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Babe Carano
Babe Carano
Played by: Cree Cicchino
- Ash Face: In the first episode, "Sky Whale", Babe and Kenzie are trying out an invention of a moving dinner plate (to aid in burning calories). It explodes, leaving both girls with a lot of soot all over them.
- Done again in "Babe's Bench" when Babe, off-screen, has to put out a fire on their bench. She comes back to Game Shakers with her face and arms ashy.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: In "Spy Games", while Kenzie is explaining to Babe and Trip that someone broke their glass front door in, and was therefore installing security cameras, Babe suddenly notices a box of muffins and she and Trip become more interested in those.
- Blatant Lies: In "Babe Gets Crushed", Babe is at the patio of the Fooders restaurant where she and Trip were eating, thinking that Trip had a crush on her. When he comes out to wonder what she's doing, Babe tells Trip that she is using the girls' room and admonishes him for entering it.
- Brutal Honesty: Has no problem telling Double G (her sponsor) that the game he created sucks.
- Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes: In "The Mason Experience", Babe experiences this when Kenzie removes the VR goggles so another girl can give Virtual Mason Kendall a try. Naturally, she snatches them back right after she's recovered.
- Description Cut: In "The Switch", Babe posits that Hudson is probably making Dub's life miserable after they swapped Bunny and Hudson. The next scene shows Dub getting a massage by two beautiful women that Hudson had scheduled for him.
- Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: In "War and Peach", Babe shows her ability to sing with her mouth closed by singing the theme song with the others joining her.
- Eye Scream: As revealed in “War and Peach”, Kenzie accidentally flung a peach into Babe’s eye in the third grade.
- Free-Range Children
- Gave Up Too Soon: In "Lost Jacket, Falling Pigeons", Babe and Kenzie use up all their time looking for Babe's missing jacket that they're forced to leave; but right when they do so, the man who took Babe's jacket enters, and the lady does not say anything about it. Justified earlier, as Babe asked her to call them if she sees anyone who had the jacket but she refuses to do so.
- Gone Horribly Right: In “The Mason Experience”, Babe is upset Mason is moving so she and Kenzie design a virtual reality experience so she won’t be lonely, but she becomes so addicted to the game she refuses to take the goggles off.
- Just One More Level!: In "The Mason Experience", Babe becomes so addicted to her Mason Kendall Experience that she doesn't take the VR goggles off for several hours, and when it came time for someone else to try it, she is temporarily blinded by the light when the goggles are removed. Then when she comes to, she steals the goggles back and wears them continuously once again.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Right before the second commercial break in "Bear Butt Laser Runner", Babe announces they have enough time to go to the bathroom and grab a snack before their meeting. In going with the Real Time nature of the episode, when they get back, about two minutes and 35 seconds have passed.Kenzie: "We'll be back after this short break"
- The Mole: Babe and Kenzie become this in "Scared Tripless" to Dub so they can find a way how to scare him back.
- Noodle Incident: Whatever happened to babe with peaches when she was younger that turned her off from them.
- Possibly explained in "War and Peach" when it was revealed in third grade, Kenzie built a machine that could throw a peach at 90 mph. It hit Babe in the face.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Not just in universe, but beyond the fourth wall too. Only those who go to her page on the Gameshakers wiki will see that her real name is Babara.
- Parental Abandonment: Her parents were never shown throughout the series, apart from mentions.
- Playing Sick: In "Babe's Fake Disease", Babe pretends to have a made up disease called "Sleep Violence Disorder" to get rid of a boy that's annoying her.
- Slow "NO!": In "Lost Jacket, Falling Pigeons", Babe accidentally leaves her new $5,000 jacket on the subway. Her attempt to retrieve it before the subway leaves the station is in slo motion, including the NO! before she rushes to get it.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Babe intentionally invokes this to trick Kenzie by acting hyper and saying she last saw Trip the previous night and he was fine. See the events of Faking the Dead above.
- Sweet Polly Oliver: Babe dresses as a boy to infiltrate the boys' reform school in "Escape from Utah!".
- Take a Third Option: In "Tiny Pickles", Babe and Kenzie finish their game Creature Crunch and plan to release it in a few days, but Dub promises on The Helen Show another game called Tiny Pickles which is based on a crazy dream he had. In the end, the girls compromise and turn Creature Crunch into Tiny Pickles by adding in elements from Dub's dream.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Kenzie's Girly Girl.
