Alfred Alfer
- Attention Whore: As Alfem, he goes about how he will cut his leg and show it to patrons at Subway just so they will feel bad for him.
- Author Avatar: Considering that Emily clearly based the series on her own experiences.
- Ax-Crazy
- Cloudcuckoolander: Since the Playhouse is basically a Cloudcuckooland, he is this most of the time.
- Beware of Vicious Dog: Very much so.
- Break the Cutie: Poor alfred....
- Friendless Background: Depending on whether Phat Dawg is canon to the Playhouse series or not.
- Gollum Made Me Do It: Pickles deceives and manipulates Alfred into killing the Burrito Bell crew.
- Ignorance Is Bliss: Dictator Pickles gives Alfred a magical fantasy world to live in so he can take control of his body.
- Psychopathic Manchild: He invokes this, himself, in the opening song.
- People Puppets: Becomes this to Dictator Pickles at the end of Playhouse part three.
- Prone to Tears: Basically anything bad that happens to him throws him into a tantrum or sobbing fit.
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
- Repressed Memories: In part one, he has a flashback of being violated with a popsicle after going through the fridge.
- Self-Harm: There are very graphic scenes of Alfred mutilating his own body. In part 2, this causes him to fall Iinto the deepest recesses of his mind to his Black Bug Room.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Alfred believes his violent freak-outs, self-pity and self-harm are completely normal until Pickles shows him his faults in a literal mirror.
- Villain Protagonist: Of the Alfred's Playhouse series
Dictator Pickles
"We fight to serve you: the common man."
Dictator Pickles is Alfred's primary alternate personality as well as the first to actually let Alfred know he isn’t real. Dictator Pickles was created when Alfred could not take the sexual abuse and abandonment. He was solely created to take Alfred’s place so that Alfred could hide away in his mind without being traumatized. But with that also came the longing for power and revenge, as well as having no one for Alfred but himself. He is a snarky, devious, insane, sadistic, tormenting, cold hearted bastard.- Arch-Enemy: To Alfred, whom he is in constant battle with over his mind.
- Big Bad Since he is Alfred's primally personality, so he's a complete mastermind to him.
- The Caligula
- Enemy Within
- Faux Affably Evil: The first time he confronts Alfred, he first appears to convince him he's protecting him then his steals his conscious body from him.
- Freudian Excuse
- Gone Horribly Right: As Pickles expounds, Alfred's subconscious created him to store up and hide away all his bad memories, but with him came the desire to destroy those who gave him that trauma.
- Leitmotif: II. Allegretto by Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
- President Evil: Pickles appears to first break free in the Rise of Alfred Alfer when he sees an opportunity for power once Alfred is promoted to manager and attempts to take his subordinates under his leadership.
- Putting on the Reich
- Split-Personality Takeover
- Tragic Villain: As stated, he is the beast from the bottom of Alfred's mind, born out of his suppressed pain and misery.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: His characters' premise is that he was broken by reality so he wants to take revenge on reality for it.
Lucifer, King of the Graveyard
- Ax-Crazy: Even crazier than Pickles, he is void of all morals or reason other than murder and defilement.
- Depraved Bisexual
- Expy: Of GG Allin.
- Freak Out: He's born out of Alfred's freakout after he wakes up, sexually posed, in a shed of dead bodies.
- Furry Reminder: His penis is anatomically correct for a dog.
- I Love the Dead: Has sex with dead bodies.
- Male Frontal Nudity: In the Movie trailer, his penis often hangs out, also like GG Allin.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Plays with corpses as well.
- White Hair, Black Heart
- Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness
Labby
Crossing over from Where the Dead Go to Die, Labby is introduced as Alfred's new friend and love interest. He initially seems to enjoy Alfred's company, kissing him and singing with him, until abandoning him in a cornfield somewhere. Labby retains a few of his traits from the film, such as his bisexual tendencies.- Depraved Homosexual
- Hellhound
- Just Toying with Him: Instead of killing Alfred like he threatened to, he ends up continuing to torment him in the Playhouse along with Pickles.
- Kick the Dog
