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* WrongGenreSavvy: When he hears that one of the class of 1947, a girl, somehow escaped into the real world, Tommy assumes that it was [[HugeSchoolgirl Greta]], the one who gave him a hard time back in the school. He believes this because she has [[WhiteHairBlackHeart almost white hair]], [[IcyBlueEyes steel-gray eyes]], and pale skin, like the gray children of Grayworld. [[spoiler:It turns out that [[RedHerring this girl wasn't Greta all along]], it was Thalia.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: When he hears that one of the class of 1947, a girl, somehow escaped into the real world, Tommy assumes that it was [[HugeSchoolgirl Greta]], the one who gave him a hard time back in the school. He believes this because she has [[WhiteHairBlackHeart almost white hair]], [[IcyBlueEyes steel-gray eyes]], and pale skin, like the gray children of Grayworld. [[spoiler:It turns out that [[RedHerring this girl wasn't Greta all along]], it was Thalia.]]
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* WrongGenreSavvy: When he hears that one of the class of 1947, a girl, somehow escaped into the real world, Tommy assumes that it was [[HugeSchoolgirl Greta]], the one who gave him a hard time back in the school. He believes this because she has [[WhiteHairBlackHeart almost white hair]], [[IcyBlueEyes steel-gray eyes]], and pale skin, like the gray children of Grayworld. [[spoiler:It turns out that [[RedHerring this girl wasn't Greta all along]], it was Thalia.]]
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* WrongGenreSavvy: When he hears that one of the class of 1947, a girl, somehow escaped into the real world, Tommy assumes that it was [[HugeSchoolgirl Greta]], the one who gave him a hard time back in the school. He believes this because she has [[WhiteHairBlackHeart almost white hair]], [[IcyBlueEyes steel-gray eyes]], and pale skin, like the gray children of Grayworld. [[spoiler:It turns out that [[RedHerring this girl wasn't Greta all along]], it was Thalia.]]
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* ComplimentBackfire: His new stepmother, who tries to relate to him, tells him that maybe he will grow out of his "baby fat" and become handsome later in life. Tommy does NOT appreciate this comment.
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* BeardOfEvil: Goosebumps Horrortown gives him a very bushy grey beard and mustache.
* EvilOldFolks: [[spoiler: Still around by the end of the story, by which point, he should be in his 70's at least]].
* IrrationalHatred: Neither the story nor Horrortown give any explanation for why he hates children so much.
* KarmaHoudini: He gets no comeuppance for trapping an entire class of innocent children in another dimension where they are doomed to spend eternity and go insane.
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: His design in Goosebumps Horrortown has redeyes (or glasses).glasses.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: His design in Goosebumps Horrortown gives him a very shiny pair of [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] glasses.
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: His design in Goosebumps Horrortown has red eyes (or glasses).
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* WrongGenreSavvy: When he hears that one of the class of 1947 , a girl, somehow escaped into the real world, Tommy assumes that it was [[HugeSchoolgirl Greta]], the one who gave him a hard time back in the school. He believes this because she has [[WhiteHairBlackHeart almost white hair]], [[IcyBlueEyes steel-gray eyes]], and pale skin, like the gray children of Grayworld. [[spoiler:It turns out that [[RedHerring this girl wasn't Greta all along]], it was Thalia.]]
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* WrongGenreSavvy: When he hears that one of the class of 1947 , 1947, a girl, somehow escaped into the real world, Tommy assumes that it was [[HugeSchoolgirl Greta]], the one who gave him a hard time back in the school. He believes this because she has [[WhiteHairBlackHeart almost white hair]], [[IcyBlueEyes steel-gray eyes]], and pale skin, like the gray children of Grayworld. [[spoiler:It turns out that [[RedHerring this girl wasn't Greta all along]], it was Thalia.]]
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* TragicKeepsake: He got a handlighter from his grandfather a few eels before he died, and so he holds onto it dearly, even [[AxesAtSchool bringing it to school even though he knows that it is probably against the rules]]. [[spoiler:This becomes a ChekhovsGun when he uses it to create a colorful fire in Grayworld to frighten away the savage native students of 1947]].
