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The Unicorns
Charlie
Oh god, it's you guys. This had better be pretty freaking important. Is the meadow on fire?
A disgruntled unicorn that just wants to be left alone. Unfortunately for him, he's often accompanied by Pink and Blue, who (without his consent) take him across several magical adventures. Charlie has a very dour attitude towards life, often feeling either apathetic or confused by the various nonsensical situations that Pink and Blue put him through.- Break the Cutie: A flashback in the Grand Finale shows that Charlie was initially very happy to see Pink and Blue, as they were the first unicorns, let alone living beings, that he had encountered in a long time. He was much more willing to join them on their "adventure" for the first time.
- Butt-Monkey: Every episode has him being screwed over by Pink and Blue by the ending.
- Character Development: By the Grand Finale, Charlie has been subjected to so much insanity that very little seems to make him upset. He reacts much more apathetically or lightly annoyed at the antics that he is subjected to. By the end of the finale, when his adventure is finally over, he simply states:Charlie: Okay... That wasn't too bad.
- Cosmic Plaything: This is essentially the premise of the entire series; Charlie is the object of amusement for a pair of extradimensional entities disguised as unicorns, and their methods of entertainment usually bring some manner of misfortune upon him, each one more horrific than the last. As we find out in the finale, he's far from the first.
- The Cynic: Several characters, including Frogrus, Goat Seal, and the Dolphin... thing in the first part of the grand finale, all say that Charlie's problems will go away if he just stops being a grumpy douche. What they fail to acknowledge however, is that his Jerkass behavior is 100% justified, because his only "friends" are Affably Evil serial killers who harvest his organs, steal his belongings, break off his horn to use as a snowman's nose, and try to outright kill him by blowing up the moon. Prior to meeting Pink and Blue, he was a lot calmer and more open-minded.
- Deadpan Snarker: Charlie's default attitude falls into this category.
- Dead All Along: Subverted and Played for Laughs. Blue at one point tries to gaslight Charlie into thinking that the original Charlie died back in episode three and that he is the snowman given Charlie's memories via his horn and kidney. Blue furthers this point by showing previous events revealing all along that he is the snowman. Then Charlie points out the Plot Hole that one of the flashbacks took place before episode three. Blue admits defeat and the scenario is never brought up again. Ironically, Charlie is one of the only characters in the series who hasn't been dead all along.
- Didn't Want an Adventure: Charlie doesn't really ''agree' to go on adventures with Pink and Blue, they just force him to come. He mostly goes with them so they'll stop bothering him. The Grand Finale shows that when he first met Pink and Blue, he was on board with the idea of an adventure with them. Obviously, this didn't last long.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: In the Grand Finale, Charlie is able to seal the Chaos Spirits, taking their control away from all their meat puppets, including Pink and Blue. Charlie is finally free from his torment and can go back to a quiet life where no one can bother him.
Word of God has stated that Charlie will eventually find survivors to keep him company. - Extreme Doormat: He never actually tries to avoid Pink and Blue, he usually only asks them to just go away.
- Flat "What": Charlie often utters one when something strange happens.
- Here We Go Again!: Charlie's reaction when realizing that the Millipede is about to sing for him is to just sigh and say "Yeah, here we go."
- I Am What I Am: In the finale, Charlie finally partakes in his own song number where he vents about how he has every right and reason to be grumpy, and shouldn't have to force himself to be happy like everyone tells him to. His song is strong enough to finally seal the Chaos Spirits away.
- Last of His Kind: The Grand Finale heavily hints that not only is Charlie quite possibly one of the last unicorns, but is also one of the few living beings left on the planet after the Chaos Spirits have murdered and possessed nearly everyone else.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Even by the end of the series, Charlie is never given full context of the events regarding Pink, Blue, Nyx, and the Chaos Spirits.
- No-Respect Guy: Despite being the main focus for every single character in the show, almost all of them barely even acknowledge his own feelings.
- Only Sane Man: Seemingly the only character that is sane.
- Organ Theft: Poor Charlie has his kidney stolen from him in the first episode and eventually has his horn taken off him in episode 3.
- Perpetual Frowner: Only ever smiles once in the whole series.
- Protagonist Title: He is Charlie and he is indeed a unicorn.
- Significant Name Overlap: Shares the same name as Charlie the Unicorn (the wizard). This coincidence is what allows Charlie to safely enter the demon world. It's also implied that the Chaos Spirits go out of their way to torture our Charlie (even more than their usual victims) because of wizard Charlie's attempt to enslave all of them — likely abusing our Charlie as a form of misguided payback.
- Straight Man: To well... everyone.
