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Mortals
Gao Cuilan
- Beast and Beauty: With her husband Bajie, for a little while.
Princess Hundred-Flower
- Abduction Is Love: More on her husband's end than her end, but they do stay married for thirteen years after he kidnaps her.
- Reincarnation Romance: Subverted. She and the Wolf God of the Legs Mansion had been lovers in heaven, but upon reincarnation, she lost her memories and did not appreciate his continued affections.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: The beautiful wife of the horrifying Yellow Robed Demon.
- Unwanted Spouse: She seemed glad to be rid of her husband and their children.
Royal Family of the Wuji Kingdom
- Always Murder: The King of Wuji's murder sets off the story for his arc.
- Back from the Dead: The King, by the end of the party's stay.
- Dead Person Conversation: The King appears to Tripitaka in a dream, and it's only after he tells his story that Tripitaka realizes he is a ghost.
- Disproportionate Retribution: What did the king do to deserve three years of drought, followed by being thrown into a well by his best friend, his grave stopped up with banana bushes, and lurking as a ghost for three years? He threw the Bodhisattva Manjusri in the Royal Sewer for three days when the disguised god dared preach to him. Then again, it might be a fair punishment for hypocrisy and arrogance.
- Et Tu, Brute?: The King was murdered by a Taoist priest he befriended, who was actually a demon.
- Ghostly Goals: Type A for the King. He asks Tripitaka to expose his murder and retrieve his body.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: The Crown Prince is easily annoyed by the antics of the pilgrims.
- Kill and Replace: After drowning the king, his demon friend impersonated him.
- Jacob Marley Apparel: The King appears in his robes of state, only sopping wet because of the manner of his death.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: The King cannot appear to normal people and is repelled by holy people and places. He wouldn't even be lurking around as a ghost if it wasn't for the fact that he was pulled out of the afterlife by some inspector deities.
- Or Was It a Dream?: Tripitaka's encounter with the king seems to be all just a dream, but Tripitaka wakes up with the king's jade Scepter of State in his hand.
- Royal Brat: The Crown Prince has shades of this.
King of Chechi
- Horrible Judge of Character: Allows the Obviously Evil Taoist priests to dominate the government and enslave the Buddhist monks.
- Too Dumb to Live: He's quite a fool, even the narration states that he only pays attention to the last person who spoke.
King of the Kingdom of Women
- Good Counterpart: To the Scorpion Lady. Both want to marry Tripitaka and are sincere about their feelings, plus they live in the same area. But the King is a human who respects Tripitaka's feelings, while the Scorpion Lady is a demoness who wants to force herself on him. In some adaptations, the King tries to fight the Scorpion Lady in vain.
- Love at First Sight: For Tripitaka, whom she wants to marry and keep with her. Unfortunately, Tripitaka must keep his virtue.
- She Is the King: Obviously, seeing as how there are no men in the kingdom.
Princes of Yuhua Kingdom
King of Zhuzi
- Delicate and Sickly: His arc starts off with him deathly ill, and Wukong and Bajie having to find a way to cure him.
- Happily Married: In a loving and stable marriage with his Queen, the Lady of the Golden Chambers.
Queen of Zhuzi
- I Have You Now, My Pretty: Kidnapped by the lustful demon Sai Taisui.
- Happily Married: In a loving and stable marriage with the King, until her abduction.
Mister Kou and his family
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: As the result of lavishly entertaining Xuanzang's party, he gets his home raided by robbers, who also kill him. Thankfully, Wukong fixes all this.
