History Characters / DontStarvePlayableCharacters

* BadassBaritone: Being voiced by a tuba, he has the deepest voice of all the characters. It gets deeper in his Mighty form.

--> '''Maxwell''': "This child doesn't have a mean bone in his body."

* CrutchCharacter: Webber possesses a relatively stable early game as his easy access to meat, silk, and spider glands for healing, as well as using Spiders as allies to keep himself safe from other mobs will ensure easy survibality through your first winter when you play your cards right. However, on later stages of the game, Webber struggles against certain boss mobs due to his lower maximum Sanity and the fact that most boss mobs have large area-of-effect attacks that essentially renders mass Spider allies useless. This makes it more difficult for him to explore the whole world effectively on his own. Webber's character refresh remedies this somewhat by giving him special items that allow him to transform Spiders to more stronger variants and giving him additional abilities.

A young boy who has been eaten by a spider causing him to merge with it into a monstrous hybrid. He has characteristics of both human and monster, being able to eat monster food, befriend spiders, and has slightly higher physical attributes, but not only does he has the mind of a kid (and thus can't take many hits to his Sanity), everything except spiders will attack him on sight.

* CheerfulChild: Despite his situation, he seems to be taking it all in stride.
* CreepyCute: Webber's the current poster child of the trope. He's a monstrous looking fusion of boy and spider, with scraggly fur and a maw full of teeth. Despite his appearance, he's arguably the sweetest, nicest character in the game, who's managed to endear himself to the other survivors, including noted arachnophobes like Wilson and Willow. Maxwell says it best:

* TheUnintelligeble: Not you, other players can still understand you, but every other talking mob that isn't another monkey will become this to you, speaking in randomized grunts. Even the Crabby Hermit and the Ancient Fuelweaver will sound like they're speaking gibberish to you.

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

* TheHeart: Webber's kindhearted and polite demeanor seems to have endeared him to most of the other survivors. Even Wilson, Willow, Winona and Wolfgang, noted arachnophobes, are shown to not have any problems with him, bar some nervousness from Wolfgang that quickly discipates the moment Webber's in danger.

A young boy who has been eaten by a spider causing him to merge with it into a monstrous hybrid. He has characteristics of both human and monster, being able to eat monster food, befriend spiders, and has slightly higher physical attributes, but not only he has the mind of a kid (and thus can't take many hits to his Sanity), everything except spiders will attack him on sight.

* YankTheDogsChain: Disconnecting him from the Nightmare Throne causes him to cry out in joy -- whereupon he promptly screams and disintegrates, likely due to his advanced age. Subverted once the person the player is gets put on the Nightmare Throne, it will cut to Maxwell waking up and saying "Free at last!" and if you decide to remove the player, the same thing happens but with the roles switched.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: When first greeting the player and in Adventure Mode, he is much [[LeanAndMean thinner and taller]] than the player characters, but when becoming a playable character, his appearance is drastically changed to fit more with the standard height of every others characters.

* DecoyAntagonist: He starts as ''Don't Starve'' main antagonist. After beating Adventure Mode, he becomes a playable character. In ''Shipwrecked'' and ''Hamlet'', there is no core villain. And ''Together'' as Charlie as the new ruler of the Constant.

* MightyLumberjack: He comes complete with a [[ManlyFacialHair beard]] and a [[TalkingWeapon possessed axe]], [[ICallItVera affectionately named “Lucy”]] to cute down trees in no time flat.

* WasOnceAMan: It's implied in their animated short Disconnected that they really were human seemingly willing to forgo their flesh for superior bolts and gears.

* LaughablyEvil: While a machine with a hatred and desire to destroy all organic life, with a dark backstory and some creepy quotes to support it, the rest of the time WX comes of more as a petty jerk than an evil machine. The other survivors seem to, at most, be annoyed by their antics than feel at all threatened by them.

