Characters who appear only in the Goosebumps novel Night of the Living Dummy II. Tropes related to Slappy can be found at Goosebumps: Night of the Living Dummy Saga.
Amy Kramer
Portrayed By: Maggie Castle (TV)
"Anyway, I'm the one with the most problems on Family Sharing Night. Because I'm not really talented the way Sara is. And I'm not a total goof like Jed. So I never really know what to share."
The protagonist of Night of the Living Dummy II. Amy is the middle child of the Kramer family and never seems sure on what exactly she wants to share on Family Sharing Night. She is also an avid ventriloquist who often uses her old dummy, Dennis, for her act, only for the latter's head to pop off every time she performs with him. So she ends up with Slappy instead, who caused mischief for Amy and gets her in trouble with her family, who believes that their middle child has totally lost it.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: She's jealous and bitter towards her sister for most of the book, but they hug when Sara admits she was also jealous of her.
- Break the Cutie: This happens to her when her family begins to blame her for Slappy's mischief.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Her teacher writes on her report card that she's smart but doesn't work to the best of her ability, and she talks to her friend on the phone when she's supposed to be doing homework. She also helps formulate a plan to defeat Slappy and convince her parents of his existence.
- Butt-Monkey: And how! Starts out as The Unfavorite of her family, subject to constant abuse from her siblings, poor grades in school, and her dummy Dennis' head falling off constantly. Then when Slappy is brought into the picture, she gets framed for many terrible things, like insulting the family during her ventriloquism act, commiting horrifying acts of vandalism in Sara's room, and having Slappy break a three year old girl's hand. By the third act, her family starts treating her with aloofness and are prepared to send her to a child therapist. Not to mention how, in the tv adaptation, Slappy destroys her friendship with Margo.
- Cannot Tell a Joke: Downplayed. As shown in the beginning of the book, Amy is not very good at telling more creative jokes. She does, however, at least come up with more simplistic "knock knock" jokes to entertain the younger children.
- Cassandra Truth: Right when Amy tells her family that Slappy is responsible for the vandalism in Sara's room, no one believes her, and her parents admonish her for blaming the dummy for the mischief they blindly think she's committed. As a result, they punish her and even consider getting her help, as they instantly believe she's gone nuts. It isn't until Sara tells Amy that she knew this whole time Slappy was alive and was able to convince Mr. and Mrs. Kramer this fact when they finally witnessed Slappy walking on his own in the end.
- Clear My Name: Amy constantly gets blamed for vandalizing her sister's bedroom and tries to convince her family that Slappy did it. They don't believe her until the end of the story.
- Dismissing a Compliment: When her dad praises her stories on Family Sharing Night and says she's going to grow up to be a famous writer, she assumes he's just saying it to be a good parent, as Sara is the really talented one in the family.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: She has this reaction towards Sara when the latter tries to comfort her after Amy started crying over the butchered party thanks to Slappy.
- The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Downplayed. Amy doesn't really have much of a rivalry with Sara as much as she's just simply envious of her. Mutually, Sara shares Amy's envy towards her as well for different reasons. Amy is the more popular sister while Sara is the more studious, smart one.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Amy is very jealous of Sara's talent at art, as well as her perfect report card. It later becomes inverted when she learns that Sara was also jealous of Amy due to Amy having a sense of humor, something Sara makes up for lacking with her artistic talent.
- I Just Want to Be Special: Being The Unfavorite of the family, Amy wishes she had something special to show for Family Sharing Night.
- Inelegant Blubbering: She does this twice, once when her mother accused her of vandalizing Sara's room and the second time when Slappy squeezed and injured a three-year-old's hand.
- Made a Slave: Or at least that's what Slappy tried to do to her.
- Middle Child Syndrome: Amy feels this way. She isn't as talented as her older sister or even funny like her younger brother.
- Ms. Vice Girl: Again, she's a nice girl who just happens to have a jealousy problem.
- Mutual Envy: Amy is shocked to discover that Sara was also jealous of her as well.
- Nice Girl: Envy aside, she's still a kind, well-mannered girl.
- The Storyteller: She shares her stories on Family Sharing Night. Her parents assume she's just creating new ones when she keeps swearing Slappy's alive.
- The Unfavorite: She hardly receives any support for anything she shares at Family Sharing Night, such as her music collection since no one in her family shares her taste in music.
- Ventriloquism: Well, this is the case with all the NOTLD books, really, but Amy has taken this even before Slappy came around, with her original dummy, Dennis.
Jed and Sara Kramer
Portrayed By: Andrew Sardella and Caterina Scorsone (TV)
Amy's older sister and younger brother in Night of the Living Dummy II. The former is a talented painter while the latter is an obnoxious prankster.
- The Ace: Sara is an amazing painter as well as doing good in her studies and getting perfect report cards.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: In the book, Jed is stated to be the only redhead in the family, while in the television adaptation, he is a brunette like everyone else in the family.
