History Characters / HatchetfieldMainResidents

* HelicopterParents: Most of his problems with Alice stem from his constant desire to meddle in her life for her own good without really knowing much about her. Mind that he's more than fine with her being out of the closet; he just thinks that Deb is not a good influence and that she can do better.* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Paul. Bill mentions that Paul used to babysit his daughter Alice and take her to school, and the two still work together. They seem very close, and Paul is extremely hurt by Bill's death.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: As perhaps a natural extension of being the most recurring Hatchetfield character, he's also the one who gets killed most often.

* BrainyBrunette: Subverted, Steph thinks a C is passing with flying colors. She admits that it's rather pathetic that she's the smartest girl in the popular crowd.

* FinalGirl: She has the virginal innocence that tends to imply this trope in horror stories, the twist being that it comes from religious indoctrination and she enforces it on everyone else. When facing Lumber Axe, a slasher villain for whom SexSignalsDeath ''because'' he believes in abstinence, she endears herself to him [[spoiler:and ends up taking his place as the apparent slasher killer.]] In ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die'', her sexual repression is the cause of the story's main conflict, and she eventually saves the day [[spoiler:by giving in and having sex with the villain, her intent being a HeroicSacrifice of the chastity she holds so dear but expressing afterward that she ''really'' needed to get laid]].

** In ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die'', she has the same core personality, but we see more cracks--she lusts after Max despite attempting to suppress that urge and when he ends up [[spoiler:[[AccidentalMurder accidentally killed due to the prank they pull on him]] she is the one who tells the others they should cover it up and is noticeably far less freaked out about it than the rest of the group. The ending takes this even further with whatever innocence she may have once had being fully cast aside as she [[FaceHeelTurn begins taking the souls of 'pervy dudes.']]]]

** In ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die'', she has the same core personality, but we see more cracks-she lusts after Max despite attempting to suppress that urge and when he ends up [[spoiler:[[AccidentalMurder accidentally killed due to the prank they pull on him]] she is the one who tells the others they should cover it up and is noticeably far less freaked out about it than the rest of the group. The ending takes this even further with whatever innocence she may have once had being fully cast aside as she [[FaceHeelTurn begins taking the souls of 'pervy dudes.']]]]

* FinalGirl: ...Kind of.

* AmbiguousInnocence: She gives off an imppresion of being a sincere religious girl who is uncomfortable with sex, swearing and breaking the rules and this mostly seems accurate. However, in her debut appearance in "Abstinence Camp" she ends up running the camp with an iron fist and enforces her will with the implied threat of an ax.
** In ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die'', she has the same core personality, but we see more cracks-she lusts after Max despite attempting to suppress that urge and when he ends up [[AccidentalMurder accidentally killed due to the prank they pull on him]] she is the one who tells the others they should cover it up and is noticeably far less freaked out about it than the rest of the group. [[spoiler: And the ending takes this even further with whatever innocence she may have once had being fully cast aside as she [[FaceHeelTurn begins taking the souls of 'pervy dudes.']]]]

* GoodWingsEvilWings: Her Homecoming dress has a white ruff that creates the impression of angel wings when viewed from behind. It fits the [[TokenReligiousTeammate religiousness]] and [[PurityPersonified purity]] she projects perfectly. [[spoiler: At the end of “Dirty Dudes Must Die” one of the last moments of the play she turns away from the audience and her false wings highlight her [[HolierThanThou self righteousness]] and [[KnightTemplar zealotry]] as she prepares to kill anyone who fits her definition of a “Dirty Dude”.]]

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: [[spoiler: So far has happened in ''all'' stories featuring her as protagonist. In "Abstinence Camp", she ends up taking over the camp and running it with an iron first and an implicit threat of violence. In ''Nerdy Prudes'', she ends up working to steal the souls of 'dirty dudes', with such a label being applied ''very'' broadly.]]

* StrawmanPolitical: A lot of jokes are made about her being a Republican-in "Perky's Buds" Emma initially thinks Ziggy warning about 'a group of Republicans' showing up at her pot farm as being Grace being a nuisance again. In ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die'' she suggests fleeing to Canada after running afoul of the police and goes on a rant about how this will mean they will of course have to sacrifice some of their freedoms.

