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The Crypt Keeper
Voiced By: John Kassir (English), Francis Lax (European French, second voice)
A wisecracking revenant living in the basement of a decaying mansion. The show's self-proclaimed "master of scare-emonies."
- The Alcoholic: Never actually seen inebriated, but he really likes his liquor and is often seen with a drink close at hand.
- Adaptational Ugliness: While still ugly in the comics, he wasn't actively decomposing.
- Adaptational Villainy: He retains his comic counterpart's love for puns and Black Comedy, but is also a sado-masochist who has murdered and/or dismembered several people over the course of seven seasons. In fact, it's rare for any guest of his to not wind up dead in the closing segments.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: He always talks directly to the viewer.
- Character Catchphrase: After finishing a story where the protagonist meets a terrible fate, he will sometimes say “Poor [insert protagonist’s name].
- Composite Character: Serves the role of himself, The Old Witch, and The Vault Keeper in the live-action series as the sole presenter of the stories. Averted in Tales From The Cryptkeeper, in which the other ghoulunatics appear in the second season and take over some of the hosting duties, as much as he wishes they wouldn't.
- Creepy Blue Eyes / Icy Blue Eyes: Boasts a rather pretty pair.
- Creepy High-Pitched Voice: He always speaks in a shrill, gleeful tone.
- Depraved Dwarf: He's very short.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": In the comic and cartoon spinoff (the story "While the Cat's Away" and its adaptation in Tales from the Cryptkeeper have him use the name T. Charles Kingman, though only the former clarifies that it's an assumed name), he has at least one alias, but if he has a real name, he never mentions it.
- Evil Laugh: He very often lets out a high-pitched cackle.
- Faux Affably Evil: He’s wisecracking and pun-spouting, and also very gleeful about murder.
- Hidden Depths: He lost his parents, a mummy and a two-faced man, when he was just a baby. He's legitimately heartbroken over it and keeps the doll his father gave him to this day.
- The Hyena: He constantly laughs at his own jokes.
- Interactive Narrator: He hosted the first two seasons of Tales from the Cryptkeeper, but in the third season, he started becoming directly involved in the plots of episodes like "Sharon Sharalike" (the Cryptkeeper is the one who delivers the Creepy Doll to Shauna) and "So Very Attractive" (the Cryptkeeper is the one who sells the cursed beauty cream to Julia).
- Prima Donna Director: Demon Knight shows what it’s like when the Cryptkeeper directs a movie. You can guess the results.Cryptkeeper: One more take like that, and it’s back to bit parts for you, and I won’t say what bits I'm talking about!
- Pungeon Master: At every opportunity.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Specifically, he inherited Myrna's dark complexion and high cheekbones, and Enoch's strong chin and light brown hair.
- Sympathy for the Devil: After finishing a story where the protagonist meets a terrible fate, he will sometimes express sympathy for them, even though the protagonist is usually a rotten person, sometimes even a criminal.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: When he interacts with regular people, such as directing a movie, eating at a restaurant or talking to his guest stars, no-one seems fazed by the fact that he's a cackling skeletal revenant.
- Was Once a Man: We see him once as a baby, and barring the missing nose, he's actually pretty normal looking.
The Vault Keeper and the Old Witch
Voiced By: David Hemblen (the Vault Keeper), Elizabeth Hanna (the Old Witch)
The two other hosts (collectively, the three are known as the Ghoulunatics) from the EC Comics series. In the cartoon, they all form a rivalry over who gets to host the show.
- Adaptational Intelligence: The Vault Keeper is demonstrated as a Gadgeteer Genius in Tales from the Cryptkeeper. This is most likely because in the original comics he was barely distinguishable from the Crypt Keeper and needed something to stand as his own character.
- Adapted Out: The Cryptkeeper is the only host for the live-action show.
- Affably Evil: While they're trying to steal the show from him, they're rather polite about it, and only go as far as incapacitating him instead of outright hurting him.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: After serving as The Cryptkeeper's rivals for almost the entire second season, they disappear in Season 3, since the hosting segments were removed (The Cryptkeeper now being the catalyst for the stories instead of just telling them).
- Evil Sounds Deep: Courtesy of David Hemblen's performance as the Vault Keeper.
- Mad Scientist: In contrast to the Old Witch, the Vault Keeper invents all sorts of weird and crazy contraptions.
- Running Gag: Every time the Old Witch appears, a mirror, the camera or anything made of glass breaks. There's also her catchphrase when she introduces herself, "Guess whooo?" and "The OOOOOOOOOLD Witch!"
- Large Ham: Honestly, it's a three-way tie over who's the hammiest Ghoulunatic.
- Wicked Witch: At least as far as appearances go; in the cartoon, she's considerably more congenial than the Vault Keeper.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: The three GhouLunatics were this in the comic and shades of it remain in the cartoon. They'll team up if needed, apologize if something goes too far, and generally stop shy of doing any lasting harm to one other.
The Mummy
Played By: William Sadler
A mummy who happens to be a big shot Hollywood Director who shows up in the Framing Device of Bordello of Blood.
- An Arm and a Leg: He plays a game of Rock–Paper–Scissors with The Cryptkeeper using body-parts as collateral. By the end of the movie, he is only left with his head.
