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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: She suffers many misfortunes throughout the book. Nat spits on her from above while climbing trees, she has her hands muddied with many different colors of nature, she is almost bitten by a mound full of snakes, she trips and falls down a deep hole, she gets thousands of bugs swarming all over her while hiding at one point, and she is [[OverTheShoulderCarry carried in an embarrassing way]] to the cooking pot by the Beasts.
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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: {{Slapstick}}: She suffers many misfortunes throughout the book. Nat spits on her from above while climbing trees, she has her hands muddied with many different colors of nature, she is almost bitten by a mound full of snakes, she trips and falls down a deep hole, she gets thousands of bugs swarming all over her while hiding at one point, and she is [[OverTheShoulderCarry carried in an embarrassing way]] to the cooking pot by the Beasts.
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The main protagonist. When she and her younger twin brothers get lost while hiking, she has to deal with them and protecting them from the Beasts.
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The main protagonist. When she and her younger twin brothers get lost while hiking, she has to deal with them and as well as protecting them from the Beasts.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Given that she has to deal with Nat and Pat, how can she ''not'' be this?
* OnlySaneMan: Given that she has to deal with Nat and Pat, how can she ''not'' be this?
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Have brown hair and brown eyes in the book, but in Goosebumps:Horrortown, they have strawberry blonde hair and green eyes.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: They are much less bratty in Horrortown.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: They are much less bratty in Horrortown.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Have brown hair and brown eyes in the book, but in Goosebumps:Horrortown, ''Goosebumps:Horrortown'', they have strawberry blonde hair and green eyes.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: They are much less bratty inHorrortown.''Horrortown''.
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* GenderFlip: For some reason, in Horrortown, Pat is a girl and a fraternal twin with Nat. This really contradicts the book, considering that their identical twin theme lead to a pivotal plot point.
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* GenderFlip: For some reason, in Horrortown, ''Horrortown'', Pat is a girl and a fraternal twin with Nat. This really contradicts the book, considering that their identical twin theme lead led to a pivotal plot point.point.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As bratty as they are most of the time, they really do care about each other and their sister, especially when it comes to making sure none of each other are harmed.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As bratty as they are most of the time, they really do care about each other and their sister, especially when it comes to making sure none of each other are harmed.
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* CoordinatedClothing: They always go around each day wearing the same clothes, including shirts with slogans that hardly anyone can understand. [[spoiler: This is certainly quite the contributing factor in the Beasts believing that the two cloned]].
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* CoordinatedClothing: CoordinatedClothes: They always go around each day wearing the same clothes, including shirts with slogans that hardly anyone can understand. [[spoiler: This is certainly quite the contributing factor in the Beasts believing that the two cloned]].
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* OutnumberedSibling: She is the only sister against two very rambunctious, bratty twin brothers.
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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:She is presumably tagged again, and it's unknown if she won this second round.]]
* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:They manage to escape the game through a loophole, and are able to start walking back home. However, a beast who happens to be ''another'' level three player says tag to Ginger, presumably taps her and makes her play the game all over again, this time at NIGHT.]]
* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:They manage to escape the game through a loophole, and are able to start walking back home. However, a beast who happens to be ''another'' level three player says tag to Ginger, presumably taps her and makes her play the game all over again, this time at NIGHT.]]
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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:She is presumably tagged again, and it's unknown if she won this second round. Although, now that she and her brothers know the way out, there's nothing suggesting they can't simply sneak away instead of playing. The story is narrated in past tense first person perspective from her viewpoint, and it never implies PosthumousNarration.]]
* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:They manage to escape the game through a loophole, and are able to start walking back home. However, a beast who happens to be ''another'' level three player says tag to Ginger, presumably taps her and makes her play the game all over again, this time at NIGHT. Unless of course she decides to just sneak away instead of playing.]]
* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:They manage to escape the game through a loophole, and are able to start walking back home. However, a beast who happens to be ''another'' level three player says tag to Ginger, presumably taps her and makes her play the game all over again, this time at NIGHT. Unless of course she decides to just sneak away instead of playing.]]
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* FairPlayVillain: They give all potential victims a sporting chance at survival.
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* CoordinatedClothing: They always go around each day wearing the same clothes, including shirts with slogans that hardly anyone can understand. [[spoiler: This is certainly quite the contributing factor in the Beasts believing that the two cloned]].
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* DeadpanSnarker: Given that she has to deal with Nat and Pat, how can she NOT be this?
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* DeadpanSnarker: Given that she has to deal with Nat and Pat, how can she NOT ''not'' be this?
