| Marshall BraveStarr (Pat Fraley): The title character is a Galactic Marshall stationed on the planet "New Texas." He is a Native American who can call upon the power of "spirit animals." He also carries a "Neutra-laser" pistol and a "Trans-freezer" rifle, but seldom uses either, only doing so when he has to. The spirit animal powers are: Eyes of the Hawk: Enhances his vision and can also grant him an arial view of the surrounding area.
Ears of the Wolf: Gives him super-hearing.
Strength of the Bear: Gives him super-strength.
Speed of the Puma: Gives him super-speed.
Thirty/Thirty (Ed Gilbert): BraveStarr's talking "techno horse," who can "transform" from a quadruped into a more anthropomorphic biped. He carries a giant energy rifle he refers to as "Sarah Jane." He is the last survivor of an ancient civilization called the Equestroids, a cybernetic breed of sentient equines, and has strength approximating BraveStarr's bear strength.
Handlebar (Alan Oppenheimer): A hulking, 14-ton, green-skinned bartender and former space pirate, with a bright orange handlebar mustache. He mostly serves BraveStarr and Thirty/Thirty a drink called "sweetwater" in his bar, as they sit and discuss the moral lesson learned in that days episode although he (Handlebar) does engage in a fight with Stampede in one episode and wins. If faced with trouble in his bar he uses the serving trays as throwing weapons.
Deputy Fuzz (Charlie Adler): A pudgy little prairie dog-like alien, one of the Prairie People, natives of New Texas, who serves almost exclusively as comic relief. Fuzz is similar to other sidekick creatures in other series of the decade such as He-Man's Orko and Snarf of Rankin-Bass's ThunderCats. His specialties, like all others of his kind, are digging, with even the miners of New Texas not coming close to the speed in which he moves through the ground, as well as high mechanical aptitude for building and repairing all manner of devices.
Judge J.B. McBride (Susan Blu): The town's female judge and romantic interest for BraveStarr. The two share a kiss in "BraveStarr the Legend." She comes to BraveStarr's aid from time to time, using a high-tech gavel given to her by the Prairie People (referred to as a "hammer" in the series) as a weapon. Her father Angus McBride is an ex-prospector; he has run the town's newspaper ever since being crippled by his former mining partner Tex Hex.
Shaman (Ed Gilbert): An unnamed Native American shaman who serves as an adviser to BraveStarr. On rare occasions Shaman has demonstrated extremely powerful magic and during the Christmas special, a rendition of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, he served as the three spirits. BraveStarr sees Shaman as a paternal figure since he (BraveStarr) never knew his real parents, and this was occasionally exploited by the bad guys. While the Shaman rarely expressed it, he was known to view BraveStarr as a son. He lives in a towering animal-carved mountain called Starr Peak, over which is a large Kerium deposit.
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