Ruby:
The smart, sassy, heroine of the series (which without her would have no name at all). Very seldom, if not never seen without her trusty Smith-Attache Godzilla Blaster (which she replaced with the new improved Godzilla Blunderbust Blaster in Ruby 3, for defensive purposes). One might question her title’s true meaning, but after 6 full adventures and four pilot episodes, Ruby had shown that she is good at what she does, whatever that entails.
After snuffing every last one ("I hope") of the Slimies near the end of Ruby 1, Ruby departed Summa Nulla, headed for no aforementioned destinations. By a bizarre coincidence, she takes a vacation to her home planet at the same time the corporation of MGMG (Metro-Galactic Media Gargantuan) is trying desperately to cover up the disappearance of TJ Teru.
Though she never meets her, Ruby assists Ruby 2 in solving the mysteries behind all these screwy facts, sneaking into the top-secret machine called the Medium at the MRC (Motivational Research Center). When the Slimies (hired to rub her out unawares) start attacking from all sides, Ruby unintentionally opens a "window" and escapes, not before informing her forced companion that Rodant Kapoor wasn’t responsible for the crimes that were pinned upon him.
How Ruby actually comes out of the "window" is uncertain, but she appears, good as new, at the start of Ruby 3, in Magnifico, City of Malls. She is hired to find the source of the Dark Force called Zumzamin by Man Ray, a representative of the Aurorian Embassy. On the way, Ruby meets a naïve young girl named Inanna, who embarks on a quest of her own to discover the meaning of the seven symbols on an amulet given to her by her departed father; the Scuzzies, a group of high-tech punks; the Concerto Grosso, an underworld syndicate greatly against the Scuzz; and the eccentric inhabitants of The Orchids of Osmos and the Floating Cities of Osmos.
In the final attack on the City of Malls, Ruby, Inanna and Kapoor are trapped in the control chambers below the city, but just manage to escape into the Invisible World. There, Ruby meets an old friend from Ruby 1: Monet, the Aurorian, and he shows her the ultimate source of the Dark Force, the City of Zumzamin. Inside the walls of the city of illusions and reflections, Ruby hears the terrifying plans in which Zumzamin has allied with the Concerto Grosso and plans to infiltrate the media. How Ruby resolves this is never explained, but her awareness is enough to cause a significant impact.
Ruby returns from the invisible world in her aerocar, Mustafa, and the whole gang has a final fling at the digital circus, setting the stage for Ruby 4. In the beginning, Ruby is hired to find the four Moon Coins of Sonto Lore, having been given the first as a sort of a lead. After traveling to Terra and Arjaka-Koonka and back (then making a relay trip to the latter in a failed attempt to find TJ Teru), Ruby, Teru, And/Or and Kapoor all end up with one coin each, and all four of them are drawn up to the fourth moon of Summa Nulla, Sonto Lore.
Through a series of events too complex to launch into right now, Sonto Lore crashes into Summa Nulla with Ruby still on it. At the same time, the planet splits into two Summa Nullas, one 3-D and the other 5-D. Ruby becomes an inhabitant of the 5-D S. N. and remains that way, carefree and happy until Ruby 5.
After she is hired by Coonstar Boostah of the Awakening Archipelago and Toots Mutant tells her how everyone just "fell back down to earth," it’s obvious that some good times just don’t last. After uncovering the mysteries of the Land of Zoots and meeting the "Wizard of Zoots" and forgetting the experience entirely (disappointing, eh?), when Teru asks why he can’t announce the end of the adventure, Ruby replies:
"Maybe because there is no end."
And so that statement is proved in Ruby 6: The Illusionati, in which Ruby travels to a world inhabited by pear-shaped life-forms to solve a case to prove the existance of a secret organization to the odd inhabitants of the planet. As always, she emerges victorious, changed, and ready for more. The question is, will the next adventure be a fraction?
TJ Teru:
One of the best-know archeologists on Summa Nulla. Though his grandfather was much better, Teru still takes pride in his reputation. His fetish for digging up Nulian cities is prominent in nearly all the Ruby series (even though he has only played three of the Nulian game machines, whereas Ruby has played at least four).