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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: She suffers many misfortunes throughout the book. Nat spits on her from above while climbing trees, she has her hands muddied with many different colors of nature, she is almost bitten by a mound full of snakes, she trips and falls down a deep hole, she gets thousands of bugs swarming all over her while hiding at one point, and she is carried in an embarrassing way to the cooking pot by the Beasts.
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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: She suffers many misfortunes throughout the book. Nat spits on her from above while climbing trees, she has her hands muddied with many different colors of nature, she is almost bitten by a mound full of snakes, she trips and falls down a deep hole, she gets thousands of bugs swarming all over her while hiding at one point, and she is [[OverTheShoulderCarry carried in an embarrassing way way]] to the cooking pot by the Beasts.
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* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:They manage to escape the game through a loophole, and are able to start walking back home. However, a beast who happens to be ANOTHER level three player says tag to Ginger, presumably taps her and makes her play the game all over again, this time at NIGHT.]]
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* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:They manage to escape the game through a loophole, and are able to start walking back home. However, a beast who happens to be ANOTHER ''another'' level three player says tag to Ginger, presumably taps her and makes her play the game all over again, this time at NIGHT.]]
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!! Ginger Wald
The main protagonist. When she and her younger twin brothers get lost while hiking, she has to deal with them and protecting them from the Beasts.
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* BigSisterInstinct: She is willing to protect her younger brothers in the forest, especially against the Beasts.
* DeadpanSnarker: Given that she has to deal with Nat and Pat, how can she NOT be this?
* {{Determinator}}: No matter what stands in her way, whether it be snakes, bugs, moving trees, or even giant beasts, she doesn't let them make her sweat when it comes to saving Nat and Pat and win the game.
* DisappointingOlderSibling: When they first get lost, Nat and Pat expect Ginger to help them get back to their campsite because she attended nature camp. However, because she got poison ivy on the first day and therefore failed to pay much attention for the rest of nature camp, she is unable to help her brothers get back to their parents' camping site, much to their frustration.
* FishOutOfWater: She may be very adaptive of being one with nature, but she is understandably not used to dealing with the unfamiliar terrain that the Beasts live in. She has to ask for help from other Beast players, who reluctantly do so.
* IWarnedYou: When the Beasts realize that they aren't normal players after [[spoiler:they get tricked by Nat and Pat being twins]], Ginger says that she told them that she didn't want to play their game.
* KidHero: She saves Nat at one point from an angry living tree by [[MundaneMadeAwesome tickling it so much that it releases him.]]
* OutdoorsyGal: When she is not having to deal with her annoying brothers, she adapts pretty well to the wilderness. She gets her hands dirty from it, but that doesn't phase her much.
* OutnumberedSibling: She is the only sister against two very rambunctious, bratty twin brothers.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: She suffers many misfortunes throughout the book. Nat spits on her from above while climbing trees, she has her hands muddied with many different colors of nature, she is almost bitten by a mound full of snakes, she trips and falls down a deep hole, she gets thousands of bugs swarming all over her while hiding at one point, and she is carried in an embarrassing way to the cooking pot by the Beasts.
* TogetherInDeath: Subverted. She almost dies by being cooked alive along with her twin brothers, but then they are saved by a fluke in the game.
* TooDumbToLive: Because she didn't have the sense to put marks on trees in order to give her and her brothers signs on how to get back to their campsite, she ends up getting herself, as well as her brothers, lost.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:She is presumably tagged again, and it's unknown if she won this second round.]]
* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:They manage to escape the game through a loophole, and are able to start walking back home. However, a beast who happens to be ANOTHER level three player says tag to Ginger, presumably taps her and makes her play the game all over again, this time at NIGHT.]]
!! Nat and Pat Wald
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/natpatgbumps.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Pat [-(left)-] and Nat [-(right)-]]]
Two identical twin brothers who drive Ginger crazy.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Have brown hair and brown eyes in the book, but in Goosebumps:Horrortown, they have strawberry blonde hair and green eyes.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: They are much less bratty in Horrortown.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: They both look insanely alike to the point that they at times are confused themselves. They even wear matching outfits to confuse people even further!
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Are they ever! Their parents even ask Ginger to take them for a hike so they can't bother them, much to her chagrin.
* GenderFlip: For some reason, in Horrortown, Pat is a girl and a fraternal twin with Nat. This really contradicts the book, considering that their identical twin theme lead to a pivotal plot point.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Nat was at one point put into a large cage lifted high above the ground for receiving a penalty. Later on, he shows up having been able to break through the bamboo bars and climb down.
* PolarOppositeTwins: They are both bratty, yet they have very different distinct personalities. Nat is very brave and likes to climb trees, while Pat is a bit wimpy and likes to play video games.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Pat is the Sensitive Guy while Nat is the Manly Man.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Are named Nat and Pat for short.
* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:When the two twins are brought together, side by side, this confuses the Beasts. This act makes the Beasts think that the two are clones of each other, which is a level three move.]]
!! The Beasts
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beasteast.jpg]]
A race of ferocious bear/possum hybrids who play a bizarre game with their victims to choose who gets eaten.
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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: As Ginger says, they play for keeps.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Downplayed, since unlike the Horrors, they actually have some sense of honor.
* AttackTheTail: Gleeb is the beast with a smashed tail.
* BearsAreBadNews: Ginger views [[IronicNurseryRhyme "the Teddy Bear's picnic"]] in a whole new light after this adventure.
* BigBadEnsemble: Of ''The Beast From The East''.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Everything they do is determined by the rules of their strange game, which certainly doesn't help our confused protagonists.
* {{Calvinball}}: They don't make up the rules per se, they just hardly define them.
* ChildEater: Losers of the game get eaten, and they will ''not'' make exceptions for children. One shouldn't think too much of who else stumbled upon this game...
* CloudCuckooland: The neck of the woods they live in is full of oddly-colored plants and MixAndMatchCritters. It may even be an EldritchLocation, based on Fleg's comment about a path that "leads back to your world".
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It's never explicit, but they do seem to care for each other, since Spork is shown keeping watch over an infant beast in the middle of the dangerous game.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Beasts strictly follow the code of the game, and thus will give their victims another chance should the rules condone it.
* EyeScream: Spork's right eye is missing, leaving an empty socket, which he has a habit of picking at several times through the story. Ginger remarks it's probably from an earlier fight, and that she'd hate to see the loser.
* GeniusBruiser: They're huge, tough monsters that also happen to be skilled with building booby traps and handling wild animals.
* HulkSpeak: The one that appears in the newest video game has very stilted and primitive dialogue. This might be explained by his "Universal Language Translator" malfunctioning.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Giant blue bears with tails like badgers, and builds like gorillas.
* MonstrousCannibalism: We can assume that based on the rules of the game, they eat each other when there are no humans available.
* ProudWarriorRace: That play tag?
* PsychopathicManChild: Despite initially appearing to be ferocious hunters, their mentality is more like a group of angry, stubborn 3rd graders who ''refuse'' to play fair. Judging by the reveal that they're only level two players, they might not even be much older than the kids they terrorize.
* PunchClockVillain: The beasts don't play this game out of malice, but because it's ingrained in their culture. Spork even admits it gets boring at times, which gives Ginger a chance to tag him.
* WorthyOpponent: Brutal as they are, they'll still treat you with respect if you prove to be the better player. Good luck with that, though. Ginger's victory came with sheer luck.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: In the book, they're described as being completely covered with blue fur, having long tails, fairly long necks, narrow heads and a single protruding fang. The cover illustration goes off in a wildly different direction.
The main protagonist. When she and her younger twin brothers get lost while hiking, she has to deal with them and protecting them from the Beasts.
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* BigSisterInstinct: She is willing to protect her younger brothers in the forest, especially against the Beasts.
* DeadpanSnarker: Given that she has to deal with Nat and Pat, how can she NOT be this?
* {{Determinator}}: No matter what stands in her way, whether it be snakes, bugs, moving trees, or even giant beasts, she doesn't let them make her sweat when it comes to saving Nat and Pat and win the game.
* DisappointingOlderSibling: When they first get lost, Nat and Pat expect Ginger to help them get back to their campsite because she attended nature camp. However, because she got poison ivy on the first day and therefore failed to pay much attention for the rest of nature camp, she is unable to help her brothers get back to their parents' camping site, much to their frustration.
* FishOutOfWater: She may be very adaptive of being one with nature, but she is understandably not used to dealing with the unfamiliar terrain that the Beasts live in. She has to ask for help from other Beast players, who reluctantly do so.
* IWarnedYou: When the Beasts realize that they aren't normal players after [[spoiler:they get tricked by Nat and Pat being twins]], Ginger says that she told them that she didn't want to play their game.
* KidHero: She saves Nat at one point from an angry living tree by [[MundaneMadeAwesome tickling it so much that it releases him.]]
* OutdoorsyGal: When she is not having to deal with her annoying brothers, she adapts pretty well to the wilderness. She gets her hands dirty from it, but that doesn't phase her much.
* OutnumberedSibling: She is the only sister against two very rambunctious, bratty twin brothers.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: She suffers many misfortunes throughout the book. Nat spits on her from above while climbing trees, she has her hands muddied with many different colors of nature, she is almost bitten by a mound full of snakes, she trips and falls down a deep hole, she gets thousands of bugs swarming all over her while hiding at one point, and she is carried in an embarrassing way to the cooking pot by the Beasts.
