History Characters / BigMouth

[[Characters/BigMouthMainCharacters Main Characters]] [[labelnote:Click to expand]]Nick, Andrew, Jessi, Jay, Missy[[/labelnote]]

[[Characters/BigMouthSupernaturalBeings Supernatural Beings]] [[labelnote:Click to expand]]Maury, Connie, Rick, Tyler, Gavin, The Shame Wizard, Depression Kitty, The Ghost of Duke Ellington, Pam, Mirror Missy, Nathan Fillion[[/labelnote]]

[[Characters/BigMouthSchool School]] [[labelnote:Click to expand]]Matthew, Devin, Lola, Caleb, Devon, Lars, Gogurt Burglar, Gina, Daniel, Tallulah, Coach Steve, Mr Lizer, Ms Benitez[[/labelnote]]

[[Characters/BigMouthFamily Family]] [[labelnote:Click to expand]]Elliot, Diane, Leah, Jud, Martin, Barbara, Shannon, Greg, Guy, Jenna, Val & Kurt, Feat. Ludacris[[/labelnote]]

!Other Adults

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!Main

[[folder:Nick]]
!!Nicholas "Nick" Birch
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nick_73.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"My dick is... maybe not everything it could be."'']]
->'''Voiced By:''' Nick Kroll

->''"Everything is embarrassing!"''

The main character. Nick is the youngest member of the group and still hasn't reached puberty, feeling somewhat left out a bit. He is level headed, intelligent and witty, however, he does has a tendency to be a jerk sometimes, specially in relation to Andrew.
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* AgeAppropriateAngst: Nick struggles with being the only one in his group who hasn't reached puberty, and feels like a little kid compared to them.
* AllForNothing: In the first season finale, he finally learns that he will grow and get to puberty when the time comes, and that he shouldn't push himself to grow up. By the end of the episode however, he has entered puberty, very much against his will.
* AmicableExes: With Jessi. They dated mostly for peer pressure, rather than because they wanted to date. They had a fight and broke up, but ultimately, they apologized and are now this.
* AuthorAvatar: Nick is not only based on Kroll's own childhood and pubescent years, but is even voiced by him.
* DoubleStandard: Nick touches Gina's boobs when they make out at one point. While Nick receives praise from all the men in their class, Gina is slut shamed for letting a guy touch her boob. Gina calls him out on it.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Andrew has a brief crush on him while questioning his sexuality. After Nick makes a reading of Gustavo's monologue at the end of "Girls Feel Horny Too", Andrew is seen as infatuated as all the girls by him. Matthew admits Nick has his charms too.
* FatalFlaw: The necessity to prove himself to others. He constantly tries to find ways to compensate for his little dick by doing manly things or bragging about things, which in the show's words makes him feel like a Big Dick Kid. This causes his relationship with Gina to fall out as well as him to try drugs with Jessi.
* InkSuitActor: Resembles a 13-year-old Nick Kroll.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Downplayed. He is somewhat self-centered and thinks of himself as the leader/superior (at one point, he refers to himself as an Alpha and to Andrew and Missy as Betas) and he can put his own wants in front of others' very easily, but most of that due more to immaturity and he sticks by his friends no matter what.
* {{Kidanova}}: Despite his awkwardness and being a late bloomer, he's still attracted a few girls, including Jessi (with whom he dated for peer pressure), Roland (who called him out for New York) and Tellulah (an older girl who got interested in him). At one point, Andrew also thinks that Nick would be the perfect man for him and thinks to have fallen for him. Matthew admits that Nick is cute and funny, so there's likely this to factor in.
* NeverMyFault: He doesn't take responsibility for spreading about touching Gina's boobs. While it was Jessi that told Devin and Devin started slut shaming, Gina calls him out on it, and states that he shouldn't have told anyone in the first place.
* NoIndoorVoice: He couldn't keep his mouth shut while he was ogling Gina's breasts. She heard him and it made her feel insecure about herself.
* OverwhelmingException: [[spoiler: Connie is assigned as his personal hormone monster. Despite being the opposite sex.]]
* RuleOfSymbolism: Nick's first hormone monster is totally incompetent, his second is self-centered and objectifies girls and his third is [[spoiler: Connie]], who helps him get in touch with his feminine side. While Nick may be the slowest of the boys to physically develop, it seems he may be the fastest to emotionally develop.
* TeenyWeenie: His junk is pretty small, though he's still a kid. He is very insecure about it.
* TitleDrop: More than once refers to his own Big Mouth.
* VocalDissonance: Has a very deep voice, which is especially unusual as he's meant to be a late bloomer.

[[folder:Andrew]]
!!Andrew Glouberman
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/andrew_0.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"What the hell is wrong with me?''"]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JohnMulaney

->''"The uterus? I thought girls had vaginas."''

Nick's best friend, a nerdy kid who's just hit puberty and exploring himself, with the often unwanted assistance of his Hormone Monster.
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* AffectionateNickname: Maurice tends to call him "sweetheart". This however, tends to leave Andrew uncomfortable.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Is both attracted to The Rock and Missy. He's not worried about it though when he learned sexuality is just a spectrum. There are subtle hints he feels a certain level of attraction towards Nick, though they solve that issue in "Am I Gay?".
* ButtMonkey: While all the kids go through at least one embarrassing thing per episode, Andrew suffers the most.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Very often, as any guy who reached puberty.
* InstantHumiliationJustAddYoutube: At the end of the season, he is the main suspect of being a serial killer, he gets freed when a video proves he has nothing to do with it. However, the video is of him getting rid of several jizz filled socks, after poking his nose and falling on the ground with his pants falling. The video becomes a viral humiliation.
* JewishAndNerdy: Played absolutely straight, with the nerdy part increasing his appeal to Missy. Sometimes combined with JewishComplaining, but not to anywhere near the extent that his father reaches.
* NerdGlasses: They fit his typical nerdy looks and personality.
* NiceGuy: Along with Missy, he's one of the sweeter characters.

[[folder:Jessi]]
!!Jessi Glaser
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jessi.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"You have no idea what I want, you fucknut shitbag!!"'']]
->'''Voiced By:''' Jessi Klein

-> ''"If you're here to tell me how awful it is to be a woman, the Statue of Liberty and my mom already covered it."''

Andrew and Nick's old time friend. She is a snarky, intelligent girl who recently reached puberty. She is having a hard time adapting herself to womanhood and her difficult home life with her parents always fighting.
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* ACupAngst: In "Girls Feel Horny Too", she feels jealous of Fatima's large buxom, especially compared to her unflattering bra.
* AffectionateNickname:
** "Jellybean" by her father.
** Connie has a plethora of these for her, mostly being ethnic food, "Raviolli", "Gyoza" and "Pupusa" are some of them.
* AmicableExes: With Nick. They dated mostly for peer pressure, rather because they wanted to date. They had a fight and broke up, but ultimately, they apologized and are now this.
* BelligerentSexualTension: She has some of this with Jay as he makes frequent advances towards her that she frequently pushes off, and she calls him 'gross' and states that he 'doesn't know what she wants', [[spoiler:and at the end of Season 1 they do get together, however, they break up soon after running away when Jessi realizes that Jay's attitude is too much for her to handle and Jay dislikes the way she constantly criticizes him.]]
* BerserkButton: Jay's unwelcome advances are quick to piss her off. At one point, after offering to touch her boobs, she grabs him by the neck, lifts him from the floor, and chokes him against a locker.
* ColorMotif: After she had her first period, she started wearing red. She also wears red shorts and a red bra, plus her hair is red.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: At the end of "Girls Feel Horny Too", she learns about her own body as well as the fact that she can masturbate, implying that she is doing this after the episode.
* DCupDistress: Following the purchase of a provocative and voluptuous red bra, Jessi manages to make her boobs look bigger. However, she soon feels overwhelmed by the attention received (including by one of ''her teachers''), Jay throwing himself at her and begging to give her money while Devin calls her trashy and Lola gets aggressive against her. The song "Sexy Red Bra" that plays over it even mentions that she will become "an object of envy and awe".
* DaddysGirl: While she does get along with her mother Shannon (at least when not under the influence of Connie), scenes show that she's somewhat closer to her father Greg, and she feels much more sympathy towards him especially when she finds out that her mom is cheating on him.
** Played even more straight in Season 2 where she fervently takes her dad's side by spending much more time with him over her mom, whom she starts rebelling against in revenge for having cheated on her dad.
* DeadpanSnarker: She is prone to sarcastic, strong jabs towards people around her, specially when she doesn't like them. Her snarky tendencies are ramped up when she is with Matthew, who shares her witty and sarcastic sense of humor. After they make fun of Jay together, she says she feels like her most genuine self with Matthew.
* FieryRedhead: Even before she hit puberty and started following Connie's influence, Jessi's always been a feisty, quick-tempered girl.
* FirstNameUltimatum: Does this to her mom sometimes, specially when she is under Connie's influence.
* FiveStagesOfGrief: It's subtle, but Jessi goes through these in Season 2 about her parent's divorce. She first runs away because she can't handle the new reality, then her anger builds up into causing her to act out by using her father's drugs and shoplifting, when that is gone, she starts blaming herself for everything and is later afflicted by the Depression Kitty. She ends the season agreeing to seek therapy as ways to process things in a more healthy manner.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Jessi comes to realize this about herself at the Shame Wizard's prompting. Although she loves to preach feminism, Jessi does not get along well with other girls (Missy is seemingly her only female friend) and she can be just as hostile towards girls she feels threatened by (such as Gina) as Devin. This self-realization feeds Jessi's depression.
* ItsAllMyFault: At the end of an episode where Jessi tries her father's edible drugs, she is struck hard with this, blaming the divorce of her parents on herself, as well as the fact that his mother kicked her father out of the house. [[spoiler:That's when the Shame Wizard takes her too, managing to even add an extra layer of guilt when he makes her blame herself for Trump's election because she wasn't more aggressive when volunteering for Hillary's campaign]].
* {{Jailbait}}: Despite just hitting puberty, she manages to attract the occasional bit of unwanted attention.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Temper and snarky remarks aside, Jessi is an overall friendly girl and a good friend who will do favors for her friends, just so long as they aren't stupid ones.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Defied. Jessi gets her period while on a school trip to the Statue of Liberty. In white shorts, no less! She starts wearing pads and at the end of the episode, she meets the Hormone Monstress.
* OedipusComplex: Starting with season 2, she hates her mother for her family's downfall, but she still loves her father, and also out of pity, because she feels he was the one screwed over by her mother.
* PetTheDog: Together with Matthew, they throw Jay a bone after they deeply hurt his feelings by using him for laughs during their science project and turning him into their project.
* TheRunaway: Alongside Jay at the end of season 1, she feels overwhelmed by her parents divorce and her new relationship with Jay, so they decide to run away together.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Downplayed, she wore a red bra to school at The Hormone Monstress' urging. She wasn't prepared for the mass MaleGaze, comments and hostility from Lola. After Lola hurts her, Jessi fled to the bathroom to remove it. While she felt overwhelmed by the attention, she still liked the bra.
* {{Tomboy}}: Most of Jessi's close friends are boys and she shows more interest in things like sports than she does in hair and makeup. She usually just pulls her hair back into a ponytail rather than style it and she only wears dresses on special occasions, preferring shorts or pants. She is stunned by how good she looks when Devin gives her a makeover. But she does not show any interest in maintaining her new look and goes back to her normal style immediately.
* TookALevelInJerkass: During season 2, her parent's divorce causes her to act out violently, which includes using her father's drugs and shoplifting from a local pharmacy.
* {{Tsundere}}: She's pretty chummy and chill with her friends, but she gets much more aggressive with Nick when he lies about him breaking up with her and after chewing him out in school she avoids him, but mellows out back to normal when they decide to go back to being friends. And she [[spoiler:later acts the same with Jay when he starts hitting on her, and even when they do officially get together, she enjoys kissing him and relates to him over family issues, but his magic tricks and quoting his Dad's commercials still annoy her]].
* WomenAreWiser: Mostly played straight, but she isn't that much smarter when she lets Connie make decisions for her.
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[[folder:Jay]]
!!Jay Bilzerian
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jay_9.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"You're thinking it and we're talking about it."'']]
->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JasonMantzoukas

->''"Magic is not gay! It transcends sexuality!"''

