Charles Calvin, also referred to as Charlie by General Hubert Galeforce, is the deuteragonist of the Henry Stickmin series. He is the self-christened bold action man, and to many the best character in the game, he is an experienced veteran helicopter pilot who works for the Government, and one of the youngest. Although he is an experienced pilot, Charles has a history of humorously failing to assist Henry Stickmin, most famously when he crashes his helicopter in two fails.

Charles appears as the deuteragonist of Infiltrating the Airship and Completing the Mission, and the tritagonist of Fleeing the Complex. Depending on Henry's choices, Charles can become one of Henry's best friends, a neutral ally, or a minor antagonist. In routes where he and Henry are allies, Charles supports Henry from a safe distance in his helicopter while the latter risks his life infiltrating enemy territory, providing intel on the layout, hacking, transportation, "cover fire" and gadgets that Henry can use.

Charles is a fan favourite character and is one of the most popular characters in the series, due to his amiable personality and being enthusiastic about crashing his vehicles into things. He also seems to enjoy singing, and is also shown to be loyal to Galeforce. He is voiced by PuffballsUnited, the creator of the series. His name was originally going to be Charlie but Puffballs accidentally changed it to Charles, which was eventually left as is. Despite this Hubert Galeforce calls Charles by the name Charlie, as a nickname instead.

Contents

• 1Bios

• 2Profile

  • 2.1Appearance

  • 2.2Roles

    • 2.2.1Infiltrating the Airship

    • 2.2.2Fleeing the Complex

    • 2.2.3Completing the Mission

• 3Personality and Relationships

• 4Killed Victims

• 5Quotes

• 6Trivia

• 7References

Bios

• Infiltrating the Airship: A veteran helicopter pilot for the government. He's one of the youngest and most experienced pilots.

• Fleeing the Complex: He doesn't mind helping out an old ally, even if he's currently on a mission.

• Completing the Mission: He is experienced with multiple different types of flying vehicles. He gets brought in for special missions only.

Profile

Appearance

Charles wears a red headset throughout all his appearances. It is shown in Special BROvert Ops and Valiant Hero that Charles has red shoes. His headset suffered damage in Valiant Hero due to Charles crashing into the Toppat Orbital Station.

He has never been seen without his red headset. The headset has been shown to be a versatile communications device; able to call in reinforcements and communicate directly with phones.

Roles

“

Hey, good job there! Oh, uh, so we should probably look for something incriminating, something we can use to prove that they're criminals, you know? I mean... that's the whole point of this operation.

„― Charles to Henry about the Toppat Clan[src]

Charles appears as the deuteragonist of Infiltrating the Airship and Completing the Mission, and the tritagonist of Fleeing the Complex. Depending on Henry's choices, Charles can become one of Henry's best friends (if allied with the Government), a neutral ally (if Henry goes rogue), or a minor antagonist (if Henry becomes the leader of the Toppats or joins them).

In routes where he and Henry are allies, Charles supports Henry from a safe distance in his helicopter while the latter risks his life infiltrating enemy territory, providing intel on the layout, hacking, transportation, "cover fire" and gadgets that Henry can use.

In Infiltrating the Airship, Charles appears as:

• The deuteragonist of Government Supported Private Investigator.

• The tritagonist of Relentless Bounty Hunter.

• The secondary antagonist of Rapidly Promoted Executive.

• A supporting antagonist of Pure Blooded Thief.

In Fleeing the Complex, Charles appears as:

• The deuteragonist of International Rescue Operative.

In Completing the Mission, Charles appears as:

• The deuteragonist of Valiant Hero and Special BROvert Ops.

• The unseen deuteragonist of Cleaned 'em Out.

• The tritagonist of Triple Threat and Pardoned Pals.

• The tetratagonist of Master Bounty Hunter.

• The secondary antagonist of Toppat Recruits and Toppat 4 Life.

• The unseen secondary antagonist of Toppat King.

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Infiltrating the Airship

Charles controls the military helicopter and leads Henry Stickmin through his mission to bring down the notorious Toppat Clan. Whether or not Charles is allied with Henry or not depends on the route taken by the player, he is allied with Henry in the "Government Supported Private Investigator" and "Relentless Bounty Hunter" endings, but is against him in the "Rapidly Promoted Executive" and "Pure Blooded Thief" endings.

Fleeing the Complex

Charles only appears in the "International Rescue Operative" ending. When Henry calls Charles, he remarks that he is on another mission, and is aware of The Wall, before agreeing to help some time later. He then instructs Henry to head outside and find a place for him to land. With Sten Villo in the way, Henry gets Charles to pull him off the ledge via a miniature helicopter. As he makes it to the roof, Henry finds Alex Kempter and Kerdrew Johensen guarding the helipad with a rocket launcher and rifle, and Charles lands right after Alex has been defeated, squashing Kerdrew in the process. He gestures to Henry, who boards the chopper, and they escape.

