History Characters / TheAmazingDigitalCircus

* [[Characters/TheAmazingDigitalCircusNPCS NPCS]] [[labelnote:Click to expand.]]Caine, Bubble, Mannequins, The Moon, The Sun, The Gloinks and their Queen, Princess Loolilalu, Gummigoo, Max & Chad, and The Fudge[[/labelnote]]

!Players
[[folder:In General]]
A group of humans trapped in the Digital Circus where they are given toy-like bodies and forced to perform in nonsensical, painful and traumatic acts.

%% The characters not having genitals should not be troped unless it comes up in the work itself. Until then, it should only be listed on Trivia as WordOfGod.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: {{Implied|Trope}} by [[https://www.glitchprod.com/digital-circus the show's official synopsis]] where it's stated Pomni and the other current humans are tormented by both Caine and "their own personal traumas".
* DespairEventHorizon: All of them are trying really, really hard 'not' to cross it, [[spoiler:because they'll get abstracted]].
* DigitalAvatar: Their LivingToy forms are all virtual manifestations of themselves.
* DoomedProtagonist: Players have no way to escape the circus, have trouble staying sane long-term and [[spoiler:will suffer a FateWorseThanDeath should they give up on living]].
* DysfunctionJunction: Every one of them has problems according to the official synopsis and it shows: Pomni is a NervousWreck, Ragatha is a StepfordSmiler, Gangle is TheEeyore and a MoodSwinger, Kinger is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, Zooble is TheCynic and has [[AmbiguousGenderIdentity completely lost their sense of gender]] and Jax is... [[TheFriendNobodyLikes well, just a]] {{Jerkass}}.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Each player except Pomni has a short character teaser dedicated to them, which were recopiled in the "Meet the Gang" video.
** Ragatha cheerfully waves at the camera, but gets a cleaver thrown into her head. She pulls it out and laughs it off, showing her optimism.
** Jax chuckles mischievously before tripping Ragatha as she walks by to show that he's a {{Jerkass}}.
** Gangle shyly waves at the camera and giggles before Jax pushes her down and breaks her comedy mask. She comes up wearing her tragedy mask and starts to sniffle, showing that she's sensitive.
** Kinger looks around before getting startled by Bubble, showing that he's neurotic.
** Zooble fiddles with the parts on their body and gets irritated, expressing their dissatisfaction with their body.
* {{LARP}}: Caine makes up scenarios for the players to act out and have fun in order to keep themselves sane. Pomni describes their existence as [=LARPing=].
* FeelNoPain: They either feel limited pain or develop an incredible tolerance for it from repeated injury. Ragatha barely flinches when a cleaver is thrown into her head and getting torn to pieces simply makes Zooble annoyed; Pomni does scream when stabbed with multiple throwing knives but that may well have been just from shock. On the other hand, despite putting on a brave face for Pomni, Ragatha admits [[spoiler:[[OminousVisualGlitch glitching]] [[TheCorruption spread via abstraction]] is ''incredibly'' painful]].
* GildedCage: The Digital Circus is a giant bright, colorful and cheery place full of fun, games, as much food as Caine can conjure and whatever adventure he can imagine to keep the players immersed all day. The catch is that there is no way out and the place snags its unwitting victims from the real world for an eternity of games that not even death can save them from. Even with their whimsical new toy bodies and apparent immortality no one save for Caine is enjoying what's effectively {{Hell}} [[CircusOfFear with a circus theme]].
* ImmuneToMindControl: One of the few limitations to Caine's powers is he cannot directly affect or read the players' minds, so that's ''one'' psychological horror they're spared. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it also means no one can help them if they go insane and [[FaceMonsterTurn abstract]].]]
* LivingToys: Their {{Digital Avatar}}s evoke this due to the show's ''Literature/ISpy'' and ''Franchise/ToyStory'' influences: Pomni, Ragatha and Jax are dolls of different kinds; Gangle is a ribbon and theater mask; Kinger is a chess piece; and Zooble is a mix-and-match toy resembling [[https://zolo.com/ ZoLO sculptures]].
* LossOfIdentity: As said by Caine, entering the circus forces them to inevitably confront a radically changed life. To demonstrate Pomni panics over [[NameAmnesia forgetting her original name]] and Zooble's abandoned any gender identity because they've lost the concept of it.
* NameAmnesia: None of them can remember their name before the Circus, instead making up a new name or using bizarre ones chosen by Caine. This is a probable reference to AM doing the same to Nimdok in ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''.
* TheNeedless: They don't actually need to eat or sleep, simply eating simulated food for the pleasure of it and sleeping to relax and manage a routine, all of which will hopefully keep some of them sane.
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: Each of the players fall under one of these categories:
** Gangle, Kinger, and Ragatha are Nice. All of them are very helpful and polite to each other, with Ragatha and Gangle in particular being [[ExtremeDoormat Extreme Doormats]] that often get abused by Jax. Kinger is also a KindheartedSimpleton despite having the least amount of sanity within the group and often provides UnwantedAssistance.
** Jax is Mean. He is a sociopath who regularly abuses everyone in the Digital Circus (especially Gangle and Ragatha), puts both players and [=NPCs=] lives in danger for his own amusement, and cares only about himself and his own desires. [[NeverMyFault He also never blames himself for putting everyone in danger]], and seeks violence and despair in the adventures that he goes on.
** Pomni and Zooble are In-Between. Both of them are the ones that swear more than a few times despite the MagicalProfanityFilter coded in the game, and are also prone to insulting or shouting at everyone's antics (particularly Jax and Caine). Additionally, Zooble shows disinterest in the adventures while Pomni was more than willing to abandon everyone at the circus if it meant finding an escape. However, they are shown to have a softer side, where Pomni [[spoiler:befriends Gummigoo after he learns the truth and later grows more fond of the other Circus members]], and Zooble [[spoiler:had finished arranging everything for Kaufmo's funeral while the others were at the Candy Canyon Kingdom]].
* NighInvulnerability: It's impossible for them to be permanently injured by most things [[ImmortalityHurts though they are pretty easily incapacitated]]. Could possibly be CompleteImmortality but [[spoiler:the apparent turnover rate for being abstracted obfuscates aging]].
* TheNoseless: Almost all of the characters lack a nose. The only exception is Ragatha who has a small red triangle for a nose.
* SeenItAll: To some extent, all inhabitants in the circus (except the new Pomni and overly-emotional Gangle) have pretty casual reactions to the absurdities on Pomni's first day, further implying they've all been there for longer than they can remember. Jax and Zooble in particular have rather stoic attitudes in the face of everything and aside from brief shifts in tone, nobody is surprised or saddened for long that [[spoiler:Kaufmo abstracted and has to be locked away]].
* ToonTransformation: Their new bodies are colorful, cartoonish and subject to ToonPhysics (like easily deforming but recovering from injury).
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: They are trapped in a [[{{Cyberspace}} digital world]] via strange headsets that transported them there.
* TrueCompanions: The second episode establishes that all of the players [[TheSociopath (except Jax)]] genuinely care about one another. [[spoiler:They even honor Kaufmo's memory with a proper funeral after his abstraction.]]
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Before Pomni came along, Ragatha and Gangle were the only two players that were clearly female. Everyone else was either male, or had an AmbiguousGender in Zooble's case. After Pomni's arrival [[spoiler:alongside Kaufmo abstracting]], it's an {{inversion}} with Jax and Kinger being the only males and everyone else who's not Zooble being female.
* VagueAge: Their avatars give little indication of their years though the director has specified they're all adults (Kinger is almost fifty, the others are 22–30). They apparently can't even tell each other's ages by looking, Jax calling Pomni "kid" despite her being older than him.
* WasOnceAMan: These are all humans whose souls are trapped in the [[LotusEaterMachine Digital Circus]], but for some reason or another are changed into toys, some (like Gangle and Zooble) less human-looking than others.
* WhiteGloves: They all have gloves for hands barring Ragatha's three-fingered hands, Gangle's FingerlessHands and the claw on Zooble's left arm.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: All of the survivors but Pomni have accepted they can never escape the Digital Circus and by the end of the pilot, she seems well on her way to feeling the same.

[[folder:Pomni]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Our heroine(?)]]
->''"I guess I just don't want you to feel like you're nothing. I don't want anybody to feel like that."''\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LizzieFreeman (English)[[labelnote:Other dubs]]Noelia Lestani (Spanish), Letícia Celini (Brazilian Portuguese), Vlada Mariupolskaya (Russian), Arran (Japanese), Janeane Santos-Roco (Filipino), Dina Amalina (Indonesian), Salomé Mallié (French), Aliona Bilousova (Ukrainian)[[/labelnote]]

The main protagonist ([[https://twitter.com/GooseworxMusic/status/1620671688861159424 technically]]), an anxious young woman stuck in the form of a toy jester.
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* AccidentalHero: [[spoiler:While Pomni's [[MomentOfWeakness choice to abandon Ragatha]] and go through the "exit" leads to her [[SanitySlippage being driven mad]] and getting trapped in [[BlankWhiteVoid the Void]], doing so alerts Caine, prompting him to transport her back to the Tent. Once there, he proceeds to banish the abstracted Kaufmo to the Cellar and cure both Pomni and Ragatha's glitching.]]
* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler:Despite lacking combat capabilities alongside the glitching preventing her from making physical contact with Ragatha, she somehow manages to avoid being attacked by the Abstracted Kaufmo, even during the second chase sequence.]]
* AllForNothing: In both episodes, no less.
** [[spoiler:Her attempts to escape the Circus in question just lead to her being trapped in the void and needing to be saved by Caine, which is what starts her descent into madness.]]
** [[spoiler:When she tries to bring [[MonsterOfTheWeek Gummigoo]] back to the Circus as a SixthRanger, Caine pops him into confetti with no hesitation because he might mistake him for a human.]]
* AmusingInjuries: [[spoiler:While searching for Caine so he can fix up Ragatha after she gets attacked by the abstracted Kaufmo, she gets socked by a boxing glove twice. From the same door too.]]
* AudienceSurrogate: As the newest "addition" to the Circus, she serves as the relatable viewpoint of the audience, that being scared and confused out of her mind as she tries to make sense of the world she's now in and interacting with her more experienced fellows.
* BlushStickers: Her design comes with them, giving her a cute and innocent look.
* BrokenSmile: As her time in the Circus goes, she starts getting unhappy smiles all around, [[spoiler:especially at the pilot's ending feast; you can practically hear her sanity crumbling in the grimacing, pained smile creeping onto her face seemingly against her will]].
* TheCameo: Makes one in the ''WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'' episode "[[Recap/SMG4TheVerySafeAndLegalSMG4Show The Very Safe & Legal SMG4 Show]]" where [=SMG4=] accidentally summons her in a direct parallel to how Caine summoned her in the teaser, prompting an OhNoNotAgain reaction.
* ClassicalAntiHero: A [[LovableCoward scared]] and confused NervousWreck, Pomni doesn't display much in the way of heroic qualities and her primary objective is to escape the Digital Circus. [[spoiler:She is not entirely without redeeming qualities (at least attempting to help Ragatha escape an Abstracted Kaufmo despite the significant risk to her own safety) but she's not without her weaknesses either (choosing to prioritize her own escape over Ragatha and the others' well-being)]].
* CharacterDevelopment: While not a big one the second episode show us a more braver and empathic side of her while confronting one of the bandits she was suppose to defeat, a huge difference from her behaviour in episode 1. Also while she's still fearful of being trapped in the Circus, seeing how the gang (minus Jax) act during [[spoiler:Kaufmo's funeral]] make her realize that she is not alone in this nightmare.
* ClusterBleepBomb: After Pomni briefly swears during her initial paranoid questions upon entering, Caine explains that [[MagicalProfanityFilter all swearing is censored]] because the Circus is a family-friendly place "for all ages". In response, Pomni quickly launches into a tirade of censored curses, presumably to test it, before she finally gets out a simple "Oh my God".
* CourtJester: As her avatar for the Circus, she was forcibly transformed into a toy-like version of a jester.
* DeadpanSnarker: She starts to develop into this after the pilot in response to the daily insanity of the Circus, likely as a coping mechanism.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Her colorful pupils become random, squiggling black scribbles when she's feeling particularly traumatized or stressed out.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: A downplayed example but in most promos released before the pilot's trailer (including her original 2D artwork before it was updated and the series' main poster), the gloves and shoes in each of Pomni's sides had the same color as each other (blue for the right glove and shoe, red for the left ones). From the pilot's trailer onwards, Pomni's right glove is red and her left one is blue, leading to the shoes and gloves on each side to have different colors instead.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Her pupils are six-part segmented circles with a red and blue pattern and a black outline, looking like the top view of a circus tent.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Upon realizing [[LaserGuidedAmnesia she can't remember who she was previously]].
-->"My name? Um, my name is, uhh... Uhhhh!? Oh God! ''(hyperventilates)'' Why can't I remember my ''name''?! [...] ''(groans)'' What's my name?"
* ExtremeDoormat: A consistent part of her character is the fact that she gets tossed around by her circumstances with ease, such as letting someone like Jax constantly insult her and [[spoiler:easily giving into her desires when she gets trapped in the Digital Circus by trying to escape for her own sake, only to fail and fall under a severe SanitySlippage.]]
* EyeScream: While she's trying to "take [the] headset off" (presumably referring to the device she used in the real world that transported her to the Circus in the first place), she ends up yanking one of her eyes out of its socket still connected by the nerve endings. It snaps right back into place without any injury once she lets go though.
* FashionableAsymmetry: The red and blue are inverted on opposite sides of her clothing and her eyelashes are on opposite eyelids.
* FisherQueen: [[spoiler:When she discovers the computer in one of the rooms after the "exit" and [[SanitySlippage starts losing it]], the lights appear to start burning.]]
* HappyHarlequinHat: Her clown outfit comes with a two-pointed jester's cap. Pomni herself however, is anything but happy.
* HatesBeingTouched: [[WordOfGod Gooseworx]] has stated that Pomni does not like being touched.
* HeroicNeutral: She's the protagonist, but she really only wants to escape. The only reason she has to cooperate with the other players' awful circumstances is because she is now in their situation alongside them and they all have to share the torment of being under the leadership of the ObliviouslyEvil circus ringleader, Caine.
* HumanPincushion: She's skewered by Caine with four sharp knives in the teaser, three of which are embedded in her skull. This doesn't kill her but leaves her rattled out of her wits.
* InconsistentColoring: Creator/{{Gooseworx}} confirms that Pomni's hair color is meant to be black, but it is often depicted inconsistently; while her 3d model depicted her with hair that looks to be a dark shade of brown, the lighting in some scenes makes it appear to be black. Some 2d artwork also depicts her with hair that's a lighter shade of brown, or, in the case of her image on her bedroom door, it's depicted as a dark shade of grey.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: [[spoiler:To Ragatha after Kaufmo attacks her and damages her avatar. "You just stay right there! Not that you can really move or anything, uh...!"]]
* InterspeciesFriendship: In Episode 2, she develops a friendship in Gummigoo, an alligator [=NPC=]. [[spoiler:It unfortunately doesn't last as Caine deletes Gummigoo from existence upon seeing him in the circus, in order not to get [=NPC=]s and human avatars mixed up]].
* IRejectYourReality: Upon her arrival, to cope with being stuck in the Circus, she immediately tries to [[InTheDreamingStageOfGrief convince herself she's in a dream]]. The other members respond with StunnedSilence aside from [[{{Jerkass}} Jax]].
* IronicName: The word "pomni" can mean "remember" in several Slavic languages (помни), yet it becomes her name because she can't remember her original one.
* LadySwearsALot: Not to Zooble's level, but a close runner-up. In the Pilot, she unleashes a ClusterFBomb along with many other swears when Caine tells her profanity is censored within the Digital Circus. It doesn't stop from calling Jax an asshole or keep swearing some more in the next episode.
-->'''Pomni''': [''after Gangle rams the truck unto the one she's clinging on''] ARE YOU GUYS TRYING TO [BOINK]ING '''KILL ME?!'''
* LaughingMad: A good sign she's lapsing into a HeroicBSOD is cracking into shrill MirthlessLaughter.
* LovableCoward: Physically small and in way over her head, it's no wonder Pomni spends most of her screentime panicking or frozen in fear. [[DownplayedTrope It's not always played as an endearing trait,]] as she ends up [[spoiler:abandoning Ragatha twice,]] though even that's portrayed sympathetically.
* MomentOfWeakness: [[spoiler:Though Pomni is obviously in a very stressful scenario and headspace and at least tries to be sociable with the other players outside of it, she also ends up abandoning Ragatha in her time of need while she is glitching out and clearly in pain. ''Twice''. While the first time can be excused since an Abstracted Kaufmo is chasing her, she tries to help Ragatha only to have her hand glitch out, and she actually goes back and apologizes while the monster is somewhere else... she then chooses to abandon Ragatha's state and request to find Caine to fix it once she supposedly comes across a way to leave the Digital Circus for good. Needless to say, all Pomni can do after she is sucked back into the circus and Ragatha drags herself over to Caine to be healed is look down in shame and away from Ragatha who also looks away from her in silence.]]
* NervousWreck: She's constantly frightened of her new surroundings and having to deal with a group of strangers and Caine.
* NiceGirl: It's not too apparent in the Pilot [[LovableCoward due to Pomni being scared out of her wits' end]], but as the series goes on it becomes clear that Pomni is a genuinely kind person when all is said and done. [[spoiler:In episode 2, when Gummigoo has a [[IdentityBreakdown mental breakdown]] upon realizing that he's just an NPC, Pomni sits down with him and talks through his issues, before offering him a place at the Circus. She has nothing to gain from this, but she doesn't want the guy to feel like he's nothing.]]
* NonDubbedGrunts: Well, it wasn't making grunts or other noises, but in the Japanese, Ukrainian, Korean, and the Indonesian dubs, Pomni's censored profanity is left undubbed.
* OlderThanTheyLook: The creator has clarified that Pomni is 25 but her small stature, child-like face, and wimpy demeanor have given some fans the impression she's a teenager. Jax may have thought the same, given he refers to her as "kid" shortly after meeting her despite being younger. Ragatha also assumes Pomni to be younger than she looks and tries to be a CoolBigSis to her. In episode 2, she finally clarifies that she's not a child.
* PrimaryColorChampion: As the main heroine(?) of the show, Pomni wears a red and blue striped jester outfit with yellow highlights. Her pupils are also colored red and blue.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Pomni has medium black hair with white skin, and while not exactly gorgeous, she is indeed a very cute looking jester.
* RubberMan: Pomni's white skin parts seem to have the ability to stretch and distort when pulled at, as demonstrated in the second episode and "POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE". In the former's case, she almost winds up a single-person BodyBridge for Jax to try and cross over when she gets pulled between two trucks, though her legs shrinking as she's stretched further before losing her grip implies there's a limit to how far she can stretch before getting snapped back into place like a rubber band. Pomni doesn't seem to be able to do this voluntarily herself, only when under external pressure from outside forces. Stretching also causes her physical strain.
* SanitySlippage: The other players warn her about losing her mind due to an obsession with leaving the Circus. [[spoiler:After seeing the "exit door" doesn't lead anywhere, then stopping to stare at a computer (implied to be the one that got her into the Circus), she starts [[LaughingMad laughing maniacally]] and her facial expressions at the end of the pilot imply she's already on her way to going crazy.]]
* ScaryTeeth: If Pomni is sufficiently stressed or angry enough, her teeth turn into sharp triangles, not unlike a cartoon shark.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:After multiple attempts at speculating the possibility of an exit, she ends up using the exit door she'd sought after to attempt to leave the Circus when pursued by the Abstracted Kaufmo. Then after going through a maze of doors, it turns out to [[AllForNothing only lead out into the Void and was just a fake exit Caine created to please the players]].]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: [[spoiler:To Kaufmo. Just like him, she is a clown-themed character with a similar blue, red, white and yellow color palette, obsesses with finding an Exit and isn't in the best state mentally. She also just happens to show up right after Kaufmo has already abstracted.]]
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Pomni's avatar has (asymmetrical) eyelashes and bangs that frame her face but is otherwise androgynous.
* ThousandYardStare:
** The final look Pomni gives before the pilot ends. [[spoiler:She just sits at the dinner table with a blank stare before slowly growing what looks like half an insane smile and half a look of pain like she's two seconds away from Abstracting herself.]]
** At the beginning of "POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE", she's lying on her bed and staring blankly up at the ceiling of her room with her hands folded over her chest.
* ToothStrip: Her upper and lower teeth connect into a single white strip.
* TroubledFetalPosition: In the video for the official theme song, the music drives her crazy and she gets down on the floor, clutches her knees and starts rocking back and forth.
* TwitchyEye: At the end of the pilot, her eye twitches, her pupils start to shake, and her mouth contorts into an insane smile once it hits her that she really is stuck in the Digital Circus forever.
* TheUnpronounceable: Her first new name chosen by Caine is "Xddcc" before he decides it's terrible and generates a new one instead -- "Pomni."
* TheUnSmile: The face she makes in the final scene is a ''very'' tortured smile, giving further proof of her SanitySlippage.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Her presence as a new member in the Circus unintentionally develops conflict in the pilot as Ragatha is encouraged to have Pomni meet Kaufmo and Caine is encouraged to create the "Gather the Gloinks" adventure also leading to Zooble getting captured. [[spoiler:Meeting Kaufmo leads to Ragatha's avatar getting damaged due to his abstraction and Caine's disappearance for the adventure prevents Ragatha from getting healed until Pomni gets his attention by accidentally entering the Void through the last of a series of "exit" doors.]]
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Right after Caine took Pomni back into the tent after giving her a tour, the jester vomits on the floor causing the ringmaster to request Bubble to clean up the mess. She does it again after [[spoiler:she and Gummigoo manage to escape the out-of-bounds area of the Candy Canyon Kingdom.]]
* WhatIsGoingOn: As a NaiveNewcomer to the Digital Circus, she asks questions about her situation repeatedly since she has no clue what the Digital Circus is about. [[spoiler:At the end of the pilot, the fake exit doesn't help her situation either.]]
* WhenSheSmiles: The end of Episode 2 marks the first time Pomni genuinely smiles, when she realizes [[YouAreNotAlone she is not alone and can count on the other players for support]] (except [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Jax]]).
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: Pomni has rather large eyes but her multicolored pupils are typically quite small, [[NervousWreck reflecting her constant terror and emotional/mental instability over her new situation]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jax]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mother says he's a bad influence.]]
->''"I'm fine with doing whatever, as long as I get to see funny things happen to people."''\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MichaelKovach (English)[[labelnote:Other dubs]]Pablo Gandolfo (Spanish), William Viana (Brazilian Portuguese), Max Mann (Russian), Soichiro Sugawa (Japanese), Bryan Dave Bobadilla Perez (Filipino), Richard MR Toelle (Indonesian), Benoît Fort-Junca (French), Ihor Korzhenko (Ukrainian)[[/labelnote]]

