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The cast of ''[[Perry Rhodan]]'', and associated tropes.
The cast of ''[[Perry Rhodan]]'', and associated tropes.


== Immortal Characters (those currently still alive) ==
== Immortal Characters (those currently still alive) ==
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'''Reginald "Bully" Bull''', born 1938 A.D., accompanied Rhodan on the lunar mission and has been his friend and right hand ever since.
'''Reginald "Bully" Bull''', born 1938 A.D., accompanied Rhodan on the lunar mission and has been his friend and right hand ever since.
* Can you say [[The Lancer|Lancer]]?
* Can you say [[The Lancer|Lancer]]?
* [[Face Heel Turn]] ([[The Emperor]] / [[Big Bad]]) and [[Heel Face Turn]]
* [[Face Heel Turn]] ([[The Emperor]] / [[Big Bad]]) and [[Heel Face Turn]]
* [[Gunboat Diplomacy]]
* [[Gunboat Diplomacy]]
* occasionally a [[Jerkass]]
* occasionally a [[Jerkass]]
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* [[Photographic Memory]]
* [[Photographic Memory]]


'''Pucky''' (''Gucky'' in the German original, his alien name is Plofre), a small, mischievous and far too powerful furry alien psychic.
'''Pucky''' (''Gucky'' in the German original, his alien name is Plofre), a small, mischievous and far too powerful furry alien psychic.
* [[Badass]] - and then some.
* [[Badass]] - and then some.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers]]: The textbook offender
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers]]: The textbook offender
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'''Julian Tifflor''', born 1961 A.D., gormless cadet who keeps getting pitched into the deep end.
'''Julian Tifflor''', born 1961 A.D., gormless cadet who keeps getting pitched into the deep end.
* [[Accidental Hero]]
* [[Accidental Hero]]
* [[Super Soldier]] : went through the [[Training From Hell|Upanishad]] and was granted with the title [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Eternal Warrior]], which most autors tend to overlook.
* [[Super Soldier]] : went through the [[Training from Hell|Upanishad]] and was granted with the title [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Eternal Warrior]], which most autors tend to overlook.
* {{spoiler|[[Break the Cutie]]}} Recently forced to {{spoiler|walk for several million years through a white corridor of nothing, which made him start to behave like [[The Stoic]], and effectively turned him into a [[Time Abyss]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[Break the Cutie]]}} Recently forced to {{spoiler|walk for several million years through a white corridor of nothing, which made him start to behave like [[The Stoic]], and effectively turned him into a [[Time Abyss]].}}


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'''Dao-Lin H'ay'''
'''Dao-Lin H'ay'''
* [[Catgirl]]
* [[Catgirl]]
* [[Psychic Powers]]: weak telepathy, unless she is using an [[Upgrade Artifact]]
* [[Psychic Powers]]: weak telepathy, unless she is using an [[Upgrade Artifact]]
* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Action Girl]]
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* [[Emperor Scientist]]: Sorta, as Bostich outsources the science part to his childhood friend and [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]] Aktakul.
* [[Emperor Scientist]]: Sorta, as Bostich outsources the science part to his childhood friend and [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]] Aktakul.
* [[The Chessmaster]]
* [[The Chessmaster]]
* [[Determinator]]
* [[Determinator]]
* [[Heroic Willpower]]
* [[Heroic Willpower]]
* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]] / [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Bostich's logic sector, when first activated, exhibited [[Split Personality|multiple personality disorder]] and spoke to him only in visions and dreams until Bostich finally managed to [[Battle in the Center of the Mind|exorcise himself in a dream]] by killing all his "advisors" who had prophesied he would be emperor one day. Only afterwards was he able to hear the voice of his normal ''Extrasinn''. Years later, when he received his own immortality device, Bostich got confirmation that the same cosmic entity who had granted Rhodan immortality had been [[Cosmic Plaything|manipulating]] Bostich's dreams (and maybe his life) all those years ago.
* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]] / [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Bostich's logic sector, when first activated, exhibited [[Split Personality|multiple personality disorder]] and spoke to him only in visions and dreams until Bostich finally managed to [[Battle in the Center of the Mind|exorcise himself in a dream]] by killing all his "advisors" who had prophesied he would be emperor one day. Only afterwards was he able to hear the voice of his normal ''Extrasinn''. Years later, when he received his own immortality device, Bostich got confirmation that the same cosmic entity who had granted Rhodan immortality had been [[Cosmic Plaything|manipulating]] Bostich's dreams (and maybe his life) all those years ago.
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* [[Shoot the Dog]] turned him into the [[Big Bad]]: During his darkest time, Bostich crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] when he had a former friend (who had started a rival empire) tortured and executed as a traitor and all of the 20,000 enemy spaceships mercilessly destroyed ''after'' they had been shut down by a computer virus and were helplessly drifting in space - with the crews still in them. Shortly afterwards, he had the Terran minister of defense, Reginald Bull, abducted and [[Cold-Blooded Torture|tortured]] for information.
* [[Shoot the Dog]] turned him into the [[Big Bad]]: During his darkest time, Bostich crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] when he had a former friend (who had started a rival empire) tortured and executed as a traitor and all of the 20,000 enemy spaceships mercilessly destroyed ''after'' they had been shut down by a computer virus and were helplessly drifting in space - with the crews still in them. Shortly afterwards, he had the Terran minister of defense, Reginald Bull, abducted and [[Cold-Blooded Torture|tortured]] for information.
* [[Heartbroken Badass]]: Bostich considers himself a pragmatist, but he has the hidden heart of a romantic. Unfortunately, as a young man he fell in love with Atlan's daughter Jasmyne da Ariga although they only spent a few days together as a couple, and decades later he is [[Longing Look|still yearning for her]], despite the fact that she has rejected him and threatened to slit his throat if he continues on his dark path.
* [[Heartbroken Badass]]: Bostich considers himself a pragmatist, but he has the hidden heart of a romantic. Unfortunately, as a young man he fell in love with Atlan's daughter Jasmyne da Ariga although they only spent a few days together as a couple, and decades later he is [[Longing Look|still yearning for her]], despite the fact that she has rejected him and threatened to slit his throat if he continues on his dark path.
* [[Mind Rape]]: Which happened ''to'' Bostich when an evil newly ascended cosmic power named SEELENQUELL took over his mind and the minds of everyone on Arkon and forced Arkon into a direct war with Terra.
* [[Mind Rape]]: Which happened ''to'' Bostich when an evil newly ascended cosmic power named SEELENQUELL took over his mind and the minds of everyone on Arkon and forced Arkon into a direct war with Terra.
* [[Break the Haughty]]
* [[Break the Haughty]]
* [[Heel Face Turn]] (see the entry in the main ''[[Perry Rhodan]]'' article), but oddly enough ''not'' due to [[Love Redeems]].
* [[Heel Face Turn]] (see the entry in the main ''[[Perry Rhodan]]'' article), but oddly enough ''not'' due to [[Love Redeems]].
* [[The Unfettered]]: both as the [[Villain Protagonist]] and later as the elected President of the New Galacticum
* [[The Unfettered]]: both as the [[Villain Protagonist]] and later as the elected President of the New Galacticum
* [[Lonely At the Top]]
* [[Lonely at the Top]]
* [[Married to the Job]]: He's still single.
* [[Married to the Job]]: He's still single.