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* OnlyALighter: He got a handlighter from his grandfather a few weeks before he died, and [[TragicKeepsake so he holds onto it dearly]], even bringing it to school even though he knows that it's probably against the rules. [[spoiler:This becomes a ChekhovsGun when he uses it to create a colorful fire in Grayworld to frighten away the savage native class members of 1947.]]
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!! Tommy Frazer
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tommygbumps.jpg]]
The main protagonist, and the new student at Bell Valley Middle School. He, along with his new friend Ben, end up being sent to Grayworld, and they need to escape.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He offhandedly mentions at one point that he sort of likes Thalia, and wants to impress her. [[spoiler:But because she chooses to stay in Grayworld, he doesn't end up together with her.]]
* ApologisesALot: He constantly apologizes to people for the littlest mistakes he makes, mainly because he doesn't want to get off to a bad start at his new school.
* BigDamnHero: When Greta was stealing Thalia's lipstick in class and teasing her with it to the point that Thalia was furiously bursting into tears, nobody else stood up to defend her. Except Tommy, who felt sympathetic towards her and fought Greta over the lipstick to give back to her. He even lampshades that it's "hero time" for him.
* ComplimentBackfire: His new stepmother, who tries to relate to him, tells him that maybe he will grow out of his "baby fat" and become handsome later in life. Tommy does NOT appreciate this comment.
* {{Determinator}}: He keeps trying to get back to the real world by escaping Grayworld, even when it looks as if that would be impossible.
* FishOutOfWater: He and Ben are very confused around Grayworld, not having been in a world devoid of color. It doesn't help that the first citizens of the place hassle them because they haven't seen vibrant color in 50 years. And that's when they start to lose color themselves, making Tommy and Ben freak out and want to go back to the real world.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: He was barely able to say goodbye to his friends at his old school before being sent to this new one. Therefore, he seized the first chances he can get at making new friends, which included volunteering for painting the gym and decorating the school dance.
* TheKlutz: He frequently stumbles over things while walking around his new school, which almost gets him beaten up by Greta when he trips over her, causing her head to knock to the floor.
* MessyHair: Has wild black hair that he has trouble combing and slicking back, much to his embarrassment.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:He and Ben manage to get back to the real world, only for their teacher to tell them to get in line with the rest of his class for a photo. Right before it is taken, he hears that the photographer is Mr. Chameleon, the person who sent the class of 1947 to Grayworld in the first place! Tommy frantically cries out to stop the photoshoot, but the camera flashes.]]
* OnlyALighter: He got a handlighter from his grandfather a few weeks before he died, and [[TragicKeepsake so he holds onto it dearly]], even bringing it to school even though he knows that it's probably against the rules. [[spoiler:This becomes a ChekhovsGun when he uses it to create a colorful fire in Grayworld to frighten away the savage native class members of 1947.]]
* TooDumbToLive: He and Ben have to go to the third floor for kore decorations. Instead of taking the stairs as Ben suggests, Tommy decides to have them take the elevator in the basement. You know, a rickety old one that looks as if it hasn't been used in many years and could break easily. Granted, it doesn't exactly lead to that kind of trouble, but Tommy should have known better.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:He is probably sent back to Grayworld by Mr. Chameleon, along with the rest of his class. However, if they have an item of color that can get them back to the real world, such as lipstick, he and his class could do so.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: When he hears that one of the class of 1947 , a girl, somehow escaped into the real world, Tommy assumes that it was [[HugeSchoolgirl Greta]], the one who gave him a hard time back in the school. He believes this because she has [[WhiteHairBlackHeart almost white hair]], [[IcyBlueEyes steel-gray eyes]], and pale skin, like the gray children of Grayworld. [[spoiler:It turns out that [[RedHerring this girl wasn't Greta all along]], it was Thalia.]]
