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    The Star Fox Team 
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The band of adventurers-for-hire after whom the series is named. Most of its members were trained at the Cornerian Military Academy, but the team itself is a privately-run paramilitary. Due to at least two Continuity Reboots, research into their origins is somewhat difficult. In the first continuity, they were outlaw freedom fighters on Papetoon before being hired as PMCs during the Lylat War due to their impressive skills. Since Star Fox 64 rebooted the franchise, they were private military contractors to begin with. Star Fox's roster has changed numerous times in each timeline.

Timeline 1

Timeline 2

  • The original (unplayable) team, according to backstory, was made up of James McCloud, Peppy Hare, and Pigma Dengar. They were hired to investigate a military buildup on the planet Venom, but during the mission, Pigma betrayed the team and killed James after being paid off by Andross, who was responsible for the military buildup. Peppy barely escaped with his life and returned to Corneria to tell Fox the tragic news.
  • In Star Fox 64, The team was re-formed and led by James's son Fox McCloud, and featured Falco Lombardi, Peppy Hare, and Slippy Toad, with the express intent to destroy Andross. This is the core team during the Lylat Wars, as seen in the original game, but with the addition of ROB/NUS 64: the robotic operator of the Great Fox.
  • Falco left the team in Farewell, Beloved Falco; afterwards, Slippy temporarily traded in his pilot's wings to devote the bulk of his time to Cornerian Weapons Research and Development, and Peppy retired from active flight duty to concentrate on an advisory position in mission planning.
  • Falco rejoined the team at the end of Adventures. Krystal also joined the team. Tricky is proclaimed to be an honorary member for his invaluable assistance, but never leaves his home planet to join the Great Fox. Instead, he stays home to uphold his royal responsibilities. The team stays this way come Star Fox: Assault.
  • Peppy replaced Pepper as general sometime before Star Fox Command, Slippy again focused on his mechanic work elsewhere, Falco left the team for similar reasons, and Krystal was kicked out due to Fox's concern over her safety. Since Star Fox Command has Multiple Endings, there are many different ways the Star Fox team can end up depending on the player's actions.

Timeline 3

  • Star Fox Zero is currently the only game in this timeline, and it follows essentially the same plot (and thus, the same characters) as Star Fox 64, but with addition of Direct-I: a small robot designed to assist the Gyrowing and Roadmaster)

Original Members

    Fox McCloud 
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"Sorry to jet, but I’m in a hurry!"
Voices (Japanese): Shinobu Satouchi (Star Fox 64, Super Smash Bros. 64, Super Smash Bros. Melee)
Kenji Nojima (Star Fox: Assault, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U)
Takashi Ohara (Star Fox 64 3D, Star Fox Zero, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)
Voices (English): Dan Owsen (Star Fox)
Mike West (Star Fox 64, Star Fox 64 3D, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, Star Fox Zero, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)
Steve Malpass (Star Fox Adventures, Super Smash Bros. Melee)
Jim Walker (Star Fox: Assault, Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Joe Zieja (Star Fox Zero – The Battle Begins tie-in animation)

Fox McCloud is the main character of all of the Star Fox games. Stern and self-willed, the combination of his piloting skills and decisive thinking makes him the indisputable leader of the Star Fox mercenary team.

