Difference between revisions of "Team Star Fox"

The Star Fox Team was founded by James McCloud and his best friend, [[Peppy Hare]]. Shortly into their new career, they were joined by a new member: [[Pigma Dengar]]. The team flew abound the Lylat, finding work wherever they were. They earned so much that James decided to upgrade the team's headquarters and purchased the building rights to a new mothership that would transport the trio about the System.  

====Occurance at Venom====

Strange occurances began to surface over from Venom. Wanting to know what was going on, [[General Pepper]] of the [[Cornerian Army]] hired the team to investigate. When they arrived at the planet, Pigma betrayed the team, blasting off his wingmates' wings and leaving them unable to manuever. He left them and turned them over to Andross, who had payed the pig a larger sum of money than he had ever before received. Peppy was able to escape, but his friend James was not. Peppy returned to Corneria and informed Pepper of the danger Andross posed to the Lylat System. He also told James's son Fox of his father's fate. He took Fox under his wing and guided him in his quest to become a pilot.

Years later, [[Venomian Army|Andross's forces]] began to gather strength, and war was imminent. Pepper decided to re-form the Star Fox team, and set up a high budget around it. With new weapons, an [[ROB 64|automated robot]], and James's ''[[Great Fox]]'' finally complete, Pepper recreated the team, with the now 18-year-old Fox McCloud as the new leader. With his dear friend Peppy, Fox chose new members, including the skilled mechanic [[Slippy Toad]] and former gang member [[Falco Lombardi]].  

Starting at Corneria, the team fought through Andross's minons throughout the Lylat, making its way to Venom: Andross's base. Several times, they encountered the infamous [[Star Wolf]] and accumulated quite some time in dogfighting with them. Finally, the crew made it to Andross's base, where Fox single-handedly defeated the warlord.  

The team flew many missions freelance during the years following the Cornerian-Venomian conflict. However, all was not well as time passed: After a close call on Titania that nearly involved Andross's revival, Falco left the team in search of a solo career. The ''Great Fox'' and the Arwings became very aged while ROB also suffered from lack of new parts and had trouble keeping himself together, and in dire need of repair. Peppy has retired from active flight duty but remains as mentor. Slippy has traded in his role as active pilot and and develops various weapons and gadgets for the Cornerian forces.

Eight years after the [[Lylat Wars]], the team received a briefing from General Pepper of a crisis at [[Sauria]]: chunks of the planet had broken off and may pose a threat to the welfare of the Lylat System. Realizing their finances needed improvement, alongside their aged vehicles and weapons,  Fox, Slippy and Peppy took the job and travelled to Sauria, known as the Dinosaur Planet. However, only Fox made contact with the planet while Peppy stayed behind to work on his maps and Slippy continued work on developments and giving Fox vital advice. But by the end of the game Falco rejoins after saving Fox from being used as Andross's chew toy.

After the incident with Sauria, StarFox returned to its prime state. The Great Fox, Arwings, Landmasters and ROB have all been completly repaired with sleeker designs and various other modifications. Krystal has also joined the team as its telepath. The team helped by defeating the last of Andrew's forces, hunted down Pigma, saved Sauria from annihilation and destroyed the Aparoids.

Some time after the Aparoid invasion the StarFox team once again went into decline as the whole team went their separate ways with only Fox and ROB staying on. Falco left to find the thrills which he had during the past events which mirrors what he did before the incident on Sauria. Slippy left because he fell in love. Peppy was apointed the new General of the Cornerian forces after Pepper became confined to his sickbed. Krystal disappears after being ashamed and heart-broken after Fox asked her to step down from the team. And the Great Fox, which was destroyed during the Aparoid invasion, has been replaced by a new model which is considerably weaker.

During the Anglar attack on the system the StarFox team rejoin in most storylines and one includes Amanda, Slippy's fiancee, joining the team, although it is currently unknown which story ending is the true one, as is whether the Anglar Blitz in itself ever happened.

Possibly, after the events in Star Fox Command, Fox settled down with Krystal and had a son named [[Marcus McCloud]], who, after mastering the [[Arwing]], enrolled as a pilot, went into freelance work and started a new Star Fox team with one of Slippy's sons and Lucy's daughter. Though, it is not confirmed if it is canon to the series or not.

