History Characters / HatchetfieldOtherResidents

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''(Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, baby)''\\

''(Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, baby)''\\
''Daddy's gonna get you''

->''N!''\\
''I-G!''\\
''H-T!''\\
''AW-AW-ks!''

* EightiesHair: Wears her hair styled, teased and pouffed out into a truly awesome feathered '80s do; especially impressive in her first appearance, when Kim Whalen turned up with his haircut after having portrayed Becky Barnes not much earlier in the livestream.

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* WrongGenreSavvy: She conducts herself the way a homicide detective on a cop show would and pieces together plenty of clues in a way that would make sense were she in one, but unfortunately for her she is in a HorrorComedy musical stage show.

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Seems to die midway through the show when Max smashes her head through her cars windshield. She later turns up alive.]]

->''Who knew football’s a team game''\\

''Or whip you with a saturated towel''\\

A homeroom and drama teacher at Hatchetfield High.

!!Douglas "Duke" Keane

!!Starlight Theatre

* SilentPartner: A RunningGag in early Dan and Donna broadcasts we heard featured Donna delivering the entire story, while Dan said nothing other than "That's amazing, Donna!" (their SimilarSquid in Clivesdale, Rachel and Rod, reverse the pattern, with Rod, also played by Joey Richter, doing all the talking while Rachel is ''completely'' silent) Dan gets to speak fully in "Peanuts!" and from "Honey Queen" onward.

!!Jason Jepson and Kyle Clauser

''And I’ve covered the protests live at the Hatchetfield kennel''\\

->''I hate to relay the news but our football team might be screwed''\\
''Stay inside watch your children''\\

->'''Karen:''' ''Ziggy was in the school''\\
''We all know they’re the local mule selling drugs to our children''\\
'''Ziggy:''' "So? Is that a crime?"\\
''' Karen:''' ''We know they love killing''\\
'''Ziggy:''' "I certainly don't ''love'' killing"

->'''Hatchetfield:''' ''Barry’s on the loose and he’s got a gun and he’s got a motive to kill''\\
'''Barry:''' I'm in a hurry!

[[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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* DudeLooksLikeALady: Referred to with male pronouns by the narrative, Kale is played by the non-binary and very androgynous Jae Hughes, and his gothic attire is similarly gender-nonconforming.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: As the person tasked with presenting victims to the Killer Track, Kale is naturally immune to the effects of listening to it.
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* GenderFlip: Hidgens grudgingly accepts that he's producing a gender-flipped version of his script.

[[folder: Courtney]]
!!Courtney
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/LaurenLopez
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]] | ''WebVideo/WorkinBoys''

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Kick his ass, Thrash."'']]

Thrash's girlfriend and a supporter of Needy Beast.
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!!Toy Zone

* [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]]: Lex Foster

[[folder: Frank Pricely]]
!!Frank Pricely
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/CoreyDorris
!!!'''Appears in:''' '''''Theatre/BlackFriday''''' | '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Daddy"]]''' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"That would be nice. If our hot ticket item was on the shelves WHEN WE OPEN."'']]

->''Did you know? If you spend money''\\
''Your kids will love you maybe''\\
''We're slashing prices - it's brutality!''\\
''Makes me question my morality,''\\
'''Cause our doors are open''

The owner of Toy Zone, Lex's workplace.

