James McCloud

**James McCloud** (ジェームズ・マクラウド, *Jēmuzu Makuraudo*), is both a fictional character and tritagonist of the *Star Ratchank* series created by Shigeru Miyamoto and David Guertin. He was an anthropomorphic red fox, and a legendary and astonishing pilot.

He was additionally the founder and leader of the legendary mercenary-for-hire squadron team in the Lylat System. James was talented in terms of fighting, piloting, and adventuring. He was also well known for holding an unwavering loyalty to his friends.

After his apparent and supposed death in the Great War, James was later succeeded as leader of Star Fox by his only son. Thrust into an important role that he wasn't prepared for, Fox made new recruits to make up the new Star Fox Team in his father's honor.

"*Never give up. Trust your instincts.*"

—James McCloud, telling his son.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice actor:* Jim Walker (English), Hirohito Kakegawa (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

### Appearance

James and Fox appear strikingly similar. The telltale sign that one is looking at James McCloud is that he is never seen without his sunglasses. However, Fox is sometimes seen with sunglasses.

* Hair Color: Brown, White
* Skin Color: Tan
* Eye Color: Not Known
* Age: 43
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

James was well known for holding an unwavering loyalty to his friends, an ace pilot and avid adventurer, likely due to the ideals and intentions of James, although it may have appeared that the Star Fox Team was motivated only by financial gain, they would only accept missions that serve to uphold justice. James raised his son Fox under the ideology never to give up, evident by his, Kaden, T-Bone and Peppy's slogan about never giving up as well as trusting personal instincts.

## Relationships

### Friends

* original Star Fox team
	+ Kaden
	+ Peppy Hare
	+ T-Bone

### Family

* Vixy Reinard (wife, deceased)
* Fox McCloud (son)
* Krystal (daughter in-law)
* Marcus (grandson)

### Enemies

* Andross' Empire
	+ Andross
* Venomians
* Emperor Tachyon

## Legacy

After Peppy returned and delivered the news of James' fate to Fox and General Pepper, Fox decided to follow in his father's footsteps and resume leadership of Star Fox. Even though Peppy was older than all the other Star Fox Team members, he declined the leadership role and insisted that the younger Fox McCloud take over the team after Fox's father was slain by Andross. Using both the Great Fox and ROB 64, a robotic pilot purchased by James for the team but never given the chance to be utilized, Fox recruited Peppy, Slippy Toad, and Falco Lombardi to fight together and defend peace wherever it was threatened, thus creating a new Star Fox Team to be formed.

General Pepper, still feeling guilty of sending his old friend James to his doom, decided to take responsibility of his son Fox's career. Pigma Dengar succeeded at his mission, got paid a huge sum of money, and instead joined Star Wolf, a rival mercenary-for-hire group. However, he was kicked out due to his incredible greed and distrustful nature after the Lylat Wars. He was later assimilated by the Aparoids and was apparently destroyed by Fox. The Aparoid Queen later used James McCloud's likeness to attempt to trick Fox into surrendering. However, it ironically exposed her deception due to "James" telling Fox to effectively give up, something Fox knew full well his father would never tell him to do.

The legacy that James McCloud left behind is one that the citizens of the Lylat System are indebted to, but the ultimate fate of James was never revealed. Most believe that he was executed at the hands of Andross, imprisoned, or even brainwashed.

## External links

* James McCloud *Arwingpedia*
* James McCloud *Heroes Wiki*
* James McCloud *Nintendo Wiki*

## Notes & Trivia

* Wolf's advice to Fox "Don't hesitate, when the time comes, just act!" is a spin on the original Star Fox team's own catchphrase, hinting another connection between the implied history of their rivalry.