History Characters / GhostsUK

* BrotherSisterIncest: When Pat talks about how all humans are related on ''some'' level, Robin pipes up with 'Yeah, you all come from me! And my sister.' When the other ghosts and Alison react with confusion and disgust, he says he was joking -- but judging by his expression when no one can see his face, he definitely wasn't.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When Mary moved on, he was outside, watching his "mouse family," who had just had babies. While the others are upset, he asks them if they want to see the babies. He's been around for so long he's got his own way of remembering them: by naming a star after them. He names off others that have come and gone, then names a star ("because it twinkles") after her.

This is the characters page from the 2019 TV series ''Series/GhostsUK''. Click [[Characters/GhostsUS Here]] to see the characters page from the [[Series/GhostsUS 2021 TV series]].

** In a house full of bizarre ghosts, she is this. Justified as she is a modern woman living with ghosts from various time periods who may not be a progressive as her. Also, they have long been denied the ability to talk to a living.

* OnlySaneMan: In a house full of bizarre ghosts, she is this. Justified as she is a modern woman living with ghosts from various time periods who may not be a progressive as her. Also, they have long been denied the ability to talk to a living.

* WomenAreWiser: Played with. Alison has a bit more common sense than Mike, but she still makes the occasional dumb mistake such as misplacing Dante after a night of partying.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "DAMN YOUR EYES!!!"

* UnfortunateNames: Some crass comedy is mined from her preference for being called "Fanny". And it ''really'' doesn't help that her surname is "Button"...

* Catchphrase: "DAMN YOUR EYES!!!"

* UnderstandingBoyfriend: Quickly comes to accept Alison's ability to see ghosts as part of their daily lives.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His proper name hasn't been revealed as of the Series 4 finale.

* OfficerAndAGentleman: The Captain literally refers to himself as such.
* OnlySaneMan: He thinks he is, but he's wrong. As seen in “Something to Share?” he is hiding a secret (he's gay) like most of the other ghosts.
* TheLeader: Being an army officer, he thinks himself as this. While the others sometimes defer to him, it's mainly because he's bossy and tends to assert his authority more than they do.

* NoNameGiven: His real name is never given. He ''almost'' mentions his surname in Series 3 while attempting to give Alison a debriefing, [[TheUnReveal but is interrupted]]. The 2021 Christmas special reveals that Pat, at least, knows his real name, but he is [[RunningGag again interrupted]] before he can tell Alison what it is. [[spoiler: His first name is eventually given as James in Series 5, when Havers calls him this as the Captain is dying of a heart attack, but we still never learn his surname]].

* SelectiveGravity: Since they evidently died mid-flight, the German pilots are stuck hovering in place several hundred feat in the air, at eye level with the window of a flat Alison and Mike considered moving to.

* {{Ambiguous Situation}}:It's not really clear if Jemima is in any way related to the Plague ghosts in the basement, if she was part of their village, or if she died of plague at another point during the Black Death, or even sometime afterwards, possibly during the much later seventeenth century outbreak. It's never really mentioned or implied when she died, other than the fact it was before 1824. She also can be heard singing by the living, but the song she sings was released after the final outbreak of plague in England so it's possible she learned the song after death, possibly hearing it sung by a child who grew up in Button House.

* ExpyCoexistence: His mannerisms and poetry make him a reference to Romantic poets such as [[Creator/LordByron Lord Byron]], but it's also established that he had a rivalry with Byron when he was alive.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Since they all hail from past eras, many of them understandably don't have the most progressive moral or political views. Robin lived many thousands of years before there were any laws regarding sex and is implied to have been intimate with ''his own sister''; Thomas has uncomfortable stalkerish tendencies when it comes to his idea of courting women; Fanny is vocally disgusted by the idea of same-sex marriage; and Julian is a sexist, classist, debaucherous UpperClassTwit of the highest order.

* UpperClassTwit: Having known him in life, Julian regards him disdainfully as a stuffy old berk who loves the sound of his own voice.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Being forced into silence all her life caused her to freely voice her negative opinions on those she disliked in death regularly, but she did have a genuine kinship with Mary and expressed some sympathy for Thomas after his death. Robin also seems to remember fondly, saying how she had a "good heart" and he named a star after he'd once she got "sucked off".

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Being forced into silence all her life caused her to freely voice her negative opinions on those she disliked in death regularly, but she did have a genuine kinship with Mary and expressed some sympathy for Thomas after his death.

An Edwardian matriarch and former owner of Button House. [[spoiler: She was murdered by her husband whom she caught having sex with the groundskeeper and their butler.]] Her image can be seen by the living, albeit only on photographs.