History Characters / HatchetfieldOtherResidents

* KilledOffscreen: As explained in "The Witch in the Web", in roughly half of all timelines she's a PosthumousCharacter, having died in 2005 in a battle against [[spoiler:Uncle Wiley]], whom ''she'' killed in the other half. This means she is almost certainly dead in the timelines of ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', [[spoiler:in which Uncle Wiley is alive and wearing the jacket that the victor of their conflict usually takes as a trophy]], and ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie'',[[spoiler:in which the Black Book is in Mayor Lauter's possession.]]

Please keep all Hatchetfield pages free of spoilers for ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie'' until the show is released to the general public.

* RunningGag: He appears throughout the Hatchetfield saga, always claiming to be in a hurry despite being in places such as in line for Black Friday shopping, in line for a roller coaster, or attending a wedding.

!!The Homeless Man

!!Greenpeace Girl

* NoNameGiven: Even though she becomes one of the recurring zombies who haunts Paul all the way to the end of the show, we never hear her called anything other than "Greenpeace Girl". Both Tom and the narrator of "Jane's a Car" also refers to her as such.

!!!'''Appears in:''' '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]]'''

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday''[[note]]promotional material; Donna only[[/note]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man"]] | '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Peanuts!"]]''' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "The Witch in the Web"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]][[note]]Dan only[[/note]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]]'''

!!Ziggs

!!!'''Appears in:''' '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Perky's Buds"]]'''

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die!'', the Nighthawks have a different star quarterback, Max Jägerman.

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | '''''Theatre/BlackFriday''''' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Forever & Always"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Peanuts!"]] | '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Daddy"]]'''

* TheCameo: He's the subject of the CouchGag of ''Nightmare Time'' Season 2 Episode 3, prior to appearing in the episode proper in "Daddy".

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: While talking to Lex [[KickTheDog he makes an extremely ableist remark about Hannah being "dropped on her head" as a child.]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Time Bastard"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "The Witch in the Web"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Daddy"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' (promotional material; Donna only) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Peanuts!"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "The Witch in the Web"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]] (Dan only)

!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Daddy"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "The Witch in the Web"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]

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

A homicide detective set to debut in ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie''.

!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Perky's Buds"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Forever & Always"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Peanuts!"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Daddy"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Forever & Always"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Time Bastard"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "Jane's a Car"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday''

!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' (cameo) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Time Bastard"]]

* UnrequitedTragicMaiden: Fits this trope, except that tragically she didn't realize that her feelings were ''requited'' and [[CannotSpitItOut Young Ted just didn't know how to express them]].

* SkewedPriorities: She's so revolted by Ted's [[ADateWithRosiePalms personal habits]] she would rather potentially allow a time-and-space-rending anomaly to continue destabilizing reality than risk going into his office. Hilariously, her successors at CCRP 85 years in the future share her opinion.

[[folder: Otho]]
The champion of the games, a mysterious masked boy with terrifying psychic power. For his true nature, see [[Characters/HatchetfieldTheBlackAndWhite The Black and White]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Zoey Chambers]]
The manager at Beanie's, whose theatre experience enables Nora's ambitions for the musical coffee shop. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldFamilies Families]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Emma Perkins]]
After returning to her hometown of Hatchetfield, Emma Perkins initially took a job at Beanie's to fund her ambitions to start a marijuana farm. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Paul Matthews]]
An efficient and reliable member of the technical department, generally known around the office only as the guy who doesn't like musicals. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Ted Spankoffski]]
A superior to Paul, Charlotte, and Bill. He has his own office, though it's so smelly that not even the presence of temporal rifts that require investigating can motivate other employees to enter it. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Charlotte Sweetly]]
A cubicle-mate of Paul and Bill. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Bill Woodward]]
Paul and Charlotte's cubicle-mate and Paul's best friend. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Lex Foster]]
Lex supports her family with her meager paychecks from Toy Zone. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Mayor Solomon Lauter]]
The mayor of Hatchetfield. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldFamilies Families]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Sam Sweetly]]
Charlotte's husband is a crooked police sergeant. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldFamilies Families]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Andy]]
Jenny's boyfriend, with whom she apparently ran away to Clivesdale after college. For Andy's true fate, see [[spoiler:Executive Kilgore in [[Characters/HatchetfieldParanormalPhenomena Paranormal Phenomena]].]]
[[/folder]]

For the most relevant students at Hatchetfield High, see:
* Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents (Lex Foster, Hannah Foster, and the entire main cast of ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die!'')
* Characters/HatchetfieldFamilies (Ethan Green)

[[folder: Tom Houston]]
The shop teacher at Hatchetfield High. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Miss Holliday]]
The new guidance counselor at Hatchetfield High. See Miss Holloway above.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Lex Foster]]
Lex is a high school senior at the time of ''Theatre/BlackFriday''. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].

[[folder: Hannah Foster]]
As of [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]], Hannah is a freshman at Hatchetfield High. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].

[[folder: Ethan Green]]
Ethan is a high school senior at the time of ''Theatre/BlackFriday''. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldFamilies Families]].

[[folder: Stephanie Lauter]]
A popular girl at Hatchetfield High and daughter of the mayor. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].

[[folder: Grace Chasity]]
An unpopular nerdy prude at Hatchetfield High. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].

[[folder: Peter Spankoffski]]
Ted's much-younger brother, a high school student. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].

[[folder: Ruth Fleming]]
!!Ruth Fleming
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/LaurenLopez
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie''

One of Hatchetfield High's resident gaggle of nerdy prudes.

* BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill: A promo released for the show reveals her to wear elaborate dental headgear.
* MeaningfulName: It was implied that her name provides an easy pun on "phlegm", solidified by the reveal of her orthodontic headgear.

[[folder: Richie Lipschitz]]
!!Richie Lipschitz
!!!'''Played by:''' Jon Matteson
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie''

Another member of the clique of nerdy prudes.

* EmbarrassingNickname: "Shitlips", an all-too-easy pun on his name.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Richie was originally written to be Creator/JoeyRichter's Obnoxious Teen as an AscendedExtra. When Joey was cast as Peter Spankoffski, Richie had to become a new character played by Jon Matteson, a circumstance amusingly similar to those that led to the existence of the Obnoxious Teen in the first place.

[[folder: Max Jägerman]]
!!Max Jägerman
!!!'''Played by:''' Will Branner
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie''

Star quarterback of the Hatchetfield High Nighthawks and tormentor of the nerdy prudes.

* CardCarryingVillain: In his VillainSong, he freely admits and relishes in the fact that he's a one-note bully who's peaking in high school.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Hatchetfield High already had a star quarterback appearing in "Yellow Jacket", Brad Callahan. Max is not only necessitated by the fact that Joey Richter, who played Brad, would inevitably end up playing one of the Nerdy Prudes, but also seems to be a much more serious and dangerous character than the buffoonish Brad.
* VillainSong: "Literal Monster", which starts off as a TheVillainSucksSong before he enthusiastically joins in on it himself.

[[folder: Deb]]
!!Deb
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JaimeLynBeatty
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]
!!!'''Mentioned in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tgwdlm_deb.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Look, she doesn't have to if she doesn't want to, okay?"'']]

Alice's girlfriend, who Bill dislikes.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Dating Alice but mentioned in "Watcher World" to have a crush on Ziggs, a non-binary classmate, suggesting that Deb is bi or pan.
* ButchLesbian: Deb is this to her girlfriend Alice's LipstickLesbian.
* FetishizedAbuser: This doesn't happen in ''TGWDLM'' --she's shown being protective of Alice and [[spoiler:Alice got herself killed by staying in Hatchetfield for an extra day without telling her dad]]-- but in ''Watcher World'', Bill's judgement of her as a suitable paramour for his daughter amounts to this. He says that she's a bad influence on Alice and doesn't treat her well, for someone meant to be a significant other, and they don't seem to have a future in mind. Case in point: Bill schedules a trip weeks in advance because he wants to bond with his daughter before she goes to college, and Deb spontaneously hosts a WildTeenParty, hinting to Alice that if she doesn't come, Zigs may be more interesting. This sends Alice into a panicked frenzy; to add insult to injury, [[spoiler:Deb posts pictures on her Instagram of hooking up with Zigs, all the while knowing why Alice couldn't make it]]. For this reason, once she and Bill snap out of Blinky's brainwashing, [[spoiler:Alice doesn't admit that Bill was right, but checks Instagram once to follow him and then tosses her phone into the backseat, showing that she's letting go of Deb's power over her]].
* LoveTriangle: "Watcher World" reveals that Deb has a crush on Ziggs, and Alice is extremely insecure about how much cooler and more worldly Ziggs is than her, thinking it's a very real possibility that Deb may choose Ziggs over her.
* PhoneaholicTeenager: When struggling to give an actual reason he hates Deb Bill throws out the fact that she's "always on her phone".
* RichKids: "Watcher World" reveals that, surprisingly, Deb's family is quite wealthy, with her parents owning a lake house -- complete with jet ski -- they let her use as a venue for a blowout WildTeenParty just before leaving for college, and are lenient enough Deb feels no need to hide that there will be alcohol and hooking up there, in sharp contrast to how Alice is treated by Bill. ''And'' she's going on a weeklong trip to Amsterdam with her grandmother immediately afterwards, and is deliberately going to pursue a StarvingArtist career with her parents' money to fall back on. It all puts Bill's dislike of Deb and belief that she's a ToxicFriendInfluence in a different, more sympathetic light.
** Deb's wealthy background overturns a lot of assumptions people had about her based on her brief appearance in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' where she wore baggy, drab clothes in contrast to Alice's outfit, which now seems like Deb consciously adopting a {{Hipster}} identity.
* StrawVegetarian: Bill seems to regard Deb being a vegetarian -- and defining "vegetarian" as not eating seafood, even on Red Lobster's Crabfest -- as yet another way she's deliberately antagonizing him.
* TheStoner: Alice reveals to her father's horror that he was right about Deb; she's a hardcore stoner.
* TookALevelInJerkass: A lot of fans turned against Deb in "Watcher World", where it's revealed she's one of the RichKids and acts pretty callously toward her girlfriend, throwing a WildTeenParty without her right before they both leave for college.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Bill thinks Deb is this to Alice. Ironically, the one time we actually see Deb and Alice [[spoiler: before their assimilation]], Deb is the one standing up to [[PeerPressureMakesYouEvil peer pressure]], dragging Alice away from "the Smoke Club".

[[folder: Obnoxious Teen]]
!!The Obnoxious Teen
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JoeyRichter
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "Jane's a Car"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hatchetfield_obnoxious_teen.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Uh, sir, okay, this is not the type of place where you can haggle, sir, like, I don't set the prices, I'm just a high school kid."'']]

A sleepy-eyed, squeaky-voiced high school student seen throughout Hatchetfield.

* ActorAllusion: Creator/JoeyRichter has described his tendency toward InopportuneVoiceCracking as the "bane of his existence" as an actor when he's trying to play a serious, impressive role, and casting him in this role comes off as mildly ribbing him for it (similar to when he cast himself as Scrags in ''Theatre/TheSolveItSquadReturns'').
* BurgerFool: All of his jobs are of the menial, mindless sort that teenagers are forced into, and he's incompetent enough that when Tom orders two items at Pizza Pete's (which is technically a SuckECheeses), that's too much for him to write down all at once.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Colonel Schaeffer confirmed that, aside from [[SoleSurvivor Emma]], no other human resident of Hatchetfield survived, so it’s highly likely the Obnoxious Teen was infected by the HiveMind offscreen during ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'']].
* NerdGlasses: Creator/JoeyRichter puts on huge glasses -- even more exaggeratedly nerdy than those of Peter Spankoffski -- as an instant way to let us know who this character is.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: He's a movie theatre ticket-taker in ''Black Friday'', an amusement park ride attendant in "Watcher World", and a waiter at Pizza Pete's in "Jane's a Car". His "Honey Queen" appearance doesn't ''quite'' keep up the running gag, as it's a volunteer gig.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: As with the Squeaky-Voiced Teen, the whole joke of his character is him struggling to enforce his employers' rules on customers who don't care, and who find that it's ''him'' trying to tell them what they can and can't do to be adding insult to injury. Ethan almost gets kicked out of the mall trying to browbeat him into giving him a discount at the movie theater in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', and "Watcher World" features him and Bill getting into a brief SeinfeldianConversation about what the concept of a "single rider" at an amusement park queue even means. This becomes much more BlackComedy when Bill and Alice get stuck at the top of the rollercoaster, and they have to deal with the scratchy voice of ''this guy'' coming over the intercom vainly trying to order them to stay in place and reassure them [[TheCavalryArrivesLate help is on the way.]]
* ShoutOut: Everything about him is an extended reference to the Squeaky-Voiced Teen from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', being a pimply teen RecurringExtra with a wheezy voice and nerdy mannerisms, who [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands keeps changing jobs]], struggles with said jobs, and is much-abused by his customers, who don't care much about the rules at the businesses employing him.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: This character only exists because the script for ''Black Friday'' originally called for Robert Manion's nameless character eventually revealed to be Peter Spankoffski (who was also called "Obnoxious Teen" in the script for ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'') to be manning the ticket booth at the cineplex, only for this to be impossible when Robert was cast as Ethan, who gets into a confrontation with the teen. Ironically, following Robert's departure from the team all three characters are played by Joey.

[[folder: Gabe]]
!!Gabe
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JeffBlim
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Perky's Buds"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You know, I never thought I'd meet a girl as cool as my mom, but then I met you, Grace."'']]

Grace's best friend, a church choir boy.

[[folder: Brad Callahan]]
!!Brad Callahan
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JoeyRichter
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmt_brad_callahan.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"It wasn't me... it was Webby! Oh ho ho ho!"'']]

Star quarterback of the Hatchetfield High Nighthawks.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die!'', the Nighthawks have a different star quarterback, Max Jägerman.

