Biker Mice? Primer Who's Who Where...? Gadgets and Gizmos BM Voice Cast Charley I "Asphalt" Jack McCyber I Fourby I Chef Andy Sweet Georgie Brown I King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table I Manuelo CHARLEY Episodes Seen In: Very nearly all of them; first in "Rock & Ride!" The first human the Biker Mice meet, Charlene "Charley" Davidson (pun alert!) is the best mechanic in the city of Chicago and one of the few Earthians aware of the Plutarkian scheme to try and steal the our planet's precious resources. Intelligent, ingenious, and with a razor-sharp wit, Charley helps Chicago's three newest arrivals in their battles against Lawrence Limburger, not to mention coping with life on Earth. Charley met the Biker Mice one night when one of Limburger's goons, Greasepit, tried to coerce her into signing over her garage to the Plutarkian. Vinnie, originally intending to ask the mechanic to repair Throttle's bike, tried to defend her from Greasepit—only to end up slipping in a puddle of grease and falling flat on his ass in front of the lady. Eventually, Throttle and Modo joined in the fight and ended the villain's attempts to steal her property. Our heroes told her about the Plutarkians, and Charley showed them that the aliens were already here. Since that day, she has been their closest confidant and cherished friend. The mice's appearance in Charley's life changed it drastically. Whereas once her greatest concern had been making enough to buy groceries for the week, it now became an issue of how to avoid being kidnapped or put in danger by the supervillain of the week--or from Limburger and his henchmen. The Last Chance Garage, her workplace and home, has taken some heavy hits—-not only from the bad guys, but from the Biker Mice themselves. Charley also finds herself having to act as an interpreter for her fuzzy buddies ("What's Mount Rushmore?"), and often ends up doing menial tasks for them, like cooking them hot dogs or picking up their mail. But despite her claims that she was better off without them, Charley obviously enjoys her new life as opposed to the old one. Working on alien technology (the mice’s motorcycles, their spaceship for scrap, Plutarkian spacecraft) has increased her mechanical knowledge, and the need for decidedly different weapons (rewiring Modo’s arm in “Once Upon a Time On Mars Part One”) has given Charley a chance to exercise her natural creativity in ways she might never had a chance to in every day-to-day life. She also enjoys the adventure (to a degree). Frequently, Charley helps the Biker Mice out during their escapades (so many episodes I can’t name them all), following along or coming up with her own, independently-executed scheme. In “Big Trouble”, Charley joins in the battle at the golf course despite the mice’s warnings to just watch from the sidelines. She’s even destroyed Limburger Tower (“Back to Mars Part Three”), something the Biker Mice usually take care of themselves. Although she acts annoyed with them, and is often frustrated by the things they do, Charley does love the Biker Mice. She playfully judges their macho behavior as “childish” and “adolescent”, all the while getting a kick out of their playfulness. She makes fun of them frequently, all good-natured teasing, which the Biker Mice are quick to reciprocate. And she’s forgiving, to boot. No matter what they do, from breaking her walls to making a mess of her kitchen to making her the focus of Limburger’s efforts to destroy Chicago, the Biker Mice always find a way to redeem themselves in her eyes. When their game of street hockey left the Last Chance in a sorry state, Throttle, Modo, and Vinnie became stunt-mice on a movie Lawrence Limburger was directing (actually cover to give him free reign to destroy Chicago in the name of “special effects”) (“Danger is Our Business”), even when Charley told them that they didn't have to put themselves at risk for the sake of her garage. One of the mechanic's most important traits is her ability to see beyond the surface of a person and find what’s underneath. When the villainous Hard Rock, who the Biker Mice are determined to grind into the pavement, appears in Chicago claiming to have changed, only Charley believes his claims that his girlfriend Darla has turned his life around (“Hard Rock). In the end, she turns out to be right. Later, when the Biker Mice’s mentor, Stoker, is revealed to have lost his edge in fighting because of his age, she comforts him and makes him realize that he can still contribute to the Martian resistance (“Caveat Mentor”). It's this that's facilitated Charley's ever-increasing attraction to Vinnie. Although he's often obnoxious, childish, and annoying, as well as egocentric