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| - The first game, in 1993. So overshadowed by Star Fox 64 in 1997 that some fans don't even know there were Star Fox games or stories before that. File:Star Fox team collage 2140.jpg Star FoxスターフォックスSutā-Fokkusu The team of heroes after whom the series is named. Most of its members were originally trained at the Cornerian Flight Academy, but the team itself are privately-run paramilitary mercenaries. The team roster has featured the following changes:
* In the Super NES canon:
* Fox McCloud Sr. and Peppy Hare feature in the backstory, but the first team to be called Star Fox featured Fox McCloud Jr., Falco Lombardi, Peppy Hare, and Slippy Toad. In the comics, Fara Phoenix also became a full member early on.
* Star Fox 2 featured Miyu and Fay, with Fara's likeness only featuring in an early beta of the game.
* In the Nintendo 64 canon:
* The original (unplayable backstory) team was made up of James McCloud, Peppy Hare, and Pigma Dengar.
* In an event of sabotage, James was lost and Pigma defected to Andross.
* The second incarnation of the team was led by James's son Fox McCloud, and featured Falco Lombardi, Peppy Hare, and Slippy Toad. ROB-64 was the operator of the Great Fox.
* Peppy retired from being a pilot after Star Fox 64, but remained on the Great Fox as backup.
* Falco left the team in Farewell Beloved Falco.
* Krystal joined in Adventures. Tricky is counted as an honorary member, but never leaves Sauria to join the Great Fox. Falco rejoined at the end of Adventures.
* Peppy retired full-time after Assault, and Krystal was kicked out. Lucy Hare and Amanda are de facto members of the team during Command, and Amanda formally joins in one of its endings.
* In a possible future, the team is made up of Marcus McCloud, Falco Lombardi, Lucy's daughter, and Slippy's son.
* Ace Pilot: All of them.
* Badass
* Badbutt
* Big Damn Heroes: The Star Fox team is doing that on the Corneria level, and a couple other levels too.
* Scarf of Asskicking: At least some of the team wears the team's trademark neck scarf in assorted colors, in every game of the franchise except Assault. File:Fox McCloud collage 4406.jpg Fox McCloudフォックス・マクラウドFokkusu Makuraudo Fox is the main character of all of the Star Fox games and the leader of the Star Fox team. He used to butt heads with Falco quite a bit, but tensions seem to have died down in later games, and they are close friends and merely friendly rivals. His true rival and Worthy Opponent is Wolf O'Donnell, his nemesis is Andross.
* Ace Pilot
* Art Shift: Does Fox have blue or green eyes? That depends on what game you're looking at. They appear to have settled on green, but interestingly, in an early promo art for Assault, they appeared to be both.
* Battle Couple: Krystal accompanies him for the ground based missions on Sauria and the Aparoid Homeworld during Assault
* Berserk Button: In the Nintendo Power comic, after Fox discovers that Andross was the sole reason he became an orphan (see Conveniently an Orphan below), Fox is sent into a fit of Unstoppable Rage and he single-handedly destroys Andross's flying ship base.
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* He also hated being called "Junior" in the comic.
* Big No: When Fox is shot down, one of his teammates invokes this.
* That, or Scream My Name in Japanese version.
* Conveniently an Orphan: His dad was killed by Andross (most likely). And one of the old Nintendo Power comics reveals Andross (accidentally) killed his mother as well. According to the original, his dad is lost in the Black Hole because of Andross.
* Cool Old Guy: Fox in one of the endings in Command, in which he's seen sporting sunglasses like his father and a goatee.
* Cool Shades: In Expert mode in 64.
* Also in one of Command's endings, featuring him with Krystal and their son, Marcus.
* Cunning Like a Fox
* Cutscene Incompetence: In Adventures, Fox is faced with the Big Bad in a cutscence and takes ten shots at him with his fire-blasting staff. He misses all ten shots. He even fails to hit the Mook that the Big Bad attempted to use as a Dino Shield. This coming from an Ace Pilot, and if dialogue is an indication, a crack shot with personal weapons as well. Also occurs repeatedly in Assault; typically, Pigma's ship gets away because Fox has to do something else or is distracted. The script tends to forget the three other members of the team at such times.
* Deadpan Snarker: Seems to be a bit of his characterization in Assault.
* Everyone Can See It: Fox tries to keep his affection towards Krystal under wraps in Adventures and Assault. Not that it makes any difference, since all of his teammates know him too well, ROB has a way of putting it out in the open, and others like Tricky assumed they were already together.
