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List of characters for the animated show The Hollow.

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Main Characters

    Adam 

Adam

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Voiced by: Adrian Petriw
A boy who ends up as the de-facto leader of the team. He is level headed, but also head strong.

He has super strength.


  • Benched Hero: Late in season one, he ends up with bad hypothermia due to Reeve knocking him out in the Ice area. He spends the remainder of episode 8 and a good chunk of episode 9 unconscious, while Mira and Kai try to find a way to nurse him back to health.
  • Cassandra Truth: Becomes this when he sees Dave glitch out.
  • Incompatible Orientation: Adam and Mira. When Mira kisses Adam in season 1 he tells her he's not interested in her that way, and in season 2 it's shown that Adam has a rainbow pride flag on the wall of his bedroom and later admits he's gay. Thankfully he doesn't hold the kiss against Mira (as she knows his orientation in the real world and felt awful about it) and even jokes about how he's not surprised she would fall for him regardless.
  • Jerkass Ball: He's a lot quicker to anger and snap after finding out Mira left him and Kai behind in "Hollow Games". He calms down a bit after they're reunited, but he remains noticeably on edge for the remainder of the season.
  • The Leader: He automatically assumes this position in the group. When they get their memories back, Mira calls out that he often behaves like this.
  • Muscles Are Meaningless: His strength is well in excess of what his muscles should provide. Then again, he is in a video game...
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: At the end of episode 3 he accidentally kicks off a part of the spaceship, causing it to malfunction and crash into the sea. If it weren't for Miras' underwater breathing ability, he'd have caused her death, which Kai and Adam think really happened before she shows up again.
  • Le Parkour: His athletic superpowers include a capacity of jumping and moving in a way that is reminiscent of this.
  • Queer Establishing Moment: Adam's orientation is hinted at in Season 1, after he & Mira kiss, where he tells her he's not interested in her that way. It's then hinted at again in the first episode of Season 2 with a rainbow pride flag in his bedroom, and then in the next episode Adam flat out states to Kai that he's gay.
  • Ship Tease: With Mira. Subverted when she actually kisses him and he reacts by awkwardly stating he has no interest in her, which becomes more understandable when he comes out as gay in "Hollow Games".
  • Straight Gay: He reveals he's gay in the second season, though, having their memories back, Kai is the only one who doesn't know, even though Adam seems to be pretty open about, having a pride flag in his room. This was actually lampshaded in season one, when Mira and he kissed, through his reaction to it.
  • Super-Strength: He's able to punch through a solid boulder without breaking a sweat.

    Mira 

Mira

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Voiced by: Ashleigh Ball
An intelligent girl with a knack for solving puzzles and being able to understand animals.
  • All-Loving Hero: She frequently tries to find peaceful solutions to problems rather than fight her way out.
  • The Anti-Nihilist: After Mira discovers that she and the others are digital clones in Season 2, she points out that they still have feelings and emotions even if they aren’t “real”.
  • Childhood Friends: With both Adam and Skeet, though it seems Adam knew nothing of her friendship with the latter.
  • Heart Is an Awesome Power: Vanessa taunts Mira about the lame nature of the power to simply talk with animals and swim. She answers to this by calling forward a huge murder of crows that entraps and attacks her.
  • Meaningful Name: Mira can mean “sea” or “ocean” in Sanskrit, alluding to her swimming skills and ability to breathe underwater.
  • Oblivious to Love: Doesn't appear to know that Kai is interested in her.
  • Our Mermaids Are Different: Played With. While Mira isn't one, she has mermaid-like powers, which include breathing underwater, communicating with animals and fishes and swimming excellently. Kai lampshades this at one point.
  • Ship Tease: With Adam. While she is later confirmed to be interested in him, the opposite isn't true and he turns her down.
  • Speaks Fluent Animal: She is capable of understanding and talking with animals as well as asking them to do various tasks, almost none of them refuse her.
  • Water Is Womanly: The compassionate, intelligent girl of the trio who serves as a conflict mediator. She has hair dyed blue at its tips and her name "Mira" means "sea/ocean" in Sanskrit, referencing her powers of breathing underwater and swimming at great speeds.
  • Women Are Wiser: Played with. Mira is level headed for the most part though one episode shows her hallucinating from heatstroke while she, Kai, and Adam are stranded in the desert.

