History Characters / TheBackrooms

* EnsembleCast: Various members of the Pantheon are well-known popular entities such as The Red Knight, Nostalgi Gaius, Blanche, etc. Additionally, each member of the Pantheon holds equal importance in the overall narrative, and has their own personal backstory and arc.

* NonMaliciousMonster: A few of them aren't really hostile at all despite their terrifiying appearances.

[[folder:The Black Knights]]
Enigmatic supernatural humanoids that serve as enforcers for Heimwehmut Industries, however they are also seen to be guardians of the Black Monarch.

* ArmorIsUseless: Averted. Their armor is stated to be far superior to what one might expect from what appears to be SWAT team uniforms, although they can still lose limbs to creatures such as Hounds.
* BlackKnight: Naturally, although their armor actually resembles that of SWAT teams, albeit with no skin or features visible, not to mention the Knights themselves are far more eldritch in nature than the trope or the description would usually imply, all being seemingly identical as well as never being seen entering Levels, only seen clipping out of them with the utmost ease.
* CoolGuns: Whatever they shoot, it isn't bullets.
* StealthyTeleportation: They can clip out of Levels at will. If one is injured, fatally or otherwise, they will automatically do so, followed immediately by the rest of the squad. If they are destroyed, they will disappear into the ground.
* TheWorfEffect: The Red Knight can massacre entire squadrons of them on his own without showing any signs of damage.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Black Monarch]]
The ruler of the Black Knights.
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* EnsembleCast: Each member of the Pantheon holds equal importance in the overall narrative, and has their own personal backstory and arc.
* AllStarCast: Various members of the Pantheon are well-known popular entities such as The Red Knight, Nostalgi Gaius, Blanche, etc.

* {{Cyclops}}: Only known to possess one eye.

* KingMook: To the Partygoers.
* TheLeader: For Partygoers.

-> "That was the best fun I've had in ages, and you even managed to get away, what a lively subject for me to play with :), you'll need this. Just in case you come across another Aksiejwe"
* EvilVersusEvil: The rivalry between Smilers and Rattlers started when a Smiler [[KillSteal killed a Rattler's victim]]. This infuriated the Rattler and it actually managed to drive the Smiler insane. The Smiler underwent drastic changes, it began frowning and it’s face began glitching and it would constantly try to get away from the Rattler. The other Smilers ended up attacking and actually killing the Rattler. The Rattlers, being smart, made Smilers [[ArchEnemy public enemy number 1]] to their kind. Ever since then, the two would go out their way to attack each other over wanderers.

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* AwesomeMcCoolName: Both names. Her human one is '''"Blanche Von Haderach"''', while her non-human one is '''"Azel'kyra."'''

* AwesomeMcCoolName: '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Nostalgi. Gaius.]]'''

[[folder: Wretches]]

* SlowTransformation: The "Wretched Cycle" lasts over a period of several weeks to months, with initial symptoms being rashes and aggressive
behavior, followed by BodyHorror skin conditions, and lastly the victim transforms into a Wretch.

* AGodAmI: Touching Jerry without taming him will cause survivors to revert to a zombie like state, then advance to Jerry's Room where they regain their sentience. However, after this point, the survivor will begin to worship Jerry as if he were a god.

[[caption-width-right:250:"Jerry is everything, Jerry is what I live for." - A survivor subjected to Jerry's indoctrination effect.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Jerry is everything, Jerry is what I live for." - A survivor subjected to Jerry's indoctrination effect.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: Often appears in front of wanderers who are cornered or about to be killed by hostile entities.

* DimensionalCutter: His sword is capable of cutting open portals to other levels of the Backrooms, often used to send lost Wanderers into the safety of encampments or into expedition teams.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Appears to be a knight and is benevolent to humans, unlike most other Entities. He even tries to locate people who enter the Backrooms in order to save them from Entities.

!Introduced in Kane Pixels' FoundFootage Universe:
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[[folder:Camera Operator]]
A normal teenager goofing off with his friends, and who no-clips into the Backrooms by accident.

* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:He gets grabbed by the Bacteria and drops the camera, which falls back to the real world, leaving his fate currently indeterminable.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Despite being the episode POV for most of the first episode, he's soon subjected to a BolivianArmyEnding and later episodes have ASYNC's Hazmat Researchers as the ones holding the camera.]]
* NonActionGuy: He appears to be understandably frightened out of his wits and runs for his life to safety when an Entity starts tracking him.
* OhCrap: His first encounter with Bacteria at the "Don't move, stay still" wall message.
* ThwartedEscape: The camera guy hesitates too long...[[spoiler:and gets "captured". However, it is implied that the escape chute may have lead to him falling to his death in the real world, so being snatched away may have been a better option, albeit one with an uncertain outcome.]]
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:It doesn't look good for him after the wire entity grabs him, but it actually might have been worse had he clipped back into the real world and fallen through the sky.]]
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: His reaction when he opens a fire exit door, revealing the same yellow-walled level he came from.

[[folder:ASYNC]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:(...) "The program, if granted sufficient backing from the United States government, will offer a solution to all current and future storage and residential needs, and save billions of dollars on property construction and management."]]
The ASYNC Research Facility is dedicated to studying and researching the Backrooms in order to use them for saving billions with regards to storage and residential needs.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: The Backrooms were initially assumed to be harmless, but once people around the world started disappearing and Marvin E. Leigh encountered the first documented entity, the safety of the alternate reality was called into question.
* MundaneUtility: ASYNC tore open a hole in reality to use the Backrooms for... storage and residential needs.
* RealityWarper: The entryway is able to open and close a hole in reality itself in order for the researchers to enter the anomaly.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: ASYNC, from what we've seen so far, has implemented common sense safety measures for exploring the Backrooms. These include Level A hazmat suits, traveling in groups of three or more inside, having a tether back to the Threshold, and even having an alarm while it is open as an audio guide back to safety. Employees are also obligated to report any injuries just like at regular companies.
** ''Report'' shows that they're genuinely concerned by the captured footage of the Bacteria, and have blocked off the hallway leading to its last known location, as well as fortifying the entrance area.
** However, a warning sign of potential corner-cutting appeared in "Backrooms - Presentation" with a proposal to commercialize the virtually infinite space, seemingly disregarding the spatial anomalies and Marvin's encounter with a Bacteria entity. Someone in the foundation threw caution to the wind to propose development of public spaces in The Backrooms.
* ResearchInc: The Backrooms were either created or discovered and experimented on by them.

[[folder:Ivan Beck]]
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Vice Director of ASYNC.

* TheGhost: Has not yet made a confirmed onscreen appearance.
** He is finally seen having a meeting and overseeing progress in ''Presentation''.

[[folder:Hazmat Researchers in General]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:This wasn't in the last report.]]
These researchers are sent through the entryway created by ASYNC into the Backrooms in order to study and find out as much about the anomaly as possible.

* TheFaceless: None of the hazmat researchers so far have had their faces revealed. Even before suiting up at the start of ''Pitfalls'', the camera angle only allows the viewer to see the back of one researcher's head for a couple of frames.
* HazmatSuit: Justified as there are most likely all sorts of undiscovered and dangerous chemicals inside the Backrooms... including ones that will mimic human voices and tear through the hallways after any living being.
* OhCrap: The reaction of the hazmat with the camera when he gets glitched away from the others.
* PowerTrio: Always seen in groups of three as per foundation mandate.

[[folder:Marvin E. Leigh]]
The Hazmat Camera Operator in ''Pitfalls'', who quite literally stumbles into one of the most unforgettable areas yet.

