History Characters / TheMidnightGospel

!! Clancy Gilroy

!!! '''Voiced by''': Duncan Trussel

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A 44-year-old man who interviews the inhabitants of simulated planets for his podcast, ''The Midnight Gospel.''

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Clancy is ''very'' easily distracted when outside the simulator, to the point that his computer's increasingly desperate attempts to get him to check the FAQ are derailed when Clancy notices an advertisement for Pie Messiah - sending him on a pointless mission to deliver one to his neighbours.

--> '''Clancy''': Duncan? Who's Duncan?

* TheStoner

* LeakingCanOfEvil: Vacuums up one of the clown babies at the end of "Officers And Wolves." Unfortunately, early in "Hunters Without A Home," she also vacuums up a small bird - allowing the clown parasite to escape via the bird while Charlotte's asleep later in the episode, paving the way for it attacking Captain Bryce in "Vulture With Honour."

* RealityIsOutToLunch: Simulators that don't receive regular maintenance eventually explode into different shades of reality-warping Wobble, though Clancy is able to fix his before it completely breaks down - but only just. [[spoiler: In the finale, it begins crapping out again and the raid by the police only makes things worse, resulting in the whole thing erupting into a field of Wobble that consumes anyone in the immediate area.]]

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: Clancy's trailer is last seen being consumed by Wobble, and though Clancy and Charlotte apparently manage to escape into another reality - or possibly the afterlife - the Computer's fate remains unknown.]]

!! Glasses Man AKA Little President

!!! '''Voiced by''': Drew Pinsky

!!! '''Appears in''': S1:E1 - Taste of the King

A short guy [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin who wears glasses]]. He also happens to be the President of the United States of America in a particular timeline where the world is being overrun by zombies. Surprisingly competent in combat.

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Annie and Raghu are both deer-hippopotamus beings that live in the same planet as a species of clown-like beings. The kill young clowns when possible, but they are trapped by the clowns and taken to be slaughtered. Clancy is captured along with them, having been accidentally stabbed by Annie's horns. Since they are all trapped in the same car leading to death anyway Clancy decides to interview Annie. Raghu, being carried off in a nearby car, chimes in eventually.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: no attempt is made to adapt the actress being an author to her being in this universe a deer-hippopotamus, so we are left with the implication that despite looking like gracing animals this species has a thriving editorial industry.
** To say nothing of Raghu who, despite being an animal living on an alien planet, is apparently Jewish and traveled to India where he met Ram Dass. So, a thriving editorial industry ''and'' access to casual interstellar/dimensional travel ?

!!! '''Voiced by''': Damien Echols

!!! '''Appears in''': S1:E3 - Hunters Without a Home

!!! '''Voiced by''': Trudy Goodman

!!! '''Appears in''': S1:E4 - Blinded By My End

* {{Psychopomp}}: Jason explicitly describes himself as this, comparing himself to a Whippoorwill; his job is to take Bob to be judged by the gods of the Soul Prison whenever he dies and - if he's found wanting - to bring him back to the start of the Bardo Loop.

* SuddenlyVoiced: [[spoiler: When Bob is freed from the Soul Prison, he recovers his tongue, and with it, his ability to sing.]]

* VocalDissonance: [[spoiler: Bob's actual voice when his tongue grows back is female.]]

'''Voiced by''': David Nichtern

!! Death
!!!'''Voiced by''': Caitlin Doughty
!!! '''Appears in''': S1:E7 - Turtles of the Eclipse

Death itself, whom Clancy encounters [[{{Hammerspace}} inside his bag]] while looking for a hose, and then proceeds to interview.

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'''Voiced by''': Deneen Fendig

Clancy and Sarah's mother. She's dying of metastatic breast cancer, and meets her son in the simulator.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Get in!" spoken in various intonations. It's even part of his ''theme music.''
* CoolCar: Drives a tricked-out monster truck.

* BattleCouple: Goes into battle alongside her boyfriend - before he's swarmed by zombies and decapitated.

!!! '''Voiced by''': Pauly Shore

!!! '''Appears in''': S1:E4 - Blinded By My End

!!! '''Voiced by''': Stephen Root, Savannah Judy and Dante Pereira-Olson

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* NiceHat

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Her boyfriend is a KnifeNut, while Peggy prefers to shoot.

