History Characters / Dad

* KilledOffForReal: Dadbot 69 kills him as part of a plan to cause a schism between Mom and Neighbor. [[BackFromTheDead The Dadbots do plan on reviving 222 once their mission is complete, though]]. [[BackForTheFinale He reawakens in the Act 4 finale]], cut off from the escaped HiveMind and just in time to get caught in Scarlet's reformatting of reality.

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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:In the Act 4 finale, he runs over the murderous rogue Dadbot with his van before it can kill Creator/MatPat in its mission to eliminate competition for top Youtuber.]]

* KilledOffForReal: Dadbot 69 kills him as part of a plan to cause a schism between Mom and Neighbor. [[BackFromTheDead The Dadbots do plan on reviving 222 once their mission is complete, though]]. [[BackFromTheDead He reawakens in the Act 4 finale]], cut off from the escaped HiveMind and just in time to get caught in Scarlet's reformatting of reality.

* KilledOffForReal: Dadbot 69 kills him as part of a plan to cause a schism between Mom and Neighbor. [[BackFromTheDead The Dadbots do plan on reviving 222 once their mission is complete, though]].

* ThanatosGambit: He instigated the plan for Dadbot 69 to shoot and replace him, with the goal of the whole Dadbot HiveMind escaping from containment.

--> "Hmm... Someday, Dad will have the greatest shed in the neighborhood and the universe."

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Uh-huh. Just as I thought. Ol' Carl is onto you."
* TheDanza: Carl Millins is played by Carl [=McDowell=].

* DropTheHammer: [[spoiler:In "Andan's Run," Andan uses the Quantum Sledge to blast Malvin with lightning]].

* HotScientist: Mom's beauty is brought up numerous times by Dad and by Neighbor; she's also a wicked-smart quantum-physicist who leads a team of scientists and [[spoiler:runs the Dad experiment]].

Dad is really Captain Andan Rill, an astronaut from Kepler 22B who was stranded on Earth. Cheryl captured and brainwashed him into becoming Dad. He “woke up” in “Dad Elucidated”, and finally returned home at the end of “Andan’s Run”.

--> ''Drive Daughter to Electric Zoo'' \\

* DropTheHammer: [[spoiler:In “Andan’s Run”, Andan uses the Quantum Sledge to blast Malvin with lightning]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:The closing montage of "Andan’s Run" has Andan finally return home to his wife Ella.]]
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Dad only goes by Dad, even when speaking to his wife or neighbor. [[spoiler:His real name is Andan]].
* FishOutOfWater: [[spoiler:Andan is quite baffled by human customs, since he’s not from Earth]].

* HumanAliens: [[spoiler:He’s really from Kepler 22B]].
* IdenticalStranger: Dad looks exactly like Nathan Barnatt. [[spoiler:This is because Nathan Barnatt is a reincarnation of Andan’s soul]].
* InsistentTerminology: Dad insists on referring to pancakes as "little towels", even after Daughter corrects him.
* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:The original Dad is now technically gone, at least for now, and has at least a successor in the form of the Dadbots]].
* LimitedWardrobe: Dad only wears his white shirt, khakis, and tie, no matter the scene. In "Bad Guy by a Dad [Billie Ellish Dadmix]", Dad even says his white shirt is the only shirt he owns.
* ManChild: Dad's behavior and dialogue is very simplistic and toddler-like.

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Andan leaves Earth at the end of “Andan’s Run”.]]
* ThirdPersonPerson: Dad always refers to himself as "Dad". [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Andan.]]
--> "Hmm...Someday, Dad will have the greatest shed in the neighborhood and the universe."
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Cans of FOOD, naturally. [[spoiler:Subverted, since FOOD is really just used to brainwash him]].
* UglyGuyHotWife: Dad has a "dad-bod", a balding head, and looks like an average middle-aged man. Cheryl looks young and attractive, with long dark hair and a good physique. [[spoiler:Same for Andan and Ella]].
* WalkingSpoiler: It’s hard to talk about Dad without mentioning [[spoiler:he’s really a brainwashed alien named Andan Rill]].
* WhiteCollarWorker: Dad works in a standard office setting, where he spends his days having to file paperwork. He dresses in a white shirt with a tie and khakis, carries a briefcase around, and appears to hate his job, finding it boring and unfulfilling.

Mom, also known as Cheryl, is Dad's wife and the main female character of the series. She is the dominant force in the household and likes to keep things in order, though shows an occasional soft-side. Where she works is kept a mystery, though she is known to be obsessed with science, and she teaches her teams things like "the non-cloning theorem". She knows a lot more about the situation than Dad does, and is in fact the BigBad of Season 1.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of the first three Acts. She gets PutOnABus in “Andan’s Run”.]]
* ControlFreak: Cheryl likes to keep things in control, has high-standards, and gets upset when things aren't going her way. She is mentioned in the "Dad Loves Mom" song to be very strict and dominating, she punished Dad for owning a magazine she didn't like, and she even had one of her employees taken away for disagreeing with her. There are only a few cases where she's shown relenting.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], since people still refer to her as Cheryl occasionally.
* EvilMatriarch: [[spoiler:Cheryl goes by Mom, and she’s the main antagonist of the first season]].