* ActionSurvivor: He keeps pressing on despite falling more than once and absolutely '''barrels''' down the hallways and streets to escape the screaming nightmare behind him and get to safety... which he successfully does.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Marvin appears as one of the researchers at the beginning of ''Informational Video'', but doesn't get a significant role until ''Pitfalls''.
* OhCrap: When he spots the entity that's been mimicking cries for help.
-->"That's not a person... (''{{Beat}}, entity starts screeching demonically at the top of its lungs'') [[PrecisionFStrike That is not a fucking person!"]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mystery Man]]
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An [=ASYNC=] member who appears to be in a position to oversee the Threshold (figuratively and literally).
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* MysteriousEmployer: Besides appearing to be in a management role at [=ASYNC=], his agenda is initially a mystery.

[[folder:Missing Persons in General]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: One of many examples.]]
People all over the world have no-clipped into the Backrooms, resulting in an absolutely ''huge'' spike in missing persons cases.

* MissingChild: [[spoiler:A ''2-year-old'' is among the missing persons cases. One can only hope that the child made it out alive somehow...]]
* UncertainDoom: Each and every last one of them.

[[folder:Autopsy Subject]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mr. Beck, may I ask where this subject came from?]]
A mysterious and seemingly-deceased individual found by the Hazmats.
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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:It's uncertain whether the human found in "Missing Persons" is dead, asleep, on the verge of transforming into something else, being eaten away at by a corrosive fungal substance, etc. ''Autopsy Report'' clarifies that he's dead and is infected with a mutant strain of bacteria, but this raises more questions, such as... will he ''[[BackFromTheDead return]] as a Bacteria?'']]
** [[spoiler:It's also unclear as to exactly ''how'' he died, although the forensics expert believes it to be related to malnutrition.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:The decay he went through was only partial, not to mention extremely... off.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: We don't know the exact circumstances behind his death but judging by the state his corpse is in, it was definitely not pretty.]]
* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:Or at least, one visible eye is wide open and staring directly at the camera during the ''Autopsy Report''. Brrrr.]]
* TheVirus: [[spoiler:Very likely to have been infected with this, meaning he may have met an unfriendly encounter with a Bacteria or two.]]

