Tim from Solar Opposites is proof that the saddest, most human story in this show belongs to a guy who got shrunk for wearing the wrong shirt.
He started as a nobody, became a hero, then turned into the exact tyrant he risked his life to overthrow.
For my money, he has the best arc in the entire series, and it plays out almost entirely inside a terrarium.
He is a full-sized human who ends up trapped in the Wall, the shrunken society that Yumyulack keeps in his bedroom.
What makes Tim from Solar Opposites so gripping is that his rise and fall feels earned every step of the way.
Full name: Lindsay Tim Weekly (he goes by Tim)
Status: Human, shrunk and trapped in the Wall
Role: Resistance leader turned ruler of the Wall
Shrunk for: Wearing a red shirt at a burger joint
Voiced by: Andy Daly
Died: In the season 3 episode “Hululand,” from lead poisoning
Who Is Tim from Solar Opposites?
Tim is the breakout star of the Wall, the brutal little society hidden inside the aliens’ house. He was grabbing a burger in a red shirt when Yumyulack zapped him and dropped him into the terrarium. No crime. No reason. Just a shirt.
The moment he lands, some Wallians jump him, and the Janitor saves his life. From there Tim learns the rules of this tiny world, rescues a woman named Cherie, and slowly becomes the face of a rebellion against the Wall’s dictator, the Duke.
For context, Solar Opposites was created by Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan for Hulu. It ran from 2020 to 2025. The Wall started as a background gag and grew into the most ambitious part of the whole show, and Tim is the reason it works.
So, Who Is Tim from Solar Opposites, Really?
Early Tim is the ultimate everyman. He is a decent, slightly awkward guy who avoids conflict and would rather keep his head down. You would walk past him on the street without a second look.
Then the Wall changes him. His smuggled-out writings inspire hundreds of prisoners, and the rebellion turns him into a symbol of hope. Watching a timid nobody grow a spine is the kind of underdog story I fall for every time. That is what makes what comes next hurt so much.
Trivia you can use: Tim’s real first name is Lindsay. He tells the Wall he goes by Tim because Lindsay “sounds like a girl’s name.” The show spells it Lindsay, though Wikipedia lists him as Lindsey Tim Weekly, so both versions float around online.
The Betrayal That Changed Everything
The turn happens in the season 1 episode “Terry and Korvo Steal a Bear.” Tim and Cherie storm the Duke’s palace and find him escaping through a hidden hole in the wall. That hole is the way out. It is freedom for everyone.
Cherie wants to tell the people. Tim does not.
He would rather rule the Wall than lose his status as its hero. So he stabs Cherie with his toothpick cane, hides the hole, and shoves her out into the backyard.
Then he tells everyone she died killing the Duke and declares a holiday in her honor called “Cherie Day.”
It is a cold, calculated heel turn, and it lands like a punch. He becomes the thing he hated.
A Human Touch
To be fair, Tim rules better than the Duke ever did. The Wall gets cleaner and safer under him. He is still a tyrant, though, and the mask slips more with each season:
- He executes criminals by encasing them in boiling chocolate.
- He confesses his crime to the war hero Halk, then makes Halk decide whether to lie to the public. Halk covers for him and blames a cricket.
- Guilt eats at him, but he keeps choosing power over honesty.
Handing off that awful choice to Halk is peak Duke behavior. Tim spent a season becoming the villain he swore he would never be, and he barely noticed it happening.
What most people missed: Cherie survived. She was pregnant, and she gave birth to their daughter Pezlie, the first human ever born tiny. Tim never found out. He died without knowing he had a kid, which recolors his whole story once you know it.
Why Was Tim in the Wall?
Tim landed in the Wall for one reason: a red shirt. That is a deliberate joke. In Star Trek, “red shirts” are the nameless crew members who beam down and die on cue to show a mission is dangerous.
By making Tim a literal red shirt, the writers marked him as the most disposable nobody imaginable.
Other Wall residents at least did something to earn their punishment. Cherie annoyed Yumyulack by serving him shrimp he did not want.
Tim just picked the wrong outfit. Turning that throwaway character into the heart of the series is a really clever bit of writing.
Blink-and-miss-it detail: The heroic painting of Tim sitting on his throne is a parody of the famous sculpture shot from Conan the Barbarian (1982). The show loves burying movie references like this in the background.
How Did Tim Die?
Tim’s death arrives in the season 3 episode “Hululand,” and it is bleak in the funniest way possible. He was slowly being poisoned by lead from a vintage Burger King glass he kept in his chambers.
Cherie and Halk track him down while he is dying and take him to the Bowinian Church for help. The nuns there make it worse by hooking him up to a bag of contact lens solution. Most of the episode looks like a triumphant escape, then pulls the rug out: the whole thing is Tim’s dying dream. He passes away without ever meeting his daughter, and Cherie is left furious that he escaped real justice.
Tyler’s take: The aliens are the reason people click on Solar Opposites, but the Wall is why I stayed. Tim is a small, ordinary man who got a taste of importance and could not let it go. That is a more honest story about power than most prestige dramas manage, and it is hiding inside an adult cartoon about a shrink ray.
Who Voices Tim in Solar Opposites?
Tim is voiced by Andy Daly, the comedian best known for the cult Comedy Central series Review.
He also plays a character named Lervus on the show. Daly is perfect casting, because he can flip from warm and harmless to quietly sinister without changing his voice much at all.
That everyman quality is exactly what sells Tim’s slide from hero to monster.
Is Tim from Solar Opposites a favorite of yours, or did his betrayal ruin him for you?
Drop a comment and let me know.