A friend of the group, who has a father with infamous quotable commercials. He seeks to be a magician and is eager to bond with his friends due to a troublesome home life. He is also known by his friends as a sex deviant.
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* AbusiveParents: His alcoholic mother is so neglectful she didn't notice he ran away from home for an entire week. She also forgot how old he is and served him toxic alcohol as a reward. His father is a corrupt divorce lawyer who openly mocks his hobbies in his commercials and treats him like a manservant versus his son. His brothers bully him relentlessly as well and force him to eat their jizz.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: His nationality or race are never clearly defined, and his skin is tanner than the Caucasian and Jewish characters. He's been called Mediterranean once by [[spoiler: Brad the couch cushion]], and he also brings up a Greek food, possibly making him specifically part Greek ([[ActorSharedBackground like his voice actor]]). His surname is of Armenian origin.
* BelligerentSexualTension: He has some of this with Jessi as he makes frequent advances towards her that she frequently pushes off, and she calls him 'gross' and states that he 'doesn't know what she wants', [[spoiler:and at the end of Season 1 they do get together, however, they break up soon after running away when Jessi realizes that Jay's attitude is too much for her to handle and Jay dislikes the way she constantly criticizes him.]]
** [[spoiler:In Season 2, he ends up gaining a little bit of this with Matthew of all people near the end as Matthew frequently pokes fun of him and Jay often quickly retorts in annoyance even when Matthew tries to offer some friendship to him, and when Jay rejects him Matthew responds with his typical name-calling. But during the slumber party they end up making out after the Smooch or Share game led to their first kiss (Matthew's at least and Jay's first boy kiss). And although Matthew brushes him off the next day, it's highly implied that Jay is still attracted him.]]
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:After he makes out with Matthew during the slumber party, Jay comes to the conclusion that he is in fact attracted to guys and girls. He ends season 2 by having a threeway with a male and a female pillow.]]
* CargoShip: InUniverse, he's gotten it on with a pillow and a bathmat. [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext The pillow even gets pregnant]]!
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Sometimes he is considered an annoyance to his own friends due to his annoying opinions and ideas, to the point he is often singled out from Andrew and Nick's friendship. At most, Jessi seems to find him an amusement rather than a friend and he never interacts with Missy.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: In a CrossesTheLineTwice sort of way.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: He is well aware that he is TheFriendNobodyLikes and is somewhat desperate to subvert this. When Nick and Andrew have a fallout, he desperately tries to become Andrew's new best friend and implies he is able to track them down when Andrew refuses to have him with them when they go to a camping trip. He outright mentions he craves affection in the finale.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Pretty much anytime he talks to Jessi, he manages to say just the right thing to piss her off.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Jay and Coach Steve bond and become friends, which works since they've both led (and continue to lead) desperately sad lives and are stuffed full of delusion. Also Steve has the maturity of a child Jay's age.
* LoveHungry: He is desperate for some sort of connection. He attempts to usurp Nick's place as his mother's son when he notices their fallout and how much better she is at being a mom than his own and desperately wants Jessi to be his girlfriend while admitting his neediness.
* PhraseCatcher: "Stop quoting your dad's commercials!"
* PrettyBoy: A downplayed example due to the series artwork, but he doesn't have many awkward physical features other than his partial unibrow, and he could qualify for a younger version of TallDarkAndHandsome if only he wasn't so annoying.
* TheRunaway: Alongside Jessi at the end of season 1, already unsatisfied with his family life and years of hatred towards his neglectful parents and abusive brothers, but now with a new relationship with Jessi, they decide to run away together.
* RunningGag: His tendency to quote his father's infamous divorce lawyer commercials, which is immediately followed by someone asking him to stop quoting them.
* StageMagician: Or more, that's what he'd like to be. Reactions to this vary from person to person, but he seems to have some real talent.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: According to Maury, the reason Jay doesn't have a hormone monster and apparently can't see any of them is that he's so knowledgeable about sex and his libido is so high that he basically is ''his own hormone monster''. Some comments from Maury even imply that Jay knows things about sex that Maury, a 75-million year old anthropomorphic incarnation of raw sexual urges, doesn't know.
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[[folder:Missy]]
!!Missy Foreman-Greenwald
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/missy_0.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Hi, Andrew!"'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JennySlate

->''"I found out that being alone is sort of a gift. It prepares you for how life is going to be."''

A shy and nerdy girl from school. Missy is sweet and kind to everybody and very interested in her studies and is very clearly harboring a crush on Andrew. She also has a condition that makes her over active if she consumes sugar.

* {{Adorkable}}: A shy, meek and somewhat awkward girl trying to deal with puberty and her crush on a boy.
* AmbiguousDisorder: She has various symptoms of ADHD, specially her MotorMouth (common with girls who have ADHD) and becoming easily over-active when having even a bit of sugar (a single coke is hallucination inducing to her).
* BlackAndNerdy: She is the nerdiest character in the show, even surpassing Andrew due to her love of science and history and she is also the darkest skinned main character.
* ButNotTooBlack: Technically literal. She's bi-racial, with a white mother and black father.
* CelebrityCrush: For Creator/NathanFillion, whom she describes a {{Hunk}}. This seems to come from a love of ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' and ''Series/{{Castle}}'', both of which he plays the main character.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Starting in Season 2, she's shown to have a habit of masturbating using a worm plush she has in her room. After feeling embarrassed about it, in the season finale she embraces this and starts embracing her sexuality.
* {{Fangirl}}: For both ''Series/{{Castle}}'' and ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', which star her CelebrityCrush.
* GRatedDrug: Sugar (in a particular case, coke), causes her to see things that aren't there, become overactive and become even aggressive for no particular reason.
* MotorMouth: She likes to talk a lot.
* NiceGirl: One of the kindest and sweetest characters in this whole series.
* ParentalSubstitute: Like Jessi, she shares Connie as her Hormone Monstress, but the two ''very'' rarely interact with each other. Instead, Missy's imaginary version of Nathan Fillion tends to represent her sexual urges instead.
* SelfDeprecation: In season 2, she starts having severe body image issues and starts to try to hide her body with baggy clothes and is pestered by an evil version of herself that keeps shaming her.
[[/folder]]

!Human Resources Creatures
!!The Hormone Monsters
[[folder:General]]
A species of monsters of the ancient ages that accompany children going through puberty.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: They're one for puberty as a whole, and represent the teenage's Id and most base instincts of fighting and screwing.
* AntiMentor: Pretty much every Hormone Monster depicted so far is one of these. While they encourage sexual activity, they also tend to try to push their kids to become juvenile delinquents. Nick, Andrew and Jessi in particular are prone to complain that their Hormone Monsters are more of a hindrance than a help.
* AnythingThatMoves: Both of them find everything sexual and seem to be attracted to all genders. Maurice openly acknowledge he finds tomatoes and sneezes sexy things.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Their whole purpose is to lead people to embrace their basic emotions, usually encouraging extreme selfishness and downright immoral behaviour in name of sex, violence or attention. Yet, even they have lines they won't cross, like porn addiction.
* FatBastard: Maurice and Connie both have noticeably big guts, although Mo's is more of a beer belly while Connie is just curvy.
* HornedHumanoid: Maurice has one horn on the top of his head, while Connie has two.
* LongLived: Maury claims to have come into existence when life first developed on Earth and Connie mentioned they used to live on the ancient continent, Pangaea.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: It varies, but they seem to be at least partially real, or at least real to the ones they are dealing with, with Nick being able to talk with Maurice when he wants to be talked to. It's known that Matthew is good friends with Maurice and that the special kid in school is capable of seeing Maurice and that he knows his name. Similarly, Lola at one point appears to answer to Connie's passionate RousingSpeech with an amen.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Zigzagged. Sometimes, they are a grounding presence in the kids' lives, but they also often push them to embrace their nastier instincts, like their hedonistic tendencies, and in Jessi's case even shoplifting.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: If their make out on "Head Pusher" is anything to go by, they still have feelings for each other and are clearly attracted to each other despite their troublesome past. [[spoiler: As seen in the finale, Maurice still has a tattoo of Connie's name on his forearm.]]
* WorkingWithTheEx: Connie and Maurice dated back when Pangaea was still around, but broke up due to issues. They still have to work together as they have to deal with children who are involved with each other, specially in regards to Missy and Andrew's romance.
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[[folder:Maury]]
!!Maurice Beverly
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jay_0.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Did someone say... vagina?!"'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Nick Kroll

->''"Puberty Fairy!? I'm the Hormone Monster! I'm not a fairy! I mean, sure, I fuck around with dudes, but I'm not a fairy!"''

The monster that guides men through puberty.
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* AffectionateNickname: People close to him call him "Maury".
* AmazonChaser: He's in an on-off relationship with the assertive Connie and encourages Andrew to think about Susan's "sinewy arms" while he's mastrubating.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: His nose looks like a flaccid dick.
* BerserkButton: He does not take kindly to being called the puberty fairy.
* BizarreAlienBiology: He has ''several'' dicks. Several disembodied, [[NonStandardCharacterDesign featureless]], fuzzy (not ''hairy'', ''fuzzy'', as in, "completely covered in fur") dicks that he carries around in a bag. Also, at least one of them talks. That same dick we've seen talking is also Jewish, but just that one. [[spoiler: Also, he can use them as weapons by throwing them like shuriken]]. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Yeah]].
* BlatantLies: When a minor earthquake happens, Maurice says he did it, then admits that he was taking credit "just like ISIS".
* BornAsAnAdult: Appeared fully formed at the same time life originated in Earth.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Andrew doubts his expertise but as the series goes on it's made clear that he's basically the only competent male hormone monster in the department.
* ChivalrousPervert: The most sex-obsessed member of the entire cast, he's even willing to have sex with a ''wall''. He also has the kids' best interests at heart, and encourages them all to be comfortable in their own skin. He also tries to talk Andrew out of his porn habit, once it's become unhealthy.
* DepravedBisexual: Admits that he'll sometimes screw guys. [[spoiler: He once hate-fucked a decpitated head. You don't get more depraved than that.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: Sure, he's a depraved sex fiend who encourages all sorts of odd behavior from Andrew, but even he is left at a loss for words when Jay's sadistic brothers try to force them into a game of jizzcuit in exchange for porn.
-->'''Maury''': Wow. Okay. Lot to process here.
** He's also quite disgusted on the notion of child porn.
-->'''Maury''': Look, I know this all seems embarrassing now, boys, but maybe one day you'll look back on this fondly and perhaps even make something beautiful out of it.\\
'''Andrew''': What? Like a [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall show about a bunch of kids masturbating?]]\\
'''Nick''': Isn't that basically just, like, child porn?\\
'''Maury''': ''Holy shit!'' I hope not! I mean, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall maybe if it's animated we could get away with it...]]
** Hearing that the Shame Wizard collects Nazi dildos disgusts him no end.
* {{Expy}}: He's somewhat of a cross between [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDad Roger Smith]] and [[WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken The Red Guy]].
* GutturalGrowler: He has a deep, gravelly voice a'la Christian Bale's Batman.
* HeroicSacrifice: Sacrificed himself to the Pornscape so Nick and Andrew would get out. He manages to come back by the end, stating that he fucked his way out of there.
* InsistentTerminology:
** He is the "Hormone Monster". He even gets visibly pissed when Nick calls him the Puberty Fairy.
** It's a "Pornscape", not a Porn World. Again, he gets pissed at Nick for not using the term.
-->'''Maurice:''' Why is this so hard for you?!
* MediumAwareness: He's the first and most frequent character to acknowledge that he's in a TV show.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Andrew gets with Lola, he develops an addictive personality.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: He really likes to hang out with Jay, since the boy is a proud sex deviant, with a tendency to invent new things on the area of jacking off. Maurice takes notes on how he fucks his pillow claiming that Jay might be a genius.
-->'''Maurice:''' You're a little freak. I like hanging out with you.
* TruthInFiction: Maurice claims that if someone stays in the Pornscape for too long, they won’t be able to connect to anyone on an emotional or sexual level. This is an actual symptom of porn addiction, which is what Andrew develops in the same episode.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Dips into this whenever he's angry.
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[[folder:Connie]]
!!Constance "Connie"
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/connie_9.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"That's right, Maury, I can't be tamed!"'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MayaRudolph

->''"The french are full of shit and your mother is a woman in decline. You are on the rise, girl."''