* AboveTheInfluence: Frank is one of the few characters who never hears the voice of Wiggly and doesn't actually become BrainwashedAndCrazy when the Wiggly cult forms, remaining one of the "infidels" along with his employee Lex. This is possibly because Wiggly's plan required him to be obsessed with ''selling'' the dolls to other people rather than having them for himself, or the Black Friday sale would never have happened.
* AlasPoorVillain: Frank is not a good person, and much of what happens on Black Friday is his fault, but it's impossible not to pity him when you see him going down under a wave of screaming, feral customers, terrified and confused at how quickly everything went wrong. [[spoiler: And there's nothing funny or satisfying about his death as a HumanSacrifice at all.]]
* BadBoss: He's a pretty huge asshole to Lex, thinking nothing of making her work long hours on a holiday weekend and openly giving her shit about how lucky she is to have a job as a "dropout with a record". He's also pretty cruel about her sister's disability, and some have interpreted his controlling behavior and handsiness with Lex as sexual harassment. Lex probably hates him more than anyone else but her mom... [[spoiler: which doesn't make it any less traumatizing when she sees him murdered right in front of her.]]
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Averted, but only narrowly -- Ethan is the first character to die but he dies shortly afterwards, and is one of only four characters to die onstage.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Not a very high level one, but nonetheless ruthless and concerned only about his profits. He plays fast and loose with store policy (and quite likely the law) when demand for the Wiggly dolls gets out of hand, and by so doing hastens the unfolding violence and [[spoiler: his own death]].
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:He starts the day by smugly proclaiming his store isn't liable if anyone dies in the Black Friday excitement. Shortly thereafter he becomes one of the victims of Black Friday himself.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: "Our Doors Are Open" is a very... sensual song, and has inspired many jokes about how Frank's sexual orientation is capitalism.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's a totally unscrupulous businessman, but he thinks of Sherman Young as a "sicko" and is relatively quickly convinced to do the sensible thing and impose a one doll limit per customer rather than let him take all the merchandise. He also is the only adult character at the mall who never succumbs to the Wiggly cult at any point, calling them "crazies" [[spoiler: to his dying breath]].
* HiddenDepths: ''Daddy'' reveals that owning a toy store was his childhood dream, and the technological shift to online sales hurts him on more than just a fiscal level.
* {{Jerkass}}: ''Yeah''. He's greedy, rude, and outright ''gleeful'' at the idea of a RetailRiot occurring in his store. Though [[EvenEvilHasStandards even he changes his tune when he sees how bad things are getting]].
* LargeHam: He's in a ''very'' exuberant mood on Black Friday, singing Christmas carols, dramatically posing in his entrances and calling Black Friday "the holiest day of the year".
* MeaningfulName: His last name is "Pricely" and he's a businessman concerned with prices. His decision to abandon consistent pricing for the Wigglies and allow a bidding war to emerge sparks the Black Friday disaster.
* MoneyFetish: All but stated that he has one, given all in innuendo in "Our Doors Are Open," and the fact that he literally (diagetically!) sings about his love of money more than once.
* OnlyShopInTown: Toy Zone is the only brick-and-mortar toy retailer in town (and in TheNewTens one of the few left in the country), forcing the whole town to gather there on Black Friday for their chance at a Wiggly doll. It turns out Uncle Wiley Toys' decision to only sell one very limited order of the dolls to one independent retailer wasn't just a typical scummy tactic to drive hype, but was calculated to cause violence and hasten the apocalypse.
* PetTheDog: Almost literally; one of the ways "Daddy" establishes him as a sympathetic protagonist is when he is utterly gutted by the [[LostPetGrievance sudden passing away of his dog Buddy]] on top of his business troubles.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: While talking to Lex [[KickTheDog he makes an extremely ableist reference to Hannah being dropped on her head as a child.]]
* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:While Ethan is the first character we see killed in the riots, Frank is murdered by Linda in cold blood to cement how this has gone from RetailRiot to ApocalypseCult.]]
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:How he dies, via boxcutter.]]
* {{Slimeball}}: He can be polite and even genial at times, but his charm is definitely the kind that leaves you needing a shower.
* VillainHasAPoint: Black Friday is, after all, named that because it's the time of year when many retailers dependent on Christmas shopping finally get in the black. Frank is feeding the Black Friday Wiggly madness as much as he can because it's how he keeps his store alive.

!Government

!!City Hall

* [[Characters/HatchetfieldFamilies Families]]: Mayor Solomon Lauter

[[folder: Miss Tessburger]]
!!Miss Tessburger
!!!'''Played by:''' Kim Whalen
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie''

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"This is politics, Stephanie, learn to multitask."'']]

Mayor Lauter's administrative assistant.

!!Child Protective Services

[[folder: Duke Keane]]
!!Douglas "Duke" Keane
!!!'''Played by:''' Curt Mega
!!!'''Appears in:''' '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "The Witch in the Web"]]''' | '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]'''

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Heya, darlin'!"'']]

A children's social worker. In charge of monitoring Hannah's home life among others, he knows to go to Miss Holloway when situations with Hatchetfield's youth start to feel paranormal.

