The cast of The Night of the Rabbit. Be prepared for spoilers, marked or unmarked!
open/close all folders
Main characters
Jeremiah "Jerry" Hazelnut
Voiced by: Jed Kelly
The protagonist and player character. Jerry is an innocent twelve-year old boy who yearns to be a magician, and gets his wish when the Marquis de Hoto takes him on an adventure.- Cheerful Child: Jerry is quite upbeat and optimistic. He does struggle to stay positive once things start getting darker, but he eventually picks himself back up out of determination to save everyone.
- Children Are Innocent: Jerry is quite naive. For example, when Ludwig Burrower tells Jerry the answers to some jokes (which are slightly dirty), Jerry doesn't understand them. Ludwig tells him not to worry about it.
- Kid Hero: The game's 12-year-old protagonist.
- Nice Guy: Jerry is pure-hearted, and polite to almost everyone. If he doesn't like someone, he'll usually only tell the player how he feels about that person. However, he is also prone to some typical childish misbehavior, like not doing his summer reading assignment.
- Red Is Heroic: He is the main protagonist, and he spends the whole game wearing a red shirt.
Marquis de Hoto
Voiced by: Wayne Forester
A mysterious and charismatic rabbit who trains Jerry to become a Treewalker.- Big Good: He shares this role with Aro Molena. Both magicians guide Jerry on his quest.
- Catchphrase: "Anything is possible on a day of summer vacation," or sometimes simply "anything is possible!"
- Large Ham: He is very dramatic in his line delivery..
- Rabbit Magician: He's an anthropomorphic white rabbit who can open portals between worlds.
- Red Is Heroic: He's a co-Big Good, and he wears a sharp red suit. He also has red eyes, which is unusual for a hero.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Fittingly for a magician, he's always seen in a red tuxedo.
- Tomato in the Mirror: This Marquis is simply an apparition created by the First Tree. The real Marquis has made a Face–Heel Turn, so it's lucky that the tree made a copy of him while he was still good.
- White Bunny: An anthropomorphic white rabbit.
Mousewood Residents
Aro Molena
Voiced by: Peter Marinker
Also known as the Old Magician of Mousewood. He's a human sorcerer who lives on the edge of Mousewood, and can shrink down to interact with its inhabitants.- An Astral Projection, Not a Ghost: Molena can appear in other worlds as a spirit. Since this is how Jerry first sees him, Jerry initially assumes that Molena is a ghost.
- Amusing Injuries: He's initially seen sleeping. The player wakes him up by making a cuckoo clock fall off the wall, onto his head. It has no lasting impact.
- Big Good: He shares this role with the Marquis. Both magicians guide Jerry on his quest.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: His name is an anagram of Alan Moore, with whom he shares an uncanny likeness.
- Heavy Sleeper: Molena is often seen sleeping. Justified because he does this to create an Astral Projection, although he is also seen sleeping (seemingly) without doing anything magical.
- Token Human: The only human resident of Mousewood. Justified as he's likely one of the few humans who knows about Mousewood and who has the power to shrink down to interact with its residents.
Plato the Frog
Voiced by: Adam Longworth
The mailman in Mousewood. He can travel almost anywhere in Mousewood on his bicycle, although he initially needs help getting it unstuck. Once you help him, he becomes great friends with Jerry.
- Big Damn Heroes: He, along with Kitsune, arrives to accompany Jerry just before he enters the 5th and final portal.
- Frog Men: He's an anthropomorphic frog.
- Nice Guy: Plato is cheerful, polite, and warm to just about everybody.
- Warp Whistle: After Jerry befriends Plato, using the frog clicker on a golden frog horn will summon Plato, and he'll take you to one of the set locations around the map.
Antagonists (SPOILERS)
The Four Lizards
Voiced by: Wayne Forester (Huckster Lizard), Andrew Wincott (Banking Lizard), Neil Mc Caul (Building Contractor Lizard and Fortune Telling Lizard)
A group of four sinister lizards working for Zaroff. They are initially seen hanging around Mousewood, and later begin to trick its residents into giving up all their possessions.- Deal with the Devil: Zaroff's spell has made it so that all the residents of Mousewood are desparate to see Zaroff's show. The lizards go around to each resident telling them that they can take the residents to see Zaroff, but not until the residents give the lizards everything they own.
- Leitmotif: They get their own bouncy, sinister orchestral theme
. - The Man in Front of the Man: They spend nearly the whole game acting like a Quirky Miniboss Squad to Zaroff, but it's revealed at the end that they're the ones who actually sought him out and played a big role in his Face–Heel Turn.
- Quirky Miniboss Squad: While they appear threatening at first, most of them are actually more silly than they seem, as seen when the player must capture them later in the game. The Huckster Lizard is easily tricked into opening the bottle needed to trap him, the Banking Lizard is quite the pitiable, Nervous Wreck alcoholic, the Fortune Telling Lizard is a Smug Snake who presumably rigged his wheel to give only him the good fortunes, but will still take any fortune he gets very seriously. Only the Building Contractor Lizard, who has already been captured and hisses at Jerry should the player click on him, lacks funny moments.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: They're lizards, and they're pure evil.