The monster that guides women through puberty. At the end of season 2, she becomes Nick's new hormone monster, despite Nick being a boy.
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* BridgeBunny: The ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody skit in ''"The Planned Parenthood Show"'' had her filling this role as a parody of Chewbacca.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Shows no fear over the Shame Wizard, shortly after Maurice was stumped by him.
* ExpressiveHair: When pissed, her hair starts to float and behave like tentacles.
* FieryRedhead: She's extremely feisty and sassy, and more than often exerts this influence over girls, especially Jessi. And at worst, she can be very ill-tempered and impetuous.
* LargeHam: While not as profane as Maurice, she strikes a lot of overly dramatic poses and speaks with the delivery of a fire-and-brimstone preacher.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Her influence on Jessi is arguably more volatile than Maury's is on the boys. In her first appearance, Connie convinced Jessi to act like an unstable brat around her mother with zero provocation. Maury on the other hand hasn't tried to turn Nick and Andrew against their own parents. [[WordOfGod Nick Kroll]] describes Maury as horniness and anger, with Connie being more nuanced and emotional.
* TheNicknamer: Often calls Jessi nicknames. Particularly foods, including Gyoza (Japanese dumplings) and Pupusa (Salvadorian stuffed tortilla). She extends the same treatment to Nick, calling him tortellini (Italian ring-shaped pasta) after she's assigned to him.
* PrehensileHair: She can use her hair to grab and even lift Jessi and has total control over it.
* RousingSpeech: She gives one to Jessi in her Bat Mitzvah, when she freezes on the altar as she notices that [[spoiler:her mother is sleeping with her Cantor]]. Connie states that she is a woman now, and she can take what the world throws at her [[ItMakesSenseInContext in her boxy ass dress]].
* SassyBlackWoman: Carries herself in this manner. Being voiced by Maya Rudolph helps.
* SkewedPriorities: Connie's main shortcoming as Jessi's Hormone Monstress is that she is so focused on encouraging general misbehavior that she doesn't consider whether or not it is actually puberty-related (e.g. shoplifting). This ultimately gets her taken off Jessi's case by Human Resources.
* SmellsSexy: Jessi mentions she smells great, to which she explains she doesn't uses deodorant and only takes bubble baths.
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[[folder:Rick]]
!!Rick
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2017_11_05_at_124119_pm.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"You're the man Steve! Give her a kidney!"]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Nick Kroll

->''"Suck my stump, Maurice!"''

An unwashed, beaten up male hormone monster with some, er, ''unique'' ideas on how human interactions and relationships work. He appears to be Coach Steve's personal Hormone Monster, which explains a lot.
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* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:He chooses to retire after Coach Steve finally has sex.]]
* CatchPhrase: "What are you gonna do?"
* ElderlyImmortal: Looks far older than both Maurice and Connie, despite all of them being presumably ageless beings as old as ''life on Earth itself''. Then again, his signs of "age" might actually just come from a rougher life.
** One possible reason he's aged so badly is that he's been waiting 30 years for Coach Steve to lose his virginity.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]].
* FunWithSubtitles: In season 2, he gets automatic subtitles due to being [[TheUnintelligible The Unintelligible]].
-->'''Connie:''' Rick, I can never understand what you're saying.
-->'''Rick:''' That's why they have subtitles.
* HiddenDepths: Apparently, he helped Maurice abandon [[spoiler: for a short while, at least]] his LovableSexManiac ways, off-screen. How he did that, being as perverted as your average hormone monster (just in a really awkward way), is a mystery. [[spoiler: Of course, since most of the episode in which this occurs turns out to be a dream, this may be subverted.]]
* NiceGuy: While like all hormone monsters he condones violence and perversion he is overall a friendly, forgiving guy.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tyler]]
!!Tyler
->'''Voiced By:''' John Gemberling

A younger and very naive newbie hormone monster that is assigned to Nick.
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* AssShove: Gavin likes to put cigarettes up his butthole.
-->'''Tyler:''' He calls it his asstray.
* BabyTalk: He often does this in an attempt to defuse Nick's anger at him by pretending to be cute.
* BeleagueredAssistant: To Gavin.
* BodyHorror: The way his horn grows is shown to be quite painful.
* {{Fetish}}: He shows signs of having a mommy kink, constantly mentioning Nick's mom, calling Connie a "strong mommy" and even calling Elliot a "tiger mommy" when impressed with him.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Nick calls him out on the fact that his advice is only for his own pleasure, which benefits neither of them.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:He is actually working for the Shame Wizard, believing him to be an actual nice guy and feeding him information]].
* TooKinkyToTorture: [[spoiler:Enjoys it when the Shame Wizard starts hitting him with a newspaper.]]
* NaiveNewcomer: Unlike the other Hormone Monsters, Tyler is a full newbie that has no prior experience before taking over as Nick's Hormone Monster and has very little knowledge of everything related to puberty.
* YouthfulFreckles: He has a smattering of them to emphasize his youth and inexperience.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gavin]]
!!Gavin Reeves
->'''Voiced By:''' Bobby Cannavale


->''"Alright, sweet lips, I got your home address. I'll show up whenever the fuck I want."''

An "alpha male" Hormone Monster.
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* TheBully: He enjoys kicking the shit out of Tyler both physically and emotionally.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's an aggressive, swaggering asshole.
* TestosteronePoisoning: He's jacked and has a violent streak, hinting at steroid abuse.
[[/folder]]

!!Other Creatures

[[folder:The Shame Wizard]]
!!The Shame Wizard
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shamewizard.png]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/DavidThewlis

->''That's why I'm here to make it right\\
And to shine a naked light\\
On all the horrid things you do\\
And fill you with SHAME!''

Debuting in Season 2, the Shame Wizard makes teens feel guilty.
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* AntiVillain: By the end of season 2, Andrew admits that shame is a part of life all need to deal with and may teach them to be better people, which is the Wizard's goal. Once the Shame Wizard drops his more villainous traits, he is able to work together with Andrew.
* BigBad: He's the driving negative force of Season 2, and all characters start to have to deal with them as their actions call him forth.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: He talks directly to the audience over the "to be continued" screen at the end of "Dark Side of the Boob".
* CastingAShadow: the Shame Wizard is able to teleport and manifest himself by using shadows in a given room.
* {{Catchphrase}}: ''"Shaaame..."''
* CollectorOfTheStrange: His hobby is collecting vintage Nazi dildos.
* ColorMotif: While he doesn't wear green, he's connected to the color. Many of his appearances, especially when he is at his most threatening, have the whole show tinted in a green shade. Even the trial he puts Andrew through is in an entirely green court.
* DastardlyWhiplash: Has a pencil-thin moustache, large hooked nose, hunched posture and dark robes.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Despite being the BigBad for most of Season 2, he gets defeated in the penultimate episode allowing Kitty to take over as the FinalBoss.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's a little upset by the racist treatment of Missy's American Girl doll, Maddie, by the company that made her.
-->'''Maddie:''' I'm the only doll that doesn't come with a birthday!
-->'''Shame Wizard:''' What this company has done to you is not right.
* EvilBrit: He has a British accent.
* EvilLaugh: On occasion, he releases a pretty masterful one.
* {{Foil}}: To the Hormone Monsters. While the Hormone Monsters represent the teenage Id, the Shame Wizard represents the teenage Superego.
** Coach Steve is this to ''him'', with Steve's utter ''lack'' of shame confounding the Shame Wizard.
* ForeheadOfDoom: He's got a weird eggplant-shaped head with a large amount of space between his hairline and eyebrows.
* FriendlyEnemy: Despite being the antithesis to the hormone monsters, he's able to converse with them on a casual basis.
* HiddenDepths: Likes Nazi dildos and did a cover of A Ha's "Take on Me".
* HumanoidAbomination: Not only does his appearance look slightly abnormal (elf ears and sharp teeth), but he can manifest through shadows and create countless doppelgangers of himself.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Much how shame actually works, the Shame Wizard finds ways for people to feel guilty about things they shouldn't or that don't even have any way to be blamed for, which includes making Jessi feel like she was the cause for Trump's election as she was not sufficiently aggressive as a Hillary supporter.
* KnightOfCerebus: The show never had an antagonist or BigBad prior to him coming along, and it shows that the second season, in part thanks to his antics, is much darker.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:As the embodiment of shame, he whispers in everyone's ears and makes everyone act against each other's, and their own, best interests.]]
* MismatchedEyes: He has one hazel eye and one blue eye. There is a large scar over the hazel eye,suggesting it may be a replacement.
* MommyIssues: He has a tense, troubled relationship with his mother.
* NecessaryEvil: Sees himself as this, and is later agreed to be this. Yes, shame might be a bad feeling to have, but feeling shame will teach you to not do something again and without it, as he mentions in his song, humanity could revert to a depraved state of hedonism, which actually happens in the sleepover.
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:His father abandoned him, leading to severe issues in his adult life.]]
* PetTheDog:
** He develops a friendship with Coach Steve, and keeps the drawing he made framed in his office.
** During his trial of Andrew, he allows a witness, [[ItMakesSenseInContext who is a sock]] to smoke on the stand out of sympathy for what it went through with Andrew.
** He also appears to have some sympathy for Jessi's father, though he uses it to make Jessi feel guilty about shoplifting.
* VillainHasAPoint: Although he takes things too far, he's right that an unrepentant human race devoid of guilt would not be a good thing.
* VillainSong: He gets a show-stopper worthy of Disney in "Dark Side of the Boob".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Depression Kitty]]
!!Kitty
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kitty_9.png]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JeanSmart

A creature from the depression department. She has been a outside consultant in Jessi's case, and tries to take over Jessi's guidance when she and Connie have a fallout.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: Of depression. She isolates Jessi from her friends and family and tries to keep her in a constant state of lazy indisposition. Even when she is defeated, Jessi still admits she needs to see a therapist.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She shows up as disarming and even somewhat pleasant and friendly, but once that Jessi is under her thumb, she shows herself controlling and very antagonistic.
* CatsAreMean: Doesn't get more mean than to basically trying to drive someone to suicide.
* FinalBoss: She is the last threat faced in Season 2, well after the Shame Wizard had become weaker and sympathetic.
* {{Foil}}: To the Shame Wizard, who was the BigBad for most of Season 2, Kitty was introduced right at the end and serves as a sort of FinalBoss for the same season. Where as the Wizard starts as a fully evil and antagonistic being, he ends as a sort of AntiVillain that not only has a sympathetic backstory and understandable motives but is ultimately able to befriend both Andrew and Maurice, Kitty is much more apparently nice and pleasant, her suggestions to Jessi make her feel instantly comfortable, but she is much more devious, wanting Jessi to lose connection to her friends, family and goals and instate depression on her, and all the kids and monsters run away from her, as Jessi seeks help in therapy to get rid of her fully.
* KnightOfCerebus: Like the Shame Wizard, every of her appearances makes the show darker.
* ShoutOut: Bears a striking resemblance to the Cheshire Cat from ''Disney/AliceInWonderland'', specifically it's Disney's incarnation, down to a similar color palette and fur pattern. As well as the way she first approaches Jessi: suddenly appearing behind her.
[[/folder]]

!The Students

[[folder:Matthew]]
!!Matthew
->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/AndrewRannells
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/matthew_7.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm above this, so I'm not gonna comment."'']]

->''"I can't believe I'm in seventh grade and already over high school. These fucking people."''

An openly gay classmate of the main characters. He's the bitchy host of the school morning news who loves to fuel the fires of personal drama to everybody.
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* {{Backstory}}: He mentions this by name in season 2, saying that he used to be cyberbullied in Texas and called the Steer Queer.
* BelligerentSexualTension: [[spoiler:In Season 2, he gains some of this with Jay of all people near the end as Matthew frequently pokes fun of him and Jay often quickly retorts in annoyance even when Matthew tries to offer some friendship to him, and when Jay rejects him Matthew responds with his typical name-calling. But during the slumber party they end up making out after the Smooch or Share game led to their first kiss (Matthew's at least and Jay's first boy kiss). And although Matthew brushes him off the next day, it's highly implied that Jay is still attracted him.]]
* CampGay: Perhaps the first animated depiction of a ''bitchy'' gay friend, as he's very catty and sassy.
* ClosetKey: [[spoiler:During the sleepover, Matthew and Jay kiss during a spin the bottle game. When they talk about it again, they make out. This later leads Jay to realize he is bisexual]].
* TheDandy: Is always well dressed. At one point, he also wears a cowboy costume for no apparent reason.
* GayBestFriend: Claims this role for Jessi in the very first episode. They seem to have a somewhat nicer relationship than with others and he appears to enjoy her wittiness. This gets deconstructed in Season 2; girls don't really see him as a boy and other boys isolate him because they see him only as a gay guy and in part because of his bitchy personality. At the end of the day, he feels somewhat stuck in a role he has to play to maintain his girl friends and doesn't quite feels he fits in any group.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Sure he enjoys picking on people and fueling drama, but just like everyone else in the party, he is disgusted with Daniel when he learns that he forces girls to give him blowjobs and slut shames them when they don't comply to his demands, even calling Daniel a "busy little asshole".
* HiddenDepths: Matthew has a hard time fitting in on school when he isn't being a bitchy gay guy. When he tries to become nicer and let his guard down, the Shame Wizard shows up to reveal he feels that he doesn't quite fit in anywhere, since the girls don't actually acknowledge him as a guy and he has little in common with other guys his age, who actively avoid him, either due to his unpleasant personality or due to being gay.
* InkSuitActor: He looks like a cartoon version of his actor.
* {{Jerkass}}: He genuinely enjoys playing hurtful pranks and making fun of others while fueling any drama that might happen around him and takes pleasure on calling people names.
* KarmaHoudini: He is never called out or receives any sort of punishment for his various endeavors in playing with people and his terrible personality.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: THOROUGHLY played in Season 2. After meeting an older gay man, he starts realizing that his crassness has left him alone and miserable and we even see him at one point huddled sadly in the teachers lounge. The Shame Wizard even CALLS him "A lonely little queer."
* PetTheDog: Together with Jessi, they throw Jay a bone after they deeply hurt his feelings by using him for laughs during their science project and turning him into their project. Matthew adds that they don't want to be blamed for his suicide.
* SchoolNewspaperNewshound: He takes his role as the school morning news host very seriously.
* SurroundedByIdiots: He sees most people as inferior to him, be it by personality, intelligence or looks, with Jessi being the sole person he is remotely nice to, after acknowledging that she is funny and smart.
-->'''Matthew:''' These fucking people.
* TookALevelInKindness: In season 2, after meeting an older gay man that has a much similar personality than him. The man advises to Matthew to try to be nicer to others, or he may end up pushing everybody away. Matthew takes this to heart and during the sleepover, he tries to downplay his meanness by avoiding gossip and trash talks. Of course, by that time, a lot of people are still unsure about that due to his old personality.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Devin]]
!!Devin
->'''Voiced by:''' June Diane Raphael

->''"Well, I'm sorry you're all such beta bitches. And for your 4-1-1-formation, you don't know how tough it is to be in charge!"''

