Schlock Mercenary/Characters: Difference between revisions

** There's also an interesting one when Schlock tries to trade memories with a timeclone of himself - the intellectual thought-processes recognize two unique Schlocks, but the biology thinks it's recovered an errant fragment of the same amorph unit. What ensues is described (to give us non-amorphs perspective) as being sort of like trying to resist throwing up, except backwards, and with about the same inevitability of outcome.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: And no, it ''[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-03-18 doesn't]'' "[[Naughty Tentacles|rhyme with 'Pentacle Rex.']]".

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Schlock is faster than he looks, as his entire body is essentially one giant, amorphous muscle. Since he has neither bones nor internal organs, he can hit with maximum force without worrying about damaging anything.

* [[Mars Needs Women]]: Schlock has a thing for human females. Not in the biological sense, though, since for amorphs reproduction consisting pretty much of breaking off pieces of themselves and [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-03-20 giving them a personality modeled off of somebody else].

* [[Seldom-Seen Species]]: Until Schlock got his own cartoon, Amorphs weren't widely known throughout the galaxy. [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-08-25 Apparently less than 200 of them have ever left their homeworld.] Schlock himself [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-03-09 usually just rolls with it.]

* [[Sphere Eyes]]: Amorphs doesn't have eyes naturally - they grow on a certain kind of tree and are literal spheres. (Schlock himself uses a pair that are [[Mismatched Eyes|mismatched in size]], while other Amorphs have been seen using more or less than that.)

* [[Stomach of Holding]]: One of Schlock's handier traits is his ability to keep equipment inside himself without digesting it, and this gets used by his team every chance they can. He normally just keeps weapons inside there, but [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-11-16 occasionally...]

* [[Super Senses]]: His sense of Smell/Taste (he seems to consider [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-04-16 them the same thing]) is beyond superhuman by human standards and is spread out over his entire body. This is both a blessing (he can track individuals this way) and a curse (...as well as the crap they stepped in this morning). [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-07-28 He grumbles about it occasionally.]

* [[The Peter Principle]]: Pi was promoted to an officer largely based on false memories, though apparently in-character for him, implanted by UNS agents who did not have Tagon's Toughs' best interests at heart. He has not exactly risen to the occasion in terms of trustworthiness: he remained [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-06-30 competent enough, but not sane enough].

* [[Properly Paranoid]]: On at least three occasions, and he's pretty good at coming up with counter-plans.

==== Pontucci, "Pronto" ====

* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Though not to the extent of Nick, and by later books he's pretty much gotten over this.

* [[Mauve Shirt]]

* [[Those Two Guys]]: With Nick before he retired.

* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: More in the line of gloating and occasionally dangerous initiative. Other than that, he was nicer than he looks and sounds -- not that it was too hard.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: It [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-12-31 comes with the standard skin].

* [[I Am Not a Gun]]: Though [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20090117.html initially] it appeared Tag's problem was with not following orders, the resultant [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20090211.html angst] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20090212.html afterward] was definitely due to killing all those civilians.

* [[Bounty Hunter]]

==== Haban ====

* [[Teleport Spam]]: "The building has now been evacuated. Rapid teraporting is fun!"

* [[Third Person Person]]: Lota is too large for your puny pronouns.

{{quote| '''[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-02-15 Lota]''': You should call me Lota, Longshoreman of the Apocalypse. Hero of the Stationwaist, Foodlord of the Eatonrun... Portlord of the Poles, Grand Marshall, and King of the Second Age of the Free City State of Credomar! <ref>You may use pronouns, but only occasionally.</ref>}}

* [[Evil Is Funny]]: He's an unrepentant bastard who [[Magnificent Bastard|outsmarts the entire company (including two AIs)]] and is [[Genre Savvy|intelligent enough to kill his enemies as soon as possible]] [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|(and then drop their remains in the incinerator)]], but he just makes you laugh.

* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized]]: It's not clear what sort of democracy he promoted, but his methods [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-04-01 aren't much better] than those of cannibalic aristocracy he fights.

==== Xinchub, Levaughn Matsui ("Hugo") ====