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:Implied, since her daughter is known to be missing, but it’s unclear if she’s truly dead]].
* PetTheDog: As manipulative and distant as she is, Cheryl has shown moments of caring for Dad, such as taking him out to Restaurant and buying him a motorcycle helmet as an apology present.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Leaves Earth at the end of “Andan’s Run”.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Discussed; In "Dad Loves Mom", it's mentioned that when Mom is upset, "her eyes glow red".

* UglyGuyHotWife: Dad has a "dad-bod", a balding head, and looks like an average middle-aged man. Cheryl looks young and attractive, with long dark hair and a good physique.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone, even her boyfriend Griffin, calls her "Daughter".
* ImportantHaircut: Daughter cut her hair just to impress her crush, Griffin, who happens to like short-hair. She doesn't seem too happy with her new style, but did it anyway, just to make sure he likes her.
* OnlyOneName: “Daughter” is her only name.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:It’s stated that she’s supposedly 17 years old. However, in reality, she was probably built in 2018]].

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone refers to him as "Neighbor". [[spoiler:That is, until "Dad Elucidated" revealed his name is Malvin.]]
* FantasticRacism: [[spoiler:In “Andan’s Run”, he compares Dadbot 69 to an appliance]].
* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: Neighbor and Cheryl have had an implicit relationship for quite a while, and though Dad doesn't trust him, he doesn't seem aware of it. [[spoiler:"Dad Elucidated" reveals that not only have he and Cheryl been dating, they were always together, while Cheryl was only pretending to be Dad's wife.]]
* SanitySlippage: Throughout Season 1, Neighbor slowly becomes more and more unhinged, culminating in [[spoiler:trying to kill Andan (who he thinks is a Dadbot)]].
* SitcomArchNemesis: Dad is hateful of Neighbor, stating in a few videos how he wants to be better than him in some way just to rub it in his face, and then being openly sarcastic and rude to Neighbor when they run into him at Restaurant.

* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:She disobeys Cheryl’s orders and eventually becomes the new BigBad]].
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of Season 2]].
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:She becomes the new BigBad after Cheryl is PutOnABus]].

* AudienceSurrogate: Like the fans, Carl’s also trying to figure out how everything in Town is connected. He even has a Discord account, with all his posts being notes from his investigation.
* {{Catchphrase}}: “Uh-huh. Just as I thought. Ol’ Carl is onto you.”
* TheDanza: Carl Millins is played by Carl [=McDowell=].
* MysteriousPast: It’s unclear who hired him and why.
* NotSoBadassLongcoat: Fulfills the investigator-stereotype by wearing a big, unbuttoned, longcoat in every appearance.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Carl likes cinnamon buns. He mentions them multiple times, and even eats one in "Dad Elucidated".

* HotWind: Parodied in "Diane"; during Dad's ImagineSpot, there's a moment where Diane's hair is blowing back...while a large fan is held up in front of her face, obscuring her until the fan is put down and the wind stops.

* ButtMonkey: Nathan ends up having to hire a lawyer due to believing Dad is impersonating him, [[spoiler:gets sent back in time to 1997 and is trapped in Cheryl’s facility when he gets back, though she eventually puts him back outside]]. To add to that, the video on Nathan’s channel where Dad debuted also implies that he too is being manipulated by external forces and he is clearly terrified of Dad when he sees him.
* IdenticalStranger: Dad looks exactly like him. [[spoiler:That’s because Andan Rill is one of his past lives]].

* AmbiguouslyHuman: When [[spoiler:Andan]] asks if Crothers is an Earthling, Crothers laughs and says that [[ShapedLikeItself he’s Crothers]].
* AllPowerfulBystander: Downplayed. He’s implied to be immensely powerful, but is forced to mostly observe. He does help [[spoiler:Andan]] out by giving him some tools to use and attempting to convince Cheryl to back down.

* CosmicBeing: Heavily implied to be one. At any rate, he’s aware of other dimensions.
* DreamWalker: He visits Dad and Cheryl in their dreams at first, but also manifests in the real world and claims that those aren’t really dreams, but visits to another dimension.
* HumanAliens: He claims himself that he is not human, though he looks exactly like one.

* ActorAllusion: In “Andan’s Run”, Durk pretends to be Dad’s brother to get some money. Nathan Barnatt and Seth Barnatt are brothers in real life.
* EarlyBirdCameo: His first in-person appearance is on the “Beyond Worlds” [=YouTube=] channel, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIKfIIXnRWA “Andan’s Livestream”]].