The most popular and self-acclaimed prettiest girl in school. Devin is a somewhat bitchy girl who dates Devon and is best friends with Lola.
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* AlphaBitch: She is the most popular girl in their grade and is prone to making fun of others, as well as being terribly self-centered.
* ControlFreak: She likes being in charge and tends to try to hold power in all relationships, including asking her boyfriend [=DeVon=] to go by "Devin" so they can be called "The Devins", when he complains about it, she posts their name as that anyway.
* FemaleMisogynist: Devin reserves most of her vitirol for other women, whom she holds to standards she doesn't meet herself.
* GreenEyedMonster: She's horribly jealous of Gina for the attention she gets from the boys.
* HateSink: In season 2, her unpleasantness is upgraded into being a complete bitch. Her abuse of Lola is ramped up and she gleefully slut shames Gina whenever she can to make up for Devon breaking up with her, despite that she was a terrible, controling girlfriend all along.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She accuses Jessi of being un-supportive to her fellow women. Jessi rightfully calls her out on the fact she was the ringleader of the whole situation, and the others were just going along with her.
* {{Jerkass}}: Devin is an enormously unpleasant person: she's a smug, manipulative, self-absorbed bully who gets her fun by making fun of others. She is somewhat nicer to Jessi, but not enough to be even remotely genuinely nice. By season 2, she got upgraded from a jerkass secondary character to a minor villain.
* SlutShaming: [[spoiler:She's very critical of Gina allowing Nick to get to second base, and quickly spreads horrible rumors.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lola]]
!!Lola
->'''Voiced by:''' Nick Kroll

->''"That's funny! We can say terrible things to each other because we are '''so''' close!"''

Devin's close friend and her right hand man. She is always following Devin and hates when she hangs out with other people or seek other friends.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Despite being clearly interested in boys, she shows a degree of attraction towards Devin. [[spoiler:When their friendship crash and burns, in the middle of her anger and rant, Lola kisses Devin before unfollowing her in all social media they have]].
* AxCrazy: Lola is essentially Devin's attack dog, and she's prone to violence. [[spoiler:She even sprains Andrew's wrist.]]
* BetaBitch: Takes pride in this position. At one point, Devin outright calls her a beta bitch during Jessi's sleepover.
* ClingyJealousGirl: To anyone who talks to Devin.
* TheDogBitesBack: Devin clearly holds no respect for Lola and often humiliates her when bored, which Lola takes in stride. [[spoiler:After the sleepover, however, she can no longer handle Devin's treatment and abandons the position of BetaBitch, unfriending and unfollowing her in all social media sites]].
* DomesticAbuser: She's emotionally abusive to Andrew, and crosses the line into physical abuse when he breaks up with her. She breaks his freakin' wrist!
* FreudianExcuse: It seems that a lot of her anger issues and insecurity stems from her unstable home life.
* KillAndReplace: She has a bizarre desire to someday kill Devin, wear her skin as a human jumpsuit and take her life. Devin actually finds that very flattering.
* OddFriendship: She and Gina bond over their heartbreak and Devin's meanness. At the end of the sleepover, they turn their backs on the people who hurt them and seem to have forged an awkward though healthy friendship.
* VocalDissonance: She has a rather deep voice for a little girl and is clearly voiced by a man.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Caleb]]
!!Caleb
->'''Voiced by:''' Joe Wengert

->''"Hi. You're looking at me. How tall are you? There's a monster next to you."''

Caleb is one of the members of the jazz club and is usually seen with Missy and the social outcasts. He also carries around a yellow rollie backpack and tends to remember who last went to the bathroom, as well.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: A teacher calls him "special", clearly meaning he has some sort of condition, we're just never told exactly what it is. His complete inability to take social cues points to him being somewhere in the further end of the autism spectrum, most likely Asperger's. He carries around a visual cheat sheet of facial expressions which is a common tool for children on the autistic spectrum.
* BadassAdorable: It shows when Andrew accidentally has his backpack, showcasing [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength his possible strength]]. Also happens again when he knocks Guy Bilzerian into the pool and the penis worms.
* BerserkButton: Caleb does NOT like anyone else touching his roly backpack. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Andrew learned that one the hard way.]]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He's the one to give Guy Bilzerian his comeuppance, out of nowhere, by ''knocking him into an infested pool'' just for trying to steal school property.
* CaptainObvious: His constant expositions lean into this at times. One of his running gags is to pull out his cheat sheet depicting a guide to human facial expressions and inform someone how they're feeling.
* MrExposition: He sometimes mentions things the rest of the students don't pay much attention to, but considering it's Caleb, they're probably used to it and he's still [[{{Adorkable}} well-liked]].
* NiceGuy: He easily falls under this due to being with the jazz club, but he has..
* NoSocialSkills: That does not stop him from trying to socialize, though.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: He can also see Maurice, so he's clearly not bothered much by him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Devon]]
!!Devon
->'''Voiced by:''' Jak Knight

Devon was Devin's trophy boyfriend in Season 1, but splits up with her for Gina in Season 2. Despite being 13, he suffers from arthritis.
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* InformedAttribute: He's stated to be the most popular boy in the 8th grade, but apart from getting to sit at the back of the bus there's little hint of this.
* LoveRival: With Nick over Gina. When Devon laughs at Nick getting pantsed in a public space, Gina picks Nick over Devon.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: He gets little characterisation outside of being someone's boyfriend.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lars]]
!!Lars
->'''Voiced by:''' Neil Casey

->''"It's not all bad. You can do Disneyland in like an hour and a half."''

A handicapped boy.
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* TheAlcoholic: Is noted to be drunk more than once. Freely admits that he is only at Jessi's bat mitzvah for the open bar (keep in mind that he's a 7th grader) and is shown being passed out in his wheelchair.
* DeadpanSnarker: Every line of dialogue from him is dripping with a resigned sense of snark.
* TheStoic: Nothing seems to faze him.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Gogurt Burglar]]
!!Gogurt Burglar
->'''Voiced by:''' ???

A kid who runs around in the background sucking on a tube of gogurt.
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* AnimalMotifs: He scurries around wearing a domino mask, giving off the impression of a raccoon.
* InformedAttribute: He's never shown stealing anything. The "burglar" part of his name seems to tie into his domino mask.
* {{Troll}}: His sneaking around with a gogurt tube is mainly to upset Coach Steve's lactose intolerance.
* TheVoiceless: Says nothing outside of giggling.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gina]]
!!Gina Alvarez
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gin.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Do you want me to kick your ass again?"'']]
->'''Voiced By:''' Gina Rodriguez

->''"He told me I was a slut. In fact, [[SlutShaming you all did]]."''

A classmate who developed earlier than the other girls.
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* {{Gainaxing}}: Her first ever scene focuses on her generous bust bouncing around as she runs.
* MaleGaze: The boys initially only see her as a pair of boobs until being told by Nick's family that they need to see her as a person.
* OddFriendship: After Gina gets her heart broken by Nick and Lola gets the same treatment from Andrew, and both are on the receiving end of Devin's bitchiness, they find a lot of common ground to become friends. Gina also feels sorry for how Devin mistreats Lola and she thinks that this treatment is perfectly ok.
* RejectedApology: After being slut shamed by Devin, she refuses to accept Nick or Jessi's apology, claiming that they don't get to ask forgiveness and have everyone else act like nothing happened.
-->'''Gina:''' You can't just do something awful and then say you're sorry and then expect, like, make up make outs!
* RememberTheNewGuy: Lampshaded by Jessi. She's been in the kids same class since 1st grade, but the boys never noticed her until she grew breasts.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Her development has made her feel bad about herself since the boys objectify her and the girls give her a hard time.
[[/folder]]

!!!Other Students

[[folder:Daniel]]
!!Daniel
->'''Voiced by:''' Zach Woods

The star of the school's drama club. Daniel is an eccentric and upbeat men who easily charms Nick's older sister Leah in a party.
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* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:He has a history of pushing women into giving him blowjobs, when they refuse, he spreads rumors that they did and attempt to slut shame them.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Comes off as a friendly CoolBigBro and Leah's new crush, he is sweet, interesting, fun and smart and he is always very nice to Nick. [[spoiler:Then it turns out he has been spreading terrible rumors about the women who refuse his terribly aggressive tactics of getting a blowjob]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:The final Series/{{Seinfeld}} [[InTheStyleOf spoof]] of the episode has Jessi saying that Daniel died a while after the party. Jay expands that the Cotton Candy Brandy that Nick threw up in his hat entered his brain and gave him cancer.]]
* HateSink / {{Jerkass}}: [[spoiler:He has pushed several women into giving him blowjobs, pressured them into it and spread rumors about the ones that escaped, saying they did and slut shaming them, even getting Tallulah the title of "Blowjob Machine" when she refuses his advances. When he gets cornered, he refuses to accept his fault, calls the party out for slut shaming him and leaves with an air of superiority saying that party culture is to be blamed by what happened there]].
* HumiliationConga: At the end of "Head Pusher". [[spoiler:After his actions are outed, he leaves the party with everyone hating him. Nick goes to return his hat just to puke Cotton Candy Brandy in it, then Leah puts the puke-filled hat in his head, Jay flips the bird to him and Judd pokes his tires (along with everyone's). If the final Seinfeld-like spoof is canon, he's also dead of Cotton Candy Brandy-induced brain cancer]].
* LargeHam: He takes his over dramatic acting from the drama club to anywhere he goes and social outings, meaning he will talk in parties as if he was still in a play, by projecting when the situation doesn't call for it and speaking with in an exaggeratedly eloquent way.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tallulah Levine]]
!!Tallulah Levine
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MaeWhitman

A high school freshman who hits it off with Nick. She is rumored to have amazing oral skills.
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* MaliciousSlander: Thanks to Daniel, who tried to force her to give him a blowjob and when she rejected the act, he spread a rumor about how she loves giving blowjobs.
* TemporaryLoveInterest: To Nick.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair
[[/folder]]