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Latest revision as of 23:59, 10 April 2017


The cast of Perry Rhodan, and associated tropes.

Immortal Characters (those currently still alive)

Perry Rhodan, born 1936 A.D., was an American astronaut and the first man on the moon in 1971.

Reginald "Bully" Bull, born 1938 A.D., accompanied Rhodan on the lunar mission and has been his friend and right hand ever since.

Atlan (Mascaren da Gonozal), born 8045 B.C. (10,479 da Ark in the Arkonide calendar)

Homer G. Adams, born 1918 A.D., is a financial genius who joined Rhodan early. His holding "General Cosmic Company" provided money and economic influence for Rhodan, in exchange for Arkonide technology. A hunchback.

Pucky (Gucky in the German original, his alien name is Plofre), a small, mischievous and far too powerful furry alien psychic.

Julian Tifflor, born 1961 A.D., gormless cadet who keeps getting pitched into the deep end.

Ronald Tekener

Icho Tolot, a four-armed, 3.5 meters tall alien from the planet of Halut

  • The Big Guy (Class 2)
  • Immune to Bullets (literally): Haluters can transform their whole body into a nearly indestructible form of matter on a cellular level, although they cannot move in that condition.

Roi Danton (really Michael Reginald Rhodan), born 2405 A.D. as son of Rhodan and Rhodan's third wife

  • Luke, You Are My Father
  • The Emperor
  • Obfuscating Fobbishness: Not wanting to stand in his father's shadow all his life, the young Michael Rhodan went underground and invented the fobbish persona of the rake "Roi Danton" for himself, completely with historical costumes of an 18th century French aristocrat, and finds himself allies in a bunch of space traders.

Alaska Saedelaere, born 3400 A.D., victim of a transporter accident that fused him with something else

Dao-Lin H'ay

Bostich (really Gaumarol da Bostich, or Emperor Bostich I.), born 4799 A.D. (the year 21,345 in the Arkonide calendar)

Monkey (actual name!), a human from a high-gravity world, a former Terran secret agent and trained assassin, leader of the New United Stars Organisation.

Mondra Diamond (really Agalija Teekate), born 4843 A.D. on Horrikos, Rhodan's latest female companion, originally a circus artist


Higher Beings

IT, the main higher entity of the series. IT rules the local group of galaxies and gave Rhodan and the others their immortality. Unlike other beings of its level, IT usually doesn't command the peoples in these galaxies (but tends to secretly nudge them in the "correct" direction).

ESTARTU shares a common origin with IT and refers to IT as her brother.

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