The TimeSplitters series has a very large cast. Here are a few of the characters and tropes associated with them.
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Characters introduced in TimeSplitters
Heroes
Captain Ash
"Ooh! Time for fisticuffs, splendid!"
Voiced by: Rob Moye (TS1) Les Spink (TS2 onwards)
- Good Old Fisticuffs: His gesture in Future Perfect.
- Great White Hunter: He's Caucasian and is a very excellent hunter.
- Quintessential British Gentleman: He's British and speaks in a redefined, upper-class British accent.
- Retired Badass: Served in the Second Boer War in his teens and served in the Royal Air Force before becoming the old adventurer he is currently.
Harry Tipper
"Right on! Let's go man! We gotta boogie!"
Voiced by: Lee Walsh (TS1) Doug Cockle (TS2) Mac Macdonald (TS3)
- Cool Shades: Always seen sporting a pair of these in every incarnation of him in the series.
- Cowboy Cop: During his time as a detective.
- Disguised in Drag: In "The Russian Connection" in Future Perfect, he runs off to find some disguises for Cortez and himself to wear in order to infiltrate Khallos' base. Unfortunately for him, he's forced to wear a Henchwoman's uniform as none of the Henchmen's uniforms fit him. This version of Tipper is known in Character Selection as "Swinging Tipper."
- Embarrassing Nickname: "Shower of Gold" is his callsign in Future Perfect.
- Tuxedo and Martini: Given that he's a caricature of everything related to the 70s, it's to be expected.
Lt. Christine Malone
- Fair Cop: She's quite easy on the eyes, especially with her extra fanservice-y upgrade in Future Perfect.
- Fanservice Pack: In the first game, she's not that attractive due to the limited art style. In the third game, she's got huge breasts, wide hips with a tiny waist.
- Impossible Hourglass Figure: She has very large breasts and hips with a tiny waistline in Future Perfect.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's definitely this in Future Perfect, as she has very large breasts, an hourglass figure, and wears an revealing outfit that highlights her cleavage.
- Stripperiffic: In Future Perfect. Even her selection quote makes her sound less like a cop, and more like a stripper wearing a police-themed costume.
Chastity Detroit
- Expansion Pack Past: If all her appearances are part of the same timeline, she's had time to be a San Francisco cop, a "highly decorated" Los Angeles cop, AND a NeoTokyo gang member despite looking like she's in her early 20s at most.
- Fair Cop: Her SFPD uniform in the first game includes a prominent cleavage.
- Iconic Item: Her white headphones.
- Out of Focus: She's one of three protagonist characters to have been in all three games, along with Captain Ash and Harry Tipper, but unlike them she has very little characterization. The first game, where her role was the most prominent, had almost no plot. In the second game, she's only an optional co-op player character in the NeoTokyo level, and in the third game she's only a multiplayer character, having no role in the story.
Peekaboo Jones
- Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist: Appears to be one.
- Heroic Lineage: Elijah Jones from TimeSplitters 2 is his ancestor, Mordecai from Future Perfect is his descendant.
- Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation: Unlike his ancestor and descendant it's not clear exactly what he does for a living, given the first game lacks character descriptions and no context is given in his level. Given his tourist getup, it's quite possible he simply Stumbled Into the Plot.
Gretel
Mark I
Mark II
Mark III
- Fembot: She's a robot whose only suggestion of gender is her feminine figure.
- Legacy Character: There's a Mark I in the first game, Mark II in the second, and a Mark III in Future Perfect
- Lightning Bruiser: In Future Perfect multiplayer, Gretel appears to have Jack of All Stats, but in reality she's this as an enemy BOT, capable of moving as fast as any other light character, but possessing a stamina like a tank uncharacteristic of her stats, making her extremely durable. While other similarly built characters can go down in a maybe 10 shots from dual handguns, Gretel can soak up an entire magazine from both and could still be standing.
Enemies
The Timesplitters
- Eldritch Abomination: They get more and more grotesque as the series evolves.
