History Characters / OldManHenderson

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: His last name is pronounced Scandinavian style, where the J sounds like a Y (think Music/{{Bjork}}). WHM is apparently unfamiliar with Scandinavian name pronunciation.

* DisproportionateRetribution: His entire motivation: he suspects the cultists of having stolen his lawn gnomes. Admittedly, it is supposedly 40k worth of lawn gnomes. [[spoiler:He actually donated them to a charity, got high and forgot about it.]] On learning the truth, he ''then'' finally muses that all his actions in retrospect seem somewhat disproportionate.

The man himself. Played by Waffle House Millionaire/Mike, Henderson was his answer to the KillerGameMaster who killed his characters over stupid reasons. A crazy, senile old man, Henderson is brought into the story because he's searching for his 40k worth collection of lawn gnomes, which inevitably causes the plot to derail as his actions become more and more violent.

* DisproportionateRetribution: His entire motivation: he suspects the cultists of having stolen his lawn gnomes. Admittedly, it is supposedly 40k worth of lawn gnomes. [[spoiler:He actually donated them to a charity, got high and forgot about it.]]

* CrazyAwesome: He might as well have been named Florida Man.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Courtesy of the "Backstory of Doom" and MultipleChoicePast mentioned above. Whenever Henderson needed to know a skill, WHM would come up with an excuse and claim it was in his backstory.

* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:Though unintended, she and Jimmy are the only members of the party to survive. ]]

* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:Though unintended, he and Kary are the only members of the party to survive. Furthermore, he's the only member from the beginning of Henderson's tale to have lived to the end.]]

* InsanityImmunity: Mr. Henderson was quite loopy to begin with, and despite being in Call of Cthulhu, stayed at roughly the same level of loopiness. This was mostly because his pre-existing schizophrenia and drug habit hardened him against the insanity-causing horrors from the beyond, as he tended to simply dismiss them as hallucinations brought on by either the schizophrenia, the weed, or both. IN other words, he was immune to the Lovecraftian Madness around him ''by virtue of already being mad to begin with''.

* OldSoldier: Though he's younger than he claims, Henderson is in his fifties and a war vet. He goes on to killing hordes of cultists and their creatures.

* GracefulLoser: When Henderson [[spoiler:manages to permanently kill him]], he's more impressed than anything. [[spoiler: It should be noted this epilogue was being done by a different DM after the original did a literal table flip when Henderson killed him.]]

* InsanityImmunity: Mr. Henderson was quite loopy to begin with, and despite being in Call of Cthulhu, stayed at roughly the same level of loopiness. This was mostly because his pre-existing schizophrenia and drug habit hardened him against the insanity-causing horrors from the beyond, as he tended to simply dismiss them as hallucinations brought on by either the schizophrenia, the weed, or both.

* MagnificentBastard: From behind the scenes, he managed to close multiple gaps in security, sleep with most of the attractive ladies in town, and pass all the blame to other people. After retiring, he has enough embezzled funds that he could be tried for treason, and uses the party to his own ends to find the cultists who killed his wife while passing himself off as a secret agent of the crown who came to re-enact a James Bond movie.

* LonelyFuneral: [[spoiler:Due to all of his friends save for Jimmy and Kary being dead, they're the only ones at his funeral.]]

The King in Yellow, the Unspeakable One, H'azztre or Kaiwan. Many names, many faces. A Great Old One of the Cthulhu mythos who's worshipped by a cult in Henderson's home town. [[spoiler: He's ultimately killed by Henderson, but is reincarnated by Nyarlathotep because of a bargain made by Henderson]]

** A cop who was killed in a housefire Henderson caused to destroy and eldritch beast.

* GracefulLoser: When Henderson [[spoiler:manages to permanently kill him]], he's more impressed than anything. [[spoiler: It should be noted this epilogue was being done by a different DM after the original did a table flip when Henderson killed him.]]

The King in Yellow, the Unspeakable One, H'azztre or Kaiwan. Many names, many faces. A Great Old One of the Cthulhu mythos who's worshipped by a cult in Henderson's home town. [[spoiler: He's ultimately killed by Henderson.]]

* GenderBender: Eeeeeh, downplayed. As a deity, he doesn't actually have a gender, but is generally referred to with male pronouns, and his title is "the ''King'' in yellow." [[spoiler:Nyarlathotep reincarnates him as a girl.]]

* TheStoner: He [[spoiler:''made a blunt out of a page of the [[BrownNote Necronomicon]]'']] and got Jimmy to join in.

* InsanityImmunity: Mr. Henderson was quite loopy to begin with, and despite being in Call of Cthulhu, stayed at roughly the same level of loopiness. This was mostly because his pre-existing schizophrenia and drug habit hardened him against the insanity-causing horrors for the beyond (he tended to dismiss them as hallucinations or ugly poodles).

* TuxedosAndMartini: Simon is clearly a homage to James Bond to begin with, but the trope particularly kicks in during the events of the final campaign, when he changes into a tuxedo and refuses to remove it.

* TuxedosAndMartinis: Simon is clearly a homage to James Bond to begin with, but the trope particularly kicks in during the events of the final campaign, when he changes into a tuxedo and refuses to remove it.