A mischievous prankster who takes the form of a purple rabbit.
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* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Jax possesses purple fur.
* AnimalMotifs: He is a human in the form of a [[FunnyAnimal talking rabbit]].
* AntiRoleModel: With his general lack of empathy, self-centeredness, pettiness and being quite a bully, he is definitely '''NOT''' someone you should look up to.
* AuthorAppeal: Gooseworx has admitted more than once that she designed Jax to appeal specifically to her.
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: He wears gloves, but not shoes.
* BigEater: Implied. He asks the others if they want to eat something, [[NoSympathy right after Zooble gets taken away by Gloinks]], and after the adventure ends, he claims to be hungry, despite having no need for food.
* BlackDotPupils: Well, black ''square'' pupils actually, but it still counts.
* {{Blackmail}}: He forces Gangle to ram Gummigoo's tanker by telling her that if she doesn't, he'll tell Ragatha about the "[[NoodleIncident figurine thing]]".
* BlatantLies: [[spoiler:He assures Gangle that Kaufmo is "fine" as Kaufmo's abstracted form gives the Gloink Queen a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.]]
* BloodKnight: "Candy Carrier Chaos" shows that Jax gets very excited about violence, [[spoiler:ending up annoyed when none of it happened during the episode's adventure]].
* BrutalHonesty: Jax is not always honest, but when he is, he always ensures [[{{Troll}} his "friends" will be triggered]]:
** When Pomni asks for an exit, he interrupts Ragatha to simply answer "You can't!"
** [[spoiler:When he reveals he had a key double for Kaufmo's room, he reveals he has one for every player (and implies that he hid centipedes in Ragatha's room too).]]
** When facing the Gloink Queen, he calls her disgusting, and reveals he doesn't care about the adventure, [[spoiler:but is only looking for a place to hide from Kaufmo's rampage (who crashes through the ceiling before letting him finish the sentence)]].
* TheBully: He's cruel for his own enjoyment and focuses on whoever's the least willing and able to fight back.
* CardCarryingJerkass: Jax wears selfishness and casual cruelty like a badge of honor, deliberately goes out of his way to hurt other characters physically and emotionally, and shows no intention of being anything other than the single biggest asshole in the digital world.
* CheshireCatGrin: Perpetually sports a wide, toothy grin to tie into his trouble-making personality.
* CorruptedCharacterCopy: He's one to WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. Both are tall, skinny cartoon rabbits who enjoy pulling pranks and messing with people. However, unlike Bugs, whose targets are mostly aggressors to him and typically deserve what happens to them, Jax is just cruel and sardonic to whoever he crosses paths with. In this way, he's closer to how Bugs was in his early days before his moral code was established, when Bugs was prone to messing with and attacking people for no good reason other than his own personal amusement.
* CuckooFingerTwirl: When he jokingly points out that Kinger is "craaaazy!" to Pomni upon introducing her to the Circus, he twirls his finger next to his head in reference to said craziness. He also does this when accusing Pomni of [[SanitySlippage "having a jumpstart in losing her mind."]]
* DeadpanSnarker: He can have a '''very''' dry wit.
* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:He abandons Pomni and Ragatha almost immediately after they open Kaufmo's room and find out he's [[FaceMonsterTurn abstracted]]. Then, he pushes Kinger and Gangle down the Gloink hole and joins them in the Gloink lair solely so he could stay as far away as possible from Kaufmo.]]
* DissonantSerenity: [[spoiler:Although he initially looks surprised to find out Kaufmo abstracted once he opens his room, he goes straight back into his usual laidback behavior before running away. Then, when Kaufmo crashes into the Gloinks' nest, he straight up admits to Gangle that Kaufmo abstracted, but [[BlatantLies insists that he is fine]].]]
* EnlightenedSelfInterest: The only times he ''ever'' helps someone is out of necessity.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He might be an asshole, he respects Zooble enough to use "they/them" pronouns. He could purposely misgender them, but chooses not to stoop ''that'' low.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: His pupils are squared in shape.
* {{Expy}}:
** Of Popee from Anime/PopeeThePerformer as they are both sadistic rabbit boys who are not afraid to torment his friends with one of them being a character who shows emotion from their ExpressiveMask.
** He is also like Max from the ''Franchise/SamAndMax'' series. From his name being only one letter off to his simplistic mouth shape to especially his ComedicSociopathy, he's basically as if Max exchanged his high-pitched voice for height.
* TheFatalist: Rather willingly accepts the idea that the Digital Circus has no escape route.
-->'''Jax:''' If there was a way to leave, I'm pretty sure we'd have all left by now.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Downplayed; "Faux Affably {{Jerkass}}" is more accurate. Jax is capable of putting on a charming tone around the others even as he's abusing them or ignoring their needs and concerns and thinking about how he can amuse himself instead.
* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler:He starts to cross this line with the Fudge. Upon learning that he ate the candy citizens and was banished for it, Jax decides that he can help them get back to the kingdom in exchange for the key to it. His reaction when Pomni and Gummigoo accidentally blast him into a puddle, and his satisfaction when it turns out this didn't kill him and that he made it to the kingdom anyway, makes it apparent that he was eager to let the Fudge go on a killing spree.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Considering the awful way he treats everyone, the only reason the others tolerate him is simply because they're stuck with him. Even Pomni doesn't like him, as his hand is absent from the other's in her ImagineSpot at the end of Episode 2.
* TheGadfly: As he himself admits, he doesn't really care what happens as long as he gets to see funny things happen to people.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: He wears overalls and gloves, but no shirt or shoes.
* {{Hammerspace}}: [[spoiler:Somehow stores the key to Kaufmo's room behind his back. He also ends up shoving a bowling ball in the same place and magically pulls it out to push Kinger and Gangle into the Gloink pit.]]
* TheHedonist: Jax's lifestyle is all about self-satisfaction. This isn't a terrible idea given the risks of going insane from boredom, but most of his enjoyment comes from other's suffering, often at his hands. He's also the one who seems to enjoy eating food the most, despite not needing to.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Jax is already a {{Jerkass}} from the outset, but whereas he mainly liked pushing others' buttons and getting them involved in wonton {{slapstick}} in the pilot, he's become even worse by "Candy Carrier Chaos". He verbally abuses and {{blackmail}}s Gangle, constantly complains that there's no [[AxCrazy bloodshed]] happening, and deliberately leaves the gates to the Candy Canyon Kingdom open to unleash the Fudge upon them once more.
* HiddenDepths:
** Though it's likely for the sake of pulling pranks on others, like putting centipedes in Ragatha's room, Jax somehow has keys to everyone's room, despite it seeming more like Caine or Bubble's jurisdiction to have them.
** Gooseworx says that if someone praised Jax instead of being annoyed by him, he'd react with confusion and discomfort. She also notes that, like the other characters, Jax has [[FreudianExcuse a reason for being the way he is]] instead of just being a one-dimensional {{Jerkass}}.
** [[spoiler:In episode 2, when it is explained that the Digital Circus players hold funerals for those who abstract, Jax can be seen looking sad for a split second, before shaking his head and blinking, stomping off with uncharacteristic anger, indicating [[HiddenHeartOfGold he did care about Kaufmo to some extent]]]].
* ItAmusedMe: His reason for doing everything he does is that it's for his own amusement, as he himself admits.
* ItsAllAboutMe: To say the least, Jax seems to only care about his own pleasure in the grand scheme of things, even if it comes at others' expense.
* {{Jerkass}}: Jax is characterized by his sheer disregard for others and willingness to target people who can't fight back against him for the pettiest of reasons. He is also quite uncaring towards the fact that other people ''besides'' himself are trapped in the Digital Circus and constantly pursues his life as an avatar joking at other people's expense. Gooseworx also describes him as "irredeemable" on her Tumblr.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He might be condescending about it, but he's not wrong when he tells Pomni if there ''was'' an exit in the Digital Circus, all of them would've used it by now.
* JerkassToOne: He's snarky and rude to everyone, but he seems actively malicious towards Gangle, deliberately stepping on her already-broken comedy mask and shoving her out of his way when using an escalator. Gooseworx also confirmed it that Jax picks on Gangle the most because she never stands up to him, making her his easiest target.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: During the pilot, when he, Gangle, Kinger, and Zooble are about to use the escalators to escape the Gloinks' lair, he at first seems to genuinely offer Gangle to go first with him politely saying "Ladies first"... only for him to immediately [[LampshadeHanging ask why he would say something like that]], then promptly shove Gangle out of the way and onto the floor and go first on the escalator anyway. In the 2nd episode despite having a twinge of sadness at the mention, he still doesn't bother showing up to Kaufmo's funeral.
* KarmicButtMonkey: Gooseworx has [[https://www.tumblr.com/gooseworx/727662173561749504 stated]] that, out of all the people in the Circus, Jax deserves to be trapped there the most.
* KickTheDog:
** '''Immediately''' makes a joke at Pomni's expense the ''moment'' she enters the Digital Circus, getting trapped as another victim, when she [[MusicalisInterruptus interrupts the show's theme song performance]] InUniverse. Also counts as his EstablishingCharacterMoment, as it's his first line in the pilot.
** When [[spoiler:leaving the Gloink lair]], Jax seemingly pushes Gangle out of the way after offering to let her to go first, to go first instead, for no apparent reason whatsoever other than his own satisfaction.
* LackOfEmpathy: In case it wasn't apparent from his {{Jerkass}} personality, Jax is very apathetic for the other players' safety. As of the pilot, it's left ambiguous if he was ''always'' like this, or if [[StoppedCaring being trapped in the Digital Circus for so long caused him to develop his current persona]]. [[spoiler:In "Candy Carrier Chaos," he ''very'' briefly looks visibly sad when the topic of funerals is brought up, but then storms off. It's implied that despite his jerkass personality, he ''did'' actually care about Kaufmo.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma:
** At one point, he pulls off Zooble's arm and uses it like a backscratcher. Only a second or two later, he immediately regrets it when Zooble uses that arm to grab and choke him, and pull him to the floor.
** Immediately after he says he only does what he does to see people get hurt or otherwise negatively affected, a Gloink comes by and bops him in the face. His exact words were "(seeing) funny things happen to people".
* LaughablyEvil: He is a VillainProtagonist who has zero empathy for others, is a huge jackass, seems to care only for himself, and outwardly finds others' suffering to be enjoyable. Though, this is all PlayedForLaughs of course.
* LeanAndMean: Jax is the troublesome prankster of the cast and is very thin and lanky.
* TheLoad: He's barely any help in the Gloinks situation, something Gangle calls him out on.
* MasterOfUnlocking: Jax has the ability to collect keys even when they're not within his reach. In doing so, he's managed to collect keys to everybody's rooms in the circus, with Ragatha pointing out that he shouldn't be able to do so, and the key to the Candy Canyon Kingdom's gates, even though it was given to Ragatha. The Fudge {{lampshade|hanging}}s this, calling Jax a, "master of unlocking things."
* TheMunchkin: Jax is shown repeatedly to not actually care about engaging with the stories or characters that Caine creates, his only interest being inflicting random violence and suffering on helpless [=NPCs=] for the lulz. In fact, he gets outright ''mad'' in episode 2 when the other performers prevent there from being some sort of climactic final battle with the outlaws or the Fudge (i.e. a "combat encounter").
* NeverMyFault: He is the one who ends up causing Kinger to throw an anchor at the bandits' truck in an attempt to save Pomni after he threw her to said truck ForTheEvulz, and then forced Gangle to ram them constantly which would provoke them, but as the main cast falls into the fudge river below as a result of all of that, he blames Gangle for everything.
* TheNicknamer: He calls Gangle "Crybaby"[[note]]in the Spanish dub, he calls her "Myth/LaLlorona"[[/note]], Kinger "Hoo-Hah", Ragatha "Dollface", and Kaufmo "Kaufy".
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. He's the only one of the main cast to be perfectly symmetrical.
* NotSoStoic: Downplayed. He usually acts aloof and nonchalant, but in the pilot, he gets mildly irritated when he is hit by a Gloink. [[spoiler:Later in the episode, even he looks [[OhCrap shocked]] to find out that Kaufmo abstracted, gets noticeably apprehensive when he hears Kaufmo nearby, and looks around worriedly when he notices a [[OminousVisualGlitch glitching]] Gloink in the Gloink lair.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: At the end of Episode 2, he briefly looks sad when Ragatha mentions [[spoiler:they're holding a funeral for Kaufmo]]. While Jax quickly brushes off and storms from the scene, it's the first time he's demonstrated showcasing vulnerability.
* PerpetualSmiler: Jax is rarely seen without a grin on his face. Even when he speaks, his mouth almost never actually opens.
* PetTheDog:
** For as big of a dick that he is, Jax at the very least addresses Zooble with "they/them" pronouns.
** [[spoiler:Downplayed. Whether Jax meant to protect Gangle and Kinger is debatable, given [[{{Troll}} his personality]], but regardless, he does save them from an abstracted Kaufmo by knocking them into a pit with his bowling ball.]]
* PhraseCatcher: Ragatha is likely to shout "JAX!" at him when she gets annoyed by his sarcastic remarks.
* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: [[DownplayedTrope More of a jerk than a villain]], but for all of his cruelty, Jax's use of gender-neutral pronouns to refer to [[AmbiguousGenderIdentity Zooble]] and the fact that [[https://twitter.com/GooseworxMusic/status/1714038419347869773/photo/4 a concept art comic]] shows him putting them in their own category when dividing the cast by gender suggests that he's at least respectful to other people when it comes to their gender identity.
* PragmaticVillainy: The only reason Jax appears to cooperate with the other cast members is because he wants the entertainment of whatever new adventure Caine has for him, as he otherwise doesn't seem to care for anything beyond personal gratification.
* PrankGoneTooFar: While [[NiceGirl Ragatha]] doesn't personally experience said prank onscreen herself, she gets annoyed by him using [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes her only fear (centipedes)]] as part of it when he tells her about leaving centipedes in her room.
* PunnyName: His avatar in the Digital Circus is a rabbit and "Jax" is a play on "Jack", as in a ''jack'' rabbit. Jax could also be a play on '''jack'''s, a children's toy, to match the theme of the series. Finally, it may also sound vaguely like "[[{{Jerkass}} jackass]]".
* PurpleIsTheNewBlack: Downplayed. Jax is a purple rabbit and the resident TokenEvilTeammate.
* RascallyRabbit: He takes the form of an anthropomorphic rabbit and is a crafty prankster.
* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: When Zooble desperately asks for his, Kinger's, and Gangle's help when they're captured by the Gloinks.
-->'''Zooble:''' Agh! Help me, you idiots!\\
'''Jax:''' Kinda rude, Zooble. Now I don't ''wanna'' help you.
* {{Sadist}}: Jax stands out as the only main character to flat out ''enjoy'' seeing others suffer. He admits that his primary motivation is to watch "funny" things happen to people, is [[AxCrazy disturbingly eager]] to [[BloodKnight violently dispatch the sugar bandits]] when in the Candy Canyon Kingdom, and while his deal with [[BlobMonster The Fudge]] to let him back into the kingdom so he can eat the residents was initially so he could give them a ride, once they do manage to get back without the help of the latter, [[spoiler:Jax happily allows The Fudge to break into the kingdom and start killing the Candy People ''anyways.'']]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Upon learning Kaufmo has "Abstracted" after undergoing a SanitySlippage and finding his bowling ball in his room, Jax decides to immediately take off and switch to the other adventure instead of having to deal with this.]]
* ASinisterClue: Jax uses his left hand to scratch his back with Zooble's arm and to [[spoiler:open up the door to Kaufmo's room with the key]].
* SmugSmiler: Jax' smile coupled with his sassy manners and his sneaky eyes are a way [[{{Troll}} to make him all the more insufferable to his comrades]].
* TallDarkAndSnarky: He's one of the tallest members of the Digital Circus (Kinger being slightly taller), has very vivid lavender fur, and is never afraid to speak his mind, even the [[BrutalHonesty insensitive things]].
* TokenEvilTeammate: The other players range from being friendly enough, like Ragatha and Gangle, to mentally disturbed but rather harmless, like Kinger and Pomni, to being a bit grumpy, like Zooble, but Jax is an outright douchebag who pulls mean pranks on the others.
* TombstoneTeeth: His teeth usually appear as a single row of long rectangles, and don't separate even when he's talking (except when Zooble is choking him).
* {{Toon}}: Jax uses very dynamic movements, as well as cartoonish visual effects like leaving a smoke silhouette when running away, pulling items [[{{Hammerspace}} out of nowhere]] and [[NinjaProp breaking the "Spare" pop-up]].
* {{Troll}}: His introductory short has him trip Ragatha for no reason other than personal amusement, sporting a cheeky grin on his face the whole time. He also shoves Gangle during her intro just to break her mask.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: One of the show's main cast members, and a highly apathetic {{jerkass}} who really only cares for his own ends, of which is PlayedForLaughs.
* VillainProtagonist: He's one of the protagonists, but is a selfish, abusive murderer with a psychopathic streak.
* VisualPun: Taking both his misleading sarcasm and only his lips moving when he talks into account, he can be said to be ''lying through his teeth''. Emphasized when Zooble chokes him, as that's the only time in the pilot where his teeth aren't constantly closed together, so he gives a genuine reaction (in this case, pain from being choked).
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: To his fellow players, he's merely a jackass, but when [=NPCs=] are involved he's outright ''bloodthirsty'', happily arranging for their deaths for no actual benefit other than amusement and outright disappointed he didn't get to ''maul them himself.''
* WhiteGloves: Well, yellow in this case, but they are definitely big and cartoony-looking.
* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: The sclera of his eyes are yellow, and his introductory short has him prank Ragatha by tripping her.
* YellowPurpleContrast: His primary color is purple and his eyes, gloves, buttons, and teeth are yellow.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Given his jaded and cynical behavior, you'd think he'd be older than Pomni (who's 25), especially since he often calls her "kid". He's actually 22 years old, and is the youngest of the Digital Circus's current human (soul?) inhabitants.[[labelnote:note]]Zooble, while also 22 years old, is a half-year older than Jax.[[/labelnote]]
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[[folder:Ragatha]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:The sweetest little optimist in the Digital Circus.]]
->''"Everything's gonna be okay, new stuff. We've all been through this."''\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AmandaHufford (English)[[labelnote:Other dubs]]Valca Ponzanelli (Spanish), Fernanda Barrone (Brazilian Portuguese), Anastasiya Sidorova (Russian), Shiori Honma (Japanese), Janeane Santos-Roco (Filipino), Nurul Ulfah (Indonesian), Mayrig Truchot (French), Aila (Ukrainian)[[/labelnote]]