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Nothing we've seen so far has suggested that "Babe" is a nickname.
- According to the Game Shakers Wiki, her real name is Barbara.
Kenzie Bell
Kenzie Bell
Played by: Madisyn Shipman
- Ash Face: In the first episode, "Sky Whale", Babe and Kenzie are trying out an invention of a moving dinner plate (to aid in burning calories). It explodes, leaving both girls with a lot of soot all over them.
- Big Eater: In "Hungry Hungry Hypno", Kenzie is hypnotized into eating any food she sees nonstop; the only way to snap her out of it is if Hudson kisses her.
- Brutal Honesty: Has no problem telling Double G (her sponsor) that the game he created sucks.
- Butt-Monkey: Many bad things have happened to her over the course of the series from being ignored to getting brutally beaten up. Especially in season 3.
- Catchphrase: "Geez Louise!"
- Free-Range Children
- Friend to All Living Things: Kenzie has shades of this. She owns a three-legged dog and has had a pocket weasel, rat found in the subway, and a cat as pets as well.
- Gave Up Too Soon: In "Lost Jacket, Falling Pigeons", Babe and Kenzie use up all their time looking for Babe's missing jacket that they're forced to leave; but right when they do so, the man who took Babe's jacket enters, and the lady does not say anything about it. Justified earlier, as Babe asked her to call them if she sees anyone who had the jacket but she refuses to do so.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Babe is freaking out because she broke a $2 million T V. Kenzie smacks her in the face after which Babe smacks her back.
- The Mole: Babe and Kenzie become this in "Scared Tripless" to Dub so they can find a way how to scare him back.
- Parental Abandonment: Her parents were never shown throughout the series, apart from mentions.
- Take a Third Option: In "Tiny Pickles", Babe and Kenzie finish their game Creature Crunch and plan to release it in a few days, but Dub promises on The Helen Show another game called Tiny Pickles which is based on a crazy dream he had. In the end, the girls compromise and turn Creature Crunch into Tiny Pickles by adding in elements from Dub's dream.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Babe's Tomboy.
- Vehicular Sabotage: In "Super Ugly Head", the brakes on Kenzie's bike is removed. She initially believes that Double G is behind this, because she was planning to tell the police that he broke a statue. It turns out that it was Hudson who did this when he tried to fix her bike.
- What Does This Button Do?: Said when Kenzie decides to push a button in the cockpit in "Trip Steals the Jet." It took the plane out of auto-pilot and they temporarily lost control of the plane.
Triple G
Triple G/Grover Griffin
Played by: Benjamin "Lil P-Nut" Flores Jr.
- Actually Pretty Funny: In the premiere, Trip gets mad at Dub for the time he parked his Porsche in the hot tub while Trip was in the hot tub. A few scenes later, Trip is seen laughing about it with some kids he met on his dad's tour.
- Alliterative Name: His real name is Grover Griffin.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: In "Spy Games", while Kenzie is explaining to Babe and Trip that someone broke their glass front door in, and was therefore installing security cameras, Babe suddenly notices a box of muffins and she and Trip become more interested in those.
- Big "WHY?!": In "Dirty Blob", Trip screams four of them after all the tech gear is destroyed along with all copies of the game they made.
- Brutal Honesty: Has no problem telling Double G (his sponsor) that the game he created sucks.
- Butt-Monkey: Even though, He doesn't seem to get very hurt from injures, There have been a few times where he had broken bones plus, Others don't seem to respect his feelings/space sometimes.
- Cassandra Truth: In "Babe Gets Crushed", neither Babe nor Kenzie believe Trip is talking about a friend named Chuck when he asks Babe for advice about a "friend" who is attracted to a girl who is his boss.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: An unintentional version in "Escape from Utah!" As part of a Running Gag through the series, Dub finally sends Trip to Utah for letting his tiger out of the house. However, the reform school is actually very lax and Trip actually likes being there as they pamper the boys.
- Description Cut: In the episode "You Bet Your Bunny", while the Game Shakers fret over losing Bunny in a bet to Todd, Triple G tries to cheer them up by saying that he might be enjoying himself. The scene then cuts to Todd treating a miserable Bunny like his personal slave.
