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'''Andrew Oikonny''', sometimes referred to as just '''Oikonny''', is the nephew of [[Andross]], the main villain of the ''Star Fox'' series. Andrew's surname may be a pun on the word "oink"; in the comic, his uncle Andross had several connections with pigs (his foster parents were pigs, and Andross himself later constructed an android pig named Herbert). |
'''Andrew Oikonny''', sometimes referred to as just '''Oikonny''', is the nephew of [[Andross]], the main villain of the ''Star Fox'' series. Andrew's surname may be a pun on the word "oink"; in the comic, his uncle Andross had several connections with pigs (his foster parents were pigs, and Andross himself later constructed an android pig named Herbert). |
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He is not much of a pilot or a fighter. He is somewhat of a boastful coward. His favorite book is said to be, "''The Apes of Wrath''" (according to his mini-bio in the ''Official Star Fox 64 Player's Guide''). |
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| ⚫ | During the time of the [[Star Fox 64|Lylat Wars]], Oikonny flew for [[Star Wolf (Star Fox)|Star Wolf]], a group of mercenaries hired by Andross to destroy the [[Star Fox team]]. He targeted [[Slippy Toad]] during their encounters. After Andross was thought to be killed, Oikonny left Star Wolf to avenge his uncle's death. |
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| ⚫ | Oikonny has been revealed to have survived his encounter with the Aparoid, as he appears again in ''[[Star Fox Command]]''. He cowardly joined the Anglar Empire (instead of joining his younger cousin, Dash Bowman in the fight against them) and confronts Star Fox in Fichina City piloting the Death Crab. He was soundly defeated in the ensuing battle, though not killed. |
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*Notes: Oikonny and Dash Bowman don't encounter each other in the game (it is currently unknown if Oikonny has ever met his cousin Dash). |
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He and Pigma are the only "members"(former) of Star Wolf who aren't playable in Star Fox: Command. |
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In the Japanese version of [[Star Fox 64]], he is voiced by [[Daisuke Sakaguchi]], who also provides the voices of [[#ROB/NUS 64|ROB/NUS 64]], and [[#Bill Grey|Bill Grey]]. Incidentally, his Japanese voice actor shares the same first name as [[Daisuke Gōri]], who voices his uncle Andross. In the Japanese version of ''[[Star Fox: Assault]]'', he is voiced by [[Yusuke Numata]], and in English, [[John Hugill]]. |
In the Japanese version of [[Star Fox 64]], he is voiced by [[Daisuke Sakaguchi]], who also provides the voices of [[#ROB/NUS 64|ROB/NUS 64]], and [[#Bill Grey|Bill Grey]]. Incidentally, his Japanese voice actor shares the same first name as [[Daisuke Gōri]], who voices his uncle Andross. In the Japanese version of ''[[Star Fox: Assault]]'', he is voiced by [[Yusuke Numata]], and in English, [[John Hugill]]. |
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Template:Spoiler This is a list of characters from the Star Fox series of video games.
Amanda
Amanda is Slippy's fianceé in Star Fox Command. They met prior to the events of Command, and instantly fell in love. Amanda occasionally helps the team out on Aquas, and pilots the Tadpole, armed with a multi-lock. Amanda joins the Star Fox team in one of the endings.
Andrew Oikonny
Andrew Oikonny, sometimes referred to as just Oikonny, is the nephew of Andross, the main villain of the Star Fox series. Andrew's surname may be a pun on the word "oink"; in the comic, his uncle Andross had several connections with pigs (his foster parents were pigs, and Andross himself later constructed an android pig named Herbert).
He is not much of a pilot or a fighter. He is somewhat of a boastful coward. His favorite book is said to be, "The Apes of Wrath" (according to his mini-bio in the Official Star Fox 64 Player's Guide).
During the time of the Lylat Wars, Oikonny flew for Star Wolf, a group of mercenaries hired by Andross to destroy the Star Fox team. He targeted Slippy Toad during their encounters. After Andross was thought to be killed, Oikonny left Star Wolf to avenge his uncle's death.
Nine years later, Oikonny formed a rebellion with Andross's remaining troops against the Cornerian Army. Fox McCloud and the Star Fox team tracked him down to the planet Fortuna, where he was shot down by a large Aparoid.