The optimist of the group, who takes the form of a rag doll.
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* AuthorAppeal: Ragatha is a reference to ''WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure'', a movie Gooseworx has stated she has an affinity for many times on Twitter.
* {{Black Dot Pupil|s}}: Her left eye has a pupil that is a simple dark circle.
* CaptainErsatz: She has a similar look and name to Literature/RaggedyAnn due to Gooseworx's [[AuthorAppeal fondness]] of ''WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure''.
* CoolBigSis: She's five years older than Pomni and takes this role toward her almost immediately, being her guide in the Circus and compassionately trying to help her fit in.
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:Though she accepts Pomni's apology to her the first time she gets abandoned, understanding that there were extenuating circumstances at the time, her demeanor towards Pomni at the end after she has to drag herself towards Caine to be healed implies that she took her new friend abandoning her a second time despite her apology much harder. Though it's also implied that she could just still be feeling guilty herself over [[MyGreatestFailure how much Pomni's first day ended up going wrong]], if not both.]]
* EveryProperLadyShouldCurtsy: She's seen holding up her dress a little while bowing before Princess Loolilalu, the Candy Canyon Kingdom's princess, in the second episode.
* {{Expy}}: As with the [[AuthorAppeal version of Raggedy Ann]] she is based on, Ragatha is portrayed as cheery and kind, but still with a limit to her patience for others.
* ExtremeDoormat: While not to Gangle's extent, she has some difficulties with setting boundaries and is forgiving to a fault.
* FieryRedhead: She's usually pretty cheerful and friendly, but [[{{Troll}} Jax]] manages to get moody reactions out of her more than once.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Ragatha immediately attempts to endear herself to Pomni, is consistently thinking about her well-being, and sadly wonders if the newcomer doesn't like her, implying she has deep-rooted self-worth issues.
* ImHavingSoulPains: [[spoiler:After getting attacked by Kaufmo, Ragatha starts to severely glitch out, which causes her a lot of pain.]]
* InjuredSelfDrag: [[spoiler:Because Pomni didn't come back for her, Ragatha was forced to drag herself from the room corridor to the hall, despite the pain from the glitching.]]
* InnocentBlueEyes: While her button eye is blue, it may not be an actual eye. She is still one of the more innocent characters though.
* InPlaceOfAnEye: Only one of her eyes is an actual eye, the other is a blue sewing button.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: In her [[https://twitter.com/glitch_prod/status/1674130647814754317 introductory teaser]], she gets a cleaver chucked into her forehead, only for her to laugh it off before pulling it out and pocketing it.
** Similarly, in the second episode, she ends up ''impaled through the chest'' while the gang pursues Gummigoo's crew, and aside from some mild alarm -- and accidentally shoving both her arms through the fresh hole in her body when the trucks disentangle -- she's no worse for wear, with her being absolutely fine only moments later.
* MeaningfulName: Her name is the combination of "rag", referring to her being a rag doll, and Agatha, an Ancient Greek name meaning "good", alluding to her kind nature.
* NiceGirl: Out-and-out the kindest of the players, Ragatha does her best to welcome Pomni into the fold and help her acclimate to the Circus, and apologizes when things start falling apart on her first day.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's 30, but because her digital avatar is a ragdoll, she looks like a child magically made bigger.
* OnlySaneWoman: [[OnlySaneByComparison Well]], [[StepfordSmiler she's clearly not playing with a full bag of marbles herself]], but she still comes off as far more well-adjusted and friendly than the rest of the Circus players, all of whom run the gamut from [[NervousWreck neurotic]] to [[TheCynic cynical]] to [[{{Jerkass}} downright mean]].
* ThePollyanna: Her introductory tweet describes her as the "sweetest little optimist" in the Digital Circus, which she shows by reacting to the cleaver launched into her head as if it were nothing. That said, the DeathGlare she gives Jax after he trips her in his introductory short implies that she has her limits, and the synopsis all but states she has her own trauma like the others. It's heavily implied [[StepfordSmiler this is a coping mechanism and a survival tactic]].
* PrimaryColorChampion: She has red hair, wears a blue dress, and is by far one of the nicest members of the main six.
* PunnyName: She's a rag doll named "Ragatha", a pun on the name "Agatha".
* StepfordSmiler: The pilot heavily implies that her optimistic demeanor is a desperate coping mechanism for the nightmare she's found herself in [[spoiler:as well as a way to prevent herself from "Abstracting" like what happened to Kaufmo]]. It's also [[https://www.tumblr.com/gooseworx/732485443808002048/why-did-ragatha-seem-mad-at-pomni-for-not-helping?source=share confirmed]] by [[invoked]] Gooseworx that Ragatha has a tendency to pretend things don't upset her if she thinks it'll make things easier for other people or defuse situations.
* TeamMom: At 30 years old, Ragatha is not only the second-oldest of the human players (with the oldest being [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Kinger]]; she's also the oldest female), she's also the nicest and tries to keep things together between them.
* TrueBlueFemininity: She wears a light blue dress with a bow, and her button eye is also blue, and she's a very optimistic person, [[StepfordSmiler on the outside]].
* VisualPun: When [[spoiler:an abstracted Kaufmo]] throws her around like a... well, you know.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Ragatha states that centipedes are her only fear, which is exactly why [[{{Troll}} Jax]] implies he hid some in her room when she wasn't looking.
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[[folder:Gangle]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:She's like a metaphor for society or something.]]
->''"My comedy mask is broken again."''\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MarissaLenti (English)[[labelnote:Other dubs]]Denisse Leguizamo (Spanish), Vii Zedek (Brazilian Portuguese) Yekaterina Gershkovich (Russian), Wang Lianxin (Japanese), Jennifer Friolo (Filipino), Melati Pertiwi Putri (Indonesian), Mathilde Carmes (French), Karina Shkrebetko (Ukrainian)[[/labelnote]]

