Schlock Mercenary/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Mini!Schlock, having lost the majority of his memories, [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-12-08 is like this.]

* [[Deadly Dodging]]: A variation. He has, on occasion, arranged for enemy gunfire to [[Blob Monster|pass straight through him harmlessly]] and hit enemies out the other end. (He generally has a look of "why do people even bother shooting me".)

* [[Extra Eyes]]: Schlock had spares, for a while (they were as mismatched as his usual pair), after combining with his future self. They came in handy for aiming his [[BFG|BFGs]], but also seemed to act independent of their host [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-12-04 at times.] He used one of them to [[Memory Gambit|store memories]]

* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: Is explicitly able to eat anything he can fit in his mouth, [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-03-11 as long as it isn't strong enough] to "eat" ''him''. He even mocks human pickiness about what we eat [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-02-26 here]

* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]: All the time, though with rather limited success.

* [[Running Gag]]: Schlock's "default" shape is an amorphous pile of greenish-brown matter. Most people, upon seeing him, mistake him for the, ahem, ''leavings'' of a very large and very ''sick'' animal. Also, Schlock being [[Lightning Bruiser|"faster than he looks."]]

* [[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.)

* [[Starfish Aliens]]: Specifically limited to his [[Silicon Based Life|physiology]], as he (usually) relates pretty easily to his teammates otherwise.

* [[The Unpronounceable]]: As Howard [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2000-07-25 so kindly explains] in a [[Footnote Fever|footnote]]:

{{quote| Ambassador Ch'vorthq's name is pronounced as follows: start with the hard "CH" as in "china," rather than the soft "CH" from "chevrolet." Now make the sound of an expensive piece of china being struck by a moving chevrolet--that noise is represented with the apostrophe. The rest is easy. Say "vorthq" with the soft "th" from the word "the" and a "q" like in "qetzlcouatl."}}

 

==== Chisulo ====

A Unioc officer who serves alongside Schlock as a platoon commander and general face-wrecker. An excellent shot, as his single eye is the same size as a human head, and serves up a substantial part of the Tough's snark ordnance.

 

* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Sergent Ebbirnoth's degree in Advanced Xenoanatomy.

** [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-09-11 Subverted.] It doesn't make him a surgeon.

* [[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.

* [[No Sense of Humor]]: Tag was originally created with no sense of humor, but has tried to learn it to better understand his opponents.

 

==== Tailor ====

* [[Action Girl]]: She's been shown to know how to hold her own in a fight, thanks to growing up with multiple brothers.

* [[Ambadassador]]

* [[Lady of War]]

* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: the whole of the story behind Breya's gathering and commanding of a massive fleet to depose a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] race, including what must have been an incredible battle - entirely offscreen.

** This comes back as a [[Brick Joke]] a few times: [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-12-27 1] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-04-09 2] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-08-03 3] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-10-04 4].

*** And it turns out that his amusing yet dangerous phobia has a really darn good reason for it. But not a supernatural one. We swear.

* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: Subverted in that Petey was ''ordered'' to repress his obsession with ghosts.

* [[The Tell]]: Petey's shirt seemed to change color in response to his (self-perceived) relationship with who he talked with. It turned orange (like Tagon) when addressing the grunts and red (like an officer) when addressing Tagon. Also, when he joined the first fleetmind, his ears grew enormous in response to his greater "strength" of mind; these ears reverted to normal (with a uniform change back to red) when Kevyn [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-07-28 bursts his bubble momentarily].

The retired father of Kaff Tagon, Karl Tagon was a famous and skilled general who still knows how to fight and is more than willing to jump back in as-needed.

 

** They had to decapitate him and stick his head in a jar to capture him.

{{quote| '''Kevyn:''' That's a pretty effective set of restraints, Karl.<br />

'''Karl's Decapitated Head in a Jar:''' I'll get out of 'em, Kev. Just you wait. }}

** And he ''did''. Admittedly, he had a tiny bit of help from his son, but still.

** [[Double Entendre|*Ahem*]] [[I Thought It Meant|His]] ''[[I Thought It Meant|other]]'' [[I Thought It Meant|weapon]], an antique carbine he'd kept above his desk for years.

* [[I Want Grandkids]]: Understandable, since his son is ''fifty'' by now and in a line of work that doesn't typically promote a long life.

** And then played straight when it turns out the Gavs ''are'' suffering more than a little angst over being indistinguishable, to the point that they are willing to undergo extensive physical and mental modification in order to be unique again.

* [[Me's a Crowd]]: Got gate-cloned ''950 million'' times over.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]