List of Star Fox characters

250px|thumb|right|The Star Fox team from [[Star Fox: Assault (2005); from left to right, Slippy Toad, Fox McCloud, Falco Lombardi and Krystal.]]

Star Fox is a series of spaceship shooter games published by Nintendo. The main protagonist and player character of the series is Fox McCloud, the leader of Star Fox, a team of anthropomorphic animals in the Lylat planetary system. Gameplay involves control of futuristic aircraft called Arwings, as well as other vehicles and combat on foot.

According to programmer Dylan Cuthbert, several names of animals were used in the names of the characters whenever the development team believed they, for those characters, "[sounded] good".

Star Fox

or Team Star Fox, is a band of adventurers-for-hire often employed by General Pepper. The team is headed by Fox McCloud. Star Fox 64 fills in the background of the team: at its founding, it was composed of James McCloud, Peppy Hare, and Pigma Dengar, who later betrays the team and sides with Andross. Peppy later retires from active flight duty shortly before Star Fox: Assault and was essentially replaced by Krystal, Fox's love interest. The team's primary aircraft is the Arwing, their land craft is the Landmaster, and the team's mothership is known as the Great Fox. The team is made up of Fox McCloud, Falco Lombardi, Krystal, Slippy Toad, and Peppy Hare.

Fox McCloud

is a red fox, the main character of the series, the leader of the team, and James McCloud's son. Fox wears a green suit. When he hears about his father's disappearance, he drops out of the Corneria Defense Force. At the start of the series, Fox is young and still training under Peppy Hare, his father's friend and wingmate. He becomes an expert pilot, skilled in both air and ground-based attacking, as seen in Star Fox: Assault. Fox begins a relationship with Krystal in Star Fox Adventures which continues through Star Fox: Assault and possibly ends in Star Fox: Command when Fox forces her off the team for fear of her safety, though the outcome can change depending on the route and ending.

Fox is also a playable character in all five games in the Super Smash Bros. series.

The character is voiced in English by Steve Malpass in Star Fox Adventures, Jim Walker in Star Fox: Assault, and Mike West in Starlink: Battle for Atlas and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. In the Japanese versions, he is voiced by Shinobu Satouchi in Star Fox 64, Super Smash Bros., and Super Smash Bros. Melee, Kenji Nojima in Star Fox: Assault, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, and by Takashi Ohara from Star Fox 64 3D onwards. He is voiced by Glen Powell in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.

Falco Lombardi

is a character who appeared in the first Star Fox game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. He subsequently appeared in the sequel, Star Fox 64 for the Nintendo 64. In both games, he served as a minor character and a member of the Star Fox team. He also appeared in Star Fox: Assault, and Star Fox Command.

Falco made his first appearance outside the Star Fox series in Super Smash Bros. Melee. With a similar set of moves to that of Fox, Falco is considered to be one of the most viable characters in competitive play. Falco returned for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a playable character, trophies, and spirits. Falco is one of the game's fastest characters, and performs his moves very quickly. He jumps higher than Fox and uses a similar reflector, laser gun, and Landmaster tank until Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, where he uses his Arwing for his Final Smash. In Melee, Falco's appearance is based on his design in Star Fox 64, his design in Brawl and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS is based on his appearance in Star Fox: Assault and Star Fox Command, while his design in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate combines elements from his appearance in Star Fox Zero and the previous two Super Smash Bros. games.

Falco also appears in the Nintendo Switch version of Starlink: Battle for Atlas, along with the other members of the Star Fox team, joining forces with the Starlink team to save Atlas from the Forgotten Legion.

Farewell, Beloved Falco is a manga series that detailed the eight-year gap between Star Fox 64 and Star Fox Adventures. In the manga, Falco receives a request for help from Katt Monroe. At the conclusion of the manga, he stays with Katt Monroe while Fox returns to the team, explaining his departure from the Star Fox team.

In English, Falco was voiced by Bill Johns in Star Fox 64, Ben Cullum in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Star Fox Adventures, Mike Madeoy in Star Fox Assault, and Dex Manley in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Since 2011, he is consistently voiced by Mark Lund.

Peppy Hare

is a rabbit who wears a red suit and is a member of the original Star Fox team, with leader James McCloud and wingmate Pigma Dengar. After Pigma's betrayal and James' capture, Peppy barely escapes and returns to Papetoon to inform Fox McCloud of his father's fate. Peppy serves as Fox's mentor, giving him instructions and advice throughout the course of the games. Peppy's phrase from Star Fox 64, "Do a barrel roll!", has become an internet meme. Google created an Easter egg homage to it in November 2011. Typing "do a barrel roll" or "z or r twice" makes the user's web browser appear to spin. Cuthbert stated that he named Peppy.