- Took a Level in Cynic: The Grand Finale shows that when Charlie first met Pink and Blue, he was actually happy to see them because he hadn't see anyone else for such a long time and enjoyed the idea of going on an adventure with them. This is because Pink and Blue were killing off everyone else, either to use as skin puppets or to mess with other people before getting bored and killing them. They met and possessed Pink and Blue just before turning their sights to an unsuspecting and much friendlier Charlie.
- Throw the Dog a Bone:
- Episode 4 ends relatively well for Charlie compared to the previous episodes.
- In the Grand Finale, it seems like his horn has finally gone back to normal. In the climax, he's finally able to vent his frustrations about everything he's been through and seal away his tormentors.
- Unexplained Accent: Charlie has what can be discerned as a Jersey accent, despite his Earth not being known to have any countries or states.
- Unwitting Pawn: Every episode has him in this role.
- In episode one, Pink and Blue manipulate Charlie into following them on an adventure to Candy Mountain where they eventually knock him out and steals his kidney.
- In episode two, Pink and Blue trick Charlie into helping them return a magical amulet to the Banana King after which they then convince Charlie that he is the banana king and while he's distracted, they steal all of his belongings.
- In episode three, Pink and Blue again manipulate Charlie into following them to the "Liquid Abyss" which is a sunken city hidden under a river where they need him to help them complete a snowman to save the world. They then knock out Charlie for the second time, cut off his horn and use it as a nose for their snowman.
- In episode four, Pink and Blue yet again trick Charlie into going all the way to the moon to save the "Cavern of the Red Wind" when in actuality, they plan to kill Charlie while destroying the moon at the same time, all for no apparent reason other than being bored. Despite this, Charlie actually manages to avoid Pink and Blue screwing him over this time with help of Starfish.
Pink/"Roffle" and Blue/"Lolz"
Heeeeeeey, Charlie!
Two care-free unicorns. They're both happy-go-lucky and love to go on adventures with Charlie. They're very friendly towards Charlie and they seem to value his friendship — at first glance.- Affably Evil: They seem very friendly (and somewhat ignorant) to Charlie until The Reveal at the end of each episode.
- All There in the Script: Their names are only revealed in the script.
- Ambiguous Genders: Charlie lampshades this in the second episode.Charlie: Guys? Guys? Or girls. I'm not really sure what you two are.
- Ambiguous Situation: It is possible that the reason they are so unhinged and Ax-Crazy is due to years of mistreatment and imprisonment by the wizard Charlie. But, given their status as "Chaos Spirits", it is very likely they were always murderous monstrosities.
- Animalistic Abomination: They're bizarre, reality warping creatures that may not even be actual unicorns, but appear as such... in various forms like 3D, photorealistic horses, et cetera. They used to be normal unicorns, but got killed and had their bodies taken over by a pair of demons.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: You'd never expect that these two sweet, often dimwitted, unicorns have the capability of stealing someone's kidney, their belongings, and destroying the entire moon!
- Big Bad: Episode 4 cements this trope entirely.
- Captain Obvious: They sometimes point out the most obvious things to Charlie.
- Didn't See That Coming: Neither of them expected Charlie to survive entering the gateway to their home dimension.
- The Dividual: They're practically the same character other than their different colors. Word of God has stated that Blue is intended to be the one who leads while Pink is more chaotic and crazier.
- Eye Beams: One of their many abilities.
- Exact Words: In the 4th Episode, they promise Charlie that if he goes into the Cavern of the Red Wind, they'll never bother him again. That's because they're planning on killing Charlie inside.
- False Friends: To Charlie.
- Fauxshadow: Roffle and Lolz keep warning Charlie that they have to go stop the recently unleashed Wabbawongo. The thing doesn't actually exist, but upon rewatch, the way they refer to it gives several allusions to the fact that they're actually talking about themselves as Chaos Spirits.
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Cheerful pastel unicorns who are actually murderous, sadistic chaos spirits.
- Flight: Their most frequent power.
- For the Evulz: Their reason for attempting to kill Charlie? Because they're bored.
- Gone Horribly Right: Word of God reveals that the reason why they dragged Charlie to the tower was to upset Nyx and Starfish by making them watch Charlie die when entering through the portal as payback for ruining their plans back in episode 4. What they didn't intend on was that Charlie was able to go through it.
- It Amused Me: As revealed in the fourth video, the only reason they're tormenting Charlie is because they're bored.
- Jerkass: Despite being seemingly harmless, they treat Charlie rather badly and by the fourth video they outright try to kill him.
- Karma Houdini: They have so far never suffered any comeuppance for their actions. This changes at the end of the grand finale, where they seem to be sealed away for good.
- Manipulative Bastard: They're masters at tricking Charlie.
