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* [[The Hero]]

* [[Hot Dad]]: As a result of the above mentioned trope. After Marcus was born, about the only difference physically was that he started wearing sunglasses and grew a goatee of sorts on his chin.

* [[Its Not You Its My Enemies]]: His reason for kicking Krystal off Star Fox prior to ''[[Star Fox Command (Video Game)|Command]]'' was that, at the time, the two were in a relationship, and he didn't want to see her get hurt as a result of being part of the team. She doesn't take it well.

* [[Jack of All Stats]]: In ''[[Star Fox Assault (Video Game)|Assault]]'' and ''[[Star Fox Command (Video Game)|Command]]'', he's a generally middle-of-the-road character when it comes to stats.

* [[Rescue Romance]]: His relationships with ''both'' of his official love interests' began by him saving their lives.

* [[Say My Name|Scream My Name]]: In the Japanese versions, his team members will do this if Fox is killed (These are replaced with a [[Big No]] in the English version). In the English version, the only instances of this trope being applied towards Fox is when Slippy is swatted towards Titania by Spyborg, Slippy just before the battle against Goras, and by his team members when Fox is going to "go it alone" against Andross inside his base (both paths), and the last part only if his teammates aren't undergoing repairs of their Arwings. Fox himself also used the trope twice: First when Slippy was knocked away to Titania, and the second when Fox finds Slippy in Gora's claw (before it awakens).

{{quote| '''Fox:''' First class tickets would be nice.<br />

'''Falco:''' You could have asked for a moon!<br />

* [[Ace Pilot]]: This is actually his official team designation. His stats even seem to imply that he's a more skilled pilot than Fox, though [[Informed Ability|this doesn't come up so much during gameplay]]. And appropriately for a bird, he expressively prefers flying an Arwing, as opposed to any of the team's other options.

* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]

* [[All There in the Manual]]: The manga ''[[Farewell Beloved Falco]]'' explains his absence for most of ''[[Star Fox Adventures (Video Game)|Adventures]]'' as being from a falling out between him and Fox due to the machinations by an officer who planned on resurrecting Andross.

* [[Back for The Finale]]: Comes back at the end of ''[[Star Fox Adventures (Video Game)|Adventures]]''.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

{{quote| "See my ship?? Does it ''look'' okay to you??"}}

* [[Feather Fingers]]

* [[Fragile Speedster]]: In ''[[Star Fox Command (Video Game)|Command]]'', his ship has the highest boost, but one of the lowest health ratings.

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Yes, Katt, we know how hot you think he is. Falco is understood to be attractive to the ladies, but he won't give any of them more than his platonic friendship.

* [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]: In the SNES game, Falco was officially 28 years old. In the ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|64]]'' [[Continuity Reboot]], he was 19 years old. He aged normally in the sequels of ''64'', though. Excluding Peppy (and probably ROB), he's currently the oldest member of the team.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: Averted (in Japan).

* [[Shout Out]]/[[Blind Idiot Translation]]: Originally named after Carlo Rambaldi, an Italian special effects artist who worked on the films ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]'' and ''[[ET the Extraterrestrial (Film)|ET the Extraterrestrial]]''. "Lombardi" was a mistranslation. Japan media for ''[[Star Fox 1]]'' romanized the name as "Lambardi", before "Lombardi" was settled upon in localization.

'''Fox:''' Huh? What are you saying?<br />

'''Peppy:''' Err... nothing, I'm just babbling, that's all. }}

* [[Parental Substitute]]: Is this to Fox. Considering Fox was still a young teenager when James disappeared, Peppy essentially had to raise and train Fox, to make sure he made it to adulthood.