    Kai 

Kai

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Voiced by: Connor Parnall
A not so smart guy with a hot headed attitude. He has a superhuman understanding of machinery and discovers fire powers during the Theme Park Area.
  • Aborted Declaration of Love: Gives one to Mira on their journey to retrieve the Ishibo.
  • Blue Is Heroic: Primarily dresses in blue
  • Book Dumb: Overlaps with Malaproper but in the first season he confuses 'amnesia' with 'insomnia.'
  • Butt-Monkey: Always seems to get the short end of the stick in every situation.
  • Fiery Redhead: The member of the group most prone to emotional outbursts.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: He was able to get himself and his team out of the desert by building an airplane using the Four Horsemen's junkyard.
  • Hair Color Dissonance: Kai appears as a redhead, but in the live-action scenes his hair is brown. This could be the lighting, but it's not certain.
  • Heroic Self-Deprecation: As Mira and Adam showcase their superhuman powers, the only trait Kai shows in special is a strangely vast knowledge of STEM, which he thinks can't really be referred to as "superpowers". He gets better once his pyrokinesis shows up.
  • Lonely Rich Kid: Season 2 reveals that he's extremely wealthy, but his parents are rarely around and seem to fight when they are. Kai doesn't seem to have had many friends before the start of the series, save for his butler.
  • Meaningful Name: Kai can mean “fire” in Scottish, alluding to his pyrokinesis.
    • Played with a bit at first due to belatedness. When first finding the paper with his name in his pocket, he mispronounces it as "Kay" (like the letter). Before correcting himself to believing it's "Kai", which gains its proper meaning at the amusement park when he discovers said pyrokinesis.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Attempting to do a good thing, Kai releases the other team from their ice prison, against Adam's suggestions. The other team takes the moment right after they are released to finally betray the main group and take the Ishibo to the Last Ironwood Tree.
  • Playing with Fire: After their time in the theme park, he develops the power of manipulating and generating fire.
  • Running Gag: Kai constantly assumes they're Dead All Along and asks for confirmation.
  • Shorter Means Smarter: The shortest of the group and also a scientific and mechanical wiz.
  • Took a Level in Badass: After discovering his pyrokinesis, Kai is considerably more powerful, one of the most powerful members of the humans.

The Other Trio

    Reeve 

Reeve

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A thoroughly unpleasant Telekinetic who functions as the muscle for the other kids.


  • Clone Angst: Of all of them, he seems to be hit hardest by the realization in the second season that he is a digital clone and his real-life has gone on without him. He has to be talked back into the willingness to fight for his life.
  • Everyone Has Standards: It's confirmed in season 2 that he had no idea Vanessa cheated on the game. When he finds out, he's angry with her and inadvertently endangering them with the glitches.
  • Interrupted Suicide: Invoked. When he finds out that he and the others are duplicates in season 2, he suggests doing what Skeet did and die willingly so as to end their existence before the game reset does. Then the other team sets the fairy tale forest on fire, and he helps put it out. This revives his willingness to fight to live.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: He and Skeet didn't know that Vanessa was cheating with special contact lenses. If he had, he reveals that he wouldn't have stood for it.
  • Mind over Matter: His powers allow him to go toe to toe with Adam, who is a master of combat.
  • Straw Nihilist: Reeve briefly becomes this in the second season when the group discovers that they’re digital clones, believing that fighting for their existence is pointless because even if they succeed their human selves will still live on outside the game and have actual lives without knowing that they even exist.
  • We Used to Be Friends: A former good friend of Adam, but they have grown apart after their time in a team together due to them constantly butting heads and never being able to agree on anything. After a lot of infighting in the second season, they recover their friendship.

    Vanessa 

Vanessa

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The leader of the other kids. A girl with the power of flight and pink-purple hair.