* TogetherInDeath: Ted gets a major AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther with Charlotte when the two of them silently clasp hands as they wait to see what happens at midnight in the ending of ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', which [[AmbiguousEnding ambiguously]] ends with them vaporized by a nuke. (The fact that they're also clutching hands with Robert Manion's "Hot Chocolate Boy" character has launched a lot of WildMassGuessing as to their relationship to that character.)

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Believes that Ruth will go to Hell for being bisexual, and acts disdainful towards Catholics.

* MeaningfulName: Jäger is the German word for "hunter," and Max's hobby is HuntingTheMostDangerousGame.

* CasanovaWannabe: Classic example of this trope. His self-confidence is so high he'll go to the lengths of [[RefugeInAudacity publicly hitting on the bride at her own wedding]], and he's developed a list of [[RuleNumberOne numbered "lessons"]] in the "arts of seduction" ("Lesson #46: Dress... to touch breasts") he rattles off to himself before his date with Jenny in "Time Bastard". (He's pretty clearly a TakeThat at the "pickup artist" community.)

* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: [[spoiler:Paul and Emma kill him because he's the only one who knows she's a robot.]]

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Trying to warn Paul [[spoiler:that his fiancee is a robot gets him KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade.]]

* TheSlowPath: [[spoiler:Being TrappedInThePast, he gets back to 2019 by living as a homeless man for 15 years.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In Nightmare Time 2, it becomes apparent that she truly loves her youngest son River and her husband Gerald, even leaving a heartfelt voicemail where she admits that though she hasn't said it recently, she really does love him, which is made heartbreaking because [[spoiler: she is not aware he has been killed]]

* FreudianExcuse: ''Honey Queen'' reveals she has an emotionaly abusive father who takes every opportunity to belittle her, which does a lot to explain her need for adoration.

* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: She's president of the local boating society and mother to several beautiful blonde boys, who believes her kids are entitled to a Tickle-Me-Wiggly and uses her lawyer as a defense against anybody who thinks otherwise. She joins the Wiggly cult as a prophet both so she can bask in adoration and so she can get the Wiggly dolls for her kids.

->'''Linda''': What? No, I'm not frightened, I'm -- I'm annoyed. Because some asshole took my doll, and... and... ''(bursts into tears)'' ''I HAD A HAIR APPOINTMENT TODAY!''

->'''Linda''': I can win honey queen. But I have to do it my way: destroy them all.''
->'''Gerald''': God, I fucking love you.''

[[caption-width-right:350:''"So, you do know the bible!"'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:''"My titties are tenderized."'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'll never hold the real Rei or Asuka in my arms."'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm free. And you know what that means, bitch? No more Mr Nice-Guy."'']]

''I will claim what is mine''\\
''I’m a literal monster''

* BackFromTheDead: Can anyone infected by the blue shit actually die?

* CannotTellFictionFromReality: It seems unlikely his musical ''Workin' Boys'' is autobiographical, if only because he's clearly spent most of his life alone in his bunker, but once he gets into performing it Hidgens seems to forget there's any difference between himself and his character "Henry".

* MeaningfulName: Nick Lang says giving him the name "Henry Hidgens" was a purely accidental similarity to ''Film/MyFairLady'', but Jeff Blim was among the people who made the connection to Robert Manion's Rex-Harrison-esque performance.

* NoNameGiven: Technically, his first name is not given in TGWDLM, and it's left [[AmbiguousSituation ambiguous]] if the main character of ''Workin' Boys'', Henry, is named after himself. As of the announcement of the standalone ''Workin' Boys'' short film it's been confirmed that Henry is in fact his real first name, and he's addressed as such several times in ''Nightmare Time''.

* DearJohnLetter: Leaves a ''blisteringly'' harsh parent/child version of one to her mom at the end of "[=CaliforMIA=]".

* PromotionToParent: Her mother is an abusive alcoholic, so she's the one who takes care of her sister Hannah, with her boyfriend Ethan filling a sort of "jokey stepdad" role.

