History Characters / PuppetHistory

The Grim Reaper himself, performing his song ''Plague Days (Y.O.D.O.)''.

The pile of diamonds pried from the 2,000,000 livre Diamond Necklace that was at the center of the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, singing his song ''Pricy Ice''.

The Propeller of the ''HMS Britannic'' that was accidentally involved in turning a good deal of the people trying to escape its sinking into ''human flotsam.'' His song is ''Propeller's Lament''.

The capital "G" God of Abrahamic religion, singing ''Didn't Make 'em Dance''.

The train that was supposed to transport Abe Lincoln to Baltimore, at least until the secessionists tried to assassinate him. His song is ''Chugga Chugga Boo Hoo''.

Mt. Vesuvius himself, having a bit of a "movement". His song is ''I Spew Goo''.

One of the mummified geese buried in Hatshepsut's tomb who has quite a lot to say about the forgotten Pharaoh. Their song is ''Hatshepsut''.

The famous torch that carries the Olympic Flame to the Olympics. His song is ''Choke For The Gold!''

An old hand-struck silver coin with a talent for the blues, feeling down due to losing pieces of himself to forgery scammers. His song is ''Pieces Of Me''.

A pair of oars, one of whom was whittled into a sword by Miyamoto Musashi. Their song is ''Gore On The Shore''.

The spool Policarpa used while undercover as a seamstress. His song is ''Snitch on the Rich''.

A snowman that was made on the shores of Donner Lake, with everything ''that'' implies. His song is yet unnamed.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He condemns consumerism in the Hatshepsut episode, but is happy to shill out his ''own'' merchandise.

* TheGrinch: He refuses to sing at first because he's understandably upset at being a pile of decomposing bones. [[spoiler: After the Professor sings to him he shifts his tone and acknowledges he was being this, even name dropping the [[invoked]]TropeNamer.]]

* PissTakeRap: [[spoiler: Once he actually starts singing it turns out he's even ''worse'' than The Professor despite being the highest profile guest the show's ever had. His song brings up the things everyone knows about Christmas and Santa in the first couple sentences before shifting into nothing but praising himself for saving "the pickle boys". It even has the infamous "My name is X and I'm here to say," line.]]

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!!!Appears In: ''Stealing The World’s Most Expensive Necklace'', ''The Dancing Plague''

!!!Appears In: ''Hatshepsut: The Forgotten Pharaoh''

!!!Appears In: ''The World's Greatest[=/=]Rudest Samurai''

* EruditeStoner: Admits in her third appearance that she’s “gotten a lot more into weed than the last time we hung out.”

! The Musical Guests
[[folder: Death]]
!!Death
!!!Appears In: ''Life During The Black Death Pandemic''
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Tell ya what I think, it sure is fun/To make people die/You should see how friggin' funny you look/When the lights go out of your eyes!'']]
The Grim Reaper himself, performing his song ''Plague Days (Y.O.D.O.)''.

* AffablyEvil: He's genuinely nice it's just he's you know, ''Death.''
* DemBones: Downplayed since the black bits are implied to also be part of his body, but his skeleton ''is'' front and center.
* NightmareFetishist: He honestly found everything about the Black Plague, from the catastrophic casualties to the fact that pigs were eating corpses, "a hoot".
* NothingPersonal: Despite his cheerful nostalgia for one of the worst pandemics in history, he makes it clear in his song that he didn't have any malice in his actions.
* PunchClockVillain: Reaping the dead is ultimately just a job to him and the Bubonic Plague netted him one ''hell'' of an overtime check.
* SurpriseCreepy: When he gets to the point in his song where he talks about how funny people look when they die, his eyes start glowing, everything becomes high contrast and the song slows down dramatically. It snaps back soon after.

[[folder: The Pile of Diamonds]]
!!The Pile of Diamonds
!!!Appears In: ''Stealing The World’s Most Expensive Necklace'', ''The Dancing Plague''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Hey everyone!]]
The pile of diamonds pried from the 2,000,000 livre Diamond Necklace that was at the center of the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, singing his song ''Pricy Ice''.

