History Characters / TheHollow

** When Mira and Kai try to trick her, Skeet and Reeve into thinking that Adam died, her only reaction to having apparently caused the death of an innocent boy is amusement and vague interest in the fact that it's actually possible to die in the game.

* BigGood: He can help the kids, and ultimately, he does warn Mira and Kai that the they're in danger due to the worsening of the Glitch]]. Continues in Season 2, where [[spoiler:he explains to the kids what they really are and ruins the scheme of an evil corporation just so that they can survive.

!!!The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse

* MindControl: By using a piece of someone, such as a strand of hair, he can use potions to mind control people. And giant snails.

* MindControl: Voulcan controls Louie this way.

'''Due to the spoiler heavy nature of the show, this page will have SpoilersOff'''

** When he repeats the procedure with Adam, he gives a shocked gasp and slowly backs away. When Adam asks him if he saw anything, he simply replies that it's best Adam doesn't know. While it's never confirmed directly, this could have been foreshadowing Adams' almost-death in the Ice Area.

* AcquiredSituationalNarcisism: Iris is shown to be a sort of ShrinkingViolet, quickly running behind her team when confronted with anything, however, once she uses her powers, she shows a quite cheeky side of herself.

** Upon reading Miras' future he suddenly shouts out to beware Colrath. Colrath is the name of the dragon the kids have to defeat in the final level of the game.

'''Spoilers Abound'''

* BenchedHero: [[spoiler:Late in season one, he ends up with bad hypothermia due to Reeve knocking him out in the Ice area. He spends the remainder of episode 8 and a good chunk of episode 9 unconscious, while Mira and Kai try to find a way to nurse him back to health.]]
* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler: Becomes this when he sees Dave glitch out.]]
* IncompatibleOrientation: Adam and Mira. When Mira kisses Adam in season 1 he tells her he's not interested in her that way, and in season 2 [[spoiler: it's shown that Adam has a rainbow pride flag on the wall of his bedroom and later admits he's gay.]]
* JerkassBall: [[spoiler: He's a lot quicker to anger and snap after finding out Mira left him and Kai behind in "Hollow Games". He calms down a bit after they're reunited, but he remains noticeably on edge for the remainder of the season.]]

* MusclesAreMeaningless: His strength is well in excess of what his muscles should provide.[[spoiler: Then again, he ''is'' in a video game...]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: At the end of episode 3 [[spoiler:he accidentally kicks off a part of the spaceship, causing it to malfunction and crash into the sea. If it weren't for Miras' underwater breathing ability, he'd have caused her death, which Kai and Adam think really happened before she shows up again]].

* ShipTease: With Mira. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when she actually kisses him and he reacts by awkwardly stating he has no interest in her, which becomes more understandable when he comes out as gay in "Hollow Games"]].
* StraightGay: [[spoiler: He reveals he's gay in the second season, though, having their memories back, Kai is the only one who doesn't know, even though Adam seems to be pretty open about, having a pride flag in his room]].

* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: She takes Skeet's death the hardest.]]

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Vanessa taunts Mira about the lame nature of the power to simply talk with animals and swim. [[spoiler:She answers to this by calling forward a huge murder of crows that entraps and attacks her.]]

* ShipTease: With Adam. [[spoiler:While she is later confirmed to be interested in him, the opposite isn't true and he turns her down]].

* AbortedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Gives one to Mira on their journey to retrieve the ishibo]]

* HairColorDissonance: [[spoiler: Adam appears as a redhead, but in the live action scenes his hair is brown.]]
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: As Mira and Adam showcase their superhuman powers, the only trait Kai shows in special is a strangely vast knowledge of STEM, which he thinks can't really be referred to as "super powers". [[spoiler: He gets better once his pyrokinesis develops]].
* LonelyRichKid: Season 2 reveals that [[spoiler: he's extremely wealthy, but his parents are rarely around, and seem to fight when they are. Kai doesn't seem to have had many friends before the start of the series, save for his butler.]]
* MeaningfulName: Kai can mean “fire” in Scottish, alluding to his [[spoiler: pyrokinesis]].
** Played with a bit at first due to belatedness. When first finding the paper with his name in his pocket, he mispronounces it as "Kay" (like the letter). Before correcting himself to believing it's "Kai", which gains its proper meaning at [[spoiler: the amusement park when he discovers said pyrokinesis]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Attempting to do a good thing, Kai releases the other team from their ice prison, against Adam's suggestions. The other team takes the moment right after they are released to finally betray the main group and take the ishibo to the Last ironwood Tree]].
* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler:After their time in the theme park, he develops the power of manipulating and generating fire]].

* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:After developing pyrokinesis, Kai is considerably more powerful, one of the most powerful members of the humans]].

* CloningBlues: Of all of them, he seems to be hit hardest [[spoiler:by the realization in the second season that he is a digital clone and his real-life self has gone on without him. He has to be talked back into willingness to fight for his life.]]

* WeUsedToBeFriends: A former good friend of [[spoiler:Adam. After a lot of infighting in the second season they recover their friendship.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: After reawakening in the real world, [[TheEndOrIsIt her left eye glitches out.]] Season 2 reveals that she was wearing special contacts that caused the glitch in the first place.]]
* AmnesiacDissonance: Subverted. It turns out she [[spoiler: knew The Hollow was a game all along, having used special contacts to cheat the memory erasure. This explains why she was so ruthless: she knew there wouldn't be any actual danger to the other players.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: In season 2 she and the others join up with the main trio.

** [[spoiler: When finally betraying Kai in the Ice Area, she taunts him about his naivete and proceeds to drop him from a high altitude.]]
** [[spoiler: When Mira and Kai try to trick her, Skeet and Reeve into thinking that Adam died, her only reaction to having apparently caused the death of an innocent boy is amusement and vague interest in the fact that it's actually possible to die in the game.]]
* LoveInterestTraitor: Pretends to return Kai's feelings [[spoiler: only to later on betray and almost kill him in the Ice Area]].
* ManipulativeBitch: Feigns ignorance towards the nature of the world around her to avoid the main characters' suspicion and pretends to be interested in Kai [[spoiler: in order to get him to join her team]].

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: Season 2 reveals that she brought special contacts to keep her memories from being blocked once she was transferred into the game, causing the glitch in the first season and that glitch caused them to become sentient copies of their real-world selves once the game was over.]]
* TheVamp: Her primary method of interacting with the main characters is to [[spoiler: find one way or the other to seduce Kai into helping her.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler: Tries to pull one on Kai when her team is beaten in episode 9, claiming that Reeve and Skeet made her betray him. Needless to say, Kai doesn't buy it.]]

* DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler: Skeet’s digital avatar clone dies early on in Season 2, but his human self is still alive and well out in the real world]].
* TheLoad: At the start of Season 2, [[spoiler:he joins with the main group, however, he is sure that dying in the game is their best chance of leaving. Because everyone isn't sure of what could happen, they actually have to not only keep themselves safe, but also often save him as well.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: He is killed trying to save Mira in "Puzzles". Or at least his digital clone is.]]

* OnlySaneMan: He's the only one on his team who is concerned about [[spoiler:the growing glitches]] in the world and was even willing to hear the other team out before his own team overrules him.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:After witnessing the glitches worsening and seeing his team lose, he just runs away rather than keep trying to face the main characters]].
* SuperSpeed: Can run faster than the human eye can see.

* BigGood: He can help the kids, and ultimately, [[spoiler:he does warn Mira and Kai that the they're in danger due to the worsening of the Glitch]]. Continues in Season 2, where [[spoiler:he explains to the kids what they really are and ruins the scheme of an evil corporation just so that they can survive]].

* InkSuitActor: [[spoiler:Mark Hildreth is the only member of the cast to carry over his role to the live—action epilogue (and prologue)]]
* LargeHam: Hoo, boy, is he ever! [[spoiler: Justified, since he is a game show host and has to give the audience a show.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:When the game starts to tear itself apart, he stops with his usual antics to warn Mira and Kai that they're in (potentially) mortal danger.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He's only referred to as Weirdy or The Weird Guy. [[spoiler: Only in the last episode of Season 1 onward do we learn his real name, Gustav.]]

* ThinkingUpPortals: He can generate portals to any location he pleases, which he does upon request. [[spoiler:Players only get five, though, and he refuses to teleport them to the exit.]]
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: In Season 2, [[spoiler:he realizes that the digital copies of the kids are sentient when they call him by his real name of Gustav, which they would only know if they remembered their lives in the real world.]]

[[folder:Team B '''SPOILERS''']]

* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler: They show up in the woods during the kids' race to the Ironwood Tree, but glitch out again shortly after.]]

* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:As one part minnotaur, one part spider-mutant due to the game's corrupted code.]]

* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler: They briefly re-appear in the last episode. The games' GitchInTheMatrix makes short work of them, though.]]

** The first one gives the kids a cryptic warning that they cannot go home until they've met "him". [[spoiler: She either meant Death, who was waiting in the very next area, or Colrath, the FinalBoss of the game.]]
** The third one chants "Death is your friend" as she chases the main kids. [[spoiler: Death is actually residing in the desert outside the caves and becomes an important ally to the kids later on.]]

* FastballSpecial: She tosses Adam and Mira over to the Ice World, [[spoiler: where Kai and the Ishibo can be found]].
* OldMaster: She has shades of this. Besides being an incredibly old and wise being, she is also the only inhabitant of the Hollow who actually helps the kids by providing them advice, directions and determining if they're already worthy [[spoiler: to face Colrath]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Benjamin states that he and his brother never left the park. When Mira asks if they were born there, he says that he doesn't remember. [[spoiler: Him and his brothers are [=NPCs=] in a video game, so of course they never left the area designated to them.]]

* BlindSeer: What he appears to be.[[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. He's not actually blind, he's just wearing sunglasses.]]
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: He reappears in the final episode as the main team tries to get back to the Ironwood Tree, warning them about the enemies to come.]]
* CloudCuckooLander: He lives in the catacombs underneath the Ghost Town, gives people he has just met prophecies about the immediate future by putting his hand on their forehead and [[spoiler: walks around with sunglasses for no discernible reason]].

** Upon reading Miras' future he suddenly shouts out to beware Colrath. [[spoiler: Colrath is the name of the dragon the kids have to defeat in the final level of the game.]]
** When he repeats the procedure with Adam, he gives a shocked gasp and slowly backs away. When Adam asks him if he saw anything, he simply replies that it's best Adam doesn't know. [[spoiler: While it's never confirmed directly, this could have been foreshadowing Adams' almost-death in the Ice Area.]]
** He [[spoiler: glitches briefly]] after seeing Adam and Mira off, cluing Adam in that [[spoiler: they're in a video game.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: We can't talk about Dave without mentioning his glitch.]]

* MadScientist: He concocts all kind sof potions and machines in his lab and [[spoiler: turns innocent people and animals into his servants.]]

The FinalBoss of The Hollow.

* BreathWeapon: Fire and in his second phase lightning.

* FierySalamander: In his first form.

The FinalBoss Team B has to defeat to win their game.

* BadassBaritone: Just like Colrath before him.
* {{Catchphrase}}/BadassBoast: "I am Olym. I choose who lives and who dies. Only the strong will survive."

* WeaksauceWeakness: Tyler manages to hold him off by himself with his weather powers.

* LeParkour: His athletic superpowers include a capacity of jumping and moving in a way that is reminiscent of this.

* DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler: Skeet’s digital avatar clone dies early on in Season 2, but his human self is still alive out in the real world]].

* DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler: Skeet’s digital avatar clone dies early on in Season 2, but his human self is still alive in the real world]].

* KilledOfForReal: [[spoiler: He is killed trying to save Mira in "Puzzles". Or at least his digital clone is.]]

* [[spoiler: KilledOfForReal]]: [[spoiler: He is killed trying to save Mira in "Puzzles".]]

* DirtyCoward: When it looks like he and Adam are evenly matched, he quickly calls on Vanessa to carry him off.[[spoiler: He later on attacks and fatally wounds Adam from behind in the Ice Area.]]

* {{Sadist}}: He clearly enjoys tormenting the other kids. [[spoiler: In episode 9 he whistles happily to himself while chasing a terrified Adam through the woods.]]

* TheLeader: Always the one to pull the team back on track.

* TheLeader: He automatically assumes this position in the group. When they get their memories back, Mira calls out that he often behaves like this.
* LeParkour: His athletic superpowers include a capacity of jumping and moving in a way that is reminiscent of this.

[[folder:Team B '''SPOILERs''']]

* StraightGay: [[spoiler: He reveals he's gay in the second season, though, having their memories back, Kai is the only one who doesn't know and he seems to be pretty open about, having a pride flag in his room]].

[[folder:Team B '''SPOILER''']]

* WeatherManipulation: Tyler's powers are to control the weather, which he uses to attack by summoning lightning.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Once they manage to unlock their Ishibo equivalent, they go around using it recklessly without regard to how it may harm the [=NPCs=] of the Hollow because they know it's just a game. This is to contrast with the main kids' perspective on how they come to view digital life as equally important as a "real" life.