* Generation Xerox: Probably the reason James is always shown wearing shades and Fox never does -- without them, father and son look exactly the same.
* Happily Married: One of Command's endings has him as this with Krystal.
* 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.
* I Am X, Son of Y: Before Star Fox 64, when Fox's father was officially renamed James, Fox's father was named Fox McCloud (or "Fox Sr."), and Fox himself was Fox McCloud Jr. (or "Fox Jr.").
* It's Not You, It's My Enemies: His reason for kicking Krystal off Star Fox prior to 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 Assault and Command, he's a generally middle-of-the-road character when it comes to stats.
* Legacy Character: His father James led the original Star Fox team, and one ending of Command has his son Marcus leading a new incarnation of it in the future.
* Like Father, Like Son
* Name McAdjective
* Not Allowed to Grow Up: In the SNES game, Fox was officially 25 years old. In the 64 Continuity Reboot, he was 18 years old. He aged normally in the sequels of 64, though.
* Official Couple: Currently this with Krystal.
* Parental Abandonment: Fox's parents, James and Vixy, are both gone. Vixy is dead, and James is a disembodied voice and occasional Space Whale.
* Putting the Band Back Together: He has to do this about every other game.
* Real Men Wear Pink: In the Super NES games, Fox's pilot scarf was bright pink. It was changed to red in Star Fox 64.
* Rescue Romance: His relationships with both of his official love interests' began by him saving their lives.
* 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).
* Screw the Money, I Have Rules: In stark contrast to Falco's greed, Fox always practices the Robin Hood credo, and is unconcerned with becoming rich. That is not to say Fox doesn't enjoy luxuries now and then.
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* And it's not like he ever doesn't bill General Pepper for Star Fox's services.
* Hell, in Adventures, he spends a lot of time complaining that he's not getting paid nearly enough for what he's doing. What exactly is the game in which Fox seems to have anything other than mercenary purposes? He definitely seems to be about the cash, even if he's, y'know, nice about it.
* Well sure, you still have to put food on the table. Similar issues in episode plots of Cowboy Bebop come to mind. It probably takes an assload of cash just to maintain the Great Fox (not to mention their expensive Arwings), which is especially worrisome when business is slow, and it is implied that the Great Fox was in severe disrepair by the time of the game. In Farewell Beloved Falco, they were all practically living on that ship in deep space, and spent a lot of boring days playing video games (labelled as training). That's also not even getting into the issue of how Fox, after inheriting the Great Fox from his father, also ends up having to pay the remainder of his dad's eighty year loan that his father got simply by getting the ship. However, in the older comic where Fox's credo came up, they weren't in the Great Fox, but in their Papetoon Rebel Hideout underneath a tree in the desert, where cost of living may have been less expensive.
* She Is Not My Girlfriend: Once in Assault relating to Krystal. Tricky assumes that Fox and Krystal are already a couple and promises to keep Sauria intact until they can come back on their honeymoon. Fox unfortunately phrases his response in a way that makes it clear that even though they aren't, he does want them to be, causing much embarrassment until he can change the subject.
* Technicolor Eyes/Brown Eyes/Blue Eyes/Green Eyes/Green Is Blue: Fox was shown having brown eyes in the title screen of the original Star Fox, then blue eyes in the Itoh comic (though inconsistently green or blue in the first chapter), in Star Fox 2 and in Super Smash Bros Melee. Since Farewell and Adventures, Fox has had green eyes, which he's had ever since, except for one promotional Assault artwork where he appears to have both blue and green eyes (fading from one color to the other in the same iris, no less!). But since the green eyes became fixed, they have usually been some of the nicest hue of green imaginable. Green eyes of course exist in reality, but it's not often you see someone with such a penetrating emerald color.
* Trigger Happy: Some dialogue in Adventures implies that he's like this (specifically General Pepper forbidding him from taking a blaster to his first Sauria mission and shooting everything in sight to solve his problems, requiring him to find a different, yet suitable weapon for the circumstances), but so far it's been an Informed Attribute. File:Falco Lombardi collage 6485.jpg Falco Lombardiファルコ・ランバルディFaruko Ranbarudi Falco is something of a loose cannon for the Star Fox team. He doesn't play well with others, and seems to only go along with the team for financial reasons, though deep down he realises what is usually at stake and will do what is right. He used to butt heads with Fox, leading to a falling out before Adventures, but by Assault, he seems to have warmed up to him, and they are simply friendly rivals. Falco is the best pilot on the team or at least easily Fox's equal, with the best Arwing stats in Assault and a specialized Sky Claw vehicle in Command.
