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[[folder: Andrew Detmer]]

[[folder: Matt Garetty]]

[[folder: Steve Montgomery]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: His tormentors had it coming for the most part.]]

* HatedByAll: He's always treated with hatred by almost everybody except Steve and Matt which contributed to him BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil.

* VirtuousCharacterCopy: Matt's role in the story as the antagonist's former friend and gang member who ultimately must step up and stop their rampage is, as the influence of ''Manga/{{AKIRA}}'' on the film indicates, clearly based on Shotaro Kaneda. However, while Kaneda was a drug dealer and gang leader who laughed about getting his girlfriend pregnant (and even then, [[the animated film only keeps the gang leader part]]), Matt is clumsy and actively tries to prevent things going the way they do by trying to impose rules on the group to keep them from acting immoral.

* VirtuousCharacterCopy: Matt's role in the story as the antagonist's former friend and gang member who ultimately must step up and stop their rampage is, as the influence of ''Manga/{{AKIRA}}'' on the film indicates, clearly based on Shotaro Kaneda. However, while Kaneda was a drug dealer and gang leader who laughed about getting his girlfriend pregnant, Matt is clumsy and actively tries to prevent things going the way they do by trying to impose rules on the group to keep them from acting immoral.

* {{Expy}}: Matt's role in the story as the antagonist's former friend and gang member who ultimately must step up and stop their rampage is, as the influence of ''Manga/{{AKIRA}}'' on the film indicates, clearly based on Shotaro Kaneda.
* FakeAmerican: Alex Russell is Australian.

* NoSocialSkills: While Andrew is a more straightforward example of a shut-in that struggles to make connections with people, Matt is ''incredibly'' clumsy when trying to pick up Casey and the various dialogues imply he's bad at dating in general.

* TheHero: His ultimate role in the story.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Downplayed, only in the sense that he makes it out of the film alive. While it may seem like a slap on the wrist, getting a nasty beating and nearly killed by his own son is sure to have given him a nasty shock. There's also the fact his wife is dead, his abusive treatment of Andrew is out in the open and at the end of it all, he's still a miserable, alcoholic loser. With evidence of his abuse being filmed and recorded in the emergency room, seen in the overall FoundFootage and the police's camcorder, Richard is most likely going to be arrested for child abuse, which also indirectly caused the damage Andrew made to Seattle as a result. And considering how parents of school-shooters or spree-terrorists are frequently doxxed and harassed, he's now going to be known as the man who raised a real-life supervillain, meaning his life is pretty much over. So he didn't get off completely scot-free.]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The poor kid could not just catch a break. From his abusive father to the harsh bullying he received in and outside of school and his dying mother. When he finally le's loose and becomes a wrathful beast of destruction you can't help but feel sorry for him.

** It's also ''really'' not a good idea to mock or laugh at him as Wayne found out [[TheToothHurts the hard way]].

* FreudianExcuse: When you have an alcoholic mess as a father, who physically and emotionally abuses you even for the pettiest reasons, a neglectful cousin who keeps distance from you to save his face as much as he can, and have being bullied by jerks at school, it probably would take a toll on your mind.

* PyrrhicVictory: If one were to assume [[spoiler: Andrew's death was something he actually wanted by the end, he still also lost his wife, and will likely be exposed for his part in all the destruction Andrew ultimately caused.]]

* BullyingTheDragon: [[spoiler:Bullies the clearly super powered Andrew, even after learning about it. Granted he thought he'd caught him while defenseless, but misjudged, badly...]]

%%* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Especially at the start of the movie

* {{Irony}}: Andrew called himself the apex predator, and is killed by a spear.

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Subverted; while it's implied he might've somehow accidentally caused the lightning bolt that killed Steve, which he is nonetheless horrified and guilt-ridden over, writer Max Landis [[WordOfGod has confirmed]] that it was a natural, freak-accident bolt that Andrew had no control over.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Downplayed, only in the sense that he makes it out of the film alive. While it may seem like a slap on the wrist, getting a nasty beating and nearly killed by his own son is sure to have given him a nasty shock. There's also the fact his wife is dead, his abusive treatment of Andrew is out in the open and at the end of it all, he's still a miserable, alcoholic loser. With evidence of his abuse being filmed and recorded in the emergency room, seen in the overall FoundFootage and the police's camcorder, Richard is most likely going to be arrested for child abuse, which also indirectly caused the damage Andrew made to Seattle as a result. And considering how parents of school-shooters or spree-terrorists are frequently doxxed and harassed, he's now going to known as the man who raised a real-life supervillain, meaning his life is pretty much over. So he didn't get off completely scot-free.]]

* BigBadWannabe: Acts as a BigBad for the first and second acts of the film, [[spoiler: but it's ultimately the son he abused who becomes an actual threat.]] His actions are also [[DoubleSubversion a little too direct for him to count as a]] GreaterScopeVillain [[UpToEleven either]].

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* TheFarmerAndTheViper: [[spoiler:He becomes a victim of Andrew when he tries to talk the latter down.]]

* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:He's basically a nicer Yamagata.]]

* TheAlcoholic: He has a serious drinking problem. Beer bottles are scattered around his house and at one point, Andrew mentions that Richard spends most of his days at bars.

* {{Jerkass}}: It doesn't take much to realize that Andrew's father, Richard, is simply using his son as an outlet for venting his stress and jealousy of Andrew being openly loved more by his wife over himself and passing blame for his family's financial issues from himself. He even calls Andrew selfish for keeping an expensive camera (that was a gift from his cousin) from him (after said camera caught him searching through his son's room, clearly looking for money). He supposedly very much loves his wife, but the above puts that into question.

* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]: She's nice to everyone and this is part of the reason Matt wants her.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has dyed pink hair.