stronger, he also doesn't think about money all the time, and his defeat quote is that of the more dignified Leon.
• Manipulative Bastard: According to the Keibunsha strategy guide, he manipulated Wolf to act in accordance to Andross's orders.
• Messy Pig: Between his girth and unkempt appearance, the guy is certainly not winning any beauty contests, that's for sure.
• Misplaced Retribution: One ending in Command has him exacting revenge on Falco, whom by this point didn't have the same connection to him as Fox or Peppy would, and only indirectly contributed to his downfall.
• The Mole: According to the intro to Zero, he was not a longtime member of Star Fox; he had only just joined by volunteering for the assignment to investigate Venom, and was a double agent all along. This is not the case in Star Fox 64: in that timeline, Andross just paid him more.
• Monochromatic Eyes: Except for his unused Star Fox 2 design, all version of him have white eyes with no pupils.
• Motive Decay: In Command, he's dropped all his greed, and is only concerned with exacting revenge on Fox and Falco. Justified, as he's been reduced to a Virtual Ghost by this point, and wouldn't have anything to gain from material riches; his isolation in space would give him all the time to ruminate on his past, however.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: His aparoid form in Assault has multiple limbs.
• Mythology Gag: Pigma working for Andross might be a nod to the early Nintendo Power comics, where Andross was a pig aficionado who was raised by android pigs and had an android pig sidekick named Herbert.
• No Saving Throw: By the time Pigma appears to Fox and/or Falco in Command, he's already screwed them over. By the time they kill Pigma and escape his trap, they'll find that the Anglar Empire had been defeated without them, and thus lose all of their credibility and self-esteem for it.
• Pig Man: Of course. Take the "n" away and you have Pigma.
• Psycho for Hire: It is implied in the Bolse level that the reason he takes mercenary jobs in the first place - aside from the obvious motivation of wanting to get rich - is because he truly enjoys hurting people. After all, he tells Fox his "dad screamed real good before he died".
• Punny Name: He is named for the common sentence ender "dengā" in the Kansai accent, with Shigeru Miyamoto, the producer of the series, being from Kansai himself (specifically, Kyoto, not unlike his employer). The English spelling "Dengar" rhymes with this in non-rhotic accents. Also, adding "n" to the end of his first name gets you "Pigman".
• Puzzle Boss: In Command, he has become a weird blocky entity with a computer screen on it somewhat resembling a Rubik's cube that needs to be shot in a proper manner in order to defeat it.
• Regretful Traitor: Not to Star Fox, but to Star Wolf. According to Star Fox Command, he considered the team to be his true friends. It's unknown if he legitimately believes this or if he's merely misremembering his nostalgia, though.
• Sinister Swine: Pigma's one heck of a Slimeball. He betrayed the original Star Fox to Andross and escaped scot-free (and with an enormous paycheck), and joined Star Wolf not just for the money, but for the killing as well. Even after being kicked out of Star Wolf for his greed, his personality doesn't change in Assault, seeing as he stole the Aparoid core from the gigantic Aparoid that Star Fox fought, both out of greed and amusement.
• Slimeball: He's very sleazy and gross in general, and has absolutely no sense of honor or loyalty.
• The Sociopath: Despite his goofiness, Pigma is shown to be one of Nintendo’s most vile and despicable villains. He enjoys the suffering of others to the point where even Leon looks subtle compared to him.
• Sycophantic Servant: His bio in the Keibunsha guide describes Pigma as worshiping Andross as the Emperor.
• This Cannot Be!: Yells "This can't be happening!" if defeated on Venom II.
• Trap Master: If there's one thing he does better than any other character, it's baiting others into a trap and destroying them with it, most infamously seen with James McCloud. He does this again with Fox and Falco in Command, and succeeds both times (even though he himself perishes in the process).
• Unexplained Recovery: His possible appearance in Star Fox Command tends to raise a few eyebrows. Unlike Andrew, who has at least some leeway for his reappearance, Pigma himself exploded in Star Fox Assault (though the camera cuts away from this). He also seems to have a body that is still based on the one he got while under aparoid possession, yet the aparoids were completely, utterly wiped out at the climax of Assault by apoptosis - meaning that even if he did somehow initially survive his body imploding on itself and then blowing up, he should have been killed anyway when the Queen died since most of him was made of Aparoid.
• Virtual Ghost: Implied in Command where after his onscreen death in Assault, a sentient computer appears as a boss in certain routes, possessing Pigma's personality as well as having his emblazoned face on its screen.