Oikonny has been revealed to have survived his encounter with the Aparoid, as he appears again in Star Fox Command. He cowardly joined the Anglar Empire (instead of joining his younger cousin, Dash Bowman in the fight against them) and confronts Star Fox in Fichina City piloting the Death Crab. He was soundly defeated in the ensuing battle, though not killed.
- Notes: Oikonny and Dash Bowman don't encounter each other in the game (it is currently unknown if Oikonny has ever met his cousin Dash).
He and Pigma are the only "members"(former) of Star Wolf who aren't playable in Star Fox: Command.
In the Japanese version of Star Fox 64, he is voiced by Daisuke Sakaguchi, who also provides the voices of ROB/NUS 64, and Bill Grey. Incidentally, his Japanese voice actor shares the same first name as Daisuke Gōri, who voices his uncle Andross. In the Japanese version of Star Fox: Assault, he is voiced by Yusuke Numata, and in English, John Hugill.
Aparoid Queen
The Aparoid Queen, living upon the Aparoid Homeworld, was the leader of the Aparoid race, and was presumably the first member of the species. From within the Homeworld, the Queen ruled over the Aparoids like a queen bee over her hive; Beltino Toad determined that if the Queen could be infected with a self-destruct program, then the rest of the Aparoids would die along with her.
The Queen resided in a protective chamber deep within the core of the Homeworld. When confronted by Star Fox, the Queen tried to intimidate the team members via psychological warfare, speaking in the voices of people whom the Aparoids had contact with, including Pigma Dengar, General Pepper, Peppy Hare, ROB 64, and James McCloud . The ruse failed, and Fox infected the Queen with the self-destruct program. The program was initially ineffective, and the Queen fled into the heart of the planet in an attempt to develop an immunity. Star Fox gave chase, weakening the Queen's defenses, which allowed the program to work. After the Queen's death, the program spread throughout the Homeworld, destroying it and all the remaining Aparoids.
Beltino Toad
Beltino Toad is the Research Director for the Cornerian Defense Forces and is also Slippy Toad's father. In the Japanese version of Assault, he is voiced by Hirohiko Kakegawa, and his English voice actor is Scott Burns.
Beltino previously (and may still) worked for Space Dynamics Co. Ltd. as an engineer, and may have been the designer of the Arwing. He and his son also created the Blue Marine vehicle that Star Fox used in Star Fox 64 to explore the planet of Aquas.
Beltino was first mentioned in the Star Fox 64 Player's Guide, but did not make an in-game appearance until Star Fox: Assault.
In Star Fox: Assault, it was Beltino who discovered two things that led to the destruction of the Aparoids: that they could have programs executed in them and that they were susceptible to apoptosis. He then coded a program that activated the apoptosis gene in the Aparoids. The program was carried by Fox McCloud to the Aparoid Homeworld where it was injected into the Aparoid Queen.
Beltino appears again briefly in two of Star Fox Command's mission briefings, giving Fox and the team information of the current situation.
Bill Grey
Bill Grey is featured in Star Fox 64. He is a grey dog who wears a green helmet with a golden arrow pointing downward. His character was likely derived from Miyu in the cancelled Star Fox 2, who has an arrow on her forehead.
Bill's name is likely a satire of the character General William M. Grey from the movie Independence Day. The entire Katina level is a spoof of the climax to this film.
Bill is an old military academy buddy of Fox McCloud's. After Fox left the academy, Bill rose through the ranks and was elected commander of two of Corneria's defensive military squadrons.
The Star Fox team meets up with him shortly in Star Fox 64, and helps to defeat the enemies trying to destroy the Cornerian base (located on Katina). If the player finishes the stage, then Bill will return to assist the team in the next stage, regardless if the mission was accomplished or failed; if the player completes the mission without shooting down any of the friendly Cornerian fighters (which are deceptively similar in color to the camouflaged Venomian fighters), then Bill will comment on Fox's skill as a pilot in a special cutscene.
Bill flies a ship slightly different from the standard Corneria Fighter and appears to have a little more in common with the Arwing. It is more curved at the end of the cockpit area and is white with green wings. The ship has a high armor, yet with enough shots by Fox, his ship can indeed be destroyed (yet he will still say his programmed lines). While all of Bill's teammates can only shoot one laser, he has the twin laser upgrade. At the end of the game the Star Fox team returns from Venom to Corneria. Upon the arrival of Corneria, these ships are seen flying in formation in front of the Great Fox with aerobatic smoke trailing behind them.