  • Ace Pilot: He is the leader of the Star Fox team thanks to his piloting skills and leadership spirit.
  • Adaptation Name Change: He was called Fox McCloud Jr. in the original continuity.note 
  • Age Lift: In timeline 1, Fox is 25 years old as of the first Lylat War. After the reboot, he was aged down to 18 for the same conflict.
  • Art Shift: Each game gives Fox a slightly different look. In the first two games, his design looks quite like an actual fox, while all subsequent releases have gone for a more cartoony or stylized look.note  This is particularly notable in Super Smash Bros.: when Krystal made her debut in Adventures, she and Fox were roughly equal in height◊, with her being just a smidge taller; by the time Krystal appeared in Smash Bros. as an Assist Trophy, Fox had long since settled into more exaggerated and cartoony proportions, while Krystal kept her original design and proportions. The result: she is now substantially taller than Fox◊.
  • Blinded by Rage: In the Nintendo Power comics, Fox's hatred of Andross made him so angry that he ignored his teammates and tried to go solo in a mission to stop Andross. While Falco notes that he's never seen Fox that angry before, it also nearly gets the entire Star Fox team killed.
  • Deadpan Snarker: While it's rather rare, he tends to snark when particularly annoyed.
    Fox: Peppy, send me a Landmaster, will ya?
    Peppy: On its way! What's the situation, Fox?
    Fox: Well, I got my hands full. But what else is new.
    Peppy: Done! Here's your Landmaster! [...] Transmission complete. It's all yours, Fox!
    (Landmaster dramatically teleports in... in the middle of a swarm of aparoids...)
    Fox: Great. Good to see the transmission system's targeting is as sterling as ever.
  • A Dog Named "Dog": A Fox named "Fox", even though his father's name is "James" with no reference to his species anywhere in his name, which also makes this an example of Aerith and Bob.
  • Drowning My Sorrows: One of Star Fox Command's endings shows him doing this should Krystal leave him and choose to join Star Wolf.
  • Emotion Suppression:
  • Era-Specific Personality: Out of all the main characters, Fox's personality changed the most when the franchise got rebooted.
  • Everyone Can See It: Fox tries (and utterly fails) to keep his crush on Krystal under wraps in Star Fox Adventures and Star Fox Assault. Not that it would make any difference anyway; all of his teammates know him too well, ROB has a way of putting it out in the open, and others (like Tricky) had assumed they were already together.
  • Happily Married: One of Command's endings has him become this with Krystal.
  • Heroic Safe Mode: Fox is usually very calm on a mission, doing his level best to keep his emotions in check. In the original game, he only speaks for mission-critical reasons. 64 has a few moments of snark, but largely retains this. Assault has a few cracks in the armor show through, though. Fox is clearly conflicted about fighting General Pepper, even though he's been infected by the Aparoids. Just after Peppy apparently makes a Heroic Sacrifice to let everyone else get to the Aparoid Queen, Fox says "Peppy, you mustn't..." before regaining his composure. Right after that, when the Aparoid Queen uses the voice of his father James to tell him to quit, Fox briefly falters before yelling that James would never tell him to quit.
  • I Am X, Son of Y: Before Fox's father was renamed James McCloud in 64, Fox's father was dubbed Fox McCloud Sr. (or "Fox Senior") in supplemental material. Fox himself was called "Junior" in the comic, although he hates it.
  • It's Not You, It's My Enemies: His reason for kicking Krystal off Star Fox prior to Command was that he did not want to see her get hurt as a result of being part of The Team. Unfortunately, she doesn't take it well. The game seems to relish in pointing out how phenomenally stupid this decision was on Fox's part — practically all of his allies call Fox an idiot at various points in the storyline for thinking that kicking Krystal off the team was somehow the best option.
  • It's Personal: Fox really hates Andross. Might've had something to do with arranging the death of his dad.
  • Jack of All Stats: In the games where there are multiple playable characters with differing stats, equipment or skills, note  he's a generally well rounded, middle-of-the-road character.
  • The Last DJ: In the original continuity, he was exiled because he had highly critical opinions regarding Corneria's lax handling of Andross. Eventually, Corneria had to hire him to take out Andross.
  • The Leader: Fox McCloud is the team leader and frontline commander of Star Fox. Peppy is usually the strategist but Fox is the one putting the pieces in place on the battlefield.
  • Like Father, Like Son: Fox's father was as much of an Ace Pilot as Fox was. Hopefully for Fox, he won't end up being backstabbed by one of his supposed allies the same way.
  • Like Parent, Like Spouse: In the first timeline, it's specifically noted that Fara Phoenix closely resembles his late mother.
  • Nice Guy: While Fox is a Punch-Clock Hero who protects the galaxy mainly to pay the bills, he is shown to be kind and compassionate in every timeline.
  • Not Allowed to Grow Old: In the "Good-bye, Fox" ending of Command, about the only difference physically in his older appearance as a father was that he started wearing sunglasses and grew a goatee.