According to Star Fox Command, he has a daughter named Lucy and is the widower of his wife Vivian. By the time of Star Fox: Assault, he is retired from flight duty, taking up an advisory position in the Great Fox. Also according to Command, he is eventually made general of the Corneria Army after Pepper grows ill.

In the Nintendo Power comic, Peppy appears to have some form of extrasensory perception, although it is not elaborated upon.

In English, Peppy was voiced by Rick May in Star Fox 64, Chris Seavor in Super Smash Bros. Melee and later serves as the research director for the Cornerian Defense Forces. Slippy invents and constructs many inventions for the team, including the Blue-Marine, the Landmaster, and the Roadmaster, creating the former two with his father. After the Aparoid race is destroyed in Star Fox: Assault, he temporarily withdraws from the Star Fox team after falling in love with a frog named Amanda, who returns his feelings, to spend more time with her. However, when Fox needs backup in Star Fox Command, he comes to his assistance. In two endings in Star Fox Command, he and Amanda have children together. Due to his lower flying skills compared to his teammates, Slippy Toad tends to fall prey to enemy pilots, and as such calls upon the player for assistance. In both Star Fox 64 and Star Fox: Assault, the player needs to save Slippy shortly after the start of the first mission.

In the SNES game and Nintendo Power comic, Slippy has a croaking stutter, which was removed in later appearances.

Slippy makes a cameo appearance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl as one of Solid Snake's contacts on his Codec and sometimes a contact for Fox, Falco, or Wolf with a taunt on the Star Fox battlefield.

He is voiced in English by Lyssa Browne in Star Fox 64 and all subsequent games since 2011, Chris Seavor in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Star Fox Adventures, Cuthbert stated he did not remember whether he gave family names to Miyu and Fay.

The Nintendo Powers Star Fox comic by Benimaru Itoh exclusively introduced the character Fara Phoenix, a Fennec fox, as a love interest for Fox, starting off as a Cornerian test pilot and later becoming an unofficial member.

ROB 64

ROB 64 (known as in the original Japanese-language version) is the observation and analysis robot of Star Fox's mothership the Great Fox. 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. ROB's Japanese name, "NUS", stands for "Nintendo Ultra Sixty-Four", the original name and of the Nintendo 64 system, and the model prefix that is a part of the serial number of all N64 components: the controller, for example, is NUS-005.

ROB has the ability to completely control the Great Fox, piloting it, providing information to the team, and aiding them with items and vehicles. Prior to Star Fox Adventures, he has been rebuilt and upgraded several times by Slippy Toad, infusing him with more productivity and personality. After the first Great Fox is destroyed in Star Fox: Assault, he returns in Star Fox Command piloting the new version of the Great Fox. On some paths in the game, ROB joins Star Wolf when no "hero" character is available.

In Star Fox Zero, a tethered robot similar in appearance, Direct-i, also assists in operation of the Gyrowing and Roadmaster.

ROB is voiced in English by David Frederick White in Star Fox 64 and all subsequent games since 2011, John Silke in Star Fox Adventures, prince of the EarthWalker Tribe from the planet Sauria. He serves as Fox's companion in Star Fox Adventures, in which Tricky performs various tasks for Fox, such as digging or breathing fire. He is made an honorary Star Fox member at the end of Adventures. In his second appearance in Star Fox: Assault, Tricky has 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

Star Wolf

is a group of mercenaries originally created and hired by Andross to eliminate the Star Fox team. They have since been working on their own as Star Fox's rival team, occasionally helping Star Fox in Star Fox: Assault. Their primary aircraft is the Wolfen. Though Star Wolf were planned to appear in the canceled Star Fox 2, they first appeared in Star Fox 64. They have appeared in every game except for the original Star Fox and Star Fox Adventures. In Star Fox 64 and Star Fox Zero, the team is composed of Wolf O'Donnell, Leon Powalski, ex-Star Fox team member Pigma Dengar, and Andross' nephew Andrew Oikonny, while in Star Fox: Assault and Star Fox Command, the team is composed of Wolf O'Donnell, Leon Powalski, and Panther Caroso.

Wolf O'Donnell

(sometimes called Lord O'Donnell) is a wolf, the leader of Star Wolf team, and Fox's rival, fueled by his prior rivalry with his father, James. He was said to be skillfully goaded by Pigma Dengar into forming Star Wolf and working for Andross to take down the Star Fox team.

In English, Wolf was voiced by Jock Blaney in Star Fox 64, Grant Goodeve in Star Fox: Assault, Said to be a researcher under Andross' direct supervision during his time at the Corneria Defense Force Scientific Research Institute, he eventually schemes with Andross to betray the Star Fox team, causing the presumed death of James McCloud. Afterwards, he persuades Wolf to create and lead the Star Wolf team, secretly manipulating him and his team in accordance with Andross' orders. as well as, in collaboration with Andross, custom engineering the Wolfen for the Star Wolf team to utilize. The name, "Pigma", is a spin on the word dogma, pointing to his antidogmatic nature.