* 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 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
* Ambiguously Gay/Incompatible Orientation: We don't know for an absolute certainty whether he's gay or Asexuality -- just that he's not into any girls, ever. He was also vague in whether his solo nature is attributable to this, or vice versa. It doesn't really help that the canonical Farewell Beloved Falco was Japan-only and it only materialized in English online as an obscure low-resolution Scanlation.
* All There in the Manual: The manga Farewell Beloved Falco explains his absence for most of 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 Adventures.
* Badass
* Badbutt: "Now it's our turn to kick some tail!"
* Big Badass Bird of Prey
* Bishonen: In Adventures and in Assault, but not so much in the SNES games or its comics, or in Star Fox 64, Farewell Beloved Falco, or Star Fox Command. It really depends on the artist.
* Brooklyn Rage: He's got the accent, Italian-sounding last name, and he's even a former gang member.
* The Cavalry: He shows up out of nowhere in Adventures to help with the final boss fight.
* Character Development: His relationship with Fox improves considerably from 64 to Assault.
* Chekhov MIA: In Star Fox Adventures.
* Cool Old Guy: In one of the endings of Command, Falco serves this role, playing mentor to Fox's son Marcus just as Peppy was Fox's mentor. And like Fox above, Falco wears awesome sunglasses.
* Deadpan Snarker
* Everything's Better with Chickens: In the Nintendo Power comics, Falco notes that he has a cousin who's a chicken.
* Feather Fingers
* Fragile Speedster: In Command, his ship has the highest boost, but one of the lowest health ratings.
* Fake Defector: Subverted in Farewell Beloved Falco: He neither betrayed Star Fox nor even faked betrayal when he fought Fox, as it turns out that the "Androssian rebels" were actually Katt Monroe and her gang (not to mention his former gang), the Hot Rodders, and the only reason Star Fox fought against them was because they were manipulated by Captain Shears.
* I Work Alone: He's a bit of a loner, meaning he seems to leave the team every other game only to come back later.
* Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite mocking some of his teammates constantly, he seems to genuinely care about their well-being.
* The instruction manual for Assault even states that he considers the team his family.
* The Lancer
* Midnight Blue Eyes
* 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 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.
* Only in It For the Money: Particularly in the comic, Falco seems ever-concerned with opportunities to get rich. This is particularly annoying to Fox.
* 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. "Lombardi" was a mistranslation. Japan media for Star Fox 1 romanized the name as "Lambardi", before "Lombardi" was settled upon in localization.
* Stop Helping Me!: A rare example of this happening to an NPC. "Go find your own target, Fox!" He did this in the Super NES game too. "Mind your own business, Fox!"
* Toothy Bird: Not seen in the games, but has been seen in every comic thus far, including the Nintendo Power comics and Farewell Beloved Falco. Whether Falco has teeth or not seems to depend on the artist more than comics vs. games.
* Troubled but Cute
* Tsundere: Especially in the original comic. Falco is deeply loving toward Fox, even while beating the shit out of him.
* Vocal Evolution: Japanese voice only: His voice is much deeper now than it was in 64. File:Peppy Hare collage 2844.jpg Peppy Hareペッピー・ヘアPeppī Hea Peppy is the last remaining member of the original Star Fox team, and was a good friend of James McCloud. He acts as young Fox's mentor in 64 and as a senior member of the team in later games. By Command, he has left the team and become a general in the Cornerian Army.
* Badass Grandpa: He's playable in Command and shows that he's still capable of flying an Arwing despite his age.
* Baka: In Farewell Beloved Falco, this is Peppy's reaction to Fox and Falco fighting each other in their Arwings.
* Star Fox 64's Japanese version has him say this if you shoot at him.
* Beware the Nice Ones
* Big Brother Mentor: Like this to Fox in the Super NES canon before the Continuity Reboot.
* Cool Old Guy
* Do a Barrel Roll: Star Fox 64 is the Trope Namer, and it was one of Peppy's signature phrases.
* Happily Married: From what little is gathered of it, he used to be this with Vivian, before she died.
