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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Pokey at the Hatchetfield High School black altar]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/npmd_pokey.png ''"Our true forms would melt your minds!"''[[/labelnote]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Pokey at the Hatchetfield High School black altar]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/npmd_pokey.png ''"Our true forms would melt your minds!"''[[/labelnote]]]]
''"What do you want, Steph?"''[[/labelnote]]]]

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all this talk about color motifs of the Lords in Black...and no mention of Bright Is Not Good?


* BrightIsNotGood: Their names may be the Lords in ''Black'', but they're mainly associated with bright, pastel colors, evident in their most recognisable forms, their plush forms and their teen forms in ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die''.



* ColorMotif: Webby is, of course, associated primarily with the color white, but also seems to generally invert the GrayscaleOfEvil trope -- the Lords in Black are, despite their name, associated with bright, saturated pastel colors, while Webby's "The Web I Spin for You" music video is filled with DeliberatelyMonochrome images of spiderwebs, and Webby herself is dressed in pure, clean white contrasting with ''very'' dark-toned makeup (and a single SplashOfColor with her violet fingernails).

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* ColorMotif: Webby is, of course, associated primarily with the color white, but also seems to generally invert the GrayscaleOfEvil trope -- the Lords in Black are, despite their name, [[BrightIsNotGood associated with bright, saturated pastel colors, colors]], while Webby's "The Web I Spin for You" music video is filled with DeliberatelyMonochrome images of spiderwebs, and Webby herself is dressed in pure, clean white contrasting with ''very'' dark-toned makeup (and a single SplashOfColor with her violet fingernails).



* GoodIsNotSoft: She may be the nicest cosmic entity in the Black and White, but if you cross her or those she cares about, she won't hesitate to erase your very soul from existence, [[spoiler: as Willabella Muckwab discovered after menacing Hannah.]] It's also implied she had some connection to the creation of the "web" in the Witchwood, which is very much a case of BlackAndGrayMorality.

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* GoodIsNotSoft: GoodIsNotSoft:
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She may be the nicest cosmic entity in the Black and White, but if you cross her or those she cares about, she won't hesitate to erase your very soul from existence, [[spoiler: as Willabella Muckwab discovered after menacing Hannah.]] It's also implied she had some connection to the creation of the "web" in the Witchwood, which is very much a case of BlackAndGrayMorality.
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* DeathByMaterialism: All of the cultists -- except for Charlotte -- succumb to their greed after Linda dies and start a pitched battle with each other over the last Wiggly doll, even as the mall burns down around them.

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* DeathByMaterialism: All of the cultists -- except for Charlotte and Gary -- succumb to their greed after Linda dies and start a pitched battle with each other over the last Wiggly doll, even as the mall burns down around them.
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** Angela's Sniggle comes back as "Snigglette" in "Watcher World", who's specifically a special [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers odd one out]] among the Sniggles (and [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong punished]] for it).

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** Angela's Sniggle comes back as "Snigglette" in "Watcher World", who's specifically a special [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers odd one out]] out among the Sniggles (and [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong punished]] for it).
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* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Wilbur Cross entered the Black and White, was [[GoMadFromTheRevelation driven mad]] by the sight of Wiggly, and subsequently became Wiggly's herald, Uncle Wiley. Notably, this has never been formally revealed in any piece of Hatchetfield text or WordOfGod; the Creator/LangBrothers just speak about it openly, suggesting a bout of ViewersAreGeniuses on their part almost comparable to their infamous one from ''Theatre/{{Firebringer}}''[[labelnote:Spoilers for ''Firebringer'']]The Lang brothers thought it was so blatantly obvious that Chorn was secretly a space alien (in this show about Paleolithic humans) that they just trotted it out at the end of the show as if it was no big deal; when the first week's worth of audiences were universally ''completely baffled'', the Langs had to add a gigantic monologue to the scene so Chorn could explain ''everything'' about her role in the plot[[/labelnote]] -- it would seem they intended us to simply understand that Wilbur and Wiley are the same person before the credits rolled on ''Black Friday'', not to WMG about it after the fact.

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* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Wilbur Cross entered the Black and White, was [[GoMadFromTheRevelation driven mad]] by the sight of Wiggly, and subsequently became Wiggly's herald, Uncle Wiley. Notably, this has never been formally revealed in any piece of Hatchetfield text or WordOfGod; the Creator/LangBrothers just speak about it openly, suggesting a bout of ViewersAreGeniuses on their part almost comparable to their infamous one from ''Theatre/{{Firebringer}}''[[labelnote:Spoilers for ''Firebringer'']]The Lang brothers thought it was so blatantly obvious that Chorn was secretly [[AncientAstronauts a space alien (in this show about in hiding among the Paleolithic humans) humans]] that they just trotted it out at the end of the show as if it was no big deal; when the first week's worth of audiences were universally ''completely baffled'', the Langs had to add a gigantic monologue to the scene so Chorn could explain ''everything'' about her its role in the plot[[/labelnote]] -- it would seem they intended us to simply understand that Wilbur and Wiley are the same person before the credits rolled on ''Black Friday'', not to WMG about it after the fact.
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-->'''The Hive:''' We swear we will teach you what it means to love, what it means to ''obey,'' '''Paul!'''

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* StalkerWithACrush: The HiveMind seems to develop this relationship with Paul and Emma.

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* StalkerWithACrush: The HiveMind seems to develop this relationship with Paul and Emma.Paul.


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* {{Yandere}}: While The Hive wants to infect the world, it is ''very'' determined to infect Paul.

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''Nibbly wants a sacrifice and Wiggly wants his wrath''\\

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''Nibbly wants a his sacrifice and Wiggly wants his wrath''\\



''Oh, I have to trust there’s a galaxy''\\

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''Oh, I ''I have to trust there’s a galaxy''\\



->''Show me those hands, show me those jazz hands''\\

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->''Show me those your hands, show me those jazz hands''\\


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->'''Hannah:''' ''Whatever don’t kill you makes you strong''\\
''I don’t know about you, but I think that’s wrong''\\
''I plan on keeping you living (In shame)''\\
''And once I roughed you up''\\
''Go back to your boys and say you’re tough''\\
''I guess the tea will be spilling (Today)''\\
''You may be the champ inside your head''\\
''Your stupid head''\\
''But if you were smart, you’d play dead''

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''We dance around the pentagram and take all our kingdoms back''

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''We dance around the pentagram and take all our kingdoms back''
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''Burble the spell that gets it done, babble it on command''\\
''Won't stop until all the blood is drawn the Lords in Black demand''
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* ArcWords: Incantations and prayers to the Lords in Black always begin with the words "We invoke the names", followed by their five names, always in the same order: Pokotho, Bliklotep, T'Noy Karaxis, Nibblenephim, Wiggog Y'wrath. Even outside of the incantation, any time all five are listed or displayed, it's in that order.

