History Characters / HatchetfieldTheBlackAndWhite

* 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.

* KnightOfCerebus: He's initially presented as the only one of the Lords in Black to have no sense of humor whatsoever. In the first direct conversation with him 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'', he cheerfully sings and dances with the rest of Lords in Black and enjoys the discomfort the human characters feel in his presence.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Will you be my fwendy-wend?"'']]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Wiggly's true form in the Black and White]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wigglytrueform.png ''"I'm going to cut open your belly-well and deck the halls with your gutsy-wutsies!"''[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Wiggly at the Hatchetfield High School black altar]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/npmd_wiggly.png ''"I mean, look at us! We even hold court in your own tongue and form! Go Nighthawks!"''[[/labelnote]]]]

->'''Sniggles:''' ''Nibbly-Nibbly-Nib love’s the thrill of the chase''\\

* MarionetteMotion: Their avatars seen during the summoning ritual at Hatchetfield High look like normal highschool students but move in jerky and exaggerated ways.This creates the impression that the avatars are being puppeted by things much greater that are not used to these forms and don't care enough about Steph, Peter and Grace’s, comfort to avoid scaring them.

* EvilLaugh: Wiggly, Blinky, Tinky, and Nibbly each display a rather distinctive and unsettling SignatureLaugh. Pokey, however, lacks the others' sense of mirth.

** As far as their real names, for the most part they're just gibberish meant to evoke the Lovecraftian deities they are, and each sounding vaguely like a name in a real ancient language. The exceptions are Wiggog Y'wrath, which has the English word "[[SevenDeadlySins wrath]]" right there at the end, appropriate for the TopGod of an evil pantheon, and Nibblenephim, the mysterious fifth brother with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily whose name begins with "nibble", making it all too predictable that his nickname would be "Nibbly".

* KnightOfCerebus: The only one of the Lords in Black to have no sense of humor whatsoever. At least, that's how he comes across in person -- 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 any of his brothers. In direct conversation, however, he's nothing but menacing and grim, clearly the one most committed to his role as an eldritch god.

* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: His is more along the lines of a demented version of WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}.

* MarionetteMotion: There avatars seen during the summoning ritual at Hatchetfield High look like normal highschool students but move in jerky and exaggerated ways.This creates the impression that the avatars are being puppeted by things much greater that are not used to these forms and don't care enough about Steph, Peter and Grace’s, comfort to avoid scaring them.

* 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 about 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.

* TakeThat: For people who've worked at Disneyland (as many LA-area actors have in order to pay the bills; Robert himself worked at Universal Studios for some time), the basic idea of Watcher World seems like a veiled TakeThat against Disney's SinisterSurveillance in their theme parks. The InUniverse BigLippedAlligatorMoment with "Snigglette" feels like it could be commentary on the oppressive BigBrotherIsWatching feeling of working as a Disney "cast member".

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Sniggles serving Wiggly in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' are green, and they switch to being purple when they reappear as Blinky's servants in "Watcher World".

* NoNameGiven: The Sniggle played by Curt Mega is one of the most recurring, but hasn't been given an individual name.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Directly referenced with the character of "Snigglette" in "Watcher World", although Creator/LaurenLopez does play another Sniggle who's played by a woman in-universe (but whose gender as a Sniggle is not specified). [[note]]''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' also did eventually avert TheSmurfettePrinciple despite being the TropeNamer, by creating the character of Sassette.[[/note]] This is a direct contrast with the "real" Sniggles in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', who if anything were female-dominated and served as Uncle Wiley's BodyguardBabes.

* BlackEyesOfEvil: We never ''see'' her eyes change, but in "The Web I Spin for You" she sings "The iris of your eye is black" when talking about how the subject of the song betrayed her, then calls back to the line by singing "The iris of ''my'' eye is black" when singing about her determination to fight back against them. The iris turning black seems to be a symbol of being willing to use one's full power against another person. (Cue WildMassGuessing about Robert Manion using a Tiktok filter to turn his eyes black during the ''Nightmare Time'' TitleSequence.)