* {{Catchphrase}}: By his own admission, "It's me, that big pile of diamonds!"
* ColdHam: He never raises his voice much, but he devours the set like a champion.
* CoolUncle: His song notes that he has nieces who were devastated when he was pilfered from the necklace.
* HistoryWithCelebrity: He's apparently pals with Music/{{Drake}}, who he knows through his anklet sister-in-law.
* PornStache: He sports a rather prominent one to compliment his lounge singer persona.
* WarningSong: ''Pricy Ice'', while touching on the singer himself, is also a cautionary song about getting catfished in the ''worst'' way.
* WhosLaughingNow: He's not particularly fond of Marie Antoinette for not wanting him and calling him ugly, so he snidely remarks in his song that he's not the one who got their head chopped off.

[[folder: The Propeller]]
!!The Propeller
!!!Appears In: ''Surviving The Titanic: History's Luckiest Woman'', ''The Terrifying Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Well I’m a propeller, I ain’t a violent feller!]]
The Propeller of the ''HMS Britannic'' that was accidentally involved in turning a good deal of the people trying to escape its sinking into ''human flotsam.'' His song is ''Propeller's Lament''.

* BloodSplatteredInnocents: His song alludes to the fact that he was used as an accidental giant blender for people and experiences a PTSD flashback mid song about the experience.
--->'''Propeller:''' '''''HOW'D THIS BLOOD GET ALL OVER ME?!'''''
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Well I'm a Propeller, an awful [[MadLibsCatchphrase X]] feller!"
* MentalHealthRecoveryArc: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] as he's only appeared twice, but the second time the Propeller shows up, his mental state has improved ''vastly'' due to channeling his creative talents [[ProductPlacement and taking filmmaking courses on Skillshare]].
* ShellShockedVeteran: He's very clearly traumatized by and ''horrified'' at his accidental mulching of the Britannic's passengers, exhibiting symptoms of PTSD and resentment for the war even happening.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Commodore Charles "Iceberg Charlie" Bartlett, for putting him through the nightmare he went though.

[[folder:God]]
!!God
!!!Appears In: ''The Dancing Plague''
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[[caption-width-right:350:I'm God, okay?]]
The capital "G" God of Abrahamic religion, singing ''Didn't Make 'em Dance''.

* CannotTellALie: Or Cannot ''Sustain'' a Lie, because he gives up and admits that he ''did'' cause the Dancing Plague halfway through his song.
* EldritchAbomination: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] He's ''bizarre'' to look at, but not mind-shattering.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He pulled the plug on the Dancing Plague after people actually started ''dying'' from it.
* GladIThoughtOfIt: He takes credit for basically ''everything'' that's ever been during his song except the Dancing Plague, at least until he can't keep up the lie any longer.
* JerkassGods: He created the Dancing Plague for a chuckle and before that tormented the people of Strasbourg for years by devastating their crops.
* NeverMyFault: He spends half of his song denying any fault in the Dancing Plague.

[[folder: The Train]]
!!The Train
!!!Appears In: ''How America's First Female Detective Saved Abe Lincoln''
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[[caption-width-right:350:All abooooooard!]]
The train that was supposed to transport Abe Lincoln to Baltimore, at least until the secessionists tried to assassinate him. His song is ''Chugga Chugga Boo Hoo''.

* BrokenTears: He breaks down crying over losing his one shot at a more exciting day in his life and gives up singing at the end of his song.
* TheEeyore: His job is so monotonous and boring that he's perpetually down.
* HopeSpot: The one time he got an exciting assignment, it got ruined by a secessionist assassination plot.
* PatrioticFervor: He's enough of a patriot that the idea of hauling Abraham Lincoln to Baltimore was genuinely exciting for him.

The train that was supposed to transport Abe Lincoln to Washington D.C, at least until the secessionists tried to assassinate him. His song is ''Chugga Chugga Boo Hoo''.

* PatrioticFervor: He's enough of a patriot that the idea of hauling Abraham Lincoln to D.C was genuinely exciting for him.

* BadassGay: The Sword, given Musashi used him to beat someone to death.

* CreepyGood: He's a genuinely nice person whose only real desire is to teach people about history. That being said he says some pretty messed up things and raises Spiders as livestock.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Jellybeans, which he keeps a considerable amount of around and hands out as prizes. He's also particularly fond of Spiders as a source of protein.

* CoolTeacher: He tries to be, but sometimes when the topics veer into things he doesn't get like sports he falls flat.

* EmbarassingNickname: He accepted the "Beef Boy" nickname to avoid being referred to as "Arby's", only to realize he hates that one too once The Professor keeps using it.