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* ArcWords: Incantations and prayers to the Lords in Black always begin with the words "We invoke the names", followed by their five names, always in the same order: Pokotho, Bliklotep, T'Noy Karaxis, Nibblenephim, Wiggog Y'wrath. Even outside of the incantation, invocation, any time all five are listed listed, or displayed, displayed one by one, it's in that order.
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* ArcWords: Incantations and prayers to the Lords in Black always begin with the words "We invoke the names", followed by their five names, always in the same order: Pokotho, Bliklotep, T'Noy Karaxis, Nibblenephim, Wiggog Y'wrath.

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* ArcWords: Incantations and prayers to the Lords in Black always begin with the words "We invoke the names", followed by their five names, always in the same order: Pokotho, Bliklotep, T'Noy Karaxis, Nibblenephim, Wiggog Y'wrath. Even outside of the incantation, any time all five are listed or displayed, it's in that order.
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* NobleDemon: Depicted this way in ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die'' in which they agree to get rid of Jägerman for the protagonists in return for what one of them cherishes the most. They're clearly hoping for this to result in Stephanie having to kill Pete or vice versa, but when Grace outsmarts them by giving up what she cherishes most instead - her chastity - they still hold up their end of the bargain and drag Jägerman into the Black and White despite not getting what they wanted, accepting this as nonetheless a worthy trade.

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* NobleDemon: Depicted this way in ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die'' in which they agree to get rid of Jägerman for the protagonists in return for what one of them cherishes the most. They're clearly hoping for this to result in Stephanie having to kill Pete or vice versa, but when Grace outsmarts them by giving up what she cherishes most instead - her chastity - they still hold up their end of the bargain and drag Jägerman into the Black and White despite not getting what they wanted, accepting this as nonetheless a worthy trade. Of course, this may have been PragmaticVillainy on their part- Grace was broken mentally by giving up her virginity, and she's now looking to [[MeetTheNewBoss take Max's place]] as Hatchetfield's resident supernatural SerialKiller...
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Sniggles serving Wiggly in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' wear shirts in his signature sickly pale green, and they switch to purple when they reappear as Blinky's servants in "Watcher World". [[spoiler:Those appearing in the end credits of "Watcher World" wear pink Nibbly shirts.]]

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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Sniggles serving Wiggly in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' wear shirts in his signature sickly pale green, and they switch to purple when they reappear as Blinky's servants in "Watcher World". [[spoiler:Those appearing in the end credits of "Watcher World" "Honey Queen" wear pink Nibbly shirts.]]
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* PsychopathicManchild: Most of the Lords come off as this in some way, befitting their cuddly doll forms. Wiggly sounds like a grown man, but uses cutesy language (for instance, asking his "fwendy-wends" to tickle his "belly-well"). Blinky has a high-pitched, childish voice, created a whole amusement park for his own entertainment and jumps up and down in glee when he's about to witness a bloodbath. Tinky treats humanity the same way a child playing rough with their dolls would, explicitly comparing his victims to toys. The exceptions are Nibbly (who rarely speaks and seems to have no real personality beyond "hungry") and Pokey (who comes across in his physical appearances as TheStoic or a ColdHam— although he does spend some time in [[spoiler:"Yellow Jacket"]] in the form of a child.

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* PsychopathicManchild: Most of the Lords come off as this in some way, befitting their cuddly doll forms. Wiggly sounds like a grown man, but uses cutesy language (for instance, asking his "fwendy-wends" to tickle his "belly-well"). Blinky has a high-pitched, childish voice, created a whole amusement park for his own entertainment and jumps up and down in glee when he's about to witness a bloodbath. Tinky treats humanity the same way a child playing rough with their dolls would, explicitly comparing his victims to toys. The exceptions are Nibbly (who rarely speaks and seems to have no real personality beyond "hungry") and Pokey (who comes across in his physical appearances as TheStoic or a ColdHam— although he does spend some time in [[spoiler:"Yellow Jacket"]] in the form of a child.child).
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* PsychopathicManchild: Most of the Lords come off as this in some way, befitting their cuddly doll forms. Wiggly sounds like a grown man, but uses cutesy language (for instance, asking his "fwendy-wends" to tickle his "belly-well"). Blinky has a high-pitched, childish voice, created a whole amusement park for his own entertainment and jumps up and down in glee when he's about to witness a bloodbath. Tinky treats humanity the same way a child playing rough with their dolls would, explicitly comparing his victims to toys. The exceptions are Nibbly (who rarely speaks and seems to have no real personality beyond "hungry") and Pokey (who comes across in his physical appearances as TheStoic or a ColdHam— although he does spend some time in [[spoiler:"Yellow Jacket"]] in the form of a child.
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The fourth brother to be unveiled, blue with a stone mask for a face from which blue goo steadily drips. As it turns out, the first to play a part in a Hatchetfield story, as later revelations imply him to be responsible for the Hive, the extraterrestraial threat of ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''.

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The fourth brother to be unveiled, blue with a stone mask for a face from which blue goo steadily drips. As it turns out, the first to play a part in a Hatchetfield story, as later revelations imply him to be responsible for the Hive, the extraterrestraial extraterrestrial threat of ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''.
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* FurAndLoathing: Their teen form costumes all incorporate vibrantly-colored fur accessories, making them partially still resemble their fuzzy doll versions (and perhaps their true selves, which have been vaguely implied to all be fuzzy as well) as well as carrying the menacing and sinister vibes of wearing fur.
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* [[Characters/HatchetfieldOtherResidents Other Residents]] [[note]]Nora, Ken Davidson, Deb, Doug, Homeless Man, Greenpeace Girl[[/note]]

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* [[Characters/HatchetfieldOtherResidents Other Residents]] [[note]]Nora, Ken Davidson, Deb, Doug, Deb, Homeless Man, Greenpeace Girl[[/note]]

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[[folder: Pokotho / Pokey]]
!!Pokotho, the Singular Voice / "Sing-Along Pokey"
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/CoreyDorris
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "The Witch in the Web"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Daddy"]] | '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]]''' | ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie''
!!!'''Mentioned in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "Jane's a Car"]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pokotho_web.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Join us."'']]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Pokey at the Hatchetfield High School black altar]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/npmd_pokey.png ''"Our true forms would melt your minds!"''[[/labelnote]]]]

->''It’s my last of many apologies''\\
''It’s hard to see how we go around again''\\
''Oh, I have to trust there’s a galaxy''\\
''Where we succeed''\\
''Not a matter of how just a matter of when''\\
''Next time''\\
''Next time''\\
''I’ll find you in the next timeline''\\