- Elite Mooks: In the first game they start arriving after you secure the MacGuffin. In the second, they appear either after you've "stabilized the time portal" or are close to doing so.
- Greater-Scope Villain: In the third game they become this.
- Master Race: Designed by Dr. Crow to replace all of civilization with his own "superior species".
- Make Wrong What Once Went Right: The first and second games involve foiling their attempts to do this.
- Slave Mooks: The drones, who aren't real Splitters, but a formerly peaceful race who were forced into servitude.
Chinese
- Ascended Extra: The Chinese Chef, who is one of the few characters to appear in all three games and is playable in his own League Mission in both sequels.
- Arc Villain: Mr. Big, who only appears rarely in the level.
- Artifact Mook: Mr. Big and the Suit Hoodlum reappear in the "Chemical Plant" mission that's supposed to take place decades later.
Cyberden
- Ascended Extra: The Badass Cyborg. Appears in all games and is playable in a "Classic" Challenge Mission in the second.
- Badass Transplant: All of them, but most obviously the Badass Cyborg, who is "The leanest, the meanest and the badass machine-est!"
Characters introduced in TimeSplitters 2
Heroes
Sergeant Cortez
"It's time to split!"
Voiced by:Everal Walsh (TS2) Tom Clarke Hill (TS3)
- The Ace: Proficient with any weaponry, has impeccable marksmanship, and is regarded as Earth's finest.
- Bald of Authority: He's the head NCO, and he doesn't have any hair.
- Bald Head of Toughness: No hair and still the most capable marine there is.
- Butt-Monkey: He gets a surprising amount of this in Future Perfect despite being a hardcore space badass.
- Catchphrase: "It's time to split!" And to a lesser extent, "Dammit!"
- Expy: He's blatantly a pastiche of Richard B. Riddick, down to his bald head and cybernetic eye implants. Ironically, Riddick would get his own First-Person Shooter in The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay two years after TimeSplitters 2 .
- In Future Perfect, elements of his design and personality appear to be inspired by that of John Blade from SiN.
- Denser and Wackier: His attitude in Future Perfect is much more light hearted than Timesplitters 2, in which he doesn't joke at all. Regardless, he's still a badass.
- Heart Broken Badass: Downplayed. Is saddened by the loss of Cpl. Hart at the end of 2, but he doesn't mention her again in Future Perfect. "This one's for you, baby."
- Help Yourself in the Future: Does this to his future self throughout most of Future Perfect.
- Iconic Sequel Character: Considered to be the main protagonist of the franchise, despite being introduced in TimeSplitters 2.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
- In the Story intro for 2, he opts to use a frag grenade on a single Timesplitter. The explosion alerts the Splitters on the space station bridge, which lets them cut to starting their time travel scheme that sets the rest of the game into motion. Had he just opted to shoot regularly, they might have had the opportunity to stop the story from even ensuing since the Splitters are only just escaping through the time portal when they get there.
- In his first time travel mission in Future Perfect, he lands in Captain Ash's boat. Someone tries to shoot Ash on the island. Cortez tries to return fire with the only gun he can find. Turns out the gun was actually not only a flare gun, but also a way to signal the fleet to start bombarding the island, meaning he ended up starting the bombardment of the island before Ash rescued his dame. Doubles as Improbable Aiming Skills, since he's somehow able to nail a sniper on a cliff high above him with a flare gun.
- After "You Genius, U-Genix" in Future Perfect, he finally has the Big Bad Crow right where he wants him. Where he then proceeds to list off Crow's entire plan of immortality spanning across the game up to this point, to a Crow who doesn't even know the first thing about time travel. Tellingly, when his younger self appears to hand him the means to start the plan, he points out he already knew it, before they look at Cortez and realize why. Cortez takes this about as well as you'd think.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Being a parody of Riddick, his design is clearly modeled after actor Vin Diesel.
- One-Man Army: "A battle-hardened veteran who is proficient with all weapon types and can adapt to any combat conditions".