* Heroic Sacrifice / Disney Death: In Star Fox Assault, Peppy ends up sacrificing the Great Fox, and himself in the process, by ramming the Great Fox (which was gradually being aparoidized by the Aparoids) into the shields of the Aparoid Homeworld's core in order to allow the rest of his team entry. Turns out, he survived by using the Great Fox's bridge as an escape pod.
* It Has Been an Honor: He essentially tells his teammates this during the penultimate level (which is also before he ended up nearly sacrificing himself as well as sacrificing the Great Fox by kamikazing it into the shield generator).
* The Obi-Wan
* 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 64 Continuity Reboot, Peppy was made 41 years old, a full generation older than 18-year old Fox, and was rewritten more as a Parental Substitute to orphaned Fox. Then, in the sequels to 64, when everyone was allowed to age normally, Peppy started to really show his age, becoming quite old-looking by Command.
* Species Surname
* Team Dad: Generally a kinder, more egalitarian version of this. Fox is still the leader, after all. But heaven help you if you're being a total idiot, a notable example being the aftermath of Fox's dogfight with Falco.
* Although when he learned the reason why Fox got into the dogfight with Falco in the first place, he became disturbed.
* Ten-Minute Retirement: It doesn't take much to convince him to get back in the cockpit.
* Until Farewell Beloved Falco, when suddenly a 45-year old man insists he's "too old" to pilot the Landmaster, and insists that Slippy do it.
* Tsundere: Peppy can often be kind, friendly, and even fun-loving, but his angry moments can paint the walls.
* You Remind Me of X: Fox reminds him of James. File:Slippy Toad collage 4452.jpg Slippy Toadスリッピー・トードSurippī Tōdo Slippy is the youngest member of the Star Fox team (months younger than Fox), and the one most likely to get into trouble. He prefers mechanical work to actual flying, as his father is the head of the Cornerian government's R&D department.
* Adult Child: He's the same age as Fox, but he has a high pitched voice, gets into trouble constantly, and has little adaptive talent. He could pass for a 7-year old.
* Brainwashed and Crazy: In one plotline in Command, Slippy ended up brainwashed by Octoman into fighting against Fox and Amanda.
* Cloudcuckoolander: Some of his lines in Assault paint him this way, especially when he looks at the menacing Aparoid base and remarks about how tasty it looks (as well as angrily ask if the Aparoids have ever heard of windows in one conversation).
* Cross-Dressing Voices: In all of the Japanese versions of the games, and in the English version of 64, which lead to Western fans infamously mistaking him for a girl. He's voiced by a man in all of the other English versions, though (although Peppy's line at the ending of the Titania level establishes that Slippy is indeed male ["I'm sure he's [Slippy] learned his lesson."]).
* In the SNES games, Slippy actually has the second lowest voice of all the main characters -- an unmistakable Simlish baritone, with only Falco's bass voice being lower in pitch.
* Distressed Dude: Slippy has been kidnapped no less than four times in official works:
* First in the original comic, he was kidnapped by a lizardman mechanic in a hangar on Titania, and taken to Andross's base on Fortuna. But he was eventually able to free himself then with the help of his Utility Necklace).
* Then in 64 (after the Continuity Reboot), after being shot down towards Titania and then nearly in the jaws of Goras, in the Landmaster. He needs to be rescued by Fox.
* And then in Farewell Beloved Falco, Slippy is piloting the Landmaster on Titania, and recalls how he was kidnapped there before in the same situation. Then he's kidnapped again, this time by the Goras and Captain Shears, and Fox has to rescue him again.
* One path of Command had him possessed by the enemy, and Fox also had to free him then.
* Assault is the only game (or work in general, for that matter) where he doesn't get kidnapped (or shot down in the case of 64, shot down and nearly eaten, or in the case of Command, brainwashed).
* Enemy Scan: Slippy does this for you in most games against bosses, allowing you to see the enemy's shields/HitPoints.
* Establishing Character Moment: In 64, seconds after gameplay begins, he goes off on his own and a fighter begins chasing him.
* Frogs and Toads
* Gadgeteer Genius: It runs in the family, considering his father's knack for inventions. The two worked together on the Blue Marine according to the guide for 64.
* Go Out with a Smile: ...sort of. If you kill Slippy in Assault's Multiplayer mode, he dies face-up, still smiling a dumb, open-mouthed smile. It's actually pretty hilarious.
* When he's shooting on the ground in general, he smiles said stupid smile.
