Clovis Cardige
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Clovis Cardige is a participant of Crab 4, as a member and headliner of Team Xenomania. A calculating and typically cold man, Clovis hails from an apocalyptic world suffering a mutation plague which turns humans into monsters or anthro people. Clovis works for the only human holdout in the world to exterminate the disease and its carriers.
Appearance
Personality
Clovis is cerebral and purposeful in what he does, erring towards cold logic to direct himself. While no-nonsense, it can be easy to infuriate him as his patience is somewhat thin. Goal driven, the ends often justify the means for Clovis and he will take the path that will ensure victory.
Despite this hunger for success his empathy has not been totally wrung out of him, as Clovis demonstrates kindness and chivalry towards other humans who do not initially provoke him in turn. He will, at worst, be irritated with other humans if they get on his nerves but will not elect to act on his agitation. All of Clovis’ murderous hatred is laser focused on anthros and nonhumans who desire human suffering and extinction, which drives an instant trigger for Clovis to destroy them first. Because of his experiences he cannot fully trust nonhumans and often expects the worst of a situation so he can potentially mitigate the repercussions of a misstep.
Death is not as much a deterrent for Clovis, especially during the tournament and the lack of permanence in death. Clovis will try to avoid an unnecessary death, as it is still painful to experience, but if it serves a purpose he won’t hesitate to accept that fate if it makes any meaningful difference.
While he can easily kill with his zero gun, and do so with no compunctions, Clovis actually has never killed someone with his bare hands or with a physical weapon which causes traumatic damage.
Powers and Abilities
Clovis has no supernatural abilities that are beyond a normal human’s when push comes to shove. Clovis can throw a decent punch and has a quick burst of speed he can kick into in a pinch should he need to run but his stamina is terrible and he cannot maintain anything longer than a short sprint without getting winded. Clovis’ greatest strength is his strategic mind which he uses to plot and navigate dangerous situations.
Because of his eyesight Clovis needs his glasses and if he does not have access to them everything is too blurry for him to see correctly. This is incredibly debilitating to him and leaves him practically helpless. Clovis also has fairly bad situational awareness due to his eyesight completely hiding anything in his peripheral vision, making him capable of being ambushed by sneaky characters without much trouble.
Clovis’ best answer to a real fight is his access to Apex technology from his homeworld. His zero gun is weaponry designed by Apex industries, designed to completely disintegrate most matter into a fine white powder when struck by their concentrated laser rays. The weapon has a cool-down meter and cannot be consistently fired for longer than a minute.
Background
History
Pit Entry
Pit Entry (Newgrounds)
Clovis is ambushed by Florida Man and unwittingly agrees to D.O.O.M.V.A.’s terms and conditions for joining the tourney.
Team Comic
Team Introduction Comic (Newgrounds)
Clovis meets his team and everyone has a bad time.
Round 1
Clovis vs Scarymovies(Newgrounds) (WIN)
Clovis is called to perform diplomacy with the Pharaoh.
Scarymovies vs Clovis(Imgur)
The best laid plans of Xenomania come to a disastrous end.
Round 2
Clovis vs Zehya Kovelan(Newgrounds) (WIN)
Zehya finds herself at the mercy of well-intentioned trickery once again.
Zehya Kovelan vs Clovis(itch.io)
Zehya and Clovis are presented a golden opportunity for the price of one life.
Round 3
Clovis vs Diana Berry(MSPFA) (WIN)
Clovis’s bitter desperation to win the tournament reaches its fever pitch.
Diana Berry vs Clovis(Newgrounds Newgrounds Newgrounds Newgrounds)
Berry and Clovis fight as hard as they can in their battle to the death.
Relationships
Life Within CRAB
Clovis at the beginning of the tournament was polite to human characters he met but immediately aggressive if not murderous to anthropomorphic characters he saw on the Crabstar. He’s notable for being an incredibly antagonistic headliner to his own team (except Smoke), placing high expectation and pressure from the top down on them to follow his instructions and win the tournament. But outside of his actions to his own team and anthro characters, Clovis demonstrated surprising willingness to cooperate with participants and teams not associated with his team. This was most evident in his practically friendly regard with Scarymovies and Diana Berry.
Over the course of the tournament, Clovis’ calm and assessing nature broke down as his sense of personal safety, logical processing, and confidence in winning nosedived. His assumptions being proven wrong, his instructions to his team progressively being ignored, and awareness of his own personal weakness in the face of much more powerful participants all built up. His failure to intuit the correct cure for Zehya (and by extension the poison in general) during R2 shook him, but his mental degradation peaked with Scarymovies allying with Fluxxo and cooperating to mutually kill Clovis. (Imgur)(file.garden)
By Round 3 Clovis withdrew from his tentative interactions with other Crabs, his trust shattered while his paranoia and desperation both cranked to the max. He stopped meddling with his team to focus on preparing for his own round against Diana Berry, who he determined actually disliked him and was conspiring to use his affection to her for her benefit, resulting in an incredible hatefilled blowout between the two. Clovis channeled all his negative emotions into rage to fuel himself and proceed with the tournament and the death match, resolute in winning the tournament no matter the cost.
After his round and the events of R3 Clovis was an emotionally hollowed-out husk, burnt out and spiritually defeated in all aspects except for the wish lingering as the carrot at the end of his rope. This small hope became dashed when the D.O.O.M.V.A. was destroyed and Debbie, the commentator he killed, threatened, and intimidated throughout the tourney, inherited the Gamemaster role and power to grant the wishes of the tied teams of Crab 4. Despairing that his wish would not be granted, Clovis broke down on the spot, allowing the team to decide how to use the wish instead.
Gallery
Gallery
Trivia
- Clovis is Bernard Bunsen’s work partner and comes from the same world but not the same timeline in CRAB, as Clovis’ timeline (TT-2020) is behind Bernard’s (TT-2243) by one month. Bernard and Frankie Fisher however do come from the same timeline.
- Clovis despite hating anthros actually likes normal animals. His favorites are cats.
- Clovis died a grand total of 10 times during Crab 4.
- Clovis’ personal kill list of characters for C4 includes: Debbie, Shits, Leon, Elikapika, Melody, and Zehya. This does not account for the Zero Bomb activation during R3 which killed all present characters in the Bucket that were not immune to the effects of Amesworth radiation.
- After R2 Clovis developed acute coulrophobia which manifested in every interaction he had with a clown-like character afterwards (sweating, fight or flight instinct, shaking).
- Clovis actually underwent a transformation after being resurrected by D.O.O.M.V.A. for R3 to bring him to ‘peak form’, which outwardly only seemed to fix his eyesight. This is because he is physically brought in line with his comic/future version of himself.(the-comic.org)
Source
Text: CRAB WIKI, Clovis Cardige (revision 2250, 2025-11-30; by Sahxyel)
Pictures: Clovis portrait.png, uploaded to the wiki by Sahxyel
Edited by: G
Licence: text CC BY-SA 4.0; characters, comics and art belong to their creators