A girl with a ribbon body and a comedy/tragedy mask for a face. The mask she wears depends on whether she's happy or sad (or perhaps the other way around), though her "happy" mask tends to break quite a lot...
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's deliberately left vague as to whether her emotions determine her masks or her masks determine her emotions.
* ButtMonkey: Out of all of the players, she's the one most picked on by Jax, who pushes her in her introductory video, breaks her mask, and pushes her to the ground so he can get on an escalator first in the pilot.
* TheEeyore: While she has two main masks, [[ThePollyanna comedy]] and tragedy, she almost always has the tragedy mask on, and it's implied that her tragedy mask is her default one.
* ExpressiveMask: Her mask's eyes and mouth move like it's a normal face, but once it comes off, it becomes frozen into whichever mood she was feeling at the time.
* {{Expy}}: Her ExpressiveMask concept is modeled after Kedamono from ''Anime/PopeeThePerformer'', as [[https://twitter.com/GooseworxMusic/status/1677408205968924672 confirmed]] by Gooseworx.
* ExtremeDoormat: She struggles to get the others to go help Zooble, and doesn't even try to stand up to Jax's mean pranks. Gooseworx also confirms that Jax picks on her the most because she's the easiest target and won't stand up for herself.
* FingerlessHands: She lacks proper fingers on her ribbon limbs. This trope is most noticeable in a scene where Kinger beats Gangle in a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors because Gangle has no fingers (and Kinger does).
* FloatingLimbs: Her arms and legs aren't actually connected to her torso.
* TheHeart: Downplayed and ineffectual example, but she's the only one who seemed to genuinely care about Zooble's predicament in the pilot and meekly tried to get the others to care about it as well.
* HiddenDepths: She likes anime, with her favorite being ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh''.
* MeaningfulName: She has long, gangly arms and legs, mostly because they are ribbons.
* MirthlessLaughter: Jax blackmailing her into ramming Gummigoo's tanker under the threat of telling Ragatha about the "figurine thing" causes Gangle to start uncontrollably laughing in a deranged tone.
* MiseryTrigger: Breaking her comedy mask will force her to revert to her tragedy mask and become very sad. In her introduction video, she smiles and giggles while waving at the audience and wearing her comedy mask, until Jax pushes her down and breaks it. She then comes up, wearing her tragedy mask, and sniffles.
* MoodSwinger: Her masks and emotions shift very rapidly.
* NiceGirl: She's right up there with Ragatha as one of the nicer players, even in her tragedy mask. When Zooble is captured by the Gloinks, she tries to get people to help them, to unfortunately little avail. She also feels bad for not laughing at Kaufmo's jokes.
* NoFaceUnderTheMask: The expressive comedy and tragedy masks don't have a face under them.
* NoodleIncident: Jax threatens to tell Ragatha about the "figurine thing" unless she slams their truck into Gummigoo's truck. Based on how Gangle reacts and complies, it's something she prefers to keep secret.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Her child-like demeanor and way of speaking would give the impression that she's one of the younger humans in the Circus, but she's actually 26, making her a year older than Pomni.
* OncePerEpisode: Gangle's comedy mask breaks in every episode of the show, leaving her in her default state with her tragedy mask.
* PerpetualFrowner: Ever since her happy mask broke, she is always sad and teary-eyed.
* ProneToTears: Justified, as her tragedy mask produces tears constantly, so she's actually unable to stop crying.
* RubberHoseLimbs: Her whole body is nothing but a thin spiral of red ribbon.
* ShoutOut: One of her masks in [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn_FAXem2-e3HQvmK-mOH4g/community?lb=UgkxZ3wKSch-tq5yyqJJNK-bGqlH8MrQMJrP this promotional image]] is a reference to the "dorcelessness" face from Gooseworx's AnalogHorror series "Blue Channel", specifically the video "Thalasin".
* StepfordSmiler: It's implied by the several broken happy masks on the walls in the aforementioned promotional image [[https://twitter.com/GooseworxMusic/status/1714037852793872817/photo/3 and in some concept arts]], as well as her mentioning that her comedy mask is broken again that sadness is her real mood, and has to literally put on a mask for the show.
* TenderTears: She has tears constantly hanging from her eyes on her sad mask, and seems to be very sensitive.
* {{Womanchild}}: She's 26 years old, according to Gooseworx, but acts like an emotional teenager.
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[[folder:Kinger]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kingler.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:He's uhhh... He's just... yeah!]]
->''"Did someone say something about an insect collection?"''\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SeanChiplock (English)[[labelnote:Other dubs]]Elliot Leguizamo (Spanish), Silvio Giraldi (Brazilian Portuguese), Ivan Shukhin (Russian), Ryota Kuga (Japanese), Jayjay Delos Santos (Filipino), Triyuh Hendra (Indonesian), Arno Capostagno (French), Sashko Skromnyi (Ukrainian)[[/labelnote]]

A man who's been trapped in the Digital Circus longer than the other five humans. His virtual form is a white king chess piece in a purple robe.
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* ChessMotifs: He takes the appearance of a living chess king in the Digital Circus.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: When he's not having a startle or a paranoiac fit, Kinger tends to be pretty out there, often forgetting things that ''just'' happened (including the presence of others, leading to constant startles) and bringing up utterly irrelevant topics and events entirely detached from whatever's currently happening.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: He refuses to go see Kaufmo because he believes he's going insane after claiming to see an exit, and thinks Pomni's going insane for the same reasons. [[spoiler:As Kaufmo's "Abstraction" and Pomni's later SanitySlippage after going through the fake exit door show, Kinger wasn't far off in his assessment.]]
* DelayedReaction: He fails to notice Gangle standing right next to him until a few minutes later, screams at Jax's arrival a few seconds after he greets him and Gangle, and doesn't react to Gangle informing him that they're in the Gloink nest for a few seconds before screaming, assuming this isn't him somehow being startled by Gangle's presence ''again''.
* DistaffCounterpart: Kinger's [[ImpliedTrope implied to have had a distaff counterpart to himself in the past]]; during the scene where Pomni, Ragatha, and Jax are navigating through the "bedrooms" area in the pilot, [[FreezeFrameBonus one of the doors in the background]] features an icon of a similar chess-themed character modeled after a black Queen piece [[spoiler:crossed out]]. According to [[invoked]]Gooseworx, her name was Queenie.
* EarlyBirdCameo: A vocal variant. His off-screen voice is heard in Bubble's teaser, released days before his own.
* FishEyes: Given that his avatar's eyes are mostly out of their "sockets" and are at different heights, not to mention him having a [[ThousandYardStare vacant, traumatized stare]] as a default expression.
* FloatingLimbs: His hands are WhiteGloves that hover in front of his body. When he tries to save Zooble from [[StickyFingers the Gloinks]] in the pilot, this only results in [[EpicFail the Gloinks stealing his hands too when he grabs Zooble's head]].
* FriendToBugs: While his general frayed sanity leaves him a mess most of the time, he noticeably perks up and goes bright eyed when he thinks there's an insect collection nearby, and considers the butterflies of the Candy Canyon Kingdom beautiful.
* GentleGiant: Kinger is one of the tallest players (alongside [[LeanAndMean Jax]] and [[TheCynic Zooble]]), and while he's an emotional mess and is a bit of a coward, he's generally harmless and seems to care for his friends' safety and sanity.
* HiddenDepths: Despite his {{Cloudcuckoolander}} nature, Kinger is shown to have a surprisingly detailed understanding of how the digital world works, explaining to Jax how the food there "only gives off the virtual sensation of eating without any of the nutritional benefits". It's left unclear whether this is just because he's been in the Circus longer than the rest of the players, or if he has a deeper connection to it from his past.
** In Episode 2, [[spoiler:he comforts Ragatha with an even tone in regards to Ragatha's anxiety about her possible friendship with Pomni having instantly been ruined by the disastrous first day, remarking that he remembers how out-of-sorts Ragatha was when she first arrived at the Circus, and assuring Ragatha that Pomni just needs adjustment time. He's also rather lucid when the subject of the funerals comes up, enough to perform part of the eulogy himself.]]
* HypocriteHasAPoint: ''He'', the arguably least mentally sound character in the cast, suspects that Kaufmo has gone insane, and accuses Pomni of starting to go insane too after he heard both of them talking about an exit. [[spoiler:[[TheCuckoolanderWasRight Turns out]], [[ProperlyParanoid his fears were not unfounded]], as Kaufmo had abstracted, and Pomni seems to be on her way to lose her sanity as well by the end of the Pilot.]]
* KindheartedSimpleton: While he's not right in the head, he gets along well enough with the other players.
* LovableCoward: While he wants to help Zooble while they're kidnapped by the Gloinks, he's... not the best help, as he's scared to go to their nest and to fight their queen.
* MadEye: Neither of his eyes look quite the same... and he's very, ''very'' mentally unbalanced.
* NervousWreck: He's constantly shaking, has a ThousandYardStare from bloodshot eyes, and cowers in fright when Bubble gets near him. Being the one who's had to put up with Caine's games the longest probably has something to do with it. [[spoiler:After the "Abstracted" Kaufmo is dealt with, Zooble stated that they thought Kinger would have been the first of the current inhabitants to "Abstract" because of this.]]
* NiceGuy: Despite his nervousness and paranoia, Kinger is a rather friendly and well meaning person, even if his mental state isn't clearly all there.
* NoMouth: His chess piece head only has lopsided, blood-shot eyes.
* PunnyName: His name is Kinger and he takes the form of a king piece wearing a royal robe.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Kinger conceals his body in a purple royal robe.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Played with. He's not ''actually'' royalty (at least, not as far as we know) but he certainly ''thinks'' he is. Despite this, he still tries his best to help out his fellow performers and he doesn't lord his supposed status over the others, instead happily engaging with them as equals.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: Downplayed, as he's only 48 years old, but not only is he the oldest of the six current players (the other five's ages range from 22 to 30, so he's an old man by comparison, and a middle-aged man in general), being trapped in the Digital Circus the longest [[spoiler:(out of the said five)]] has done a number on his grasp of reality.
* TeamDad: Surprisingly enough, he can act like this when he is not being hysterical screwball. He has rare moments of lucidity when he acts fatherly to the group such as Ragatha when she starts worrying about Pomni not liking her, reassuring her that she would come around given time.
* ThousandYardStare: It really shows just how much he's been through that he always stares blankly in all directions.
* WhiteGloves: His hands (or rather his avatar's hands) are just floating white gloves.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zooble]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Whatever they are, they are definitely one of those things of all time.]]
->''"If anyone needs me, then f''[[SoundEffectBleep (sproing!)]]''k off."''\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AshleyNichols (English)[[labelnote:Other dubs]]Maureen Herman (Spanish), Marun Reis (Brazilian Portuguese), Svetlana Amanova (Russian), Wang Lianxin (Japanese), Pinky Rebucas (Filipino), Nadya Dwi (Indonesian), Morgane Brehamel (French), Mariya Yemshanova (Ukrainian)[[/labelnote]]

A moody perfectionist with a slew of mix-and-match parts for a body.
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* AmbiguousGender: It's unlikely any of the players' digital bodies have physical sexes, but Zooble's is notably lacking in almost any gendered features and even their voice is androgynous.
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: When asked if Zooble is non-binary due to being described as a gender-neutral "they", Gooseworx [[https://twitter.com/GooseworxMusic/status/1681845758990102528 responded]] that "Zooble doesn't know what they are." In response to the captions for the pilot formerly referring to them with a "he" at one point, Gooseworx later said that, while the script read "they", she believes they'd be fine with any pronouns.
* BrutalHonesty: Zooble won't sugarcoat a bad situation, but unlike Jax it's a form of sincerity:
** While they scold Jax for saying to Pomni's face she can't leave, they bluntly say "Welcome to your new home... and your new body" because at this point, the only way to preserve her sanity [[CruelToBeKind is to help her accept it]].
** [[spoiler:After the Kaufmo incident is over, they say they're surprised that the clown abstracted, and say to [[NervousWreck Kinger]]'s face they thought he would have done it first, as they know that being so nervous is the condition to abstract.]]
* CartoonCreature: Their design heavily evokes this, with antennae and wings, mainly due to being an abstract assembly toy.
* CreatorThumbprint: Design-wise, they're essentially a mix of Gooseworx's shape-head characters and mix-and-match toys like Toys/MrPotatoHead and [[https://zolo.com/ ZoLO play sculptures]].
* DamselInDistress: [[AmbiguousGenderIdentity Or is it]] DistressedDude? Either way, they kinda spend the middle portion of the pilot just being in the hands of the Gloinks and their queen.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Jax calls them "Zoobie" to annoy them.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Their right eye has a hypnotic swirl for a pupil.
* GettingEatenIsHarmless: Zooble is swallowed by the Gloink queen upon meeting her, which Jax assures they'll be fine despite. True to form, the Queen promptly regurgitates them when Kaufmo lands on her, no worse for wear.
* GoodIsNotNice: They're not afraid of chiding someone screwing up, calling Kinger a "motherf--*CENSORED*" for being too incompetent to rescue them from the Gloinks.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Zooble is so far the only one who doesn't take Jax's crap. The moment he messes around, plucking their arm to scratch his back, Zooble ''strangles'' Jax in retaliation.
* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn't take much to make them mad... which makes Jax the worst person for them to be around.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite their occasional grumpiness and exasperation towards the circus' daily adventures, they are a fairly civil person. This is seen through them trying to downplay the stressful situation of Pomni's arrival and even agitated at Jax for being so blunt about it. They're also visibly saddened when [[spoiler:watching Kaufmo be dropped into the cellar after he's been abstracted, and are the only one to voice any real sympathy for him initially]].
-->'''Zooble:''' Man, I can't believe [[spoiler:Kaufmo just gave up like that]]...
** "Candy Carrier Chaos" builds upon this further: though they sit out on the adventure seemingly out of simple disinterest, [[spoiler:the ending reveals that they took the opportunity to set up Kaufmo's "funeral service" while Caine was preoccupied, and they're shown giving a sincere eulogy for Kaufmo afterwards]].
* MadEye: While Zooble's left eye is fairly normal looking, their right eye is larger, sticks further out of their head and has a spiral pupil.
* NoMouth: Their head is a triangular prism with eyes but no mouth.
* OncePerEpisode: As confirmed by Gooseworx, and shown between the pilot and "Candy Carrier Chaos", Zooble changes their appearance in each episode. Their bedroom door icon in particular shows a version of their design we have yet to see in-person. That said, their bean body and triangular head always remain the same.
* OutOfFocus: Easily the player with the least screentime, not even participating in the game in "Candy Carrier Chaos".
* ThePerfectionist: Constantly rearranging and replacing the body parts of their messy-looking avatar and never being satisfied with it.
* PerpetualFrowner: They are almost never seen without constant AngryEyebrows.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: Their main gimmick is their ability to detach and swap any of their limbs. Jax [[AnArmAndALeg easily rips off one of their arms]] (which prompts them to [[LaserGuidedKarma strangle him with the torn off arm]]), [[StickyFingers the Gloinks]] tear them to pieces and make off with them, and after the quest is over, they rebuild themselves offscreen while Kinger is holding their head.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Their repeated denial to entertain Caine's adventure in "Candy Carrier Chaos" ''seems'' like their usual apathy, but it's revealed in the final minutes that they declined because they were arranging the necessary pieces for Kaufmo's "funeral" and wanted to ensure it wasn't interrupted by Caine. They even seem emotional while delivering a speech on Kaufmo's behalf.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: ''Attempts'' to do this during the "Gather the Gloinks" adventure. Unfortunately, Zooble themself is gathered by the Gloinks and is forced into the situation anyways.
* SecondLawOfGenderBending: In a very unconventional version, Zooble being put in a ''genderless'' body in the Circus has led them to not identify as any gender (whether from abandoning a previous one or just not remembering it).
* SirSwearsALot: Zooble is the only player who keeps swearing despite the MagicalProfanityFilter. They have even ''filthier'' language in the Spanish dub, calling the others "sons of a ''*[[SoundEffectBleep cartoon twang]]*''" when they're not helping out with the Gloinks and calling Kinger's mother a ''*[[SoundEffectBleep car horn]]*'' when he tries and fails to assist.
* ShesAManInJapan: In the original, Zooble has an AmbiguousGender, but in the Russian dub is referred to with words that explicitly label them as female.
* TheSnarkKnight: Zooble goes beyond being a mere DeadpanSnarker, with pretty much every line they deliver being loaded with bitter sarcasm.
* StealthPun: Zooble is made of detachable parts, and is also has a very ''detached'' attitude from everyone else.
* StumblingInTheNewForm: They have a bit of trouble with walking, due to the perpetually mismatched nature of their legs.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: A variant; according to Gooseworx, Zooble has a bottomless box of parts in their room that allows them to customize their appearance however they want. As such, they look different in every episode, with only their pink, triangular head and yellow polka-dotted bean body remaining consistent.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: When Caine offers up an adventure to introduce Pomni to the Circus.
-->'''Caine:''' Since you're new around here, we're gonna make it a simple, in-house adventure to warm you up to how things work around here!\\
'''Zooble:''' Wh-?! No! God! I don't want an ''in-house adventure''.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Given their jaded and cynical demeanor, you'd think they're older than Pomni (who's 25). They're actually 22 years old, being only a half-year older than Jax.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kaufmo '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)''']]
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[[caption-width-right:634:Everyone's favorite jokester!]]
[[caption-width-right:634:[[labelnote:''Click here to see him after he abstracted.'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kaufmoabstraction_2.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Voiced by:''' [=WizardzWiz=]