  • Not So Stoic: He's rather calm when on a mission, never letting his emotions get the better of him if it means failing the mission, only occasionally engaging in some light snark. That being said, he still does let a few things slip through the cracks.
    • In Assault, just before Peppy apparently performs a Heroic Sacrifice to open the way for Star Fox and Star Wolf to the Aparoid Queen, Fox lets out a pained "Peppy... you mustn't!" After Peppy goes through with it anyway, Fox takes a moment before telling Star Fox that they need to act in spite of what's just happened.
    • Just before the Final Battle of Assault, the Aparoid Queen begins telling Fox to just surrender and join the Aparoids with James McCloud's voice. It actually gets to Fox for a moment.
      Falco: Fox! Don't listen! You know your father is—
      Fox: I know! My father... My father would never tell me to give up!
    • Should Krystal break up with Fox permanently in an ending of Command, Fox can be found drinking himself into a stupor over it.
  • Official Couple: Fox's canonical girlfriend and the dynamics of their relationship with each other changed with the continuity.
  • Parental Abandonment: Fox's parents are both gone; his mother is dead, and depending on the continuity, his father is either also dead or trapped in Another Dimension. Also depending on the continuity, Andross had something to do with the death of each of Fox's parents.
  • Punch-Clock Hero: In the rebooted timeline, he helps the Cornerian Army since the job paid well which meant he could pay the bills... and also because it meant he could get revenge on Andross.
  • Putting the Band Back Together: He has to do this in several of the games.
  • Real Men Wear Pink: Originally, Fox's pilot scarf was a bright, pinkish red in the first game. It was changed to a more neutral red in 64 onwards.
  • Rescue Romance: His relationships with both of his love interests begin by him saving their lives.
  • The Rival: To Falco and Wolf.
    • He used to butt heads with Falco quite a bit, but the tensions seemed to have died down in later games until they became Bash Brothers and merely friendly rivals.
    • His true rival and Worthy Opponent is Wolf O'Donnell, who was also his father's rival before Andross killed him. Both respect each other more as the games go on, but according to Wolf in Assault, "If anyone's gonna tan [Fox's] hide, it's gonna be me". The sentiment seems mutual though, given Fox will utter "This is the end for you, Wolf!" if he catches him in his Final Smash in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
  • Say My Name: In the Japanese versions, his team members will do this if Fox is killed (these are replaced with a Big "NO!" in the English version).
  • She Is Not My Girlfriend: Once in Assault, relating to Krystal. Played with in that she is his girlfriend, but the subject of marriage makes Fox clearly uncomfortable. Tricky assumes that Fox and Krystal are already engaged, and promises to keep Sauria intact until they can come back on their honeymoon. Fox unfortunately phrases his response in a way that makes it clear that although they aren't, he does want them to be, causing much embarrassment until he can change the subject.
    Fox: What are you nuts?! We aren't- we not yet-
    Tricky: Not yet?
    [Krystal leans in curiously whilst Fox struggles over his words]
    Fox: Uh... I mean- I mean, this is not a conversation for children!
    [Krystal laughs at his immediate topic changing]
    Tricky: You said you weren't gonna treat me like a kid anymore!
    Fox: Then stop acting like one!
    Tricky: You're just mad 'cause you don't wanna talk about it.
    Krystal: Alright, that's enough, boys.
  • Standardized Leader: Falco is arrogant and hot-headed, but talented. Peppy is wise, but his old age is catching up to him. Slippy is a reckless and inexperienced genius. As for Fox, he is just good at what he does, which is leading his team and making sure they perform well.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: This is probably the reason James is always shown wearing shades and Fox rarely is — without them, father and son look nearly the same.
  • Technicolor Eyes: Fox was shown having brown eyes in the title screen of the original game, then blue eyes in the comic,note  Star Fox 2, and in Super Smash Bros. Melee. Since Farewell and Adventures, Fox has had green eyes, except for one piece of promotional artwork for Assault, where he appears to have blue and green eyes (fading from one color to the other in the same iris, no less!). Since the green eyes became fixed, they have usually been some of the nicest hue of green imaginable. Green eyes of course exist in reality, but it's not often you see someone with such a penetrating emerald color.
  • Trigger-Happy: Some dialogue in Adventures implies that he's like this (specifically General Pepper forbidding him from taking a blaster to his first mission on Dinosaur Planet and shooting everything in sight to solve his problems, requiring him to find a different, yet suitable weapon for the circumstances), but so far it's been an Informed Attribute.
  • Vocal Evolution: Given it was the first time in years he's played the character in a proper Star Fox game, Zero shows Mike West has more range that allows him to give Fox a wider set of emotions when talking. Compare him saying "Andross!" in 64 and Zero; in the former he's just saying it, in the latter he's not as loud and snarls the word.