The fourth brother to be unveiled, blue with a stone mask for a face from which blue goo steadily drips. As it turns out, the first to play a part in a Hatchetfield story, as later revelations imply him to be responsible for the Hive, the extraterrestraial threat of ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''.
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* TheAssimilator: His entire ''modus operandi'', extinguishing the individuality of everyone that he infects and turning them into extensions of himself.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: His mask resembles [[spoiler:a pockmarked meteor, like the one that brought the Hive.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: As the one responsible for the events of TGWDLM, he currently rules one of the realities of the Hatchetfield multiverse, as the Langs have stated that the Hive successfully conquered the world in a period of two and a half weeks after the end of the show. As far as we know, even his brother Wiggly can't claim as much at this time.]]
* CoolMask: Wears a mask made of stone with a mysterious blank expression, [[WoundThatWillNotHeal permanently weeping and dribbling blue goo]] from cracks in its surface.
* DramaClub: His "teen form" at the Black Altar in ''Nerdy Prudes'' represents this archetype, being dressed for a Shakespeare play and dramatically brandishing his signature mask.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: His "Singular Voice" epithet was spoken well before his introduction, by Professor Hidgens in the song "Let It Out".
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''.
* HiveQueen: He is the ''true'' HiveQueen of the HiveMind in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', providing an explanation for why Emma's plan to blow up the meteorite to destroy the HiveMind didn't work (since the meteorite was only an extension of a being who was both immortal and safely hidden away in AnotherDimension).
* KnightOfCerebus: He comes across as the only one of the Lords in Black to have no sense of humor whatsoever. In his first direct appearance (via Otho) he's nothing but menacing and grim, seemingly the one most committed to his role as an eldritch god. His other appearances muddy this impression, though. If he ''intended'' the Hive to be what it was (as opposed to, as some have suggested, that occurring by accident because it began in a theatre where ''Theatre/MammaMia'' was being performed) that's a pretty clear sign that he's just as darkly whimsical as his brothers. In ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie'', though he cheerfully sings and dances with the rest of Lords in Black and enjoys the discomfort the human characters feel in his presence, his taunts are the most grandiose and he refrains from the joking and giggling of the others. His appearance as a stereotypical "theater kid" might be meant to convey that Pokey prefers to be dramatic and theatrical.
* MeaningfulName: "The Singular Voice", which Webby explains in "Yellow Jacket" refers to his omnicidal narcissism, might also be a StealthPun about "singing". His nickname, however, seems to avert it; unlike his brothers, the name "Pokey" doesn't seem to carry any significance.
* OmnicidalManiac: Webby elaborates in "Yellow Jacket" on Pokey's motivation and why he's called the Singular Voice -- he hates everything but himself and wants to be the only thing left in existence, a level of evil that seemingly goes beyond that of any of his brothers.
--> "He might not be the hungriest, or the cleverest. The trickiest, or the most sadistic. But of all my brothers, Pokey is the most... uncompromising. He hates every voice that's not his own. He wants everything dead but him."
* RedBaron: His official epithet, furthering the implications about his role in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', is "the Singular Voice".
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[[folder: Pokotho / Pokey]]
!!Pokotho, the Singular Voice / "Sing-Along Pokey"
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/CoreyDorris
!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "The Witch in the Web"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Daddy"]] | '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]]''' | ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie''
!!!'''Mentioned in:''' ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "Jane's a Car"]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pokotho_web.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Join us."'']]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Pokey at the Hatchetfield High School black altar]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/npmd_pokey.png ''"Our true forms would melt your minds!"''[[/labelnote]]]]

->''It’s my last of many apologies''\\
''It’s hard to see how we go around again''\\
''Oh, I have to trust there’s a galaxy''\\
''Where we succeed''\\
''Not a matter of how just a matter of when''\\
''Next time''\\
''Next time''\\
''I’ll find you in the next timeline''\\

The fourth brother to be unveiled, blue with a stone mask for a face from which blue goo steadily drips. As it turns out, the first to play a part in a Hatchetfield story, as later revelations imply him to be responsible for the Hive, the extraterrestraial threat of ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''.
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* TheAssimilator: His entire ''modus operandi'', extinguishing the individuality of everyone that he infects and turning them into extensions of himself.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: His mask resembles [[spoiler:a pockmarked meteor, like the one that brought the Hive.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: As the one responsible for the events of TGWDLM, he currently rules one of the realities of the Hatchetfield multiverse, as the Langs have stated that the Hive successfully conquered the world in a period of two and a half weeks after the end of the show. As far as we know, even his brother Wiggly can't claim as much at this time.]]
* CoolMask: Wears a mask made of stone with a mysterious blank expression, [[WoundThatWillNotHeal permanently weeping and dribbling blue goo]] from cracks in its surface.
* DramaClub: His "teen form" at the Black Altar in ''Nerdy Prudes'' represents this archetype, being dressed for a Shakespeare play and dramatically brandishing his signature mask.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: His "Singular Voice" epithet was spoken well before his introduction, by Professor Hidgens in the song "Let It Out".
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''.
* HiveQueen: He is the ''true'' HiveQueen of the HiveMind in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', providing an explanation for why Emma's plan to blow up the meteorite to destroy the HiveMind didn't work (since the meteorite was only an extension of a being who was both immortal and safely hidden away in AnotherDimension).
* KnightOfCerebus: He comes across as the only one of the Lords in Black to have no sense of humor whatsoever. In his first direct appearance (via Otho) he's nothing but menacing and grim, seemingly the one most committed to his role as an eldritch god. His other appearances muddy this impression, though. If he ''intended'' the Hive to be what it was (as opposed to, as some have suggested, that occurring by accident because it began in a theatre where ''Theatre/MammaMia'' was being performed) that's a pretty clear sign that he's just as darkly whimsical as his brothers. In ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie'', though he cheerfully sings and dances with the rest of Lords in Black and enjoys the discomfort the human characters feel in his presence, his taunts are the most grandiose and he refrains from the joking and giggling of the others. His appearance as a stereotypical "theater kid" might be meant to convey that Pokey prefers to be dramatic and theatrical.
* MeaningfulName: "The Singular Voice", which Webby explains in "Yellow Jacket" refers to his omnicidal narcissism, might also be a StealthPun about "singing". His nickname, however, seems to avert it; unlike his brothers, the name "Pokey" doesn't seem to carry any significance.
* OmnicidalManiac: Webby elaborates in "Yellow Jacket" on Pokey's motivation and why he's called the Singular Voice -- he hates everything but himself and wants to be the only thing left in existence, a level of evil that seemingly goes beyond that of any of his brothers.
--> "He might not be the hungriest, or the cleverest. The trickiest, or the most sadistic. But of all my brothers, Pokey is the most... uncompromising. He hates every voice that's not his own. He wants everything dead but him."
* RedBaron: His official epithet, furthering the implications about his role in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', is "the Singular Voice".
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!!Creatures of Blinky