Andrew Oikonny

Andross's enemy is my enemy.

Voices (Japanese): Daisuke Sakaguchi (Star Fox 64)
Yusuke Numata (Star Fox: Assault)
Atsushi Abe (Star Fox 64 3D, Star Fox Zero)

Voices (English): Bill Johns (Star Fox 64)
John Hugill (Star Fox Assault)
Mike West (Star Fox 64 3D, Star Fox Zero, Starlink: Battle for Atlas)

Andrew is Andross's nephew, and plays The Rival to Slippy. After Star Fox 64, he was forced out of Star Wolf, so he attempted to revive his uncle's empire in Assault. He appears again in Command, but as a subordinate of the Anglars. The original fourth member of Star Wolf in Star Fox 2 was a primate named Algy (possibly meant to be "Algae"); in Star Fox 64, this character concept was heavily redesigned as Andrew Oikonny (the Fan Translation of 2, however, renamed Algy "Andrew").

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• Bait-and-Switch Boss: In Star Fox Assault you fight Andrew for a short while, but you never get to finish him off. An Aparoid does, and then you fight it instead.
• Big Bad Wannabe: As Andross's supposed heir, he attempts to finish what his uncle started back in 64 during Assault. Too bad he's nowhere near as competent.
• Evil Counterpart: To Slippy. In dogfights between Star Fox and Star Wolf, they always fight each other. They are also the least skilled and least respected members of their teams, though only Andrew got his place from nepotism. However, they are useful when it comes to designing machines. Slippy has the Landmaster and Blue Marine, and Andrew has built at least two personal mechs and the stealth bombers. However, Slippy is humble, kind and on Fox's side, while Andrew is arrogant and very loyal to Andross.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: His bio in the Keibunsha strategy guide says he is hated by the other Star Wolf members. Likely the only reason he got a position on the team at all was due to Andross' influence.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: Story-wise, the weakest of the Star Wolf pilots in 64, with whiny voice (especially in the remake) and equally whiny quotes (except in Venom 2). Gameplay-wise, he isn't visibly easier than the ruthless aces that are Leon and Pigma.
• Gag Nose: He had a humongous nose in Star Fox 64. It didn't stick though, as Assault and even Zero got rid of it, with Star Fox 64 3D being the only exception for the sake of faithfulness to the original game.
• Giant Enemy Crab: His contraption in Command is a mechanical "Death Crab".
• Giant Hands of Doom: His ship has these in Assault, in a rather obvious mimicry of his uncle. Falco is unimpressed and (accurately) dubs him "An Andross wannabe".
• Harmless Villain: He's the one Star Wolf member who is taken the least seriously. Even when he breaks off from Star Wolf and forms his own army at the beginning of Assault, he's still seen as little more than an annoyance and "Andross-wannabe" by the team.
• I Want My Mommy!: His parodied "Uncle Andross!", which he says when he's downed on Fichina or Bolse in 64, and when he's shot down by the first stage's aparoid boss in Assault, as well as his first fight in Zero.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: Andrew is a smug villain who's notoriously treated like crap by both heroes and villains alike.
• Last-Name Basis: In Assault and Command. No one ever actually refers to him as "Andrew", maybe because it doesn't sound intimidating.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: When his downfall doesn't have him screaming for his uncle Andross, and only then, he has put up a good fight beforehand.
• Maniac Monkeys: Like his uncle, he wants to take over the galaxy in the name of ape-kind.
• Make Way for the New Villains: After being set up as a galactic revolutionary leader with a huge army to succeed Andross's empire, he is shot down mid-sentence by the real Big Bad of the game, an aparoid.
• Nepotism: He's a mediocre pilot who only gets into Star Wolf through his uncle's influence. Once Andross goes down, he swiftly gets the boot.
• Odd Name Out: Is the only member of Star Wolf that doesn't have his species as part of his name, rather having a name that's similar to his uncle's name.
• Overlord Jr.: Andross's nephew, and the heir to his empire.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Like his rival Slippy, he is a decent pilot among aces.
• Punny Name: Andrew is derived from the Greek word Andreas ("of a man"). His uncle's name is derived from the same word.
• The Quisling: He serves the Anglars in Command, even claiming they highly ranked his skills. Considering the Anglars were possibly creations, thus "descendants" of Andross, he isn't really inexcusable.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Andrew enjoys throwing his weight around while simultaneously hiding behind his uncle's infamy, despite his lack of skill as a pilot. His trophy description for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U deconstructs this, as the Star Wolf team finally got fed up with his endless stream of empty boasting and kicked him off the team.
• Starter Villain: He doesn't even manage to be the Chapter 1 boss in Assault. He doesn't come back after that.
• Transforming Mecha: His flagship in Assault transforms into a mechanical Andross-inspired form.
• Uncertain Doom: In the middle of his fight with Fox in Assault, his Andross mech is shot down by an aparoid moth and he's never seen again. This is uncertain because he survived being shot down twice before and his ship was still in one piece after being shot down. Various routes of Command show him to be alive.
• Undying Loyalty: His one redeeming trait is that he is loyal to his uncle. In both Assault and Starlink: Battle for Atlas, Andrew speaks very highly of Andross.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: He seems to be trying to simultaneously gain his uncle's favor and hide behind his infamy in some form.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Andrew's status in Command's endings is always left open. He aids the Anglars until defeated by Star Fox, but it's not said if he's in the team's custody, Corneria's custody, or somewhere else. He's not mentioned in any endings, especially not Dash Makes A Choice despite it having Dash leading Venom to prosperity (and also war).
• White Hair, Black Heart: He's got white (well, grey, but close enough) fur, and Fox refers to him as a "blackhearted ape" in Assault.