* AdultsAreUseless: Defied. His hands are tied in some ways, but he does everything he can to help Hannah, and believes in Lex's innocence when she's arrested in "The Witch in the Web." He got into social work for the right reasons: wanting to protect people who can't protect themselves.
* AmazonChaser: He thinks Miss Holloway's abilities and powers are awesome, and cheerfully says he's in love with her after watching her in action.
* FriendOnTheForce: For Miss Holloway -- she pretty clearly doesn't work for the government herself, but he's able to stretch his authority as a social worker to bring her in as a "specialist" to help kids touched by the supernatural.
* GoodOlBoy: Fits this stereotype, with his mild Southern drawl, casual dress, beat-up station wagon, [[EightiesHair mullet]] and nickname, subverting a lot of people's stereotype of what a social worker should look and act like while nonetheless being a damn good one. (And helps alleviate the stereotypical portrayal of Pamela, with her similar accent and full embodiment of its LowerClassLout connotations.)
* HerosClassicCar: Averted, after the previous story in this episode had made a big deal of Tom Houston having one -- like most social workers, a beat-up old station wagon is the best transportation he can afford. Immediately lampshaded by the contrast with Miss Holloway's 1987 Pontiac Firebird.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: Duke and Miss Holloway flirt pretty heavily and pretty hard, but the story plays it coy enough that it's uncertain if they really are dating or it's just banter.
* MuggleBestFriend: Is this for Miss Holloway -- and, with Lex and Ethan in jail, is also the only Muggle friend Hannah has left.
* MuggleMageRomance: It's left [[ImpliedLoveInterest ambiguous]] whether there actually is anything romantic between Duke and Miss Holloway, but it's pretty obvious that Duke would at least ''like'' there to be.
-->'''Duke''': ''(in awe, after witnessing Miss Holloway's magic)'' I think I'm in love with you. You know that?
-->'''Miss Holloway''': ''(shrugs)'' Wouldn't blame you.
* NiceGuy: An upstanding gentleman who works hard to help the Fosters.
* OneSteveLimit: An extremely minor aversion; his nickname is "Duke" and not "Doug" so as not to step on the extremely minor [[BitCharacter police officer character]] Mariah plays in ''TGWDLM'' who unwittingly became an AscendedMeme.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His first name is Douglas, but everyone calls him Duke, his given name only being used when the stage directions introduce him and when Miss Holloway gives him a joking FullNameUltimatum when he flirts with her.
* PhraseCatcher: He is usually greeted with "Hiya, Duke," to which he responds "Heya, darlin'!"
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** Takes his responsibilities very seriously, but also has no illusions that kids like Lex have good reason to be distrustful of the system, and that Lex has a point that Hannah going into foster care has a high chance of making her situation worse, despite how cartoonishly awful a mom Pamela is.
** Is also fully willing to accept that the supernatural exists and plays a serious role in the troubles of many of the kids he works with, and is willing to let Miss Holloway deal with it without asking too many questions.
* SecretKeeper: As a friend of Miss Holloway, he's in the loop about the supernatural nature of Hatchetfield, although he's knowingly and willingly LockedOutOfTheLoop when it comes to the full details about "Nightmare Time" he wouldn't understand. Miss Holloway would ''like'' to tell him all of her secrets -- and has, out of desperation for closure -- but everyone who learns about her past instantly forgets.
* UnexplainedAccent: Curt Mega lets just a tiny bit of his native Texas accent into his speech when playing Duke.

!!Hatchetfield Police Department

* [[Characters/HatchetfieldFamilies Families]]: Sam Sweetly

[[folder: Doug]]
!! Doug
!!!'''Played by:''' Mariah Rose Faith
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "Jane's a Car"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Sarge, it's your wife on the 911!"'']]

A deadpan and self-serious semi-recurring police officer.

* AllThereInTheScript: Adding to the weirdness of the AscendedMeme to outsiders, in the [=YouTube=] version of the show, Robert Manion flubbed the line that reveals Doug's name, accidentally addressing them as "Sarge" -- meaning you have to read the script (available only to Kickstarter backers) or listen to the soundtrack to know what the line was supposed to be and, therefore, where the meme comes from.
* AscendedMeme: Doug's name is the result of a single line in the song "Show Me Your Hands", and the GenderBlenderName is probably an unintentional result of which actors they could assign to be Sam's backup singers for that song (with the name being something they couldn't change because it's at the end of a rhyming line). Mariah Rose Faith made a tongue-in-cheek remark on Instagram that Doug's masculine name but feminine appearance is due to being an [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} AFAB non-binary person]].
* BitCharacter: Doug is only a background character in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', but the "controversy" over their gender made them memorable enough that [[TheBusCameBack they come back]] as the police officer in ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' Ep. 3 Pt. 1, "Jane's a Car".
* TheComicallySerious: Their only real character trait. See the BlackComedy moment of what happens to poor Kathy's cat in "Show Me Your Hands".
* CoolShades: They're Doug's IconicItem that let you know they're the character Mariah is playing. It made enough sense in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', where the song "Show Me Your Hands" took place outdoors in the middle of the day, but they make a lot less sense in "Jane's a Car" where they're wearing them inside a hospital at night (while trying to comfort an assault victim, no less).
* FairCop: Being played by Mariah Rose Faith, they can hardly avoid being this, which is one of the reasons fans latched onto them.
* GenderBlenderName: Their name is "Doug" even though they're played by Mariah Rose Faith.
* MinorityPoliceOfficer: If they actually are non-binary in-universe, although being a woman would still make them this to a lesser degree.
* PoliceAreUseless: Doug is notable if only because their BitCharacter role in "Jane's a Car" means that for once they avert this trope for the Hatchetfield PD.
* WildHair: One of Doug's most feminine (and unrealistic for a police officer) traits that makes their name so incongruous.