* MadScientist

[[folder:Colrath]]

[[folder:Olym]]

!!Nisha, Iris, and Diego

* WeatherManipulation: Diego's powers are to control the weather, which he uses to attack by summoning lightning.

* {{Magitech}}: His work is part science, part magic. He uses a spell to control people, but is fashioned after a MadScientists, and uses chemicals as weapons.

* TheLoad: At the start of Season 2, [[spoiler:he joins with the main gorup, however, he is sure that dying in the game is their best chance of leaving. Because everyone isn't sure of what could happen, they actually have to not only keep themselves safe, but also often save him as well.]]

* PalsWithJesus: He's friends with Death one of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse.

!!Nisha, Iris and Diego

!Main Characters

* StraightGay: [[spoiler: He comes out in the second season]].

!Woods
[[folder:Devil Dogs]]

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A pack of canine-like monsters that Adam, Mira, and Kai first encounter in the woods.
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* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler: They show up in the woods during the kids' race to the Ironwood Tree, but glitch out again shortly after.]]
* MixAndMatchCritters: They seem to be part dog, part dragon.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Their eyes are a glowing red and they're ''always'' hungry.

!Desert Area
[[folder:Toros]]

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A massive, flesh-eating minotaur that can shoot snot streams from his nostrils.

* ALoadOfBull: Par for the course, considering he's a minnotaur.
* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:As one part minnotaur, one part spider-mutant due to the game's corrupted code.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: The main reason why the other minnotaurs are scared of him
* NoseNuggets: He lets loose a stream of snot onto Kai, who's about as disgusted as you'd expect from someone who was sneezed on by a man-eating minotaur.

[[folder:Three Witches]]

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Three sisters who live underneath Toros' temple. One should not be fooled by their innocent appearance.

* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler: They briefly re-appear in the last episode. The games' GitchInTheMatrix makes short work of them, though.]]
* BerserkButton: For some reason, the first one got really agitated when she suspected the kids might not trust her.
* FatteningTheVictim: Though never outright stated, it's ''heavily'' implied that's what the first one was doing with the kids.
* DeadlyLunge: Their main way of attacking.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The first one gives the kids a cryptic warning that they cannot go home until they've met "him". [[spoiler: She either meant Death, who was waiting in the very next area, or Colrath, the FinalBoss of the game.]]
** The third one chants "Death is your friend" as she chases the main kids. [[spoiler: Death is actually residing in the desert outside the caves and becomes an important ally to the kids later on.]]
* GreenAndMean: Their true forms have sickly green, leathery skin and they're ''really'' not as nice as they want you to think they are.
* ImAHumanitarian: Though they seem to be interested in their victims souls the most, they also seem to include body parts in the regular meals they cook.
* KarmicDeath: The second one dies by being pushed into their own oven by Adam.
* NothingButSkinAndBones: In their real forms they're unnervingly thin, almost skeletal.
* SoulEating: What their ''real'' primary food source is.
* StepfordSmiler: In their human form they have a pleasant smile on their faces at all times.
* UncannyValley: Although they look innocent enough when they're parading as humans, you can just tell that there's something ''off'' about them.
* WallCrawl: The third one sneaks up on and attacks the kids by crawling on the tunnel ceiling.
* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: In their true form they have yellow pupils and black sclera.

!Spaceship Cemetery
!!The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse
[[folder:Death]]

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-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/BrianDrummond
A prominent member of the Four Horsemen. The tam encounters him in the Desert Area, tending to his sick horse.

* AffablyEvil: When the kids imply Mira might be able to save his horse, he immediately offers them refreshments and a place to rest. The second it looks like it might be too late for Mira to do anything about his sick pet however, he goes right back to threatening them.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He frequently acts melodramatic and campy but he is still TheGrimReaper and can be very threatening at times.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: His hobbies include baking and making Ice Tea.
* {{Irony}}: His horse, Mr. Jeepers, is clearly at the last legs of his life, refusing to eat or drink and looking very sick and exhausted. Those who work with animals or have pets would realize that this is the time to euthanize this animal so that they wouldn't have to suffer any longer. His fellow horsemen mock him for this.

[[folder:Famine]]

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One of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

* BigEater: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Plague when they fight over the last cinnamon scone.

