Games - Andross

	Games - Andross

Andross is a fictional character from the Star Fox universe.

Like the other inhabitants of the fictional Lylat System, Andross is an anthropomorphic animal. In his case, an orangutan-like creature. He is most often the lead villain of the video game series.

The Name Game

In the original Japanese, his name is Andorf.

Some fans speculate that Andross’ last name might be Oikonny, the same as his nephew Andrew Oikonny . Since the parentage of the latter is unknown, this remains speculation. It is also the nickname of Andrew Liang.

Different Universes

Unlike most other fictional universes, even most other Nintendo game franchises, Star Fox has tried to tell a tale in logical order. Events in one game lead into the next, characters die, things change, etc.

The game makers still chose to make deliberate changes at one point, however. By series creator Shigeru Miyamoto's admission (in his interview in the official Nintendo Star Fox 64 Player's Guide), Star Fox 64 is 60% the first game, 30% the unreleased Star Fox 2, and 10% entirely new.

It may be possible to classify the Nintendo Power comic book and the original Star Fox game as the same universe. Of course, more likely is the unreleased Star Fox 2's connections with the original game. As for Star Fox 64, subsequent games branch directly from it to form a seemingly new timeline, so it is the ideal basis of continuity for the rest of the games in the series.

Andross in Star Fox & Nintendo Power

This comic appeared in serialized form via several issues of Nintendo Power magazine at the time of the original Star Fox game's release.

Andross is an adopted son. His foster parents were upstanding Android Pigs living on the planet Corneria . Andross followed in his robo-parents' hoofprints as a scientist. His brilliant mind was soon well-known across the Lylat System, mostly for his medical work.

Yet Andross turned his back on serving his beloved homeworld when his parents were killed; victims of a cruel military experiment by the Cornerian government itself. Unknown to anyone, Andross swore a vow of revenge that day. In time he became Head Scientist of the Cornerian Academy, his focus having changed to completely military technologies.

He also met, and fell in love with, the vixen Vixy Reinard . There was just one hang-up to their relationship: She was already married to Fox McCloud (billed as James McCloud in the games). Vixy and Fox had recently had a son together as well.

Vixy regretted her actions, but the arrogant Andross refused to let her go. His bid to keep her was to remove her husband from the equation. Unfortunately for Andross and Fox Sr. alike, it was Vixy and not the elder McCloud who fell victim to Andross' car bomb.

Refusing to admit defeat, Andross bitterly hatched a new plot. Fox Sr., still unaware of his wife's affair to start with, was blissfully ignorant of the danger when he volunteered for Andross' assignment. Fox Sr. was given the task of hauling the newly-developed Gravity Bomb to a field laboratory in the Meteos Asteroid Belt for testing.

Thanks to Andross' sabotage, the experimental weapon went off mid-flight. Fox Sr. disappeared, along with half the asteroid belt, into a black hole created by the Gravity Bomb.

The scientist's victory was bittersweet. An investigation of the "accident" led back to him. The trial ended with Andross being exiled from Corneria to the barren world of Venom for the rest of his days.

Most scientists, Andross included, thought Venom an uninhabited world. He was shocked to find a race of anthropomorphic lizards living in the depths of the planet. The natives had devolved from a once-mighty race; Andross put his great intellect to deciphering their ancient ruins and forgotten technologies. He was able to build a Telekinetic Amplifier from the knowledge thus acquired, among other things, and used it to brainwash the Venomians.

Over the next few years, Andross transformed Venom into a power base and proceeded to invade Corneria with his new Venomian Army of Imperial Lizards. This first attempt at revenge was undone by Fox McCloud Jr. and the rest of his Star Fox team. The mercenary pilots managed to destroy the Telekinetic Amplifier itself, shattering Andross' hold on his "loyal" followers.

Andross managed to escape, fleeing to the world Fortuna. He soon had one of Fox's teammates, Slippy Toad, kidnapped for use as bait. As Andross hoped, the Star Fox team soon followed Slippy to Fortuna. There, Andross unleashed his greatest weapon, the bio-mechanical beast Monarch Dodora (who bears a suspicious resemblance to another fictional monster, King Ghidorah), to kill the Star Fox team once and for all.

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