Characters / Klay World

A list of characters and their tropes in Klay World.

Klaymen Main Characters

Dr. Bob

Dr. Bob is the most frequently recurring character in the series. He's a terrible doctor and 'accidentally' kills his patients, even when their injuries aren't serious, typically making him more hurt than help.

• Alas, Poor Villain: His death in "All Gone" is surprisingly sad. Even after being responsible for the deaths of almost everybody in Klay World, he uses his last breaths expressing remorse for what he's done.
• Author Avatar: For starters, his name is Dr. Bob, after Robert Benfer. The finale makes this even more obvious. He made the klaymen to be incredibly stupid and let them kill each other, sometimes killing them himself.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Downplayed. He has successfully left Klay World desolate with the exception of Chip, but he is killed and Chip reveals his plans to create "Clay World" as an antithesis to his creation.
• Big Bad: For the finale, and serves as the Greater-Scope Villain for the whole series.
• Blatant Lies: "But I couldn't save him. I did all I could. At least I can say that."
• Cerebus Retcon: In his initial appearances, Dr. Bob never displayed any real malice outside of being a Jerkass, with most of the murders of his patients being done because — like the rest of the klaymen — he doesn't know any better, though he does shoot one of the Klaymen dead in Dr. Bob Saves the Day for disputing the effectiveness of his treatments. "All Gone" reveals that he is not only fully aware of his murderous nature, but he enjoys it.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Attempts to treat a discarded toy in Dr. Bob Saves the Day and in All Gone threatens to cut off Chip's head and wear it as a hat for three days.
• Deadly Doctor: One of his defining characteristics.
• Dr. Jerk: During his time when he was a doctor. Not only is he very rude throughout the series, but he also kills his patients on purpose.
• Evil All Along: Not only did he deliberately murder his own patients, but he gave the klaymen the means to kill each other for his own amusement.
• God Is Evil: Created the klaymen from a block of clay, and would either kill them himself or give them the means to kill one another, then bring them back just so they can die again. By the end, he's grown bored of the cycle, so he decides to kill them off permanently.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Just about every single atrocity in Klay World can be traced back to him.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: At the end of All Gone, Chip crushes his lower half with the table, and when he tries to crawl out, his body splits into two.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He and Pick share a special friendship up until he betrayed that friendship by shooting Pick in the back.
• Hijacked by Ganon: All Gone reveals he was responsible for nearly every other killer in Klay World, including Henry.
• Jerkass: He killed most of his patients on purpose because it was funny. He's a jerk even in his initial appearances, pushing over one of his patients and calling him a freak when he accidentally ran into him while choking, and proceeding to drink his Coca Cola before throwing it at his head for annoying him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: For all his incompetence as a doctor and his rude persona, he seems to actually be trying to save his patients and has a few other redeeming moments, like when he saved Chip from King Womp and helped rebuild Klay World. Then it's all shown to be a ruse — he was keeping the klaymen alive to continue the cycle of violence because he thought it was funny, until he finally grows bored of them and makes the choice to wipe them out.
• Kick the Dog: Shooting Pick for walking out on him in disgust.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: He's a doctor, but he's only ever shown killing people, at first seemingly due to being too stupid to know how to save them, and later he reveals he does it on purpose because he thinks it's funny.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He spends his last moments alive ashamed of the destruction that he wrought on Klay World.
• Not That Kind of Doctor: Played for Laughs in "Doctor Bob Saves the Day 2", when he tells his dead patient he's not good at acupuncture and namedrops the trope; the patient has two giant pens sticking out of his corpse.
• Omnicidal Maniac: As of All Gone, he attempts to destroy Klay World for good, and would have succeeded if Chip didn't drop the table on him.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: After he retires from doctoring, he ditches his doctor's coat and wears a brown jacket in the finale.
• Skewed Priorities: He once left a patient in the middle of an operation so he could go and get some lunch.
• Walking Spoiler: If all those spoiler tags didn't say enough, there is a lot to him that gives away too many secrets.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He kills Pick after the latter tries to leave him in All Gone, though he notes that he would've done it anyways.

Chip Brown

Chip is the closest thing the series has to a lead protagonist. He made his first appearance in The Movie and has been dragged into major conflicts ever since.