!! Thalia Halpert-Rodis
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thaliagbumps.jpg]]
A student at Bell Valley Middle School who becomes friends with Tommy Frazer. Thalia gets picked on because she wears a lot of make-up, to the point that she nearly has a nervous breakdown when someone steals her lipstick. [[spoiler: She was part of the original Bell Valley Middle School class of 1947, the one sent into Grayworld by Mr. Chameleon. Thalia was one of a few who retained their sanity, and discovered by accident a way to escape back into the color world, only she is now permanently gray.]]
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In ''Goosebumps Horrortown'', her natural hair color is purple instead of blonde.
* BerserkButton: Don't ever try to steal her lipstick or her make-up. [[spoiler:Justified since it's all that's keeping her true form hidden.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: While she stayed sane after all those years, she feels so out of touch with the modern world she'd rather spend the rest of her life trapped in a colorless, photo-like dimension with the rest of her friends]].
* ChekhovsGun: Her lipstick. [[spoiler: When she was still in Grayworld, she discovered that a lipstick tube buried in her purse somehow retained its color. She started drawing with it and was shocked to see the color had eaten away at the walls and opened a portal back to the real world. Thalia went through, but the hole closed up before she could get her friends. When she makes it back to Grayworld, she uses the lipstick to help Tommy and Ben escape.]]
* GoingNative: [[spoiler: The stress of constantly hiding her gray visage, being constantly picked on by the other kids because of her "obsession" with make-up, and just generally feeling out of place because of how different the world is makes Thalia realize the only place she belongs now is Grayworld]].
* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: After helping Tommy and Ben return to the color world, she stays behind because she doesn't think she belongs outside of Grayworld anymore. The rest of her friends end up realizing the same is said for them]].
* LockedIntoStrangeness: [[spoiler: She's completely gray, and wears so much make-up to hide her gray skin and hair. Like the rest of the class, being in Grayworld stopped her physical growth]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: She should be in her sixties by now, considering she was a member of the 1947 class]].
* UncannyValleyMakeUp: She wears so much of it that this is the end result.
* WalkingSpoiler: Unlike most examples in Goosebumps canon though, [[spoiler:she's not the villain]].
!! The Grayworld Children
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hauntedschool.jpg]]
A terrifying clan of mutant children that reside in "Grayworld", a dimension rendered permanently gray. They roam the lonely streets, searching for unlucky visitors to convert to their clan. What's worse, they all used to be normal kids.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the book only a select few kids in the class had gone native. In ''Horrortown'', they are all villains although some are at least a bit nicer at first.
* AndIMustScream: Driven insane by years trapped in the Black and White world.
* AssimilationPlot: They desire nothing more but to rid anything-and anyone they see of color, turning them over to "the gray". And now,[[spoiler:the movie implies they'll be taking this to ''our world'']]!
* CreepyChild: Holy shit. The "Oil spewing" ceremony speaks for itself.
* {{Cult}}: One composed of insane children. There's a reason this entry is considered one of the darkest in the series.
* DrivenToMadness: They slowly lost their minds over the decades they spent trapped in Grayworld, and only a handful of the kids managed to retain their sanity.
* KnightOfCerebus: Not only are they ''not'' hammy or campy antagonists, but the reveal of what they are turns ''The Haunted School'' into one of the darkest and tragic books in the entire franchise.
* MadnessMantra: "Turn. Turn to the Gray!"
* TragicMonster: Every one of these mutants were once perfectly normal schoolchildren who attended Bell Valley in 1947. Than the evil photographer Mister Chameleon sent them to Grayworld and it changed them forever.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: For so long now they've given up hope of rescue.
* WeakenedByTheLight: They flee at the sight of any light or color. As it turns out, this weakens the fabric of the other dimension and allows an escape.
!! Mumler Chameleon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chamgbumps.jpg]]
The evil photographer who trapped the kids in the Grayworld with his magic camera to start with.
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* AscendedExtra: He has a much larger role in VideoGame/GoosebumpsHorrorTown
* ChildHater: Supposedly hated kids, but was the only photographer available.
* EvilSorcerer: Obviously some kind of magic person, as he was somehow able to make a magic camera.