  • Ambiguous Situation: After reawakening in the real world, her left eye glitches out. Season 2 reveals that she was wearing special contacts that caused the glitch in the first place.
  • Amnesiac Dissonance: Subverted. It turns out she knew The Hollow was a game all along, having used special contacts to cheat the memory erasure. This explains why she was so ruthless: she knew there wouldn't be any actual danger to the other players.
  • Character Development: Only her duplicate goes through this; in season 2, she's hit with the realization that her cheating created them as sentient clones, and is horrified when clone Skeet dies for real. After withdrawing into herself, she decides to make up for it by hindering the other team so that her friends have a chance to live.
  • Cheaters Never Prosper: Played straight; her attempt to gain an edge by wearing contact lenses to retain her memories ends up causing glitches, some that intentionally inhibit her team's ability to win. What's more, her betrayal of Kai and causing Adam to become fatally ill means that the other team doesn't hold back when they catch up.
  • Everyone Has Standards: She confirms in season 2 that she never would have hurt the other team for real.
  • Flight: Has the ability to fly through the air for an unlimited amount of time.
  • Heel–Face Turn: In season 2 she and the others join up with the main trio. She was arguably the major antagonist of season 1, but is now a good friend of the main team. In part, this comes from the guilt of realizing she was probably responsible for the glitch that cloned them.
  • Hidden Depths: Season 2 shows her not to be as cruel and malicious as Season 1 made her appear: She knew that she was in a game all along, so she never believed that she was placing Adam, Mira, or Kai in any real danger. She is also shown to have been motivated by intense pressure to prove to her parents that playing The Hollow was a worthwhile pursuit, which is why she cheated to get around the memory block.
  • Karma Houdini: She did cheat and caused the game to glitch, all to win money on a show, that could have fried their brains. No one, not even the host, finds out about this in Season 1. She gets to be a Graceful Loser about it unless someone notices her contact lense glitching in the footage.
  • Karma Houdini Warranty: On the other hand, her duplicate is forced to deal with the consequences of her real counterpart's actions when she and the other duplicates are trapped in the game and generated as a result of the glitch. Duplicate Vanessa feels really guilty about this when she realizes they can all die for real.
  • Kick the Dog:
    • When finally betraying Kai in the Ice Area, she taunts him about his naivete and proceeds to drop him from a high altitude.
    • When Mira and Kai try to trick her, Skeet and Reeve into thinking that Adam died, her only reaction to having apparently caused the death of an innocent boy is an amusement and vague interest in the fact that it's actually possible to die in the game. In retrospect, this may have been because she believed that it really wasn't, as, glitches notwithstanding, players who die in the game just get sent back to the real world.
  • Love-Interest Traitor: Pretends to return Kai's feelings only to later on betray and almost kill him in the Ice Area. This is subverted in season 2, where her confiding in him about the special contact lens she used to cheat and him giving her some emotional support. They seem to genuinely develop feelings for each other.
  • Manipulative Bitch: Feigns ignorance towards the nature of the world around her to avoid the main characters' suspicion and pretends to be interested in Kai in order to get him to join her team.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Even though technically she didn't do it — that was real Vanessa cheating in the game— her duplicate is horrified when realizing that her choice to wear the contact lense creating everyone's digital copies that can die for real in the game and are essentially trapped.
  • Skewed Priorities: Even when the world is literally breaking apart around her, all she seems to care about is beating the main characters. One might justify it by saying she knew from the beginning that they were never in any real danger to begin with, but the glitches do make that statement a bit ambiguous.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Season 2 reveals that she brought special contacts to keep her memories from being blocked once she was transferred into the game, causing the glitch in the first season and that glitch caused them to become sentient copies of their real-world selves once the game was over.
  • The Vamp: Her primary method of interacting with the main characters is to find one way or the other to seduce Kai into helping her.
  • Video Game Cruelty Potential: Deconstructed. Her knowing that it was all a game made her nasty, manipulative and backstabbing towards the other team because she knew they wouldn't suffer physical injuries for real. Hurting Kai was the worst part of it since he saved her from being a permanent block of ice. Unfortunately, you're more likely to get an edge in the game if you're kind; Adam gets healed by the mutant spider when Kai repairs the king's legs, and the Benjamin brothers help Kai discover his powers when they stay to have fun rather than rushing through the theme park. It's implied that the real Adam, Mira and Kai are scarred from the experience and Vanessa's duplicate regrets her past behavior when she realizes her cheating created digital clones of the teams.
  • Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Tries to pull one on Kai when her team is beaten in episode 9, claiming that Reeve and Skeet made her betray him. Needless to say, Kai doesn't buy it.

    Skeet 

Bernard / Skeet

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The third member of the other team. Possesses the power of super speed.