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Hannah seems to have made up the name "Webby" on her own; Miss Holloway doesn't actually know it when she hears it, although she immediately guesses Webby's identity from context (and confirms by asking, "Is Webby a... spider?"). We have yet to hear if Webby has a different, true name.

!! Bliklotep, the Watcher with a Thousand Eyes / "Blinky"

!! T'Noy Karaxis, the Bastard of Time and Space / "Tinky"

!! Pokotho, the Singular Voice / "Sing-Along Pokey"

!! Nibblenephim, the Thing That Feeds in the Dark / "Nibbly"

!!Uncle Wiley / [[spoiler:Colonel Wilbur Cross]]

The eccentric creator of the Tickle-Me Wiggly dolls, who pops up in places you wouldn't expect. [[spoiler:Heavily implied to have once been Colonel Wilbur Cross, a PEIP agent who entered the Black and White the year Hannah was born and was driven mad by Wiggly, a notion quietly confirmed in the script and credits of "The Witch in the Web", which list him as simply "Wilbur".]]

* CatchPhrase: "Well well well... Hello, naughty list." (Uncle Wiley loves sexual harassment almost as much as he loves rampant consumerism.)

* CreepySouvenir: [[spoiler: "The Witch in the Web" reveals the origin of his denim jacket in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' -- it's ''Miss Holloway's'' jacket, which he took from her after he killed her in this timeline.]]

* TheEvilGenius[=/=]TheHeavy: [[spoiler: Wiley's reprise in "The Witch in the Web" shows that his role has changed to this -- see TheDragon above. He's not actually Wiggly's highest-ranking or most powerful subordinate, but he's the one most familiar to the audience who works best as a MrExposition and an immediate physical threat to the good guys.]]

* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Played with, just like in Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals, by exploiting our expectation that minor roles in a stage production will be double-cast. The truck driver who delivers the Wiggly dolls to Toy Zone looks just like Uncle Wiley from the commercial because he's also played by Joey Richter... and then it turns out it ''is'' Uncle Wiley. Whether this indicates that the CEO of the company is [[KingIncognito here incognito]] or that ''all'' of the employees were always Uncle Wiley because the company is supernatural is ambiguous.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: "The Witch in the Web" finally reveals that, yes, Uncle Wiley is the same person as Col. Wilbur Cross, although you have to watch the ClosingCredits or look up the [[AllThereInTheScript script]] to see it (he's credited as simply "Wilbur").]]

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: In the ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' timeline, all that's left of him is a rotted skeleton still held to a magical sigil by the Black Blade keeping him imprisoned inside Miss Holloway's memory. It turns out, though, that with Hannah's psychic energy sloshing around even this is enough to [[FromASingleCell regenerate Wilbur Cross' consciousness from nearly nothing]], and if Hannah hadn't managed to get her powers under control and re-kill him, he could very well have {{Body Surf}}ed out into Pamela's body and gone on to wreak havoc in the real world once more.]]

* SouthernGentleman: Wiley's soft, genteel accent just adds to his general air of menace. (Makes sense if he is Wilbur Cross, which is a very classically Southern name.)

* BigScrewedUpFamily: They're described as "brothers" [[spoiler: and their GoodCounterpart Webby as their "sister"]], but what exactly this means for a cosmic EldritchAbomination (such as whether there are "parents" of any kind) has been left unanswered.

* DealWithTheDevil: Stephanie, Pete and Grace make one with them in ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die'', agreeing that one of them will give up the thing they cherish most in return for the Lords in Black getting rid of Max Jaegerman's ghost for them.

* EvilLaugh: Of the four who've had dialogue thus far, each has a [[SignatureLaugh rather distinctive one]].