* IronicName: Chameleons can change color, and he was able to trap people in a world with no color. Lampshaded by one of the kids trapped in Grayworld.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: ''Goosebumps Horrortown'' reveals that his first name is Mumler.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Averted; he's somehow still alive in the present and takes the kid's picture in the TwistEnding]].
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: He's named after a lizard and is evil.
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tommygbumps.jpg]]
The main protagonist, and the new student at Bell Valley Middle School. He, along with his new friend Ben, end up being sent to Grayworld, and they need to escape.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He offhandedly mentions at one point that he sort of likes Thalia, and wants to impress her. [[spoiler:But because she chooses to stay in Grayworld, he doesn't end up together with her.]]
* ApologisesALot: He constantly apologizes to people for the littlest mistakes he makes, mainly because he doesn't want to get off to a bad start at his new school.
* BigDamnHero: When Greta was stealing Thalia's lipstick in class and teasing her with it to the point that Thalia was furiously bursting into tears, nobody else stood up to defend her. Except Tommy, who felt sympathetic towards her and fought Greta over the lipstick to give back to her. He even lampshades that it's "hero time" for him.
* ComplimentBackfire: His new stepmother, who tries to relate to him, tells him that maybe he will grow out of his "baby fat" and become handsome later in life. Tommy does NOT appreciate this comment.
* {{Determinator}}: He keeps trying to get back to the real world by escaping Grayworld, even when it looks as if that would be impossible.
* FishOutOfWater: He and Ben are very confused around Grayworld, not having been in a world devoid of color. It doesn't help that the first citizens of the place hassle them because they haven't seen vibrant color in 50 years. And that's when they start to lose color themselves, making Tommy and Ben freak out and want to go back to the real world.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: He was barely able to say goodbye to his friends at his old school before being sent to this new one. Therefore, he seized the first chances he can get at making new friends, which included volunteering for painting the gym and decorating the school dance.
* TheKlutz: He frequently stumbles over things while walking around his new school, which almost gets him beaten up by Greta when he trips over her, causing her head to knock to the floor.
* MessyHair: Has wild black hair that he has trouble combing and slicking back, much to his embarrassment.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:He and Ben manage to get back to the real world, only for their teacher to tell them to get in line with the rest of his class for a photo. Right before it is taken, he hears that the photographer is Mr. Chameleon, the person who sent the class of 1947 to Grayworld in the first place! Tommy frantically cries out to stop the photoshoot, but the camera flashes.]]
* OnlyALighter: He got a handlighter from his grandfather a few weeks before he died, and [[TragicKeepsake so he holds onto it dearly]], even bringing it to school even though he knows that it's probably against the rules. [[spoiler:This becomes a ChekhovsGun when he uses it to create a colorful fire in Grayworld to frighten away the savage native class members of 1947.]]
* TooDumbToLive: He and Ben have to go to the third floor for kore decorations. Instead of taking the stairs as Ben suggests, Tommy decides to have them take the elevator in the basement. You know, a rickety old one that looks as if it hasn't been used in many years and could break easily. Granted, it doesn't exactly lead to that kind of trouble, but Tommy should have known better.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:He is probably sent back to Grayworld by Mr. Chameleon, along with the rest of his class. However, if they have an item of color that can get them back to the real world, such as lipstick, he and his class could do so.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: When he hears that one of the class of 1947 , a girl, somehow escaped into the real world, Tommy assumes that it was [[HugeSchoolgirl Greta]], the one who gave him a hard time back in the school. He believes this because she has [[WhiteHairBlackHeart almost white hair]], [[IcyBlueEyes steel-gray eyes]], and pale skin, like the gray children of Grayworld. [[spoiler:It turns out that [[RedHerring this girl wasn't Greta all along]], it was Thalia.]]
!! Thalia Halpert-Rodis
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thaliagbumps.jpg]]
A student at Bell Valley Middle School who becomes friends with Tommy Frazer. Thalia gets picked on because she wears a lot of make-up, to the point that she nearly has a nervous breakdown when someone steals her lipstick. [[spoiler: She was part of the original Bell Valley Middle School class of 1947, the one sent into Grayworld by Mr. Chameleon. Thalia was one of a few who retained their sanity, and discovered by accident a way to escape back into the color world, only she is now permanently gray.]]