[[folder:Bacteria]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:'''[[HellIsThatNoise (deafening roars)]]]]'''
Strange wire-like creatures that are encountered in the Backrooms.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Although they aren't named in the series, Kane Pixels' Ko-Fi lists them as "Bacteria".
* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's unclear whether or not they're actually malicious or if they just have a hard time communicating with visitors. The one barreling down the hallways in ''Pitfalls'' seemingly tricked Marv into getting closer to it through VoiceChangeling tactics, but even then, it is unclear as to why it did so.
* AmbiguousSituation: A few.
** It's hard to tell if there are multiple Bacterias or if it's simply one entity traversing incredibly fast, however the one at the end of ''Found Footage'' does appear to have a different shape and make very different noises than the one that was chasing the camera operator ("howling" at a much softer volume rather than shrieking), and the one in ''Pitfalls'' also seems to have an original appearance.
** In the ''Informational Video'', a camera operator inspects a wall from which human voices may be heard conversing behind it. More hints at the Bacterias' VoiceChangeling powers, or something entirely different from them? If it ''is'' them, were they deliberately luring the operator so that he would be glitched away from his team where the creatures could successfully prey upon him? Note that they never show up in person in this video...
** Are they the ones that are the carriers of the mutant bacteria strain? Or is it just a coincidence?
* BehindTheBlack: Incredibly skilled at hiding in the shadows.
* BizarreAlienLimbs: Insanely long arms that are clearly far stronger than they appear to be.
* TheCameo: A Bacteria is briefly heard during a section in ''Motion Detected'', emitting its horrifying roars.
* CompositeCharacter: They have voice mimicry abilities of Skin-Stealers, and can chase people relentlessly too, but they also appear to be a type of disease, similar to the Hydrolitis Plague. They also have a similar appearance to Dullers.
* EldritchAbomination: As befitting a denizen of the Backrooms, it's near impossible to tell exactly what this thing is.
* EvilIsBigger: AmbiguouslyEvil. It's incredibly tall, though this is in no way a detriment to its ability to move fast.
* EvilSoundsDeep: AmbiguouslyEvil. We still don't know what their intentions are, but the one that mimics a human voice in ''Pitfalls'' eventually deepens its tone as though it's tired of playing pretend before changing in pitch to a demonic wailing banshee screech and hurling itself towards Marv.
* HellIsThatNoise: The deafening roars they emit when chasing someone, not to mention their loud footfalls despite having stick legs.
* HumanoidAbomination: They are scarily tall and thin wire-like humanoids that can clip through solid objects, act as a VoiceChangeling possibly to lure prey, infect humans with a strain of the same bacteria that they're made of, stomp like a dinosaur despite having stick legs, and screech demonically as if distorting and mocking the screams of their victims.
* ItCanThink: They are experts at hiding just out of sight of camera operators, can be deathly silent one moment and deafeningly loud the next, can sneak up on someone without any noise, no-clip through walls in order to easily catch up to whomever they're pursuing, and mimic human voices to draw people towards them before charging.
* JumpScare: At the end of "Found Footage" when it appears from behind the operator and runs up to him, grabbing and yanking him away from the slide.
* LeanAndMean: Tall, inhumanly thin, and seemingly able to contort its limbs.
* MonstrousGerms: Humanoid horrors that have frighteningly eldritch capabilities and the power to infect humans with the same sort of bacteria that they are made of.
* NothingIsScarier: So little information has been gleaned about these specimens, up to and including why they mimic human voices and barrel violently down the hallways towards every person they encounter. There are videos where they are not seen but possibly heard if the loud banging noises and disembodied human voices are any indication.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Even though they've only made two onscreen appearances thus far, the tension skyrockets drastically whenever they are involved, especially since they're implied to be the cause of all the troubles the humans go through, up to and including potential infection with TheVirus.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: They stalk their potential victims before... doing something to them.
* StealthyTeleportation: Apparently they can teleport and no-clip through the walls doing the T-pose as seen during the chase in the room full of doorways.
* SuddenlyShouting: Or rather, from dead silent to suddenly screeching like a demonic elephant or even the distorted screams of potential past victims.
* UnstoppableRage: It's ambiguous, but the one in ''Pitfalls'' certainly gives off this vibe when it starts shrieking its lungs out and seemingly pounding the wall it's standing next to with its left arm while shaking its right arm furiously and proceeding to hurtle down the hallway towards Marv.
* TorturedMonster: [[ImpliedTrope Heavily implied]], as the Bacteria that chases the camera operator can be heard shouting "Please don't! Don't go!".
* TheVirus: Heavily implied going by what was happening to the deceased young man's body in ''Autopsy Report''.
* VoiceChangeling: ''Pitfalls'' shows that it's able to mimic voices it hears. In this case, it mimics the original filmmaker's cries of "Hello?" and "Can anybody hear me?".
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Thanks to being a VoiceChangeling, they can draw people towards them by mimicking cries of distress. This ends up duping Hazmat Marv with the camera in ''Pitfalls''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Unknown Entity]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: '''[[NothingIsScarier Motion Detected]]''']]
An unnamed entity (possibly a Sixarms, though not confirmed) with tentacles that appears in ''Motion Detected''.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Due to the fact it's only seen at the end of Motion Detected, it's unknown if it's malicious or not, due to the fact that it's never seen attacking anyone.
* CombatTentacles: It sports these.
* EvilIsBigger: AmbiguouslyEvil. It appears to be large, possibly as tall as the Bacteria entity.
* EldritchAbomination: We don't know exactly ''what'' this thing is, but it's certainly not human.
* HellIsThatNoise: Largely averted, actually. The entity doesn't make any noise when it's on screen, and the loud shrieking/roaring actually sounds like it's coming from a Bacteria, not this entity.
* NothingIsScarier: We don't really get a good look at it, all we see are its tentacles. Of course, this leaves a bunch of questions.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Female Camera Operator]]
A young woman who is filming a small section of clippable ground she found in her garage, when an attempt at putting a length of tape measure through causes the hole to grow unstable and suck her in as well.
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* OhCrap: [[spoiler:When the strange vines she encounters turns out to have a Bacteria hiding among them.]]
* UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective: Subverted, most of the film is viewed like a direct feed to give us a first person view of her experiences. However, this perspective is broken at the very end of the tape. The tape is shown to be on someone's [=TV=] set in a living room, implying that someone was watching the video. The identity of the viewer and location is initially a mystery.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:It's not looking good for her after the room she finds herself cornered in gets covered in glowing green cracks and the camera cuts out.]]
[[/folder]]