    Falco Lombardi 
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"I'll take the sky any day."
Voices (Japanese): Hisao Egawa (most appearances)
Kosuke Takaguchi (Star Fox 64 3D, Star Fox Zero, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)
Voices (English): Bill Johns (Star Fox 64)
Ben Cullum (Super Smash Bros. Melee, Star Fox Adventures)
Mike Madeoy (Star Fox: Assault)
Dex Manley (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Mark Lund (Star Fox 64 3D, Star Fox Zero, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

Falco Lombardi is something of a loose cannon compared to the rest of Star Fox. He doesn't play well with others, and seems to work with the team for purely financial reasons, though deep down he realizes what is at stake and will do what is right. He tends to butt heads with Fox, leading to a falling out between them before Adventures, which is explained in the manga Farewell, Beloved Falco, but by Assault, he seems to have warmed up to him, and they are simply friendly rivals. Falco is either the best pilot on the team or at least Fox's equal, with the best Arwing stats in Assault and a specialized Sky Claw vehicle in Command.

  • 11th-Hour Ranger: He aids Fox during the Final Boss of Adventures.
  • Ace Pilot: This is his official team designation. His stats even seem to imply that he's a more skilled pilot than Fox, though this doesn't come up during gameplay and is contradicted by the plot. That said, in Route 3 of the SNES game, he solos the Attack Carrier while Fox takes on the Destructor, so it's not always Gameplay and Story Segregation. Appropriately for a bird, he expressively prefers flying an Arwing, as opposed to using any of the team's other tactical options.
  • Age Lift: Falco was 28 years old in the SNES canon. As of the 64 canon, he starts out at 19, at just a year older than Fox.
  • All There in the Manual: The manga Farewell, Beloved Falco explains his absence for most of Adventures. It was caused by a falling out between him and Fox due to the machinations of a Cornerian officer who planned on resurrecting Andross.
  • Anti-Hero: He acts a bit on the rough side at times, but he is clearly not interested in becoming an evildoer anytime soon.
  • Bash Brothers: His relationship with Fox and Slippy comes off as this in Assault with his calmer disposition and lower amount of snark.
  • Blue Is Heroic: He is a blue avian and is a member of Star Fox.
  • Brooklyn Rage: He's got the accent, an Italian-sounding last name, and he's a former gang member.
  • The Cavalry: He shows up out of nowhere in Adventures to help with the final boss fight.
  • Celibate Hero: When asked by Katt in the manga Farewell, Beloved Falco, he replies with a smug "I fly solo, babe".
  • Character Development: His relationship with Fox and the rest of the team improves considerably after taking a four-year break between 64 and Adventures.
  • Chekhov M.I.A.: In Adventures, he's departed the team. His only appearance is the final battle with Andross, where he supports you in the showdown.
  • Cool Old Guy: In one of the possible endings for Command, he's sought out by Fox and Krystal's son, Slippy's son, and Peppy's granddaughter as a mentor. Wisened by age, he takes to the role of mentoring the team whilst looking out for them much like Peppy once did.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Falco is never shy about presenting his feelings.
    (in 64, if his ship's shields are low after a mission) "See my ship? Does it look okay to you?"
  • Defrosting Ice King: Throughout the series, he slowly grows fonder and more appreciative of his teammates.
  • Despair Event Horizon: Falco's always been one to be late to the party, but attempting to pursue his own leads during the story of Command leads him to realize that if he'd simply stuck with the team, he would've gotten the fame and prosperity he wanted. Severely depressed from this revelation, he flees the system in a mix of despair, anger, and fear of being rejected.
  • Deuteragonist: He acts as the second-in command of Fox.
  • A Dog Named "Cat": Despite his name, he's a pheasant, not a falcon.
  • Expy: Of Han Solo. Former criminal who joined the heroes? Check. Claims to only be with them for the money? Check. Snarky attitude towards leadership and arrogant about his piloting skills? Check. Still a good guy who can back up his ego? Check. Falco's first voice actor, Bill Johns, even admits that he was told to "think Han Solo" while voicing him.
  • Fake Defector: Averted in Farewell, Beloved Falco: he neither betrayed Star Fox nor even faked betrayal when he fought Fox, as it turns out that the "Androssian rebels" were Katt Monroe and her gang (not to mention his former gang), FREE AS A BIRD, and the only reason Star Fox fought against them was because they were manipulated by Captain Shears.
  • False Reassurance: Falco's choices in Command which disobey ROB's orders to go look for Star Fox are written in the UI as if he was simply tying up loose ends while the rest of the team handles the direct assaults by the Anglar forces. Upon finishing the last mission on this route, Star Fox promptly informs Falco that he's been completely useless the entire time, leading him to flee the system in despair.
  • Feather Fingers: This is how he uses the controls of his Arwing, and how he uses guns.
  • Fragile Speedster: In Command, his Sky Claw ship has the highest boost, but one of the lowest health ratings.
  • Friendly Rival: To Fox. Despite being teammates, Falco constantly tries to one-up him during missions. And despite that, they are always on the same side.
  • Glass Cannon: Across the games - including his appearances in the Super Smash Bros. series - Falco typically has low health and/or defense, but higher accuracy, damage, and/or speed. Particularly notable in Assault, where he has an Arwing piloting skill higher than everyone else, including Fox, but also has the lowest health.
  • Good Is Not Nice: He's on the Star Fox team, but he usually acts rude, cynical and somewhat ungrateful. Downplayed in Assault as he's softened considerably by then.
  • I Work Alone: He's a bit of a loner, meaning he seems to leave the team every other game only to come back later. In Command, if you choose to enable his behavior, Falco's extreme regret at seeing Star Fox prosper without him will lead him to angrily flee the system.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite mocking some of his teammates constantly, he does genuinely care about their well-being. In 64 and Zero, for all his rudeness to Fox usually, he starts to panic if Fox's health is low. According to the ''Assault'' instruction booklet, he considers the team his family. He also praises Fox, flatly in the bad ending, genuinely and openly in the good ending.
  • The Lancer: Falco often snarks at Fox's leadership in battle and has his own way of doing things but he's effective nonetheless and lives up to his own opinion of himself.
  • A Lizard Named "Liz": Subverted. Despite his namesake, his design was originally based on a pheasant.
  • Mentor Archetype: In one of the Command endings; he becomes one to the next generation of Star Fox, started by Fox and Krystal's son, Slippy's oldest son, and Peppy's granddaughter.
  • Noble Bird of Prey: Subverted. Falco is a pheasant, although he quite clearly fancies himself as a bird of prey, such as indignantly shouting "Go find your own target, Fox!" in 64 whenever Fox shoots down a target he had in his sights.
  • Non-Indicative Name: While everyone else on the team has their species in their name (Fox McCloud is a fox, Peppy Hare is a hare, and Slippy Toad is a toad), Falco doesn't. His first name invokes a falcon, but he's actually based on a pheasant.
  • Only in It for the Money: Particularly in the comic, Falco seems ever-concerned with opportunities to get rich. This is particularly annoying to Fox; while they both are in it for the money, and both have a set of standards they won't cross even for cash, Falco's standards are looser than Fox's are.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: While normally an arrogant, sarcastic hotshot, he shows a few cracks in 64.
    • When the team enters Corneria City and see all the destruction Andross's forces have caused, all Falco can say is a solemn and subdued "This is horrible."
    • At Zoness, Falco is at a loss for words over the pollution, stating he "can't believe [Andross] did this". When Slippy delcares it's "a dump", Falco agrees with a "I hear ya, Slippy."
    • When Fox destroys the real Andross, Falco praises him genuinely, with no snark whatsoever.
  • Pretty Boy: Though it depends on the artist, Falco seems to have this appearance in Adventures and Assault, compared to the other games or the manga.
  • Shout-Out: He is supposedly named after Carlo Rambaldi, an Italian special effects artist who worked on the films Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
  • So Proud of You: For all his snarking, he gives a really heartfelt one to Fox in the good ending of 64.
    "That's our leader!"
  • Start My Own: Repeatedly refusing to obey ROB's orders as Falco in Command will result in an ending where Falco angrily drags the Great Fox out of the system, only to form a splinter group at the behest of Katt Monroe.
  • Token Evil Teammate: Certainly not "evil", but easily the biggest and most ungrateful jerk inside the team.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Compare his dialog and interactions in 64 to those in Assault. The latter has him noticeably less snarky and more genuine. It's clear that his time away from Star Fox over the course of Adventure left him more appreciative of them.
  • Toothy Bird: Not seen in the games, but has been seen in the comic, Farewell, Beloved Falco. but not in the Nintendo Power comics. Whether Falco has teeth or not seems to depend on the artist more than comics vs. games.
  • Tsundere: Especially in the original comic. Falco is deeply loving toward Fox, even while beating the shit out of him.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: Every single time you save him in a dogfight in 64.
    "Gee, I've been saved by Fox. How swell."
    "Mind your own business, Fox!"
    "I guess I should be thankful."
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Fox in 64. Even though Falco is at his snarkiest in said game, he still has Fox's back.
  • Vocal Evolution: Japanese voice only — his voice is much deeper now than it was in 64. Interestingly, his original voice in the first and second games was also very deep.
  • Worf Had the Flu: In the very first mission of 64, he is tailed by three measly Granga Fighters who drain his health very fast and will shoot him down if Fox is too slow. The reason? His G-Diffuser malfunctions momentarily. If he is saved, he repays the favor and shows his true skills by tracking the Attack Carrier.