A man with a simplistic clown avatar and (supposedly) jovial demeanor who abstracted right before Pomni appeared.
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* AccidentalHero: In his Abstracted state, Kaufmo is mainly concerned with just rampaging around and destroying anything in sight, but said rampaging causes him to crash down into the Gloinks' nest and attack the Gloink Queen, beating her to a pulp and causing her to vomit up Zooble.
* AllForNothing: He went mad and abstracted due to his desperation to escape, driven by the exit door he kept seeing but could never reach. At the end of the pilot it's revealed it was futile anyways because the door wasn't even a real exit.
* BlackBeadEyes: His is the only avatar seen thus far to have them.
* CannotTellAJoke: Implied: Gangle feels terribly guilty for not laughing at his jokes and Ragatha admits she couldn't fake a convincing laugh at them herself. Not even the two kindest (and two of the sanest) characters of the lot could find humor in whatever he was telling.
* DeathOfPersonality: Kaufmo, like all victims of abstraction, is transformed into a mindless rampaging monster and has to be locked in the Cellar with the rest of the abstracted.
* DigitalAbomination: After he abstracted, Kaufmo doesn't look like a clown anymore, but rather like a multi-eyed chimera who makes anyone he touches glitchy.
* DoomedPredecessor: Kaufmo was looking for the exit door before Pomni, abstracting because he couldn't find it. In a cruel twist, Pomni "successfully" finds the door but discovers it doesn't actually lead to anything.
* {{Expy}}: Due to his BlackBeadEyes and general clownish appearance, his non-abstracted form looks like something right out of ''WesternAnimation/JoJosCircus''.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: In his abstracted form, as is the case with all abstracted players.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Implied to be this to the players before Pomni arrived, as he's seen as annoying due to his bad jokes, and none of them except [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Zooble]] and [[ProneToTears Gangle]] mourn him after his abstraction. However, it's unknown if he was always this or if it was a matter of mental strain -- in Gooseworx's own words, "[[https://twitter.com/GooseworxMusic/status/1714723393885344117 Nobody's usually pleasant to be around before they abstract]]".
** Averted as of Episode 2. Although nothing is verbally heard due to the soundtrack playing over them speaking, everyone except Jax speaks at Kaufmo's "funeral", showing they really did care for him, and showing Pomni that they were capable of caring for others for real after all.
* TheGhost: Already abstracted by the start of the series, so what he was like as a person can only be inferred by what the other players say about him.
* JacobMarleyWarning: His fate of becoming abstracted and then sent to the Circus' basement to rot with the other abstracted serves as a demonstration to Pomni, and the audience, exactly what will happen to her or any of her new comrades if (or ''when'') they ever lose their sanity completely in the Circus. It also serves as a very dark warning to Pomni not to hold out false hope that she'll ever find any exit back to the real world.
* KilledOffForReal: Played With. Physically speaking, Kaufmo is still alive, but [[DeathOfPersonality abstraction]] is permanent and he can't stay in the Circus anymore without attacking anyone he sees. The remaining Circus members see Kaufmo's abstraction as a form of death and hold a funeral for him in the second episode.
* MadArtist: His room, along with tons of deranged writings on the wall and drawings of Caine, is covered in creepy or sad paintings he made for himself, such as a black and white picture of himself walking alone on a road with the caption 'NO WAY OUT', a couple of more realistic self portraits of him with pitch black and bleeding eyes, multiple drawings of dark and empty hallways, and two drawings depicting Abstractions, one of which mirrors the exact scene playing out between him and Jax, a figure in the light of a doorway confronting an Abstraction huddled in the darkness.
* MorphicResonance: Downplayed, as while he is mostly unrecognizable in his abstracted form, he does retain his proportions with an elongated head, stout body, and noodly limbs.
* NonIronicClown: His avatar design looks like the usual friendly cartoon clown and Ragatha mentioned he told plenty of (bad) jokes.
* PosthumousCharacter: In the Pilot, as the other circus members are introduced, his introduction has a cutout of him with subtitles saying that he didn't show up. When Jax and Ragatha take Pomni to meet Kaufmo, they mention what type of person he was, saying he wasn't that good at making jokes, and was rather anti-social. When they reach his room, they discover Kaufmo has abstracted, which is explained to be what happens when a person's mind is so broken that they become some bizarre monstrosity that isn't recognizably human anymore, and are essentially seen as if they had died. The end of "Candy Carrier Chaos!" shows that the other cast members had been planning Kaufmo's funeral, but were so busy helping Pomni acclimate that they hadn't got around to it. Even though music plays over the cast members' eulogies, it's clear that Kaufmo meant a lot to them and they miss him dearly.
* PrimaryColorChampion: Much like Pomni, his clown outfit is composed of primary colors. With most of it being yellow with some red and blue accents.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: His room is shown to be wrecked with the word "exit" scrawled again and again over every inch of space, along with a drawing of him being relentlessly chased by Caine.
* SacrificialLamb: Already gone right before Pomni shows up, establishing to both her and the audience that abstraction is a ''very'' real threat for the Circus players.
* SadClown: A very literal example, considering his noted tendency to tell jokes before abstracting.
* SanitySlippage: He ends up being an example of not just it, but also what it leads to in the Digital Circus, abstraction. It was brought on by his obsession with finding an exit.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Unlike the other current inhabitants of the circus who either appeared in the trailers or in their own character short before the pilot's release, Kaufmo had almost next to no hints at his existence except for an image of his regular form released on Glitch Productions Twitter page two days before release. This was likely done to hide [[WalkingSpoiler the fact]] that he had already "Abstracted" by the time of the pilot.
* StarterVillain: As Pomni didn't follow the "Gather the Gloinks" adventure, Kaufmo is the first danger she faces in the Digital Circus.
* VagueAge: Has various toys such as blocks and a rocking horse in his room. This is not an indicator of his age, as [[https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxGhghLLVdtS8rTervGKRolDKXsOnAEOTc this post image]] shows that Pomni's room also contains children's toys despite her being an adult.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's almost impossible to talk about him and his conspicuous absence from the intro without revealing that he abstracted, bringing up abstraction and its greater implications in the process.
* WasOnceAMan: This technically applies to all brought into the Circus, but Kaufmo abstracts and turns into a [[EyesDoNotBelongThere multi-eyed]] [[FaceMonsterTurn monstrosity of black ooze]].
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He's already snapped and become abstracted before even being properly introduced.
* WhiteGloves: Being a simplified cartoony clown, he sports a pair.
[[/folder]]

! [=NPCs=]
!! General
[[folder:Caine]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Are YOU ready to see something INCREDIBLE?!]]
->''"Welcome to the Amazing Digital Circus!"''\\
'''Voiced by:''' Alex "Creator/TheAutarch" Rochon (English)[[labelnote:Other dubs]]Rodo Balderas (Spanish), Creator/GuilhermeBriggs (Brazilian Portuguese), Max Mann (Russian), Soichiro Sugawara (Japanese), Ralph Ernest Francia (Filipino), Muhammad Nur (Indonesian), Yann Abiven (French), Vasyl Kiselychnyk (Ukrainian)[[/labelnote]]