Another of Teru’s "fetishes" is the one he has for female androids. His one true "playmate," Angel Lips, makes an appearance in Ruby 1 and 3, said to have run down and died afterwards. This must have been a hard event, but not hard enough, apparently, after Teru purchases a new android named Angel Eyes in Ruby 5 and falls in love with her quickly. However, he breaks up with her in Ruby 6, leaving the door open for And/Or to enter. He even falls in love with a real woman...not a human, though, but a pear-shaped Illuboo of the planet Illuboo Roi, but as Ruby remarks, "It was a start."
Teru has also had at least one other relationship in his life (human this time) with a girl named Stella. Stella is first mentioned in Ruby 2 as some kind of silly joke, then again in Ruby 3, when Teru encounters his past, who re-informs him of his feelings about Stella. She was apparently too intelligent for Teru, according to what his past tells him, but what really happened between the two of them is unclear.
And/Or:
A young tecchie of the nomadic Digital Circus, one of the few main characters to make an appearance in the pilot episodes. His youth is quite pronounced, since he frequently remarks that television was "before his time." He is very pious in all things related to Nikola Tesla (especially in Ruby 4), and isn’t afraid to spread his beliefs with Ruby and many others.
And/Or always proves to be helpful in the Ruby series; he helps repair Angel Lips in Ruby 1 (then again after Ruby blasts her), provides Ruby 2 with a rocket ship and a defense system (which doesn’t work), exchanges ideas on how to shut down Magnifico in Ruby 3, helps accelerate the evolution of the whole planet in Ruby 4 and helps infiltrate the Ubiquitous RoboWorks in Ruby 5. He tends to be a little naïve at times, always curious about new technology and wise in the ways, but definately an interesting character, and the series would be missing a space without him.
In a surprising twist, And/Or falls in love with Teru's new android, "Her Angelness", in Ruby 6, proving that his fascination with female androids in Ruby 1 hasn't changed much at all.
Rodant Kapoor:
The rat-like humanoid who first hires Ruby 1 on her first case, as well as Ruby 2. He is well-known for his sneakiness and his sneaky little laugh and especially his "Rodant! Not Rodent!" line ("When will they never stop getting laughs from that stupid line!"). Kapoor has certainly been through a lot. He’s nearly been shot by Scuzzies, he’s nearly been blown up (also by the Scuzzies), nearly been eaten by a swamp monster on Arjaka-Koonka, been a temporary inhabitant of the fifth dimension, started his own detective agency and masqueraded as a clown on a planet of pear-shaped aliens.
Kapoor apparently married some time before Ruby 3 to a woman named Imogene Kapoor. Imogene’s appearance is uncertain (Ruby said "That’s Kapoor’s wife, but she looks almost normal."), but her son, Junior Kapoor, apparently looks a lot like his papa. We haven’t heard of Imogene or Junior since Ruby 3, though.
Kapoor has recently gotten his own adventure, without Ruby, And/Or or any of the other "usuals." The planet on which this adventure (Ol’ Cactus Kapoor) takes place is uncertain; it seems a lot like earth, but it never says.
Kapoor's latest escapade takes place on the planet Illuboo Roi, wherein he helps solve the mystery of the Illusionati, and like the adventure before that, he succeeds in redeeming his sneaky ways and becoming even more of an irritation.
Mother Kapoor:
Kapoor’s mother, always called "Mother Kapoor." She is constantly whacking her son with a frying pan ("Somebody’s gotta do it!") and poking her sharp nose into his schemes. In Ruby 2, she tells Ruby 2 the truth behind her son’s selling out the Buldada, and has been of great help to Ruby 1, mostly in finding her sneaky son, wherever he is hiding.
In Ruby 5, both she and Kapoor are kidnapped by a gang of Terminator Teddy Bears and taken to an island in the Awakening Archipelago. The adventure never says that she and her son are returned home, but hopefully they have.
Mother Kapoor also plays a minor role in a couple of the short stories in Ol’ Cactus Kapoor.
Moliere:
Chief of the Moles of the Zeeboos Jungle. He was a great help to Ruby in her adventures (as was his girlfriend, Molene). He and his people were responsible for the excavation of one of the many ancient Nulian cities (like Teru, only digging from the ground up).
Moliere also was a tremendous help in rescuing Ruby, along with Teru. However, near the end of Ruby 1, Xavier Cugat Month comes along (moles only hibernate during the months with an "x" in them), and we never hear from Moliere again.
We do, however, hear from a couple of his relatives, Mole (pronounced Mo-lay, yes, like the Mexican sauce) and Molecule (mole-eh-cule), a brother and a cousin, respectively, in Ruby 3 and 5. Other than that, we haven’t heard from the Chief.
