Roger Wilco (character)
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Roger Wilco is a fictional character, the protagonist in Sierra Entertainment’s Space Quest series. His name is a pun on the voice procedure.
Roger is a janitor from the planet Xenon of the Earnon system. We first meet him as the janitor and sole survivor of the scientific research ship Arcada, which was overrun by the Sariens.
Roger could be described as an everyman, but he could just as easily be described as a bumbling halfwit who continuously, if inadvertently, attracts trouble. However you chose to describe him, Roger's heart is in the right place: he has saved the universe on many occasions.
In Space Quest V, Roger graduated from the StarCon Academy and was promoted from a janitor to captain of the garbage scow SCS Eureka. He also met Beatrice Creakworm Wankmeister, with whom he became romantically involved.
It was revealed in Space Quest IV that Roger would eventually marry Beatrice and that they would have a son (Roger Wilco Jr.). Beatrice is absent from Space Quest VI, but she is mentioned in the game's closing credits.
We also learn that by Space Quest XII, Roger will be unavailable for some reason: Roger Wilco Jr. has to time travel from SQ XII to a past game (SQ IV) to seek Roger Senior's help. The details of Roger's "unavailability" are never disclosed.
Space Quest VI was the last SQ game Sierra published, and it currently seems highly unlikely that another in the series will ever be "officially" released.
Comparisons have been drawn between Roger Wilco and Monkey Island's hero Guybrush Threepwood: for example, both are somewhat dim-witted but likeable characters who improbably stumble into heroism, and both (usually) have blonde hair.
External link
- The Space Quest Omnipedia (http://omni.sq7.org) - a Space Quest wiki
- The Many Deaths of Roger Wilco (http://tmd.alienharmony.com/rw/index.htm)