History Characters / MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren

* EvilIsHammy: Creator/SamuelLJackson, once he reveals himself, especially when he thinks his plan is going swimmingly, just loves to talk in loud, wildly exaggerated ways, with much MilkingTheGiantCow.

* {{Differently Powered Individual}}s: They're called "peculiars". Or in the old tongue, "''syndrigasti''"--literally, "peculiar spirit".

* SlenderManStandIn: At least in the Creator/TimBurton movie. They are faceless, have tentacles, are invisible, and even wear suits. Burton wasn't even subtle about it.

* IllGirl: She catches something on kids' trip to menagerie loop, which forces them to leave her under animals' care.

* SuperStrength: His peculiarity, like his sister's.

* BigBad: The master of wights and hollows and the reason behind all the trouble the children go through.
* BookDumb: While canny and sneaky, he's no scholar like his siblings and has troubles with Old Peculiar, which appears to annoy him to no end.

* StaticCharacter: Frank had a bad relationship with his father and gives up on his pet projects too easily, but we never see him move past this in the series

* StaticCharacter: Maryann doesn't show any depth or any redeeming qualities other than being self absorbed and materialistic

* [[KnightOfCerebus Knights Of Cerebus]]: In both the books and the film, things ''immediately'' get a lot more serious for the protagonists whenever the hollowgasts show up. They're ''that'' dangerous!

* [[KnightOfCerebus Knights Of Cerebus]]: In both the books and the film, things get a lot more serious for the protagonists whenever the hollowgasts show up.

* [[KnightOfCerebus Knights Of Cerebus]]: Whenever the hollowgasts show up the story gets much more serious. This is the case for both the books ''and'' the film.

* {{Expy}}: For [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]], at least in the Burton movie. They are faceless, have tentacles, are invisible, and even wear suits. Burton wasn't even subtle about it.

* BadDreams: Often has nightmares, although usually they're not supernatural.

* BadDreams: Most of his dreams of the future are of nightmarish variety.

* NeverLiveItDown: [[invoked]] Nobody wants to forgive him his part in creation of hollows, nor his involvement in [[spoiler:Abe Portman's DePower.]]

* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler:She falls of a ten-thousand-feet cliff when wights attack the menagerie loop, but we only have Addison's relation of it.]]

* BadassGrandpa: He ''is'' badass--but tragically, his guns are locked up and he has to fight off the monsters with a goddamn paper cutter.

* CoolOldGuy: He's traveled all over the world, has some pretty interesting childhood friends, and fought against Nazis and hallows alike.

-->'''Miss Peregrine:''' Peculiar traits often skip a generation, or ten. Peculiar children are not always, or even usually, born peculiar parents, and peculiar parents do not always, or even usually, bear peculiar children.

* TheTimeOfMyths: they talk about "the ''Aldinn'' days," when peculiars used to be powerful and respected.

* TheHeartless: As Miss Peregrine speculates, they've taken themselves back in time to before they had souls, so now they crave peculiars to regain them.

* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: Only someone with a specific peculiarity can see them--to others, they look like shadows.

* {{Expy}}: For [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]], at least in the Burton movie. They are faceless, have tentacles, are invisible, and even wear suits. Burton wasn't even subtle about it.

* TheBeastmaster: When his talents develop into [[spoiler:controlling hollowgast.]]
* TheDreaded: By ''Library of Souls'' Caul fears him enough to attempt assassination before Jacob can face him head-on.
* TheHeart: He often finds himself being the moral centre of the group, is more reasonable and thoughtful and empathizes both with normals and the hollowgast.

* TheOneThatGotAway: For Emma, as he left the loop, never to come back.

* TheGhost: For most of ''Hollow City'' and ''Library of Souls'', she's locked in the bird form or kidnapped, but she's what motivates the kids to trek across war-torn Britain.

* OurHomunculiAreDifferent: He makes little "armies" of homunculi, which are tiny clay soldiers with mice hearts to animate them.

* TheEeyore: He's the one always considering and predicting worst-case scenarios.

* TheBeastmaster: His peculiarity. The ''Bee''master, specifically.
* TheCavalry: He arrives to the rescue with thousands of bees.

* TheBabyOfTheBunch: She's the youngest of Miss Peregrine's wards.