-->”Dadbot 69 is turned on. Nice.”
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Like all Dadbots.
* WalkingSpoiler: Like all Dadbots, his existence spoils the fact that Andan escapes the Facility.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Emily’s ethnicity is unclear, but her actress is half-Japanese.
* HumanAliens: [[spoiler:Just like Andan; she's an alien from Kepler, but passes for a human]].
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:She returns home to Kepler 22B in “Andan’s Run”.]]

* HumanAliens: [[spoiler:She’s from Kepler 22B]].
* WalkingSpoiler: It’s impossible to talk about her without mentioning that [[spoiler:she’s Andan’s wife on Kepler 22B]].

* DragonWithAnAgenda: It’s unclear what exactly he wants with Dad.

* MrExposition: She reveals a lot of crucial lore to Andan in “Andan’s Run”.
* MysteriousPast: All we know is that she has one of the highest concentrations of OA in the universe, and that Crothers knows her. Everything else is completely unknown.
* OnlyOneName: If she has a surname, we don’t know what it is.

* EarlyBirdCameo: In a two-part livestream on the “Beyond Worlds” [=YouTube=] channel (the highlights can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGvvSbXc9OI here]]), Dad visits the Queen Mary, a supposedly-haunted boat. While there, he talks to an unseen entity, later confirmed to be Maeve.
* FriendlyGhost: A ghost who’s friendly with Dad.
* OnlyOneName: As far as we know, she doesn’t have a last name.

* {{Transplant}}: Jasleiney originated on ''WebVideo/{{Abuela}}'', but she appeared as a member of the Dark Party in “Andan’s Run”.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Dadbot 69 accidentally kills him with a frisbee, and, since he’s not a robot, Marty’s likely dead for real.]]
* OnlyOneName: His last name is unrevealed.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep
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[[folder:Dad [[spoiler:/ Andan Rill]]]]

[[spoiler:Dad is really Captain Andan Rill, an astronaut from Kepler 22B who was stranded on Earth. Cheryl captured and brainwashed him into becoming Dad. He “woke up” in “Dad Elucidated”, and finally returned home at the end of “Andan’s Run”.]]

* [[spoiler:AnAlienNamedBob]]: An [[spoiler:alien]] named [[spoiler:Andan]].

* [[spoiler:TheCaptain]]: [[spoiler:Andan was the captain of a Distant Aerospace Destinations crew back on Kepler, in charge of many routine space flights and working closely with his Lieutenant, Emily. He revealed in a livestream that he was mostly transporting seeds for TerraForming.]]

* [[spoiler:HumanAliens]]: [[spoiler:He’s really from Kepler 22B]].

Mom, also known as Cheryl, is Dad's wife and the main female character of the series. She is the dominant force in the household and likes to keep things in order, though shows an occasional soft-side. Where she works is kept a mystery, though she is known to be obsessed with science, and she teaches her teams things like "the non-cloning theorem". She knows a lot more about the situation than Dad does, [[spoiler:and is in fact the BigBad of Season 1]].

* [[spoiler:BigBad]]: [[spoiler:Of the first three Acts. She gets PutOnABus in “Andan’s Run”.]]

* [[spoiler:EvilMatriarch]]: [[spoiler:Cheryl goes by Mom, and she’s the main antagonist of the first season]].

* [[spoiler:OutlivingOnesOffspring]]: [[spoiler:Implied, since her daughter is known to be missing, but it’s unclear if she’s truly dead]].

* [[spoiler:AIIsACrapshoot]]: [[spoiler:She short-circuits and dies [[SeriousBusiness due to Griffin not texting her back]].]]

* [[spoiler:RidiculouslyHumanRobot]]: [[spoiler:She’s revealed to be this in Act III, as a robot similar to Dadbot. She eventually short-circuits after Griffin not texting her.]]
* [[spoiler:RobotGirl]]
* [[spoiler:RoboticReveal]]: [[spoiler:In the middle of Act III]].
* [[spoiler:RobotKid]]

* [[spoiler:YoungerThanTheyLook]]: [[spoiler:It’s stated that she’s supposedly 17 years old. However, in reality, she was probably built in 2018]].

[[folder:Neighbor [[spoiler:/ Malvin Bim]]]]

[[folder:CUBE [[spoiler:/ Scarlett]]]]

* [[spoiler:RidiculouslyHumanRobot]]: [[spoiler:"We're Different" reveals that she, like Dadbot and Daughter, is actually a robot.]]
* [[spoiler:RobotGirl]]
* [[spoiler:RoboticReveal]]: [[spoiler:In the middle of Act III]].

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]: [[spoiler:Dadbot 69 kills him.]]

* [[spoiler:AnAlienNamedBob]]: An [[spoiler:alien]] named [[spoiler:Emily]].

* [[spoiler:HumanAliens]]: [[spoiler:Just like Andan; she's an alien from Kepler, but passes for a human]].

* [[spoiler:AnAlienNamedBob]]: An [[spoiler:alien]] named [[spoiler:Ella]].

* [[spoiler:HumanAliens]]: [[spoiler:She’s from Kepler 22B]].