Bill makes a return appearance in Star Fox Command, arriving to provide backup for Falco on Katina. He pilots the same ship and is now a playable character. Interestingly, he now seems to speak with a Southern accent, as evidenced by his use of "ya'll" and similar language. This stands in stark contrast to his previous speech pattern from Star Fox 64. He also now sports brown fur.
Dash Bowman
Dash Bowman is a character debuting in Star Fox Command. He is a young pilot for the Cornerian Army, as well as the grandson of Andross. He thinks very highly of Fox and Falco, and wishes to join the Star Fox team.
Despite his grandfather's dark ways, he still thinks highly of his grandfather's forgotten aspirations, and wishes to carry on his legacy of making Lylat a better place. However, Dash's true future remains uncertain. Depending on the paths chosen, he will either join Falco's new team Star Falco, become the new emperor of Venom and start a war, or become the leader of Venom with an unspecified future.
The aircraft Dash pilots is called the Monkey Arrow which has a twin laser and single lock.
Emperor Anglar
Emperor Anglar is the leader of the Anglar race in Star Fox Command. Originating on Venom, he appears as a final boss for several missions, and pilots a large serpent-like creature. In some of the final missions, he becomes a very large angler fish, capable of taking the player's ship into his mouth, similar to what Andross did in Star Fox 64, and also shooting panels out of his mouth like Andross in Star Fox.
Fara Phoenix
Fara Phoenix is from the early stories of the Star Fox series. She does not appear in any of the published games, and was removed from the story altogether when it was revised for Star Fox 64.
Comics
Fara is an anthropomorphic fennec, and it is believed her surname is pronounced "fennecs," though this isn't stated in the comic itself. She appears in a series of comics that was published in Nintendo Power magazine from February to December of 1993.
She is a Cornerian chief test pilot who introduces the Star Fox team to the Arwing spacecrafts. Fara also catches Fox McCloud's eye, and the two frequently tease each other in an ambiguously portrayed relationship.
During the course of the story, Fara provides crucial support for the Star Fox team, and also flies with them on some of their missions. Later, it is revealed that Fara closely resembles Fox's deceased mother, Vixy Reinard.
Star Fox 2
Fara Phoenix is known to have appeared in the early alpha versions of Star Fox 2, but is excluded from the final beta versions that appeared before the game was finally cancelled. In Fara's absence were two new female characters, Miyu and Fay, who were themselves dropped with the cancellation of that game.
Fay
Fay was a character in the cancelled video game Star Fox 2. She does not appear in any other Star Fox titles.
Little is known about Fay, except that she is a dog. Fay is a white poodle with a big pink bow in her hair. Fay replaced a sheep character (gender unknown) from the game's early development. Even earlier in development, Fara Phoenix from the Star Fox comic (called "Lady" in the alpha) and the Andross look-alike "Saru" were in place of Miyu and Fay.
Note that her name is spelled "Fay" directly in the game and both she and Miyu were never given official last names. Dog, Spaniel, and Lynx are simply fan made surnames, with no basis in the actual game.
Fay's Arwing
Fay has an Arwing with red wings that is armed with quick-charging twin lasers and super shields.
General Scales
General Scales is from the 2002 Nintendo GameCube game Star Fox Adventures. Aside from Andross, he is the main villain in the game. He was voiced by John Silke.
Scales' army is the SharpClaw, who carry out his orders. The SharpClaw originally wanted to be the ruling tribe of Sauria (Dinosaur Planet), but were rejected and amassed an army under Scales to overpower the other tribes.
Scales, looking for an easy way to take over Sauria, removed the four Spellstones that kept the planet together, causing chunks of it to break off. Scales then proceeded to take over each of the four pieces that broke off the planet. He enslaved the Snowhorn Tribe on Darkice Mines, revived the evil Redeye tribe on Walled City, began to produce dinosaur mutants on Dragon Rock, and made CloudRunner Fortress his personal stronghold and the only location he and Fox McCloud meet before their final confrontation in the Krazoa Palace.
It is revealed later that Scales carries the last of the Krazoa spirits that Fox was looking for. When Fox was prepared to fight Scales, Andross revealed himself and forced Scales to give the spirit to Fox so he could be revived, stating that Scales was merely just a puppet figure for him. It is unclear whether or not Scales was killed while transferring the spirit to Fox, as a Life-Force Door opened when Scales released the spirit and a SharpClaw soldier was later seen holding up Scales' belt; if he is indeed alive, his whereabouts are unknown.
