Characters
Poker-Face
also Pokerface
The card-suit-themed, sunglasses-wearing operator of the Starship Casino, who pays Mon*Star a cut and fights with a laser cane.
- Side
- Mon*Star
- Affiliation
- Mon*Star's Mob (associate); proprietor of the Starship Casino
- First seen
- The Backroom
- Appearances
- 15 of 65 episodes
The most structurally interesting member of the Mob, because of where he stands rather than what he does. The Starship Casino sits just outside the Light Year Limit, which by ruling of the Galaxy Council puts it beyond SilverHawks jurisdiction. So Poker-Face operates in the open, pays MonStar a cut, and never has to hide out on BrimStar with the rest of them.
He signals his thinking by lifting his shades to show letters in his eyes, and he fights with a gold laser cane. He is the co-conspirator of the Gangwar - Part I coup alongside Melodia, and he is back in Mon*Star’s good books by Diamond Stick-Pin.
The show never explains what he is or how he came by the casino. There is one inconsistency on record: he is shown disliking the crowd on Fence, and those same characters are the ones filling his casino.
Voice. Wikipedia and the ThunderCats wiki both credit Larry Kenney, which is consensus rather than a document.
Carries
Most often in the same episode
- Commander Stargazer15
- Mon*Star15
- Quicksilver14
- Yes-Man14
- Steelheart13
- Steelwill13
- The Copper Kidd13
- Bluegrass12
Counted across all 65 episodes. Sharing an episode is not the same as sharing a scene.
Seen in 15 of 65 episodes
- 07 The Backroom
- 10 Magnetic Attraction
- 16 Race Against Time
- 19 The Great Galaxy Race
- 23 Zeek's Fumble
- 33 Smiley
- 34 Gotbucks
- 42 The Blue Door
- 43 The Star of Bedlama
- 50 Gangwar - Part I
- 54 Moon*Star
- 55 Diamond Stick-Pin
- 60 Stargazer's Refit
- 64 Zeek's Power
- 65 Airshow
Compiled from the episode articles on the ThunderCats wiki and cross-checked against this site's episode guide.