James McCloud (ジェームズ・マクラウド, Jēmuzu Makuraudo) is the father of Fox McCloud and the founder of the Star Fox team. On a scouting mission to Venom, he is betrayed by Pigma Dengar and captured by the evil [[Andross]]. Though his true fate is ambiguous, he is presumed dead by most sources. He appears to Fox McCloud in Star Fox 64 to lead Fox out of Andross's exploding base, and in Star Fox Command during a final boss fight, James makes his first playable appearance piloting an Arwing like Peppy, which resembles the Assault design. None of the other characters acknowledge him, and Fox questions if he is seeing things.

In the original Star Fox for SNES, it is stated that Fox's father, known as Fox McCloud Sr. in this story, was last seen flying into a black hole, and is presumed dead. However, the Black Hole is actually a warp point that was created by Andross' experiments. The black hole is presumed to warp to the solar system and Earth.

There is also a character of the same name with a similar appearance in the ''F-Zero series''.

Peppy Hare (ペッピー・ヘア, Peppī Hea) 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 narrowly escapes to return to Corneria to inform Fox McCloud of his father's fate. Ever since then, Peppy serves as Fox's mentor and frequently gives Fox instructions and advice throughout the course of the games. Peppy's phrase from Star Fox 64, "Do a barrel roll!", has become infamous on the internet, and is spoken on several internet forums.

Pigma Dengar (ピグマ・デンガー, Piguma Dengā) is one of the original members of the Star Fox team, and after he betrays the team to help Andross, he joins Star Wolf. He is an exceptionally greedy pirate who does not care who he hurts so long as he ends up with a large paycheck in the end. When fighting Star wolf in Star Fox 64, he focuses on Peppy because they were once teammates. Wolf O'Donnell later expels Pigma from Star Wolf due to his incredible greed and distrustful nature. Pigma attempts to control the Aparoids in Star Fox Assault, but fails and later undergoes assimilation, which fuses him with a spacecraft. His spirit continues to live on in the form of a cube-shaped puzzle box cyborg after his body is destroyed. He serves as a boss in Star Fox Command; whether the player encounters him depends on certain decisions made during the game.

Pigma is voiced by Daisuke Gōri in Japan. In the English version of Star Fox: Assault, he is voiced by Lev Liberman. In the Japanese version of Star Fox 64, "Pigma speaks in the Kansai dialect of Japan." His last name is a reference to a feature of the Kansai dialect: speakers of this dialect often end their sentences with 'dengar'. Pigma's last name may also be a reference to a Star Wars bounty hunter of the same name.

Fox McCloud (フォックス・マクラウド, Fokkusu Makuraudo) is the main character of the Star Fox series, and leader of the Star Fox team since his father, [[James McCloud]], went missing after his capture by Andross. When he heard about his father's death, he dropped out of the Cornerian Air Force. At the start of the series, Fox was young and still learning under the training of Peppy Hare, his father's friend and wingmate. He has since become an expert pilot, and has repeatedly brought tranquility to the Lylat System. Fox is skilled in both air and ground based attacking, as seen in Star Fox Assault.

Falco Lombardi (ファルコ・ランバルディ, Faruko Ranbarudi?) is an expert pilot and a friend of Fox. Falco resembles a falcon. He is named after both Falco, an Austrian musician, and Carlo Lombardi, special effects artist in Hollywood. Falco is voiced by Hisao Egawa in the Japanese versions of the series, Bill Johns in the English version of Star Fox 64, Ben Cullum in Star Fox Adventures & Super Smash Bros. Melee , Mike Madeoy in Star Fox: Assault, and Dex Manley in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Falco often joins and leaves the Star Fox team throughout the series of games and is seen as somewhat of a sidekick to Fox as they are very close. After Star Fox 64, Falco leaves the team, because of boredom and tiredness (though also because of the events of "Star Fox: Farewell, Beloved Falco", see below.), but returns at the end of Star Fox Adventures. During the final battle against Andross in Adventures, Falco comes to Fox's rescue. Leon Powalski of the Star Wolf team is considered to be his rival.