- Aloof Big Sister: Sara mostly just focuses on her paintings and is rather distant towards Amy and Jed.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Jed due to his love of pranks, though more towards Amy. Sara doesn't seem to mind him too much, that is unless he tampers with her paintings.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Sara is rather distant towards her sister for most of the book and lets the family think she's crazy when Sara knows Slappy is alive, but also is the first to hug her when she tells her about Slappy.
- The Baby of the Bunch: Jed thinks he's cute and can get away with being annoying because he's the youngest.
- Brainy Brunette: Sara is described as having straight black hair and is a straight-A student.
- Bratty Half-Pint: Jed is about the same size as Amy's original dummy and enjoys taunting and playing pranks on his sisters. Amy even says that she sometimes spells Jed B-R-A-T.
- Broken Ace: Sara becomes this when she tells Amy that she relies on her talent to hide her own jealousy towards her.
- Cool Big Sis: Sara becomes this towards Amy after admitting she knows that Slappy is alive and helping Amy get rid of the dummy.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Jed's reason for pranking Amy by putting her dummy's head on her window was that she didn't stick up for him after ruining Sara's painting.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Jed is the foolish, less serious one who enjoys playing practical jokes to Sara's more responsible, diligent attitude who often takes her work of art very seriously.
- The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Downplayed. Aside from the fact that Sara herself isn't aware of Amy's jealousy towards her, she's never really saw her relationship with Amy as a rivalry as much as she was just simply jealous of Amy's sense of humor. Sara is the more smart and serious sister while Amy is more popular due to her natural sense of humor.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Part of the reason Sara didn't speak up when she knew Amy was being tormented by Slappy was because she was jealous of her due to her natural sense of humor and because she was better at making friends than her, while Sara had to focus on painting to get attention.
- Hollywood Genetics: Jed is the only redhead in a family of brunettes. Amy even mentions that he looks like he comes from another family.
- Insufferable Genius: Sara shows off her perfect report card to the family and is very serious about her paintings, even causing Amy to lose sympathy for her when she calls one of them a "work of art" after Jed ruins it.
- Jabba Table Manners: Jed really has no manners at the dinner table, as one chapter has him opening his mouth wide enough to show Amy his chewed-up food, covering himself with spaghetti sauce, and sticking carrots up his nose to emulate a walrus.
- Jerkass: Jed, who is an obnoxious prankster who proceeds to share gross things such as loud belches during Family Sharing Night and would even go as far to butcher Sara's painting she worked real hard on out of spite while casually shrugging it off like it was no big deal.
- Mutual Envy: Sara towards Amy, as the latter was jealous of the former's talent of art and perfect GPA while the former was jealous of the latter's sense of humor.
- Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Of the three siblings: Amy is the nicest (even if she's not without her faults.) Jed is the mean, being an obnoxious brat who defaces Sara's painting and decided once to humiliate Amy by reading a personal note she got from a guy. With Sara as the in-between, as while she's a nice enough person (and tries to comfort Amy when she's really upset at one point) she is kind of stuck up and is secretly jealous of Amy for being "normal" and not having to work hard to impress everyone all the time.
- Not Me This Time: After Sara's room is vandalized, the family shifts the blame towards Jed, who protests he didn't do the damage and points fingers at Amy, who is instantly given the blame instead.
- The Perfectionist: Sara is this in regards to her paintings, being distraught when Jed ruins one.
- The Prankster: Jed often shares his pranks in Family Sharing Night.
- Smarter Than You Look: Despite being the family goof-off, Jed apparently does well in school, even managing to get a much better report card than Amy.
- Stepford Smiler: Sara, who needs to paint to impress everyone since she's jealous that Amy has it much easier than her.
- The Unapologetic: Amy mentions that when Jed gets in trouble when he does something wrong, he gets angry rather than apologize. His mother demands him to apologize to Sara for ruining her painting, which he reluctantly does so.
- Youthful Freckles: Jed is the only family member who has these.
Dennis
- "It's good to be back in the family again."
Amy's dummy, who is falling apart. He's just an ordinary dummy with no special powers. Or is he?
- Ambiguously Evil: He somehow becomes a living dummy himself at the end, but it's implied that he does so to save Amy from Slappy. It's never made clear if he did this for her sake or just to get rid of Slappy.
- Ambiguous Situation: In the book, it's only implied that he came to life and defeated Slappy. In the episode, it's made explicit.
- Big Damn Heroes: Assuming that he’s good, he tackled and destroyed Slappy when he had Amy cornered in the climax.
- Good Counterpart: Provided he isn't actually a villain, he's likely this to Slappy.
- Token Heroic Orc: In the books, all living dummies and dolls appear to be inherently evil, with the sole possible exception being Dennis.
- Undying Loyalty: Possibly to Amy, which he proves by essentially bringing himself to life through sheer willpower to save her from Slappy. It's not clear if this was out of genuine loyalty or if he just wanted Slappy out of the picture.
- Walking Spoiler: He's hiding a secret of his own...