- Meaningful Name: According to the script, their names are Lolz (as in "Laughing Out Loud") for the blue one and Roffle (as in "Rolling On The Floor Laughing") for the pink one. This fits with their motivations to do ...everything, really.
- Meat Puppet: As it turns out, Pink and Blue - and, indeed, everything they've controlled, messed with, or turned into a musical number in the entire series - are this. Everything Charlie encounters, including the two of them, are corpses killed by the Cube Demons that are simply being puppeted for their amusement.
- Mysterious Past: Their entire life can be considered this, other than the possibility that they might be serial killers in episode four, their origins and purpose have remained a mystery. We actually discover their origins in the Grand Finale. The original Pink and Blue unicorns have been dead for a long time and the Demon Cubes have been puppeteering their dead bodies. Charlie is just the latest of their many victims to be toyed with until they get bored and kill them.
- No Name Given: Charlie always refers to them as "guys". The script reveals that the blue one's name is "Lolz" and the pink one's name is "Roffle".
- Non-Human Non-Binary: Word of God confirms them as "agender".
- Overly-Long Tongue: They wrap their tongues around Charlie in episode 3, twice.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Or at least, they act this way. The series' whole gimmick is that they drag Charlie on fanciful imaginary adventures like children pretending to be heroes (sometimes making "pew pew" sounds or fighting pretend monsters), but half the stuff on the adventure turns out to be real (and bizarre) and the rest is just a scheme to mess with Charlie. As the series goes on they drop this a little more, making it clear they're just screwing with Charlie, but never entirely.
- Reality Warper: Starting in episode 2, they're able to do this.Charlie: I don't understand how you can do these things!
- Shapeshifting: One of their powers, examples include: turning themselves 3D, melting, inflating and bending their legs.
- Stylistic Suck: Downplayed and invoked. Unlike Charlie, who actually has a horse-like walking cycle, Pink and Blue's walking cycle involves their whole body hopping around repeatedly à la South Park. The flashback in the grand finale shows that they used to walk normally before getting killed and possessed.
- A Taste of Defeat: Episode 4 is the first time that Charlie manages to not be screwed over by Pink and Blue, something that for once, actually shocks them.
- Villainous Friendship: Just two buds hanging out and messing with Charlie however they please. The Grand Finale reveals they've been doing this to others for over ten thousand years, killing them off when they get bored while killing others to use as skin puppets. When the first released Cube Demon met the second one, it responded by saying "-got myself a little friend now!"
A Ghost
A long dead unicorn with the same name as Charlie. Originally the world's greatest sorcerer and a CEO of a major magical/technology firm.
- And I Must Scream: A more benign example. Word of God says that Ghost Charlie is forever stuck in the Chaos Spirits' realm/office quarters; but since he is a ghost, they can do little to harm him.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Thankfully not to the extent of Mayor Sluv. While he did imprison and enslave the chaos spirits in a bid to make a profit, the ensuing ten thousand years of destruction make him realize that his "project" isn't working out and try to shut it down.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: In the distant past he tried to enslave chaos spirits and got himself killed for it. Two of the chaos spirits escaped and tormented civilization for thousands of years. Giving them the ability to siphon magic was a horrible idea.
- Did Not Think This Through: Admits as much when it came to his plan to enslave chaos spirits as weapons, and is willing to work with our Charlie to stop them.
- Greater-Scope Villain: He's a bit iffy on the villain side. More of he's a selfish and slightly corrupt corporate figurehead, but he is more or less responsible for everything in the series. He thought he could control the chaos spirits, which in turn led to his death, the all but stated annihilation of all civilization, and every mutilation, violation, and theft that has befallen Charlie.
- Ignored Epiphany: Word of God states that, despite his project with the chaos spirits having caused both his death and the end of all civilization, Ghost Charlie had intended to use the Mindscape Realizer on Charlie not to stop the chaos spirits, but to repurpose them into something more profitable. So his intentions were far from altruistic.
- Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Averted - he sheepishly admits that he mostly works with magical siphons.
- Too Dumb to Live: The entire world was practically destroyed because this guy thought it was a good idea to weaponize a race of creatures with a reputation for chaos and mayhem, and knowingly made them even more powerful to do so. He freely admits it wasn't the best idea, though.
The Song Characters
In General
Mysterious characters that seem to only have one sole purpose, to sing to Charlie.
- Dead All Along: The finale reveals that all of them, except for Starfish, are actually animated corpses.
- Disney Acid Sequence: They all put Charlie (and sometimes Pink and Blue) through one when they start singing.
- Made of Explodium: They invariably explode at the end of their songs.
- Running Gag: They always explode after finishing their song to Charlie.Charlie: It just exploded, like everything does when it sings to me!
