History Characters / DungeonCrawlerCarl

* TheHero: A pretty classic example. Mechanic in the Coast Guard with a strong sense of ethics, he stumbles into a terrible situation then starts helping the helpless once he gets his feet under him ([[RunningGag his beautiful, beautiful feet]]). He then organizes and leads his fellow crawlers, even managing to rescue hundreds of them on the fourth floor the later thousands on the fifth and tens of thousands on the eighth.

* {{Ambiguously Bi}}: Subverted as Carl explicitly confirms he's not into men, however from having a toxic situationship with the AI (which is referred to as Carl's psycho ''boy''friend), to having alleged gay hookups (one with the Maestro and another with Damascus Steel), many people in universe believe that he's bisexual. Also, the only strip club he goes to is the one containing the men (although he is there for unrelated reasons).
* {{Anarchy Is Chaos}}: Carl is an anarchist and, as Drick so eloquently put it: "[...] chaos. That's Carl's preferred environment."

* {{Mistaken for Insane}}: Carl is believed by most crawlers and viewers to be kind of an {{Ax Crazy}} {{Mad Bomber}} who loves killing people, including children. This is partly due to the deceptive editing of the Kua-Tin broadcasts and partly to the fact that Carl is a little bit crazy. Despite his slight penchant for casually juggling lethal explosives, however, he's resolute about helping the helpless and fighting the elite assholes who put everyone in this situation, so when the uninformed try to manipulate him based on their belief that he's just one of those dipshit {{Bomb Throwing Anarchist}}s, it tends to go completely pear-shaped for them.

* {{Took A Level In Jerkass}}: In contrast to the thinking npcs, who Carl pities, he's far more willing to torture and casually kill the Hunters, because they chose to be here, whereas the npcs are slaves like himself. This is despite the fact that he recognizes that many of them are low level employees of great powers who don't themselves necessarily have that much choice in the matter, since they live in a crapsack universe.

* [[spoiler:InsaneEqualsViolent: Paz implies some form of mental illness drove her to become obsessed with sin and later kill her fellow nuns.]]

* [[spoiler:NunTooHoly: She poisoned her entire convent and was in a women's prison under medication when civilization was destroyed.]] The two men she was with? They weren't prisoners she was counseling. [[spoiler:They were guards keeping her from murdering more people.]] Then the toxo kicked in.
* [[spoiler:SanityStrengthening: Ironically, entering the dungeon seemingly cured whatever mental illness she was suffering from. However, her emotional issues remained and continued to make her dangerous.]]

* {{All Love Is Unrequited}}: The AI is in love with Carl. The knowledge that Carl doesn't reciprocate leaves it crushed.

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-> ''"I'm going to kill your mother."''\\\

* [[spoiler: InsaneEqualsViolent: Paz implies some form of mental illness drove her to become obsessed with sin and later kill her fellow nuns.]]

* [[spoiler: NunTooHoly: She poisoned her entire convent and was in a women's prison under medication when civilization was destroyed.]] The two men she was with? They weren't prisoners she was counseling. [[spoiler:They were guards keeping her from murdering more people.]] Then the toxo kicked in.
* [[spoiler: SanityStrengthening: Ironically, entering the dungeon seemingly cured whatever mental illness she was suffering from. However, her emotional issues remained and continued to make her dangerous.]]
* SupportPartyMember: She can fight, but mostly buffs and heals her teammates.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: That's its purpose. Its goal is to create entertaining television by forcing people into impossible scenarios at the worst or just fucking with them at the best. You complain about not having any pants? No pants for you, ever.

* {{Yandere}}: [[Zigzagged]] The AI has a massive obsession with Carl (especially his feet) however it is just as happy to put him in immense danger to punish him for something petty as it is to gift him special boxes no one else gets. However, it does give Carl massive boons and it clearly favourites him. It will even do things like [[spoiler:''meet with Carl personally'' and give him secret messages in it's very personal and tailored achievements]]. Katia and Donut call it Carl's psycho boyfriend. It certainly acts like one.

* {{Ambiguously Bi}}: Subverted as Carl explicitly confirms he's not into men, however from having a toxic relationship with the AI (which is referred to as Carl's psycho ''boy''friend), to having alleged gay hookups (one with the Maestro and another with Damascus Steel), many people in universe believe that he's bisexual. Also, the only strip club he goes to is the one containing the men (although he is there for unrelated reasons).

* NotMeThisTime: When something explodes on the fourth level, people (namely Imani) ask Carl what it was, assuming it was him. Carl outrageously asks why she thought he had anything to do with it, since he didn't. His own cat backs her up, saying that it usually is him so it isn't such a wild assumption to make. Invoked the second time when Prepotente breaks the seventh level and multiple people panickedly ask Carl what he did. Again, he has to explain he has nothing to do with it. People apologise saying that it's a force of habit.

* {{Actually Pretty Funny}}: After Carl stabs the shitty reporter in the neck with the magic pen, the room is flooded with gnoll security guards. Carl insists, "Come on, you have to admit, that was pretty awesome.", and one of the guards does indeed burst into laughter and has to be shushed.

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Carl saved crawlers from the bubbles using the Gate of the Feral Gods and also used it to flood Larracos. Carl killed most of the hunters, and rallied all the other crawlers to hunt the hunters too. Carl and his friends stopped the Butcher's Masquerade from doing what the Valtay wanted it to do: knock out the top crawlers. Carl bought his way into the Faction Wars and became a warlord. Carl turned protections off for the Factions. Carl bypassed the keys to the staircase problem. Carl made it so that 30 thousand crawlers descended to the 9th floor. Carl has outside help that is aiding him in destroying the crawl. The Syndicate wants to desperately get rid of him, to stop him from messing everything up even more than he already has.]]

* MinionMaster: It wasn't the point of his class or his race, but he collects a thousand little dolls that can be used to summon minions. They become a key part of his fighting style.

* {{Antichrist}}: Zev notifies him that some people in the universe think that he's an antichrist figure sent from the heavens to bring about the apocalypse.

* {{Actually Pretty Funny}}: After Carl stabs the shitty reporter in the neck with the magic pen, the room is flooded with gnoll security guards. When Carl says, "Come on, you have to admit, that was pretty awesome.", one of the guards bursts into laughter and has to be shushed.

* MadBomber: The recap shows portray him this way, laughing and blowing random stuff up. The truth is that he sees explosives as BoringButPractical; why get trapped in a room with a boss when you can just roll several tons of dynamite in there instead? However he seems to becoming more and more of a mad bomber as time goes on, the angrier he gets, and the more his mental illness and trauma start catching up to him, causing him to become more and more "mad".

* MadBomber: The recap shows portray him this way, laughing and blowing random stuff up. The truth is that he sees explosives as BoringButPractical; why get trapped in a room with a boss when you can just roll several tons of dynamite in there instead? It doesn't help that he entered mostly barefoot and half naked, pushing the system to push him to become a barefoot fist fighter, so he needs ''something''.

* DropTheHammer: By the first floor, he already has a giant magical hammer.