    Peppy Hare 
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“To Barrel Roll, press Z or R twice!”
Voices (Japanese): Tomohisa Aso (All games)
Voices (English): Rick May (Star Fox 64)
Chris Seavor (Super Smash Bros. Melee, Star Fox Adventures)
Henry Dardenne (Star Fox: Assault)
Dex Manley (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Jaz Adams (Star Fox 64 3D, Star Fox Zero, Starlink: Battle for Atlas)

Peppy Hare is a veteran of the original Star Fox team led by his former classmate James McCloud, acting as a father figure to the current Star Fox team led by Fox McCloud. Since the end of the Lylat Wars, he rarely climbs into the cockpit of an Arwing, preferring instead to serve as the team's navigator and general advisor. By Command, he left the team to become a general in the Cornerian Army.

    Slippy Toad 
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"Fox, get this guy off me!"
Voices (Japanese): Kyoko Tonguu (All games)
Voices (English): Lyssa Browne (Star Fox 64, Star Fox 64 3D, Star Fox Zero, Starlink Battlefor Atlas)
Chris Seavor (Super Smash Bros. Melee, Star Fox Adventures)
Mike McAuliffe (Star Fox: Assault, Super Smash Bros. Brawl)

Slippy Toad is a close friend of Fox McCloud since their school days, and a talented mechanical engineer. His enthusiasm tends to outweigh his technical flight skills, so he is the one most likely to get into trouble. Still, he is considered the likeable, morale-boosting "mascot" of the team.

  • A Day in the Limelight: Star Fox Guard prominently features him and his uncle Grippy.
  • Age Lift: Slippy was 19 years old in the SNES canon, whereas in the 64 canon, he was 18. This makes him the only member of the team whose age was largely unchanged in the rebooted continuity.
  • Blood Knight: Hard to picture Slippy as such, but in Assault, he clearly likes the idea of following Fox to the Sargasso Space Zone. Then during gameplay, you can see him finding enemies in the hangar, and...
    Slippy: No mercy! (proceeds to destroy the troop) Did you see how well I fought?
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: In one plotline in Command, Slippy ends up brainwashed by Octoman into fighting against Fox and Amanda.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Some of his lines in Assault paint him this way, especially when he looks at the menacing aparoid base and remarks about how tasty it looks (as well as angrily ask if the aparoids have ever heard of windows in one conversation).
  • Distressed Dude: Slippy has been kidnapped no less than four times in official works:
  • The Dog Bites Back: Played for Laughs. In Assault, on Sauria, Fox and Krystal set on an on-foot mission while Falco and Slippy clear the skies. After receiving orders, Slippy had a few choice words for Falco.
    Fox: Falco, Slippy! The airborne enemies are all yours!
    Falco: Gotcha! Try not to make a mess of things, Slippy!
    Slippy: Give it a rest Falco. Seriously. Shut your beak for once.
  • Enemy Scan: Does this for you in most games, allowing you to see the boss' shields/Hit Points.
    (in 64) "Enemy shield analyzed!"/"Data analysis complete. Here it comes!"
    (in Assault) "Shield analysis complete! Bringing it up on the monitor!"
  • Establishing Character Moment: In 64, seconds after gameplay begins, he goes off on his own and a fighter begins chasing him.
    Peppy: Slippy, watch out. Bogey on your tail!
    Slippy: Whoa! Help me!
    (Fox saves him from the enemy ships)
    Slippy: Thanks Fox! I thought they had me.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: It runs in the family, considering his father's knack for inventions. The two worked together on the Blue-Marine according to the guide for 64, and according to a Codec Conversation for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, he is the one that devised Fox and Falco's blasters and reflectors for that game.
  • Gameplay and Story Integration: Outside of his tendency for distress, he's the most consistently-useful member of the team because he's the game's justification for bosses having Life Bars. If his Arwing was totaled, you won't have him around to analyze the enemy's Shield Gauge, and will be flying blind as far as that particular info goes.
  • Gratuitous English: In the Japanese versions of 64 and Assault, saving Slippy during the flight missions usually results him in saying "Thank you, Fox!" in English.
  • Hidden Depths:
    • Assault reveals that while he's not a particularly skilled flyer, he's still a competent (and pretty eager fighter on foot). His multiplayer stats also show he's a force to be reckoned with as a Landmaster tank driver. This gets reflected in Star Fox Command, and earlier in Star Fox 2, where his personal ship is essentially a flying tank.
    • While he's a Gadgeteer Genius, he's also the responsible for the invention of the Blue Marine, basically being single-handedly responsible for Fox standing his ground on underwater missions.
  • Homemade Inventions: Slippy assembled the Blue Marine submarine out of spare parts and scrap metal. He planned to use it as a recreational boat, but reworked it into a combat vehicle on short notice for the team's mission on Aquas.
  • Humble Hero: He might be the least skilled pilot of his team, but in his defense he never bragged about the opposite.
  • Kid-Appeal Character: He's chirpy and enthusiastic, but somewhat naive. This aspect of him usually gets on Falco's nerves.
  • Leeroy Jenkins: Has a tendency to fly off on his own during missions, which potentially gets him into big trouble in Sector X.
  • Like Father, Like Son: Though the similarities between father and son are applied somewhat differently. His father Beltino is a geeky, stuttering, absent-minded inventor of ships and weaponry (though no indication is given he's the type who's been in a fight), whereas Slippy is a geeky, mostly non-stuttering, occasionally absent-minded inventor and operator of ships and weaponry.
  • Manchild: He's the same age as Fox, but he has a high-pitched voice, gets into trouble constantly, and has little adaptive talent. His traits could pass for someone younger.
  • The Millstone: Only once, when he tries to help Fox with a giant robot in Sector X and fails, ending up trapped by Goras and ruining the chances of the team to fight the true Andross. However, this can be stopped if Fox destroys the machine first, and usually Slippy averts this trope.
  • Mighty Glacier: In Command, his Bullfrog ship gets plasma shots, but it has a tiny boost meter and isn't very mobile.
  • Missing Mom: Who is Slippy's mom? Out of all the major Star Fox characters whose parents have been shown, Slippy is the only one who has been depicted with no mother whatsoever.
  • Nice Guy: He is one of the friendliest characters in the series.
  • Older Than They Look: Despite being approximately the same age as Fox, he looks and sounds like a lot younger.
  • Playful Hacker: His hacking skills are the main reason to keep him active. Otherwise, you can't see enemy health gauges.
  • The Smart Guy: Serves as the mechanic to the Star Fox team and is the one to analyze the enemy and their shields.
  • Species Surname: Although he looks more like a frog than a toad.
  • Support Party Member: He's not the best pilot, but he's the group's genius mechanic, responsible for maintaining the team's equipment, as well as the game's reason for bosses having Life Bars.
  • Utility Belt: In the original game and its SNES sequel, Slippy wore a bead necklace. This necklace actually had a practical use in the comic, where its pieces doubled as sleeping gas explosives.
  • Vocal Evolution: From 64 to Assault, his English voice became less feminine over time. Inverted by the time of 64 3D and Zero.