• Ambiguously Human: More like "ambiguously klayman", but though he initially appears to be no different from the rest of the klaymen, he inexplicably has a couple Lovecraftian Superpowers up his sleeve that even he didn't know about.
• God Is Good: At the end of All Gone, he plans to rebuild Klay World (spelled "Clay World") with intelligent, civilized clay men.
• Heroic BSoD: Undergoes one after the deaths of Gary and Pick in the movie.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He and Rick are usually together. Rick even sacrificed his life to save Chip.
• Lovecraftian Superpower:
  • Has the ability to grow his arm to an impossible length, much like "superior klayman" Rick. This ability comes in handy whilst fighting him.
  • After he learns the origin of Klay World and sees that new creatures can be made from corpses of other klaymen, he reveals the ability to assimilate wads of clay as an extension of himself.
• Madness Mantra: After watching Mr. Black, Smiling Gary, and Pick die.
  Chip: WHAT AM I GONNA DO? WHAT AM I GONNA DO?
• Named After the Injury: He has a chip on his head.
• Not So Above It All: Despite being one of the smarter klaymen, he has moments where he's just as dumb or irrational as the rest of his kind.
• Only Sane Man: He often has to be the voice of reason that keeps the other klaymen from causing unwarranted destruction. This is the main reason why, unlike the other characters in the series, he never dies. That being said, he still has a few moments where he's Not So Above It All.
• Sanity Slippage: After watching Pick get hit by a train, he becomes a gibbering, blubbering wreck. He gets better when he finds himself back outside the house.
• Sole Survivor:
  • Subverted in Off The Table when he goes back to the table all by himself after losing the truck and his companions, but Pick returns as well.
  • Played straight in All Gone where he's the last surviving klayman, and vows to rebuild klay world into a more civilized community.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Chip is actually reasonably intelligent. The same can't be said about other klaymen.

Pick

Pick is Dr. Bob's faithful assistant. He has an enthusiastic and spastic personality, but is also slightly more intelligent than other klaymen.

• Big Damn Heroes: In the movie, he drives the car by himself and uses it to kill Rick once he turns evil.
• Broken Pedestal: Seemed pretty hurt about Dr. Bob's true nature, and almost went to attack him when he tries to reconcile with him.
• The Ditz: Just like the majority of klaymen. He does, however, make blueprints of klaymen at the end of ''Off the Table'' to help Dr. Bob rebuild Klay World.
• Disney Death: In Off The Table he stays behind in the car when a train comes by but somehow survived getting ran over by it.
• Einstein Hair: He has spikey white hair, and is said to be a "genius".
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Dr. Bob.
• Keet: Easily the most energetic klayman, even by klayman standards.
• Killed Off for Real: In All Gone, though it's implied that Chip brings him back.
• Large Ham: It comes with being an overenthusiastic Keet with No Indoor Voice.
• Made of Iron: Somehow manages to survive getting thrown off the truck (while Mr. Black did not) and ran overed by a train.
• Manchild: Is the same shape as any other klayman, but barely speaks proper words, tends to put things in his mouth, and Chip and Smiling Gary had to put him to sleep to make him stop screaming after seeing Mr. Black's dead body.
• No Indoor Voice: Even when he's not shouting or screaming, his voice is ridiculously high-pitched.
• No Sense of Personal Space: He sorta gets uncomfortably too close to Dr. Bob in Off The Table, prompting him to push him away.
• Smarter Than You Look: He may not act the smartest, but he's capable of understanding what other klaymen are saying, at least, and also helped rebuild Klay World after the aliens invaded.
• The Unintelligible: When he talks, it's almost never actual words, mostly high pitched screams.

Rick The Prick

That's just my friend, Rick the Prick; but he's actually a pretty nice guy.

—Chip

• Face–Heel Turn: When the aliens turned him into a "Superior klayman" he turned on his friends and tried to end Klay World forever.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Goes out by ramming his arm into the rocket launcher that Henry was intending to aim at Dr. Bob ad Chip.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Skewered on the flag of the car.
• Meaningful Name: His name becomes meaningful once King Womp makes him turn evil and he decides to bring back the peach aliens so that they can successfully do to the Klaymen what they already did to him.
• Unexplained Recovery: Dr. Bob never fully explained how he was able to bring Rick back to normal after the events of The Movie.
• The Unintelligible: Even worse than Pick.

Henry

Hey guys, shut up, check it out! I got a shotgun!