Completing the Mission

Charles can appear in a variety of different scenarios. In either of the "Government Supported Private Investigator" or "Relentless Bounty Hunter" endings from Infiltrating the Airship, and/or "International Rescue Operative" from Fleeing the Complex, he will be working with Henry as an ally. In "Pure-Blooded Thief" he is more neutral towards Henry but could be allied with him as shown in Pardoned Pals (PBT + CA), while in "Rapidly Promoted Executive" and "Toppat 4 Life" (RPE + PD), he is an enemy due to Henry being the leader of the Toppats.

Personality and Relationships

Main article for this page/section: Charles Calvin/Personality and Relationships

“

I've got the perfect plan... THIS IS THE GREATEST PLANNNNN!

„― Charles crashing his helicopter[src]

Charles about to crash his helicopter into the Airship.

Charles is a young and experienced pilot for the Government. In the Triple Threat route, he is able to stop his chopper mid-flight so the rotor blades don't chop up Henry Stickmin and Ellie Rose as they leave the sabotaged rocket. This is an incredibly difficult maneuver to pull off and he does it easily. Charles, Henry and Ellie each share a mutual friendship in Triple Threat and are all friends in Pardoned Pals. This is because, "Any friend of Henry's is a friend of mine."

Because of his abilities as a pilot, General Hubert Galeforce seems to always trust him with missions despite his history of hilariously failing to assist Henry, most famously when he crashes his helicopter in two fails. Despite his silliness and accident-prone tendencies, Charles is easily one of the more noble characters in the series, and is even willing to sacrifice himself for his allies as shown in the Valiant Hero route.

His answer to any problem he and Henry encounter throughout the series is to crash his helicopter into it. While it normally ends badly, in Completing the Mission, this both works for and against him when the resulting crash critically damages the station's core, leading to a series of events that results in Charles being unable to escape the station with Henry.

Compared to both Henry and Ellie, whose morality are dependent on the players' choice, Charles is the only one in the main trio who's outright noble and heroic from the get-go. As such, Charles will only help out Henry in routes where he aligns with the Government.

Charles has a tendency to try and make small talk and stumble his words which shows that he's more sociable than Henry and much more nonchalant about missions despite the known severity of them. He also has plenty of background knowledge on Government weapons and other such tools.

If Henry sides with the Government, Charles shows complete confidence and trust in Henry in any missions they team up in, showing how loyal he is to a close friend. He is also shown to take things literally at times, demonstrated when he shut the power of the Airship off when asked, without realizing the airship needs power to fly.

Charles is amiable, sociable, half-witted yet intelligent, and an above average pilot who firmly sticks with his side, but does have a more open mind considering he put his faith in Henry in the Pardoned Pals route despite Henry going rogue and stealing the Romanian Ruby, and gave Henry a chance to side with him over joining the Toppats or surrendering to the Wall.

Charles is also able to remain calm in stressful or dangerous situations, keeping his composure and not sounding worried. A good example of this is in the Special BROvert Ops route, where he loses control of his helicopter while trying to snipe someone, and doesn't sound panicked in the slightest while trying to regain control; Henry actually looks more worried than Charles sounds. Charles is also very optimistic as seen in the Valiant Hero ending, where he assures Henry that he will find a way out of the Toppat Orbital Station, which is about to explode.

He is also shown to be easily distracted as shown when he comments on a duck flying into the airship’s propellers, inadvertently blowing Henry’s cover, without him realizing this, indicating that he is not always focused on the present situation.

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Killed Victims

This list shows the victims Charles has killed:

• Hatchman (GSPI; Caused)

• Matthew Norbert (GSPI; Caused)

• Benjamin Bourseious (GSPI; Caused)

• Sten Villo (IRO)

• Kerdrew Johensen (IRO)

• The Leprechaun (VH; Caused)

• Unknown Silver Hat Toppat (VH; Caused)

• Jacked Hughman (VH; Direct or Caused)

• Himself (VH; Sacrifice)

• Several Toppat Clan Members (VH; Caused)

Quotes

Main article for this page/section: Charles Calvin/Quotes

Trivia

• PuffballsUnited confirmed that his name was originally going to be Charlie but he accidentally changed it to Charles, which was eventually left as it is.

• Alongside Henry, Charles is just as susceptible to all manner of misfortune and comical deaths whenever he's trying to assist him.

• Despite being an Ace Pilot, the fails that involve him are pretty much the result of him screwing up the aviation tasks assigned to him.

• Charles is not proficient with weapons and can be inaccurate at times:

  • In Valiant Hero, he was unable to shoot any of the three Toppats before they were beamed into the station.

  • In Government Supported Private Investigator, if asked to use a gatling gun, he unwittingly also kills Henry along with Wilhelm and he didn't even hit the door.

  • In International Rescue Operative, when Henry demands him to snipe Sten Vilo, he wounds up hitting Henry instead.

  • In Special BROvert Ops, Charles fails to snipe Sven with an Infrared Rifle when requested by Henry, and subsequently crashes his chopper.

• In Infiltrating the Airship (the legacy version), Charles piloted a UH-1 Iroquois. In the remaster and the legacy version of Fleeing the Complex, he uses the UH-60 Black Hawk.

• Charles only befriends Henry in Government Supported Private Investigator, though he also helps in all Relentless Bounty Hunter endings due to Henry's government allegiance.