[[folder: Watcher World]]
!!Watcher World
!!!'''Played by:''' James Tolbert (barker, mascot) | Jon Matteson (ticket-taker, usher) | Creator/JoeyRichter (announcer, director) | Creator/JeffBlim (cowboy) | Creator/LaurenLopez (Madame Iris, Alison) | Curt Mega (Craig) | Angela Giarratana (Beth)
!!!'''Appears in:''' '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]]'''

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/watcher_world_5.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see various named denizens of Watcher World]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/watcherworldcast.png]][[/labelnote]][[caption-width-right:350:From L to R: the carnival barker, the ticket-taker, the director of ''Blinky's Watch Party'', Madame Iris, the cowboy, Beth, Craig]]

A theme park with a storied history on the northern shore of Hatchetfield Island, known for their colorful eyeball-themed mascot "Blinky". It eventually turns out that this amusement park doesn't exist for the amusement of the patrons...

See [[Characters/HatchetfieldOtherResidents Other Residents]] for the Obnoxious Teen, who appears as a roller coaster attendant.

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!!Creatures of Blinky

Pokey

[[folder: Watcher World]]
!!Watcher World
The Hive]]
!!The Hive
!!!'''Played by:''' James Tolbert (barker, mascot) Creator/JeffBlim ("Greg", man in letterman jacket) | Jon Matteson (ticket-taker, usher) Creator/CoreyDorris ("Stu", businessman 2, man in newsboy cap, [[spoiler:PEIP operative]]) | Creator/LaurenLopez (the "Hatchetfield Bee", Smoke Club girl) | Creator/JaimeLynBeatty (woman in sunset sweater, [[spoiler:PEIP operative]]) | Creator/JoeyRichter (announcer, director) (businessman 1) | Creator/JeffBlim (cowboy) Robert Manion (businessman 3, cop 2, [[spoiler:PEIP operative]]) | Creator/LaurenLopez (Madame Iris, Alison) Mariah Rose Faith ([[spoiler:PEIP operative, nurse]]) | Curt Mega (Craig) | Angela Giarratana (Beth)
[[spoiler: Jon Matteson (Paul)]]
!!!'''Appears in:''' '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]]'''

'''''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'''''

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/watcher_world_5.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tgwdlm_assimilated.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see various named denizens of Watcher World]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/watcherworldcast.png]][[/labelnote]][[caption-width-right:350:From L to R: the carnival barker, the ticket-taker, the director of ''Blinky's Watch Party'', Madame Iris, the cowboy, Beth, Craig]]

A theme park with a storied history on the northern shore of Hatchetfield Island, known for their colorful eyeball-themed mascot "Blinky". It eventually turns out that this amusement park doesn't exist for the amusement
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Paul's a-comin'? The star of the patrons...

See
show! Let him come."'']]

->''Show me those hands, show me those jazz hands''\\
''Or I might be inclined to plant my seed''\\
''The Hive needs to feed''\\
''Happiness is guaranteed''\\
''If you just give us one last show-stoppin' number''\\

Victims of what they call "apotheosis". Fungal spores from the meteor that struck the Starlight Theatre infect humans, transforming them into members of the alien HiveMind, easily spotted by the "blue shit" they have in place of bodily fluids and their tendency to burst into saccharine musical numbers.

While not entirely confirmed as creatures of Pokotho, that entity's appearance and epithet strongly hint at it, and a number of direct allusions in "Yellow Jacket" all but confirm it.

For established characters who are confirmed assimilated, check these other character pages ('''spoiler warning'''):
* [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]] [[note]]Paul Matthews, Ted Spankoffski, Charlotte Sweetly, Bill Woodward, Professor Henry Hidgens, Peter Spankoffski[[/note]]
* [[Characters/HatchetfieldFamilies Families]] [[note]]Sam Sweetly, Alice Woodward, Zoey Chambers[[/note]]
*
[[Characters/HatchetfieldOtherResidents Other Residents]] for the Obnoxious Teen, who appears as a roller coaster attendant.[[note]]Nora, Ken Davidson, Deb, Doug, Homeless Man, Greenpeace Girl[[/note]]
* [[Characters/HatchetfieldOutsiders Outsiders]] [[note]]General John [=MacNamara=][[/note]]



