History Characters / HatchetfieldFamilies

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I still haven't gotten my hot chocolate."'']]

Ted's nerdy younger brother.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm on vocal rest."'']]

Zoey's elderly grandmother, a wealthy "town treasure" and former champion swimmer.

The elderly patriarch of the Metzger family, who own a vast property in the Witchwood Forest.

* HillbillyHorrors: Evokes this aesthetic, being an elderly redneck with multitudes of hillbilly descendants, who intimidates our protagonists with many ominous proclamations. [[spoiler:His version of the Hatchetmen's mission statement makes use of this as well; while the 1820s Hatchetmen were BurnTheWitch sorts typical of that time period, his disdain for "the Gift" of sorcery comes from a more modern interpretation of TheFundamentalist, through the lens of the SatanicPanic.]]

->''It beats bein' broke.''\\
''In this day and ages,''\\
''what's the use of wages''\\
''if you can't afford a smoke?''

* NoNameGiven: He's listed in the script for ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' as "Obnoxious Teen", leaving him with no official name after that name was also given to his SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute played by Joey Richter. His identity is confirmed in "Abstinence Camp" as Peter Spankoffski.

!!!'''Played by:''' Robert Manion | Creator/JoeyRichter (''WebVideo/NightmareTime 2'')

[[caption-width-right:350:''"And, you know, when one sister is so on top of her game it kind of demands that the other one be a total fuck-up, right?"'']]

->''She used to like bars''\\
''She liked to loosen me up''\\
''just to get at my heart''\\
''She'd poke at each of my wounds''\\
''to see what I'd say''\\

Charlotte's husband, who frequently cheats on her. One of the first victims of the apotheosis.

!!!'''Played by:''' Robert Manion (''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', ''Theatre/BlackFriday'') | [[Creator/LangBrothers Nick Lang]] (''WebVideo/NightmareTime 2'') | Creator/JoeyRichter (''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie'')

!!!'''Played by:''' Robert Manion | [[Creator/LangBrothers Nick Lang]] (''WebVideo/NightmareTime 2'')
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' (cameo) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]

* BastardBoyfriend: ''So much''. Is a massively Bastard Husband to Charlotte, as well as being a Bastard Boyfriend on the side to many other women, most recently Zoey (who's still [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys in the phase]] where she finds this charming). "You Tied Up My Heart" is a -- forced, insincere, alien-composed -- classic apology song for this behavior.

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' (unseen) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' (mentioned) | ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' (mentioned) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Forever & Always"]] (mentioned) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "Jane's a Car"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Time Bastard"]] (mentioned) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' (cameo) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]] (mentioned) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Forever & Always"]] (mentioned) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' (mentioned) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "The Witch in the Web"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' (mentioned) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "Jane's a Car"]] (mentioned)

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' (mentioned) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' (mentioned) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E2ForeverAndAlwaysAndTimeBastard "Forever & Always"]] (mentioned) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]]

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "Jane's a Car"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "The Witch in the Web"]] (mentioned) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]]

* Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler:Was alive before the town was founded, and survives by draining people for their youth.]]

* HillbillyHorrors: Evokes this aesthetic, being an elderly redneck with multitudes of hillbilly descendants, who intimidates our protagonists with many ominous proclamations. [[spoiler:His version of the Hatchetmen's mission statement makes use of this as well; while the 1820s Hatchetmen were BurnTheWitch sorts typical of that time period, his disdain for "the Gift" of sorcery comes from a more modern SatanicPanic, [[TheFundamentalist Christian fundamentalist]] direction.]]

* ParentalFavoritism: Linda dotes on him. When Zoey and Sam kidnap him, Linda's first question is ''which'' of her sons they have, then wants to make ''absolutely sure'' that it's River, before panicking.

* ExtremeDoormat: Linda is an obvious GoldDigger who spends his money and treats him like hired help, and he does nothing but patiently put up with it even though you'd think as the wealthy doctor financing her lifestyle he'd have more say in the relationship. It turns out to be {{foreshadowing}} -- Linda's alluring FetishizedAbuser traits end up getting a whole cult full of (mostly) men to slave for her and (literally) kiss her feet in the same way.