* [[Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome]]: In the SNES game, Peppy is officially 36 years old. He was friends with Fox's father, but Peppy himself was only 11 years older than 25-year old Fox and more like a [[Cool Big Bro]]. In the ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|64]]'' [[Continuity Reboot]], Peppy was made 41 years old, a full generation older than [[Not Allowed to Grow Up|18-year old Fox]], and was rewritten more as a [[Parental Substitute]] to orphaned Fox. Then, in the sequels to ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|64]]'', when everyone was allowed to age normally, Peppy started to really show his age, becoming quite old-looking by ''[[Star Fox Command (Video Game)|Command]]''.

** His second time was in ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|64]]'', and Fox had to rescue him in the Landmaster (although it's less of a kidnapping as much as being shot down by Spyborg, crashlanding into the arms/jaws of an alien lifeform known as Goras, and then the Goras awakening when Fox arrived to rescue Slippy).

** His third time was in ''[[Farewell Beloved Falco]]'', even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] how he had been in a dangerous situation before. This time Slippy is kidnapped ''while driving the Landmaster'', by the same creature as before (or at least a creature of the same species), and Fox needs to rescue him on foot.

* [[Mighty Glacier]]: In ''[[Star Fox Command (Video Game)|Command]]'', his ship, the Bullfrog, has a huge health meter and gets plasma shots, but it has a tiny boost meter and isn't very mobile.

* [[Missing Mom]]: Who ''is'' Slippy's mom? Out of all the major Star Fox characters whose parents have actually been shown, Slippy is the only one who has been depicted with no mother whatsoever.

* [[Canon Dis Continuity]]: There's still hope she may appear someday.

* [[Canon Foreigner]]: But at one time almost [[Averted]] this, appearing in an early demo of ''[[Star Fox 2 (Video Game)|Star Fox 2]]''.

* [[Faux Action Girl]]: She's a test pilot and flight instructor, but in hindsight, that's the only thing we really see her do. She falls into danger twice and, even while with Star Fox, she does virtually nothing that can be clearly attributed to her.

* [[Future Spandex]]: ...''[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Cameltoe]]''.

* [[Divergent Character Evolution]]: No longer just Fox wearing Sunglasses, now he's Fox wearing sunglasses ''and'' a yellow scarf!

* [[Hot Dad]]

* [[Never Found the Body]]: In ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|64]]''. But in the SNES games and comics, he has become a transdimensional [[Space Whale]]!

* [[Retcon]]: Before ''[[Continuity Reboot|Star Fox 64]]'', James's name was Fox McCloud Sr.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]: ''[[Averted]]'' for the most part, not that he didn't try.

* [[Cool Shades]]: In the Super NES games.

* [[Put On a Bus]]: Becomes ill by the time of ''[[Star Fox Command (Video Game)|Command]]'' and has to retire (although fans suspect that his illness may have something to do with his brief possession by the Aparoids).

* [[Redshirt Army]]

* [[Big Bad]]: Of the [[Star Fox 1 (Video Game)|original game]] and ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|64]]'' {{spoiler|as well as ''[[Star Fox Adventures (Video Game)|Adventures]]''. He also pulls a ''posthumous'' [[The Man Behind the Man|Man Behind the Man]] in ''[[Star Fox Command (Video Game)|Command]]''.}}

* [[Body Horror]]: By the time Fox actually faces him, Andross has long since left his original body behind, being no more than a giant floating head with separately detached floating hands. Blowing off his skin leaves his brain and eyeballs (attached together via neural stems) still active. {{spoiler|And when he's resurrected in ''Adventures'', at least ''half'' of him isn't actually his own body, he's attached to the rear of a Krazoa statue's head}}.

{{quote| '''Andross:''' I was young, in love, and had a spare car bomb.}}

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Going by the fact that there were references to Andross creating both the Anglar Race (according to the Farewell Fox storyline) and the means to defeat them (the whole removing poison from the sea thing), it's hard not to suspect that Andross was probably planning to invoke this trope in a bid for power. That, or he made a failsafe should [[The Starscream|they turn on him]].

* [[Cloning Blues]]: Andross was cloned in both the Super NES comic and in ''[[Farewell Beloved Falco]]''.