- Disguised in Drag: In "The Girl Power Awards", Trip and Hudson are upset about Babe and Kenzie being invited to the title awards event since they are also part of the business. To remedy this, they dress up as girls in order to attend. Babe and Kenzie automatically know it is them.
- Embarrassing First Name: In "Shark Explosion", it is revealed by Trip's mother that his first name is Grover. He is visibly embarrassed when his mother calls him that.
- Faking the Dead: To get back at Kenzie for spying on them in "Spy Games", Babe and Trip pretend that Babe beats Trip to death and stuffs him into a foot locker knowing Kenzie would watch the security cameras. After Kenzie looks into the foot locker with trepidation, Babe pretends to threaten her as well and then Trip gets up to scare Kenzie.
- Free-Range Children
- Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Double G made it a point to scare Trip relentlessly every Halloween, even when Trip was a year old.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Being on tour with his dad all the time means Triple-G rarely got to be with kids his own age, so he really wanted to go back to New York to do so. Double-G said he'd either have to go to school or get a job to go back. The former option is more realistic for a twelve year old boy, but as this is a Dan Schneider comedy on Nick, he got a job at Game Shakers instead.
- Made of Iron: Many times, Trip has been shown to get hurt, but nonetheless remain un-injured from things that would seriously injure someone of his age.
- Man Bites Man: In "Byte Club", Trip decides to get out of a contract with another gaming company by biting Hudson's fake ear during a contest. However, during the confusion of the situation, he bit the wrong ear.
- Masochist's Meal: One episode has Trip and Hudson playing a game where they plant bottles of "bass milk", a drink that horribly disgusts probably most anyone, in places where the other might find them. The unfortunate victim, upon finding the bottle, has to drink the whole thing, while the one who planted it there gets to enjoy his victim's suffering. By the end of the episode, they've both been "bass milked" so many times that they've gotten used to the taste and are actually starting to like it.
- Only Known by Their Nickname
- Right Behind Me: In "Escape From Utah", Trip is making fun of his father facing away from the door when Dub comes in the room. The others try to motion to him to stop talking, but Dub yells his name up close, scaring Trip.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The manly to Hudson's sensitive.
- Those Two Guys: With Hudson.
- Unwanted Rescue: As seen in Cool and Unusual Punishment above, first Babe tries to break Trip out of the reform school in Utah before realizing how amazing it was. Then Dub breaks down a wall to get Trip out, much to Trip's unwillingness.
- Water Wake-up: Hudson messes this up by tossing the water from the plastic cup and tossing the cup at Trip's head in "The Trip Trap". It nevertheless works.
Hudson
Hudson Gimble
Played by: Thomas Kuc
- Accidental Misnaming, Affectionate Nickname: Either is at play as Double G frequently calls Hudson "Hubbins".
- All Cloth Unravels: In "Wing Suits & Rocket Boots", Hudson tugs on a loose thread o his sweater and it starts to unravel.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: In "Snoop Therapy", after Bunny makes a mistake, Babe, Trip, and Kenzie predict Dub is going to yell, throw food, or spray him with a hose. Hudson then combines them that he would yell while throwing food and spraying a hose.
- CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: The first episode has it played for laughs when Hudson tries giving Kenzie CPR...for shock. He does it by lifting her up and applying pressure. Not pretty, but no unfortunate side effects either.
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Disguised in Drag: In "The Girl Power Awards", Trip and Hudson are upset about Babe and Kenzie being invited to the title awards event since they are also part of the business. To remedy this, they dress up as girls in order to attend. Babe and Kenzie automatically know it is them.
- The Ditz: To the point where the Game Shakers are trying to escape from Double-G and his crew, he tries to hide behind a pencil.
- Dumb Blonde
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: In "Breaking Bad News" Trip is freaking out that his father's $2 million T V was broken. Hudson tells him to calm down, which he does, before Hudson smacks Trip anyway.
- Made of Iron: Has shades of this. One episode has Hudson getting hit by a cab twice. The second time, he flies through the air up to their doors with no injuries.