[[folder: Detective Shapiro]]
!!Detective Shapiro
!!!'''Played by:''' Bryce Charles
!!!'''Appears in:''' '''''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie'''''

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"There's something not right here. There's something deeply wrong with this whole town!"'']]

A homicide detective, originally from Chicago, who recently joined the HFPD.

[[folder: Officer Bailey]]
!!Officer Bailey
!!!'''Played by:''' Curt Mega
!!!'''Appears in:''' '''''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie''''' | ''WebVideo/WorkinBoys''

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"We're small-town cops! We're a little out of our depth."'']]

->''I hate to relay the news but our football team might be screwed''\\
''Stay inside watch your children''\\
'''Cause a losing streak’s coming''

A belligerent police officer who works closely with Detective Shapiro.

!Schools

!!Hatchetfield Community College

[[folder: Ziggs]]
!!Ziggs / Ziggy
!!!'''Played by:''' Jae Hughes
!!!'''Appears in:''' '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Perky's Buds"]]''' | ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie''
!!!'''Mentioned in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm sorry, dudes. I thought you were Republicans. But like, hell yes. Mad respect. Save the trees!"'']]

->'''Karen:''' ''Ziggy was in the school''\\
''We all know they’re the local mule selling drugs to our children''\\
'''Ziggy:''' "So? Is that a crime?"\\
''' Karen:''' ''We know they love killing''\\
'''Ziggy:''' "I certainly don't ''love'' killing"

A popular and fun non-binary former classmate of Alice and Deb. Specializes in graphic design.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Alice finds Ziggs much cooler and more worldly than herself, and fears Deb choosing Ziggs over her.
* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Alice's Betty to Deb's Archie.
* TheCameo: In the filmed version of the ''Nerdy Prudes'' number "Hatchet Town", Ziggs makes an edited-in cameo as a suspect of the murders. In the stage version, that accusation was directed at Dan Reynolds.
* TheGhost: Was not seen in the first season of ''Nightmare Time'', as the current Hatchetfield repertoire had no non-binary actors to portray them, leading to Jae Hughes joining the team in the second season.
* GranolaGirl: Wears a tie-dyed Music/TheGratefulDead shirt (and notes that they can't imagine anyone wearing such a shirt to ever be in a hostile mood), doesn't relish shooting birds to protect crops, declares "peace and love" as goodbye, and when stoned, is more nervous about the notion of the Metzgers voting Republican than coming back to shoot themself and Emma.
* LifeOfTheParty: One of their only known traits, along with just generally being attractive and "really cool". Apparently Ziggs bringing ''[[Creator/JackboxGames Quiplash]]'' to Deb's party is going to be the highlight of the evening for everyone.
* MaleGaze: Ziggs objects to the term due to being non-binary, but this is the main theme of their graphic design.
-->'''Ziggs:''' It's ''my'' gaze, and I like tig ol' biddies.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: When Bill doesn't know who "Ziggs" is, Alice clarifies that their real name is "Ziggy", before realizing in exasperation that Bill doesn't know who she's talking about at all. Alice and the script keep on exclusively calling them "Ziggs" after this point, though (and "Ziggy" itself is technically a nickname of "Sigmund"). It's unrevealed whether Ziggy is the name on their birth certificate or a name chosen when they came out; in "Perky's Buds", Ziggs and Ziggy are used interchangeably.
* PluckyComicRelief: Ziggs is apparently so reliably clever at ''[[Creator/JackboxGames Quiplash]]'' Alice is afraid Deb will fall over laughing right into bed with them, given half a chance. WordOfGod from Creator/NickLang says that Ziggs is a very "fun and funny" person, all that would be revealed about them prior to their debut.
* TheStoner: In "Perky's Buds", Ziggs works as a farmhand on Emma's cannabis farm and they both partake heartily in the crop they grow.

[[folder: Jenny]]
!!Jenny
!!!'''Played by:''' Kim Whalen
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Time Bastard"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Teddy...?"'']]

->''You bastard''\\
''I don't care where you've been''\\
''I need to know when it began''\\
''And when were you then?''

Ted's best friend in college, whom he never had the guts to confess his love to and hasn't seen since.