!Teachers

[[folder:Coach Steve]]
!!Coach Steve
->'''Voiced by:''' Nick Kroll

The loud and bumbling gym teacher.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: He's initially just presented as a weirdo, but it becomes increasingly clear that he may have legit learning disadvantages.
* BuriedAlive: Was thought to be dead after eating a wheel of cheese.
* CoolTeacher: Though portrayed as a loser, he's usually there for the kids if they have a problem.
* CloudCuckoolander: Steve is a weird dude, to put it mildly.
* {{Expy}}: He's a lot like Borat, if his extreme social awkwardness came not from being a clueless foreigner, but from having some sort of condition.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Oh, he wishes he was this, at the very least. Truth is, people only hang out around him when they absolutely have to, like at work. However this is later [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], as the more they hang out with him, the more they find themselves somewhat charmed by his naive goodness. [[spoiler:Jay and the Shame Wizard wind up becoming genuine friends with him.]]
* ForeignCussWord: At a bar he "works" at (he actually just bartends for free... ''despite'' management constantly telling him to leave), the staff calls him ''pendejo''[[note]] A strong swear word in Spanish, literally means a single pubic hair, but when used as an insult, it's a rough equivalent to "asshole" or "dumbass"[[/note]]. He doesn't know what it means, so he just happily assumes it's a nickname. When he [=DJs=] at Jessi's Bat Mitzvah, he adopts it as his stage name, ''DJ Pendejo''.
* FreeingTheGenie: Attempts this on his hormone monster, Rick after losing his virginity.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: [[spoiler:Jay and Coach Steve bond and become friends, which works since they've both led (and continue to lead) desperately sad lives and are stuffed full of delusion. Also Steve has the maturity of a child Jay's age or younger.]]
* NeverLearnedToRead: Despite working ''in a school''. He does, however know the alphabet, but just barely, and he doesn't actually know the names for the letters. He instead has nicknames for them.
* NiceGuy: Despite his weirdness, Steve is very good-natured and friendly.
* PlotAllergy: Is severely lactose intolerant and doesn't realize that things like cheese and milk count as dairy.
* RaisedHandOfSurvival: After they bury him alive.
* RepetitiveName: His grave says both his first and last names are Steve.
* SelfAppliedNickname: Refers to himself, Nick, Andrew, Jessi and Jay as the Fab Five.
* ThirdEye: Claims to have had eyes on his ''pener'' that the doctor removed when he was four.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mr. Lizer]]
!!Mr. Lizer
->'''Voiced by:''' Rob Huebel

A much less awkward teacher.
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* CoolTeacher: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] He's obviously trying to cultivate this image, and his students like him for it, but he's mostly just a pretentious tool. Plus, Jessi got a ''very'' creepy vibe from him after wearing a new push-up bra.
* {{Foil}}: To Coach Steve. He's less bizarre and clearly a functioning adult, but Steve is a humble and helpful man while Mr. Lizer is a quietly creepy douchebag.
* PoliticallyMotivatedTeacher: The first time we see him, he's complaining about the patriarchy in a know-it-all tone.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ms. Benitez]]
!!Ms. Benitez
->'''Voiced by:''' Rosa Salazar

The 7th grade science teacher.
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* HotTeacher: When Andrew has a sleep-deprived sex fantasy during class, he fantasises about Ms Benitez as a scantily-clad Dominatrix.
* NiceGirl: Offers to teach Coach Steve and manages to gently put him down when he starts showing interest in her.
[[/folder]]

!Families

!!!The Birches

[[folder:In General]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Fred Armisen (Elliot), Maya Rudolph (Diane), Kat Dennings (Leah), Jon Daly (Judd)

Nick's family, consisting of his father Elliot, mother Diane, older sister Leah, and older brother Judd.
----
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Nick often feels this way, and for good reason. Elliot and Diane are quirky to put it mildly, and they openly display that quirkiness around Nick's friends. Elliot even dropped his pants at an amusement park to show solidarity with Nick when the latter got pantsed while hanging from a zipline.
* {{Foil}}: Diane and Elliot are direct foils to Jessi and Andrew's parents.
** They are very sex positive and eager to teach their prepubescent son about sex and his body, being extremely open minded, and their sex life is very fulfilling. The Gloubermans, on the other hand, are very awkward about sex, having a hard time or even outright denying to teach or talk with Andrew about sex and have accused him of being a deviant for even being curious about sex and accusing him of being a molester after [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Missy initiated an unwelcome advance on him]], with a sex life that's lukewarm at best.
** Diane and Elliot are very much still as in love after all these years together, with Elliot being introduced thanking Diane for the life they have. Their sex life is active and fulfilling, they don't have any fights and are a constant presence in their children's lives. Shannon and Greg's romance died years ago and are stuck with each other now, [[spoiler:with Shannon even cheating on Greg with another woman]]. Their constant fights inevitably cause problems to Jessi, who has to watch the breakdown of her parent's marriage and being in the crossfire of their constant fighting.
* GoodParents: While embarrassing, Elliot and Diane have done a good job raising Nick. The Shame Wizard mentions that it's harder to get to Nick because his parents gave him a notably high self-esteem.
* HappilyMarried: Diane and Elliot are still very much in love and have an active sex life still. They often mentioned how their sex life is going great.
* MyBelovedSmother: Diane and Elliot both are touchy-feely with Nick, but she's especially attached, saying she wants to "put him back up there" ("there" being her womb) and giving him lip kisses when he's already 12. She also gets sad over the fact that she'll soon have an empty nest.
* OpenMindedParent: At one point, they assume Nick is struggling with his sexuality. Elliot assures him he can try things and implies [[ExperimentedInCollege he tried things before]] without being gay. Both also are outright happy to welcome him as gay if he finds out to be so.
-->'''Nick:''' Dad, I'm not worried I might be gay!\\
'''Diane:''' Honey, it's fine if you are. \\
'''Elliot:''' It's better.\\
'''Diane:''' Besides, you could do a lot worse than Andrew Glouberman.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Elliot]]
!!Dr. Elliot Birch
->'''Voiced By:''' Fred Armisen

* BiggerIsBetterInBed: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. In the first episode, Elliot admits his dick isn't very big, but he understands Diane's body and feelings to please her better than anyone else. Diane then mentions that she dated men with bigger dicks that were just uncomfortable for her. In a bizarrely sweet way, they describe themselves as this:
-->'''Diane:''' Your father's penis was my glass slipper.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Elliot is pretty strange, but he's a highly competent doctor and is probably the most well-adjusted character in the entire cast.
* CampStraight: He's rather flamboyant and kind of a weirdo, but has a passionate sex life with his wife, to whom he's HappilyMarried.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Diane]]
!!Diane Birch
->'''Voiced By:''' Maya Rudolph

* MamaBear: When the normally sweet Diane finds out that Jessi dumped Nick she is enraged and snarls that she wants to rip her to pieces.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Leah]]
!!Leah Birch
->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/KatDennings

* CoolBigSis: Leah is helpful, friendly and open minded. She likes to help Nick both in his relationships and understanding a lot of things about teens and puberty.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Judd]]
!!Judd Birch
->'''Voiced By:''' Jon Daly

* AloofBigBrother: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. He acts cold and aloof towards his younger siblings and even says he doesn't care what happens to them. When push comes to shove however, he is shown to always be there for them whenever they need him and even admits to Nick in private that he loves him and wants him to succeed in his life. Not being a BigBrotherBully like Jay's older brothers also helps.
* BombThrowingAnarchist: Judd seems to be a lighter flavor of this, he's working on a manifesto, crawls through the walls and ceiling of the home to spy on his family members, and slashed all the car tires in the neighborhood for no reason.
* EmoTeen: Mostly wears black and acts kind of angry and creepy, like countless other teenagers. But he doesn't actually behave violently towards people, unlike Jay's older brothers.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Judd is ambiguously AxCrazy, but he looks out for his siblings whenever they need him. Nick thought he hated him however.
-->'''Judd:''' I don't hate you, you're my brother. I just want the world burn... and for you to get your dick wet.
* PestController: He's training an army of raccoons.
[[/folder]]

!!!The Gloubermans

[[folder:In General]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Richard Kind & Paula Pell

Andrew's family, consisting of his father Martin and mother Barbara.
----
* AwfulWeddedLife: It varies, but his father describes himself as an "angrily married man". He does genuinely loves Barbara and she reciprocates, but they easily get into each other's nerves.
* SexlessMarriage: Not entirely, but they are practically this in comparison to Elliot and Diane.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Martin]]
!!Martin Glouberman
->'''Voiced By:''' Richard Kind

* AbusiveParents: He consistently sides against his son in almost any dispute and yells at him frequently. Also, he physically restrained Andrew while waxing his mustache against Andrew's will. Despite being painful and humiliating for Andrew, Martin seemed very pleased afterward. It never appears to have even occurred to him that, given Andrew's age, he could have just taught him to shave -- as very, very few men wax their facial hair.
* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Martin loves scallops (which are shellfish) and eats them extremely often, almost in any outing despite his reaction to them and nobody appears to notice that Jews don't eat shellfish, not even his own family or Jessi's equally Jewish family who even serves them at her Bat Mitzvah.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In "Girls Get Horny Too", Martin accuses a guy in ''Shark Tank'' of somehow getting into his head and stealing his illuminated toilet seat idea, much to the (sexual) frustration of Barbara. Turns out, he wasn't ''completely'' off. Maurice says at [[BrickJoke the end of the episode]] that he took note of it while hanging around Martin and he let it slip to the guy that eventually took it to ''Shark Tank''.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Martin is a short-tempered slob who's constantly on the attack, and thinks nothing of publicly shaming his only son during a basketball game. Despite this, he's not truly a bad guy; he ''does'' care for his family, loves his wife and thinks well of friends like Elliot.
** In a flashback, it's shown he met his future wife when she rear-ended him. He gets out and starts yelling at her. Barbara, who was returning home from a very emotionally taxing experience, breaks down into tears. Martin instantly stops shouting and comforts her, even rubbing her back when this total stranger collapses weeping into his arms.
* JewishComplaining: He does this a ''lot''. Andrew hits the nail on the head by describing him as a one-star Yelp review come to life.
* OddFriendship: He immediately hits it off with Lola due to their similar abrasive personalities and weird, aggressive quirks.
* OnlySaneMan: Due to being so ruthlessly pragmatic (although he makes an exception for scallops) Marty is often a surprisingly sensible albeit outraged voice of reason, especially among the adult characters. Of note is his appearance in "Guy Town" where he sets about noting all the building violations in Greg's new apartment, tells Greg exactly what he's expected to do to put his life together and gives Nick a short but effective speech about appreciating the weird but loving Elliott but threatening Guy Bilzerian to release Greg from his lease (with some help from Caleb).
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He loves his scallops, even though they give him violent diarrhoea.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Barbara]]
!!Barbara Glouberman
->'''Voiced By:''' Paula Pell

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: A MushroomSamba sequence reveals that she had an abortion before meeting Martin. This is presented as a reasonable, albeit difficult, decision that she doesn't regret.
[[/folder]]

!!!The Glasers

[[folder:In General]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Seth Morris (Greg) & Jessica Chaffin (Shannon)

Jessi's family, consisting of her father Greg and mother Shannon.
----
* AwfulWeddedLife: Greg and Shannon's marriage devolved into this. They often jab at each other for no reason, fight all the time and clearly dislike each other at this point. PlayedForDrama, as the two of them are incredibly miserable and Jessi's home life becomes worse and worse because her parents' hatred for each other sometimes get in the way of the fact they both genuinely love her.
* CelebrityResemblance: They have a dog that looks like (and is later voiced by) Creator/NathanFillion.
* DeadSparks: They used to be happy and in love, but now their relationship is this.
* HappilyMarried: They ''were'' this, a long time ago. Over the years, they drifted apart due to Shannon's advancing career and Greg's stagnation, becoming continuously lazy and high all the time.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shannon Glaser]]
!!Shannon Glaser
->'''Voiced By:''' Jessica Chaffin

Jessi's mother. A hard-working woman that tries to teach her daughter about women's place in the world.
----
* AmbiguouslyBi: Shannon doesn't exactly know what she is anymore, having cheated on Greg with a woman. While a lot of people seem to assume she's lesbian, it's never cleared up whether or not she is still attracted to men. Her marriage to Greg ''was'' genuinely loving at one part, and it's implied that part of the reason they drifted apart was due to a lack of sex. It seems likely that Shannon is bisexual, but never had the chance to explore these feelings due to being married for such a long time.
* SympatheticAdulterer: Deconstructed. Shannon is stuck in a terrible marriage with a man who can't give her what she wants and is completely lost about who she exactly is. But it's still incredibly painful for both Jessi (who watched the decay of her parents' marriage through the years) and Greg (who has just discovered that his wife has been cheating on him and can't say whether she still loves him), and they are heartbroken over it. In other words, no matter how many excuses she can produce, or how valid they are, Shannon still cheated on her husband and destroyed her own family, and despite none of her acts coming out of malice, both Jessi and Greg still have every right to be pissed at her.
* YourCheatingHeart: Shannon is cheats on Greg with their synagogue's Cantor, later entering a relationship with her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Greg Glaser]]
!!Greg Glaser
->'''Voiced By:''' Seth Morris

Jessi's stoner father. He's a loving father though a not so great husband.
----
* ItsAllMyFault: He fully blames himself for his wife cheating on him. He reveals this when Jessi asks him why he isn't angry at her. He mentions to have not have had or looked for any work in years, letting Shanon take over the job of sustaining both himself and Jessi and quit trying to have sex with her for years.
* InkSuitActor: Greg looks very much like his voice actor, Seth Morris.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Throughout Season 2, he comes to the realization that he hasn't been a good husband. When Jessi gets into his edibles, he's horrified and moves out in penance.
* TheStoner: Jessi outright states he spends most of his time high.
[[/folder]]