- Masochist's Meal: One episode has Trip and Hudson playing a game where they plant bottles of "bass milk", a drink that horribly disgusts probably most anyone, in places where the other might find them. The unfortunate victim, upon finding the bottle, has to drink the whole thing, while the one who planted it there gets to enjoy his victim's suffering. By the end of the episode, they've both been "bass milked" so many times that they've gotten used to the taste and are actually starting to like it.
- Parental Abandonment: His parents were never shown throughout the series, apart from mentions.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The sensitive to Trip's manly.
- Those Two Guys: With Trip.
Double G
Double G/Gail Griffin
Played by: Kel Mitchell
- Acquired Poison Immunity: In "Scared Tripless", this was part of the prank Double G played on the kids, primarily his son. Since the previous Halloween, he had been taking small amounts of venom so he can fake his death after being bitten by a snake. While it is successful, he forgets that snake bites can become infected and the doctors have to give him a shot in his butt to prevent it.
- Alliterative Name: His real name is Gale Griffin.
- Ask a Stupid Question...: In "A Job for Jimbo", after Diana De Vane explained her step grandson lived with her, Double G asked "You have a step grandson?" Diana replied sarcastically"No, I don't have a step-grandson" before lashing out "Of course I have a step grandson. Why would I say it if I didn't have a step grandson!"
- Big Damn Heroes: At the end of "Wing Suits & Rocket Boots" Hudson falls off the Brooklyn Bridge, but Dub saves him by flying down to him in his wing suit and jet boots.
- Celebrity Paradox: Combined with Actor Allusion in "Game Shippers" where Dub, played by Kel Mithchell, says iCarly is not as funny as Kenan & Kel.
- Child Hater: Double G in "Baby Hater" is shown to, well, hate babies. It doesn't help his mayoral candidacy when he says this on camera.
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: In "Shark Explosion", Dub complained mainly because it was his ex wife who was saving him after he fell overboard from his yacht. Even after he was back on board, he refused to thank her, instead calling her a show-off. It took the threat of throwing him back into the bay to get him to thank her.
- Continuity Nod: In "Revenge @ Tech Fest", Dub gets his arm replaced with a bionic arm so the doctors can fix his real arm. In the next episode (start of next season), he gets his regular arm back, albeit atrophied.
- Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: The first episode ends with Double G performing "Drop Dat What" at a party to celebrate his partnership with Game Shakers.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: Dub does this in "Llama Llama Spit Spit" when he at first calls a picture of a woman on the Fooders wall ugly. The waiter informs him it was his own mother, to which Dub tries to apologize by saying he sees a resemblance, then assuring that he wasn't calling the waiter ugly, and then doing a very poor job of trying to say she was actually attractive.
- A Dog Named "Dog": "Escape From Utah!" reveals Dub owns a tiger named Tiger.
- Dreadful Musician: Double-G gets the chance to sing with Diana DeVane, a long-retired singer he's idolized for years. He makes the girls hire Diana's stepson — poor excuse for an employee — to work for them long enough to get the chance to cut the album and do a duet...at which point the reason Diana has been retired is revealed: because an operation rendered her voice a screeching howl that causes pain to anyone who hears it. Her manager waits until after Double-G has signed the contract to pay Diana for the song no matter what — a revelation thus that this is apparently how the woman makes her money now. Even more amazing is that Diana honestly thinks she's still fantastic, ignoring the horror-face expressions of everyone around her.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When Double-G tells the Game Shakers they stole his song, they try to explain that all they did was put it in their game and post the game online for purchase...which they realize is stealing.
- Expy: Double G is almost exactly like Peezy B from Sam & Cat. They're over the top (even by Dan Schnieder standards) rappers played by the same actor, have an assistant named "Bunny" (also played by the same actor), love Jonger Ale, and keep a dangerous animal as a pet (Peezy B has a piranha and Double G has a tiger)
- Gender-Blender Name: Dub's first name is Gail, which is commonly used for females.
- Hard-Work Montage: Lampshaded in "Tiny Pickles." After Dub talks up- a non-existent game on national TV, the Game Shakers realize they will have to create the new game in very little time. Dub insists it will be fun, to which Babe deadpans that it will be a "Montage of fun."
- Hidden Depths: In "Nasty Goats" Dub memorized the script for a Nasty Goats promo with only a cursory glance at it. He attributes it to being a superstar, though memorizing lyrics would be something he should be good at.
