In Scoop's backstory, chocolate is revealed to be extremely rare and he wishes to find some to make ice cream with. One of Nibbs's upgrades is a chocolate monster egg, which makes one wonder why Scoop doesn't take one of those. However, the chocolate monster egg's flavor text says that the chocolate shell tastes terrible and Scoop would likely not want to use a foul ingredient in his ice cream.
Also remember that Nibbs is from another dimension, and the Gelati are looking for "real chocolate".
Why is Ted such an explosion-loving pighead when his backstory says he was an incredible strategist and leader of the Killer Koalas? Because his current personality is extracted from a modern Ted McPain video game, of which there are at least 20. Ted was heavily Flanderized over the course of 500 years.
Sentry's backstory says that he's a master of infiltration and disguise, but he constantly spouts incriminating Suspiciously Specific Denial that would usually blow his cover. Ignoring Rule of Funny, he does this because Skree took parts of his brain while building his scrap shrines.
Voltar has an upgrade for his Healbot called Bombshell that, well, makes it drop a bomb. That seems like a pretty unimaginative name for an upgrade (especially considering how out-there a lot of upgrade concepts can be), until you realise that the upgrade's icon is a female Zurian wearing a somewhat skimpy dress and riding on a wrecking ball. A "bombshell".
Gnaw's spit upgrades are all various objects sitting in a puddle of slime inside of glass jars. All except for one item, that is, which is empty except for the goo. That upgrade is called Aggressive Acid. Whatever used to be in the jar got melted away.
Why is Scoop an ice cream knight despite being made of gelatin? Because gelatin is an ingredient used in ice cream to make it thicker.
Max Focus is a reporter/cameraman who is probably used to dealing with large groups of people. Each of his abilities are based around crowd control and hitting multiple enemies at once.
Ayla's parents died in a war and she was sent to an orphanage and eventually adopted. But why was she put into adoption when Grandpa Yoolip was around and perfectly able to take care of her? Unless of course he wasn't around at that time. As in, literally that time. Put yorself into Yoolip's shoes: he spent years trapped in the space-Mesozoic era, completely alone. Finally, after endless amounts of experimenting he builds a new Time Slipper and comes home to his family... only to find out that his son/daughter died in a war and not only did he miss most of his "beloved granddaughter" growing up, she went mentally insane and is now a murderous psycho for hire. No wonder Yoolip seems so laa-dee-da in all his quotes. It's hard to imagine how much numbing denial he's in.
More evidence for this is present in his death quotes. While most nauts sound quite somber or scream out in pain when they die, Yoolip only has two such of those lines. The rest of them make him out to be completely blasé about his own death. Could Yoolip have turned into a delusional, perhaps even unwitting, Death Seeker because of everything that's happened to him?
Jimmy's Missile Barrage upgrades are storybooks about a mouse named Micey. However, there's a lot of parallels between Micey's books and Jimmy and Amy's life, right down to Micey owning a LUX5000. This seems to imply that Micey might be or might have started as a character made-up by their parents as bedtime stories. If "Micey" is actually a retelling of Jimmy and Amy, they seem to have a pretty tragic backstory.
Adventures in Rocketland: "Explore a wonderous and explosive world together with your favourite hero, Micey!"
Micey and the Missile Factory: "After buying a salvo pack, Micey wins a trip to the missile factory on planet Russia."
Robo Daddy and Robo Mommy: "Together with his robotic parents Micey visits a robo wrestling manager."
Baby's First Cage Fight: "Micey goes on his first fight with his big robotic LUX armour."
The Very Hungry Zurian: "Micey finds a Zurian in the garden, munching on his robotic friends."
Micey the Mech-Pilot: The book has a written message on the first page: "To my beloved children, Jimmy and Amy. May you become the best robo fighters in the galaxy, love dad."
Both Micey's parents and friends are referred to as robotic. And who is a baby's only friends? Their parents.
Despite the cartoony tone, the world of Awesomenauts is surprisingly cynical. Most of the playable characters are either criminals, straight-up villains, or True Neutral mercenaries, with any of the "good" characters being either only there to get some kind of reward or because they really enjoy hurting bad people. Everything is run by a corrupt mega-corporation called Zork Industries. Absolutely everything. This ranges from mining to robotics to manufacturing and selling every purchasable upgrade to even hiring the Awesomenauts to do mercenary work. On top of that, the galaxy as a whole just seems entirely apathetic. There's a galactic civil war but everything continues on as if nothing were out of the ordinary. Hell, the entire Earth was destroyed 500 years ago and humans are nearly extinct, although it's treated as so unimportant you'd never know unless you dug for it.
That wraps back around into Fridge Brilliance (or maybe Fridge Heartwarming?). If humanity is nearly extinct, why are there so many human characters? Humans are a species of survivors. Any race on the brink of destruction in an uncaring galaxy needs strength in order to prosper. And unlike any other species, humans have a reason to show their fire, especially Raelynn and Ted. They have something to fight for - rebuilding Earth.
True Neutral mercenaries, with any of the "good" characters being either only there to get some kind of reward or because they really enjoy hurting bad people. Everything is run by a corrupt mega-corporation called Zork Industries. Absolutely everything. This ranges from mining to robotics to manufacturing and selling every purchasable upgrade to even hiring the Awesomenauts to do mercenary work. On top of that, the galaxy as a whole just seems entirely apathetic. There's a galactic civil war but everything continues on as if nothing were out of the ordinary. Hell, the entire Earth was destroyed 500 years ago and humans are nearly extinct, although it's treated as so unimportant you'd never know unless you dug for it.