Angel Lips:
Teru’s former android "playmate," a perfect female humanoid body but hardly any brains. It turns out that she is actually quite smart, according to Ruby. After disguising herself as Ruby and getting the Slimies on Ruby’s back, Angel Lips mentions the Dark Star and The Black City to her, and Ruby sets out in search of them.
When she meets Angel Lips’ creator, Harold Matisse, he tells Ruby that Angel Lips made a "soft error": she was looking for one thing (The Dark Star) but accidentally found another (The Black City), a new nesting ground for the Slimies.
Angel Lips disappears near the end of Ruby 1, and is only mentioned in the following adventures (with the exception of the life-like vision Teru sees of her in Ruby 3).
The Tookah:
Former moderator of an abandoned city on Summa Nulla (unknown name), three eyes, four tentacles, a thin blue mustache and wearing a red fez. He gave a little help to Ruby on her mission, but at times was just a bit annoying. After Teru’s brief conversation with him about Ruby’s disappearance, a Slimy blasts the Tookah, and the Tookah puffs up and explodes. The present moderator of the city is currently unknown.
The Tookah:
Not to be confused with the Tookah above, this Tookah is the former head of MGMG in Ruby 2, three eyes, four tentacles, a green mustache and a blue toupee. He blackmailed Kapoor to find out what the Buldada and Ruby found out about the windows. Later, he tried to rub out Ruby 1, thinking she was investigating the disappearance of TJ Teru, although she was innocent.
When Ruby 2 and Teru manage to squeeze some information out of him, the Tookah says that he wanted to find out about the windows because they could mean windows into whole new worlds, and consequently new consumers to sell their worthless products too. But before he can get any further into their conversation, the Slimies break in and blast the Tookah, who puffs up and explodes. Again.
The Android Sisters:
A typical pair of "dumb" frankies well known for their outrageous, mind-damaging speak-songs, performed in the Digital Circus in Ruby 1, 3 AND 5. At times, Ruby thinks that they aren’t that dumb...but most of the time she says that she just likes The Android Sisters.
Oftentimes, the Android Sister’s speak-songs are woven into the events of the actual stories, so we have no choice but to listen to their songs if we want to make sense out of what’s going on. I understand that a lot of people like the Android Sisters, but I'll probably have to listen to them for quite a while before I find out what is so great about them.
Only the odd-numbered Ruby adventures have included The Android Sisters so far. So we probably won’t be hearing the Sisters...for a while.
OnOffOn and OffOnOff:
Two female "techno-witches" of the Utopias. Even though they trapped Ruby when she tried to investigate what they were up to, they turned out to be a useful source of information. OnOffOn and OffOnOff also helped Ruby infiltrate the Lazar’s Android Works to find out who programmed Angel Lips (and consequently escape from the police).
Since their last escapade, we haven’t heard from the two techno-witches. Yet.
Monet:
A Twilight Master from the planet Aurora. A brief friend of Ruby’s until his apparent death by the Slimies, who attacked him to get to Ruby (Ruby 1). From this point on, we only hear brief mentions of the Aurorian until Ruby 3, Part 2, when Ruby actually meets Monet in the invisible world.
When she meets her old friend, it seems as if Ruby really falls in love with Monet, she trusts him, he shows her the city of Zumzamin and shows her to slow time to a very low level, letting her walk unseen through the streets of the city.
Their relationship is cut short when Monet leaves her, however. Ruby is very crushed, but still able to move on, left with the knowledge that "It is possible to give yourself to someone without losing yourself."
Moonbeam:
Monet’s sister, also an Aurorian (obviously). She was the first to make plans to avenge his death, along with Ruby who (reluctantly) joined her. Since the big shootout with the Slimies, it is uncertain where Moonbeam is now, and whether she is still alive and has learned the truth about her brother and the Slimies. It is possible.
Toots Mutant:
A 1/3 reptoid, 2/3 human mix, former leader of the Zoot Mutants (a gang of techno-punks). A big help to Ruby in Ruby 1 (after she fought her way through the usual line after line of punks). It is uncertain what happened to Toots in the timeframe from the end of Ruby 1 to Ruby 4, but she is quite changed when Ruby meets her again.