* AlienBlood: Anyone affected will have blue blood.
* AmbiguouslyBi: All of the assimilated, regardless of their previous gender or sexuality, caress Paul seductively during their confrontation in "Let It Out".
* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear how much of the assimilated's personality remains within, if they're BrainwashedAndCrazy, still in there but [[AndIMustScream unable to control themselves]], or truly dead and their corpses puppeted around. All information on this comes from the assimilated themselves, who are {{Unreliable Narrator}}s to the extreme.
* AssimilationPlot: Everyone in Hatchetfield is slowly becoming part of a HiveMind that makes them into characters from a musical.
* BackFromTheDead: Multiple characters throughout the show, both assimilated and not, end up getting killed, only to show up again in a later scene, assimilated if they weren't already, raising the question of whether those infected by the blue shit are capable of dying at all.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: At the end they survive the destruction of the meteor and have moved to the mainland, infecting the world.]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: The assimilated humans' blood and internal organs turn into a bright blue gelatinous substance, giving them a decentralized anatomy that can function even if they lose their hearts or brains.
** Hidgens discovers that the aliens apparently contain an organ many times more sensitive to sound than the human ear, allowing them to hear music from miles away and maintain the Hive Mind through ultrasonic communication.
** Apparently both the meteor itself and the people it transforms emit some kind of "infectious spore" that allows the infection to slowly passively spread. It goes faster if the assimilated get you to take the concentrated "blue shit" into your body, by getting you to drink contaminated coffee, by holding you down so they can bite you or "puke in your mouth", or, toward the end, by exposing you to some kind of concentrated radiation.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Anyone assimilated has an overly-cheerful version of their own personality and murderous intent toward all those who are not yet assimilated.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: The musical plague vaguely fits the pop-culture {{Flanderization}} of musicals as taking place in a sunny, optimistic version of reality without true conflict.
* EvilEvolves: The assimilated start out just encouraging people to join them in singing and dancing and fleeing from violence even though they're ImmuneToBullets. As Hidgens observes, they get more aggressive as their numbers grow, turning into a Zombie Apocalypse that spreads by mauling and biting people ("Join Us and Die"). [[spoiler: Once they assimilate the PEIP unit ("America Is Great Again"), they've reached the point where they can use complex military tactics and infect a person instantly with concentrated meteor radiation. They also go from seemingly taking hours to recover from fatal wounds to seconds.]]
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: We don't directly see it onstage, but "Join Us and Die" describes the zombies forcibly assimilating people by "puk[ing] that goo, right in your mouth", in imitation of this trope.
* FlatCharacter: Even though they have all the memories of their hosts, the victims of the musical plague [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul are all on the same side, have no conflicts with each other, and no real interest in anything but singing and dancing]]. They pretty much become [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] versions of their past selves, taking on roles based on their profession or role in the story (Sam becomes just a "cop", [=McNamara=] a "soldier", etc.)
* ForTheEvulz: Whether or not you see the HiveMind eventually putting an end to TheEvilsOfFreeWill as a positive thing, it certainly seems to go out of its way to cause pain and suffering to the unassimilated rather than doing things efficiently. It outright admits to Paul that it has a [[{{Sadist}} sadistic]] desire to torture him until he "begs for apotheosis" because it's offended he's thwarted it so often. May relate to the fact that it's a HiveMind based on musical theatre and therefore operates based on RuleOfDrama.
* AGodAmI: The HiveMind's InsistentTerminology for assimilation is "apotheosis", indicating it sees itself as God.
** The HiveMind deliberately impersonates God when Charlotte prays over Sam's body, to convince her to accept his recovery as a "miracle".
* HealingFactor: The assimilated repeatedly recover from what should be mortal wounds, whether acquired before or after they were infected. [[spoiler: Bill, for instance, seems to have been infected as a corpse and to have risen from the dead after the PEIP raid. This process seems to speed up as time goes on -- Sam takes hours to recover from his head injury, while Ted and Gen. [=McNamara=] both shrug off fatal gunshot wounds within seconds. (To be fair, though, Sam recovered from losing his ''entire brain''.)]]
* HiveMind: How they are able to perform choreographed musical numbers. It appears individual members of the Hive Mind can have their thoughts get out of sync with each other, and recalibrate themselves by literally matching pitch.
* HiveQueen: Emma theorizes that the HiveMind must have a central intelligence, and that it must be housed in the meteorite that brought the infection. Paul decides to blow it up and destroy it. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, either she was wrong or it didn't take.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: The infected don't seem to actually eat human flesh (or anything at all), but they bite and tear at people's organs in imitation of zombie movies as a quick way to infect them (and seemingly to vent their frustrations).
* LogicalWeakness: It seems they put their showmanship over anything else, so they're nearly incapable of blending in with normal humans for more than a few seconds before they start singing, and they always prioritize their song-and-dance numbers over effective tactics. This is why nobody gets seriously hurt during "Show Me Your Hands" or "Join Us and Die", and Paul and Emma are able to very nearly break through an entire regiment of assimilated PEIP soldiers due to the fact that their movements are in time to the music and therefore predictable.
* MusicalWorldHypotheses: The whole idea of ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' is just a logical consequence of [[ArcWords considering the implications]] of the "Musical Alternate Universe Hypothesis" -- in order for a large group of people to perform a choreographed musical number without taking any time to rehearse, they must not actually be independent human beings at all but part of a HiveMind.
* NoNameGiven: Realistically enough, there's no specific name given to the "alien contagion" transforming the humans in Hatchetfield or the "collective consciousness" controlling them, given that all of this is happening in the span of a single day -- see NotUsingTheZWord below. Official word is that the HiveMind behind the zombies -- which is just called "the Hive" in the lyrics of "Inevitable" -- does have a specific identity and a "true name", which have not yet been revealed, although since the final episode of ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' Season 1 fans have speculated the Hive is run by the blue member of the Lords in Black named Pokotho.
* NotUsingTheZWord: It's not clear whether the converted singing-and-dancing humans would be more appropriately called "zombies" or "pod people", but the characters avoid either in favor of simply saying "Them". Ted refers to them as zombies in a line however.
* RuleOfDrama: The HiveMind seems to be controlled by this, being as it is a creature of musical theatre. [[spoiler: It goes out of its way to find zombies to play "Greg" and "Stu" so Prof. Hidgens can finish performing "Workin' Boys" before assimilating him, and the whole ending is the HiveMind going to great lengths to give Emma a HopeSpot before assimilating her.]]
* SpeakInUnison: The zombies certainly spend a lot of time ''singing'' in unison, but they also do this with the classic science fiction CreepyMonotone during "Cup of Roasted Coffee" and after [[spoiler: killing Bill]], seemingly just to intimidate Emma and Paul. [[MoodWhiplash Hilariously]], they seem to find staying in sync much more difficult this way.
* StalkerWithACrush: The HiveMind seems to develop this relationship with Paul and Emma.
* SummonBackupDancers: Happens regularly in the musical numbers. Hilariously, in this show it's an actual diegetic, supernatural ability. Prof. Hidgens is able to summon the zombies to his compound by singing "Showstopping Number" in a heartfelt enough performance that the HiveMind "casts" two men as his characters "Greg" and "Stu" just to perform the finale to the song.
* TheVirus: Classic instance of this trope, with the only difference from something like the ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' franchise being that the Assimilated advertise their assimilation by singing and dancing. The infection seems to be both mental and physical -- simply being physically near the infected and breathing in their "spores" will eventually spread TheVirus, but the process speeds up if you ingest the "blue shit" that makes up their bodies or have your blood tainted by it via biting or scratching, and it also seems to depend on whether the victim actively chooses to join in a musical number or [[HeroicWillpower resists doing so]].
* ZombieGait: The assimilated are expert dancers and have no need to walk like this, and only seem to do it as part of TheReveal of their nature in order to taunt their victims.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Otho]]
!!Otho
!!!'''Played by:''' [[Creator/LangBrothers Nick Lang]]
!!!'''Appears in:''' '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]]'''

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmt_otho.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Do not fear. We will end this chaos and suffering. There will be harmony... peace... one singular voice."'']]
[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see his thralls, "the boy with the bloody nose" and [[spoiler: Spitfire]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmt_othos_victims.png]][[/labelnote]]]]

The champion of the Roller-Rama gladiator games, a mysterious masked boy with terrifying psychic power.
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* TheAssimilator: His power allows him to snuff out the personality of others, allowing him to use their bodies and powers. [[spoiler:Because Otho himself is an avatar of Pokotho.]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: His voice is digitally deepened to a menacing timbre, unrecognizable as Nick Lang's.
* ExplosiveLeash: Charles implanted a bomb in his brain as a way to keep him and his power under control.
* TheGreys: Otho looks a lot like a stereotypical gray alien, including gray skin, blue veins, and long fingers.
* KeystoneArmy: His "army" is only two people in the end, but still, [[spoiler:they're both reduced to empty husks when Otho is killed]].
* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler:Unsurprisingly, his ExplosiveLeash does in fact get detonated.]]
[[/folder]]


