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* BalefulPolymorph: A common punishment is being turned into stuff. Pancakes, piles of sewage, dysentery
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* ForcedTransformation: A common punishment is being turned into stuff. Pancakes, piles of sewage, dysentery
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* WorthyOpponent: His opinion of the Professor, and later Edith.
* AbusiveParents: He sold at least one of his unwanted children away. This might've been kinder than what he was like for the ones he kept.
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* BadBoss: When he was alive, he drove one of his employees to become suicidal. When he finds this out, [[EvenEvilHasStandards he seems to be genuinely remorseful]], [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk only to then say that it's her fault anyway for not complaining enough earlier]].
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* BadBoss: When he was alive, he drove one of his employees to become suicidal. When he finds this out, [[EvenEvilHasStandards he seems to be genuinely remorseful]], [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk only to then say that it's her fault anyway for not complaining enough earlier]]. He also had any who looked depressed fired, in the belief depression might've been communicable (to him).
* BalefulPolymorph: A common punishment is being turned into stuff. Pancakes, piles of sewage, dysentery
* BalefulPolymorph: A common punishment is being turned into stuff. Pancakes, piles of sewage, dysentery
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* BreakTheHaughty: In life, he was proud of himself for his ability to slime and weasel out of trouble, and is not happy about how in Hell he's routinely punished for this.
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* EntitledBastard: Even dead and in Hell for a lifetime of misdeeds, he still expects leniency or forgiveness.
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* EvilIsPetty: He tried to get his parents to divorce. Not because they were awful to him or one another. He just didn't like the idea of other people being happy while he wasn't.
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* ForTheEvulz: There is no reason for why Thomas is such a bastard. He just ''is''.
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* TheSociopath: While he does meet a lot of the criteria, the one time anyone diagnoses him, it's Scumspawn using a book, and they come away with the conclusion Thomas has pretty much ''every'' psychological condition it's possible to have.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: For all he is a genial sort, Scumspawn is perfectly willing to engage in the routine tortures of Hell, including flaying Thomas's skin off. He might not enjoy it, but he still does it.
* DevotedToYou: While not ''romantically'' in love with Satan for any number of reasons, he admits he's in love in every other respect.
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* {{Yandere}}: Got very surprisingly territorial about being Satan's number two, including throwing one potential applicant down a bottomless pit.
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* AnythingThatMoves: Within twenty minutes of arriving in Hell, she'd beaten up several demons, then screwed an entire army, followed by some debauchery with Catherine the Great, which she's still disappointed about.
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* {{Determinator}}: When Roland stages his attempted coup, he immediately orders Scumspawn locked up for being too loyal to Satan. Scumspawn escapes by ''chewing his feet off'' and hobbling on the stumps to warn Satan... who'd already instantly seen through Roland's plan anyway.
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* UltimateEvil: He's the most frequently mentioned out of all the historical figures, but he never speaks, is never spoken to, and other than one scene where he is explicitly in disguise, is never even spoken about in such a way that one can infer his presence.
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* UltimateEvil: He's the most frequently mentioned out of all the historical figures, but he almost never speaks, is never spoken to, and other than one scene where he is explicitly in disguise, is never even spoken about in such a way that one can infer his presence.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His effortless charm comes from having gone to boarding school, with all the bullying and sexual assault that entails. Satan figures his eventually fate will be pretty familiar because of that.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Being able to sucker the demons isn't difficult. Being able to get a total bastard like Thomas is. However, he's effortlessly outdone by Satan.
* ObviouslyEvil: Satan had him pegged as trouble right from the off. Even if he wasn't, y'know, in ''Hell'', there's his effortless charm... and the fact he wears a cravat, which according to Satan was a dead giveaway.