* PutOnABus: She and Ethan are mysteriously absent from "The Witch in the Web", leading many to worry that she'd abandoned Hannah to run off to California without her. It turns out she was put on a ''prison'' bus and is currently doing four years of hard time for dealing drugs -- a fall her mom set her up for.
** We're then meant to think TheBusCameBack and she was magically released from prison to come take care of Hannah from now on. [[spoiler: It's pretty obvious that no such thing has happened and this is the Witch wearing Lex's identity to try to gain Hannah's trust.]]

* SirSwearsALot: There is a ''lot'' of cursing in this show in general, but Lex especially is prone to it, particuarly when she's upset or excited.

* SummonMagic: Lex is able to use her powers at a critical moment to save her life by summoning [[spoiler: [=MacNamara=]'s gun in "Black Friday", and the remote control for Otho's ExplosiveLeash in "Yellow Jacket"]].

Lex's 13-year-old sister, whose welfare motivates most of her actions. She's noted to be quirky and quiet, though Lex insists she's simply "creative."

* ApocalypseMaiden: Hannah turns out to be so powerful that if some evil entity were able to co-opt her power -- most notably, if Willabella Muckwab's spirit were able to possess and merge with her -- that would be enough to end the world right then and there. What this means, though, is that if she is able to learn to fully control her powers and use them for good... she could ''save'' the world, not just in this timeline but across all of them.

* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: [[spoiler: One of the biggest laugh lines of the show is when Hannah, channeling [=MacNamara=] -- possibly literally -- says her only completely lucid dialogue in the show and responds to Paul whining about how he doesn't know what time it is without his smartphone with, "Wear a watch."]]

* ImaginaryFriend: She has one named "Webby", a "giant spider from outer space", who frequently gives her advice (much to Lex's frustration, since the advice is telling her not to go along with Lex's plan). Given what we learn about her powers and the Black and White -- especially Wiggly's voice snarling "Webby is a stupid bitch!" -- it seems likely Webby is RealAfterAll, a benign entity from the Black and White in opposition to Wiggly [[spoiler: like the one [=MacNamara=] becomes]]. (The fact that Webby is a spider may be a ShoutOut to {{Literature/IT}}'s true form.)

* KiddieKid: Hannah is 13 years old, but her mental issues make her come across as much younger. This was ''very'' pronounced in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', with Lex talking to Hannah slowly and carefully the way you would with a five-year-old; in ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'', where she's a year older and not in such an immediately traumatic situation, she's a good deal more lucid.

** "Tree-People" for the spirits trapped in the Witchwood used to form this web; possibly "Hatchet-Men" or "Men with Hatchets" for the AncientConspiracy that put them there.

* FirstGirlWins: The road they took to get there was littered with tragedy, but she finally gets to be with her FirstLove by the end of the play.

** He's this way during his own songs too, cutting himself off before he can bring himself to talk to his wife's death with the refrain "Flash--bang--", mimicking the experience of a PTSD {{Trigger}}.

* CoolTeacher: Tom ''used'' to be this for Lex -- his job was teaching ShopClass at Hatchetfield High, which was known as the "easy A" class. When the class was canceled thanks to him going on "indefinite leave" and never coming back, Lex's GPA went down badly enough she decided to just drop out, and blames him for sending her life into a tailspin.

* EpiphanyTherapy: He's not ''completely'' okay all of a sudden, but the moment we know HesBack is when he sings the line "Flash--" and the spotlight goes off but does ''not'' lead into the "Flash--bang--" refrain, which indicates the trigger still exists but he can now recognize it and stave it off.

* MeaningfulName: Tom's last name being a place name and his status as a washed-up jock who went into a more dangerous line of work after the end of his sports career seems reminiscent of Johnny Utah in ''Film/PointBreak'', who was himself named for Joe Montana.

* ShellShockedVeteran: Tim tells us he has a PTSD diagnosis from the war and isn't supposed to hold a gun, even to play a LightGunGame, but it turns out that's not the end of it -- his PTSD became ''way'' worse after his wife died in a car accident. Played with in the lyrics of "What Tim Wants", where his {{trigger}} is represented by the lyrics "Flash--bang--", which sounds like a reference to a [[BlindedByTheLight flashbang grenade]] but is in fact about being blinded by the headlights of the other car.

