Rusty and Co./Characters

Major characters in Rusty and Co:

The Band

Three stalwart adventurers who decided that this life was better than sticking around in the dungeon.

• Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: Parodied. It's implied all of the main trio suffer from this.
• Monster Adventurers: The whole starting concept of the webcomic.

Boxford ("Mimic")

The charismatic Mimic is, despite the title, the main character.

• Chest Monster
• A Dog Named "Dog": Until level 8, when he admits his real name is Boxford, he's known only as "Mimic".
• Embarrassing First Name: He seems embarrassed by his name, "Boxford".
• Face Palm: No, Mimic has neither face nor palm. Yes, he can still facepalm nonetheless.
• Glamour Failure: Mimic's lips are visible regardless of his form.
• Good Angel, Bad Angel: Parodied with Mimic: both angels advise him to do the exact same thing, just phrasing it differently. He even lampshades it, saying "Aren't you two supposed to disagree?"
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: Of all people, Mimic has one.
• Medium Awareness
• Only Sane Man: Well, Only Sane Mimic.
• Speech Bubbles Interruption: Mimic has a tendency to do this. Or to have it done to him, alternatively.

Rusty

An absurdly cute rust monster whose favorite line is "Eat [metallic object]?"

• Big Eater: Of anything metallic.
• Extreme Omnivore: As long as it's metal, Rusty will want to eat it. At least he (usually) asks first...
• Mad Libs Catchphrase: "Eat X?" where X is some metallic item. It's also about the only thing that Rusty says.
• Mascot
• When All You Have Is a Hammer: "Eat X" is Rusty's solution to about every problem.

Cube

The silent yet deadly Gelatinous Cube

• Big Damn Heroes: Twice, for now.
• Big Eater
• Blob Monster
• A Dog Named "Dog"
• Le Parkour: Mimic claims Cube knows this. It's not like there's any other explanation how he ended up suspended between two buildings, several stories in the air.
• The Speechless: Justified because, well, it's a gelatinous cube.
• Stripped to the Bone: Cube's victims.

The Girls

Every level thus far has featured an female character who connects and adventures with them. After the first three, the girls also started reappearing.

• Action Girl: All of them.

The Princess

A human monk (with a few levels in Dungeonmaster's Girlfriend), the princess is anything but a damsel in distress.

• Anti-Heroine (Type IV): She smokes, wears revealing clothes, is greedy, loves a wight, and has no qualm at all beating up a bunch of mind-controlled innocent bystanders.
• Badass Princess: Natch.
• Bare-Fisted Monk
• Bare Your Midriff
• Damsel in Distress: Subverted, naturally. The Princess is actually very good at combat.
• Dungeonmaster's Girlfriend: She claims to have taken a level (or more) in this "VERY obscure and VERY powerful prestige class" when she was imprisoned.
• Everyone Calls Her Princess: Her real name has not yet been given.
• Girl Meets Wight
• The Ladette
• Multicolored Hair: Purple with a blonde lock.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: She really should take off her hat first.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The Princess goes on one (and later almost refers to it as such by name) after her wight boyfriend is turned by a cleric or necromancer.
• Smoking Is Cool

Madeline Goodlaw

A human paladin, who makes up for her lack of intelligence with superior fighting ability... most of the time.

• Attack! Attack! Attack!: Madeline always attacks anyone she considers an enemy, no matter how injured or outmatched she is, because "It's what paladins do." She always prefers to charge into things, and disapproves of stopping to think, plan, or care whether one might be walking into a trap. She's Badass enough to win anyway most of the time, but this behavior leaves her almost dead in level 6, and gets her killed in level 7.
• Badass Adorable
• Bob Haircut
• Crush Blush: Talking of Derek the Cleric.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: She becomes one after dying and being raised from the dead at the end of level 7, seemingly losing her She Fu abilities.
• Detect Evil: Through smell.
• The Ditz
• Improbable Weapon User: Madeline's hoe. Later the same gnome who sold her that offers for sale a +1 Trident (a.k.a. a rake). And the next time Madeline appears, she wields a spade. But then, she can kick butt with both of them.
  • Achievements in Ignorance/Clap Your Hands If You Believe: If she believes a spade is vorpal halberd, it performs as a vorpal halberd? This seems to work even better when she closes eyes.
• Lawful Stupid
• Modesty Shorts: Madeline is sensibly wearing (anachronistic) biker shorts under her leather skirt.
• Prophecies Rhyme All the Time
• Resurrection Sickness: Madeline loses her Badass-ness after dying and being raised from the dead at the end of level 7, with her loss being much greater than is expected for a Dungeons & Dragons character.
• She Fu: Madeline often jumps and flips around in combat. However, after her first story arc, she's injured often and bloodily, contrary to the expectations of the trope.
• Shovel Strike: Madeline's weapon of choice in Level 6.
• Spin to Deflect Stuff: Madeline shows us how it's done in the page image for this trope.
• Sticks to the Back: Madeline's hoe.

Roxanne Casbaugh

An elven bard who was raised by barbarians.

• Blinding Bangs: While mingling with the Pixie Chicks.
• Chekhov's Skill: Roxanne is seen whittling an axe handle and a pointer stick/drawing stylus. Later in the chapter, she combines her massive Whittling score with her Bard class to make a dog whistle in the middle of a pack of gnolls.
• Music for Courage: To the complaints of her companions.
• Our Elves Are Better
• Spoony Bard: Averted; she might be a bard but still is a force to be reckoned with.
• Wandering Minstrel

Stabitha “Stabs” Doogan

A cheerful halfling rogue, who likes treasure.

• Halfling
• Knife Nut
• The Nose Knows

Prestige Perkins

An overeager human wizard, who works as a law enforcement official for the Princess. Easily excitable.

• Alliteration: Prestige Perkins, practiced practitioner of practical prestidigitation.
• Alliterative Name / Meaningful Name
• Fireballs: Prestige, being at least a level 5 wizard, can cast one, but prefers to save it for big fights.
• Genki Girl
• Oh My Gods
• Paper-Thin Disguise: It's her ability to fake an illithid's smell that helps pull this off.
• Sassy Black Woman
• Squishy Wizard

Others

Anti-Madeline

The result of an attempt to create an Evil Twin for Madeline. Anti-paladin (figures, really). Tiny, because Madeline didn't have much "material" for a full-sized Evil Twin.

• Bling of War: What would you expect? She definitely didn't inherit Madeline's modesty...
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Blowing up Malevolus.
• Enemy Without: Not much of an enemy, however, since she doesn't seem to care about Madeline one way or another.
• Laughably Evil
• Mad Bomber: Definitely has a thing for pyrotechnics.
• Spikes of Villainy
• You Gotta Have Blue-Green Hair: Inverse of Madeline's, get it?