!!Creatures of Blinky

[[folder: Watcher World]]
!!Watcher World
!!!'''Played by:''' James Tolbert (barker, mascot) | Jon Matteson (ticket-taker, usher) | Creator/JoeyRichter (announcer, director) | Creator/JeffBlim (cowboy) | Creator/LaurenLopez (Madame Iris, Alison) | Curt Mega (Craig) | Angela Giarratana (Beth)
!!!'''Appears in:''' '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]]'''

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/watcher_world_5.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see various named denizens of Watcher World]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/watcherworldcast.png]][[/labelnote]][[caption-width-right:350:From L to R: the carnival barker, the ticket-taker, the director of ''Blinky's Watch Party'', Madame Iris, the cowboy, Beth, Craig]]

A theme park with a storied history on the northern shore of Hatchetfield Island, known for their colorful eyeball-themed mascot "Blinky". It eventually turns out that this amusement park doesn't exist for the amusement of the patrons...

See [[Characters/HatchetfieldOtherResidents Other Residents]] for the Obnoxious Teen, who appears as a roller coaster attendant.
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!!Creatures of Pokey

[[folder: The Hive]]
!!The Hive
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JeffBlim ("Greg", man in letterman jacket) | Creator/CoreyDorris ("Stu", businessman 2, man in newsboy cap, [[spoiler:PEIP operative]]) | Creator/LaurenLopez (the "Hatchetfield Bee", Smoke Club girl) | Creator/JaimeLynBeatty (woman in sunset sweater, [[spoiler:PEIP operative]]) | Creator/JoeyRichter (businessman 1) | Robert Manion (businessman 3, cop 2, [[spoiler:PEIP operative]]) | Mariah Rose Faith ([[spoiler:PEIP operative, nurse]]) | [[spoiler: Jon Matteson (Paul)]]
!!!'''Appears in:''' '''''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'''''

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tgwdlm_assimilated.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Paul's a-comin'? The star of the show! Let him come."'']]

->''Show me those hands, show me those jazz hands''\\
''Or I might be inclined to plant my seed''\\
''The Hive needs to feed''\\
''Happiness is guaranteed''\\
''If you just give us one last show-stoppin' number''\\

Victims of what they call "apotheosis". Fungal spores from the meteor that struck the Starlight Theatre infect humans, transforming them into members of the alien HiveMind, easily spotted by the "blue shit" they have in place of bodily fluids and their tendency to burst into saccharine musical numbers.

While not entirely confirmed as creatures of Pokotho, that entity's appearance and epithet strongly hint at it, and a number of direct allusions in "Yellow Jacket" all but confirm it.

For established characters who are confirmed assimilated, check these other character pages ('''spoiler warning'''):
* [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]] [[note]]Paul Matthews, Ted Spankoffski, Charlotte Sweetly, Bill Woodward, Professor Henry Hidgens, Peter Spankoffski[[/note]]
* [[Characters/HatchetfieldFamilies Families]] [[note]]Sam Sweetly, Alice Woodward, Zoey Chambers[[/note]]
* [[Characters/HatchetfieldOtherResidents Other Residents]] [[note]]Nora, Ken Davidson, Deb, Doug, Homeless Man, Greenpeace Girl[[/note]]
* [[Characters/HatchetfieldOutsiders Outsiders]] [[note]]General John [=MacNamara=][[/note]]

to:

!!Creatures of Pokey

!!Shared among the Lords

[[folder: The Hive]]
Sniggles]]
!!The Hive
Sniggles
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JeffBlim ("Greg", man in letterman jacket) Angela Giarratana (Snigglette) | Creator/CoreyDorris ("Stu", businessman 2, man in newsboy cap, [[spoiler:PEIP operative]]) James Tolbert (Snigglotts) | Creator/LaurenLopez (the "Hatchetfield Bee", Smoke Club girl) (Sniggly) | Creator/JeffBlim (Papa Sniggle) | Curt Mega | Creator/JaimeLynBeatty (woman in sunset sweater, [[spoiler:PEIP operative]]) | Creator/JoeyRichter (businessman 1) Kim Whalen | Robert Manion (businessman 3, cop 2, [[spoiler:PEIP operative]]) | Mariah Rose Faith ([[spoiler:PEIP operative, nurse]]) | [[spoiler: Jon Matteson (Paul)]]
Manion
!!!'''Appears in:''' '''''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'''''

''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]]''' | [[spoiler:[[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]]]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tgwdlm_assimilated.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_sniggles.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Paul's a-comin'? The star of [[caption-width-right:350:'''Snigglette:''' ''"Hey, everybody! We're the show! Let him come."'']]

->''Show me those hands, show me those jazz hands''\\
''Or I
Sniggles! Don't be scared."'']]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Snigglette singing "Snoozle Town"]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/snigglette.png[[/labelnote]]]]

->''In Drowsy Town, we shake and move''\\
''And don't upset our boss''\\
'''Cause if we do, his eye gets red''\\
''And he
might be inclined to plant my seed''\\
''The Hive needs to feed''\\
''Happiness is guaranteed''\\
''If you
just give us one last show-stoppin' number''\\

Victims of what they call "apotheosis". Fungal spores from the meteor that struck the Starlight Theatre infect humans, transforming them into members of the alien HiveMind, easily spotted by the "blue shit" they have in place of bodily fluids and their tendency to burst into saccharine musical numbers.

While not entirely confirmed as creatures of Pokotho, that entity's appearance and epithet strongly hint at it, and a number of direct allusions in "Yellow Jacket" all but confirm it.

For established
spill our guts!''

The costumed
characters who are confirmed assimilated, check these other character pages ('''spoiler warning'''):
* [[Characters/HatchetfieldMainResidents Main Residents]] [[note]]Paul Matthews, Ted Spankoffski, Charlotte Sweetly, Bill Woodward, Professor Henry Hidgens, Peter Spankoffski[[/note]]
* [[Characters/HatchetfieldFamilies Families]] [[note]]Sam Sweetly, Alice Woodward, Zoey Chambers[[/note]]
* [[Characters/HatchetfieldOtherResidents Other Residents]] [[note]]Nora, Ken Davidson, Deb, Doug, Homeless Man, Greenpeace Girl[[/note]]
* [[Characters/HatchetfieldOutsiders Outsiders]] [[note]]General John [=MacNamara=][[/note]]
appear in commercials with Uncle Wiley for the Tickle-Me Wiggly dolls, and in another reality, perform at Watcher World.



