This is a list of characters from Phelous's review show, also sometimes known as Phelous and the Movies.
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Phelous (Phelan Porteous)
The guy who reviews stuff. Yuuuuup.
- Berserk Button: He has a very special hatred for horror movies about a generic group of teens going to party and have sex.
- Body Backup Drive: During a cameo he claimed that this is how he kept coming back despite dying in his reviews. Though because of his show's Negative Continuity, it was never referenced again.
- Character Exaggeration: His Meta Guy aspects usually end up being played up in his cameos and crossovers.
- Deadpan Snarker: Pretty much his entire personality is sarcastic.
- Dull Surprise: Barely reacts to fictional characters popping out of a movie to kill him.
- Hypocrite Has a Point: In the Super Mario Christmas special he says in sarcasm when Toad make a fat joke about Santa, out though he's reminded about the fat joke he made about Santa earlier and then says in response "Yeah well... Toad's an ass!"
- Inexplicably Awesome: In earlier days of his show, a Running Gag has him dying at the end of every video, only to come back to life by the beginnning of the next video. This was frequently acknowledged as a superpower by his fellow Reviewerverse, and when Angry Joe asked him how he does this in Hotel Awesome, he says that he was just born with it and he never questions it.
- Meta Guy: In both his own series and in crossovers with other reviewers.
- The Nth Doctor: Subverted and parodied.
- At one point he "regenerates" Doctor Who style into... himself.
- Another time he regenerated into a parody of The Irate Gamer, but this was undone by the end of the next review.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Used to be a running gag of his, though he eventually abandoned it. The Jacob's Ladder review eventually revealed that he had been Dead All Along, and that all of his reviews had been a Dying Dream. However, the very next episode had him pull another one of these.
- Unexplained Recovery: Back when he used to die in his reviews, there would usually be no explanation as to how he survived. And whenever we did get explanations, they practically always were nonsensical.
Phelous D1
An evil doppelganger of Phelous who desperately tries to be Phelous' Arch-Enemy.
- Anti-Climax Boss: Invoked; with a few exceptions, practically all his attempts to harm Phelous end in an anti-climatic way, with him being defeated ridiculously.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He wants to be Phelous' Arch-Enemy. Not only does he do a terrible job at being a credible threat, but Phelous doesn't remotely take him seriously, and considers Sub-Zero more like his nemesis than D1.
- Evil Makeover: Wears a black hat and trench coat because... evil?
- Evil Twin: The only physical difference between him and the original Phelous is the Silent Hill symbol tattooed on the palm of his right hand.
- Forced Transformation: Was turned into a cat by a garlic sandwich.
- Harmless Villain: At best, he's a mild annoyance, and apparently all his Evil Plan amounts to, beside killing Phelous (which he is helplessly inept at anyway), is turning Phelous' show into a Romantic Comedy review show.
- Joker Immunity: He keeps coming back no matter how many times he is defeated, though Phelous usually is quick to get rid of him once more.
- Not Quite Dead: Was seen being exploded by Comicron-1. Appeared again later.
- Signature Headgear: He is most easily identified by his black Stetson hat.
- Unexplained Recovery: Invoked, parodied, and at one point defied.
- Weaksauce Weakness: In his first appearance, he had a weakness to Purple Lightning. This never came up again in his following appearances, though.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Averted in the Jeeper Creepers review, where Phelous decides to end the storyline already, which he does by just walking to D1 and shooting him.
Sub-Zero
- Only Sane Man: One of the few characters on the show to not particularly be either a jerk or an idiot, instead just trying to cope with Phelous' nonsense.
- Running Gag: His function in the show essentially consists in coming and punching Phelous whenever he does a Mortal Kombat joke.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Phelous; their animosity doesn't go beyond Sub-Zero being irritated by his Mortal Kombat jokes, but Phelous apparently sees him as a more credible nemesis than Phelous D1.
- Transplant: This version of the character originated in Mortal Komedy.
Old Man
HeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeee!!
A character from Goodtimes Entertainment's version of Beauty and the Beast.