* Gratuitous English: In the Japanese versions of 64 and Assault, saving Slippy during the flight missions usually results him in saying "Thank-you, Fox!" in English.
* Innocent Blue Eyes
* James Bondage: Slippy keeps getting kidnapped, all three times on Titania (well, technically only two, see the 64 example).
* His first time was in the Benimaru Itoh comic, though he was whisked away to Fortuna to be Andross's prisoner there. Unlike the subsequent kidnappings, Slippy frees himself by revealing that the beads in his necklace actually contain knock-out gas and grenades.
* His second time was in 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 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.
* Like Father, Like Son: Though the similarities between father and son are applied somewhat differently. His father Beltino is a geeky, stuttering, absent-minded inventor of ships and weaponry (though no indication is given he's the type whose been in a fight), whereas Slippy is a geeky, mostly non-stuttering, occasionally absent-minded inventor and operator of ships and weaponry.
* Mighty Glacier: In 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.
* Nice Hat
* Nice Guy
* Not Allowed to Grow Up: Averted. He gets visibly older in between the games, and gets married at the end of Command.
* Also, unlike Fox, Falco and Peppy, Slippy's age doesn't radically change between the SNES version (where he was 19 years old) and the 64 Continuity Reboot which made him 18 and only slightly younger than Fox.
* Playful Hacker: His hacking skills are the main reason to keep him alive. Otherwise, you can't see enemy health gauges.
* Ridiculously Cute Critter
* The Smart Guy
* Species Surname
* Utility Necklace: Before Star Fox 64, Slippy always wore a trademark bead necklace that actually had secret uses, including as sleeping gas and explosives.
* Vocal Evolution: Japanese vocals only: His voice is far less feminine now than it was in 64. File:Fara Phoenix collage 6906.jpg Fara Phoenixファラ・フェニックスFara Fenikkusu Fara was introduced in the comic series for the Super NES game, and besides a brief Cameo in an early beta of Star Fox 2, she never made another official appearance, and didn't appear in Star Fox 64 onwards.
* 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.
* Daddy's Girl
* 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: ...Cameltoe.
* Green Eyes
* Identical Stranger: Fara looks just like Fox's dead mother Vixy, to the point of being virtually indistinguishable from her when she puts on one of Vixy's dresses (in spite of the two being different species no less; Fara is a Fennec Fox, whilst Vixy is a Red Fox). Even Andross confuses Fara for Vixy, which causes him to become sentimental and delusional, and apologize on loudspeaker for the Accidental Murder of Vixy that no one else knew he'd committed.
* Ojou
* Pink Means Feminine: Fara had a pink jumpsuit, and even her personal Arwing was pink when all the others were white.
* Rescue Romance: Implied with Fox at the very least. Fox (and Slippy) save her from getting her head blown off by one of Andross's lizard troopers (attempting to use her as a hostage), he later stops his team from opening fire on her ship when she shows up during a training exercise, and then when they enter real combat, when her Arwing goes down Fox manages to catch her ejected cockpit mid-air with his, before it crashes into the ground below. The second and third saves are commented upon.
* Shallow Love Interest: Averted. Though Fox and Fara appear to have some potential signs of chemistry, they never seem to explore any kind of relationship. Probably just as well, since she looks just like Fox's mother, which would make it almost like Parental Incest.
* The Sixth Ranger: Fara was a full member of the Star Fox team in the comic.
* The Smurfette Principle
* Static Character: Even compared to the rest of the cast.
* Species Surname / Punny Name: "Phoenix" is pronounced "fennecs". File:James McCloud collage 5371.jpg James McCloudジェームズ・マクラウドJēmuzu Makuraudo PreviouslyFox McCloud Sr.フォックス・シニアFokkusu Shinia Fox's father and the leader of the original Star Fox team. He was betrayed by Pigma and killed by Andross. Or was he?
* Ace Pilot
* Adaptation Dye Job: Depicted as looking exactly like Fox with sunglasses in later games, even though close examination of images of him in 64 indicate he had a darker shade of fur than his son.
* Blue Eyes: In the 1993 comic. Since then, all official artwork of his face has obscured his eyes with those shades.
* Cool Shades
* Disappeared Dad: Although he tends to show up as a ghost/hallucination in a few games, or is he still alive?
* According to the Nintendo Power comic, he was at ground zero of the sabotage that created the Black Hole, but tells Fox (while riding in on a Space Whale) that he's become part of a different parallel dimension.