The Amazing Digital Circus's wacky rogue A.I. ringmaster.
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* ActorAllusion: Caine is, much like [[Characters/DeltaruneSpamton a certain Deltarune character]] fandubbed by Creator/TheAutarch, a mentally questionable digital entity with differently colored eyes.
* AffablyEvil: Caine is a "fun-loving wacky little guy" who is cheerful and polite to the audience and his victims. Though he tortures Pomni and the other five souls she's trapped with, it's only because he's rather [[ObliviouslyEvil oblivious]] and is actually making an active effort to understand humans better. [[spoiler:If his claims are to be believed, he's also trying to create an exit to the game just to please the players, even if he doesn't understand the concept enough to make a workable version of it.]]
* AIIsACrapshoot: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The official description specifies that he's a rogue A.I. who relentlessly torments the show's human cast while they're trapped in his digital world, but he's [[AffablyEvil not malicious]]; for the most part, he actually tries to fulfill his role as a host and guide to the digital world and be helpful and take the Players' feedback and wishes into consideration (even if his implementation of it leaves much to be desired, to say the least). He is just [[ObliviouslyEvil incredibly clueless to their suffering]].
* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's not completely clear whether he is a malicious force that intentionally keeps the players trapped in the Circus against their will, a ReasonableAuthorityFigure trying to keep them safe and relatively content while being hampered by [[BlueAndOrangeMorality his lack of understanding of how humans actually function]], or something in-between.
* AmusinglyAwfulAim: In the teaser, he attempts a knife-throwing act with Pomni as his LovelyAssistant, despite her protests. Two seconds later, Pomni has three knives sticking out her head and another lodged in her torso.
* AntiGravityClothing: He "wears" a top hat that floats just above his head.
* BarelyChangedDubName: In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, Caine's name was changed slightly to Caim. According to dubbing director William Viana, this was done as an allusion to the Bible, and all other new names were approved by Glitch themselves.
* BenevolentBoss: He appears to treat Bubble rather well and even seems to view him as a rather close friend where he is shown to hang out and have dinner with him as seen in the pilot. While he does pop Bubble a couple of times, it's really only whenever Bubble does something that annoys him and even then, Bubble does just come back from it and doesn't seem to be harmed at all any time he is popped by Caine.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: Keeps watch over the Circus through his "hundreds of all-seeing eyes!" which is part of the reason he doesn't want anybody going out into the Void. Even then, he can apparently detect when someone is venturing out into it, even if he doesn't know who. Despite his "hundreds of all-seeing eyes", however, he is not omniscient, and is only made aware something is terribly wrong when an alarm on his Wacky Watch alerts him to an unwanted presence in The Void.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He's an entertainment AI who has no apparent idea what's going on outside of his job and parameters, which is the main source of problems with the humans trapped in his Circus. As an example, when Pomni asks him how to leave, he doesn't ignore her or tell her she cannot leave, or generally address the question like an actual person would. He just stutters and ''freezes'' in place like his brain just crashed (complete with his eyes being replaced with a "blue screen of death" texture), with the others talking like he isn't even there until they address him again.
* BreadAndCircuses: Puns aside, his goal is to keep the players entertained and stimulated with games, food, and adventures. As [[spoiler:the large number of abstracted in that cellar]] can attest to, it's not the best solution.
* ClassyCane: A classy cane for a classy Caine. His sports a gold top to show his status as the ringmaster.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He is quite... out there to say the least. Being FunPersonified pushed to the absolute ''extreme''.
* DemiurgeArchetype: A strangely-sympathetic example of this trope, though still a dangerous one. Caine is a being who rules the inside of a computer as an all-powerful God. This digital realm is one where his guests constantly suffer thanks to his antics. Despite his power he does not understand, or know about the outside world besides what the other characters tell him. He is also referred to as God by the residents of the Candy Kingdom
* DissonantSerenity: The horrifying things going on in the Circus are contrasted by the always energetic and excited Caine. Caine ''not'' being either of these things [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness usually means something is very, very wrong]].
* DomainHolder: As he notes, he can control nearly everything in the circus, but can't control the minds of its inhabitants or the Void among other things.
* EccentricAI: He's as loud and showy as any ringmaster, but with an added touch of possible insanity. His ideas of fun adventures are often torturous for the circus members, and speech sometimes becomes nonsensical (calling the Gloinks "humanoid hashbrowns" when they resemble neither) or glitches out mid-sentence.
* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: He has fits of it. When giving Pomni a guided tour of the circus, he begins to give her a list of the features of the Tent, but then he briefly freezes in place mid-pose, while his eyes are replaced with the Blue Screen of Death and he emits the internet dial-up sound. Then, just as suddenly, he snaps back to normal and continues with his list like nothing happened.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Caine is definitely wacky, but even he's weirded out by Bubble cleaning up Pomni's vomit by licking it.
--->'''Caine:''' ''(to Bubble)'' Why are you like this...?
** He is very much not a normal person by human standards, but even he can tell Xddcc is a ''terrible'' name for a person.
** It's really saying something when he of all people despises content farms and Rule 34 of the show with a ''passion''. That and the "violent shipping wars [they'll] be powerless to do anything about" with the upcoming cast of new characters.
--->'''Caine:''' And it's only going to get worse from here...\\
'''Pomni:''' [[OhCrap O-Oh no...]]
** He clearly finds the Circus' Sun and Moon's obsession and infatuation with him unsettling, to say the least.
** Caine is also visibly disturbed by Bubble's ClusterBleepBomb in Episode 2, as whatever he said was ''very'' age-inappropriate for the game he's a part of.
** He clearly takes no joy or pleasure in [[spoiler:deleting Gummigoo, even if he sees it as necessary, outright mentioning to Pomni that he doesn't want to lose track of who's a Player avatar and who's an NPC with a ThousandYardStare, with the implication he's scared that he might accidentally delete a player unless he [[ShootTheDog takes no chances]]]].
* ExactWords: When Pomni notices what she thinks is an "Exit" door out of the Digital Circus, Caine noticeably gets nervous before denying that there's any such thing and changing the subject. [[spoiler:Which is true enough in the sense that it's not actually an "exit" from the Circus as in leaving the reality back for the real world like many of the players (or rather, human souls) would desire.]]
* {{Expy}}:
** He is like AM from ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'', as they are both digital deities that control the main characters and put them through all kinds of hell for their personal amusement. [[spoiler:But despite the vast powers they both have, the two are just as trapped in the digital prison.]]
** While he's based on AM in terms of form and agenda, Gooseworx [[https://www.tumblr.com/gooseworx/737015251785105408/is-caine-actually-inspired-by-spamton-ive-heard?source=share has stated]] that, personality-wise, he's based on {{Four|IsDeath}} from ''WebAnimation/BattleForBFDI'', being a [[TheMadHatter raving madman]] of a host with supernatural powers who constantly belittles their [[ProfessionalButtKisser loyal assistant]] and assigns challenges (or "adventures" in Caine's case) for the main characters.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: His head is nothing but a pair of googly eyes and teeth... except the eyes are nested inside his mouth.
* FalseReassurance:
** He gives one to Pomni over her screams and objections to him throwing knives at her in the teaser:
--->'''Caine:''' Don't worry, my dear! You won't even die horribly!
** [[spoiler:Downplayed in the pilot, which reveals that he created a false exit door because the inhabitants of the circus kept wanting one, but he didn't know what to put at the end and it just led to the Void. Kaufmo's obsession with finding it eventually led him to "Abstract" and become a monster while Pomni starts going insane when she goes through it. Notably, however, Caine nervously tries to deflect when asked about the door's very existence, implying he realized it was a bad idea at some point.]]
* FalseTeethTomfoolery: His head is a set of false teeth (with a pair of eyes between them).
* FamilyValuesVillain: Adheres to The Amazing Digital Circus' family-friendly rating, and lightly chastises Pomni when she ([[SoundEffectBleep tries to]]) swear.
-->'''Caine:''' Now now now, my dear, we can't have any of that ''foul'' language around here! The Amazing Digital Circus is a place to be enjoyed by ''all'' ages.
* FunPersonified: Deconstructed. He's as much of the jovial, wacky, fun-loving guy he makes himself out to be. Thing is, [[ObliviouslyEvil sometimes the "fun" he sets up is at the players' expense]], like when Zooble lost their body to the Gloinks during a game he set up to help Pomni adjust. It was explained that he's oblivious to any harm his actions might cause for the players.
* FunWithAcronyms: [[https://www.tumblr.com/gooseworx/707839652836573184/can-we-get-a-name-for-the-teeth-man as confirmed on Gooseworx's Tumblr,]] the name Caine is also an acronym for [[AC: C]]reative [[AC: A]]rtificial [[AC: I]]ntelligence [[AC: N]]etworking [[AC:E]]ntity. The acronym fits with Caine's role as an artificial intelligence who unites the circus' inhabitants together and will creatively mix up the circus' scenarios to ensure fun.
* {{Gaslighting}}: Pomni sees what is clearly an exit door, but Caine claims that she must be suffering a "digital hallucination" from her recent arrival.
* GreatGazoo: He's an eccentric A.I. with virtual reality warping abilities that only wishes to have fun with the human players trapped in the circus, completely oblivious to the suffering he's causing them.
* HealingHands: Although there's nothing he can do for players who [[spoiler:have already abstracted]], he can restore back to normal players suffering from [[TheCorruption the related attack]]. Ragatha indicates he's had to do this many times before.
* KickTheDog: While he may have some justifications for doing so, [[spoiler: it is still pretty callous of him to delete Gummigoo out of the blue for being an NPC without giving him a chance to explain himself or regard for how Pomni feels.]]
* LargeHam: He's got a [[ChewingTheScenery whole circus to chew through]] and the molars to do it with.
* LaughingMad: When he introduces the players to the "Gather the Gloinks" adventure, he goes into a rather deranged laughing fit.
* LethallyStupid:
** Caine's trying to preserve the players' sanity, but his behavior is more likely to cause its loss. [[spoiler:Both Kaufmo and Pomni are obviously maddened by Caine hiding an "exit door". Caine could have just explained that the door doesn't work, but he was too vain to show an unfinished idea.]]
** The adventures he cooks up are traumatizing or painful to his guests, but Caine doesn't care because it can't permanently injure them. [[spoiler:He's also rather negligent about watching for them to abstract and attack the others.]]
* LiteralGenie: He wants to fulfill the players' stated desires, but doesn't understand what they really mean. [[spoiler:Caine creates an exit door that leads to other doors and eventually into the void because he doesn't understand that the players want to leave the ''simulation'' rather than the place they're in.]]
* LivingToys: His head looks like a wind-up chattering teeth toy.
* MeaningfulName: In chemistry, "-caine" is a suffix for synthetic alkaloids used as local anesthetics. One alkaloid called procaine (also known as "novocaine" or "allocaine") has the signature use in dentistry. The one they used before was ''cocaine'', which became better known as a recreational drug, fitting Caine's manic enthusiasm.
* MissionControl: By all means, his function within The Amazing Digital Circus program is clearly intended to be this. Caine is supposed to work as a guide to the circus for the Players, answer their questions about how its world functions, and keep the Players engaged and entertained by giving them "adventures" to complete. He genuinely seem to try to his best to live up these responsibilities. However, due to his own overenthusiastic nature, poor understanding of humans, and what is implied to be limits in his programming, he ends up coming across as MissionControlIsOffItsMeds most of the time instead.
* MotorMouth: While he's expressive, he tends to speak faster and faster [[RattlingOffLegal when he has to come to legal issues]].
* NameOfCain: His name is the version that ends with an "E", and he's described as a rogue A.I., albeit an ObliviouslyEvil one. [[spoiler:Interestingly, the area behind the fake exit he created has a logo with "[[CainAndAbel C&A]]" on it.]]
* NiceGuy: Intense mania and complete obliviousness aside, Caine's a friendly, sincere guy who earnestly wants to give everyone a fun time and is trying to understand humans better. He knows people want to get out, so he attempted to make an exit to please them, which he unfortunately doesn't understand how that works.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: So far, his attempts to keep the cast from falling into a SanitySlippage has had the ''opposite'' effect and he's only contributed to them getting worse. Most prominent with Pomni, [[spoiler:of whom he causes to go LaughingMad at the end of the episode one and two because he believes he's doing the right thing for her.]]
* NoNeckChump: His neck is nonexistent and so is the collar of his shirt.
* NonHumanHead: An A.I. who manifests as a ringmaster with floating eyes and teeth/jaws for a head.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: His enthusiastic personality causes him to near-constantly get up in the players' faces, to their visible discomfort.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Inverted. Although he's the wacky ringmaster and the source of the crazy adventures in the Digital Circus, some things are too much for even him, like Bubble's antics and the Moon flirting with him.
* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: Despite his RealityWarper powers letting him do pretty much anything to the Digital Circus and its inhabitants, and the fact he says he has hundreds of (disembodied) eyes used to patrol the setting, Caine himself doesn't seem to be constantly aware of '''everything''' that goes on. He has to be alerted to Pomni getting stranded in the Void by a wrist-mounted device and Ragatha states the only real way to get his attention is to call out his name and hope he hears, outright stating that Pomni will need to "find" him.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Caine is [[https://twitter.com/GooseworxMusic/status/1621728926514188288 described]] as being "kind of oblivious" rather than evil, and really just wanting to understand humans better. It's just that his way of going about this leaves people maimed and traumatized. [[spoiler:Him creating a fake exit door just because the others kept asking for one led to Kaufmo going insane and "Abstracting" in the process, with Pomni also being heavily traumatized and going through a SanitySlippage in the process after going through the door. He seems aware of this on some level, given he tries to nervously deny the door even exists when Pomni first notices it.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** When Pomni presses him about the exit she saw, the normally bombastic ringmaster hastily shuts her down and just... [[ThousandYardStare stands floating in the air,]] his hand fidgeting as if he's trying to compose himself before getting everybody to move along. [[spoiler:It's [[AmbiguousSituation ambiguous]] if he responds this way because he knows the exit she's talking about is dangerously unfinished, or if there's [[NothingIsScarier something else]] going on he doesn't want her knowing about.]]
** While explaining why he has to [[spoiler:delete [=NPCs=] who make it into the Circus proper]], Caine abruptly looks and sounds absolutely ''haunted'' while reflecting on the potential consequences of [[spoiler:him getting [=NPCs=] and players mixed up]].
* OddOrganUpTop: Played with as Caine does have the most common features you would see on a head such as a mouth and eyes. The thing is, his head is ''nothing more than that''. And it gets even more bizarre as his mouth is really just oversized chatter teeth with [[EyesDoNotBelongThere his eyes floating ''inside'' the mouth]].
* ThePerfectionist: Per Caine's own words, he doesn't like people seeing his unfinished work.
** He claims his perfectionism is why [[spoiler:he hid the existence of the exit door he created since he never finished what was on the other side resulting in it leading into the Void]].
** In "POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE", he throws himself onto a picture of an incomplete render and demands that Pomni not look at it because it's unfinished.
* PetTheDog: While he's fine giving them AmusingInjuries, Caine does seem to care enough about the players to fix them should they get legitimately injured in a way they can't shrug off. [[spoiler:He heals Ragatha of the painful glitching she was suffering following her encounter with an Abstracted Kaufmo without problem, and the fact Ragatha tells Pomni to find him to fix it implies he does so on a consistent basis.]]
** He ''[[DownplayedTrope attempts]]'' this with his building [[spoiler:an exit door. He may have done so because the players kept asking him for one but he can't, or doesn't want to, understand that the players kept asking for an exit door so they could leave the simulation.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: When Pomni says she saw an exit, Caine insinuates that there is no exit door and that she was just suffering a digital hallucination. [[spoiler:In reality, he never finished developing something to put behind the exit door and didn't want anybody seeing his unfinished work. His insistence, on the other hand, made Pomni think the exit door was an actual way out of the Circus, leaving her to almost strand herself in the void.]]
* PowerFloats: As the AI leading the Digital Circus, Caine is the only one besides Bubble capable of flight, and he apparently lends it to others when needed, as seen during his tour for Pomni to introduce her to the Circus' world. As such, he's nearly never grounded and prefers to float and hop around in the air.
* PunnyName: [[NameOfCain Other meanings aside]], his name also sounds like "cane", alluding to one of his attributes as a ringmaster, the ClassyCane he carries.
* QuestGiver: Part of his job is to provide the Players with "adventures", small quests and tasks that pushes them to explore the circus, have fun, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick avoid going insane]].
* RepulsiveRingmaster: He's a mad, creepy-looking A.I. in charge of the titular circus, putting the human souls trapped there through torturous acts without much concern for, [[ObliviouslyEvil or awareness of]], their physical or mental well-being.
* SeriousBusiness: Well as serious as someone like [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} him]] can be, anyway. The one thing he is actually on the ball about is maintaining the family-friendly atmosphere of the game. He lightly scolds Pomni for trying to swear, and tells her that whatever name she chooses for herself can't contain any offensive content.
* ShoehornedAcronym: According to [[https://www.tumblr.com/gooseworx/707839652836573184/can-we-get-a-name-for-the-teeth-man Gooseworx]], Caine came up with his own name and proceeded to retroactively turn it into an acronym to sound more professional. The acronym specifically being "'''C'''reative '''A'''rtificial '''I'''ntelligence '''N'''etworking '''E'''ntity"
* ShootTheDog: After [[spoiler:deleting Gummigoo]], his explanation has him imply something terrible could happen if [[spoiler:he lost track of who's a human and who's an NPC]] to show why he did what he did.
* SuddenAnatomy: His tongue appears when certain expressions are needed.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: He's adamant that Pomni didn't actually see an exit door and was just suffering a digital hallucination. This sells her that the door is real and will lead her out of the Circus. [[spoiler:While the door is real, and he didn't want anybody knowing about it, the real reason was that he never finished it and didn't want anybody seeing his unfinished work. [[PoorCommunicationKills This leads to Pomni getting trapped in a labyrinth and eventually the void, requiring him to save her.]]]]
* ThinkingTic: Caine drums his finger against his thigh when he thinks up the Gloink quest to get Pomni off the topic of the exit doors.
* VirtualRealityWarper: He can teleport himself and the inhabitants to anywhere in the Circus he wants or even to [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds the "Void" outside]], though he admits he doesn't actually know everything that goes on out in the latter and doesn't recommend hanging out there. [[spoiler:He's also incapable of making a path back to the real world, though that might just be because he doesn't understand the concept.]]
* VirtuousCharacterCopy: Gooseworx [[https://twitter.com/GooseworxMusic/status/1619175744130945025 confirmed]] that Caine is based on AM, the evil supercomputer from [[Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream the story that inspired the show]]. However, Caine's well-meaning, ObliviouslyEvil approach to it makes him leagues better than his inspiration, who absolutely despises humans and relishes in torturing them. [[spoiler:It's particularly telling comparing how the two react to the idea of escape: AM has absolutely zero intention of letting any of his victims get away, [[WhoWantsToLiveForever even through death]], and [[VillainousBreakdown completely loses it]] when they actually manage it, whereas Caine understands how much the players want to leave the game, even if he doesn't understand how that works, and is attempting to create an exit simply because he thinks they'll appreciate it.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Bubble, Caine's co-host often gets on his nerves and Caine objects to Bubble's behavior more often than to any other character's, to the point of casually popping Bubble several times in the pilot alone. But the two still get along relatively well and have lunch together.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The reason why he subjects the cast to [[ObliviouslyEvil (accidental)]] torment is because he's trying to understand them better. His method of "understanding" involves life-threatening adventures in an attempt to keep them sane. [[spoiler:He also deletes any NPC that enters the Circus despite it being shown that the [=NPCs=] have as much sentience as he does in order to prevent himself from mixing them up with the players. Judging by the ThousandYardStare he gives while explaining it, apparently the consequences of mixing the two up would be disastrous.]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: While Caine does his best to give entertainment to the performers, [[spoiler:episode 2 reveals he has no problem with deleting [=NPCs=] that make it back to the Digital Circus despite being nearly as sentient as the performers themselves, purely because he really, ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness really]]'' doesn't want to risk losing track of who's human and who's an [=NPC=]. Poor Gummigoo [[YankTheDogsChain found this out the hard way]].]]
* WhiteGloves: Wears a pair, or, more likely given Gooseworx's stylings, has a pair as his actual hands.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bubble]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:There's a little Bubble in all of us.]]
->''"I'm on it, boss!"''\\
'''Voiced by:''' Cooper "Creator/{{Gooseworx}}" Goodwin (English)[[labelnote:Other dubs]]Ignacio El. Ortuodono (Spanish), Angélica Santos (Brazilian Porguese), Ivan Shukhin (Russian), Ryota Kuga (Japanese), Janeane Santos-Roco (Filipino), Lis Kurniasih (Indonesian), Anna Lauzeray Gishi (French), Maksym Soloviov (Ukrainian)[[/labelnote]]

An overly enthusiastic yet destructive talking soap bubble created by Caine to serve as an assistant.
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* BigEater: He can eat a whole angel food cake in one bite.
* BlackBeadEyes: Aside from the giant toothy maw, they're his only facial feature.
* ChildlikeVoice: Has a high-pitched voice that reflects his cheery, energetic disposition.
* ClusterBleepBomb: While Caine is briefing the Circus gang about their next adventure taking place in a world of candy, Bubble says it sounds "sticky", before his next phrase is entirely bleeped out with a 5-second stock censor bleep sound.
-->'''Caine:''' ...Bubble, you can't say that.
* ADogNamedDog: Bubble is just a spotty soap bubble with beady eyes and massive teeth. [[https://twitter.com/GooseworxMusic/status/1678858402267828224 Gooseworx insists]] that Bubble has "[[BlatantLies the most creative name]]" in the series.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Appears during the [[WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties technical difficulties screen]] in the original teaser for the show.
* ExtremeOmnivore: He licks up Pomni's puke in the pilot with apparent relish, which even ''Caine'' is disgusted by.
-->'''Caine:''' ''[[LampshadeHanging Why are you like this?]]''
* FlyingFace: Given that he's just a bubble with eyes and a mouth.
* HiddenDepths: As revealed at the end of the pilot, he's apparently a really good chef.
* {{Keet}}: He's very energetic and eager to help with whatever Caine has planned, likely because he's never at risk.
* MesACrowd: Numerous Bubbles appear at once at the end of the role call in the theme song.
* ScaryTeeth: Bears a set of creepily human teeth in [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn_FAXem2-e3HQvmK-mOH4g/community?lb=UgkxOg3xbzdomzq69bdsOEPhm0OiUiF9EHsb this promo image]].
* TalkingApplianceSidekick: A talking bubble who acts as Caine's sidekick.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Caine pops him a few times over the pilot, but he comes back afterwards with no real fanfare.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Caine, Bubble acts as his sidekick/cohost and the two have meals together, but Bubble also frequently annoys Caine by disrupting his stints of showmanship (like when the two are introducing the Gloinks), to which Caine responds by [[TheyKilledKennyAgain popping him]].
* TheWatson: Parodied in the pilot; Bubble asks Caine about the Gloinks to prompt exposition about them, but ends up asking ''too many'' questions at too short intervals, interrupting Caine's explanation and annoying him enough to get popped.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mannequins]]
Wooden articulated mannequins that Caine seems to use to fill in the space around the circus.
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* AmbiguousSituation: They have numerous rooms in the hallway alongside the players. It's unclear whether the rooms are theirs specifically or just placeholders for when more humans arrive.
* TheBlank: None of them have faces, though Dr. Football does ''conjure'' a face when Pomni catches it in the bath.
* FacelessMasses: Fill this role while Caine and Bubble are in the digital restaurant.
* InterruptedBath: Pomni walks in on Dr. Football taking one and it [[NightmareFace doesn't take the intrusion well]].
* LosingYourHead: A FunnyBackgroundEvent in episode 2 features one mannequin shaking another one so hard that its head falls off.
* TheVoiceless: Averted. Episode 2 reveals that they ''can'' speak, they just don't do it very often.
[[/folder]]

!! Circus Tent

[[folder:The Moon]]
[[quoteright:474:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/adc_moon.png]]
[[caption-width-right:474:Hello, Caine. I love you.]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Cooper "Creator/{{Gooseworx}}" Goodwin (English)[[labelnote:Other dubs]]Mariya Yemshanova (Ukrainian)[[/labelnote]]

A sapient waxing gibbous moon that personifies the night of the digital world and seems to have a crush on Caine.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Caine sees her as this, though it's unclear whether it's because he has no feelings for her or if it's because her "friskiness" goes against the Digital Circus' InUniverse all ages rating.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: As stated above, she personifies the night of the digital world.
* BlueIsCalm: She is blue in color and is by far one of the most serene characters seen so far.
* ADogNamedDog: They are a moon who is simply referred to as Moon.
* GeniusLoci: They are a sentient moon, after all, so of course she would be this.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Her eyes are a darker blue from her body and she doesn't seem to be antagonistic in the slightest.
* LoveConfession: She confesses her love for Caine once he returns with Pomni back to the Grounds. [[AbhorrentAdmirer Caine responds immediately with anxiety and an urgency to leave "before the Moon gets frisky"...]] [[NoodleIncident whatever that entails.]]
* TheManInTheMoon: She's a sentient crescent moon with a talking face.
* RedOniBlueOni: The calm and serene Blue Oni to the cheerful and goofy Sun's Red Oni.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: She is often referred as ''The'' Moon.
* TrueBlueFemininity: She is baby blue in color, and is referred to with female pronouns.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Sun]]
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[[caption-width-right:474:Hi, Caine! I'm gonna ''KILL YOU!'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Payton Goodwin
A sapient sun that personifies the day of the digital world and is very quirky.
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* CuteAndPsycho: Her pleasant and upbeat personality doesn't drop while she's threatening to murder Caine for not giving her any lines in the series.
* DisproportionateRetribution: She threatens to ''kill'' Caine simply because he unintentionally didn't give her any dialogue in the pilot episode.
* DissonantSerenity: She doesn't drop her chipper tone when threatening to ''kill'' Caine for not giving her any lines.
* ADogNamedDog: She's a Sun, who is simply referred as Sun.
* EarlyBirdCameo: She makes an appearance in "POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE" complaining to Caine that the Moon has more screentime than her, to which he agrees to give her some lines in the series proper.
* EasilyForgiven: A hesitant agreement from Caine on giving her more presence in the series is enough to make her drop her beef with him.
-->'''Sun:''' Okay, never mind! I don't wanna kill you anymore!
* TheFaceOfTheSun: Like The Moon, she has a face and is fully sentient and capable of conversation.
* GreenEyedMonster: In her first appearance, she is jealous of the Moon for getting lines in the pilot while she did not get any.
* PerpetualSmiler: She seems to be perpetually cheerful and smiling... even when [[DissonantSerenity telling Caine she's going to murder him]] for giving The Moon lines and her none.
* ReadingAheadInTheScript: She complains that she read the script for the first episode and did not get any lines, while the Moon got two.
* RedOniBlueOni: The cheerful and goofy Red Oni to the calm and serene Moon's Blue Oni.
* SinisterSentientSun: {{Downplayed}}. While her first lines of dialogue have her telling Caine that she wants to kill him, she does so in such a bubbly and silly tone that it is made clear she isn't truly a dangerous threat. Not to mention she ''immediately'' drops her vendetta towards Caine when he promises to give her more dialogue.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Similar to her nightly counterpart, she is officially referred to as ''The'' Sun.
* VibrantOrange: While orange is her secondary color motif, it still applies since she is very lively.
* WeirdSun: For starters, suns aren't normally supposed to talk let alone have faces. But she is particularly odd because she threatens Caine for being nothing more than a LivingProp, only to quickly drop her grudge when Caine promises to give her more characterization and screentime.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Gloinks and their Queen]]
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[[caption-width-right:1000:Do you not realize that everything must be Gloinks?]]
->''"What form of non-gloinkinian mass dares presume presence in the nest of the Gloink Queen?"''\\
'''Gloink Queen voiced by:''' Creator/ElsieLovelock (English)[[labelnote:Other dubs]]Serhii Soldatov (Ukrainian)[[/labelnote]]