• Ascended Extra: Went from a one-off character in a 2003 video to a major character in All Gone, killing most of the Klaymen personally and knocking over the table to kill the rest, leaving only Bob, Chip, and Rick alive.
• Ax-Crazy: The moment Henry gets his hand on a firearm is the moment he guns down anyone near him.
• Blatant Lies: "Oh dang, I missed." "This gun has accuracy problems!"
  Henry: Well, I didn't mean to hurt anybody, I thought we were just having fun with a shotgun. Just a bunch of friends getting together playing some, uh, shotgun.
  Friend: No, you were killing your friends.
  Henry: Ah, well. I'm never doing that again, let me tell ya.
• Color Blind Confusion: After shooting off part of his face, Henry loses the ability to see the color blue. All the Klaymen are the color blue. Doesn't make it any more difficult for him to gun them down en masse.
• Comedic Sociopathy: Like so many of the Klaymen, Henry's blatant murderous intentions are played for laughs.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Shoots off the top half of his head while in a struggle with one of his friends, and dies when his rocket launcher backfires when Rick plugs it with his fist.
• Killed Off for Real: Rick sacrifices himself to kill him in All Gone, and given his general behavior it's unlikely Chip would want to bring him back.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Attempts to kill all the remaining Klaymen in All Gone for no real reason.
• Tempting Fate: Thinking that he had renounced his old ways, one of his friends gives him another gun as a gift. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
• Trigger-Happy: Big time.
• Unexplained Recovery: Apparently had the top of his head stitched back on in between Dr. Bob Saves the Day 3 and All Gone.

Klaymen Side Characters

Marv

• Back for the Finale: Appears in All Gone.
• Face–Heel Turn: Decides that Bob has a point and tries to kill Chip, Pick, and Rick so he can live by himself in peace.
• Guns Are Worthless: Especially if you throw away the clip.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: [[spoiler: Dies in the finale when Pick pushed him into a post.
• Off with His Head!: King Womp kills him in Off the Table by slicing his head. He gets better later.
• Porn Stache: See for yourself◊.
• The Sheriff: He changes jobs from a handyman to a sheriff in "The Rodent".

Vince

• Back for the Finale: Appears in All Gone.
• Berserk Button: Do not give him pinewood. Though as of All Gone, he now loves pine.
• Eccentric Artist: He makes sculptures out of wood. The "Eccentric" part comes in from being as insane as the rest of the klaypeople.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: He's been living in the destroyed truck this whole time, which caused him to go crazier than he already was, eat another klayman, and now loves pine.
• Surprisingly Sudden Death: Admittedly not uncommon in Klay World, but him getting shot by Marv comes completely out of nowhere with no warning. His death in Off the Table is also surprisingly quick.

Chester

• Ascended Extra: Downplayed, as he's still a minor character with a role that doesn't affect the plot too much, but he gets more screentime in "Klay World: Off the Table".
• Back for the Finale: Appears in All Gone.
• Creepy Long Arms: Not really "creepy", but he was originally called the "long-armed guy" for a reason.
• No Name Given: Was only known at the long-armed Klayman up until All Gone where his name is revealed to be Chester.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Given his Creepy Long Arms...

  Chester: "Aww yeah how's it going—I'm gonna touch your shoulder!"

  Klayman: "Do-don't touch my shoulder..."

• Sacrificial Lamb: The first klayman to die in All Gone, bonus points for being a recurring character, so his death easily indicates that Anyone Can Die in the finale.

Mr. Black

• Almost Dead Guy: Still moved a bit long after his supposed death.

  Chip: "Hey, stop that! You're dead!"

• Genius Ditz: Without question still as dumb as the other klaymen. Yet he still SOMEHOW creates a working Time Machine.
• Informed Attribute: Introduced as "the smartest klayman in Klay World" ... only for him to fall off the stage and flat on his face, knocking over the microphone with him. As time passes, it becomes clear that he's just as dumb and incompetent as the other klaymen.
• Killed Off for Real: Dies trying to run Chip over. Unlike most klaymen in the movie, he doesn't return, since he died outside of the table.
• Overly Narrow Superlative: If this guy is the "smartest" klayman, it just goes to show how idiotic the rest of the other klaypeople are.
• Too Dumb to Live: Gets mad at Chip after a quarrel and tries to run him over with the truck, only to crash and get himself killed in the process.