• Charles is referenced on the steam page for the Henry Stickmin Collection in the text that reads "Each step of the journey has you choose from options such as a Teleporter or calling in your buddy Charles to help you out."

• Charles' last name came from some fan-fiction made by someone on Discord.[1]

• In a stream by Puffballs, he mentioned that Charles, as well as Sven Svensson and many other characters in the Henry Stickmin series, were all 6 feet (the same height as Henry).

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References Relationships

Henry Stickmin

Charles and Henry's high five.

In every path where Henry is allied with the government (Government Supported Private Investigator), Henry and Charles see each other like best friends, even in paths where they don’t interact much. This especially happens in Cleaned 'em Out where the duo don't interact at all but are shown to still be friends that keep in touch. Special BROvert Ops portrays a brotherly bond between the two in how they work together and are happy to connect as they work on more missions with each other. Valiant Hero shows the very close bond that Henry and Charles share by having them really excited to work with each other again.

Even if Henry goes against the Government in the Pure Blooded Thief route, Henry is still seen as somewhat of an ally to Charles as he asks Henry to help him take down the Toppats in the TR/PP routes. This is even more emphasized at the end of Pardoned Pals when Charles refers to Henry as a "friend".

In paths where Henry is allied with the Toppat Clan, Henry and Charles don’t interact at all but they would be enemies since Henry is in the Toppat Clan.

Ellie Rose

Charles meets Ellie Rose for the first time.

Charles, Henry and Ellie each share a mutual friendship in Triple Threat and are all friends in Pardoned Pals. This is because, "Any friend of Henry is a friend of mine."

In Pardoned Pals, Henry and Ellie team up with Charles to take down the Toppat Clan before their rocket launches. However, in Toppat Recruits, they go against him. Reginald and the Right Hand Man shoot him down, causing him to fall back.

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General Hubert Galeforce

Out of all his surbodinates, Charles Calvin is the one who Galeforce is shown to be very close with as the two have a very warm relationship. It can be presumed that they have worked together or have known each other for quite some time prior to the events of Infiltrating the Airship due to both being military veterans[1] as Charles is usually seen working right under Galeforce, who trusts him with special missions, only calling him in for them.

Their close relationship is also evident by the fact that Galeforce only ever refers to Charles as "Charlie", showing that he's close enough to the pilot the point of simply referring to by nickname.

Toppat Clan

As a member of the government, Charles hates the Toppat Clan. At the start of Valiant Hero, he tells Henry that they've caused a bunch of problems for him. He then asked for Henry's help in taking them out, stating "it's starting to get personal".

Reginald Copperbottom

Charles and Reginald don't have any strong interactions but are enemies due to being in completely opposing factions. Charles discovers about Reginald and the Toppats through General Galeforce's intel on them and his plan to bring them to justice and agrees on the mission to get Henry to help them take the clan down.

At the end of RBH, Henry lends Reginald over to Galeforce, Charles, and Rupert Price to insure his pardon. This is the closest Reginald and Charles get to a proper interaction throughout the series. Reginald and Henry trick Charles and Galeforce into believing that Henry captured him and that they fell down safely in Rapidly Promoted Executive as they float off in the airship. In Government Supported Private Investigator, Henry works with Charles to capture incriminating evidence against Reginald and the Toppats.

In Pardoned Pals, Charles get Henry and Ellie to work with the Government so they can kill Reginald and the Right Hand Man and get rid of the Toppats once and for all.

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Right Hand Man

Charles and Right Hand Man don't have any strong interactions but are enemies due to being in completely opposing factions. Charles learns about RHM and the Toppats through General Galeforce's intel on them and his plan to bring them to justice and agrees on the mission to get Henry to help them take the clan down. In Government Supported Private Investigator, Henry works with Charles to capture incriminating evidence against Right Hand Man and the Toppats.

In Pardoned Pals, Charles gets Henry and Ellie to work with the Government so they can kill Reginald and the Right Hand Man and get rid of the Toppats once and for all.

Jacked Hughman

Charles helping Henry escape after he is attacked by Jacked Hughman, shortly before he is attacked by Jacked himself.

As a member of the Toppat Clan, Jacked and Charles were enemies before they even met. Charles met Jacked shortly after Henry and Charles prepare for their ride back to Earth, when they are suddenly ambushed by Jacked. Henry is forced out of the escape pod, prompting Charles to tackle Jacked and throw Henry back inside. Before Charles can make it back to the pod himself, Jacked tackles him down. The pod closes with only Henry inside and launches into space for Earth, leaving Charles on the doomed space station. Before the pod takes off, Charles tells Henry not to worry about him and that he'll find another way to escape.

A worrisome Henry is contacted by Charles, who informs him that he was able to overpower and defeat Jacked and that a spare escape pod should be nearby. Stating that their mission was complete, Charles remarks that it was a good plan, probably even the greatest plan; and those were his last words before the space station explodes, and the communication is abruptly cut. Shattered at this sight, Henry screams in grief, and pounds on the pod's window, attempting to reach out to Charles, without success.