* AmbiguousSituation: The version of Jenny in the TitleSequence singing the ThemeTune "Time Bastard" is ''very'' different from the Jenny we meet in the story, and the lyrics seem to be about Jenny taking some [[BestServedCold long-delayed revenge]] against Ted for wronging her, saying he took horrible advantage of her once but [[InnocenceLost now she's wise to his tricks]] and will be turning the tables on him. [[spoiler: There doesn't seem to be any version of Jenny in the story who could actually be expressing this sentiment, since Jenny dies without ever finding out the truth about Ted's TimeTravel powers, leading to some WildMassGuessing over who exactly the speaker of this song actually is.]]
* CannotSpitItOut: Neither Young Ted nor Jenny have the emotional maturity to directly confess their feelings to each other at their age, leading Jenny to resort to writing Ted a DearJohnLetter just before she leaves town -- which she later admits was "cowardly".
* DearJohnLetter: Jenny drops a bomb out of nowhere on Young Ted by leaving a letter in his mailbox telling him she's leaving town with a new boyfriend she never told him about, because she's been in love with him this whole time and living as JustFriends has become too painful for her. The small but very real cruelty of doing this by letter rather than face-to-face helps scar Ted for life and turn him into the "bastard" he is by the present day [[spoiler: and sets up the situation that leads to Jenny's tragic death]].
* EtherealWhiteDress: Bride!Jenny turns out to be this, with the Ted/Jenny wedding just an ephemeral hallucination created by Tinky. It's implied that the version of Jenny in her wedding dress who sings "Time Bastard" is another illusion tormenting Ted, either sent by Tinky or generated by his own guilty conscience.
* FunTShirt: She's wearing a T-shirt with the Ford logo on it when we finally see her for real, although since it's obscured for most of the scene it's probably not an intentional reference to anything.
* {{Hallucinations}}: The plot of "Time Bastard" is set up by Ted being granted a very convincing one of his and Jenny's wedding day by Tinky, leading to his obsession with finding the AlternateTimeline where he and Jenny stayed together.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Ted and Andy both fall short of being heroes in the end, but they both want her ''very, very'' much.
* TheIngenue: Beautiful, innocent, and sweet, so much so that when her best friend Teddy appears as a much-older sleazy douchebag she doesn't take it personally and assumes he must be suffering for the same reasons she is.
* JustFriends: Young Ted put her on a pedestal so much he tries to keep their relationship as this, even though it's tearing him apart inside. It wasn't until it was too late -- after reading her letter -- that he realized she felt the same way, and the pain of this realization turned him into an embittered [[HeManWomanHater misogynist]] who uses women so he can NeverBeHurtAgain.
* KilledOffForReal: The ending of “Time Bastard” reveals that [[spoiler:she’s dead -- in all possible timelines, due to having died in 2004]].
* MyGreatestFailure: Ted starts the story of "Time Bastard" musing on how letting Jenny get away without ever declaring his feelings for her was this. [[spoiler: By the end of the story he realizes it's far worse, and that his greatest failure was ''killing her'' -- a failure he can never undo, and which haunts him in his broken state as the Homeless Man for the rest of his life -- and presumably still haunts him once his soul goes into [[AndIMustScream the Bastard's Box]].]]
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler: The final cruelty of the disintegrator is that it leaves no corpse behind, just an unrecognizable small pile of ashes, meaning both Young Ted and Andy have ''no idea that Jenny is dead'' and each one assumes she left town with the other.]]
* NoNameGiven: She never gets a last name, since we only hear about her from Ted's POV.
* TheOneThatGotAway: She ends up unable to live with being JustFriends with Ted, and falls for someone else and leaves town with him. Ted looking back sees failing to have the courage to bare his feelings for her as MyGreatestFailure, and her leaving without saying goodbye in person or ever getting in touch with him again leaves him feeling utterly bereft as though she were TheLostLenore. [[spoiler: So he thinks. It turns out she really ''was'' TheLostLenore all these years, and it's his own fault.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:She’s actually dead by the time of ''[[Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals TGWDLM]]'' and ''Theatre/BlackFriday''.]]
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Any significant character played by Kim Whalen is going to be this, of course, but it especially applies here, where Kim's whole job is to play a dream girl whose loss becomes the fulcrum a man's whole life pivots on (which she does very well).
* TargetedToHurtTheHero: [[spoiler: Her death is truly ''awful'' just to hear described, especially how the disintegrator draws out the process and leaves her in agonizing pain the whole time, staring into Ted's eyes saying, "[[GutPunch Ted, I'm scared... it hurts...]]" until there's [[NeverFoundTheBody nothing left of her]]. It's calculated to completely, irrevocably break both Ted's heart and his mind, and [[DrivenToMadness it succeeds]].]]
* UnrequitedLoveLastsForever: It was ''requited'' love, but the knowledge that he screwed things up with the love of his life through simple inaction hurt Young Ted enough that he resolved to never let himself have real feelings for a woman again.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: She and Ted look like a classic one of these couples who ended tragically because [[CannotSpitItOut neither of them had the courage to make their feelings known]]. [[spoiler:It turns out that what ''actually'' happened between the two of them was a lot more complicated and tragic.]]
* VirginInAWhiteDress: Ted's vision of Jenny as his bride is very much an idealized, fairy-tale version of this archetype, played by Kim Whalen as only she can -- although she subverts it with some sly naughtiness like reminding Ted [[TheStoner they were going to try edibles for the first time]] on their wedding night.
* WalkingSpoiler: The one scene she actually appears in in "Time Bastard" (as opposed to a hallucination of her) is a bunch of {{Wham Line}}s in a row.