Other Members

    Fara Phoenix 
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Coming from a rich family, Fara Phoenix is the chief test pilot of the Arwing and Fox McCloud's Love Interest in Timeline 1. First appearing in the tie-in comic series for the original Star Fox, she also appeared in an alpha for Star Fox 2 as a playable character, but was not included in the final game.

    Miyu 
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Miyu served as the fifth member of Star Fox in Star Fox 2. Not much is known about her personality and backstory.

  • Ace Pilot: She is this, along with the rest of Star Fox.
  • Artistic License – Biology: Her 2017 artwork shows her with a long, cat-like tail, despite real lynxes being known for having very short tails, making her look more like a serval cat instead.
  • Depending on the Artist: Her 2017 artwork depicts her wearing a purple jumpsuit and a blue scarf, despite the fact that the outfit she wears in-game is orange and red. She is also missing her earring in this artwork.
  • Dissonant Serenity: She never loses her smile, despite the fact that she is fighting a war to prevent Corneria's total destruction. However, the nature of some of her dialogue implies that this is unintentional: she only seems this way because she only has one expression in her sprite images.
    "No! The missiles are falling on Corneria!"
  • Flirting Under Fire: In the pilot's select screen, after she is selected along with a second pilot, she blows a kiss presumably to the player, or her co-pilot, just seconds before they take off to fight Andross and his forces.
  • Fragile Speedster: Miyu and Fay's Arwings (dubbed the "Light Arwing") move the fastest, and they charge their attack the fastest, but they have the least shields. This is made up for by their default special weapon being an Invincibility Powerup.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: She notably blows a kiss to the player upon selection. It's believed that her flirtatious attitude was applied to her spiritual successor, Katt Monroe (this may have been confirmed in Star Fox Zero, as Katt now wears a golden earring on her left ear similar to Miyu's).
  • Only One Name: The leaked 1995 CES build suggests her last initial may have been W, but her last name has not been given in any canonical released media.
  • Private Military Contractors: She is a PMC, drafted from the Cornerian Army and is fighting to protect Corneria from Andross.
  • Sixth Ranger: Miyu becomes a new addition to the Star Fox team in this game.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: She is described as a "tomboyish lynx" and therefore is the Tomboy to Fay's Girly Girl.
  • Two Girls to a Team: She, along with Fay, effectively fill this trope when they join the team.

    Fay 
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Fay served as the sixth member of Star Fox in later builds of Star Fox 2. Like Miyu, not much is known about her. The manual for the SNES Mini Classic release lists her as being the daughter of an aristocratic family that has decided to join Star Fox to defend her home planet, Corneria.

    Krystal 
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"Leave it to me."
Click here to view Krystal's appearance in Adventures
Voiced By: Aya Hara (Japanese, all games), Estelle Ellis (English, Star Fox Adventures), Alesia Glidewell (English, Star Fox: Assault, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

Krystal is Fox's on-again off-again Love Interest who was introduced in Adventures. She is a telepath, and replaced Peppy as the fourth active member of the team by Assault.