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Had '''four''' backup plans in case his life was threatened. First plan was the robotic duplicate he deploys in the bad endings of ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|64]]''. Second was Shears and his [[Cloning Blues]] bid. Third was {{spoiler|that little incident on Sauria, which allowed his spirit to linger and in ''[[Star Fox Adventures (Video Game)|Adventures]]'' nearly resulted in him being reborn as a [[Physical God]]}}. Fourth was {{spoiler|his "ghost" (a hologram programmed with his personality) which surfaces in ''[[Star Fox Command (Video Game)|Command]]''.}}

* [[The Dark Side Will Make You Forget]]: In ''[[Star Fox Command (Video Game)|Command]]'', some misions have Krystal suggest that he wasn't ''quite'' as evil initially. She mentions that he was looking for ways to terraform [[Mordor|Venom]] (which, it should be noted was a [[Retcon]] to the series), and she defends some of his biogenetic research. Whether she's ''right'' or not is up for debate, as is whether it should be counted as canon.

* [[Mythology Gag]]: A giant polygonal face was used as a last boss in the first game, presumably because a monkey scientist isn't the best battle for a starfighter. Andross has regularly appeared as an enormous floating head in some form ever since.

** Also, said polygonal face also made a cameo in the climax of ''[[Farewell Beloved Falco]]'' when Andross's clone was beginning to develop telepathic thoughts.

{{quote| '''Andross:''' Only I have the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|brains]] to rule Lylat!<br />

'''Fox:''' So Andross, you show your true form. }}

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* [[Ace Pilot]]: All of them.

* [[Badass]]

* [[Badbutt]]

Wolf is the leader of the Star Wolf team and perennial rival to Fox. He and Fox first met during ''[[Star Fox 2 (Video Game)|Star Fox 2]]'' (before the [[Continuity Reboot]]) and in ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|64]]'' (after the Continuity Reboot) when Andross hired Star Wolf to take down Star Fox. Since their first encounter, however, Wolf gained a grudging respect for Fox and came to his aid several times - though it's heavily implied Wolf only helps Fox so he can ensure he will one day take him down by himself.

 

** [[Badass Gay]]: "If anyone's going to tan your hide, it's going to be me!"

** [[Leather Man]]

** [[Manly Gay]]

* [[Badass]]

* [[Big Badass Wolf]]

* [[Guyliner]]: Wolf wears heavy black eyeliner around his [[Purple Eyes]].

* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: Some storylines in ''[[Star Fox Command (Video Game)|Command]]'' have him do this.

* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: In ''[[Star Fox Assault (Video Game)|Assault]]'' compared to ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|64]]''. Then even ''more so'' in ''[[Super Smash Bros (Video Game)|Super Smash Bros]] Brawl''.

* [[Joker Immunity]]: Neither Wolf nor his wingmates will die if they are shot down in a dogfight.

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: A specifically homoerotic version.

* [[Mythology Gag]]: Wolf's [[Costume Porn]] in ''[[Super Smash Bros (Video Game)|Brawl]]'' is a [[Shout Out]] to his outfit in the [[Vaporware]] ''[[Star Fox 2 (Video Game)|Star Fox 2]]'', down to the vest and the [[Spikes of Villainy]]. It has also proven (in various [[Shirtless Scene|states of undress]]) to be his most popular outfit in fanart, where it helps accentuate his [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]] and [[Manly Gay]] for certain parts of the fanbase.

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: This is why he won't let the Aparoids kill Fox in ''[[Star Fox Assault (Video Game)|Assault]]''. And he delivers it in a manner full of [[Homoerotic Subtext]]:

{{quote| '''Wolf:''' And if anyone's gonna tan your hide, it's gonna be me.}}

* [[Evil Brit]]: Like Wolf, his accent used to sound vaguely British when he appeared in ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|Star Fox 64]]''. Later games would portray him without one.