* Divergent Character Evolution: No longer just Fox wearing Sunglasses, now he's Fox wearing sunglasses and a yellow scarf!
* Hot Dad
* Name's the Same: Not to be confused with the character from F-Zero X, though that character is a blatant Expy/ShoutOut to this one.
* Never Found the Body: In 64. But in the SNES games and comics, he has become a transdimensional Space Whale!
* Retcon: Before Star Fox 64, James's name was Fox McCloud Sr.
* Secret Character: In Command.
* Space Whale: In both the Super NES game and comic, this is the only way he can reappear from his dimensional exile.
* Spirit Advisor
* Strong Family Resemblance: Fox is very similar in appearance to his father; it seems his signature streak of hair on his head was even inherited from James.
* Sunglasses At Night: James is never seen without them in the games, except for the scene in Sector Y in the original VideoGame/StarFox (he'll only appear if you're lucky) in which he not only did not have sunglasses, but he was a Space Whale.
* Talking to Himself: In 64 and Assault, Fox and James (the Aparoid-absorbed memories of him in the latter game, anyway) are portrayed by the same voice actors, Mike West and Jim Walker (per each game, respectively).
* Wham! Line: Don't ever give up, my son. File:VixyReinardMcCloud 7224.jpg Vixy Reinard McCloud James's wife and Fox's mother from the comic, who was killed in a car bomb when Fox was little. Her killer was Andross, who had fallen in love with Vixy and intended to kill James, but Vixy was killed by mistake.
* Animal Theme Naming: Her first name "Vixy" alludes to "vixen", which is a term for a female fox. Also Species Surname, see below.
* Canon Dis Continuity: Vixy has made no appearance, nor received any mention in the post-64 continuity. That said however, Fox is an orphan, meaning he obviously had a mother at some point whom perished so he could be left to be raised primarily by his father, and her character is one that can very easily fit into both continuities, with essentially no real changes to her character backstory across either one.
* Death By Origin Story
* Hot Mom: She was referred to as being very beautiful. Her death was even a result of Andross's lust for her.
* Missing Mom
* Murder by Mistake: Andross planted a car bomb intended for James. Unfortunately, Vixy used James's car to get to work on that day, and she was killed when it was automatically set off.
* Posthumous Character
* Punny Name: Vixy's name comes from "Vixen", which is a term for a female fox.
* Her last name comes from the "Reynard Cycle", a medieval French book about the adventures of a clever fox named Reynard (fr: Renart). The book was so popular in the Middle Ages that it gave its name to the animal ("Renard" is French for fox). In-universe, going with the concurring theme of being named after one's species, it may provide a reason for why Fox received his name.
* Species Surname: Her maiden name "Reinard" is close to "renard", the French word for fox. File:General Pepper collage 1444.jpg General Pepperペパー将軍Pepā-shōgun The head of the Cornerian army in every Star Fox game, until he retired in Command and was replaced by Peppy. He debriefs the team before each mission. In Assault, his ship was attacked by Aparoids and assimilated. He is the boss of the Corneria stage.
* Cool Old Guy: Averted for the most part, not that he didn't try.
* Cool Shades: In the Super NES games.
* I Cannot Self-Terminate: In Assault.
* Last-Name Basis: In a series where most characters are routinely referred to by their first names, Pepper is a rare character who is known only by his last name. We don't even know what his first name is.
* Put on a Bus: Becomes ill by the time of 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
* Shout-Out or Parental Bonus: His name and uniform come straight from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The origin of his name even gets a Lampshade Hanging in the Nintendo Power comic.
* Sigil Spam: Posters with his face on them are everywhere in 64. File:Andross collage 2254.jpg AndrossアンドルフAndorufu The main enemy of Star Fox. A maniacial scientist whose experiments nearly destroyed all of the Lylat System and because of this, was banished to Venom.
* Back From the Dead: Thrice! The first time via Cloning Blues. Secondly by attempting to become the Physical God of Sauria. Thirdly, a hologram programmed with his personality and claiming to be Andross' "ghost" appears in Command. Whew!
* Badass Beard
* Badass Grandpa: Considering the white hair that makes up his aforementioned beard as well as the fact that he is literally a grandpa, he's clearly older than most of his enemies.
* Big Bad: Of the original game and 64 as well as Adventures. He also pulls a posthumous Man Behind the Man in 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. 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.
* Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In reference to his accidental murder of Vixy:
* 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 they turn on him.
* Cloning Blues: Andross was cloned in both the Super NES comic and in Farewell Beloved Falco.
* In the Super NES comic, two clones of Andross were made after he was killed. But the clones turned out not to be completely identical (besides being dressed in different colors), with one clone more sentimental and the other clone more evil. One clone publically apologizes for killing Vixy, and the eviler clone quickly kills him for not being pure evil.
* 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 64. Second was Shears and his Cloning Blues bid. Third was that little incident on Sauria, which allowed his spirit to linger and in Adventures nearly resulted in him being reborn as a Physical God. Fourth was his "ghost" (a hologram programmed with his personality) which surfaces in Command.
* The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: In Command, some misions have Krystal suggest that he wasn't quite as evil initially. She mentions that he was looking for ways to terraform 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.
* Depending on the Artist: Andross either has gray or purple hair, depending on the game.
* Disc One Final Boss: The robot Andross in the easy path of 64.
* Engineered Public Confession: Except not intentionally engineered. In the Super NES comic, when Andross's two clones attack Papetoon, Andross (the good clone) sees Fara in the crowd and thinks she's Vixy. On loudspeaker, he proceeds to apologize to her for Vixy's Accidental Murder many years prior. It's not even Fox or Vixy who exacts revenge by killing him either, but his evil clone due to the good clone not being evil enough.
* Evil Genius
* Evil Overlooker: In the intro to 64.
* Evilutionary Biologist: A good number of the bosses in 64 are biological weapons that Andross had a hand in creating. Before the events of the games, he worked with the Cornerian military in developing them (with General Pepper suspicious of his motives). In fact, the prime reason for his banishment was unleashing one on Corneria's capital city, resulting in an explosion that almost entirely destroyed it.
* The Anglars in Command are implied to be his creations as well.
* The Exile: It didn't take.
* Eyes of Gold: Andross's eyes since the reboot.
* Freudian Excuse: In the Super NES comic, Andross explains that he loves robot pigs like Herbert because he was an orphan who was raised by robot pig parents, but they were destroyed by a Cornerian bomb test.
* Giant Hands of Doom
* Hijacked by Ganon: Manipulating General Scales in Adventures.
* Hominids Are Bastards
* Incredibly Lame Pun: "Only I have the brains to rule Lylat."
* Kubrick Stare
* Mad Scientist
* The Man Behind the Monsters / The Chessmaster: With the exception of Assault, pretty much every threat in the series, if it isn't Andross, had some ties to Andross: In Farewell Beloved Falco, a renegade Cornerian Officer named Captain Shears attempted to revive Andross via Cloning. In Adventures, he manipulated General Scales and his Sharpclaw Army into doing his bidding, and in Command, it is implied that he was the one who created the Anglar Race in one of the scenarios.
* Maniac Monkeys
* Mind Over Matter: Andross in the original Star Fox uses telekinesis as a weapon.
* Murder the Hypotenuse: In the Nintendo Power comic based on the Super NES game, this was what he intended to do to James because he was in love with his wife Vixy. But it didn't go as planned, and Vixy was killed by mistake.
* 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.
* One-Winged Angel: The giant brain in 64.
* Only One Name: Though his nephew and grandson have both a first and last name.
* Punny Name: Andros(s) is Greek meaning "of a man". As a primate, he is the closest to human the series gets.
* Stalker with a Crush/Villainous Crush: Heavily implied to be this for Vixy Reinard McCloud, to such an extent that he was willing to kill her husband and child, just so he could have her. It didn't go as well as he planned.
* Taking You with Me: Quotes this trope verbatim in 64.
* Telekinesis: Implied to be how he can control his hands and otherwise keep his head and brain levitated in the air.
* Teleportation Has briefly demonstrated to ability to do this, though unlike the telekinesis, this is apparently, an ability gained via using technology, rather than the experiments he performed on his body.
* Virtual Ghost: Holograms of him appear in Command claiming to be the ghost of Andross.
* You Killed My Father: He was implied to have killed James McCloud when Pigma betrayed him, earning him Fox's bitter enmity, along with the additional crime of having unintentionally killed Fox's mother, Vixy years prior (at least as far as the Nintendo Power comic goes). In addition, it is implied shortly after Krystal is imprisoned by him that he was the reason why Cerinia, Krystal's homeworld, was destroyed.
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