!!Hatchetfield High School - Faculty

[[folder: Tom Houston]]
The shop teacher at Hatchetfield High. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Miss Holliday]]
The new guidance counselor at Hatchetfield High. See Miss Holloway above.
[[/folder]]

!Other

[[folder: Man in a Hurry]]
!!Barry Swift, the Man in a Hurry
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JeffBlim
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Forever & Always"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Peanuts!"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Daddy"]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tgwdlm_man_in_a_hurry.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Give me the fucking doll, I'm in a hurry!"'']]

A rude and impatient resident of Hatchetfield who always claims to be in a hurry.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: He ends up just another one of the Wiggly cultists worshiping Linda who [[spoiler: dies when the mall burns down]].
* TheCameo: He's the subject of the CouchGag of ''Nightmare Time'' Season 2 Episode 3, prior to appearing in the episode proper in "Daddy".
* CatchPhrase: As you may have guessed, "I'm in a hurry!"
* CovertPervert: He shares Sherman's line in "Feast or Famine" about wanting a Wiggly to be his "little boyfriend". He also spends a lot of time leering at Becky in "What Do You Say?"
* CreatorInJoke: The "Man In A Hurry" character was supposed to blow off Greenpeace Girl's pitch in TGWDLM by saying "I'm in a hurry", but Jeff made a RunningGag out of getting in ''too much of a hurry'' to say the entire line as rehearsals went on, so that by the time the show was actually performed, he says nothing at all, just brushing right past her. He was brought back for ''Black Friday'' to supposedly "do his character justice" by letting him say actually say it this time. As of ''Nightmare Time'', the character is now a RunningGag.
* CreditsGag: The cast announcement for ''Black Friday'' listed this guy as the role Creator/JeffBlim would be playing. [[spoiler:This was to conceal the return of General [=MacNamara=].]] The gag became well-known enough ahead of time that when Jeff declares, "I'm in a hurry!", the ''Black Friday'' audience breaks into applause.
* DecompositeCharacter: Statements from the creators indicate that the man who orders a complicated coffee from Emma in TGWDLM, pictured above, is ''not'' the same character as the Man in a Hurry, instead identified as "Rude Customer" or "Coffee Jerk". This is clearly a {{Retcon}}, as he wears the exact same costume as the Man in a Hurry (costume being a ''huge'' factor in identifying Hatchetfield characters due to how few actors there are) and shares the PhoneaholicTeenager tendencies the Man in a Hurry exhibits in ''Black Friday'', but it seems the creators would now prefer this character to be used ''exclusively'' for "man in a hurry" jokes.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Anyone who knows anything about what Black Friday shopping is like knows that making some kind of prior engagement that he's in a hurry to get to after he buys the doll is showing colossally bad judgment. To be fair, his attitude may be because he himself is coming to realize this.
* FlatCharacter: He's in a hurry. "Daddy" pokes fun at the idea of giving him HiddenDepths: he spends a great deal of time with Frank in that story, forming a genuine connection and offering a sympathetic backstory, with every word he says relating to the concept of being in a hurry.
* LargeHam: Once the RetailRiot goes full swing he takes the opportunity to exultantly scream "CHAOS REIGNS!"
* PhoneaholicTeenager: He spends all of "What Do You Say?" on his phone, either excitedly texting about the gossip or trying to get the two reunited lovers on video. He's also on his phone for most of his first scene in TGWDLM, when he orders coffee from Emma.
* PsychoKnifeNut: After being driven insane and joining the Wiggly Cult, he starts wielding a knife. This allows him to outfight the more experienced but unarmed Tom.
* RiddleForTheAges: A tongue-in-cheek comment from Jeff Blim is that the one secret of Hatchetfield that will never be revealed is where, exactly, the Man in a Hurry is in a hurry to get to.
* RunningGag: He appears throughout the Hatchetfield saga, always claiming to be in a hurry despite being in places such as in line for Black Friday shopping, in line for a roller coaster, or attending a wedding.
* TookALevelInJerkass: He was already an asshole in TGWDLM, and he doesn't come off much better in ''Black Friday'' -- taking the opportunity to perv out on Becky and surreptitiously film her during "What Do You Say?" -- but the HatePlague upgrades him to an attempted ''murderer'' when he stabs Tom.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Multiple different people play a role in triggering the RetailRiot, but it's the Man in a Hurry's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin characteristic impatience]] that causes all semblance of order to break down.
-->'''Man in a Hurry''': All right, ''forget'' this line. I'll give you $500, cash money, for one Wiggly ''right now''.
* VoxPops: "Peanuts!" shows Dan and Donna doing one of these interviews with him about the Peanuts the Hatchetfield Pocket Squirrel "phenomenon", only for it to backfire with him looking confused and wondering what they're talking about.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Homeless Man]]
!!The Homeless Man
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JoeyRichter
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Forever & Always"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Time Bastard"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Look, a coat. And, oh, a hat. That's better. Now I just gotta find a home."'']]

->'' 'Cause I may not have a home, but that's way okay''\\
'' 'Cause I prefer to roam the streets all day''

A middle-aged, homeless resident of Hatchetfield.
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* AddledAddict: He's TheAlcoholic when he can get his hands on booze; he ''used'' to be into some much harder drugs like [[PsychoSerum bath salts]] but, luckily for the [[ImAHumanitarian faces of everyone around him]], they haven't been as easy to find recently.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Being the Homeless Man was ''already'' this, in mundane non-supernatural terms -- the last fragments of your past self watching yourself become a pitiful insane wreck of a human being, sleeping in filth and [[EatTheDog eating dogs]] to survive. Then comes TheReveal that when he dies, he's denied blissful CessationOfExistence and instead gets an eternity in the unspeakable {{Hell}} that is the Bastard's Box.]]
-->'''Narrator''': [[spoiler: But don’t be too sad. [[FalseReassurance He still lives on]]... [[FateWorseThanDeath in a way]]. After his physical death, Ted Spankoffski finds himself trapped in the twisting, impossible maze that is the Bastard’s Box. For him, Nightmare Time has only just begun...]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In both full-length Hatchetfield shows, being an early victim of apotheosis in TGWDLM and a member of the Cult of Wiggly in ''Black Friday''.
* TheCameo: In the original release of ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp Season 2 Episode 2]], he appears in the CouchGag during the theme song, otherwise not appearing anywhere in the episode. This appearance is sadly absent from the [=YouTube=] version of the episode but can be heard on the soundtrack.
* CassandraTruth: At the beginning of "Forever & Always" -- "You aren't Emma Perkins!" [[spoiler: Ironically, this is him being RightForTheWrongReasons -- just seeing Paul and Emma together randomly {{trigger}}ed a stray fragment of his memories of Robot Emma from the future, but he has no actual reason to know that this Emma is the robot and not the real one.]]
* CatchPhrase: "Spare change for the homeless?"
* TheChewToy: A classic example of evoking guilty laughter about someone living on the very bottom of the societal pyramid. [[spoiler: TheReveal of his backstory in "Time Bastard" is an intentional GutPunch.]]
* CloudCuckooLander: Even by the standards of CrazyHomelessPeople, like when he gets in the line for a Wiggly on Black Friday planning to somehow buy a $49.95 product for three dollars. Oh, and [[FreezeFrameBonus on close examination]], he doesn't even ''have'' three dollars -- he has one dollar, a strip of toilet paper, and a receipt.
* TheComicallySerious: Creator/JoeyRichter has a lot of fun playing the Homeless Man this way, especially with his facial expressions as a cultist in ''Theatre/BlackFriday''.
* TheConstant: Among other constants existing in every AlternateTimeline in Hatchetfield, the Homeless Man is confirmed as one of them. [[spoiler: This is an intentional case of a GrandfatherParadox, because in any timeline that doesn't culminate in the plot of "Time Bastard", the BadFuture he comes from never happened. The explanation of how this is possible has yet to be explicitly revealed.]]
* CrazyHomelessPeople: He's been homeless for some 15 years and, understandably, not in the best mental health for it. [[spoiler:As it turns out, his mind snapped from Tinky telling him there was no way back to his timeline, followed by hearing and seeing himself in what is essentially the bowels of hell, causing him to develop his loopy mannerisms a few minutes ''before'' becoming homeless.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
** His verse of "La Dee Dah Dah Day" in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' plays up his long, tragic life on the streets for over-the-top BlackComedy.
-->The world is my house \\
The dogs are my food \\
Oh, look, a new blouse ''(puts on garbage bag)'' \\
And a new trash tattoo!
** [[spoiler: TheReveal of how he ''became'' the Homeless Man in "Time Bastard" is way darker and more troubled than anything we could have imagined about this comical background figure.]]
* DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler: We eventually find out the reason he became a CrazyHomelessPerson is a lot darker and more supernatural than we'd thought.]]
* EatTheDog: PlayedForLaughs. See above -- he's not above killing and eating stray dogs to survive (and he's ''lucky'' if [[ImAHumanitarian that's the worst thing he's eating]]).
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: According to the narrator in "Time Bastard", no one in Hatchetfield knows his name, so he is known only as "The Homeless Man".
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: The nature of the Apotheosis being this is demonstrated pretty well by the Homeless Man's verse of "La Dee Dah Dah Day", in which he sings cheerfully about the freedom that homelessness provides him.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: The final trigger that breaks Ted's mind fully and turns him into the Homeless Man is Tinky opening up the Bastard's Box and just giving him a ''glimpse'' of the [[AndIMustScream eternal agony]] he has waiting for him after death.]]
* GrandfatherParadox: [[spoiler:He's confirmed to exist in every Hatchetfield timeline, which is ''hugely'' paradoxical as the "Forever & Always"/"Time Bastard" timeline is the only one in which he possibly ''could'' exist. Emma 2, from the same timeline, is confirmed to ''only'' exist in that one. It may have something to do with the fact that Ted has been "aborted from time and space" by being anointed by Tinky as "the Time Bastard", or with the fact that Uncle Wiley tells us "everything shattered" and {{Alternate Timeline}}s became a thing only after Hannah was born in 2005, whereas the Homeless Man appeared in the timestream a year before that.]]
* IconicOutfit: The Homeless Man is ''always'' seen wearing his bulky beige winter coat and his wool beanie hat -- which is an outfit that makes sense for ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', which takes place well into winter, but not so much in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' when everyone else was outdoors in shirtsleeves. This is, of course, TruthInTelevision for people who don't have anywhere safe to keep their stuff and have to keep all their clothes with them. [[spoiler: Ted finding and putting on this outfit for the first time in "Time Bastard" is FiveSecondForeshadowing for the WhamLine that he and the Homeless Man are one and the same.]]
* IKissYourFoot: The Homeless Man memorably does this in "Adore Me", and seems to be even more enthusiastic about becoming a SycophanticServant in a [[ReligionOfEvil death cult]] than the others.
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: The reveal that he was Ted, someone casually misogynistic who [[LovableSexManiac talked about sex constantly]], retroactively makes the Homeless Man's behavior in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' rather ironic, as he's shocked and appalled at the Man in a Hurry talking about Becky's sex life and drinks ''deeply'' of his "respect women" juice in his interactions with Linda.]]
* MyGirlIsNotASlut: For some reason in "What Do You Say?" it's the ''Homeless Man'' who's shocked at the idea that Becky Barnes might not be PurityPersonified and might actually ''have sex'' with her OldFlame Tom Houston instead of just batting eyes at him from across the room. (He is, of course, quickly proven wrong.)
* NoDoubtTheYearsHaveChangedMe: [[spoiler: He's only fifteen years older than his past self he [[TemporalDuplication coexists with in Hatchetfield]], but his life on the streets has left him so aged and weatherbeaten no one notices the resemblance, even when they're right next to each other in "Forever & Always".]]
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: [[spoiler: Ted unknowingly looks at his older self in "Forever & Always" and scoffs, "What a loser!"]]
* PetTheDog: After the horrific, amoral life he's led [[spoiler: both as himself and as Ted]], his last ever action in life is an altruistic urge to try to warn [[spoiler: his former best friend]] Paul that his wife isn't who he thinks she is. [[spoiler: [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished This is what finally gets him killed]] and sent to [[AndIMustScream the Bastard's Box]].]]
* PsychoSerum: "La Dee Dah Dah Day" mentions that he used to be addicted to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_salts_(drug) bath salts]] that filled him with constant rage and led to an unfortunate instance of [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalizing a dead body]]. It's part of the long, long TraumaCongaLine of his life (as well as establishing that whatever is causing the zombie plague in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' it's not the "zombie drugs" that he was taking before).
* TheResenter: His verse of "La Dee Dah Dah Day" is some ''major'' BlackComedy about how, [[HiddenDepths beneath his dull, listless affect]], he does in fact deeply resent all of the more-fortunate people he sees walking around every day and fantasize about brutally murdering them (especially while under the influence of "zombie drugs") and only the GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul effect of the alien HiveMind has caused it to lift, just now. All of which he cheerfully sings right to Paul's face to a peppy pop tune.
** We get to see the Homeless Man's unfiltered rage in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', where it seems to be fueling his drive to join Linda's cult and become one of her most vicious and violent servants, including when he happily [[WouldHurtAChild attacks Hannah and drags her to Linda to be executed]].
* TheReveal: In "Time Bastard", it is discovered that the Homeless Man is in fact [[spoiler: a 50-year-old Ted, having travelled back in time 15 years and been forced to take TheSlowPath back home. This is true of ''all'' incarnations of the Homeless Man, despite Ted dying young in every other story in which he appears, this [[TimeyWimeyBall timey-wimey]] oddity working on the same still-unknown mechanism by which there are multiple Hatchetfield timelines to begin with.]]
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The story of the Homeless Man being on "zombie drugs" and biting off someone's face was ripped from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_cannibal_attack one particularly sensational headline]] from 2012 that both started a nationwide panic about bath salts and helped establish the [[OnlyInFlorida Florida Man]] meme.
* SingingVoiceDissonance: Even though it's a gag we can see coming a mile away, it's still incredibly funny when the Homeless Man suddenly switches from his gruff, awkward voice to a soaring Broadway tenor to sing the second verse of "La Dee Dah Dah Day", especially coupled with the LyricalDissonance of what he's singing about.
* TakingUpTheMantle: Hilariously, he of all people is the first to try to claim leadership of the Wiggly cult ("No, ''I'm'' the prophet! I'M THE PROPHET!") after Linda and Sherman are both dead.
* TrappedInThePast: [[spoiler: He exists because Ted went back too far in time and was unable to return to the future.]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler: The primary reason his mind is broken and he's unable to even recognize any of the people or things he once knew as Ted Spankoffski is realizing [[MyGreatestFailure he's directly responsible for killing Jenny]], his OneTrueLove, and that there's no way he can use TimeTravel to fix it. This, followed by Tinky gleefully showing him the inside of the Bastard's Box, an AmbiguousSituation where he becomes fully aware of the horror of being a living TimeParadox in a StableTimeLoop, shatters his sanity and drives his mind to suppress any knowledge he has of who he is and what's happened in his life thus far, leaving him barely able to function. Tinky "curing" him and giving him his full knowledge of his identity and history as Ted back, before tossing him into [[AndIMustScream the Bastard's Box]], is one final KickTheDog moment for him.]]
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler: The big {{reveal}} in "Time Bastard" is that Ted Spankoffski and the guy everyone in Hatchetfield knows as "the Homeless Man" are one and the same, thanks to TemporalDuplication.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: His backstory -- even knowing that he ''has'' a backstory and he isn't just a background ComicRelief character -- is a massive one.
* WeakWilled: It's implied he's particularly susceptible to becoming BrainwashedAndCrazy due to a fondness for jumping on the bandwagon, as he's in line to buy a Wiggly doll despite not being able to afford one, and the creators have half-jokingly confirmed a fan theory that he wasn't assimilated at all during "La Dee Dah Dah Day". [[spoiler: This isn't quite as funny after we find out why; he's weak-willed because he was DrivenToMadness by the [[GoMadFromTheIsolation overwhelming loneliness]] of the souls in [[FateWorseThanDeath the Bastard's Box]], and he likes to follow the crowd because his desperate, futile drive in the fifteen years since has been to "find a home".]]
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: His screaming rant that Emma is an impostor at the beginning of "Forever & Always", after years of insanity have erased any context for this piece of knowledge.
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[[folder: Greenpeace Girl]]
!!Greenpeace Girl
!!!'''Played by:''' Mariah Rose Faith
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "Jane's a Car"]]
!!!'''Mentioned in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Hi! Can I talk to you about saving the planet?"'']]