- Abusive Parents:
- Not only did he manipulate his daughter Beauty into giving herself over to the Beast, he offered to give the Beast his other daughters as well after he was given monetary compensation for her loss, even saying he'd throw in his sons if the Beast happened to be bi.
- He also named his third daughter "Beauty", after the other two (and one son) got too ugly to keep the name.
- Adaptational Comic Relief: Much more humorous in the web show.
- Adaptational Villainy: In the original film, he was just a foolish old man, but in Phelous' web series he's a Laughably Evil jerkass.
- Affably Evil: He's very goofy, ditzy, and jovial, but as the other tropes show you he isn't a Nice Guy.
- Ascended Extra: Was a minor character in the original movie, but became a villain on Phelous' show.
- Big Eater: He eats a lot.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: To his own family no less. He guilt tripped his own daughter into taking his place as Beast's prisoner while posing as the gentle, caring father he was meant to be in the actual film.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Gets out of the movie to throw Phelous away in the garbage after declaring him completely useless.
- Breakout Character: He's been featured in almost all of Phelous' videos after his first appearance, and even got his own show!
- The Cameo: Makes brief appearances in more and more of Phelous' videos.
- Character Catch Phrase: Has a few of them.
- "HeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeee!"
- "It's completely useless now!"
- "Oooh! A delicious _______!"
- Character Exaggeration: In the original movie he was rather dense and made a few assumptions that he shouldn't have, but he didn't go around eating everything. Also, he wasn’t greedy enough to sell his own kids and was actually prepared to fight for his daughter’s freedom before he was forced to leave her with the Beast.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: He holds some weird beliefs, such as assuming an open door, no matter where he sees it, means he has been invited inside for dinner, leading him to randomly wandering onto other people's private property and devouring whatever strikes his fancy (which be literally any- and everything). Other than that, he thinks if an object, animal, or even person has gotten wet, no matter how slightly, they have been rendered "completely useless" and must be thrown onto the nearest garbage dump.
- Comedic Sociopathy: His defining characteristic.
- Cuckoosnarker: In the Old Man Reads Creepypasta videos. Despite other videos cementing him as totally insane, and despite Phelous using the same, goofy voice for Old Man that he always does, Old Man still makes a lot of biting remarks at the stories he reads, and their writers.
- Dirty Coward: This dude sold out his daughter to save his own skin.
- The Ditz: He's a real Cloudcuckoolander.
- Do Wrong, Right: Part of why he dislikes his Bevanfield counterpart is that he failed to get any money from giving up his daughter to the Beast. Considering the man's dire financial straits, he's not exactly wrong.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Ironically enough, he's the one to remind other cartoon characters that they're supposed to keep Phelous off drugs at the end of the Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue review.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: In his first appearance, Old Man called Phelous "completely useless now" because he "hasn't been funny since Mac and Me", Phelous' first movie review. Being "not funny" has nothing to do with "being wet".
- Even Evil Has Standards: While he isn't Father of the Year material, there are moments where he's disgusted with other fathers in animated fairy tales for their actions.
- He's appalled with Maria's Father in the Beauty and the Beast anime due to the latter's fondness of Disproportionate Retribution. He even refused to say his "completely useless now" line when Maria's Father makes a snide comment on Maria being wet...
after he gets her a dildo. - He also seems to despise Good Times's Cinderella's father for his neglect of his own daughter.
- Let's not forget his contempt for the Bevanfield version of Beauty's father. He's disgusted at his counterpart trying to arrange an incestuous marriage for his daughter, and calls him out for not accompanying her to the Beast's house.
- He was one of the few characters who was genuine in trying to get Phelous to not do drugs at the end of the "Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue" review and even reprimands the others when they start attempting to get Phelous to do drugs.
- He's appalled with Maria's Father in the Beauty and the Beast anime due to the latter's fondness of Disproportionate Retribution. He even refused to say his "completely useless now" line when Maria's Father makes a snide comment on Maria being wet...
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He was never given a name in the film, to the point that the credits simply listed him as "Old Man". Naturally, this gets poked fun at a few times, like when he mocks "Gentleman" for not having an actual name.
