Sheryl Goodspeed

Sheryl Goodspeed is a major character in Final Space, serving as the central antagonist-turned-anti-heroine of Season 2, and a major character in Season 3.
Sheryl is an intergalactic criminal, the ex-wife of John Goodspeed, and the mother of Gary Goodspeed.
She is voiced by Claudia Black, who voiced Samantha Byrne in the Gears of War series, Cassandra in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and Chloe Frazer in the Uncharted franchise.
==History==
===Backstory===
Sheryl used to be a spy sent by a secret unnamed organization that gave her the mission to seduce John Goodspeed to get information about a secret weapon made by the Infinity Guard. However, John started to actually have feelings for her, so she stayed with him for at least nearly a year. During this, she gets pregnant, their son Gary would be born a few months later, and her superior started getting impatient on the fact that she didn't get information on the weapon by then, so he contacted her and Gary would start screaming, this would cause John to hear the transmission and demanded her to get out of their house, before leaving, she looked at Gary and told him she wished he was never born.
After John's death, Sheryl went to his funeral where Gary was there with her, after the funeral ended, Sheryl presumably got drunk and a few days later left Gary alone with no one to take care of him. She at one point met the evil titan Oreskis, who told her that they could save John from Final Space if she got the dimensional keys. Sometime before the series' events, she became a wanted criminal, who was considered so dangerous that she got sent to be executed.
===Final Space===
When Gary finds out that his mother was going to be executed, he decided to go to her prison, but only so he could see his mother die as revenge for leaving him, before doing this however, he wanted to say his hatred to her in her face, so he went to her sell to speak to her. When he went to talk to her and she was about to go to her execution chamber, Gary tried to save his mother, only to find that she killed the guards that were holding her, Gary then takes her to his ship, the Crimson Light. She then manipulated Gary to steal a jewel that was really a dimensional key, she then left Gary and his crew to make sure they wouldn't find out before being too late for them to track her.
Sheryl is seen again in the now destroyed Terra Con Prime and stealing a dimensional key from the Lord Commander's former vault.
Todd H. Watson would later contract several bounty hunters to capture Sheryl so he could have his revenge on Gary because he thought he was responsible for killing his family, getting tired of killing the former's henchmen, Sheryl allows herself to be kidnapped so she could kill Todd, only for him to use a drug that knocks her out and shows him her memories. After finding out that Sheryl hates Gary as well, Todd makes an alliance with her to capture Gary, with the former giving the latter the dimensional keys in return.
Sheryl then manipulates Clarence to give her the dimensional keys and betray the Team Squad, and then leaves Clarence after she gets what she wanted, Sheryl even tells him that he brought his misery onto himself.
Sheryl then goes to the planet Rugaro to get the fifth and final key, during this, she kills the leader of a species that lived there who was trying to send it to space to avoid it getting sucked into a black hole, killing all of them indirectly, Gary and Nightfall then have a fight with her to get the dimensional key, with the duo ending up wining, Gary then insults her for leaving him as a child, causing her to start crying, Gary then imprisons her in his ship due to feeling pity for her, but he still allows KVN to annoy her as revenge.
After getting to Inner Space, Sheryl tries to escape but fails to do so, after this Tribore redeems her with the help of H.U.E. and Fox. She would later help the Team Squad fight against Invictus so Nightfall could sacrifice herself to free Bolo and also helps the Team Squad get out of Inner Space. 
After getting to Final Space, the crew spends one month trapped there only to be attacked by a titan and a bunch of Garys possessed by Invictus, which causes the Team Squad to be separated in two groups, with her being with Avocato, Little Cato, Fox and Ash. 
They are then kidnapped by the Lord Commander who killed the aracnitets that were helping them, who brings them to his ship to find where Mooncake is, none answer what he wants, so thinking they were lying, the Lord Commander shows them the story of how Avocato killed the King and Queen of Ventrexia and are then sent to be killed by Invictus to become more powerful by absorbing their life energy. 
However, Sheryl escapes and contacts Gary about her location to save the rest of the crew, Gary and Quinn suceed in rescuing everyone except for Fox who is killed by Invictus, she would later be at Fox's funeral and tried to comfort Ash about his death. 
When the group were about to open a portal to leave Final Space by using Nightfall's helmet, she tells Quinn that becoming Nightfall is her destiny and she isn't becoming a different person. 
==Personality==
Sheryl was a manipulative and charismatic thief who would steal and kill to the point that when she was captured, it was put a death sentence on her, she also tricked characters like her son Gary and Clarence to give her what she wanted and leave them when they outlived their usefulness.
However, even after everything she did, she still loved John, as she refused to moved on from her loss and went to find the dimensional keys to get him back, she would also be forgiven by Gary even after she abandoned him as a child.
After these events, Sheryl would become kinder and caring towards the Team Squad and Gary, staying in Final Space to protect the latter from the evils in that place and decided to stay with Gary because she doesn't want to lose him just like she loses her ex-husband.
==External Links==
*Sheryl Goodspeed on Villains Wiki.
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