- Professional Voice Dissonance: Tom Clarke-Hill uses three different voices in Future Perfect depending on the context:
- When in "serious" situations, Cortez has a deeper voice in imitation of the one Everal Walsh used in the previous game.
- When going full on ham, he lapses into a tone identical to the Amazing Animals narrator.
- An in-between voice, used in comedic-but-still-serious moments matches that of Colonel Starke from Second Sight.
- Semper Fi: "Space Marine extraordinaire".
- Sergeant Rock: Cortez is indeed a hero looked up to by his marines and all of mankind.
- Series Mascot: Along with the Monkeys, of course. Cortez may have been introduced in the sequel, but he's easily the most recognizable protagonist of the franchise and is on the cover of both 2 and Future Perfect.
- Skyward Scream: After accidentally telling Crow what he did before he did it, giving him the idea to do it in the first place. It's so loud it travels back in time.
- A Space Marine Is You: A gruff, badass, and sometimes goofy, space marine whose job it is to fight back against the timeline corruption of the Time Splitters.
Corporal Hart
"Locked, cocked, and ready to roll!"
Voiced by: Risa Hall
- Back from the Dead: Implied at the end of Future Perfect, with the Splitters' Ret-Gone also undoing her death.
- Cyborg: She has a "servo-enhanced Tritium Exo-Arm" which replaces her right arm in 2 and her left arm in Future Perfect.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: She'll reappear as the second player's character in Co-op in 2401 Space Station, even though she got splayed by a Reaper Splitter earlier.
Ghost
"Watch out! I'm a ninja!"
- Bilingual Bonus: In his Future Perfect gesture, he says "Abunai watashi wa Ninja!", which roughly translates to "Watch out! I'm a ninja!"
- Captain Ersatz: He's basically Case from Neuromancer redesigned and reformatted into a Japanese cyberpunk setting.
- Clear My Name: Part of his mission to defeat the criminal hacking group led by Sadako is to clear his name by sending proof that Sadako's gang are the bad guys and not him.
- Frameup: For stealing the Cyber Rig from the government research labs by Sadako and her gang of hackers. The Neotokyo mission has him getting revenge on them.
- Mukokuseki: Depends on who you ask. He speaks Japanese and appears slightly Japanese, but most of his features (specifically, his pale blond hair and facial structure) indicate that he's part European, too.
- Ninja: See above. Or is he?
- Wrongful Accusation Insurance: Averted. After sending the evidence to the police, they still try to kill him, and he's ultimately forced to escape the city entirely.
Jo-Beth Casey
"Shake your money maker!"
- Voiced by: Melanie Bond (TS3)
- Distressed Damsel: Poor Jo-Beth gets captured a few times throughout the Mansion of Madness and What Lies Below levels in Future Perfect.
- The Ditz:Jo-Beth: "Say cheese!"Zombie: "BBRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIINNNNNSSSSSS!"Jo-Beth: "Ha! Dumb zombies!"Anya: "I don't think her brains are really going to quench their appetite."
- Evil Knockoff: Becomes the template for the "Jo-Barf Creepy" changelings that appear several times in Future Perfect.
- Hotter and Sexier: Her incarnation in 3.
- In Name Only: Future Perfect retcons and reimagines many characters from the previous games, but hers is the most extreme.
- Noodle Incident: As she is hanging upside down in one section of the What Lies Below level in Future Perfect.Jo-Beth: This Reminds me of Prom Night.
- Sawed-Off Shotgun: Her weapon of choice.
- Valley Girl: With more than a splash of punk (or at least Hot Topic) in her attire, but played pretty straight in her personality.
Jungle Queen
"You Tarzan, me Jane. Let me show you how we do it in the jungle."
- Action Girl: When playing in Coop as the second player's character.
- Amazonian Beauty: She is RIPPED! Rather fitting for a woman literally FROM the Amazon jungle.
- Cleavage Window: In Future Perfect.
- Fur Bikini: In TimeSplitters 2.
- Jungle Princess: She's basically this.
- Noble Savage: Is a beautiful and savage jungle woman.