Toots Mutant meets Ruby with all her implants removed and wearing...skirts. Her excuse is "I got soft," but there is a deeper meaning behind her change. With the evolution of Summa Nulla, the gang of punks obviously grew uneasy, and Toots suddenly came to the realization that they were so full of chips that they couldn’t even think for themselves. So naturally, she split.
It’s quite a surprise when it turns out that she is the semi-reptoid E. Gad’s sister, and they have their joyous reunion and all, but then E. disappears from the scene, and Toots is on her own again.
We meet Toots again in Ruby 5, working out in an old Holi-Gym called Robo Eddie’s. She agrees to join Ruby in her mission to find out who created the Land of Zoots (the name naturally brought Toots to mind), after a few humanoid robots attack them and Ruby blasts the whole gym. However, Toots grows increasingly worried about what the media is scheming, and about one third through Ruby 5, she calls Ruby to tell her: "I quit, I’m out." We haven't heard from Toots since then.
Harold Matisse:
The programmer of Angel Lips, the android, an employee of the Lazar’s Android Works. He is not unlike the artist Henri Matisse: eccentric, isolated and slightly paranoid (okay, maybe he’s not exactly like Henri). After Ruby blasts a few of his animal droids, he reluctantly tells her everything she wanted to know about Angel Lips, The Black City and The Dark Star. Since this possibly caused some mental anguish for him, he has had an uncertain future, and we have yet to hear of him again.
The Buldada:
A gentle, Zen-like group of creatures that inhabit the Ossyrian Islands. One of their number hired Ruby 2 to find out who or what was using their minds to observe what was going on in their world through their eyes. Throughout the adventures of Ruby 2, the Buldadian who hired her is having occasional chats with a mysterious woman who calls herself "Big Money." She eventually double-crosses Kapoor, who was being blackmailed by her at the same time, by telling the Buldada that he sold them out, which is true. The Buldada (or Buldadian) visits Kapoor and gives him a fair warning, and shortly afterwards Kapoor leaves for the Great Zeezeeboos.
When everything is eventually resolved, the Buldadian has one last conversation with "Big Money" before vanishing through a "window," and we haven’t heard from him or his people since.
Sam the Bardroid:
Owner of a bar called The Thick Lip in Kismet (The Thick Pucker in Ruby 2), the inflatable city. He strangely seems to appear in every sleazy bar Ruby and Ruby 2 visit on the planet, "wherever you go, there’s always a ‘Sam’ with the same, stupid jokes." Sam also has a brief conversation with Angel Lips in Ruby 1, and doesn’t raise an eyebrow when Angel Lips tells him that she told the Slimies where they could find Ruby, just to get even. They’re pretty unreceptive, these old droids.
Sam makes a reappearance in Ruby 2, this time with his wife, Sal. The two robots pop up every now and then with incredibly bland sitcoms and incomprehensible jokes in other major universal dialects. Neither Sam nor Sal appear in Ruby 3, same with the two adventures that follow it. Oh well. There’s always Roger Robot...
"Big Money:"
A seductive female humanoid heard only over the telephones in Ruby 2. She was another person who was responsible for getting Rodant Kapoor in such a fix that he was accused of hiring a group of Slimies to rub out Ruby 1. The strange thing is, all throughout the adventure, "Big Money" is having conversations with the Buldada, the very people she was trying to find out about. Near the end of Ruby 2, the Buldadian she was contacting all the time bids her farewell and vanishes through a "window," never to be seen again, so that kinda leaves "Big Money" hanging, doesn’t it?
The Boogerman:
The mucilaginous main character of a sci-fi movie series of the same name. Constantly chasing after a little boy and a girl named Teddy and Betty, respectively. Even though the Boogerman has been destroyed at least once at the end of the first movie, he keeps coming back, first in Return of the Boogerman and Revenge of the Boogerman (both of which Rodant Kapoor was forced to miss).
Kapoor apparently had an obsession for this disgusting show in Ruby 2, and tried everything to watch the sequels but in vain (mostly because of his mother). However, when Julio "Hot Stuff" Samches, Mother Kapoor’s newfound friend from the MRC, began quoting lines from the Boogerman with his Tico and Pico hand-puppets, even she had to yell at him to make him stop (but when Julio attacked the Digital Dentist after he came out of the set and attacked Mother Kapoor, she proclaimed that her honor was restored).