* ObviouslyEvil: Satan had him pegged as trouble right from the off. Even if he wasn't, y'know, in ''Hell'', there's his effortless charm... and the fact he wears a cravat, which according to Satan was a dead giveaway.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Usually involving Thomas.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Usually involving Thomas.Thomas or the Professor, for different reasons.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Basic human decency is just beyond him. He can sort of get that when someone hears something horrible, the correct response is to offer condolences, but he can't get why, and even if he does try it, he usually ruins it by being astoundingly awful in the process.
* HatesBeingTouched: Including by his own mother, who he regarded as "too common".
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* {{Foil}}: To Gus Hedges, also played by Robert Duncan in [[Series/DropTheDeadDonkey a show by Andy Hamilton.]] Both are ButtMonkey suck-ups to a BigBad whose attempts at flattery go unheeded, but Scumspawn is more of a MinionWithAnFInEvil who is liked by the main characters.
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* WideEyedIdealist: His idealism is shattered only once during all four seasons of torment. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome He gets over it.]]
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* WideEyedIdealist: His idealism is shattered only once during all four seasons of torment. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome He gets over it.]]
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* KickTheDog: He devises a plan to break the Professor's spirit by making it look like his wife has already moved on, and is now seeing his former partner.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Chuckles is not his actual name, but since he's a dolphin his proper name, and its shortened version, are unpronounceable to any non-speaker of dolphin.
* OneShotCharacter: Only appears in one episode.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Chuckles is not his actual name, but since he's a dolphin his proper name, and its shortened version, are unpronounceable to any non-speaker of dolphin.
* OneShotCharacter: Only appears in one episode.
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* ShootTheDangerousMinion: Satan considers making Chuckles his second-in-command, but decides he's too cunning to be trusted and disintegrates him.
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* ShootTheDangerousMinion: Satan considers making Chuckles his second-in-command, but decides he's too cunning to be trusted and disintegrates him.him.
* WouldHurtAChild: He killed five child actors while on the set of the ''Flipper'' remake.
* WouldHurtAChild: He killed five child actors while on the set of the ''Flipper'' remake.
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* BadBoss: Has lost interest in his creation and frequently delegates various tasks to incompetent underlings, in addition when hearing of the overcrowding in hell he refuses to take any action to help alleviate the issue and states that it is [[BystanderSyndrome "Not His problem"]].
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* BadBoss: Has lost interest in his creation and frequently delegates various tasks to incompetent underlings, in addition when hearing of the overcrowding in hell he refuses to take any action to help alleviate the issue and states that it is [[BystanderSyndrome "Not His problem"]]. Then he makes Hell's problems worse, just 'cuz.
* PapaWolf: Don't mention Jesus. He's still a little sore about that mess. Doing so will make him go on a rant.
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* RageAgainstTheHeavens: She tries calling out God to His face. He eventually gives up and leaves, though not before giving Edith leprosy as a parting act of spite.
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* PutOnABus: He is banished from Hell at the end of the first series and is never seen again. He is briefly mentioned by Thomas in a later episode but no mention is made of his current whereabouts.
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* PutOnABus: He is banished from Hell at the end of the first series and is never seen again. He is briefly mentioned by Thomas in a later episode but no mention nothing is made of said about his current whereabouts.
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* BadBoss: Has lost interest in his creation and frequently delegates various tasks to incompetent underlings, in addition when hearing of the overcrowding in hell he refuses to take any action to help alleviate the problem issue and states that it is [[BystanderSyndrome "Not His problem"]].
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* BadBoss: Has lost interest in his creation and frequently delegates various tasks to incompetent underlings, in addition when hearing of the overcrowding in hell he refuses to take any action to help alleviate the problem and states that it is [[BystanderSyndrome "Not His problem"]].
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* HiddenDepths: While mostly seen as a bumbling sidekick, he is able to paint, tap dance, play the saxophone and build lifelike robots.
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* AssholeVictim: His primary role in the series is to be subjected to AmusingInjuries, since his activities while alive [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgust even Satan]] his situation doesn’t garner much sympathy.