- Stripperiffic: Though she covers up slightly more in Future Perfect.
Viola
- Heroic Mime: She doesn't say a single word in the game.
- Sensual Spandex: Her "traveling troubadour" outfit shows signs of this.
- Sexy Jester: Wears a very form fitting jester outfit.
Mr. Underwood
- Flat-Earth Atheist: He believes the undead are a load of poppysticks and cockyfiddle, or should that be poppycock and fiddlesticks?
- Shout-Out: To To Kill a Mockingbird, although the ethnicities are quite different (The Mr. Underwood in TimeSplitters 2 is British).
Jake Fenton
- Cowboy Cop: Doesn't seem to have any problem gunning down people with silenced Lugers, Tommy Guns, sawed-off shotguns, and a vintage rifle.
- Revenge: Against "Mister" Big Tony. Everyone in Chicago took bribes to turn a blind eye against Big Tony's gang, Fenton refused and was fired and run out of town as a result. He managed to get his opportunity due to Lady Jane hiring him in her own private investigation agency.
Elijah Jones
- Bounty Hunter: Became this at age 16 after his parents were killed by cattle rustlers.
- Heroic Lineage: Peekaboo Jones is his great-great-grandson, and Mordecai Jones is his far future descendant.
- Revolvers Are Just Better: Always carries a revolver with him wherever he goes, fitting for the time period he fits in to (1853).
- Smoking Is Cool: His introductory cutscene shows him smoking a cigar while looking over a bounty poster.
Kitten Celeste
- Action Girl: Same rules apply to her in Co-op.
- Distressed Damsel: In Future Perfect she gets Chained to a Railway.
- Murder the Hypotenuse: The "Golden Thighs" and "Front Loaded" Arcade League missions involve her bumping off women she sees as rivals for Harry's affections.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Her outfit has a neckline that plunges to her navel.
- Official Couple: With Harry Tipper.
- Parody: Of the "Bond Girl" archetype.
Ilsa Nadir
"It's all down to me now."
- It Runs in the Family: Daughter of Katje Nadir.
- Pyromaniac: According to the game's official site. This becomes somewhat of The Artifact given how rare the Flamethrower ended up being in that level.
Gregor Lenko
- Cold Sniper: "If you hear a whistling noise and a thud, that's the warning shot. You won't hear the second one".
- Does Not Like Spam: He dislikes ice cream ("Well, you would in Siberia!").
- Red Baron: His nickname is "The Russian Bear".
Story Mode Characters
Siberia
- Lzherusskie: They don't even look that Russian to begin with.
- Missing Secret: The "Special Forces" that appear in story mode are different from the ones in multiplayer, and cannot be unlocked as playable characters by any means.
- Palette Swap: There are 5 different forces: Arctic (white/light blue), Regular (green/brown), Desert (yellow/tan/brown), Special(black/dark blue) and Undead (Zombie versions of the Arctic Forces). Each is spread across 5 different models: Private (guy with beret), Sergeant (black guy with helmet), Lieutenant (girl with beret), Trooper (Gas Mask Mooks), and Captain (guy with ski mask). The Trooper also has an unplayable sixth palette swap.
- The Unfought: Trooper White in "Siberia", whose role is filled by the "Special Forces" in story mode. Trooper Grey as such is absent too, along with Captain Pain, oddly enough.
Chicago
- The Butcher: Hatchet Sal, who got his name from his chopping off his victim's right hands and keeping them in a box. After having an Acid Reflux Nightmare in which an army of left hands attempted to avenge their fallen brothers, he got rid of the box, but the name stuck.
- Butt-Monkey: Braces, who is frequently tricked by Louie Bignose into breaking bad news to Tony.
- The Dragon: Unclear. The website says it's Louie Bignose, but his ingame profile contradicts this, saying he's constantly going up and down the ranks. Jimmy Needle's uncommonness and positioning in the level means it could be him, but Jared Slim proves you don't need to be an uncommon enemy to be The Dragon. Finally, Hatchet Sal, like Jared Slim, is the most common enemy in the level, and the description for the "Can't Handle This" mission vaguely (but not concretely) suggests that he was Tony's right hand man.