Smiling Gary

• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Believes that rain is aliens trying to give klaymen something to drink and screams along with a traumatized Pick just to fit in.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He gets completely flattened by moving real life-sized cars.
• Killed Off for Real: Falls off the truck and gets ran over by cars.
• Perpetual Smiler: He's not called Smiling Gary for no reason!

Dr. Brown

• Ascended Extra: He first appears as a one-off character in an archived episode "Look whos looking now" and appeared again in Off The Table as a major character, and was killed too.
• Killed Off for Real: In Off The Table.
• Large Ham: The dramatic waaaaaay ... he draws oooouuuut ... every other woooooord ...
• My God, What Have I Done?: When Chip calls him out for stealing Mr. Black's time machine.
  Dr. Brown: How could I? I'm such a bad person! I wanna cook my face!
• Off with His Head!: Gets his head chopped off in Off The Table.
• Shout-Out: A scientist named "Brown" who invented a time machine? Who could that be referencing?
• Talking Is a Free Action: His long drawn out way of speaking is what gets him killed as he takes too long to announce that he is going to time travel.

The Handyman

• Back for the Finale: Appears in All Gone.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Is only known as "the Handyman".
• Handy Helper: Subverted and played for laughs. He is the one who's disabled, yet he tries to help out others.
• Ironic Name: He doesn't have any hands, or even arms.
• Kick the Dog: Inverted in Off the Table. Knox reveals in the commentary that he knew people would be upset if he died, so he had Handyman be one of the aliens' first casualties to show how evil they were.
• Offscreen Rebuilding: He managed to set up a giant antenna offscreen in a matter of hours somehow.

Non-Klaymen

King Womp

• Absurdly Sharp Claws: That he uses to slice Marv's head into three pieces. Justified, though, considering that he was literally made of clay.
• Aliens Are Bastards: Double subverted. When first appeared, he explains that he and his race go from klayworld to klayworld, exchanging their technology and collecting their DNA so that they can continue their own race. However, when he realizes that the Klaymen are utter buffoons, he turns on them and decides to kill them all so that he can collect their bodies and make them into different Klaymen that are more like themselves. And the tongue alien implies that they've done so previously.
• Bad Boss: Kills one of his own just for getting in his way.
• Big Bad: Of Off The Table.
• Cold Ham: Being voiced by Jason Steele will do that.
  King Womp: (in a moderately excited voice after snagging Chip by the ankle) I've GOT YOOOOOOU! King Womp has GOT YOOOOOOOUUUU!
• Combat Tentacles: He usually uses them for movement, but he'll use them for ... other purposes, as well.
• High-Voltage Death: When the antenna becomes loose after Womp falls into its base below, it falls onto a lamp post and conducts electricity towards him, making him explode.
• Killed Off for Real: Dr. Bob kills him by tossing an axe on him, causing him to fall and be electrocuted. Ironically, he never believed that the Klaymen would be capable of stopping him from remaking them in his image.
• Knight of Cerebus: Utterly lacking in humorous characteristics, he posed one of the most serious threats to Klay World, where Amusing Injuries and senseless deaths are practically the norm.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Initially presents himself as a regular Well-Intentioned Extremist, who wants to kill the Klaymen so that he can rebuild them as something better. But given how the "superior Klaymen" are shown to behave, it's pretty difficult to agree with either the ends or the means.
• Smug Snake: He arrogantly underestimates the Klaymen for their stupidity, and while he successfully manages to wipe out the majority of Klay World, he takes the time to gloat to Chip once he snags him, which ends with Dr. Bob driving an axe through his back, and his subsequent demise by electrocution.
• The Social Darwinist: King Womp despises the Klaymen for their idiocy, and believes that he's doing them a favor by killing them all and rebuilding them as superior beings.

The Boogie Monster

• Beware My Stinger Tail: Three of them, tipped with bendy wire that makes them very sharp.
• Beware the Silly Ones: It might look hopelessly ditzy, but The Boogie Monster will offhandedly kill anything that gets close.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: Is allegedly one, being a mix between a Boogieman and a Monster.
• Obliviously Evil: Aside from having very limited speech, it never seems actively hostile so much as it does just do things arbitrarily.
• Pokémon Speak: It can only say its name for the most part, though it can occasionally form complete sentences.
• Silly Animal Sound: Its roar sounds like a rotary telephone ringing.
• Suddenly Voiced: Or rather, suddenly able to say anything more than its name.
  Boogie Monster: I think... that you guys... should live in peace!