->''Sometimes I just wanna shout''\\
''Atop of roofs and mountaintops''\\
''That all the world is paved in gold''\\
''Yesterday was retroactive''\\
''Got myself a new perspective''\\
''I'll strut it up and down the road''\\

A witty environment enthusiast.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Like all of Mariah Rose Faith's characters from ''TGWDLM'' who came back in Season One of ''Nightmare Time'', she's gone from brunette to blonde in "Jane's a Car". Only really notable because one of the things [[spoiler: Jane]] notices about her is her hair. [[spoiler: She, Becky, and Jane's original appearance make a BlondeBrunetteRedhead trio, and later on Jane quips when deciding to [[GrandTheftMe steal Becky's body]] "I always wondered what I'd look like as a redhead".]]
* ButtMonkey: Mildly so -- every time we see her out canvassing it's in the face of an endless stream of passersby blowing her off or rudely rejecting her. (TruthInTelevision, of course.)
* CatchPhrase: "Do you want to save the planet?"
* DeadpanSnarker: She unnecessarily goes out of her way to make Paul feel bad about being caught in his lie that he already gives to Greenpeace; apparently having to wear a [[HappinessIsMandatory fake smile]] in the face of everyone's rudeness all day is getting to her.
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: Applies to all the zombies, but the first sign Paul gets that something is very wrong is how she seems to have completely forgiven him after the previous day's altercation.
* GranolaGirl: Subverted. Paul seems quite taken aback that she's a savvy, spunky DeadpanSnarker without much of a hippie peace-and-love attitude to her, despite her profession. This ends up being one of the qualities [[spoiler: Jane]] likes about her.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Makes up a fake Greenpeace campaign to save the turtles just to catch Paul in a lie about having already donated.
* NoNameGiven: Even though she becomes one of the recurring zombies who haunts Paul all the way to the end of the show, we never hear her called anything other than "Greenpeace Girl". Both Tom and the narrator of "Jane's a Car" also refers to her as such.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Gary Goldstein]]
!!Gary Goldstein
!!!'''Played by:''' Jon Matteson
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday''

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Ow! Right in the subpoena!"'']]

A local attorney who seems to be on several of Hatchetfield's wealthy population's payroll.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Has the last name "Goldstein", an incongruous New York accent (in small-town Michigan), a pocket [[AllJewsAreCheapskates stuffed with coupons]], and a stereotypically Jewish profession.
* AmoralAttorney: Will press anyone's case for a fee, no matter how absurd or reprehensible, and hilariously ''immediately contradicts'' the argument he made for his client Linda Monroe against Sherman Young claiming all the dolls when Sherman reveals he's ''also'' got Gary on retainer. Of course, he goes on to be much more straightforwardly and horrifyingly amoral when Wiggly fever makes him [[spoiler: [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown kick Ethan Green in the head]] until he dies]].
* BadassesWearBandanas: One of the funniest entrances in the show is when we catch up with Gary again in Act 2 and find out he's stripped down to his shirtsleeves and has tied his necktie around his forehead as a headband in an attempt to look like some kind of warrior.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: One of the most dramatic personality transformations in the show, PlayedForLaughs.
* DirtyCoward: As part of Jon going ''ham'' with turning Gary into a loathsome monster. In one of the darkest scenes in the show, it's still somehow ''hilarious'' that [[spoiler: immediately after beating a helpless Ethan to death and gloating over it]], all Tom has to do is lunge toward him and he scuttles off into the shadows squealing like a rat.
* ExtendedGreetings: He apparently always introduces himself as "Gary Goldstein, attorney-at-law". This is PlayedForLaughs when he [[MotorMouth rushes through it in one breath]] the second time when, after Frank caves to his demands on Linda's behalf, he suddenly [[HypocriticalHumor reappears as Sherman's lawyer]] to get him to reverse it.
* FrivolousLawsuit: The very shaky grounds he gives for both Linda and Sherman's cases in their dispute -- Linda's "anxiety disorder" and Sherman, a rich white guy, being "discriminated against" -- indicate he's pretty used to filing lawsuits of this kind.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Colonel Schaeffer confirmed that, aside from [[SoleSurvivor Emma]], no other human resident of Hatchetfield survived, so it’s highly likely Gary was infected by the HiveMind offscreen during ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'']].
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Apparently he's the only lawyer in Hatchetfield, or at least very much the preferred attorney of all of Hatchetfield's wealthy elite.
* OnlyBadGuysCallTheirLawyers: In RealLife (see ArtisticLicenseLaw on the ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' main page), both Linda and Sherman have a point in their legal dispute -- at the very least, since they directly disagree about the simple issue of whether there should be a limit per customer on Wiggly dolls, ''one'' of them must be in the right -- but the show treats both of them calling their lawyer as a high-handed abuse of power on their part, mainly thanks to the HypocriticalHumor in their lawyer being ''the same person''.
* PerpetualExpression: Jon Matteson is so committed to his performance that ''every time we see Gary'' after his transformation, his face is a rictus of pure rage with his teeth fully bared. It only gets funnier every time he appears.
* PietaPlagiarism: [[spoiler:Ends up cradling Linda's dead body after her BoomHeadshot from Becky.]]
* PrimalStance: All the cultists end up acting like this, but Gary gets special mention for how he completely morphs into a snarling, spitting image of [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]] immediately after [[spoiler: killing Ethan]].
* SharpDressedMan: All the other men in the Black Friday line are dressed in sweaters, jeans or PJs, but he's fully decked out in a three-piece suit (and his [[SignatureDevice trusty Bluetooth in his ear]]) as though he's going in to the office. Apparently, being Linda and Sherman's lawyer means he considers himself always on the job. This only makes it funnier to watch him rapidly transform into a disheveled feral rage zombie over the course of the show.
* SnapBack: [[spoiler: A PlayedForLaughs version of this trope, one that turns the running themes of Linda's endless phone conversation and Gary's descent into savagery into one ''hell'' of a punchline. As Linda's body falls to the ground after Becky's BoomHeadshot, the wailing worshipers gather around her body, and then Gary suddenly seems to wake up, picks up the phone and says calmly, "Gerald? It's Gary. Yeah. We gotta talk about the will."]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: He's last seen carrying Linda's corpse off the stage after her death somehow [[SnapBack snaps him back to normal]] -- presumably to bring her body to Gerald so they can "talk about the will" and [[RealLifeWritesThePlot giving Jon and Lauren time to change back into Paul and Emma]] for the finale. He isn't among the remaining cultists who fight to the death over the last Wiggly in the burning mall, and it's unknown what happens to him in the end.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Kale]]
!!Kale
!!!'''Played by:''' Jae Hughes
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It needs a carrier. That's why it picked me. It wants to be heard!"'']]

A mysterious roadie in possession of the Killer Track.
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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Hailey]]
!!Hailey
!!!'''Played by:''' Angela Giarratana
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Sorry it stinks in there. I can't stop dumping ass."'']]

One of Zoey's several roommates.

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: She's a bit part in "Honey Queen", seemingly a one-note joke about suffering diarrhea, but she is briefly seen offering Zoey a tea to soothe her throat. In "Killer Track", we see her searching the Honey Festival for a concoction to ''ruin'' Zoey's throat, revealing her to be seemingly just as duplicitous as Zoey herself.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Peanuts]]
!!Peanuts the Hatchetfield Pocket Squirrel
!!!'''Played by:''' n/a
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Peanuts!"]]
!!!'''Mentioned in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''

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[[caption-width-right:350:'''Emma:''' ''"Awwww. Peanuts!"'']]

->'''Dan and Donna:''' ''Oh he's your guide if you ever need one''\\
''He's pocket-sized if you ever see one''\\
''He's had a meteoric rise''\\
''Peanuts the Hatchetfield Pocket Squirrel!''

An injured baby squirrel who was found by "Papa" Ed, a local Hatchetfield woodworker. Ed nursed the squirrel back to health, and Peanuts is most often found in his savior's pocket.
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* TheCameo: In the finale of ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', among several other unexpected Hatchetfield cast members, you can glimpse Peanuts lurking in Ed's pocket.
* GiantAnimalWorship: Something like this seems to end up happening in the BadFuture that the song "Peanuts!" leads to, although presumably he didn't literally grow to giant size (the photo showing this event is somewhat abstract).
* HumanInterestStory: A fluffy news piece that the locals of Hatchetfield are fond of. In the ending of ''TGWDLM'' Colonel Schaeffer agrees that his being the SoleSurvivor of the town will make for a good one as well.
* TheLittlestCancerPatient: An animal version (and therefore even more intensely cutesy version) of this trope -- he was found as a baby squirrel "too small to survive" who'd fallen out of a tree and been left for dead by his mother. His adoptive father ends up having to crowdfund to build him a house.
* LovedByAll: Everyone who knows about Peanuts seems to love him and find his story adorable ("[[RunningGag Aww! Peanuts!]]"), with the single mild exception of the Man in a Hurry (who may just be in [[RunningGag too much of a hurry]] to want to talk about him in a VoxPops with Dan and Donna).
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Peanuts' appearance in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' is, obviously, just a stuffed prop, and in "Peanuts!" he's played by StockFootage (and as the prop again for the one photo of Curt Mega holding him).
* SoleSurvivor:
** Of the version of Hatchetfield seen in ''The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals''--PEIP found him [[ChestBurster burrowed in his master's chest]].
** The lyrics of "Peanuts!" lampshade that he hasn't died once yet in any of the Hatchetfield stories.
-->'''Dan''': If there's an apocalypse he'll survive it!
* SurrealMusicVideo: "Peanuts!", the end credits song of ''Nightmare Time'' Episode 2. Starts off as a cute song about Peanuts, but devolves into a story about Peanuts attaining sapience and becoming the idol of a cult.
* TalkingAnimal: The climactic event of the SurrealMusicVideo "Peanuts!" is Dan and Donna revealing that after they've spent a long time wishing Peanuts could speak, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor their wish came true]] and Peanuts is now confirmed as a sapient being, leading them -- and possibly all of society -- to GoMadFromTheRevelation.
* TeamPet: "Peanuts!" talks him up as a collective one for all of Hatchetfield, and recommends that people forming groups to go on a stereotypical KidsWildernessEpic make him the AnimalCompanion they adopt.
-->'''Dan and Donna''': Oh, he's your pal \\
When you go on adventures! \\
He's your boot on the ground \\
When you're looking for treasure!
* TrendAesop: "Peanuts!" seems to be giving us a parody of this -- even something as seemingly wholesome and harmless as Hatchetfield's obsession with a saccharine HumanInterestStory somehow leads to disaster in this AlternateTimeline.
* UngratefulBastard:
** You can't expect too much gratitude out of a squirrel, but in TGWDLM, Peanuts repays Ed for all of his aid by burrowing into the man's chest and using him as shelter when PEIP bombs Hatchetfield.
** "Peanuts!" mentions a milder version of this -- he generally repays people's kindness to him by "leav[ing] poops in your shoes".
* YetAnotherBabyPanda: Peanuts is, of course, a joke about this trope, although part of the joke is they ''don't'' use him as the kicker and instead [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver promote him in importance]] above actually relevant stories.
* YourTomcatIsPregnant: Nick Lang agreed to give a tongue-in-cheek completely pointless spoiler in a Q&A on Twitter: Everyone refers to Peanuts by "he/him" pronouns, but Peanuts is actually female.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Ed]]
!!"Papa" Ed
!!!'''Played by:''' Curt Mega
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Peanuts!"]]
!!!'''Mentioned in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''

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[[caption-width-right:350:'''Donna:''' ''"Proud papa Ed has been squirreling away on his [=GoFundMe=] page to build Peanuts his very own, get this Dan, squirrel house!"'']]

A Hatchetfield resident who took pity on Peanuts and brought him home to nurse him back to health.
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[[folder:Max Jägerman]]

[[folder: Andy Kilgore]]

[[folder: Deb]]
!!Deb
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JaimeLynBeatty
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]
!!!'''Mentioned in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Look, she doesn't have to if she doesn't want to, okay?"'']]