James McCloud
James McCloud is the father of Fox McCloud and the founder of the Star Fox team. He was betrayed by Pigma Dengar and captured by the evil Andross. Peppy Hare informed James's son about his fate.
He was mentioned twice in the original Star Fox, although not by name. In the briefing before going into the Black Hole, General Pepper mentions that the Black Hole was where Fox's father disappeared. Andross says that Fox's father was a reckless fighter, but this dialogue appears only on the highest difficulty level.
Until Star Fox 64, Fox McCloud's father was not called "James." Some references, such as the comic adaptation published in Nintendo Power, called him Fox McCloud, Sr.
James makes minor appearances in subsequent games. In Star Fox Adventures, four of the Cheat Tokens present messages to Fox, and at least one of them are words of encouragement directly from James himself. Whether or not he wrote the other messages is unknown, but they do relate to personal subjects to Fox, like Andross and saying goodbye to close friends. James also "appears" in Star Fox: Assault. Towards the end, he and some other characters are heard talking, their faces identified in the Comm, thought to be assimilated by the Aparoids. In reality, it's just the Aparoid Queen using the voices to trick Fox.
At the end of Star Fox 64 (depending on if the player fought at Area 6 or Bolse) James helps Fox escape the planet Venom, but then disappears soon afterwards when Fox returns to the Great Fox after the battle with Andross. James is presumed dead, and no one, not even Fox, is quite sure how he guided his son out. Some people think that Fox had some sort of vision of James' "ghost" while others may believe that James might have been able to actually escape Andross. It is also entirely possible that Fox had imagined the whole thing. The exact nature of James' fate is left a complete mystery, but if one watches the closing cutscene closely, a point of light can be seen moving very much against the other background stars, leaving the player to wonder if that was James' Arwing or spirit flying off somewhere.
In Star Fox Command, James is available in single-player mode in the final boss fight against the Anglar Emperor on Venom in the "Dash Makes a Choice" storyline. When he appears, the only person who acknowledges his appearance is Fox, while the rest of the crew are apparently unaware that James has joined the fray. Upon Fox's reaction, the other members of the crew ask him if he sees anything and appear unable to see James himself. Whether this is meant to add to the theory that James's spirit was assisting Fox is unknown. James pilots a standard Arwing, with stats identical to Peppy's and Fox's (as Fox receives a laser upgrade in this mission).
James and Fox look almost identical, although James wears black sunglasses. The two also appear to be wearing the same clothes in Star Fox 64. In Japanese, he is voiced by Tomohisa Aso, who also voices Peppy Hare. In Assault, he is voiced by Jim Walker, who also voices Fox.
F-Zero character
For more information, see List of F-Zero pilots.
There is a character named James McCloud in the F-Zero series of games. While the character is a human, he bears definite resemblance to James and Fox McCloud; he has clothing similar to both Fox and James, has sunglasses similar to James', and his hairstyle comically resembles a pair of fox ears. It also supports identical color: brown with a white streak in the middle.
The F-Zero machine he drives, the Little Wyvern, resembles a wingless Arwing, and in the description was made by a company called Space Dynamics, the same company that made the Arwing. Also, he's a member of mercenary group "Galaxy Dog" (a play on the term Star Fox). The biography also notes he has a young son, and he supports both his wife and son. Nintendo Power referred to it as a joke from developers.
Katt Monroe
Katt Monroe is the cat players first meet in Zoness (Star Fox 64). According to the official Nintendo player's guide for the game, the Cornerian Defense Force considers her to be a nuisance, but they do admit that she has been helpful during the fight against Andross. According to ROB 64's Lylat Datalink for Sector Z in the official guide, "Intel reports state that Katt was once ambushed - and her ship crippled - by an Androssian patrol, and that because of this incident, she has dedicated herself to Andross's defeat."
ROB's Lylat Datalink explains Katt's ship in Star Fox 64, the Catspaw, and its origins. The ship is actually one of Venom's Invader-class interceptors, stolen from one of Andross's bases by Katt when she was working solo against them. When asked about this alleged incident by her close friend, Falco, Katt allegedly replied, "Just be glad I'm on your side, fly boy." The craft has an extremely high velocity and a seemingly indestructible shield. The Catspaw is quadruple winged, and consists of a pink color and a white body. The jet also sparkles as it flies by.