* GreaterScopeVillain: They appear in exactly half of the Hatchetfield stories, and tend to take the BigBad role when they do so. It's also implied that their influence is what brings supernatural oddities to the various versions of Hatchetfield, making them responsible, whether directly or indirectly, for the events of stories they're not in.

** Their cute nicknames, in addition to being shortened forms of their true names, also conveniently refer to their appearance and behavior: "Wiggly" for a creature with wiggling tentacles, which manages to be eerie when the song "Wiggle" describes him wiggling his way through a portal to Earth; "Blinky" for TheWatcher who manifests as a {{Cyclops}}, "Tinky" for a creature who tinkers with experimental devices for time travel and a mysterious golden cube, and "Nibbly" for a creature with a mouth for a face who enjoys devouring sacrifices.

* MythArc: As mentioned, they appear in person in exactly half of the Hatchetfield stories. That half of the series reveals more information about them and their overall schemes, while the other half deals with miscellaneous paranormal events which only tangentially, if at all, involve the Lords.
* NobleDemon: Depicted this way in ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die'' in which they agree to get rid of Jaegerman 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 Jaegerman into the Black and White despite not getting what they wanted, accepting this as nonetheless a worthy trade.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: It's unclear what meaning sex or gender even have for cosmic entities from the Black and White, but [[spoiler: the Lords in Black are all referred to as "brothers" while Webby, their singular GoodCounterpart, is their "sister".]]

!!Wiggog Y'wrath, the Lord in Black / "Tickle-Me Wiggly"

* BlandNameProduct: The whole Tickle-Me Wiggly concept is based on the Tickle Me Elmo ''Series/SesameStreet'' toy.

* TheCorrupter: Upon exposure to one of the Wiggly commercials, Wiggly's voice immediately starts to get inside you, nagging you with the idea that all your personal problems and insecurities could somehow be solved by a Wiggly doll. The effect intensifies exponentially with proximity to an actual doll, to the point where even a goody-two-shoes like Becky Barnes WouldHurtAChild. Wiggly's ability to do this is in fact ''so'' powerful that it's implied his human avatar, Uncle Wiley, was once Wilbur Cross, [[spoiler: [=MacNamara=]'s mentor]], before a single unprepared exposure to the Black and White drove him to a BrainwashedAndCrazy FaceHeelTurn.
* CatchPhrase: "Tickle my belly-well! *giggles* That tickles!"

* GreaterScopeVillain: It's revealed that the Black and White is a VoidBetweenTheWorlds that exists in all realities and Wiggly is its unquestioned ruler, meaning that while Wiggly may not be the villain in every version of Hatchetfield he's ''present'' in every version of Hatchetfield, and possibly not in the same form.

* NoSongForTheWicked: Wiggly himself never actually sings at any point, having Uncle Wiley sing for him in "Made In America", which is probably for the best. Averted in ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die'' in which he sings "The Summoning" alongside the other Lords in Black.

* RealAfterAll: The Wiggly character really exists as an extradimensional Lovecraftian deity, although it's hinted that it's only taken on the cutesy name and appearance as a way to mess with us as part of its insane plan.
* RedBaron: His official title is simply "The Lord in Black". Before he revealed to PEIP that he goes by "Wiggly", they gave him such lofty names as "the Devil", "the Ruler of the Black and White", and most prominently, "the Lord of Despair".

* CallBack: Despite the creators saying there's no canonical connection between the Hatchetfield series and other Starkid shows, the reference to Blinky as "the Watcher with a Thousand Eyes" is obviously a carry-over from ''Theatre/TheTrailToOregon'', where it was a deliberately BreakingTheFourthWall reference to [[YouBastard the audience]], for whose amusement all the characters' suffering was engineered. Definitely fuel for theories -- enough for Nick Lang to eventually submit and say that perhaps TTO is a ShowWithinAShow that's been seen at the Starlight Theatre.