Andrew Oikonny

is a monkey who is the nephew of Andross. In Star Fox 64, Andross is said to have effectively forced Pigma to include him on the team, as he is otherwise an inexperienced pilot with an elitist attitude, using his uncle's authority as a shield to be arrogant. This causes him to be unpopular with his crew mates; essentially, the only reason Wolf tolerates him is because he is using his connections to Andross to provide the team with immeasurable technological and financial support. in Japanese-language versions) is a black panther who makes his first appearance as the newest member of Star Wolf in Star Fox: Assault. His signature symbol, which is on his Wolfen, is a red rose. Panther is conceited and a flirt, considering himself a ladies' man. In the game, he unsuccessfully tries to flirt with Krystal several times.

Panther reappears in Star Fox Command, where he attempts to begin a relationship with Krystal after she joins the Star Wolf team following her breakup with Fox. In the English version of Command, Panther speaks in the third person, despite his normal speaking habits in Star Fox: Assault.

He was voiced in English by David Scully, who also voiced Leon, in Star Fox: Assault (2005), in the Japanese versions) is the main antagonist of the series, directly appearing in every game except for Star Fox: Assault, and has been Fox McCloud's archenemy ever since his defeat against him at the end of the Lylat Wars.

Before the series, Andross was a scientist working for Corneria. His original intentions are supposedly pure and beneficial; he devotes most of his life to finding ways to protect Corneria. However, a growing obsession with his engine and bio-technology drives him to the brink of madness, despite multiple warnings from the planet's ruling council. The increasing perversion of his experiments results in unleashing a deadly weapon within a Cornerian city, which may or may not have been accidental.

Subsequently captured by General Pepper and banished for treason to the wasteland planet Venom, he builds an army and plots to dominate the Lylat System and rebuild it in his name. The original Star Fox team is sent to investigate, which ends when Pigma Dengar defects to Andross's side and sends his friends to Andross, resulting in the capture and possible death of James McCloud. Andross then proclaims himself emperor of the Lylat System and begins to invade the neighboring worlds, initiating the Lylat Wars.

Five years later, after a new Star Fox team is formed under Fox McCloud, they begin their mission to liberate the Lylat System from Andross. Upon arriving at Venom, Fox engages Andross in a duel. Andross is shown to have apparently experimented with himself and become a giant disembodied head, but Fox is able to defeat him and Andross self-destructs.

However, Andross' spirit survives, though weakened. After a botched attempt at a revival on Titania, Andross travels to Sauria, also known as Dinosaur Planet, and takes refuge in Krazoa Palace. He uses the SharpClaw Tribe to keep him alive, manipulating their leader General Scales into collecting various artifacts infused with the spirits of the Krazoa and imprisoning Krystal in the palace. Through her, he is able to generate the energy from the Krazoa Spirits to restore himself back to full power, intending to obliterate the Lylat System. Fox defeats him, after which Andross self-destructs once again.

While he does not appear in Star Fox: Assault, his reign continues with his nephew Andrew Oikonny, who constructs a new fleet with Andross' remaining Venomian units. They attack Fortuna at the beginning of the game, with Andrew using a robotic copy of his uncle as the game's first boss.

He reappears in Star Fox Command as a ghost in control of a bio-weapon, but is no longer a threat.

Dialogue between Zazan and the Anglar Emperor in "Fox and Krystal" implies that the Anglar race was created by Andross.

Andross appears in Super Smash Bros. Brawl as an Assist Trophy character, resembling his metallic-looking form from the first Star Fox game.

According to Star Fox Zero, Andross secretly worked on a Cornerian teleportation device for peacekeeping purposes, but his lust for power made him claim it as his own for his schemes. After discovering the truth, General Pepper and James McCloud used the teleporter to exile Andross to another dimension.

In Star Fox 2, a direct sequel to the original game, Andross is revealed to have survived his encounter with Fox McCloud. As his army advances towards Corneria, the Star Fox team scrambles to destroy Andross once again.

Andross appears in several different forms throughout the Star Fox series:

In the first game, he takes the form of a large metallic head or possibly a hologram, which contains a cube covered in images of his face.
In Star Fox 64 and Star Fox Adventures, the shell is a large version of his head, which contains an enlarged brain that can act and move independently. The latter Andross is more demonic-looking than the others, resembling a large gorilla head. In Star Fox: Assault, his nephew Andrew uses a robot with a similar design.
In Star Fox Zero, Andross is first shown in a form that outwardly resembles his appearance in Star Fox 64, but is shown to have become robotic.
In Star Fox 2, his image appears as a disheveled version of his previous self with a cybernetic implant over the left side of his head. His boss form initially appears as a mask and later a form somewhat resembling his Star Fox 64 self.

Andross was voiced by Rick May in the English version of Star Fox 64.