!!!The Bilzerians

[[folder:In General]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Jason Mantzoukas (Guy), Heather Lawless (Jenna), Mark Duplass (Val) & Paul Scheer (Kurt)

Jay's family, consisting of his father, mother, and two older brothers.
----
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Their home is more akin to a cave of feral animals than a surburban dwelling. Val and Kurt are sadistic, bullying little beasts, Jenna is sunk-deep into alcoholism and Guy is the worst of them all: a misogynistic, sleazy creep who doesn't possess a shred of remorse for his horrid actions.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Guy Bilzerian]]
!!Guy Bilzerian
->'''Voiced By:''' Jason Mantzoukas

Jay's father, a local divorce lawyer.
----
* AmoralAttorney: He's a repulsive human being through and through, but is a fairly successful ambulance-chasing lawyer.
* BigDamnHeroes: Yes, ''really''. When Andrew is accused of being the Ponytail Killer/Prowler/Person/''Something'' due to a series of very unfortunate coincidences and thrown into jail, [[ChekhovsGunman Guy]], shows up and manages to prove his innocence... At the cost of a video of him throwing a bunch of jizz-filled socks in a dumpster going viral.
* {{Cuckold}}: Jenna starts sleeping with Coach Steve of all people while he's out of the house.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: He does ''not'' approve of Jay doing magic, to the point of outright saying it in one of his law commercials.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Has a very negative attitude towards Planned Parenthood and has taught Jay to refer to it as an "abortion factory". He also takes his secretary there fairly regularly precisely because he keeps knocking her up and doesn't want her to actually bring a pregnancy to term.
* {{Jerkass}}: Guy is an aggressive, smug bully and an embodiment of toxic masculinity.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He has a very uncharitable view of women, seeing them purely as tools for his own pleasure to be picked up or discarded on his own whims.
* YourCheatingHeart: Jay's father cheats on his wife all the time with his secretary (and others). The whole family seems aware of it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jenna Bilzerian]]
!!Jenna Bilzerian
->'''Voiced By:''' Heather Lawless

* TheAlcoholic: She's introduced drinking wine in a semi-stupor. Jay mentions she drinks so much she barely is able to function as a mother and Guy also mentions offhandedly (in his ''law commercial'') that she has been institutionalized twice, so there might be a connection.
* ParentalNeglect: She spends so much time drunk she can barely care for her family. She feeds her kids by throwing take out on the table and let them fight over it like animals while she goes back to drinking.
* SympatheticAdulterer: Jenna cheats on her husband with Coach Steve, but it's hardly a mark against her considering how thoroughly awful Guy is.
* TookALevelInKindness: In a weird way, anyway. Coach Steve helps make her a little more level-headed and she actually starts acting like a mom to Jay....... So to speak. Allowing Jay to call her "Mom", actually remembering to pick him up from school (albeit a little drunk even then), even cooking him and Coach Steve a meal and showing concern over Jay's age before giving him Cotton Candy Brandy. Still, based on what she was like in season 1, it's a pretty decent step up for her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Val & Kurt Bilzerian]]
!!Val & Kurt Bilzerian
->'''Voiced By:''' Mark Duplass (Val) & Paul Scheer (Kurt)

* BigBrotherBully: Both of them are vicious little sociopaths.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]], as Andrew and Nick discuss: they'll grow up telling the story about Val and Kurt as a funny anecdote only to one day realize their actions clearly constituted sexual abuse of children.
* {{Jerkass}}: This is honestly the nicest thing that can be said about them.
* KickTheDog: One of them shot their old neighbors' dog in the eye with a slingshot, resulting in its death.
* TeensAreMonsters: Val and Kurt are sadistic homophobes who relentlessly bully and abuse Jay.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: They seem to get along with each other, even if they view everyone else as a potential victim.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Feat. Ludacris]]
!!Featuring Ludacris
->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JordanPeele

* AngryGuardDog: For the Bilzerians. He's pretty damned vicious with anyone who isn't a Bilzerian and has to be kept on a chain.
* HiddenDepths: He's dealing with some serious self-image issues.
* Lost Lenore: He was in love with a neighborhood beagle until she was killed in an accident by Jay's brothers. Though this could be false since he it's only mentioned [[ItMakesSenseInContext when he was talking to Nick when Nick was high]].
* PapaWolf: He's protective of Jay. [[spoiler:When Jay comes to terms with his bisexuality, Feat. Ludacris tearfully declares that he's proud of the little guy.]]
* PunnyName: He's a Music/{{Pitbull}} named Featuring Ludracris.
* TruthInFiction: Featuring Ludacris is aware of his own existence and gets depressed when he looks in a mirror. Smart dogs can be self aware, which itself is commonly tested with a mirror. Intelligent dogs are also more prone to mental illnesses like anxiety and depression.
[[/folder]]

!Other Adults

[[folder:Cantor Dina Resnick]]
!!Cantor Dina Reznick
->'''Voiced By:''' Michaela Watkins

Shannon's lover.
----
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She's fairly personable and nice, but acts selfishly. She entered a relationship with a married woman, showed zero guilt over it and then acted like she could be friends with Jessi despite everything. To top it off, she implies she's broken up families before, making her a serial homewrecker.
* InformedJudaism: Despite being a cantor in a synagogue, some of her remarks imply she is into NewAge stuff.
* LipstickLesbian: She's very attractive with a bangin' body.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Detectives Florez & Dumont]]
!!Detectives Florez & Dumont
->'''Voiced By:'''

Two detectives who regularly cross paths with the kids and Coach Steve.
----
* SkewedPriorities: While on the case of the Ponytail Killer, they spend more time trying to come up with a catchy name than actually doing their job.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Never seen apart.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Ponytail Killer]]
!!The Ponytail Killer
->'''Voiced By:''' ???

A serial killer who targets women and men with long hair.
----

[[/folder]]

!Otherworldly Beings

[[folder:The Ghost of Duke Ellington]]
!!The Ghost of Duke Ellington
->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JordanPeele

The spirit of Music/DukeEllington living in the attic of the Birch household, where he died. Andrew and Nick often go to him for advice, which he gives with convoluted and bizarre analogies to his life.
----
* BaitAndSwitch: At one point, he tells Nick the hypothetic scenario of him firing someone from his band for being gay, leading the man to commit suicide. Nick is surprised and the viewer is led to believe that's something that Duke did. Duke however says it was all hypothetical, because he loved having gay bandmates, as they attract women that Duke can then flirt with without competition.
* ConspiracyTheorist: According to him Stevie Wonder faked his blindness and 9/11 was an conspiracy organized by Jews.
* TheObiWan: Serves a mentor to the kids.
* OutOfFocus: Gradually becomes this as the series progresses and the kids interact with an increasing number of Hormone Monsters and the Shame Wizard, likely due to Jordan Peele's increasingly busy schedule.
* ThePollyanna: For a guy stuck in limbo, he's pretty cheerful. Given that he's not damned to haunt a single spot like ghosts in fiction normally do, he's probably not that inconvenienced.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pam]]
!!Pam
->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/KristenBell

Jay's pillow, whom he has sex with.
----
* MayDecemberRomance: She's almost as old as Jay's parents.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Jay moves on from her to a hotel pillow and later on a couch cushion.
* YourCheatingHeart: She cheated on Jay with Kurt, having his baby and trying to pass it off as Jay's.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mirror Missy]]
!!Mirror Missy
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JennySlate

The manifestation of Missy's self-loathing.
----
* EnemyWithin: Exists to make Missy feel bad about her lack of physical development.
* ShadowArchetype: While Missy is sweet and optimistic, Evil Missy is a {{Jerkass}}.
* ImMelting: What happens when Missy finally overcomes her self-loathing
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Nathan Fillion]]
!!Nathan Fillion
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NathanFillion

Missy's celebrity crush.
----
* AsHimself: With the obligatory AdamWesting.
* CelebCrush: Naturally, but it goes a bit beyond that. Though Missy's hormone monster is ''also'' supposed to be Connie, Nathan Fillion fills in a kind of pseudo-Hormone Monster role to distinguish her more from Jessi.
* CompositeCharacter: Missy pictures him as a cross between Mal from Series/{{Firefly}} and Series/{{Castle}}.
* LoveTriangle: Both Missy and Andrew fantasize about Andrew competing with Nathan Fillion for her affections.
* MayDecemberRomance: Andrew points out that Nathan is over 30 years older than Missy.

A hanicapped boy.

* AmbiguousDisorder: A teacher calls him "special", clearly meaning he has some sort of condition, we're just never told exactly what it is. His complete inability to take social cues points to him being somewhere in the further end of the autism spectrum, most likely Asperger's.

* CaptainObvious: His constant expositions lean into this at times.

8 KickTheDog: One of them shot their old neighbors' dog in the eye with a slingshot, resulting in its death.

The monster that guides women through puberty. [[spoiler: At the end of season 2, she becomes Nick's new hormone monster, despite Nick being a boy.]]

* OddFriendship: She and Gina bond over their heartbreak and Devin's meanness. At the end of the sleepover, they turn their back on the people who hurt them and seem to have forged an awkward though healthy friendship.

Caleb is one of the members of the jazz club and is usually seen with Missy and the social outcasts. He also carries around a yellow roly backpack and tends to remember who last went to the bathroom, as well.

* BadassAdorable: It shows when Andrew accidently has his backpack, showcasing [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength his possible strength]]. Also happens again when he knocks Guy Bilzerian into the pool and the penis worms.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's a little upset by the racist treatment of Missy's American girl doll, Maddie, by the company that made her.

* AllegoricalCharacter: Of depression. She isolates Jessi from his friends and family and tries to keep her in a constant state of lazy indisposition. Even when she is defeated, Jessi still admits she needs to see a therapist.

* BridgeBunny: The ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody skit in ''"The Planned Parenthood Show"'' had her filling this roll as a parody of Chewbacca.

* RunningGag: His tendency to quote his father's infamous divorce lawyer quotes, which is immediately followed by someone asking him to stop quoting them.

!Others

[[folder:The Ghost of Duke Ellington]]
!!The Ghost of Duke Ellington
->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JordanPeele

The spirit of Music/DukeEllington living in the attic of the Birch household, where he died. Andrew and Nick often go to him for advice, which he gives with convoluted and bizarre analogies to his life.

* BaitAndSwitch: At one point, he tells Nick the hypothetic scenario of him firing someone from his band for being gay, leading the man to commit suicide. Nick is surprised and the viewer is led to believe that's something that Duke did. Duke however says it was all hypothetical, because he loved having gay bandmates, as they attract women that Duke can then flirt with without competition.
* ConspiracyTheorist: According to him Stevie Wonder faked his blindness and 9/11 was an conspiracy organized by Jews.
* TheObiWan: Serves a mentor to the kids.
* OutOfFocus: Gradually becomes this as the series progresses and the kids interact with an increasing number of Hormone Monsters and the Shame Wizard, likely due to Jordan Peele's increasingly busy schedule.
* ThePollyanna: For a guy stuck in limbo, he's pretty cheerful. Given that he's not damned to haunt a single spot like ghosts in fiction normally do, he's probably not that inconvenienced.

[[folder:Cantor Dina Resnick]]
!!Cantor Dina Reznick
->'''Voiced By:''' Michaela Watkins

Shannon's lover.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: She's fairly personable and nice, but acts selfishly. She entered a relationship with a married woman, showed zero guilt over it and then acted like she could be friends with Jessi despite everything. To top it off, she implies she's broken up families before, making her a serial homewrecker.
* InformedJudaism: Despite being a cantor in a synagogue, some of her remarks imply she is into NewAge stuff.
* LipstickLesbian: She's very attractive with a bangin' body.

[[folder:Pam]]
!!Pam
->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/KristenBell

Jay's pillow, whom he has sex with.

* MayDecemberRomance: She's almost as old as Jay's parents.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Jay moves on from her to a hotel pillow and later on a couch cushion.
* YourCheatingHeart: She cheated on Jay with Kurt, having his baby and trying to pass it off as Jay's.

[[folder:Detectives Florez & Dumont]]
!!Detectives Florez & Dumont
->'''Voiced By:'''

[[folder:Mirror Missy]]
!!Mirror Missy
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JennySlate

The manifestation of Missy's self-loathing.

* EnemyWithin: Exists to make Missy feel bad about her lack of physical development.
* ShadowArchetype: While Missy is sweet and optimistic, Evil Missy is a {{Jerkass}}.
* ImMelting: What happens when Missy finally overcomes her self-loathing

[[folder: Nathan Fillion]]
!!Nathan Fillion
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NathanFillion

Missy's celebrity crush.

