History Characters / Samandmaxfreelancepolice

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: We're told right from the very beginning of season three that yes, Max's powers are harmful, and if he overuses them, his head will most likely catch fire and explode. [[spoiler: This is how [[TearJerker 305]] [[BitterSweetEnding ends.]]

* [[spoiler:BigBad: Of the whole Season 3, it turns out]]

* [[spoiler:DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The two reasons he had for create an army of Sam's clones is because (1) he needed enough sacrifices to summon Junior and (2) because Sam is the perfect ''[[TheStraightMan Straight Man]]''! (And he's a Dummy, mind you!)]]

!!The Narrator

* BadassBookworm: Papierwaite's...kind of dorky.

* Wouldn'tHurtAChild: Max actually seems to really like kids, even though they're obviously terrified of him. Even just having him wave to them reduces them to tears.

!![[spoiler:Yogg-Soggoth]]A.K.A. Doctor Norrington

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* HiddenDepths: Max is apparently writing a poignant Inuit coming-of-age novel. Except he loses a chapter each time he has to make room for anything ''else'' in his brain, such as memorizing a new phone number.

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!!Jimmy Two-Teeth
* ButtMonkey
* CatchPhrase: "Beat it."
* [[GoddamnedBats Goddamned Rats]]: he's too small and harmless for Sam & Max, but he does have a tendency to hoard PlotCoupons.
* TheInformant: well, he ''is'' a rat.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:It's implied he's living up on money Max paid him for spread the Bubonic Plague.]]
* RedBoxingGloves: eventually confiscated by Max.
* YouDirtyRat

!!Bosco
* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts
* ConspiracyTheorist
* CrazyPrepared: For all imagined threats under the sun.

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Sharing the office next door to Sam and Max, Flint Paper is more your gritty, hard boiled old school sort of private detective. And when we say old school, we mean GoodOldFisticufs, lots of gunfire, and pounding on thugs until they squeal. Most of his adventures happen off screen and he's mostly noticed when the sounds of violence leak in from next door but he does occasionally end up helping the Freelance Police and is someone you want on your side in a fight (and not just because the alternative is ending up in a world of pain).

* WeaksauceWeakness: He is allergic to peanuts. So far, no one has been able to exploit it.

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[[folder:Other Residents Of Straight St.]]

!!Flint Paper
* BadAss
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: He even gives classes about it!
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He is always seen investigating another case.
* PrivateDetective
* PrivateEyeMonologue: Apparently, he can only think in these.
* WeaksauceWeakness: He is allergic to peanuts. So far, no one has been able to exploit it.

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[[folder:Other Recurring Characters]]

!!The Commissioner
* TheVoice
* TheFaceless: So far, a signed picture of his chest has been his only on-screen appearance.

!!The Soda Poppers
* {{Catch Phrase}}s:
-->'''Specs''': You made me mess up!
-->'''Peepers''': I can see you!
-->'''Whizzer''': Time out for number one!
* [[spoiler: EvilCostumeSwitch]]: only Specs puts any effort in this.
* [[FormerChildStar Former Child Stars]]
* NeatFreak: Specs.
* OlderThanTheyLook: they are forty-somethings who look like eight years old.
* PottyEmergency: Whizzer's shtick.
* [[TheScrappy The Scrappies]]
** [[spoiler: TakeThatScrappy]]: Rather cleverly, Telltale managed [[spoiler: to not only make them the antagonists of Season 2, but managed to kill them off.]]
* SiblingRivalry: When they get into politics, it escalates into ''civil war''.

!!Leonard Steakcharmer
* AndIMustScream: see, after every episode, Sam and Max would put an artifact from the last episode into their closet. After the third episode, they put Leonard in the closet, tied up with his mouth taped shut. It's implied that he's been living in that closet for ''months''!
** [[spoiler:Eventually he dies, but just ends up in an identical closet, the same predicament, in Hell. Luckily for him, he shared his personal hell with Sam who, in exchange for his help, releases him... with his mouth still taped shut. Evidently, Telltale felt sorry for him and decided to [[ThrowTheDogABone finally release him]].]]
* DisproportionateRetribution (why aren't there more fans who sympathize with Leonard? Because he stole a sandwich!)
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas
* TheInformant: but only once.
* SmugSnake

!!Hugh Bliss
* [[spoiler:AffablyEvil]]
* [[spoiler: BigBad]]
* CatchPhrase: "Hi, I'm Hugh Bliss." *hand pose*
* ChurchOfHappyology
* [[spoiler:EvilAlbino]]
* [[spoiler:GigglingVillain]]
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: He's just creepy, and not just about his worrying levels of happiness, either. In ''Abe Lincoln Must Die!'', using the The Bug on him results in him monologuing... Only for him to say ''he knew they were listening the whole time''. That's not even getting into the fact that [[spoiler: he's the Big Bad of Season One and A colony of sentient germs]].)
* UncannyValley
* [[spoiler:TheWormThatWalks]] (Turns out, he's a [[spoiler: ''colony of germs'']])

!!Jurgen
* AmbiguouslyGay: Max calls him "fruity" in ''Night of the Raving Dead'', and probably for a reason.
* {{Goth}}
* OurVampiresAreDifferent
* SmugSnake

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[[folder: Important Characters from "The Devil's Playhouse"]]