  • Aborted Arc: Krystal starts off the plot of Adventures by looking for clues about the death of her parents and her doomed home world Cerinia. This is never brought up again.
  • Ace Pilot: She becomes this in Star Fox Assault. She is chased less often than her more experienced team mates.
  • Action Girl: She is skilled in both piloting and use of firearms, being able to take out whole groups of enemies by herself. She also participates in ground combat alongside Fox more often than the other team mates.
  • Age-Gap Romance: The official Japanese website for Adventures reveals that when they met, Krystal was 19 and Fox was 26, leaving a notable seven-year age gap between them.
  • Age Lift: Krystal's original conceptualised counterpart in Dinosaur Planet was 16 years old. Her canon Star Fox self was aged up to 19 years.
  • Aliens of London: Her home planet Cerinia is outside of the Lylat System, and she is the only character in the series who speaks with an Estuary English accent (likely to denote her foreign origins).
  • All There in the Manual: The manual for Adventures tells us that Krystal's home planet was Cerinia. Nowhere else in the games do we hear of that.
  • Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Krystal is a fox, and arctic foxes do sometimes have bluish coats... but no fox species can have cobalt blue fur like hers. It should be noted that Krystal isn't a normal fox even by Lylat standards, so it's highly likely her coloration is a direct result of her Cerinian heritage.
  • The Artifact: Krystal has a sizable (though hardly universal) fanbase in the West, but she hasn't proven as popular in Japan. Since her introduction in Adventures, the creators have been increasingly unkind to her, but can't quite seem to find a way to keep her or write her out without upsetting some portion of the series' fans. Star Fox Command handled this rather creatively, where some of the Multiple Endings are favorable to Krystal, while some others (including the default ending) decisively cast her aside. The second continunity reboot, Star Fox Zero, adheres to the original status quo; leaving it open whether she'll be reintroduced in the new continuity or not.
  • The Baby of the Bunch: She is the youngest member of the team, and despite being a skilled combatent, she is the least experienced.
  • Badass Adorable: She is very cute, gentle and sweet. She can also very readily kick someone's ass with either magical artifacts, futuristic weapons, or space fighters. It's implied in Assault that she can also make psychic deflector shields.
  • Barrier Warrior: Assault hints that this may be part of her telepathic abilities, as in multiplayer mode she starts out with a free barrier item.
  • Battle Couple: Star Fox Assault has her accompany Fox during the ground missions on Sauria and the Aparoid homeworld.
  • The Big Damn Kiss: In an unused portion of Star Fox Adventures, Krystal said she could join the team provided Fox kissed her.
  • Blood Knight: Many of Krystal's quips in the multiplayer mode of Assault demonstrate that she enjoys fighting, and is very confident in herself while doing it.
  • Blue Is Heroic: A kind-hearted heroic character who is blue all over, even wearing a blue suit.
  • Boyish Short Hair: Krystal's hair is always worn pretty short.
  • Canon Immigrant: She was the original protagonist of Dinosaur Planet before it was repurposed into a Star Fox game.
  • Cleavage Window: Her top is always open in a way that shows her Décolletage.
  • Combat Stilettos: Her Star Fox Assault uniform includes boots with heels.
  • Continuity Nod: While the trademarked Dinosaur Planet name had to go after Star Fox Adventures, her custom ship is named after the CloudRunner dinosaurs in Command.
  • Contrasting Sequel Main Character: She compares to Fara Phoenix - Fox's girlfriend in the first continuity - in that they were both rescued by Fox and joined his team afterwards, but that's where their similarities end. Fara came from a wealthy Cornerian family while Krystal starts out as a drifting foreigner outside of Lylat. While Fara is an expert in piloting the Arwing, Krystal prefers hand-to-hand fighting, but is also a decent dog fighter. Fara has no special powers to speak of, while Krystal is telepathic. Finally, Fox and Fara had no bumps in their relationship, whereas Fox and Krystal went through a Downtime Downgrade in Command; whether they patch up or not depends on the game's ending.
  • Conveniently an Orphan: Krystal one-ups Fox's orphan status by having her entire planet be destroyed as part of her origin (how hasn't been made fully clear yet, but Andross was probably involved).
  • Cool Big Sis: She somewhat appears to fill this role towards Slippy, despite being younger than him. She is shown looking out for his safety and telling him to be careful, and she also comforts him after he is chased by enemies on Fichina.
  • Custom Uniform of Sexy: After joining Star Fox, Krystal ditched her skimpy tribal outfit in favor of tight-fitting flight suits unique specifically to her.
  • Damsel in Distress: Andross trapped her inside a crystal to drain her life-force and use it to become immortal. It nearly worked, until Fox put a stop to it.
  • Demoted to Satellite Love Interest: Krystal is a capable fighter who so happens to be adept at reading minds. She is also the Sole Survivor of the destroyed planet Cerinia, and is on a mission to discover why her planet was destroyed. The moment she was rescued by Fox her backstory ceased to matter, and in Command, she lost everything besides her attachment to Fox.
  • The Drifter: Spent her life before joining Star Fox searching for answers about her ruined planet while helping others along the way.
  • Dude Magnet: Had both Fox and Panther fawning after her without even saying a word to either of them.
  • The Empath: This is her official designation when she joins the team. Her telepathic abilities are generally supposed to come in pretty handy at anticipating the enemies' movements. It even gets to the point where she can pick up on the thought patterns of completely alien creatures, like aparoids. This may be one explanation for how she is apparently able to speak both Dino and English.
  • Everyone Can See It: She generally tries to be more open about her feelings than Fox does. Humorously, Fox doesn't need to try.
  • The Face: She does most of the talking with other groups in Assault, such as convincing Star Wolf to tell them where Pigma is. It complements her role as the team telepath.
  • Fantastic Foxes: An alien vixen woman with psychic powers.
  • Faux Action Girl: In Adventures, Krystal is playable for all of five minutes before she gets trapped. She stays that way until the very end of the game. Her appearances in all later games avert this trope, as she is seen directly participating in both land and space combat in Assault, and she is a playable pilot in the campaign of Command.