!Introduced in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWkvc9yN4Ts Evan Royalty's Into The Backrooms]]

[[folder:Officer James Richmond]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"POLICE DEPARTMENT! ANYBODY IN HERE?!"]]
The star of this video, [=LAPD=] Officer Rich takes a call from dispatch to perform a welfare check on a Park family after disturbances were reported by neighbors. However, even with backup, Rich is unprepared for the alternate dimension he ends up falling into, leaving him isolated.
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* DespairEventHorizon: One Rich realizes his isolated from backup, he starts losing his composure.
* HeroicBSOD: Rich's isolation takes a huge toll on his sanity. [[spoiler: His near-death-like encounter with the Backrooms and the entity there leaves him in need of psychiatric care from the emotional trauma he receives.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Once Rich starts panicking and begins deviating from the standard police request for people to announce their presence, desperately asking "ANYBODY IN HERE?!", we know Rich is losing his grip.
* PoliceProcedural: Evan Royalty notes in the video description that he had a friend help him portray Rich following procedure realistically, such as announcing the presence of the police and requesting anyone to respond. When he starts modifying his call-outs to be more casual and desperate, it shows how panicked he is and that he desperately wants to escape the maze he's lost in.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: This is especially the case with the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue. [[spoiler: Rich is left an emotional wreck from his isolation and fleeing for his life from the unknown entity. He inadvertently escapes, but requires psychiatric treatment to regain his composure and return to duty.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Officer Knox]]
The officer who arrives to back up Officer Rich. He is only heard and we don't get a look at his appearance.
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* TheGhost: A downplayed example, as we hear him, but he is never seen. [[spoiler: When Officer Rich returns to reality alive,]] all we see from him is his flashlight as he is puzzled and asks where Rich has been.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Entity]]
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The creature who zeros in on Officer Rich's position and starts tracking him until Rich seems to lose them. Unfortunately, the Overseer teleports him back to the "start" of the maze, where Rich soon stumbles upon the Entity face-to-face.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: The Entity seems akin to a feral creature who is just tracking Rich because he drew attention. It isn't clear what would happen if the Entity caught Rich because [[spoiler: Rich manages to escape inadvertently before he gets caught.]] It is also left vague if this creature WasOnceHuman and if this is what happened to Claire Park due to mutation.
* HellIsThatNoise: The groans and the unearthly, indescribable shriek that the Entity make leave Rich very terrified and not even able to contemplating using his hand gun when the Entity charges menacingly.
* NothingIsScarier: We barely get a look at the figure of the Entity and what we do see is a low-res figure of what appears to be a human-like being. We don't get any confirmation that this is the missing Claire Park or an unrelated Entity who only appears humanoid. Much is left to the imagination.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Unnamed Overseer]]
An [[NoNameGiven unnamed character]] who communicates with Officer Rich through a text-to-speech style synthesizer via radio. They seem partially helpful yet want to teach Officer Rich a lesson due to him disfiguring the Overseer's world. Their full intentions seem to be a mystery.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Overseer is unhappy with Officer Rich for some reason, even though Rich had no intention of entering the Backrooms. Rich is asked if this is what he wanted ("To disfigure my world.") as if Rich deliberately vandalized this world. Alternatively, the Overseer may be unhappy with people and objects from "reality" invading their domain which is a more rational concern; it isn't clarified.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: At one point, Officer Rich is given a glimpse of the level editor used to make the very video you're watching.
* NoNameGiven: This Overseer has no actual name given, so for the sake of identity, he is named "Overseer" in the Backrooms articles here on [=TvTropes=].
[[/folder]]