* IronicNickname: "Blinky", as noted under, well, TheUnblinking. Also "The Watcher with a Thousand Eyes" -- while the music video for "The Blinky Song" depicts multiple eyes in a field of purple, in person Blinky pretty clearly only has one; the nickname is more symbolic, probably referring to the watchful eyes of Blinky's many {{Meat Puppet}}s throughout Watcher World.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' Season 1 scripts spell his name T'Noy Karaxis, while Season 2 goes with T'noy Kyraxis. His depiction in the Black Book seems to go with T'noy Koraxis.

-->'''Tinky''': ''"I'm COMING FOR YOUR ASS, TEDDY-BEAR!"''

* 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 Assimilated 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.]]
* CallBack: His epithet "The Singular Voice" is one to the song "Let It Out" from ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''.
-->'''Prof. Hidgens''': And I know it's a singular voice, Paul \\
You've just got to give up your choice...

* MeaningfulName: He was the HiveQueen of the HiveMind in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', which would make his epithet of “The Singular Voice” quite fitting.
** Plus, what’s the adjective in that epithet? [[MusicalWorldHypotheses SINGular]].

* RedBaron: His official epithet, one of the only things currently known about him, is "the Thing That Feeds in the Dark".

!!!'''Appears in:''' [[Recap/NightmareTimeS1E3JanesACarAndTheWitchInTheWeb "The Witch in the Web"]] | [[Recap/NightmareTimeS2E3DaddyAndKillerTrack "Daddy"]] | ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie''

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Blinky at the Hatchetfield High School black altar]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/npmd_blinky.png[[/labelnote]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Tinky at the Hatchetfield High School black altar]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/npmd_tinky.png[[/labelnote]]]]

[[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[[/labelnote]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Nibbly at the Hatchetfield High School black altar]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/npmd_nibbly.png[[/labelnote]]]]

* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:Nibbly is an entity of hunger and desire, so the Honey Queens sacrificed to him also embody those traits as the ones who are hungriest to win the pageant and are willing to do absolutely anything to sieze victory.]]

* BigManOnCampus: His [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith "teen" form]] at the Black Altar in ''Nerdy Prudes'' appears as this, dressed in a letterman jacket and wearing a crown.

* DealWithTheDevil: Stephanie, Pete and Grace make one with them in ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die'', agreeing that one of them will give up the thing they cherish most in return for the Lords in Black getting rid of George Jaegerman's ghost for them.

** Their cute nicknames, in addition to being shortened forms of their true names, also conveniently refer to their appearance and behavior: "Wiggly" for a creature with wiggling tentacles, which manages to be eerie when the song "Wiggle" describes him wiggling his way through a portal to Earth; "Blinky" for TheWatcher who manifests as a {{Cyclops}}, and "Tinky" for a creature who tinkers with experimental devices for time travel and a mysterious golden cube.

* AtrociousAlias: Xander Lee lampshades how surreally disappointing it was to find that the malign godlike entity they'd nicknamed things like "The Lord of Despair" turns out to call itself "Wiggly".

* DecapitationPresentation: Wiley taunts Miss Holloway in "The Witch in the Web" with the knowledge that in the timeline where he killed her he took her head as a trophy and "mopped the floor" with it. (Luckily, the only BattleTrophy he actually kept was the jacket.)

!!Uncle Wiley

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: "The Witch in the Web" finally gives us a vague HandWave for why they all have a form as plush children's toys, specifically -- Willabella Muckwab makes dolls in their likeness in her [[DreamLand dreamscape]] to try to seduce Hannah into being possessed by her. When the ChosenOne and the most powerful human in the world is a child, taking the form of a doll to try to control her makes sense.

* NoSongForTheWicked: Wiggly himself never actually sings at any point, having Uncle Wiley sing for him in "Made In America", which is probably for the best. Averted in ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die'' in which he sings alongside the other Lords in Black.

* NoSongForTheWicked: Wiggly himself never actually sings at any point, having Uncle Wiley sing for him in "Made In America", which is probably for the best.