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* GentlemanAndAScholar: The Professor is very intelligent but also optimistic and friendly, even to those who don’t return his courtesy.
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* GentlemanAndAScholar: The Professor is very intelligent but also optimistic optimistic, polite and friendly, even to those who don’t return his courtesy.
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* PutOnABus: He is banished from Hell at the end of the first series and is never mentioned again.
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* PutOnABus: He is banished from Hell at the end of the first series and is never seen again. He is briefly mentioned again. by Thomas in a later episode but no mention is made of his current whereabouts.
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* GentlemanAndAScholar: The Professor is very intelligent but also optimistic and friendly, even to those who don’t return his courtesy.
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* AbsentMindedProfessor: While extremely intelligent and knowledgeable he is curious to the detriment of all else including his own self preservation. At one point this costs him a chance to enter heaven because he insists on having a theological argument with God himself, unfortunately this version of God [[EvilGod isn’t very forgiving.]]
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* LivingMoodRing: At one point when Satan is losing his temper, the Professor notes that his eyes have gone purple; then, a little later, [[BlackEyesOfEvil completely black]].
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* MoodRingEyes: At one point when Satan is losing his temper, the Professor notes that his eyes have gone purple; then, a little later, [[BlackEyesOfEvil completely black]].
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* EvilMakesYouUgly: Brings up how he used to be a beautiful angellic being before he fell, which has turned him into Andy Hamilton with goat legs.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Most of the punishment he inflicts upon Thomas would be disgusting, but given how Thomas is a monster it's hilarious. Case in point: trapping him under an incontinent hippo for most of an episode before he eventually removes it... [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments only to dump an incontinent and heavier rhino in its place]]. The rhino then tramples him before it goes off.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Most of the punishment he inflicts upon Thomas would be disgusting, but given how Thomas is a monster it's hilarious. Case in point: trapping him under an incontinent hippo for most of an episode before he eventually removes it... [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments only to dump an incontinent and heavier rhino in its place]].place. The rhino then tramples him before it goes off.
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* ObnoxiousInLaws: With Edith, having married her daughter and put her through emotional hell.
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* SnapBack: [[spoiler:After spending most of series 6 looking like he might start showing some sort of redeeming value, finding out he's got angel ancestry nukes that.]]
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* NeverSuicide: The police and Satan assume she committed suicide, but she's quite adamant she didn't. [[spoiler:It eventually turns out her best friend murdered her out of insane jealousy.]]
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Doted on her young niece when she was alive only to find out the girl's parents had encouraged her to suck up to Edith to gain a large inheritance.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Doted She doted on her young niece when she was alive only to find out and thought they had a special bond. In fact the girl's parents had encouraged her to suck up to Edith to gain a large inheritance.inheritance, and she grows up to become shallow, selfish and [[spoiler:willing to take a bribe from a corrupt bookie to lose a race at the Olympics]].
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: He has a truly impressive and horrific rap sheet, which includes pimping ''and'' genocide in the same day, and which actually ''was'' a slow day for him. He blames the medication he was on.
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* {{Jerkass}}{{Jerkass}}: When asked to give Hell more room because things are getting cramped, he not only refuses, but then makes Hell ''smaller'' out of spite.
* KingOfAllCosmos: For the supreme being, he's... er, a little off. As he freely admits, his omniscience is less "omni" these days, as he's stopped paying attention to all those prayers, and generally only follows cricket anymore. He also gets suckered by an automated phone call.
* KingOfAllCosmos: For the supreme being, he's... er, a little off. As he freely admits, his omniscience is less "omni" these days, as he's stopped paying attention to all those prayers, and generally only follows cricket anymore. He also gets suckered by an automated phone call.
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-->Played by: Geoffrey Whitehead
* BigBadWannabe: Thinks he can overthrow Satan after flattering him. This goes as well as can be expected.
* EvilBrit
* FateWorseThanDeath: Is cast into a bottomless void for his ambition.