Katt returns along with Bill Grey in Star Fox Command, though she now bears black fur instead of pink and looks very different. She also pilots a new ship, the Catspaw II which features an "curve" laser, and appears in missions with Falco in the Asteroid Belt and Sector X.
According to her profile in Star Fox Command, she wishes to join Star Fox to be close to Falco. Wheather or not this happens is currently unknown.
In Japanese, Katt's voice is done by Kyoko Tongu, who also does Slippy Toad's Japanese voice. In English, she is voiced by Lyssa Browne, who also does Slippy's English voice.
Leon Powalski
Leon Powalski is a fictional chameleon from the Star Fox series. He is a member of Star Wolf and has been ever since his first official appearance in Star Fox 64 (he had previously appeared in the cancelled game Star Fox 2).
He seems to have a grudge against Falco Lombardi, although this is never explored in the games. Also, many fans believe that Leon is an expert in torture, though the only thing in-game that suggests this is one of his taunts in Star Fox 64: "I think I'll torture you for a while," as well as his opening line in Star Fox: Assault: "I think I'll torment you a bit before I cook you." Whatever the cause, Leon typically goes after Falco.
While Wolf O'Donnell is labeled the leader of the Star Wolf team in his profile on the Japanese Star Fox: Assault website, Leon is simply labeled as "killer", possibly indicating that he's some kind of assassin.
Wolf O'Donnell and Leon are the only original members of Star Wolf to remain with Star Wolf in Star Fox: Assault, Pigma and Andrew being the two missing members.
Leon, along with the rest of the current Star Wolf team, appears in the latest game of the series, Star Fox Command for the Nintendo DS. Due to the branching mission paths, his role can differ; in one path, he (along with the rest of Star Wolf) will fight the player once more, but in others he will assist the Star Fox team, and is playable. Despite being on the team for a longer time, the bounty on him is lower than the bounty on Panther Caruso. Leon's ship, a customized Wolfen (called Rainbow Delta) lacks standard lasers, instead having an instantaneous lock-on mode with a very wide range.
It should be noted that Leon shares a similar name with Leon Kowalski, a Replicant from the film Blade Runner.
Leon is voiced by Shinobu Satouchi in Japanese, and along with Pather, David Scully in English.
Lucy Hare
Lucy Hare debuts in Star Fox Command. She is an astrophysics teacher on Fichina, as well as Peppy Hare's only child. She is a bit of a tomboy, but is still very polite to her elders. In some of the missions on Fichina, she fights the Anglar race in her aircraft, the Sky Bunny, armed with Plasma lasers and a single lock.
Marcus McCloud
In one of the endings of Star Fox Command, Fox and Krystal get back together and have a son named Marcus McCloud. Marcus soon enrolls in the Cornerian Flight Academy, and becomes a very skilled pilot, just like his parents. Years later, he forms a new Star Fox team, with the son of Slippy and Amanda Toad, Lucy Hare's daughter, and the aging Falco Lombardi.
However, Marcus is only a hypothetical character, and thus may not actually exist within the series' canon.
Miyu
Miyu was a member of the Star Fox team who appeared in the unreleased Star Fox 2. Early in the development of Star Fox 2, Miyu and Fay's equivalents were Fara Phoenix of the comics and an Andross look-alike called Saru (meaning "Monkey" in Japanese). Miyu is a feline with tufts of hair on his ear, leading fans to believe she is supposed to be a lynx.
Miyu's Arwing
Miyu also flew an Arwing like that of Fox McCloud and the Star Fox team. Miyu's ship was a white arwing with blue colored wings. The ships that Fay and Miyu flew in Star Fox 2 were both equipped with twin lasers. The ships were agile but had low shields which meant that they couldn't take much punishment unlike the General-Purpose Type and the Heavy Assault Type, but had some different sort of built-in shield.
Panther Caruso
Panther Caruso, surname formerly Caroso, and in Japanese, Caluroso, made his debut in Star Fox: Assault as a member of Star Wolf. His symbol is a red rose, with his motto being "All who see my rose meet death!". In the Japanese version of the series he is voiced by Tetsu Inada. His English voice actor in Assault is David Scully, who also voices Leon.