- Gag Nose: Louie Bignose.
- Giant Mook: Braces has a lot more health than his mobster peers, and can hit even harder.
- Missing Secret: The Consultant can never be unlocked in Arcade Mode.
- Sole Survivor: Braces' profile in ''Future Perfect" implies he was the only member to survive Jake's Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: "Looks like Braces got the last laugh; I don't see Big Tony in this game!"
- The Unfought: Braces does not appear on Easy Difficulty.
Notre Dame
- Big Damn Heroes: The Hunchback arrives to assist you against a swarm of zombies.
- The Unfought: The Changelings don't appear on Easy. The Gargoyles don't appear at all
- Your Size May Vary: The Cropolite is gigantic as boss in Story mode, but shorter than many human characters in Arcade mode.
Return To Planet X
- Set a Mook to Kill a Mook: Invoked. According to the mission briefing the Ozor and Meezor "Hate each other more than they hate you!"
- Unusable Enemy Equipment: Some Mox in Story Mode use a laser gun that you can't obtain after killing them.
- Villain Team-Up: The Ozor Mox joined forces with the Timesplitters.
Neotokyo
- Amazon Brigade: Sadako's gang consists of only women.
- Big Bad: Sadako.
- One-Way Visor: Sadako and Barby Gimp wear these. Sadako's covers up some hideous scars.
- Wolverine Claws: Milkbaby and Barby Gimp wear these. Krayola wears them in the intro cutscene but not in gameplay.
Wild West
- Big Bad: The Colonel.
- The Dragon: Jared Slim's character profile refers to him as The Colonel's right-hand man. Ironically, he's the most common enemy in the level.
- Elite Mooks: Mikey Two-Guns has more hit points than the rest of The Colonel's minions.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Jared Slim and Mikey Two-Guns don't get along.
- The Unfought: Ample Sally and Lean Molly do not appear as enemies in "Wild West".
Aztec
- Elite Mooks: The High Priests have more hit points than the Aztec Warriors.
- Golem: Stone/Wood varieties. Common weapons don't work on them in story mode.
- Your Size May Vary: The Golems are already some of the larger characters, but are even bigger as enemies in Story mode.
The Monkeys
- Mascot Mook: On the front cover of the second and third games. They also have their own game mode, and several League Missions and Challenge Missions revolve around them.
- Improbable Weapon User: The ones in the Aztec level throw volatile watermelons.
- Ninja Zombie Robot: These three variants are introduced in Future Perfect.
Khallos
- Bond Villain Stupidity: Ah, the classic "lure the heroes into an easily escapable death trap and leave cackling away without making sure they're dead first". Really, what can go wrong, there?
- Embarrassing First Name: Archibald, as he'd rather you didn't know.
- Expy: He's largely inspired from the James Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
- Eyepatch of Power: His TS2 profile implies he actually got it from a novelty shop to make himself look cool.
- Harmless Villain: He really is useless. Crow outright calls him a fool.
- Punny Name: His last name is a pun on the word "callous," which might suit part of his nature.
- Same Character, But Different: In his introduction in TimeSplitters 2, Khallos is a stoic Soft-Spoken Sadist rather reminiscent of Ernst Stavro Blofeld's appearances in From Russia with Love to Thunderball. In Future Perfect he's a much more camp and flamboyant figure, somewhat akin to a greatly exaggerated version of Blofeld's portrayal in Diamonds Are Forever.
Khallos' Organization
- The Artifact: Vlad the Installer has a "cinematic" model, implying he was originally supposed to have a larger role.
- Bodyguard Babes: The "Booty Guards".
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": The Future Perfect versions of the henchmen have a "K" on their uniforms.
- Elite Mooks: The black-clad Elite Henchmen (Dark Henchman in TS2) and Elite Henchwomen. The Booty Guards are an even higher rank.
- The Unfought: Dr. Peabody and Nurse Gulag in Future Perfect. They only appear on propaganda posters.