[[folder:War]]

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One of the four Horsemen. Not the brightest.

* ExpressiveMask: His helmet completely covers his face, yet he can still be rather expressive with it a la [[Manga.FullmetalAlchemist Alphonse Elric]].
* MadeOfIron: He took jet fire from a ''freaking spaceship'' and was none the worse for wear.
* PokemonSpeak: War is only able to use the word War.

[[folder:Plague]]

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The fourth member of the Horsemen. A ruse guy who's only manner of speaking seems to be sarcasm.

* JerkAss: Calls Mira a witch for no reason and calls Kai an annoyance when the latter asks Death if he could be a horseman too.

!The Lighthouse
[[folder:Cyclops]]

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A giant who's taken up residence in the lighthouse.

* KindheartedSimpleton: Probably one of the kindest inhabitants of the Hollow the kids come across.
* {{Manchild}}: He's prone to temper tantrums and hops around giddily when he's happy.

!Forest
[[folder:The Last Ironwood Tree]]

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An animate tree that Adam, Mira, and Kai encounter when The Weird Guy opens a portal right above her.

* AnArmAndALeg: Her missing left branch is the MacGuffin that the team has to find in order to get back home.
* FastballSpecial: She tosses Adam and Mira over to the Ice World, [[spoiler: where Kai and the Ishibo can be found]].
* OldMaster: She has shades of this. Besides being an incredibly old and wise being, she is also the only inhabitant of the Hollow who actually helps the kids by providing them advice, directions and determining if they're already worthy [[spoiler: to face Colrath]].
* LastOfHerKind: According to her.

[[folder:Akuma]]

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The leader of a group of demon monks that steal the Last Ironwood Tree's left branch to make the [[MacGuffin Ishibo]].

* BadassBaritone: Speaks in a deep, guttural growl, fitting for the leader of a bunch of demon monks.
* MeaningfulName: His name translates from Japanese to "devil."
* WeaponOfChoice: The Ishibo, a magic staff that can shoot fireballs and work as a lightsaber.

!Class-X Orbital Shuttle
[[folder:Alien]]
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A creature residing on an abandoned space ship.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Other than most of the other antagonists, the threat it presents to the main trio is played completely straight.
* ShoutOut: In appearance and behavior, it greatly resembles the Xenomorph from ''Film/{{Alien}}''

!Theme Park
[[folder:Benjamin and Benjamini]]
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A pair of strongmen that live and work in the Theme Park.

* BashBrothers: Bonus points for them being actual brothers.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Benjamin is immensely protective of Benjamini and dotes on him as if he were a child.
* TheBigGuy: Benjamin is a lot taller than his brother.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Benjamin states that he and his brother never left the park. When Mira asks if they were born there, he says that he doesn't remember. [[spoiler: Him and his brothers are [=NPCs=] in a video game, so of course they never left the area designated to them.]]
* {{CloudCuckooLander}}: They're not that bad, just...very enthusiastic about their theme park.
* {{Manchild}}: They ''really'' like having fun.
* ObliviouslyEvil: They activate a roller coaster the main trio has landed in ''despite it missing a huge chunk of its tracks''. And afterwards they gleefully ask if the ride was fun.
* TattooAsCharacterType: Their tattoos range from mystical creatures like unicorns to the more mundane anchor.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: They both speak with an accent that could be Italian but also sounds a lot like Russian sometimes.

!Ghost Town
[[folder:Dave]]

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An old man that lives beneath the cemetery of the ghost town.

* BlindSeer: What he appears to be.[[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. He's not actually blind, he's just wearing sunglasses.]]
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: He reappears in the final episode as the main team tries to get back to the Ironwood Tree, warning them about the enemies to come.]]
* CloudCuckooLander: He lives in the catacombs underneath the Ghost Town, gives people he has just met prophecies about the immediate future by putting his hand on their forehead and [[spoiler: walks around with sunglasses for no discernible reason]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Upon reading Miras' future he suddenly shouts out to beware Colrath. [[spoiler: Colrath is the name of the dragon the kids have to defeat in the final level of the game.]]
** When he repeats the procedure with Adam, he gives a shocked gasp and slowly backs away. When Adam asks him if he saw anything, he simply replies that it's best Adam doesn't know. [[spoiler: While it's never confirmed directly, this could have been foreshadowing Adams' almost-death in the Ice Area.]]
** He [[spoiler: glitches briefly]] after seeing Adam and Mira off, cluing Adam in that [[spoiler: they're in a video game.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: We can't talk about Dave without mentioning his glitch.]]