Other Members

Algy

The fourth member of Star Wolf Wing, who only appeared in the harder difficulties of the unreleased Star Fox 2. He was initially considered to be the same character as Andrew Oikonny but the long delayed official release of Star Fox 2 confirms he is in fact a different character.

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• Bring It: He announces his presence when in close proximity to you, and dares you to come face him directly.
• Graphics-Induced Super-Deformed: His exact species is impossible to determine due to the low resolution sprites, but he is definitely a primate. What kind of primate? A sportive lemur? A pygmy marmoset? An albino tarsier? Whatever he is, he is unlike the monkey regulars of Venom.
• Four Is Death: He only shows up in the hard and expert mode, where it is easier for the player to die, and he bumps Star Wolf Wing up to a quartet. Star Fox has increased to six members in this game, but you can only choose two, making it all the more noticeable.
• Killed Off for Real: He is in your game then you're eventually going to have to kill him to complete it.
• Mobile Menace: He will wait for you to come to him before attacking, since he's been hired to protect the bases on Macbeth or Fortuna from Star Fox by Andross, but only for so long before he decides to go hunting for you himself. He can find you almost anywhere in Lylat Space, though he won't pursue you to a planet if he can't stop you from accessing it, and if you're already fighting something when he does find you Algy isn't above butting in
• Only in It for the Money: Algy would have no interest in Star Fox if there wasn't monetary incentive for shooting them down. That established, Algy isn't patient about getting his pay and will only hold his post for so long before recklessly charging after Star Fox.
• Smug Snake: He takes Star Fox as lightly as Wolf, while not being nearly as skilled a pilot, nor having as nearly as formidable a space craft.

Panther Caroso

I am Panther... and all who see my rose meet death!

Voices: Tetsu Inada (Japanese, all games), David Scully (English, Star Fox: Assault), Eric Newsome (English, Super Smash Bros. Brawl)

The newest member of the Star Wolf team who debuted in Assault. Panther Caroso is an unabashed ladies man who constantly hits on Krystal every chance he gets. He always carries his signature red rose.