- Evil Is Hammy: Very over the top.
- Evil Old Folks: He's an old man and capable of breaking into Wonderland.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: He is a man who is old.
- Extreme Omnivore: Oooh! A delicious trope! *CHOMP*
- Fat Bastard: He's overweight and a total jerkass.
- Fat Idiot: Not only is he a Fat Bastard who will eat just about anything, he's also absurdly gullible and dimwitted.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears tiny spectacles and is an obnoxious snarker.
- Gag Nose: His schnoz is large and bulbous
- Genius Ditz: He may be an idiot, but he also has a keen sense of other people's stupidity, as seen in the Old Man Reads Creepypasta videos. He's also capable of tricking Old Mayor, who's even dumber than he is, into giving him all his money.
- Greed: Amassing wealth is one of his primary motivations. He's even willing to sacrifice his own children for some more moolah.
- Harmless Villain: Most of his evil schemes ultimately fail in the end.
- Heel Realization: He has a surprising brief moment of remorse for how he treats his kids while reading "Squidward's Suicide." He doesn't dwell on it, though."I- I sure hope my kids aren't as big into suicide as this freak is. Though, I probably didn't help things by naming only one of them 'Beauty.' I'm a bad parent..."
- Hidden Depths: Shows a surprising amount of lucidity in the Old Man Reads Creepypasta videos.
- Hilariously Abusive Childhood: His shtick is all about what a darkly humorous Laughably Evil Abusive Parent he is to his family.
- Horror Host: Played for Laughs. He, a goofy old man, reads Creepypastas in "Old Man Reads Creepypasta."
- Hypocritical Humor:
- Calls out Alice for eating random things in Wonderland when he eats random things all the time.
- He also calls Cinderella's dad a "loser" for not having a real name, something he doesn't have either.
- He dislikes his cousin, Old Mayor, because of his "stupid weird voice" and for displaying strange and off-putting behavior.
- He doubts that Squidward's Suicide will be scary because "who the hell really cares what happens to a cartoon, am I right?" This is accompanied by a still from the animated movie he comes from, with the Beast terrorizing him.
- Idiot Ball: If something ever gets wet, it's completely useless.
- Ignored Epiphany: While reading "Squidward's Suicide," he has a sudden Heel Realization about what a terrible parent he is. He quickly forgets about it and keeps reading.
- Jerkass: He's an Abusive Father, Dirty Coward, and overall isn't a nice guy.
- Karma Houdini: Of course Played for Laughs, he gets off completely scott-free for all his wrongdoings.
- Kill It with Water: Invoked and Played for Laughs. If something gets even slightly wet, Old Man will insist that "it's completely useless now."
- Large Ham: He's very over the top in his characterization.
- Laughably Evil: He's a psychopathic coward, but he's so damn funny.
- Manipulative Bastard: The man guilt-tripped his daughter into offering to die in his place.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: Fathered six children. Unfortunately, he's not a good parent to any of them, with his third son getting it the worst.
- Offing the Offspring: He apparently snapped his third son's neck because he only wanted two boys.
- Psychotic Smirk: Whenever he goes "HeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeee!"
- Related in the Adaptation: He's the cousin of the Mayor in The Christmas Tree.
- Scatterbrained Senior: Yep.
- Simpleton Voice: Phelous does a very goofy, stupid-sounding voice for the Old Man, the kind of voice you might use when quoting someone you hate.
- Speech Impediment: He-be-de- he sometimes stutters at the beginning of his sentences. This was taken from the original movie, where his original voice actor did the same stutter for him.
- Too Dumb to Live: You wouldn't believe how many times he saw the door to somebody's house creak open and assume that it was an invitation for him to come in and eat their stuff.
- Villainous Glutton: A hilariously abusive dad who eats a lot.
Old Mayor
A character from The Christmas Tree. He is an elderly mayor and Old Man's cousin. He is (somehow) even dumber than Old Man, who frequently takes advantage of him.
- Adaptational Comic Relief: Wasn't a comedic character in the movie.
