Wing Commander/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Maniac, eventually.

** Though Blair was already the CAG by Wing Commander 3, and was shown to have some command-experience from ''[[Wing Commander Academy]]'' so he wasn't quite as ill-prepared for command as is typical for this trope.

* [[Someone to Remember Him By]]: was the "someone" in this case. [[All There in the Manual|The strategy guide]] gives the impression of a [[Altar the Speed|hastily-arranged wedding]], which was just as well--Icemanwell—Iceman still died before Lance was born.

* [[Badass]]: ''So very much.'' His [[Badass|badassitudebadass]]itude is recognized in universe where the other pilots are in awe and sometimes a little afraid of him, and Colonel Halcyon gets disappointed if he returns from a mission with no kills.

* [[Clint Squint]]

* [[Danger Deadpan]]: Iceman is described in the manual for the first game as being the [[Added Alliterative AppealAlliteration|calm, cool, collected]] pilot, and the one on top of the scoreboard when you start the game. A fellow pilot notes that everyone else shouts in combat, but you sometimes have to strain to hear Iceman, because he's pretty much ''whispering'' in terse, two-or-three-word sentences.

** Everybody seems to hate him (both in real life and in-universe)... [[Creator's Pet|Except for the writing staff]], since of all of the cast members who get [[Killed Off for Real]], Maniac -- theManiac—the most likely candidate given his rank, status, and reckless behavior -- isnbehavior—isn't one of them.

** Tom Wilson's interpretation of Maniac (in ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]] III'', ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]] IV'', and ''Prophecy''), actually did a lot to [[Rescued Fromfrom the Scrappy Heap|redeem]] him, at least within the context of the FMV footage. He [[Ensemble Darkhorse|steals all his scenes]] and is a lot of fun to watch.

** He's even something of a [[The Chew Toy|Chew Toy]] in ''The Price of Freedom,'' where Maniac's constant snipes fail to get a rise out of Blair--butBlair—but Marshall falls for Blair's prods ''every time.''

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Blair, eventually.

* [[Nerd Glasses]]: In the [[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]] [[Collectible Card Game]], [http://ccg.jetlag.us/main.php?g2_itemId=2602&g2_imageViewsIndex=1 his character card]{{Dead link}} shows him wearing a pair of these.

* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Pulls this [[Knife Nut|at the point of a combat knife.]]

* [[Smug Snake]]: For all his talk about being superior and his zero tolerance to failure, he falls rather quickly in battle (probably because he doesn't have the advantage of technology anymore).

* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: In ''Super [[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]]'', released for the Macintosh and [[Three DO3DO Interactive Multiplayer|3DO]], Paladin has an eye patch. However, given his displayed abilities in the game, one might question how much "power" there actually is in that scrap of cloth. "Ach! He caught me with me kilt down!", indeed.

* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: In ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]] II'', she makes a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] when her fighter is damaged and rather than eject, she kamikazes into the Heaven's Gate station. Her death is not brought up afterward, except in a passing reference by Jazz, who wanted revenge on the ''Tiger's Claw'' crew for the death of his brother, and her death seems to exist to facilitate Maverick and Angel getting together.

Thrakhath's toady--youtoady—you know how every villain needs to have ''some''one to talk to, in order to have [[Character Development]]? That's Melek, Prince Thrakhath's senior adviser. After the destruction of Kilrah, he assumes control of the Empire and formally surrenders to Blair; he returns in the fourth game in much the same office.