Fox McCloud

James “Fox” McCloud, Jr. is a Cornerian fighter pilot, leader of Star Fox and a founding member of the Super Smash Bros. He is the son of legendary pilot James McCloud, the original founder and former leader of Star Fox. While enrolled as a cadet at the Cornerian Defense Academy he heard the news that his father had met a violent end at the hands of the exiled scientist Andross. As a survivor of the original Star Fox team, Peppy Hare insisted that Fox take on the leadership of the group and form a new team of pilots. Thrust into the leadership role that he wasn't prepared for, Fox recruited ace pilot Falco Lombardi and the mechanical genius Slippy Toad to make up the new Star Fox team.

Biography
Fox led an incipient Star Fox team throughout the battles in the Lylat System, running into allies and enemies alike including childhood friend Bill Grey, commander of the Husky and Bulldog Unit of the Cornerian Military, rival Wolf O'Donnell, leader of Star Wolf, and Pigma Dengar who willingly betrayed James McCloud to Andross. Once Star Fox reached Venom, they fought through its defensive lines all the way to Andross' base. Despite the protests of his team, Fox faced Andross alone. After Fox vanquished him, Andross self-destructed, inclined to take Fox with him. However, James McCloud appeared to guide him out of the base, while in the way out he verbalized his quote "Never give up, trust your instincts" and mentioned how vigorous Fox has become, determinately evanescent when prosperously exiting the base. Fox then left victorious as Andross' base exploded abaft him. He and his team headed back to Corneria, where General Pepper awarded them for their valor and offered to officially integrate Star Fox into the Cornerian Military. Fox declined, stating that while Star Fox will only accept missions that serve to uphold justice, they preferred to do things their own way.

One year after the Lylat Wars, during a training simulation with Fox, Falco received a distress signal from Kat Monroe. He left abruptly to endeavor and avail her, much to Fox and the rest of the team's protests. They were contacted by General Pepper to visit the Cornerian Research Base on Titania to meet up with the Cornerian military officer in charge of the base, Ron Shears. Shears contracts Star Fox to wipe out some of Andross’ remnants who were making off with some "data" relating to Andross' research. When Fox started fighting off a Venomian vessel, he spotted an Arwing disembarking the ship, and believed that Falco had “defected" to the Venomians, which led to a dogfight between the two longtime comrades. However, it turned out the "Venomians" were Kat Monroe's gang, the Hot Rodders, and they were never affiliated with Andross. Kat and Falco had discovered data from Titania that exposed the Cornerian Research Base as a front for Shears to resurrect Andross by cloning genetic remnants of him found on Venom and that the project had been heavily funded by Andross’ nephew Andrew Oikonny. Star Fox and the Hot Rodders cooperated to foil Oikonny’s and Shear's plans and rescue Slippy. Lamentably, the Andross clone had matured far more rapidly than anticipated and the clone liberated itself from the cloning container in a fit of rage by seeing and remembering Fox. Fox endeavored to apprehend Shears, but when Shears endeavored to elude, he ended up being killed by his very own endangerment, and Andross then endeavors to destroy Fox. However, he utilized the Landmaster to generate a Nova Bomb on Andross, eradicating the base and presumably killing the Andross clone in the process. Despite the victory, the skirmish between Fox and Falco had left their friendship strained, resulting in Falco deciding to leave Star Fox.

When Fox returned to Corneria to receive his payment for the Titania Incident, he received a distress signal from Peach Toadstool, Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom on planet Amanita calling for anybody capable of stopping an impending alien invasion. Fox boarded the Great Fox to travel through hyperspace to the far away planet. When they arrived, they found themselves face to face with the Halberd. Believing to be the invader, Fox and the team opened fire and attacked the spaceship, but their attacks appeared to be futile. With the Great Fox disabled, Fox surrendered himself and found himself on board. It is there he met Meta Knight, the captain of the flagship, Mario, a resident of the Mushroom Kingdom, and others from nearby or far away galaxies. Fox and his team realized that they were not the invaders. He learned that like him, the others had received the same distress signal from the princess. Fox and his team joined up with the eclectic group to form the Super Smash Bros. He followed the newly formed team as they battled against the Master Hand and Sir Grodus’ army, the X-Nauts, during the Battle of Amanita until Master Hand was eventually defeated. Following the victory Fox and his team fixed the Great Fox and returned home to Corneria.

Upon his return to Lylat he is informed by Bill Gray that Andrew Oikonny had been investigating a planet called Sauria in search of the Krazoas.

Following the skirmish with the Aparoids, Fox traveled to Atlas in pursuit of Wolf O'Donnell and his crew, and he has teamed up with the Starlink initiative in their fight against Grax and the Forgotten Legion.