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*** And more possible foreshadowing when Dr. Bunnigus was mistaken for him. He isn't stupid to be recognized and caught by accident - and once body alteration is on the table, Lazkowicz can live on without much worries out of the picture - or be ''just about anyone'' in the new cast except aliens and people who had long studies in other fields (Sorlie), if highly unlikely to actually be Dr. Bunnigus. He could have been in Barsoom Circus. If he sold Xinchub and Co. to Int-Aff-Int and has their protection, he got a new identity capable of passing serious background checks, greatly expanding the possible set. For all we know, upon awakening he turned himself into an orangutan, became "agent Manis" and was hiding behind Admiral Emm's back on Morokweng, trying not to snicker, while she {{spoiler|hunted Xinchub and the witnesses}}. For example. Or he was Doc Wojtkiewicz from U.N.S. Athens...
==== Leelagaleenileeleenoleela
A Frellenti NCO, Legs is a tall, flightless, and very fast avianoid creature. Though she lacks arms, she makes up for it with a pair of cannons mounted to her helmet and a prehensile tongue that can operate firearms without trouble.
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* [[Multipurpose Tongue]]: Hers is long and prehensile, not to mention that it has enough strength to club a man senseless and a Schlock-level sense of taste... but she talks funny when she uses it this way.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Often a voice of reason amongst her trigger-happy coworkers.
* [[Overly Long Name]]: Leelagaleenileeleenoleela. It's hyphenated "|Leelagaleeni-Leeleenoleela" in a couple of strips, but that's likely to fit it in the speech bubble. Known as "Legs" due to this trope, much to her initial chagrin (she thought it was in reference to her gender).
* [[Show Some Leg]]: [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-09-16 Tries this at one point], but it doesn't really work on her human teammates.
* [[Super Senses]]: Legs can do the same super-taste [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-08-22 identification trick] as Schlock with that ridiculously long tongue of hers, albeit with less accuracy. (Given Elf's reaction, she probably doesn't do it that often. We quickly find out that she's hesitant about using it as it would require her to lick surfaces of unknown sterility, and she doesn't have Schlock's immune system.)
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An AI that Tagon created specifically to be loyal to him after Ennesby demonstrated his independence by getting the Serial Peacemaker blown up. TAG eventually ends up being rebuilt with a female avatar named Tagioalisi.
* [[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. But eventually proved to be not mentally robust enough to withstand working with Toughs indefinitely and required a fix.
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: He saved almost everyone's live at Credomar and what's his reward? Getting taken apart to be 'repaired' by Para and never waking up again, after he [[Heroic BSOD|"resigned" and went catatonic over this]].
* [[Evil Laugh]]: It [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-12-31 comes with the standard skin].
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* [[Robo Ship]]: They had an... ''interesting'' relationship with Tagon, but this plotline kind of ended abruptly.
* [[Spaceship Girl]]: Female personality was made on purpose.
==== "Chinook" ====
Two more changes of hardware, and meet Tag 3.0 - except not "Tag" any more.
* [[Deus Est Machina]]: After replacing "the angry god", learning from Petey and being nicknamed "Goddess of Earth, Wind and Plumbing" by Schlock this just seemed natural.
* [[Huge Holographic Head]]: On occasion. Apparently, [[Bigger Is Better]], and it's still modestly disproportional to the new hardware size, after all.
* [[Insult Backfire]]: Schlock referred to Chinook as "Goddess of Earth, Wind and Plumbing" while grouchy. [[Deus Est Machina|If only he knew...]]
* [[Me's a Crowd]]: Already multitasking to run a giant space station, with nodes in great many robots scurrying around it - and, of course, maintains local and long-range communication. And there's also an attendant space fleet now (defences were needed yesterday and growing and testing a ''dependable'' AI takes time, as TAG 1.0 demonstrated by breaking down). And then a [[Wetware Body|corporeal avatar]].
* [[Try to Fit That on A Business Card]]: She seems to collect fancy sounding titles as a hobby or something.
{{quote|'''Thurl''': Chinook, of Eina-Afa... Goddess of Earth, Wind and Plumbing... Our Sentinel of Perpetual Overwatch... Cryptkeeper, Vaultminder, Stormtender, [[Brick Joke|Spider Queen]]... Wealservant, Avenging Deputy... Warm Breath Upon the Holy Wind...
'''Chinook''': If you read the whole list every time I show up, I'm going to stop calling ahead. }}
* [[Wetware Body]]: Chinook eventually followed Petey's example and made a "networked meatspace node" avatar matching her holographic avatar. The windy, elfy one. With lean version of [[Impossible Hourglass Figure]]. Given that not only Chinook has access to resources so vast that a space fleet probably more expensive than any current in the Galaxy (''maybe'' excluding the Fleetmind) was collecting dust in a side storeroom, but she have to oversee a planet-scale cloning operation and met some creatures who gave a lip to the [[Huge Holographic Head]] (even as they cowered before it), the right question here is "why not?"
==== Tailor ====
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==== Thnempha, Andy ====
An enthusiastic Fobott'r mercenary, whose species possesses four arms. Andy is usually in the company of Legs or Schlock, and his multiple limbs make him an effective combatant. May have something going on with Tandersil (the Fobott'r with dishevelled yellowish crest from Sanctum Adroit) - thanks to Schlock, however unlikely this may sound.
* [[Expressive Ears]]: [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-11-10 Can droop], at least.
* [[Multi Wielding]]: He brags about being able to quad wield, having four arms. Thurl is unimpressed, since Andy only has two eyes
{{quote|'''Thurl:''' I'll put down 'very enthusiastic' and 'seen too many John Woo movies.'}}
* [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous]]
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* [[Loophole Abuse]]: O'benn AI are hardwired with racial loyalty to O'benn, meaning that the only foolproof way to take over one is to be both a flesh-and-blood O'benn and activating the loyalty switch in their AI core. This can by ''any'' flesh-and-blood O'benn, however, including bodies cloned by Petey, fitted with PD nodes in their brains to become extensions of himself, and then dropped into the AI cores of O'been ships.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]
* [[Me's a Crowd]]: While the Fleetmind includes many AIs that are not subsumed in addition to Petey's copies, there are many, including networked nodes [[Wetware Body|in organic bodies]].
* [[Mysterious Employer]]: Not so much his identity, but his motivations. Usually.
* [[Oh Crap]]: His reaction when [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-07-28 it's pointed out by Kevyn that he's not as invulnerable as he thought].
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** Also, Ob'enn who programmed him place great value on ear size and [[Bling of War|ornamentation]], and hardwired that part of his appearance to reflect his perceived power. After the formation of the fleetmind, his power level was clearly a bit outside the expected parameters and his ears grew enormous in response to his perceived power. Then reverted to normal (with a uniform change back to red) when Kevyn [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-07-28 bursts his bubble momentarily].
* [[Theme Naming]]: Petey's fleet of warships. Pterodactyl, Perjurious Discourse, Pretentious Drivel, Predictably Damaged (I-VI), Priority Delivery, Painstakingly Defenestrated, Polysyllabic Designation, etc.
* [[Wetware Body]]: Cloned himself an O'benn. And then many others. Because certain security measures can be used only by living beings. And it makes a nice disguise. Also, this helps to see the Universe through meatsacks' eyes (for example, Petey has a hypothesis that itching may contribute to O'benn attitude). And it seems that having an option for presence "more real" than common avatar floating over a holographic projector helps with diplomacy.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: So very much. One of his plans was found out only because anybody else ''would have been too short-sighted''.
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