  • Dead Alternate Counterpart: Skeet’s digital clone dies early on in Season 2, but his human self is still alive and well out in the real world.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: He dies saving Mira from a brainwashed Lou the snail.
  • The Load: At the start of Season 2, he joins with the main group, however, he is sure that dying in the game is their best chance of leaving. Because everyone isn't sure of what could happen, they actually have to not only keep themselves safe, but also often save him as well. This doesn't last as he eventually is really killed pulling off a Heroic Sacrifice.
  • Killed Off for Real: The digital clone of Skeet is killed trying to save Mira in "Puzzles", being crushed by a giant snail.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: It's confirmed that he and Reeve didn't know Vanessa was cheating. What's more, Reeve implies that Skeet wouldn't have stood for it.
  • Meaningful Name: Skeet means “swift” in English, which thanks to his super speed, he is.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: We don't learn his real name (Bernard) until Season 2.
  • Only Sane Man: He's the only one on his team who is concerned about the growing glitches in the world and was even willing to hear the other team out before his own team overrules him.
  • Sacrificial Lion: He, like the other characters, has notable super powers, and is capable of fighting, or at least scaping, but in season 2, his digital clone dies and he stays dead, establishing the characters' lives are truly endangered now.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After witnessing the glitches worsening and seeing his team lose, he just runs away rather than keep trying to face the main characters.
  • Super-Speed: His secret power is to run faster than the human eye can see.

Other

    The Weird Guy 

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Voiced by: Mark Hildreth
A mysterious eccentric, purple man that offers his help to the group, but at an unspecified cost.
  • Big Good: He can help the kids, and ultimately, he does warn Mira and Kai that they're in danger due to the worsening of the Glitch. Continues in Season 2, where he explains to the kids what they really are and ruins the scheme of an evil corporation just so that they can survive.
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander: The way he acts and talks makes it pretty clear that he needs a check-up from the neck up.
  • Exorcist Head: Pulls this on the kids when they fail to tell him what the magic words are.
  • Everyone Has Standards: He will not kill or delete sentient computer code. When the duplicates confirm they have their memories and feelings, he stops sending them through a portal to get rid of them and seriously talks with them about why they are still in the Hollow.
  • Failed a Spot Check: Apparently he and his film crew didn't bother to check the contestants for anything that may give them an edge, like special contact lenses.
  • Heel Realization: As he's explaining to the kids about how the Hollow Corporation is stealing players' data to create duplicates, you can tell he knows how bad it sounds.
  • Hero of Another Story: During the last three episodes of season 2, he's transferring the Hollow Life game to a private server so the kids can return safely while hosting the game show like nothing is wrong and conveying instructions to the duplicates. He lampshades it before the last boss battle.
  • Hidden Depths: It's revealed that he is a good singer and goes to hang around in virtual areas where he can show off. The kids are surprised.
  • Ink-Suit Actor: Mark Hildreth is the only member of the cast to carry over his role to the live-action epilogue (and prologue)
  • Large Ham: He's prone to exaggerated mannerism and gets in people's faces when talking. Justified, since he is a game show host and has to give the audience a show.
  • Mean Character, Nice Actor: It turns out that his Jerkass Troll persona is an act as a show host. He breaks character to warn Mira and Kai that the game is glitching and they're in danger of getting hurt for real. When they win, his real self makes it clear when they win that it was all for the show. It goes further in season 2 when he realizes their duplicates have gained sentience.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When the game starts to tear itself apart, he stops with his usual antics to warn Mira and Kai that they're in (potentially) mortal danger.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: He's only referred to as Weirdy or The Weird Guy. Only in the last episode of Season 1 onward do we learn his real name, Gustav.
  • Pals with Jesus: He's friends with Death, one of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse.
  • Purple Is Powerful: The most powerful, and definitely the most mysterious character in the show, and his skin is fully purple. Except that in the live-action segment, his purple color is revealed as merely the effect of stage lighting.
  • Thinking Up Portals: He can generate portals to any location he pleases, which he does upon request. Players only get five, though, and he refuses to teleport them to the exit.
  • You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: In Season 2, he realizes that the digital copies of the kids are sentient when they call him by his real name of Gustav, which they would only know if they remembered their lives in the real world.

    Team B 

Nisha, Iris, and Tyler

A team of players from another round of the game. If they win or lose the game, the game stops, putting the main characters in danger.


