Burt Curtis

Burt Curtis is a supporting antagonist in the Henry Stickmin Series who appears as the tertiary antagonist of Completing the Mission.

He is the head of communications for the Toppat Clan, and is seen in all routes on the Toppat Orbital Station, informing Reginald, Right Hand Man, Sven, and/or the rest of the Toppat Clan of major events near the Toppat Orbital Station.

Bio
The head of communications of the Toppat Clan. He's the liason between the leaders and the rest of the recon team.

Role
In Completing the Mission, He appears as the secondary antagonist of "Free Man," "Jewel Baron" and "Valiant Hero," and an unseen minor character in "Toppat King" and "Toppat 4 Life."

Appearance
Burt is always seen sitting at a computer, he has a top hat that has a dark orange headset somehow jammed through it, which resemble Charles Calvin's headset. He is only seen having a serious face in any pathway including him. Although his shoes are never seen, they are confirmed to be blue or green, albeit guessed by the developer.

Personality
In a direct contrast to Charles Calvin's amiable and likeable personality, Burt is emotionless and acts as if he has little drive, not to mention he doesn't seem to like Reginald and Right Hand Man screaming orders into his headset. Regardless, he still continues to do his job as the lead communications officer. The only time that he even so as much as raises his voice is when Charles punctures a tiny hole in the space station with a turret, with Burt even going so far as to maximize the shield output (triggering a FAIL as this bisects Henry as well.) Though the hole produced was enough for Henry to crawl into and thus cause for concern, the Clan gets hit with much worse in other routes.

Like his government counterpart, he rarely has any sense of urgency regardless of what Henry and/or the government throw at the Toppats.

Valiant Hero
He is seen in the "Valiant Hero" path during two choices. If Charles drops off Henry he will report it to Sven and immediately be told to shoot them in which he does. If the Super Accurate Laser Shot is chosen, he will quickly notice the Orbital Station is under attack and maximize the shields which will kill Henry. It is unknown whether he survived or managed to escape the Orbital Station Explosion.

Free Man
During this path, he reports to Right Hand Man that one of the Toppat Orbital Station's solar panel has broken after Henry uses his Max Gravity Boots to break it. He seems to be irritated when Right Hand Man is impatient with him. When Henry uses the Communications Satellite he reports to RHM that there is a strange messaged being picked up only to find out it was just Henry yelling. Towards the end of Free Man, after Henry uses the Drop Pod to go right through the ship, he reports that the Toppat Orbital Station is stuck in space with all the Toppats inside.

Since Burt, like other Toppats, is stranded in space, it can be presumed he eventually died off-screen.

Jewel Baron
Burt is seen in the beginning when he picks up a Hostile Object (Henry) moving towards the ship. He will succeed in every outcome unless Henry uses Mosquito Mode to break in to the Station. He reports that the lasers completely missed and Henry is on the ship to Reginald after Henry makes his way through. He later reports that he spotted Henry and is immediately told to fire Supreme Dominance in which he does so. He is then killed along with many other Toppat members by the Supreme Dominance laser after it got reflected by Henry.

Other Pathways
Burt doesn't appear physically in other paths but is instead reporting or announcing things to the whoever is in charge.

During the intro of "Toppat King" he can be heard reporting to Reginald that the Government forces are attacking the Toppat Launch Site.

At the end of "Toppat 4 Life", he is announcing to Reginald and Right Hand Man that a tank is approaching with Henry (who is thought to be deceased) inside. His confusing tone when he says "... with Henry inside?" shows like many others, he thought that Henry was dead.

Henry Stickmin
The two are never seen together, but are hostile to each other in "Jewel Baron," "Valiant Hero," and "Free Man". Despite this Burt and Henry are never properly introduced to one another in any of these paths as well as the fact Burt hardly knows who Henry is though he kills him out of the sake of his duty, typically because Henry is just an "intruder" to Burt in these paths.

In "Toppat King" and "Toppat 4 Life," Burt knows and presumably respects Henry as leader.

Current Toppat Leader (Reginald, RHM, Sven)
Reginald Copperbottom, Right Hand Man, and Sven Svensson are the only characters Burt ever directly talks with. Burt respects the Toppat leader, and has a good, but overall neutral relationship with the leader. He hates being yelled or screamed at. Despite this, Burt continues to do his job as head Comms, due to his pushover/doormat personality.

Toppat King

 * "Hey uh... Chief?"
 * "Oh, okay, yeah. We're under attack."

Valiant Hero

 * "Hey, Chief? We're detecting a government ship approaching."
 * "We're under attack!? MAXIMIZE THE SHIELDS!" [Fail]

Free Man

 * "Uh chief, we lost a solar panel."
 * "Okay, don't need to get snippy about it"
 * "Yeah, it's me again. We’re picking up a data stream from our broadcasting satellite..."
 * "Yeah it just keep saying, attack, attack, attack, fire, shoot the laser... Oh hang on... it just stopped." [fail] satellite option
 * "Hey sir, sorry to bother you, but one of our offsite drop pods is on a direct collision course with the station."
 * "*sigh* He took out our central core... We don't have any power. Can't really get down to Earth without it, so we're kinda just stuck. Who was that guy anyway? Why'd you-why'd you grab him?"

Jewel Baron

 * "Hey chief? Our satellites have picked up a hostile object."
 * "Uh.... no?"
 * "Looks like he's doing a barrel roll!" - Barrel Roll option
 * "Huh? Oh yeah... Uh, we completely missed... and They're uhh, they're on the ship now."
 * "Hey chief? We spotted him outside."
 * "Woah. Okay... Chargin' up Supreme Dominance for ya."

Toppat 4 Life

 * "Hey, chief? We've got a tank approaching... with Henry inside?"

Trivia

 * His headset is similar to that of Charles Calvin headset, the only difference being the color, which is dark orange.
 * Burt's shoe color was guessed by PuffballsUnited in the THSC developer commentary stream as either green or blue.
 * Burt may be the only character to have multi-colored shoes as they were guessed by PuffballsUnited.
 * The comics on his room wall are parodies of Garfield, Pearls Before Swine, and The Far Side.
 * Burt is the only antagonist to be fought multiple times in the same pathway, once at the beginning when shooting lasers, and at the end when firing the Supreme Dominance laser.
 * Despite this, he is never fought in person.
 * He kills Henry in every single fail he is included in.
 * Due to this, he is responsible for majority of the fails in the pathways he appears in.
 * Burt Curtis could be heard in "Toppat King," but he wasn't yet a character.
 * He says and refers to the (Current) Toppat Leader as "Chief" in every pathway he appears in.