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Their sole purpose is to sing a song that is vaguely related to the main story and then quickly explode after finishing said song. Considering the fact that they are all meat puppets, this is likely a case of You Have Outlived Your Usefulness.
Candy Mountain Letters
Oh, when you're down and looking for some cheering up then just head right on up to the Candy Mountain Cave!
Talking letters from a sign brought to life that try to convince Charlie to enter the Candy Mountain Cave.- Animate Inanimate Object: They are living letters that came out of a sign for Candy Mountain.
- Back for the Finale: The letter Y appears again in a flashback during the Grand Finale, revealing that it was one of the first creatures Pink made.
- Disney Acid Sequence: Downplayed, out of all the other song characters, their's is the most relatively normal one.
- Food Songs Are Funny: Their song is about the various foods in Candy Mountain.
Frogrus
All you have to do is put a banana in your ear!
A green... thingy dressed up like Santa Claus that guards the Temple of the Banana King. He tries to convince Charlie that putting a banana in his ear will make him happier.- Cartoon Creature: What he is exactly is unknown.
- Chummy Commies: During his song, you can find the Communist symbol — a Hammer and Sickle, with a banana replacing the sickle. Implying that he might be a communist. Doubles with Funny Background Event.
- Food Songs Are Funny: His song is about shoving a banana into Charlie's favorite ear.
- Ignorance Is Bliss: His song seems to imply that putting a banana in one's ear will block out all sound of the "badness" in the world, thus making them happier. Charlie however doesn't believe this.
- Noodle Incident: It's eyes and mouth are covered in blood for reasons that aren't stated.
Goat Seal
When you're feeling all alone, the world's a drone..
A Goat Seal that wants Charlie to realize that if he is simply happier, the world will be a much better place for him.-
Creepy Cute:Charlie: I can't tell if you're adorable or creepy.
Goat Seal: (Singing) When your heart is cold as stone, just change your tone! Get rid of that groan, and the world will too!
Charlie: ...Probably going to go with creepy. - Mix-and-Match Creatures: He's half-goat and half-seal.
- Token Good Teammate: For the song characters, his song seems to be the most sincere and well-meaning to Charlie.
- You Are Not Alone: His song is about how the many species in the ocean all love Charlie. Starfish in particular.
The Millipede Queen
I am a millipede, I am amazing...
A massive narcissistic millipede queen that plots to destroy the "Cavern of the Red Wind".- Animalistic Abomination: An illusion casting millipede that can fly, breathe in space and is roughly an astronomical unit in length.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The largest character so far in the series.
- Arc Villain: Of episode four.
- Disney Acid Sequence: She has the strangest song of all.
- It's All About Me: Her entire song is about her.
- Master of Illusion: Her song claims this.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Averted, we learn quite a lot about her during her song.
- Zero-Effort Boss: Despite Pink and Blue saying that she has enough power to destroy "The Cavern of the Red Wind" she immediately explodes after her song without even giving a fight.
Cat Head
A massive floating cat head.
- Flying Face: Not even an entire visible head, just the facial features.
- Non-Standard Character Design: He's a photo-realistic cat head with animated eyes.
- Ink-Suit Actor: Although not animated, the cat head is a photo of Jason Steele's actual cat, Luca (she regrettably died at some point during production of the finale).
Hand Puppet
A hand puppet that supposedly stalks Charlie.
- All-Knowing Singing Narrator: The song "The Temple of the Cat" is almost entirely a spoken-word by him, where he tells the audience about Charlie's time in the temple from beginning to end.
- Non-Standard Character Design: He's a realistic looking puppet being controlled by a hand.
- Stalker with a Crush: To Charlie.Hand Puppet: I will always be watching you! Forever!
- Killed Off for Real: He already exploded after singing "I Will Always Be Watching You", but he returned in the finale for "The Temple of The Cat", where he explodes again after the song.
The Dolphin With the Wig
A floating dolphin with a 1960s era-style wig.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: Asks Charlie to come in, then screams at him for entering the house. Asks Charlie to take a seat, then demands he get off the good furniture.
- Mood-Swinger: Acts friendly and solicitous, then immediately switches to lashing out at Charlie.
- Never My Fault: Acts incredibly passive-aggressive to Charlie, then criticizes him for getting upset about it.
- Stepford Smiler: Encourages Charlie to be an Empty type, blaming him for having negative emotions in spite of being treated badly and telling him not to feel said emotions.
The Magical Cat
A magical cat who resides in their own temple.
- Hidden Elf Village: According to the song, the Temple of The Cat is so out of the way that no map has ever drawn it.
- Cat Girl: The Magical Cat themself is genderless, but the borders during their third chorus show that cat girls live in the temple with them.
- Flying Face: They have no body, just a strange psychedelic head with vaguely realistic snout and ears.