* [[Evil Laugh]]

{{quote| '''Panther:''' Set me straight on this Leon; are you jealous of the shred-er, or the shred-ee?}}

* [[Informed Attribute]]: We've never actually seen him kill anyone, even though he's supposed to be a cold-blooded killer with no conscience. Some of this may be because of the game's target audience. His dialogue does show him to be depraved.

* [[Shout Out]]: His name is a reference to Leon '''K'''owalski from the movie ''[[Blade Runner]]''.

* [[Stone Wall]]: His ship has tremendous health and defense, but no primary lasers.

* [[Vocal Evolution]]: Japanese vocals only: His voice was low and fluid-sounding in ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|64]]''; overtime it has become higher-pitched, accented, and maniacal. The English versions of the games followed suit on this.

* [[Wicked Cultured]]: His mannerisms in the Japanese version were actually intended to reflect that he is "creepily sophisticated."

* [[Fat Bastard]]: Then again, his species isn't known for being picky eaters.

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Being assimilated in ''[[Star Fox Assault (Video Game)|Assault]]'', being destroyed, and yet not dying.

* [[Gonk]]: Even by anthro standards. And there are plenty of good-looking porcine anthros.

* [[Greed]]: His most defining trait, and what made him betray Star Fox and eventually get kicked out of Star Wolf after even they had problems with it.

* [[Large Ham]]: No [[Pun]] intended. He shines in ''64'' as the hammiest character, and that's saying a ''lot''.

* [[Laughing Mad]]: By the time of ''[[Star Fox Assault (Video Game)|Star Fox Assault]]'', he seems to have lost a lot of his sanity, as about half of his speakable appearances is him laughing, and it is eventually topped when {{spoiler|he ends up Aparoidized.}}

* [[Pig Man]]: [[Captain Obvious|Duh!]]

* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: Although he intended to use the Core Memory to make himself rich, he certainly did not intend to actually work with the Aparoids, since obviously obeying them would have meant turning down a profit.

* [[Puzzle Boss]]: In ''[[Star Fox Command (Video Game)|Command]]''.

* [[Shout Out]]: His last name is a reference to one of the bounty hunters in [[The Empire Strikes Back]].

* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: His appearance in ''Command''. Unlike Andrew, who has at least some leeway for his reappearance, Pigma was completely ''atomised'' in an explosion during ''Assault'', calling his reappearance in ''Command'' into further question. He also seems to have a body that is still based on the one he got while under Aparoid possession, yet the Aparoids were completely, utterly wiped out at the climax of ''Assault'', meaning that even if he did survive his body imploding on itself, unless he hadn't been completely assimilated, he more than likely would have been killed then instead. Then again, there's ''Command's'' [[Canon Dis Continuity|deemed status]] in the series, as well as the fact Pigma considered Star Wolf to be true friends of his, despite the fact Wolf kicked him out (and apparently attacked him) [[Even Evil Has Standards|because they couldn't stand the greedy bastard]], and it seems easier to just consider him deceased for now.

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* [[Harmless Villain]]: He's the one Star Wolf member who is taken the ''least'' seriously.

* [[Known Only By Their Nickname]]: By the time of ''[[Star Fox Assault (Video Game)|Star Fox Assault]]'', Andrew Oikonny is only referred to by his family name, Oikonny. In fact, he only gives his full name only once, which is literally the last words he got to say shortly before his mech is literally shot in the head by an Aparoid attack.

* [[Maniac Monkeys]]

* [[Punny Name]]: Andrew is derived from the Greek word Andreas ("of a man").

* [[Transforming Mecha]]: His ship in ''Assault'' transforms into a mechanical Andross-inspired form.

* [[The Worf Effect]]: After being set up as a galactic revolutionary leader with a huge army ready to revive Andross's empire, he is shot down mid-sentence by the ''real'' [[Big Bad]] of the game, an Aparoid.

 

* [[The Danza]]: Voiced by Bill Johns in ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|64]]''.