Pastor Pizzaro:
The impressionistic pastor who broadcasted his brief sermons from a sheep-filled pasture (get it?) on HoliVision throughout the adventures of Ruby 2. His preaching mostly focuses on the lighter parts of religion here in this age of techno-advertising. Apparently, this became too much for him when some unidentified person lit a firecracker underneath him and the good pastor exploded. It is unknown whether the culprit will ever be apprehended. Possibly everyone thinks things are better without him.
Mother Koan:
One of a whole squadron of metallic, talking Koans And/Or, the techie was working on in the beginning of Ruby 2. The Mother Koan is actually a small rocketship that looks like "an aluminum dunce cap with big feet", which And/Or gave Ruby for her expedition to the great Boozyboozyboos. After the microphaser And/Or also provided Ruby 2 with turned out to be useless, the Mother Koan got caught in a Wrap-Around and eventually wrapped around herself and blew up. Shortly afterwards, Ruby 2 got caught in it, and escaped by her own means. My guess is that And/Or stopped work on the Koans after Ruby 2 returned, quite angry at him but not totally against him.
Horace Wimpy:
The former director of the MRC (Motivational Research Center). A very bland individual who just managed to let Teru and Ruby 1 enter the machine inside the MRC called the Medium, exposing all of MGMG’s most private secrets.
After Ruby 1 managed to find out the truth of what was going on out of Rodant Kapoor (the very thing the Tookah warned Horace Wimpy about), the director was taken off-planet to an unknown fate, and the Tookah offered Kapoor the position as the new director. Well, that’s that.
Ozymandius:
Known as the most famous synthesizer player in the universe, having made two visits to Summa Nulla. His performances aren’t really anything more than fist-fights one-on-one with the synthesizer’s computer, but the audience loves him anyway. In his most previous performance, Ozymandius got his brain fried in an attempt to mentally control his synthesizer’s computer, consequently the computer did the rest of the show unattended. Ozymandius’s current health and status is unknown.
Count Velcro:
An eccentric inhabitant of Kismet, owner of an inflatable palace with tractor treads and one inflatable tower. More of a hindrance than a help to Ruby 2, who visited him per Sam the Bardroid’s advice. His palace has no stairs, so he provides visitors and himself with Velcro Booties to allow the wearer to climb up the walls to the upper stories and the tower.
Surprisingly, the Count actually rescued Ruby 2 when she was getting caught in a Wrap-Around in the Great Boozyboozyboos (the desert), but they both got trapped in the Wrap-Around in the end, so it doesn’t make much of a difference. The Count’s current status is unknown.
Julio "Hot Stuff" Samches:
An android from the inner workings of The Medium in Ruby 2. Ironically, only Ruby 1 meets him and immediately wishes she hadn’t. His "occupation" is an Android Latin Lover, and he shows this by peaking bilingually to Mother Kapoor, who doesn’t know a word or phrase in Spanish.
He is important, however, since he is responsible for relaying Ruby 1’s message that Rodant Kapoor was not responsible for hiring the Slimies to his mother and giving her more than her share of attention, much to Rodant’s irritation. He is admonished for picking on Kapoor and fighting over the HoliVision with him (but naturally, Kapoor bears the brunt of his mother's wrath).
This may have been the end for Julio if his mistress hadn’t been attacked by the Digital Dentist several episodes later. Julio avenged Mother Kapoor by attacking the Digital Dentist, and she tells him that her honor has been restored. But when "Hot Stuff" starts tormenting Rodant again, Mother Kapoor hits him with a frying pan and exiles him to a broomcloset. This is the last time we hear mention of the android in this or any other Ruby adventure.
The Digital Dentist:
The host of a very stupid, very silly 3D kids’ show that makes an appearance several times in Ruby 2. Dr. D-D (as he is called) is known for the notoriety of coming right out of the HoliVision and catching some poor unsuspecting viewer and drilling out one or more of their teeth.
Mother Kapoor was one of these victims (almost), but her attacker was put to justice by Julio "Hot Stuff" Samches, who attacked the Digital Dentist and restored his loyalty to Mother Kapoor. The Digital Dentist’s current status is unknown.
Inanna:
A young, innocent blonde girl that Ruby meets in the beginning of Ruby 3. Her mission turns out to be an entirely different branch from Ruby’s usual case. Inanna is determined to find out the meaning behind the seven symbols on the amulet given to her by her father before his death seven years ago. She journeys to Erishkegal, the dark city on the underside of the planet, where she encounters the ruler of the lands: the Maharini.