* BrokenPedestal: While we get no details as to whether Wilson knew of Wagstaff before arriving in the Constant (a FreezeFrameBonus on the ad he's holding in his rework short shows he bought Wagstaff's house in an auction "for the scientifically inclined"), "Interference" show's he's genuinely excited to help the cryptic inventor with his projecst. Finding the blueprints to the radio that would one day bring him into contact with Maxwell, however, seems to make him doubtful of the alliance.

* {{Teleportation}}: His Telebrella can allow for a short range teleport to the nearest telipad, but it stops working if you're out of range, as indicated by the green light on top. Unless you [[LightningCanDoAnything get struck by lightning while wilding it.]]

* CursedWithAwesome: Downplayed. Transforming into Wonkey will make your character lose all of their perks in exchange for Wonkey's. Wigfrid and Wolfgang's strenght, Wickerbottom's books, Wortox's teleportation and soul collection. However, that also applies to all of their ''flaws'' too. Wurt and Wigfrid lose their food limitations, meaning they can eat meat and veggies respectively. Wanda's age mechanic gets swapped for regular health that can be healed with food, Wortox won't suffer from his food penalties, so on and so forth. It can make being cursed into quite the boon for certain characters.

* Transmutation: Wilson is able to gain this ability as of his rework, being able to convert certain similar items to and fro from each other, from [[SimpleYetAwesome simply converting twigs into logs or even mass producing some of the rarest gems in the game with little of the effort that is usually required to find them.]]

* ThoseTwoGuys: Downplayed, but he and willow are usually paired together in promotional material, and are shown to get along fairly well.

* BlindWithoutEm: Wagstaff cannot see far away from him without a visor on.

-> '''Voiced by:''' a concertina

* MonochromeCasting: Especially prominent before the release of the Shipwrecked DLC. Prior to its release every human character was white. Even still, the cast remains largely this after the few later additions. Before finding a middle ground in [[ArtEvolution Don't Starve Together]] the first two characters of color had [[ButNotTooBlack noticably lighter skin]], despite being Hawaiian and Black respectivly.

* SpeakingSimlish: The player characters (except [[HeroicMime Wes]]) are subtitled but their speech is represented by instrumental notes.

* SpeakingSimlish: The player characters (except [[HeroicMime Wes]]) are subtitled but their speech is represented by instrumental notes. Wilson's is a trumpet, Willow's a flute, Wolfgang's a tuba, Wendy's an alto flute, WX-78's a synthesizer, Wickerbottom's an oboe, Woodie's a cello, Maxwell's a harmonium, Wigfrid's a very processed brass horn, Webber's may be "a synthesizer being dropped down a flight of stairs", Winona's a tubulum, Walani's an out-of-tune ukulele, Warly's a steel drum, Wilbur's an organ grinder, Woodlegs's a concertina, Wormwood's a didgeridoo, Wheeler's a ragtime piano, Wilba's an ocarina, Wagstaff's may be a train whistle, Wortox's a violin, Wurt's a sawtooth tone, Walter's may be a bugle, and Wanda's clock chimes.

* CastFromHitPoints: Post-{{nerf}}, summoning Abigail costs her 50 sanity. This is inverted after her character refresh in ''Don't Starve Together'', where summoning Abigail restores 15 sanity points.

** This gets downplayed slightly by him being the only character to have a [[TechTree skill tree]],

* TheProtagonist: Being the first playable character, heavily featured in advertising, the first character to be given an official backstory, and nearly appears in every short connected to the story, he's definitely the most focused character of Don't Starve next to Maxwell, Charlie, Wagstaff, and Winona.
** He canonically sits on the Nightmare Throne, taking over temporarily before [[spoiler: Charlie shows up]]. And in the Maxwell Short, [[spoiler: he's the first to notice the rose on Maxwell's jacket to bloom]], and the next short continues the continuity with him [[spoiler: studying the roses before being interrupted by Wagstaff's hologram]]. Safe to say his role in the story has gotten bigger.

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

* TheProtagonist: Being the first playable character, heavily featured in advertising and the first character to be given an official backstory, he's the closest thing ''Don't Starve'' has to a main character.