!!Hatchetfield High School - Students

* [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]]: Lex Foster, Hannah Foster, Stephanie Lauter, Grace Chasity, Peter Spankoffski, Ruth Fleming, Richie Lipschitz, Max Jägerman
* [[Characters/HatchetfieldFamilies Families]]: Ethan Green

[[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.

* 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, Ziggs 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 Ziggs, 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.

* 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.
* DecompositeCharacter: At various stages in Hatchetfield's development, he's been intended to be unveiled as ''two'' different main characters, first Peter Spankoffski, then Richie Lipschitz, then Peter again, but it never ends up panning out that way and he remains a RecurringExtra.
** The original intent for a recurring "obnoxious teen" character, originally played by Robert Manion, was for him to continuously make cameos around Hatchetfield before being revealed to be Peter Spankoffski. However, his second such appearance, in ''Black Friday'', required him appearing opposite Ethan, also played by Manion, requiring the creation of a ''new'' obnoxious teen played by Joey Richter, and in ''Nightmare Time'', it was Joey's version who was given the recurring gimmick.
** In ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die'', the character of Richie Lipschitz was originally written as an unexpected AscendedExtra role for the Obnoxious Teen. However, with Robert Manion's departure from the team, the role of Peter ultimately went to Joey, requiring Jon Matteson to take on the role of Richie.
** In light of Joey being the new Peter, Nick Lang briefly considered a RetCon that Peter and the Obnoxious Teen were the same person all along, but soon realized that the singular timeline of ''Nightmare Time 2'' made that impossible, as in "Abstinence Camp" Peter complains that he'll miss the Hoeny Festival, while the earlier episode "Honey Queen" shows that the Obnoxious Teen did indeed attend.
* 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"]]
!!!'''Mentioned in:''' ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie''

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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.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die'', the Nighthawks have a different star quarterback, Max Jägerman. Brad is name-dropped in NPMD, leaving it an inconsequential RiddleForTheAges as to where the ''Nightmare Time 2'' timeline diverged from the ''Nerdy Prudes'' one to make him top dog.

[[folder: Jason and Kyle]]
!!Jason Jepson and Kyle Clauser
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/CoreyDorris (Jason) | Curt Mega (Kyle)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie''

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[[caption-width-right:350:'''Jason:''' ''"Who's ready to cream some Chemists?"'' '''Kyle:''' ''"Let's go! Fuck Clivesdale!"'']]

->''Who knew football’s a team game''\\
''Who needs a star quarterback to air it out''\\
''Or whip you with a saturated towel''\\
''No more bullyball!''

Max Jägerman's cronies and fellow Nighthawks football players.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Their last names are never mentioned but can be seen on the backs of their football uniforms.
* LovableJock: Without the negative influence of Max they become much more pleasant.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Villainous variant as the two dumb thugs who flank Max. Without him bossing them around they have much more individuality.

[[folder: Brenda and Stacy]]
!!Brenda and Stacy
!!!'''Played by:''' Bryce Charles (Brenda) | Kim Whalen (Stacy)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie'' | ''WebVideo/WorkinBoys''[[note]]Brenda only[[/note]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:'''Stacy:''' ''"Money isn't everything. Looks are."'' '''Brenda:''' ''"And, like, if you're on the football team."'']]

Steph's friends, the Hatchetfield High cheer squad.

* AlphaBitch: Brenda -- though the true alpha of the school is Max, and she mellows out considerably when he's no longer around.
* DumbBlonde: Stacy is a more straightforward bimbo in comparison to calculated mean girl Brenda.

