Personality
An anti-hero, Stanley is consistently portrayed as petulant, cowardly, short-sighted, quick-tempered, weak-willed, perverted and a perpetual under-achiever, which makes him exceptionally underequipped to handle the most powerful weapon in the two universes. His amorous advances are rebuffed by Zev/Xev, and he must endure a constant stream of verbal abuse from 790, not all of it undeserved. Hunger, survival, and an overactive sex-drive are Stanley's primary motivations in any given situation.
Stanley occasionally shows some backbone, particularly when there is nowhere else left to run. For all his capriciousness, Stanley has spared the lives of his enemies and gone on the attack against suicidal odds because it was the right thing to do. Stanley has been instrumental in destroying various galactic threats, including the ultimate defeat of His Divine Shadow.
Stanley's opinion of himself, however, might ultimately be his downfall. Though he outwardly denies any actual culpability, Stanley feels a great deal of guilt over his failure to keep Lexx's DNA out of His Divine Shadow's hands, and the billions of deaths that resulted. This guilt has been used against him in several episodes, including in a trial that convicted him of high treason and in a spiritual test that briefly consigned him to Hell.
From time to time, Stanley has lost the key to the Lexx - best described as a symbiotic, living energy wave that can only exist inside a living person. On these occasions, he has been desperate in his efforts to get the key back. Even if he does not always live up to the responsibility, Stanley Tweedle knows that commanding the Lexx is probably the most important thing he will ever do.
Though he has a middle initial, "H.", his middle name is never revealed.
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