Fox McCloud

Template:CharacterInfoBox v2.5 Fox McCloud is a fictional anthropomorphic fox character and the main character in the Star Fox series. He is the leader of the Star Fox team, and is the son of James McCloud, the late leader of said team. Described as a fearless hero, Fox is headstrong and an excellent pilot in his league, with skills excelling even the majority of the Cornerian military. He is considered one of the greatest Arwing ace pilots around. Very few space pilots are on par with his skills, such as his colleague Falco Lombardi, or his nemesis Wolf O'Donnell.

Fox has appeared in every game in the series since the very first game, which is Star Fox, as he is, as mentioned earlier, the main character, and often the only playable character, practically dominating the series whole in such a way. Due to this, as well as having the name "Fox" in common, Fox McCloud is often considered synonymous with the team Star Fox, albeit Star Fox existed long before he had taken over the team. Fox is often erroneously called "Star Fox" himself by some fans of the series.

Fox was originally called "Fox McCloud, Jr." because that was his name in Benimaru Itoh's official comic adaptation of the first game, albeit the comics are not considered as canon. (Although, it does not matter as much since the first game lost its own canonity when the connection between Star Fox and Star Fox 64 was never explicitly referred to, accepting Star Fox 64 as a "remake" of the first game.)

In game History

Early History

Fox McCloud was born to James McCloud and an unnamed mother eighteen years before the events of Star Fox 64. Though it is unknown what happened to the mother, it is known that James was eventually forced to raise Fox on his own. Over time, Fox joined a pilot's academy with his old friend, Bill Grey.

Eventually, Andross began his rise to power and Pepper, General of the Cornerian Defense Force, hired his old friends the Star Fox team to take him down. Unfortunately, Pigma Dengar, a member of this team, was on Andross's payroll and betrayed James to his supposed death. While James's fate remains unknown, the third pilot, Peppy Hare, escaped and was left with unenviable task of informing Fox of his father's demise. Fox followed in the footsteps of his father by forming a new Star Fox team of his friends Slippy Toad, Falco Lombardi and original member Peppy Hare.

The Lylat Wars

A few years passed and Andross again became a threat to the Lylat System. Once again, Pepper called upon the Star Fox team, now under Fox's command. The team made for Corneria City immediatly, but arrived to find the city in ruin. The team proceeded through the Lylat system going to such planets as Aquas, Titania and Macbeth, and encountered old friends Bill Grey and Katt Monroe. They also fought against rival team Star Wolf on Fichina and Bolse Space Station.

The team soon made it to Area 6 where they stormed through the Venomian Army with help from ROB 64 and the Star Fox mothership, the Great Fox. Arriving at the entrance to Andross's lair on Venom, Star Wolf attacks in new Wolfen IIs. Even with the advanced ships, Wolf's team was easily trumped by Star Fox and Fox continued on into the tunnels of Venom. There he confronted Andross alone.

Andross's experiments had destroyed most of his body and transformed what was left into a giant, floating head with two equally sized hands. Using his Arwing's powerful lasers, Fox destroys Andross's hands and reveals his true form, an enormous brain with eyes electromagnetically connected. After an intense battle, Fox destroys the brain, but Andross sets off a bomb to destroy his lab at the last second. Fox, believing this to be his last moment, Fox is stunned at the voice that comes from his communicator, his father's. James's Arwing appears before Fox and James tells Fox to follow him out. Through the burning laboratory, Fox follows what can only be his father out onto the surface. When Fox finally made his way back to the Great Fox, he looked around to find his father nowhere. The other team members ask Fox if something was wrong, but he responded saying that there was nothing wrong.

The team then returns to Corneria to obtain their reward from General Pepper. Pepper asks the team if they would be willing to join the Cornerian Army, but Fox cuts him off and says that the team prefers doing things their own way. Fox then gets a message from ROB 64 telling them to return quickly and the Star Fox hurries on to a new adventure.

The Saurian Ruse

Eight years after the Lylat Wars, the Star Fox team is in great need of a new job. With Falco gone and the vehicles in disrepair, Fox, Slippy, Peppy and ROB are ecstatic when General Pepper calls about a disaster on the planet Sauria. Pepper informs the team that the planet is breaking apart and sends Fox to the planet to investigate.

When Fox lands at ThornTail Hollow, that he's trying to save the planet, not blow it up further. Fox's weapon problems are solved when he finds a solution to his weapon problems, a magic staff impaled into the ground. When he picks up the staff, he hears a female voice speaking in a language he had never heard before. Despite this, he seems to understand the voice and, after gaining a new ability for the staff, uses it to enter a mysteriously locked cavern. Inside was the Queen EarthWalker. Fox has Slippy translate through his communicator and finds that he had to go to Ice Mountain to find Prince Tricky. To get there, Fox has to use a living statue called the WarpStone. At first, the WarpStone was uncooperative, but after some convincing agreed to help Fox.

After arriving, Fox finds two SharpClaw grunts with a captured Tricky in tow. He freed Tricky and defeated the grunts. At that point, Slippy sent down the translation device and Fox warned Tricky about his mother. Upon returning to ThornTail Hollow, Fox learned what was truly going on. General Scales, leader of the SharpClaw tribe, had taken the SpellStones from the Force Point Temples and released the Krazoa Spirits from the Krazoa Palace. This caused the energies within Sauria to break the planet apart. Though he thinks it odd, Fox understands and takes Tricky to the SnowHorn Village where they met Garunda Te, leader of the SnowHorn Tribe and GateKeeper of DarkIce Mines. Scales had threatened his tribe with death if Garunda did not let him into the mines. Though Garunda had not, his daughter Belina Te could not see the tribe destroyed allowed him into the mines.

Appearance

• Star Fox
• Star Fox 64
• Super Smash Bros.
• Super Smash Bros. Melee
• Star Fox Adventures
• Star Fox: Assault
• Star Fox Command
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Gallery of Game Art

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  Screen Shot from the Original Game

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  Fox with the Star Fox team in Star Fox 64

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  The Arwing II, Fox's personal Arwing from Star Fox Command

Quotes

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