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In ''Goosebumps Horrortown'', her natural hair color is purple instead of blonde.
* BerserkButton: Don't ever try to steal her lipstick or her make-up. [[spoiler:Justified since it's all that's keeping her true form hidden.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: While she stayed sane after all those years, she feels so out of touch with the modern world she'd rather spend the rest of her life trapped in a colorless, photo-like dimension with the rest of her friends]].
* ChekhovsGun: Her lipstick. [[spoiler: When she was still in Grayworld, she discovered that a lipstick tube buried in her purse somehow retained its color. She started drawing with it and was shocked to see the color had eaten away at the walls and opened a portal back to the real world. Thalia went through, but the hole closed up before she could get her friends. When she makes it back to Grayworld, she uses the lipstick to help Tommy and Ben escape.]]
* GoingNative: [[spoiler: The stress of constantly hiding her gray visage, being constantly picked on by the other kids because of her "obsession" with make-up, and just generally feeling out of place because of how different the world is makes Thalia realize the only place she belongs now is Grayworld]].
* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: After helping Tommy and Ben return to the color world, she stays behind because she doesn't think she belongs outside of Grayworld anymore. The rest of her friends end up realizing the same is said for them]].
* LockedIntoStrangeness: [[spoiler: She's completely gray, and wears so much make-up to hide her gray skin and hair. Like the rest of the class, being in Grayworld stopped her physical growth]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: She should be in her sixties by now, considering she was a member of the 1947 class]].
* UncannyValleyMakeUp: She wears so much of it that this is the end result.
* WalkingSpoiler: Unlike most examples in Goosebumps canon though, [[spoiler:she's not the villain]].
!! The Grayworld Children
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hauntedschool.jpg]]
A terrifying clan of mutant children that reside in "Grayworld", a dimension rendered permanently gray. They roam the lonely streets, searching for unlucky visitors to convert to their clan. What's worse, they all used to be normal kids.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the book only a select few kids in the class had gone native. In ''Horrortown'', they are all villains although some are at least a bit nicer at first.
* AndIMustScream: Driven insane by years trapped in the Black and White world.
* AssimilationPlot: They desire nothing more but to rid anything-and anyone they see of color, turning them over to "the gray". And now,[[spoiler:the movie implies they'll be taking this to ''our world'']]!
* CreepyChild: Holy shit. The "Oil spewing" ceremony speaks for itself.
* {{Cult}}: One composed of insane children. There's a reason this entry is considered one of the darkest in the series.
* DrivenToMadness: They slowly lost their minds over the decades they spent trapped in Grayworld, and only a handful of the kids managed to retain their sanity.
* KnightOfCerebus: Not only are they ''not'' hammy or campy antagonists, but the reveal of what they are turns ''The Haunted School'' into one of the darkest and tragic books in the entire franchise.
* MadnessMantra: "Turn. Turn to the Gray!"
* TragicMonster: Every one of these mutants were once perfectly normal schoolchildren who attended Bell Valley in 1947. Than the evil photographer Mister Chameleon sent them to Grayworld and it changed them forever.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: For so long now they've given up hope of rescue.
* WeakenedByTheLight: They flee at the sight of any light or color. As it turns out, this weakens the fabric of the other dimension and allows an escape.
!! Mumler Chameleon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chamgbumps.jpg]]
The evil photographer who trapped the kids in the Grayworld with his magic camera to start with.
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* AscendedExtra: He has a much larger role in VideoGame/GoosebumpsHorrorTown
* ChildHater: Supposedly hated kids, but was the only photographer available.
* EvilSorcerer: Obviously some kind of magic person, as he was somehow able to make a magic camera.
* IronicName: Chameleons can change color, and he was able to trap people in a world with no color. Lampshaded by one of the kids trapped in Grayworld.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: ''Goosebumps Horrortown'' reveals that his first name is Mumler.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Averted; he's somehow still alive in the present and takes the kid's picture in the TwistEnding]].
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: He's named after a lizard and is evil.