After passing through all of the gates except the last, Inanna is told by the Maharini that they are sisters, and that their father is not dead. When Inanna is released from her certain death by the Maharini’s henchman, the Inky, she journeys to find her father in the invisible world. When she finds her father, he tells her that he must kill her sister, whose name, it turns out, is Erishkegal.
Inanna is terrified by what her father tells her, but in the end, she does what he asks, realizing that when he said to kill Erishkegal, he meant to kill the separation between them. In doing so, Inanna sacrifices half of her light and becomes half dark, and Erishkegal becomes half light, with no separation between the two sisters. After such a climax, we haven’t heard anything from Inanna since Ruby 3. I guess she deserves a rest.
Man Ray:
A representative of the Aurorian Embassy on Summa Nulla. A close friend of Monet of Ruby 1 and 3, He hired Ruby to find the force of Zumzamin in Ruby 3 and also assisted in the assault upon Magnifico, City of Malls.
At first, Man Ray is a typical, proud Aurorian, but near the end of Ruby 3, he actually has a sense of humor (when one of Ruby’s party says "I love the circus," Man Ray adds "Me too."). Since then, we haven’t heard from Man Ray or the planet Aurora.
Mustafa:
Ruby’s aerocar, an aerodynamic version of a ’49 Mercury, "with stubby wings and a tail."
Even though he is a machine (and a high-tech one, at that), Mustafa is very wise, and he
takes the credit for implanting that haunting saying "True reality is like a dream" in Ruby’s
head during the whole course of
Mustafa isn’t mentioned in Ruby 1. It is possible that Ruby 1 purchased Mustafa between Ruby 2 and 3, or maybe she just had him at home all along. Mustafa is only mentioned in Ruby 4 and 5, one time only in each. That’s probably because he had his turn in Ruby 3, where he proved himself to be the wise aerocar that he was at the time.
Father Mojo:
A dweller of the monastery known as The Orchids of Osmos and teacher of Rodant Kapoor when he ran away from his family to live in the monastery. When Ruby informed Kapoor’s mother where he was staying, Father Mojo gently informed him that he had to stay with his family, where he belonged.
Throughout the adventure, Father Mojo gives simple words of advice to Ruby, but the whole atmosphere of Osmos remains, even in the city of Zumzamin, where Ruby constantly encounters reflections of her memories.
Father Mojo even makes a reappearance in Ruby 4, on the moon of Sonto Lore, where he teaches Kapoor how to levitate. Since then, there is no record of where Father Mojo has been last, or where he is at the present.
Sister Holopo:
An inhabitant of the Floating Cities of Osmos, part of the Sisterhood. She helps Ruby a little on her journey, although her feelings towards Ruby after she accidentally attracts a gang of Scuzzies who blast holes in the inflatable block she and Ruby are standing on, causing it to spiral down to ground level are questionable.
Sister Holopo is also a friend of Father Mojo, and she visits him at a few points in Ruby 3. Her Sisterhood is also the only group of people with the knowledge of an ancient Nulian game hidden in a cave in the side of a nearby mountain. Holopo allowed Ruby to see and play it, and gave her some knowledge on what they thought it meant. Since then, we haven’t heard of Holopo, the inflatable city or Osmos.
Mr. Concertina:
The head of the underworld syndicate, The Concerto Grosso, the mind responsible for the creation of Magnifico. He was naturally a little peeved when his city collapsed, but it turns out that he is working for Zumzamin, the two-faced god of good and evil. Ruby is allowed unlimited credit from the syndicate (and the credit pin she uses makes a reappearance in Ruby 4, so the syndicate is obviously still up-and-going). Aside from occasional references, we haven’t heard much from Mr. Concertina or the Society of Malls.
The Tookah 2:
An arms dealer that Ruby meets midway through Ruby 3, three eyes, four tentacles, a blue mustache and a big felt sombrero. He sells Ruby an updated version of her blaster: a Smith-Attache Godzilla Blunderbust Blaster, after going through several blasters, with Ruby’s only request being "I like them loud."
Why he wasn’t called the Tookah 3 and the one before him the Tookah 2 is another mystery in ZBS. I can’t say much more.
The Big Scuzz:
The general term for the head of the gang of Scuzzies, arch-enemies of the Concerto Grosso. Though both gangs served Zumzamin, while they were fighting with each other, they served no one. So the Dark Force gave Rodant Kapoor, a nobody longing to be a "somebody" the ability to shut down Magnifico with the pull of a switch.