- Narcissist: A light example, but their second chorus is all about how much Charlie (or the watcher) wants to pet their fur and hear them purr, as well as calling themself "pretty much the best" and is "sure we are impressed".
- Welcoming Song: The Magical Cat is rather enthralled to have Charlie as a guest, and states that he can stay as long as he wants.
Other Creatures
Chaos Spirits
AKA the Cube Demons. Strange, demonic, spinning cubes that take sadistic glee in messing with their victims. They are extremely powerful entities that are nigh unstoppable. They have the ability to not only control the corpses of their victims, but can also warp reality itself.
- And I Must Scream: They are unable to generate speech on their own, and require physical hosts to speak.
- Big Bad: Of the entire series! Sans Charlie, Starfish, and the ghosts of some characters, they have controlled practically every single character (most notably Pink and Blue) in the show that has interacted with Charlie. They are cause of every misfortune that has befallen Charlie and are implied to have wiped out almost all life on the planet to be used as meat puppets.
- Deadpan Snarker: They get a kick out of insulting Nyx and Norwell for their failures, including sarcastically praising the latter for his failures, and of course, every interaction they have with Charlie while controlling Pink and Blue.
- Eldritch Abomination: Giant spinning cubes that pulse with light. By the end of the finale, we find out that the cubes aren't even the creatures' true forms but rather self-sustaining containment devices that amplify their powers. As far as we know, they are amorphous spiritual creatures who lack any physical form.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: They find it absolutely hilarious that Mayor Sluv threw Nyx's letter about their invasion into the garbage, only to be killed and puppeteered by them shortly afterward.
- Faux Affably Evil: They take great glee in their murderous rampage, and have a knack for mocking people. They talk to Nyx as if they're a friend, and they mock Norwell for failing to protect the tower, and by extension, the world.
- This is especially true for Pink and Blue, whose guise of friendship with Charlie is really only a smokescreen to torture him and eventually kill him when they've had enough.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: They were fairly weak annoyances until Charlie the Sorcerer Unicorn got the bright idea to stick them in boxes with magic siphons. After that, it took only one of them to start destroying the world. The second one was just gravy on top.
- Gone Horribly Right: The original Charlie the Unicorn tried to create weapons out of them by sealing them in iron cubes and adding a magic siphoning spell to enhance their powers. This only made them even more dangerous than before, and too powerful to control.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: Their constant ill-treatment of Charlie allows him to weaponize his anger and banish them.
- I Have Many Names: People used refer to them as fairies, demons, etc. nicknames which all meant the same entities.
- Invincible Villain: They can murder and possess people in a flash of a second, they can warp reality itself, and cannot be physically stopped. Charlie is only able to stop them by re-sealing them back into their realm.
- Magic Eater: They're capable of draining magic from their victims.
- Our Fairies Are Different/Our Demons Are Different: Dialogue from the original Charlie the Unicorn suggests that they've been conflated with both fairies and demons in the past.
- Sealed Evil in a Can:
- The majority of the spirits are locked away in a separate realm only accessible via the tower portal, with one more sealed in the caverns below after it was summoned by the first Charlie the Unicorn, stole his magic and killed him. Too bad the Weasels foolishly release that one, and when trying to use the tower to fix this, Nyx only ends up releasing another.
- In addition, the Chaos Spirit's original forms are sealed inside iron cubes that function as self-sustaining containment devices.
- Walking Spoiler:It's hard to talk about these characters without spoiling the reveal that nearly every character in the show is actually a puppet of the demons controlling Pink and Blue.
Liopleurodon
A giant prehistoric reptile laying on top of a rock. Pink and Blue can seemingly understand his language.
- Man on Fire: Catches on fire by accident in "charlie teh unicron episode 1".
- The Unintelligible: Justified, as he's a giant pilosaur.
Z
A giant letter Z that speaks in beeping noises and can only understand Spanish language.
- Animate Inanimate Object: A giant metal letter Z that's able to communicate with Pink and Blue through sound effects.
- Back for the Finale: It makes a brief return in the finale, rusting and decaying considerably.
- Energy Weapon: Can shoot out one when it turns completely red.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: It's a giant letter Z called "Z".
- Noodle Incident: Pink and Blue's dialogue with it seems to invoke this.
Banana People
Talking bananas that help Pink and Blue convince Charlie that he's the Banana King.
- Anthropomorphic Food: Talking bananas.
- Ignorance Is Bliss: Like, Frogrus, they want Charlie to block out all of the "badness" in the world by shoving a banana in his ear.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: They disappear without any mention once they trick Charlie into thinking that he's the banana king.
Starfish
A talking starfish that deeply loves Charlie.