and too macho for his own good, the mechanic has found something charming behind all that. Initially, she didn’t care for his piss-poor attempts at romance. In “Rock N’ Ride!”, she is clearly offended when he calls her “sweetheart” after they’ve just met. But by “Once Upon A Time On Mars Part Three”, she not only doesn’t mind, she forgives him when he accidentally calls her by his old girlfriend’s name. It seems ironic, given that Charley loves to cut down Vinnie’s ego and make fun of him (the baby picture incident in “A Scent, A Memory, A Far Distant Cheese” comes to mind) that she has come to care so deeply for him. But then again, love is weird. Sometimes antagonism leads to adoration. And besides that, her feelings are reciprocated, even if Vinnie tends to try and downplay his own. No matter what the future holds, Charley remains cheerful and willing to help her hairy heroes take on any threat that comes at them. "ASPHALT" JACK MCCYBER Episodes Seen In: "Virtual UnReality", "Hit the Road, Jack" A computer genius and one of the best human bikers the Biker Mice have every met, "Asphalt" Jack McCyber first made our heroes' acquaintance when he showed up in Chicago to pay a surprise visit to his longtime friend (and former lover) Charley. He was originally a bit antagonistic toward the mice; when they showed up at the Last Chance while he was waiting for her, the four of them ended up in a fight, and as a result, Charley herself almost got ventilated. Once all the misunderstandings were cleared up, Jack quickly became good friends with the three of them, although there's still a little animosity between him and Vinnie (who perceives Jack as a threat to his claim on Charley). When he became engaged to a beautiful biker named Angel Revson (who wasn't quite what she seemed), he even made a little sidetrip on their way to Niagara Falls so that they could meet her. Jack's talents as "the baddest biker to ever tear up Cook County roads" pale next to his abilities as a computer programmer and hacker. While living in California, he developed a state of the art virtual reality helmet which he brought back east with him while visiting Charley. It could create simulations so realistic as to totally fool anyone trapped within them. Later, he turned his knack for inventions to motorcycles, and created a bike with many of the same capabilities as those of the Biker Mice. These skills have frequently brought him to the notice of Plutarkians who try to exploit his ideas for their own selfish ends. Even his fiancée was trying to take advantage of him. In terms of personality, Jack is a fun-loving, slightly cynical individual. Then again, if Plutarkians were following you around, trying to use your ideas to take over the world, you'd probably be a little paranoid, too. He cares deeply for Charley, and always has. Fans could pick it up in their voices from "Hit the Road, Jack", and Tom T's comments at the Unofficial Biker Mice from Mars Fan Club, which revealed that the two of them were once engaged to be married. Although they have since uncoupled romantically, they will always stay tight. What the future holds for the hacker is uncertain; let's just hope for his sake that there aren't more Plutarkians involved. FOURBY Episodes Seen In: "Law of the Pits", "Pitfall" If you remember nothing else about Fourby, there's one thing you're sure never to forget about him: he's tall. Extremely tall. This former janitor turned one-man law enforcement division of the Pits is perhaps the tallest human seen in the series, making even Modo look short. He's also the only black character we see, excluding a few extra police officers. Fourby first appears in Biker Mice when he sees Limburger about to set his digging machines loose on a school full of children. Outraged, he jumps into his huge monster truck, the Mighty Mo, and helps the Biker Mice stop his plans cold. But before Fourby gets the credit or thanks he deserves, the police arrive on the scene. Limburger tricks them into thinking that it's Fourby who was trying to tear up the playground. Fourby is extremely claustrophobic, however, and, fearing that he'll be arrested and forced into one of this little police cars (later, one of those little jail cells), flees the scene. He ends up in the Pits, where he's confronted by the Pit Boss, who tries to take him as one of his slaves. Fourby resists, and eventually, is able to form a group of resistance fighters to try and stop the slave-driver's tyrannical rule. Because of their admiration of his driving skills and his unrelenting battle against injustice, the Biker Mice quickly became chummy with Fourby, and help him out whenever a threat rises against him. As a sidenote, Fourby has