- Butt-Monkey: Is repeatedly scammed by Old Man.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": "Old Mayor" in his case.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: He is a mayor who is old.
- Related in the Adaptation: There is no evidence that The Christmas Tree and Beauty and the Beast (Golden 1992) were ever intended to be connected in any way, let alone through two side characters being related. However, in the Phelous-verse, Old Mayor and Old Man are cousins.
- Scatterbrained Senior: Even moreso than his cousin!
- Strong Family Resemblance: He looks very similar to Old Man.
- Too Dumb to Live: When Old Man is scamming you, you know you're this.
Fat Grandma
A semi-recurring character who occasionally shows up in Phelous' reviews. See the Atop the Fourth Wall character page for more information.
Wabuu
Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh...
A raccoon that appears in many Dingo Pictures movies, being the unofficial mascot.
- The Alcoholic: Been shown drinking booze in Pocahontas and the Cabin Fever remake.
- Big Eater: Fish, garbage, bowls of milk left for cats, fat berries (or bearies?), Wabuu's got an appetite.
- Card-Carrying Villain: He revels in being a Jerkass and plainly admits to being the Evil Twin to the other Wabuu from the East Dub.
- Character Catch Phrase: "Most of the X is soooo stupid. Heh-heh-heh."
- "Foooor youuuu!"
- Comedic Sociopathy: Wabuu's defining trait in the Phelous-verse. He kills characters left and right and laughs it off as if it's nothing more than a joke.
- Disproportionate Retribution:
- He constantly tries to kill Wuschel the squirrel (and did, in some cases) because he finds him annoying.
- In the Animal Soccer World video, he beheaded Harry the reporter for calling him a bad soccer player and played soccer with his head. Earlier, he also beheaded two giraffes who laughed at him when he was trying out for the Jungle Kings team.
- Even Evil Has Standards:
- He was disgusted by the doctor's casual attitude towards dying children in the Dingo's Balto ripoff.Doctor: So, what's for dinner?
Wabuu: YOU ARE! (throws him into the fire) - He's also put off by John Smith's creepy reaction to finding out what Pocahontas' name means in Dingo's Pocahontas.John Smith: (Suggestive voice) Pocahontas... "Little rascal"... I like that.
Wabuu: What a creep! And look who's saying that! - Seeing the Dalmatian Puppies being forced in to Child Labor, and said to have been beaten, makes Wabuu visibly uncomfortable about Dingo.
"I don't know if I'm comfortable being the mascot of Dingo Pictures anymore..." - He was disgusted by the doctor's casual attitude towards dying children in the Dingo's Balto ripoff.
- Evil Twin: He is the evil twin of the Waboo from the East Dub. He even lampshades it to Phelous:" Of course I'm the evil one: I just shot the other racoon in cold blood!"
- The Hyena: Prone to laughing for little to no reason. His laugh is quieter than many examples, however.
- Hypocritical Humor: In the review of Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa, he calls Nicole's laugh stupid — right before letting out his own trademark stupid laugh.
- Interspecies Romance: Has an on again-off again relationship with Lucy, a white cat.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: Referred to as a casual homophobe in the Dingo Pictures version of Cabin Fever.
- Rascally Raccoon: He is referred to as the Cheeky Raccoon.
- Time Travel: How he keeps appaering in movie set centuries apart.
- Would Not Hurt A Child: Harming children seems to be one of the few lines that he absolutely refuses to cross. He gets upset when harm to children is even implied.
- Subverted in that he will hurt them if they're annoying enough, as seen in Dingo Pictures's Cabin Fever.
King MahGod
The King of Beasts in the Dingo Pictures universe, and the father of Robin.
- Anthropomorphic Shift: When he’s cast as the titular Beast in the Dingo Pictures parody of Beauty and the Beast
. - Character Catchphrase: He has several of them, which make up the bulk of his dialogue.
- “My god!”
- “It's not done.”
- “You do not hunt other animals. Nooooooooo…”
- Ending sentences with, “Okay?”
- Cigar Chomper: Occasionally seen smoking a cigarette, explaining why he’s so short of breath in Lion and the King.