!!Hatchetfield High School - Faculty

* [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]]: Tom Houston

[[folder: Miss Mulberry]]
!!Miss Mulberry
!!!'''Played by:''' Kim Whalen
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie'' | ''WebVideo/WorkinBoys''

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"The point is, you got through it, together."'']]

A homeroom and drama teacher at Hatchetfield High.

!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"]]''' | ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie'' | ''WebVideo/WorkinBoys''

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

->'''Hatchetfield:''' ''Barry’s on the loose and he’s got a gun and he’s got a motive to kill''\\
'''Barry:''' 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".
** In the filmed version of the ''Nerdy Prudes'' number "Hatchet Town", Barry makes an edited-in cameo as a suspect of the murders. In the stage version, that accusation was directed at Officer Bailey.
* 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 tendency the Man in a Hurry exhibits in ''Black Friday'' of constantly being on his phone, 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.
* ImportantHaircut: In ''Nerdy Prudes'', he's the first of Jeff Blim's characters to appear after Blim trimmed the long shaggy hair he'd worn throught he series until then.
* LargeHam: Once the RetailRiot goes full swing he takes the opportunity to exultantly scream "CHAOS REIGNS!"
* 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, attending a wedding, imprisoned in someone's basement...
* 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]]
!![[spoiler:Ted Spankoffski]], 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 of the first two 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 -- and yet he's in all of them because his travels took him to 2004, one year before the timelines began to split.]]
* 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.]]
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: [[spoiler:Paul 23 and Emma 2 kill him because he's the only one who knows she's a robot.]]
* 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".]]
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Trying to warn Paul [[spoiler:that his fiancee is a robot gets him KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade.]]
* 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 nearly every other story in which he appears; later revelations indicating that this is because, in just ''one'' of Hatchetfield's myriad timelines, he travelled back in time to ''before'' the timelines began branching. Nick Lang also notes rather wryly that this means that Ted, already the Hatchetfield character with the largest amount of deaths to his name, has an even higher total than he first appears, as every time Hatchetfield is destroyed, ''two'' Teds die.]]
* 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.
* TheSlowPath: [[spoiler:When Ted Spankoffski is TrappedInThePast, he gets back to 2019 by living as a homeless man for 15 years.]]
* 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 comic relief 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]]
!!Harmony Jones, the 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.

* 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 refer to her as such, as does Pete in "Abstinence Camp". Her name, Harmony Jones, was revealed the day of the release of ''Nerdy Prudes''; Matt Lang explains that he keeps attempting to have her introduce herself as "Harmony Jones, the Greenpeace Girl" but those scenes keep getting cut.

[[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.
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Apparently he's the only lawyer in Hatchetfield, or at least very much the preferred attorney of all of Hatchetfield's wealthy elite.
* MomentOfLucidity: [[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."]]
* 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 both of them sharing the ''same lawyer'', who instantly turns on Linda once Sherman calls upon him.
* 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 pajamas, 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.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: He's last seen carrying Linda's corpse off the stage after her death somehow [[MomentOfLucidity 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.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Referred to with male pronouns by the narrative, Kale is played by the non-binary and very androgynous Jae Hughes, and his gothic attire is similarly gender-nonconforming.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: As the person tasked with presenting victims to the Killer Track, Kale is naturally immune to the effects of listening to it.

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

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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.

* 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''.

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* WalkingSpoiler: His backstory -- even knowing that he ''has'' a backstory and he isn't just a background ComicRelief character -- is a massive one.

* 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. Her name, Harmony Jones, was revealed the day of the release of ''Nerdy Prudes''; Matt Lang explains that he keeps attempting to have her introduce herself as "Harmony Jones, the Greenpeace Girl" but those scenes keep getting cut.

* 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''.

* 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.]]

->''I’ve never known darker times''\\

"With Action News weekdays at 10:00 p.m."

* ShooOutTheClowns: Dan and Donna are noticeably absent from ''Theatre/BlackFriday''; Donna gives us a HumanInterestStory about the Tickle-Me-Wiggly doll's sudden popularity in the ''Black Friday'' preview video, but in the show itself the PracticalVoiceover reporting on the Black Friday crisis comes from a much more PlayedStraight news broadcast out of New York.
* SilentPartner: The RunningGag is that in every Dan and Donna broadcast we've heard so far, Donna is the one delivering the entire news story, and all we hear of Dan is his CatchPhrase "That's amazing, Donna!" to provide the segue. (Their SimilarSquad in Clivesdale, Rachel and Rod, reverse this pattern, with Creator/JoeyRichter as Rod being the one to deliver the story about Hatchetfield's destruction.) The first and only time Dan has broken this pattern has been for the song "Peanuts!"