* [[Shout Out]]: His name is a reference to William Grey from ''[[Independence Day]]''. The entire Katina sequence in ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|64]]'' is an extended homage to that movie.

* [[Surfer Dude]]: Has this type of voice in ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|64]]''.

{{quote| '''Bill:''' Fox, that's one of ours!}}

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* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Pink Katt seemed fond of dressing this way.

* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: She and Falco are very dear to each other despite Falco's complete lack of romantic attachment or attraction to Katt. Since they knew each other for years even before ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|Star Fox 64]]'' (when Falco was all of 19), there's heavy implication that they may have grown up together, truly making them [[Like Brother and Sister]].

* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: Before her [[Race Lift]].

* [[Race Lift]]: Changing colors and cat breeds between ''[[Farewell Beloved Falco|Farewell]]'' and ''[[Star Fox Command (Video Game)|Command]]''.

* [[Frogs and Toads]]

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Even before he actually appeared in a game, the above-mentioned Player's Guide for ''[[Star Fox 64 (Video Game)|64]]'' referred to him and Slippy as the inventors of the Blue Marine.

* [[Smart People Wear Glasses]]

 

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[The Dragon]]

* [[The Mole]]: Loyal to [[The Big Bad|Andross]].

* [[Shout Out]] / [[Expy]]: Shears closely resembles General Pepper's appearance from the Super NES games, before ''[[Continuity Reboot|Star Fox 64]]'' when General Pepper's appearance was slightly remodeled. Shears's name, as with Pepper's, is a also a reference to ''[[The Beatles|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band]]''.

 

* [[Blue Eyes]]

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* [[Love At First Sight]]: Whilst Fox was clearly enamoured by her when he saw her, the way she looks into his eyes when he pulls her to safety implies the same may have been true for her.

* [[Magic Staff]]

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]

* [[Nice Girl]]

* [[Expy]]: of Tricky from ''[[Diddy Kong Racing]]'', another of Rare's titles.

* [[Innocent Blue Eyes]]

* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: That is, if you don't find him annoying.

* [[Small Annoying Creature]]: In ''[[Star Fox Adventures (Video Game)|Adventures]]''.

* [[Romantic False Lead]]: Some of the optional story arcs in ''[[Star Fox Command (Video Game)|Command]]'' have him becoming this.

* [[Something About a Rose]]

* [[Tetsu Inada]]

* [[Third Person Person]]: In the English version of ''[[Star Fox Command (Video Game)|Command]]'', though this may have been a localization error.

* [[Battle Couple]]: With Slippy on some missions.

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Only One Name]]: Her last name isn't given for some reason.

* [[Pink Means Feminine]]

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Dub Name Change]]: From "Ash" to "Dash".

* [[Remember the New Guy]]: Nothing prior in the series ever truly suggested that Andross had children, let alone grandchildren (though given Andrew he clearly had relatives), so Dash kinda seems to come out of nowhere.

* [[Turn Out Like His Father|Turn Out Like His Grandfather]]: One of the ''[[Star Fox Command (Video Game)|Command]]'' endings suggests Dash will become a tyrant like Andross did;, another suggests the opposite, that he colonizes Venom without his grandfather's ill intent.

* [[Badass Teacher]]: She's a university professor who wants to help people... with her powerful laser.

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]

* [[Pink Means Feminine]]

* [[Remember the New Guy]]: Considering how it's implied that the McCloud, Hare and Toad families have generally been very close both personally and professionally, it does come across as somewhat odd that Peppy's daughter would never be mentioned until now.

* [[Species Surname]]

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]

* [[Happily Married]]: What little is given of it suggests that her and Peppy were this before she died.

* [[Missing Mom]]

* [[Posthumous Character]]

* [[Species Surname]]: Though unlike other characters (with the possible exception of Amanda and whomever Slippy's mother was) she presumably gained her surname by marrying Peppy.