- Abhorrent Admirer: Really obsessed with Charlie. Downplayed in that Charlie doesn't seem to mind his clingy behavior that much while starfish respects Charlie's boundaries.
- Cast from Hit Points: See below.
- Chekhov's Gun: Hilariously subverted. Throughout the Grand Finale Starfish keeps forcing Charlie to "absorb" magical items that will bond to his soul for eternity. He insists that Charlie will need their magic to survive what's coming. Then we find out that Charlie didn't need them to enter the portal at all. A loophole in the portal's security system allows him to pass harmlessly without use of magic, due to having the same name as its creator. Then double subverted, as being magic is a requirement to use the Mindscape Realiser™.
- Flaying Alive: Making a wish on him causes all of his skin to burn off.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He saves Charlie's life on the moon by sending him back home with a wish before the entire moon blows up.
- Killed Off for Real: He suffers from a "perfectly natural heart attack" at the very end of the finale and becomes a ghost. He still promises to always look out for Charlie.
- Objectshifting: He used to be the wheel on the tower that would open up a rift into the Chaos Spirit's realm. Nyx used their ghostly magic to turn him into a starfish to help scour the globe in finding anyone that can stop the Chaos Spirits. According to himself in the end, before he was the wheel, he was actually a starfish-centaur hybrid.
- Only Friend: Seems to have become this for Charlie, though he clearly wants it to be more than that.
- Time Stands Still: In the finale it's revealed that he has the ability to stop time. He uses this to give Charlie magical objects without Blue and Pink noticing what he's doing.
- Token Good Teammate: The only character in the whole show that actually helps Charlie. Which makes sense considering he's actually working with Nyx.
- True Love: Don't be fooled by his over-enthusiasm or silly voice, he really does genuinely and unselfishly love Charlie.
- Spanner in the Works: Blue and Pink clearly did not expect him to rescue Charlie in episode 4. This is the first time something ever happens in the series that Blue and Pink didn't plan to happen.
The Weasel
- Development Gag: According to Jason Steele he had the plans for the finale in place when making the original series, but had to give them up because he didn't have the capability to follow it up. The Weasel has the same general design as the later-seen Tutelary Weasels, and the giant door Charlie meets him in gets reused in the finale, so their appearance in a gag ad video comes off as him using the ideas he had wherever he could at the time. It has since become Foreshadowing, now that the finale has actually been made.
- Mr. Exposition: Parodied.
- Zero-Effort Boss: Is immediately shot down by Pink and Blue's Eye Beams.
Nyx
A pangolin scholar who warns the Order of Tutelary Weasels that they may be guarding the wrong thing.
- Big Good: They're the main driving force wanting to stop the Chaos Spirits from taking over. Even as a ghost, they still try to help and had a hand in creating Starfish.
- Dead All Along: It's revealed in part 4 of the finale that they were actually killed ten thousand years ago.
- Forced to Watch: After revealing itself, the Chaos Spirit says he'll keep Nyx alive so Nyx can watch everything fall apart. Then Nyx gets to spend ten thousand years in the post-apocalyptic world as a ghost.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: They appear to be a mammal covered in overlapping scales, and has large claws on their hands, making them resemble a pangolin. However, they also have a beak-like hook on their nose and long, donkey-like ears. Their Magic City bio lists their species as "Pangolonis".
- Nice Guy: Is incredibly kind and courteous.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Although they couldn't have known it, the tower was, in fact, a device to open the portal to the realm the Chaos Spirits originated from. Their turning the wheel, with no idea of what it might do, opens the portal and lets another Spirit into the world.
- Non-Human Non-Binary: Their "Magic City: City of Magic" profile lists their gender as "X" and Word of God confirms that they go by they/them pronouns.
- Only Sane Man: The only other one in the series besides Charlie. They're clearly far more together than the Order of Tutelary Weasels, but is too polite to make them listen.
- Repetitive Name: Because they always spell their name, the mayors of Magic City and Sea City believe that their middle and last names are phonetic spellings of the letters in their first name (En Why Ex). They clarify to Sea City's mayor that "it's just Nyx", but she ignores them.
- Unfinished Business: Even 10,000 years later Nyx is still attempting to stop the Chaos Spirits wrath. They are able to peacefully pass on once Charlie seals Pink and Blue for good.
Order of Tutelary Weasels
An order of weasels guarding a tower they believe holds a great evil. Turns out the danger is actually in the basement.
- Animal Sweet on Object: Norwell gets a song about how he has fallen in love with and married a sentient talking coat.
- Happily Married: Norwell with his talking coat husband. Yes really.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: They open the door in the basement of the tower, thinking there are just weapons on the other side. Turns out there's an Eldritch Abomination inside that kills the entire order and now threatens the whole world.
- No Name Given: The only member of the order who is named is Norwell.