Alice's girlfriend, who Bill dislikes.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Dating Alice but mentioned in "Watcher World" to have a crush on Ziggs, a non-binary classmate, suggesting that Deb is bi or pan.
* ButchLesbian: Deb is this to her girlfriend Alice's LipstickLesbian.
* FetishizedAbuser: This doesn't happen in ''TGWDLM'' --she's shown being protective of Alice and [[spoiler:Alice got herself killed by staying in Hatchetfield for an extra day without telling her dad]]-- but in ''Watcher World'', Bill's judgement of her as a suitable paramour for his daughter amounts to this. He says that she's a bad influence on Alice and doesn't treat her well, for someone meant to be a significant other, and they don't seem to have a future in mind. Case in point: Bill schedules a trip weeks in advance because he wants to bond with his daughter before she goes to college, and Deb spontaneously hosts a WildTeenParty, hinting to Alice that if she doesn't come, Zigs may be more interesting. This sends Alice into a panicked frenzy; to add insult to injury, [[spoiler:Deb posts pictures on her Instagram of hooking up with Zigs, all the while knowing why Alice couldn't make it]]. For this reason, once she and Bill snap out of Blinky's brainwashing, [[spoiler:Alice doesn't admit that Bill was right, but checks Instagram once to follow him and then tosses her phone into the backseat, showing that she's letting go of Deb's power over her]].
* LoveTriangle: "Watcher World" reveals that Deb has a crush on Ziggs, and Alice is extremely insecure about how much cooler and more worldly Ziggs is than her, thinking it's a very real possibility that Deb may choose Ziggs over her.
* PhoneaholicTeenager: When struggling to give an actual reason he hates Deb Bill throws out the fact that she's "always on her phone".
* RichKids: "Watcher World" reveals that, surprisingly, Deb's family is quite wealthy, with her parents owning a lake house -- complete with jet ski -- they let her use as a venue for a blowout WildTeenParty just before leaving for college, and are lenient enough Deb feels no need to hide that there will be alcohol and hooking up there, in sharp contrast to how Alice is treated by Bill. ''And'' she's going on a weeklong trip to Amsterdam with her grandmother immediately afterwards, and is deliberately going to pursue a StarvingArtist career with her parents' money to fall back on. It all puts Bill's dislike of Deb and belief that she's a ToxicFriendInfluence in a different, more sympathetic light.
** Deb's wealthy background overturns a lot of assumptions people had about her based on her brief appearance in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' where she wore baggy, drab clothes in contrast to Alice's outfit, which now seems like Deb consciously adopting a {{Hipster}} identity.
* StrawVegetarian: Bill seems to regard Deb being a vegetarian -- and defining "vegetarian" as not eating seafood, even on Red Lobster's Crabfest -- as yet another way she's deliberately antagonizing him.
* TheStoner: Alice reveals to her father's horror that he was right about Deb; she's a hardcore stoner.
* TookALevelInJerkass: A lot of fans turned against Deb in "Watcher World", where it's revealed she's one of the RichKids and acts pretty callously toward her girlfriend, throwing a WildTeenParty without her right before they both leave for college.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Bill thinks Deb is this to Alice. Ironically, the one time we actually see Deb and Alice [[spoiler: before their assimilation]], Deb is the one standing up to [[PeerPressureMakesYouEvil peer pressure]], dragging Alice away from "the Smoke Club".

[[folder: Obnoxious Teen]]
!!The Obnoxious Teen
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JoeyRichter
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "Jane's a Car"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Uh, sir, okay, this is not the type of place where you can haggle, sir, like, I don't set the prices, I'm just a high school kid."'']]

A sleepy-eyed, squeaky-voiced high school student seen throughout Hatchetfield.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/JoeyRichter has described his tendency toward InopportuneVoiceCracking as the "bane of his existence" as an actor when he's trying to play a serious, impressive role, and casting him in this role comes off as mildly ribbing him for it (similar to when he cast himself as Scrags in ''Theatre/TheSolveItSquadReturns'').
* BurgerFool: All of his jobs are of the menial, mindless sort that teenagers are forced into, and he's incompetent enough that when Tom orders two items at Pizza Pete's (which is technically a SuckECheeses), that's too much for him to write down all at once.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Colonel Schaeffer confirmed that, aside from [[SoleSurvivor Emma]], no other human resident of Hatchetfield survived, so it’s highly likely the Obnoxious Teen was infected by the HiveMind offscreen during ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'']].
* NerdGlasses: Creator/JoeyRichter puts on huge glasses -- even more exaggeratedly nerdy than those of Peter Spankoffski -- as an instant way to let us know who this character is.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: He's a movie theatre ticket-taker in ''Black Friday'', an amusement park ride attendant in "Watcher World", and a waiter at Pizza Pete's in "Jane's a Car". His "Honey Queen" appearance doesn't ''quite'' keep up the running gag, as it's a volunteer gig.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: As with the Squeaky-Voiced Teen, the whole joke of his character is him struggling to enforce his employers' rules on customers who don't care, and who find that it's ''him'' trying to tell them what they can and can't do to be adding insult to injury. Ethan almost gets kicked out of the mall trying to browbeat him into giving him a discount at the movie theater in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', and "Watcher World" features him and Bill getting into a brief SeinfeldianConversation about what the concept of a "single rider" at an amusement park queue even means. This becomes much more BlackComedy when Bill and Alice get stuck at the top of the rollercoaster, and they have to deal with the scratchy voice of ''this guy'' coming over the intercom vainly trying to order them to stay in place and reassure them [[TheCavalryArrivesLate help is on the way.]]
* ShoutOut: Everything about him is an extended reference to the Squeaky-Voiced Teen from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', being a pimply teen RecurringExtra with a wheezy voice and nerdy mannerisms, who [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands keeps changing jobs]], struggles with said jobs, and is much-abused by his customers, who don't care much about the rules at the businesses employing him.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: This character only exists because the script for ''Black Friday'' originally called for Robert Manion's nameless character eventually revealed to be Peter Spankoffski (who was also called "Obnoxious Teen" in the script for ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'') to be manning the ticket booth at the cineplex, only for this to be impossible when Robert was cast as Ethan, who gets into a confrontation with the teen. Ironically, following Robert's departure from the team all three characters are played by Joey.

[[folder: Lex Foster]]
Lex is a high school senior at the time of ''Theatre/BlackFriday''. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].

[[folder: Hannah Foster]]
As of [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]], Hannah is a freshman at Hatchetfield High. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].

[[folder: Ethan Green]]
Ethan is a high school senior at the time of ''Theatre/BlackFriday''. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldFamilies Families]].

Ted's much-younger brother, a high school student. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldFamilies Families]].

[[folder: Stephanie Lauter]]
A popular girl at Hatchetfield High and daughter of the mayor. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldFamilies Families]].

[[folder: Gabe]]
!!Gabe
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JeffBlim
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Perky's Buds"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You know, I never thought I'd meet a girl as cool as my mom, but then I met you, Grace."'']]

Grace's best friend, a church choir boy.

[[folder: Brad Callahan]]
!!Brad Callahan
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JoeyRichter
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It wasn't me... it was Webby! Oh ho ho ho!"'']]

Star quarterback of the Hatchetfield High Nighthawks.

!!Hatchetfield High School - Faculty

[[folder: Tom Houston]]
The shop teacher at Hatchetfield High. See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].

[[folder: Miss Holliday]]
The new guidance counselor at Hatchetfield High. See Miss Holloway above.

!Other

[[folder: Man in a Hurry]]
!!Barry Swift, the Man in a Hurry

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Forever & Always"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Peanuts!"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Daddy"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Give me the fucking doll, I'm in a hurry!"'']]

A rude and impatient resident of Hatchetfield who always claims to be in a hurry.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: He ends up just another one of the Wiggly cultists worshiping Linda who [[spoiler: dies when the mall burns down]].
* TheCameo: He's the subject of the CouchGag of ''Nightmare Time'' Season 2 Episode 3, prior to appearing in the episode proper in "Daddy".
* CatchPhrase: As you may have guessed, "I'm in a hurry!"
* CovertPervert: He shares Sherman's line in "Feast or Famine" about wanting a Wiggly to be his "little boyfriend". He also spends a lot of time leering at Becky in "What Do You Say?"
* CreatorInJoke: The "Man In A Hurry" character was supposed to blow off Greenpeace Girl's pitch in TGWDLM by saying "I'm in a hurry", but Jeff made a RunningGag out of getting in ''too much of a hurry'' to say the entire line as rehearsals went on, so that by the time the show was actually performed, he says nothing at all, just brushing right past her. He was brought back for ''Black Friday'' to supposedly "do his character justice" by letting him say actually say it this time. As of ''Nightmare Time'', the character is now a RunningGag.
* CreditsGag: The cast announcement for ''Black Friday'' listed this guy as the role Creator/JeffBlim would be playing. [[spoiler:This was to conceal the return of General [=MacNamara=].]] The gag became well-known enough ahead of time that when Jeff declares, "I'm in a hurry!", the ''Black Friday'' audience breaks into applause.
* DecompositeCharacter: Statements from the creators indicate that the man who orders a complicated coffee from Emma in TGWDLM, pictured above, is ''not'' the same character as the Man in a Hurry, instead identified as "Rude Customer" or "Coffee Jerk". This is clearly a {{Retcon}}, as he wears the exact same costume as the Man in a Hurry (costume being a ''huge'' factor in identifying Hatchetfield characters due to how few actors there are) and shares the PhoneaholicTeenager tendencies the Man in a Hurry exhibits in ''Black Friday'', but it seems the creators would now prefer this character to be used ''exclusively'' for "man in a hurry" jokes.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Anyone who knows anything about what Black Friday shopping is like knows that making some kind of prior engagement that he's in a hurry to get to after he buys the doll is showing colossally bad judgment. To be fair, his attitude may be because he himself is coming to realize this.
* FlatCharacter: He's in a hurry. "Daddy" pokes fun at the idea of giving him HiddenDepths: he spends a great deal of time with Frank in that story, forming a genuine connection and offering a sympathetic backstory, with every word he says relating to the concept of being in a hurry.
* LargeHam: Once the RetailRiot goes full swing he takes the opportunity to exultantly scream "CHAOS REIGNS!"
* PhoneaholicTeenager: He spends all of "What Do You Say?" on his phone, either excitedly texting about the gossip or trying to get the two reunited lovers on video. He's also on his phone for most of his first scene in TGWDLM, when he orders coffee from Emma.
* PsychoKnifeNut: After being driven insane and joining the Wiggly Cult, he starts wielding a knife. This allows him to outfight the more experienced but unarmed Tom.
* RiddleForTheAges: A tongue-in-cheek comment from Jeff Blim is that the one secret of Hatchetfield that will never be revealed is where, exactly, the Man in a Hurry is in a hurry to get to.
* RunningGag: He appears throughout the Hatchetfield saga, always claiming to be in a hurry despite being in places such as in line for Black Friday shopping, in line for a roller coaster, or attending a wedding.
* TookALevelInJerkass: He was already an asshole in TGWDLM, and he doesn't come off much better in ''Black Friday'' -- taking the opportunity to perv out on Becky and surreptitiously film her during "What Do You Say?" -- but the HatePlague upgrades him to an attempted ''murderer'' when he stabs Tom.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Multiple different people play a role in triggering the RetailRiot, but it's the Man in a Hurry's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin characteristic impatience]] that causes all semblance of order to break down.
-->'''Man in a Hurry''': All right, ''forget'' this line. I'll give you $500, cash money, for one Wiggly ''right now''.
* VoxPops: "Peanuts!" shows Dan and Donna doing one of these interviews with him about the Peanuts the Hatchetfield Pocket Squirrel "phenomenon", only for it to backfire with him looking confused and wondering what they're talking about.

[[folder: Homeless Man]]
!!The Homeless Man

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Forever & Always"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Time Bastard"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Look, a coat. And, oh, a hat. That's better. Now I just gotta find a home."'']]

->'' 'Cause I may not have a home, but that's way okay''\\
'' 'Cause I prefer to roam the streets all day''

A middle-aged, homeless resident of Hatchetfield.