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* BigBadWannabe: Thinks he can overthrow Satan after flattering him. This goes as well as can be expected.
* EvilBrit
* FateWorseThanDeath: Is cast into a bottomless void for his ambition.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: Whilst Thomas soon becomes exasperated with the beautiful but vacuous Helen of Troy, Scumspawn has a very pleasant time with her "plain" friend Daphne.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Had who-knows-how-many affairs while married to Edith's daughter.
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* AffablyEvil[=/=]FauxAffablyEvil: Zigzags the two. To most people, he's FauxAffablyEvil, often utilizing ExactWords to make people think he's about to give them what they want before making their torments even more painful. To other supernatural beings and the handful of humans he respects, he's AffablyEvil; he'll still torture them if they become annoying, but when he's not doing so, he's fairly friendly and can sometimes even act as a caring presence.
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* AffablyEvil[=/=]FauxAffablyEvil: Zigzags the two.AffablyEvil: Zigzags. To most people, he's FauxAffablyEvil, often utilizing ExactWords to make people think he's about to give them what they want before making their torments even more painful. To other supernatural beings and the handful of humans he respects, he's AffablyEvil; he'll still torture them if they become annoying, but when he's not doing so, he's fairly friendly and can sometimes even act as a caring presence.
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* IHaveManyNames: Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Old Nick, Old Harry and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Simon Cowell.]]
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* IHaveManyNames: Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Old Nick, Old Harry and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers [[OddNameOut Simon Cowell.]]
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* InformedFlaw: Satan claims that Thomas is the most evil human being in all of Hell. While Thomas has perpetrated a number of horrific atrocities, he doesn't really come off any worse than many of the other horrible people that Satan has to deal with. Thomas himself lampshades this in one episode when he asks Scumspawn why Satan considers him worse than Hitler or Stalin.
-->'''Thomas''': At least I didn't kill millions of people!\\
'''Scumspawn''': He says that's because you hadn't gotten around to it.
-->'''Thomas''': At least I didn't kill millions of people!\\
'''Scumspawn''': He says that's because you hadn't gotten around to it.
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* AntiHero: Type V.
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* AntiHero: Type V.After being an outright VillainProtagonist for the first four series, he becomes a NominalHero in season 5 when he decides his workload is getting to be too much and starts trying to reduce the amount of sin on Earth so as to reduce overcrowding in Hell.
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* TheDevilIsALoser: He's a rather whiny, borderline-suicidal fellow who uses torture and corruption mainly as a mechanism to cope with his own self-hatred.
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* TheDevilIsALoser: He's a rather whiny, borderline-suicidal fellow who miserable with his work almost to the point of being suicidal, and uses torture and corruption mainly as a mechanism to cope with his own self-hatred.
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* FlatEarthAtheist: Spends quite some time arguing that he can't be ''certain'' he's really in Hell.
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* FlatEarthAtheist: Spends quite some time arguing that Throughout the first series he can't be ''certain'' refuses to believe he's really actually died, thinking he's alive and in Hell.a coma after the car crash and Hell is [[AllJustADream all just a very long and elaborate dream]]. But by the start of series 2 he appears to have accepted it.
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* WideEyedIdealist: His idealism is shattered only once during all seven seasons of torment. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome He gets over it.]]
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* WideEyedIdealist: His idealism is shattered only once during all seven four seasons of torment. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome He gets over it.]]
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* WorthyOpponent: To Satan.
Satan, who mostly refrains from tormenting him other than by trying to disprove his positive view of humanity.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Doted on her young niece when she was alive only to find out the girl's parents had encouraged her to suck up to Edith to gain a large inheritance.
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* PutOnABus: He is banished from Hell at the end of the first series and is never mentioned again.
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* BadBoss: When he was alive, he drove one of his employees to become suicidal. When he finds this out, [[EvenEvilHasStandards he seems to be genuinely remorseful]], [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk only to then say that it's her fault anyway for not complaining enough earlier]].