- Omniscient Council of Vagueness: Parodied. Instead of a wise council, they're a bunch of passive aggressive dweebs who mostly just whine about being inconvenienced while refusing to listen to anyone but themselves. The moment something important happens on their watch, they completely foul it up and get themselves killed.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: Norwell considers the Weasels to have been right all along after Nyx theorizes that the tower might have played a role in keeping the monster sealed. He is correct, but not for the right reasons.
- Smurfette Principle: Only one of the weasels has feminine features.
- Sticky Fingers: Norwell steals a keyboard, or actually the ghost of a keyboard, from a musician that he accidently scared to death.
- The World's Expert (on Getting Killed): Their Order was founded to contain the evil inside their tower. When a crisis involving this evil crops up, they immediately set it free by accident and die.
Alternate Versions of Pink and Blue
The original two unicorns before they were subsequently killed and had their bodies controlled by the Chaos Spirits.
- Death of Personality: Their ultimate fate, at the hands of the Chaos Spirits who possessed their bodies.
- Minor Major Character: Without them, the spirits controlling them would have never duped Charlie with their unicorn bodies.
- Oh, Crap!: Blue promptly freaks out when they discover that Pink has been possessed.
Krell
An insectoid who, along with other insectoids, live in space and "quietly rule the world".
- Authority in Name Only: Krell says that bugs quietly rule the world. However, any actual impact they've had on the planet remains to be seen.
- Bystander Syndrome: Krell and the rest of his council didn't try to stop the Chaos Spirits from destroying civilization because they were afraid of it, even though they "didn't like that they were killing everyone".
- Cannot Keep a Secret: He's willing to tell Nyx secrets that the bugs were supposed to keep from surface dwellers, such as the bugs ruling the world from space and that owls are apparently bugs. Subverted in the fact that the Chaos Spirits are killing everyone, so he figures he might as well tell Nyx what he knows.
- The Good King: Subverted. Despite initially sitting back and watching the Chaos Spirit kill everyone, he's the only one of his kind (and the only authority figure for that matter) who steps up to help Nyx stop the crisis.
- Inconvenient Summons: He teleports Nyx to his FOB while the latter was in the middle of a conversation (mid-sentence as well) with Empress Susanix.
- It's Personal: He and the other insectoids just watch the Chaos Spirit kill everyone and he only decides to intervene when it starts killing his people.
- One-Hit Kill: The Chaos Spirit kills Krell effortlessly since all he could do was buzz around it.
- Redemption Equals Death: When he finally decides to do something about the Chaos Spirit and joins Nyx, he ends up getting killed by it, rather unceremoniously too.
- Sole Survivor: He outlasts the other insectoids who were being killed by the Chaos Spirits. They do get to him eventually though.
- Surveillance as the Plot Demands: Krell and the insectoids monitor their Earth's activities largely through unspecified means. The only reason Krell gives Nyx as to why he knows they were at the tower when the Chaos Spirit was released is "owls", meaning they must be spies.
- Teleportation: He's able to teleport himself and anyone to seemingly anywhere.
Mayor Sluv
A hippo who is both CEO of Sluv Industries and Mayor of Magic City: City of Magic.
- Allegorical Character: In a metacontext. The Chaos Spirit possessing him asks Nyx if they can harness the spirits for money, which is exactly what its creator, Charlie the Sorcerer, tried doing. Much like the Sorcerer, Sluv was killed by the spirit for disrespecting it.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive:
- One of his direct questions is to ask if the magic-eating chaos spirit can be harnessed. For money, not evil. It also appears that Sluv Industries doesn't actually produce anything, yet still makes enough money to be a MegaCorp.
- The chaos spirit possessing him reveals that he threw Nyx's letter in the garbage, clearly not even caring about it that much.
- Dead All Along: Not only does he reveal that the chaos spirit reached Magic City: City of Magic before Nyx did, but that the demon killed him and is puppeteering his corpse to speak to Nyx.Mayor Sluv: It's gross, but electable.
- Insistent Terminology: When it comes to Magic City: City of Magic, Mayor Sluv considers it very important you say the entire title, colon included.
- Irony: He tossed Nyx's warning letter into the garbage and then got killed by the thing Nyx was warning him about.
- Ludicrous Gibs: What happens when the chaos demon ceases possessing him.
- MegaCorp: Sluv Industries has total control of Magic City: City of Magic and provides almost every service in the city. And yet, if Sluv's promo video is to be believed, Sluv Industries doesn't actually produce anything.
- One Nation Under Copyright: Sluv is both CEO of Sluv Industries and Mayor of Magic City: City of Magic, with the corporation having grown powerful enough to take over the city.