* CoolLoser: "Abstinence Camp" reveals him to be a much more well-adjusted person than his EarlyBirdCameo would indicate.

!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' (cameo) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]]

!!Green Family

[[folder: Ethan Green]]
!!Ethan Green
!!!'''Played by:''' Robert Manion | Creator/JoeyRichter (''WebVideo/NightmareTime 2'')
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "Jane's a Car"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "The Witch in the Web"]] (mentioned) | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'd make a great dad, I'm just sayin'."'']]

->''It beats bein' broke.''\\
''In this day and ages,''\\
''what's the use of wages''\\
''if you can't afford a smoke?''

Lex's boyfriend and partner in crime.

* BloodFromTheMouth: PlayedForDrama, the spurt of blood he spits out after the ''literal'' GutPunch when he gets between the rioters and Hannah is the first blood spilled in the riot, and leads to him being the first fatality. Hannah sees it and screams a repetition of her earlier prophecy "[[{{Foreshadowing}} Bad blood!]] [[ArcWords Bad blood!]]"
* ChronicallyKilledActor: Ethan's death sparked another flurry of commentary about how frequently Robert Manion's characters die in Starkid productions and led to a petition demanding that Robert's next character survive to the end of the show.
* CurbStompBattle: A literal example -- before Ethan can even begin to put up a fight he's on the ground having his head kicked in.
* DeadStarWalking: Considering what a fan favorite Robert Manion has become, people were expecting Ethan to be a major character through the whole show, with the previews making it sound like Lex and Ethan would be a BetaCouple to Tom and Becky, which makes his horrible death two scenes in an extra GutPunch -- and his reappearance as "Bad Double!" Ethan a one-two GutPunch.
* {{Delinquent}}: He seems to have a record with the mall security guards, and is known as a bit of a bully at the high school. He's in on Lex's plan to drop out and run away to California. It's implied he's part of the Hatchetfield High "Smoke Club", with their signature move of [[RunningGag smoking two cigarettes at once in both hands]].
* DumbIsGood: He's easily the dumbest person in the cast, at least before everyone starts going crazy, but he's also one of the kindest.
* FashionableAsymmetry: He has a single earring in his right ear. (Apparently the idea that a piercing in the right ear means you're gay is one of the things he's ''not'' old-fashioned about.) He's also wearing a single glove on his right hand, and his hair is combed to the right.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Neither Hannah, who psychically sensed Ethan's death, nor Tom and Becky, who actually witnessed it, get any time before the ending to mention his death to Lex -- his ''girlfriend'' with whom he just had a BigDamnKiss and for whom he was going to run away to California. Especially harsh since he was only even at the mall to look after Hannah while Lex carried out her plan and his death is indirectly her fault. And, in fact, when Hannah shows up as a prisoner of the cult with Ethan nowhere in sight she doesn't even think to ask what happened to him.
* GreaserDelinquents: Ethan is a [[DiscoDan bizarrely anachronistic]] version of a teen delinquent straight out of ''{{Theatre/Grease}}'', with his use of language, his HellBentForLeather outfit and even some of his weird gaps in knowledge all evoking TheFifties. (He seems shocked that a movie theater ticket costs as much as $15, and when pretending to film Lex he mimes turning the crank on an old-fashioned film camera, much to her confusion.) Ironically, he does not appear at all in the one obviously ''Grease''-inspired song "Our Doors Are Open."
* HeroicSacrifice: His last moments in life are spent getting between Hannah and the rioters so she can run to safety, which leads to them curbstomping him to death in frustration.
* IconicOutfit: Ethan's is recognizable enough that Robert Manion was able to send the fandom into {{Squee}} mode just by filming a video stacking a leather jacket, a green flannel shirt, a single fingerless glove and a single earring onto a chair, wordlessly announcing Ethan's return for ''WebVideo/NightmareTime''.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The adults all seem to think he's a bad kid and a bad influence on Lex, and he's willing to use bullying and intimidation on other kids to get what he wants, but it turns out all his actions really are motivated by the desire to do anything necessary to get Lex and Hannah a shot at a better life.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Colonel Schaeffer confirmed that, aside from [[SoleSurvivor Emma]], no other human resident of Hatchetfield survived, so it’s highly likely Ethan was infected by the HiveMind offscreen during ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'']].