* AlienBlood: Anyone affected will have blue blood.
* AmbiguouslyBi: All of the assimilated, regardless of their previous gender or sexuality, caress Paul seductively during their confrontation in "Let It Out".
* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear how much of the assimilated's personality remains within, if they're BrainwashedAndCrazy, still in there but [[AndIMustScream unable to control themselves]], or truly dead and their corpses puppeted around. All information on this comes from the assimilated themselves, who are {{Unreliable Narrator}}s to the extreme.
* AssimilationPlot: Everyone in Hatchetfield is slowly becoming part of a HiveMind that makes them into characters from a musical.
* BackFromTheDead: Multiple characters throughout the show, both assimilated and not, end up getting killed, only to show up again in a later scene, assimilated if they weren't already, raising the question of whether those infected by the blue shit are capable of dying at all.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: At the end they survive the destruction of the meteor and have moved to the mainland, infecting the world.]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: The assimilated humans' blood and internal organs turn into a bright blue gelatinous substance, giving them a decentralized anatomy that can function even if they lose their hearts or brains.
** Hidgens discovers that the aliens apparently contain an organ many times more sensitive to sound than the human ear, allowing them to hear music from miles away and maintain the Hive Mind through ultrasonic communication.
** Apparently both the meteor itself and the people it transforms emit some kind of "infectious spore" that allows the infection to slowly passively spread. It goes faster if the assimilated get you to take the concentrated "blue shit" into your body, by getting you to drink contaminated coffee, by holding you down so they can bite you or "puke in your mouth", or, toward the end, by exposing you to some kind of concentrated radiation.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Anyone assimilated has an overly-cheerful version of their own personality and murderous intent toward all those who are not yet assimilated.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: The musical plague vaguely fits the pop-culture {{Flanderization}} of musicals as taking place in a sunny, optimistic version of reality without true conflict.
* EvilEvolves: The assimilated start out just encouraging people to join them in singing and dancing and fleeing from violence even though they're ImmuneToBullets. As Hidgens observes, they get more aggressive as their numbers grow, turning into a Zombie Apocalypse that spreads by mauling and biting people ("Join Us and Die"). [[spoiler: Once they assimilate the PEIP unit ("America Is Great Again"), they've reached the point where they can use complex military tactics and infect a person instantly with concentrated meteor radiation. They also go from seemingly taking hours to recover from fatal wounds to seconds.]]
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: We don't directly see it onstage, but "Join Us and Die" describes the zombies forcibly assimilating people by "puk[ing] that goo, right in your mouth", in imitation of this trope.
* FlatCharacter: Even though they have all the memories of their hosts, the victims of the musical plague [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul are all on the same side, have no conflicts with each other, and no real interest in anything but singing and dancing]]. They pretty much become [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] versions of their past selves, taking on roles based on their profession or role in the story (Sam becomes just a "cop", [=McNamara=] a "soldier", etc.)
* ForTheEvulz: Whether or not you see the HiveMind eventually putting an end to TheEvilsOfFreeWill as a positive thing, it certainly seems to go out of its way to cause pain and suffering to the unassimilated rather than doing things efficiently. It outright admits to Paul that it has a [[{{Sadist}} sadistic]] desire to torture him until he "begs for apotheosis" because it's offended he's thwarted it so often. May relate to the fact that it's a HiveMind based on musical theatre and therefore operates based on RuleOfDrama.
* AGodAmI: The HiveMind's InsistentTerminology for assimilation is "apotheosis", indicating it sees itself as God.
** The HiveMind deliberately impersonates God when Charlotte prays over Sam's body, to convince her to accept his recovery as a "miracle".
* HealingFactor: The assimilated repeatedly recover from what should be mortal wounds, whether acquired before or after they were infected. [[spoiler: Bill, for instance, seems to have been infected as a corpse and to have risen from the dead after the PEIP raid. This process seems to speed up as time goes on -- Sam takes hours to recover from his head injury, while Ted and Gen. [=McNamara=] both shrug off fatal gunshot wounds within seconds. (To be fair, though, Sam recovered from losing his ''entire brain''.)]]
* HiveMind: How they are able to perform choreographed musical numbers. It appears individual members of the Hive Mind can have their thoughts get out of sync with each other, and recalibrate themselves by literally matching pitch.
* HiveQueen: Emma theorizes that the HiveMind must have a central intelligence, and that it must be housed in the meteorite that brought the infection. Paul decides to blow it up and destroy it. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, either she was wrong or it didn't take.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: The infected don't seem to actually eat human flesh (or anything at all), but they bite and tear at people's organs in imitation of zombie movies as a quick way to infect them (and seemingly to vent their frustrations).
* LogicalWeakness: It seems they put their showmanship over anything else, so they're nearly incapable of blending in with normal humans for more than a few seconds before they start singing, and they always prioritize their song-and-dance numbers over effective tactics. This is why nobody gets seriously hurt during "Show Me Your Hands" or "Join Us and Die", and Paul and Emma are able to very nearly break through an entire regiment of assimilated PEIP soldiers due to the fact that their movements are in time to the music and therefore predictable.
* MusicalWorldHypotheses: The whole idea of ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' is just a logical consequence of [[ArcWords considering the implications]] of the "Musical Alternate Universe Hypothesis" -- in order for a large group of people to perform a choreographed musical number without taking any time to rehearse, they must not actually be independent human beings at all but part of a HiveMind.
* NoNameGiven: Realistically enough, there's no specific name given to the "alien contagion" transforming the humans in Hatchetfield or the "collective consciousness" controlling them, given that all of this is happening in the span of a single day -- see NotUsingTheZWord below. Official word is that the HiveMind behind the zombies -- which is just called "the Hive" in the lyrics of "Inevitable" -- does have a specific identity and a "true name", which have not yet been revealed, although since the final episode of ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' Season 1 fans have speculated the Hive is run by the blue member of the Lords in Black named Pokotho.
* NotUsingTheZWord: It's not clear whether the converted singing-and-dancing humans would be more appropriately called "zombies" or "pod people", but the characters avoid either in favor of simply saying "Them". Ted refers to them as zombies in a line however.
* RuleOfDrama: The HiveMind seems to be controlled by this, being as it is a creature of musical theatre. [[spoiler: It goes out of its way to find zombies to play "Greg" and "Stu" so Prof. Hidgens can finish performing "Workin' Boys" before assimilating him, and the whole ending is the HiveMind going to great lengths to give Emma a HopeSpot before assimilating her.]]
* SpeakInUnison: The zombies certainly spend a lot of time ''singing'' in unison, but they also do this with the classic science fiction CreepyMonotone during "Cup of Roasted Coffee" and after [[spoiler: killing Bill]], seemingly just to intimidate Emma and Paul. [[MoodWhiplash Hilariously]], they seem to find staying in sync much more difficult this way.
* StalkerWithACrush: The HiveMind seems to develop this relationship with Paul and Emma.
* SummonBackupDancers: Happens regularly in the musical numbers. Hilariously, in this show it's an actual diegetic, supernatural ability. Prof. Hidgens is able to summon the zombies to his compound by singing "Showstopping Number" in a heartfelt enough performance that the HiveMind "casts" two men as his characters "Greg" and "Stu" just to perform the finale to the song.
* TheVirus: Classic instance of this trope, with the only difference from something like the ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' franchise being that the Assimilated advertise their assimilation by singing and dancing. The infection seems to be both mental and physical -- simply being physically near the infected and breathing in their "spores" will eventually spread TheVirus, but the process speeds up if you ingest the "blue shit" that makes up their bodies or have your blood tainted by it via biting or scratching, and it also seems to depend on whether the victim actively chooses to join in a musical number or [[HeroicWillpower resists doing so]].
* ZombieGait: The assimilated are expert dancers and have no need to walk like this, and only seem to do it as part of TheReveal of their nature in order to taunt their victims.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Otho]]
!!Otho
!!!'''Played by:''' [[Creator/LangBrothers Nick Lang]]
!!!'''Appears in:''' '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E4YellowJacket "Yellow Jacket"]]'''