- Ponzi: Sluv Industries appear to be a pyramid scheme in the form of a MegaCorp, as Sluv himself openly admits that it doesn't actually produce anything, but instead revolves around buying and selling "labour" between people.
Empress Susanix
A stingray who is empress of Sea City: City of the Sea.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: Though it's not because she's evil, so much as it is that she's incompetent.
- Greed: Dooms her own city in exchange for a hundred thousand gold coins.
- Killed Offscreen: Inevitably, seeing as Charlie's story takes place thousands of years after Sea City: City of the Sea's ten year deadline is up.
The Coat
A living coat who was brought to life by a witch's curse.
- Beautiful Singing Voice: He's no slouch when it comes to singing.
- Creating Life: Not him, but he explicitly states that he was given life by a witch.
- Joke of the Butt: In Norwell's song "All Fell Down", the coat gets a very out-of-place rap part where he raps about how nice Norwell's ass is. Norwell clearly enjoys the flattery though.
- Killed Offscreen: He likely died of natural causes before Charlie's time, as per Word of God.
- Love at First Sight: As revealed in his first song with Norwell, he fell in love with Norwell after he went shopping for coats and pulled him out to examine him.
- Magic A Is Magic A: In Norwell's "Coat Song", he longs about how he still needs a coat, and while he loves his coat husband, he's unable to wear him due to the terms of the spell that personified him. The terms are never specified, but it can safely be assumed that spell says the coat may live but can never be worn.
- Minor Character, Major Song: He gets this twice with his husband Norwell. Outside of the two songs, he's practically irrelevant, and he'd be easy to forget elsewise.
- My Parents Are Dead: When Norwell tells him that Magic City: City of Magic has fallen and if he knows anyone there, the coat flatly states that his father is dead. This is the only mention of his parents that we get.
- The Nameless: By his own admission, he has no name simply because he's a coat.
- Odd Couple: Norwell is a ghostly weasel and the coat is, well, a coat. Norwell even makes note of how strange of a pair they are.
- Official Couple: He and Norwell are happily married.
- Older Than They Look: He's really an old coat, and he only looks new because of his love for Norwell.
- Piss-Take Rap: For a coat, he's actually a very good rapper.
charlie teh unicron Characters
charlie (teh unicron)
The more laid back and calm Charlie.
- Butt-Monkey: Averted, since this series doesn't have him as the Unwitting Pawn in every episode.
- Satellite Character: Despite being the title character, charlie doesn't have that much focus but instead follows pink and blue around and watches their crazy antics.
- Nice Guy: In contrast to his original counterpart, charlie here is much more kinder and patient to everyone else.
pink and blue (teh unicrons)
The much cruder Pink and Blue.
- Adaptational Personality Change: They're much more prone to bickering, as opposed to their original selves, who were essentially The Dividual. Despite being much more louder, obnoxious, and arguably ruder, they are also nowhere near as evil as they are to their original counterparts.
- Does Not Like Spam: While almost everyone on the show hates Grand Slamwiches, pink and blue freak out on the mere mention of it.
- Jerkass: Much more rude/violent compared to their original counterparts.
- Pet the Dog: Their treatment towards charlie, despite still bringing him on their adventures. They have never actively harmed Charlie and they seem to actually want his company.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: To each other and charlie.
grand slamwich waitress
- Big Bad: Of the charlie teh unicron series.
- Token Human: The only human character to appear.
the banana king
- Ascended Extra: Was originally The Ghost in the original series before coming back as the Arc Villain for this spin-off's episode two.
- Unexplained Recovery: He bleeds to death in his apartment but the next scene immediately shows him alive and well.
starfish's cousin
- Disproportionate Retribution: Killed starfish for a basket of cheddar biscuits.
millipede
- Distaff Counterpart: To the Millipede Queen.
- Nice Guy: In contrast to the Millipede Queen, he's surprisingly enough, a really kind character that is eager to sing to Charlie.
Yannicorn Characters
Charlie (the Yannicorn)
- Deadpan Snarker: His dialogue with Star-cat-fish heavily relies on this.
Star-cat-fish
- Mix-and-Match Critters: He's a floating starfish with a cat head.
- Sidekick Creature Nuisance: Acts like a general homage to the trope, the kind that was a common attempt at cartoon "comic relief" for a while. Here, he gets paired up next to the drier, less "stock" reactions of Charlie the Yannicorn.
- Through the Eyes of Madness: The climax shows him hearing everything the other two characters say in terms of food and distorted color shades. Leading to him, from the outside, interpreting the sudden appearance of the Ghost King and his stated intent to ruin everything as something to do with "THANKSGIVING DINNER?!" and devouring him.
Ghost King
- Zero-Effort Boss: Star-cat-fish immediately eats him the moment he appears.