Panther is a flirt, and he considers himself a ladies man. His conceit is so great that those around him are embarrassed. This bothers Wolf and Leon a lot. However, despite this, he is not promiscuous, as he tends to be very faithful in his relationships.
In Star Fox: Assault, he flirted with Krystal, but she either ignored or rejected it depending on where in the game it happens. His first attempt was outside the Sargasso Hideout, the second in Corneria, and the third inside the tunnel leading to the Aparoid Queen.
Panther appears again in Star Fox Command, and has begun a relationship with Krystal, who joined Star Wolf after her break-up with Fox. In Command, Panther can be either an ally or an enemy, depending on the path the player takes. He pilots a ship that looks similar to the Wolfen called the Black Rose, and it is armed with an extremely powerful laser called a Zapper, but lacks a lock-on system.
Panther often refers to himself in the third person.
Pigma Dengar
Pigma Dengar is a fictional pig character in the Star Fox series.
Pigma is an exceptionally greedy character and does not care who he hurts or kills so long as he ends up with a large paycheck in the end.
He first appears as a villain in the never-released Star Fox 2 for the Super Nintendo, as one of the Star Wolf mercenaries sent by the evil Andross to attack the player throughout the course of the game.
He appears again in Star Fox 64, where—as part of a flashback—he is shown to have originally flown for the Star Fox team. Pigma was sent out on a mission together with James McCloud and Peppy Hare to investigate strange activity coming from the planet Venom, which served as the residence of the exiled scientist Andross. Upon their arrival on Venom, Pigma committed treason against Corneria by betraying the Star Fox team and went over to Andross's side. He later joined the villain counterpart of the Star Fox team—Star Wolf. When Star Wolf engages Star Fox, Pigma will attack Peppy if he is in the battle.
As Shigeru Miyamoto states in issue 98 of Nintendo Power magazine, in the Japanese version of Star Fox 64, "Pigma speaks in the Kansai dialect of Japan. In Kansai, people end their sentences with the word 'dengar.' So, it's sort of a Japanese joke."
In Star Fox: Assault, it was revealed that Wolf O'Donnell kicked Pigma off of the Star Wolf due to Pigma's incredible greed. Pigma attempts to control the Aparoids, but instead, is consumed by them, possessing and fusing him with a space station.
Pigma makes an appearance in Star Fox Command. His body is transformed in a square-like like puzzle and he serves as a boss in Sector X and Sector Y.
Pigma is the first character in the series to hold both Star Fox and Star Wolf membership. In Star Fox: Assault, he is voiced by Lev Liberman.
ROB/NUS 64
ROB 64 is the robotic operator of the Great Fox mothership in the Star Fox series. In the Japanese version of the series, he is called NUS 064. "NUS" stands for "Nintendo Ultra Sixty-four," the original name of the Nintendo 64 system, and is part of the serial number of all N64 components: the controller, for example, is NUS-005.
ROB's name is a reference to the NES accessory R.O.B. The 64 is derived from the console of his first appearance, the Nintendo 64.
Although his full name is ROB 64, this is often shortened to just ROB. ROB has the ability to completely control the Great Fox, technically making the ship fully autonomous. It is also networked to the ship's main computers, allowing ROB to process any information requested by the Star Fox team. ROB can also use the ship's transfer device to send vehicles and items to Star Fox team members in the field. In Star Fox Command, ROB reprises a similar role to his previous ones in sending Fox and his teammates new ships and supplies, in addition to manning the missiles of the new Great Fox, eliminating enemies from afar.
ROB has changed in almost every installment.
- Star Fox 64: The player does not see much of ROB except his face. Because of the blocky shape of his head, it might have been inferred that he was somewhat bulky, although that does not appear to be the case.
- Star Fox Adventures: ROB looks somewhat disheveled and fallen into a state of slight disrepair, as does the rest of the Star Fox team. Due to a Supply Transfer Error, ROB scattered all of Fox's Arwing's fuel cells at the outset of the game, forcing Fox to search for them.
- Star Fox: Assault: Again, ROB's appearance mirrors the state of things for the Star Fox team. ROB looks upgraded and better-maintained, as does the Great Fox itself.
- Star Fox Command: ROB looks the same as he did in Assault, but has more of a human-like personality, showing a sometimes sarcastic persona.
ROB was nearly destroyed in Star Fox: Assault when Peppy Hare crashed the Great Fox into the shield protecting the entrance to the Aparoid Queen's lair, but Peppy and ROB managed to find an escape pod before the ship was destroyed.