* AddledAddict: He's TheAlcoholic when he can get his hands on booze; he ''used'' to be into some much harder drugs like [[PsychoSerum bath salts]] but, luckily for the [[ImAHumanitarian faces of everyone around him]], they haven't been as easy to find recently.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Being the Homeless Man was ''already'' this, in mundane non-supernatural terms -- the last fragments of your past self watching yourself become a pitiful insane wreck of a human being, sleeping in filth and [[EatTheDog eating dogs]] to survive. Then comes TheReveal that when he dies, he's denied blissful CessationOfExistence and instead gets an eternity in the unspeakable {{Hell}} that is the Bastard's Box.]]
-->'''Narrator''': [[spoiler: But don’t be too sad. [[FalseReassurance He still lives on]]... [[FateWorseThanDeath in a way]]. After his physical death, Ted Spankoffski finds himself trapped in the twisting, impossible maze that is the Bastard’s Box. For him, Nightmare Time has only just begun...]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In both full-length Hatchetfield shows, being an early victim of apotheosis in TGWDLM and a member of the Cult of Wiggly in ''Black Friday''.
* TheCameo: In the original release of ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp Season 2 Episode 2]], he appears in the CouchGag during the theme song, otherwise not appearing anywhere in the episode. This appearance is sadly absent from the [=YouTube=] version of the episode but can be heard on the soundtrack.
* CassandraTruth: At the beginning of "Forever & Always" -- "You aren't Emma Perkins!" [[spoiler: Ironically, this is him being RightForTheWrongReasons -- just seeing Paul and Emma together randomly {{trigger}}ed a stray fragment of his memories of Robot Emma from the future, but he has no actual reason to know that this Emma is the robot and not the real one.]]
* CatchPhrase: "Spare change for the homeless?"
* TheChewToy: A classic example of evoking guilty laughter about someone living on the very bottom of the societal pyramid. [[spoiler: TheReveal of his backstory in "Time Bastard" is an intentional GutPunch.]]
* CloudCuckooLander: Even by the standards of CrazyHomelessPeople, like when he gets in the line for a Wiggly on Black Friday planning to somehow buy a $49.95 product for three dollars. Oh, and [[FreezeFrameBonus on close examination]], he doesn't even ''have'' three dollars -- he has one dollar, a strip of toilet paper, and a receipt.
* TheComicallySerious: Creator/JoeyRichter has a lot of fun playing the Homeless Man this way, especially with his facial expressions as a cultist in ''Theatre/BlackFriday''.
* TheConstant: Among other constants existing in every AlternateTimeline in Hatchetfield, the Homeless Man is confirmed as one of them. [[spoiler: This is an intentional case of a GrandfatherParadox, because in any timeline that doesn't culminate in the plot of "Time Bastard", the BadFuture he comes from never happened. The explanation of how this is possible has yet to be explicitly revealed.]]
* CrazyHomelessPeople: He's been homeless for some 15 years and, understandably, not in the best mental health for it. [[spoiler:As it turns out, his mind snapped from Tinky telling him there was no way back to his timeline, followed by hearing and seeing himself in what is essentially the bowels of hell, causing him to develop his loopy mannerisms a few minutes ''before'' becoming homeless.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
** His verse of "La Dee Dah Dah Day" in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' plays up his long, tragic life on the streets for over-the-top BlackComedy.
-->The world is my house \\
The dogs are my food \\
Oh, look, a new blouse ''(puts on garbage bag)'' \\
And a new trash tattoo!
** [[spoiler: TheReveal of how he ''became'' the Homeless Man in "Time Bastard" is way darker and more troubled than anything we could have imagined about this comical background figure.]]
* DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler: We eventually find out the reason he became a CrazyHomelessPerson is a lot darker and more supernatural than we'd thought.]]
* EatTheDog: PlayedForLaughs. See above -- he's not above killing and eating stray dogs to survive (and he's ''lucky'' if [[ImAHumanitarian that's the worst thing he's eating]]).
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: According to the narrator in "Time Bastard", no one in Hatchetfield knows his name, so he is known only as "The Homeless Man".
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: The nature of the Apotheosis being this is demonstrated pretty well by the Homeless Man's verse of "La Dee Dah Dah Day", in which he sings cheerfully about the freedom that homelessness provides him.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: The final trigger that breaks Ted's mind fully and turns him into the Homeless Man is Tinky opening up the Bastard's Box and just giving him a ''glimpse'' of the [[AndIMustScream eternal agony]] he has waiting for him after death.]]
* GrandfatherParadox: [[spoiler:He's confirmed to exist in every Hatchetfield timeline, which is ''hugely'' paradoxical as the "Forever & Always"/"Time Bastard" timeline is the only one in which he possibly ''could'' exist. Emma 2, from the same timeline, is confirmed to ''only'' exist in that one. It may have something to do with the fact that Ted has been "aborted from time and space" by being anointed by Tinky as "the Time Bastard", or with the fact that Uncle Wiley tells us "everything shattered" and {{Alternate Timeline}}s became a thing only after Hannah was born in 2005, whereas the Homeless Man appeared in the timestream a year before that.]]
* IconicOutfit: The Homeless Man is ''always'' seen wearing his bulky beige winter coat and his wool beanie hat -- which is an outfit that makes sense for ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', which takes place well into winter, but not so much in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' when everyone else was outdoors in shirtsleeves. This is, of course, TruthInTelevision for people who don't have anywhere safe to keep their stuff and have to keep all their clothes with them. [[spoiler: Ted finding and putting on this outfit for the first time in "Time Bastard" is FiveSecondForeshadowing for the WhamLine that he and the Homeless Man are one and the same.]]
* IKissYourFoot: The Homeless Man memorably does this in "Adore Me", and seems to be even more enthusiastic about becoming a SycophanticServant in a [[ReligionOfEvil death cult]] than the others.
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: The reveal that he was Ted, someone casually misogynistic who [[LovableSexManiac talked about sex constantly]], retroactively makes the Homeless Man's behavior in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' rather ironic, as he's shocked and appalled at the Man in a Hurry talking about Becky's sex life and drinks ''deeply'' of his "respect women" juice in his interactions with Linda.]]
* MyGirlIsNotASlut: For some reason in "What Do You Say?" it's the ''Homeless Man'' who's shocked at the idea that Becky Barnes might not be PurityPersonified and might actually ''have sex'' with her OldFlame Tom Houston instead of just batting eyes at him from across the room. (He is, of course, quickly proven wrong.)
* NoDoubtTheYearsHaveChangedMe: [[spoiler: He's only fifteen years older than his past self he [[TemporalDuplication coexists with in Hatchetfield]], but his life on the streets has left him so aged and weatherbeaten no one notices the resemblance, even when they're right next to each other in "Forever & Always".]]
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: [[spoiler: Ted unknowingly looks at his older self in "Forever & Always" and scoffs, "What a loser!"]]
* PetTheDog: After the horrific, amoral life he's led [[spoiler: both as himself and as Ted]], his last ever action in life is an altruistic urge to try to warn [[spoiler: his former best friend]] Paul that his wife isn't who he thinks she is. [[spoiler: [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished This is what finally gets him killed]] and sent to [[AndIMustScream the Bastard's Box]].]]
* PsychoSerum: "La Dee Dah Dah Day" mentions that he used to be addicted to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_salts_(drug) bath salts]] that filled him with constant rage and led to an unfortunate instance of [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalizing a dead body]]. It's part of the long, long TraumaCongaLine of his life (as well as establishing that whatever is causing the zombie plague in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' it's not the "zombie drugs" that he was taking before).
* TheResenter: His verse of "La Dee Dah Dah Day" is some ''major'' BlackComedy about how, [[HiddenDepths beneath his dull, listless affect]], he does in fact deeply resent all of the more-fortunate people he sees walking around every day and fantasize about brutally murdering them (especially while under the influence of "zombie drugs") and only the GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul effect of the alien HiveMind has caused it to lift, just now. All of which he cheerfully sings right to Paul's face to a peppy pop tune.
** We get to see the Homeless Man's unfiltered rage in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', where it seems to be fueling his drive to join Linda's cult and become one of her most vicious and violent servants, including when he happily [[WouldHurtAChild attacks Hannah and drags her to Linda to be executed]].
* TheReveal: In "Time Bastard", it is discovered that the Homeless Man is in fact [[spoiler: a 50-year-old Ted, having travelled back in time 15 years and been forced to take TheSlowPath back home. This is true of ''all'' incarnations of the Homeless Man, despite Ted dying young in every other story in which he appears, this [[TimeyWimeyBall timey-wimey]] oddity working on the same still-unknown mechanism by which there are multiple Hatchetfield timelines to begin with.]]
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The story of the Homeless Man being on "zombie drugs" and biting off someone's face was ripped from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_cannibal_attack one particularly sensational headline]] from 2012 that both started a nationwide panic about bath salts and helped establish the [[OnlyInFlorida Florida Man]] meme.
* SingingVoiceDissonance: Even though it's a gag we can see coming a mile away, it's still incredibly funny when the Homeless Man suddenly switches from his gruff, awkward voice to a soaring Broadway tenor to sing the second verse of "La Dee Dah Dah Day", especially coupled with the LyricalDissonance of what he's singing about.
* TakingUpTheMantle: Hilariously, he of all people is the first to try to claim leadership of the Wiggly cult ("No, ''I'm'' the prophet! I'M THE PROPHET!") after Linda and Sherman are both dead.
* TrappedInThePast: [[spoiler: He exists because Ted went back too far in time and was unable to return to the future.]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler: The primary reason his mind is broken and he's unable to even recognize any of the people or things he once knew as Ted Spankoffski is realizing [[MyGreatestFailure he's directly responsible for killing Jenny]], his OneTrueLove, and that there's no way he can use TimeTravel to fix it. This, followed by Tinky gleefully showing him the inside of the Bastard's Box, an AmbiguousSituation where he becomes fully aware of the horror of being a living TimeParadox in a StableTimeLoop, shatters his sanity and drives his mind to suppress any knowledge he has of who he is and what's happened in his life thus far, leaving him barely able to function. Tinky "curing" him and giving him his full knowledge of his identity and history as Ted back, before tossing him into [[AndIMustScream the Bastard's Box]], is one final KickTheDog moment for him.]]
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler: The big {{reveal}} in "Time Bastard" is that Ted Spankoffski and the guy everyone in Hatchetfield knows as "the Homeless Man" are one and the same, thanks to TemporalDuplication.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: His backstory -- even knowing that he ''has'' a backstory and he isn't just a background ComicRelief character -- is a massive one.
* WeakWilled: It's implied he's particularly susceptible to becoming BrainwashedAndCrazy due to a fondness for jumping on the bandwagon, as he's in line to buy a Wiggly doll despite not being able to afford one, and the creators have half-jokingly confirmed a fan theory that he wasn't assimilated at all during "La Dee Dah Dah Day". [[spoiler: This isn't quite as funny after we find out why; he's weak-willed because he was DrivenToMadness by the [[GoMadFromTheIsolation overwhelming loneliness]] of the souls in [[FateWorseThanDeath the Bastard's Box]], and he likes to follow the crowd because his desperate, futile drive in the fifteen years since has been to "find a home".]]
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: His screaming rant that Emma is an impostor at the beginning of "Forever & Always", after years of insanity have erased any context for this piece of knowledge.

[[folder: Greenpeace Girl]]
!!Greenpeace Girl
!!!'''Played by:''' Mariah Rose Faith
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "Jane's a Car"]]
!!!'''Mentioned in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Hi! Can I talk to you about saving the planet?"'']]

->''Sometimes I just wanna shout''\\
''Atop of roofs and mountaintops''\\
''That all the world is paved in gold''\\
''Yesterday was retroactive''\\
''Got myself a new perspective''\\
''I'll strut it up and down the road''\\

A witty environment enthusiast.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Like all of Mariah Rose Faith's characters from ''TGWDLM'' who came back in Season One of ''Nightmare Time'', she's gone from brunette to blonde in "Jane's a Car". Only really notable because one of the things [[spoiler: Jane]] notices about her is her hair. [[spoiler: She, Becky, and Jane's original appearance make a BlondeBrunetteRedhead trio, and later on Jane quips when deciding to [[GrandTheftMe steal Becky's body]] "I always wondered what I'd look like as a redhead".]]
* ButtMonkey: Mildly so -- every time we see her out canvassing it's in the face of an endless stream of passersby blowing her off or rudely rejecting her. (TruthInTelevision, of course.)
* CatchPhrase: "Do you want to save the planet?"
* DeadpanSnarker: She unnecessarily goes out of her way to make Paul feel bad about being caught in his lie that he already gives to Greenpeace; apparently having to wear a [[HappinessIsMandatory fake smile]] in the face of everyone's rudeness all day is getting to her.
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: Applies to all the zombies, but the first sign Paul gets that something is very wrong is how she seems to have completely forgiven him after the previous day's altercation.
* GranolaGirl: Subverted. Paul seems quite taken aback that she's a savvy, spunky DeadpanSnarker without much of a hippie peace-and-love attitude to her, despite her profession. This ends up being one of the qualities [[spoiler: Jane]] likes about her.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Makes up a fake Greenpeace campaign to save the turtles just to catch Paul in a lie about having already donated.
* NoNameGiven: Even though she becomes one of the recurring zombies who haunts Paul all the way to the end of the show, we never hear her called anything other than "Greenpeace Girl". Both Tom and the narrator of "Jane's a Car" also refers to her as such.

[[folder: Gary Goldstein]]
!!Gary Goldstein
!!!'''Played by:''' Jon Matteson
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday''

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Ow! Right in the subpoena!"'']]

A local attorney who seems to be on several of Hatchetfield's wealthy population's payroll.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Has the last name "Goldstein", an incongruous New York accent (in small-town Michigan), a pocket [[AllJewsAreCheapskates stuffed with coupons]], and a stereotypically Jewish profession.
* AmoralAttorney: Will press anyone's case for a fee, no matter how absurd or reprehensible, and hilariously ''immediately contradicts'' the argument he made for his client Linda Monroe against Sherman Young claiming all the dolls when Sherman reveals he's ''also'' got Gary on retainer. Of course, he goes on to be much more straightforwardly and horrifyingly amoral when Wiggly fever makes him [[spoiler: [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown kick Ethan Green in the head]] until he dies]].
* BadassesWearBandanas: One of the funniest entrances in the show is when we catch up with Gary again in Act 2 and find out he's stripped down to his shirtsleeves and has tied his necktie around his forehead as a headband in an attempt to look like some kind of warrior.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: One of the most dramatic personality transformations in the show, PlayedForLaughs.
* DirtyCoward: As part of Jon going ''ham'' with turning Gary into a loathsome monster. In one of the darkest scenes in the show, it's still somehow ''hilarious'' that [[spoiler: immediately after beating a helpless Ethan to death and gloating over it]], all Tom has to do is lunge toward him and he scuttles off into the shadows squealing like a rat.
* ExtendedGreetings: He apparently always introduces himself as "Gary Goldstein, attorney-at-law". This is PlayedForLaughs when he [[MotorMouth rushes through it in one breath]] the second time when, after Frank caves to his demands on Linda's behalf, he suddenly [[HypocriticalHumor reappears as Sherman's lawyer]] to get him to reverse it.
* FrivolousLawsuit: The very shaky grounds he gives for both Linda and Sherman's cases in their dispute -- Linda's "anxiety disorder" and Sherman, a rich white guy, being "discriminated against" -- indicate he's pretty used to filing lawsuits of this kind.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Colonel Schaeffer confirmed that, aside from [[SoleSurvivor Emma]], no other human resident of Hatchetfield survived, so it’s highly likely Gary was infected by the HiveMind offscreen during ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'']].
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Apparently he's the only lawyer in Hatchetfield, or at least very much the preferred attorney of all of Hatchetfield's wealthy elite.
* OnlyBadGuysCallTheirLawyers: In RealLife (see ArtisticLicenseLaw on the ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' main page), both Linda and Sherman have a point in their legal dispute -- at the very least, since they directly disagree about the simple issue of whether there should be a limit per customer on Wiggly dolls, ''one'' of them must be in the right -- but the show treats both of them calling their lawyer as a high-handed abuse of power on their part, mainly thanks to the HypocriticalHumor in their lawyer being ''the same person''.
* PerpetualExpression: Jon Matteson is so committed to his performance that ''every time we see Gary'' after his transformation, his face is a rictus of pure rage with his teeth fully bared. It only gets funnier every time he appears.
* PietaPlagiarism: [[spoiler:Ends up cradling Linda's dead body after her BoomHeadshot from Becky.]]
* PrimalStance: All the cultists end up acting like this, but Gary gets special mention for how he completely morphs into a snarling, spitting image of [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]] immediately after [[spoiler: killing Ethan]].
* SharpDressedMan: All the other men in the Black Friday line are dressed in sweaters, jeans or PJs, but he's fully decked out in a three-piece suit (and his [[SignatureDevice trusty Bluetooth in his ear]]) as though he's going in to the office. Apparently, being Linda and Sherman's lawyer means he considers himself always on the job. This only makes it funnier to watch him rapidly transform into a disheveled feral rage zombie over the course of the show.
* SnapBack: [[spoiler: A PlayedForLaughs version of this trope, one that turns the running themes of Linda's endless phone conversation and Gary's descent into savagery into one ''hell'' of a punchline. As Linda's body falls to the ground after Becky's BoomHeadshot, the wailing worshipers gather around her body, and then Gary suddenly seems to wake up, picks up the phone and says calmly, "Gerald? It's Gary. Yeah. We gotta talk about the will."]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: He's last seen carrying Linda's corpse off the stage after her death somehow [[SnapBack snaps him back to normal]] -- presumably to bring her body to Gerald so they can "talk about the will" and [[RealLifeWritesThePlot giving Jon and Lauren time to change back into Paul and Emma]] for the finale. He isn't among the remaining cultists who fight to the death over the last Wiggly in the burning mall, and it's unknown what happens to him in the end.]]