- With Friends Like These...: Despite the fact that he and The Cryptkeeper are supposedly friends, the latter seems to be bored rigid in his company and they have no problem dismembering each other over a bet.
Characters from The Third Pig
Dudley
Dudley is the main protagonist of The Third Pig. He's only pig who is very kind, smart and responsible.
- Badass Adorable: Dudley is cute and dorky with glasses, and he managed to defeat The Zombie Pig.
- Badass Bookworm: Dudley is smart, and he created The Zombie Pig to seek revenge on The Big Bad Wolf for killing his brothers.
- Bespectacled Cutie: Dudley is the only pig who wears glasses.
- Break the Cutie: After being arrested by the police wolves by mistake, he cries.
- Butt-Monkey: Getting mistreated by his brothers? check! Getting arrested by the police wolves without any crimes he committed? check! getting attacked by the zombie pig? check! and getting eaten alive by The Big Bad Wolf at the end? Check!
- Eaten Alive: At the end of the episode, Dudley got eaten by The Big Bad Wolf.
- Nice Guy: Unlike other characters who aren't kind, He's the only character who is very kind and friendly.
- Oh, Crap!: He has three moments:
- When he saw Drinkie & Smokey's dead bodies in his house, He freaks out.
- When he The Zombie Pig tries to kill him, He freaks out but managed to defeat him.
- When he's about kill The Zombie Pig's dead body for the final time, The Big Bad Wolf puts him into the sandwich and ate him alive.
- Wild Take: He does this when reacting to his brother's dead bodies in his house.
Drinkie
Drinkie is a green pig who is addicted with beer.
- The Alcoholic: He's always addicted with beer.
- All Men Are Perverts: He was very perverted to the girls during party in the night.
- An Arm and a Leg: The Big Bag Wolf Chopped Drinkie's arms off with an axe.
- The Ditz: He isn't smart as his brother, Dudley.
- Eye Scream: The Big Bad Wolf stabbed his eye with a fork.
- Fat Bastard: He's fat, and he always mistreats Dudley.
- Flipping the Bird: His hand that was chopped gives a middle finger to Dudley.
- Green and Mean: Downplayed, He's a green pig, but not evil, he's just a jerkass.
- Jerkass: He always mistreats Dudley.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite that he mistreats Dudley, He actually cares about him.
- Never Learned to Read: He doesn't know how to read.
- Off With The Head: The Big Bad Wolf chopped Drinkie's head off with an axe.
- Screams Like a Little Girl: When The Big Bad Wolf blows his down, He screams like a girl, despite his deep voice.
- Skewed Priorities: He takes a swig from his alcohol while running away from the Wolf.
- Simpleton Voice: His voice is deep, and he's very dimwitted.
- Sinister Swine: Downplayed, He's a pig, but not evil, he's just a Jerkass.
- Too Dumb to Live: Dudley warned Drinkie & Smokey not to open the door before The Big Bad Wolf comes in and eat them. How ever, Drinkie opened the door and end up being killed by The Big Bad Wolf.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Always vomits after drinking a lot of beer.
- Wild Take: He does this when he saw The Big Bad Wolf entering Dudley's house, even when he vomits on the ground.
Smokey
Smokey is a blue pig who always smokes.
- All Men Are Perverts: He was very perverted to the girls during party in the night.
- Eaten Alive: After being flattened, The Big Bad Wolf ate him alive.
- Cigarette Burns: In the beginning of the episode, He throws a cigarette to the cat and burning it.
- The Ditz: He isn't smart as his brother, just like Drinkie.
- Fat Bastard: He's fat, and he alawys mistreats Dudley.
- Jerkass: He always mistreats Dudley, just like Drinkie.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite that he mistreats Dudley, He actually cares about him, just like Drinkie.
- Sinister Swine: Downplayed, He's a pig, but not evil, he's just a Jerkass just like Drinkie.
- Smoking Is Not Cool: He always smokes cigarettes.
- Squashed Flat: The Big Bad Wolf crushed him with a door, causing his body to get flat.
The Big Bad Wolf
The Big Bad Wolf is the main antagonist of The Third Pig.
- Asshole Victim: After killing Drinkie & Smokey, He got eaten by the Zombie Pig. Subverted: It turns out that he's still alive at the end, and he finally ate Dudley.
- Ax-Crazy: He successfully killed and ate the Pigs.
- The Bad Guy Wins: At the end of the episode, He successfully ate Dudley, revealing that he's not dead after getting eaten by the zombie pig.
- Big Bad: He's literary called "The Big Bad Wolf" and He's the main antagonist of the Third Pig.
- Body Horror: He as two moments:
- When he tries to blow Dudley's house made of bricks down, He accidentally spit his body inside out.
- After getting eaten by The Zombie Pig, His brain and some skeletal body are shown.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: He insults The Cryptkeeper to his face. 'Nuff said.
- Incorrect Animal Noise: When The Big Bad Wolf blows Drinkie & Smokey's house down, He makes an elephant noise, despite that he's a wolf.
- Jerkass: More than Drinkie & Smokey, He's very cruel, violent, and downright psychopathic.
- Laughably Evil: His inability to rhyme and calling out the Cryptkeeper for mocking him for it despite not rhyming himself, makes for some quality laughs.
- Running Gag: He always fails to end his sentences on a rhyme.
- Teeth Drool: He always drools in aggression before killing Drinkie.