This piqued the curiosity of the Scuzzies, who made Kapoor The Big Scuzz in order to make a deal between the two gangs. Kapoor was nearly blown apart by the Scuzzies after he had served his purpose and was starting to get a bit power-hungry, but Father Mojo saved him in an unclear way. Since then, we haven’t heard any news about the Scuzzies.
Marimba Mombo:
A tall, three-eyed humanoid who first meets Ruby while he is in the guise of a coin merchant. He gives Ruby the first moon coin of Sonto Lore and hires her to find the other three. He is actually an archeologist, as he tells her, and he even saves Ruby’s life when she is being strangled by a reptoid who had previously been tailing her.
Even though he promises to pay handsomely for Ruby’s work, Marimba Mombo never appears in Ruby 4 or any other adventure again. Ah, C’est la vivres...
Nikola Tesla:
Earth-born scientist, one of many responsible for increasing the evolution of Summa Nulla. His first assistant is And/Or, the young techie whom he keeps calling his son. Together, they try to build a light machine to accelerate the evolution, but when that fails, Tesla and And/Or create another machine on the moon of Sonto Lore, which causes the planet to divide into two, a 3D S.N. and a 5D S.N. Unfortunately, the vibrations caused by the machine cause the moon to crash into 5D Summa Nulla and merge to become one planetary body.
Tesla also played a very minor role in Ruby 1, when he made an appearance and gave his blessing to the audience at the Digital Circus, but he hasn’t made any other appearances since Ruby 4.
Rubina:
An innocent child that Ruby meets in Ruby 4. What happens is this: Ruby flips the first coin of Sonto Lore in the air, and she slows it down as it falls, but just before it hits the ground, time suddenly stops and Rubina appears, holding the coin. It is possible that the coin is a link into the fifth dimension, since Rubina’s home is on Sonto Lore, and all she wants from Ruby is for her to play with her. Ruby is a bit reluctant, but finally accepts when she is trapped on Rubina’s moon.
Near the end of Ruby 4, Rubina appears to collect the four moon coins, which Ruby, Teru, And/Or and Kapoor reluctantly give her, just so she can hide them again. Why? "So people can see who they really are."
Francois:
A French robot with a curly wire mustache who makes his debut in Ruby 4. He turns out to be a great companion to Teru (a replica of him, anyway), and sticks with him through thick and thin, even when he gets blown to bits with only his head intact.
Francois makes a reappearance in Ruby 5, waiting on tables at the Café Garcon, just as he was in the beginning of Ruby 4. Taking an idea from Teru, Francois creates a bubble large enough for the entire café to fit inside and somehow transports the café inside the bubble, making the Café Garcon fully mobile. The last we heard of Francois was in Ruby 5, and I’m not sure if we’ll hear from him again in the future. (The sad reason for this is his voice actor's move to the west coast.)
Zandero:
Rubina’s troll-like companion, possibly an inhabitant of Sonto Lore. He looks like some kind of a troll and speaks in gibberish, but as Ruby and the others spens more and more time with him, somehow what he says starts to make sense. Rubina calls him a trolongo, which basically translates to "some kind of troll." We haven’t heard of him or Rubina since Ruby 4.
E. Gad:
A 2/3 reptoid, 1/3 human mix, part of an experiment to see if human and reptoid could be intermixed. His sister, Toots Mutant, and he were separated at birth, E. Gad stayed on Arjaka-Koonka and Toots discovered the Threshold, the quickest way off the planet. He became the curator of Moa-Anadoa, the city of museums on Karkaja-Koonka.
When Ruby and her companions arrived on the planet and tried to steal back a stolen artifact from Summa Nulla, E. Gad confronted them. Ruby and the others managed to escape, but Teru was left behind, imprisoned on the planet. He developed a forced friendship with E. Gad, who eventually told him all the secrets of his dark past and inadvertently provided him with means of escape. E Gad somehow followed Teru back to his planet, where he met Toots Mutant, unaware that she was his sister. After a brief showdown with Teru which was halted due to Sonto Lore crashing into the planet, E. Gad reunited with his sister, Toots. We haven’t seen him since then.
The Mino Loonga:
A race of creatures who serve the Dark. One of this race assisted Ruby in passing through The Threshold en route to Karjaka-Koonka. The people do not have individual names. They are also the operators of The Threshold and are experts at keeping to the shadows. We have only heard of them in Ruby 4.
