History Characters / TheHollow

* ALoadOfBull: Par for the course, considering he's a minnotaur.

[[folder:Team B ]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: She confirms in season two that she never would have hurt the other team for real.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: {{Deconstructed}}. Her knowing that it was all a game made her nasty, manipulative and backstabbing towards the other team because she knew they wouldn't suffer physical injuries for real. Hurting Kai was the worst part of it since he saved her from being a permanent block of ice. Unfortunately, you're more likely to get an edge in the edge if you're kind; Adam gets healed by the mutant spider when Kai repairs the king's legs, and the Benjamin brothers help Kai discover his powers when they stay to have fun rather than rushing through the theme park. It's implied that the real Adam, Mira and Kai are scarred from the experience and Vanessa's duplicate regrets her past behavior when she realizes her cheating created digital clones of the teams.

* 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 "superpowers". He gets better once his [[spoiler: pyrokinesis]] develops.

** 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 the amusement park when he discovers said [spoiler: pyrokinesis.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: 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.

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

A not so smart guy with a hot headed attitude. He has a superhuman understanding of machinery and gets [[spoiler:fire]] powers during the [[spoiler: Theme Park Area.]]

* MeaningfulName: Kai can mean “fire” in Scottish, alluding to his [[spoier: pyrokinesis.]]

* HasTwoDaddies: Mira is shown to have two days when we get a glimpse of her real-life at the start of season 2.

* BadassGay: He's able to survive [[DeathWorld the hollow]] despite his powers requiring him to get up close and personal when fighting monsters, and he proudly displays a pride flag in his room and outright states he is gay in season 2.

* TheAntiNihilist: After Mira discovers that she and the others are digital clones in Season 2, she points out that they still have feelings and emotions even if they aren’t “real”.

* HasTwoDaddies: Mira is shown to have two dads when we get a glimpse of her real life at the start of season 2.

* WomenAreWiser: Played with. Mira is level headed for the most part though one episode shows her hallucinating from heat stroke while she, Kai, and Adam are stranded in the desert.

A not so smart guy with a hot headed attitude. He has superhuman understanding of machinery, and gets fire powers during the Theme Park Area.

* HairColorDissonance: Kai 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". He gets better once his pyrokinesis develops.
* LonelyRichKid: Season 2 reveals that 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 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 the amusement park when he discovers said pyrokinesis.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: 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: After their time in the theme park, he develops the power of manipulating and generating fire.

* ShorterMeansSmarter: The shortest of the group and also a scientific and mechanical wiz kid.
* TookALevelInBadass: 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 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.
* EveryoneHasStandards: It's confirmed in season 2 that he had no idea Vanessa cheated on the game. When he finds out, he's angry with her for being a cheater and inadvertently endangering them with the glitches.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: He and Skeet didn't know that Vanessa was cheating with special contact lenses. If he had, he reveals that he wouldn't have stood for it.

* StrawNihilist: Reeve briefly becomes this in the second season when the group discovers that they’re digital clones, believing that fighting for their existence is pointless because even if they succeed their human selves will still live on outside the game and have actual lives without knowing that they even exist.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: A former good friend of Adam, but they have grown apart after their time in a team together due to them constantly butting heads and never being able to agree on anything. After a lot of infighting in the second season they recover their friendship.

The leader of the other kids. A purple haired girl with the power of flight.

* CharacterDevelopment: Only her duplicate goes through this; in season 2, she's hit with the realization that her cheating created them as sentient clones, and is horrified when clone Skeet dies for real. After withdrawing into herself, she decides to make up for it by hindering the other team so that her friends have a chance to live.

* HeelFaceTurn: In season 2 she and the others join up with the main trio. She was arguably the major antagonist of season 1, but is now a good friend of the main team. In part, this comes from the guilt of realizing she was probably responsible for the glitch that cloned them.
* HiddenDepths: Season 2 shows her not to be as cruel and malicious as Season 1 made her appear: She knew that she was in a game all along, so she never believed that she was placing Adam, Mira, or Kai in any real danger. She is also shown to have been motivated by intense pressure to [[WellDoneSonGuy prove to her parents that playing The Hollow was a worthwhile pursuit]], which is why she cheated to get around the memory block.
* KarmaHoudini: She did cheat and caused the game to glitch, all to win money on a show, that could have fried their brains. No one, not even the host, finds out about this in Season 1. She gets to be a GracefulLoser about it unless someone notices her contact lense glitching in the footage.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: On the other hand, her ''duplicate'' is forced to deal with the consequences of her real counterpart's actions when she and the other duplicates are trapped in the game and generated as a result of the glitch. Duplicate Vanessa feels really guilty about this when she realizes they can all die for real.