the oddest set of eyes in the series--they're yellow and red, like a Martian mouse's. Were the writers trying to hint at something here, or is it just a coincidence? You decide. CHEF ANDY Episodes Seen In: "High Rollin' Rodents" Chef Andy may be the Biker Mice's second-favorite human in the city of Chicago, and it's not hard to see why. The way to a biker's heart is through his stomach, after all, and Chef Andy is the culinary wizard behind the Windy City's best hot dogs. Owner of the Hoagie Dog Diner (also known as Steinhower's Hoagie Dogs ), Andy is an elderly gentleman who has befriended both our furry heroes and Charley, easily his best patrons (he could probably retire on the money he's made off their appetites). He even knows that they're not human, and isn't bothered by it in the least. Obviously, there's a tight bond between him and the mice--when Andy loses his restaurant at Limburger's crooked casino, the mice eagerly head there to get it back for him. After all, if Andy loses his diner, then no more hoagie dogs! Ahhhh! To this date, the mice still dine at his restaurant on a frequent basis, often getting free snacks and root beer. SWEET GEORGIE BROWN Episodes Seen In: Actually, this radio personality has only been seen once, in "Vicious Cycles", but he's been heard in many episodes, including "Rock & Ride!", "The Masked Motorcyclist", and "Road Ravens" The Biker Mice love listening to their favorite heavy metal music on the radio, so it's no surprise that their favorite DJ is also one of the most frequently recurring characters on the series: Sweet Georgie Brown, the mixmaster at WSGB radio in Chicago. With a southern California accent and an excellent taste in music, Sweet Georgie immediately caught the mice's ears when they first heard him on their first night on Earth. Sort of a Basil Exposition of the series, Sweet Georgie pops up frequently to deliver, via a brief news bulletin, important info about whatever Limburger is up to. KING ARTHUR AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE Episodes Seen In: "Biker Knights of the Round Table" Parts One through Three Did I actually just type that? Did the Biker Mice actually end up making friends with the Once and Future King and his men? Yup. When Lawrence Limburger traveled into Medieval England to try and find deposits of tin ore, the Biker Mice found themselves first facing off against and then befriending King Arthur and his knights. Little of the classic Camelot was explored during this episode--there was no relationship between Guinevere and Lancelot for example--but most of the characters remained relatively intact. Arthur, wielding Excalibur, was a proud king who flatly refused to sell his land to Lawrence Limburger, but was willing to bend to the rules of chivalry when the Plutarkian forced him into a joust for it. Lancelot, brave and gallant, had a definite eye for Charley, causing Vinnie no end to consternation until the mice returned to Chicago. Guinevere played a bit part, although the refined lady did show Charley that the refined, gentle Camelot of stories was just that--a story. The real one was full of slobs, bad manners, and food-fights. Eldred, Arthur's nephew, also put in an appearance, but was referred to only as his nephew, not his son. Morgan LeFay, his mother, was there as well, but no relationship was mentioned between them. She was merely his sorceress (more on them in the villains section). MANUELO As Seen In: "The Pits" Woe is Manuelo. All he ever wanted was to do was to save up money enough to open his own up his own store. But during his time as a shop clerk in Chicago, he was taken prisoner by the Pit Crew during a robbery and forced into slavery. For two years, he toiled in the Pits, beaten and tormented by the Pit Boss on a daily basis. As time passed, his hopes of ever seeing the world above faded to nothing. Then, one day, a pair of new slaves showed up in the Pits: Throttle and Modo, drug down there trying to stop the Pit Crew from holding up the Meatpacker's Bank. They ended up in chains, as did Manuelo, but when the two of them witnessed the abuse the human suffered, they struck back against the Pit Boss. Eventually, with Vinnie's help, they were able to get Manuelo to safety. They later gave him the $50,000 reward Lawrence Limburger had promised as a reward for anyone who could bring him the Biker Mice, dead or alive. Manuelo hasn't been seen since, but that's okay--he's had enough trial and hardship in his life. By now, he's probably already started up his own store (or wasted all the cash on Beanie Babies). Interestingly, Manuelo is the only major Hispanic character to show up during the series. Main basic information episodes in-depth fun MAIN