The Creeper:
A mysterious creature of unknown origin, currently an inhabitant of Summa Nulla. He is so thin that he is nearly 2-dimensional, and his occupation is negotiating with the Dark Force. Not much else is known about him, other than the fact that he helped Ruby in Ruby 4.
Coonstar Bootstah:
The president of the Awakening Archipelago. She hired Ruby in the beginning of Ruby 5 to find out who was recreating the mythical world called the Land of Zoots, cautioning her not to give up. Shortly after this, the president was kidnapped by the Confederacy of Corporations and replaced with an identical female android of the Isis Class.
The android quarantined the islands and was about to cause a social breakdown until Ruby and the rest of the gang arrived on the scene and returned the president to her original position.
The Big Mollusk:
The last living link to the mystical, scholarly Circle of Hashibaba at the time of Ruby 5. Toots Mutant referred Ruby to him, saying that they were the probable creators of the Land of Zoots. He yielded some helpful information to Ruby before a Slimy harpooned his shell. His dying words to Ruby were "Go see the Night Crawler." It doesn’t sound like much of a lead, but Ruby was able to solve the case from there.
Freddie Foo Foo:
The designer of the infamous Terminator Teddy Bears that tried to kill Ruby, Teru and even Kapoor. Freddie tried to keep Teru quiet by offering him an example of the latest, high-tech supermodel female android called the Isis class. Ruby was aware of this, and tried to find out if the android was a spy, but surprisingly, she isn’t. On the contrary, Angel Eyes was actually spying on her makers at the Ubiquitous Robo Works.
When Freddie Foo Foo discovers that his little Terminator Teddy Bears have created run off on their own, he tries to stop them, but unfortunately, the shrewdness of the "group-bear-mind" is too strong for him to break through, and when the Confederacy of Corporations kidnaps first President Bootstah and then Ruby, Angel Eyes manages to squeeze the truth out of Mr. Foo Foo, and since then, we haven’t heard anything from him or the corporation.
Angel Eyes:
A "gift" to Teru from the Ubiquitous Robo Works to ensure that he would tell no one about the "Terminator Teddy Bear Trouble." Named "Angel Eyes" partly in memory of Angel Lips, partly to provide a substitute for her risqué original name. She proves her loyalty to Teru by spying on her own maker to help find first President Bootstah, then Ruby.
In Ruby 6, Angel Eyes and Teru break up and Angel becomes And/Or's love, but amazingly, she loves Kapoor, and saves his life numerous times from the mysterious assassin, who is actually her own "employer." These acts of love turn out to be fatal, and Angel Eyes is "killed," but not before letting out one last piece of information to Kapoor to help find Ruby, who has once again disappeared without a trace.
The Wizard of Zoots:
A mysterious individual who is able to take any form that is necessary and enter people’s dreams. He is the being responsible for the spread of the Land of Zoots. He was also part of the Circle of Hashibaba. As the morphogenic fields that contained knowledge of the Land of Zoots grew, people who knew about the Land of Zoots continued to contribute to the field, and consequently the field grew more and more. Soon images from the Land of Zoots began to appear in the minds of people who had never even heard of the story, and the Wizard of Zoots was one of the key contributors.
After the mystery of the Land of Zoots was solved and Ruby and Teru met the Wizard, they left forgetting their ever meeting him. Not a satisfying ending for some, but as Ruby says: "Maybe there is no end."
Oop Boop:
A denizen of the planet Illuboo Roi who hired Ruby to expose a secrest organization called The Illusionati in Ruby 6. Although very helpful and supposedly benevolent, there was more to this pear-shaped person than met the eye, as Ruby found out.
Sue Foo:
A female Illuboo of Illuboo Roi, whom Teru meets and surprisingly becomes smitten with her. This is probably the first living creature that Teru ever had eyes for. However, their love was short-lived, and Sue Foo disappeared from Teru's life soon after his arrival on the planet, but leaving him with something that he probably won't forget easily.
Cream Puff:
A burly, bullish clown (supposedly an Illuboo, it's never said) who tries many times to kill Kapoor while the two of them were performing on Illuboo Roi, the number one man behind the true villian of the planet. He even hires Angel Eyes and implants a virus in her that ultimately leads to her destruction, and consequently his downfall, after being defeated by none other than Kapoor.