History Characters / DontStarvePlayableCharacters

* OddNameOut: He is the only playable character without a name starting with '''W'''. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] as his real name is actually '''W'''illiam Carter.

-->''"Heads I take a nap, tails I go to bed."''

* ApologisesALot: Being [[CanadaEh Canadian]]. It's out of [[NiceGuy politeness]] more than awkwardness or actual remorse.

* CanadaEh: He embodies a lot of Canadian stereotypes and will comment on his Canadian-ness if he meets another Woodie in Don't Starve Together.

* CanadaEh: He is from Canada, and he got trapped in the Constant while he was searching for the Werebeaver. The stereotype is quite [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]], such as the fact that he is black-skinned. Probably because Woodie is already the resident [[FunnyForeigner funny Canadian]].

** He's clearly very fond of his assistant, Charlie, even though she's now the Grue and attacks him on sight (the same as any other player character). If he takes damage, he'll protest that she's hurting him and try to jog her memory.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A reoccurring theme throughout the Survivors is many of them wanted something and their wish was granted, but said wish also ended up trapping them in the Constant. This is explicit with Wilson, Wendy, Warly, Wigfrid, Winona, Webber, and, Maxwell, and implied for some others.

* {{Catchphrase}}: As well as his "Hyuyu!" laugh, he often says "Whoops-a-doodle!" or some variant.

* AxCrazy: As if her pyromania wasn't bad enough, she seems to have an extremely, um, ''cavalier'' attitude towards killing everything on the island. Her cinematic origin and her biography give us some very good [[FreudianExcuse Freudian Excuses]] to justify her mindset.

* ToServeMan: He has Dummied Out dialouge for the equally Dummied Out Long Pork stating he may actually like it.

* BalefulPolymorph: As the game puts it:
--> ''Whoever they were, they're a monkey now.''

* ElementalPowers: In the Forge event, her fire and explosive attacks are increased by 10%. In ''Don't Starve Together'' she is immune to fire and the fires she creates take longer to be extinguished, but she is more susceptible to cold and ice attacks [[ElementalRockPaperScissors as a result]].

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Willow is a pyromaniac for sure, but fire immunity aside, it's really difficult to tell if she has some kind of [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic power]] that [[EmotionalPowers she can't (and doesn't want to) properly control]] -- or if she's insanely quick to use her lighter to set fires out of nowhere. The one scene that would answer the question in her cinematic short [[TheUnreveal happens behind a closed door]].

* GutturalGrowler: He's voiced by a didgeridoo.

* TeamChef: Warly already was already a chef in ''Shipwrecked'', but he inevitably evolved into this after joining the other survivors in ''Don't Starve Together''. Their quotes reveal that he is now the designed cook of the team, and that they are more than happy to be able to eat real food again thanks to his cooking skills.
* TokenBlack: [[JustifiedTrope Justifed]] since his culture is actually relevant to both his mechanic and the setting. Eventually, Walter was added as another black character.

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: It is difficult to notice, but according to the background photos shown in ''Taste of Home'' Warly looks almost identical to his father, albeit there are some minor differences to distinguish the two (Warly's father had a slightly darker skin tone, his beard was trimmed differently, he wore glasses and he had [[BlackBeadEyes black bead eyes]]).

In ''Don't Starve,'' Wilson will slowly grow a beard over several days, which offers increased insulation against the cold, but causes him to overheat faster in the warmer seasons. If he chooses, he can shave it off, removing the increased risk of overheating, restoring sanity, and acquiring the resulting beard hair to use as a component in the construction of a Meat Effigy, a meat-filled wooden sculpture of himself, that resurrects him into a new body when he dies.

Willow is the first character to be unlocked. Willow is a pyromaniac.

Wolfgang is the second character to be unlocked.

In ''Don't Starve,'' Wolfgang has higher maximum health and hunger values than most other survivors. He grows more powerful, dealing more damage to enemies, if his hunger meter is high, and grows weaker, dealing less damage, if his hunger meter is low. He also loses sanity faster than other survivors in the dark and when near monsters.

In July 2023, Wolfgang received a skill tree, allowing him to improve his training and damage against certain enemies.

Wendy Carter is the third character to be unlocked. She is quite gloomy, despite her brightly colored appearance compared to the rest of the cast.

In ''Don't Starve,'' Wendy can summon the ghost of her dead sister Abigail, at the cost of a hefty amount of sanity, to assist her in combat by placing Abigail's fully bloomed flower on the ground and killing a creature near it. She also loses less sanity from darkness and monsters, but has less attack power than most other survivors, requiring more hits to defeat monsters on her own.

WX-78 is the fourth character to be unlocked.

In ''Don't Starve,'' despite being a robot, WX-78 still needs to eat food, but unlike the other survivors, they can eat spoiled food without negative effects. They take damage from standing in the rain without protection in the base game, and when they accumulate wetness in the DLC expansions. Being struck by lightning has a chance to "supercharge" them, regenerating their health and giving them a temporary speed boost and light source at the cost of some sanity. Their base stats are lower than all other survivors' stats, but they can upgrade themself by "eating" Gears, increasing their maximum health, hunger, and sanity.

Ms. Wickerbottom is the fifth character to be unlocked.

Woodie is the sixth character to be unlocked and the final base-game character to be unlocked via experience points. He starts with [[TalkingWeapon a talking axe]] [[ICallItVera named Lucy]] that is more effective than normal axes and has unlimited durability. However, during a full moon or if he gets carried away cutting down trees, he becomes a Werebeaver that can't carry items, but can cut down trees, kill mobs, and mine rocks at super-speed.

