Beyond Good & Evil (video game)/Characters

Jade
The protagonist and main character of the game. She works as a photographer, and lives in a lighthouse on the planet Hillys with her uncle Pey'j, and a group of orphans. At first she just wants to make a little money to get out of Perpetual Poverty, but she quickly gets caught up in a resistance movement, a Government Conspiracy and an Alien Invasion.


 * Action Girl: With a sideorder of Action Mom thrown in.
 * Ambiguously Brown: Her ethnicity is a source of constant debate. Some people speculate that she was deliberately designed so that players see what they want to see in her.
 * Bare Your Midriff
 * Deadpan Snarker: Mostly around Pey'j. She's a lot more serious around Double H, since she's nowhere near as comfortable with him... At first.
 * Friend to All Children
 * Green Eyes
 * Heroic BSOD:.
 * Hot Scoop: She even used to be the page picture for that trope!
 * Intrepid Reporter: Ditto.
 * Lotus Position: She meditates in this in the game's opening.
 * Mama Bear: Get close to the lighthouse orphans at your own peril.
 * : Her eyes glow when.
 * Orphanage of Love: She runs one for war orphans, along with her uncle.
 * Plucky Girl
 * She Fu
 * Simple Staff: And she kicks a lot of ass with it.
 * Stealth Expert: Despite having no training in it, Jade is pretty stealthy. In fact, she's practically a female Solid Snake.
 * Team Mom: At least, to the orphans.
 * Voice of the Resistance: At least, she seems to be one of the main reporters for the IRIS Network.
 * Stealth Expert: Despite having no training in it, Jade is pretty stealthy. In fact, she's practically a female Solid Snake.
 * Team Mom: At least, to the orphans.
 * Voice of the Resistance: At least, she seems to be one of the main reporters for the IRIS Network.

Pey'j
Jade's uncle, who's a Sus Sapien, an evolved pig. He works as a mechanic at the lighthouse, spending time repairing the hovercraft, or building things like his prized Jet Boots.


 * Boisterous Bruiser: CHILI CON CARNE!
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Fartillery/Gasshole: He has fart-powered jet boots. And he cries out the names of Mexican food when he gets excited.
 * Funny Animal
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Genius Bruiser: He can throw a punch—er, wrench—better than you'd think. He's also probably the smartest member of Jade's crew.
 * Good Scars, Evil Scars: It's never explained how he got his eye scar, but given the implications he makes about his past, one can make a few assumptions.
 * Honorary Uncle: Well, yeah.
 * Improbable Weapon User: Also counts as an Improvised Weapon: he uses a wrench.
 * Large Ham: Incredibly Lame Pun not intended (which is not to say we don't relish it).
 * Mr. Fixit: He repairs the hovercraft, but it only lasts long enough to make it to Mamago Garage. He's also capable of repairing an elevator, and probably other things.
 * My Nayme Is: Yes, it's spelled Pey'j.
 * Non-Human Sidekick
 * Older Sidekick
 * Pig Man: Of the friendly variety.
 * Plucky Comic Relief
 * Retired Badass: We don't know what he got up to with Jade's parents, but indications are, it was pretty hardcore, and Pey'j has a surprising knowledge of buttkicking.
 * Southern-Fried Genius: If his accent is anything to go by, he comes in spicy Texan flavor.
 * Take Care of the Kids: He was Jade's parents' best friend: they put her under his care to save her.
 * Weekend Inventor: The Jet Boots, the hovercraft, and who knows what else...
 * Weekend Inventor: The Jet Boots, the hovercraft, and who knows what else...

Double H
An agent/reporter for the IRIS Network. Went missing in action a while back, but becomes one of Jade's allies after she saves his life.


 * Big Book of War: Carlson & Peeters, which he quotes constantly.
 * Bruiser with a Soft Center: Almost to Emotional Bruiser levels.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Primarily during his Easy Amnesia stint, but even when he recovers, he's still a little... out there. But it's in more of a Bunny Ears Lawyer sense.
 * Cold-Blooded Torture: When Jade first discovers him, he's being tortured with some sort of DomZ machine.
 * Drop the Hammer
 * Easy Amnesia: From the Cold-Blooded Torture he recieves. It doesn't last long though.
 * Electric Torture: He's first found caught in it.
 * Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Although Jade's IRIS teammates call her by her name most often, Double H is only called by his codename....
 * Fire-Forged Friends: While it's not that she actively dislikes him, at first, Jade is clearly a lot less comfortable while working with Double H than she is working with Pey'j. However, the trials they endure together in the Factory unite them, and they become true friends. She's still a little less sure of him than she is of Pey'j, but even that begins to change.
 * First-Name Basis: As befitting his Knight in Shining Armor personality, he always politely refers to Jade as "Miss Jade". However, shortly after, he kills the "Miss", cementing their Fire Forged Friendship once and for all.
 * Gentle Giant: Despite his military-minded exterior, he's ultimately kind-hearted... and even, if the credits are anything to go by, as much a Friend to All Children as Jade and Pey'j.
 * Glad She's On Our Side: He remarks this about Jade after watching her single-handedly beat up several monsters.
 * I Owe You My Life: The reason for his fierce loyalty... at first.
 * Just in Time:.
 * Knight In Laser Proof Armor
 * Lantern Jaw of Justice
 * Older Sidekick
 * Perma-Stubble
 * Perpetual Frowner: At least at first. He starts to smile more in the later portions of the game.
 * Plucky Comic Relief: Less so than Pey'j though.
 * Sorry I'm Late: He comes to your aid in the middle of a boss battle.
 * Space Marine: More of a parody than a traditional take though.
 * Use Your Head: His main attack seems to be ramming things with his head.
 * When He Smiles: After being dour-faced for the entire game, he finally smiles after . [[media:HHSmile 5591.jpg|Cue "awwwws"]].
 * When He Smiles: After being dour-faced for the entire game, he finally smiles after . [[media:HHSmile 5591.jpg|Cue "awwwws"]].