* TraumaButton: The song "What Tim Wants" and "If I Fail You" reveal that anything that reminds him of the car accident is this for him. He bristles at the tropey, media-sensationalized idea of "PTSD flashbacks", though, as do many sufferers in RealLife.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Can anyone infected by the blue shit actually die?]]

* DemotedToExtra: Since he never goes down to the mall and misses all the action, the ''Black Friday'' timeline's version of Paul never gets to show the heroic qualities he did in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''and is reduced to just being Emma's awkward boyfriend who serves as TheWatson so she can deliver Tom's backstory.

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: The real Emma Perkins is said at the beginning of "Forever & Always* to have been KilledOffscreen in a literal BusCrash. Turns out she was more of an ActionSurvivor than Emma 2 thought.]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' '''''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''''' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man"]]''' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Forever & Always"]] | '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Time Bastard"]]''' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Daddy"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Can anyone infected by the blue shit actually die?]]
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: Ted's role in "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man is one long, hilarious joke about doing this.]]

** Ted's ButtMonkey status gets worse in ''WebVideo/NightmareTime''. [[spoiler: First "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man" puts him in a truly absurd situation that ends in his horrible death by HeroicSacrifice. Then "Time Bastard" puts him through a really harsh TraumaCongaLine whose ending is ''so'' cruel to Ted that even his most devoted haters can't find any humor or satisfaction in it.]]

* NoNameGiven: Ted's last name remained unrevealed until Episode 2, Pt. 2 of ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'', "Time Bastard", because it would've been a "spoiler" for ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die''. (Until many things had to be rearranged because of NPMD being indefinitely delayed by the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.) It turns out to be the MeaningfulName "Spankoffski" (for someone who is both, personality-wise, a [[{{Jerkass}} jerk-off]] and spends almost all his time jerking off).

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Time Bastard" reveals his full first name is "Theodore".

* TrappedInThePast: [[spoiler:Ends up stuck in 2004 because he'd travelled back to before his office was a time machine.]]

* WhamShot: [[spoiler: Ted puts on the heavy coat and beanie hat he finds in the alley behind what will someday become the CCRP building, and we suddenly recognize him as the Homeless Man from ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' and ''Theatre/BlackFriday''.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: In the character sheets of just about every character assimilated in TGWDLM, we've asked if anyone infected by the blue shit is capable of dying. Apparently yes, in this case -- Charlotte and Sam are never seen again after Hidgens puts them down with a point blank shotgun blast, in all likelihood because he went on to dissect their bodies.]]

* NoNameGiven: As of ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' Season 1, Charlotte is the only main character of ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' whose last name is still unknown (since she still hasn't been a main character of a ''Nightmare Time'' episode).

* TogetherInDeath: Ted gets a major AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther with Charlotte when the two of them silently clasp hands as they wait to see what happens at midnight in the ending of ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', which [[AmbiguousEnding ambiguously]] ends with them vaporized by a nuke. (The fact that they're also clutching hands with Robert Manion's "Hot Chocolate Boy" character has launched a lot of WildMassGuessing as to their relationship to that character.)

!!!'''Appears in:''' '''''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''''' | '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]]''' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Forever & Always"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Time Bastard"]]

* BackFromTheDead: One would think that being shot in the head would do it, and, failing that, being blown up by a meteor, but neither works.

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: Bill not only gets one in "Watcher World", where he and Alice not only survive but manage to repair their relationship, it actually ''sticks'' -- when we next see him in "Forever & Always" he and Alice are still on good terms, with Alice seeming to have chosen him over her mom, ''and'' he's got a new girlfriend Sylvia all of a sudden.

!!!'''Appears in:''' '''''Theatre/BlackFriday''''' | '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]]'''

!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Perky's Buds"]] | '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]]''' | '''''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie'''''

!!!'''Appears in:''' '''''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie''''' | ''WebVideo/WorkinBoys''

!!!'''Appears in:''' '''''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie'''''