YMMV / Chaos Walking

• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Wilf only appears sporadically throughout the trilogy but has a big fanbase for being one of the sweetest people Todd and Viola meet and one of their most helpful allies.
  • Talking Heroic Dog Manchee, Badass Bookworm Cool Old Lady Hildy, healers Maddy and Corinne, and Reasonable Authority Figure Wrench Wench Simone each only get a supporting role in one book of the trilogy but all have large fanbases and have people who call them some of the best characters in the series.
• Jerkass Woobie: Davy is a bully who makes a good transition to Overlord Jr., but he is also a lonely, self-loathing kid who has been raised by a messed up guy. He becomes even more tragic when he is betrayed and held at gunpoint by the only two people he cares about, one of whom then shoots and mocks him. He dies feeling immense regret for both failing to serve his father well and for doing evil things on behalf of his father. His last act is to beg Todd for forgiveness, but he never gets to hear Todd's reply.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Matthew Lyle (an Ax-Crazy resident of the first town Todd encounters after leaving Prentisstown) is the son of the former mayor who Prentiss killed and deposed, and is determined to get revenge and protect his wife and daughter. He could have ended up as part of the resistance and provided a lot of Evil vs. Evil conflict or gotten a redemption arc, but he vanishes from the story long before the narrators reach Haven and it is never even revealed what happens to him or his family.
  • Many Prentisstown citizens who could have made interesting and potentially conflicted recurring enforcers of the Mayor only get a scene or two, like Mr. Phelps (a Nervous Wreck who misses his wife but is still a dangerous soldier) and Seb Mundy (who is only a bit older than Todd and was his playmate before being forced to kill their teacher for his initiation into the army).