In July 2023, Woodie received a skill tree so he can use both his curse and his experience as a lumberjack more efficiently.

Wes can be unlocked if he is rescued during Adventure Mode. He has significantly lower stats compared to the other playable characters as well as penalties to damage and hunger depletion, which makes him a good character for players who are looking for a bit more challenge in the game.

A mysterious man who 'welcomes' players into the world of ''Don't Starve'' and seems to be in control of it. The last level of Adventure Mode strongly implies that he's an UnwittingPawn of the shadows; freeing him forces the current character being played to take his place, after which he becomes playable. Maxwell has lower health compared to the rest of the cast (75 hitpoints, compared to the baseline 150), but regenerates sanity constantly and starts out with some formidable equipment. His original name is William Carter, and he used to be a rather average guy until he found the [[ArtifactOfDoom Codex Umbra.]]

Robert Wagstaff is the 10th playable character of ''Don't Starve'', added to the roster in 2019 along with the ''Hamlet'' DLC but as a part of the vanilla game. Before then he was already known for being the founder of the Voxola Radio Company, the inventor of the Voxola PR-76 radio featured both in the Wilson's origin cinematic and in game as a component of the Divining Rod, and the boss of Winona from ''Don't Starve Together''. As a character in the game, thanks to his skills as inventor Wagstaff is able to create visors and even teleportation devices, but he's nearsighted and has a sensitive stomach for raw foods. And, the more health he loses, the more it becomes clear that there might be something ''really'' wrong with him.
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Wilson Percival Higgsbury is the only character playable at the start of ''Don't Starve'' and the main character of the game. He'll slowly accumulate a lot of facial hair after a few days, which protects him from the cold; or, if he chooses, he can shave it off and use it as a component to construct a Meat Effigy - a meat-filled wooden sculpture of himself, that resurrects him into a new body when he dies.

Willow is the first character to be unlocked. Willow is a pyromaniac -- she is immune to fire damage, regenerates Sanity from standing near fires, and has a lighter that functions as a torch that never runs out; however, she has lower maximum Sanity, and will automatically (and randomly) start fires if her Sanity gets low.

Wolfgang is the second character to be unlocked. He is the most physically powerful of the player characters, as he deals more damage to enemies and has a higher maximum Health and Hunger. He grows more powerful if his Hunger meter is high, and grows weaker if his Hunger meter is low. He also loses Sanity faster in the dark and when near monsters.

Wendy Carter is the third character to be unlocked. She is quite gloomy despite her brightly colored appearance compared to the rest of the cast. Her special ability lets her make a blood sacrifice to summon the ghost of her dead sister Abigail, who will help her in combat. She also loses less sanity from darkness and monsters. She has less attack power than most characters, however.

WX-78 is the fourth character to be unlocked. Despite being a robot, WX-78 still needs to eat food, but unlike the other characters, they can eat spoiled food without negative effects. They also take damage from standing in the rain, but being struck by lightning has a chance to "supercharge" them, regenerating their health and giving them a temporary speed boost and light source at the cost of some Sanity. Their base stats are lower than normal, but they can upgrade themself by "eating" Gears, increasing their maximum Health, Hunger, and Sanity. As of their rework, they can now augment themself with circuits obtained by scanning entities, as long as they have enough charge to power them.

Ms. Wickerbottom is the fifth character to be unlocked. She can craft books that give herself buffs at the cost of Sanity. She also has access to most crafting recipes from the beginning which means she can acquire a spear, a backpack or some other useful items from the beginning. However, she can't restore Sanity using sleeping items and takes a bigger penalty from spoiled food.

The most recent update gave Wilson a [[TechTree skill tree]] to work with, from upgrading the torch to be brighter or to even throw, to even more complex crafting.

* AnimeHair: His hair (along with his clothing) makes him look like he came from a Tim Burton movie. When a small explosion blows it back, it soon puffs into his earlier hairstyle.

* BadassBookworm: He's a well-studied scientist capable of fighting.

* FlatEarthAtheist: He doesn't believe in the supernatural because it's "unscientific", despite seeing supernatural creatures and occurences on a daily basis.

* GadgeteerGenius: Not at all to the extent of Winona, but he does like to tinker as a scientist, and a lot of the new craftable materials in Don't Starve Together (like all of the boating stuff, for instance) are noted to have been made by him and thaught to the other survivors.
* TheGenericGuy: He's well-balanced and has no special ability besides growing a mighty beard, as well as being the default character.

* GentlemanAndAScholar: His character title is the "Gentleman Scientist". He is also reasonably emotionally-adjusted compared to most of the characters, though he also comes off as a {{Geek}} rather than Gentlemanly. And as revealed in the trailer, he was just really, ''really'' starved for ideas.
* GoForTheEye: His battle cry.

* ManlyFacialHair: PlayedWith. Wilson's sole unique mechanic is to grow a "magnificent" beard. An appropriate name, as at full size it can cover the front of his body completely, and provides great insulation against the cold. The descriptions of his beard skins show he's quite proud of it, too. However, unlike his fellow facial hair havers, he has no issue with shaving it off.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Maxwell, whom he dislikes immensely, during the events of the Cyclum Puzzle comics and ''Don't Starve Together''.
* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: Not a blade per se but Wilson can gain the ability to throw lit torches and have them stick the landing in order to create temporary hands free light sources.