Ho-Ming Vader: Day Shift Manager

Ho-Ming Vader: Day Shift Manager (Cantonese: 浩明·維達：白班經理 Jyutping: hou6 ming4 wai4 daat6 baak6 baan1 ging1 lei5) is a Hong Kong sitcom created by Richard Lo and Alvin Ko, who wrote, directed, and appeared in the series, which parodies. The show's central character is Ho-Ming Vader (浩明·維達), the day-shift manager at the fictional supermarket Empire Market, who clashes with his customers and employees.

Ho-Ming Vader (浩明·維達)

 * Ho-Ming Vader (Richard Lo/voiced by Alvin Ko) is the show's central character. He is the day shift manager of Empire Market. Sometimes using lines lifted from the Star Wars films (the main source of humor being Ho-Ming going about day-to-day life while retaining a behavior befitting of a Sith lord), Ho-Ming's main goal is to crush Empire Market's competition and help make the store dominate the food retailing industry. However, as Season 2 progresses along, Ho-Ming follows Randy's orders to "ditch" the Star Wars attitude and become more normal. The new leader announces that everyone has a chance to be General Manager. His main goal morphs into a great ambition to become General Manager (which he succeeds in doing the end of Season 3). While he has inappropriate and rocky relationships with most of his co-workers, he has better ones with others, such as Jeremy, whom he adopts as his apprentice. Ho-Ming implies in the second episode that he is 's younger, less successful brother, and that Vader gave Ho-Ming a life support suit and helmet similar to his own after Ho-Ming accidentally rode his bicycle into a volcano. Though he uses a red  as a weapon to threaten opponents and shoplifters, he may not be a Sith; he is never referred to as "Darth", the title given to all members of the Sith order. He is, however, referred to as "Lord Vader" by some characters. Ho-Ming had lost touch with his family when they moved to  without him.

Jeremy Ng Chi-Hang (吳致恆)

 * Jeremy Ng Chi-Hang (Daryl Lee) is an Empire Market employee who idolizes Ho-Ming and wears the headpiece of an Imperial Ground Officer (which is the back piece of the Darth Vader Voice Changer mask). He is usually referred to by Vader as "Commander Starrum", and is treated as his "young apprentice". Jeremy eventually transfers to the Night Shift with Ho-Ming, until Ho-Ming went back to being a Day Shift Manager. In "Ho-Ming Fights Back", he is shown to have the power of when he pulls a broom to his hand. Jeremy often sees Ho-Ming more as his leader than his boss.