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• Affably Evil: Despite being a member of Star Wolf, he's actually a pretty nice guy and has nothing personal against the Star Fox team.
• All There in the Manual: According to the Assault website, his criminal career was tracked by Cornerian authorities for decades prior to aligning himself with Star Wolf.
• The Casanova: He is described as a ladies man by Nintendo themselves and had apparently fallen in love with Krystal before he had even met her ("words do you no justice").
• Cat Folk: Obviously.
• Chest Insignia: Panther wears ornate armor that represents his symbol, the red rose.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Sure, he is a ladies' man, but he is quite dedicated to the person he cares about and loves them.
• The Dandy: Panther clearly chooses his clothes for style.
• A Dog Named "Dog": A black panther named Panther.
• Fun Personified: Let's just say he wants a first class meal after seeing his favorite restaurant got blown up.
• Glass Cannon: In Command, his ship - the Black Rose - has the most powerful laser in the game, but ludicrously low health. Note that Panther still has a large amount of Turbo, meaning that he can just barrel-roll a lot for safety.
• Hellish Pupils: He has these, on account of being a feline.
• Inconsistent Spelling: In the English version of Command, his last name is "Caruso".
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In the default ending of Star Fox Command, Panther lets Krystal go back to Star Fox because he knows that's where she is happy, but at the same time expresses the hope that one day she'll return to him.
• Latin Lover: He's a suave and romantic panther with a Spanish accent.
• Panthera Awesome: A black panther and a hell of a pilot.
• Prince Charming Wannabe: Towards Krystal, but only in the English dub. The original Japanese versions of Star Fox: Assault and Super Smash Bros. Brawl show that Krystal has a crush on him. The English dubs change her reactions into sarcasm so that she's generally trying to ignore him, or outright rejecting him. Nevertheless, in Star Fox Command, the first thing she does when Fox dumps her is immediately hook up with Panther.
• Purple Is the New Black: He wears a purple vest and his fur color ranges from black to dark purple between games and artwork.
• Romantic False Lead: Some of the optional story arcs in Command have him becoming this.
• Something about a Rose: His chest symbol and personal icon is a rose, alluding to his Casanova tendencies. He even mentions it in his self-introduction when he first appears, and later pilots a ship named the Black Rose.
  "Allow me to introduce myself. I am Panther... and all who see my rose meet death!"
• Sore Loser: In Star Fox Command, after the Star Wolf fight on the default route, he claims that he didn't lose, and instead left the battle because he got bored.
• Third-Person Person: In the English version of Command, though this may have been a translation error.
• Token Good Teammate: He's definitely the least evil member of Star Wolf: aside from fighting Star Fox he doesn't really do anything villainous. A far cry from Star Wolf's usual members, like the psychotic Leon and the plain scumbag Pigma.

Krystal

Krystal as the Bounty Hunter "Kursed" in an ending of Star Fox Command.

In Star Fox Command, Krystal and Fox break up because Fox is worried for Krystal's safety. In response, Krystal joins Wolf's team and enters a relationship with Panther. Depending on the ending, she either leaves them to go back to Fox, stay permanently broken up or simply leave both to become a lonely mercenary.

See her main profile here.

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• Disproportionate Retribution: So, Fox kicked Krystal off the team because he feared for her safety? Krystal's response to this was to join Star Wolf and elaborate a plan that would destroy Fox's heart, his career, and finally set him up to die fighting against Pigma. Even Wolf felt sorry for Fox after going through with it.
• Face–Heel Turn: One of the game's endings reveals that while she joined Star Wolf, she never really turned evil; rather, joining Star Wolf was the only way to keep fighting the Anglar after she was kicked out of Star Fox. The other endings generally play this trope straight.
• Happily Married: Exactly one of Star Fox Command's endings has Krystal finally settling down with Fox and raising a family.
• The Heart: Sort of. In the good endings where Star Wolf get to do a Heel–Face Turn, Krystal is explicitly stated to be the reason for why that happened.
• Laser-Guided Karma: If one obtains the Star Wolf ending in Command, Krystal is shunned by Lylat for her role in betraying Star Fox and is forced to leave to another galaxy.
• Love-Interest Traitor: In most of the different endings, she essentially becomes this.
• Only the Leads Get a Downer Ending: The endings of Star Fox Command tend to be bitter sweet, but one in particular directly plays it straight. The galaxy is saved, but Krystal gets put through a gauntlet of emotional pain before deciding to leave the galaxy and become a ruthless Bounty Hunter.
• Operation: Jealousy: The major reason why she began a relationship with Panther was to make Fox jealous. Judging by his reaction, it worked. The problem is, doing so caused her to develop feelings for Panther, too. (This trope is justified by Star Fox: Assault and Super Smash Bros. Brawl: while the Japanese originals show that she has a crush on Panther, the English translations portray Krystal as disgusted by him.)
• That Woman Is Dead: This is her attitude when she becomes a bounty hunter in one of Command's endings. Having left Star Fox to become a permanent member of Star Wolf, she is berated by the angry populace until she finally decides that enough is enough: she turns her back on Star Fox, Star Wolf, and the entire Lylat system altogether. In the English version of that ending, she also renames herself "Kursed". So much is her departure from her former life, that she encounters Fox some time later, and he doesn't even recognize her (one must wonder how many other blue vixens exist in Lylat). Even before becoming a bounty hunter, she had hints of this in her dialogue when Fox rediscovers her among Star Wolf.
  Krystal: The Krystal you once knew is gone. She is no longer a part of your world!
• Token Good Teammate: Despite joining Star Wolf she is still basically a good person, and is only working with them because she believes only they can stop The Anglar Emperor.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In Command, she becomes much more stubborn, cynical and spiteful as a result of leaving the team.

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