[[folder:Gina]]
!!Gina Alvarez
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gin.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Do you want me to kick your ass again?"'']]
->'''Voiced By:''' Gina Rodriguez

->''"He told me I was a slut. In fact, [[SlutShaming you all did]]."''

A classmate who developed earlier than the other girls.

* {{Gainaxing}}: Her first ever scene focuses on her generous bust bouncing around as she runs.
* MaleGaze: The boys initially only see her as a pair of boobs until being told by Nick's family that they need to see her as a person.
* OddFriendship: After Gina gets her heart broken by Nick and Lola gets the same treatment from Andrew, and both are on the receiving end of Devin's bitchiness, they find a lot of common ground to become friends. Gina also feels sorry for how Devin mistreats Lola and she thinks that this treatment is perfectly ok.
* RejectedApology: After being slut shamed by Devin, she refuses to accept Nick or Jessi's apology, claiming that they don't get to ask forgiveness and have everyone else act like nothing happened.
-->'''Gina:''' You can't just do something awful and then say you're sorry and then expect, like, make up make outs!
* RememberTheNewGuy: Lampshaded by Jessi. She's been in the kids same class since 1st grade, but the boys never noticed her until she grew breasts.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Her development has made her feel bad about herself since the boys objectify her and the girls give her a hard time.

!!!Other Students

[[folder:Daniel]]
!!Daniel
->'''Voiced by:''' Zach Woods

The star of the school's drama club. Daniel is an eccentric and upbeat men who easily charms Nick's older sister Leah in a party.

* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:He has a history of pushing women into giving him blowjobs, when they refuse, he spreads rumors that they did and attempt to slut shame them.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Comes off as a friendly CoolBigBro and Leah's new crush, he is sweet, interesting, fun and smart and he is always very nice to Nick. [[spoiler:Then it turns out he has been spreading terrible rumors about the women who refuse his terribly aggressive tactics of getting a blowjob]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:The final Series/{{Seinfeld}} [[InTheStyleOf spoof]] of the episode has Jessi saying that Daniel died a while after the party. Jay expands that the Cotton Candy Brandy that Nick threw up in his hat entered his brain and gave him cancer.]]
* HateSink / {{Jerkass}}: [[spoiler:He has pushed several women into giving him blowjobs, pressured them into it and spread rumors about the ones that escaped, saying they did and slut shaming them, even getting Tallulah the title of "Blowjob Machine" when she refuses his advances. When he gets cornered, he refuses to accept his fault, calls the party out for slut shaming him and leaves with an air of superiority saying that party culture is to be blamed by what happened there]].
* HumiliationConga: At the end of "Head Pusher". [[spoiler:After his actions are outed, he leaves the party with everyone hating him. Nick goes to return his hat just to puke Cotton Candy Brandy in it, then Leah puts the puke-filled hat in his head, Jay flips the bird to him and Judd pokes his tires (along with everyone's). If the final Seinfeld-like spoof is canon, he's also dead of Cotton Candy Brandy-induced brain cancer]].
* LargeHam: He takes his over dramatic acting from the drama club to anywhere he goes and social outings, meaning he will talk in parties as if he was still in a play, by projecting when the situation doesn't call for it and speaking with in an exaggeratedly eloquent way.

[[folder:Tallulah Levine]]
!!Tallulah Levine
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MaeWhitman

A high school freshman who hits it off with Nick. She is rumored to have amazing oral skills.

* MaliciousSlander: Thanks to Daniel, who tried to force her to give him a blowjob and when she rejected the act, he spread a rumor about how she loves giving blowjobs.
* TemporaryLoveInterest: To Nick.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair

!Teachers

[[folder:Coach Steve]]
!!Coach Steve
->'''Voiced by:''' Nick Kroll

The loud and bumbling gym teacher.

* AmbiguousDisorder: He's initially just presented as a weirdo, but it becomes increasingly clear that he may have legit learning disadvantages.
* BuriedAlive: Was thought to be dead after eating a wheel of cheese.
* CoolTeacher: Though portrayed as a loser, he's usually there for the kids if they have a problem.
* CloudCuckoolander: Steve is a weird dude, to put it mildly.
* {{Expy}}: He's a lot like Borat, if his extreme social awkwardness came not from being a clueless foreigner, but from having some sort of condition.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Oh, he wishes he was this, at the very least. Truth is, people only hang out around him when they absolutely have to, like at work. However this is later [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], as the more they hang out with him, the more they find themselves somewhat charmed by his naive goodness. [[spoiler:Jay and the Shame Wizard wind up becoming genuine friends with him.]]
* ForeignCussWord: At a bar he "works" at (he actually just bartends for free... ''despite'' management constantly telling him to leave), the staff calls him ''pendejo''[[note]] A strong swear word in Spanish, literally means a single pubic hair, but when used as an insult, it's a rough equivalent to "asshole" or "dumbass"[[/note]]. He doesn't know what it means, so he just happily assumes it's a nickname. When he [=DJs=] at Jessi's Bat Mitzvah, he adopts it as his stage name, ''DJ Pendejo''.
* FreeingTheGenie: Attempts this on his hormone monster, Rick after losing his virginity.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: [[spoiler:Jay and Coach Steve bond and become friends, which works since they've both led (and continue to lead) desperately sad lives and are stuffed full of delusion. Also Steve has the maturity of a child Jay's age or younger.]]
* NeverLearnedToRead: Despite working ''in a school''. He does, however know the alphabet, but just barely, and he doesn't actually know the names for the letters. He instead has nicknames for them.
* NiceGuy: Despite his weirdness, Steve is very good-natured and friendly.
* PlotAllergy: Is severely lactose intolerant and doesn't realize that things like cheese and milk count as dairy.
* RaisedHandOfSurvival: After they bury him alive.
* RepetitiveName: His grave says both his first and last names are Steve.
* SelfAppliedNickname: Refers to himself, Nick, Andrew, Jessi and Jay as the Fab Five.
* ThirdEye: Claims to have had eyes on his ''pener'' that the doctor removed when he was four.

[[folder:Mr. Lizer]]
!!Mr. Lizer
->'''Voiced by:''' Rob Huebel

A much less awkward teacher.

* CoolTeacher: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] He's obviously trying to cultivate this image, and his students like him for it, but he's mostly just a pretentious tool. Plus, Jessi got a ''very'' creepy vibe from him after wearing a new push-up bra.
* {{Foil}}: To Coach Steve. He's less bizarre and clearly a functioning adult, but Steve is a humble and helpful man while Mr. Lizer is a quietly creepy douchebag.
* PoliticallyMotivatedTeacher: The first time we see him, he's complaining about the patriarchy in a know-it-all tone.

[[folder:Ms. Benitez]]
!!Ms. Benitez
->'''Voiced by:''' Rosa Salazar

The 7th grade science teacher.

* HotTeacher: When Andrew has a sleep-deprived sex fantasy during class, he fantasises about Ms Benitez as a scantily-clad Dominatrix.
* NiceGirl: Offers to teach Coach Steve and manages to gently put him down when he starts showing interest in her.

!Families

!!!The Birches

[[folder:In General]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Fred Armisen (Elliot), Maya Rudolph (Diane), Kat Dennings (Leah), Jon Daly (Judd)

Nick's family, consisting of his father Elliot, mother Diane, older sister Leah, and older brother Judd.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Nick often feels this way, and for good reason. Elliot and Diane are quirky to put it mildly, and they openly display that quirkiness around Nick's friends. Elliot even dropped his pants at an amusement park to show solidarity with Nick when the latter got pantsed while hanging from a zipline.
* {{Foil}}: Diane and Elliot are direct foils to Jessi and Andrew's parents.
** They are very sex positive and eager to teach their prepubescent son about sex and his body, being extremely open minded, and their sex life is very fulfilling. The Gloubermans, on the other hand, are very awkward about sex, having a hard time or even outright denying to teach or talk with Andrew about sex and have accused him of being a deviant for even being curious about sex and accusing him of being a molester after [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Missy initiated an unwelcome advance on him]], with a sex life that's lukewarm at best.
** Diane and Elliot are very much still as in love after all these years together, with Elliot being introduced thanking Diane for the life they have. Their sex life is active and fulfilling, they don't have any fights and are a constant presence in their children's lives. Shannon and Greg's romance died years ago and are stuck with each other now, [[spoiler:with Shannon even cheating on Greg with another woman]]. Their constant fights inevitably cause problems to Jessi, who has to watch the breakdown of her parent's marriage and being in the crossfire of their constant fighting.
* GoodParents: While embarrassing, Elliot and Diane have done a good job raising Nick. The Shame Wizard mentions that it's harder to get to Nick because his parents gave him a notably high self-esteem.
* HappilyMarried: Diane and Elliot are still very much in love and have an active sex life still. They often mentioned how their sex life is going great.
* MyBelovedSmother: Diane and Elliot both are touchy-feely with Nick, but she's especially attached, saying she wants to "put him back up there" ("there" being her womb) and giving him lip kisses when he's already 12. She also gets sad over the fact that she'll soon have an empty nest.
* OpenMindedParent: At one point, they assume Nick is struggling with his sexuality. Elliot assures him he can try things and implies [[ExperimentedInCollege he tried things before]] without being gay. Both also are outright happy to welcome him as gay if he finds out to be so.
-->'''Nick:''' Dad, I'm not worried I might be gay!\\
'''Diane:''' Honey, it's fine if you are. \\
'''Elliot:''' It's better.\\
'''Diane:''' Besides, you could do a lot worse than Andrew Glouberman.

[[folder:Elliot]]
!!Dr. Elliot Birch
->'''Voiced By:''' Fred Armisen

* BiggerIsBetterInBed: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. In the first episode, Elliot admits his dick isn't very big, but he understands Diane's body and feelings to please her better than anyone else. Diane then mentions that she dated men with bigger dicks that were just uncomfortable for her. In a bizarrely sweet way, they describe themselves as this:
-->'''Diane:''' Your father's penis was my glass slipper.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Elliot is pretty strange, but he's a highly competent doctor and is probably the most well-adjusted character in the entire cast.
* CampStraight: He's rather flamboyant and kind of a weirdo, but has a passionate sex life with his wife, to whom he's HappilyMarried.

[[folder:Diane]]
!!Diane Birch
->'''Voiced By:''' Maya Rudolph

* MamaBear: When the normally sweet Diane finds out that Jessi dumped Nick she is enraged and snarls that she wants to rip her to pieces.

[[folder:Leah]]
!!Leah Birch
->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/KatDennings

* CoolBigSis: Leah is helpful, friendly and open minded. She likes to help Nick both in his relationships and understanding a lot of things about teens and puberty.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Judd]]
!!Judd Birch
->'''Voiced By:''' Jon Daly

* AloofBigBrother: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. He acts cold and aloof towards his younger siblings and even says he doesn't care what happens to them. When push comes to shove however, he is shown to always be there for them whenever they need him and even admits to Nick in private that he loves him and wants him to succeed in his life. Not being a BigBrotherBully like Jay's older brothers also helps.
* BombThrowingAnarchist: Judd seems to be a lighter flavor of this, he's working on a manifesto, crawls through the walls and ceiling of the home to spy on his family members, and slashed all the car tires in the neighborhood for no reason.
* EmoTeen: Mostly wears black and acts kind of angry and creepy, like countless other teenagers. But he doesn't actually behave violently towards people, unlike Jay's older brothers.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Judd is ambiguously AxCrazy, but he looks out for his siblings whenever they need him. Nick thought he hated him however.
-->'''Judd:''' I don't hate you, you're my brother. I just want the world burn... and for you to get your dick wet.
* PestController: He's training an army of raccoons.
[[/folder]]

!!!The Gloubermans

->'''Voiced By:''' Richard Kind & Paula Pell

Andrew's family, consisting of his father Martin and mother Barbara.

* AwfulWeddedLife: It varies, but his father describes himself as an "angrily married man". He does genuinely loves Barbara and she reciprocates, but they easily get into each other's nerves.
* SexlessMarriage: Not entirely, but they are practically this in comparison to Elliot and Diane.