  • Acquired Situational Narcissism: Iris is shown to be a sort of Shrinking Violet, quickly running behind her team when confronted with anything, however, once she uses her powers, she shows a quite cheeky side of herself.
  • Antagonist Abilities: Tyler's Weather Manipulation easily outclasses the abilities of all the other characters, allowing him to call down lightning and trap people in massive cyclones even from a long distance. Violet's Size Shifting does this to a lesser degree, allowing her to easily overpower even Adam's Super-Strength. This even extends to their special weapon being a Wave-Motion Gun rather than a simple wooden staff.
  • Anti-Villain: They're only aggressively competitive and think that the main kids are equally so despite them insisting they aren't.
  • BFG: In their game, the MacGuffin is a bazooka-like weapon that seems to shoot nukes.
  • Escort Mission: The fight against Olym is a mix of this and a usual Final Boss fight. The main characters can't let Team B win or lose the game, so they can't let them defeat Olym, but can't let them take damage either.
  • Failed a Spot Check: They recovered the giant BFG from the mansion but not the key that activates it.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Played for laughs. In "Race", they all react with confusion and dismay to the main characters simultaneously protecting and sabotaging them, yelling at them what their problem is. Safe to say, anyone would be more than irritated in the same situation.
  • Let's You and Him Fight: It happens in their first encounter with the main cast. Adam and Mira try to explain they're not part of the game and just want to see Weirdy in the Parisian bar, but Nisha assumes they're a rival team. They refuse to listen and curb-stomp the teens, taking the key Adam grabbed from the mansion.
  • Playing with Fire: Nisha, the team leader, uses fire powers similar to Kai. The rules of The Hollow dictate that no two players can have the same powers, so this clues the main characters that they're no longer considered players.
  • Sizeshifter: Iris is capable of changing her size from a short person into a giant.
  • Weather Manipulation: Tyler's powers are to control the weather, which he uses to attack by summoning lightning, storms and other things.
  • What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Once they manage to unlock their Ishibo equivalent, they go around using it recklessly without regard to how it may harm the NPCs of the Hollow because they know it's just a game. This is to contrast with the main kids' perspective on how they come to view digital life as equally important as "real" life.

The Hollow

Woods

    Devil Dogs 

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A pack of canine-like monsters that Adam, Mira, and Kai first encounter in the woods.


Desert Area

    Toros 

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A massive, flesh-eating minotaur that can shoot snot streams from his nostrils.


  • Back for the Finale: As one part minotaur, one part spider-mutant due to the game's corrupted code.
  • Fangs Are Evil: He is the only minotaur to be depicted with jagged fangs.
  • I'm a Humanitarian: The main reason why the other minotaurs are scared of him. However, he won't shy away from any humans either.
  • Monstrous Cannibalism: The various skeletons strewn about in his maze show that he doesn't hesitate to feast on his own species.
  • Nose Nuggets: He lets loose a stream of snot onto Kai, who's about as disgusted as you'd expect from someone who was sneezed on by a man-eating minotaur.
  • Our Minotaurs Are Different: Par for the course, considering he's a minotaur, who's also a cannibal of his own kind. And whereas the other minotaurs in the desert are civilized enough to speak their own language and form their own society, Taurus is just a snarling monster who eats anyone who enters his maze.

    Three Witches 

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Voiced by: Kathleen Barr
Three sisters who live underneath Toros' temple. One should not be fooled by their innocent appearance.
  • Back for the Finale: They briefly re-appear in the last episode. The game's glitches makes short work of them, though.
  • Berserk Button: For some reason, the first one got really agitated when she suspected the kids might not trust her.
  • Fattening the Victim: Though never outright stated, it's heavily implied that's what the first one was doing with the kids.
  • Deadly Lunge: Their main way of attacking.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • The first one gives the kids a cryptic warning that they cannot go home until they've met "him". She either meant Death, who was waiting in the very next area, or Colrath, the Final Boss of the game.
    • The third one chants "Death is your friend" as she chases the main kids. Death is actually residing in the desert outside the caves and becomes an important ally to the kids later on.
  • Green and Mean: Their true forms have sickly green, leathery skin and they're really not as nice as they want you to think they are.
  • I'm a Humanitarian: Though they seem to be interested in their victims souls the most, they also seem to include body parts in the regular meals they cook.
  • Karmic Death: The second one dies by being pushed into their own oven by Adam.
  • Nothing but Skin and Bones: In their real forms they're unnervingly thin, almost skeletal.
  • Soul Eating: What their real primary food source is.
  • Stepford Smiler: In their human form they have a pleasant smile on their faces at all times.
  • Wall Crawl: The third one sneaks up on and attacks the kids by crawling on the tunnel ceiling.
  • Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: In their true form they have yellow pupils and black sclera.