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmt_otho.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Do not fear. We will end this chaos and suffering. There will be harmony... peace... one singular voice."'']]
[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see his thralls, "the boy with the bloody nose" and [[spoiler: Spitfire]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nmt_othos_victims.png]][[/labelnote]]]]

The champion of the Roller-Rama gladiator games, a mysterious masked boy with terrifying psychic power.
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* TheAssimilator: His power allows him to snuff out the personality of others, allowing him to use their bodies and powers. [[spoiler:Because Otho himself is an avatar of Pokotho.]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: His voice is digitally deepened to a menacing timbre, unrecognizable as Nick Lang's.
* ExplosiveLeash: Charles implanted a bomb in his brain as a way to keep him and his power under control.
* TheGreys: Otho looks a lot like a stereotypical gray alien, including gray skin, blue veins, and long fingers.
* KeystoneArmy: His "army" is only two people in the end, but still, [[spoiler:they're both reduced to empty husks when Otho is killed]].
* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler:Unsurprisingly, his ExplosiveLeash does in fact get detonated.]]
[[/folder]]

!!Shared among the Lords

[[folder: The Sniggles]]
!!The Sniggles
!!!'''Played by:''' Angela Giarratana (Snigglette) | James Tolbert (Snigglotts) | Creator/LaurenLopez (Sniggly) | Creator/JeffBlim (Papa Sniggle) | Curt Mega | Creator/JaimeLynBeatty | Kim Whalen | Robert Manion
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' | '''[[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E1TheHatchetfieldApeManAndWatcherWorld "Watcher World"]]''' | [[spoiler:[[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E1HoneyQueen "Honey Queen"]]]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_sniggles.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:'''Snigglette:''' ''"Hey, everybody! We're the Sniggles! Don't be scared."'']]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Snigglette singing "Snoozle Town"]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/snigglette.png[[/labelnote]]]]

->''In Drowsy Town, we shake and move''\\
''And don't upset our boss''\\
'''Cause if we do, his eye gets red''\\
''And he might just spill our guts!''

The costumed characters who appear in commercials with Uncle Wiley for the Tickle-Me Wiggly dolls, and in another reality, perform at Watcher World.
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* BadBoss: As @user-il1db4fr6t says in the comments, "get these poor guys a union."
--> Sniggle 1: In drowsy town, we shake and move / And don’t upset our boss
--> Sniggle 2: Cuz if we do, his eye gets red
--> Sniggles 1&2: And he might just spill our guts!

--> Sniggle 1: And if you wake him, we die. Don’t blink. Don’t you ever blink. Don’t you fucking blink.

--> Sniggles 1&2: In Drowsy Town, we do our best / To never ever cry / Cuz if we do, our boss gets mad / And then we don’t eat for a week.!
--> Sniggle 3: I’m so hungry...

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[[caption-width-right:350:'''Webby:''' ''"He might not be the hungriest, or the cleverest. The trickiest, or the most sadistic. But of all my brothers, Pokey is the most... uncompromising."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:'''Webby:''' ''"He might not be the hungriest, or the cleverest. The trickiest, or the most sadistic. But of all my brothers, Pokey is the most... uncompromising.[[caption-width-right:350:''"Join us."'']]


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--> "He might not be the hungriest, or the cleverest. The trickiest, or the most sadistic. But of all my brothers, Pokey is the most... uncompromising. He hates every voice that's not his own. He wants everything dead but him."
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"The Lord of Despair" is a title casually used by Xander; "the King in Black" is his official epithet


!!Wiggog Y'wrath, the Lord of Despair / "Tickle-Me Wiggly"

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!!Wiggog Y'wrath, the Lord of Despair King in Black / "Tickle-Me Wiggly"
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* BurnTheWitch: Was the victim of an angry TorchesAndPitchforks mob when she died in 1824, although, despite her attempt to get Hannah on her side with her PastLifeMemories, she was in fact guilty of murdering children to cast dark magic. (And in a more-historically-accurate version of this trope, she wasn't burned but hanged.)

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* BurnTheWitch: Was the victim of an angry TorchesAndPitchforks mob when she died in 1824, although, despite her attempt to get Hannah on her side with her PastLifeMemories, she was in fact guilty of murdering children to cast dark magic. (And magic (and in a more-historically-accurate version of this trope, she wasn't burned but hanged.)hanged).
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!!Wiggog Y'wrath, the King in Black / "Tickle-Me Wiggly"

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!!Wiggog Y'wrath, the King in Black Lord of Despair / "Tickle-Me Wiggly"
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* OccidentalOtaku: This seems to be the high school archetype he aims for in ''Nerdy Prudes'', sporting AnimeHair not unlike Richie's and a pair of [[GogglesDoNothing purely aesthetic goggles]].

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* CrosscastRole: His appearance at the Black Altar in ''Nerdy Prudes'' is played by Lauren Lopez.

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* CrosscastRole: His Though the Lords usually present as masculine, his appearance at the Black Altar in ''Nerdy Prudes'' is as a long-haired EmoTeen played by Lauren Lopez.



* CrosscastRole: His appearance at the Black Altar in ''Nerdy Prudes'' is played by Kim Whalen.

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* CrosscastRole: His Though the Lords usually present as masculine, his appearance at the Black Altar in ''Nerdy Prudes'' is as an anime-style GenkiGirl played by Kim Whalen.


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* WalkingSpoiler: The story in which Nibbly makes his in-person debut saves ''any'' paranormal or horror elements for its twist ending, hence why we've spoilered out which story it is.

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