His long absence from the team is chronicled in the Nintendo comic Star Fox: Farewell, Beloved Falco, which was bundled with Star Fox Adventures in Japan.[citation needed] In this comic Falco gets a call for help from Katt so he heads out, and Fox follows soon after. At the end of the comic Falco decides to go around the galaxy for a while, and Fox goes back to the rest of the team with out him. Falco has also appeared in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl as a playable character.

Slippy Toad (スリッピー・トード, Surippī Tōdo) is a longtime friend of Fox. Young, kind, and intelligent, he serves as the inventor of the team. Slippy's father, Beltino Toad, the Research Director for the Cornerian Defense Forces, invents and constructs many inventions for the team, including the Blue Marine and the Landmaster. After the Aparoid race is destroyed in Star Fox: Assault, he temporarily withdraws from the Star Fox team. However, when Fox needs backup in Star Fox: Command, he comes to his assistance again. He is currently engaged to a frog named Amanda, and in two endings in Star Fox Command they have children together.

 

Slippy makes a cameo appearance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl as one of Solid Snake's contacts on his Codec (via hacked transmission) whenever Snake faces Falco. He gives advice to Snake about Falco.

He is voiced by Kyouko Tonguu in the Japanese version of the series, Lyssa Browne in the English version of Star Fox 64, Chris Seavor in Star Fox Adventures, and Mike McAuliffe in Star Fox Assault and Super Smash Bros Brawl.

Krystal (クリスタル, Kurisutaru) is the sole survivor of her doomed home planet, Cerinia. She makes her first appearance in the series in Star Fox Adventures, where in search of answers to her planet's destruction, and the death of her parents, she comes across a distress signal from the planet Sauria. Fox allows Krystal to become a full-time member of the Star Fox team, but she leaves heartbroken soon after, as Fox fears for her safety. Various different paths and endings are available in Star Fox Command; some show Krystal returning to the team and to Fox himself, defecting to Star Wolf or the Cornerian Army, or even abandoning Lylat altogether due to public ridicule and adopting a new identity under the name Kursed, changing so drastically that Fox fails to recognize her when the two cross paths on a planet named Kew two years later.

Krystal was originally designed to be a main character of Dinosaur Planet, before Nintendo turned the project into a Star Fox title. Her original design was that of a 16-year-old orphaned feline, who was raised by a wizard named Randorn. When Fox became the main character of Adventures, Krystal was redesigned into her present form as a 19-year-old orphaned vixen, and her role in the game became less central. In the English version of the series, Krystal has a British accent and is voiced by Estelle Ellis in Adventures, and Alésia Glidewell in Assault & Brawl. In Japanese, she is voiced by Aya Hara.

ROB 64 (ナウス64, Nausu Rokujūyon, NUS64) is the robotic operator of Star Fox's mothership, the Great Fox. ROB's name may be 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 of the Nintendo 64 system, and is 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. After the first Great Fox is destroyed in 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. ROB is voiced by Daisuke Sakaguchi in the Japanese version of Star Fox 64 and Yusuke Numata in the Japanese version of Star Fox: Assault. He is voiced by David Frederick White in the English version of 64. He is voiced by Dex Manley in the English version of Assault.

===Future Members===

Lucy Hare (ルーシー・ヘア, Rūshī Hea) debuts in Star Fox Command, and is Peppy Hare's only daughter. Her mother, Vivian Hare (ビビアン・ヘア, Bibian Hea), died shortly after the Lylat Wars due to an illness. She is a bit of a tomboy, but is still very polite to her elders. Although pleased with her job as an astrophysics teacher on the planet Fichina, she does wish to become an expert pilot, like her father. It is said as well that she and Krystal are good friends. In some missions, she fights the Anglar attackers in her aircraft, the Sky Bunny (スカイバニー, Sukaibanī), armed with plasma lasers and a single lock. In one of the endings, her daughter becomes a member of the new Star Fox team, led by Marcus McCloud, Fox's son.

The teams base of operations and later their home, it is used for carring the Arwings and other vehicles as well as back up heavy assaults. [[ROB 64]] is the primary pilot of the great fox.