!Other
[[folder:The Weird Guy]]

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-> '''Voiced by''': Music/MarkHildreth
A mysterious eccentric, purple man that offers his help to the group, but at an unspecified cost.

* CloudCuckooLander: The way he acts and talks makes it pretty clear that he needs a check-up from the neck up.
* ExorcistHead: Pulls this on the kids when they fail to tell him what the magic words are.
* InkSuitActor: [[spoiler:Mark Hildreth is the only member of the cast to carry over his role to the live—action epilogue (and prologue)]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:When the game starts to tear itself apart, he stops with his usual antics to warn Mira and Kai that they're in (potentially) mortal danger.]]
* PalsWithJesus: He's friends with Death one of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse.
* PurpleIsPowerful: The most powerful, and definitely the most mysterious character in the show, and his skin is fully purple.
* ThinkingUpPortals: He can generate portals to any location he pleases, which he does upon request. [[spoiler:Players only get five, though, and he refuses to teleport them to the exit.]]

!!The Other Trio
[[folder:Reeve]]
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A thoroughly unpleasant Telekinetic who functions as the muscle for the other kids.
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* DirtyCoward: When it looks like he and Adam are evenly matched, he quickly calls on Vanessa to carry him off.[[spoiler: He later on attacks and fatally wounds Adam from behind in the Ice Area.]]
* MindOverMatter: His powers allow him to go toe to toe with Adam, who is a master of combat.
* {{Sadist}}: He clearly enjoys tormenting the other kids. [[spoiler: In episode 9 he whistles happily to himself while chasing a terrified Adam through the woods.]]

[[folder:Vanessa]]
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The leader of the other kids.

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: After reawakening in the real world, [[TheEndOrIsIt her left eye glitches out.]] Season 2 reveals that she was wearing special contacts that caused the glitch in the first place.]]
* AmnesiacDissonance: Subverted. It turns out she [[spoiler: knew The Hollow was a game all along, having used special contacts to cheat the memory erasure. This explains why she was so ruthless: she knew there wouldn't be any actual danger to the other players.]]
* {{Flight}}: Has the ability to fly through the air for an unlimited amount of time.
* HeelFaceTurn: In season 2 she and the others join up with the main trio.
* KickTheDog:
** [[spoiler: When finally betraying Kai in the Ice Area, she taunts him about his naivete and proceeds to drop him from a high altitude.]]
** [[spoiler: When Mira and Kai try to trick her, Skeet and Reeve into thinking that Adam died, her only reaction to having apparently caused the death of an innocent boy is amusement and vague interest in the fact that it's actually possible to die in the game.]]
* LoveInterestTraitor: Pretends to return Kai's feelings [[spoiler: only to later on betray and almost kill him in the Ice Area]].
* ManipulativeBitch: Feigns ignorance towards the nature of the world around her to avoid the main characters' suspicion and pretends to be interested in Kai [[spoiler: in order to get him to join her team]].
* SkewedPriorities: Even when the world is ''literally'' breaking apart around her, all she seems to care about is beating the main characters.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: Season 2 reveals that she brought special contacts to keep her memories from being blocked once she was transferred into the game, causing the glitch in the first season and that glitch caused them to become sentient copies of their real-world selves once the game was over.]]
* TheVamp: Her primary method of interacting with the main characters is to [[spoiler: find one way or the other to seduce Kai into helping her.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler: Tries to pull one on Kai when her team is beaten in episode 9, claiming that Reeve and Skeet made her betray him. Needless to say, Kai doesn't buy it.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Vanessa’s hair is dyed magenta.

[[folder:Skeet]]
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The third member of the other team. Possesses the power of super speed.

* MeaningfulName: Skeet means “swift” in English, which thanks to his super speed, he is.
* NiceHat: Skeet wears a red beanie.
* OnlySaneMan: He's the only one on his team who is concerned about [[spoiler:the growing glitches]] in the world and was even willing to hear the other team out before his own team overrules him.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:After witnessing the glitches worsening and seeing his team lose, he just runs away rather than keep trying to face the main characters]].
* SuperSpeed: Can run faster than the human eye can see.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Seems the most hesitant about plotting against the other team, and seems to genuinely like Kai. Of course, he's not that much less belligerent than his fellows.