Consortium Squamata
A much larger group that the four lizards belong to. The rest of this group is never seen, only mentioned in Zaroff's backstory.- Greater-Scope Villain: They are never seen or encountered in the game, but they sent out the four lizards on their behalf, and the lizards' actions kickstart the game's conflict.
- Meaningful Name: "Consortium" means an organization. "Squamata" is the scientific name of an order of reptiles. They are a Nebulous Evil Organization implied to be comprised of reptiles.
- Nebulous Evil Organization: A mysterious organization of some sort that manipulates people to turn them to the dark side and causes all sorts of trouble in different dimensions.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Implied. The "Squamata" in their name is the scientific name of an order of reptiles. The only members of the group we see are lizards. Therefore, we can assume that all the members are reptiles of some sort, and they are a Nebulous Evil Organization.
The Great Zaroff
Voiced by: Brian Deacon
- Badass Cape: He wears a long, black and red cape as part of his Stage Magician outfit. Like the rest of his clothing, it's tattered, giving it an especially evil look.
- Big Bad: His spells are the cause of the game's main conflict.
- Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: He's the game's villain, and he has dark shadows and bags under his eyes. Justified because he's an old man, and a miserable one at that.
- Evil Laugh: He does these quite often when he has the upper hand.
- Evil Old Folks: He's the main villain, and a decrepit old man in raggedy clothing.
- Evil Sorcerer: A great and powerful magician who turned evil.
- Evil Sounds Raspy: His voice is thin and raspy, and he's the main antagonist.
- Hate Sink: Subverted. He is initially shown to be a spiteful, egotistical manchild who wants the world to bow to him and has no sympathy for anyone. But then, at the end, he does show regret for his actions, and it's revealed that he had a very tragic past. Once you learn this, his actions in the game, while still cruel, become much more understandable.
- Hidden Villain: His appearance is hidden for most of the game. You'll often see just his hands in short cutscenes where he drives nails into the portal trees. You don't see him in full until Jerry reaches the First Tree.
- Hope Crusher: Throughout his play, he is constantly trying to convince Jerry to give up and let him (Zaroff) work his spell. The curse he placed on Mousewood also caused everyone to give up hope in their own lives so that they would think that Zaroff is the one who can help them.
- It's All About Me: Zaroff basically enacts his evil plan because he wants an audience to praise him.
- Leitmotif: "Zaroff's Show," a whimsical Creepy Circus Music theme. It helps establish both his Stage Magician motif and his Psychopathic Manchild personality.
- Psychopathic Manchild: He basically acts like a spoiled childhood bully in the body of an elderly man. He disparages Jerry at every opportunity, using insults like "dumb", "useless", "lazy", and ironically enough, "immature."
- Stage Magician: Zaroff embraces this image much more than the other magicians in the game. He manipulates people by having them watch, or star in, his own play, Creepy Circus Music plays when Jerry first meets him, and he seems to refuse to take off his magician outfit, even though it's old and falling apart.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He used to be a good kid before the Mirror of Shadows turned him and the Marquis darker.
- Walking Spoiler: There's not much detail one can give about him without giving away spoilers.
The Real Marquis de Hoto
Voiced by: Unknown (likely Wayne Forester, who voices his good counterpart.)
- Armored Villains, Unarmored Heroes: Unlike his good counterpart, this Marquis is fully clad in armor.
- Evil Costume Switch: After his Face–Heel Turn, he switched from his red tuxedo to black samurai armor.
- Evil Sounds Deep: His voice is deeper than that of the other Marquis.
- Hair-Raising Hare: He was once a benevolent White Rabbit, but eventually turned to the dark side.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: A steampunk samurai magician rabbit.
- Noble Demon: Zigzagged. After his Face–Heel Turn, he turned on his own apprentice, Zaroff, and sealed him in the real world, and as the moths say "let [them] freeze to death," but he also helps Jerry with seemingly no hidden intentions (see Pet the Dog below). He also promises to protect the portal worlds should he be released from the bottle he's trapped in, though he could be lying about this. Molena certainly doesn't believe him.
- Pet the Dog: Despite being cold-hearted, he decides to help Jerry find his way to the First Tree.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: He has red eyes on both his real face and his mask.
- Samurai: His armor and swords look samurai-esque, but with a steampunkish twist (particularly the mask, which has a vent over the mouth, and actually emits steam when he takes the mask off.)
- Sealed Evil in a Can: He spends the whole game trapped in one of Molena's magic bottles, though he uses Molena's Astral Projection technique to speak to Jerry at one point.
- Walking Spoiler: We warned you about the Antagonists folder, man!