* TogetherInDeath: Subverted. She almost dies by being cooked alive along with her twin brothers, but then they are saved by a fluke in the game.
* TooDumbToLive: Because she didn't have the sense to put marks on trees in order to give her and her brothers signs on how to get back to their campsite, she ends up getting herself, as well as her brothers, lost.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:She is presumably tagged again, and it's unknown if she won this second round.]]
* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:They manage to escape the game through a loophole, and are able to start walking back home. However, a beast who happens to be ANOTHER level three player says tag to Ginger, presumably taps her and makes her play the game all over again, this time at NIGHT.]]
!! Nat and Pat Wald
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/natpatgbumps.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Pat [-(left)-] and Nat [-(right)-]]]
Two identical twin brothers who drive Ginger crazy.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Have brown hair and brown eyes in the book, but in Goosebumps:Horrortown, they have strawberry blonde hair and green eyes.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: They are much less bratty in Horrortown.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: They both look insanely alike to the point that they at times are confused themselves. They even wear matching outfits to confuse people even further!
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Are they ever! Their parents even ask Ginger to take them for a hike so they can't bother them, much to her chagrin.
* GenderFlip: For some reason, in Horrortown, Pat is a girl and a fraternal twin with Nat. This really contradicts the book, considering that their identical twin theme lead to a pivotal plot point.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Nat was at one point put into a large cage lifted high above the ground for receiving a penalty. Later on, he shows up having been able to break through the bamboo bars and climb down.
* PolarOppositeTwins: They are both bratty, yet they have very different distinct personalities. Nat is very brave and likes to climb trees, while Pat is a bit wimpy and likes to play video games.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Pat is the Sensitive Guy while Nat is the Manly Man.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Are named Nat and Pat for short.
* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:When the two twins are brought together, side by side, this confuses the Beasts. This act makes the Beasts think that the two are clones of each other, which is a level three move.]]
!! The Beasts
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beasteast.jpg]]
A race of ferocious bear/possum hybrids who play a bizarre game with their victims to choose who gets eaten.
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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: As Ginger says, they play for keeps.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Downplayed, since unlike the Horrors, they actually have some sense of honor.
* AttackTheTail: Gleeb is the beast with a smashed tail.
* BearsAreBadNews: Ginger views [[IronicNurseryRhyme "the Teddy Bear's picnic"]] in a whole new light after this adventure.
* BigBadEnsemble: Of ''The Beast From The East''.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Everything they do is determined by the rules of their strange game, which certainly doesn't help our confused protagonists.
* {{Calvinball}}: They don't make up the rules per se, they just hardly define them.
* ChildEater: Losers of the game get eaten, and they will ''not'' make exceptions for children. One shouldn't think too much of who else stumbled upon this game...
* CloudCuckooland: The neck of the woods they live in is full of oddly-colored plants and MixAndMatchCritters. It may even be an EldritchLocation, based on Fleg's comment about a path that "leads back to your world".
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It's never explicit, but they do seem to care for each other, since Spork is shown keeping watch over an infant beast in the middle of the dangerous game.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Beasts strictly follow the code of the game, and thus will give their victims another chance should the rules condone it.
* EyeScream: Spork's right eye is missing, leaving an empty socket, which he has a habit of picking at several times through the story. Ginger remarks it's probably from an earlier fight, and that she'd hate to see the loser.
* GeniusBruiser: They're huge, tough monsters that also happen to be skilled with building booby traps and handling wild animals.
* HulkSpeak: The one that appears in the newest video game has very stilted and primitive dialogue. This might be explained by his "Universal Language Translator" malfunctioning.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Giant blue bears with tails like badgers, and builds like gorillas.
* MonstrousCannibalism: We can assume that based on the rules of the game, they eat each other when there are no humans available.
* ProudWarriorRace: That play tag?
* PsychopathicManChild: Despite initially appearing to be ferocious hunters, their mentality is more like a group of angry, stubborn 3rd graders who ''refuse'' to play fair. Judging by the reveal that they're only level two players, they might not even be much older than the kids they terrorize.
* PunchClockVillain: The beasts don't play this game out of malice, but because it's ingrained in their culture. Spork even admits it gets boring at times, which gives Ginger a chance to tag him.
* WorthyOpponent: Brutal as they are, they'll still treat you with respect if you prove to be the better player. Good luck with that, though. Ginger's victory came with sheer luck.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: In the book, they're described as being completely covered with blue fur, having long tails, fairly long necks, narrow heads and a single protruding fang. The cover illustration goes off in a wildly different direction.