- Unique Enemy: The workers in Sector 1. Vlad and Leonid only appear once, and Oleg twice (The other "Oleg" is named Erik).
Arcade Mode Characters
The Circus
- Ax-Crazy: Any of the circus performers, with the exception of Sergio and the Ringmistress.
- Cloudcuckoolander: A darker version with Leo Krupps, a deranged man in a lion suit. He, according to his gallery description, is the circus lion tamer, who, as time went on, adopted more lion-like behaviorisms and characteristics, until one day where he woke up in a cage, roaring and growling.
- Multiple Head Case: Nikki and Jinki are treated as separate characters despite being attached to the same body.
- Nightmare Face: Mister Giggles and Jinki have quite the frightening visage.
- Perpetual Smiler: Mischief, Lola, Nikki, and Stumpy.
- Youkai: Nikki-Jinki seems to be a futakuchi-onna.
Characters introduced in TimeSplitters Future Perfect
Heroes
Anya
Voiced by: Sarah Mennell
- Only Sane Man: A lot of her humourous quotes come from snarking at the stupidity and madness of the other characters.
- Ship Tease: With Cortez. This is very obvious after the final battle.
- Voice with an Internet Connection: She's Cortez's main source of information about the various eras he visits when travelling through time.
Amy Chen
Voiced by: Lorelei King
- Cool Sword: She has a Ninja-esque blade on her back. You can't use it in gameplay, unfortunately.
- Corporate Samurai: Amy specializes in inter corporate espionage.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Takes out two U-Genix security guards this way.
- Shout-Out: A clear one to a certain Perfect Dark protagonist.
- Stock Foreign Name: Her surname indicates Chinese ancestry.
R-110
"Eat my laser! EAT IT!"
- Badass Automaton: The General certainly thinks so. Not without cause since R-110 becomes the most reliable companion of Cortez.
- But Now I Must Go: Much to the dismay of The General ("Aw, not the robot!").
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: After being infected with a virus.
- Eccentric A.I.: He starts off as nothing more than your typical mirthless A.I. killing machine of dubious sapience that Cortez reprogrammed to assist him. While attempting to interface with a door control system, it winds up having its data corrupted and turns into a hot-headed, quippy, and somewhat dim-witted sidekick who accompanies Cortez for the rest of the game.
- Heel–Face Brainwashing: At first, R-110 was just a normal, evil robot who killed two resistance members, only for Cortez to jump on him by surprise and reprogram him. Around a few minutes into Something to Crow About, he gets infected with a virus and the turn becomes cemented, though he still acts condescending to humans.
- Leet Speak: After Cortez picks up an Electro-Tool.
- Robotic Psychopath: Post-virus.
Machine Wars Rebels
- Advertised Extra: Lazarus Mumble, who only appears as a corpse in "Machine Wars" and is completely absent in "Lip Up Fatty".
- Battle Cry: "FOR HUMANITY!"
- Cyborg: Angel has a bionic arm, Lazarus has two, and Ghengis has robotic legs.
- Heroic Lineage: Mordecai Jones is descended from Elijah and Peekaboo Jones.
- La Résistance: Against Ultranet during the Machine Wars.
- Token Minority: Mordecai. It kinda runs in the family.
- Unexplained Recovery: Mordecai and Angel can die in the first section of "Machine Wars", but it won't prevent them from appearing later on.
- You All Look Familiar: Ghengis Kant's model is used for all of the Red Shirt rebels.
Story Mode Characters
Jacob Crow
Voiced by: Wayne Forester
- Attack Its Weak Point: In his boss fights you need to target his weak points instead of just dumping ammo into him. In his first boss fight you need to destroy all his weapons systems, while in his second boss fight you need to disable his guns and feet to make the weak spot on his back temporarily vulnerable.
- Big Bad: He the main antagonist of Future Perfect and he also is directly responsible for most of the events of the game and even series.