- Corrupted Character Copy: He’s basically Mufasa, but much dumber, lazier, more self-righteous, and grossly incompetent.
- Dull Surprise: He tends to speak in a stiff, dopey tone most of the time.
- Evil vs. Evil: When he and Wabuu are cast as the Beast and Gaston respectively in Phelous’s Beauty and the Beast parody. Wabuu ends up winning and kills the Beast.
- The Gambling Addict: He doesn’t join the Jungle Kings on the soccer field in Animal Soccer World because he’s just too old to play. In reality, he’s too busy placing bets on which team will win, and asks his own to intentionally throw the game.
- The Good King: In his mind, he's that. In reality...not so much.
- Hypocrite: He tends not to practice what he preaches.King MahGod (to Robin): You were hunting our subjects, that’s not the behavior for a future king.(A bear shows up)King MahGod: And what the hell is that bear doing ruining my shot? I’ll hunt him!
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: He tends to ramble on and lecture people about things he barely has a clue about.
- Parental Neglect: He’s not down with the whole “being a responsible parent” thing. He doesn’t even notice that his son has an ass for a nose.
- Simpleton Voice: His voice can aptly be described as a simpleton trying to sound regal and dignified (and failing).
- Talking to Themself: Unsurprisingly, his distinct dopey voice tends to be heard in many other Dingo characters, like Chief Powhatan in Pocahontas or the bear in Wabuu, and King MahGod tends to get into lengthy and inane arguments with them.
Paige & Aladdin
The main characters of Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time, who use time travel to randomly appear in things Phelous is reviewing.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Paige in particular, who comes off as more actively malicious here than in the source material where she was simply more naive.
- Body Surf: Like Sam, this version of Aladdin time travels by entering the bodies of characters in various media that Phelous reviews.
- Character Catchphrase: For Paige, it's "Aladdin, do something!"
- Composite Character: They operate more or less like their canon selves - except with more Jerkass - but the way they use time travel is more like the main characters of Quantum Leap than in their own movie proper.
The Shredder
The leader of the Foot Clan and archenemy of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who mostly spends his time pestering Phelous with mixed results.
- Costume Evolution: The Shredder's costume has improved somewhat over the years, with the helmet specifically now being a replica based on the one from first live-action movie rather than tinfoil.
- Decomposite Character: A completely pointless example. In Phelous’s review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), the original Shredder gets killed by a new Shredder, who is the exact same character but with a much more authentic helmet and mask. This was done to mock the way the film’s Shredder was handled and also to introduce the new costume.
- Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: While singing a song about the Technodrome in the Gettin Down in Your Town review, he accidentally admits that he loves Krang right in front of Phelous.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Occasionally, he'll show a surprising amount of common sense, like when he stopped Phelous from puncturing holes into his own head with a knife for “brain ventilation” in the latter’s review of Gettin' Down in Your Town.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: His height of villainy was using the Giggle-Ray on Phelous, which didn't even work the first time he used it.
- Stylistic Suck: Shredder's costume isn't exactly professional looking, but the highlight has to be his original helmet that was made out of tinfoil. Phelous himself called the Shredder costume in the Coming Out of Their Shells concert on par with his own, and added how sad that was.
Michael Myers
The silent, masked Serial Killer from the Halloween series, who occasionally acts as Phelous' cameraman. He also apparently took up the mantle of The Pumaman after the events of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.
- Flight: He can fly just like Puma Man and often appears whenever a silly flying scene happens in whatever Phelous is reviewing.
- Intelligible Unintelligible: Michael is only able to communicate through John Carpenter's musical stings from the original Halloween film, but Phelous is able to understand him perfectly.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: When Phelous learns that Michael impregnated his own niece in the Producer's Cut of The Curse of Michael Myers, Michael bolts out of Phelous' basement to avoid his judgment.
- Silent Snarker: Although he can't talk, he's not above acting sassy towards Phelous when he's doing something stupid.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: He has a feud with Jason Voorhees, particularly after Phelous replaced him with Jason. It doesn't help that Phelous constantly praises Jason for pretty much doing the exact same shtick he did.