Spaceship Cemetery

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    Death 

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Voiced by: Brian Drummond
A prominent member of the Four Horsemen. The team encounters him in the Desert Area, tending to his sick horse.
  • Affably Evil: When the kids imply Mira might be able to save his horse, he immediately offers them refreshments and a place to rest. The second it looks like it might be too late for Mira to do anything about his sick pet however, he goes right back to threatening them.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: He frequently acts melodramatic and campy but he is still The Grim Reaper and can be very threatening at times.
  • In Touch with His Feminine Side: His hobbies include baking and making Ice Tea.
  • Irony: His horse, Mr. Jeepers, is clearly at the last legs of his life, refusing to eat or drink and looking very sick and exhausted. Those who work with animals or have pets would realize that this is the time to euthanize this animal so that they wouldn't have to suffer any longer. His fellow horsemen mock him for this.
  • Sinister Scythe: He wields one of these as expected and uses it to threaten the team with decapitation if they fail to heal Mr. Jeepers.

    Famine 

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One of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.


    War 

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One of the four Horsemen. Not the brightest.


    Plague 

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The fourth member of the Horsemen. A ruse guy who's only manner of speaking seems to be sarcasm.


  • Deadpan Snarker: Mocks people who irritate him.
  • Jerkass: Calls Mira a witch for no reason and calls Kai an annoyance when the latter asks Death if he could be a horseman too.

The Lighthouse

    Cyclops 

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A giant who's taken up residence in the lighthouse.


  • Kindhearted Simpleton: Probably one of the kindest inhabitants of the Hollow the kids come across.
  • Manchild: He's prone to temper tantrums and hops around giddily when he's happy.

Forest

    The Last Ironwood Tree 

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An animate tree that Adam, Mira, and Kai encounter when The Weird Guy opens a portal right above her.


  • An Arm and a Leg: Her missing left branch is the MacGuffin that the team has to find in order to get back home.
  • Fastball Special: She tosses Adam and Mira over to the Ice World, where Kai and the Ishibo can be found.
  • Old Master: She has shades of this. Besides being an incredibly old and wise being, she is also the only inhabitant of the Hollow who actually helps the kids by providing them advice, directions and determining if they're already worthy to face Colrath.
  • Last of Her Kind: According to her.
  • Stealth Mentor: When Adam and Mira explain what happened to the Ishibo, she's disappointed and explains she can only help them if she gets it back. She then grabs them and tosses them towards the ice floes, shouting they're not worthy, "yet" but implying they need to move.

    Akuma 

Akuma / Andy Kuma

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The leader of a group of demon monks that steal the Last Ironwood Tree's left branch to make the Ishibo.


  • Authority Sounds Deep: Speaks in a deep, guttural growl, fitting for the leader of a bunch of demon monks.
  • Disney Villain Death: After trying to make Adam fall from the ledge they are dueling on, Adam gets the upper hand and takes the Ishibo back, after which the ledge that Akuma had weakened with his previous attacks crumbles under his feet. He then proceeds to fall from his floating temple and to his doom.
  • Game Show Host: In the second season, he returns as one called Andy Kuma, who hosts a show fashioned after Let's Make A Deal.
  • Magic Staff: The Ishibo, a magic staff that can shoot fireballs and work as a lightsaber.
  • Meaningful Name: His name translates from Japanese to "devil."

Class-X Orbital Shuttle

    Alien 
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A creature residing on an abandoned space ship.
  • Darker and Edgier: Other than most of the other antagonists, the threat it presents to the main trio is played completely straight.
  • Green and Mean: Both it and the slime it produces are green. It's also a violent predator that managed to slaughter the entire crew of the space freighter before the team arrived.
  • Shout-Out: In appearance and behavior, it greatly resembles the Xenomorph from Alien.
  • Xenomorph Xerox: It's basically a Xenomorph, though more reptilian and green.

Theme Park

    Benjamin and Benjamini 
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A pair of strongmen that live and work in the Theme Park.
  • Bald Head of Toughness: Both are big, burly, and bald.
  • Bash Brothers: Bonus points for them being actual brothers.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Benjamin is immensely protective of Benjamini and dotes on him as if he were a child.
  • Big Guy, Little Guy: Benjamin is a lot taller than his brother.
  • Manly Facial Hair: Typical of old-fashioned circus strongmen, they have big handlebar mustaches.
  • Foreshadowing: Benjamin states that he and his brother never left the park. When Mira asks if they were born there, he says that he doesn't remember. Him and his brothers are NPCs in a video game, so of course they never left the area designated to them.
  • CloudCuckooLander: They're not that bad, just...very enthusiastic about their theme park.
  • Leotard of Power: Traditional strongman edition.
  • Manchild: They really like having fun.
  • Obliviously Evil: They activate a roller coaster the main trio has landed in despite it missing a huge chunk of its tracks. And afterwards they gleefully ask if the ride was fun.
  • Tattoo as Character Type: Their tattoos range from mystical creatures like unicorns to the more mundane anchor.
  • What the Hell Is That Accent?: They both speak with an accent that could be Italian but also sounds a lot like Russian sometimes.