* TheDandy: He's quite adamant about dressing fashionably.
-->'''Horace:''' If it's my waistcoat you're referring to, yes, I admit I am a follower of fashion. Go ahead, have a laugh at old Horance's expense! Call me a dandy if you will, but just because the villagers won't remember what you wear doesn't give you license to dress like a vagabond!

* AGodAmI: After taking a soul of one of ancient peculiars, he proclaims himself to be the god-king of peculiardom.

* TheGhost: For the time of ''Hollow City'', he's just a distant threat. [[spoiler:Except no--he was with the children all the time.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Pretends to be his sister in bird form to gain access to London circus loop.]]

* TheSmartGuy: Expert on magic engineering, {{magitek}} and Old Peculiar language.

* TheNoseKnows: His sense of smell is amazing even for a dog--he can smell trace of peculiars even when they've been travelling in a completely different train hours earlier.

* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: How they're introduced in a creepy tomb, scaring the crap out of the Cairnholm kids.

* TheDividual: As their name suggests. Their TwinTelepathy caused them to pretty much become one person.

* TheFerryman: He takes on this appearance, taking passengers on trips through "peculiar hells", AKA punishment loops.

* VoluntaryShapeshifter: The other half of their peculiarity is a skill of turning into birds.

* ParentalSubstitute: For her children. She often rescued them from ParentalAbuse or abandonment.

* TheBerserker: Especially if you threaten Miss Peregrine.
* TheBigGirl: When you need sheer physical force, you turn to Bronwyn.

* PosthumousCharacter: He's long dead by the events of the first book and is never shown alive on-screen.

* PsychoPsychologist: Actually a man-eating wight.

* UnfazedEveryman: Seems to have been this when his powers begun to manifesting. A bee living comfortably in his stomach? Eh, it's not stinging or anything--not a problem.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: She liven in Ireland during a famine. What she saw there rendered her mute.

* {{Invisibility}}: He is peculiarity. He's always invisible, whether he wants it or not. He pretty much always [[InvisibleStreaker goes in the nude]], as his powers don't extend to his clothes.

The narrator of the story, he's a rich kid from Florida. After his grandfather dies in his arms, whispering cryptic clues, Jacob follows them to Cairnholm, when he discovers his peculiar legacy. His power is sensing, seeing [[spoiler:and controlling]] hollowgast.

* KilledOffScreen: She falls of a ten-thousand-feet cliff when wights attack the menagerie loop, but we only have Addison's relation of it.

--''It was as if just being here had some kind of narcotic effect on me; like the loop itself was a drug--a mood enhancer and a sedative combined--and if I stayed too long, I’d never want to leave.\\

Frank Portman. Abraham's son and father to Jacob. Also an avid bird lover

Maryann Portman. Jacob's mother and local socialite

!!!Loops
* OlderThanTheyLook: All loop dwellers.
-->''It was strange to them that I should be so young, but what was strange to me was how young ''they'' seemed. I knew plenty of eighty-year-olds in Florida, and these kids acted nothing like them. It was as if the constance of their lives here, the unvarying days--this perpetual deathless summer--had arrested their emotions as well as their bodies, sealing them in their youth like Peter Pan and his Lost Boys.''
* NoImmortalInertia: Each day they "skip" is a debt that's banked away, to be repaid in gruesome rapid aging should they linger too long outside their loop.
-->'''Miss Peregrine:''' They cannot linger in your world, Mr. Portman, because in a short time they would grow old and die.\\
'''Jacob:''' What do you mean, die?\\
'''Miss Peregrine:''' I'm not certain how I can be more direct. They'll die, Jacob. It may appear to you that we’ve found a way to cheat death, but it's an illusion. If the children loiter too long on your side of the loop, all the many years from which they have abstained will descend upon them at once, in a matter of hours.
* ExtranormalInstitute: All loops where ymbrynes keep their wards.
* GildedCage:
-->''Yes, it was beautiful and life was good, but if every day were exactly alike and if the kids really couldn't leave, as Miss Peregrine had said, then this place wasn't just a heaven but a kind of prison, too.''
* GroundhogDayLoop: The nature of the time loops.
-->'''Jacob:''' What do you mean? It's only the one day? It repeats?\\
'''Miss Peregrine:''' Over and over, though our experience of it is continuous. Otherwise we would have no memory of the last, oh, seventy years that we’ve resided here.
* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: Loops aren't exactly time ''travel''… they're more like time ''pockets''.

* TheHunter: Spent his youth hunting down wights and hollowgast.