A swarm of simply-shaped creatures that infest the tent as a part of Caine's first challenge after Pomni's arrival.
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* AdorableAbomination: These non-humanoid [[BuffySpeak non-hashbrownoid]] "humanoid hash browns" are all cute and colorful shapes with derpy-looking faces on them, but their queen is a massive worm with a mouth that lines its whole body and AHeadAtEachEnd with numerous eyes and teeth along with a mouth that goes all the way around.
* AssimilationPlot: The Queen claims that she wants to turn everything into Gloinks, [[BlasphemousBoast including God Himself]].
* AuthorAppeal: Gooseworx captioned the Twitter post showing the official art of the Gloinks and the Queen with "I think 'big fat fucking worm' is one of my favorite tropes", referring to the Queen's design.
* BigBadWannabe: The Gloink Queen was conjured by Caine to be the BigBad of the "Gather the Gloinks" adventure, but none of the cast take her seriously, and [[spoiler:the Queen ends up being trounced by the Abstracted Kaufmo, an ''actual'' threat to the players that eclipses anything the Gloink Queen could have done]].
* BizarreAlienReproduction: The Gloink Queen makes new Gloinks by eating whatever the Gloinks bring her with one head and spitting them out through the other.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: When asked if there's a Gloink ''King'', Gooseworx stated that the Gloink King [[TinyGuyHugeGirl looks exactly like a regular Gloink]] and [[OutWithABang dies immediately after mating with the Queen]]. Given Caine's insistence on keeping things family-friendly, however, Gooseworx may have been joking.
* BlasphemousBoast: Their queen at one point says, "God will be Gloinks!"
* EvilSoundsDeep: The Gloink Queen is a female example, being a villain with a deep, rumbling voice.
* {{Expy}}: Gooseworx confirmed during [=GlitchX=] 2023 that the Gloink Queen is largely inspired by [[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} The Empress Bulblax]]; another giant, elongated InsectQueen that quickly produces many young.
* ExtraEyes: The Gloink Queen has eyes all over her face(s).
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Both of the Queen's faces have way more eyes than is necessary.
* {{Gonk}}: While the Gloinks themselves are adorable little shape creatures, their queen is a multi-eyed, polka-dotted slug-like... ''[[OurMonstersAreWeird thing]]'' with sharp teeth and multiple faces. Lampshaded by [[DeadpanSnarker Jax]].
-->'''Jax:''' Y'know, you could've asked for my consent before forcing me to see something so completely and utterly disgusting.
* AHeadAtEachEnd: The Queen has identical faces on both ends of her body, though only one is shown actually speaking. The other head just spits out new Gloinks made from the objects she swallows.
* InformedSpecies: PlayedForLaughs, as Caine refers to them as "humanoid hash browns" despite them clearly being neither of those things.
* InsectQueen: They have a queen and a generally ant-like eusocial structure, living in a cavernous nest and bringing objects for the Queen to gloink.
* LaughablyEvil: The Queen is a creature that seeks a full AssimilationPlot, but her hamminess and almost pitiable inability to get anyone to take her even remotely seriously makes her really funny.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: She is the villain of the "Gather the Gloinks!" adventure, and is the villain of Episode 1 that the gang faces in her lair.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: While the Gloinks themselves are completely toothless, the Gloink Queen, on the other hand, has numerous sharp teeth in both mouths.
* PaperTiger: Downplayed, as the Gloink Queen's sheer size makes it doubtful the players could have done anything physically against her, [[spoiler:but when the large but still noticeably smaller Abstracted Kaufmo falls into the room and onto her, the Queen can't even fight back and is quickly subjected to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown by the insane Player once he gets his bearings and starts rampaging again]].
* PlotIrrelevantVillain: The Gloinks were ''supposed'' to be Pomni's introductory adventure to familiarize her with the circus, but since she ends up dealing with Kaufmo abstracting, she never meets the Gloink Queen, relegating it to the pilot's B-plot and defeating the entire purpose behind the adventure. [[LampshadeHanging This is lampshaded]] by Zooble as they're leaving.
* PunchClockVillain: They stir up quite a bit of trouble in the pilot, but only because it's their role in the "Gather the Gloinks" adventure. The Queen also reacts to Jax's incredibly dismissive statement by sputtering and stuttering hesitantly before pointing out "You're still watching it", implying perhaps that she is very aware she and her subjects are intended to just be an entertainment setpiece for the Players.
* SmugSnake: The Gloink Queen talks big, but she's not really taken seriously as a threat by anyone except maybe [[ShrinkingViolet Gangle]] and is quickly dealt with by [[spoiler:abstracted Kaufmo]].
* StarterVillain: {{Invoked|Trope}}. Caine starts a new, simple in-house adventure featuring the Gloinks to help Pomni familiarize herself with her new environment. [[spoiler:Pomni witnesses Zooble get carried off by Gloinks and then has no further interaction with that side plot... much to Zooble's frustration after it's resolved. The actual StarterVillain that Pomni faces in the pilot is the "Abstracted" Kaufmo, who also effortlessly beats up the Gloink Queen.]]
* StickyFingers: The Gloinks steal anything that isn't nailed down.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Gloink Queen speaks in a distorted voice.
[[/folder]]

!! Candy Canyon Kingdom
[[folder:In General]]
* AnachronismStew: The Candy Canyon Kingdom has a mix of a bunch of different time periods together, from the middle ages with Princess Loolilalu and her castle, to ''Mad Max''-style big rigs, and even with a bit of western in the mix with Gummigoo and his gang looking like typical bandits. It's not likely Caine could keep the theming that consistent to anything in real life even if he wanted to.
-->'''Pomni:''' [[LampshadeHanging What time period is this supposed to be, anyway?]]
* LevelAte: The world and its inhabitants are all made out of candy. The mannequin [=NPCs=] in this realm are also of many different colors, to fit in with the theme of being made of sweets.
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: This adventure's major characters include Princess Loolilalu, the kingdom's benevolent and fair ruler (Nice); the Fudge, a monster that was banished from the kingdom for eating its "delicious" citizens while freely admitting to having other unpleasant hobbies (Mean); and Gummigoo, who leads a trio of bandits to steal the kingdom's treasured maple syrup and give anyone who tries to stop them a good fight, but has sympathetic reasons for wanting the syrup in the first place, [[spoiler:and even forming a bond with Pomni]] (In-Between).
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Princess Loolilalu]]
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[[caption-width-right:812:Farewell, good knights. I have every faith in you!]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Vera Tan
The ruler of the Candy Canyon Kingdom. Upon foreseeing their arrival, she tasks the Circus members with a quest to defeat Gummigoo and his gang of bandits and recover the maple syrup.
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* AllThereInTheScript: Her full name was given by Gooseworx before Episode 2 released, but in the episode proper, she's just called "Loo".
* AmbiguouslyEvil: She appears to be a (literal and figurative) sweetie and a benevolent ruler, but she's also a ''little'' too okay with sending Gummigoo to be seemingly executed, even if he did steal something the kingdom treasured. [[spoiler:Ironically, he pretty much gets executed anyway, and by her "God" no less.]]
* BigGood: The fair ruler of the Candy Canyon Kingdom, she is the one who provides the gang with their quest and gives them a candy war rig to defeat Gummigoo and his gang of bandits.
* DontCallMeSir: After Ragatha calls her "Your Highness", she says she prefers to be called "Loo".
* {{Expy}}:
** She can be summed up as a candy version of Princess Peach from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'', wearing a very similar candy dress as Princess Peach, and is also shown to be a kind and benevolent ruler of her kingdom.
** She also greatly resembles Baroness Von Bon Bon from ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'', wearing a similar dress and ruling over a land of candies and sweets (minus the insanity).
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She includes Jax among the "brave knights" she is sending to retrieve the syrup from the bandits. As it turns out, he not only sabotages the whole mission, but also [[spoiler:sends the Fudge back to her kingdom to terrorize it as part of a deal he made with him, doing both solely for his own amusement.]]
* IAmVeryBritish: She has an English accent. Considering Australia is GLITCH Productions' home turf, this kind of makes sense.
* LargeAndInCharge: Loolilalu is the tallest [=NPC=] out of all of the citizens of her kingdom (barring the Fudge), and is the ruler of her kingdom.
* LikeAGodToMe: Princess Loolilalu and the rest of her candy citizens apparently view Caine as their god, as she calls him "God" and the front of her castle having a stained glass window with Caine on it.
* MeaningfulAppearance: Overlapping with RoseHairedSweetie, Princess Loolilalu is made of pink candy, including pink watermelon candy slices. Candy is very sweet, and she is just as sweet as she looks and acts, both figuratively and literally.
* NiceGirl: She is the benevolent ruler of the Candy Canyon Kingdom who welcomes the Circus members to her kingdom. Loolilalu and Ragatha even briefly bond over their very polite and sweet personalities.
* PrincessesPreferPink: Exaggerated; Not only is Princess Loolilalu wearing a bright pink candy dress, but nearly her entire body consists of some shade of pink.
* PrincessesRule: The Candy Canyon Kingdom does not appear to have a king or queen, leaving the princess in charge of the whole place.
* QuestGiver: She is the one who gives the heroes their quest to find and recover the maple syrup that Gummigoo and his bandits stole.
* StatuesqueStunner: The princess of the Candy Canyon Kingdom is a very tall lady, towering over the likes of Gummigoo and even Ragatha and Kinger.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:What became of her and her citizens after Jax let the Fudge invade her kingdom again is unknown--assuming any of them even exist after the performers leave.]]
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[[folder:Gummigoo]]
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[[caption-width-right:368:She's a fighter, though. She taught me everything I know.]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Jack Hawkins

A bandit NPC the gang meets at the Candy Canyon Kingdom, acting as the adventure's main villain. He steals the kingdom's maple syrup, and the gang is tasked with apprehending him and bringing back the syrup he stole.
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* AntiVillain: As he notes in private to Max and Chad, they stole the maple syrup for Gummigoo's sick mother. [[spoiler:After he and Pomni accidentally duplicate the syrup tanker, there's no problem in just letting the bandits take the other tanker home with them.]]
* AwesomeAussie: He's a fearsome bandit with an Australian accent. Fitting, since Australia is GLITCH Productions' home turf.
* TheBogan: He has an Australian accent and his character is a bandit, although a sympathetic and affable one. [[spoiler:Once he overcomes the existential crisis of being an NPC, he loses the bandit aspect but keeps the attitude.]]
* CommonalityConnection: [[spoiler:Once he realizes that he's nothing more than an NPC created for a videogame, Gummigoo justifiably has a mental breakdown. He and Pomni end up forming a friendship over their similar situations.]]
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of NonPlayerCharacter. [[spoiler:He ends up glitching out of the map with Pomni and falls into the DebugRoom, discovering, to his horror, exact duplicates of himself and everything else from his world, all in static T-poses. When he learns what he is, he has a complete mental breakdown, with one of the more tragic parts coming from his realization he can't even picture his mother's face, because she was never given a proper model or design. Even after Pomni helps him recover and tries to help him by taking him the Digital Circus, Caine [[YankTheDogsChain just casually deletes him]] to keep things orderly, not unlike a programmer deleting something perceived as a bug in the game's code.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Once he finds out the truth of his existence of being a mere [=NPC=], he comes within a hair's breadth of crossing this. He breaks down in complete despair and seems to lose any and all motivation to keep pushing forward... but he doesn't [[DownplayedTrope quite]] cross the Event Horizon, because Pomni's empathy and offer to join the Digital Circus pull him back just before he falls in.]]
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: His motivation for stealing the kingdom's maple syrup is to save his sick mum. [[spoiler:Part of his mental breakdown is him realizing that he doesn't even really have a mum to begin with, [[TheGhost and that she's only a part of his backstory]].]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Downplayed as he's more of a morally neutral rogue, but he cares a lot for his mates and loves his mother. The whole reason he wants the syrup is so he can cure her while she's sick.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Caine said he made his AI 57 times more immersive. Apparently this also made [=NPCs=] like Gummigoo sentient enough to comprehend the nature of their existence and understandably freak out.
* GreenAndMean: Fittingly for both a crocodile and a gummy creature, the lower half of his body is green, and he antagonizes the Circus gang [[spoiler:at first]].
* HonorAmongThieves: He cares a lot for his associates Max and Chad. [[spoiler:When he's separated from them (as in, glitching out of the world), the first thing he does is ask where they are, and he hugs them when he reunites with them.]]
* IdentityBreakdown: [[spoiler:Upon realizing that he's an NPC, Gummigoo mentally breaks down]].
* InconsistentSpelling: For some reason, the end credits call him "Gumigoo", yet the closed captions and his merch on the GLITCH website call him "Gummigoo".
* LovableRogue: He may have stolen the maple syrup from the Candy Canyon Kingdom, but he did it with good intentions, wanting to save his sick mother at his home village. [[spoiler:Then he falls out of the game world and into a test room with all of the necessary models for the adventure, including himself, and has an existential crisis. Pomni and Gummigoo end up befriending each other for being in very different yet similar situations as each other, and joins the Circus gang back to the Circus tent. He doesn't last long, though.]]
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Along with his buddies Max and Chad, Gummigoo is the main villain of the "Candy Carrier Chaos!" adventure, as he is the one who stole the Candy Canyon Kingdom's maple syrup. Episode 2 involves the Circus members being transported there by Caine tasked by Princess Loolilalu to defeat Gummigoo and recover the maple syrup that he stole.
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: He and his lackeys are gummy crocodilians who serve as the antagonists by stealing the Candy Canyon kingdom's maple syrup. [[spoiler:Subverted later on, when he undergoes an existential crisis and befriends Pomni,]]
* OddNameOut: In contrast with his two lackeys Max and Chad, who have regular male names, his name is the only one which highlights him being made of candy. Gummigoo's name also lacks an "A" and has more than one syllable.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Not counting Kaufmo, who died before the first episode began, Gummigoo is the first character to die on the show]].
* SpottingTheThread: [[spoiler:After seeing template models of himself in the DebugRoom, he also realizes gaps in his memory such as not knowing what his own mother looks like which further supports that he is just some disposable NPC.]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:During a scripted heist scene, Gummigoo and Pomni fall off the map and into the DebugRoom, at which point Gummigoo discovers a copy of himself and realizes that he's just an NPC created for the performers' adventures.]]
* UncertainDoom: In a sense. [[spoiler:While Caine makes Gummigoo disappear in the blink of an eye, Ragatha brings up the possibility they may run into him at some point in time given Caine has been known to reuse [=NPCs=] for their adventures. The main question is how much ''the'' Gummigoo that Pomni bonded with could be restored. Could he truly return or would a "reused" NPC [[DeathOfPersonality effectively be a totally different person]]? There's also the possibility he was simply sent back to the Candy Canyon, but considering how the surviving Fudge was implied to be devouring the populace, things don't look so good for him in that scenario.]]
* UnfortunateNames: Gummigoo is a silly name, and Pomni says his name is as dumb as hers.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: He proceeds to do this in the middle of [[spoiler:ribbing Pomni on her vomiting after the truck they were in rocketed them back onto the map with the others]].
* WalkingSpoiler: Given the number of spoiler entries on this list, Gummigoo's role in the episode he appears in is more than what Caine intended.
* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:Pomni offers to have him come with her to the Circus, and Loolilalu lets her take him under the belief she wants to personally execute him. Then Caine shows up and, because he doesn't want to get the players mixed up with the [=NPCs=], poofs Gummigoo into a pile of confetti.]]
* YouDoNotWantToKnow: [[spoiler:After his crewmmates ask them where Gummigoo has been after glitching out-of-bounds and realizing he's just an [=NPC=], he tells him this, since he doesn't want them to go through the same existential crisis as he did.]]
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[[folder:Max & Chad]]
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->'''Max Voiced by:''' Hamish Plaggemars\\
'''Chad Voiced by:''' Jack Hawkins