  • Foxy Vixen: She's a fox woman who is the resident Ms. Fanservice and Dude Magnet of the franchise.
  • Gameplay and Story Integration: Krystal is no stranger to piloting space craft as seen in the ending of Adventures, but with only a year between her joining Star Fox and Assault she isn't as experienced with Star Fox's vehicles as her wingmen. This is reflected in her multiplayer stats in Assault which are among the worst regarding the Arwing and Landmaster, making her better off as an on-foot fighter with a focus on utilizing her barrier item.
  • Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She has a very girly appearance and demeanor, is overtly flirty towards Fox, and serves as the emotional support for the team, but she is also not afraid of getting her hands dirty and is implied to enjoy hand-to-hand fighting.
  • Green-Skinned Space Babe: In a franchise where the various humanoid animals tend to have fairly realistic colors for their species, Krystal is cobalt blue. She's also an absolute bombshell, considering her tribal origins, and tends to wear very little clothing.
  • The Heart: From Assault and on, she's the emotional center of the team, replacing Peppy. At the end of the game, as the others are relieved to make it out alive, Krystal immediately reminisces of all the Heroic Sacrifices that went for the Aparoids to get vanquished.
  • Human Notepad: Her upper arms, hips, and lower back are covered in strange white tattoos.
  • Iconic Outfit: Despite only wearing it once, her original tribal outfit is far and away more popular than either of the tight flightsuits she wore later on, for obvious reasons.
  • Innocent Aliens: While a forienger to the Lylat system, she's commited to helping and protecting its inhabitets, a big contrast to the Aparoids.
  • Jungle Princess: Her first appearance evokes this trope by design.
  • Lady of Black Magic: She fits whenever she wields her Magic Staff. She's one of the only magic users in a primarily sci-fi setting capable of using a versatile array of offense and defensive spells with her staff, while being a graceful and sensual Foxy Vixen. She bucks a few trends regarding team dynamics, as she's the protagonist's love interest and despite her Team Mom position, is the youngest of the Star Fox team.
  • Last of Her Kind: Krystal is the Sole Survivor of Cerinia's destruction.
  • Love at First Sight: Whilst Fox was clearly enamored by her when he saw her, the way she looks into his eyes when he pulls her to safety implies the same may have been also true for her.
  • Love Makes You Dumb: She has a pretty giddy reaction when Tricky embarrasses Fox by saying that he and Krystal can come back to Sauria for their honeymoon.
  • Magic Staff: She had a collapsible one in Star Fox Adventures, but she abandoned it in her subsequent appearances.
  • Ms. Fanservice: To ludicrous degrees. Her original outfit is a very skimpy tribal bikini with a very short loincloth and her theme music is cheesy saxophone. Continues even when she switches to higher tech flight suits: her clothes in Assault and Command are more covering, but they are also form fitting and show some décolletage◊. There are a large number of people who know nothing about Star Fox, but are aware of Krystal solely for this reason.
  • Mysterious Past: In the original English version, Krystal was given a background around her lost homeworld, while in the Japanese version, it wasn't accounted for, and instead had this by name in the game and its manual.
  • Nice Girl: She is shown to be a very friendly, polite and caring individual who is always willing to help others out. She even put her search for the answers to her planet's destruction on hold so she could respond to a distress signal.
  • Nubile Savage: She's a tribal girl from Cerinia, a destroyed world that seems to have prefered magic and/or psychic powers over technology. Despite this, she's the Ms. Fanservice of the Star Fox series.
  • Official Couple: She can become this with Fox in Star Fox Command, depending on the player's actions.
  • Only One Name: Krystal has never been shown to possess a surname, nor does she make any reference to having one, most likely due to her different cultural background to other Lylatian species.
  • Rescue Romance: She starts flirting with Fox barely a few hours after being rescued by him on Sauria.
  • Satellite Love Interest: A very proactive one, but one nonetheless.
  • Ship Tease: She shamelessly teases Fox at the end of Star Fox Adventures, and is still teasing him in Star Fox Assault. They can upgrade to a married couple in Star Fox Command, depending on the player's actions.
  • Shout-Out: Krystal's imprisonment in Adventures is similar to Zelda's in Ocarina of Time.
  • Sixth Ranger: She joins Star Fox during the aftermath of Adventures and becomes one of Fox's wingmen in Assault.
  • The Smurfette Principle: While there are several other female Star Fox pilots in the franchise as a whole, Krystal is the only female member of the Star Fox team in the reboot timeline.
  • The Soft-Hearted Warrior: Krystal is shown to enjoy fighting, and she put her skills to good use against the Aparoids, but after the war ended, she is the first to mourn over the presumed deaths and sacrifices of the team's friends and allies.
  • Team Mom: She shows strong care and concern for her team mates and can be very protective of them, especially Fox.
  • Telepathy: How she communicates with Fox during most of Adventures until their face-to-face meeting near the end of the game.
  • The Tease: She likes to make Fox blush.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Goes from losing her staff, being thrown off a ship and getting captured in Adventures to taking out entire groups of enemies on ground with a gun by herself and chasing and taking down a whole squadron of enemy fighters on her own in her Arwing in Assault.
  • Vapour Wear: The outfit she wore in her first appearance easily fits this trope. She tones it down to Sensual Spandex in Assault.
  • Virtuous Character Copy: While making the jump from Dinosaur Planet (Rare) to Star Fox Adventures, Krystal was redesigned to resemble the title character of Vampirella going from an interview with Takaya Imamura. Like the Queen of Screams, Krystal is a scantily clad heroine who wields fantastical powers via her alien heritage (vampire’s power set for Vampirella, psionics and a Magic Staff for Krystal). Whereas Vampirella is usually depicted as an Anti-Hero/Dark Action Girl who has troubling dealing with her hunger for blood, Krystal is a Soft Hearted Warrior who’s willing to drop down everything to help innocents in need, and would become Star Fox's moral center after she joins them, while having none of the literal bloodthirst of her inspiration.
  • Younger Than They Look: She is much younger than the rest of the team, which aside from Peppy should all be pushing or into their thirties by Command.

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