- Hypocritical Humor: Lampshaded by Babe in "The One With the Coffee Shop". At the same time that Dub is talking to Babe about trying to end the fight between her and Kenzie as friends don't fight, he is yelling at Bunny to tell Dub's brother he won't return the monkey he kidnapped from his brother until he repays the money he owes to Dub.Babe: "You're such a role model."
- I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: All That co-star Josh Server appears in "Hot Bananas" as Gregor's father. He and Kel share screentime just long enough for Double G to yell at Gregor's father to shut up, and at one point, Double G refers to him as "Ear Boy" (a character played by Josh Server on All That).
- It's All About Me: In SPADES, there have been times where characters have called him out on his behavior.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's very self centred, egotistical and narcissistic and would sometimes act like a bad father to Triple G. Despite that, he genuinely cares about him and the other Game Shakers.
- Karma Houdini: In "Super Ugly Head", the police officers don't punish Dub even though he tore down the statue of himself in the subway as it looked terrible. In fact, the officers told Dub that he was a celebrity and didn't have to obey the laws. They were about to arrest Kenzie at the end for not telling them what she knew, having witnessed the crime, but Dub bribes them with tickets to a show and they let her go.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: At the end of "Llama Llama, Spit Spit", A frustrated Double G storms out of the Game Shakers building yelling, "I'm done with this episode!"
- Man on Fire: The top of Double G's head catches on fire during his live Christmas show in "A Reggae Potato Christmas" and he runs around in panic. It gets put out twice (the second time by sand) and lights back on fire like a trick candle. Both times.
- Never My Fault: He blames "the worst night of his life" when Trip was born for resulting in a hatred of babies, when really, he brought it all on himself for dropping Trip.
- Only Known by Their Nickname
- Replacement Goldfish: Subverted in "Dancing Kids, Flying Pig" when the kids try to cheer up Dub, who is mourning the death of his pet pig by giving him a new pig. They blindfold him and tell him they have a surprise but Dub warns them it better not be a new pig.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Shares the manly man role with Ruthless to Bunny's sensitive guy.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: Discussed and partially averted in "Babe's Bench." Dub is eating a lot of food (mainly cheese) to gain weight as well as cutting his hair to get a role as Stumpy in the new remake of "The Three Dingbats" (see Expy reference above). However, even though he got the role, it will be an animated film. Dub complains that he gained weight and cut his hair for nothing but Babe reminds him that he did get the part.
Recurring
Ruthless
Rutherford "Ruthless" P. Ainsworth
Played by: Shel Bailey
- No Indoor Voice: Has a tendency to incessantly shout every line.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Shares the manly man role with Double G to Bunny's sensitive guy.
- Those Two Guys: With Bunny.
Bunny
Bunford "Bunny" Simmons
Played by: Bubba Ganter
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Manchild: Double G tries to use his bodyguard Bunny "having the mind of a child" tendencies to excuse Triple G not being allowed to stay with kids his own age. He also just so happens to be a business school graduate.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive guy to Double G and Ruthless' manly men.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Bunny, Double G's assistant is played by the same actor who played Peezy-B's assistant Bunny in the same Sam & Cat episode.
- Those Two Guys: With Ruthless.
- Undying Loyalty: On numerous occasions, Bunny has admitted that he has this for Double G and would do anything he asks of him.
Mr. Sammich
Mason Kendall
Mason Kendall
Played by: Tanner Buchanan
- Emotionless Boy: Mason Kendall doesn't show a single emotion every time he speaks.
- Put on a Bus: As of "The Mason Experience", Mason Kendall moves to Florida.
Teague
Teague
Played by: Todd Bosley
MeGo
MeGo
Voiced by: Kamali Minter
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: It starts out as a normal robot, but becomes very attached to Hudson, missing him when he is gone. At the end MeGo tries to kill Trip when he made Hudson late coming back from their trip.
- MeGo returns in "Revenge at Tech Fest", still obsessed with his affection for Hudson and hatred for both Dub and Trip.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: In "Revenge at Tech Fest", MeGo is wearing a cape, sunglasses, a hat, and a fake mustache. No one is fooled.
- P.O.V. Cam: Used in "Revenge at Tech Fest" whenever they showed MeGo] waking up and going to Tech Fest. It stops once he reveals himself to Trip and Hudson.