Secundo
Jade's little AI buddy who transfers money to her account, and digitalizes items for later use.


 * As Long as It Sounds Foreign: He speaks with... some sort of accent, but whatever it is, it's awesome.
 * Bag of Holding: He scans all of Jade's items and turns them into data. To be reconfigured upon actual use... Or something like that.
 * Hard Light: He's able to push buttons, somehow. And yet, he can't be high-fived or shoulder-slapped. Odd.
 * Hollywood Hacking: He has no problems . Of course, it could be that he simply put the moves on the female AI.
 * Poirot Speak
 * Projected Man
 * Snarky Non-Human Sidekick: He and Pey'j have a tendency to argue with one another.
 * Snarky Non-Human Sidekick: He and Pey'j have a tendency to argue with one another.

Hahn
Member of the IRIS Network, and the one who contacts Jade. He is usually the one in charge, so he might be second in command after the chief.


 * Bald Black Leader Guy: Or at the very least, the Bald Ambiguously Brown Guy.
 * Bald of Awesome
 * The Call
 * La Résistance
 * Rebel Leader: Although not quite the leader.
 * The Stoic

Meï
Member of the IRIS Network, who Jade is constantly in contact with.


 * Catgirl
 * La Résistance
 * Mission Control
 * Team Mom: She seems to be this within the IRIS cell, and it shows especially when Double H comes back injured.
 * Voice with an Internet Connection: Not as often as Nino, but she takes the role on occasion.

Nino
Another IRIS member, who is in charge of broadcasting the reports.


 * The Generic Guy: Since he's most often in his "business" persona, he's probably the most normal of the IRIS members.
 * La Résistance
 * Playful Hacker
 * Voice with an Internet Connection: He is explicitly a radio and communications officer, and sends most of your mission data.

Peepers
The front man for IRIS, who works in the Akuda Bar as the master of Three Shell Monty. However, he also spends his time scouting for new talent... and signaled out Jade.


 * Blind Seer: In a more modern version of this trope, he's the one who recognizes Jade's inherent talent and first realizes there's more to her than there is on the surface.
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Ironic Nickname: Although he's called "Peepers", he is, in fact, blind.

Hal, Issam and Babukar
A group of (supposedly related) rhino people who work at Mammago's Garage, who all talk and act like Jamaican stereotypes. They are the only ones who accept pearls in the game, which you can use to upgrade your hovercraft.


 * Bunny Ears Lawyer
 * Cool Garage
 * The Engineer
 * Erudite Stoner
 * Friend in the Black Market
 * Funny Animal
 * Global Currency Exception: Only for the vendors.

The Governor of Hillys
Helps out the IRIS Network, and gives out important information about the Alpha Section.


 * Cool Old Lady
 * Government in Exile
 * No Name Given
 * Reasonable Authority Figure: She not only knows the Alpha Sections are bad, but she and her team of hackers are actively willing to help IRIS.

The Lighthouse Children
Fehn, Pablo, Oumi, Yoa, Kip and Zaza are a group of six children whom Jade watches over. They are all orphans of the war against the DomZ. Jade's desire to provide for them kickstarts the plot as she takes a risky job for the sake of helping them. .


 * Adorably Precocious Child: Kip, who takes a lot of responsibility for the other kids despite seemingly being one of the younger ones. Oumi is female, but has many of the same personality traits.
 * Amazing Technicolor Population: Yoa, who is, inexplicably, bright blue. She's supposedly a human, but that's up for debate.
 * Cool Big Sis: Fehn has an especially close relationship with Jade, so he views her in this light much more strongly than the other kids.
 * Facial Markings: Yoa has white ones on her cheeks, beneath her eyes.
 * Funny Animal: Fehn and Oumi are both goat people, or Capra sapiens.
 * The Heart: Oumi tries very hard to be this, and seems to worry about Jade a lot.
 * Heartwarming Orphan
 * Mr. Imagination: Fehn, who has a fondness for pretending to be a knight, and even wants to grow up to be a soldier.
 * Possibly Pablo as well, since he seems to enjoy telling stories of Woof doing impossible things.
 * Mysterious Waif: Yoa, in addition to being blue, speaks an unknown language and has been spying on Pey'j. Or she can see into the future. It's not clear which, but either way, she's mysterious.
 * Parent with New Paramour: Initially, Fehn seems to think this is the case between Jade and Double H. He seems... skeptical. However, the end credits Photo Montage shows that he eventually comes to like Double H a lot... and probably has Jade set him straight.
 * Shrinking Violet: Zaza. This is probably because her parents were only killed recently, so it's understandable that she's still in a state of shock.
 * Troubled Child: Poor Zaza...