Ghost Town

    Dave 

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An old man that lives beneath the cemetery of the ghost town.


  • Blind Seer: What he appears to be. Subverted. He's not actually blind, he's just wearing sunglasses.
  • The Bus Came Back: He reappears in the final episode as the main team tries to get back to the Ironwood Tree, warning them about the enemies to come.
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander: He lives in the catacombs underneath the Ghost Town, gives people he has just met prophecies about the immediate future by putting his hand on their forehead and walks around with sunglasses for no discernible reason.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • Upon reading Mira's future he suddenly shouts out to beware Colrath. Colrath is the name of the dragon the kids have to defeat in the final level of the game.
    • When he repeats the procedure with Adam, he gives a shocked gasp and slowly backs away. When Adam asks him if he saw anything, he simply replies that it's best Adam doesn't know. While it's never confirmed directly, this could have been foreshadowing Adam's almost-death in the Ice Area.
    • He glitches briefly after seeing Adam and Mira off, cluing Adam in that they're in a video game.
  • Walking Spoiler: We can't talk about Dave without mentioning his glitch.

The Chateau

    Voulcan 
A strange scientist working in a run-down castle.
  • Hero Killer: Though Louie the giant snail was the one to physically kill Skeet, Voulcan was the one controlling Louie. Voulcan says that he knew about Skeet's death the entire time, implying he wanted Louie to kill him.
  • Just Desserts: After the party frees Louie from his mind control, Louie takes his revenge by eating Voulcan.
  • Magitech: His work is part science, part magic. He uses a spell to control people, but is fashioned after a Mad Scientist, and uses chemicals as weapons.
  • Mad Scientist: He concocts all kinds of potions and machines in his lab and turns innocent people and animals into his servants.
  • Mind-Control Device: By using a piece of someone, such as a strand of hair, he can use potions to mind control people. And giant snails.

    Louie 
A giant snail that lives around the Chateau and attacks the kids.

Final Area

    Colrath 
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The Final Boss of The Hollow. A giant red dragon defending an old castle.
  • Breath Weapon: In his first phase, he shoots fire from his mouth, and in his second phase lightning.
  • Catchphrase: "I am Colrath, protector of the realm. The unworthy shall not enter."
  • Fiery Salamander: In his first form, he's a large red dragon that spits fire.
  • Final Boss: Guards the castle that the kids have to get to in order to win the game.
  • Giant Flyer: Almost as big as the castle he's guarding.
  • Turns Red: He turns blue and shoots lightning out of his mouth after the trio takes him down the first time.

    Olym 
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The Final Boss Team B has to defeat to win their game. A gigantic robot made of scraps that is hidden beneath a pile of scraps in a junkyard.
  • Ambiguously Related: He may or may not be an invention of Voulcan, since he is connected to the bazooka that is his invention
  • Attack Its Weak Point: He has a keyhole on his back that is shaped exactly like the head of Team B's Macguffin. Defeating him requires incapacitating him by shooting him with the bazooka, then inserting the bazooka into the keyhole to deactivate him for good.
  • Badass Boast: "I am Olym. I choose who lives and who dies. Only the strong will survive."
  • Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: He is this to the previous Final Boss, Olym is a gigantic robot Puzzle Boss that lives in a junkyard; Colrath is a straightforward boss fight and is a giant dragon protecting a castle.
  • Giant Scrap Robot: Olym makes his appearance known by forming his body out of the mountain-sized pile of scrap in the middle of the junkyard.
  • Humongous Mecha: A giant robot, seemingly built from scraps.
  • Puzzle Boss: Unlike Colrath, which simply had to be beaten into defeat, Olym requires a specific strategy to defeat it. The bazooka that Team B has is not meant to hurt it, exactly, but to be used as a key for the keyhole in his back, which will actually destroy him.
  • Social Darwinist: In his Badass Boast he cites that only those who are strong can survive him.

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