[[folder: Kale]]
!!Kale
!!!'''Played by:''' Jae Hughes
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It needs a carrier. That's why it picked me. It wants to be heard!"'']]

A mysterious roadie in possession of the Killer Track.

[[folder: Hailey]]
!!Hailey
!!!'''Played by:''' Angela Giarratana
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Sorry it stinks in there. I can't stop dumping ass."'']]

One of Zoey's several roommates.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: She's a bit part in "Honey Queen", seemingly a one-note joke about suffering diarrhea, but she is briefly seen offering Zoey a tea to soothe her throat. In "Killer Track", we see her searching the Honey Festival for a concoction to ''ruin'' Zoey's throat, revealing her to be seemingly just as duplicitous as Zoey herself.

[[folder: Peanuts]]
!!Peanuts the Hatchetfield Pocket Squirrel
!!!'''Played by:''' n/a
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Peanuts!"]]
!!!'''Mentioned in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''

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[[caption-width-right:350:'''Emma:''' ''"Awwww. Peanuts!"'']]

->'''Dan and Donna:''' ''Oh he's your guide if you ever need one''\\
''He's pocket-sized if you ever see one''\\
''He's had a meteoric rise''\\
''Peanuts the Hatchetfield Pocket Squirrel!''

An injured baby squirrel who was found by "Papa" Ed, a local Hatchetfield woodworker. Ed nursed the squirrel back to health, and Peanuts is most often found in his savior's pocket.

* TheCameo: In the finale of ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', among several other unexpected Hatchetfield cast members, you can glimpse Peanuts lurking in Ed's pocket.
* GiantAnimalWorship: Something like this seems to end up happening in the BadFuture that the song "Peanuts!" leads to, although presumably he didn't literally grow to giant size (the photo showing this event is somewhat abstract).
* HumanInterestStory: A fluffy news piece that the locals of Hatchetfield are fond of. In the ending of ''TGWDLM'' Colonel Schaeffer agrees that his being the SoleSurvivor of the town will make for a good one as well.
* TheLittlestCancerPatient: An animal version (and therefore even more intensely cutesy version) of this trope -- he was found as a baby squirrel "too small to survive" who'd fallen out of a tree and been left for dead by his mother. His adoptive father ends up having to crowdfund to build him a house.
* LovedByAll: Everyone who knows about Peanuts seems to love him and find his story adorable ("[[RunningGag Aww! Peanuts!]]"), with the single mild exception of the Man in a Hurry (who may just be in [[RunningGag too much of a hurry]] to want to talk about him in a VoxPops with Dan and Donna).
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Peanuts' appearance in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' is, obviously, just a stuffed prop, and in "Peanuts!" he's played by StockFootage (and as the prop again for the one photo of Curt Mega holding him).
* SoleSurvivor:
** Of the version of Hatchetfield seen in ''The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals''--PEIP found him [[ChestBurster burrowed in his master's chest]].
** The lyrics of "Peanuts!" lampshade that he hasn't died once yet in any of the Hatchetfield stories.
-->'''Dan''': If there's an apocalypse he'll survive it!
* SurrealMusicVideo: "Peanuts!", the end credits song of ''Nightmare Time'' Episode 2. Starts off as a cute song about Peanuts, but devolves into a story about Peanuts attaining sapience and becoming the idol of a cult.
* TalkingAnimal: The climactic event of the SurrealMusicVideo "Peanuts!" is Dan and Donna revealing that after they've spent a long time wishing Peanuts could speak, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor their wish came true]] and Peanuts is now confirmed as a sapient being, leading them -- and possibly all of society -- to GoMadFromTheRevelation.
* TeamPet: "Peanuts!" talks him up as a collective one for all of Hatchetfield, and recommends that people forming groups to go on a stereotypical KidsWildernessEpic make him the AnimalCompanion they adopt.
-->'''Dan and Donna''': Oh, he's your pal \\
When you go on adventures! \\
He's your boot on the ground \\
When you're looking for treasure!
* TrendAesop: "Peanuts!" seems to be giving us a parody of this -- even something as seemingly wholesome and harmless as Hatchetfield's obsession with a saccharine HumanInterestStory somehow leads to disaster in this AlternateTimeline.
* UngratefulBastard:
** You can't expect too much gratitude out of a squirrel, but in TGWDLM, Peanuts repays Ed for all of his aid by burrowing into the man's chest and using him as shelter when PEIP bombs Hatchetfield.
** "Peanuts!" mentions a milder version of this -- he generally repays people's kindness to him by "leav[ing] poops in your shoes".
* YetAnotherBabyPanda: Peanuts is, of course, a joke about this trope, although part of the joke is they ''don't'' use him as the kicker and instead [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver promote him in importance]] above actually relevant stories.
* YourTomcatIsPregnant: Nick Lang agreed to give a tongue-in-cheek completely pointless spoiler in a Q&A on Twitter: Everyone refers to Peanuts by "he/him" pronouns, but Peanuts is actually female.

[[folder: Ed]]
!!"Papa" Ed
!!!'''Played by:''' Curt Mega
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Peanuts!"]]
!!!'''Mentioned in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''

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[[caption-width-right:350:'''Donna:''' ''"Proud papa Ed has been squirreling away on his [=GoFundMe=] page to build Peanuts his very own, get this Dan, squirrel house!"'']]

A Hatchetfield resident who took pity on Peanuts and brought him home to nurse him back to health.

[[folder: Grace Chasity]]
!!Grace Chasity
!!!'''Played by:''' Angela Giarratana
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Perky's Buds"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]] | ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie''
!!!'''Mentioned in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday''

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I figured you might be too scared to reach out to others, so I did it for you! I told everyone: the principal, the football team, all your friends..."'']]

A local "nerdy prude" who babysits various children around Hatchetfield and is not very popular at Hatchetfield High.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Seems to be this in the opposite direction for Alice as Ziggs -- Ziggs is the cooler, more exciting kid Deb would rather be dating, and Grace is the nicer, more respectable kid Bill would rather have as a daughter.
* FullNameBasis: Like Becky Barnes, classmates always refer to her by her first and last name as an expression of distaste, and this habit carries over to people who hear about her through the local teens such as Bill. Tom, who knows her primarily as Tim's babysitter, calls her only "Grace", requiring WordOfGod to step in and confirm there's only one Grace in Hatchetfield.
* TheGhost: Offscreen until ''Nightmare Time'' Season 2 Episode 2.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Given that Alice describes her as a "nerdy prude", it's likely she's meant to play a large role in ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die''.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Colonel Schaeffer confirmed that, aside from [[SoleSurvivor Emma]], no other human resident of Hatchetfield survived, so it’s highly likely Grace was infected by the HiveMind offscreen during ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'']].
* MeaningfulName: She's a churchgoer and Alice describes her as a prude, making both her first and last name very appropriate.
* ParentPreferredSuitor: Bill would much rather Alice date Grace -- or someone ''like'' Grace -- rather than Deb. Him voicing this sentiment to Alice predictably leads to a massive argument.
-->'''Bill:''' Well, at least she's nice to me in church!
* PurityPersonified: How Alice accuses Bill of seeing Grace, and claiming that that's what Bill would rather have for a daughter. Presumably Grace is queer, since neither Bill nor Alice brings up her orientation as an obstacle to Alice dating her, but this has no bearing on Grace being a pious churchgoer whom a generally conservative person like Bill approves of, and whom Alice angrily dismisses as a "nerdy prude".
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: It was initially assumed that her surname is literally "Chastity", until her debut in ''Nightmare Time'' Season 2 Episode 2 gave the canonical spelling of "Chasity", with only one T, making her name slightly less on-the-nose than assumed. That being said, the Lang Brothers have stated a disinterest in canonical spellings, what with [=MacNamara's=] name having changed spelling from his first to second appearance and Grace's own debut episode making the common mistake of spelling the name "Isaac" as "Issac", so take all Hatchetfield spellings with a grain of salt. Given that it's not a written medium, this is not a detail that is given much attention.

[[folder: Obnoxious Teen]]
!!The Obnoxious Teen
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JoeyRichter
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "Jane's a Car"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Uh, sir, okay, this is not the type of place where you can haggle, sir, like, I don't set the prices, I'm just a high school kid."'']]

A sleepy-eyed, squeaky-voiced high school student seen throughout Hatchetfield.
----
* ActorAllusion: Creator/JoeyRichter has described his tendency toward InopportuneVoiceCracking as the "bane of his existence" as an actor when he's trying to play a serious, impressive role, and casting him in this role comes off as mildly ribbing him for it (similar to when he cast himself as Scrags in ''Theatre/TheSolveItSquadReturns'').
* BurgerFool: All of his jobs are of the menial, mindless sort that teenagers are forced into, and he's incompetent enough that when Tom orders two items at Pizza Pete's (which is technically a SuckECheeses), that's too much for him to write down all at once.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Colonel Schaeffer confirmed that, aside from [[SoleSurvivor Emma]], no other human resident of Hatchetfield survived, so it’s highly likely the Obnoxious Teen was infected by the HiveMind offscreen during ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'']].
* NerdGlasses: Creator/JoeyRichter puts on huge glasses -- even more exaggeratedly nerdy than those of Peter Spankoffski -- as an instant way to let us know who this character is.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: He's a movie theatre ticket-taker in ''Black Friday'', an amusement park ride attendant in "Watcher World", and a waiter at Pizza Pete's in "Jane's a Car". His "Honey Queen" appearance doesn't ''quite'' keep up the running gag, as it's a volunteer gig.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: As with the Squeaky-Voiced Teen, the whole joke of his character is him struggling to enforce his employers' rules on customers who don't care, and who find that it's ''him'' trying to tell them what they can and can't do to be adding insult to injury. Ethan almost gets kicked out of the mall trying to browbeat him into giving him a discount at the movie theater in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', and "Watcher World" features him and Bill getting into a brief SeinfeldianConversation about what the concept of a "single rider" at an amusement park queue even means. This becomes much more BlackComedy when Bill and Alice get stuck at the top of the rollercoaster, and they have to deal with the scratchy voice of ''this guy'' coming over the intercom vainly trying to order them to stay in place and reassure them [[TheCavalryArrivesLate help is on the way.]]
* ShoutOut: Everything about him is an extended reference to the Squeaky-Voiced Teen from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', being a pimply teen RecurringExtra with a wheezy voice and nerdy mannerisms, who [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands keeps changing jobs]], struggles with said jobs, and is much-abused by his customers, who don't care much about the rules at the businesses employing him.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: This character only exists because the script for ''Black Friday'' originally called for Robert Manion's nameless character eventually revealed to be Peter Spankoffski (who was also called "Obnoxious Teen" in the script for ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'') to be manning the ticket booth at the cineplex, only for this to be impossible when Robert was cast as Ethan, who gets into a confrontation with the teen. Ironically, following Robert's departure from the team all three characters are played by Joey.
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* MyGirlIsNotASlut: For some reason in "What Do You Say?" it's the ''Homeless Man'' who's shocked at the idea that Becky Barnes might not be PurityPersonified and might actually ''have sex'' with her OldFlame Tom Houston instead of just batting eyes at him from across the room. (He is, of course, [[CoitusEnsues quickly proven wrong]].)

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Everyone who knows about Peanuts seems to love him and find his story adorable ("[[RunningGag Aww! Peanuts!]]"), with the single mild exception of the Man in a Hurry (who may just be in [[RunningGag too much of a hurry]] to want to talk about him in a VoxPops with Dan and Donna).

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' (Donna only in promotional material) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Peanuts!"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "The Witch in the Web"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]] (Dan only)

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The social worker in charge of monitoring Hannah's home life with Pamela.

A popular and fun non-binary former classmate of Alice and Deb.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"He's had a meteoric rise!"'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"That's amazing, Donna!"'']]

The manager at Beanie's, whose theatre experience enables Nora's ambitions for the musical coffee shop. See Characters/HatchetfieldFamilies.

See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].

See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].

See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].

See [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]].

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Peanuts!"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "The Witch in the Web"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]] (Dan only)

->''Did you know? If you spend money,''\\
''your kids will love you, maybe!''\\
''We're slashing prices.''\\
''It's brutality!''\\

'''cause our doors are open...''

!!Hatchetfield Police

A very deadpan police officer. One of Sam's backup singers for the "Show Me Your Hands" number.