General Kheck
The Supreme Commander of the Alpha Section. Appears on televisions all across Hillys reassuring the population that everything is under control.


 * Armchair Military
 * Bald of Evil
 * General Ripper: There's really nothing excusing his handling of the military.
 * Large Ham
 * Obviously Evil: Wears black armor. Has no hair. Makes hammy speeches on the television about how "Great" it is to be a member of the army, while lunging his arm forward in a Hitler-like fashion.
 * : He curses Jade and tells her why she's doomed to fail because he thinks she's already lost everything important to her: her uncle, her kids, and even her parents..
 * Propaganda Machine: Which he uses constantly, and loudly.
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one.
 * Spider Tank: He pilots something similar to this.
 * Supreme Commander Badass: Though he doesn't get to show it until the end of the game.
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one.
 * Spider Tank: He pilots something similar to this.
 * Supreme Commander Badass: Though he doesn't get to show it until the end of the game.

The Alpha Section
The Faceless Mooks under the command of General Kheck. They've recently converted the Nutripils factory and the Old Slaughter House into their military bases on Hillys.


 * Eye Beams: Though in this case they're for scanning the environment, and not igniting their enemies.
 * Gas Mask Mooks
 * Kick The Oxygen Tank: Kicking it once causes them to run around uncontrollably until they get it repaired. Kicking it twice causes the tank to fly into air, taking it with them higher and higher, unless they hit a ceiling or something else and explode.
 * Obviously Evil: That the Alpha Section doesn't mean well is really no big surprise. Beside the traits that General Kheck shows, the average soldiers never shows their faces, has glowing red visors, and wears black armor with skulls painted on them.
 * Powered Armor: It's even better than the regular army's laser proof armor.
 * Powered Armor: It's even better than the regular army's laser proof armor.

The DomZ Priest
The apparent leader of the DomZ and the Final Boss of the game, who seems to have an interest in Jade. He appears as a strange squid-lobster hybrid... thing with a particularly screwed-up voice.


 * Big Bad
 * The Corruption: If the pod on are anything to go by, the DomZ Priest can cause something along the lines of this.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Isn't really one, but how he says "the pig" (referring to Pey'j) gives off vibes of this.
 * Eldritch Abomination: Yeah, it doesn't look all that threatening, but... seriously, what the hell is it? Where did it come from? How was it created? What the fuck is with the giant humanoid statue that it rests on? What's with the statue's deformed, almost holographic face? What's its gender? In what way is it a "priest"? Did it create the other DomZ? Are there more like it? Nobody knows, at least until we get some answers at the second game.
 * Evil Overlord: Subverted: he's secretly in command of an interstellar military force, not the planets' own security forces, he wants to drain the population of its life energy, not lord over it, and his existence is seemingly top-secret to all those that know, even enemies.
 * Fantastic Racism: He almost derisively refers to Pey'j as "the pig" at one point. Might've just been a jab at the individual in question, however, seeing as how Pey'j was apparently among those that took away the source of his powers; it's somewhat understandable that he might hold a grudge over that.
 * Flunky Boss: He primarily lets that giant statue spawn crystal shields to protect him from attacks by Jade. Said statue also captures Pey'j and Double H, projecting copies of them to attack her, after the regular DomZ minions are out of the way. The only time he's ever fought directly would be after he drowns the entire area (apart from the triple elevator platform), where he literally comes face-to-face with Jade, lunging his entire figure at her to literally throw her off her feet.
 * For the Evulz: He wants to live longer and restore his original level of power back. Okay, so maybe he wants to accomplish something important to him? ....nope, he just wants to live longer. Not a very good reason for him causing something along the lines of mass murder.
 * I'm a Humanitarian: When he attacks Jade by basically head-butting her, it almost looks like he's trying to eat her.
 * Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Tries to do this to Jade, more or less..
 * Interface Screw
 * The Man Behind the Man: The real leader of the Alpha Section.
 * Obviously Evil: Although introduced in the very last level of the game, the Priest makes its debut standing in front of the commander of the Alpha Section, who refers to the Priest as "Your Excellency". Hell, appearance notwithstanding, its echoing, almost sickly voice tone, on top of how he orders said commander to find Jade and bring her to it, clinches it.
 * Teleport Spam: Does this every time Jade attacks him.
 * Voice of the Legion: Very diseased-sounding voice, echoing each time it utters a phrase.
 * We Can Rule Together: A variation.
 * Xanatos Gambit
 * Xanatos Gambit