!!General Skun-ka'pe
* FreudianExcuse: His childhood, as shown in ''Sam & Max Secret Origins: Skun'kape'', really kind of sucked.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Comes really close to this in the first episode, in the first scene, [[spoiler: he gets trapped in the Penal Zone]], but later, when you reenact this scene, [[spoiler: he reveals he looked into the future with one of the toys of power, he took the other two toys that you got in the first scene, and not to mention, he uses your own beacon ''against Sam and Max'' by teleporting them to the Penal Zone, while strapping an Antimatter bomb to Max's back, destroying the Penal Zone, while he didn't take into account the phone, admit it, that's a fairly good gambit]].
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: He rather dislikes being called "Skunkape".
** Really? Sal is the only character who ever even comments on it.
* VillainDecay: While the main villain and a serious threat for the first episode of Season 3, by ''Beyond the Alley of the Dolls'' he has been reduced to whimpering in a corner in Stinky's Diner and is quickly taken out by the Sam clones early on in the episode.

* TheSlacker: Unlike their Great Grandsons, who apparently have a job, they don't seem to do anything more than sneak into theaters and steal ketchup bags from restaurants.

!!Moniseur Anton Papierwaite
* HeyItsThatVoice: Same as the Narrator, because he's also voiced by Andrew Chaikin. Also, he's basically [[TalesOfMonkeyIsland Coronado de Cava]] with a difficult to place accent.
* [[spoiler:HumanoidAbomination: Sort of. Doctor Norrington AKA Yogg-Soggoth is apparently merged with Papierwaite's body after his defeat at the end of ''The Tomb of Sammun-Mak'']].
* SquishyWizard

!!Sal
* ButtMonkey: Double-Subverted: Even Max is incapable of making fun of him, given how nice and simple he is; but every puzzle solution which involves Sal will somehow inflict physical damage on him.
** TheWoobie: And the player will feel bad to be forced to inflict physical damage on him as a result.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Everyone loves Sal, and no one is entirely sure why.
* GentleGiant
* StarcrossedLovers: With Girl Stinky
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: He's been a chef, two varieties of security guard, and a crate-stacker so far.

!!The Pharaoh Sammun-Mak
* [[{{ptitlem4f37xq499gk}} Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!]]
**"Attention everyone! From this point forward, those little things at the end of your shoe laces, ag...lets? Yes! Aglets are herby decreed to be the most horrible things in all the world!"
**"Attention everyone! This is Sammun-Mak, Lord of all Creation! Forget what we said before! From now on, ''toasters'' are officially the most horrid, beastly things in the whole wide world! And if you see a toaster, and you want to make us happy, break it into tiny little bits!"
**"Greetings, everyone! This is Sammun-Mak the Divine speaking! From this day forward, toasters are the most ''exalted'' things in all the universe, ranking just below yours truly on the awesome-meter! Just thought you should know."
***This all happens within ten minutes.
*FindersRulers: A variation. He only became Pharoah because [[spoiler: he had the Gift, and, using the Toys, altered reality so that he was in a position of power.]] He does the exact same thing a thousand years later.
* EnfanteTerrible
* HeyItsThatVoice: Kind of weird hearing [[MonkeyIsland Morgan [=LeFlay's=]]] voice coming out of [[spoiler:Max's mouth]].
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Due to [[spoiler:brainwashing.]] Actually, it's more like 99%, since [[spoiler: the mole people and Max were immune.]]
* ReplacementScrappy: Averted, for three reasons: 1- The Replacement part is established to be temporary, 2- He's a large sympathetic character of his own, and 3- [[spoiler:Even if he becomes the ReplacementScrappy for you, he's the BigBad of the 3rd Act, making TakeThatScrappy imminent]].
*RoyalBrat
*RoyalWe

!!Samulacra (or Doggelgangers)
* {{Doppelganger}}: To Sam. Due to cloning.
* FetishFuel: Parodied. The comments of Max and ''Momma Bosco'' do not help.
* HiveMind
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: They are Giant Barely Talking Half Naked and overweight Humanoid Dogs who chant "TOYS! TOYS!" at once and have one set mind.
** In canon to Skun-ka'pe: After Sam [[spoiler:punches him almost to death at the end of ''They Stole Max's Brain'']] the sole sight of an ''army'' of the same person reduces him to a whimpering ape in one of the corners of Stinky's.

!!Yogg-Soggoth [[spoiler:/ Doctor Norrington]]

* LargeHam: By way of PurpleProse.

!![[spoiler:Charlie Ho-Tep]]
* [[spoiler:ChekhovsGunman]]
* [[spoiler:CreepyDoll]]
* [[spoiler:DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The two reasons he had for create an army of Sam's clones is because (1) he needed enough sacrifices to summon Junior and (2) because Sam is the perfect ''[[TheStraightMan Straight Man]]''! (And he's a Dummy, mind you!)]]
* [[spoiler:DemonicDummy]]
* [[spoiler:[[TheDogWasTheMastermind The Doll Was The Mastermind]]]]
* [[spoiler:HiveQueen: To the Sam's Clones]]
* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan]]

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* ButtMonkey: Double-Subverted: Even Max is uncapable of making fun of him, given how nice and simple he is; but every puzzle solution which involves Sal will somehow inflict physical damage on him.

**"Hmm, that's down 10& from last season."

* MysteriousPast