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Ethan has a habit of correcting people on their spelling and grammar despite apparently having NeverLearnedToRead, telling Lex "liar" is spelled L-I-E-R and correcting Hannah that the right way to say "badder" is "more bad".
** This gets a CallBack in "Jane's a Car" where after his narrow brush with death he has a furious FreakOut asking Lex if she knows what a "P" and a "D" stand for on an automatic gearshift. (Which, yes, is mansplaining, but in the circumstances he has a right to be upset.) To his credit, he quickly relents when he sees Lex is just as freaked out as he is.
* LargeHam: Ethan is more subdued than Robert Manion's usual characters but does play the GreaserDelinquents stereotype fairly broadly. It's when he comes back as "Bad Double" Ethan that things get really hammy.
* MauveShirt: After a few scenes showing his affection for Lex and protectiveness towards Hannah, he is the first seen death in the show.
* MoneyDumb: There's some intentional BlackComedy in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' with Ethan and Lex celebrating the $7,000 from the sale of the Wiggly doll as though it were a huge amount of money. (It's a huge amount of money to pay for ''one doll'', yes, but for them to dance around screaming "We're set! We're set!" as though it's enough money to ''move to Los Angeles'' with no job prospects is... [[ThePollyanna very optimistic]].) A rejected script for ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' called "Ethan Doesn't Die" would've confirmed this, showing a timeline where they go on the run with Hannah and, thanks to their poor budgeting skills, start running out of money within the first week.
* NiceGuy: Takes a lot of devotion to move across the country for someone right out of high school. It turns out that he's already spent his life savings (around $1000) to prepare for the trip to California without telling Lex, and has staked his whole future on starting a family with her.
* NoodleIncident: [[spoiler: "The Witch in the Web" reveals that the "magic hat" he gave Hannah in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' is a gift that Miss Holloway leaves as a keepsake to all the kids she helps as a "reminder of the warriors they've become", suggesting Ethan was involved in some kind of supernatural adventure as a kid that Miss Holloway was able to help him with.]]
* PaperTiger: He looks like a stereotypical thug and is able to intimidate the movie theater clerk with his appearance, but he's a big ol' softy with Hannah, and his first impulse when he sees the RetailRiot is to run up and ask if anyone is hurt. He tragically turns out to be somewhat useless in a real fight, at least compared to Tom, who fairly easily scares off the rioters who just beat Ethan to death.
* SacrificialLamb: He's the first fatality caused by the RetailRiot, and it is a brutal, senseless death. Becky examining him and realizing he's actually dead is a huge GutPunch for her and the audience.
** In a particularly harsh YankTheDogsChain, "Jane's a Car" gives us a BaitAndSwitch where it looks like Ethan is being set up as a SacrificialLamb ''again'' -- to establish that the haunted Mustang is a malignant force [[spoiler: and set up the CharacterDevelopment of Jane GainingTheWillToKill]] -- but at the last minute Lex successfully saves his life.
* TheStoic: "Jane's a Car" has him talk dismissively about Tom Houston's TheMourningAfter -- even as a guy who loves cars and works on them for a living, he's pretty insistent that Tom's attachment to the Mustang as a TragicKeepsake is irrational and harmful. This kind of talk, aside from probably being insincere (since we know from ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' he's a big ol' softy who tries to avoid showing it) almost gets him killed by the car in question.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: One of the most selfless characters in the show, who, even more than Lex, never even once hears Wiggly's voice or succumbs to his influence, and is horribly killed defending a child's life despite being barely more than a child himself.
* TreacherousSpiritChase: Wiggly creates an EvilDoppelganger of Ethan in the Black and White to try to convince her to give herself up to Linda. It fails to convince her, but the impersonation does come close to [[BreakThemByTalking breaking her emotionally.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Hard to talk about him without talking about the fact that he dies [[WeHardlyKnewYe quite early on]] in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', especially since the vocal fandom for his character revolves around "justice" for him.

[[folder: Tony Green]]
!!Tony Green
!!!'''Played by:''' Robert Manion
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "Jane's a Car"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Hey, pal, it's all right. I can't imagine losing someone like that."'']]