ROB's English voice actor in Assault is Dex Manley.
SharpClaw
The SharpClaw are a fictional race of bipedal (two-legged) dinosaurs in the Star Fox: Adventures video game, led by General Scales and are one of the main antagonists of the game.
They are highly militant in nature, commonly seen wearing various types of armor and carrying either a spiked club or a twin-bladed axe, some even carrying a shield. They also vary in color and size; most being roughly as tall as Fox McCloud while some are nearly twice his size and come in yellow, blue, green, and a pale grey-green variety. They are also the most anthropomorphic dinosaur species on Dinosaur Planet, the result of mutation due to strange energies in their homeland of Moon Mountain Pass.
Despite constant efforts, they had failed time and again in their efforts to seize power and rule Dinosaur Planet, being thwarted by the other tribes at every turn until Andross arrived and lent them his technological prowess in return for them aiding him in ressurecting his physical form. Despite carrying out his orders without question, it could be argued that the SharpClaw have at least some degree of animosity towards General Scales, as they are seen celebrating when he is overthrown at the end of Star Fox: Adventures. This is most likely because he was a brutal leader, in one scene grabbing a soldier as a human (technically SharpClaw) shield while under fire from Fox.
In Star Fox: Assault, the SharpClaw suffered catastophic losses at the hands of the invading Aparoids, their primitive technology being no match for the Aparoids' superior abilities.
Tricky
Tricky is an EarthWalker (or a triceratops) from the planet Sauria and serves as Fox McCloud's companion in Star Fox Adventures. In this game, Tricky performs different tasks for Fox when fed GrubTubs (little blue mushroom-like food). He can open small caves and act as a flamethrower, among other abilities. He acts as the comic relief of the game.
During the time of Star Fox Adventures, Tricky was a prince; he is the son of the King and Queen of the EarthWalker tribe. He accompanies Fox to save his imprisoned father.
Tricky's abilities in Star Fox Adventures
- Find secret: Tricky could uncover something by digging or something else with this ability.
- Stay: Tricky stays somewhere and doesn't follow Fox as usual.
- Call Tricky: Fox can summon Tricky if he has lost him, or previously ordered him to stay.
- Flame: Similar to a flamethrower. It can melt ice and set things on fire. If Fox hits Tricky too many times, Tricky will use this on him.
- Play: Fox can buy Tricky a ball in the shop in order to play fetch with him. Playing with Tricky causes him to change colors.
Other appearances
A triceratops named Tricky appeared in Diddy Kong Racing, a game that came out several years before Star Fox Adventures. Although it is debatable if this is the same character. Both games were developed by Rare.
His official second appearance is in Star Fox: Assault. Tricky has physically matured, and is now the King of the EarthWalker tribe. After Fox and Krystal save his kingdom from the aparoids, he promises to help repair Sauria.
He was voiced by Kevin Bayliss in Star Fox Adventures, and Chet Morgan in Star Fox: Assault.
Tricky played the same role in the cancelled Dinosaur Planet as he did in Starfox Adventures except, of course, he was aiding Sabre in his quest.
Vixy Reinard
Vixy Reinard is a fictional character in the Nintendo Power comic series. Her name is a pun on the words "vixen" and "reynard", both of which refer to foxes (though the term "vixen" is specific to females.) She is only in the early comics.
Andross had either previously dated or had desires to date Vixy prior to her meeting with James. After Vixy had fallen in love with James and had given birth to their son (Fox), Andross was driven into a jealous rage during which he planted a bomb on James's car. Unfortunately for James, Vixy, and Andross, it was Vixy who got in the car, detonating the bomb. She was killed in the blast.
Near the end of the comic story, one of Andross's two clones (Andross was killed earlier in the story) mistook Fara Phoenix for Vixy and admitted to her over a PA system from one of his flagships to killing Vixy. Fox McCloud hears this and then flies into a rage, destroying the flagship as well as the Dancing Insector.
Zazan
Zazan is Emperor Anglar's right-hand man in Star Fox Command. He appears as a boss in some of the missions of the game, and as a result, is killed in some of the game's outcomes. His ship, like the Star Wolf team in the game, is at times fairly hard to get a decent shot at due to his evasiveness.
References
- Nintendo Power Star Fox comic
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