** 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. In retrospect, this may have been because she believed that it really wasn't, as, glitches notwithstanding, players who die in the game just get sent back to the real world.

* StraightGay: 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.

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

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

* {{Mermaid}}: [[PlayingWithATrope Playing With]]. While Mira isn't one, she has mermaid-like powers, which include breathing underwater, communicating with animals and fishes and swimming excellently. Kai lampshades this at one point.

* 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 it's shown that Adam has a rainbow pride flag on the wall of his bedroom and later admits he's gay.

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

* EveryoneHasStandards: He will not kill or delete sentient computer code. When the duplicates confirm they have their memories and feelings, he stops sending them through a portal to get rid of them and seriously talks with them about why they are still in the hollow.

* TheLoad: At the start of Season 2, 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. This doesn't last as he eventually is really killed.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: It turns out that his {{Jerkass}} {{Troll}} persona is an act as a show host. He breaks character to warn Mira and Kai that the game is glitching and they're in danger of getting hurt for real. When they win, his real self makes it clear when they win that it was all for the show.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential:{{Deconstructed}}. Her knowing that it was all a game made her nasty, manipulative and backstabbing towards the other team because she knew they wouldn't suffer physical injuries for real. Hurting Kai was the worst part of it since he saved her from being a permanent block of ice. Unfortunately, you're more likely to get an edge in the edge if you're kind; Adam gets healed by the mutant spider when Kai repairs the king's legs, and the Benjamin brothers help Kai discover his powers when they stay to have fun rather than rushing through the theme park. It's implied that the real Adam, Mira and Kai are scarred from the experience and Vanessa's duplicate regrets her past behavior when she realizes her cheating created digital clones of the teams.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Invoked and {{Deconstructed}}. Her knowing that it was all a game made her nasty, manipulative and backstabbing towards the other team because she knew they wouldn't suffer physical injuries for real. Hurting Kai was the worst part of it since he saved her from being a permanent block of ice. Unfortunately, you're more likely to get an edge in the edge if you're kind; Adam gets healed by the mutant spider when Kai repairs the king's legs, and the Benjamin brothers help Kai discover his powers when they stay to have fun rather than rushing through the theme park. It's implied that the real Adam, Mira and Kai are scarred from the experience and Vanessa's duplicate regrets her past behavior when she realizes her cheating created digital clones of the teams.

* HairColorDissonance: Adam appears as a redhead, but in the live action scenes his hair is brown.

* SkewedPriorities: Even when the world is ''literally'' breaking apart around her, all she seems to care about is beating the main characters.

* ChildhoodFriends: With both Adam and Skeet, though it seems Adam knew nothing of her friendship with him.

* TheNihilist: Reeve briefly becomes this in the second season when the group discovers that they’re digital clones, believing that fighting for their existence is pointless because even if they succeed their human selves will still live on outside the game and have actual lives without knowing that they even exist.

* DeadAlternateCounterpart: 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.

* InkSuitActor: Mark Hildreth is the only member of the cast to carry over his role to the live—action epilogue (and prologue)

* HiddenDepths: Season 2 shows her not to be as cruel and malicious as Season 1 made her appear: [[spoiler: She knew that she was in a game all along, so she never believed that she was placing Adam, Mira, or Kai in any real danger.]] She is also shown to have been motivated by intense pressure to [[WellDoneSonGuy prove to her parents that playing The Hollow was a worthwhile pursuit]], [[spoiler: which is why she cheated to get around the memory block.]]

** 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. [[spoiler: In retrospect, this may have been because she believed that it really wasn't, as, glitches notwithstanding, players who die in the game just get sent back to the real world.]]

* BigGood: He can help the kids, and ultimately, he does warn Mira and Kai that [[spoiler: 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.]]

* HiddenDepths: Season 2 shows her not to be as cruel and malicious as Season 1 made her appear: [[spoiler: She knew that she was in a game all along, so she never believed that she was placing Adam, Mira, or Kai in any real danger.]] She is also shown to have been motivated by intense pressure to [[WellDoneSonGuy prove to her parents that playing The Hollow was a worthwhile pursuit, [[spoiler: which is why she cheated to get around the memory block.]]

** 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. [[spoiler: In retrospect, this may have been because she believed that it really wasn't as, glitches notwithstanding, players who die in the game just get sent back to the real world.]]