! Introduced in [[https://youtube.com/c/RusterLLC Ruster's Backrooms Series]]

[[folder:Luka C.]]
The protagonist, first introduced in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wToMg9A_a9s Backrooms - Level 9223372036854775807 (Found Footage)]]
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* ActionSurvivor: He has supposedly gotten himself into sticky situations but has managed to escape multiple times to film another day.
* AuthorAvatar: The character is essential the video author playing himself in the virtual worlds he designs.
* IFellForHours: Luka escapes Level 22 this way, after running out of escape options. The escape attempt was supposedly successful as Luka has videos dated at later times.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Luka records "Backrooms - Level -9223372036854775808 (found footage)", Luka just looks upon the glitchy rainbow geometry of this level but doesn't go in despite creeping through the doorways to get a closer look.
* RunOrDie: He is forced to do this on Level 558, Level 22, and Level ! "RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!".
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: It's unclear if Luka C. is the character in every video watermarked with that name, or if this is just done for artistic purposes as there are videos where he apparently "dies" only to be back for another video alive and unscathed.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Level 558 Entity]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: '''''[[HellIsThatNoise (deep laughter)]]''''']]
A strange looking creature found in the suburbs of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7IEua4daSc Level 558.]]
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: While they do charge towards anyone who they detect, they aren't confirmed to harm Luka and their intentions are a mystery. Their laughing is ambiguous as well.
* BizarreAlienBiology: They appear to be made of.. floating circles.
* EldritchAbomination: It's hard to tell what it is, considering it just looks like floating segments.
* HellIsThatNoise: They're capable of laughing. The laughter itself is deep sounding, and almost otherworldly.
* LaughingMad: Oh, boy, yes.
* NothingIsScarier: We don't quite get a good look at it, and by extension, don't see how close or far the entity is as Luka flees.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Level 22 Entity]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[OhCrap Uh oh...]]]]
A VoiceChangeling who is encountered by Luka on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJuw9TZvYJM Level 22]], forcing him to make an unplanned escape.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Do they lure in prey, or are they truly desperate for help and interaction. Their body language, however, may be interpreted as menacing due to the undercrank movements they can make, and their cries are suspiciously like a recording of a past victim.
* CompositeCharacter: Their face can light up brightly, much like a Smiler. Unlike the Smiler, they have a bipedal figure, albeit one that seems made of shadows. Like Skin-Stealers, they can mimic voices to draw wanderers towards them.
* HellIsThatNoise: They repeat despairing cries for help they supposedly heard from past wanderers.
* {{Undercrank}}: Once the entity stands up, their movements emulate this effect.
* VoiceChangeling: Again, they emulate human speech, and give chase once a wanderer approaches.
[[/folder]]

* UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective: Subverted, sost of the film is viewed like a direct feed to give us a first person view of her experiences. However, this perspective is broken at the end of the tape. The tape is shown to be on someone's [=TV=] set, implying that someone was watching the video. The identity of the viewer and location is initially a mystery.

* EvilVersusEvil: The rivalry between Smilers and Rattlers started when a Smiler killed a Rattler's victim. This infuriated the Rattler and it actually managed to drive the Smiler insane. The Smiler underwent drastic changes, it began frowning and it’s face began glitching and it would constantly try to get away from the Rattler. The other Smilers ended up attacking and actually killing the Rattler. The Rattlers, being smart, made Smilers [[ArchEnemy public enemy number 1]] to their kind. Ever since then, the two would go out their way to attack each other over wanderers.

* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler:He takes the form of whatever you think he is]].
* LogicalWeakness: [[spoiler:Since he only takes the form of whatever you believe he actually is, his key weakness is you thinking of him as pathetic or weak, which will force him to become pathetic and weak]].