!!Hatchetfield High School

* NerdGlasses: Creator/JoeyRichter puts on huge glasses -- even more exaggeratedly nerdy than "Hot Chocolate Boy's" -- as an instant way to let us know who this character is.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: This character only exists because the script for ''Black Friday'' originally called for Robert Manion's "Hot Chocolate Boy" character (who was also called "Obnoxious Teen" in the script for ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'') to be manning the ticket booth at the cineplex, only for this to be impossible when Robert was cast as Ethan, who gets into a confrontation with the teen.

[[folder: Gabe]]
!!Gabe
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JeffBlim
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Perky's Buds"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]]

Grace's best friend, a church choir boy.

[[folder: Brad Callahan]]
!!Brad Callahan
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JoeyRichter
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]]

Star quarterback of the Hatchetfield High Nighthawks.

!Other

[[folder: Man in a Hurry]]
!!Barry Swift, the Man in a Hurry

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Forever & Always"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Peanuts!"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Daddy"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Give me the fucking doll, I'm in a hurry!"'']]

A rude and impatient resident of Hatchetfield who always claims to be in a hurry.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: He ends up just another one of the Wiggly cultists worshiping Linda who [[spoiler: dies when the mall burns down]].
* CatchPhrase: As you may have guessed, "I'm in a hurry!"
* CovertPervert: He shares Sherman's line in "Feast or Famine" about wanting a Wiggly to be his "little boyfriend". He also spends a lot of time leering at Becky in "What Do You Say?"
* CreatorInJoke: The "Man In A Hurry" character was supposed to blow off Greenpeace Girl's pitch in TGWDLM by saying "I'm in a hurry", but Jeff made a RunningGag out of getting in ''too much of a hurry'' to say the entire line as rehearsals went on, so that by the time the show was actually performed, he says nothing at all, just brushing right past her. He was brought back for ''Black Friday'' to supposedly "do his character justice" by letting him say actually say it this time. As of ''Nightmare Time'', the character is now a RunningGag.
* CreditsGag: The cast announcement for ''Black Friday'' listed this guy as the role Creator/JeffBlim would be playing. [[spoiler:This was to conceal the return of General [=MacNamara=].]] The gag became well-known enough ahead of time that when Jeff declares, "I'm in a hurry!", the ''Black Friday'' audience breaks into applause.
* DecompositeCharacter: Statements from the creators indicate that the man who orders a complicated coffee from Emma in TGWDLM, pictured above, is ''not'' the same character as the Man in a Hurry, instead identified as "Rude Customer" or "Coffee Jerk". This is clearly a {{Retcon}}, as he wears the exact same costume as the Man in a Hurry (costume being a ''huge'' factor in identifying Hatchetfield characters due to how few actors there are) and shares the PhoneaholicTeenager tendencies the Man in a Hurry exhibits in ''Black Friday'', but it seems the creators would now prefer this character to be used ''exclusively'' for "man in a hurry" jokes.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Anyone who knows anything about what Black Friday shopping is like knows that making some kind of prior engagement that he's in a hurry to get to after he buys the doll is showing colossally bad judgment. To be fair, his attitude may be because he himself is coming to realize this.
* FlatCharacter: He's in a hurry. "Daddy" pokes fun at the idea of giving him HiddenDepths: he spends a great deal of time with Frank in that story, forming a genuine connection and offering a sympathetic backstory, with every word he says relating to the concept of being in a hurry.
* LargeHam: Once the RetailRiot goes full swing he takes the opportunity to exultantly scream "CHAOS REIGNS!"
* PhoneaholicTeenager: He spends all of "What Do You Say?" on his phone, either excitedly texting about the gossip or trying to get the two reunited lovers on video. He's also on his phone for most of his first scene in TGWDLM, when he orders coffee from Emma.
* PsychoKnifeNut: After being driven insane and joining the Wiggly Cult, he starts wielding a knife. This allows him to outfight the more experienced but unarmed Tom.
* RiddleForTheAges: A tongue-in-cheek comment from Jeff Blim is that the one secret of Hatchetfield that will never be revealed is where, exactly, the Man in a Hurry is in a hurry to get to.
* RunningGag: He appears throughout the Hatchetfield saga, always claiming to be in a hurry despite being in places such as in line for Black Friday shopping, in line for a roller coaster, or attending a wedding.
* TookALevelInJerkass: He was already an asshole in TGWDLM, and he doesn't come off much better in ''Black Friday'' -- taking the opportunity to perv out on Becky and surreptitiously film her during "What Do You Say?" -- but the HatePlague upgrades him to an attempted ''murderer'' when he stabs Tom.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Multiple different people play a role in triggering the RetailRiot, but it's the Man in a Hurry's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin characteristic impatience]] that causes all semblance of order to break down.
-->'''Man in a Hurry''': All right, ''forget'' this line. I'll give you $500, cash money, for one Wiggly ''right now''.
* VoxPops: "Peanuts!" shows Dan and Donna doing one of these interviews with him about the Peanuts the Hatchetfield Pocket Squirrel "phenomenon", only for it to backfire with him looking confused and wondering what they're talking about.

[[folder: Homeless Man]]
!!The Homeless Man

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Forever & Always"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Time Bastard"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Look, a coat. And, oh, a hat. That's better. Now I just gotta find a home."'']]

A middle-aged, homeless resident of Hatchetfield.

* AddledAddict: He's TheAlcoholic when he can get his hands on booze; he ''used'' to be into some much harder drugs like [[PsychoSerum bath salts]] but, luckily for the [[ImAHumanitarian faces of everyone around him]], they haven't been as easy to find recently.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Being the Homeless Man was ''already'' this, in mundane non-supernatural terms -- the last fragments of your past self watching yourself become a pitiful insane wreck of a human being, sleeping in filth and [[EatTheDog eating dogs]] to survive. Then comes TheReveal that when he dies, he's denied blissful CessationOfExistence and instead gets an eternity in the unspeakable {{Hell}} that is the Bastard's Box.]]
-->'''Narrator''': [[spoiler: But don’t be too sad. [[FalseReassurance He still lives on]]... [[FateWorseThanDeath in a way]]. After his physical death, Ted Spankoffski finds himself trapped in the twisting, impossible maze that is the Bastard’s Box. For him, Nightmare Time has only just begun...]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In both full-length Hatchetfield shows, being an early victim of apotheosis in TGWDLM and a member of the Cult of Wiggly in ''Black Friday''.
* CassandraTruth: At the beginning of "Forever & Always" -- "You aren't Emma Perkins!" [[spoiler: Ironically, this is him being RightForTheWrongReasons -- just seeing Paul and Emma together randomly {{trigger}}ed a stray fragment of his memories of Robot Emma from the future, but he has no actual reason to know that this Emma is the robot and not the real one.]]
* CatchPhrase: "Spare change for the homeless?"
* TheChewToy: A classic example of evoking guilty laughter about someone living on the very bottom of the societal pyramid. [[spoiler: TheReveal of his backstory in "Time Bastard" is an intentional GutPunch.]]
* CloudCuckooLander: Even by the standards of CrazyHomelessPeople, like when he gets in the line for a Wiggly on Black Friday planning to somehow buy a $49.95 product for three dollars. Oh, and [[FreezeFrameBonus on close examination]], he doesn't even ''have'' three dollars -- he has one dollar, a strip of toilet paper, and a receipt.
* TheComicallySerious: Creator/JoeyRichter has a lot of fun playing the Homeless Man this way, especially with his facial expressions as a cultist in ''Theatre/BlackFriday''.
* TheConstant: Among other constants existing in every AlternateTimeline in Hatchetfield, the Homeless Man is confirmed as one of them. [[spoiler: This is an intentional case of a GrandfatherParadox, because in any timeline that doesn't culminate in the plot of "Time Bastard", the BadFuture he comes from never happened. The explanation of how this is possible has yet to be explicitly revealed.]]
* CrazyHomelessPeople: He's been homeless for some 15 years and, understandably, not in the best mental health for it. [[spoiler:As it turns out, his mind snapped from Tinky telling him there was no way back to his timeline, followed by hearing and seeing himself in what is essentially the bowels of hell, causing him to develop his loopy mannerisms a few minutes ''before'' becoming homeless.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
** His verse of "La Dee Dah Dah Day" in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' plays up his long, tragic life on the streets for over-the-top BlackComedy.
-->The world is my house \\
The dogs are my food \\
Oh, look, a new blouse ''(puts on garbage bag)'' \\
And a new trash tattoo!
** [[spoiler: TheReveal of how he ''became'' the Homeless Man in "Time Bastard" is way darker and more troubled than anything we could have imagined about this comical background figure.]]
* DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler: We eventually find out the reason he became a CrazyHomelessPerson is a lot darker and more supernatural than we'd thought.]]
* EatTheDog: PlayedForLaughs. See above -- he's not above killing and eating stray dogs to survive (and he's ''lucky'' if [[ImAHumanitarian that's the worst thing he's eating]]).
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: According to the narrator in "Time Bastard", no one in Hatchetfield knows his name, so he is known only as "The Homeless Man".
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: The nature of the Apotheosis being this is demonstrated pretty well by the Homeless Man's verse of "La Dee Dah Dah Day", in which he sings cheerfully about the freedom that homelessness provides him.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: The final trigger that breaks Ted's mind fully and turns him into the Homeless Man is Tinky opening up the Bastard's Box and just giving him a ''glimpse'' of the [[AndIMustScream eternal agony]] he has waiting for him after death.]]
* GrandfatherParadox: [[spoiler:He's confirmed to exist in every Hatchetfield timeline, which is ''hugely'' paradoxical as the "Forever & Always"/"Time Bastard" timeline is the only one in which he possibly ''could'' exist. Emma 2, from the same timeline, is confirmed to ''only'' exist in that one. It may have something to do with the fact that Ted has been "aborted from time and space" by being anointed by Tinky as "the Time Bastard", or with the fact that Uncle Wiley tells us "everything shattered" and {{Alternate Timeline}}s became a thing only after Hannah was born in 2005, whereas the Homeless Man appeared in the timestream a year before that.]]
* IconicOutfit: The Homeless Man is ''always'' seen wearing his bulky beige winter coat and his wool beanie hat -- which is an outfit that makes sense for ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', which takes place well into winter, but not so much in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' when everyone else was outdoors in shirtsleeves. This is, of course, TruthInTelevision for people who don't have anywhere safe to keep their stuff and have to keep all their clothes with them. [[spoiler: Ted finding and putting on this outfit for the first time in "Time Bastard" is FiveSecondForeshadowing for the WhamLine that he and the Homeless Man are one and the same.]]
* IKissYourFoot: The Homeless Man memorably does this in "Adore Me", and seems to be even more enthusiastic about becoming a SycophanticServant in a [[ReligionOfEvil death cult]] than the others.
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: The reveal that he was Ted, someone casually misogynistic who [[LovableSexManiac talked about sex constantly]], retroactively makes the Homeless Man's behavior in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' rather ironic, as he's shocked and appalled at the Man in a Hurry talking about Becky's sex life and drinks ''deeply'' of his "respect women" juice in his interactions with Linda.]]
* MyGirlIsNotASlut: For some reason in "What Do You Say?" it's the ''Homeless Man'' who's shocked at the idea that Becky Barnes might not be PurityPersonified and might actually ''have sex'' with her OldFlame Tom Houston instead of just batting eyes at him from across the room. (He is, of course, [[CoitusEnsues quickly proven wrong]].)
* NoDoubtTheYearsHaveChangedMe: [[spoiler: He's only fifteen years older than his past self he [[TemporalDuplication coexists with in Hatchetfield]], but his life on the streets has left him so aged and weatherbeaten no one notices the resemblance, even when they're right next to each other in "Forever & Always".]]
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: [[spoiler: Ted unknowingly looks at his older self in "Forever & Always" and scoffs, "What a loser!"]]
* PetTheDog: After the horrific, amoral life he's led [[spoiler: both as himself and as Ted]], his last ever action in life is an altruistic urge to try to warn [[spoiler: his former best friend]] Paul that his wife isn't who he thinks she is. [[spoiler: [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished This is what finally gets him killed]] and sent to [[AndIMustScream the Bastard's Box]].]]
* PsychoSerum: "La Dee Dah Dah Day" mentions that he used to be addicted to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_salts_(drug) bath salts]] that filled him with constant rage and led to an unfortunate instance of [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalizing a dead body]]. It's part of the long, long TraumaCongaLine of his life (as well as establishing that whatever is causing the zombie plague in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' it's not the "zombie drugs" that he was taking before).
* TheResenter: His verse of "La Dee Dah Dah Day" is some ''major'' BlackComedy about how, [[HiddenDepths beneath his dull, listless affect]], he does in fact deeply resent all of the more-fortunate people he sees walking around every day and fantasize about brutally murdering them (especially while under the influence of "zombie drugs") and only the GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul effect of the alien HiveMind has caused it to lift, just now. All of which he cheerfully sings right to Paul's face to a peppy pop tune.
** We get to see the Homeless Man's unfiltered rage in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', where it seems to be fueling his drive to join Linda's cult and become one of her most vicious and violent servants, including when he happily [[WouldHurtAChild attacks Hannah and drags her to Linda to be executed]].
* TheReveal: In "Time Bastard", it is discovered that the Homeless Man is in fact [[spoiler: a 50-year-old Ted, having travelled back in time 15 years and been forced to take TheSlowPath back home. This is true of ''all'' incarnations of the Homeless Man, despite Ted dying young in every other story in which he appears, this [[TimeyWimeyBall timey-wimey]] oddity working on the same still-unknown mechanism by which there are multiple Hatchetfield timelines to begin with.]]
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The story of the Homeless Man being on "zombie drugs" and biting off someone's face was ripped from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_cannibal_attack one particularly sensational headline]] from 2012 that both started a nationwide panic about bath salts and helped establish the [[OnlyInFlorida Florida Man]] meme.
* SingingVoiceDissonance: Even though it's a gag we can see coming a mile away, it's still incredibly funny when the Homeless Man suddenly switches from his gruff, awkward voice to a soaring Broadway tenor to sing the second verse of "La Dee Dah Dah Day", especially coupled with the LyricalDissonance of what he's singing about.
* TakingUpTheMantle: Hilariously, he of all people is the first to try to claim leadership of the Wiggly cult ("No, ''I'm'' the prophet! I'M THE PROPHET!") after Linda and Sherman are both dead.
* TrappedInThePast: [[spoiler: He exists because Ted went back too far in time and was unable to return to the future.]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler: The primary reason his mind is broken and he's unable to even recognize any of the people or things he once knew as Ted Spankoffski is realizing [[MyGreatestFailure he's directly responsible for killing Jenny]], his OneTrueLove, and that there's no way he can use TimeTravel to fix it. This, followed by Tinky gleefully showing him the inside of the Bastard's Box, an AmbiguousSituation where he becomes fully aware of the horror of being a living TimeParadox in a StableTimeLoop, shatters his sanity and drives his mind to suppress any knowledge he has of who he is and what's happened in his life thus far, leaving him barely able to function. Tinky "curing" him and giving him his full knowledge of his identity and history as Ted back, before tossing him into [[AndIMustScream the Bastard's Box]], is one final KickTheDog moment for him.]]
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler: The big {{reveal}} in "Time Bastard" is that Ted Spankoffski and the guy everyone in Hatchetfield knows as "the Homeless Man" are one and the same, thanks to TemporalDuplication.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: His backstory -- even knowing that he ''has'' a backstory and he isn't just a background ComicRelief character -- is a massive one.
* WeakWilled: It's implied he's particularly susceptible to becoming BrainwashedAndCrazy due to a fondness for jumping on the bandwagon, as he's in line to buy a Wiggly doll despite not being able to afford one, and the creators have half-jokingly confirmed a fan theory that he wasn't assimilated at all during "La Dee Dah Dah Day". [[spoiler: This isn't quite as funny after we find out why; he's weak-willed because he was DrivenToMadness by the [[GoMadFromTheIsolation overwhelming loneliness]] of the souls in [[FateWorseThanDeath the Bastard's Box]], and he likes to follow the crowd because his desperate, futile drive in the fifteen years since has been to "find a home".]]
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: His screaming rant that Emma is an impostor at the beginning of "Forever & Always", after years of insanity have erased any context for this piece of knowledge.

