Commander Tartar

The Telephone is a character in Octo Expansion.

Octo Expansion
The Telephone is an ancient-looking public telephone. It provides Agent 8 with two items:
 * 1) The CQ-80, a device through which they control which Deepsea Metro to go to next.
 * 2) The CQ Card, which holds the CQ Points used to enter missions and revive if failing.

The Telephone then tells Agent 8 about the Promised Land that awaits them outside of the Deepsea Metro, and informs them that they must collect 4 Thangs in order to return. Upon gathering all 4 Thangs, however, they actually form a massive blender. The Telephone then tries to grind up Agent 8 and Cap'n Cuttlefish into raw materials, only to be stopped by Agent 3, with the Telephone rendered broken.

During a lengthy escape, the Telephone attacks Cap'n and Agent 3, eventually brainwashing the latter into tying up Cap'n and attacking Agent 8. Their brainwashing is broken when Agent 3 is defeated by Agent 8.

Following the defeat and Agent 8's escape above the surface, a gigantic stone statue emerges. In the hollowed out eye of the statue, the telephone appears and introduces itself as Commander Tartar, an AI created 12,000 years ago to pass on human knowledge to any species worthy enough. Tartar, initially seeing hope in the inklings, eventually became repulsed by their evolution, needless wars, and fashion obsession. This prompts the Commander to activate a weapon from the statue's mouth; a massive cannon that threatens to destroy the entire world if fully charged.

Agent 8 manages to put a stop to it by inking the entire surface (with the assistance of Marina's Hyperbombs), blocking off the statue's source of power: sunlight. Despite this, the cannon is still able to fire, but is stopped by Pearl's voice-enhanced Killer Wail, with Tartar assumed to be destroyed along with the statue.

Names in other languages
CQ-80

CQ Card