Jaller
- Amusing Injuries
- Ax-Crazy: On occasion, especially after drinking coffee.
- Big "NO!"/Slow "NO!"/Skyward Scream: "I have to go to the eye doctor?"
- Chaotic Stupid
- The Chosen One: The One Who Was Chosen, technically.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Doesn't even begin to describe him.
- Ice-Cream Koan: Knows tons of absolutely meaningless proverbs.
- Idiot Hero
- Large Ham
- Made of Iron: This becomes a plot point in the third film.
- Too Dumb to Live
Hahli
- Composite Character: Has Hahli's name, but Nuparu's appearance.
- Deadpan Snarker: Speaks with a permanent uninterested monotone and the driest wit.
- Put on a Bus: The most infamous example from the series. It's unknown if he's dead, his voice actor's dead, he's on vacation, or his voice actor just can't be around as much to help voice him.
- The Bus Came Back: He returns for J 3 III 3 R 3: Three as an antagonist.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Jaller.
Axon
- Deadpan Snarker
- The Lancer
- Large Ham
- Noble Bigot: He doesn't care for Hero Factory figures.
- Not So Above It All: Despite his attempts to distance himself from the idiocy of the rest, he has his moments.
- Only Sane Man
- Spell My Name With An S: Spelled without the extra "n" the character originated with.
Hewkii
- The Chew Toy
- Epic Fail: His hat. He's been hit by a bus (indoors), broken his leg by hitting it repeatedly with a hockey stick, and caused the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: ...Well, less foolish.
Black Piraka
- A Day in the Limelight: "Jaller Plays with Black Piraka" and "Black Piraka Gets Noticed".
- The Chew Toy
- Dark Is Not Evil
- Epic Fail: Probably the worst offender.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Is only called Black Piraka (in canon, he was named Reidak).
- Heel–Face Turn: Started out as a mook for Sugar before becoming friends with Jaller.
- Nice Guy
- Put on a Bus to Hell: He locked himself in a bathroom for two years. Fortunately The Bus Came Back.
Hoo
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
- The Smart Guy
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: Seriously, what is that accent?
Kyle
- Characterization Marches On: Was originally a one-note character who does nothing but hurt Jaller. Nowadays, he joined Axonn as an Only Sane Man.
- Hair-Trigger Temper
- The Unintelligible
- Only Sane Man
White Guy aka Matoro
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": His real name is Brentothy.
- Only Sane Man: Is more bewildered by the insanity of the world around him than the others.
- Unknown Relative: He's Axon's son.
- The Unperson: He's barely mentioned in the actual series.
Edward Locobolt
Jaller and Hewkii's father. Actually Hewkii's uncle- Losing Your Head: By the third movie, he's a head mounted on a two-toed Piraka foot.
- Suddenly Shouting / Repeated for Emphasis: He tends to shout the last word of his sentences, which is considered a medical condition.
Batso
- Dark Is Not Evil: He uses the set of Makuta Antroz, but is heroic and Edward's caretaker.
- Wings Do Nothing: Despite the wings his set comes with, he actually flies by *snort noise*ing.
The Eye/Foot Doctor aka Alister the Puppet King
- Big Bad: He's revealed to be the true Dark One
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: His methods are strange, but they fix the problems just fine.
- Large Ham
- Memetic Molester: In-Universe, no less.Jaller: Why's he in a closet?Axon: I don't know... Maybe he's a pervert or something.
The Band of Evil People
- Affably Evil: Ambidextrous.
- Blessed with Suck: Ambidextrous never realizes that he can used his guns to, you know, actually shoot people.
- Demoted to Dragon: For the third film.
- Four-Man Band
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
- Pointy-Haired Boss
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Yeah, no, their plans are never coming to fruition.
- Sissy Villain: Ponydeath, big time.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Gans Hruger can disguise himself as The Guy Who Moves the Plot Along.
Penguin the Penguin
- Big Bad: Of "Black Piraka Gets Noticed".
- Disproportionate Retribution: Wasn't invited to Black Piraka's birthday in second grade. Now plots to destroy his life.
- Large Ham
- Outside-Context Problem
- Squishy Wizard: Defeated by Axon with a single body check.
Doc Tor Williams
- Killer Rabbit: Appearance-wise only. Despite being rabbit puppet with huge fangs, there's no indication he's evil.
- Put on a Bus to Hell: According to the Eye/Foot Doctor, he "Accidentally got kidnapped and stuffed inside someone's trunk". It is heavily implied that the doctor did this himself.
Demise, Misery and Self-Loathing
- Card-Carrying Villain: All of 'em.
- For the Evulz: Their stated reason for killing people.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Demise and Misery.
- Obviously Evil
Batman
- Big Damn Heroes: Saves Jaller from Demise and co.
- The Unintelligible: Mostly. He's a parody of Christian Bale's infamous Bat-growl, leading to lines like this:Batman: MmmBatman. MmruhruhruhBatmanBatmanBatman.
Sugar aka "The Evil Dude"
- Big Bad: Of the movies.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's the most evil person in the entire series, but is also inevitably just as ridiculous as everything else that happens in it.
- Card-Carrying Villain: He openly calls himself "The Evil Dude."
- Heel–Face Turn: He returns as a benevolent (if irritable) Forcefullness ghost in the third movie
- Evil Twin: He has a good twin named Stevia.
- Mind over Matter
- Red Baron: He is feared and known as "The Evil Dude."
- Time Master: Sugar uses this ability once and never brings it up ever again.
- You Owe Me: How he successfully hires an assassin to deal with Jaller.
The Guy Who Moves the Plot Along
Cookie
- Luke, I Am Your Father: He's Hewkii's true father. It would have been elaborated on but the movie's called Jaller 3 and not Hewkii's Dad Quest