[[folder: Greenpeace Girl]]
!!Greenpeace Girl
!!!'''Played by:''' Mariah Rose Faith
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "Jane's a Car"]]
!!!'''Mentioned in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/greenpeace_girl.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Hi! Can I talk to you about saving the planet?"'']]

A witty environment enthusiast.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Like all of Mariah Rose Faith's characters from ''TGWDLM'' who came back in Season One of ''Nightmare Time'', she's gone from brunette to blonde in "Jane's a Car". Only really notable because one of the things [[spoiler: Jane]] notices about her is her hair. [[spoiler: She, Becky, and Jane's original appearance make a BlondeBrunetteRedhead trio, and later on Jane quips when deciding to [[GrandTheftMe steal Becky's body]] "I always wondered what I'd look like as a redhead".]]
* ButtMonkey: Mildly so -- every time we see her out canvassing it's in the face of an endless stream of passersby blowing her off or rudely rejecting her. (TruthInTelevision, of course.)
* CatchPhrase: "Do you want to save the planet?"
* DeadpanSnarker: She unnecessarily goes out of her way to make Paul feel bad about being caught in his lie that he already gives to Greenpeace; apparently having to wear a [[HappinessIsMandatory fake smile]] in the face of everyone's rudeness all day is getting to her.
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: Applies to all the zombies, but the first sign Paul gets that something is very wrong is how she seems to have completely forgiven him after the previous day's altercation.
* GranolaGirl: Subverted. Paul seems quite taken aback that she's a savvy, spunky DeadpanSnarker without much of a hippie peace-and-love attitude to her, despite her profession. This ends up being one of the qualities [[spoiler: Jane]] likes about her.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Makes up a fake Greenpeace campaign to save the turtles just to catch Paul in a lie about having already donated.
* NoNameGiven: Even though she becomes one of the recurring zombies who haunts Paul all the way to the end of the show, we never hear her called anything other than "Greenpeace Girl". Both Tom and the narrator of "Jane's a Car" also refers to her as such.

[[folder: Gary Goldstein]]
!!Gary Goldstein
!!!'''Played by:''' Jon Matteson
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday''

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gary_goldstein.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Ow! Right in the subpoena!"'']]

A local attorney who seems to be on several of Hatchetfield's wealthy population's payroll.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Has the last name "Goldstein", an incongruous New York accent (in small-town Michigan), a pocket [[AllJewsAreCheapskates stuffed with coupons]], and a stereotypically Jewish profession.
* AmoralAttorney: Will press anyone's case for a fee, no matter how absurd or reprehensible, and hilariously ''immediately contradicts'' the argument he made for his client Linda Monroe against Sherman Young claiming all the dolls when Sherman reveals he's ''also'' got Gary on retainer. Of course, he goes on to be much more straightforwardly and horrifyingly amoral when Wiggly fever makes him [[spoiler: [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown kick Ethan Green in the head]] until he dies]].
* BadassesWearBandanas: One of the funniest entrances in the show is when we catch up with Gary again in Act 2 and find out he's stripped down to his shirtsleeves and has tied his necktie around his forehead as a headband in an attempt to look like some kind of warrior.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: One of the most dramatic personality transformations in the show, PlayedForLaughs.
* DirtyCoward: As part of Jon going ''ham'' with turning Gary into a loathsome monster. In one of the darkest scenes in the show, it's still somehow ''hilarious'' that [[spoiler: immediately after beating a helpless Ethan to death and gloating over it]], all Tom has to do is lunge toward him and he scuttles off into the shadows squealing like a rat.
* ExtendedGreetings: He apparently always introduces himself as "Gary Goldstein, attorney-at-law". This is PlayedForLaughs when he [[MotorMouth rushes through it in one breath]] the second time when, after Frank caves to his demands on Linda's behalf, he suddenly [[HypocriticalHumor reappears as Sherman's lawyer]] to get him to reverse it.
* FrivolousLawsuit: The very shaky grounds he gives for both Linda and Sherman's cases in their dispute -- Linda's "anxiety disorder" and Sherman, a rich white guy, being "discriminated against" -- indicate he's pretty used to filing lawsuits of this kind.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Colonel Schaeffer confirmed that, aside from [[SoleSurvivor Emma]], no other human resident of Hatchetfield survived, so it’s highly likely Gary was infected by the HiveMind offscreen during ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'']].
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Apparently he's the only lawyer in Hatchetfield, or at least very much the preferred attorney of all of Hatchetfield's wealthy elite.
* OnlyBadGuysCallTheirLawyers: In RealLife (see ArtisticLicenseLaw on the ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' main page), both Linda and Sherman have a point in their legal dispute -- at the very least, since they directly disagree about the simple issue of whether there should be a limit per customer on Wiggly dolls, ''one'' of them must be in the right -- but the show treats both of them calling their lawyer as a high-handed abuse of power on their part, mainly thanks to the HypocriticalHumor in their lawyer being ''the same person''.
* PerpetualExpression: Jon Matteson is so committed to his performance that ''every time we see Gary'' after his transformation, his face is a rictus of pure rage with his teeth fully bared. It only gets funnier every time he appears.
* PietaPlagiarism: [[spoiler:Ends up cradling Linda's dead body after her BoomHeadshot from Becky.]]
* PrimalStance: All the cultists end up acting like this, but Gary gets special mention for how he completely morphs into a snarling, spitting image of [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]] immediately after [[spoiler: killing Ethan]].
* SharpDressedMan: All the other men in the Black Friday line are dressed in sweaters, jeans or PJs, but he's fully decked out in a three-piece suit (and his [[SignatureDevice trusty Bluetooth in his ear]]) as though he's going in to the office. Apparently, being Linda and Sherman's lawyer means he considers himself always on the job. This only makes it funnier to watch him rapidly transform into a disheveled feral rage zombie over the course of the show.
* SnapBack: [[spoiler: A PlayedForLaughs version of this trope, one that turns the running themes of Linda's endless phone conversation and Gary's descent into savagery into one ''hell'' of a punchline. As Linda's body falls to the ground after Becky's BoomHeadshot, the wailing worshipers gather around her body, and then Gary suddenly seems to wake up, picks up the phone and says calmly, "Gerald? It's Gary. Yeah. We gotta talk about the will."]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: He's last seen carrying Linda's corpse off the stage after her death somehow [[SnapBack snaps him back to normal]] -- presumably to bring her body to Gerald so they can "talk about the will" and [[RealLifeWritesThePlot giving Jon and Lauren time to change back into Paul and Emma]] for the finale. He isn't among the remaining cultists who fight to the death over the last Wiggly in the burning mall, and it's unknown what happens to him in the end.]]

[[folder: Kale]]
!!Kale
!!!'''Played by:''' Jae Hughes
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]

A mysterious roadie in possession of the Killer Track.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Hailey]]
!!Hailey
!!!'''Played by:''' Angela Giarratana
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]

One of Zoey's several roommates.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: She's a bit part in "Honey Queen", seemingly a one-note joke about suffering diarrhea, but she is briefly seen offering Zoey a tea to soothe her throat. In "Killer Track", we see her searching the Honey Festival for a concoction to ''ruin'' Zoey's throat, revealing her to be seemingly just as duplicitous as Zoey herself.

[[folder: Peanuts]]
!!Peanuts the Hatchetfield Pocket Squirrel
!!!'''Played by:''' n/a
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Peanuts!"]]
!!!'''Mentioned in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nightmare_time_peanuts.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"He's had a meteoric rise!"'']]

An injured baby squirrel who was found by "Papa" Ed, a local Hatchetfield woodworker. Ed nursed the squirrel back to health, and Peanuts is most often found in his savior's pocket.

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Everyone who knows about Peanuts seems to love him and find his story adorable ("[[RunningGag Aww! Peanuts!]]"), with the single mild exception of the Man in a Hurry (who may just be in [[RunningGag too much of a hurry]] to want to talk about him in a VoxPops with Dan and Donna).
* TheCameo: In the finale of ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', among several other unexpected Hatchetfield cast members, you can glimpse Peanuts lurking in Ed's pocket.
* GiantAnimalWorship: Something like this seems to end up happening in the BadFuture that the song "Peanuts!" leads to, although presumably he didn't literally grow to giant size (the photo showing this event is somewhat abstract).
* HumanInterestStory: A fluffy news piece that the locals of Hatchetfield are fond of. In the ending of ''TGWDLM'' Colonel Schaeffer agrees that his being the SoleSurvivor of the town will make for a good one as well.
* TheLittlestCancerPatient: An animal version (and therefore even more intensely cutesy version) of this trope -- he was found as a baby squirrel "too small to survive" who'd fallen out of a tree and been left for dead by his mother. His adoptive father ends up having to crowdfund to build him a house.
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Peanuts' appearance in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' is, obviously, just a stuffed prop, and in "Peanuts!" he's played by StockFootage (and as the prop again for the one photo of Curt Mega holding him).
* SoleSurvivor:
** Of the version of Hatchetfield seen in ''The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals''--PEIP found him [[ChestBurster burrowed in his master's chest]].
** The lyrics of "Peanuts!" lampshade that he hasn't died once yet in any of the Hatchetfield stories.
-->'''Dan''': If there's an apocalypse he'll survive it!
* SurrealMusicVideo: "Peanuts!", the end credits song of ''Nightmare Time'' Episode 2. Starts off as a cute song about Peanuts, but devolves into a story about Peanuts attaining sapience and becoming the idol of a cult.
* TalkingAnimal: The climactic event of the SurrealMusicVideo "Peanuts!" is Dan and Donna revealing that after they've spent a long time wishing Peanuts could speak, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor their wish came true]] and Peanuts is now confirmed as a sapient being, leading them -- and possibly all of society -- to GoMadFromTheRevelation.
* TeamPet: "Peanuts!" talks him up as a collective one for all of Hatchetfield, and recommends that people forming groups to go on a stereotypical KidsWildernessEpic make him the AnimalCompanion they adopt.
-->'''Dan and Donna''': Oh, he's your pal \\
When you go on adventures! \\
He's your boot on the ground \\
When you're looking for treasure!
* TrendAesop: "Peanuts!" seems to be giving us a parody of this -- even something as seemingly wholesome and harmless as Hatchetfield's obsession with a saccharine HumanInterestStory somehow leads to disaster in this AlternateTimeline.
* UngratefulBastard:
** You can't expect too much gratitude out of a squirrel, but in TGWDLM, Peanuts repays Ed for all of his aid by burrowing into the man's chest and using him as shelter when PEIP bombs Hatchetfield.
** "Peanuts!" mentions a milder version of this -- he generally repays people's kindness to him by "leav[ing] poops in your shoes".
* YetAnotherBabyPanda: Peanuts is, of course, a joke about this trope, although part of the joke is they ''don't'' use him as the kicker and instead [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver promote him in importance]] above actually relevant stories.
* YourTomcatIsPregnant: Nick Lang agreed to give a tongue-in-cheek completely pointless spoiler in a Q&A on Twitter: Everyone refers to Peanuts by "he/him" pronouns, but Peanuts is actually female.

[[folder: Ed]]
!!"Papa" Ed
!!!'''Played by:''' Curt Mega
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Peanuts!"]]
!!!'''Mentioned in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''

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[[caption-width-right:350:]]

A Hatchetfield resident who took pity on Peanuts and brought him home to nurse him back to health.

[[folder:Noah and Mary]]
!!Noah and Mary
!!!'''Played by:''' James Tolbert (Noah) | Creator/LaurenLopez (Mary)
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]]

Two friends who reunite every year at abstinence camp.
[[/folder]]

* IWantSong: "What Do You Want, Paul?" He also inverts it to attempt to get it to be an IWantSong for Paul, but Paul's not into it.

* PointyHairedBoss: We get to see almost nothing of him before he's assimilated, but the HiveMind seems to have turned him into a caricature of this trope, a CloudCuckooLander who treats his management position as an opportunity to force his employees to dish about their personal lives.