[[folder:Martin]]
!!Martin Glouberman
->'''Voiced By:''' Richard Kind

* AbusiveParents: He consistently sides against his son in almost any dispute and yells at him frequently. Also, he physically restrained Andrew while waxing his mustache against Andrew's will. Despite being painful and humiliating for Andrew, Martin seemed very pleased afterward. It never appears to have even occurred to him that, given Andrew's age, he could have just taught him to shave -- as very, very few men wax their facial hair.
* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Martin loves scallops (which are shellfish) and eats them extremely often, almost in any outing despite his reaction to them and nobody appears to notice that Jews don't eat shellfish, not even his own family or Jessi's equally Jewish family who even serves them at her Bat Mitzvah.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In "Girls Get Horny Too", Martin accuses a guy in ''Shark Tank'' of somehow getting into his head and stealing his illuminated toilet seat idea, much to the (sexual) frustration of Barbara. Turns out, he wasn't ''completely'' off. Maurice says at [[BrickJoke the end of the episode]] that he took note of it while hanging around Martin and he let it slip to the guy that eventually took it to ''Shark Tank''.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Martin is a short-tempered slob who's constantly on the attack, and thinks nothing of publicly shaming his only son during a basketball game. Despite this, he's not truly a bad guy; he ''does'' care for his family, loves his wife and thinks well of friends like Elliot.
** In a flashback, it's shown he met his future wife when she rear-ended him. He gets out and starts yelling at her. Barbara, who was returning home from a very emotionally taxing experience, breaks down into tears. Martin instantly stops shouting and comforts her, even rubbing her back when this total stranger collapses weeping into his arms.
* JewishComplaining: He does this a ''lot''. Andrew hits the nail on the head by describing him as a one-star Yelp review come to life.
* OnlySaneMan: Due to being so ruthlessly pragmatic (although he makes an exception for scallops) Marty is often a surprisingly sensible albeit outraged voice of reason, especially among the adult characters. Of note is his appearance in "Guy Town" where he sets about noting all the building violations in Greg's new apartment, tells Greg exactly what he's expected to do to put his life together and gives Nick a short but effective speech about appreciating the weird but loving Elliott but threatening Guy Bilzerian to release Greg from his lease (with some help from Caleb).
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He loves his scallops, even though they give him violent diarrhoea.

[[folder:Barbara]]
!!Barbara Glouberman
->'''Voiced By:''' Paula Pell

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: A MushroomSamba sequence reveals that she had an abortion before meeting Martin. This is presented as a reasonable, albeit difficult, decision that she doesn't regret.

!!!The Glasers

[[folder:In General]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Seth Morris (Greg) & Jessica Chaffin (Shannon)

Jessi's family, consisting of her father Greg and mother Shannon.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Greg and Shannon's marriage devolved into this. They often jab at each other for no reason, fight all the time and clearly dislike each other at this point. PlayedForDrama, as the two of them are incredibly miserable and Jessi's home life becomes worse and worse because her parents' hatred for each other sometimes get in the way of the fact they both genuinely love her.
* CelebrityResemblance: They have a dog that looks like (and is later voiced by) Creator/NathanFillion.
* DeadSparks: They used to be happy and in love, but now their relationship is this.
* HappilyMarried: They ''were'' this, a long time ago. Over the years, they drifted apart due to Shannon's advancing career and Greg's stagnation, becoming continuously lazy and high all the time.

[[folder:Shannon Glaser]]
!!Shannon Glaser
->'''Voiced By:''' Jessica Chaffin

Jessi's mother. A hard-working woman that tries to teach her daughter about women's place in the world.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Shannon doesn't exactly know what she is anymore, having cheated on Greg with a woman. While a lot of people seem to assume she's lesbian, it's never cleared up whether or not she is still attracted to men. Her marriage to Greg ''was'' genuinely loving at one part, and it's implied that part of the reason they drifted apart was due to a lack of sex. It seems likely that Shannon is bisexual, but never had the chance to explore these feelings due to being married for such a long time.
* SympatheticAdulterer: Deconstructed. Shannon is stuck in a terrible marriage with a man who can't give her what she wants and is completely lost about who she exactly is. But it's still incredibly painful for both Jessi (who watched the decay of her parents' marriage through the years) and Greg (who has just discovered that his wife has been cheating on him and can't say whether she still loves him), and they are heartbroken over it. In other words, no matter how many excuses she can produce, or how valid they are, Shannon still cheated on her husband and destroyed her own family, and despite none of her acts coming out of malice, both Jessi and Greg still have every right to be pissed at her.
* YourCheatingHeart: Shannon is cheats on Greg with their synagogue's Cantor, later entering a relationship with her.

[[folder:Greg Glaser]]
!!Greg Glaser
->'''Voiced By:''' Seth Morris

Jessi's stoner father. He's a loving father though a not so great husband.

* ItsAllMyFault: He fully blames himself for his wife cheating on him. He reveals this when Jessi asks him why he isn't angry at her. He mentions to have not have had or looked for any work in years, letting Shanon take over the job of sustaining both himself and Jessi and quit trying to have sex with her for years.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Throughout Season 2, he comes to the realization that he hasn't been a good husband. When Jessi gets into his edibles, he's horrified and moves out in penance.
* TheStoner: Jessi outright states he spends most of his time high.

!!!The Bilzerians

[[folder:In General]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Jason Mantzoukas (Guy), Heather Lawless (Jenna), Mark Duplass (Val) & Paul Scheer (Kurt)

Jay's family, consisting of his father, mother, and two older brothers.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: Their home is more akin to a cave of feral animals than a surburban dwelling. Val and Kurt are sadistic, bullying little beasts, Jenna is sunk-deep into alcoholism and Guy is the worst of them all: a misogynistic, sleazy creep who doesn't possess a shred of remorse for his horrid actions.

[[folder:Guy Bilzerian]]
!!Guy Bilzerian
->'''Voiced By:''' Jason Mantzoukas

Jay's father, a local divorce lawyer.

* AmoralAttorney: He's a repulsive human being through and through, but is a fairly successful ambulance-chasing lawyer.
* BigDamnHeroes: Yes, ''really''. When Andrew is accused of being the Ponytail Killer/Prowler/Person/''Something'' due to a series of very unfortunate coincidences and thrown into jail, [[ChekhovsGunman Guy]], shows up and manages to prove his innocence... At the cost of a video of him throwing a bunch of jizz-filled socks in a dumpster going viral.
* {{Cuckold}}: Jenna starts sleeping with Coach Steve of all people while he's out of the house.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: He does ''not'' approve of Jay doing magic, to the point of outright saying it in one of his law commercials.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Has a very negative attitude towards Planned Parenthood and has taught Jay to refer to it as an "abortion factory". He also takes his secretary there fairly regularly precisely because he keeps knocking her up and doesn't want her to actually bring a pregnancy to term.
* {{Jerkass}}: Guy is an aggressive, smug bully and an embodiment of toxic masculinity.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He has a very uncharitable view of women, seeing them purely as tools for his own pleasure to be picked up or discarded on his own whims.
* YourCheatingHeart: Jay's father cheats on his wife all the time with his secretary (and others). The whole family seems aware of it.

[[folder:Jenna Bilzerian]]
!!Jenna Bilzerian
->'''Voiced By:''' Heather Lawless

* TheAlcoholic: She's introduced drinking wine in a semi-stupor. Jay mentions she drinks so much she barely is able to function as a mother and Guy also mentions offhandedly (in his ''law commercial'') that she has been institutionalized twice, so there might be a connection.
* ParentalNeglect: She spends so much time drunk she can barely care for her family. She feeds her kids by throwing take out on the table and let them fight over it like animals while she goes back to drinking.
* SympatheticAdulterer: Jenna cheats on her husband with Coach Steve, but it's hardly a mark against her considering how thoroughly awful Guy is.
* TookALevelInKindness: In a weird way, anyway. Coach Steve helps make her a little more level-headed and she actually starts acting like a mom to Jay....... So to speak. Allowing Jay to call her "Mom", actually remembering to pick him up from school (albeit a little drunk even then), even cooking him and Coach Steve a meal and showing concern over Jay's age before giving him Cotton Candy Brandy. Still, based on what she was like in season 1, it's a pretty decent step up for her.

[[folder:Val & Kurt Bilzerian]]
!!Val & Kurt Bilzerian
->'''Voiced By:''' Mark Duplass (Val) & Paul Scheer (Kurt)

* BigBrotherBully: Both of them are vicious little sociopaths.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]], as Andrew and Nick discuss: they'll grow up telling the story about Val and Kurt as a funny anecdote only to one day realize their actions clearly constituted sexual abuse of children.
* {{Jerkass}}: This is honestly the nicest thing that can be said about them.
* TeensAreMonsters: Val and Kurt are sadistic homophobes who relentlessly bully and abuse Jay.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: They seem to get along with each other, even if they view everyone else as a potential victim.

[[folder:Feat. Ludacris]]
!!Featuring Ludacris
->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JordanPeele

* AngryGuardDog: For the Bilzerians. He's pretty damned vicious with anyone who isn't a Bilzerian and has to be kept on a chain.
* HiddenDepths: He's dealing with some serious self-image issues.
* Lost Lenore: He was in love with a neighborhood beagle until she was killed in an accident by Jay's brothers. Though this could be false since he it's only mentioned [[ItMakesSenseInContext when he was talking to Nick when Nick was high]].
* PapaWolf: He's protective of Jay. [[spoiler:When Jay comes to terms with his bisexuality, Feat. Ludacris tearfully declares that he's proud of the little guy.]]
* PunnyName: He's a Music/{{Pitbull}} named Featuring Ludracris.
* TruthInFiction: Featuring Ludacris is aware of his own existence and gets depressed when he looks in a mirror. Smart dogs can be self aware, which itself is commonly tested with a mirror. Intelligent dogs are also more prone to mental illnesses like anxiety and depression.

!Others

[[folder:The Ghost of Duke Ellington]]
!!The Ghost of Duke Ellington
->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JordanPeele

The spirit of Music/DukeEllington living in the attic of the Birch household, where he died. Andrew and Nick often go to him for advice, which he gives with convoluted and bizarre analogies to his life.

* BaitAndSwitch: At one point, he tells Nick the hypothetic scenario of him firing someone from his band for being gay, leading the man to commit suicide. Nick is surprised and the viewer is led to believe that's something that Duke did. Duke however says it was all hypothetical, because he loved having gay bandmates, as they attract women that Duke can then flirt with without competition.
* ConspiracyTheorist: According to him Stevie Wonder faked his blindness and 9/11 was an conspiracy organized by Jews.
* TheObiWan: Serves a mentor to the kids.
* OutOfFocus: Gradually becomes this as the series progresses and the kids interact with an increasing number of Hormone Monsters and the Shame Wizard, likely due to Jordan Peele's increasingly busy schedule.
* ThePollyanna: For a guy stuck in limbo, he's pretty cheerful. Given that he's not damned to haunt a single spot like ghosts in fiction normally do, he's probably not that inconvenienced.

[[folder:Cantor Dina Resnick]]
!!Cantor Dina Reznick
->'''Voiced By:''' Michaela Watkins

Shannon's lover.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: She's fairly personable and nice, but acts selfishly. She entered a relationship with a married woman, showed zero guilt over it and then acted like she could be friends with Jessi despite everything. To top it off, she implies she's broken up families before, making her a serial homewrecker.
* InformedJudaism: Despite being a cantor in a synagogue, some of her remarks imply she is into NewAge stuff.
* LipstickLesbian: She's very attractive with a bangin' body.

[[folder:Pam]]
!!Pam
->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/KristenBell

Jay's pillow.
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* MayDecemberRomance: She's almost as old as Jay's parents.
* YourCheatingHeart: She cheated on Jay with Kurt, having his baby and trying to pass it off as Jay's.

[[folder:Evil Missy]]
!!Evil Missy
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JennySlate

The manifestation of Missy's self-loathing.
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* EnemyWithin: Exists to make Missy feel bad about her lack of physical development.
* ShadowArchetype: While Missy is sweet and optimistic, Evil Missy is a {{Jerkass}}.
* I'mMelting!: What happens when Missy finally overcomes her self-loathing

[[folder: Nathan Fillion]]
!!Nathan Fillion
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NathanFillion

Missy's celebrity crush.

* AsHimself

* BerserkButton: Caleb does NOT like anyone else touching his roly backpack. Andrew learned that one the ''hard way''.

* OddFriendship: He can also see Maurice, so he's clearly not bothered much by him.

* AbusiveParents: Consistently sides against his son in almost any dispute and yells at him frequently. Also, he physically restrained Andrew while waxing his mustache against Andrew's will. Despite being painful and humiliating for Andrew, Martin seemed very pleased afterward. It never appears to have even occurred to him that, given Andrew's age, he could have just taught him to shave -- as very, very few men wax their facial hair.

* HappilyMarried: They ''were'' this. A long time ago. Shannon's growing interest in work while Greg became continuously lazy and high all the time drifted them apart.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Shannon doesn't exactly know what she is anymore, having cheated on Greg with a woman. While a lot of people seem to assume she's lesbian, it's never cleared up whether or not she is still attracted to men.

* YourCheatingHeart: Shannon is cheating on Greg with their synagogue's Cantor.

* {{Jerkass}}: She acts like she can be friends with Jessi, despite being a homewrecker who shows zero guilt over it. She even implies that she's broken up families before.