- Didn't Need Those Anyway!: When Cortez defeats him the first time, he detaches his back half and takes on a Chicken Walker like shape, which makes him more agile but also leaves an obvious weak-point where the separation occurred.
- Body Horror: His solution to gaining immortality involves fusing himself with a machine and a timesplitter, resulting him looking like a mix between a futuristic tank and a gigeresque monstrosity; a legless, handless mass of flesh and veins, with metallic nubs where his hands used to be, and it's obvious to see that all the mechanical parts that he's literally been integrated with are just so that he can move around in the first place.
- Character Catchphrase: "See you in the future, suckers!"
- Cutscene Power to the Max: Crow is a tough boss, but you're expected to kick his ass in the final level. Then he mops the floor with both Cortez and R-110 in the following cutscene and has the former dead to rights. So Cortez hops back only minutes beforehand so two of himself can actually kick Crow's ass for real this time.
- For Science!: Most of his disturbing actions, such as gaining immortality, are mostly as a result of his pursuit of science.
- Greater-Scope Villain: He's the one that creates the Timesplitters in his hunt for immortality, and clearly he doesn't care that humanity is nearly driven to extinction and history radically altered because of his actions.
- Killed Off for Real: Cortez defeats him in the final level. Turns out there was a difference between immortality and immunity.
- Laughably Evil: Is obviously this due to the lighthearted tone of the franchise. This most likely has to do with his over-the-top reactions and body language.
- Mad Scientist: He's a insane, depraved scientist who tries to gain immortality through any means necessary.
- Stable Time Loop: Crow's events will always happen in that an angered Cortez will meet him in 2052, unwittingly outlay all of Crow's plans to his old self, upon which his younger self will appear to warn him (only to realize Cortez did it already) and send him back in time to alert his past self, and then jump further ahead to create the Timesplitters and become immortal. We can only presume that Cortez actually abusing paradoxes to get help from his past self means the loop was broken, as the future changes once Crow and the Time Crystals are finally eliminated.
Kronia Forces
Voiced by: Damon Tasker
- Meaningful Name: Comrade Papadov hint.
- Punny Name: Ivor Baddicnote and Pulov Yurannote .
- Steampunk: Robot Louis Stevenson.
Brotherhood of Ultra Science & Mansion Occupants
- The Artifact: Edwina was part of an arc where you had to purge a demon from her mortal body, in the final game she's just sorta there.
- Creepy Child: Edwina, who conjures flame and sics zombies at the player.
- Everything's Deader with Zombies: Whether they be butchers, butlers, or moonwalkers, they are here for selection in multiplayer.
- Evil Chef: Gaston Boucher. His meals are to die for!
- Fragile Speedster: Future Perfect has a number of fast zombies who really like to get up in their victims' faces. Daisy Dismay is always one of these.
- The Unfought: Nurses Tourniquet and Sputum, which is handwaved by a log claiming that all the nurses were eaten by zombies. Sputum seems to be unfinished, given her head doesn't detach like the other undead.
- Unique Enemy: Jed and Gaston Boucher only appear twice each in "Mansion of Madness"
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: You can kill Dr. Harvey and the many scientists with no penalty. There's also a test chamber in "What Lies Below" you can use to screw with a zombie and a scientist.
U-Genix
- The Unfought: No male Inceptors in "U-Genius, U-Genix", only females.
Ultranet
- Social Darwinist: The Machine Wars were started by Crow himself in order to cull "unworthy" humans and make way for his new Master Race, the Splitters.
- Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome: An inversion. They were Gretel and R109's superiors during the second game's penultimate level, but are the villains in the third game's "Machine Wars" chapter. The "Robot Factory" level takes place after the wars, implying that Mordecai's rebels took over the company and changed it for the better after the war was over.
Arcade Mode Characters
- Cloudcuckoolander: A few characters, of course, apparently including Samuel Renzo note .
- Flat Character: Supposedly Goddard.
- Seadog Beard: Captain Ed Shivers.
- Stripperiffic: Arial Da Vinci.
- Talk Like a Pirate: Captain Ed Shivers.