* TheVoice: They were never actually seen onstage until ''WebVideo/NightmareTime''.

!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]], '''WebVideo/WorkinBoys'''
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[[folder: Miss Tessberger]]
!!Miss Tessberger

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* SecretKeeper: As a friend of Miss Holloway, he's in the loop about the supernatural nature of Hatchetfield, although he's knowingly and willingly LockedOutOfTheLoop when it comes to the full details about "Nightmare Time" he wouldn't understand.

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

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* KilledOffForReal: The ending of “Time Bastard” reveals that [[spoiler:she’s dead in all possible timelines that we’ve witnessed so far]].

* 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]].

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* AllThereInTheManual: Their last names are never mentioned but can be seen on the backs of their football uniforms.

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

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

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

'''Barry:''' "I'm in a hurry!"\\
'''Hatchetfield:''' ''The case is closed the description matches the bill''\\
''(Fits the bill, he fits the bill)''\\
''The killer’s gotta go for what he’s done''\\
''If you don’t take him in, I will''\\
'''Barry:''' "Get your hands off me!"

* 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.

* 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.

[[folder: Hailey]]
!!Hailey

!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]

* TheCameo: Jerry makes a brief appearance in ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die!'' during the song "Hatchet Town". As he wears a casual outfit instead of his camp uniform, it's not apparent he's Jerry until a reporter accuses him of being the killer. The filmed version instead has the reporter accuse Gerald Monroe, leaving Jerry only identified in the soundtrack version.

* EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture: The decor of the 2104 version of the CCRP building says every surface is "frosted glass and digital displays", with basic creature comforts like the water cooler and coffeemaker removed and nowhere to be seen. Everyone is doing their work with self-contained [[HolographicTerminal "holo-pads"]], and the disintegrator weapon Ted steals is a wholly nondescript oblong box with a single button as the trigger, apparently not made for any sort of precise aiming.

* ADayInTheLimelight: She's the subject of "Hey, Melissa!", an unproduced ''Nightmare Time'' script which was read in a ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die!'' livestream, and reveals her to be [[spoiler:the ringleader of a serial killer gang called the Kitty Cat Club, who mutilate and murder men they perceive as dogs.]]

* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Colonel Schaeffer confirmed that, aside from [[SoleSurvivor Emma]], no other human resident of Hatchetfield survived, so it’s highly likely Sylvia was infected by the HiveMind offscreen during ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'']].

* SkewedPriorities: She's so revolted by Ted's masturbation, 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.

* EightiesHair: A big surprise when she shows up very shortly after playing Becky Barnes in "Jane's a Car" with her hair styled, teased and pouffed out into a truly awesome feathered '80s do.

* ArchNemesis: Surprisingly ends up being one for [[spoiler: Uncle Wiley from ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', to the point where in half of the currently existing timelines she was the one who killed him once and for all, preventing the apocalypse.]]

* DiscoDan: A woman living in the 2010s who seems to prefer living as if it's the mid-80s. It's not made clear if this is just a weird affectation of hers or if she actually is a Gen [=Xer=] who's become TheAgeless with magic, though there's some tantalizing hints pointing to the latter.

* 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.]]

* OneHourWorkWeek: Miss Holloway is shown with a vintage '80s lifestyle that doesn't come cheap (maintenance on a 1987 Firebird, at least, adds up) but it seems unlikely that Duke bringing her in to "consult" on supernatural cases is actually sanctioned by the Michigan state government and that she's getting taxpayer funding to do it. How, exactly, she makes a living is a dangling question left unanswered by the story, although we can guess a lot of the logistical problems are alleviated by her MindManipulation powers.

* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Colonel Schaeffer confirmed that, aside from [[SoleSurvivor Emma]], no other human resident of Hatchetfield survived, so it’s highly likely they were infected by the HiveMind offscreen during ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'']].

* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Colonel Schaeffer confirmed that, aside from [[SoleSurvivor Emma]], no other human resident of Hatchetfield survived, so it’s highly likely Frank was infected by the HiveMind offscreen during ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'']].

* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Colonel Schaeffer confirmed that, aside from [[SoleSurvivor Emma]], no other human resident of Hatchetfield survived, so it’s highly likely they were infected by the HiveMind offscreen during ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'']].

* 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'']].

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die!'', the Nighthawks have a different star quarterback, Max Jägerman. Brad is name-dropped in NPMD, leaving it an inconsequential RiddleForTheAges as to where the ''Nightmare Time 2'' timeline diverged from the ''Nerdy Prudes'' one to make him top dog.

* 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'']].

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