!!!'''Voiced by''': [Caitlin Doughty

Her voice actress is a funeral director in RealLife, and hosts the Youtube channel ''[WebVideo/AskAMortician]]''.

!!!'''Voiced by''': Caitlin Doughty

Her voice actress is a funeral director in RealLife, and hosts the Youtube channel ''Ask a Mortician''.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has shoulder-length purple hair.

Annie and Raghu are both deer-hippopotamus beings that live in the same planet as a species of clown-like beings. The kill young clowns when possible, but they are trapped by the clowns and taken to be slaughtered. Clancy is captured along with them.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: He might be weird, but that doesn't stop him from being extremely dangerous in the slightest. He [[StuffedInTheFridge brutally killed and decapitated Gerald]] and nearly killed Trudy by running her through with one of his swords.

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Her boyfriend is a KnifeKnut, while Peggy prefers to shoot.

* EvilCripple: Blithrreyus is actually missing his right leg, which has been replaced by a small creature holding his stump upright.
* {{Foil}}: While Clancy uses his simulator for adventures and spiritual pursuits, Blithrreyus uses his to gain lucre. Clancy treats the simulated beings he meets with respect and friendliness, while Blithrreyus exploits simulated beings for his own gain. For all his evil deeds, Blithrreyus is intelligent and organized in his use of the simulators, while Clancy is free-wheeling and nearly totals his own simulator out of negligence.
* {{Jerkass}}: Blithrreyus is an extremely unpleasant man, treating his children like slaves. emotionally abusing them at every turn, torturing simulated entities for the sake of profit, and responding to Clancy's arrival with immediate aggression and disgust.

* CrazyPrepared: due to his Earth's ZombieApocalypse, he has a massive arsenal of guns in the White House.

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Due to how the Soul Prison works, dying sends him back to the moment Clancy crashed into his cell, after his heart is judged. And he dies in countless, horrific ways.

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: Clancy's trailer is last seen being consumed by Wobble, and though Clancy and Charlotte apparently manage to escape into another reality - or possibly the afterlife - the Computer's fate remains unknown.

* TakingTheBullet: In the last episode of the first season, she absorbs a bullet meant for Clancy midair.

* {{Magitek}}: It generates an entire universe full of weird planets and sapient beings, many of which pass through the simulator interface into the real world.

* BodyHorror: Both of then, especially Bob, endure lots of it. Jason gets his feathers plucked as the episode goes on and Bob's deaths often end eith blood and mutilation. Bob is so angry that his heart has darkened and sprouted eyes and a toothy jaw.
* SuddenlyVoiced: When Bob is freed from the Soul Prison, he recovers his tongue, and with it, his ability to sing.

* UnstoppableRage: Bob is in a constant state of it. Even his heart is angry.
* VocalDissonance: Bob's actual voice when his tongue grows back is female.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: He might be weird, but that doesn't stop him from being extremely dangerous in the slightest. He [[StuffedInTheFridge brutally killed and decapitated Gerald]] and nearly killed Trudy by running hee through with one of his swords.

* MercyKill: He pushes the looter into a gray patch of the Wobble, where the looter devolves into an egg. The looter's mind had been "[[EmptyShell pickled]]" from prolonged entrapment in the Wobble, and Captain Bryce concluded that it was the most humane thing to do.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Clancy does have flaws that he tries to work on: being short tempered, unhelpfully avoiding reality, and [[spoiler: causing strains between him and his sister]]. He's still shown to be genuinely polite and softhearted.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The jerk part really only comes out when his temper gets the best of him or when his strained relationship with his sister is brought to attention, both flaws he's shown trying to fix. Other than that, Clancy is shown to be polite and softhearted.
* MamasBoy: Has a close relationship with his mother, [[spoiler:which is all the more tragic considering she's dying from cancer and he's been trying to avoid facing it]].

* WalkingShirtlessScene: When in his true form on the Ribbon, he's bare-chested. Less for fanservice and more to denote his status as a stoner and cloudcuckoolander (though it ''could'' be fanservice depending on your tastes).

* WalkingShirtlessScene: When in his true form on the Ribbon, he's bare-chested.

!!! '''Voiced by''': [[TheDanza Duncan Trussel]]

Clancy and Sarah's mother. She's dying of bone cancer, and meets her son in the simulator.