Ethan's dad, who owns the auto shop where Ethan works.

* FamilyBusiness: He and his son are the only two employees we've seen so far.
* GoodParents: He loves Ethan dearly and admits he doesn't know what he'd do if anything happened to him. He also seems to have given him a pretty nice job in the auto shop, and doesn't mind Lex hanging out during Ethan's shift.
* GreaseMonkey: A fairly classic example of this StockCharacter, though also a warmly and sympathetically drawn example.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Colonel Schaeffer confirmed that, aside from [[SoleSurvivor Emma]], no other human resident of Hatchetfield survived, so it’s highly likely Tony was infected by the HiveMind offscreen during ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'']].
* MissingMom: Ethan's mother is nowhere in the picture in "Jane's a Car"; nothing is outright stated about her, although it's notable that when trying to empathize with Tom's grief over losing his wife, Tony's impulse is to talk about how bad he'd feel if he lost his ''son''. (Which implies that he neither currently has a wife nor has already had a wife who died on him, i.e. he's divorced.) Note that this may primarily be just to tweak fans over Ethan being a played by a ChronicallyKilledActor and having had a near-brush with death earlier in the episode though.
* NiceGuy: He's a lot more patient with Tom's grief-stricken state than many would be (even taking into account that Tom's most likely paying him a fair price for the work on his car). The most he pushes back on Tom's obsession with holding onto the car as a TragicKeepsake is gently offering to connect Tom with a classic car collector if he needs to recoup the money (and promising that the collector would "take good care of her").
* RambunctiousItalian: Was written to broadly fit this stereotype, though not in an over-the-top way (and his [[MultiEthnicName surname]] indicates his background is mixed to some degree). Angela Giarratana, who is Italian-American in RealLife, had high praise for Robert Manion's portrayal of this character.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Implied by him and Ethan sharing an actor.
* UnexplainedAccent: Has one similar to his son's, though somewhat more toned-down and realistic. His LA Dodgers baseball cap (a consequence of Robert Manion living in Los Angeles in RealLife) indicates he may be a transplant to Michigan from elsewhere.

!!Lauter Family

[[folder: Mayor Solomon Lauter]]
!!Mayor Solomon Lauter
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/CoreyDorris
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Killer Track"]]

The mayor of Hatchetfield and father of popular girl Stephanie Lauter.

[[folder: Stephanie Lauter]]
!!Stephanie Lauter
!!!'''Played by:''' Mariah Rose Faith
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Abstinence Camp"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]]

A popular girl at Hatchetfield High and the daughter of the mayor.

!!Metzger Family

[[folder: Bob Metzger]]
!!Bob Metzger
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/DylanSaunders
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Perky's Buds"]]

The elderly patriarch of the Metzger family, who own a vast property in the Witchwood Forest.

[[folder: Metzger Brothers]]
!!Louie, Carl, and Lars Metzger
!!!'''Played by:''' [[Creator/LangBrothers Nick Lang]] (Louie) | Jon Matteson (Carl) | James Tolbert (Lars)
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E2PerkysBudsAndAbstinenceCamp "Perky's Buds"]]

Bob's dim-witted hillbilly sons.

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* HollywoodNerd: A more fully realized version of this stereotype than usual, but still a combination of pretty much every negative trait of "nerds" in the popular imagination.

* ExtremeDoormat: Linda is an obvious GoldDigger who spends his money and treats him like hired help, and he does nothing but patiently put up with it even though you'd think as the wealthy doctor financing her lifestyle he'd have more say in the relationship. It turns out to be {{foreshadowing}} -- Linda's alluring BastardGirlfriend traits end up getting a whole cult full of (mostly) men to slave for her and (literally) kiss her feet in the same way.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: While Black Friday only had him appear via an unheard phone conversation with Linda, it indicated him to be a weak-willed doormat. He cries after mistaking Linda scolding Becky for him and is on a forced diet that he is apparently not happy with. When he appears in Nightmare Time, he's relatively confident, shows no sign of any weight problems and not isn't bothered by Linda's attitude, but was attracted to her for it.

* {{Meganekko}}: Not the only character in this show with glasses, but his are ''huge'' and unsightly.