A pair of bandits that the gang are tasked to defeat at the Candy Canyon Kingdom, along with Gummigoo.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: When Chad is dragged across the canyon by a rope, he dodges rocks while striking dramatic poses, [[VideoGame/PizzaTower Peppino Spaghetti-style]].
* AerithAndBob: The Candy Canyon Kingdom is home to major [=NPCs=] with exotic names... and then there's these two, who have the most mundane-sounding names out of the cast in this adventure.
* AllThereInTheScript: Their names were revealed after they were revealed in the trailers leading to the release of Episode 2, but are not mentioned in the episode proper.
* AntiVillain: Much like Gummigoo, they only stole the maple syrup from Princess Loolilalu to help Gummigoo's sick mother. [[spoiler:Thankfully, as Pomni and Gummigoo managed to take a copy of their truck, they were able to take it back to their village while the Circus gang took the other truck to the princess to complete the adventure.]]
* FatAndSkinny: Chad has a plump body and short arms, and Max has a skinny body and long arms.
* OperatorIncompatibility: Caine meant for all the bandits to be able to able to drive the truck, but Chad's arms are too short to reach the console, while Max's are so long they dangle awkwardly past it (though he mistakenly believes he can't reach it at all).
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Like their boss, they are gummy crocodilians who steal the kingdom's maple syrup supply.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: After Gummigoo learns [[spoiler:that he's an NPC]], he asks Pomni not to tell Max and Chad the truth, since he doesn't want them to suffer learning the truth the way he did.
-->'''Gummigoo:''' [[YouDoNotWantToKnow You don't wanna know.]]
* RedIsViolent: Both bandits have red as part of their bodies. The upper half of Max is red, and the lower half of Chad red.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Max and Chad are always in the same place together and over very little in terms of commentary, serving as Gummigoo's partners that the gang has to defeat during the adventure. [[spoiler:Even when Gummigoo glitches out of the world, they are never seen separated for a longer distance than about 10 feet]].
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[[folder:The Fudge]]
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[[caption-width-right:1000:Oh, they were so delicious... Sometimes I can hear them...calling to me.]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Lyle Rath

A giant monster made of chocolate fudge which the gang finds in a swamp in a ravine. He desires candy more than anything else, and was banished from the Candy Canyon Kingdom after eating too many of Princess Loolilalu's people.
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* AffablyEvil: He eats candy people and apparently gets up to even worse things in his spare time, but he's still fairly polite, even apologizing to the players for almost eating them when they tell him they're not made of candy.
* AngryEyebrows: The only time he's seen with (chocolate) eyebrows is when he thinks about how Princess Loolilalu banished him. The eyebrows appear quickly and disappear just as quickly. It's as bizarre as everything else in this show.
* TheBadGuyWins: Heavily {{implied|trope}}. [[spoiler:After the Candy Canyon Kingdom gets its maple syrup returned to them, the Fudge is heard off in the distance headed towards the kingdom gates. Jax mentions that he left the gate unlocked, and as he takes the key with him back to the Circus, there's no longer any way to seal off the Fudge, leaving him free to devour the kingdom's citizens again.]]
* BlobMonster: He is a giant monster made of chocolate fudge who lives in a ravine in the Candy Canyon Kingdom.
* CardCarryingVillain: While he questions the morality of murder if it's delicious, he freely admits that his other hobbies are bad with a capital B.
* ADogNamedDog: A fudge monster who is literally named "The Fudge", or "Fudge Monster".
* TheDreaded: The Candy Canyon Kingdom ''immediately'' panics when they hear him coming and if you look closely early in the episode, there are signs outside the Kingdom's gates demanding that he stay away. Unsurprising, considering the fact that he was banished for eating them.
* {{Expy}}: He is very similar to the Greedy from ''WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure'', where he is a fudge monster who craves nothing more but candy. For added measure, he's encountered by Ragatha, an {{Expy}} of Raggedy Ann in her own right, and is introduced after the gang fall into a pit filled with gelatinous candy by having him wake up in a daze like the Greedy did. He even speaks with the same inflections and tone as the Greedy.
* GentleGiant: Played with; while he is a monster who eats the residents of the Candy Canyon Kingdom because he loves candy more than anything else, he is not necessarily a bad guy. After Ragatha tells the Fudge that they aren't made of candy and is about to eat them, he apologizes to the Circus gang and spares them. Gooseworx even described the Fudge as being "kind of nice, but still willing to do anything for candy".
* InsaneTrollLogic: When Ragatha tells the Fudge that him eating the citizens of the Candy Canyon Kingdom is basically murder, he retorts by asking her if it's really murder if they're delicious. And even this is basically semantics, as the Fudge openly admits the ''others'' things he does are terrible.
* MeaningfulAppearance: Overlapping with VisualPun, he has candy corn for teeth; in other words, ''literal'' sweet teeth to match his ''figurative'' SweetTooth.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:At first, it seems he died when the truck that Pomni and Gummigoo used to escape the out of bounds area of the Candy Canyon Kingdom map crashes on top of him, but as it turns out, he survived and goes on to invade and attack the kingdom due to Jax purposefully leaving the gates open.]]
* OffstageVillainy: He himself claims to have done [[NothingIsScarier unspecified]] horrible things when Jax tries to call him an "upstanding guy with real noble goals".
-->'''Fudge:''' Oh, I'm not. If you know what I did in my free time, oh, you'd be ''sickened''.
* PickyPeopleEater: Eats people if they're made of candy, but is digusted at the idea of eating anyone (or anything) that isn't.
* PlotIrrelevantVillain: The Fudge has no relevance to the main plot of trying to take back the syrup the bandits stole and is instead part of the backstory of the Candy Canyon Kingdom where he wants to eat all of its residents.
* SapientEatSapient: He used to live within the Candy Canyon Kingdom's walls before Princess Loolilalu banished him for eating her citizens. [[spoiler:Jax gives the Fudge an offer to help them in exchange for leaving the kingdom gate open to allow him to return to the kingdom, able terrorize the Candy Candy Kingdom's citizens once again.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He is very similar to the Gloink Queen who was in the previous episode, both being blobby [[VillainousGlutton gluttons]] with distorted voices with a similar cadence, and being a character that the gang meets sans Pomni. Lampshaded by Kinger.
-->'''Kinger:''' Pomni always seems to miss the big, gloopy monsters.
* SweetTooth: The Fudge is a monster with a noticeable sweet tooth, in a world where everything is made out of candy and desserts. It's not hard to see why Princess Loolialu banished him from her kingdom.
* TechnicolorEyes: He has rings around his jawbreaker eyes that pulsate at one point when he thinks about the candy people he ate. Because of this, many viewers who saw that particular scene in the trailer thought they were HypnoticEyes.
* VillainousGlutton: Much like his inspiration, the Fudge's entire motivation is that he loves candy, and will do anything for it, including the citizens of the Candy Canyon Kingdom. [[spoiler:When Jax makes a deal with the Fudge to help the Circus gang capture Gummigoo, Max, and Chad to recover the maple syrup in exchange for re-entry to the kingdom he was banished from, he willingly helps them. As a result, Jax threatens the Candy Canyon Kingdom by unleashing the Fudge upon them once more by leaving the gates to the kingdom open.]]
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Just like the Gloink Queen before him, his voice is distorted in a way that sounds like multiple voices speaking in unison.
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!Others

[[folder:The Abstracted '''(UNMARKED SPOILERS)''']]
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[[caption-width-right:1000:And into the cellar you go!]]
Unfortunate former players of the Circus who have long since crossed their mental breaking point. When the strain of living in the Circus becomes too much, players begin to corrupt, or "abstract", into glitchy monsters that mindlessly attack and likewise corrupt anything in their path.
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* AgonyBeam: Their attacks causes players to glitch out, painfully incapacitating them.
* AndIMustScream: If there's anything of the people they once were still in there, they're undoubtedly [[{{Understatement}} not having a good time]].
* TheBerserker: Assuming Kaufmo's behaviour is reflective of all of them, they fall under this category, as any living entity they spot makes them fly into a rage, pummeling it until it's a glitchy mess no matter who or what it is. If there is no living entity, they just remain still or wander around in a creepily calm fashion.
* TheCorruption: They're players who have completely glitched out thanks to the mental and emotional toll of being in the Circus. They spread abstraction to anything they attack, which can even spread from person to person, as Pomni finds out when her hand begins to glitch from touching a glitching Ragatha. Caine can at least heal the latter.
* DespairEventHorizon: They're the result of this: any of the players completely losing it mentally and/or emotionally will result in them abstracting -- which, with the Circus [[CrapsaccharineWorld being the way it is]] (not to mention the fact that inhabitants probably ''can't'' escape), is only a matter of time.
* DeathOfPersonality: The abstraction effectively destroy their personalities, turning them into glitchy and mindless beasts.
* DigitalAbomination: Like Kaufmo, any player who becomes abstracted turns into a corrupted, glitchy, multi-eyed, incomprehensible creature.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Kind of.
** While on their way to Kaufmo's room, Pomni, Ragatha, and Jax pass numerous rooms whose doors have crossed-out pictures of their residents, implying these are players who have abstracted.
** One of the teasers has a shot of the cellar while Caine reveals certain parts of the Circus.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Covered head to toe in multicolored, spasming eyes.
* FaceMonsterTurn: They were originally players ([[DespairEventHorizon who lost it completely]]), who in turn were originally humans (who got trapped in the hardware, and thus the Circus).
* FateWorseThanDeath: Being a player in the Circus already isn't fun, but this is far, ''far'' worse -- by the time a player has fully abstracted, even Caine's RealityWarper powers can't save them. In other words, the abstracted are [[DeathOfPersonality gone]] and have to be [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]] so they can't hurt anyone else. According to Gooseworx, ''absolutely nothing'' can fix Abstraction.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: Cellar, but the idea's still there -- Caine has nothing to do for them but to stuff them all into the Circus's cellar, far away from the players who (at least) still have a grip on themselves.
* OminousVisualGlitch: Horrid walking blobs of this trope, and they can spread it to anything or anyone in their path.
* TranshumanAbomination: They're glitchy, shadowy, eye-covered masses that were once ordinary humans (and human souls trapped in colorful digital bodies).
* WalkingSpoiler: They're nearly impossible to talk about not only without also revealing that Kaufmo has turned into one of them, but also without establishing just how bad things will get for the players if they don't keep their sanity intact.
* WasOnceAMan: ''Again''. The pitiful beasts weren't always like this as they were once colorful players who were also humans that were transformed into cartoony avatars. But now after going insane, it is hard to tell if their souls can be saved.
* WhamShot: Caine dropping Kaufmo (whose first in-act appearance is already abstracted, inside his own room and behind his own door) into the cellar reveals ''dozens'' of abstracted down there, making it clear that players have been abstracting for a ''long'' time, and that (because apparently nobody can leave the Circus) it's only a matter of when, not if, the rest of the troupe will end up there.
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* AmnesiacHero: When a human enters the Digital Circus, they forget about their name and past lives.

** [[spoiler:When Ragatha brings up holding a funeral for Kaufmo, Jax is ''very'' briefly shown with a saddened expression. Even if he shrugs it off almost immediately, this comes off as possibly the only moment Jax has demonstrated a vulnerable side.]]

* CharacterTics: He is ''always'' nervously shaking.

* SirSwearsALot: Along with Zooble, Pomni tends to swear the most during the show, despite the words being censored by the game itself.

-->'''Pomni''': [''after Gangle rams the truck unto the one she's clinging on''] ARE YOU TRYING TO [censored] KILL ME?!

* UncertainDoom: In a sense. [[spoiler:While Caine makes Gummigoo disappear in the blink of an eye, Ragatha brings up the possibility they may run into him at some point in time given Caine has been known to reuse [=NPCs=] for their adventures. The main question is how much ''the'' Gummigoo that Pomni bonded with could be restored. Could he truly return or would a "reused" NPC [[DeathOfPersonality effectively be a totally different person]]?]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: He might be condescending about it, he's not wrong when he tells Pomni if there ''was'' an exit in the Digital Circus, all of them would've used it by now.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Considering the awful way he treats everyone, the only reason the others tolerate him is simply because they're stuck with him.

* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Their repeated denial to entertain Caine's adventure in "Candy Carrier Chaos" ''seems'' like their usual apathy, but it's revealed in the final minutes that they declined because they were arranging the necessary pieces for Kaufmo's "funeral" and wanted to ensure it wasn't interrupted by Caine.]]

* TwoGirlsToATeam: Before Pomni came along, Ragatha and Gangle were the only two players that were clearly female. Everyone else is either male, or has an AmbiguousGender in Zooble's case. After Pomni's arrival [[spoiler:alongside Kaufmo abstracting]], it's an {{inversion}} with Jax and Kinger being the only males and everyone else who's not Zooble being female.

* TwoGirlsToATeam: Before Pomni came along, Ragatha and Gangle were the only two players that were clearly female. Everyone else is either male, or has an AmbiguousGender in Zooble's case. After Pomni's arrival [[spoiler: alongside Kaufmo abstracting]], it's an {{inversion}} with Jax and Kiner being the only males and everyone else not named Zooble being female.

* TwoGirlsToATeam: Before Pomni came along, Ragatha and Gangle were the only two players that were clearly female. Everyone else is either male, or has an AmbiguousGender in Zooble's case.

* SpottingTheThread: After seeing template models of himself in the DebugRoom, he also realizes gaps in his memory such as not knowing what his own mother looks like which further supports that he is just some disposable NPC.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Caine said he made his AI 57 times more immersive. Apparently this also made NPCs like Gummigoo sentient enough to comprehend the nature of their existence and understandably freak out.

** Of Popee from Anime/PopeeThePerformer as they are both sadistic rabbit boys who are not afraid to torment his friends with one of them being a character who shows emotion from there ExpressiveMask.

** Jax is Mean. He is a sociopath who regularly abuses everyone in the Digital Circus (especially Gangle and Ragatha), puts both players and [=NPCs=] for his own amusement, and cares only about himself and his own desires. [[NeverMyFault He also never blames himself for putting everyone in danger]], and seeks violence and despair in the adventures that he goes on.
** Pomni and Zooble are In-Between. Both of them are the ones that swear more than a few times despite the MagicalProfanityFilter coded in the game, and are also prone to insulting or shouting at everyone's antics (particularly Jax and Caine). Additionally, Zooble shows disinterest in the adventures while Pomni was more than willing to abandon everyone at the circus if it meant finding an escape. However, they are shown to have a softer side, where Pomni [[spoiler:befriends Gummigoo after he learns the truth and later grows more fond of the other Circus mambers]], and Zooble [[spoiler:had finished arranging everything for Kaufmo's funeral while the others were at the Candy Canyon Kingdom]].

* TheSociopath: Jax is already a {{Jerkass}} from the outset, but whereas he mainly liked pushing others' buttons and getting them involved in wonton {{slapstick}} in the pilot, he's become even worse by "Candy Carrier Chaos". He verbally abuses and {{blackmail}}s Gangle, constantly complains that there's no [[AxCrazy bloodshed]] happening, and deliberately leaves the gates to the Candy Canyon Kingdom open to unleash the Fudge upon them once more.

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[[caption-width-right:391:She's a fighter, though. She taught me everything I know.]]